skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting board!

Right now, powering a Raspi with batteries, without desoldering the onboard regulator, requires an external regulator circuit, preferably a switched one. This board seems to eliminate the need for such an external regulated circuit. Inbuilt RTC is also a plus.

From what I can tell, this is more powerful and cheaper than the Raspi compute module too.

However, on the minus side, I don't see anything said about its audio capabilities. Is the audio subsystem of Raspi - from driver to userland - supported at all?
I wish the README would tell us a little bit more about how to use it in conjunction with React. Especially the logic for shouldComponentUpdate() would be interesting.
Or perhaps a company looking to vertically integrate? Delivery companies, moving companies?
well what is it?
I've been working remotely and traveling around the world for the last 5 years. I found I don't really need that much stuff and travel quite often. I'm finally settling in Seattle but still will be moving around often. Not having "stuff" helps a lot.
I am the author of two books: "Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid" (http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com), which came out in October, and "Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things" (http://www.correlated.org), which came out earlier this month.

One thing I didn't realize when I started pitching the first book was that there would be "passive income" in addition to the book advance and royalties.

For instance, I've had three foreign-rights deals for "Experimenting With Babies," and the only additional work I had to do was put my signature on some paperwork.

And I have Amazon referral links on both websites, pointing to each book on Amazon. Those links generate a monthly average of about $40 in commissions per month, although my monthly high has been as much as $630.
CLick on the link to purchase, you can buy a mobi or epub version, or a bundle with the printed book (not ready yet)
$500/month from "Play Piano HD" iPad app: http://mobilesort.com/play_piano.html I built it two years ago, and have only had to do minor bug fixes to keep it up to date. It stays on the top iPad music charts in at least a couple of countries, so it does ok without any marketing.
I like the consul approach, I'm just not a big fan of Bind :) I'll give it a shot. Thanks !
It's funny for me as an immigrant, now US citizen, that in a country/city built by immigrants going back a few generations people forget where they came from.

At the same time most of the people i meet like to say how they are "Italians" or "Germans" at their roots, in total contradiction to my first sentence.

SF is complaining about "techies" when they aren't complaining about immigrants and vice-versa, people need to complain about something.

Also SF has a lot of IT companies so what do people expect, miners, fishermen?
Carbs soak up water, so it's natural that you would gain weight when adding carbs and lose weight when you remove them. That's why doctors and nutritionists say not to worry about your weight, but worry about your waist. Weight can be misleading.
$1000 a month on book sales.

I was surprised since I'm a software guy I didn't write the book to make money, I just did it for something to do.

Although my software business makes much more money, I was surprised at how truly "zero maintenance" book sales are. My software I'm constantly fixing, tweaking and improving (which I enjoy). The book is just "out there" and is priced at $30 per copy. I sell > 1 per day.

The book: http://www.growthhackinghandbook.com
Is Apple Deliberately Slowing Down Old iPhones?
North Carolina Republicans put ideology above lives
super useful resource I'm sure, and I'd like to chat ideas to monetize, or at least capitalize on the knowledge too.

Is it cool to share this?

@motormanwrithes MANILA - LONDON - LA
Problem with white label sites is that you still need to do a whole lot of marketing on your end. How do you compete with the big sites?
From the last two times this came up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568660

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045150
I need to interview anyone who works in the security industry please
What do you think about the CFAA act and the following amendments?

How do you perceive the actions of the private sector using hacking so loosely in order to protect their IP?

How long have you been involved with the tech industry?

What degree did you graduate with?

How familiar are you with computer cracking/ "hacking"?

Why is it so hard to protect ourselves from "hackers"?

How vulnerable is everything really?

What are the biggest challenges you face in info security?

What can the government do to change and help the security industry?

Why is the security industry essential to the economy?

How much money does the private sector loose to computer crimes?

Why are you interested in info security?

Do you feel like you challenge yourself everyday?

What type of mindset does it take for someone to be involved with computers on a daily basis?

how does the private sector utilize security research and info security?

What can the manufacturers of software and computers do to make security better overall?
> wearing a helmet may create a false sense of security and induce risk-taking that cyclists without head protection might not make.

This is the argument that bugs me the most. Isn't this the same as saying "If you're going hiking, taking a medical aid kit may create a false sense of security and induce risk-taking that hikers without a medic kit might not make.". No it's a dang medical kit, just take the damn thing!
This is the best Javascript tutorial out there, and I was eagerly looking forward to this update. From glancing at the text, however, it seems that it doesn't cover the very significant upgrades introduced by ECMAScript 6 "Harmony".

Seeing that the standard is already being finalized towards a release in 4 months[1], this seems like an unfortunate omission in an otherwise top-notch text.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#ECMAScript_Harmony_....
The Cult Of Genius
That is far from certainty. Industrialization depended on having easy and abundant access to natural resources like coal, oil, and various metals. We've exhausted the easy deposits of these resources, the ones a preindustrial civilization could get to.

If civilization were to collapse now, it may never rise again.
Without paid advertising, how do you advertise the service? I've created a micro-service like this in the past, and where I really fell short was getting the right people on the site. AdWord conversions were also too low in my case.
Although you'd expect being the dev and possibly admin, you hold some control over the other party?
Having worked on web projects for the USPS before 2000, I remember they had the design sense of a rock at that time. One web app I worked on was for internal use, I had to work with IE 2.X since they had actually paid MS for a license and shipped it to PO locations on a CD. They wouldn't consider supporting Netscape which actually functioned even though it was free. I guess "Welcome to the 21st century".
I just started doing Slimming World, which I guess is much the same as WW but with a different points allocation scheme.

(Rice/pasta/potatoes are basically "free" as long as they are not cooked in oil; a third of each meal should be fresh fruit/veg, to discourage you from overloading on the free carbs; bread is very bad on the points system; you get one free calcium-containing product and one free fibre-containing product from an approved list every day, which has bizarrely led to me eating more cheese than ever before. I mainly picked SW over WW because of when the sessions were, rather than because I liked their way of doing it; in fact, to be honest I wasn't sure it would work at all, but so far it is.)

Anyway, I agree there are definitely "gamification" aspects which are true for these weight loss group sessions too. The point scoring; every week people get applauded for their weight loss and shiny stickers are handed out for the best that week or for reaching various milestones; and just turning up to group every week (which you have to to keep your membership current) means you can't chicken out of weighing yourself on a bad week, and sitting in a group provides your "encouragers" and "challengers" too, although possibly not as effectively as selecting one of each from your everyday friends.
This is probably what my landlady's thinking too. She works as a tour guide somewhere in south-east Asia, is away 3/4th of the year, and has this quiet dude looking after her house and probably paying for her mortgage, :p. She didn't raise the rent last year since she's happy to have me. I wouldn't mind paying less though, it's kinda meh (old house, single room, etc)
If we're talking statistics, far more Americans die of diabetes and heart problems than terrorism. Better to spend trillions of dollars there, no, instead of bleeding that money in Iraq and Afghanistan?
I have a few rentals properties which each brings in around $300/month after all expenses (including property management so I don't have to do anything). Each property price is around 56-60k so if you get a mortgage you only need to put down around 20% of that. It's a pretty good ROI of ~30%.

Email in my profile if you are interested in details.
If you like Python, check out How To Think Like A Computer Scientist (http://interactivepython.org). It's aimed at introductory CS classes, but the inline interactivity is pretty cool! (Shameless plug: a couple of my professors developed this, and I spent last summer contributing to it).
I'm not sure why i'm not even doing this. (i'm at 0 passive right now)

It's not lame at all. How many hours of maintenance does it require per month?

Whats the content like? blog/photo/aggregator?
Not quite - this might just be a board used by Microsoft as a high-powered test for shrinking Windows, but it's not the "Internet of Things" board that they've been talking about. That's this:

http://ms-iot.github.io/content/SetupGalileo.htm

It's a cheaper device, and it's about $70. It runs an even slimmer version of Windows. So it's much more a competitor with the Raspberry Pi than other Windows development boards (i.e.: this $300 one.)
Bit confused (ignorant actually) here.
Can someone give a 'real world' example of the benefits of immutabile objects in js?
You do realize that "leaked" information on the TOR network could cost an activist their life?
Very nice! I just started with AngularJS. I'm starting to understand it a little bit and it seems to be in demand where I'm at. So, I'll be sure to run through this this weekend.
In India, Online Stores Catch On With Buyers
I'm perfectly fine with the DNS/DHCP approach, just wondering what are the alternatives out there. That dnsmasq approach worked like a charm for several of our projects for 1+ year.

Always wondering of the extra round-trip on DNS request when we could have a hardcoded value in the host. We're talking local network so the latency ain't much of an issue but still. Then there is the possibility of a dnsmasq restart when a request occur, caching ala nscd could work, but then we're in for a lot more trouble when it comes to expire that cache !
I really don't understand what's happening here. I think we use the term "API" and "server" differently. When I think of an API, I think of a library or something that I can link to. For example the POSIX API, or the P-Threads API. These are available in one way or anther from any language.

This seems to think very differently about APIs. As if APIs are somehow tied to a specific language? When they use the term API, do they maybe mean library?

I think that under the hood, the idea is that, if you want to do something, in another language (rather than just writing it in the language) you somehow generate a stub in both languages and then proxy through a (network?) connection?

To make this more complex, it seems that the proxy connections are not just on the local machine, but over the internet to another machine. Presumably you have to pay for this?

Am I right? This seems like a lot of effort to go through just to avoid figuring out how to do something directly. With really sucky performance implications. I guess it depends on what you're doing. Most languages support a foreign interface to C, so maybe that is a more sensible way to do this rather than setting up "servers" and tunnelling commands and data back and forth.

EDIT: I just had another look at the website. So, when they use the term API - it would seem that they mean some sort of an HTTP based web interface? The idea is that you have some kind of script that does something for you and you can query it from you local script. I still don't understand why you'd want to do this over running it locally?
> Similarly, I'd like to ask how you would explain the statistical ridiculousness of terrorism to the families of the thousands of people that died in the twin towers. I'm sure they'd be fascinated to hear it.

Seriously?

There ought to be something analogously to Godwin’s law to declare discussions lost after this class of arguments.

To answer in kind: "I'd like to ask how you would explain the proportionality of the respond to the families of the tens to hundreds of thousand civilian casualties[1] in the Irak war." OR "[…] explain the justice and civility of the 'war against terror' to the hundreds (?) of innocent prisoners in Guantanamo bay." OR even "[…] explain the trillion dollar [2] that were spent on the military instead on fighting aids, cancer, malaria, diabetes,… to those suffering or those who have lost friends or family."

Emotional arguments quickly become ridiculous if you leave out the greater effects to society and the relative danger of the threat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count_project

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror#Costs
World Cup Gave Twitter a Big Burst in Traffic
Thanks for sharing your knowledge :)
I think... IAP are good because you can show your potential customers how good your app is.
That's really good returns, 7K a week from a 126K startup capital. The obvious next move would be to scale it.
How is cash on delivery novel? Where credit cards are not ubiquitous this is the only way to sell stuff online. Pretty much every single online store in my country did this for years.
5 things you won’t believe are only built with CSS
Most time in the miner is spent identifying which edges have an endpoint of degree 1, and thus cannot be part of any cycle. This degree counting sounds like it should be right up the Gather-Apply-Scatter alley...
I have an AppEngine app that brings in $7k/mo with very little work, with about $2k/mo in server costs. Roughly 50 users paying between $30/mo and $500/mo

There's about 10 minutes of support work per day, but besides corporate customers occasionally needing some phone salesmanship and some manual tweaking, everything else is automated.
EMV and Chip cards
SSL Connectivity for all Central Repository users Underway
$5/day adwords budget is not 'virtually no marketing or advertising'. That is about the sales of a slow month over the year.
http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/nerdwallets-top-high-...

Getting $25/year would need around $3000 in the account. Although it might not increase much over the years.
I have an app in the Mac App Store. It is a simple app, I do no work on it, receive no support emails, it has been there for three years, and I get around 50 Euros per month.
I get it around $200 per month (overall about $2500 till date) through my WordPress Genesis child Theme which I spent designing hardly 2-3 days.
Why do we still do symbolic math?
Did you even read the article? Such fears may have been totally rational.
ideologically, i agree, except that HFJ/H&C produce some amazing timeless typefaces and it's really hard to ignore that.
I would think crime rate should factor into this as well. It's at least as important as weather.
How Fitbay closed a $2M round from a NY investor – Producthunt
Everything on Amazon automated with chef and OpsWork

Nginx, Elasticsearch, Unicorn, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Redis, Postgres and HTML/CSS.
Time to bring back the American Letter Mail Company... though I'm sure some redesigning could be in order.
I just finished this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Antidote-Happiness-Positive-Thinki...

I think you will like it. It paints Buddhism and Stoicism in a very pragmatic light.

I second the Discworld recomendation. The series is fantastic. Read everything Pratchett has written, it is worth it.

Also: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: the only book to truly explain the genesis scripture.

The prophet by Khalil Gibran: One of the most beautiful books I've read.

And please ignore Paulo Coelho books. Paulo Coelho is to Richard Bach what Dan Brown is to Humberto Eco.
I can say the same for Lisbon (€1368 on the list). I'm more of a resident here but I spend under €400/mo (<$530) and live just fine (my own rented apt, centrally located).
Working at home has been the next big sustainability thing for about 30 years now.

The "people tried before" argument is never convincing. Enormous industry changes have occurred (for instance my home has a rock-solid, 100% reliable, 100/10Mbps internet connection, which is better than many whole office buildings had a few years ago), and work at home practices have been exploding.

I once was a unique butterfly. Now I can name dozens of people who operate just like I do.

As to YCombinator -- I don't know. I am not a startup under the tutelage of Paul Graham. I don't particularly care or need to heed what his opinions on work practices are.
Are there any other reason to use Ad Block software other then privacy and speed of surfing the internet?
Nice. Staying ahead of the curve like this is the right move. That's gonna pay off when 10x as many people are using Ghost and your site is already ranked at the top of the search results.

Similarly, if you're building a content site, the time to do it is right when the hype around your topic gets started. Think upcoming movie releases, video games, elections, etc. Build out the content around the hype, then when the time comes you're at the top and nobody's gonna knock you off. I know quite a few people banking some serious coin from this strategy alone.
Sounds good! Congratulations!
Can you share a link?
Nice. Link, details?
Can you talk more about what the app is and what it does? Curious.
That is nice for some users but again I feel like software including installation should be as easy as possible. We have actually lived in that era where we had to read documentation, install by compiling, and configure with dotfiles. I have had enough of it. I am happy with the basic functionality - read/fill form/annotate - that Okular provides in a dead simple interface and it comes with all format support pre-installed on all distributions that I have used. That's a win-win.
What was your converstion percentage, and what kind of hardware (virtual or otherwise) did you run to support this?
Nah. We've got information, which is more valuable than energy and not likely to be lost in a collapse. Civilization doesn't require pissing away prodigious amounts of energy on every little thing - that's just the way we do it when we have lots of energy.

Also, there's plenty more available energy on this planet, many times the amount we've used so far in building this civilization. Methane Hydrate, Thorium to name a couple. We're just drunk on oil right now, but don't confuse that with 'using up all the energy.'
The state of RMagick development
What do you charge for premium accounts? I can't find pricing on your site.

I've had a similar service, http://dbinbox.com/, slowly growing with entirely free plans for the last ~year and a half up to ~25k users and am about to add premium plans.
It would be problematic for the rebuilders if we managed to vaporize everything we've built, but at the moment, pure metals are far more available than they've been in history.

We've also probably evened out the geographic availability (so for example you can scrape together a few hundred pounds of copper pretty much anywhere there is a little bit of settlement).

I agree that coal/energy would likely be a problem.
Same with New York. Their estimation is 5k but it can be done with 1.5k if you're smart about it (hence being a good nomad)
Super Affiliate Handbook
About $30 a month off of AdWords for a fansite I run; it covers about 2/3rds (if that) of the server costs, so I'm content with that. I could earn more if I placed more ads, better ads, worked actively on the site / promoted it, but it's a fansite, and I think it'd be unfair for the people that actually spend obsessive hours writing content for it - if I were to make big money off of it, or would sell it (it's probably worth a few thousand due to content + google rankings), I'd have a massive headache and drama trying to distribute said money.

Effort is relatively low, a few weeks of on and off work to get it online, styling, moving servers a couple of times, etc. I need to move servers again I think, or at least upgrade all the software, it's kinda wonky for some people at times.
Small thing but if you update /etc/hosts you can do a reload of dnsmasq instead of restart.
"People say techies are invading science fiction. They said the same about my immigrant girlfriend."

Acronyms in headlines are so annoying.
Excellent. Scale it if possible. If you can automate the process for others looking to rent, I think the opportunity is huge.
Show HN: Locate Me – Facilitate requesting a friend's location over SMS
Even Eduardo Galeano himself dismisses that book as shortsighted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/books/eduardo-galeano-disa...

If you want a good view of the matter, please read Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
between $3000- and $18,000+/mo in online courses. The latter being more active in terms of sales, promotion, offers. It's not sustainable since customers are not responsive to this kind of thing each and every month.
There is a limit. You're also keeping information from the victims who can't protect themselves without your information.
If I recall correctly, I seemed to top out around 300 visitors per minute. Load stayed close to that for about 2 days (dunno about US evening hours)
Actually its far more efficient to have people work in a common building, than to build an entire edifice for each one to work in. More efficient: work where you live, all together in an ecohabitat of some sort.
So by "1% conversion rate" you mean that around 75 people actually played your game? I see some discussion on your thread about how your server got hammered - was it the people hitting the landing page, or in-game requests?
I really wish Apple would just implement a trial period like Google's Play Store. I understand that people don't want to pay for an app without trying it but trying to solve this problem with IAP just pushes this responsibility onto developers and results in a more confusing and inconsistent experience for users.
I bought your book for my scientist lady-friend! It's awesome! Nice work!
Vernor Vinge is fantastic. If you can read True Names before any other cyberpunk book, do it.

And read it before watching 'Her'. It's worth it.
How about the asian market? Is there any similar comparison but with the asian world included?
I've written a book, it's available on Amazon (including kindle).

What % I get when it's sold (kindle or dead tree) is absolutely none of Amazon's business. I negotiated with my publisher (not Hachette), I'm happy with the results, I don't need other people telling me what's best.
The Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock Tournament of Epicness
I wouldn't be on a throwaway account if I felt comfortable mentioning its name. But, basically, it's an analytics API.
"I've been working remotely and traveling around the world for the last 5 years. I found I don't really need that much stuff and travel quite often." x2

Being minimalist helps, of course. Major items: Clothes and computer. The rest is minor/small.