skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40-80€/month (depends on the season - college holidays are bad seasons) with adsense and amazon affiliates.

It demands from me 5 minutes each day (or 3 hours monthly, so it is not exactly passive..). It's a niche blog about architectural models: http://archimodels.info that I started as a hobby to learn about web development. I know that I'm near the bottom in the hierarchy of passive income but anyway I'm leaving my 2 cents. Tips:

- Good content is better than SEO, but you only pick the fruits 1-2 years later as your work compounds. Use your expertise. It is much easier/faster/more rewarding if you blog about something you are an expert.

- Adsense is (and probably will always be) ugly but is the fastest way to monetize a blog. I was making 15€/month before adsense and now I have slightly less traffic. Text ads or images ads? If you have a text intensive blog go for image ads and vice versa.
> I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union did exist, and actually did have WMDs. 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.

The statistical ridiculousness of terrorism is explained by this https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ more than anything. Try to explain that to Iraqi families as well (among others). So called "terrorism" is more like a sane reaction to this shit.
I'm not usually fond of the argument that "all data is just numbers so copyright is invalid" (cue the "color of your bits
" article) but I must say this is pretty clever.

I wonder if you could extend this principle by writing a program that would extract copyrighted material from public domain work.

Like, you write a program that would take text as an input, apply a transformation and output the result. If you input the bible, you get the source code to DeCSS. Is this code illegal? I don't think you could fill a DMCA against the bible...
Verboten on HN.
2000 or 2007 would've been okay too (rates around 5-6%): http://www.pfstuff.com/savings/#historical
$1000/month from adsense on my free background picture (no attribution required, use it for whatever you want) website. Kinda looks like crap, but I'm afraid to touch it because it's such a steady-eddy producer. I add a picture every month or two, and get <10% of my traffic from direct search. Has so many links from Uni's and articles on where to find free stock photos that traffic just rolls on it.
How to: Detect screenshots in Objective-C and Swift like SnapChat
There is no snobbery more obnoxious than metric snobbery. Please get over yourselves.
That board is probably being sold under cost. Look at how much stuff is crammed onto that PCB! It looks like there's a large BGA bridge chip (southbridge?) on there as well as a bunch of large perpipheral controllers. And what's with that odd chip-on-board module directly south of the Atom? It's missing from this previous picture of the board:

http://files.linuxgizmos.com/intel_sharkscove_front.jpg

Compare this to a recent ARM quad-core A9 board, where a lot of the peripheral stuff is on the SoC (oh, and it has Wifi/Bt on board)

http://boundarydevices.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Nit6Ma...

(Just a small plug for Boundary Devices here, their stuff is excellent. This is their new Nitrogen6_MAX, $249.).
That's awesome and inspiring. I have similar fears about any sort of jump in terms of 'working for yourself' so have always moved from job to job rather than even go contracting. I think your stack is very sensible - whatever works, isn't it - it's easy to become sidetracked thinking everything must be shiny & new or custom built. Really well done!
Just wrote something very similar, but more targeting development sandboxes. host runs a script that uses rubydns. a zone cut to the host for dev.domain.com. rubydns then uses docker-api (with small redis cache) to respond to dns requests for *.dev.domain.com. Developers can now reference their sandboxes as foo.dev.domain.com from within the host, or anywhere else, including their own machines. More to it then this ofcourse, but thats the dns portion.
Sorry about that. It's essentially a directory browser that displays file/folder sizes, can sort by file size, and allows you to delete files/folders.
Here are the all time sales figures for http://www.makecupcakewrappers.com

They've been pretty bad the last few months. I think it's because the server was overloaded and response times were getting really bad. It was running on a GoDaddy $70/mo VPS with IIS, SqlServer. But that server was also hosting an Umbraco site and a WordPress blog. The PHP process was taking up 99% CPU nearly all the time.

Now I have it running independently on a GoDaddy VPS and all the static resources are on Amazon CloudFront. It is much faster.

My wife says the designs we have are out of date and we need to make some newer designs. This involves going to Target, looking at the greeting cards, place mats, napkins, and other nick-hacks to get ideas. Also, Pinterest is great for design ideas! Then, opening up InkScape or a D3 console and creating SVG color-in templates in the site's specific format.

+-----------+--------+
| Mon (desc)| Sales |
+-----------+--------+
| July | 128.70 |
| June | 227.45 |
| May | 124.65 |
| April | 301.50 |
| March | 274.40 |
| February | 287.35 |
| January | 415.25 |
| December | 128.70 |
| November | 175.65 |
| October | 188.60 |
| September | 132.75 |
| August | 330.25 |
| July | 343.20 |
| June | 297.45 |
| May | 505.90 |
| April | 351.30 |
| March | 484.05 |
| February | 188.60 |
| January | 248.50 |
| December | 38.85 |
| November | 155.40 |
| October | 89.85 |
| September | 209.65 |
| August | 179.70 |
| July | 299.50 |
| June | 329.45 |
| May | 229.50 |
| April | 279.45 |
| March | 419.15 |
| February | 249.45 |
| January | 149.70 |
| December | 119.75 |
| November | 199.60 |
| October | 109.75 |
| September | 99.80 |
| August | 99.80 |
| July | 70.80 |
| June | 25.90 |
| May | 25.90 |
| April | 38.85 |
| March | 0.01 |
+-----------+--------+
Leaking hints is the dumbest conceivable way to handle disclosure. It taunts the community and sets up a race to independently find the flaw. The race happens much more openly than the original research, meaning that flaws are incrementally disclosed, ensuring that bad actors of every skill level will get a crack at the attack before it's fully fixed.

Don't ever do this, at least not for a bug that matters. It would be better not to disclose at all than to do this.
Swell. Apple buys 'Pandora-for-talk-radio' app for $30 meeellion
Therefore owning a library is a cost.

Owning a library has a higher value than owning a library of ebooks: social, decorative, nostalgic, works without power, easy share, can resell, etc. It more than evens out. But there is Steam effect - people will stockpile ebooks they don't read.
No. Now stop this.
Just a copy clone of Taptalk.
Also those that made a few fake facebook accounts to stalk people in highschool, but never had an actual account because they had not more than a handful of friends and did not want to give an american coorporation all their personal details. Oh, also countless variations Jesus and Mohammed accounts giving spiritual advice to strangers.
> > The threat of attack at any time. Constant fear. All so people could build their little empires inside the military and intelligence communities.

> I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union did exist, and actually did have WMD

yes, and their population was also kept in constant fear of the western WMDs that were actually aimed at them. All that also served similar ends in their governments's own little empires.

Source: museum of communism, Prague. https://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberryfrog/8233554/in/phot...
If you are going to engage in that level of tracking already, you should definitely consider looking into bodybuilding. It's a good way to build confidence for former fatties (myself included), and you get to eat more.
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I love App Engine, but why use it in this case? You've got a lot of background processes, but few concurrent users. Couldn't you use a regular server, since you don't have to worry about a spike in traffic?
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No disrespect meant to PawelDecowski at all (his CC number validator looks awesome, I'd use it) but he couldn't monetize it even if they he wished to -- too much competition in that space. Nobody is going to even pay $1 when they can just go on GitHub and find several similar libraries which do somewhat similar things.

I think £55 a year is best case scenario. At least it likely covers web-hosting costs.
in my humble experience using OCR programs, there is always a considerable amount inaccuracy. no matter what font I use or font size, I always either end up proof reading the scanned document or just typing it by hand. the letter "O" is almost always translated by the OCR as a "0" or a zero is translated as an "O". it can be pretty frustrating.
That doesn't sound right. On Business Account with Add on pack it should only cost about $360 / Year. Which is $30 /m.

And you cant compare DNSimple / Route53 as suggested on twitter with DNSMadeEasy. Both in features and more importantly SPEED!.

DNSMadeEasy is already one of the best out there. Most of the others that offer similar features and speed are multiple times more expensive.

As far as i know there are only two other alternatives / recommendation. Cloudflare, which is free. Their DNS are quite fast, but i think there are limitation with what you could do with it.

And if you grow larger, EdgeCast recently offers DNS services as well. Although it start at $50, its price on per million queries are one of the cheapest in terms of paid DNS services. And like its CDN network it is very fast.
I recently moved a lot of money out of a "high" interest savings account and mostly into dividend stocks. I managed to get a small payout of around $20 in an ETF and the potential seems so much higher than that of a savings account.

I guess the other thing I'm doing is finally putting money where my mouth is and putting money into companies I think will succeed in the future.
3 Years, 6 Months, and $0 MRR
Happened to me a few times (for technical articles/code). If I recall correctly it was around 3000-7000 unique visitors. My site is hosted on Github pages so I didn't have to worry about the load.
Weatherhobo: when and where to travel, based on weather
I can help with Russian as well.
Best month so far has been 50 bucks. It'll take a long time, but I'm hoping eventually enough people link to it and add my widget, so that I can capture search traffic.

http://sudokuisland.com
My best month was around £120 (in February 2014) (~$200) through Amazon affiliate links & Admob. All within a very simple shopping app 'designed' for android 2.1 back in the day and updated just once in 2 years. I've since pulled it due to changes upstream breaking data so it became useless, I didn't find the time to really fix everything.

I have just launched (like a few days ago) http://photobrix.com - but that is yet to bring in a penny from the limited adverts - I'm likely going to add a higher end/more featureful interface to generate instructions that people will spend $3 - 5 or so on. Additionally I'm aiming on allowing users to order their own prints (rather than deal with the hassle of individual bricks).
Thanks for pointing all this out. I honestly don't think of the Scala brand as being tied to the Play framework. Typesafe actually pushes Play on Java more than it does Play on Scala (even though we think Scala is better suited, obviously). We try to decouple Scala from Typesafe and our technologies in two ways: we provide Java programmers with an excellent experience on akka & play, and we welcome external maintainers for any part of Scala.

We happen to steward the Scala project and fund a lot of Scala core development (along with EPFL and research grants), but we're more than happy to share that responsibility with anyone who steps up, as has recently happened (baby steps) with the Scala modules that we spun out of the core for this reason.

PS: The only things that make me angrier than ant are jenkins and bash. (The build systems you're not angry with are probably the ones you haven't spent enough "quality" time with.) In any case, thanks for persevering with sbt and scala!

PPS: I don't think this is an odd route for a small company; how do you make money by developing just a programming language and nothing else?
I've had an ING Direct (now Capital One 360) account for a decade or so. I've seen the interest rate drop from 5% or so to .75%.

So yeah the returns are pitiful in a savings. The rates on CDs are lower than the one on the savings account.
Are Your Online Images Revealing More Than You Know?
The actual points range when rating wines/spirits is only 20 or 30, depending on who does it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirits_ratings

Does not make it any less ridiculous.
Harry Potter isn't illegal, you're just violating copyright if you distribute it.

However I believe the DMCA makes DRM circumention itself illegal, hence DeCSS itself is illegal.

That's my understanding at least.
Yeah--that's neat, to me. :-) I've written against CGI before. The kicker to me is that it converges back on what we'd already done. History is fun.
Show HN: Laravel Gurus
(We might be the only two people reading these comments.)

I agree that equity compensation is a headache in an LLC compared to that of a C-Corp. But I'm not sure how much money we really had to spend to do it.

I do not agree that having an LLC will meaningfully impact your funding. Obviously, nobody is going to fund an LLC. But you'll work out terms on the premise that you'll do a conversion or reincoporation/merger, and the legal for doing that will be part of your closing costs. Friends who have gotten funded under a C-Corp have told me they had to do this anyways, because VCs wanted the corporation on their paper anyways.

It's a little bit like saying that nobody will fund an actual sole proprietorship. That's true, they won't. But they'd prefer it if you came to them in that form! Because that's the cheapest corporate form to convert to their preferred form.
Unlawful knowledge taken from the tree in garden of eden? That what you talking about cause I think you are way out of your jurisdiction, nigger.
Yes. If you have both halves of the bill a bank will exchange it for another one. Even if you're missing a part of it. US bills have two serial numbers; generally you need one whole serial number and part of the second. (Obviously so you can't cut it in half and try to exchange each half separately.)

(I was a part-time bank teller while in college.)
What's unethical about this?
iOS 8 Preview: iCloud Sign-In
Matt Asay of MongoDB, Inc. (disclosure takes care of Asayroll Rule<tm>) responded to that openstack-dev posting, FWIW: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-Marc...
How do you monetize this codeht.ml ?
I have read that after the EMV system was introduced in the UK the fraud rate actually went up. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/6/175170-emv/fulltext
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Marissa?
Hadn't heard of ncdu before, but at a first glance, it does look very similar. Purge doesn't do all of its calculation ahead of time, but when you enter the directory (and uses concurrency). The rendering libraries are also different (ncurses vs. termbox), and Purge is written in Go, so it'll easily compile for just about any platform. Thanks for the reference to ncdu; good to know about that!
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I considered investing in a foreign country bank since I happened upon $20k through some fortunate stock picks. I was advised that this is a _very_ bad idea because of the currency fluctuations between countries. You might earn 7% in India (or 19% in the Ukraine), but if suddenly the transaction rate doubles, you've lost half your money.
Income Inequality and the Ills Behind It
Actually life is doing better in the Chernobyl zone than it was when there were humans there. Humans stay away because they don't like slight increases in cancer probability, not because life is impossible.
If you have enough people you can establish a religion that treats a certain binary number (which also happens to represent an arbitrary algorithm) as a sacred text.
Wow cool! How do you trust that they will return the bike?
How do you ensure no misuse including damages?

How do you market?
The source code would practically be in the transformation, the bible would only be a key.
Are you sure about the numbers? That'd be millions of users.
Leasing my own collocated hardware that was originally purchased for a different task but were no longer in use
And still no NFC.
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Is it really cheaper to hire CGI artists to recolor stray bills in every frame rather than to hire two security guards to guard and re-count a pile of real cash?

Sure, handling piles of real cash is a bit tricky - but it's a well-practiced routine that is a cheap&efficient commodity, since so many businesses need it for their everyday operations.
One pound is half a kilogram, three feet is a meter[1], one inch is the size of my thumb. No, they're not precise, but it's easy enough to memorize, close enough to understand a text. (I also use one mile=2km but I have the notion the error on that one is huge, although I never remember if it is actually 1.8km or 1.6km)

For Fahrenheit, I never managed to memorize a conversion rule. Weatherwise 0 is friggin' cold, 100 is friggin' hot seems to be enough for daily consumption.

[1] Actually, my mnemonic is that I measure 6ft (1.82m), but I don't think my mnemonic is useful for anyone else.
Stock market: I'm breakeven in a meh year in my country's stock market(Brazil) and it's my only passive income.
This is a great move to help reduce fraud for their US merchants, but even more important is it expands their potential market. Adding a chip reader opens up the rest of the world.

However, I'm still not sure how they will handle the PIN part of Chip and PIN, as the usual requirement is that the PIN is entered on a dedicated Pin Entry Device which then only presents the unlocked smart card to the merchant register.
Care to provide examples? Was thinking of getting into this myself with premium courses.

Edit: this is a good example of the type of courses I mean http://www.diygenius.com/courses/ (not affilated)

Is it on your own site? Or the likes of Udemy?
I wonder what their plans are for NFC / PayPass / PayWave? Are there technological barriers to it? Could a NFC enabled Smartphone act as a payment terminal?

It's only on rare occasions now that I have to even put in a pin (in Australia), NFC style payment terminals are pretty much ubiquitous.

NFC payments in 80-90% of stores, many parking machines, >50% of vending machines.
Apart from the points other posters made in reply to your comment, please keep in mind that it is not obvious that fearing an attack, military intelligence or threats of retaliation would reduce the probability of an attack happening (especially if it's a terrorist attack).
I just typed in "portfolio" onto ThemeForest and I have to say, pretty stiff competition. Many of the themes I looked at are VERY high end, clearly created by some kind of design professional.

Definitely not an area your average web-developer can just drop into. I can definitely write the code but you also need a good artistic/design mind. Just to make everything more coherent and to create a real theme that runs through the template.
I built a B2B SAAS app about 18 months ago. I neglect it now, as I took a full time job (living in NYC isn't cheap, and I needed a better living situation).

It brings in about $1,800-$2,400/mo. I'd sell it if I had a buyer.
I submitted a blog post a while back that made it to the front page and it hit about 11,000 visitors from HN and ancillary HN feed sites alone in 6-8 hours. The traffic was elevated for the next couple weeks and even my website, which was barely linked from the blog, saw a 50-60% increase in traffic lasting about a week after the post. I still saw traffic from this spike up to a full month later.
Does anyone else just bind Docker containers to specific ports and/or group of ports on the same interface thereby not needing to care about what IP address each container thinks it is?
When I first starting working with docker I'd use the

docker inspect $CONTAINER | grep -i VAR

pattern alot until I discovered that you can do use the container name and do go with:

docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' replset1

Service discovery and docker is still a pain point with the technology. Serf [1] and etcd [2] are tools that manages a cluster of services and helps solve the problem described in the article.

[1] Serf is by the guys behind Vagrant. - http://www.serfdom.io/

[2] etcd - http://coreos.com/using-coreos/etcd/
Are Urban Compass playing a clever game of Private Equity musical chairs
> Why would I pay $1000 for one when I can get so many others for $5?

Let me ask you this: would you rather buy one of the first 100 prints of Djikstra's "A Discipline of Programming" for $1000 or would you rather buy 200 Nancy Drew novels at $5/book? Books are not, to some extent, able to be substituted. Yes, if you are looking for a good vampire erotic fiction novel and are choosing between two unknown authors and one is priced at $15 and the other at $10, sure you would get the one priced at $10. But if both are priced at $10?

The point is that books are not bought as a simple commodity. Nobody says "I am low on books, let me go grab a random handful, based solely on price." No, people buy books with good reviews and by recommendation. When you are viewing volume book sales from Amazon's point of view, sure they all look the same. However, taking a closer look, a publisher might be able to price books more efficiently. If Amazon has helpful data to add to this, why don't they open it up and let everyone, publishers included, see it to help price the books better? Presenting a single data point in the huge possibility space of book prices is not a valid argument. Even if you let go of all the economics involved and stop thinking about how people buy books, don't you think that that ratio of 1.74 would be different for books priced at $12 and $17? Does this vary by month? Do certain genres have different price elasticity? Amazon is not trying to be helpful here. They are trying to squash publishers, gain control of the market and dictate prices, which they cannot currently do.
Eh, you could deliberately word-substitute and reformat the bible so that it, itself, contains the data in some form.
I think it's perfectly reasonable assumption that the majority of this apps users will be in the US and trying to lose weight.

It's fine to want features that aren't there (yet) but it's obnoxious to presume that the developer simply didn't think of them.