skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried to head over to /r/digitalnomads and it's banned?
And does support android as well as windows so I will give them that. But really they could not have done ANYTHING to bring the cost down a little bit?
Don't know who downvoted you but I absolutely agree. I have a few homes that I help rent with and having a good tenant is high above and away better than having a bad tenant pay more money. Just the cost alone in time is worth giving a good tenant cheaper rent.
Everytime I hear something like that I just suspect the tenant to be a drugdealer or something like that. Which is great since they're always so polite and respectful not to attract attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdHkRkwJvww
$5k per month for 18 months in a row.

Made a portfolio website for my girlfriend. Got positive feedback, refactored into Wordpress theme and published on ThemeForest. Not 100% passive as I spend 3-4 hours per week for answering support emails.

ThemeForest is a perfect place for passive income if you are a website developer. At first it challenges your skills as you need to create the concept, design it and code it. Then it challenges your business, marketing and support skills. You become a one man factory and learn a lot.
First nations are not saying anything about techies, they are begging for change (pun not intended).
Unless, we speak about the europeans and south americans immigrants that came afterwards?

Well, USA should understand they are litterally pumping the moneys of other nations costly education & R&D that makes it very difficult to have this capacity of innovation.

On the minus sides, yes, you don't do brain drain by offering cheap sweets, on the plus side, it gives back point of growth.

Well, I myself is only a first generation migrant on the continent, and I don't care what people say, but I give my change to the first nations. and I hear a small voice in my head saying that calling yourself anything but just another human is the slippery slope to troubles.
Performance in the Cloud
That's what he means....
Start Up Australia: Right Mission, Wrong Name?
They seem to be pretty explicitly stating their goals here: they want the vast majority of ebooks to sell for $9.99 or less. The publishers want more.
> it's crowdsourced from this spreadsheet http://nomadlist.io/edit/

Can't seem to edit this with chrome, only with IE. Read-only in chrome.
SkyDock[0] is another alternative. It uses SkyDNS. It is a little more setup, but it has a few additional features. crosbymichael is a sharp guy.

[0]: https://github.com/crosbymichael/skydock
Is this all from a single theme? What percentage are you at?

I've contemplated converting some of my custom WP themes to sell on ThemeForest but I didn't think it would be worth the time.

edit: I often wonder if it would be worth it to try to compete with theme clubs. They seem to make a killing on recurring revenue and release a couple of themes a year.
I also saw ~7000 visits first day but that was in 2012. Here are some conclusions of my web traffic analysis:

https://github.com/entaroadun/hnpickup/wiki/Hacker-News-Pick...

Here are multiple screen shots of the google web traffic analytics interface:

http://hnpickup.appspot.com/hnpickup_web_app_statistics_snap...
Oh, I totally agree. But the point with re-skinning is that you can develop a decent game with fun mechanics, and someone will rip it off and release a re-skin within a month. That re-skin could easily outsell your original app.
How do you compensate for the trust gap? Do you make the renter sign some contract or something? How did you do marketing for this ad?
This line of reasoning remind me of new-age "theorists" talking about how quantum physics supports their view. The fact that people use words imprecisely or nonsensically does not somehow automatically make their formulations reasonable.
10 exciting ‘smart energy’ startups from across Europe
Unless there's actually a cop watching the streets, NO.
TOP 7 Web Design Companies which Get Stuff Done
In India, traffic cops don't usually use tickets, they accept fines or bribes on the spot in a traffic stop.
Do you have a special insurance for this (I confess I have no idea how India works)? What are you going to do when someone totals it?
I make about $200/m in affiliate revenue from Shopify (http://www.shopify.com/?ref=disco) <= Yes, that's an affiliate link.
Use of Golden Ratio in Design
And there are plenty of wintel boards that have launched in the past that have failed to reach a fraction of the audience that Pi or even Beagleboard has. Even the android board seems more realistic than this it seems wee bit over engineered for the purposes or is missing the things to truly make it unique and at the price advertized they could have done more I would have thought.
What dating niches did you come up with? Why do you say you are not proud of it?
Yes, I guessed it will be more. :(
How much do you get with the free version of Liquid Lens?
Sounds like more of the pieces of React/Flux are being opensourced. :-)

Interesting to see references to TypeScript. Is it prevalent at FB?
How Briefmetrics makes $350 per month
Not entirely passive due to a small amount of support emails each month, but bringing in roughly $1600-$2500/mo (slower in summer) for niche WordPress themes. That's with virtually no marketing or advertising other than a $5/day adwords budget.
I quit working full-time years ago–here’s why I recommend it highly
The surface of the SF area is limited and almost already at its full capacity. It is a resource.

Either you let the market do, and the price will logically higher, or an authority will decide who can stay.
In first case, Techies are indeed provoking the eviction of long time inhabitants, on the other hand how do you decide those who leave, those who stay?
You choose the people contributing the most to the economy, or the one that relatively are bringing nothing but cost? (fireman, under-educated workforce, public services (trashs...), policemen....)

Well, let's hope techies will learn how to do all these underqualified/cost sink jobs when these people won't be able to afford any more housing.
XOM and AGNC dividends
I'm 100% with how docker deals with virtual ethernet devices, but why would you not want to use DNS/DHCP?
This kind of project might see more success if it was made to work on Android devices. I'm cautiously optimistic that once KDE works on Wayland and Wayland works with Android drivers (or there are good quality mainline video drivers for the various chipsets), we would be able to root most any Android tablet and install a KDE/Wayland stack on it.

I think that enabling that kind of thing - running an alternative environment on already existing hardware is a better goal than making your own hardware from scratch. Better as in more realistic to gain a userbase, I mean.
Sidenote: http://teleport.org/ Try to do something like that, but not crowdsourced. It's from Sten Tamkivi a16z entrepreneur in residence.
Do OVH count as one? They do have DC in Canada.
I have insurance like that of any private vehicle. I am not prepared for the other question you have asked, its a risk.
Thankfully he is retired military enjoying life in a quiet mountain village.

Got to be careful with drugs because the police can confiscate the house via asset forfeiture. One tenuous link between a drug dealing tenant and my bank account and the department has a new vacation home.
Are you reselling another service, doing affiliate links or running it by yourself?
Snel, verantwoord en gezond afvallen, hoe doe je dat?
Why no epub? I don't need the hassle of downloading all the pages and converting.
I'm using that approach for Reesd. Instead of a single dnsmasq instance on the host, I have one instance (actually a Docker container) for each logical group of containers. Containers can reference db.storage.local and different groups will actually talk to their own database. This is pretty cool for integration tests or spinning a new version of the group before promoting it into production.

Before that, I was using SkyDNS but I was not happy in having to maintain/reset the TTL.

Side note: when you use --dns on a container and commit the result to an image, that image will have the --dns value in its /etc/resolv.conf (meaning that you still have to run a DNS at that address or to provide again --dns to supply a new address).
What is Web Crawling?
I would prefer to have some kind of confirmation before something is actually done. For example Hey could show the actual command sequence to be executed and then ask if that is ok to do.
Fear mongering? Let's see:

First of all, Chernobyl Exclusion zone is about 1000 mile^2. [3] Life is not doing just fine there.
And the effect of Fukushima meltdown are not going to be known for the next few years, but there are indications that it may not be as harmless as we are led to believe.[4]

There are currently 62 commercially operating nuclear power plants with 100 nuclear reactors in 31 states in the United States. [1]

A recent study led by European researchers found Fukushima is not alone, as 22 other plants around the world may be similarly susceptible to destructive tsunami waves, with most of them in east and southeast regions of Asia. [2]

The World Nuclear Association estimates that 20 percent of nuclear reactors worldwide operate in areas vulnerable to earthquakes.[5]

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=207&t=3
[2] http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/nuclear-plants-at-tsu...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant_...
[4]http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/07/nuclear-expert-fukushima-...
[5]http://www.frontiergroup.org/blogs/blog/fg/how-many-us-nucle...
Other than stocks and mutual funds I've only got one source of passive income.

I made a Pathfinder Ability Score Calculator last year and it got picked up by d20. There's an ad on it so I get revenue from it. Right now only about $40-50/month but it's been steadily increasing since I put it up a year ago.

A friend was going to sell me his hosting business but that fell through. That would have added about $100/month.
Hell, lightly-used/reclaimed office furniture can pay that much. :)
Mobi or epub version anyone?
I was hoping that the free version + IAP would generate significantly more revenue than the paid version, since I've read so many articles claiming that freemium is the future of the app store.

So far this hasn't been true though. Currently IAP revenue from the free version tends to be about 1/3 the revenue of the paid version even though free app downloads outnumber paid by at least 10 to 1 on most days. It does seem like IAP has been ticking up a bit over the last few weeks though. Maybe people have to play with the app for a while before they're willing to pay for it?

Personally I'd prefer to just do paid apps, since adding IAP + store transactions adds a fair bit of work.
8000% faster than Snagit
Theme clubs? Are those the places where you pay a subscription fee to be in a limited club of people that get a new theme every couple weeks?

In general people spend a lot of money on themes. I think you might be better off competing with themeforest or more likely, any of the number of bootstrap theme website popping up.
I'd imagine it's more about the stigma behind these dating sites. Fake profiles etc.
I really enjoyed this game. I went through every level and what amazed me most was the creativity it took to come up with the different levels of difficulty. It's not the repeated stuff you get in Candy Crush. Finding a solution is one thing but designing the levels is a different skill set altogether. We'll done.
Startup Interview: FlipKart founder Binny Bansal [Jan 2008]
I have an app that floats around the top 200 in the travel section but it doesn't really bring in much (i'm only using iAD and not charging for the app). I guess the travel section is probably a little easier to crack than some sections though.
>[redacted]

Either you can say the word or you can't. Luckily our language has ways of working around saying certain words, so you don't have to put in [redacted].
Nuclear waste is waste because it doesn't contain enough fissile nuclides (i.e. nuclides, which could produce heat in fission). It has almost nothing to do with radioactivity or decay power. Radioactivity just makes it harder to manage.

But you have it right: The decay power density of nuclear waste is quite soon not enough for such a probe.
For those who apparently never bothered learning any system but imperial, here's some help:

1 vershok = 1 3⁄4 inches

1 arshin = 2 1⁄3 feet

1 funt = 0.903 lb
I keep meaning to write up complete figures but I launched my self-published ebook The Profitable Side Project Handbook in January http://rachelandrew.co.uk/books/the-profitable-side-project

Sales from that are well over 10K USD at this point. A lot of that was over the launch week, I've not had a huge amount of time to devote to marketing it over the last couple of months as our main business (which was a side project until it took off) has kept me busy, so it really is passive income at this point.
Music for TV: Hollyoaks on using the Audio Network catalogue
One solution nobody has mentioned is filming in another country. While there probably are laws restricting the "foreign" currency reproductions, I'd think it's unlikely the authorities in, say, Canada would spend nearly as much effort going after prop US currency as the Secret Service would in The States.
Impressive. Link to the theme? curious.
Music for TV: Hit show Gogglebox using Audio Network
Apparently, more than GrandArmy can handle with this USPS redesign post...
I'm also ignorant of how the legal and insurance system works in India, but that seems like far too large of a liability if someone is injured while using your equipment.
About $75-$100 a month from a simple AdSense site that ranks highly for some key terms. Pretty lame.
Can you post a link from some of your blogs? thx :)
I used to do a few hundred a month from adsense on my tutorial site. Google penalties and lack of updates and now I only see a few dollars a month. My traffic went from ~70k uniques per month to 5-10k, so it's not that shocking that the earnings went down.

Sadly the spammy made for adsense sites I had did much better than the one legit site I poured most of my time into. I think this is part of the reason so much crap exists.
Most of the time I take decision by talking to customer. There is no contract/form to sign. I am working on it. As of now I ask to submit original Identity card and deposit of 10K. There has been an instance when I gave the bike to a customer without taking any security.
Are you leasing your own collocated hardware or are small businesses paying you on retainer as a server admin?
The original version is one of the readings that I suggest for experienced engineers on our team who are new to working with JavaScript.
Why? So the temperatures seem more extreme?
There a few but elegantthemes.com is one that comes to mind.

You pay yearly to access to a bunch of quality themes. They pay out 50% commissions (and on renewals too) to affiliates but they have 200k+ plus users. They have to bring in a couple million a year.

I believe they started out at much lower prices and started raising it as they released more and more themes.
http://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad
> The surface of the SF area is limited and almost already at its full capacity.

The vast majority of SF is zoned for four-story buildings. In Paris it's six. In New York, Hong Kong, and Dubai, it's much more.

How can you say SF is anywhere close to approaching full capacity?

(And don't try to claim earthquakes have anything to do with it. Construction of tall buildings in seismically-active areas is a solved problem.)
It's an incredibly popular place for startups and to work remotely. By far one of the most popular places I know. It's affordable, great international scene, decent internet, and large community. Still, I'm a bit tired of how many people I know move there to work remotely.
> i have assembled the funnel-and-churn data. i've put together the reports greenlighting games because the ltv has exceeded the cost of acquisition. i've used average instead of median so our whales inflated the reports. and after all of that, i've seen their 30-day retention numbers still stagnate.

In other words, you were managing promotion. Promotion is an important part of marketing, but it's not the entirety of it [1]. If the game objectively sucked, then you failed at the "Product" piece of marketing. This is the part where you listen to your customers and make changes to your product to make it more attractive to your target market (you did identify target markets for your games, right?) Product development should be squarely a marketing function; otherwise you'll end up building a product that nobody wants (like the original author did).

> if you are a small shop where everyone has day jobs and you can endure slower, organic growth? it's not worth the money.

In other words, it's only not important if you're not running a business and don't expect your app to be successful. Otherwise, marketing sounds pretty important to everyone. "Organic growth" doesn't happen in the app economy; you need explosive growth to hit the scale at which you can even begin to start recovering your costs (I recall reading one of these where the guy bought an iPad to develop his game with, and didn't even end up covering the cost of the iPad).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix#McCarthy.27s_four...
I've gotten as much as 60,000 in 24 hours if it stays on the front page. Recently I had one that hit 4000 in about 20 minutes but some circuit breaker hit (which I have no clue about, not really controversial or anything) and it dropped instantly to page 5 so the traffic died quickly. Generally at the top you might see as much as 10/s peak. I've seen 500+ concurrent but of course that is based on whatever Google considers concurrent.

Never had any trouble serving it (my own code, LAMP, on Amazon micro instance). programmer.reddit.com is a little lighter. Ancillary traffic (other sites) from a front page post might add 10% or so over time.
How many have you got in total - what's your hosting costs? thanks
But predictive typing usually corrects per word. Given a sequence of words, you can give the top suggestions (like Swype and others do) using a non-hidden Markov model. For partially typed words, it's easier to take words from the same suggestion list and rank them by combination of probability and some similarity measure (e.g. edit distance). Possibly complemented by non-suggestions through some other method (e.g. levenshtein automata). If you want to correct

predctiv tping an spech recgnition

Yes, you you'll want to use a hidden Markov model. If you already have

predictive typing and speech recgn

then a normal Markov model will serve you fine. And since such predictive keyboards do corrections per word, they are like the latter example and not the former. For speech recognition (e.g. Google Now), you indeed need an HMM.
Have you compared this to just putting the money in a high-interest savings account?
I host a forum and website for a state-wide non-profit that I volunteer for in exchange for a single sidebar Adsense ad on the main page and in the footer on the forum. It's a hobby of mine, but the $300-$400 (gross) covers my expenses. Self-supporting hobbies are nice.
Because blaming the driver won't change the fact that it's her life that is fucked up.

When it comes to collisions between vehicles and pedestrians or bikers, the vehicle has the right of weight.
MyTblocker
I’m making available to beta testers myTblocker, it’s a simple Twitter app that is free to download and use that has one simple function “block Twitter spam accounts”
eg. if you run multiple Twitter accounts when you block a user on one account it will auto block the same spammer across all of your multiple accounts.<p>Please note you don’t actually use the myTblocker app to block twitter spammers, this is done on your regular Twitter clients as per normal, basically this app is just to “propagate” the blocking across all of your twitter accounts.<p>The history and the reason behind developing this is that in my various “day jobs” I run about 50 different Twitter accounts, and continually I would see the same spammers popping up again and again across multiple accounts for multiple clients and I’d have to block them individually 50 different times. I thought there has to be a better way….<p>The myTblocker app will always be free – and use is at your own risk, though I’ve been using it for about a month and no issues at all. The app follows all Twitter API guidelines. The only negative is that for some reason if your account comes out of sleep mode it seems to lose connectivity with the API, we’re not sure why yet.<p>Feel free to check out www.myTblocker.com for more details/screenshots and to download the app
http://www.reddit.com/r/suinegdik/comments/2c4ze5/
About $50-$100/month on http://kidsdungeonadventure.com a role playing game for pre-school age kids.
I've got my project on the front page #20, it led to 500 visitors in 3 hours. Not a huge success i would say :)
The interesting question is how much _conversion_ to expect.
I started EmailItIn[1] to allow people to email files to Google Drive, then added DropBox and SkyDrive/OneDrive support. Premium accounts bring in about $200/m right now, and it's steadily rising.

Support is low - though it took a while to build the initial technology. I get a lot of traction from realtors and lawyers. I've tried paid advertising but the conversions are too low to make it worth it.

Initial goal was "vacation money", and it's currently on track to hit that level next year.

1: https://emailitin.com/
Would this be an easy way to get OCR into an iPhone app with phone gap?

Could it operate on a live video feed?
A lot easier now without all the crazy tubing I'm sure.
Speeding up map search with static data tiles and CDNs
One of my buddies a few years back was banking ~100k/mo profit with Chatroulette bots who told guys jerking off to "find me on adultfriendfinder!" That was all in affiliate revenue.

At some point you have to wonder when it moves from ethically wrong, to you're an idiot if you don't do it.
That only works if you have a place to do it. Inner-city, for example, probably isn't the place you want to be running with no protection on your feet. Or places where there may be metal or glass on your running surface.
When a few readers collectively had the poor judgement to vote a post I wrote to the front page it brought in around 12k uniques from HN and associated parasitic sites over the space of 6 hours or so. This was peaking around 200 - 250 simultaneous visitors.
How would a business like that work? You buy a warehouse and then buy up old office furniture? then find places to market it?
Show HN: Open-source re-usable PHP code repo marked up in schema
a what? do you think it is 1985?
Same in a lot of south east asia, Indonesia for example. I experienced it as a tourist on a scooter.
What counts as high-interest these days? Half a percent?
I forgot to add - my next project is likely to be re-writing DVDSpanner (an application that automatically distributes and writes files across multiple disks) to support the latest OSX versions. I will be making that a paid app. I was inspired by the recent story about VirtualHostX.
I was more interested in your claim of "Life on Earth would become impossible". You've shown that there are reactors, and that there is a risk involved with having them. But the claim that a few earthquakes in some parts of the world would wipe out all life on earth seems so to me an exaggeration, and I consider that fear mongering.