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No, no, it is not a Unicorn: Open Source, Open Company, Helping Others make money will do it bu growing a very large network of people. This way you too can use the software to make a few dollars. See an open company is many minds in, and very few well made products out: https://github.com/regenerate/snippets Everybody takes the product, and for as long as it was aimed at money making; they make money. You need a lot of products of this kind, similar to how a supermarket has many products for sale: https://github.com/revenue/awesome-revenue Go ahead ask about specifics, I think a lot about this. I dedicated this whole decade to helping people with passive income, without asking for anything in return. My focus is non-programmers, young families. The big idea is: A Global, Paying, Mechanical Turk similar to this: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
What does society gain from a prison like that?

Imagine a person spends 10 years in that situation, and gets out, what the hell are they supposed to do now? They have no job skills, no life skills, they're psychologically damaged. The rate of re-offense isn't high because 'bad people are bad', it's high because we take people in bad situations, and break them further. We take someone almost-functional, and make them completely disfunctional.

And anyone who disagrees with this model isn't "tough on crime".
The RasPi is a particularly unusual example here; the BCM2835 has a tiny ARM1176JZF-S taking a piggyback ride on a comparatively huge (and, despite some releases from Broadcom, still only very lightly documented) 2D vector processor, the Broadcom VideoCore IV, and it's the VC4 which actually runs the show (the proprietary firmware uses the commercial ThreadX microkernel, but fully open firmware is being developed) and boots it - it's actually a SoC made out of a GPU, and the ARM is broadly-speaking a coprocessor, posting requests to the VC4's kernel to please do stuff.

The video encoder/decoder has a little fixed-function logic, but the VC4 is rather good at vector operations itself, particularly 2D 16x16 and 32x32 ones, and probably has at least as much general compute muscle as the ARM, I'd say? It is not easy to program efficiently, however, and its pipeline doesn't seem to like branches very much. And trying to do ChaCha20 on it is tricky because I can't seem to find a way to address the diagonals...
It doesn't. Bandwidth is sold by the megabit/sec, aggregated across all the customers on a particular virtual port (CVC) at a particular point of interconnect.

The CVC price needs to come down a bit, but it's a pretty standard way of pricing.
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That link doesn't claim what you claim it claims. It talks about impact,

The focus of the paper is on impact, and along the way it counts people (including poor people) with wages between the current minimum wage and a proposed increased minimum wage. I have no idea what you mean by "massive amount of exclusions".

That's just raw bigotry now.

If so it's bigotry on the part of the BLS and Census. I guess you assert they are lying? If all the statistics (or at least the ones that disagree with you) are lies, there is no point continuing the discussion, since we can't get anywhere.
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What is "B2B"?
yes and is it just me but don't all these "passive" posts seem to be very spammy.
Just created the repo - https://github.com/datazenit/sensei-grid
Getting started with Jenkins and Node.js
Business to Business (in contrast to Business to Customer)
One day a civilized nation will look back on America prisons as we now look back on the Bastille.
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Business to Business. Unlike B2C - Business to Consumer
Business to Business; so when you sell your product/service to other companies instead of to individuals (which would be B2C; business to consumer).
business to business.
"If you can contract for $80/hour for US/EU clients (really possible)"

Do you have more info/advice about that? I've often flirted with the idea of online freelancing for overseas companies... But a lot of the freelancing sites either seem too dodgy/cheap, or elitist about "github" commits and the like.
sounds simmilar to

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd_FAQ#.22Failed_t...
Well, you better not choose Riga (capital of Latvia) then. According to my back-of the napkin calculations, an 80 000 EUR investment will pay itself back in 10 to 15 years.
Videos from the GHM 2014 aren't online yet. They will probably be posted at http://www.gnu.org/ghm/previous.html eventually.
You can find video and slides of Ludovic Courtès' talk on Guix from the GHM 2013 at http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2013/paris/.
nice!, its good to see many people working on that area. We got a lot of support from the author of LWan (http://lwan.ws) project during the development process.
My guess is that they think you were implying it is a different expo. Not just in name, but in content and such, as well.
The main issue is that you can't say to realloc "if you can't expand in place, just leave it"

This is occasionally annoying in C, but not a great issue. In C++, just memcpying classes leads to awful things happening.
$100,000 is a lot of money. Might not quite be the best way of ensuring passive income for someone that only really needs $500/month. i.e. if they're fine on that amount per month, they're probably not making much more than that.
This is the use case of Foreman. https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
Ah, I see... Thanks for the info!
Thanks! I've been meaning to use tmux more and this will make it all the easier.
or Goreman. https://github.com/mattn/goreman
I use tmuxinator to launch services I need, then I just kill the session when I'm done.

https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
Sure you can do that, you need to stay at least 3 months before asking for it first.

Note that how much you get is barely enough to live (but it fulfills its goal which it to reduce poverty).

(and there's a good chance the program will be scraped at some point, since while it fulfilled its goal with reducing poverty, it didn't have much impact in term of employment and there is still a ceiling effect even so it was supposed to remove them).

(and I'm not sure which part of reducing poverty doesn't make much sense, and as a EU citizen you can profit from any wellfare system within the EU)
I seriously doubt the lack of space travel is because we spend money on the military, if anything it might be the only reason development is still being done. Social programs are where the money is truly going, in the US alone there are over two thousand assistance programs at the Federal level.

Space doesn't get money because space doesn't get votes. Military accounts for a large portion of the science of similar hardware because its development and deployment can be spread around and people can relate to it easier.

Still giving the every day person a choice, go to the moon, protect us from the bogeyman, build schools, or free prescription drugs, I know pretty much the order it will go in.
great tips. will surely keep in mind.
Business to Business, so you may provide a service for businesses to interact or provide some value to each other etc.
I might have to look more into this guy, speaking as a software developer who's taking a break from editing his novel in vim.
Not really anything to contribute, but congrats!

I think 6 is the hardest for me. Keeping up a social media presence is such a slog.
Check out tmuxinator: https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator. You can create configurations for your projects that specify windows, panes, which apps to run, etc. It's great for starting all the servers/shells/workers required for a project.
Or perhaps people are desperate for it? It is a bit of a "over the rainbow" type of idea. I.e. getting a continuous stream of money for once-off work/idea.
It isn't just an idealistic view, it is somewhat counter to the view where source is the ultimate documentation.

This is especially true in projects that don't have the resources to maintain a well done documentation site with the source.

It is also completely counter to attitude of the most successful open source maintainer, by many measures.[1]

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129
Thanks a lot, i'll check it out when it comes up. Good luck with your database management tool ;-)
Sorry, I don't really understand this comment. (Not disagreeing, just don't understand the wording)
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I really wish OSGi wasn't in that ubiquitous space where it gets nothing but 5 and 1 star reviews. Worse, each end of the spectrum seems to have an agenda.

Seriously, it sounds like a nice idea and all. But it also sounds like an increase in work. For many shops, just getting out what they are currently committed to is tough. Increasing the commitment level seems counter to getting things done.
8) You advertise any chance you get. :-)

(That said, it worked on me.)
If you're willing to work five hours a month on your passive income project, then I suggest doing five months of work on Passive Rails Consulting, as that has minimal execution risk.

Can I make a suggestion? Most people who say "passive income" spend a lot of time fantasizing about the lifestyle relative to actually producing value. It is not terribly difficult to produce value as a programmer. Concentrate on producing value. If you achieve that, you'll trip over $500 a month. Most of the straightforward ways involve identifying a problem for a class of business that you're positioned to solve and then solving it in return for money.

If you want concrete suggestions with regards to markets and form factors, in lieu of repeating myself I'll post a link to an old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5904316
> Sure, let's go with that one. Humans are able to research and eradicate diseases, but monkeys are not. Humans therefore have a greater inherent worth.

So would you agree with the statement that Westerners have greater inherent worth than Australian aboriginal adults? After all, they don't have the technology or knowledge to research and eradicate diseases.

How about vs. the Amish? They choose not to engage in such research.

How about a normal human adult vs. an invalid?

I'm curious where you draw the line.

> "Why do you think that it is okay to kill poor hapless ebola?"

> Go proselytize somewhere else.

I feel sorry for you, that you are both so easily offended and lacking in debate skills that your response is so childlike.

I was hoping you'd could provide a level-headed counterargument to mine, as I'm open to challenges to my worldview. Sadly it seems you're little more capable of checking your emotions than everyone else who downvoted because they disagree with me.
At a point where you stop growing and start making lifestyle income for the founders, I think the appropriate term for this is "a lifestyle business". [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business
> On the other hand, I'm scared that respectable projects like Qt (~6M lines of C++, man-millenia of work!) will be considered "obsolete" by the coming generation and another cyle of wheel reinvention will begin, tossing away man-centuries worth of polished, working code on the sole ground that it's C++.

I imagine that as soon as Rust hits something like version 1.5, we will start to see semi-automatic converters from C/C++ to Rust, something similar to the C-to-Go effort underway to get to a self-hosted Go compiler.

Qt will probably take 5 years to be ported in a decent way, but I am pretty sure that a sizeable part of that codebase will be translated without too many problems, given its relative clarity.
It's a nice and clear summary. You could probably expand it into mini book - one page per each point listed - and sell it for additional revenue...
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Sell Indian pharmaceuticals by post? There's some margin there I'm sure.
I had in mind Tbilisi (capital of Georgia) and maybe Berlin (if you prefer west). But it's not about getting investment back in money - it is more like having a real passive income plus you're the owner of real estate. And you can sell it anytime later (for much better price) if you want.
Well, one instance of this working pretty well is John Chow[0]

[0] - http://www.johnchow.com/
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"... And the right to a fair trial...' Yeah right...
FWIW: You can probably 10X your rates if you take responsibility for what to build, in what order, and how much money it's ultimately worth to them.

Otherwise, broad agreement with your comment.
So why don't you trade actively, get rich and then get out of the rat race?
It'll take some work. You'll need to put an interesting quote on each page and then some anecdote from the author's life that may or may not be related to the the point at the top of the page. If author does not have enough interesting stories to write up, they may have to borrow them from reddit or such.
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/...

For some rationale, see this comment (by Reyk): http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140827065755&pi...

Nginx is considerably larger than the old Apache was. Commits that took it to a new version were pretty big. I didn't see a whole lot of OpenBSD developers hardening the code. Simple and small seems to be the OpenBSD way. I like it.
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Some of my friends do in fact use SnapChat for its chatting capabilities.
Just trying to be helpful. If you have some constructive advice, please feel free to share
Schelling segregation model is included in Netlogo.
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Segregation

Personally, I prefer to code in Python. The logic was straightforward to code, and Python has different visualisation libraries such as Matplotlib that makes building custom graphs very simple.

Tax evasion behaviour from agent based models sounds very interesting!!
What do you mean with "Passive Rails Consulting"?
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He's not being overly optimistic at all. That level of consideration is very real at big companies.
Aw what! Why is this OS X only? :-(

EDIT: Never mind, forgot I had a mac.
I mean he should build custom software for a business in exchange for money. It's a joke, because freelancing is the canonical example of something which is not "passive income."
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I get "502 Bad Gateway" and dynamic DNS is down.
If you're going to consult professionally, take the time to write a statement of work for every project you undertake. If it's worth spending a day on, it's worth writing a SOW. If it's not worth spending a day on, don't do it.

The typical contractual form a consulting engagement takes is a one-time master services agreement that establishes all the terms and conditions under which you'll work (this is usually the client's paper), followed by a series of 1-page SOW contracts as projects come up.

Each SOW specifies:

* That it's being done under the master agreement

* The nature of the project being done (it's to your benefit to keep this somewhat abstract)

* The acceptance criteria, if any, for determining completion

* The pricing used --- here you'd establish, for instance, that the project is being done on a T&M basis, expected to take N days, and that you'll obtain written permission should the project take longer.

You should be doing this on every project you run.
It solves a very specific problem - using Docker on OS X is a giant pain. It's pretty easy on something like Ubuntu, but for Mac the typical solution involves Vagrant + a VM, so startup times are slow, it eats a lot of memory and CPU, etc.
Another thing that bothers me a lot is that people equate GNU or Linux or GNU/Linux to free software.
It's especially hard to maintain a website suitable for children on an Internet full of criminals.
You don't need to wait for the future: http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/why-s...
std::vector is supposed to work in the common cases, so you don't need to manually realloc for small/medium sized vectors. If you need to handle a lot of data, avoiding realloc is still an issue and you should pre-compute the length and use vector::resize (or the length-aware constructor).
Money, mostly. There is so much money in sending someone to prison it's absurd. Sure, it costs the taxpayers money, but we're always trying to transfer money from the lower and middle class up the chain.

And that's when it's on the up-and-up. Half the time it's horribly corrupt[0].

Although, there's always oppression. Occupy saw all kinds of police abuses, which transferred to these judicial abuses. Sure, this one woman has a voice, but she also knows her freedoms are at the whims of others, no matter the evidence (not allowed in court) in her favor.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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Kindle singles.
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Isn't Facebook itself an STD vector?
No. It's just that there's no magical recipe for passive income. The best earners invent their methods, and often don't realize that they are building products suitable for passive income generation.
Oh, thanks, I thought it was an image manager (which I could use). I guess you'd have a problem with Docker on OS X, given the BSD-based kernel...
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prisons in the US are unconscionable. the abuse by guards, the prevalence of prison rape (by an HIV-positive inmate, no less), the capricious behavior by the staff. It is a shameful system.
The amount of money involved is not really the problem.

I've seen arguments from the end of the 80s (sci.space.tech, Henry Spencer et al) that if the launch costs went down, the costs of building hardware would go down. From that, there should be elastic demands when e.g. universities can send their own probes. They also discussed how to do it (Big dumb booster etc).

The point was, not that much more money would be needed for this (just check the really expensive launcher being developed by NASA now!).

To lower launch costs is the key and it might be rocket science but, well, not rocket science. The reason this haven't happened until Space X seems to be mainly NASA's need to protect the shuttle (which was really, really expensive) and oligopolies in the launch business for military contracts.

So maybe not the military, but the military contractors are involved.
Yes. Yet some people, I found, have a hand for a line that transcends whether they are doing representational art or presentational (aka "abstract") art. They make beautiful stuff regardless. It's probably a gift.

Studying art made me constantly aware of the expanding significance of what I was doing. My engineering courses (although still very useful) tended to limit themselves to teaching cut-and-dried techniques and capacities. And generally they did not engage this expanded critical thinking.

You can teach art like its engineering and you can teach engineering like its art. Maybe we do need to mix it up a bit more.
The we have investors is a BS argument. If I shop at Amazon.com I am bound by their TOS. Your agreement is your Terms of Service for working with you. Sign someone else's agreement at your own peril.
Link[0] for the lazy. I'm kinda curious as I had fun writing some articles in the past and know someone who's been talking about writing book for Amazon/Kindle. Might be fun.

http://www.stansberryradio.com/James-Altucher/Latest-Episode...
How can i monetize this online resume creation tool?
> What does society gain from a prison like that?

No, you have to ask, what does a prison like that gain from society?

Once you understand that people are merely a resource for government, law enforcement and business, things make more sense.

Think about that as you drive by a speed trap, that the police and city undoubtedly portray as a safety operation, but where the cops hide themselves because they're not trying to discourage speeding, they're trying to collect taxes.

Think about that when you see various police organizations stating their opposition to legalizing marijuana. Is their objection that it may promote other, still illegal drugs, or that it would reduce LEO job opportunities? Their only proper stance on the issue, as LEO organizations, is to enforce the laws that society tells them to.

Think about that as an apparently overzealous prosecutor bullies a plea bargain out of someone with the threat of life in prison. She's not overzealous, she doesn't care about society; the victim/defendant is merely a line on her resume. When a prosecutor's job performance depends on convictions (rather than truth), then she's going to maximize convictions.

Think about that as you, just a normal citizen who is no threat to anyone, are monitored, threatened and controlled by unconstitutional surveillance and police tools that are supposedly intended for, you know, actual terrorists threats.
We usually have a higher rate for clients who want to use their own paperwork, and that is only if it is close enough to our own to provide us with adequate protections.

Obie Fernandez has some great freelancing MSA and SOW templates that we based ours off of.

I have seen too many contracts from clients that have provisions that will make it difficult to contractually collect on late and non payments. Because of that we usually require that we use our agreement, but then write it so that it is fair to both parties.
http://dawhois.com/www/ahrens.co.uk.html
Dropship: In india its an untapped opportunity ... someone can just create a fortune by even tapping 1% of the market - of course its a little bit of work.

Buying from Manufacturer: again its a haven if you can find a niche product ... there are millions of manufacturers in small cities in india who create fantastic products ... you do little bit of research about what is selling or trending and start with small inventory .... some investment for trial and error is required but not difficult to catch a niche in couple of months ...

Flippa: now a days flippa has become more careful about listing fake sites - there are many tools ... one of the is services offered by Centurica ... they do thorough due-diligence for you (especially revenue and profit claims)...
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Nicely done. Nice name too.

One could use such a nice UI on linux too ;)

PS: I don't want a nice UI. There sure are others who would.
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I'll agree not to charge you with a felony and potentially lock in you in cage if you agree not to have a third party examine the facts of this case, and instead plead to a misdemeanor and pay a fine.

Is there any possible reform for the disaster that is the plea system? I realize it's necessarily in some situations but the result is you are never not guilty of some crime. The prosecution virtually never loses. Truth and justice are nowhere to be found.
I worked on a few features in MSN Messenger, and I'm sad to see it pass, but the time had come. I hadn't logged in to use it for almost five years when it was shut off in the US.
There are some core YUI methods that I think were really good. The one that comes to mind the most is Y.extend(), which is different from _.extend() in that it actually subclasses a class for you, and not just "mixes" two objects.

I know some people have some kind of hate or disgust for JavaScript's emulation of classical inheritance in this manner, but I liked it a lot!