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I really like automators like IFFT as they save the time from having to yet again keep up with breaking API changes from crappy company xyz (ex: Facebook). The problem with all of them seems they don't actually work reliably.

I tried IFFT a number of times. I'd love for it to work, but I only use it as a "it's ok if this breaks, missing data, etc." tool. Admittedly this is not 100% their fault as you are at the mercy of the shoddiness of other APIs, but bugs upon bugs and the less than reliable nature of IFFT actually executing things in a timely, durable manner makes it 100x less useful and impossible to build on top of for real apps.

I also feel that from a business point of view, relying on other people's services is consistently a trap. Whether it's social networks like Twitter, COTS like SharePoint, or something like Evernote, it's always a trap. These businesses can break your code at any time they choose, shut off your service, or simply go under. It takes a lot of work circumventing their bugs and terrible APIs as well. Hats off for trying, but I don't feel like a company like this is usually a good long-term investment.

Add to these problems the fact that most internet "typical" users would never use IFFT or "get it" the way it's presented today. Moreover, most programmers want more control, something more powerful, or can just do everything here better themselves exactly to their use cases. Not seeing how this company is worth much even if it is "useful." Profitable != useful many times.
> More to the point, who would use a c++ library from Facebook? Hopefully don't need to explain the reasons here.

Could you explain them for those of us not in the loop? Does Facebook have a bad reputation for C++?
What about the american revolution? You used to tax us abroad until we had a war. Now our own government is doing the same thing. Taxation without representation.
And send it to ten of your friends! Don't break the chain!
>Isomorphic single page apps seemed to be buzzwords to me

How would you describe a single-page app that is pre-rendered on the server? Hmm, maybe "pre-rendered" would have been a better term than "isomorphic".
I've visited HN for a long time and this is the first submission I can say of:

I need this in my life.

Thanks
They should also do a permissions and verification system called Clarence.
1) Find a niche area of interest and build a web site and put AdSense ads on it

2) Promote the website a bit

3) Profit.

The trick is working out what your niche is that hadn't already been done by someone else.

I lucked out with some websites in the UK about fuel consumption (for cars) a few years ago. I invested a weekend of my time and a little promotion effort and it snowballed - initially it made maybe £1 a month for the first year to 24 months but now I get about 150,000 hits a month which with ads earns a decent amount of money (more than you are looking for)
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Since being a prosecutor is always a stepping stone to higher public office this is unlikely to change. Jurors can nullify laws however they are never told of that option http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?_r=2&...
Good luck to live on 600$/month
This is not entirely passive (at least, in my experience) because in order to get people to continue to buy your books long after they are published, you need to continue publishing (unless you hit the kindle lottery and are wildly successful immediately).
The day Messenger died for me was when all my friends moved to Facebook instead.

The halcyon days where IM was somewhat private.

Shame they took so long to bring it to mobile devices, too.
Why Zocalo plus S3 would be amazing
I don't know but it's BuzzFeed dumb.
I've long suspected this and have been off social networks since 2007/08. Have taken a lot of grief from friends about it though.
> How is MSNP "horrible", specifically? You've worked with it?

Yes. I'm sure you know yourself: It's very ugly at the low level, it barely supports the minimum feature set to call it an "instant messaging protocol", and let's please not forget that is is a closed, proprietary protocol regardless of how readable it is on the wire. Microsoft has full control over it and can decide at any moment to... well, for example, shut it down.

Not saying skype is better, just glad to see crappy proprietary tech die out.
I've not used Guix, but looking at those slides, the ability to take the build definition of the "hello" program, inherit everything but change the version, looks very interesting.

I'm not aware of a way to do that in Nix, but I think it's more a consequence that the convention is to call

stdenv.mkDerivation { descriptor }

(where the descriptor includes things like the upstream url, version, etc.)

without providing a direct handle to the descriptor (which one might inherit and modify just the upstream url, for example).

(In practice, I find it an order of magnitude easier to create custom packages in Nix compared to .deb.)
Ms. McMillan was convicted, unanimously, by a jury of her peers. The video of her assault on the police officer is widely available and can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devvY1cCVFE&oref=https%3A%2F...

You can draw your own conclusions, but what I see is somebody preparing, consciously, to use the force of slamming their elbow into a police officer's face in order to escape from that officer.

Perhaps you disagree with a lot of things -- police militarization, incarceration rates in this country, unequal outcomes and opportunities based on socioeconomic factors.

But I don't see how a fair-minded person can agree that we ought to go around solving our problems by elbowing officers of the law in the eyeball: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/nyregion/officer-testifies...

The woman in this case has repeated problems with the law (and the truth) and was arrested again last year for impersonating a lawyer in the subway and interfering with an arrest: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/nyregion/occupy-wall-stree...

As the prosecutors say in that case: "This new arrest mirrors what was on display throughout the trial: the defendant’s utter contempt for the police and the important job they do on a daily basis."

Fact-free magazines like Cosmopolitan may display sympathy for people like Ms. McMillan, but here at HackerNews we should not.
Why can't Orion take off with conventional rockets and then switch to nuclear drive once in space? Wouldn't that address the main drawback?
Not all business applications need Erlang. Thousands of concurrent users requirement is mainly for gaming,chats type applications.For vast majority of 'real world'applications:java,Microsoft,Python,Ruby fulfill the needs. OOP is not going away.Scala,Clojure have their advantages.
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> The judge didn't allow evidence that my attorney wanted to show the jury, including a range of videos of the incident.

That's the part I find the most shocking in this article. Aren't trials supposed to be fair? What are the kind of evidences that are not allowed to be shown?
Just want to throw in http://glmatrix.net. It supports vectors and matrices, Node and the browser and is crazy fast. (No affiliation!)
Add Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ('Founder', ISIS) to the list. PhD, arrested in 2005 [1]. Many 'leaders' of ISIS are alumni of Camp Bucca and Abu Ghraib.

[1] http://abc7chicago.com/politics/what-you-need-to-know-about-...
Uber, Lyft and cutting corners: The true face of the Sharing Economy
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First, there no "personal financial incentives." Lobbying isn't the same as campaign donations, and corporations like Intuit are prohibited from making direct campaign donations.

Second, legislation isn't based on "the merit of both opinions" but how both opinions fit into the preferences and ideologies of the polity. And in a democracy, that's probably precisely what legislation should be based on.

Third, keeping the above two points in mind, I think it's fundamentally different to say that lobbying "guarantees favorable legislation" and to say that lobbying exploits an ideological divide in the polity that "results in favorable legislation."

The former seems wrongful. The second, in my mind, seems entirely appropriate. I think it's fine to spend money to remind elected officials that a particular, minor, policy decision (making taxes easier to file) will undermine their efforts to make a different, major policy decision consistent with the preferences of their voter base (lowering tax rates, reducing the progressiveness of the tax code).
At my last company I maxed out at 28 days a year after seven years there. Standard is usually 2 weeks but if you negotiate as part of your hiring, you should be able to get 3 weeks, especially if you're in a more senior or managerial role.
Every young person thinks science will solve mortality before they grow old; thus far, every young person has been wrong.

(I'm 27 and pulling for science as well, but let's not delude ourselves either here.)
sidenote: your terminal color setup is rad.

edit: I'd also like to say, I am really enjoying the trend of people including a video demo of their applications.
I live in NYC and I didn't read the entire article, but what stood out for me (beneath the picture) was the $167K per year that each prisoner on Rikers costs NYC!

The story of her re-arrest for confronting a police officer in the NYTimes story mentioned in the first comment suggests some underlying contributing psychological issues.
Clojure's Transducers are as fundamental as function composition
my guess is a thin wrapper around PTOSC.
- Automatically creates a folder under ~/Kitematic for each Volume.
- One click NSEnter into any container.
- Any container can be accessed at <container_name>.dev (automatically sets up a DNS for you, so you can connect a database too using that URL).

We're really just trying to make Docker easier to use for Mac right now.
My personal suggestion would be to borrow the nasm/yasm pre-processor. x264 has certainly used it to great effect.
Interestingly, back in the day Amazon actually let you have many separate accounts on a single mail address, as that is a common use case in e.g. middle America (husband and wife sharing an address which came with their ISP, usually).
I completely agree with this.

Generally, completely passive income is massively harder and more time intensive to generate than minimal-time-investment income (which is what Patrick suggests above). I have both completely passive and minimal-time-investment income sources, and the passive ones have been MUCH harder and longer work per dollar over the last few years.

Focus on optimising your $/hr (and your hr/month) rather than going for hr == 0 and you'll likely hit your goal much faster.
Yes. The brain undergoes fewer changes during 50 years at liquid N2 temperature than 40 minutes at room temperature. Next question?
Let me recommend to you the documentary "WEED" to watch.

The difference between pot and pot specifically grown to have high CBD content is like the difference between corn and corn syrup. Most marijuana, even medical marijuana, is not going to contain enough CBD content to be effective at treating certain ailments.

In the case of kids with Dravet Syndrome, the difference is drastic. Smoking medical marijuana all day long is not helpful at all, but smoking marijuana bred for CBD potency is downright curative, at least at preventing seizures.

Charlotte Figi has dozens of grand mal seizures a day if left to her own devices. The average medical marijuana does not help her, but CBD-potent marijuana effectively quells her seizures. A little bit of oil extracted from CBD halted the grand mal seizures.

The downside is that practically nobody is growing this type of marijuana, and specifically, we're breeding most medical marijuana to have higher THC content at the expense of CBDs.

In this case, yes, pharmaceutical-grade products are possibly superior, especially as they can begin regulating it and testing its actual effectiveness towards treating chronic issues like Dravet that "smoking pot" doesn't necessarily impact at all.
"High dividend stocks are almost by definition risky stocks."

Pardon me, but that is more or less the opposite of the traditional received wisdom.

High dividend stocks come in two varieties:

* Low-growth, mature, typically capital-intensive companies, especially those in highly-regulated industries. Think power generation, some real estate investments, and so on. Since stock price appreciation is not in the cards, dividends are the only returns an investor can expect and thus are higher. These are typically the safest stocks, although "safety" is relative; stocks are more risky than most other investments.

* A dividend-paying company whose stock price has been depressed, typically due to specific events: poor management decisions, a bad environment, competition, or what have you. These are typically considered "value" investments; the stock price has been pushed down, usually for good reasons, but also usually, too far. The dividend on these is unlikely to be maintainable---management will usually reduce it as part of doing something to get the company back on its feet or whatever. However, the investment itself is not particularly unsafe, in my personal opinion. See Buffet's "The Superinvestors of Graham-Doddsville" for some other people who feel likewise.

The second group is probably not what the poster wants and I would be uncomfortable focusing solely on the first since those kinds of industries are typically economically linked.

On the other hand, you do have to know what you mean by "high dividend". Thanks to the "dividends are doubly-taxed" lunacy, and double thanks to the "growth is everything" mentality, dividends are very low or non-existent. Anything above, say, 4% (to pull a number out of my flying monkeys) is probably a return of capital, not a return on capital; the money you get as dividends includes a partial payment of your original investment and you cannot expect to get your original investment back when you sell it. In fact, it will disappear entirely over time. And anything over 1.5% to 2% (again with the flying-monkey-numbers) probably represents the value investment situation rather than something sustainable. The 6% mentioned by the grandparent probably is indeed pretty risky.

Also, the bond market is usually considered safer than stocks, with a higher interest "dividend". But I don't really know much about that.

This should not be considered financial advice, I'm some random dude on the internet. Look carefully before you leap, try to learn what you're doing before you try to do it, and try to stick with reputable instruction. There is a crap-ton of bad information out there.

[Did I write something particularly controversial?]
But * * has an entirely different meaning in C/C++.
I've been there. Although every case is different, you may be successful with my approach. I observed that it is much more difficult for me to sleep when very tired, and that I'm awful at auto measuring the time to go to bed. So, I adopted a rigid 7h sleep schedule for a month. I added some exercise (swimming), to guarantee success. Worked like a charm. Nowadays I'm more flexible about the schedule, but vigilant as to whether I'm slipping.

I think the most important thing I did was defining that taking one hour to fall asleep was problematic and then tackling the problem methodically. Seeing a doctor about it was on my scope had I failed to solve the problem on my own.
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The 20 min pledge for budding entrepreneurs
Step 1 make 500/mo after 2mo of work.
Step 2 repeat every 2mo.
....
Be multimilionnaire.

Bonus:
Believe in fairy tales. Get a free, pink flying pony.

Also - all developpers are now multimillionaires with the passive income magic formula.

Im astonished this keeps poping up.
After playing with NixOS the past few days, never touched Guix, I think the former is more likely to be "taken seriously."

The ideas behind Nix/Guix are really interesting and a major improvement from traditional packagement solutions, and personally I much prefer using Scheme than a Haskell-derived DSL to configure my environment and operating system.

The problem is a political one: NixOS ships with current Linux standard technologies such as systemd, while this Guix-based OS uses this GNU dmd project I've never heard of until now, but I have no doubts its features and maturity is a fraction of systemd's (whatever is your opinion on systemd).

All for the sake of the free software radicalism. I love GNU and FSF and everything, but as a Linux user and administrator I'd really like we settle on something and build from there.

I may be mistaken, and open to criticism.
I would also like expanations, because Facebook actually has a good reputation when it comes to their compiled languages engineers. Their C++ and D engineers built HHVM/Hack, their OCaml engineers built some great analysis tools and much of the supporting code for the HHVM/Hack platform, etc., the list goes on, so I'd like to know why someone would want to avoid their C++ library based on the "Facebook" name only.
And then they cut the dividend by 75% (eg Tesco). High dividend stocks dont stay that way.,
It's easy to make that much on ads and ad removal upgrade fees for a semi-popular game on mobiles (Android, iOS). You don't have to be on the charts. I make that easy and only ever made top 200, I think. Games are a nice category for new entrants because Flurry reports have shown that as a genre they aren't super sticky. Users flow in and out of new offerings constantly.
I think it's fine to still call it that descriptively; I don't agree that an official rename means we "should" do whatever the corporate branders desire. It still is the Penny Arcade Expo in the sense that it is an Expo, and it is owned/operated by Penny Arcade. It's true that the Penny Arcade corporate marketing team has officially redefined the initials as not standing for anything, but that's only really binding on their own marketing materials, not on everyone else.
> What does society gain from a prison like that?

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

All good. But let's not have whole conversations in this cynic mindset. Let's assume there is sufficient cumulative will to fix things, and let's identify ways to achieve that, however difficult it may seem.
Just go on freelancing sites and bid for projects. Once you build a relationship and trust with those clients you can contact them directly instead depending on the broker.

Those clients will then give you repeat business or they might bring new contacts for you.

Finding good devs in India is a big pain for the guys in US/UK. So if your client is happy with your service, he will recommend you to others.

I used to be a freelance PHP dev sitting in India back in the old days of rentacoder.com
Failed at what? Would you hire someone who was divorced?
Real estate was going to be my suggestion, but I don't know anything about the situation in India.

I rent my parents' house in a medium-sized midwest US city; I get around $650/month after property management expenses. After taxes, insurance, maintenance expenses, and the occasional empty period, I'm not getting anywhere near that out of it. But it is still profitable, passive, and the investment needed to increase my income (in other words, buying more property) would not really be excessive.
Yellowstone Enforcing Ban on Unmanned Aircraft Operation (aka Drones)
NYTimes: "Jurors were also shown several YouTube videos of Officer Bovell, 35, in March 2012 getting elbowed in his left eye by Ms. McMillan, 25, who is charged with assaulting a police officer. She has maintained that Officer Bovell groped her breast, and that she reacted without knowing he was a police officer. He has denied that he touched her breast.

The shaky videos showed Ms. McMillan, a labor organizer, in a bright green dress, jumping back and planting her elbow in Officer Bovell’s face.

“She crouched down and lunged backward, elbowing me in the eye,” Officer Bovell said. “It’s like a white light in the face.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/nyregion/officer-stands-by...
you could buy domains on park.io and then sell them immediately on Flippa. For example, see: http://blog.park.io/articles/park-io-users-making-money-flip...
Why are you so negative, people learn something new with such threads.
If I play one of these games, all I'm doing is slowing down the latency compared to letting the simulator play for me -- and diminishing the quality of the play.
For me, that highlights how much harder it is to see fun from the outside than when you're the one having it.
And the Indian rupee has no stability against the dollar, so that is meaningless.
The PDF talks about dmd. Do you mean they recently decided to switch to sysvinit? Got any link to the discussion?
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She was convicted of a violent offense.

Are you disputing the verdict or the punishment?
Yeah at least several of the other published edits are bogus - these water features in Brooklyn are bogus:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hunters+Point,+Queens,+NY/...
Great! Now can someone tell me how to configure tmux so that I can have two connected term emulators use multiple virtual consoles in one session? Screen allows you to do this and I've been searching for a way to get tmux to behave the same way.

(In fact, I've had a real problem getting tmux to behave well at all when multiple term emulators are connected to the same session. I've had weird window resizing problems.)
sure, that's what the big winners do (pun intended)
Everyone doesn't have to use money in the same way for it to be useful. That's the entire point of money to begin with. It is these kind of shallow political articles that drives it down. Not those who are currently trading.
Judging from the brevity and clarity with which the summary was expressed above I assumed that writing comes easily to the author. He could probably elaborate on each point (or maybe add a few more) to turn it into small case study e-book guide. This is just like social media presence and marketing. A byproduct that costs maybe $10 and at least pays for itself, but ideally drives even more traffic to the website and generates additional profit on its own.

I would buy/read it! (Just brainstorming here...)
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Like the "security" reason Google gave when it banned all non-Chrome store extensions from being installed in Chrome, this one is also very bogus.

First off, in this case Google hasn't even said it's banning the app for "security reasons". It just banned it.

Second, if it is for security reasons, Google should improve Android's security architecture so something like this wouldn't be possible in the first place. It shouldn't rely on policy. But my guess is it wants some apps to be able to control other apps like this, because that's how it can do its tracking, too.

And isn't this how Android antivirus apps work, too? Don't they "interfere" with other apps when they scan their code? Either way, this sounds like Google would have to ban other classes of apps, too, if this policy were to be applied fairly.

And once again we go back to selective policy enforcement, which always sucks.
Already a huge amount of competitors out there.
Quoting a Youtube comment from the video you posted:

"Finally some justice for these ass holes who illegally protest and then claim police brutality all the time. I hope she rots in jail.﻿"

Is it come kind of totalitarian sect behind this video? Anyway, don't ever want to have anything with you.