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Apply HN: Scriber – Micropayment Platform for Publishers
URL: https://www.scriber.io/

Scriber is a micropayment platform which publishers can easily integrate with, and that offers a seamless transaction interface.

Most of us have probably been asked to either turn off our ad-blockers or sign up for a subscription when browsing various news sites. And it is a fair request, since those are currently the only sources of income for most publishers. The problem is that the ad industry has pushed the envelope so far that most people have had enough; intrusive ads that distract from the reading experience, tracks you across the web, and at worst infects you with malware, have become the industry norm. And most readers aren't willing to commit to a subscription.

We believe it's time to explore a different revenue model for online publishing, and seamless micropayments is the solution that is the most promising. The concept has been around for many years, but it's only recently that the public has become truly comfortable with it through in-app purchases using their smartphones. There are mainly two factors driving the change, the first is its "micro" nature, the price is low enough to not warrant much deliberation. The second is its ease of use, the payment system is built into the phone's OS, so most of the time you simply click "Accept" and then you're done.

We want to let publishers offer their readers the same experience.

We've created a prototype at https://www.scriber.io with an accompanying publication http://www.getexplorerr.com/. We have yet to implement an actual payment gateway. Please have a look, trying it out from both a reader's and publisher's point of view. You can log into the publisher account that is connected to the aforementioned publication here: https://www.scriber.io/publishers#demo

Please let us know what you think, any feedback is greatly appreciated!
wow, that microphone array you linked costs USD$750! Are there any cheaper alternatives?
The usual way to evaluate this is to consider the chance of being discovered (D) times the chance of being used as an exploit (E) times the cost of the exploit (C) with an appropriate discount factor (F). Think of the discount as the wholesale price of the exploit, what a mal actor might pay for the exploit.

For example, if there was a 1% chance of discovery, and a 50% chance of the person discovering it using it as an exploit, and it cost them 1 day of revenue ($50m) and they used a discount factor of 10%, that would indicate that the bounty would be worth about C * D * E * F = $25k.

If it's likely that the exploit would only last 5 hours, then $10k is a reasonable bounty.
That said, i'd like a "del to recycle bin" in Windows too.
Why We Sleep So Poorly in Unfamiliar Places
I'd definitely be tempted to just dump that computer into a cupboard and remote into it from the laptop
I do wonder if the licensing cost have been an issue there.

Also, USB-C makes it easier to fit into the design.
They are probably going to stop blocking adblockers eventually. Since their brands weaken, fewer users are sharing links, search engine positions weaken, etc. All of which has a long term impact on their revenue. More interesting is how are they going to recover?
Can anyone fill me in on how reducing employee rights can be morally defended? I just don't see how people with this opinion can look people in the eye and not feel ashamed.
Is there a description somewhere without all the bla bla hype? Comparison with past architectures would also be welcome, also without hype.
Linux being secure is a fallacy too.

Spender talks about it for a long time:
https://grsecurity.net/~spender/interview_notes.txt

Linux developers fix security bugs in irresponsible ways, saying nothing about the attack vector or CVE's involved. Sometimes multiple vulnerabilities are addressed in the same patch, making hard to track the fix.

For more information see the exploit below:
https://grsecurity.net/~spender/exploits/64bit_dos.c

The list of kernel vulnerabilities involving namespaces is bigger each day, as the paper shows, but the industry still uses "container" and "security" in the same quotes.
"...a second high-profile trial in Gothenburg, at a surgery unit at Sahlgrenska University hospital, also recently reported increased productivity and a reduction in sick leave, although labour costs have gone up there too."

The issue in both cases is, understandably, labor costs. But couldn't the data be interpreted as indicating that labor cost savings are realized by lowering quality of care?

I mean employee health and well-being may not be the concern of the organization but clearly they could be connected directly to the bottom line. Burning through employees entails not-insignificant costs even in industries composed primarily of un-/low-skilled labor, does it not?
I am waiting for an opponent.. https://phoenix-battleship.herokuapp.com/game/DHT33GgB
Powershell's almost great. Things are way too verbose. No built-in stuff like curl or wget (yes, there's a simple webrequest thing and aliases, but they're clunky). In fact, it feels like everything in PS is clunky.

Just simple stuff like "time ./foo" becomes "Measure-Command {... }" and then it prints out 10 lines of the same measurement, in different units. And doesn't distinguish CPU time versus wall time.

All that adds up and makes PS crap for interactive work. As far as writing programs, PS is a much better programming language than bash.

And yes, I understand that using a bunch of 3 or 4-char names kills your global namespace. But judicious use really aids ergonomics.
Perhaps if we were to restrict this discussion to the physical aspects of the job, then yes. That is a very narrow view, however.
Use a general-purpose language with macro's or DSL's. Racket and Rebol are older ones with RED language being designed partly to do what article describes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_%28programming_language%29
I came across this:

> (2015-10-16) The people behind the scenes at Hacker News now hand pick stories they want on the front page. It's not a user-generated voting-controlled news site. But it pretends to be one and tries to look like one. It's deeply dishonest. http://www.curi.us/1612-anti-israel-bias-at-hacker-news / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402465

This is outrageous, and I will find a way to create a front-page list that is "unadulterated".
Simon Pegg Admits He Used Wikipedia to Fact-Check Script for 'Star Trek: Beyond'
Get to Know the Sigfox LPWAN
First your opponent would have to find the carrier. Easier said than done.

Next they would have to be able to target it with these drones. The drones would have to be fast, (otherwise the carrier has moved out of reach), long ranged (otherwise the airwing will neutralize the launchers) and completely autonomous (otherwise the carrier and its escorts will jam any comlinks.

If you think you could build such a weapon for $10K, good luck.
Startup time is ok. "Hello, World" runs in something like 0.08s on my computer. Not sure what this would be like for an app that actually has a lot of code. Startup time is a metric I care a lot about, because it speaks to whether it feels snappy to use for command-line applications.

But holy crap the binary is enormous. I'm getting 22MB of text, compared with 991kb for CPython.
I'm not getting how this might be different than any other exposé. I'd guess the majority of people contacting reporters have some sort of agenda.
>My point is: you're doing this the wrong way around. First you fix their situation, and then you make child labour and sex tourism illegal.

And my point is, it's rather the inverse. Legal child labour and an allowed sex tourism industry creates great private interests and political manipulation (legal, developmental, etc) to ensure things do not change.

They're neither "short term problem fixers" not "stepping stones to something better", but part of the reason why the people are held down.
Given that a vulnerability may be exploited by a malicious party and that this could cost facebook X millions of dollars:
How much should facebook pay for vulnerabilities to reduce the risk of Such an event? That is, given some cost/benefit model what is the ideal price for a particular class of vulnerability?

This suggests two related questions, 1. how does buying vulnerabilities reduce the risk of a malicious use of a vulnerability and 2. by how much?

I suggest two answers for question 1:

First buying a vulnerability and then patching it prevents that vulnerability from being used by an attacker. It only makes sense to do this if vulnerability are very rare, since the more rare they are the greater the benefit of fixing them.

Second someone who discoveries a vulnerability might have a human urge for recognition and/or payment. "I did the work, I deserve some credit/payment". In this case facebook is competing with the vulnerability blackmarket, but facebook has an inherent advantage (all things being equal a legal dollar is more beneficial than an illegal dollar and you get bragging rights which has both intrinsic and monetizable value).

I have no idea how to answer question 2 as it is quantitative. Perhaps an economist has written pricing models for bug bounties and how this should impact cyber-insurance premiums?
Hrm, went back to tab and it said "Game over"...
That's great, but how much data do you work with, day-to-day, that is best represented as text streams? For me, the answer is "virtually none". Heck, most of the stuff I work with, day-to-day, can't even be represented meaningfully in a text stream. (Editing video, for example.)
I imagine TMZ is blacklisted from normal submissions, but they deserve the credit for breaking the story while having a nice roundup of highlights in his life, including this solo at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=214&v=6SFNW5F8K9...

http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/
> I'm currently getting 7 hours out a commodity Asus with a couple of dev environments and a VM running

Wow, that's very good. I've always found running a VW absolutely destroys battery life.

For laptops, I've only ever managed to get 9+ hours on a Macbook and that's pretty much the threshold that I'm comfortable with to leave with a laptop as my work machine for the day. If you're getting 7+ on your Asus running a VM, you have to be over 9 without the VM running, right?

I'm going to load 16.04 on my ThinkPad and see how it does.
Ah, gotcha. Just wanted to clarify.
It behooves him to be more empathetic, especially if he's suffered from the same difficulties and he's speaking out in public about it.
I understand the feeling of needing to "catch up" to fit in. For the first three years after I started programming I kept my work almost completely private, I felt so far behind. I wrote several hundred projects that I never showed to anybody, and didn't even keep. I still feel the gap a little bit today (five years in), but it seems mostly gone.

I fit the programmer archetype exactly, and it took me three years of near constant engagement before I felt I could even begin to fit in (culturally) with experienced programmers. I can easily imagine the task is considerably harder if you don't fit the archetype.

On the flip-side - the desire to "catch up", and the solitary nature of the challenge lent me considerably more motivation and creativity than I seem to have now that I have "acclimatized".

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I'm very interested to see how it is going to turn out for my sister. She's a very talented programmer, but she doesn't try to immerse herself in the culture of it at all, rather she is treating it as an auxiliary skill to her studies in GIS. I feel some smug satisfaction knowing she is coding circles around most of the guys in her classes, despite not taking on the identity of "I am a programmer".
Even behind a proxy, using TOR on some public/compromised wifi?
There's lots of great compensation negotiation guides for engineers. This one just happens to be for employers.
Ah! Thanks -- I had them mentally filed as DC/NoVA because I know about them only from Government stuff.
Encoding choice should cause problems too.
Its not just the value to the finder but the cost to facebook. Generally the profit an attacker makes is an order of magnitude less than the cost they incur.
Plotting Known ISIS Members Worldwide (Data Is Beautiful)
And that someone is likely to be the US, if we haven't already.
I played around with a Franklin PC 8088 when I was a kid for a couple years that we had it. I tried BASIC but never got close to my goal of writing a Tic Tac Toe program. Didn't know how to read input. Didn't even know that the "^" on the "^SAVE" menu item at the bottom meant to hold down CTRL, so my "programs" never survived more than the hour or two I tried (mostly in vain) to get something to work.

No one in my family or peers really knew much about computers and while the Apple IIe at school were much more impressive, that was just playing trivia games and such. Not writing anything ourselves.

It wasn't until I was about 16 that I touched a computer again. Built my own eventually to play DOOM. I didn't know anything "technical" at that point beyond autoexec.bat and... config something. I forget the other one.

It wasn't until I was 21 that I did my first real "programming". Which consisted of reading a book on HTML and being paid $5/hr by my father in law to write some truly bad markup while he did the real work.

I picked up some books on c#, ASP.NET 1.0, MSSQL Server and did my best to absorb what I could. My father-in-law didn't know/work-with most of that (he did help me figure out some SQL basics though) and I didn't have a peer group or support system or anything. About a year later I had a job paying about as well as Home Depot might writing c#.

Almost 20 years later I'm writing Scala and make a good living.

I don't say this as advice exactly. Just saying the "you can't start late" stuff is bullshit. I've often regretted not having access to college so I could answer "write a binary tree on the board" questions. So I didn't feel inadequate in those ways. But it hasn't stopped me getting a job and I'm overall pretty satisfied with my career (well... there was a dark time when I attempted to manage that was pretty cringe worthy) and accomplishments.

I wish I had something more to offer people who think a career in tech is out of their reach because they couldn't afford college, or they started too late. All I really have to offer is this:

Pick up a book. Remember how practically no one actually read a text-book from front to back in grade school? If they had they'd have had a huge advantage right? Pick up a book. Those that say "I learn by doing" will never ever ever be exposed to the same depth or amount of knowledge as you'll get from the condensed, edited brain-on-paper of accomplished authors. Be well read. It's like cheating. And it's cheap. Often even free (Not talking Blogs. Those are mostly only useful for very specific questions/topics; I'm talking about the free Ruby book, or beg for a copy of haskellbook. Or torrent if you must and pay them back for it later).

My 2c.
His website [0] seems to be having database connectivity issues at the moment, but Google's cache caught it[1].

[0] http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2016/04/17/wage-slaves/#comment...
[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rCVIzSi...
The Navy's moves seem sensible here. The next generation of naval drones are being used for in-air refueling and reconnaissance. You may say it's because we don't "trust" drones -- but the fact is, we are a LONG way from fully autonomous anything. (Saying otherwise is simply fantasizing over an indeterminate time-frame.) Humans will be in the loop for the foreseeable future, especially when it comes to pulling the trigger. Even more so with fast movers like the F-18. Consider: why do we need attack aircraft if cruise missiles are good enough for all bombing roles? They aren't.

> I predict that in the next major conflict, aircraft carriers will be utterly useless, most of our big flat-tops will be sunk in the first couple months

Aircraft carriers (and submarines) will be critical to victory in any major conflict, especially in the Pacific. We do have to keep them afloat though [1]. Otherwise we're likely to see an effective stalemate if nobody can maintain control of the seas, the US is simply too far out of reach for most of the world. At that point, we may well be in nuclear territory...

> bulk of combat will fall to a large fleet of inexpensive drones

Air combat? Eh. (See my earlier comment about fantasizing...) But you can't win with air power alone. I know you were being tongue-in-cheek with the Terminator references, but lest the Internets take you seriously: we are even farther away from robotic "boots on the ground" than we are from fully autonomous flying drones, and we're not even close to the latter.

If we really wanted to speculate on a somewhat-realistic, near-future, large-scale conflict, I'd consider what happens when all our satellites are blown out of the sky, perhaps with the resulting Kessler syndrome. No more drones for you.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvited...
I wonder in what interest areas "going to medium to read articles" works? Even following the recommended links below articles I like nearly never seems worth it, so I only touch medium articles if they come strongly recommended from the outside, so I'm apparently not interested in the things medium is good for.

Also, kind of sad to see that even an organisation like free code camp chooses a closed platform instead of forming their own community planet/aggregator/syndication-platform/... on the "open web".
That will be only for the Turbo models. It was awesome language.
It's a symbolic act just like the Voyager was.
It's kind of discouraging that this is where they ended up. I'm not a huge fan of the site itself, but 2 years ago they joined YC and raised $80 million, and this is the grand vision that finally emerges?
I'm not sure why posters on HN are so eager to shit on other people's work. Maybe something to do with arrogance or insecurity (leading to a need to bash on others)?
> Infamously, Prince managed to take down a YouTube clip of himself performing a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" at the Coachella music festival in 2008, despite the band's lead singer Thom Yorke making it very clear who the song actually belongs to. The law does not provide a great deal of clarity in these cases, unfortunately.

I'm not sure I understand what the actual basis of copyright is in a situation like this.

I believe the videographer would hold a copyright claim to the original video recording, the artist Prince would claim copyright to his own rendition of the song and that specific performance, and Radiohead, Thom Yorke, or Radiohead's record label would collectively hold mechanical and phonorecord copyrights to the original song according to the song's history and their agreements.

It's trivial for Prince to obtain a compulsory mechanical license to perform a cover which would have been done prior to performance. It's also true that Radiohead may have the ability to prevent the video's distribution, depending on the interpretation of copyright law, and I find it also reasonable that Prince would have a copyright claim to the performance that he or his record label could have it removed. I certainly don't think Thom Yorke could supersede Prince's request to have the recording removed, just because he wrote or performed the song originally.

There is some information here, but it's still limited in scope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_Stat...

I wouldn't believe what's written on issues of copyright law in offhand observations.
looking at some numbers people are starting to wisen up and chances of getting viral are diminishing as the average viewer's immune system reacts to clickbaits.

as they learn views are money and share are worthwhile, they start thinking twice before sharing and liking. growing an audience today is already insanely harder than compared 5 years ago and the situation looks like it's only gonna get worse.
Wow, this is an elected official?

> Transport minister Robert Goodwill admitted authorities had not yet confirmed whether what struck the Airbus A320

> Mr Goodwill also dismissed calls for tighter rules on drone use to protect against terror threats insisting current rules governing drone use were strong enough. He said it would be much easier for terrorists to attack airports on the ground with rucksacks or car bombs than orchestrate the attack from a drone aircraft.

> He warned that any moves to enforce geo-fencing rules would be vulnerable to being hacked by "somebody who could get round that software".

> "And indeed the early reports of a dent in the front of the plane were not confirmed - there was no actual damage to the plane"

> "the pilot has a lot of other things to concentrate [while landing] on so we're not quite sure what they saw so I think we should maybe not overreact too much."

This is a sane, rational response.. I am just not used to hearing it come from government officials. This should be a model for the type of responses that government officials have to these types of situations.
How Letterspacing Can Make All Caps Easier to Read
I'm not sure I understand some of the comments here claiming that 10k is not enough money for this. It clearly is enough money because Orange found the problem and reported it.

These arguments always remind me of people claiming that certain professions are not paid enough. They forget that there is a market for labor and in this case the labor is finding vulnerabilities. People will either be willing to work for the posted price or not. In the case of pen testing facebook I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of people out there looking for bugs who aren't even really concerned with what the final payout is going to be.

Yeah, they could have gotten completely owned if he didn't report this. But to him reporting it and getting 10k in compensation was sufficient. Why would facebook pay him a million if he was willing to take 10k?
Dutch and Canadian Police Seize ‘Criminal’ Encrypted Smartphone Network
I think all-in-ones are generally still considered desktops.

And they have the disadvantage that when the hardware fails you have to discard the entire device instead of only the part that failed, which is becoming more important as hardware doesn't have to be replaced for being too slow as often anymore. The traditional format also allows you to use the big monitor for multiple devices, e.g. if you have a PC and a laptop dock or a fast PC and a Mac mini for OS X testing etc.
This series by Josh Grodin got started recently and looks promising. I assume they will eventually cover neural network / deep learning basics.

Hello World - Machine Learning Recipes #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxRvEZd3Mw

Visualizing a Decision Tree - Machine Learning Recipes #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNa99PG8hR8
Feature request!:

Add a text field to filter the lists of lists. using something like typeaheadjs - https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/blob/master/doc/bloo...
> If traffic numbers are down and ad revenue is stable- guess what, lower operating costs & higher margin.

Guess what ad-block users also share articles with their friends that might not use ad-blockers ... I doubt blocking people with ad-blockers will help these sites on the long run.
last job 90 servers in different environments. Everything was managed via ansible. Once you have everything automated it it is a breeze to support and environment.
There's really no pretense that votes are the only factor in ranking stories.

Here's the moderator commenting about the many factors:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20rank&sort=byPopulari...

(not all the results are applicable, enough are)