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Ask HN: How to best monetize a Chrome extension with over 50K users
I own a free Chrome extension that has over 50,000 users and is still growing. I had been looking at this as a fun side project and it hadn't even occurred to me that I would make money from it. During the past few months though, I have received 2 offers to buy my extension. I didn't think much and believed whatever offer they'd make would just be a tiny amount because I'm not making any money with the extension, so I said no without even asking for the price. In hindsight, that was silly of me, I should have worn a more business-friendly hat.

Anyway, I'm curious why people would want to buy a free extension. Can you actually monetize a Chrome extension? I read about the Chrome Store Payment API but I still think hardly anyone would pay for an extension. I myself use many browser extensions and never have to pay for one. Does anyone have experience monetizing their extensions and how do you do that? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I posed a question along these lines (eradicating mosquitoes) a couple weeks ago[1], and there were quite a few interesting responses regarding possible consequences, or lack thereof. Apparently it's been investigated quite a bit.

The general consensus of the actual studies done on the topic, IIRC, is that eradicating mosquitoes shouldn't affect any ecosystem particularly harshly. For all the harm them do, I know I think (at this point) we would all be better off without them, even considering possible impacts to ecosystems.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12323589
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Daniel Kahneman. Great book.
I hope you have better luck with those Android betas
I agree in principle, but I think the adage that "Every day that a new videogame stays off Piratebay is an extra day of full revenue" is a bit of a false equivalency.
It would be interesting to hear your experiences on this, such as what apps you've tried and had fail for you in terms of productivity?

I would agree with what you've said to a point, but this kind of statement needs expanding.

For my wife and I, we're using Wunderlist (bought my Microsoft in 2015) and we can assign things to each other, star them as important, comment on tasks, leaves notes, set reminders, and so on. It's a... wunderful (har! har!) app and so far it's UI doesn't get in the way. I'm just waiting for the moment we hit the limitations of the free version and have to spend nearly AUD$130/user/year (USD -> AUD) to maintain its place in our household.
the BMW i3 is probably the closest production vehicle. It's pretty revolutionary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8
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Yeah, but let's be honest, if I had a job as a manager at a theater and a moderate amount of reverse engineering skill or a small team of friends with those, well, time, access and tools combine quite well...

Sure, they make it look all secure, pass it through all that crypto and stuff but ultimately it has to be passed to the projector chip in some form which is unencumbered to be turned into light. At which point it's fairly trivial to dump. Anti-tampers on the case are probably fairly limited.
GNU tools. I expect them to be relevant longer than I am.
I do have a few questions...

Is there a way to do TV attribution beyond multivariate statistical learning models attempting to gauge the impact on other channels based on broadcast period? (i.e. treat the offline channel as a categorical variable)

What is "dynamic" attribution modelling? Does this mean the attribution model changes depending on who you perceive the customer to be?

What is the best way to do multi-device tracking if you don't have a login?
I learned OpenGL during an LSD trip. My subjective experience was that the information just went in without any resistance. I've since written a lot of OpenGL code, and I can run it all and see that it objectively works. Of course, I've learned hundreds of other things without taking any drugs. But, again subjectively, it's usually more incremental and seems like more of a struggle with attention and comprehension. At least, I can say that I didn't get anything wrong with OpenGL. I didn't hallucinate that I learned it. The programs I wrote immediately following the trip worked fine.
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I prefer taking notes on paper in a spiral notebook. When it fills up, I run it through the scanner.
They're primarily about visibility and accountaiblity: step 1) Do this task, 2) time passes, 3) Why didn't I do this task? 4) sigh
What part of "Install only on non-production devices that are not business critical." do you not understand?
To the contrary the analogy is apt because when one takes the socks you are not harming the next consumer (sure the cost of shrinkage is passed on) and there are lots of places to get socks. But the party that is well and truly fucked the most is the producer of the socks who will derive no benefit from work spent, designing, promoting, producing or delivering the socks.

Your literal minded response suggests that, a product with a low incremental cost is a valid measure of of the total cost of production, which it is not. The cost is writers, actors, foley artists, costumers, grips etc. All of whom lose money when someone decides it's okay to steal a copy. That is a thief who will never pay a legitimate fee for what they have taken.
Insane, the levels we'll go to in order to secure content from hitting someone's eyeballs and ears before ensuring money changed hands in the vague direction of the content creators at some point.
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We built Baqqer for this reason. I wanted to know if we could get them on there so we can actually help. I can't really help them set-up or maintain their presence on other sites, but on Baqqer I can instantly provide them with support, features, or even minimize fees if it helps. It's win-win.

Just a member of the HN community trying to help out how I can. :)

Edit: According to your resume you've been a contributor to Gratipay.
I have the same problem in Windows 10, since a month or two (I think since v48) something seems to be broken... Sometimes the browser will freeze or some sites take too long to load properly...
Or are cynically using it to crack the whip and aggrandize power with zero regard for whether the deadlines are meaningful.
Tell that to the pirate encoders who had to deband movies because the official releases were so bad.
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For the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Transmission_character
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Yes thats all. Thats how the nativefier works.
nativefier https://news.ycombinator.com/ --inject HNCustomCSS.css --inject HNCustomJS.js --icon ycombinator.icns --name "my Hacker News"
"Murray says the inspiration for the dynamics came from the Renault 4, once a much-loved off-roader in Africa and Southern Europe."

for those who are interested the renault 4 also called 4l is used for an international race run by student every year since 20 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4L_Trophy
In this context the parent is probably referring to the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 and the Oculus Rift Crystal Cove prototype (which was very similar)
Does it have to be true that they only have to succeed once? It feels like we need another set of laws in our constitutions to prevent it.

Imagine a world where there's no constitution and no fundamental rights for people. Without it corporations would also constantly try to make deals to enslave citizens where the existing rules specifically doesn't forbid to. Same thing is with these trade deals, just different scale.
cool, downloading now.
Oh, sure; I think the parent commenter's point was in thinking that emailing everyone about the termination of the leaker served as any sort of deterrence mechanism for people's use of the leaked build.
Design looks similar to Australian OKA 4WD ATV[1]. Hindustan Motors in India used to manufacture a licensed version called RTV, back in the 90s.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20121021203320/http://www.oka.com...

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.the...
When you say "projector," do you mean a projector like in a movie theater (shooting rays of light out at a screen, etc.) or something else?
I noticed a certain point, experimenting with todo lists and productivity apps, became a thing of its own. Tweaking Omnifocus to perfection, for example.

I threw them all out and am using a reporters notebook (which is a good format, btw), with daily todos and this is the system that sticks.

I guess this is what it really boils down to: which system is naturally easy to stick to in the long run?

I guess it's the same for sports, diets, etc
>that's not a meaningful comparison in my eyes, considering that we still have high-end gaming PCs today.

It is meaningful when you consider what the average user is purchasing. Back then you had to purchase good stuff to run the latest office apps, etc. It was common that the only thing needed to get a friend into the gaming world was the purchase of a graphics card. Now most casual users do not have anything close to what is offered in high-end gaming PCs.
Ubuntu Touch and the idea of a device capable of fulfilling two modalities (active typing, passive reading) is wonderful.

Unfortunately most hardware and firmware is as awful as software. I pity Intel network driver writers and Android ROM writers...

Companies spend millions working around the imperfections of software logic and hardware creations. In a bubble Ubuntu philosophy is wonderful. In reality, it seems, we are collectively far from realizing the brilliance of our own creations in simple terms.
Wow. That's truly insane.

However I guess anyone who values something so much would also go to great lengths to protect it.

Still... wow. I mean, how much does it cost to design and implement that system alone? tens of millions of usd at least?
The more I talk to lawyers the more I like the way they operate. Is there really no way to steal a lot of that structure for our field?
Yesssss. Diamond Age really is a boss book. We're pulling a lot of inspiration from these same authors to build Asteria. Heck, even Charles Stross retweeted Asteria last night. It was pretty epic. Check it: https://getasteria.com/
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This.

I previously worked for a company that does purely outsourcing work; they nowadays have a bossless hierarchy (apart from project leads, who are named anew for every project, and basically anyone willing can volunteer). It seems to work well for them, and I don't see why not.

Now I'm in a "product company", and the needs are completely different. Like has been stated elsewhere in this thread, when making products, there just has to be someone making the final decisions, i.e. being the product owner.
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Was the lemmings clone (pingus?) ever updated with touch support?
So you're saying that a loose carpet on stairs would be illegal (i.e. a booby trap of sorts), but a security system where I can hit an alarm button and then it'll deploy a loose carpet onto the stairs, would be just fine?
Knowingly being a drug mule, on the other hand, pays better.

Just be careful you don't wind up in a Turkish prison. Then, what you need to do to escape is to kill the chief guard and walk out the front door wearing his uniform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Express_(film)

No thanks. Not the life for me.
I find it amusing that after all these decades people are still willing to claim some sort of moral high ground in defense of their desire for entertainment.
> A lot of the improvement in the reliability of consumer grade SSDs is due to OS improvements in how they manage their write operations

Do you have any references for this? I don't think I've ever heard a story of a consumer user running out their writes. Not saying it hasn't happened, but it's not enough of a common occurrence to be a major factor in reliability.

In my experience the overwhelming improvement in reliability is in the firmware of these drivers coming out of the perpetual beta phase (and the death of OCZ)
In Rust, use the `rand` crate, with the `OsRng` random number generator.

https://docs.rs/rand/0.3.14/rand/#cryptographic-security
"Ego depletion" is such a misleading/tricky name. It's merely attention depletion. And I do believe that's the underlying mechanism that both will and cognition use.

And yes, if one looks at its own experience then it will probably find that there is a tank of cognitive resources.

Everything that requires attention consumes from this tank.

So yes, if we could start to design our world to eliminate the nuisances, that may translate into a qualitative leap driven by a virtuous circle..

Thumbs up for a user centric world.
It could be done. I have thought about this many times. Do you want this as a service?
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>explositions

I'm not sure if that was intended or not, but it seems appropriate.
I've been looking for a very similar thing. Any hardware recommendations?
The filesize of 40GB is very low for a DCP, your standard 90 minute film is typically over 100GB. I recall Hateful Eight being over 200GB.

If they released the actual DCP .mxf files it would be proof that the DCP was truly cracked.
Downvote me: Infinite Jest is Snow Crash for adults.

(But seriously: similar vision of a corporate-controlled near-future; and IJ is great, read it.)
And how much do you think a used Ox will go for? Not to mention the increased storage and versatility.
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I have most of the Funkadelic records up to a point. Find me something that is not on those Funkadelic records and I might get back to you. And that was a hell of a lot less funky than those Funkadelic records.

"Mirror of Youth" was nice but ...Brubeck much? Damn nice, though. Thanks for the reference.

It is one thing for ... JJ Cale to lead with a drum machine riff because he was being lazy, broke or cheap but trying to present the stuff at that link as somehow the saving of jazz merely serves to reinforce my point.

I am talking about an art form as a living, breathing entity. I didn't kill the [ expletive deleted} thing but something did, and I'm just as disgusted as you are. Miles is to jazz as Eastwood is to the Western. It is going to take real leadership to get it out of the rut.
Try Googling for "Chrysippus' dog". That, at least, brings up hits like http://my.fit.edu/~aberdein/DogLogic.pdf. Just reading that paper made me realize that there were at least two dimensions in which the statement

"different species being able to deal with different abstractions (eg, certain dogs being able to recognize conditionals but not predicates)"

could be be misinterpreted. Assuming you were looking (as was I) for experimental evidence supporting that specific statement, I'm guessing we'll both be disappointed. But maybe not!
> The point of DRM is to make that time, motivation, and quality equation not make sense. Every day that a new videogame stays off Piratebay is an extra day of full revenue.

This can't be true as written, as long as people expect it to show up there eventually. Every day it stays off piratebay is an extra day of revenue intermediate between full and "already out on piratebay" levels.

The DRM works because the value of these things appears to be greatly time-sensitive -- most of the cost is already getting-it-right-away, which DRM can protect, rather than the fundamental timeless value of the product, which DRM can't protect.
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IIRC, the set of tested pages are a static snapshot; I don't think the machines have general internet access (because that would lead to spurious failures when the other end has problems, which is annoying as that means nobody can check in code).
Thanks :) Don't know how I got the name switched.
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I thought extensions also mostly ran in their own processes, with messaging access into the tabs? So a password manager would have its critical code in its own process and only access the tab to look for fields to inject into, and hence be protected.
If I'm not mistaken OpenDNS built their business on blocking websites at the DNS level for certain organizations. This is a "service" their customers paid for.

Redirecting "free" users to ads when they mistype domains was not a "neutral" move either.
Further advancement in secure random number generation across languages will probably lead to more "don't roll your own crypto" reminder posts in the near future.

But it's still a great feature to have in every programming language imho.
EDIT: I think this says it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_conce...

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Rock is not what it was, but it's still huge, and Hip-Hop for all its current popularity, doesn't hold a candle to the absolute dominance that Rock had not that long ago.

And Rock is still underneath the most popular hits. The current 1st position, just as an example, is Closer by The Chainsmokers was - according to its authors - inspired by them listening non-stop to Blink-182.

Hip-Hop big names also constantly sample Rock songs, particularly older ones.
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Use an OS that behaves in a way I like more.

Save when convenient.

Repeat as necessary.

I prefer to use software that behaves the way I want it to, rather than modifying my own behavior to work around its shortcomings.
Nuclear power is a fact of nature. It simply exists. Learning this doesn't cost you any innocence; it is nature itself that has conspired to make such things possible, not humans.
That is perfectly fine. Finding that balance of what to make available and what to keep locked away, is what the sandbox is all about. My point still stands however, the attack surface is significantly reduced.
Online/remote learning is a good alternative if you want to get an overview of a topic or expand your knowledge. However, I don't think that you can replace a proper scientific university degree just by online learning.
> there's always somewhere you can stick a camera or a few high-bandwidth digital signal analyzers and recover the content with at worst slightly degraded quality

And hence you have a safer product? The exact thing they are trying for?

The objective is to slow down pirate release. Seems to be working exactly as planned.
To clarify what I mean by "doesn't solve major problem": it actually might solve a major problem for them but due to shit messaging/ UX/ onboarding/ trust/ bugs/ whatever they haven't realised it.

So you are correct but all those things I just consider to be part of the product as a whole.
I think the idea of seeing some hidden truth, comes simply from seeing the world from some other perspective. I guess the problem people have with that is that people who take drugs talk like their epiphanies are only obtainable by doing drugs (and thus unique and rare). When instead drugs are more tools to find out things you personally didn't know.
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Is that true, though? I'd expect that the people who only download cracked games will wait for the game to be cracked and up for download, no matter how long that takes. The people who download games to trial them and then buy the ones they like will likewise wait until they can give it a shot before potentially wasting money. The last group, those who buy legit copies of games at or near release, are going to buy it no matter what.
”Three trained (but not necessarily expert) people can put an OX together in approximately 12 hours.” (from http://oxgvt.com/the-ox-all-terrain-vehicle/)

I'd love for them to put up a full 12 hour video on YouTube showing the whole process, with no fancy editing or disturbing music. Just three engineers working away in a big, empty hall, turning a package into an OX. I imagine it would be mesmerizing to watch.
Is that Linux man page ever going to be corrected?
From Wikipedia's article on NTSC:

"483 scan lines make up the visible raster"

The 525 includes a lot of other stuff. Easy mistake because PAL shows 576 lines (out of 625), but only at 25 full frames / 50 interlaced half-frames per second as opposed to 30p/60i for NTSC. (PAL DVDs are also 576.)

While they're all constrained by the scanline in the vertical direction, the analog standards are resolution-limited in the horizontal raster by the bandwidth / frequency response of your signal chain; I've seen beta-derived analog NTSC that's gorgeous, far better than DVD. Especially on a really well-corrected CRT monitor (really!).

The decision to go to an even 480p for DVD probably derives from the 8x8 pixel blocks of the MPEG-2 compression. Having raster dimensions that are evenly divisible by 8 is a good thing for a lot of these block-based codecs; I believe MPEG-2 couldn't go below 8x8 (h.264 can accommodate smaller and non-square macroblocks, though).

That said, there's a nugget of truth in your comment. When we go to digital, we often get better average fidelity, but worse maximum fidelity. A beautiful analog system can be really great. Maybe in twenty years we'll have a hipster revival of 70mm film prints? It's the new vinyl...

(I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek; reports from Ang Lee's latest movie are that the digitally-captured 4096p120 stereo 3D is better than the real thing. I saw 30-year film industry veterans were walking out of a test screening shaking their heads in disbelief -- I couldn't get in because the line was around the hall.)
We definitely do NOT dismiss it!!! It just means you need to spend a lot more time finding the real reason, or maybe you are getting traffic from the wrong group of people who have no interest in your product anyway.

Good example would be Product Hunt or Techcrunch as a traffic source, mostly useless for any testing as everyone on those sites is just interested in 'new products' or startups and is unlikely to be in your target demo.
"It's remarkable that non [sic] of the investor or regulators paid half as much of attention."

Actually, the regulators paid just as much, if not more attention to Theranos - the article itself asserts this:

> On August 25, 2015, months before the Journal story broke, three investigators from the F.D.A. arrived, unannounced, at Theranos’s headquarters, on Page Mill Road, with two more investigators sent to the company’s blood-testing lab in Newark, California, demanding to inspect the facilities.

According to someone close to the company, Holmes was sent into a panic, calling advisers to try to resolve the issue. At around the same time, regulators from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which regulates laboratories, visited the labs and found major inaccuracies in the testing being done on patients. (The Newark lab was run by an employee who was criticized for insufficient laboratory experience.) C.M.S. also soon discovered that some of the tests Theranos was performing were so inaccurate that they could leave patients at risk of internal bleeding, or of stroke among those prone to blood clots. The agency found that Theranos appeared to ignore erratic results from its own quality-control checks during a six-month period last year and supplied 81 patients with questionable test results.
Exactly one, but yes you can register it.
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An example in Go:

https://github.com/alrs/radseed
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Boy, this would be pretty fun to hack. I can imagine the RV possibilities.
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