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Ask HN: How do you build and monetize Chrome extensions?
Does anyone have any experience with successfully creating and monetizing chrome extensions? I'm looking into doing this and want to see what I'm up against and if this is feasible.

Also, being that chrome extensions are comprised of just HTML/CSS/Javascript, anyone can easily view and replicate the source code and compete against you. The only way that I know to circumvent this is to have your chrome extension interface with your server, where the actual functionality is hosted.

What are your thoughts and experiences on this?
African Americans are very culturally different than white Americans. The fact that people just assume that they are the same is one of the reasons that African Americans are in the situations that they are in and get the wrap that they do. Also, the assertion that the NAACP is powerful enough to put African Americans on equal footing with white Americans is just wrong.
I would recommend Fastmail. Moved over for similar reasons and never looked back
By "child investments", they mean investments in children, not children-as-investments.

In other words, they're suggesting that not only are children in these disadvantaged situations starting off in a worse place, but each additional dollar or hour of time spent on them gives less benefit than that same dollar or hour as a child from a more privileged background, further widening the spread between these two kids.
But without the huge donations and constant lobbying, wouldn't the politicians be more inclined to enact legislation that favored their voters over corporate interests.
"Conservatives" in the US should not be confused with the actual definition of "conservative." Nor should the republican party be confused with people that care about Republican ideals.
Ask HN: Any good Bitcoin store to sell digital goods?
I was trying to find places to sell digital items. I came across one or two. They are badly designed with very bad user experience. Is there any places you people know about?
Eh. I started out by learning Javascript and creating a basic CRUD app using the MEAN stack. Year after, I was hired as a contractor at a Fortune 500 company, and then transitioned into full-time at the same company 2 years later. Now I juggle around several different programming languages; I'm honestly glad that I started with Javascript.
I switched to DIGICERT when Verisign started buying everyone up (then Symantec bought them). I haven't looked back...except for dev boxes where I can get away with Let's Encrypt.

For business I highly recommend DIGICERT. They are an independent company.
It's a bit of a problem, but 'you break it, you own it' is a good rule.

A good rule for who, exactly?
Life certainly has a good chance given the existence of deep-sea bacteria, tardigrades, and cockroaches, but the human species has a relatively narrow set of conditions that must be met for any sort of longterm survival.
http://n-gate.com/ is going to have a lot of fun with the comments here
No, I'm assuming that because it didn't give me a noticeable speedup that bandwidth isn't the bottleneck. Also, the bottleneck isn't my connection out to the internet because I can get more than the advertised speed any time of day to speedtest.net servers. I suppose the bottleneck could be on the other end, but aren't these sites all hosted on major platforms these days? Like AWS/Google/etc.?
that was a typo. "not-interpreted" was my intended statement.

And I'd love for you to show me a python variant that is compiled in the same way that C is compiled. The closest is nuitka, which...isn't.
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No doubt, seems like there's a lot of opportunity to set up some clear-cut guides for dummies like me to protect ourselves. Kinda surprised there isn't a general guide from a VPN provider, would be a great opportunity to both upsell their services and promote whatever their staff (probably) care a great deal about (internet privacy).
A good first step would be to revoke `Citizens United`
I don't like what I'm reading here. Is there any expert here that could at least bring in non-panic arguments ?
I agree. Please continue to be active in this direction. In the meantime, voting is better than not voting in terms of having an influence on the system we do have.
Just stick 5 to the front of a Humvee and you're good to go!
Your read way too much into it, your naïveté was simply being pointed out. There was no such implication.

Part of good customer service in the US is pretending you're really really happy to do whatever it is you are doing for your customer. "It is my pleasure to serve you." The staff at Texas Roadhouse wear shirts that say "I love my job," for crying out loud. It's extremely unprofessional to complain to your customers so you're going to put a positive spin on everything.

Doubly so if you are really jonesing for a tip.

If I were in a customer service position and my customer asked me how I liked my job I'd tell them I loved it, no matter if it were the truth or not. I'd lie through my teeth because its my job to be positive, not honest. That's not to say you're always going to be dishonest.

It's just like when a stranger asks you "how you doing?" You say, "good, how about you?" Even when you're miserable. It's just a social nicety people​ do and has no bearing on how someone is actually doing. Pointing that out isn't implying that every single person who says "I'm doing good" is secretly miserable.
Responding to your edit, it depends on what the speaker means by Congress being on board.

New legislation can override this resolution. New legislation could completely reconstitute the FCC, or eliminate it entirely.
8k a month!!! That's a damn nice salary. Even BEFORE taxes I don't make as much as $5k a month.
No facts to back this up? The USA is no2 in total emitter of greenhouse gases and no2 in per-capita emissions and no1 in cumulative emissions:

https://wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80%99...
The last two in my list are "normal" schools (not elite prep schools).

Also of note - PVI charges more for special ed students.
I can't believe there are people willfully obtuse enough to still be putting out this strawman. No one credible is or has ever claimed "the end of life" or even "the end of multicellular life". Humanity could get wiped out entirely and "life" would be fine for a few billion years until it really would get wiped out completely without intelligence. But even a few tens of millions let alone hundreds let alone billions is something we might reasonably want to avoid don't you think? Is this really such a hard concept for you to grasp? When "life survived" previous mass extinction events you should read that as "SOME life survived, and often not the big complex types."
An internet writes a cheerful, helpful guide for dealing with the fact that like a sort of digital ice-nine, JavaScript turns everything it touches into a sluggish, half-finished, poorly-integrated pile of shit much like itself. Most of Hackernews assures itself that this is the natural order of things. One Hackernews traces "new" and "exciting" JavaScript features as far back as SICP, the Torah of the Scheme cult; his voice, along with those of the other dissenters, is quickly drowned out.
Eventually, yes. That's what secured means.
The changing demography of the country is a bigger issue to me than internet privacy laws.
> "It may be desirable that we remove the artificial scarcity, but it is also a distraction from the core question at hand."

I respectfully disagree and so does Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser who has written extensively about this as does FT columnist and economist Tim Harford (as explained in his book, "The Undercover Economist" as does Steve Beyer who has written about this in the NYT and Forbes as well as other places.

Japan passed a federal law that overruled local restrictions and in 2014 Tokyo built 140,000 residences compared with a total of 20,000 in NYC and about 90,000 in the entire state of California.

I'm speaking pragmatically.

> "A port, for instance..."

A port is a much greater and natural scarcity compared with, say Manhattan which is huge as well as London which is not an island, but made "an artificial one" because of the Green Belt that circles London.
Similar to the first "Vault 7" release, this is guidance related to spy tools. No mass surveillance or anything which appears to be unjust. These all require close-access exploitation, they are not remote, in fact most of the guidance specifically relates to these being designed for devices which are to be gifted to the targets.
Based in the UK, but this hasn't happened to me once and I usually set my VPN to Sweden or Netherlands.
> We taught Koko the gorilla how to talk

I think you're overstating your case.
"although the gorilla learned a large number of signs she never understood grammar or symbolic speech" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Koko

> humans that don't have language

Which humans are those? Language arises pretty spontaneously among humans even if they're deaf or blind - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language

Yet no amount of exposure will make a dog or ape understand language.

> There is, literally, a part of the brain that if you shut it off, you lose language.

You mean the entire left hemisphere?
21st century capitalism: gaming the system rather than actual productivity improvements that make lives better.
Can you elaborate please? How is this the end?
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<parody>The new national budget unveiled Wednesday by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government took aim at document processor providers such as Microsoft Word [MSFT], to force them to collect the goods and services tax (GST) on every document created using their software. Trudeau stated, "(The Royal) we are quite disappointed that many attorneys and other value-added providers within Canada are creating documents that result in multi-million (Canadian, but still...) dollar settlements without a tax being gathered on the value those documents add to the case. Why, individual attorneys can download this software right from Microsoft, create documents worth a fortune to their clients, and not pay us a (Canadian, but still...) cent for the use of that software! Each attorney and complainant ends up having to pay us directly, and that creates awareness and complaints from taxpayers - tres horrible, I say.".</parody>
I thought it was more fundamental than that; to capture energy, there needs to be energy, if your wind turbine transforms all of it, there's no current anymore and the system will change phase.
So is it time to kill myself yet?
At best that's correct in a very narrow sense; my point is that extrapolating that model wholesale into the realm of politics has had real and very dangerous repercussions.
Does using PGP make it any safer than, say, simple password-based SHA-512 encryption?
Absurd. Ranked order voting grants every ability a vote has in FPTP, without the caveat of fear and coercion that forces voters into the 2 party system.

FPTP is by far worse than any preferential vote count.

FPTP will literally throw your vote away if you do not vote for one of the two perceived """"popular"""" parties.
Unless you consider the 16% as a block of voters. I don't think any president has ever won more than a 16% margin of victory in my lifetime. Obama clocked in at ~8%, which is considered very, very high.
And people before those people, most likely!
The exception process used by payment processors such as First Data were for SHA-1 certificates chaining to a root that was still publicly-trusted. They couldn't use an off-reservation root because their client devices didn't trust them.

The roots that Symantec took off-reservation are regularly issuing SHA-1 certificates to anyone whose check clears. Got $1,699 to spare? https://www.thesslstore.com/symantec/secure-site-pro-sha1-pr...
While I disagree, I think your position on the presidential election is valid. Even taking your position, it is still very important to vote for downticket races, which are both not hindered by the EC system and tend to be much closer races since they are so regional. This is also more relevant to the article at hand: congress is passing these laws, not the president. So even if your vote doesn't matter for the president, please do vote for the other offices.
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Considering the fact that you have died, that's a nonissue.

If you want to leave something for your offspring, make it a priority to pay your house off first.
How do you figure out what to set routing policy for? You say gameserver.com, but how do I figure that out for CSGO vs Overwatch? What about games where you're connected to a friend's computer hosting a match, such as 7 days to die or potentially minecraft?
When I buy a book from Amazon, I pay Amazon, not the seller. Therefore, the seller is an employee of Amazon.
Don't be so high minded. I know PLENTY of Dutch, Germans and French people who have never left their country.

Many, many Americans travel extensively or are children of immigrant parents who travel to their home country often.
> The irony here is no Democrats want to take away any guns.

I don't believe this. I know too many democrats who believe that the 2nd amendment is obsolete and that guns should not be owned by civilians (or even normal police officers).

> Most Democratic proposals have been along the lines of stricter background checks.

Right, because that is the maximum amount of legislation that is even possible to get passed. Outright ban of guns would get shot down (so to speak) from the outset. If and when stricter background check legislation passes, will Democrats rest easy on gun issues? No. They will introduce more and more, progressing inch by inch until our gun laws are similar to UK or Japan.
Actually, neither should be a problem if you have enough redundancy :) the hardest part of rolling your own infrastructure is testing mission critical systems (like databases) to be fault tolerant and at the same time reliable. Lots of great projects are out there that address some of these issues, but it takes a lot of attention to details (like transaction rates, ACID compliance, replication, etc.) to get it right. This is why a lot of developers which aren't in unicorn startups take advantage of technology which is available from giants like Amazon or Google, or specific problem-domain companies like CloudFlare for example. Netflix serves as a great example of a technology-driven company that is an inspiration to us, but there are so many others that really changed the way we approach problems - Tumblr, Etsy. But to stay on topic of netflix - I think their idea behind "chaos monkey" is great, and we're increasingly rolling out a (currently simple) docker swarm version of it - https://github.com/titpetric/docker-chaos-monkey - the best way to eliminate worry is to test failure scenarios. As docker chaos monkey is designed to unpredictably "kill off" containers, your system gets the benefit of design to handle failures. It's one of those problems that you have to have a passion for however - it's like testing software. You're only testing software for the functionality and failures which you can predict, and I'm pretty sure that any of us can't predict all the ways in which software (or distributed systems) can fail. As such, it's a never ending occupation. :)
Its voters for sure, but it is also the money, and the media. 24 hour cables news need content! And dog bless Trump if he does not provide a sh*tload of it. It has been reported that received over 2 billion USD in free press coverage.

Given enough money you can convince enough people of things like trickle down economics work, or climate change is a Chinese hoax. So indeed voters need to wise up( not going to happen IMHO ), we need to have less money in politics ( right ), or pigs could fly out my ass. I am just hoping that our AI overlords will be kind.
Yes, but... they were fined for failure to appear, not for any wrongdoing, so no precedent is set (if that's even a concept in T&LC court).
AWS uses this isolation pattern internally for just about everything, for what it's worth.
Another fun angle to consider. Ocean acidification leading to a die-off of phytoplankton (the oxygen tank of the Earth, basically).

This could cause a global asphyxiation event.
Life != human life. That's the fallacy many in the green-movement miss. It's not about saving the Earth, Earth will be largely fine. Climate management is about saving humans.
Clustering effects are real, even for software. The ability to meet with clients by taking a (relatively) quick trip from SOHO to Chelsea (to initiate, pitch, or close deals) or the ability to meet with the developers of company that created a service with an API you're going to integrate with is actually helpful (
"warm currents" of communication).

Software technology ecosystems could certainly succeed in other places if one could bootstrap them in the first place; the clustering (and self-reinforcing network) effects mean that people gravitate to where the action is already happening. Getting started in a new location is challenging, so only those willing to shoulder additional risk (beyond the often-high risk of starting and running a startup) are going to try.
Responsible adults can go use a phone room, blow their noses, and not tap their fingers on their desktops. It's not that hard to be considerate.
To be fair, that is a ludicrous misrepresentation of Dennett's position.
Even for sets and mixes I think Mixcloud is way ahead of Soundcloud. Unfortunately I constantly see significantly less engagement for my content over there.
I'm glad at least we made fun of both sides.

I really wish there was a good option for GUI toolkits. Nearly all are either too primitive to make more than freshmen college (or tenured physics professor) level work or asymptotically approach web browsers without all that tedious attention to improvement and accessibility.
You just short-circuited my consciousness.
For those who missed it, n-gate satirizes some HN posts, to the delight of all: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
I run a company called Pavlok and I'm curious about your company :)
can you share more information about which router you use and possibly a link to instructions on how to set this up?
One Linux distribution used to let you play Breakout during installation, but I forgot which one. Caldera, maybe?
> "The city council is, after all, composed of wealthy people who own land in the city."

I can't speak for your city but in NYC, I'm not certain if any member of the city council is wealthy. I know my representative is not.

My point regarding anti-trust busting of monopolies is that federal legislation has been enacted before to combat deliberate attempts at market inefficiency and it could be done in the case of zoning density restrictions. In 2002, Japan enacted a federal law that overruled local land-use restrictions and as a result in 2014, Tokyo built 7 times the number of housing units as NYC (140,000 vs. 20,000).

We should do the same in the US as they did in Japan and you'll see more affordable housing.
But the health care C level execs are getting big tax cuts, and they are repealing the 3.8% tax on some kind of investment income. So its good for everyone!
Not sure what would be causing my issues then. It's only been happening for the past two or three months on my 6S Plus.
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Why would you have a problem with the Senate term being 6 years? That makes no sense at all.

See the recent election: we got a radical new Administration, plus a huge crop of new GOP politicians. From your stance on the EPA and health care, I assume that you do not favor the GOP.

If we had a 2-year term for Senators like we do the House, then we would have even more GOP politicians in the Senate than we do now, because this time around we had a big GOP sweep. Is that really what you want?

The whole point of the Senate having a 6-year term (and them not being popularly elected before the 18th Amendment) was to keep the federal government from having wild swings in leadership due to short-term political trends. In engineering terms, it's supposed to be a longer feedback loop, to prevent wild oscillations and instability.

Having fixed terms doesn't help; then you get pols who are for sale to the highest bidder because they can't make a career out of government. If you like the EPA and single-payer health care, then Bernie Sanders is probably to your liking. He's been in Congress for several decades now. You want to force people like that out?

Finally, letting voters vote on all issues is a terrible way to run government. If you put internet privacy on the ballot, how do you think people would vote? Why do you assume they'll agree with you? Advertising campaigns by the media can easily convince them that these rules simply increase their costs and are "bad for competition" or somesuch BS. In fact, they'll probably put a similar-looking proposition on the ballot which actually does the opposite of what it appears to. We see this all the time in states with ballot propositions; there'll be 2 props on the ballot, one which is the "good" one, and one which is put there by some industry which hates the good one and sounds good if you don't look at it too closely, and is designed to generate FUD. The whole reason we have professional legislators is because normal people don't have the time or education to handle all these issues; that's why we outsource it to "experts", except in our case the experts are corrupt hacks.
> All they care about is the "Mexicans", abortion, guns, which bathroom a tiny number of people use, etc.,

You understand that people on both sides of the fence were acting hysterically about these things?

Just like the right lets their imagination run wild about the threat of terrorism, the left lets their imagination run wild about the threat of assault rifles. Both are negligible but highly visible. Almost all voters are silly; to me, it doesn't seem to follow American party lines much.
Because percentages in heights are usually relative to the width of the containing block.
Not always - there have been 5 mass extinction events on earth. 250 million years ago 96% of species died due to runaway greenhouse gases from volcanic eruptions in siberia. A positive feedback mechanism kicked in. Eventually negative feedback stabilized the earth - but in a new climactic equilibrium.

Reference.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/big-five-extinction...
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You mean like this?

http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/canadian-alternative-to-uber-l...

Sadly it doesn't address any of the problems with cabs in Toronto.

1. Cabs won't take credit cards by claiming "the machine is broken" when it's not, presumably so that they can avoid reporting tips or fees, or they might just skim your card.

2. Cabs are too expensive.

3. Cabs might not even take you if they figure the ride isn't worth it.

This app doesn't allow you to pay, so doesn't help 1. It actually make 2 worse by charging you $2 just to "hail" a cab with it. I mean, seriously? And it doesn't help with 3 either.
> Imagine an interactive shell exiting as soon as a user's command failed!

Hardcore mode.
Please let's not have generic partisan battles on HN. They're
not what this site is for, they destroy what it is for, and they inevitably degrade into useless flamewars (as in 'commie' vs. 'fascist' below).

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942925 and marked it off-topic.
FCC is talking about everything but the imminent repeal of its internet privacy