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by thetmkay 11y ago
GiveDirectly[0] provide a minimal 'charity layer' of such a service (transferring money directly to the right people). If you feel disillusioned by modern charity, effective altruism might interest you. I recently read "Doing
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by thetmkay 11y ago
FYI they had that because EV Certs are tied to the official company name, so if you want a more 'colloquial' name, there's a special field called something like 'doing business as'. Then the displayed green bar says
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by thetmkay 11y ago
Check out Blendle[0] - Dutch company moving to the US soon[1] (launched in Netherlands and Germany). Can't vouch for it myself but was on HN yesterday. [0] https://launch.blendle.com [1] http://www.niemanlab.org&#x
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by thetmkay 11y ago
I'm not going to disagree with you on the CA system (I'd have to understand it more), but aside from being a product of CAs, what is the issue with EV? EV's biggest problem is DV certificate: it's hard to communicate the
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by thetmkay 11y ago
I personally don't see print media going extinct (books certainly didn't) but I'd hypothesise that availability and convenience is more important than price for the average NYT reader.
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by thetmkay 11y ago
In addition: 1) Google Contributor requires you to whitelist Google ads 2) AFAIK - you will see at least 50% of the ads
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by thetmkay 11y ago
It doesn't have to be. Assume registration includes specifying a list of "preferred publishers" (like what aggregated news apps ask on sign up in order to curate your feed) Add a client side tracker (i.e. browser plugin) with
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by thetmkay 11y ago
I spent a week or two looking into and evaluating micro payments for news, and I share your concerns. The line I hear out of Blendle though is that it's part of an ecosystem, i.e. one avenue of payment options. I can imagine a one-off
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by thetmkay 11y ago
The author isn't just stating the case of the word being misused, but to advertise his alternate model. The take-away is that the new successful companies don't follow disruption theory, which is a bottom-up approach, but a differ
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by thetmkay 11y ago
If you inspire people to follow through and experiment with your ideas, go ahead. Don't discount the difficulty, even after coming up with a brilliant idea, to communicate that idea effectively and in a way that influences people to se
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by thetmkay 11y ago
Totally agree. The ad-subsidised business model is flawed on so many levels. Personally the biggest one for me is that the evolution of ads moves less away from information and more towards emotional manipulation. Question is - what other m
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by thetmkay 11y ago
Two things seemingly are true: 1. information is a commodity (including most news) 2. information is valuable I'm looking at this problem right now because which answer to this question is chosen is critical in shaping how we as a soci
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by thetmkay 11y ago
Downvote me/report me if this is against etiquette, but I'm working on a project around this very problem: supporting the government-independent press and reclaiming consumer power (by not using an ad-subsidised business model). I
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by thetmkay 11y ago
It's a metered paywall - so they allow you to click through if you've seen less than 2 articles per week (unregistered). Open in incognito and you won't have the cookies/session data and it will work.
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by thetmkay 11y ago
I presume so. There may be some regulation (or suggested guidelines) about high-trust sites (like banks) that are vulnerable to phishing requiring EVs. Otherwise using the Google Safe Browsing API (as they plan on doing[1]) will probably wo
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by thetmkay 11y ago
Thanks - I'll check this out.
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by thetmkay 11y ago
DV SSL certificates are not effective counter-measures for phishing or scammers. That's one of major advantages of EV certificates. EV SSL (instead of the green lock) appear as the company name in a green bar (see GitHub, Stripe etc).
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by thetmkay 11y ago
Really smooth - my only two concerns are: 1. not implemented the auto client yet for nginx (which meant stopping the service) 2. the opaque-ness of when my domains would be whitelisted Both of which will be fixed for public beta/releas
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by thetmkay 11y ago
From their page on SSL [0], it's only for CloudFlare customers. Also, it's not end-to-end encryption, but from client to CloudFlare - so "your" certificate may have 20+ other CloudFlare clients' domains included. If
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by thetmkay 11y ago
Gut reaction: arggh Slightly-less gut-based reaction: everyone has a different comfort zone on the privacy/security spectrum. I respect that. However, Twitter is not the medium to discuss where society's zone should be, nor will a
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by thetmkay 11y ago
For me, and what I took away from this article (confirmation bias), it is that a huge barrier to working remotely is the social and personal identity we implicitly associate with work. The loosening of tribalism from your job (which between
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by thetmkay 11y ago
It's a matter of communication and self-representation. You may think it's naive for someone to rely on your side project, but from their perspective they may never have known it was a side project. It may just look like a normal
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by thetmkay 11y ago
In Kevin Murphy's book "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" he cites the following paper [1] which shows that the simple Bayesian classifier "performs surprisingly well in many domains containing clear attribu
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Ask HN: How do I start a teleportation startup?
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by thetmkay 11y ago
I was just thinking about this problem today: lack of information as to whether a link is an external link (different site), an internal link (same site) or anchor link (same page). I cmd+click everything and inevitably have four or five ta
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by thetmkay 11y ago
It would at least help companies/freelancers to host their own mailserver. The same infrastructure may lead to EV for individuals (or equivalent) once we can figure that out. Waiting for everything to be equally ready leads to inaction
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by thetmkay 11y ago
What about EV itself? Currently there's no EV equivalent for individuals, but it would be a step forward.
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by thetmkay 12y ago
A film has just been released in select US cinemas based on their story Spare Parts (2015) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3233418/
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by thetmkay 12y ago
Can we send you ideas for the list?
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by thetmkay 12y ago
This is a slight diversion, but if you're interested in the topic of popularity-driven ethics (diction?) you may be interested in the novel by Cory Doctorow called "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" http://craphou

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