Every site which uses the Reddit upvoting model is subject to this type of attack. The correct name for it is a Sybil Attack[1]
I suspect a large portion of Reddit accounts are sockpuppet[2] accounts, alongside Product Hunt.
It's the Law of Manipulatable Numbers where if you put a number next to somebody's name online, then the person sometimes (not often) tries to manipulate the number.
I'm careful using the word "Millennial" these days and increasingly skeptical of online articles with the word "Millennial" in the title. Thanks to shows like Adam Ruins Everything[1], I am more informed on a variety of topics. (I learn visually and prefer to watch his videos instead of read an article).
If the sites are on a root domain, then you can put ADWords on the site and get paid, but not much. Typically a thousand impressions is a dollar. Depending on how long the URL stays on the frontpage, you could be looking at 20,000 - 50,000 impressions which roughly translates as USD 20-50.
You get paid even more when ADs are clicked on.
To be honest this is a rather dated way to monetize a site now with the sudden surge of visitors using ADBlockers, and you might want to look into other ways to monetize, such as
- Affiliate links
- Premium/paywalled articles / content
- Donation buttons, using PayPal / Bitcoin/Litecoin
Also keep in mind that since getting frontpage on HN is so rare, then it can't be a sustainable source of income
Thanks. That's the impression I got, too: I looked at the numbers and decided running on ads wouldn't be worth it until I was getting far more steady traffic.
Do you know how the visitors:dollars ratio for less intrusive methods -- such as affiliate links or donation buttons -- compares to the ratio for display ads (~1000:1)?
In typical UK surveillance state fashion they pander to base fears and unforgivably overlook how bad censorship and surveillance is in places like China.
It's not that the UK GOV "doesn't understand how the Internet works" as claimed by many on this topic, but that the citizenry don't care enough to encrypt. The citizenry aren't scared enough to encrypt.
Education is the key here, and it needs to be bashed into a citizen's skull that The Internet is not a black box, and that traffic moving en clair is fair game by Governments, even criminal threat actors in Starbucks with their fake Free Wifi.
We need to keep building abstractions on top of The Internet to make it expensive for spying to take place. The usual solutions apply; TOR, VPNs, TLS/SSL, PGP, et al.
This sounds cute and it's probably true that water has some subtle hard-to-reproduce property of retaining certain configurations, but even if this were true, what's so great about it?
I'm not entirely convinced that a hard-to-reproduce configuration of water will affect my physiology, and if it does, then this would have to be put through scientific rigeur, which it is not, it's performed on blind faith that it works.
Because their crawler is so monolithic that it would be expensive and annoying overhauling it for IPV6.
There is a great use-case for IPV6 for IOT where each device gets its own IPV6 address. IPV6 addresses are appearing more like MAC addresses at this rate as IPV6 is not exhausted yet.
But seriously, there's an astronomical # of addresses in IPv6. You're probably right that if we ever exhaust that space, we'll probably be communicating between planets by then.
There is an astronomical number of individual IPv6 addresses, but in most cases that is not really the meaningful number to look at, at least right now. IPv6 is not really supposed to be subnetted beyond /64, so that already slashes the network space quite significantly. ISPs are supposed to hand out full /48s to customers (probably does not apply to consumers though), so there goes another 16 bits. The basic unit that RIRs give to ISPs is a /32 (afaik). Which leaves far less astronomical number of individual networks left. 2^32 - 2^48 is no doubt still a pretty big number, but not really as mindbogglingly humongous as 2^128.
> There is a great use-case for IPV6 for IOT where each device gets its own IPV6 address.
Do you really want your IOT devices to be directly addressable on the internet? It's my understanding that having devices behind a router is safer. I go a step further and disable UPnP on my routers and everything still 'just works' including network printing.
NAT is not a security feature, it wasn't meant and it doesn't by itself add anything, except complicates communication.
You supposed to control access with firewall, and controlling security is much easier when computer/device has a routable address.
Though, IoT devices should probably be restricted of any Internet access based on their security track record (but again, this is orthogonal to being directly addressable).
While NAT does not provide perfect security, it is a component of security in networks where most people have no idea how to harden their systems or devices. It somehow gives me comfort to know that no one can just scan the net to find my phone, as I'm not sure if it would be vulnerable.
I still don't see a reason for the average consumer to have a static, reachable IP for their devices. I see privacy concerns but no advantages.
Why does 'directly addressable' mean 'not behind a router'? Unless you've got a weird ISP that's delivering you Ethernet, you're going to need a router.
I have a gigabit fiber (to the home) connection which terminates at a device with 4 Ethernet jacks. They all work, I've tested connecting directly to them with a laptop, but I plug a router into it and all devices connect through that router instead. It's the 'stateful firewall' aspect of using a router that I want for improved security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall
My ISP delivers me Ethernet... I doubt it's that uncommon in midrise/highrise buildings. But they will only route to a single IP address (incl for 64-bit) so then again I still need a router.
Is it so bad that productivity grinds to a halt like this? I can understand if your employer has Henry Ford posters on the wall to keep workers productive, but sometimes the best work is done when a worker gets home, as if home is some precious thing that is forcibly denied, because it represents a reward, and that the reward of work is only represented as enjoying the spoils of your labor at home.
This is, for want of better phrasing, the rat race, and quickly being swapped out for better work-life balance, increasingly being lambasted, and seen as generally not ideal for more and more people.
Burnout is such a catch-all term these days and is usually a word associated with the more negative aspects of 9 to 5 culture. It's not a word in the vocabulary of high-performing people. High performance is not especial to 9 to 5 culture, or especial to those who have grit. High performance can be seen in unpaid work, or in work that feels more like work, simply because, there are different types of work, like body work, mind work, etc
If you mean Be the change you want to see then OP simply has to post to HN with a strong bias towards his/her topic of interest?
I can't see that by merely choosing a topic you are passionate about, that it gets more up-votes, but this is the tactic I do see because by being passionate, by virtue, you post more, and so more upvotes are guaranteed?
I suspect a large portion of Reddit accounts are sockpuppet[2] accounts, alongside Product Hunt.
It's the Law of Manipulatable Numbers where if you put a number next to somebody's name online, then the person sometimes (not often) tries to manipulate the number.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
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