cleverfoo

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by cleverfoo 2mo ago
I disagree, that's a price point concern not a market accessibility one. I strongly prefer to be able to sell to another 400M people than not have the option to do so.
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by cleverfoo 2mo ago
What doesn't get talked about in these articles is the increasing impact to small business in the US. I run a small business (scanii.com) and I've noticed over the past year an increasing number of customers leaving us to European
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by cleverfoo 3mo ago
It's not a horrible idea... the challenge there would be making that payment/refund flow totally transparent in order to build trust and be fair to the researchers.
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by cleverfoo 3mo ago
Same experience here. I've run a successful vulnerability disclosure program for over a decade and paid out thousands of dollars in bounties for scanii.com (a malware identification API service), but recently (since the beginning of th
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by cleverfoo 5mo ago
Sure, for a very narrow definition of _efficiency_. There's plenty to complain in terms of the JVM and Java but performance, as in units of work per dollar spent, is not one of them - JITs just have too many opportunities for optimizin
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by cleverfoo 6mo ago
that's a very shallow analogy as the stock market has significantly stronger guardrails to curtain insider trading including fines and jail time these companies lack. But even if you were to bring prediction markets under the purview o
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by cleverfoo 1y ago
Well, assuming that by "statically linking" you mean in the c sense, that's exactly what GraalVM native image does today, it statically analyzes the JAR for reachability only compiling the methods/classes in use. This wo
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by cleverfoo 1y ago
I think the big problem here is conceptual. The JDK folks are looking at this akin to PGO when, IMHO, they should be looking at this as an AOT cache (yes, the flag names make this even more confusing). How do those two differ, you ask? With
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by cleverfoo 3y ago
> Impressive! What do you think it is that you do that allows you to compete with VirusTotal, and even free tools like Jotti? Thanks and good question. We don't really compete with virus total since it's more of a research tool
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by cleverfoo 3y ago
Got it, in that case it helps to build a product for a community you can interact with. In my case, this was connecting with folks on Stackoverflow that were struggling with integrating malware detection into their apps... that was all the
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by cleverfoo 3y ago
> Congratulations on your success! That is very kind of you, thank you. > What did "getting it out there" consist of for you? How did you get it out there in the beginning? For Scanii in particular, the original product was
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by cleverfoo 3y ago
I built Scanii [1], an unsafe/malware content detection API/SaaS, as a way to keep my coding skills sharp as I moved into engineering leadership roles. Over the years it has grown into a lovely $35k/month business while spend
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by cleverfoo 4y ago
https://www.scanii.com a content arbitration/malware API service. It has been profitable for over 10+ years now with customers around the globe. Building it was one of the best decisions I made in my life since it enabled m
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by cleverfoo 7y ago
For the last 9+ years I've worked on https://scanii.com , a content identification service (think of it as the unix file command on steroids wrapped around an easy to use API). Started with a real MVP hacked on a weekend ( h
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Everything you need to know before building your first SAM packaged application(docs.scanii.com)
1 points by cleverfoo 8y ago|0 comments
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by cleverfoo 9y ago
Not impressed, particularly with the basic-auth description. Basic auth is purely a well understood vehicle for sending a tuple (aka the credentials) for authenticating a HTTP request, most of the concerns highlighted are with regards to ho
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by cleverfoo 10y ago
We migrated scanii.com from Amazon Simple Payments to Stripe subscriptions (after the whole FPS debacle) and haven't looked back, it's truly the best way to process payments right now. If I could buy Stripe stock I would.
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by cleverfoo 10y ago
Let me see if I can try to simplify the underlying problem here (I dabble in this space): Little bit os background: writing pattern matching signatures is hard, adding a bunch of "known malicious" hashes to your malware database i
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by cleverfoo 11y ago
The tricky part there is that it wouldn't work if you just sat there in a tight look dispatching http requests, any one of them timing out would, likely, trigger the deadline and make all subsequent http requests not happen. So, altern
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by cleverfoo 11y ago
Thank you!
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by cleverfoo 11y ago
Hi there, author here, happy to answer any questions.
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Using AWS lambda for cheap S3 content processing(docs.scanii.com)
89 points by cleverfoo 11y ago|18 comments
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by cleverfoo 12y ago
Yeah I totally agree. As much as I like lambdas in JDK8 the syntax feels super bolt on. What's wrong with just {}, -> is just silly.
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by cleverfoo 13y ago
Scanii.com ( https://scanii.com ) practical API for malware/virus detection. Low thousands/month and growing quickly, profitable from the beginning and we effectively spend $0 in marketing. Honestly, there hasn't be
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Show HN: Sentry: it's like mod_rewrite for DNS (rferreira.github.com)
2 points by cleverfoo 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: scanii.com rest/json virus scanner service
1 points by cleverfoo 16y ago|0 comments
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by cleverfoo 16y ago
They look really lost. It's 2011 and they just demoed "printing"
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by cleverfoo 16y ago
I believe this proves my point that scala is a big plot to scare kids away from programming