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Re:Ask HN: Why don't publishers serve ads from their domains to thwart...
on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @02:47PM (#10222457)
> 6. Ad-exchange receives all the bids and picks the second highest bidder (no idea why it's the second highest)
It's called a Vickrey Auction. It allows bidders to bid their true value (instead of trying to outbid all of the other bidders, as is what results from a first-price auction).
Re:Ask HN: What books should I read as a software manager?
on Sunday June 28, 2015 @06:50PM (#9795437)
Eric Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." On face, it's largely about FOSS development; but, more so, it's about how one ought to go about thinking of solutions to technical problems. A phenomenal read.
Re:Wikipedia on HHVM
on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @11:16PM (#8848867)
Might somebody be willing to explain the difference between the two versions?
> using HHVM from GitHub rather than our internal repository.
Re:Failing the Startup Game at Unbabel – Take 2
on Sunday September 07, 2014 @09:38AM (#8281084)
> The contract was presented to me on paper and in Portuguese, 7 pages in total. The only thing I understood was the caption, 'Contrato de Trabalho'. At the time no one said anything about being able to break the contract without reasonable cause before 3 months had passed.
This is pretty appalling. I don't think the burden is on the offerer to explain the contract in full to you. I feel bad for you, but you kind of shot yourself in the foot on that one.
Compulsory Voting
Why did Y Combinator adopt DMCA for Hacker News?
Re:Ask HN: How would I go about replacing my Macbook LCD with one that...
on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:29AM (#7743565)
I'd really just like to see what it looks like and how it feels.
Ask HN: How would I go about replacing my Macbook LCD with one that uses e-ink?
I've haven't worked very much, but I really want to dive in. I'm not necessarily aiming to literally swap out my LCD for a 13" e-ink screen, but I was wondering how I might take apart my computer and hook up to one. How might I go about learning how to reduce the graphics quality permitted to be sent to that new screen?
Ask HN: What does is the function of systemd?
Seems topical.I don't know half the terminology in the wikipedia article, and, in light of recent events, it seems worthwhile to know.
Uber Expands Insurance Program for Community Drivers
Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get asylum for developers?
on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:09PM (#7329795)
Wow. I hope that you and your family are all right.
I would doubt that there is a asylum process specific for developers, at least for asylum in the U.S. (in that I would doubt that the USFG discriminates between developer and non-developer applicants.) It does seem like, again, in the U.S., the process still faces some kinks [1].
However, I know that there is a plethora of nation-states which recognize the universal right of asylum. I would suggest that, should you or your family ever be in a position in which you feel that you will face prosecution (even persecution, maybe?), you should actively research the possibility of attaining asylum.
Has Hacker News ever been 'trolled' (/b/?)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
Don't ask me about the prospect of a Wikipedia contributor coming up with the idea to research 'troll'?<p>(On a side note: my name is Alex, and I'm a freshman studying CS at Harvard. I'm trying to spend the free time that I have actively engaging on things that I think are important on the internet, like Hacker News, because I want to be a better global citizen and I think that thinking...
Re:Ask HN: Kicked out by co-founders – what are my options?
on Saturday March 01, 2014 @10:30PM (#7327567)
start over; build it better than they are.
Re:Learn to type before you learn to code
on Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:53PM (#7327279)
I disagree. Typing is boring, coding is fun.
Learn to type by learning to code.