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I call it the negative SEO bomb.

Gain control of a bunch of sites that are hosting viruses, autodownloading exe's, or otherwise performing unlawful hacks on the user. Then start linking to all of the people who rank higher than you. You could pick off all of your pagerank competitors one by one.

(this is theoretical, but I don't see why it wouldn't work in a probabilistic sense)
From what I understand talking to an ophthalmologist it's either PRK or Lasik. One of these is always a better fit for a specific patient.
I had LASIK done this January, right after allocating the LASIK bill to my company's flexible spending account the previous December. I highly recommended using the FSA since the surgery is paid with pre-tax dollars, effectively shaving 35% off the price of surgery. Right after the surgery, I noticed my vision was way better than pre-surgery, when wearing contacts, everything was crystal sharp. I went for a post surgery eye exam and the optometrist said I had 20/15 vision. Certifiable laser eyes!

Shortly after, I left my programming desk job to do some world travelling. Normally, I sit in front of the computer for 12+ hours a day, but during these 3 months of backpacking, I was walking around all day and had minimal computer interaction. It was incredible seeing New York and Europe with this new set of eyes.

After returning home and resuming the 12 hours routine of sitting in front of the computer I've noticed my eyesight has deteriorated/settled in a little and probably dropped back to 20/20 vision. I get some halos at night but this seems more of an effect of dry eyes and remedied with eye drops. Do some research on your LASIK surgeon, but I would highly recommend LASIK.
And, as johnl asked in the github thread, does Google hold copyright on Chris's comments here on HN?

Code, comments... they're both speech. If you can sign away code copyright in an employment contract, can you also sign away copyright to all human language speech you write?
My dad said something similar when I was starting out. He apologizes for it at least once a year. (I totally don't hold it against him, don't worry.)

While I generally don't let People Are Wrong On The Internet get to me, I have one exception: I am by nature a curmudgeon and keep a list in a notebook of predictions along the lines of "You will never sell X of this software." It is eleven lines long at the moment, and has eight smiley face stickers.

I think I'm getting another sticker for Christmas.
I've been using Venmo (venmo.com) quite a bit. Real easy to use and no fees at all so far whatsoever. It's in beta, but you can sign up for an account if you download the app on your iphone or android device for free. I also have about 8 invites left if anyone is interested. Anybody using this as well
Is it really surprising that Facebook would give the same offer to students coming from India that it gives to students coming from everywhere else?
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The fear, according to people close to Google, is that as Facebook users index the web through their Likes and shares, Google’s algorithmic indexing of the web will become less relevant. “Search is a business that will be pretty profoundly disrupted by social media,” said Augie Ray, an analyst with ­Forrester Research. “Ultimately, what matters to you is not what Google thinks is important, it’s what your friends think is important.”

What ultimately matters to you is what you think is important. Whether Google's algorithms or Facebook's social graph better predicts what's important to you remains to be seen.

Actually, what really matters is what you will pay for. Google's algorithms are currently winning at figuring that out.
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I glad to see everyone is finally giving a shit about a Haskell project!
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If you could give a book to your younger self, what would it be?
If you could travel back in time and give a book to your younger self, what book (and what age) would you choose?
this is just going to further the rage on dice.com about the field going to hell in the states.
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That seems like a pretty big if when dealing with sophisticated attackers.
Thanks! Worked for me.

A colleague just recommended this book last week.
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Ask HN: Do you ever use any websites other than the most popular ones?
There are many fields in which there is no clear front-runner, but with technology (and especially the Internet) that is often not the case. For example, there is one popular website that the majority uses when it comes to search engines (Google), video-sharing (Youtube), social networks (Facebook), photo-sharing (Flickr), online encyclopedias (Wikipedia) and so forth. Sometimes there are a few popular ones, but there is usually some distinction between them that makes them target slightly different audiences (e.g. Youtube vs. Hulu). Of course, a fair number of people don't use these sites that are #1 in popularity, but these people are split among many of the competitors.
So I'd like to ask the hacker community here: do any of you choose to use an alternative to one of these top websites and, if so, what is your reasoning behind it?

And as a parallel question: Do you think that the top websites are at the top because of their polish, usefulness, recreational value, luck, or something else?
I haven't mentioned anything about those subjects for a few reasons: 1. I don't know that much about them yet; 2. the post would have gotten pretty lengthy and hairy; 3. I didn't meant the post to be a comprehensive tutorial on fixed point combinators.

While I think I understand lambda calculus enough as to write a little introductory blog post, I can't say the same for combinatory logic.
"that would be a remarkably stupid way for Google to empower the worst citizens of the web to hold the rest hostage"

It is easy to forget that Google is not the Internet. A time goes on, SEO will cause Google to become nearly useless, and people will move onto greener pastures.
most likely the typed string will contain more of the user's mother tongue I assume?

It's not like an attacker is going to be writing emails on the compromised machine. Anything they'd actually be typing would probably just be standard Unix commands.

I didn't realize the Chinese used standard US keyboards, thanks. That just reinforces my feeling that the claim of "clearly identified" is probably total bullshit.
Nope. But that kind of money is a lot in India so the Indian press will make a big deal out of it. Of course, IIT grads who do their Master's in the US have been getting the same offers for a while but that's not the same as Facebook recruiting directly in India.
I find travel to be much easier when you have connections to people where it is you're traveling. The company I work for has offices around the world, therefore I always have someone to help me get around an unfamiliar place.

I find traveling to be a great way to expand your view of the world. Living in Bangalore for 6 weeks changed me forever.
How many non-voluntary in the past 2 years?
It wouldn't be the first time Wikileaks went after corporations. Half a year ago they published a document about how shareholders plundered the islandic bank Kaupthing before it collapsed.

Publishing intellectual property would be illegal, and I fail to see why anyone would fear Wikileaks for doing such.
There's a lot of speculation around it. On WebmasterWorld you'll hear stories of people who bought no paid links get delisted because of spammy links.

The'll say a competitor bought the links to their website, then reported them to Google for black-hat SEO -- basically setting them up and then turning them in. Of course, this is the first defense anyone would use if they were caught actually link spamming -- so who can tell how common it is. (By the way, I don't see how Google could tell either.)

There are rumors of other bad things going on too. People duplicating your content to try and get your copy removed, bogus DMCA claims, etc.
Imagine that you were making 200K a year before you founded the company. And being a founder you've taken a 40K salary. Suddenly its been 5 years, your startup is doing well with 2M of revenue per month but your still making 40K/y as the founder.

Lets say an exit is possible after 4 years of more work. For all intents and purposes, your founders have blown through their savings and are watching as their former (regularly employed) friends are buying houses (at least putting down large down-payments) and driving nice cars while he/she is living in some crappy apartment to keep costs down.

In this scenario, the sane thing in my mind is to help out the entrepreneur so that he can focus on making the company huge instead of quitting the startup so he can get a job paying $300K which would let him buy a decent house for his kids.

Everything in life is negotiable. Even the present terms in a termsheet are negotiable and I feel that this could certainly be one of them.
The goal is to build a naming system that is decentralized and therefore free and hard to take down.

> You might call DNS "P2P", since anybody can join the network and run their own resolver.

Single point of attack. They shut down your custom resolver, and they shut down your custom naming system. Also this proposal fails in terms of availability and resilience.

Also it's hierarchical P2P, so if you control the root servers, you control the naming system. It is decentralized only to aid availability and resilience.

> the average user doesn't even know it exists.

Those who do, understand that it can be controlled.

> Not happy with something? ICANN is a community.

I want free names for 10 websites. ICANN't get that without paying $7 * 10 per year. Some things are not worth lobbying for, because they are obviously not going to happen.

> Really really pissed about something? Free speech, courts, democracy.

Such a naming system would be outside the immediate control of governments, therefore democracy has nothing to do with it. Indeed, the idea is that you could use this in China and Chechnya too.

> Use a ccTLD. I hear .ly is cool.

This still uses DNS, and does not solve anything.
> intj, actually.

close ;)
That measurement would probably be more useful if stacked against same in Java / Python / Ruby / etc.

Writing the parser itself in Erlang seems expensive; passing text through discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/) in an otherwise Erlang system seems like a good neutral measure.

(and then 100k threads doing same concurrently)
The base salary and the signing bonus is not so special to deserve a whole article.
Could you do this in Asia, or Ireland?
I find it interesting that almost no one wishes they'd done it sooner.

I intend to wait until they can successfully deal with the night time "halo" problem, or at the least minimise it. I enjoy my night vision too much!
1) Digg turned down an acquisition and regrets it. That was probably around 2006.

2) I'm pretty sure LinkedIn could have sold for a mighty sum in 2006. My guess is they're pretty nervous that Facebook will subsume them. They might wish they had sold back then for $1 billion or whatever.

3) Very speculative: Xobni, but that was 2008.

4) Technorati may have turned down an offer in late 2005 that they would definitely take today.

I'm not sure these prove anything, I just had fun trying to think of them.
Thanks! Worked for me too.
On the plus side it was an extremely lucid explanation of how the Y combinator is derived. Usually articles on the Y combinator get bogged down with jargon and terminology. By using simple terms your explanation was very readable. If someone wants to learn more of the theory it is one google away. If someone wants to learn how someone might have originally come up with such a device, you article is an excellent starting point.
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3.5 doesn't even make sense. Why would google penalise a site for being linked from one that ranks for a particular term? If google thought the page was spam then they wouldn't rank it in the first place. The mostly likely result of linking competitors would be to increase their rankings.
It's not a dumb question at all. The world has changed in 115 years, and it's not at all a obvious that the average HN reader has the knowledge and skills that were deemed important in Kansas in 1895.

The question its self doesn't imply a conclusion. If you come to one, it's because you have knowledge of the questioner's intentions that I do not.
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The difference between PRK and Lasik is in the way they reshape your cornea.

In Lasik they create a flap by cutting the cornea and then they use a laser to reshape it, then they reposition the flap back in place.This way the flap acts as a bandage on the wound and reconnects with the cornea. The Flap is never actually healed and may be dislodged even years after the surgery - Although will need significant force like a direct poke in the eye, severe car accident etc.

In PRK a flap isn't created, the laser reshapes the cornea directly (After removing a small epithelial layer) and then a special bandage contact lens is applied to the wound. This is generally considered safer (Nothing to be dislodged), But the healing process is much slower and the time it takes until your eyes are at their best capacity is much longer.
As i previously wrote, I was back at work the next day and my sight was almost perfect after 3 days.
My cousin had PRK, the total healing time was around 2-3 weeks, and in the first week she could barely open her eyes.

PRK is also considered a little less accurate, but i am not sure why...
For a nice comparison see: http://www.lasereyefacts.com/prk-vs-lasik.html
> 5m to 500m is actually so inconsequential

It's only inconsequential if you lack imagination.

Would you rather be the guy who started another discount chain, or the guy who made space travel practical?
Pointing out a classic fallacy is hardly a quibble, and certainly not a question of semantics.

On the other hand, yes, it's quite true that all arguments appear in a specific context. I think we must live in quite different political contexts, though, because I don't see anything in the article that implies a decline in educational standards.
> "It can be a transformational experience," Garten says, of the moment users first don a headset. "For the first time, you’re consciously interacting with your own brain."

So I was at WonderWorks < http://wonderworkspcb.com/index.php > in early November, and they have a litle game that works based on your brain waves. You put a headband with metal nodes on your head, and it moves a ball forward based on how calm you are. You sit down across from someone and relax as much as possible, and whoever is the calmest gets the ball closer to the goal.

(edit: I found the page for the "mindball" game here: http://wonderworkspcb.com/Content/37/Mindball_Mental_Challen...)

I have to say, it was very cool. There wasn't as much shock and awe as I'm sure the headsets in this article must inspire, but you can put that down to the primitive interface I was using. It was still extremely interesting, because I really felt like I was "consciously interacting with my own brain". Making something happen just based on how calm you are... I couldn't get the smile off my face afterwards.

(If you're curious, I won every time.)
Exactly, WikiLeaks is not going to publish a corporation's IP. What it would publish is information revealing dirty practices.

The Enron scandal is something that the wikileaks would be interested in publishing. They would not publish Intel's chip designs.

I also work in the financial field (for a company that has more public responsibility than your average), and we have a whistle-blower hotline internally. If you see any "dirty practice" you are encouraged to report it ASAP. As the CEO, I can only encourage you to create this procedure in your company.
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I stopped using a desktop about a year and a half ago as my main development machine. MacBook Pro 15" is my main development workstation now. When I work at my desk I plug it in to a keyboard, mouse, external monitor and ethernet. The only thing I miss is SSD, but really, not that much.

All the "non mobile" computers I use are either racked servers or a fleet of Mac Mini's I use for a build farm.

Now that I have a laptop that's on par with desktop performance needed for day to day development, I can finally stop the pain of syncing multiple machines. It's nice.
I noticed Facebook was offline for a few minutes earlier... and could have sworn I have having deja vu reading this post.

Until I read the date.
Had lasik 6-7 years ago. Went wonderfully well, easy recovery, my only regret was not doing it sooner. I was 20/20 after the surgery, not quite as good now.

Here's how I found the doctor: I asked a bunch of other doctors who'd done theirs. Most of them had gone to the same guy. I booked him, paid a bit more than I might have paid to someone else, but I went it in with confidence.

Overall highly recommended.
I wrote a simple (http://github.com/silentbicycle/wn) to-do graph analyzer for exactly that. I got sick of analyzing "I have to do X, but X needs Y and Z, and Z needs A, and ..." dependency charts. I'm comfortable with BSD make, but sometimes clients give hairy dependency graphs.
If I could travel back in time (and felt justified in changing the past/future) I would give myself The Hacker Ethic ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Hacker_Et... ), Python by Chris Fehily ( http://www.amazon.com/Python-Chris-Fehily/dp/0201748843 ), and Free Software Free Society ( http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/ ). If I could only give one book, I'd choose FSFS

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I ask because there are not many startups that I know of (I'm probably looking in the wrong place?) that also take H-1B candidates into consideration.

I see all these awesome potential job opportunities on HN, but it's never clear whether a H-1B candidate would also be considered, as that is 99% never explicitly stated.

So - anyone hiring that'll sponsor or do H-1B visa transfers?
They should make it a central pillar of their entire strategy

Judging by the recently quality of their results, they already have
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That doesn't seem too unreasonable. The actual procedure itself, where the doctor was actually involved with me as a patient, took about 15 minutes.
I'm down for either Portugal or Spain. Ireland will be bailed out and everyone will be fine, but by the time we get to Portugal there'll be no money left. On the other hand, Spain may have such an impact that the sudden realisation that this is the last bailout may well tip countries over the edge.
No SPI games at the publisher's request. :-(
When the author implied that driving a Porsche means not caring about money is exactly when I lost interest in his opinions.

The most interesting and successful (same traits, different present situations) owners in the Porsche communities I participate in cringe at the type of people who see it as a status symbol. It's about the connection to the planet/universe that you get from driving such well designed and engineered machines.

To the author's point, though, if they're driving it for the purpose of that alone, yeah, I'd question their integrity, too.

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"The Big Short", wait until 2008 and pocket a pretty penny.

Real answer, I can't think of better books to have read than what I did then, unless I could force myself to memorize a language book or something.
from the web to the TV to the restaurants you choose to eat at – is informed by your stated preferences and your friends’ preferences

This is something we need to overcome, not accentuate.
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Companies can have a very limited number of investors before they run foul of a different set of laws. So it does not make any sense to take small amounts.

How much are you thinking of investing?
Thanks for the offer. I could be wrong but I think our page is fairly optimized at this point--I think any delay may be DNS-related since the majority of it seems to occur while the domain is resolving. Not sure what's up with that...
Agree - haters gonna hate. I really enjoyed the simple, lingo-free derivation.
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One more thing to add. Paypal and the other companies that pulled the plug on Wikileaks did not pull it in protest to Wikileaks targeting of a bank. These plug-pullers seem to be a rather benign bunch. They probably have no dirty big secrets and therefore they–like the rest of society–actually stand to gain by Wikileaks exposing bad behavior among business. The only businesses that stand to lose, and therefore the ones that should be worried about it, are the businesses that are engaged in foul play or benefiting from it. So, ahem, why exactly are you so bothered, sir
That's pretty neat.

Though I think "command-tabbing quickly" isn't a very convenient thing to do...much better to add a "sleep 2 && " in front of the command line (say), so that you can execute it immediately and have it take effect right about the time you're ready for it.
That's why they work with journalists, relevant experts and, when possible, the governments involved to filter out sensitive names. They seem to be doing the best they can, and so far they haven't been called out on it.
"Its mobile and OS efforts essentially amount to parallel operations in the company; neither one is likely to become Google's new core, but more to layer on what that core is."

It's only partially true today - Android is good extension of several google products, like GMail, Maps and Calendar and they need to keep pushing that and making it better - for example the music store that'll automatically sync everything shown off at Google IO.
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Start keeping track of where your money are going. I use a notebook for that, and I have categories like clothes, eating out, food, business, etc. I record all expenses and after a while you become more conscious of your expenditures.