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ahpon Ask HN: Why don't publishers serve ads from their domains to thwart ad-blockers?

> 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).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

ahpon Ask HN: What books should I read as a software manager?

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.

ahpon Wikipedia on HHVM

Might somebody be willing to explain the difference between the two versions?

> using HHVM from GitHub rather than our internal repository.

ahpon Failing the Startup Game at Unbabel – Take 2

> 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.

ahpon Ask HN: How would I go about replacing my Macbook LCD with one that uses e-ink?

I'd really just like to see what it looks like and how it feels.

ahpon Ask HN: Is it possible to get asylum for developers?

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum#United_States

ahpon Ask HN: Kicked out by co-founders – what are my options?

start over; build it better than they are.

ahpon Learn to type before you learn to code

I disagree. Typing is boring, coding is fun.

Learn to type by learning to code.