What was your PhD in? How did you go about studying distributed systems? I'm really curious about this topic and appreciate any advice on getting started.

Maybe not the best looking, but definitely a classic: https://github.com/404

The notification email with the stats isn't the product, it's just a feature. Conspire's real product is their search engine that can find the best person for introducing you to a contact or organization.

Conspire has become my go-to networking tool. It uses your real working relationships, so it's much more accurate and useful than LinkedIn. I've used it to make introductions, and to seek introductions, and it's incredibly powerful.

Someone should build an app for this problem, if it doesn't already exist.

This is kinda helpful, but it's only for tech-y cities and only for certain skills, and only for startup-y jobs: https://angel.co/salaries

Has anyone else been getting redirected to this page after doing a search via the Chrome address bar?

Someone on your IP is hitting Google enough that Google's temporarily banning your IP.

Take your laptop to your neighborhood coffee shop as a proof of concept.

It doesn't look legit though - shouldn't it be using Google's captcha service? http://www.google.com/recaptcha/captcha

These are the same captchas they use on Gmail for registration and what not.

It does nothing but ask for captchas over and over?

Without the 'back link', it cannot redirect you to your original search. Your 'from location' is google.com/sorry, so, once you pass the test, it sends you back to google.com/sorry instead of back to your previous activity which triggered the Captcha.

Wouldn't my referrer point back to this HN page?

If you're coming from an HTTPS page (which I think HN forces) to an HTTP page, the referer is not sent. It is only sent for HTTP->HTTP and HTTPS->HTTPS (even cross-domain, despite the info that leaks out)

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec15.html#sec15...

Same here @ work. Might check again when I got home.

Are you using tor?

Nope, I'm not using Tor or anything like it.

child pornography - please remove

That would be a very interesting blog post

I think that the more accurate term is horizontal expansion, rather than franchising.