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antoniuson Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

Interviewed at Corel a few years back. Surprised the company still exists given how dated the product line is.

antoniuson Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News

Good job. I received a degree in finance and ended up not wanting to go into banking so I went back and got my CS degree. Like you said, looking back it was definitely worth all the time and effort.

antoniuson Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

Mind explaining the significance? I didn't pick up on it.

antoniuson British Columbia to target foreign real estate buyers with new tax

Take away Vancouver and Toronto, and the price of a house in Canada is nowhere near the asking prices currently in those two cities.

Wealthy foreign inflation on Canadian real estate is quite evident.

antoniuson Apple Taps Bob Mansfield to Oversee Car Project

Mansfield has a successful track record with respect to Apple products.

With that said, this is his most difficult challenge to date and I'm not sure how successful he and the company as a whole will be given the difficulties of bringing an autonomous car to market.

antoniuson YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

Besides their newly released app, what's proprietary about this business? What would stop a big coffee company from replicating this at a cheaper cost?

antoniuson $153,161.25 for a Snake Bite

The possibility of becoming poor and/or bankrupt as a result of an injury is the scariest part of being part of the American society. Hope this changes one day.

antoniuson How I met my identity thief

No blackmail? No money in return? This hacker was definitely more considerate than your typical hacker with ill intentions.

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"Apple’s stock price would be just as high as it is today (or more likely higher)"

How is this hindsight on par? How is he so sure that the stock price would be higher? Hindsight is 20/20 but making BS hypothetical claims with no backing is unprofessional. He's just guessing.

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"I believe – although this is impossible to prove – that Apple’s stock price would be just as high as it is today (or more likely higher) had they spent that $100 billion on a combination of smart M&A and smart R&D that would have continued to extend Apple’s lead over other Android phone makers."

Anyone else find this peculiar? A whole article based on the author's hindsight of what Apple's stock price MAY have ever been with no proof/facts.

antoniuson Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox

Further proof that the absurd run-up in November when bitcoin reached $1,200 was illegitimate.

antoniuson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

Ottawa, Ontario; Internship/Remote Work

Stack: C, C++, Java, JS

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonkarpus

Contact: anton [at] karpus [dot] net

I'm a student currently majoring in CS but have a background in Finance (through first degree). Well rounded and eager to learn whatever is thrown at me. Ideally looking for part-time work or an internship in North America. If you're looking for a coder with a strong business sense, send me an email and we can chat!

antoniuson Show HN: My first WP8 game – Made with Unity

Unplayable on my Lumia 520. Very laggy. What could be causing this?

antoniuson NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

Good luck trying to wiggle out of this one, NSA.

antoniuson Write Code Every Day

"No more zero days" is a good quote to live by. No matter how busy I get, I try to code something everyday.

antoniuson Drop Dropbox

When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint.

Condoleezza sure left a global footprint in the Middle East alright. Hate do this Dropbox, but time for me to move on.

Edit: Suggestions for a Dropbox substitute?

antoniuson Google splits into GOOG and GOOGL today

No. This essentially means there will be two classes of Google Stock (A and C) with Class A stock having more voting power than Class C stock from a shareholder prospective.

This dilution of shares essentially gives those with a large share of stock options (like Brin & Page) more power.

Edit: As a user pointed out, Class B should be Class C

antoniuson Ask HN: What's the name of that HN user's ambient noise mixer website?

A Soft Murmur? It was on HN a few weeks back.

Link: http://asoftmurmur.com/

antoniuson Show HN: This is our startup. "If pinterest and reddit had a baby..."

I very much like the look and layout of the site.. nice job!

antoniuson Sexy developers

Seriously. The sexual innuendo almost made me forget that I was viewing an actual company.

antoniuson San Francisco Police Department: Duties, Salary and Benefits

You don't need any form of education (besides high school) to become a police officer? If true, that's pretty surprising to me.

antoniuson North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts

I was too until I read the "North Korea" part. Then it all made sense.

antoniuson The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee

Never imagined I'd be writing the words "facebook" and "John Carmack" in the same sentence.

antoniuson IRS Rules Bitcoin is Property, Not Currency

Avoid paywall:

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it will treat bitcoin and other virtual currencies like property, not currency, giving a potential boost to investors but imposing extensive record-keeping rules—and significant taxes—on its use.

The announcement in general was expected to be greeted favorably by the fledgling industry, and many had anticipated exactly this result. But the announcement also served as a reminder that new technologies often can't avoid being subject to the old rules for long.

In a notice, the IRS said that it generally would treat Bitcoin held by investors much like stock or other intangible property. If the virtual currency is held for investment, any gains would be treated as capital gains, meaning they could be subject to lower tax rates.

antoniuson Ask HN: How do you earn your money?

People value unique skills, not cookie cutter graduates.

I'm hoping to be able to work in Seattle next year at either Microsoft or Amazon and the main requirement they look at is whether the applicant has a degree in Computer Science or related field. Only after do they begin to look at personal projects/past accomplishments etc.

Not trying to say a university degree is for everyone, but for people like me looking to get into a top technology company, it's a requirement.

antoniuson Show HN: My first MVP – Menswear as a service

How do you differentiate yourself from all of the other companies already in this space? You offer used clothing at a discounted price?

antoniuson Show HN: Crowdsourced salary prediction

Same thing I was thinking. Not too keen on providing all of my information without some sort of example(s).

antoniuson Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments

I guess karma will mean something after all. Any ideas as to when this this change will begin to roll-out?

Edit: Re-read the post, launches tonight.

antoniuson GitHub under DDoS attack right now (again...)

Hard to specifically pinpoint, but clearly someone or a group of individuals that don't want to see GitHub succeed.

antoniuson Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins

In case paywall is blocking the text:

TOKYO—Major bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announced Thursday it had discovered 200,000 missing bitcoins in a wallet that the company no longer uses, reducing the total number of bitcoins still missing to 650,000 from 850,000.

"We believed there were no bitcoins left in old wallets, but found 199,999.99 bitcoins on March 7," Mt. Gox chief executive Mark Karpelès said in a document released Thursday.

Mt. Gox said it reported the discovery of the bitcoins to its lawyers on March 8, and moved the discovered bitcoins to offline storage between the March 14 and 15.

The exchange filed for court protection on Feb. 28. At the time, Mr Karpeles told a news conference it had lost 750,000 bitcoins owned by users and 100,000 held by the company, citing the possibility the bitcoins had been withdrawn without authorization.

The exchange was shut down Feb. 25.