skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One of the reasons that I stand by my choice is because I believe a very similar to that of the MBA’s will befall the CS students. The job/major market will correct itself and return to more natural levels where there isn’t an insanely high demand for computer engineers."

Couldn't disagree more. Maybe CS will slow down, but engineers in general are what the world is short on because the education is multiples harder than others. Demand is there because engineers are what the world finds valuable. People, in this age, desire things. And simply put engineers make things. Not everyone is capable of making them, on the other hand most people who got an undergrad degree could easily get an MBA given the time and money. If I was you I wouldn't bet the house on the pendulum taking a swing, if you are just pumping out the undergrad to get easy A's for you MBA application you'd be better off dropping out and joining a start-up now if that is where your interest's lay. And perhaps more, if your interests honestly lay in technology and you are going to college, get a degree in it. Just don't want to be kicking yourself later.
Since they don't break out the figures it is hard to tell if WP7 is going down or up. However in some ways that is not the point - if WP7 was doing anything like what Nokia needs it to do it would be busting out of that figure. Static sales mean a disaster for them, and perhaps ironically a windfall for Microsoft: now that they have decided to screw their existing WP7 users the last thing they need is for sales to pick up at this point, and if they do have an eye on purchasing Nokia (or its assets) the price for that is going rapidly down.
Just replaced today* with a new design: http://weather.gov/redesign

* After being in preview for a while.
I'm looking to expand my knowledge range and open a few more doors to different areas. I currently am fairly proficient with python, php, mysql, dhtml. Java seemed like a natural progression especially since I'm interested in mobile phone development, but I'm also interested in the strengths of the JVM and Java's libraries.
Fight or Flight, STRESS, a Helpful Acronym
Mars Mission Seeks a Happy Landing
I have no idea what I said to get a response like that.

There is nothing wrong with what I proposed as a reason and it certainly doesn't rise to the level of "played the world for a fool." in any way.

"We thought the site was worth at least 2x the previous year's take. And if we didn't get that, it wasn't worth our time to deal with the transaction."

"it wasn't worth our time to deal with the transaction."

Your attitude is a total outlier. Enjoy your arrogance. You've got plenty of years to go to see how that works going forward.
FYI, I responded to select private Flippa messages from buyers I considered to be qualified. If someone was serious about spending $480,000, they should have gotten in touch privately and demonstrated that they were serious, qualified buyers.

Everyone had an equal chance to buy Sortfolio - one party stepped up and got it done.
> What was Nokia thinking?

"Microsoft needs our patents to extort more money from Android makers, but buying Nokia would irk their few OEMs. We need to make Nokia fail while it remains closely aligned to Microsoft so they will be in a privileged position to acquire our portfolio"

:-) I'm no telepath, but you assume Elop's best interest is a thriving Nokia. I am quite sure he'll make up for his lost performance bonuses in other, maybe less direct, ways.
Here's another wild theory: The buyers contacted us directly, got the answers to the questions they sought, and closed the deal.

Also, this is not out of the blue. We lost interest in considering all sorts of complicated deals a while back. So we told everyone that the price was $480K and that the deadline for closing a deal was July 1st: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3172-sortfolio-going-once-goi...

So there was really no "bidding" after that point. It was quite simple: Give us $480K and the site is yours. The new buyer's did just that. End of story.
Indeed you cannot. Try browsing their personal site for a while... Mind bending. http://www.american-buddha.com/index.htm (warning, gets NSFW very quickly.)
It's certainly not the actual legal definition of a search, but I would like it to be defined very broadly, something like "the use of government resources (i.e. taxpayer money) to observe or inquire about any private citizen on private property."

Even though it's perfectly legal for a neighbor to notice something potentially suspicious about me (e.g. that I travel a lot or have a lot of guests), I don't think that taxpayer money should be used for concerted observational efforts without some form of court order.
Data Management Platform: http://www.adopsinsider.com/online-ad-measurement-tracking/d...
I'd think it would be more likely: "what's the % of players with access to Western standard credit cards for the RMAH". Any country with an acceptable level of security for the "big four" is welcome at the table: nation states who lack this infrastructure, file under "who gives a shit".

One of the really interesting things about Activision/Blizzard is the limitations of their 'Pacific' servers: they only reach four countries in the region (Asia for players in South Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-global-pl...), which totally ignores Singapore, Australia and China.

Australia has large amounts to do with a national level of bastard like behaviour by a major corp.

China: I've had some interesting feed-back on the 'whys' of Chinese gaming being so hard to crack: specifically ~ there's two gov. departments fighting over the jurisdiction of judging "gaming content as acceptable", lack of resources to both, and (of course) total lack of understanding of the medium. As it can take 6+ months just to get official acceptance, and torrents / gold farmers / business minded Chinese cannot wait that long, the issue obviously comes down into the "cheaper to buy an account registered to >not China< and if/when it gets banned, move on". Suffice to say: most users use Steam etc & just lie about their location. Top tip: whoever cracks this, either via software, or political introduction & making the Party get a % cut with decent time-lines will make billions. HN really should think about this; imagine the Steam level profits... spread onto a couple of billion people.

Singapore: no idea why this isn't supported. Singapore is modern [business minded], has some seriously large bandwidth infrastructure [your google terms: bank dark pool hsbc] and is very 'pro-business'. I've no idea why Activision hasn't made the jump into just "doing Asian servers" and plumping for a Singapore based exchange, which could neatly divide their market into 3 manageable chunks.

That last one has puzzled me. I'm not getting paid to analyse it, however, and I suspect that once I started, I'd be either too interested or too disgusted to ignore the findings.

(HN: short sharp comments: bollocks to that!)
Azure CDN – with AzureCdn.Me and MVC3
Maybe it's just me, but everything is starting to look a "Twitter Bootstrappy" these days...
That "Take the Tour" button is the stupidest thing I've seen in years.
It is nice to see that we are moving from huge and clumsy DNS servers (BIND) to smaller servers with a specific focus: unbound as resolver, NSD/Yadifa for authoritative servers.

Now that we have them, couldn't some core code be shared between all these projects and receive more scrutiny than it receives now? For example the code that parses incoming packets or generates replies could easily be shared (in theory).
Why Are We In Denial About The Flaws of Tablets?
As I just commented [0], I believe the same thing. I would point out that "freedom from scrutiny" shouldn't necessarily apply to relationships between private citizens. I think "reasonable expectation of privacy" applies between private citizens (so it's not wrong for a neighbor to observe my house), but when it comes to government resources (i.e. taxpayer money) the standard should be much stricter.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4191486
... and nothing has changed once you login. As a PayPal user I'd rather have my dashboard/account views redesigned rather than an overhaul of a landing page I will never look at for more than half a second...
Anyone who was a qualified buyer, and asked privately, got the answer. Lots of people asked privately. We even put serious buyers in touch with our credit card processing company so they could get additional questions answered directly.
Could be you. Or it could be me.

Either way I associate Bootstrap with bold fonts, bold colours whereas this is muted. Reminds me of Kissmetrics actually.
AWS says no:

http://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/xen-securi...
Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA
Hey HN,

I've been working on this project with a kick-ass team for the past 8 months, and we finally launched it last week.

ZIIBRA helps up-and-coming artists make music their full time job. Using our music, the more fans that pledge to purchase an album the cheaper a project becomes because the price is driven down through their social network outreach. Cheaper price = Happy fans. Plus, the artists benefit too. By pre-selling a new album, artists get fan reach, cash flow to fund the project, and a marketing platform to cross-promote their new work!

I was hoping to get some feedback back from the community, and see what the general reaction is.

Cheers,

Omri
Sofia Vergara promoting Sears new social network
But thats not the biggest reason Holland is a bad place for a startup. Its our mentality.

Americans are in favour of a person being extraordinary, the dutch are not. We cherish "acting normal". One of the most used expressions is "act normal, and you'll already be weird enough"

Generally speaking, this is not a bad thing. The amount of attention whores and drama queens is much lower than the states. But for truly remarkable people, this does not make their perfect habitat. Theyll need thick skins.
> none of the reviews I have seen have said anything seriously negative about it.

So, basically what they built is a phone that doesn't suck. Had they done it 6 years ago, they'd be on to something. Now others have successfully done that.

> I wouldn't consider a Windows phone simply because I have been so badly burned by Microsoft in the past

And now they managed to burn WP7 owners with the no upgrade option thing.
"New processor tells old software it supports [whatever]"

Processors almost never tell software anything; their manuals tell the programmers how the CPU behaves. There may be instructions that can inform code about you optional features of the instruction set, but the software has to run on the CPU before it can query the CPU for its capabilities, so it has to make some assumptions about the CPU (you could bootstrap things by having a smaller CPU boot the hardware and having that CPU query the 'real' one for its capabilities, but that just moves the problem to the smaller CPU)

So, in the end, the only way that software can know how the CPU behaves is because the programmers have read the CPU's documentation.

As to this specific case: I haven't bothered reading up on it, so I do not know what happened. It could be lack of documentation by Intel, it could be that AMDs documentation was incomplete or ambiguous and that Intel followed it, but implemented something slightly different, or it could be that Intel's documentation explicitly warned about this incompatibility with AMD devices.

And most specs leave room for different implementations, either by design or because the people writing the spec forgot or did not bother to describe a case. For a famous example, various versions of the 6502 treated undocumented opcodes differently (http://visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=6502_Unsupported_...) And yes, there was code that made use of these.
It does? Last I checked my gmail was full of letters to/from my mom and spam. Hardly "everything I do" on the Internet. I also willingly signed up for gmail because, you know, it offers a service that is useful for me. Hard to make that argument here.
Don't take it too harshly, the site is the equivalent of the web design listings on CraigsList without the extra clicks.
Is basics of social media conduct a class that should be taught in school?

I mean, it's easy to say these are just idiots. But maybe they really don't understand the ramifications...
I think you would be interested in reading this book about nations and their institutions: http://whynationsfail.com/

"Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it)."

A good review of the book: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/what-ma...
Wow. That's great. I may use that from now on.

Graphs are much more convenient for answering "when today will it probably rain"? And all the other graphs provide really nice context.
You totally got it. ;)
Physicists Inch Closer to Proof of Elusive Particle
They'd need to be kept secret, so other opponents couldn't easily see each others' game screens. It doesn't make much difference in chess, but in the word game, seeing other people's letters is cheating.

It would complicate the sharing a little, because as the initiator of the game, you shouldn't know what the other players' unique URL is. You'd need a workflow like this:

You create new game:

Game URL: http://breakbase.com/<game_id>
Your URL: http://breakbase.com/<game_id>/<your_unique_id>

You send the game URL to your friend. If there are available spaces, it creates a unique URL for them the first time they access the game:

You send them: http://breakbase.com/<game_id>
They're redirected to their unique URL: http://breakbase.com/<game_id>/<their_unique_id>

That way you haven't shared the unique ids with each other.
The one thing I care about the most is architecture and system design. These conversations are largely absent and developers can go years without acquiring a pallete for this type of discussion. I wish it was discussed more as a lot of the cost of maintenance could be cut down if spaghetti were properly avoided.
Wasn't this on here a few weeks ago?

Anyways, PayPal has been due for an update for a couple years now. As for why it doesn't change when you log in, the main reason PayPal's doing this is to compete with startupy new companies like Square and Stripe in terms of new customer acquisitions. Those new customers won't leave PayPal after tying in their bank accounts, etc., so PayPal isn't as worried about retaining them.
I promise the LightSail offices (a former chocolate factory) are much more well lit than the article makes out. However, the editors thought it would be more dramatic -- and steam punkish. :-)
I was part of aQuantive on the Avenue A | Razorfish side and was there for about 2 years leading up to the MSFT acquisition and was also part of another MSFT acquisition (Farecast) so I want to provide some context/opinion on where the business was at it when it was purchased.

- The Atlas ad serving platform and related ad exchange platform was one of the top ad systems alongside DART, Valueclick, and others. There was also a steady stream of new leads to Atlas as the agency side acquired new clients. I think the opportunity that was missed was to tie the MSN search business with the banner/rich media ad serving business and create a single platform to reach and remarket based on search intent. A lot of this is done today but this deal was 5 years ago and would have been more groundbreaking.

- The agency side of the business wasn't interesting to Microsoft but at that time, Avenue A | Razorfish was the top digital agency in the US with clients from Expedia to Nike to Best Buy. The team at AA|RF had a direct line to the CMOs and worked in most cases as an extension of the marketing teams for these Fortune 500 companies and MS could have leveraged this team as a focus group and to enroll these clients to test innovative ways to market across a publishing network like MSN (still a top portal property). I don't think this was done and again another opportunity missed.

Overall, I just felt that there was the potential for aQuantive to help Microsoft close the ad revenue/platform gap with Google and they missed the boat.
Windows 7? Most of them haven't even left XP behind.
This one wasn't a traditional liberal/conservative split, though, so if it's ideological, it's on a different axis. The majority opinion was Scalia/Thomas/Ginsburg/Breyer/Souter, i.e. 2 conservatives and 3 liberals. The dissent was Stevens/Rehnquist/O'Connor/Kennedy, i.e a liberal, a conservative, and two moderate conservatives.
> You can do that by limiting the number of models offered. If you sell 1M WP7 phones of 3 models, all three are best sellers and your share is still low.

I agree, it's clear that the share is still low, however my point is that contrary to much news (or a seemingly common perception), the phones are actually selling and the share is steadily increasing.
Some data points: air compressors last in the field for 30 years, and tanks as long or longer.

We anticipate that, having overcome the corrosion difficulty, an even longer lifetime should be achievable. We have vastly reduced thermal stresses.
It's a pretty bad PR event that ends up with an article that makes it sound like a courier nets about a quarter of the minimum wage...
I'd say Palm were really the first to provide a usable pocket computer. iPhone did not come out of nowhere.
That's a nice theory.

Would be nice if it was an actual update in the original thread instead of leaving us to speculate, though.

Edit: Thanks for this update at least. Congrats on the sale.
It is a moral imperative in order for capitalism to function.

As long as you are breaking no existing law, I don't see how it would be an issue.
Why are you always so bitter to people asking straight questions?

If you didn't want people to draw their own conclusions then you should have acted responsibly and made some attempt to answer and respond to the questions posted on sale page.

If you had no intention of providing this additional information because it was not worth your time, then you should have made it clear to people that no additional information would be forthcoming.

Instead, all the "chinese whispers" of people throwing ideas around seems to have really got you disgruntled, when you only have yourself to blame, and then you take your arrogance out on people asking straight and to point questions.

Do I think you got the $480k asking price? shrugs
Hey HN,

I've been working on this project with a kick-ass team for the past 8 months, and we finally launched it last week.

ZIIBRA helps up-and-coming artists make music their full time job. Using our music platform, the more fans that pledge to purchase an album the cheaper a project becomes because the price is driven down through their social network outreach. Cheaper price = Happy fans. Plus, the artists benefit too. By pre-selling a new album, artists get fan reach, cash flow to fund the project, and a marketing platform to cross-promote their new work!

I was hoping to get some feedback back from the community...

Cheers,

Omri
Since this is already an automated account that finds all these tweets, instead of just retweeting for publicity/humor's sake, they should add a sentence telling each of the victims why this is bad. At least make sure they themselves don't make that mistake again.
Take this with a grain of salt because I feel I am biased towards PHP but here it goes.

Python while a nice language that I have tried, I absolutely hate the indentation, I hate to have to write code and care about its indentation, I prefer to write my code without caring about it and let my editor format it for me when I'm done or need to read it.

As for Ruby while I can't talk much about the language, the comunity itself kind of scares me, I have the idea that they are some sort of zealots who attack anyone that doesn't use Ruby. (sorry Ruby guys that's the feeling I have), the little I know about the language is that I don't like the syntax much but I am a C like syntax lover.

Now for PHP one of my loved languages (Java and C++ are others), I like the syntax, I like to have braces on my code makes it easy for me to read, but I guess on how much you are used to it, there are some nice libraries too, but some are heavy (Zend is one of them, does a lot but it's heavy), a lot of things that I do are done in PHP, while it may not be the fastest code running, it's one of the fastest to write.

Once again beware, this reflects my way of viewing the languages.
The comment implied that the average HN user doesn't have the capacity to understand how business works, but the information the buyers had is not what the public had, that's a bit... disingenuous.
Microsoft having to lower prices is more a function of the total cost of a PC these days. When an average PC cost $2000, suddenly $200 for an OS upgrade wasn't huge. Now when your PC costs $100-$200 then a $200 OS upgrade suddenly hurts the pocket.

Also for Microsoft's strategy to succeed its essential for them to get as much of their market using Windows 8 and Metro as quickly as possible. Hence the sacrifice of the existing cash cow in the hope it will birth a new cash cow.
Time to burn some Karma.

Please don't do this. It serves no purpose other than hostilizing your readers.

Well, here's the disturbing truth of the matter: There is a small minority of gamers that don't understand the difference. Just like there's a small minority of moviegoers who "don't understand the difference" and novel readers and consumers and even producers of media of all sorts. Sturm und Drang novels precipitated suicides of young people across Europe. People who talk to the public at the Vatican had to deal with people who thought The DaVinci Code was real. (And I suspect they still do!)

Sure, but that's not what she's saying; she's claiming that about everyone who likes The Oatmeal ("...just look at their cartoons. They like to kill"). Which would be absurd when said about someone who likes war movies, but is downright insane when applied to fans of the Oatmeal, which are comics mostly about cats, iPhone apps and annoying people.

It's more or less like treating kids playing Cowboys and Indians as dangerous schizophrenics.

There are people out there who believe that all of society's rules are just hackable machines to and are out there to be exploited, and it's their right to get away with as much as they can, even to the point of throwing out basic human decency. (And if you're not aware of this, then just start some in-depth conversations at a con some time.)

I don't get how is this related to the issue. Who is exploiting people here, exactly? Except maybe for FunnyJunk?

What disturbs me is that there seems to be considerable lionization of antisocial behavior on the Internet and in gaming culture -- to the point of there being entire ideologies to justify it.

There were entire ideologies to justify killing and raping. If the new are just to justify being a dick, it's a positive step! ;) Besides, in my experience, if you find behaviors on the Internet anti-social, you don't know many schools.

The Internet is just the perfect medium of communication for misfits, from the people with weird passions, to the non-socials (like me), to the anti-socials. And the gaming culture is worse because it's the zone of the Internet full of 14 year olds. I don't think there's any new worrying trend, compared to what I've seen before.

Then again, I come from a somewhat different culture, so maybe it's worse there in the US.

But! Getting back to the topic, we should consider if Mr. Carreon's initial actions weren't the really anti-social behaviors. Threatening to sue people for complaining that your (or in this case, your client's) business model rests in using content made by others without so much as a link is hardly a nice thing to do.

So yes, they're human beings. Human beings who starting all this with their own douche behavior.