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Hi, here are the answers:

> How did you know the account was hacked?

Thunderbird, which I used almost exclusively at the time was unable to login, then I tried it via their website which didn't work.

I contacted support, and they told me that someone has changed the password and logged in since. They gave me the option to get my account back, by providing a scan of my ID or passport, which I did.

The hacker never contacted me. I do not know to this day what his or her goal was because the attacker didn't send or receive any emails with my account. I believe that the attacker got access to a large batch of accounts and he simply couldn't find a way to contact me via Internet. (I didn't use Facebook or other social services at the time)

> Did you have a secret question that could have been guessed?

I never used the secret question option on any service. Whenever I'm forced to enter something, I enter senseless garbage like "jkanshbuicbwnaiubdaibvjabfuzabfnbi" precisely because I think that secret questions are unsafe and dangerous.

> Do you know what phishing is? Would you have ever fallen for it?

Yes, but I have never shared the login data with anyone and when I logged in on other machines (which I did rarely) - I used a browser that I had on my USB stick for that (which was encrypted)

> Is it possible your saved password was stolen by malware?

I do not have any reason to believe that (I never had a malware problem that I know of), but obviously I could never rule that out. But on the other hand my GMX account wasn't really important. There were accounts that the attacker could have used to steal money from me (for example: PayPal), yet I have never lost access to any other account.

Like I said, I still can't rule out the possibility (nobody could), but I believe that I had a reasonable setup at the time. I used the GMX website (rarely) via a browser on my encrypted USB stick (which I still possess) and had a Thunderbird setup with POP3 at the time so I wouldn't have to login.

Hope this answers your questions.
So basically be a freelancer. Market yourself heavily and learn whatever language or technology your employer uses. At this point, why get a job? You can easily earn more as a freelancer or contractor.
One thing to think about is that my adding complexity in the beginning, you can avoid complexity in long run. Imagine a Unix shell without pipes. That would certainly be simpler in a sense, but the ability for programmers to write simple programs that work together would be severely curtailed. Systemd itself might be more complex than initv, but it provides a lot of tools and guarantees to application developers which makes life simpler for them in the long run.
What Apple Pay Could Mean for In-App Purchases
I always enter absolute garbage in security question fields if I'm forced to use it. (for example: "ajscnuiwnoamcoebuifbaonauwbuifwbdi")
What a horrible, ignorant, comment.

Look at the recent US drought - were people wrong to have had children ten years ago? How were they to know that some areas of the US were going to be in severe multi-year drought?

Why is it different if you change "the US" to some other part of the world?

Have a read of "Too Poor To Farm" which explains some of the problems very poor people face, and explains some of the reasons why very poor people have children.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/94947/lesotho-weather-extreme...
Jupp, a joe (text editor) fork
I'm mostly interested in specialty/niche sports/fitness applications. All of the built-in stuff is great for people who think running is where fitness ends or need to be reminded to walk every day, but not so great for someone looking to improve a 600lb deadlift or cut their 40m time.

I also think a handful of other fun apps could be profitable, like using the local communication thing to send shock images/reaction gifs/dumb sticker packs.

The first IAP Tamagotchi-type game will make a million dollars easily.

I'll probably stick to focusing on health and performance, but plenty is possible.
Why can't they use this type of sea floor scan in other oceans/areas? The image looks amazing and I can think of a number of uses for it.
You do realize that you're basically dismissing experts because they specialize instead of learning the basics for another technology each year. Or has one year become enough to be an expert on something?
But as Kay is a systemd developer, IMHO it is interesting. Read Linus mail: http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html

eg, "[...] But I'm not willing to merge something where the maintainer is known to not care about bugs and regressions and then forces people in other projects to fix their project."

I can't talk about systemd, but I had to deal with pulseaudio issues as developer of a third party project and it wasn't a pleasant experience. Kay is not involved with PA in any way, but I remember PA developers blaming Ubuntu because of their PA integration.

Yes, it is probably me seeing things here as result of my own frustrations, but I wouldn't like to experience a similar situation with systemd.
"Apple Pay marks the first time a popular operating system is making payments a platform service"

Android is a popular operating system. Android made payments a platform service. Therefore, that sentence is blatantly false.
Looks the exact same as Windows with Oracle JDK.
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Nice work!

> By upgrading your image server to thumbor you would go from 0kb to 0kb for 0 images, thus saving NaN% (using WebP images).

Maybe a special message could be used in this specific case.
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Sorry, I'm pretty sure you meant Swift has reached 2.0. And that was a couple of months ago. Also why are you people talking about Swift like it's a programming language and not an object storage system? :)

http://opensource.com/business/14/7openstack-swift-brings-st...
Hey, I said that with the 10,000 (PC) copies. (With the 10,000 number that hasn’t changed for years I mostly wanted to make clear that, while not exactly growing, Mojang doesn’t seem to shrink, either.)

But Mojang’s revenue and profit are public: http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/20/5531046/minecraft-mojang-pr...

$322M revenue, $128M profit. However, I’m not sure whether that profit number is the correct one to assess the value of the company and IP.

If I understand this potential acquisition correctly, Notch seems to want to sell everything (company and IP). I think the company is currently set up so that Mojang pays Notch licensing fees for the Minecraft IP. That could potentially be a large part of their revenue. If Microsoft acquires company and IP they obviously don’t have to pay those licensing fees anymore.

Mojang is only a 40 person company, labour has to be their by far biggest cost, and I really don’t think a 40 person software company (that doesn’t really do any marketing, by the way) costs nearly $200M to run per year.
Just for the record: I'm no marketer but the term drives me up the wall!
Design mobile enterprise apps for high-cognitive load environments
What they have promised not to do is to masquerade as a vaccination program (thus harming the reputation of all who attempt to implement vaccination programs). They have NOT promised to cease using DNA surveillance of relatives to locate a person of interest.
Twitter and Test Automation
Your comment is excellent. Depreciation is never addressed in these discussions. Asset, as most terms, depends on context.

"The youth of today do not know what to believe, but are willing to fight for it anyway."
- Abraham Lincoln
So people that specialize in a field and become experts have no respect for the job. But the ones that hop around each year based on what's "hot" are better.
Just a note on the fact you had to use Safari to watch the video, there's a technical reason behind that, it's not arbitrary lock-in on Apple's part.

Apple use HTTP Live Streaming for their live streams. This is an open technology they are trying to get adopted more widely (RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-...). Currently, HLS is not implemented by Chrome or other browsers, in part because Google are pushing a competing standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over...).

I'm not sure it's clear cut if one is better than the other. I've used HLS and implemented a toy HLS server, and can say anecdotally that it was easy to use and quite a nice standard, although not brilliantly implemented by clients so far. Because of this, I understand why Apple continue to push HLS, and why Google continue to push DASH, and why neither will implement the other's technology in their browsers.
For some reason all the charts and graphs fail to load. I think it's because blogger insists on loading over http, but the google docs in question are linked over https.
Graphics Performance makes UX
Changing production code is usually done due to two reasons:

1. Optimization - All mobile A/B testing platforms. (Manually or automatic) - http://www.appiterate.com,http://www.leanPlum.com,http://www... http://www.useartisan.com)

2. Quality issues - Either technical or UI
Here there as far as I know one unique company http://www.rollout.io that gives developers control over their production environment from hard core bugs hot-patching and UI changes to SDK control and analytic control.

I'm guessing all of these companies use the same technology which seems legit in regards to Apple, as long as none of them are using code injection.
> In any case, it does not matter what editor/IDE (Vim, Xcode, CLion) and what build system (Xcode, CMake, ...) you use, it only matters, what compiler (GCC, Clang) you use.

so if I use clion on mac, do I give it frameworks or .dylib ?
a.i. males in medical community?
A Mobius Strip Track Makes Magnet Hovercrafts Even Cooler
You say I owe something, I say you're stealing from me.

I don't and won't pay shit. It's my property. Come and take it, but there WILL be consequences.

I don't know if you're genuinely evil or you're just one delusional latte sipping socialist hipster who thinks he can live off other people's money and labor. Sickening.
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People care about voting way too much.

It's worth noting that you rarely end up with more than -1 or -2 votes. Write a single popular comment and it more than makes up for it.

I'm not sure what your comment about "people linking to old comments" means. Either you stand by your comments or you don't.

Edit. The comment I replied was by the user "compare"[1] and said the following:

In this case, it was people linking to old comments, to try to make the attacks more personal, and attempting vote brigading.
I wish we could ban most of the top active commenters on hacker news. They get controlling and territorial.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=compare
I reverse engineered some big job portal systems – here's what I found
Hi I’m an indie software developer based in London and I decided to take apart job portal software to check expert resume tips (these are the automated systems/filters people talk about) I think I’m the first to do that.

Five candidate analysis packages cover most of the recruitment market, there are others out there but these are the big ones. Our resumes interact with one or more of these at the data centre every time they’re submitted (the packages are: Sovren, Daxtra, BurningGlass, TextKernel and Trovix - who were bought by Monster.com a while ago) if you work backwards from the code in these systems, which is a few months work, you arrive at five very similar looking CV templates and some high level resume writing rules that they all seem to agree on. There are some differences between them but to hack the process from the candidate side you have to take an 80:20 view.

There may be hundreds of different ATS systems out there but one thing they all tend to outsource is the resume analysis functionality which generally comes from one of these 5 suppliers.

The rules supplied were found, through a variety of methods: decompiling code, live testing with dummy data, dummy recruiter accounts on job portals - whatever I could do to check what was happening to the data.

Wondered if any of you guys had anything to add? if you think it’s a good idea going forward or had any feedback?

[There's a free sample resume on my site if you want to take a look - it's less exotic than you'd expect]
Medical sensors.

Apple actually has a patent for it. And somebody recently announced headphones like that.

Also there was a rumour headphones will include iBeacon to find it when you loose it (BS IMHO).

As per Bluetooth, audio has substandard audio quality (and truth to be told all iPhones do too).
Well, they are bluetooth.

If you haven't already, you should probably get into a routine of charging everything at night. Headphones, smart watch, phone, laptop.

Just the way things are now a days...
Wouldn't it be possible to verify him through the blockchain?
I would argue with you on this point. A smartwatch is absolutely not jewelry first. There is literally no compelling reason to wear a smart watch unless you intend to use it for the "smart" purposes (information, navigation, communication, reminders, appointments, music, health). Otherwise, pick a "dumb" watch. Even I, who haven't worn a watch regularly since college (about 15 years ago), have grown accustomed to my Android Wear device. Not because it tells the time, which I frankly don't care much about, but because it replaces the need for me to carry a pad/paper for taking quick notes, let's me reply to Whatsapp & Hangouts messages via voice, shows me incoming email, alerts me to weather emergencies, gives me a way to easily fact check for my kids at the dinner table ("Ok Google... is buffalo mozzarella really made from buffalo milk?"), etc. You could certainly argue whether or not these things are valuable or important for the average person, but just like with so many other things, I think "smart" wearables will become ubiquitous in the next few years, just as cell phones (and no smartphones) have over the past decade.

The beauty of Android Wear is the absolute simplicity of enabling existing apps to have a Wear interface (http://developer.android.com/training/building-wearables.htm...). Perhaps it will be the same for iOS, but with the explosion of low end Androids in developing countries, my inclination is to think Apple is òn the path to slowly lose this battle.
5M Gmail passwords leaked to Russian Bitcoin forum
I'm guessing [1] is most of them?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
That's a really good one! As I recall, it introduces concepts one at a time in a good, educational way, and it winds up fully relativistic (and kinda crazy) by the end.

Another more immersive but less "instructive" game is "A Slower Speed of Light": http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ It's pretty cool, though it gets disorienting by the end.
Don’t necessarily agree with everything in that article but it's remarkably prescient.
You're not wrong, I had the same initial reaction. It's no coincidence the name of the software vendor is Inner Circle Riches. Just remember we're not the target market. The website targets the 'get rich quick internet marketing' world, and that's not always the prettiest world on the internet.

However if you can get over it, the software is fairly decent for basic hand sketching animations and usable for regular marketing or educational/instructional purposes. Just remember to set up a new mail account to purchase the software.

Another option I just discovered while researching my answer is VideoScibe (http://www.videoscribe.co/). Looks far more professional, but it's also more expensive.
Hubert Reeves sums it up really well:

"The first effect, and I would say the most dramatic, is that it steals the sky. People no longer see the sky. There are many people out there who have never seen the Milky Way, who have never seen zodiacal light. Sometimes I ask people, "Do you know what zodiacal light is?" Three-quarters of them do not know, they have never even heard the word. It's part of something that held great significance in the past. It's contact with the sky. It's that feeling you get when you go outside on a beautiful starry night, Milky Way and all. That contact was present throughout humanity until only a few decades ago."

We greatly underestimate the fundamental and mystical implications of these changes on the inhabitants of this planet.
From the Businessweek link, Brown seemed to contribute an idea. And that's it.

Nothing unique (disappearing photo apps existed before, see the rest of the thread).

No programming expertise, he didn't make anything.
Egocentric Hip Hop Messaging Taken to Its Absurd Extreme
Seems there's corroboration on the "years in the making" think: "Apple Watch is first device category developed under Tim Cook, took years to complete" (video interviews here: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/09/apple-watch-is-fir... ).

>Good, so then you must agree that Samsung couldn't possibly have just slapped together a design and manufactured hundreds of thousands of watches in a few months

The "hundreds of thousands" is not an issue time-wise given their manufacturing expertise. It's the design, programming etc stage that takes time. I'd say they've spend a year or so. The first one (Gear) was using Android, and was mostly like a shrank phone, with not much thought. That the Gear 2 switched to Tizen shows that at the time they released the first they didn't have a long term plan nor had settled their basics, like OS choice.

>Apple's refinement of Samsung's ideas aren't even particularly tasteful. Imagine if the interface looked like this instead http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/7/5477768/gabor-balogh-circul.... or this https://dribbble.com/shots/1197072-My-iWatch-Concept-Overvie...

There's nothing particularly tasteful or well thought out in either mockup. The circular display, for one, is limiting and too watch-inspired for use with apps. That's why both mockups just show a few basic functions.

But, really what "refinement of Samsung's ideas" or "copying"?

Most everything we've seen on the Watch (and Gear) were already out there in the rumors for the iWatch, years ago. Some pressumably leaked from Apple's tests too.

Samsung rushed ahead and did a (ho-hum) implementation of them, Apple did a more mature one. It's not like there's anything in Gear 1/2 that either Apple didn't already have in the iPhone or everybody was not already expecting in the iWatch rumors years before either watch was released.
I'm a vim user myself and I prefer modes.

Part of the vim cult's belief is the Never-Leave-Home-Row. That is, where you first rest most of your fingers on the asdfjkl; keys. Your hands are 99% of the time if you're not actively typing in the document. If Vim didn't have modes then you'd have to drop this concept. But of course, mistakes in vim don't normally result in dozens of people dying. If something happens that I didn't expect I just glance to the lower-left corner of my terminal to see what mode I'm in.
"That piece seems a bit ... unbalanced."

"for them a list like this is probably great"

I wouldn't describe the article as great, because it strayed so horribly off topic and the answer is wrong.

By analogy it would be like asking a question along the lines of "please inform me generally about the marketplace for 3rd party iphone cases" and then instead of getting a survey of the iphone case marketplace, the response is a half dozen paragraphs about the relative superiority or inferiority of windows phone, and the philosophical implications of blind love of change vs blind avoidance of change, and the politics of blah blah and then at the end finally an answer like "Otterbox cases have a good reputation, and VLM on hacker news claims regardless of device mfgr, if he can put a device in an Otterbox case he puts it in an otterbox case, and (insert list of inferior competitors to Otterbox)"

The other aspect I don't like is the answer in small detail is wrong, there is no uncertainty, Ubuntu is just reskinned and 3rd party support of Debian, so obviously "some time" after Debian goes 100% systemd then Ubuntu will go systemd. Its only a matter of time, Debian being Ubuntu's upstream. I guess theoretically the only way for Ubuntu to avoid it would be Ubuntu switching to Gentoo as upstream (guess it could theoretically happen, however unlikely) or avoid the question entirely by going out of business (again afaik not likely).
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Also the fact he owns roughly half a billion dollars in bitcoins. Not many people pass that test.
Apple Said to Reap Fees from Banks in New Payment System
Overall in development I don't see problem for 'experienced' people to find (good) jobs. I do see problem for people who have only mastered the tools, method, paradigms etc that were common when they graduated 20 years ago.

(though irony has it that some mainfraim experts can earn a fortune because nobody has that skill any more while some companies do still need it.)

As for cultural fit; you'll see youngsters in t-shirts getting rejected at bigger corporates, and 'older' developers in suits getting rejected at startups. Not necessarily an age thing on a meta level. (or is the question specifically aimed at employment at startups? In that case, ignore my comment above).
> That never happened to me, when grabbing a cab at any of the two Bangkok airports. As a matter of fact the service there works pretty well.

That's because from the airport they charge an extra 50 bath fee so they know they will get more than enough. Especially since I imagine lots of people go to the BTS/MRT which is 100 baht give or take + the extra 50.
sapphire's selling point is scratch and crack resistance, i.e. strength. the ability to last 30 years is a byproduct of that strength. you can put unused pyrex on a shelf and it'll last 30 years. but try dropping it on your kitchen floor.

every single non-sapphire watch i own has scratches on the glass. i've broken the screen on every single generation of phone to date. however, none of my sapphire automatics have a single flaw - the glass is still perfect after years of very frequent use, dropping, hitting against things, etc.

you just sound like a person who hasn't worn a watch for very long, or don't have a range of watches to compare against each other.

and i disagree with your fundamental point, which is that sapphire has no value on a device that lasts only a few years. of course it does - it's extremely strong material that withstands impact.
Not sure about that : it could be that young women don't want to date older guys then older guys go with women their ages.
I had the same intuition, actually, and I can't really articulate it either. Interesting that someone else had the same notion.

To the extent that I can back it up at all, it seems to be something to do with the concern George has with how his family feels about this - the interpersonal aspects. Which, when stated this clearly, seems ridiculous, since obviously men can have just as much concern about their families breaking up as women can.

It was just a feeling I had while reading the piece.
Not sure how it compares, but thumbor is fully extensible. There are people using it with HBase, others with Amazon's S3 and Cloudfront, others with filesystem based solutions and yet others with redis or mongo backed images.
Other than storage, you can extend loading images from different places, as well as changing the imaging library thumbor uses.
You can also extend the filters or the detection mechanisms.
Anyway, good to know about magickly.
ReSharper is great, but it's a shame that it requires VS to work.
Regarding the two graphs: There might be a large selection bias involved. I mean I do think it somehow resembles "reality", but who knows, maybe most 40 year-old men who are on okCupid are there BECAUSE they find 20 year-olds the most attractive.