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pdf is not reflowable. So I don't think it's possible while still adhering to the pdf standard.
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No, I'm not saying you have to make a point but you have to at least make sense. What you said meant nothing to me, so I was asking for clarification, but you're obvious not looking for communication here.
I'm an average human being, but sometimes failure is just the act of looking in the mirror. And then I feel that if I can go over that (overcome that deep level of failure) than maybe I can genuinely do great things.
Eh, I hate it, personally. It's the first thing I disable when installing Mountain Lion.
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Bitcoin supports "cold storage" which is effectively a wallet that can receive funds, but is offline so you cannot transfer funds out of it. That is, the private key is stored offline.

There is really no excuse for exchanges not using cold storage.
If you are running sudo, the long-term payoff is probably higher if you never use sudo !!. The very small chance of a huge disaster is still a lot higher than up arrow. Unless you are on a laggy connection and up arrow delays and you push it twice and end up running the wrong command!

If you have lots of jitter and lag, i suggest using Mosh which I've found to be amazingly awesome when using it on Amtrak's spotty free wifi (3G uplink).
Yeah, ideally a system like this would scale in relation both to the desirability of the recipient and the wealth of the sender, though not completely for the latter - wealth should always be some form of advantage.
Thanks for this nice list.

Small nitpick/question: why put the commands in inputs? Do you edit them on that page? Or is it just to format them?

I tried to do a copy/paste on the page contents to my personal offline notebook but the most important bits, the commands, didn't paste.
Pray for an appendix with source code.
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For anyone thinking of joining FD, be aware it does cost money if you're "accepted". That fact is buried at the bottom of the FAQ page and not obvious from the "how it works" section of home page.

Connecting technical and non-technical founders is a bit lopsided (not unlike real dating) and I understand charging a fee can be a useful filter. I'm just curious to see how this will play out.
Of course, the point was no I will not let you access my content before you decide about a cookie. The OP finds having to make this decision to be annoying and thinks the site should just not set any cookies.
First off, I don't share the sentiment that "it's hard to read on the web". I'm doing just fine. The only time I grumble is when text reflow fails or I have to go through n pages to read an article.

Static "newspaper" text is a neat idea and we already have this functionality - page turn. But marrying it with scrolling is confusing. I just don't see an advantage here.
They do not need cookies for adverstising. In fact using cookies for advert networks is sorta what this law is aimed at. Be careful when using them.

Just because a business model currently relies on cookies, doesn't mean we should get rid of the privacy law. Maybe the business model should change. After all, if the business model required employees to work more than 13 hr shift (Working Time Directive), then tough, your business model needs changing.
Delicious relaunches again.
For the 4-week bootcamp, we're aiming for engineers who know how to program and want to move to Rails. They will probably already have a CS degree and work in tech, but they don't know Rails. We'll migrate their skills to Rails and connect them with area startups (we're also aiming at professional designers who know HTML/CSS and want to move up the stack).

Our instructors feel 4-weeks is enough time for training these experienced engineers. If it isn't, we'll extend the course. If someone is changing their life and paying money to take this bootcamp, we're going to do our best to care of them.

For absolute beginners, we'll offer a different track. It's remarkable what you guys accomplish in a six-month program.
Charge people money for it or sell it. You areputting yourself in legal risk by hosting their files and not getting any benefit. At least by charging, you can have the income deposited on a savings account for when shit hits the fan (which always happens with file sharing). Protect yourself by also incorporating it. There are legal issues at hand thta you must consider. And charging for the service will allow you to cover the expenses of dealing with it. I would not run such a service without doing those two things.
Wow, this is brilliant! If you can package it into a js library I'd love to use it on my blog!
Kale - I'm a subscriber and I think it's great in its current format. Outside of postings on Hacker News, how are you advertising its existence?
you could look into play sequencing

is a pass more successful if the prior play was a run? last 2, 3, 4, ...n plays were runs? if x of the last y plays were runs

same thing situationally, pass on 3rd & 3, if the last n 3rd and 3 were runs, etc
The icons on the page (Pricing etc) are misplaced in FF 17 and 18.
Slightly too low/in the text.
Very cool idea!

I use <spacebar> and <shift-spacebar> when reading the web; paging up/down is more comfortable for me than scrolling.

Kindle is also excellent for reading because it uses distinct pages. I set my text large and columns narrow, then it's easy to speed-read by scanning my eyes down. It results in many more page turns, but it results in faster reading and less strain.
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Sure it does.I am not even from the US :) But I thought 3 examples would be enough.
Those banners (in most cases) are not you turning on or off cookies. The bbc sets cookies immediately (they do allow you to unset some here http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/cookies/managing/cookie-setting...), but you already have a session cookie that will last 4 years once the page is loaded.

Most sites will state they are assuming consent based on your continued usage of the site.
In the same case, I could say that, because I can't 100% recreate a Pollock, that it's incredibly precise and subtle.
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That's correct, I am not looking for communication. I am simply frustrating your ability to make a valid argument. Inevitably I can use this tactic to persuade you to do something for me.
This is a lot easier to learn than dvorak.
I really like it. I'd rather not see the previous page underneath though, the first page doesn't have this(only white space) and it seems far more natural.
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You know what's worse than field specific jargon ?

Company specific jargon.
I'd encourage you to read those vulnerabilities, not just Google to disprove me. I'm speaking specifically on the ability for someone to remotely execute code on a ASP.NET WebForms application, and that was just a random example. What you linked to was comparable to saying Groovy is insecure because of the most recent vulnerability found in Java browser plugins. (http://www.itpro.co.uk/645031/new-java-7-bug-prompts-calls-f...)

I never claimed we shouldn't leverage well-written projects. I do challenge the idea that there's many eyeballs: most download and have faith. There's a bunch of eyeballs, yes, but not nearly as many as we tell ourselves.

You're totally right about frameworks resulting in better, more secure apps. However, much of that is relative: when most apps are hand-crafting SQL, JavaScript, and form handling, a framework is heads above other apps, especially when most attackers go for low-hanging fruit. However, when we get to a point where most apps are in frameworks, where would attackers turn their attention? Is an app inherently secure, or secure because it's less of a target? (Think the Mac vs. PC security arguments)
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Black Ops 2 has sold about 22m copies to date.
Fair enough. But the point remains that I doubt Apple would have needed Nokia's help porting their own code to their own secret platform. It would have been commercial suicide practically to let a competitor know.
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21569398-how-did-leno...
> Probably a large number of haters, yes, but there's also plenty who have taken the weekend or so it takes to get a good working knowledge of Rails.

IMHO, this is a misconception, though I must admit it's one that gets pushed by a lot of parties. There's a lot of moving parts in rails and a lot of magic shortcuts, but IMHO you should actually know what goes on behind the scenes before using rails for a serious project.

> If a language or framework has major security holes, it should fail in the marketplace

So no more Spring, no more ASP.NET? Come on, we should be beyond that. Holes appear everywhere. What matters is how they are handled.
Since your asking for feedback, I was wondering if I may have my own feedback being I am a start up as well. You have tons of reviews on your site. Did you ask for all those reviews or did they just come organically?

Thank you!
Thanks! I gave it a quick whirl and couldn't get it working on websites. It never captured the proper text (e.g., on latimes.com).

I'll try it out tonight.
There are other reasons to have sessions than to facilitate logging in (message flashing being a biggie for Rails, but it's also critical in things like A/B testing). What's the harm? If you don't want to play nice, don't accept the cookie. You will probably never know what you're missing.
The Ordnance Survey are very big on the copyright.
If you are using Jekyll, Github Pages is a no-brainer. Free, fast, and Jekyll works out of the box.
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I am going to devote this month to making HackerNode app awesome and feature complete. Would love to hear any suggestions for improvements.

Also if there was a monthly subscription fee, what would be a price you would be willing to pay.

Thanks

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That's great to know. I could probably turn the screen backlight off for a second while taking the shot. I'll play around with some shots from my camera to see how they vary. I'm looking forward to hearing more about these sorts of features!
Just to balance the negative choir, I really liked this, it felt more natural, maybe there's a thing or two that could be improved, but it's really good...

Personally, I can't find a comforting way to read on the web(and I read a lot), most of the time I'll go selecting text(sometimes with the keyboard, sometimes with the pointer) but then it will feel tiring or weird doing that and I'll switch to just scrolling bit-a-bit, but then I'll start losing track of the line I'm at and go back to selecting, I feel this approach is much better than this.
They do need cookies for advertising. Have you ever sold online advertising before?
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What catapulted (if anything) you to achieving so much success with tiny piano? Especially with getting to 6 million free downloads?

- Was it something that people naturally search for?

- What types of marketing/advertising did you do?

- Do any of the other apps help supplement income?
Thanks for the feedback! To address some of your concerns: We're just getting started, so we'll have more videos as time goes on. The videos are highly specialized and take 30-40 hours to research/record/edit, so we felt the price was fair despite being on the high end of what others offer.

If the price is holding you (or anyone else) back, we're happy to refund your money if you don't find them worthwhile after watching (we'll have a similar guarantee on the site shortly).
Arguably, though, even if Gecko's code base were taken down to be smaller and easier to use than WebKit (and I have no idea how it actually compares today), it would be at a tremendous disadvantage because so many projects have incorporated WebKit.

If I want to use WebKit in a new project today, I can find a ton of people online who have done so in the past and use their experience to get me through it. If I want to use Gecko in a new project, I will have a considerably smaller amount of outside experience to lean on.
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I feel like if there was a gradient fade (white to transparent) above the black line it would make me feel much better. immediately revealing more text just above where I was reading when I scroll kind of confuses me
Previously discussed this morning here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042653
There's a newsletter?

Seriously, that is my response. Never knew one existed before this post. Perhaps marketing should be a goal.
If a mobile phone is given a /64 that means that entire /64 is routed to the phone, so any attempt to scan it (even if it doesn't find the actual address in use by the device) will cause battery drain.

But maybe attackers just won't even try.
Note how free market works great in this case: the organization costs people their lost money and will most likely go out of business. Unlike big banks.

That sounds horrible. If a bank gets hacked and "loses" my money, they owe me that money. Federal and state law requires them to put that money back into my bank account, at the bank's expense. (Note, this is not the same as FDIC insurance, which applies in the event of a bank failure.) The free market still applies: on top of getting their money back, customers can take their money to more secure banks.

Make it legal to receive whatever I want to receive as a payment. Let businesses regulate the currency market and determine what currency is reliable. Oh wait, except that then government cannot tax you, of course.

You can receive whatever you want to receive as payment; this has been a basic principle of English-based law for hundreds of years. The currency requirement is merely that any debt obligation must be satisfiable through the use of currency equivalent to the value of the debt. Also note that the government reserves the right to tax you regardless of the currency you use. This has been basic law in some form or the other for hundreds of years, and is explicitly stated in I.R.C. section 61.
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awesome ending :)
This is a disingenuous analogy. It is easy to imagine a society without murder. It is a singular act that most everyone frowns upon, and generally we work to prevent anyway. In fact, since I don't know anyone who's been murdered, I actually have a harder time imagining the consequences of the murder of someone I know than I do imagining there is no murder.

Further, a society without government is much harder to imagine, because the idea of rules enforcement is sort of built into every society I've ever heard of - your proposal is "no rules enforcement at all, everyone do what they want in all cases". Sounds frightening - I would have to treat every single person I encounter as a terrible person, and they would have to do the same for me. If you think that is really not different than what exists now, you have the following issues: 1. you are too paranoid to do anything, 2. you must be extremely rude and agressive to people if they always treat you that way. 3. you must be terribly lonely. I pity you.
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Did not like this and not obvious. I was just clicking on the arrows to page though.

Only after reading the comments I went back and used a scroll wheel. The lack of any feedback that you could scroll was annoying.
How many new sign ups did this post get you? :)
"I'd love to know why they failed to update their app especially since it handles financial transactions"

Because these exchanges focus more on promoting the "world changing" ideology than they do on taking their users' money seriously.
http://figshare.com/ is gaining traction as a place to deposit data and figures, and it provides DOIs for citation.
Any chance you can send a screenshot of the truncated text to support@magicscroll.net?
Great list. A few more (related or building on those there)

Quick mysql "why is my database under so much load suddenly" that doesn't rely on the slow query log:

pt-query-digest --processlist h=<host> --interval=0.01 --print > /tmp/queries.out
pt-query-digest /tmp/queries.out

Tracking down what files exactly are filling up the disk. Go to /, and follow the big numbers:

du -smc *

Combine strace (for the file handle no), lsof (for the file handle to ip/port) and netstat (to find the process on the remote host) to track RPC calls that are hung.

For 'ps auxww', throw on an f to get a visual representation of child processes.

And finally, ssh tunnels (which can be chained together) to get past bastion servers easily:

Host <alias>
HostName <ip>
ProxyCommand ssh -q <bastion host, can be another alias in .ssh/config> "nc -w 3600 %h %p"
This with Instapaper could be a cool combination to create a smooth reading flow while eliminating distractions and saving articles or stories for later.
When working on code bases that follow this style, there tends to be extra whitespace turn when new code is added to re-align everything back up.
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"now I need to friend my family members to message them for free"

If only there were some way to communicate using computers that did not require the services of a company like Facebook. Something using open protocols, where anyone could write servers and clients, that used the internet to communicate freely. I guess I'm just a dreamer.
In fact, speed readers generally move the words, because moving the eyes slow down your reading. You're basically blind during a saccade.
Because, as you're aware, "build on frameworks" is not necessarily "stock rails".
This is so much better, but perhaps it would work even better if the text being scrolled in is blank until the full page is scrolled through. It is distracting to see the end of the next page while reading the end of the first page.
Thanks! We'll look into it.
I find that really interesting. And much more relaxing. It took only a couple scrolls to get used to. The only thing I miss when reading an article is getting a global view of it. I usually do that by scrolling all the way down and back up. The percent at the bottom does not fully help I think. Maybe a global view like what sublime text has on the right? (http://www.sublimetext.com/)
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I'll pay him $100 to stop all these drama stories about Mark Zuckerberg.

It's seem like every now and then I hear stories about his sister, or how he dupe some guy for facebook, got duped in paying $1 billion for instagram, and now this.

Seriously, he's like a drama queen.
It's great to see that this post has triggered so much discussion. Let me add that I'm not saying the status quo shouldn't be challenged, or that there aren't efficiencies to be had, only that if a business model looks too good to be true ("hey, I can rent a whole house for the cost of a hotel room and have 10 people stay for the price of 1!"), it probably is. Neighbors (who also qualify as consumers, I believe) are raising serious objections to AirBnb. At least one Bitcoin exchange has qualified itself as a bank---presumably raising its costs and requiring it to charge more fees than its competitors in return for the security it offers. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
While I applaud creative thinking, I want to say no, thanks.

I hate scrolling to be honest, I lose concentration when everything moves and kind of makes me dizzy.

I like some ways I've seen on the ipad to paginate info without scrolling. No, I hate the pagination effect.

So, in essence, no scrolling, no visual distraction, just show me a page on the screen, then the next, then the next.

Like a magazine.

It is your business, as web designer, to fit content in a page and auto adjust it to my resolution, without breaking the intended relation between text and images, and without distracting me.

Like a book.
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Okay, so I played with this for a few more minutes and this is my feedback:

I think this would be great for children with reading issues. It would be great as a 'feature' that can be turned on or off on an operating system (on the desktop, tablet, or smartphone). It feels almost like 'training wheels', and as such, I think it'd be great.

However, I do now realise that the line underlining the text can be distracting for someone who no longer has trouble following from one line to the next. Also, it is too easy for children to use this as a crutch, and may actually hinder muscle improvement if used for too long.

Also, like I said, I don't really have reading issues anymore, but I can see how this could've helped me when I was a kid. I definitely would be interested in reading the results of this tested on kids. As another person said below, my primary schoolteacher also suggested we use a paper to block out the bottom text when reading line by line, and this did help, but I think I was very self-conscious to actually do it all the time.

You're on to something!

Edit: Added clarification.
I plan to message him to complain about the price.
That's amazing. So much easier to read. I too, now want the world to scroll this way.

Hopefully this will trigger innovation in scrolling.
You want the world to be incredibly annoying?
This seems to result in a large number of cases where the visual experience is pointless. The line separating the previous and next page is tiny and easy to miss, and I don't see the use in two torn half-pages on screen.

I agree that smooth scrolling long text is hard to read and trips up line scanning, but this UX seems be like playing an cruel game where I have to drag just enough to scroll a whole page. Any more or less and I get a torn page that's even harder to read than normal scrolling.

I have an alternate solution to this problem: just hit space or page down when you're reading a long web page. It scrolls a whole page, with just enough animation to help you track where you are.
Compared to the costs to carriers in implementing IPv6? That's nothing.

I'm not convinced there will be that many extra stale connections, either. Do a significant number of phones switch IPs so often that there will really be a problem, or do they tend to get the same ones back?
One thing I learned from reading Switch (a great book, by the way) is to write down tasks in much smaller and actionable steps. So instead of "finish paper", you'd write "write introduction" and so forth. It's worked so far.