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Any way we can lock in the $9/mo pricing for when you launch in NZ? As others have said, it would be awesome to have available for side projects!
Nothing wrong with Brainfuck, or fuck for that matter. If anything, it'll get the people that are bothered by it desensitised :)
I think imprisonment here in Norway actually is quite humane.
Th $50/month really is a trivial cost to any business larger than a couple of people, particularly for a service which eases the intake of money. It's the per-payment costs that you need to consider. A flagfall charge of 30c is meaningless when your invoices are $1k, and very high when they're $10. 3% on every transaction might sound a lot, but (I assume) that includes the credit card company cut, which usually comes in at around 2%, so effectively it's a 1% fee for the service.

Forex is beyond me, and that's where it does get complex :)
what vendor are they referring to? was this related to Tavis Ormandy's trolling of microsoft.
One feature Camino ha and that I really miss in other browsers is that it displayed whether files in its download window were still there. That sounds rather trivial, but made it a perfect "file inbox", where I could quickly see whether I still needed to review/move a file.

And the fact that it was more in sync with the OS X desktop experience than Firefox (back in the days; got better) and Safari (brushed metal)...

Of course nowadays, a hierarchical tab sidebar is my one "exclusive" killer feature, and as of yet only Firefox has that (via add-ons).
You didn't answer his question. He didn't ask if it was morally ok, but when it started being an actual crime.
This is indeed more elegant than the original HN style.

But:

Installing stylish wasn't straightforward. It didn't tell me if I had to restart firefox or not. I restarted firefox and it had lost my opened tabs. This is stylish's fault.

I also noticed that firefox navigation toolbar is twice as big as before and it uses Georgia to render text inside the url and search fields. Weird and stylish's fault.

Ah, it turns out every site is using the new CSS. That won't do it :(

One thing that could be improved: the text field I am typing this text in can't be resized :( and its borders don't match the rest of the theme.

But it's indeed an elegant and readable theme. I like the 50-60 character limit for each line.

Good job, but I won't use it because of stylish disruptive effects on my browsing experience. I remember that before stylish I would drop css in the firefox profile and it would just apply to a specific domain. Is that still possible ?
Indeed.

The only obvious downside to Mosh I've seen so far, is that a lot of enterprisy firewalls tend to block UDP traffic.
As someone who lives in Perth, I can concur with the ridiculous cost of living here at the moment, and am also surprised that this seems to have been developed at least partly here. However, the meetup/tech/startup scene is developing here (albeit slowly). Check out some spacecubed events when you're next here.
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Yay, let's all use light grey text on a black background!
As a high karma user I get the opportunity to change the color of the top bar. It would be cool if PG allowed me instead to insert some arbitrary CSS then I would make small style changes myself.
They should definitely add this to the frontpage.
Sorry, are you literally saying you have no short-term memory? Or simply saying I should remember Gates' a toons in the 90s etc? If the former I am sorry and wish you the best
Wow, I have literally just gone through that whole process. This post really hit home for me. I will code what I find intellectually challenging and then as the complexity dies off so does my motivation. What would be your suggestion be to find it within oneself to complete those periphery objectives and break this cycle?
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The text on that site is annoyingly difficult to read
If letters like this were getting out (and all content is true), then of course I see why weev would want to be there. ESP given the fact that at camps, there are usually cell phones floating around....and weev has a pr campaign to uphold (apparently this guy does too, but at least I like weev).
Very good article. I find it's just as important to know this type of "backwards" technology as it is the latest in HTML5.

Email marketing is still a huge part of business and it's amazing how many people and companies do it wrong, i.e one huge image, poor support for Outlook, etc.

And yes, plain text is easier and more consistent, but it doesn't always work better. A lot of times you're going to get better conversions from sending someone a nicely styled HTML email than you are with plain text.
This is so timely for me. Thanks.

Do you do credit card only? What about recurring charges?
Exactly what I thought.

(For those not "in" on the joke: http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_t... )
Yeah, they might want to reword that. I think they mean that they got a grant: http://www.commercialisationaustralia.gov.au/OurParticipants...
I'm not a design person, I don't have the language to talk about these things, and I certainly can't articulate clearly exact points. I've been as clear as I can, I really have. I took a long time trying to write that comment, trying to explain my point, and trying to be clear.

It just feels, well, I don't know, "Energy Free", "Hypnotic", "Soporific". There's no sharpness, no hustle, no contrast, but those are terms that make you think of image contrast and sharpness, and that's not what I mean.

My father was a sign-maker, and he loved jobs that were specified by an architect. Why? Because they produced gorgeous designs that were harmonious and free flowing. The signs were specified to fit with the color scheme and blend with the decor. As a result, he would always be called back 6 months later to augment or replace the signage.

I wonder if I feel a little the same here. I'm slowly being hypnotized by "beautiful design."
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It's working on all sites, as well as the address bar?

Firefox on Linux with Stylish.
I tried both in my life and being left alone is so much better than forced to be with other random hostile people.
Can you at least reduce the space between the headlines? It may look nice, but I don't want to scroll 3x as much as before.
GoSublime is 100% perfect for my needs.
I'm sorry if this comes off as uneducated, but why exactly would this be weakening your security?

When installing the Chrome plugin, Chrome clearly states which domain(s) it will allow the plugin to interact with.

I would see your point if this was for a banking site, or any other site where you would want to keep some information private, but I don't really see how this applies in this context.
start your own laundry. use several laundries.
You could also encode the information in the size of a transaction sent to yourself. Then any money lost would go back to the miners as transaction fees.
Forex can sting, true. Managing a foreign bank account is not great fun either though. I'm not going to underestimate the significance of this business, I think it's going to be great for the Australian market.
I suppose it _is_ gorgeous, but I can't really read anything without having to scroll every 3 seconds. Uninstalled.
Some nice elements, although for something as dense as HN, I still prefer if it uses more of the screen estate. But it's a good starting point to fiddle with.

One note: At least with my firefox/stylish setup, it seems that the domain restriction was wrong.

@-moz-document domain('http://news.ycombinator.com/'), url-prefix('http://news.ycombinator.com/')

should be followed by an set of parens encompassing the rest of the file, or else it gets universally applied (also I think that "@-moz-document domain('news.ycombinator.com')" is sufficient).
Will this software focus solely on Random Forests? Hoped to see e.g. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks as an option :(
> being an edge case does not prevent from respecting the rules

Shouldn't or doesn't? Shouldn't, sure. Doesn't ... the evidence doesn't bear this out.
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There's been various statements about how tesla uses government subsidies... but so do most car manufacturers. This is them paying back a loan early.

It's still a good company, doing good things, etc etc.
I think the default HN theme could be improved with tasteful typography, but this alternative offering sacrifices too much information density. Dropping from 21 to 8 items above the fold on my MacBook isn't acceptable to me. Without the gratuitous padding I think this would be much better.
You can't claim incompetence is 'rife' and then link to something which has 'scandal' in the title. If incompetence was rife, it wouldn't be a scandal.

The NHS has its problems, as does private health care. However, I would argue that the problems which the NHS has are almost all directly related to chronic under-funding.

Case in point: my girlfriend's grandfather recently had a stint in hospital. They discharged him, and then 2 days later he was sent back in with a different problem. He was put on a ward directly below the ward he had been on just 3 days earlier. The nurses on this ward had no idea that he had just been in hospital, no idea about his medication, and no idea about the treatment he had received.

The problem here is that due to budget cuts and under-funding, the NHS cannot invest in any kind of consistent or worth-while patient tracking and monitoring system. Everything is on paper in crusty filing cabinets, and what little technology they do have is already outdated and unnecessarily cumbersome.

The NHS is failing because populist politics have crippled it in essentially every single way that matters.
I would want to get some feedback from Braintree on this. Requiring a NAB foreign currency account is a pretty big deal. I used to have a NAB foreign currency account and it was a bit hard to operated, might have improved in the last few years however.

I personally use Braintree but with a US account for a US company (even though I live in Australia). This is more of an exceptional case however I think.

For Australian businesses charging in US dollars is not exceptional, probably very common.
I love it. Most other extensions either annoy me or leave the text too small. This is great.

And from the last thread for it, here is a great dual column chrome extension that works perfectly with Georgify: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chngbdmhgakoomomnn...
Read my other comment in this thread, the stylish file has a bad domain restriction, enclose everything after it in a set of braces ({}), and it's fine.
Maybe he means privacy? https://panopticlick.eff.org/
An article about readability on a page that has gray text on a gray background? This guy must be trolling.
Yeah I sometimes think there must be a kind of Muphry's Law for designers: "If you complain about a design, your own design will have numerous flaws"?

Half the time when I follow these design blog links I find a website with nigh on unreadable text. Usually it's down to a tiny font-size, this time it's down to grey text on dark grey background combined with fairly cramped looking text.
Actually this tab style dates back to at least Firefox 3. I didn't check further back. It looks like XUL can't do it the right way, and they don't care enough to do it right.
I feel that this new design makes HN lose its personality and look more like some random, more generic page or blog following pervasive trends of design. Maybe it's the font or the spacing, I'm not sure.

I'd stick with the current design.

EDIT: as others have pointed out, there's also a significant loss of information density, and that can be quite annoying for the average HN reader.
Yes! Thank you. While I don't think it looks or feels perfect yet, it at least shows that FF is still in the game working on things like this.
In that case I'm all for a future with imperfect todo apps.
It's interesting that all these Hacker News makeovers always look the same.
It's hard to say when neither has been done yet.
$20 to a homeless guy or to someone experiencing economic hardship will be appreciated more.
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It's my understanding that there is only one coinbase in each block, and it's set by the miner verifying the block. That would make using it for this purpose very difficult.
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Chips is the US are Crisps in the UK. "Potato Parties" seem to be a thing in Japan, where youths order huge amounts of chips(or fries): http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/mar/04/potato...
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Chrome users, no need to look further than HipsterNews:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...
Try http://hackerwebapp.com/ for mobile.
This is fantastic. Just installed it and I love it already. I would however make the links slightly darker.

What I liked most about this, as a Chrome user, was one click installation through an add-on. It was as simple as clicking a link and pow! It's in. This is both a testament to yourself and the Chrome team themselves.

Now... All we need is an iPhone app and my HN reading experience will be complete...
The only thing I want changed in the way Hacker News rendered is this: make it easier to use on my iPhone. It is difficult to touch the right link on a small screen, and I often go to the wrong page.

The voting buttons are just not possible to use on my iPhone - the chance of accidentally voting down when I want to vote up is too high.
I avoid `having` wherever possible these days. There are data analysts in my team that I know would have to think twice about it if they encountered it in my code, and to be honest, it's a bit of an wart in the SQL grammar anyway.

In (almost) all cases, a subquery with an extra `where` clause will have equal performance to a `having` clause in the main query.

See the final example in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Having_(SQL)
Is there anything built into the protocol to stop abuse? Bouncing coins around infinitely in order to store large quantities of data in the transaction metadata (as opposed to the fake address method described ITA)?
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Still didn't work for me in Chrome. I wasn't sure how that conflicted with the 'applies to' config setting in the UI, and I tried various combinations before giving up. A shame, but it seems that Stylish just isn't production-ready.
I think it's interesting how many people make "better" versions of HN. Without exception none of these get to heart of the problems with HN (middlebrow dismissals getting upvoted, mob mentality, etc), something that pg has alluded to several times.

As an exercise in design, great, knock yourself out. As an attempt to make HN better? I think less action and more reflection on what really would make HN better would be appropriate.

This is just a general feeling I get from seeing these meta-HN things over and over again. I lump them all together in my mind, perhaps unfairly so, because they all seem to be solving the easy - but ultimately the wrong - problem.
If you want a good head screw, think about the Baghdad battery and the Antikythera mechanism.

Now imagine if the Turing church hypothesis was figured out back then.
"I always had to hunch forward to be able to read through the micro sized type."

Press CTRL and +. No more hunching required.
I think it also needs

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

at the top.
What counts as high karma? As far as I can remember, I've always been able to change the colour of the top bar, although it may just be my lapsing memory.
After I posted this, I noticed a top level comment with the same idea from an account that's been dead for nearly two years, apparently for posting an Office Space joke:

stiller 3 hours ago | link [dead]

At this rate, Elon can simply wait until somebody comes up with a viable plan and say, "yes, that's what Hyperloop was all along."

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stiller
The version for Stylish was broken. Fixed here: https://gist.github.com/pstadler/5684154
I think the reason they have the icon/close button switched is because when you pin a tab it goes on the left side of the screen.
True. But you can separate people in a manner that isn't cruel. In fact, if the American system wasn't so cruel, there would probably be a better chance that inmates would recover from antisocial behavior. Many of these prisoners have seen cruelty and haven't been raised properly from the day they were born. They don't need more cruelty. They need care. Some of them haven't had even decent health a single day I their lives—nutritionally, emotionally, etc. And it's not their fault. It's largely our society's fault.
> Please, can someone with design skills equal to the ones demonstrated here have a go at something with a bit more "edge."

I tried an approach here: http://userstyles.org/styles/71445/better-hacker-news-design

I don't think it reaches the quality of this submission - i am not enough of a visual designer for that - and maybe it is also not what you search for, but you could give it a try. I tried to maintain a bit of what defines the original design, like the orange header, maybe it is that what you are missing.
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This problem is significant enough on the ipad, so I dread to think what the iphone experience is like. I've gotten used to holding down links rather than tapping them, so it's easy to cancel a mispress. Certainly less arduous than constantly zooming in/out.
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The problem is the FX - and as others have pointed out, this isn't a problem that is necessarily unique to Pin (However, Pin are providing a common retail rate).

It's $50/month. $0.30/transaction. Then 3% and then another 4% for the FX. Then maybe you pay your EC2 bill, or your Adwords account, or your oDesk freelancer and that's another 4-5% on the way back.

If you're doing a large volume of small transactions you'll be racking up ~15% just in fees. If you manage to change that to fewer larger transactions, you might get that to 8-9%. However, even though the % is slightly healthier it's now serious money ($1,000s). Once you get into that camp having a US entity (or whatever) starts to pay off.

Meanwhile, your US-based competitors are doing a flat $0.30 and 2.9% with Stripe (That's just off the bat! Your bigger competitors are using Braintree and probably getting sub 2% overall).

Sounds like I'm hating on Pin. I'm not. Genuinely embrace that they're on the scene. Payments in Australia have been a world of hurt for a long time. This is a great first beachhead and getting this capability out there is fundamental.
Once again, Google shows its ignorance of effective branding.
Yes, this is what I've been dreaming of for maybe a couple of years...

I like HN's simple look and feel - my custom CSS would be just a couple of lines to make the damn text bigger on iPhone.
Isn't that a point in favor of it rapidly improving down the line?
Actually, that's a good point - a Sell HN thread could be an interesting experiment. Should we go for it?
Once cheap 3D printer are capable of producing reasonable quality at decent resolution, I see table-top gamers being a key demographic (and despite the competition from online gaming there is still a lot of that going on). Not only will it eventually be cheaper than the over-priced models from some outlets, they'll be able to create truly customised armies. It'll annoy the hell out of Games Workshop and their ilk.
Pretty. But if the goal is to make the text larger, I can just do CTL-+ in Firefox (which I seem to use a lot these days, but not at HN) to make the text bigger without inflicting it on everyone else.
In other words poor people, people living in rural areas and people in niche markets are using old technology. Hardly a surprise.
It looks nice, but I kind of feel it misses the point (at least for people like me). I like the information-dense nature of HN, adding in a bunch more whitespace reduces this advantage. There are improvements that can be made to HN (such as being able to collapse comment trees that are obviously descending into pointless bikeshedding), but improving HN by reducing one of it's key advantages is not what I'd be looking for. Just my opinion of course, other people here have responded to it positively.
Hi, the original post author here.

Hundreds of thousands of paid links? Excuse me? We do NOT pay for links. The only thing I can imagine has initiated Penguin - we sell web-software (forum software, helpdesk software etc) that has a footer link "powered by XXX". We dis see this affected our rankings a year ago and we're still trying to recover (making those links "nofollow" trying to contact the linking webmasters etc).
There are tons of browser extensions that allows you to do this on a site by site basis. I use Minimalist on Chrome.
I think your habit of complaining in the guise of asking for explanation whenever you get downvoted constitutes gaming of the moderation system, which presents a greater danger to HN than even outright trolling. I want to discourage that behaviour, and will downvote it whenever I see it. I also find it rather distasteful that you're so defensive about being downvoted given that you of all users can clearly afford the karma.
Readability often conflicts with the geek-aesthetics on digital screens and devices. For example, I personally like to code with anti-aliasing off - I just find the code more readable that way (maybe I am used to that?). I also don't much like the retina-display because it tries to hide the digital nature of the device (can't see the pixels - makes sense?). Lastly, while serif fonts might be more readable when viewed from top there does seem to be something intangibly wrong with them when viewed head-on horizontally.
I got only like 300 and I can do it. It's def not consider as high IMO.
"Last year our foundation sponsored a “re-invent the toilet” fair where 14 universities submitted innovative answers to that problem."

The toilet designs provided in the link are interesting. It looks like nothing can actually replace water usage for sanitation completely.
I only have ~300 and I can do this. IIRC, I've always been able to.
From what I've read[1], I would agree with you.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-pris...
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Honest question: Why larger space between lines should make the HN more readable? I don't get it. Sorry to sound negative, but I feel it is less readable, because I need to scroll more and see a less text on a screen.
Why shouldn't Ayn Rand take medicare and social security? She paid for those services.

Ayn Rand said that of all the things public funds were ever spent on (outside of judicial and national defense), NASA was the most worthy. She wrote admiringly about NASA, revealing a deep respect for its technology, scientific pursuit, and its Apollo launches. They even specifically invited her to an Apollo launch.

I don't think someone that hated NASA - or supposedly would dislike a private SpaceX - would write: "Apollo 11: A Symbol of Man's Greatness." Clearly since Ayn liked NASA, she would love SpaceX as a step in the right direction over public space exploration.
installed..... one minute.....removed. Old view still better
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The Free Software and Open Source movements have strong practical arguments in their favor; there's no need to invoke morality to promote F/LOSS. Arguments against DRM are similarly pragmatic; the cost to all computing simply isn't worth the tiny perceived benefit to a very few. The lesson to be learned by DRM proponents is not a moral one; it is the very practical lesson that people don't want it.
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I'd be happy to port this to Safari once it's up on GitHub. I like it.