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This just seems to be cookies that expire. Even with one account you have to sign in again once every blue moon.

I haven't used Instapaper yet but why not use the pinch motion to get out of an article as you'd do with pictures?

The picture on The Verge looks like the original one: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/22/2818308/lg-optimus-4x-hd-p...

Just watched this TED talk today[1] and mentioned to a friend that 3D printing is going to be "really, really cool". While the video probably won't show anything new for your average hacker here it might be a good introduction for people around you.

Creating a lower jaw within a few hours is "really, really cool".

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printin...

Why do fonts look like ants chipped away some pixels in chrome/win7? They look better in Firefox but I remember OSX looking better still, can be wrong about that though since I hadn't access to one in a long time. But fonts in Chrome are plain ugly, someone please turn on AA.

FF on the left, Chrome on the right: http://i.imgur.com/SxlaT.png

http://imgur.com/r/<subreddit>; shows all the linked imgur pictures in that particular subreddit and links back to the posts. Like reddit you can chain subreddits eg http://imgur.com/r/pics+funny

The most important thing about design is making sure that it works. Onswipe does not work. The scrolling is broken when visiting the page with an iPad. I can't read the last two lines without 'holding' the page up.

Again and again when I visit linked product sites I'm greeted with pages like this[1]. Even though the link in the article has a country specified in the URL. After selecting the location I'm not forwarded to the requested product page. In this example I got redirected to some ad with Jennifer Lopez[2]. I can't even select US as region, it just sends me back to the localeselector.

Stop this.

[1] http://www.harmankardon.com/pages/localeselector.aspx [2] http://at.harmankardon.com/jennifer-lopez-and-harman-kardon-... (I suspect this link won't work)

Edit: This is hilarious. The Kensington remote link opens the product page and then overlays a country selection. Selecting my country redirects me to the homepage in my language. At least I can close the selection window and stay on the product page.

It's a teaching assistant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_assistant

It is next to impossible for me to focus on audio (spoken) only. If I need to listen to something it has to be video or I opt for a transcript instead. Just a random data point that audio without video can be of no value too.

Interestingly enough isn't that how iOS started out? At least to some extend. It would be interesting to know how mobile/web would look today if Apple didn't introduce native apps and instead fully committed to web apps.

It's worth noting that as far as I know Steam Guard is active for any user who didn't disable it. Meaning, if someone tries to log in to your Steam account on a device that isn't yours (both via the client and on the website) he'll get a prompt to enter a 4 char long code which is sent to your authorized email address.

So your Steam account is save. Your email address probably isn't a secret anyway. The password is changed in a second.

Which leaves your payment (encrypted) and billing info. Personally I use Click&Buy which requires a separate authorization from me and I'm actually not sure if I have any billing address associated with Steam. So for me this whole thing is just a minor annoyance in changing my password.

Obviously I might treat the obtained user data different from other people.

OT: I usually dislike if something pops up when I hover over a word. The implementation on this site is different though. Select a word and hover "learn more" for a while, or click it. I still don't know how I feel about that but the ease of use to get to a Wikipedia article, images or videos is nice.

How about making it dead easy to get all pictures in print. For example take a look at Apple iPhoto app (OSX) which allows you to easily create an album and have it print.

We could change fucking to effin.

I can't recall where or when I read it, but there was some talk that Kinect might also be used in an office setting. Microsoft may well be thinking about it and having an open source driver going around might cut into their plans they could have for Kinect.

Edit:

Kinect is part of Microsoft’s continuing quest to bring to market natural user interface (NUI) technologies, like touch, voice and gesture-recognition. Maybe it’s also part of a grand plan to force users to continue to exercise (even if that just means by waving a hand) while being increasingly tied to our PCs?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-kinect-for-gam...

It may be just me but I despise the layout of the pictures. Sure it's fine when you use your keyboard to navigate but for using a mouse it sucks. There also seems to be a problem when on the second image, the previous image doesn't show up on the left side making it impossible to navigate back with a mouse.

I can't find a way to delete images even though the FAQs mention it.

Layout seems fine/same on Chrome 7, Firefox 3.6.6 on Win7

(general rant about web galleries)

It seems to me that every gallery currently used on websites sucks. Except one: http://boston.com/bigpicture/. I'd really love a Big Picture like layout of pictures. When possible same width for all pictures. Let me middle-click on them to open the full version in a new tab (instead of those stupid modal overlays) and scroll the gallery with my mouse like every site on the web. Added j/k or arrow key navigation is a plus.

Edit: Well it's two. http://imgur.com has it right too.

Until a few days ago drop.io; but they're gone now. You could use the public folder of Dropbox. Make a subfolder and put the videos in there. The url should be obscure enough. You can't put a password on it though.

This looks great. One minor problem I had while trying the demo:

  press [`] key (key to the left of #1) to hide/show subtasks

This doesn't work on a German keyboard layout where ^ is next to 1. Pressing the ` key doesn't work either.

I can wire money to anyone within SEPA [1] (EU pretty much) without any fees.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

CS is shorthand for Creative Suite. A collection of several Adobe products into one package available in several flavors.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/

By 2011 or 2012, can't remember the exact deadline, their mobile phones must have Micro-USB. At least if they want to continue selling them here in Europe. The ruling for it passed a while ago that all mobile phones must be chargeable with the same micro-usb connector. Apple agreed to those requirements. I don't see Apple doing Dock AND Micro-USB.

Unless they provide an adapter, don't know if this is allowed or not.

EDIT: Ah screw it, if this site[1] is to be believed Apple will only provide an adapter.

[1] http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/25149/next-iphone-charges-vi...

I'm sometimes amazed how both Irony and Sarcasm can completely go over some people's heads. Now, I know that I didn't always understand those two but no matter what I try I'm unable to explain it to a few of my friends.

On another note. I actually think that Irony by Alanis Morissette is ironic. It is a song about Irony filled with things that aren't ironic at all. This has to be some sort of (meta)irony.

BBC Life documentary always had an "On Location" at the end. Here are two examples.

One involves a lot of fake, they searched for a spot outside to observe and then rebuild the whole set indoor in order to be able to film growing of the plants [1].

In the other one they follow a dragon hunting a buffalo around for a long time trying best not to interfere [2].

But there is more, for one episode a cameramen built a shelter to hide himself from a bird. He had to improve it and stay for a long time to finally catch his footage. (Couldn't find it, sorry)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDnCLczYA4

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-mTbv8gYo

Can't talk for sewerhorse, but I think the HN design is quite good. Following is my opinion I'm by no means a designer.

Right now there is no distraction anywhere. It's straight to the point: Here are your headlines. Read first post title, if you're interested read/open, else proceed to next headline. The meta info (points, comments,...) in lighter grey colour serves as element to visually separate the individual posts making them easier to parse.

Your design I find busier. Name of the poster and amount of comments are unimportant while parsing headlines (for me?) and thus are in the way. The light colour on #other is barely noticeable on my uncalibrated TN panel TFT and doesn't help at all. For individual post/how comments are displayed I'd say the same thing. Username/points are way to prominent vs. the actual comment itself (and the up/down vote arrows are still on the same spot :D instead of downvote to the right of the meta information)

Aside from that, your design only has different colours with a fugly orange "more" button at the bottom.

Neither your design nor the current would be more or less 'perfect' when I'd first see it but in hindsight I prefer the current one; I am better at parsing it than yours for the reasons stated above.

How exactly do they plan to get all that energy back to Russia?

This only eats 17% of my CPU on Windows7/Chrome but the animation still jerks. If I go to page 2 (navigation on top) it scrolls smoothly at first but starts jerking later on. If I reload (page 2) it works fine again. What is going on here?

Edit: It works smoothly with Firefox 3.6.6

All in one page here: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophys...

If you're not in a country where Spotify is available check out Grooveshark instead.

Likewise, I only check Facbeook on my phone. There are some exceptions but I always use Incognito mode for those.