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ent··on Complexities of an infinite scroller
It's not just reaching the bottom that's annoying, it's stuff like trying to search with ctrl-f for content that just isn't there yet or following a link, clicking back and the viewport jumping up to the top instead of where you left.
ent··on Weeding the Worst Library Books
Here in Finland all libraries seem to have a small shelf of weeded books free to take (or sometimes about 1-3€ each) next to the exit. I honestly thought it would be the same everywhere else.
ent··on New body armour promises to transform fighting sports
Strange that they didn't mention the indiegogo campaign they have going on. 54% funded. Sadly, the only part of the armour as a perk is a prototype helmet at $25k. Campaign here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/unified-weapons-master/#/
ent··on Conkeror
Why did you drop it (and what do you use now)? I used to use conkeror too, but dropped in favour of firefox + keysnail. As an emacs user, I just loved the conkeror ui. I left it because it lacked some firefox features, can't remember them all but one was on-demand loading of tabs when starting the browser.
ent··on Conkeror
If your main text editor is vim, that's probably what you should do. It's hard or impossible to get a good feel from vimperator.
ent··on Browser Vulnerability to Superfish: A Fact-Finding Trip to Best Buy [pdf]
Not all attacks are perfect. It's true that an attacker can potentially do anything once in control of machines with sensitive data, but it doesn't mean that all hope is lost. If an intrusion detection system catches some x% of potential threats, it can easily be worth it.
ent··on Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down
No tinfoil needed for the explanation: they're pretty fat targets with code security at the level of normal startups.

It would be interesting to see how much they get targetted in comparison to startups that can at most spill some personal user info and cc numbers.

ent··on Sandstorm Personal Cloud Platform
The site isn't really clear on what this actually is. "More than just a VM" - so it's a vm? A linux distro geared towards hosting "cloud" services? All I can really tell is that it has (a few) apps.
ent··on 2048 in 3D
It's not even that subtle, there's a lot more room and the extra dimension helps a lot in unscrewing yourself after filling the whole board.
ent··on Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
The grandparents post was probably a play on the old "But does it run linux" meme from slashdot.
ent··on Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases?
But the cool thing is that in many (most?) cases you can actually infer the type of reading from a string. You are going to do something with that value right? So you can say 1 + (read "1") and the compiler will know that you must want to read "1" as a number and does that!
ent··on Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?
Maybe it's more of a handle pointing to the right? Most people are right handed so that would make sense.
ent··on Infinite Bang Bang
Doing this too many times is really not a great idea. My machine started grinding to a halt _after_ I had killed the bash that was pumping out all the bangs. Reboot didn't fix it. Deleting my 2 gig ~/.bash_history did :)
ent··on Try Haskell: An interactive tutorial in your browser
I'm not sure what you expected. It's just saying it doesn't know how to print a function that takes as input a list of lists of type a0 and returns a list of lists of type a0.

Try map reverse ["abc", "123"] instead, which it does know how to print.

ent··on What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software?
I think the number of commenters fell quite dramatically after they stopped showing the score on comments. Before that HN felt like a much larger community.
ent··on Fl0wer.png.html
The file seems to be a png with some html tags in it that trick the browser. Seems to work on firefox and conkeror but not on my chromium.
ent··on Lytro plenoptic light-field camera pre-orders begin today at $399
because there might be more than one type of right
ent··on [dead]
well, except for the current bottleneck
ent··on The Future of Light is the LED
Many comments on HN have said that it's totally the opposite in Asia: people Hate yellow light and like the bluish light you get from cfl:s. So I guess you really can't make statements that broad.
ent··on Report: Apple Loses iPhone 5 Prototype. Yes, in a Bar.
My guess would be that rigging it to explode would be illegal (and very hazardous).
ent··on Where the fuck is this
Probably more for people who find pictures of cool places online without info of where it was taken.
ent··on Bitcoin Miner does the math, calls it quits
But the security of the bitcoin network also increases as the amount of computer resources put into mining increases.
ent··on New car engine said to be a few times more efficient than conventional ones
50% sounded like a lot to me so I checked wikipedia, according to which, most internal combustion engines have an average efficiency of 18-20%. So I guess it could be true if the Wave Disk Generator lives up to those promises.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine#Ener...

ent··on Toward Better Master Passwords
I've been using an svn for this purpose. I can sync my password dp (and config files, project files, etc.) between my computers and n900 pretty easily. It's not quite as easy as a dropbox-type of synchronizer but it has some added benefits too (history, pretty much all platforms support svn, so on).
ent··on Team Fortress 2 now free forever
Even thought it is free now, it's been sold the traditional way for a long time so I don't think it quite counts as a freemium game. Valve's already reaped most of the sales profits it's going to get from TF2.
ent··on The story of the Gömböc
Sounds like the best reason one can't makerbot these things. Makerbots have a nozzle size of 0,5mm according to the makerbot wiki.
ent··on Google blocks movie service on rooted Android devices
But drm is not similar to a password the client doesn't know. In drm the client has to know the password, it's the user that's being kept in the dark. If you have total access (source) to the drm system you can always modify it to report that the system is secure.
ent··on HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
I just pulled them off. They are attached with small plastic clips but luckily not the nasty ones that break. The fabric mesh under those also comes off just by pulling. You should probably be careful with pulling the ear pads, they are glued to a plastic ring and apparently it is possible to just pull them off the glue (my friend did that to his ones).
ent··on HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
I can't really see any lying being done here. Is microsoft lying to people when it's selling windows 7 home edition to people for less money than the ultimate edition even though it wouldn't cost them any more to make copies of the ultimate?
ent··on HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
In case anyone is interested, I just did this mod for my hd555s and can confirm that it does seem to make the sound clearer although I can't really make a good comparison for obvious reasons.
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