That's something that Digg did well. You could click "top today/24 hours/week/x days" and you would see the submissions with most diggs in 24 hours/week/days/etc.

But why not make it a sliding scale, where you can pick the past 17.3 minutes if you wish to do so?

Might be because it requires more complex database querying and/or is less cacheable.

Still... I'm unhappy with the current selection of offerings.

Reddit lets you see the top posts from the past: hour, day, week, month, year, all time.

Going from one month to a whole year is a huge jump! And personally I almost never look at top posts from the past hour.

I would love to see top posts from the past 3-months and 6-months.

Intuitively it seems like you could approximate by weighting/combining 15min and 30min caches. But also seems like a very esoteric problem!

There is a "read mode" on Firefox for desktop and Android that does this? You can set the font face and size and then every time you open an article, just click the "read mode" button and it will display the article all nice and clean. Safari does this too on desktop and iPhone.

uBlock works on Firefox for Android?

It does quite well, actually. It's the single biggest reason I opt for Firefox on my Android devices instead of Chrome.

Yes. As do NoScript and Self-Destructing Cookies.

yes

30 cents per article?

I don't know. I've worked for grocery stores when I was in high school and one cashier running 15 minutes late was always noticeable, especially early in the mornings and late at night.

Anyone have any idea whether this could have been prevented if banks in the US required PIN to process a transaction? Would fraudulent transactions go down significantly if stolen cards couldn't be used without PINs?

It might help (depending on just how hard they make it to reset your PIN over the phone) but it probably wouldn't happen. Credit card companies make money when you use your card. As such, they want you to use your card as much as possible. Anything which increases the friction of a card transaction reduces how much people use their cards, and thus directly impacts their bottom line.

Not requiring a PIN is an example of this. If your customers have to memorize and enter a PIN, this added friction will cause at least some of them to pay cash (or whatever other payment method) instead. That's lost revenue.

Similarly, it shocks many people to learn that credit card merchant agreements forbid requiring customers to show ID as part of the transaction. Seems like a sensible way to fight fraud, right? But it also adds friction, which reduces credit card use rates, which hurts card company profits, so they don't let you do that.

This stuff is all a careful tradeoff. They know how much they lose to fraud, and how much they gain in legitimate transactions from making things easier. The goal is not zero fraud, but rather whatever level of fraud is optimal for their profits, which is almost certainly not zero.

American Express doesn't have branches, but I'm sure there are plenty of ways one can verify his or her identity without going inside a branch.

Um selling to people who don't work regular hours? There are plenty of people who work hours that are not Monday-Friday 9am-6pm, you know that, right?

One of the main reasons I haven't bought a new Kindle Paperwhite or a Voyage is because I like the physical next/previous page buttons. I've tried last year's Paperwhite and I just didn't like flipping pages by pressing a part of a screen.

$30 for 5 gigs? When did T-Mobile start offering this? Why am I then paying $50 for 2 gigs?

They've offered it for a while I think? It's a pre-paid, look in Other monthly plans. It's pretty hidden, I don't think they want everyone to know about it. Also can be Walmart only, but I think you can do it online just fine. http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans