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Isn't it cool how technology breathes live into existing ideas and makes then reality? I wouldn't wanna be in any other line of work.
Average person in the US, not counting ppl who don't read at all, reads 6 books a year.
Tom from GoCardless here.

We currently accept UK bank-to-bank payments - customers enter their account number and sort code on the checkout page. We'll work on making this clearer on our landing page - thanks for the feedback. We'll be rolling out across Europe in the next few months.

GoCardless is particularly good for subscriptions & regular variable payments, as we're based on the UK direct debit network.
> The whole point of the design guidelines is to help solve these problems.

You can't really solve these problems when there is no assurance that the theme (and its conventions) on your user's phone will match those of these guides though.

That's definitely an advantage of iOS and WP.
True (and that's the one issue I had with the article).

I want to look back at my life and say something like, "I labored to make a sustainable business, was able to see my kids grow up and be there for them. All while working towards making the world a little bit happier, maybe employing some people, or let people live a bit happier or a bit better".

(I don't really want to look back on my life and see nothing but crazy deadlines and late nights)
Drivers made by Microsoft are in the tree. WHQL'ed 3rd party drivers offered by Windows Update are somewhere else, but there's no source for those so it's hard to count lines of code.

On a typical computer more than half of the drivers loaded are made by Microsoft, you can check easily with sysinternals' autoruns.
I know that usually games_industry = low_pay * long_hours, but it doesn't have to be that way. I worked in a studio where this does not happen and their staff turnover is very low. Maybe because the managers were former developers and they knew the limits to overtime. Other places have not been so nice.
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That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet - Shakespeare

But calling it 'dung' kinda derails the conversation.
Hey Mike, I had a question. Do you know anything/are you involved with Gazelle Labs? Just trying to do some due diligence as an entrepreneur. They have been really great toward me the last few months, retweeting my stories/posts on tech.li and have felt a great rapport with them. Just wanted to see if you had any info being in S. Florida? Thank you for the time.
I think the "Official Site" buttons should be made more prominent and to look more like an official seal. I just pulled a random image out of Google Images to try and explain what I mean:

http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/images/certificate.jpg

The golden icon in the bottom left of that image. Something like that.
Is there a way I can make 'typing into the address bar' search DDG by default?

If I can get this set up, then I'm fully switched.
Then it's the airlines job to check the id, not the TSA.
This was a very interesting article. I always find experiments involving honor systems very fascinating. The bus system in Germany and some parts of the Boston T (the trolleys when they are overground) are basically honor systems. In Bonn, Germany people are very particular about paying the fare. In Boston, not so much.
There is another possibility here that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Someone fraudulently representing Mocality attempted to start a joint Google-Mocality venture. Google was misled, and no one at Mocality was aware of the fraud, meaning neither party is guilty.
The barcodes are not encrypted. Generating a modified one would be pretty simple.

http://shaun.net/2011/05/whats-contained-in-a-boarding-pass-...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/6197243200/

[Update: iNate2000 says cell phone ones are signed. That would make modifying it much more difficult. It also implies printed ones are not signed, which makes that form the the attack vector.]
IP addresses are easy to spoof. Did Mocality try to figure out if it was really Google's IPs, or just someone faking them?
Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn web server development?
I want to develop a basic http web server serving only static html pages. Suggest me some good learning resources/books to get started with this.

My preferred languages are C/C++/Python.
I tell you a secret: you can turn off the ads in the settings menu.

I, personally, wouldn't mind the sponsored links if only they were relevant. Of course, if they were relevant, sponsoring wouldn't be necessary.
We've been fighting against this problem since we first launched. Our zero-click box has gone through several iterations with it in mind, and people kept skipping over it. This latest iteration I think (from user testing) does the best job so far of combating that unconscious inclination.

That's interesting on official site placement. We thought it would be better for the user to put that official site link first (it's also in the zero-click info box btw). But it people think it should be below, I have no problem with that.
I've made this mistake before. Even if you can personally justify something as being reasonable (they did that to me, so it's OK if I do this to them) it often doesn't hold up in the eyes of a 3rd party (like the law).

I have no doubt that you were mistreated, but be careful how you handle this. The worst outcome would be for the courts to rule against you - then they will have done it to you again...

Good luck
I've always liked the idea of GoCardless, and we've been seriously considering implementing it on an upcoming service, but our main concern has always been that clients will be far less likely to want to set up a direct debit than they will do a one-off payment on a card.

People are really used to buying stuff with a card online, but a direct debit? Not so much. Does anyone have any figures on how GoCardless affects conversion rates?

(I'm aware that it would always be possible to have GoCardless as an option, but that would have its own impact on conversion rates).
Which browser? In Firefox I do this by going to about:config, and setting "keyword.URL" to:

https://duckduckgo.com/?kh=1&kg=p&k1=-1&kp=-1...

You might want to fiddle with the parameters though. For example, I'm specifying that my country is the UK in the above URL
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Consistent UI theme-ing in the new look! :)
Nice, thanks. Also UK here.
> in the early days, Linus actually used to reboot to test the kernel, booting from floppy disks. I wouldn't have the patience.

Still required all the time if you develop drivers for physical hardware.

Still required at some point if you develop other kernel mode components because you can get bugs reproducible only on physical hardware because of different timings, cache coherency bugs (rare, but more often than you think) or broken ACPI routing tables (Every motherboard in existence has a broken ACPI table and the kernel has to deal with it).
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I'll grant some small part of your response, as empirical evidence does show that people systematically mis-estimate values (risks, large sums of money, etc.) that are either extremely small or extremely large. However...

monkeys that habitually make irrational choices that are not the best or even harmful to themselves and others around them

First, let's throw out the "monkeys" bit. Again, you're falling back to a style of argumentation designed to inflame emotions, but in fact adds no rational content to the discourse. If this were a debate competition, I'd ding you for it.

But more importantly, your assertion that the choices are not the best, etc., is unknowable by you -- yet you assert it as fact. These discussions always seem to assume that all actors ought to be working from the same set of values, yet that's clearly not the case. For example, if I choose a "live fast, die young" lifestyle, the choices I'll make -- BASE jumping, etc. -- may seem absurdly risky to you, but in fact, they really do bring to me a greater return than the alternative.

You can learn a lot more about this in Mises' Human Action. He shows how each person's actions can only be viewed as a black box, the rest of us have no way to gainsay them (nor right to do so, but that's a different discussion). Indeed, sometimes a person's motivations aren't even known to that person himself, but that does not prove that they're not there. Also, even when people are wrong in their weighing of the costs and benefits, that in itself is a rational action, because the cost of gaining greater knowledge or doing deeper analysis itself skews the computation (kinda like Heisenberg uncertainty, in Economics, I guess).

What's worse is that the idea that people do not act in their own best interest is generally attended by the conclusion that there needs to be some authority to watch over us. It's clearly bad to try to fit all of us into boxes of the same size and shape, but it's unavoidable from this approach. But more to the point, it doesn't actually provide a solution, because if we postulate that we're unable to correctly make our own decisions, then one must also conclude (in spades!) that nobody will be able to correctly make decisions for another person (or large groups of them).

And (in a bit of admitted snark -- I'll let myself get away with it because I'm labeling it as such) there's every reason to believe, judging by their own lives, that those people who our system has making these decisions for the masses are doing a worse job than the individuals would themselves.
Agreed -- that would be useful :). And it is on the (albeit long) list!
Ah great - thank you! :)
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For Firefox, there's a search plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duck-duck-go-...) that adds DuckDuckGo to the list of search providers.

For Chrome, it appears to be a little more complicated. You can use DuckDuckGo for searches, but it doesn't look like you can alter the source for URL suggestions. Details on how to use DuckDuckGo as Chrome's search provider are here: http://ddgg.nfriedly.com/#oneclick.
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I'm afraid I don't have much information as Orlando (where Gazelle is located) is about 3.5 hours from me. I don't get up that way too often, but I know a few people who are. If it's helpful to you, I can put in a quick call and get a feel for you.

From the one article I read about them, they seem to be very welcome in the area and have the right people running things in the background. Can't say more than that, at this point.
"Please, don't try making stunning Android apps. Just respect our crappy design patterns." Thanks Google!
There is the initial reaction and then there is living with it for a while. It has been de-saturated a lot, and after a pretty small time it blends in.
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How do you determine what makes something an "official site"? I see it with the "Hacker News" search here, and with Twilio for example, but not with Fog Creek or Ford.

You guys keep doing awesome work Gabriel, keep it up!
Totally agree, I just don't see why on earth Google would want to do something like this with the ability for such awful backlash in exchange for what I think would be minimal bump in profit for a company like them.
I'm curious why the results are center aligned? It's a very odd placement for search results.
Perhaps it has to do with the filters being on the right, instead of filling the white-space to the left side.

Studies also suggest that we are trained to read from top left.

I made two revisions for comparison
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6689971833_94c5b35d3e_b.j...
You forgot the part where, when you were visiting Eastern Europe, you accidentally logged back in to PayPal and they suspended your account and seized all the funds.
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Why not just crawl HN and pick out all the comments that are greyed out?
Love the new look. One thing I want to bring up is page load speed. I went 2 weeks with DDG as my default search engine for all browsers but I had to switch back because of the difference in page load speed. Its just .5-1 second slower then Google and I cannot stand it.

I would find the results to be fine, and the interface to be good but the fact I had to wait slightly longer drove me absolutely up the wall.
It's scary that they have this kind of power on a global scale now, and they are starting to convert country after country and get them to censor their own Internet. It's like MPAA and RIAA are the oil cartel of the 21st century.
It's used when selecting items in an editable UITableView (list views).

Most well-known in Mail[0] (in a mailbox, tap the top-right [Edit] button), can also be found in Instapaper ([Edit] within a list of articles) or in iBooks's books list (although iBooks uses a blue checkmark, not red).

Not a commonly seen checkmark, though.

[0] http://0.tqn.com/d/ipod/1/0/G/H/-/-/using-iphone-email-4.jpg
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Obviously you have never participated in an Apple critical discussion...
If I click on the "More" button, it opens a dropdown menu. If I click anywhere else on the page, then this dropdown menu should close. As it stands, it stays open unless you explicitly click the More button again.
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I am curious about this too. Nothing in the support center directly addresses this -- perhaps a brief explanation would be good to add there?
2 or 3. 5 technical books is pushing. Am unsure how much can you read _and_ remember/understand 100% if you do 6 to 10.
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I think by Index Scrolling it means to use the SectionIndexer interface:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Sectio...

It would be amazingly helpful if they would link from the 'Android Design' page to the docs exactly what they are talking about.
Wow - didn't realize this thread would turn into a dissection of my use of 'Wallah' -- which I didn't even consciously realize I use (nor what it really meant to the degree analyzed here). You learn something new every day. Thanks HN!
Instead, let the user guess if an entry is just an entry or opens another screen full of interesting things.

If it's just an entry, then it will either have a checkbox or a text box whilst inactive list members which do nothing are grey instead of white (at least on Gingerbread, I don't have an ICS device to hand).

So there's no ambiguity. You can argue that a caret or ellipsis might convey the affordance of expanding the item by selecting it and I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but the Android UI as designed is at least unambiguous.
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This by far is a superior source for what is happening.

The posted source seems to be of no value.
Check out the paper "Modeling Web Interactions", it talks about using continuations to model web-based control flow:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.11.8...

PG has also done some work in this area:
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
a much better name than the previous groupay (this appears to be the same company).
If VC money is involved and all that happens is a regularly profitable business, then is not really different from total failure.

To not be a failure you business must be a HUGE success, grow and profit like only startups like Google and Facebook have.
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The example shows a ListView of items where each entry responds to a click and does something. In that context, you should never ever use indicators on the rows of the ListView as the list selector highlight when clicking an item signifies that an action will happen (if you want a list with no click actions, disable the list selector so nothing happens when a row is touched).
On smaller screens they move over to the left, and you can also change the alignment in the settings. We've always preferred the center look.
Unfortunately, I don't like it. Not because its new, but because I don't like "position:fixed" elements when I scroll. I am using a netbook most of the time and all these fixed elements take up half of my screen (maybe not half, but feels like it). When I scroll, I do it because I want to scroll, not because I want most of the GUI to not move. Unfortunately, position:fixed seems to be the current "thing" to do for many designers :(
I think most people just aren't exposed to big problems, and that's why we build software for other techies. We also tend to solve our own problems, which are mostly "trivial" compared to the bigger problems outside of our lives.

One way to solve this is to encourage multi-disciplines in school. CS students should interact and do more projects with Pre-med students, psych majors, etc.
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I know a lot of people tend to bitch about Paypal but I think it's important to remember that there are a ton of cases where the service is fantastic. I for one was on the phone with them last night to sort out an issue. The rep was very knowledgeable and helpful. Just saying keep it in perspective!
This part hasn't changed in the new visual design, but duly noted. Note you can changed the fixed header in the settings as well as turn off the sidebar.
It should change in the regions of the world that will be affected by SOPA; rather than going dark, display a pseudo government notice about the site being closed to citizens, and below that give instructions on how you can circumvent it and see HN, in exactly the way people will circumvent SOPA when it arrives. People get to see HN, and awareness is raised, and everyone gets to learn how to circumvent it.
It's obvious: PayPal is run by robots.
Thanks. I completely understand and know that speed is a continual top priority.
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A friend went for a job interview at Codemasters a couple of months before it all went tits up, and got privately warned away from joining by a couple of members of staff.
There is no grand conspiracy involving Google apologism. Everything with a .co.ke domain is auto-killed by the HN submission process.

I just tried it myself with some other random Kenyan domain:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460932
Can I ask how much the grant was? (Didn't see the amount mentioned in the article) and did the grant come with specific terms or was it just "here's some free cash, go have some fun :)"?
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Working for any company with time-cards sounds terrifying.
Try PayPal's Merchant Technical Support (https://ppmts.custhelp.com/app/ask - Mass Pay is under "API Products") The developer forums on x.com can sometimes be helpful as well. They have a few staff members that work the boards.

If you're a developer, you don't really want to use their front line Customer Service.

It also helps to have an account manager but how you get one is a mystery. They called us up one day and said, Hi! I'm your new account manager.
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I think if you're talking about one-off, it's a fair point. With regular payments, UK consumers are much more comfortable setting up direct debits. Just under 80% of UK adults currently have at least 1 active direct debit set up, for example.
I was referring to servers, not desktops.
> It will probably clash with the carrier/manufacturer's own theme, but it'll work and be consistent.

This isn't how themes work in Android. When manufacturers make a theme for their custom UI (TouchWiz, MotoBlur, etc.) they often override the base assets for certain UI elements like Buttons, ListViews, and TabHosts. The end result was that your app would inherit those styles if you used those widgets without changing their look at all.

With ICS, Theme.Holo will always be available without any of the base assets overridden, which means if you target that theme or use that theme as a base for customizations, your app will not inherit those elements that the manufacturer may have overridden for their custom UI theme. This is what the change that ICS brought in regards to this issue, by having an unspoiled copy of Theme.Holo always available.
NO.

The post says that, -if- Google is doing what someone pretending to be Google is apparently doing, then Google would be violating its own T&C's.

Please read carefully so as not to turn a hypothetical statement into an inaccurate fact.
In his appeal letter to Codemasters, Essessi does mention that he took time to seek legal counsel before replying. I don't know if he's retained a lawyer, but it doesn't look like he's going into this totally blind.
Great to see Matt & team starting a blog, can't wait to integrate GoCardless into our upcoming mobile app.
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Everything I have read and experienced with them so far has been tops, I really like that. There is never any promise to get into these kinds of things but based on a feel I have, it is at least promising. Don't put yourself out on a call for me unless you happen to be calling already. I do appreciate the time you have taken already. Thank you.
There's a couple of reasons why I think this doesn't seem quite right:

- "Large human effort" doesn't seem like Google's style - a screen scrape for info would be faster for them, and I'd assume that they already have tools built to do that.

- If the callers are lying about being affiliated with mocality, then why can't we assume that they might also be lying about being from Google?

- Google would likely have the entire site indexed and cached already, so there's very little reason for them to get actual people to manually screen-scrape the live site.

- OK, the second wave is coming from a Google IP, but why wasn't the first wave coming from one?

Yeah, it looks pretty bad, but this type of behaviour is so atypical of Google. It seems almost laughable to make the assumption that it's anything other than scammers trying to take advantage of Google announcements to try to make a quick/easy buck by selling Google services as an affiliate.
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The best thing about DDG that it's very configurable. Many commenters here complaining about things they could easily change in the settings menu, like colors, advertisements, floating header, results placed in the middle, etc.