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How is this such a difficult question. Suicide is an inherently evolutionary bad idea and is eliminated from the gene pool by obvious means. Are there even any documented incidents of aberrational suicide in any other species?
Yeah you can click it and see what happens, that is what I do when I am on new system. Maybe my grandparents would be scared of clicking some icons. Current new users are kids which are less scared of clicking around and getting to know what this thing does.

Icon can help later in quickly locating this program, but I do not really care what it is. Does firefox, chrome icon or internet explorer show you that it will display websites? Internet explorer icon became "Internet" icon for a lot non technical users I think.
I wouldn't classify myself as having in-depth 'knowledge' but I believe both of them already have plans to stream worldwide. BBC considering charging a fee for it and RTÉ have an international player already offering free and paid services.
From reading the article, the case appears nothing more than an exchange of Bitcoin for cash. The buyer dropped a hint about using it for illegal purposes, but I don't see how that's any concern of the seller.

I'm reminded of a comedian saying "Drugs are illegal but ATM machines are open 24 hours a day".

I'm just surprised the effort that agents go through to prosecute seemingly marginal activities. Unless the authorities knew this guy was involved in something more nefarious, I imagine there would be more pressing cases for them to pursue.
Because they are working on UK Government projects, check the profile :)
No, you pay extra
https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/international/roaming.html

That's mainly a texting fee since that only gets you unlimited SMS, not data or voice. If you don't get the Passport plan in advance, sent texts go from free to 50 cents each.

When I travel Europe, when I'm in the country that issued the SIM in my phone, sending texts are maybe 3 cents, if I leave that country they're maybe 9 cents. Receive was always free.
It sure as hell wasn't me reposting. Some kind of bot building karma; I hope 'dang or another mod kills this thread.
> icons still dont make sense

Couldn't agree more, My last IOS device was the Iphone 3G, so I kind of lost touch with IOS. Recently found myself trying to help my mom print an email on her Ipad, and felt quiet disarmed as none of those icons made any sense at all! Ended up clicking icons to see what happens, one in particular, was apparently deleting messages, and I have yet to understand what the icon symbol was all about :P
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The article approaches it from the perspective of "what preventative measures does the human body and mind use against suicide." In this context "so few" is probably the right wording, given a 98.6% reduction compared to no prevention (according to the numbers from the article).
Worth your time to read the abstract. Most intense academic burn I can remember encountering. I didn't realize Chomsky's behavior in linguists had come to resemble his antics in politics and history.
>Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity

I thought most researched suggested the opposite (ex http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071721/)
Perhaps. But it is also pedagogically valuable to ask "Why don't more people commit suicide?" We might learn something about the mental defence mechanism the brain employs.
To me, if there is a weakness in Apple's interface due to evolution that weakness is in evolving too slowly. The premises for "easy to use" in 1984 are radically different from those of today. The "for who?" and the "for what?" and the "what artifact am I using?" have changed.

The last matters. It ain't so much skeuomorphism ain't relevant no more, it's computers are ubiquitous => to the point that the computers we carry in our pockets are taken for granted as computers.

Interface designs that draw on folders and writing pads and cameras and folders are headed to the dustbins. The best skeuomorph for X is the thing closest to X itself. I'm not saying that hamburger menus haven't irritated me, only that I know what it means when I see one and how it ought to behave because it skeuomorphs to it's own computer interface => and there it draws on a long self-referential skeuomorphic tradition of the floppy disk "save" icon.

To me it seems, the better we make skeuomorphs the further we get from icons and the closer we get to words. Siri, Alexa, Cortana lead the way back from hieroglyphs for middle mangers afraid of catching keyboard cooties. I don't want to say that everyone knows how to use a computer, but it's not 1984 and so many people around the world are comfortable typing to the point that many Africans have mobile payments over SMS.

Mobile payments over SMS shows that the efficient skeuomorphism of text. Our phones are/have cameras. "Use camera" pretty much tells the story.
Do you mean to render the same view (what you see), but at a higher resolution? So that, for example, you can print it out?
Sounds like you picked the wrong tool tbh

I'm not a fan of the 12 inch Macbook but you knew it only had one port and no active cooling when you bought it.

It's not like it suddenly lost a bunch of ports and throttling under load is not really unexpected either.
I used Ember once, took over an Ember project from a very good Ember programmer. I found I have to duplicate the models from database, to ORM in backend, and Ember. Everytime I have to modify/add a database column, I have to modify 3 places. So I end up get ride of Ember and use Flask-Admin only. Even better, I get ride of the ORM in Flask too, using reflection. Then my code is 3 times less, and I feel happy.
Yes, as mentioned in the article Databox also has a Google Play developer console integration from where we pull similar data. Go ahead and try it out =)
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Surpising that these physical models can outperform computers! I would have thought surface tension and gravity would mess up the scaling in the physical model. Is the problem in computer simulations that we don't have the equations, or that we don't have the computing power?
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It's not that they're bad at what they do with computers. It's just what they do with computers is not worth doing.
This is only a requirement for government entities and non-profits at the moment. For those who didn't read the article, in April of 2016 the Department of Justice, the organization responsible for the Americans with Disabilities Act, has proposed an amendment, which will "require public entities and public accommodations that provide products or services to the public through websites on the Internet to make their sites accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.". Immediately after, the article says that they were careful not to suggest that currently inaccessible websites are exempt.

So if you have a website currently up and you're providing a product or service, similar to having a wheelchair accessible entrance, you may be required to provide a more accessible website, or an accessible alternative.

For those of you who aren't familiar with website accessibility, you might want to brush up on the ADA guidelines. https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm

I tend to test run my websites through Lynx to make sure it works fine without JavaScript, try to navigate with only a keyboard in Chrome and Firefox, and try it out with a cheap or free screenreader like Chromevox.
> “The physical model will stimulate the processes on its own,” says Gibson.

Probably a typo, s/stimulate/simulate
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If all they had on Espinoza is the fact that he "agreed to think" about them paying him for btc with stolen cc numbers then there's no "laundering" of anything going on there unless they have some proof of him using funds acquired from "illicit activities" to purchase the btc in the first place.
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YMMV.

I'm far faster at picking text labels from a list than picking the icons. I see the text label as an icon.

The text "icon" is simple and unchanging. I can pick it out much faster than funny pictograms that change with each OS version.
The article misses the mark IMHO by focusing on skeuomorphic(sp?) icons.

Yes, usability has degraded during the recent 'flat design' craze, but not so much because skeuomorphism was tossed out, but because the many little visual design changes that kill discoverability.

The mobile operating systems started this trend where a lot of advanced functionality was hidden behind 'magic' touch and swipe gestures that go way beyond the simple and intuitive tap, zoom and rotate gestures, like 2-, 3- and 4-finger swipes, long and short touches, etc..., important features cannot be visually discovered (how do I close an application again, on iOS, Android and Windows8? how do I flip between applications? how do I take a screenshot?).

It's the many small things that kill usability for the sake of visual design:

- the famous shift-key on iOS, what the hell were they thinking?

- buttons are often indistinguishable from non-interactive label, leading to idiotic trial and error clicking to find out which UI elements do something

- scroll-bars that are hidden by default, loosing the information how far I am into a document (OSX)

- changing and moving things around just for the sake of confusing existing users, not making anything more intuitive (especially Windows is guilty of this)

And so on and on... the icon design is the least of the problems (and every OS worth its salt should allow to replace the icon theme anyway).

One important reason I'm going back to the command line more and more is because UIs have become so unusable for anything that goes beyond browsing an image collection. Change itself is only good if it results in improvements, but in the area of UI design, things that have been working just fine for 20 years have been broken for superficial visual effects.

It's like 90's web designers took over and are building operating system UIs now (and may be there's a bit of truth in it).

It's not like the past was perfect of course, I mean... Alt-F4, Alt-TAB, ... but that was on Windows which was always laughed at for its poor usability (at least from view of AmigaOS and MacOS users).
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I don't understand the downvotes.

Anyway, I have one time codes for all accounts I use 2FA with. Google generates these one time codes as TOTP substitutes, LastPass generates them as a one time master password that's TOTP exempt. Amazon you have to send an email and they'll call to verify and then unset 2FA on the account.
Does anyone have any experience of using hardware tokens (like the sealed key-fobs) running TOTP?

For some services, I would much rather have a key-ring-ful of these devices rather than an app on my phone which I also use for reading websites.
The United States is far ahead if you measure by nominal GDP.
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I'm actually quite sorry about this thread, but HN doesn't give me a defence mechanism against this type of trolling. I couldn't flag, I couldn't downvote. All I could do was to hope that someone would do that or maybe you'd come and detach this, which you did, but as you admit, a bit late (3 days). Or to respond, which I unfortunately did, and I did a bit more than just countering misinformation.

That said, I guess your interventions may be a little useful to the community if you don't use this parent-like, intimidating and threatening manners.
Yeah let's just pack a bunch of people into a 1 kilometer cube to detect some neutrinos!
They could put the e.g. inside a dfn tag or teach the screen readers how to read it.
I'm guessing no data on pygmies. Probably no pygmy army conscription.
Your proposed solution doesn't solve the problems you brought up.

Someone willing to take a risk to come to Vancouver will have last filed last year's taxes in a foreign country, and will still be subject to the land transfer tax. Plus, it still won't stop the use of relatives as proxies.

A tax based on previous tax location is effectively an immigration tax against home buyers.

I'm already being bit by the existing home transfer tax because I've only been back in Canada for 6 months, and so I'm disqualified for tax relief on my home; the exact opposite of what the tax law was intended to accomplish. With your proposed law, I'd be hit with the new tax as well.
No, it is not safer to not use 2FA. That SMS is easy to hijack does not mean that password+SMS 2FA is weaker than just a password.

It's important to separate out two separate things that we've seen happening - and the media has done a bad job distinguishing these two things - 2FA and account recovery.

If you use SMS 2FA, then to gain access to your account someone needs your password and to hijack your phone number. That's harder than just having your password, but perhaps not much harder if you are a prominent target. The advice I would give to popular youtubers and streamers would be to have very strong passwords using a password manager, and use a TOTP app for 2FA.

What most of the news stories have been about, however, is not 2FA but account recovery. If an attacker can gain access to your account using _only_ your SMS number then you do not have 2FA: It's 1 factor authentication! A lot of websites do a bad job of explaining why they are asking for your phone number - there are competing aims here, to both add security but also ensure you can still gain access to your account - but if you are a high profile target you should take care of the latter (access) yourself, and _not_ enable a backup phone number for account recovery purposes.
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I guess it's hard to discuss anything unless you've read any of the papers. Maybe people will read some and then have something interesting to discuss with colleagues at a later date.
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I'm not sure exactly what you're implying. Are you suggesting Espinoza was laundering? Or currency exchange is money laundering?

That his buddy had to cop to a plea deal with overzealous prosecutors is unfortunate, but in no way changes Espinoza's case.
> In a sane system ... US

No. Almost nothing about the US healthcare system is sane, by any interpretation of the word.
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>The buyer dropped a hint about using it for illegal purposes, but I don't see how that's any concern of the seller.

Within limits. If you sell Bitcoin to someone who tells you they're going to fund a hit on someone or blow up a building, I think it is a concern, both morally and legally.
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An employee who leaves is a tragedy, especially in smaller companies. His work has to be shared among the other (implying even more extra time). Then you have to start a new acquisition process to hire someone new, train him, fit him into the existing group and so on. And if someone leaves because of the company culture, there is the possibility that other will follow, making the cost even higher.
Ooph. I feel for the judge, but when you admit you fundamentally cannot explain/understand a key piece of the case you preside over, it might be time to recuse yourself.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164790
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Living the dream here too:

When applying for my current job I made my salary proposition. My future boss to be told me that he had an more or less fixed absolute upper limit he tries to keep employees payroll below - so I told him that if the amout of money he is willing to pay is limited we can simply adjust the hours, and decided to do only 6hrs a day. I work from my 'home office', in the back yard under a roof beyond the sun, dont have to waste time every day to travel to some cramped up office, get food delivered by my wife, and have the rest of the day to spend with our son.

And since there is quite some time left I still have time to run my startup on 'spare time'

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Dont give up - there are employers that honestly care about emloyees wellbeing.

I hop in the car and drive to the office (3hr drive) every month or so, stay for 2 days, do some meetings and go home then. I guess it's important to have a beer with your git-mates now and then.
There's no such thing. It's just deluding yourself and a bit dishonest to say "free" in this context, please try to say what you mean.

Is it actually, 'In a sane system healthcare is billed to everyone as a percentage tax on their income capped at some dollar amount'. Or perhaps you think it should be an uncapped percentage of income? I expect there is no country on Earth where the cost of healthcare literally has nothing to do with employment status, in-so-much as single-payer healthcare is always funded at least partially by income taxes.
> Fred Brooks concludes that no software product should be designed by more than two people.

That really depends on the architecture of the software. There are thousands of people creating and maintaining device drivers for the linux kernel. The idea that only two people could do that simultaneously, is a bit far fetched when the architecture actually makes sense.

But then again, most commercial software does not have that kind of extensible architecture. Therefore, it is probably true that a commercial software team will never really scale.
I agree with you on Mavericks vs El Capitan. My Mac is still on Mavericks and I intend to keep it like that as long as I can..
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I think the main problem with UI is the movement towards scalable graphics fitting all types of displays which unfortunately can't be as complex as raster graphics with the same size constraints. Hence flatness and overly abstract, "simple-gradiented" shapes everywhere. I think once people realize that 8K will be the final resolution of displays, raster will come back as the number of display formats that need to be supported will be limited and graphics could be rescaled on the go. For now we have to suffer through the "modernism" phase of UI design which like in art makes only around 5% of people inspired, rest is underwhelmed; or stick to the last bearable OSes like Win 7, Mavericks, iOS6...
Every single example he gave looked, in my opinion, better the new way. This entire article is just a vast list of opinions about their interface design disguised behind some inappropriate grand declaration of truth.
>I don't think that the UI actually needs to get out of the way

Getting a bit fed up of listening to fellow designers preaching about "cognitive overload" over a few button shapes and icons then proceeding to ship designs where all the controls are un-styled blue text with the occasional semi-abstract line art icon.
I also have the TK1 and find that it works fine. I added an SSD drive to mine. The Puget Systems acrylic enclosure has an SSD mount.
Why not a program or script put “ls” after I enter cd .. or cd – ?
Every time I enter into folder or back I'm curious to know what inside the folder. So why not the program can inject every time when I use " cd ". I know this may can't be done. I just expecting reviews from developer perspective.
additionally since no such distribution deal between Paramount and Netflix exists, since Star Trek in its TV form is a CBS property.

They seem to be confusing Paramount Pictures (the studio in question) with Paramount Television (which was absorbed by CBS).
If I'm not careful, I just end up playing video games. It's hard to be aware from 'the grind' long enough for me to be drawn back into my productive hobbies en force.
Those first two sound like pompous self important over achievers in the worst way. The other two sound very straightforward and down to earth. I'm guessing the latter are the ones that do the work and the former are managers.
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Yeah, I think it's an US - European thing. The parent comment mentioned Germany, you mentioned France, another comment mentioned Italy, I'm from Romania and we also use white notepads.
Good riddance. I live in a basement. I can't tell you how many times I've been scrambling to log into a service that only allows SMS-based 2FA, requiring that I then run upstairs or outside, waiting for my phone's signal to get strong enough that it will receive the SMS, then dash back down before the code expires.
Awesome, thanks so much for all that information. Maybe I'm too pessimistic about the possibility of outsourced car manufacturing after all. Seeing a car on freakin' Alibaba sure gives me a different perspective on it. Apple would need a whole different kind of scale, of course, but that's something the Chinese do well.
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My wife wants a Mac. She's a teacher and uses it mostly to write documents, watch movies, and read PDFs. Would an Air be good enough for her?