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Two-way data binding is indeed a bad pattern, but the issue is that there is only syntax to bind data down, with [[]]. Sometimes it makes sense to get data from a child, and {{}} can be convenient, as long as you follow the rule that you only use it to retrieve data, and never try to set it. Unfortunately there is no syntax for such a binding, but as long as you follow the style that {{}} is only used as a one-way binding (but in the opposite direction compared to [[]]) it works just fine.

I usually create elements that are responsible for managing a certain type of data, and expose is through properties. This data can then be used anywhere in the application, by using that element and observing with {{}}. I really like that pattern, it feels like a traditional model object that exposes a nice API to consumers.

I definitely agree that you need a pretty strict style guide, it's too easy to go crazy and just stitch things together, and end up with an entangled mess.
Being a sysadmin having the thing on my wrist overnight is the best use case for me to have it, that way if I get alerts in the night I can have it vibrate so I don't wake the wife.

In all likelihood I would charge it at work, not at home. But I get what you're saying, that's interesting.
I was planning on getting the Pebble 2 sometime next spring as a replacement for my current Pebble Time. So I've been comparing what's out there. My phone is Android, so that leaves out the Apple watch. Also, not impressed with Android Wear watches.

It looks like the Samsung Gear S3 comes pretty close -- it runs Tizen (which is derived from Nokia's Maemo), so it looks like it should be easy to develop for. Also has an always-on screen, and "up to" a 3-day battery life.

I just wish they could make a screen that looks as good as AMOLED, but was passively illuminated during the daytime.
Many countries which do not use FPTP nonetheless end up with stable long-lived de facto two-party systems. The hypothetical ideal of a many-party coalition state is rare regardless of voting system and apportionment.
> but Darwinists won't admit this because "religion".

I don't see how that follows. "Religion" doesn't just make the claim that there is a creator and leaves it at that. In fact I'd have more respect for religion if it did.
The interview actually talks quite a bit about how I went about making these changes. Worth fully reading!
I read it a few months ago and your recollection is accurate. I think it's one of the best fictional books on the subject.
That is not the question I was replying to.
This is someone who has a handful of popular-ish songs on streaming sites, all from television soundtracks, but hasn't really charted as far as I can tell

That's what's called "fails [[WP:MUSIC]]" on Wikipedia. The basic criteria are two recordings on a major label, or some major award, or charting on some well known chart, or historical importance. These criteria filter out the several million garage and Myspace bands that would like to be on Wikipedia.
Certain foods can be better than others, but the basic tenet "eat less than you need to power yourself" seems like it should be a consistent formula for anyone who adheres to the first law of thermodynamics.

I (and presumably many others) have used it with notable success, so when I see a data point that suggests it's not a valid approach, I immediately question the validity of that data point.
Being a user of a six plus, where getting my phone out of my pocket can be an issue, the convenience of having it on my wrist is huge. Just not huge enough to currently overcome the inconveniences.
IIRC there was a throw away line about him not being a virgin - "slept with women and a few men" or something along those lines. I'll look it up when I'm not at work.
That would assume universities exist to perform logical value in society.
Perhaps you have enough for a Fitnibble or a Fitbyte
Admittedly, Snow Crash follows it the most weakly of the other three I've read. Anathem and The Diamond Age fit the pattern perfectly.
> Netherlands city of Delft, known more for pottery than technology

Perhaps this is true, but hopefully not any longer among HN readers:

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: world first microbiologist, huge improvements in the microscope

- Martinus Beijerinck: discoverer of the virus

- Produces the Nuna, which won the world solar challenge in Australia 5 times
I ordered the first one on the list last week for my son and I to read. Great minds think alike.
"With this “nanoship”, travel time to Earth’s nearest neighboring stars is reduced to just 20 years, as the chip can travel at one-fifth of the speed of light. ... But 20 years is a huge step up from the expected deep space travel time we’re currently capable of. For instance, it would take more than 100 years to get to Alpha Centauri."

So currently we are able to reach Alpha Centauri in 100 years? And now this magical chip can travel at 20% the speed of light? I'm either a horrible reader or this article left some really important details out!
Just trying to point out that human action without profit requires something else to account for the costs; otherwise there is no way to judge comparatively how limited resources should be applied. So if there isn't going to be profit driven activity, what will be the metric for success? If it is "outcomes", then we should start plowing everything we've got into it. Of course, should that mean we stop plowing resources into other endeavors? Do we make a vote of it? A law case?
> Being able to spend time with your new kid should not be a privilege of people who have money.

Ah, of course. Instead it should come at the expense of people who chose not to (or were unable to) spend time with a child at all.

"<Positively connoted activity> should not be a privilege of people who have money" is a very nice-sounding statement, but it ignores the fact that there's a reason only people who have money do certain things; because it's very expensive.

> Overall resources in our society aren't that scarce

Evidently resources in our society are scarce enough that parents can't stay home with their child 24/7 without someone else paying for it. (Either that or the parents in question are able but unwilling to decrease their expenses in exchange for time with their children.)
In academic book publishing, I tend to agree. These are low profit enterprises. Few copies get sold in all honesty. However, they are major leeches when it comes to journals.
Idea that the homeless have nowhere to go is a stretch (really, ask them, don't take my word for it) - and if the author's advice is followed, your basically spending in a single night (few hundred) what it would cost to feed them for a whole month.
Thus clutter of the grandparent comment wasn't helpful either.
Maybe they have the cachet of "reasonable competence", but what has cachet are the journals themselves. Books are way less relevant than papers, and their publishers are even less relevant. E.g., nobody cares who publishes Science or Nature.
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I guess if you considered the link I provided a "content-free screed" then I'm not sure what to say. Your example was not a good characterization of the review.
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The focus being on character development and conversation and scenes shows you might be a fan of soft sci fi. Thats OK. Different strokes, different folks, etc.

The only real problem Diamond Age has from a hard sci fi perspective, is its 20 years old and everyone knows about additive manufacturing and 3-d printing and slicing objects to be printed and feedstock issues and compiling and analog analogies to digital logic gates and compilers and natural language processing and the dangers of closed source, the idea of more or less tablet computing and wikipedia rolled into one. Its all really boring today of course, other than he got quite a few details wrong and its fun to spot them. Twenty years ago, of course, its ideas were absolutely mindblowing. I really enjoyed exploring and daydreaming about the new engineering and new computer science and new concepts in Diamond Age. Sure there was some fluffy interpersonal story to fill it out, but I mostly ignored it for the fascinating hard sci fi concepts.

In the late 90s it was a truly awesome hard sci fi novel. Not a very good soft sci fi novel, but whatever. Someone should suggest a modern hard sci fi novel... published in the last year or two.
The grimmer your story, the smaller the market. Thus even though famines are often disastrous human events that can mean the death of millions and frequently alter the course of history, hardly anyone makes movies about them because watching people starve unnecessarily is hardly anyone's idea of a good time. At least in war stories someone gets to be winner, even if it's temporary. In a famine everything gets worse and the only people likely to profit are the people who were already winning at the outset, so there isn't really a story arc.

You can do movies like this (The Road, Schindler's List, Dallas Buyer's Club, Hotel Rwanda are all good examples) but if the world of the story is crushingly awful then you're basically reduced to one plot - moral individual risks/sacrifices self to provide glimmer of hope to others. Offhand I'd say you can only put out a truly grim a-list movie about once every 5 years.
I ordered the first book on the list about a week ago form my son and I over winter. Great minds think alike.
IMHO they were mostly interested in the OS and the development platform
I am using the appimage and I don't have these issues.

Ranger.py runs very smooth and vim is fine. I am kind of shocked that there was no delay and I am on a 8 year old dell.
For me it's pretty much all package management:

- I like that all the packaging stuff is done by a single command (yum, or more recently dnf).

- I find RHEL derivatives' packaging conventions easier to deal with than Debian derivatives' (<thing>, <thing>-dev, lib<thing> etc. isn't always consistent on Debian derivatives).

- EPEL gives me most of the packages I need and I don't have issues with them being dated as often as Ubuntu LTS.

- RHEL derivatives' don't tend to do weird nonsense like messing with nginx configuration layout to match Apache.
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I'm fond of pwsafe. Runs on Mac and IOS and shares file in cloud. Like that it is not browser based (though they do have an optional browser plug-in). Excellent for storing hundreds of passwords and security entries. https://pwsafe.info/
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Most companies offer employees a bundle of benefits that have a lot of different pieces. I'm sure that, if any individual employee were designing the bundle specifically for their own maximum benefit given a specific $ pool of money, it would look quite a bit different from the one that's actually offered.

Some people would be happy to forgo benefits like life insurance. Some will want the maximum 401-K matching while others don't contribute enough to take full advantage. People trade off vacation time and salary differently.
Another approach: an ordered subset specifying fall-through candidates you would want your vote to go to if the current one has not path to victory. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1E-bZdxnzc_eTJvLWtsSGE3Y3c...
Well look, with something as complicated as metabolism you're likely to find evidence that goes both ways, but I don't think any sane doctor would object to "eat less sugar", whether that be fructose or glucose or whatever. From what I've read, I think fructose is worse for you, but I'm not going to claim that with 100% certainly. I will claim you'll be better off not eating sugar regardless.
What does ownership entail other than archiving the content and providing access to it?
IBM has been 'pulling itself together' for a long, long time.

It seems like a relatively rare thing.
A lot of people get their fantasy fix from science fiction.

(this is my favorite place to apply the Arthur C. Clarke quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", whether he meant it that way or not)
Yeah, Windows 10 is a huge improvement but there are still some hairy parts.

I've run into the search issue as well, and resolved it by tweaking some options in "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows". I believe it was the "Animations in the taskbar" option, but I'm not 100%.

Flux also destroys your framerate when it transitions. I tend to just launch it when I need it and set it to always be tinted.

The touch and pen support is fantastic, though, and has become second nature to me for web browsing and note taking.

I've also more or less been able to recreate a Linux-like development workflow with Windawesome[0], cmder[1], chocolatey[2], and qutebrowser[3]. Msys in cmder gives me the unix-like terminal I need while still being able to run Windows-native utilities, and things I install from chocolatey like git, ag, and vim are added to the cmder PATH and just work. Bash for Windows has been quite nice as well.

[0] https://windawesome.codeplex.com/
[1] http://cmder.net/
[2] https://chocolatey.org/
[3] https://qutebrowser.org
As a rule, no. Snark is not civil, and the HN guidelines ask us to be civl: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This gets to motivations and intent but doesn't really answer the question posed by the article, which is: are insiders who leak carefully and strategically creating better public policy outcomes than the indiscriminate leaks that IT people have been generating?
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I switched to Windows 10 about a year ago and having tried all the options listed above I would suggest giving https://mintty.github.io/ a shot.
(More about the power of social media -- and perhaps the weakness of automated trading systems, not equipped to handle events like these -- rather than politics per se)
You'd better spend your time, by regulating things that generate code and validating/regulating that output.
I've owned a Pebble Time since that kickstarter and I've found that all I use it for is:

* Telling the time

* Tracking my activity level

* Tracking my sleep

* Timer and occasionally a smart Alarm

* Letting me see my motivations without pulling my phone out.

* changing volume/track on spotify.

The fitbit charge 2 has most of those features, the main thing it's lacking are timer, smart alarm, spotify control and the more advanced alerts (apparently it only does text/calls and calendar). All those missing features are software features rather than hardware features, I kind of expect fitbit acquired pebble so it could get some of that technology.
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> I understand why the Ruby community has warmed up to Elixir and the Phoenix web-framework?

Could you explain why, at least as it pertains to web development?

As a (former) Common Lisp developer I find Ruby on Rails suffices for the vast majority of needs, and believe its popularity and maturity pays off in productivity gains.
The national air raid sirens were controlled over random POTS lines[1]. The theory was that a dedicated system would need proper upkeep and testing, but when a telephone line goes down the customer at the end of it will notice and file a complaint.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HANDEL
for those who don't know he's quoting Trump. the man who, if becomes President, will arguably have the single greatest impact, as an individual, on whether humanity does enough, fast enough, to forestall/minimize climate disaster.

in other words... outlook grim
I take it you aren't interested in sleep tracking? I find it helpful to know how much "deep" sleep I've gotten -- and it does tend to correlate with how I feel the next day.

But as long as it lasts for more than a day, and if it charges fast enough, you could always charge it in the car on the way to work. Or charge it while in morning while in the shower.
Sleep tracking is one of the features that pebble users fawn over. Charging overnight prevents that use case.
Funny you should ask, detecting QRS complexes has been my first project since starting here. I know of a few papers where the authors have applied neural networks to EKGs, but the applications have been purely academic. I'm not aware of any other companies that use NNs in practice. (There may well be some, but they tend to be secretive about how their algorithms work.) At any rate, the false positive rate of our software is now about an order of magnitude lower than anything else on the market.
On my team I've found that it's incredibly useful to commit the merge conflicts and conflict markers, then immediately resolve the conflicts in the next commit. This gives you one commit that shows exactly how the two branches merged together, followed by a commit that shows exactly how the conflicts were resolved. The resolution commit can then be code reviewed independently for a nice clean view of the conflicts introduced in the merge. It also allows you to easily reset to the merge commit and resolve the conflicts differently.

The standard git workflow (and this github feature) seems to promote resolving the conflicts alongside all of the other changes in the merge working copy. This make me nervous, as there's no way to differentiate the new lines that were introduced to resolve merge conflicts from the thousands of lines of (previously reviewed) code from the feature branch.

If you're not careful, completely unrelated working-copy code and behavior can be introduced in a "merge commit" and neither you or any of your reviewers will notice. "Looks good to me."
If your argument is that "eating sugar is good for you", I encourage you to eat all the sugar you like. It'll be a fun science experiment. Let us know how it turns out.
> I’ve accidentally closed panes a number of times by a poorly-timed keystroke.

PSA: In iTerm you can hit CMD+Z within a few seconds to unclose a tab or window.
Seems like a loophole not likely to last long.
You hit the nail on the head, and then turned it into a condemnation and missed the point and problem entirely.

It's mental illness. The reason they won't "follow any rules" is because they're mentally ill. There's no easy answer, and saying "there's an easy answer, but it won't work for them" isn't actually an easy answer.

Many of them are very mentally ill, and living under a bridge is not a choice they've made willingly.

If someone's too mentally incapable of holding a job, or reading, or clothing themselves, then is it right that we force them under a bridge?

Note: I am responding to your comment, not to the practicality of the article's proposed solution.
Also mentioned in the article is that Pebble is still responsible for their own debts.
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Universities do exist to add value to society through education and dissemination of information. Seems like a pretty clear charter if you ask me.
Speaking as some who has only read the Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon, there are definitely sections of Stephenson's books that are a slog, but I generally find finishing them is rewarding.
At my startup, which is 18 years old now, I had several moments when I felt like we failed, and we pretty much ready to shut it down, but then, after days of thinking/walking/running some solution for the problem comes to my mind. It takes some time to implement, but these ideas saved our start many times.

So, don't give up too fast on your business idea, keep thinking and try different things out!
One of the things I've noticed that's pretty huge is that a lot of Mac-exclusive apps like Affinity and Tower have recently made full native Windows versions in the last few months. Developers who felt their customer base resided entirely or primarily on Mac seem to feel there's a market on Windows for artists and developers that there hadn't been before.
diff3 conflict style display would be considerably more useful.
Headaches from too much sodium, acne breakouts, blood sugar crashes, poor mood, high acidity in stomach, digestive problems, bloating, etc. Eating nutritionally-poor food has immediate consequences.
I want to use a watch with sleep tracking, obviously I can't do that if I'm taking it off every night to charge it.
I remember it well and share your gloomy response to it.
It's actually very hard to imagine a true extinction level event now. Despite the comments in this thread, it's unlikely to be nuclear (there's just not enough power there - the Earth is really big).

If the Earth's population is around 8 billion, even if a series of events killed 99.99% of us - there'd still be 800,000 people left. More than enough to repopulate in time.
Pebble 2 shipped, btw.
Thank you, I just couldn't find the words myself but "couldn't escape her bias" is a perfect phrasing of what happened.
Build an admin in one week? just another CRUD
I wonder what the statistics are for "first marriages that don't want kids". Still not inevitable, I assume...
I would say that the genome is not getting to be truly selfish here, rather, it's just a tool of evolution, and evolution as a whole is the one with the purpose, but I don't know if it has enough forward-vision to create a specific entity as much as go for higher complexity whether it's through one complex being or a complex network of simple beings.

There's a lot of odd downvoting in this thread...
I like the idea of increasing the child tax credit to something like $10-15k per child, up from the current level of a few thousand. The increased incentive would only be fully realized by families who could scale their income up to match. Based on what I see and hear from my peers it seems like many middle class couples are on the fence (financially) in terms of having ''one more kid'' and this could help close the gap.
You'll just need to have permission before you can get pregnant; cost problem solved (except for the expanding bureaucracy to manage the rules and operations of maternity).
It should be remembered that not every mental illness can be readily treated in a manner friendly to outpatient care. Not everyone can be treated in a way that turns them into a "normal", functional, employable adult.