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Since sleep tracking dramatically increases the need for robust battery life without having to resort to very specific charging rituals, I hope this means that Apple will finally debut an Apple Watch strap which utilizes the electrical contacts hidden away in the lower strap retention channel. Officially, the contacts make up a diagnostic port, but it's been proven that the contacts support charging. Apple has been expected to release a segmented battery strap for quite a while, but it's never materialized.

Even in the sport band, where the portion of the lower retention strap usable for battery placement is severely limited by the clasp-holding punctures, you can easily double or triple the battery capacity of the Apple Watch and maintain flexibility of the band by using a dozen or so interconnected segmented batteries. [1]

The pleated leather loop bands do not have punctures since they utilize magnetic retention, and can easily be adapted to hold one battery segment per pleated portion. As many as two dozen battery segments can be sewn into the loop, assuming that a magnet and a battery can coexist in a single pleat. [2]

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLKX2ZM/A/38mm-midnight-b...

[2]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLHL2ZM/A/42mm-midnight-b...
> You don't need to just know how people are distributed, you need to know who they are likely to vote for in an election.

That's not how gerrymandering is used.

Gerrymandering as a practice targets minorities. It's based on (highly) educated guesses. You take a minority population center and draw the district lines through it, bisecting the voting power of the population. What would be one whole voting block in one district is not split over N districts (N districts with large Republican populations).

Minorities are more likely to vote (D)emocrat. Republicans get so few minority votes that it doesn't matter where a republican minority votes. Their vote is good in any district.

Going back to the census, if you don' have adequate funding for the census, then some districts will be underfunded. Underfunding generally means an undercount, not an over count. If you underfund (and undercount) minority districts it's easier to redraw the districting lines to break up the minority district and include them in the surrounding districts.
Have I understood correctly: if you have Windows 10 S you won't be able to get Chrome (or any app) not approved by Microsoft?

If that's true, then anti-trust issues will once again loom. This time, MS will not be able to drive their competitor (Google) out of business like they did Netscape.
> It's not like you need more than 20 or so extra commands to be effective in a CUA IDE

... what?

That's so far removed from the truth that I really question whether or not you even use Sublime well. I mean, notepad fits those requirements
The optics of that are terrible. We create low tax zones to bring employment back to disaster areas and blighted communities with buy in across the political spectrum. But to do the same for a bunch of rich white yuppies who get offers that put them in the top 2% out of college? Good luck with that.
> I find vivaldi is not really suited for my several hundreds opened tabs navigation style yet.

What is the solution you are currently using that you want them to implement?

Is quick commands (F2) + typing the tab name to navigate around not sufficient on Vivaldi?
Lol man, I'm so sick of statements like these. How is that adding to the conversation? How was it all that different?

I don't want to assume, but I'm fairly certain adding what you think is different will create more discussion.
I use the Apple Watch's silent alarm feature to wake me up every morning. Just make sure the haptics and sound are turned all the way down, and the watch is set on silent and DnD mode.
Profession: Contracting Specialist in the USAF < 40 people
Workday:
- [06:30]: Alarm off
- [06:48]: "Shit!" jump in the bed and sprint to the shower
- [07:30]: being late is serious. Run into my building, and just beat my supervisor to her desk.
- [08:00]: After coffee and email, build my task list for the day. Review anything thats on my desk, and get contracts reviewed that I need to solicit or award that day.
- [10:00]: My day is pretty much finished. Read a book until 12:00 (on Read.amazon.com, i have to look busy)
- [12:00]: Play some board game with Finance downstairs, grab some lunch and take a power nap in my truck.
- [13:45]: Sit back at my desk, do any corrections that i have come across my desk in any of my contracts.
- [14:30]: Read some more, HN, Code a side project, general bullshit.
- [15:15]: Get dressed for PT, and go work out until 1700 and then go home.
> Except that - unless you're on a tiling WM on Linux - your window manager sucks, and solution like this is barely usable...

It's like everyone's forgotten what makes desktops great. There are tons [1][2][3][4] of tools you can install today that solve this problem for you. No need to wait for browser vendors to integrate everything.

[1] https://mizage.com/divvy/

[2] http://magnet.crowdcafe.com

[3] http://lightpillar.com/mosaic.html

[4] http://windowgrid.net
> Windows 10 S, announced last week, allows users to install only apps that are distributed through the Windows Store.

What if I want to compile and run my own executables? How does this restriction work?
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The argument doesn't seem that cogent. The strategy described is what they already tried to do with the Surface RT, a failure which the article briefly mentions and moves on.

Nonetheless, there's a truth here about UWP. Applications today are all HTML websites. They should be containerized native applications, navigated spontaneously like the web, but running native code protected by the privilege declarations system familiar to phone apps. In fact, the "web of apps" is long overdue, but it's been held back by two major players: Apple, whose Appstore discouraged inter-connected-ness by encouraging a micropayment model, while also promoting platform exclusivity; and Google, who pumps billions of dollars into browsers and other web tech propping up the antiquated HTML-based web.

A new system is overdue. UWP is not that system though, it's a straight-up copycat of Apple's app store ecosystem, nothing more.
This amuses me greatly, got any tangible examples?
This is what I do. I charge the watch in the morning when I get to my office and wear it all day (and to sleep, for the silent alarm feature).
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Nobody needs yesterday tulips
> oil price is dropping

Except that it isn't, really. Looking at the data at http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=oil+price , it has been fairly constant over the last two years. It did go down by 50% over the second half of 2014 but hasn't made dramatic moves since. If Tesla hype had anything to do with the oil price, it should have moved.
Jumped through the hoops and signed up to submit my own video, still "Queued to analyze..." after 1h.
Seeing "replace ugly C idioms" my first reaction was: "why didn't they use "nice C idioms instead?".
>> "and I believe psychological findings back up the tendency to cling to preconceptions"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_exposure_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

These are not things that humans do because they're old (and somehow less plastic / capable than the young). They do them because that's how our brains work once they've acquired information.

If you're going to argue against current neuroscience and psychology findings and beliefs, then you're welcome to cite some sources. "Good mental and physical health" is necessary but not sufficient for creating as many opportunities to have opinions challenged (as younger people).

In the absence of equivalent ability to be challenged and accept new ideas, parent's assertion that a society without death would look very different from our current "each generation overthrows some ideas of the last as they die" seems to stand.
Likely signing by Microsoft? Based on what I've read, you will not be able to run your own executables. This is a big issue for University students who are often required to install textbook-sourced software for labs, class participation, etc.

Perhaps if you install a Visual Studio app from the Windows Store and use that to generate an executable, it will somehow sign the executable?

Meta: At what point does the post rate limit get lifted? If I post a couple of comments while browsing the articles and then attempt to reply to a comment with a question, I have already somehow hit the rate limit and I am blocked from posting for a few hours. It seems like there should be an exception for replying to a question on my own comment.
Not really true. They built a new OS-level api called winrt. It includes a subset of win32. However, other parts of it are completely new and do not "call into win32" the way, say, .NET on Windows generally does.
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They may have to relax centennial rules to allow 3rd party browsers if there's enough pressure.

The motivation really seems to be pushing UWP, which sandboxes apps, and de-emphasizing the 17-year-old win32 stack.
TL;DR: Microsoft has introduced a new version of Windows 10 called "Windows 10 S"[1]. The big differences are that you can only install apps from the Windows Store and you can't join an on-premise domain. This walled garden approach is designed to "enhance securrty" and kill off Win32 with the convenient side-effect of allowing Microsoft to block apps from competing vendors, so you'll use Edge and not Chrome.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-s
Google Duo is a vast improvement over Hangouts for quality and resilience. It has been almost as good as Facetime for me. Duo is also available on iOS and Android.

It is conspicuously absent on any other platform; even Android tablets can't use Duo, let alone a Linux, Windows, or macOS machine. So it's a hell of a walled garden.
Scanners commonly produce files with multiple layers as part of their OCR function. Layers are not proof of forgery. The same types of layers were present in Obama's birth certificate and the same faulty arguments were used when it came out.
The anti-trust issues aren't really the same on many fronts.

The current administration won't prosecute them. They aren't the majority platform anymore. They are actually working more in Open Source than is easy to convey in one comment.
Sleep as Android + Pebble with heartrate tracking. Hopefully Apple catches up because this is a killer combination.
I'd be all over that!
This is the number one feature I miss from my Pebble. Looks like FitBit recently added sleep phase tracking though, so maybe there's hope yet...
Divvy also works on Windows. So this covers the former as well. Plus there are other options [1].

The fact that this keeps coming up makes me think that people have forgotten how customizable the desktop experience can be. Unlike iOS/Android you're not tied down to what the app designer thought a good layout is when organizing your windows.

[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/divvy/?platform=windows
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> Express the rules in code to reduce the complexity and make sure that you can redeploy fast and without any fuzz. The maintenance will be so much easier.

Not to mention you get source/change control for free. I push back constantly on junior engineers overzealously config-ifying everything for some hypothetical future use case. Yagni. It's a two way door and is easy to move later.

(Of course, this doesn't apply in all domains, particularly when you're shipping full applications to clients and code changes are very difficult to deploy.)
Is Firefox allowed on chromebooks? I think the comparison with Chromebook is more appropriate than iOS devices.
It's hardly unspoken, Viacom sued them for a billion dollars way back before Google bought them. They only lost the case because they couldn't find evidence that YouTube execs mentioned any specific video when discussing the money they made from piracy.
I am talking about daily data for long term trading/investing, obviously if you plan to run high frequency or day trading operation and need one minute or tick data, neither eBay nor python will help you :-)
Can you believe it, sub-500k? Hah!
Because nice C idioms is an oxymoron.
You are twisting what people want to do. I don't think the goal is to force people out of the homes they own, but to allow property owners to build on the property what the property owner wants to build. If that ends up being a condo or apartment complex where there used to be houses, that is the choice of the property owner.
Thanks for that list! I wasn't aware that this space developed. I guess Cunningham's Law is still pretty useful :).
grass is always greener though. I have friends that moved into finance from elsewhere and regretted it quickly. For some of them, the pay boost was drastic enough to suffer through the misery. That pay change isn't so meaningful when moving from one high paying career to another.

As an aside, the software engineer complaints about technical interviews always makes me laugh. Finance ones were even worse. Mostly useless and much more intense and time consuming. Engineering is tough because it's hard to point back at prior performance in a tangible way. Anyone can sit in a large corporation and write some for loops. It's much easier to hide in the background in software. Trading was easier to vet: "someone gave me $30m and I didn't lose any of it".
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NASA is losing the race to build a better rocket
From my experience: 100% of code coming back fron India requires a peer-review.
Chromebooks do not allow any other browser besides Chrome. I don't see how this is different.
Apple buys Beddit, a sleep-tracking company with existing Apple Watch app
A sauna does not heat up the body enough to trigger protein denaturation (unless you get locked in and die, which happens to be among my worst nightmares).

Core temperature is tightly regulated, as well. It should be 37degC. Plus or minus just 2 degrees will severely impair function, plus or minus 5 degrees is reason to call 911.
Its a combination of signing and app packaging.

The technologies to look into are APPX, app container, and the Centennial Bridge. Basically, any application can be included in the store. They are using application virtualization from a prior product called APP-V to protect the system from applications tampering with important pieces. It's long over due. It also provides a unified way to update applications through the store.

The store is how they distribute the Ubuntu userland that they ship with WSL...it's very capable.

Up until now they only let people publish a very narrow selection of applications to the store. That strategy failed and now they are going to start pushing Win32 developers to take advantage of the new servicing and packaging system.

It really is very good. I really, really, hope that this doesn't get shot down by herp-a-derp style Microsoft hate.
In what western countries do you have wire transfers within hours? My experience in several EU countries is about two working days for transfers to be credited to the other person's account.
Apple acquires Beddit sleep-tracking app
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Maybe some sort of self signed cert that only that machine will be able to run your executable?
The article paints UWP as a modern programming environment, superior to Win32, that only 'lazy developers' would reject, when in reality it is a confusing mess of desktop and outdated mobile paradigms from 10 years ago when mobile devices had dramatically less RAM and were much less powerful then 'real computers'.

UWP is in many ways worse than Win32, it requires much more boilerplate code to get stuff done, and requires a proprietary dialect of C++ which is not quite compatible with standard C++ (good luck trying to compile most existing C/C++ code on UWP, it's even worse than the Objective-C situation on OSX/iOS).

The baffling fact that UWP manages to be even more complex and less pleasant to write code for then Win32 (which was also a pretty bad API to begin with), coupled with the suicidal closing-down of an once open platform is what really concerns me about the future of Windows. That's not how you win back the hearts and minds of developers.
You can indeed do this with Sleep as Android - I use it in combination with a Pebble Time to feed Sleep as Android accelerometer data (for sleep phases), and then the watch vibrates for an alarm - falling back to an audible alarm on the phone if I don't deactivate it in time.

The only downside is that the vibration motor in the Pebble Time is a little bit loud, but still much quieter than an audible alarm on the phone itself.
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Slack is Down for Chrome due to CDN issue
> The current administration won't prosecute them.

Anti-trust isn't the exclusive domain of the US, Microsoft have a long and storied history with the European Commission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission
You can set the chromebook in developer mode and have a full linux system with all the software you want.

Or you can install the android version of firefox.

So yes, it is allowed.
This is AWESOME! Sharing it with all my friends!

Thanks OP!
Not everyone enjoys doing web development, personally every web project I take part on feels like being in the galleys.
Oddly issue only seems to be affecting Chrome - not Internet Explorer.... can't believe they use a different CDN on different browsers....
10.2.1

Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate HTML and JavaScript engines provided by the Windows Platform.

and Microsoft is now completely back its 1990s behaviour
How often should you work out?
Actually if you read the article, it clearly states another criterion which is the same on iOS and ChromeOS. That is, a web browser must use the HTML renderer and JavaScript engine from the host OS.
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Shaming people for not doing something always feels weird. They're not saying anything against the Japanese LGBT community, and Tim Cook is openly gay. This feels like all those times people try to get Taylor Swift to tweet for their cause - kind of off putting and pointless.

Isn't Apple supposed to be one of the best places for LGBT people to work?
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Sometimes the 'criminal' isn't the problem, but the law that made them a 'criminal'.
What? I see it on FF and Safari as well.
Please post civilly and substantively here. Part of both of those is reading other comments charitably before commenting.
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Did beddit actually ever make a product that worked? Certainly the indiegogo version I got never worked in any useful way.
How is that different from iOS and App store?
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Yeah sure, it is the year of something on desktop.

Legacy Win32 applications can be packaged as UWP ones.
If, for instance, I build my game with Unity, and would like to distribute this alpha build to friends to test it before it ships, how would I do that?
You most certainly can. I have been doing this with my Moto 360 2nd gen and it works great. Unfortunately it turns out I hate sleeping with something on my wrist, so I don't do it anymore. It also slowly turns on my smartlights when the alarm goes off.
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That's essentially the same thing that Google is doing on Chrome OS and Apple on iOS. There's absolutely no difference between it.

I highly doubt that Google will sue them for doing the same thing they're doing on the same market even (cheap, affordable laptops).
can't happen fast enough, though that is small potatoes compared to the textbook racket.
What is Windows 10 S?
Hey HN!

We’ve built Teambit out of frustration of how worklife is. The goal is to make a product, focused on teammates, that helps them feel engaged, recognised and clear about their career.

We are currently going through YC’s Startup School and wanted to start sharing it publicly, even if it’s still a bit rough on edges.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
So, let's say the CEO and his direct reports are waiting on you for answer for an hour and they each make $1,000,000/yr and there are 11 of them. You just cost the company $5000 but gained $50 for your time.
Going digital would have some other advantages too. It would be easy to make a staged calculator where buttons only appear as you learn how to use them, for instance, so you don't stick a calculator in an Algebra II student's face that has stuff for calculus on it, which only contributes to the mystique of "math being hard".

For a specialist who uses physical calculators all the time for serious computations, the advantages of a dedicated physical keyboard for your math probably can't be beat.

But... uhh.... who exactly does that describe nowadays? I'm sure it's non-zero; I'm also sure we're into "niche within a niche" territory here.
Currently, there's no difference because about equal numbers are using Chromebooks and Windows 10 S. But that may change in the future.
Cell phone video of a television.
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I suppose this means no more electron or nwjs apps, either, probably to many's delight.
The only time in High School that the Bible was mentioned was my AP English class, when we studied the Book of Job. It was a bit of a shock, after all that time learning English, to suddenly be confronted with Scripture at school... but refreshing.

The KJV was definitely THE source of common culture in America, up until the last ~30 years or so. It has been sad to see the rapid decline in Biblical scholarship by the average American. Having a common touchstone of such breadth/depth/complexity being replaced by Disney/Marvel as the common lexicon has been disheartening (despite my love of all things Marvel.)
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To be fair, it could stand to be a bit thinner IMO. As a smartwatch it's a nice size, but as something that's always attached to my wrist, I wouldn't mind if they figured out a way to make it thinner without sacrificing any more battery life.
"No copyright intended" always makes me laugh. What does that even mean?
Fair enough, we've detached the OP from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14302499 and marked it off-topic.
Microsoft is planning to turn Windows 10 PCs into Amazon Echo competitors
jwz posted a thing about his long saga fighting a takedown of horror movie reviews.
A code that runs at compile-time, and verifies some restrictions about classes. Namely, this one implements a class called “interface” so you can create your stuff based on that, and verifies that your interfaces don’t contain any data members or non-public functions.

It’s useless for me as well, but for different reason. I code for Windows, and Microsoft’s compiler has __interface keyword for decades: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/50h7kwtb.aspx
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One option, from the article:

If people would like to access apps from other stores and services, they can switch to Windows 10 Pro at any time.
While the performance definitely doesn't compare to LuaJIT, Duktape (http://duktape.org/) could be a good target for Rust bindings - it's fairly small and available as a single-header/implementation library.