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Yes, Americans in most states indicate their party affiliation when they register to vote. This doesn't affect who they are allowed to vote for in the official "General Election" that actually chooses who wins the election, but sometimes does affect whether one is allowed to vote in the "Primary Election" held by the individual political parties to determine who their candidate will be.

The confusing part is that the "Primary Elections" (which are held according to the rules of the party) are often run by the counties according to state rules, and are combined with other local elections that are open to all registered voters. Some parties in some states only allow those registered as belonging to their party to vote in their primary, while others allow "unaffiliated" voters to participate. The result is an mish-mash of private party rules and official state rules.

Party affiliation and primary elections have an odd semi-official status. Statistically, a little over 2/3 of the otherwise eligible voters are "registered to vote". Of these, about 1/3 are registered as belonging to the Democratic Party, about 1/3 are registered to the Republican Party, and about 1/3 are "unaffiliated". Something less than 5% of voters are registered with a "third party", and in recent history candidates from these parties haven't played much of a role except as a "spoiler".

Anyway, the current situation is that both Republican and Democratic parties have just officially chosen their candidates. The Republicans have allowed the public to "democratically" chose Donald Trump, much to the distress of many prominent members of the party who feel he does not espouse their values. The Democrat Party has chosen Hillary Clinton, but many (including many supporters of Bernie Sanders) feel she was actually selected by the party as their nominee well in advance, and that the "Primary Election" was being treated as a formality rather than a selection process.

The "General Election" for President happens this November 2016. All registered voters are allowed to vote for whomever they choose at this point. They can even write in candidates who do not appear on the ballot. But unless something unexpected happens to Clinton or Trump before then (or unless this is finally the year that a 3rd Party candidate breaks through) one of them will be elected to office at that point, and will begin serving in January 2017.
Ubuntu and batteries are not good friends :-( I tried few times and still using apple
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After using few Xiaomi products, no thanks.

If I want a Linux dev box, there are other options too.
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If it gets full Linux support, i.e. I can blow away Windows and use Ubuntu, then I'm in. This'll be my last macbook ..
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> This is just nerd candy right?

I take it that you haven't seen stereoscopic VR video? Although VR is enthusiast-grade right now the excitement surrounding it is by no means exaggerated, whatsoever. I strongly recommend attending a VR roadshow.
pretty naive. especially since it has a dual graphics with nvidia. which is really akward to "correctly" install on linux.
and then there are drivers. pretty sure that there won't be many stuff that directly works on linux.
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Exactly. I have long wanted to switch back to windows, and this is the first one that makes me smile (I am price sensitive:-)
Every competitor for Apple is a good thing :)
If they use a good Wifi card or it can be opened easily (which should be a given if RAM can be upgraded). I bought the XPS13 2015 and had a lot of struggle with it until I exchanged the Broadcom card for one from Intel.
In my experience nvidia has always been much easier to install than amd (fglrx).
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Using tlp and powertop can significantly improve the battery life.
And the bad NVIDIA support !
The available software to do the automatic 90 day cert renewals don't work on anything but the latest operating systems. Go back a handful of years and they just crap out.
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I am very tempted to try to acquire one. Seems like it would be a great portable development machine.

For robotics work I always end up wanting a small but decent computer to run my ROS visualizations/algorithms and to make small code edits. This has a decent c/gpu, good battery, small form factor, ssd slot, and isn't ungodly expensive. I usually end up running a VM on my primary development laptop but that is very annoying, a dedicated and less valuable machine would be better.
I think he's talking about the UEFI non-sense that often happens with western manufacturers to lock it to windows (preventing the switching of the signing keys).

I'm not sure how true his thought is in relation to china,but neither here nor there.
That's middle, not upper management - and good middle managers are hard to come by.
Sure. And the tooling only exists pre-made for modern operating systems. If you run anything even a handful of years old there's no support and you have to do it by hand.
They say nothing of Linux support, so they probably didn't care much for it. The bigger model has Nvidia graphics, and the smaller model has only 4GB RAM. For a Linux notebook, I think you'd be better off with one of the Dell or Lenovo with good support.
That's not true for linux distros and community supported android (i.e. cyanogenmod).
Macbook Air... Notebook Air... I can definitely see that consumers might find the similarity confusing given that they're in the same category of goods and services.
These are little pleasures and forgive the tiny vanity moment: I wrote the first article you linked. I also wrote more recently a follow up on just subtree: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/05/the-power-of-gi...
What other options would you recommend?
What are you misssing in a Dell XPS 13?
> If it gets full Linux support...

I ran linux as my primary os for 10 years. This was never true for me. Something was always broken, or wonky. 10 years of platitudes about how "it will get better", but it didn't. There is always new hardware to support to various degrees.

I got a mac, because I wanted to be able to listen to music and print at the same time. Also, I was tired of all my photos coming out pink.
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The best thing about Xiaomi is that they support their products very well. Almost all of their phones get security updates each month. That is a rare thing in Android nowadays especially with Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates. [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/motorola-confirms-tha...
Installed Ubuntu once, I can't help to notice that it tries too much to be macosx. I would rather keep using macbook, or use plain debian instead if installing wifi driver weren't a pain in the ass.
A laptop that's pleasing to the eyes.
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> What's the reason for yet another utility?

> Some copy the source code of dependencies into the vendor directory:

I don't agree with any of the stated problems there. Unless you are building a library you should commit your dependencies and not rely on third party repos being available.

I can't stress enough how useful govendor [1] is if you do Go professionally.

[1] https://github.com/kardianos/govendor
Not true. If Xiaomi sells anything in the US, they can definitely be sued.
I am not sure how I could be more happy with my device.

Depends what you think the best possible device is. My phone meets my expectations for a smartphone. If you think phones will replace PCs for everyday office work, I'd say it falls quite a way short.
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Maybe because "many of Xiaomi products — particularly its first forays into new categories — are China-only affairs"?

Also, visual similarities do not always translate into legally-pursuable patent violations, or similar.
Is this: http://spadkobiercy.nazwa.pl/XPS13/7.jpg seriously not pleasing?
I've only used Spark in a very local context (small company internal projects), so I'll definitely take into account your experience when doing something bigger.
At GitLab we're very excited about this. We think it is great to quickly get started on a new project without installing the dependencies locally.

Docker containers helped a bit but still need local compute power (draining the battery, making your laptop hot, and spinning the CPU fan). Worse, sometimes you can't run the same things as you run in production (Elasticsearch cluster, etc.) because you don't have enough memory.
We think Koding is a great way to get the compute power of the cloud while still being able to use your local editor (Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Textmate) with their kd client. We're working on the integration in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4769

Please let us know what you think, will this enable more 'drive-by-commits'?
> 4b) For iOS, I'd really want more control of the device without need for insecure jailbreak. This is the main factor that keeps me using Android for now. I want to have completely free access to my files. I want to be able to execute dynamically generated code (even if it's running in a sandbox or needs to pass a validator of some sort). I want more control over how the UI works. Etc. Insecure or confusing for non-technical users? Put it behind a switch "advanced mode".

What I'd really like is for Apple to do the jailbreak patching on old releases and allow roll-backs. I do like iOS and iPhones, but taking my 4s up to iOS 9 after having AT&T unlock it resulted in a major performance hit. They have improved it, but it's not the way it used to be, and same with space considerations. I'm fine with the OS having to eat up a lot of space but right now Apple is in a transitional stage for iphones and iOS where legacy hardware can still run iOS9; the 8 gig phones just have almost no room on them with the dump space used that you can't manually clean on stock iOS.

Basically, I'm fine with updating, but I'd like to know I can decide to go back if my real world usage is not acceptable. Apple's legacy support is great and I do like that they include the option, but I'd like to be able to decide "not for me".
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That there even worse alternatives isn't helping. Avoid third party binary modules. Sure, they might work right now but you'll have no guarantees it'll work in the future. You also risk interactions with other subsystems (sleep etc.). It would be like Windows, where your printer might prevent you from upgrading your operating system.

If you intend to run Linux on the thing, buy things that Linux supports out of the box. That probably means sticking to the working Intel stuff for now. You'll thank me later (or not, because you won't miss the problems you don't have).
He also put his own face into one song.

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> Failing that, vendors should for the very least offer an extended paid OS update service past the usual 2-3 year support period.

Sadly this is called buying a new phone and it won't change.

With Android devices now around 150 euros price range, I doubt very much anyone is willing to pay for updates versus a new phone.

And on the OEM side, Google seems unwilling to attach update requirements on their contracts with OEMs.

They would only need to make it part of the requirements to integrate with the Play Store, so easy, but they won't do it, looking at their current behavior.

Lack of updates was already the norm in the older days, with luck some Symbian handsets used to have just one firmware update during their lifetime, which only technical users would apply anyway.
Astoria was always a gamble because Google is in a rather advantageous position to change Android and Google Play Services whenever they want. Amazon, with their FireOS Android flavor, decided not to provide a shim for Google Play Services and instead asks developers to recompile for their specific APIs [1].

[1] https://developer.amazon.com/public/support/submitting-your-...

Furthermore, running unmodified Android apps on Windows Phone would have conceded the developer share further. Sure, it would've gotten holdout apps on WP at the very least, but the experience would have been subpar, and WP owners would have been reminded daily with bad UX, and the whole thing would be a tacit endorsement that their platform is second-rate, practically running an emulator of someone else's platform.

Instead, Microsoft decided to bite the bullet, scrap Astoria, roll out (the same) Windows 10 to as many desktops as they can and see if that changes the app equation. So far, it hasn't yet, but after years of screwups and scrapping platforms they finally have a strategy, and some leverage. Google knows this all too well, which is why they finally brought Android apps to Chromebooks.

If Google brings Android apps onto Chrome on Windows 10 or macOS, it's over, everyone else has lost.
I'd actually argue contactless cards are ubiquitous now.
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I wonder how much data you could reliably transmit without the video/audio quality of the base video notably changing.

Does YouTube cut out audio frequencies that are beyond the hearing range?
thats why they are not selling in the US in the first place
This makes no sense. If you have the ability to run software to decode the youtube video, then let's be honest, what is actually stopping you from just using Tor browser, or a proxy site to get to your content? Or just a USB stick with whatever data that you downloaded elsewhere?
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> Samsung being so powerful that it could fork Android.

It would be nice to see Google having a taste of their own medicine by having forked Java in first place.
Oops, I see this was submitted before in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12167542
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From the briefing:
We will demonstrate that, by forcing your browser/system to use
a malicious PAC (Proxy AutoConfiguration) resource, it is
possible to leak HTTPS URLs.
Would be interesting to see the exploit in action. However, malicious PAC redirection has existed for a while [0].
What isn't quite clear is whether this would work even with HSTS sites.
The takeaway seems to be that never trust any unknown network.
[0] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2014/02/28/maliciou....
> This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet.

Clearly it's not a cheap product, but the Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 is razor thin, high powered, well built, and very good looking.

Maybe I'm missing something?
We are actively using it for things like that. What is your actual problem, could you show some code?
$$$ mostly. XPS13 is as pricey as Macbook Air
I can second that. I am using XPS 15 and dual booted Ubuntu along side Windows 10. On Windows, some apps icons and texts are pixelated because of the 4k display (it reminds me of the time when the very first Retina Macbook Pro came out). Aside from that, pretty solid and fast laptop, given the size and the spec (can go up to 32 GB RAM + i7 CPU).
Everyone in Australia pays with the wave of their visa card. You only bother with a pin for transactions over $100. I always have my card handy and it doesn't need to be charged. Every trader accepts visa paywave. I have no idea why anyone would want to use a phone for payments instead. It seems like an idea more suited to different country with a different banking system.
I didn't know powertop, I'll give a try. Thanks
Hello all,

There are many areas the article does not cover, but this is expected when writing space is limited. Main areas that I feel need more coverage...

1) The community itself, it is overwhelming to see how much work has been done by people in their spare time. Many of these developers go unnamed and provide some amazing work - I would not be able to complete my app without this community, I'm just putting the puzzle of community work together and filling in the blanks where needed.

2) Access to tech, it is almost insulting to see how may Diabetics cannot access Pumps and CGMs, or can access one and not the other. The cost for such systems and limited access is not justified.

3) Why, when we do own the required tech purchased from our own money do we then have to "hack" such devices to access the data that they have about MY body!?

4) The dangers of the community work, this is no riskier I say than commercial systems but this subject must be openly discussed in the community to be sure we understand and limit possible risks

5) I agree with the comments about glucagon, this should ideally be a worse case treatment. Why do we need a system that can provide glucagon when early alerts from an APS can notify the patient that a carb treatment is needed. Let's stop trying to find a 100% solution and produce something that covers 60% of our needs now
I wasn't complaining about the submission itself, but rather the fact that it was the top post at the moment.
I had the most unprofessional interview experience of my life with Bridgewater.
They contacted me out of the blue and had me go through one phone interview, their culture introduction and quiz on their website, a HR round with a recruiter, and a coding project. After I passed all these, I was put in another phone interview. (Note: I am in the West coast.)
Remember, these clowns were trying to recruit me. I was at that time working as a Research Scientist in X in one of the big firms over in the West coast.
A good part of the interview was spent by them disparaging X. Then they ended the interview with "We have all the information we need, we won't be calling you."
I felt like I had been hazed by a couple of dimwits who were not even that good at it.
This article assuages my worry that I was being unreasonable.
Give KDE a try!

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I've written something similar for Google finance, but manually parsing minified Javascript isn't nearly as neat as this :^)
Impressive work by the Opera team! Savings to cause up to around a third of the memory usage is huge. So it's coming up in Blink in the forthcoming months.

I wondered in the discussion thread of that article whether these changes will also affect extension memory usage? Some are known to balloon quite a bit. I expect this work to not only help those, but be especially useful there because they are pretty much pure Javascript.
I don't trust their battery run-times. I was looking for a laptop and finally settled down for a Lenovo Thinkpad 13.

Thinkpad's battery is 42 Wh with a wifi surfing run-time of almost 7 hours [0], although it being sold as a 11 hours run-time. It hasn't a dedicated graphics chip.

Xiaomi's battery is 40 Wh and it sports dedicated graphics. Macbook Air's battery is 58 Wh and it has integrated graphics, lasting around 10 hours [1].

Assuming a similar consumption, Xiaomi's would last less than 7 hours for surfing. But it has dedicated graphics (NVidia 940M) with a consumption (30W) that doubles integrated options (Intel HD in Lenovo and Apple laptops). So, probably it will last 5 or 6 hours of just wifi surfing, even less.

[0] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-13-Ultrabook-Re...

[1] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Air-13-2015-Noteb...
You just pointed out how a feature missing in your tooling can lead to problems. This has nothing to do with Dropwizard though.
Not particularly. There are still lots of "bits" to it - colours, materials, vents, contours, etc. So few companies actually get rid of them, but it looks so much better when they do.
The main text in the article is actually not flagged for low contrast it the Accessibility Audit. Only the inline code and pre elements (which I agree are hard to read).
It may be grammatically correct to the 51% of Wikipedians who can stomach working on that particular page, but it is highly annoying.

It is also impolite if the gender of the person in question is completely obvious.

Additionally, it is confusing for non-native speakers who always have to figure out whether something is plural or singular.
Contrast with the UK where 'filtering' is legal [0] and I have never heard anything negative about it. Riders filtering won't cause me as a driver any delay.

[0] Rule 88:
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Given how strong and prominent Apple logo is on their laptops, I don't think anyone would get confused about that.
As an interesting data point, it looks like they designed the hardware using Solidworks 2016:

https://github.com/facebook/Surround360/blob/master/surround360_design/3d_models/STEP_files/160523_3.STEP#L9-L10

(.STEP files - good for CAD data interchange - often include the name of the creation program)
Re: renaming. The 'Enter' key is marked 'Return' on Apple keyboards and has different semantics to the 'Enter' key used in Windows.
Can someone tell me why Keybase still doesn't offer a GPG Key server?

Oh right, because then people would realise that you can get 90% of the day to day value from plain old GPG and a regular key server.
50% coding would also be a good target .. :P
Maybe consider Scala? It's an ML family language with more familiar syntax, and also has a Javascript backend.
Both vacuuming and logical replication are discussed in the article. In particular, vacuuming is easier with InnoDB since the changed records all exist in the redo log whereas PostgreSQL needs to scan the whole table. pglogical is mentioned for people running PG9.4+ as a way of doing minimal downtime cross version upgrades, which wasn't an option back with PG9.2 unless you go with something like slony1 or londiste.
Yes. It will never be the same. Part of the appeal was to entirely delegate decisions to autonomous software. The autonomy aspect has been diminished at a meta level.

It had always been clear that there would be bugs and exploitable logic flaws in contracts. It's inherent to the platform. It does feel like a change in philosophy has happened now that people have invested in it, their principles are more pragmatic and less idealistic, which might be good short term but inevitably undermine the project.

The idea behind the project are still good I think, and position regarding this type of incidents will be a litmus test for future platforms based on similar concepts.
IOW climate change is even worse than scientists anticipated.
Did you just write the same comment twice from two separate accounts?
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I honestly think this is changing, it seems that people are becoming better at letting others know that they need/want to reduce their workload to avoid exhaustion or burnout.

When I talk to people about wanting to work reduced hours, take a teaching job, or whatever is required to lower my stress level, I get nothing but encouragement. Working one self into the ground is starting to be seen as something stupid people do. Being able to take action before becoming exhausted is what smart and empowered people do. At least that's the impression that I get.

Where I see the remaining issue it the lack of accountability for businesses. If a company push employees to exhaustion that should have hard repercussions than just gaining a reputation as a horrible place to work.
> Squares with lightly round edges?

to be fair, that is what Apple sued Samsung for, and it won :(