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I've had two different models of the XPS 13, and an X1 Carbon in between. I'm planning to buy the new XPS 13 to upgrade my current one.

The X1 Carbon is okay, but the build quality just isn't the same, and once you're used to typing on a 4K screen, it's hard to go back. The new X1 Carbon models also have higher resolution screens, but to get that you have to sacrifice the keyboard (the new keyboard layouts are awful).

On top of that, Dell puts a lot of active effort into making sure all the drivers work flawlessly out of the box. That's why the Developer Edition ships with a different wireless card from the Windows version - fittingly, I've never once had the WiFi drop on me using my XPS 13 from 2015. I can't say the same about the Carbon.
Thanks! Pretty clever to use Cordova to generate the initial project structures.
Articles like this are just pure mental masturbating over a model that isnt even possible. The earth is flat and the Universe isnt billions of light years across.
At this point, saying that an economic activity is an exploitation of the weak is redundant.
More realistic might be a long-term preparation scenario in which we send a first wave of robots to set up some solar panels and run them to store H2 and O2 for a couple of decades. We won't have gained energy necessarily, but we will have stored it in large enough amounts that early colonisation will have extra energy if it needs it.
> black Americans have had the weird status of being majority in some states with a unique subculture and history while also being a tiny minority across the entire country.

One small correction: Blacks are not the majority in any state. Mississippi has the highest percentage, at 37%, but it is still 59% white.
Yes, there is some vague things people associated with Modi's organization said back in 1940s related to Nazis. Though, nothing since 1940s ... but logic isn't a strong suit of leftist arguments.
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Most external people forget that India is closer to the model of Europe with a united monetary policy than a US or China or any individual countries it is compared to. Each province is big enough to be a country in itself, has significant power and provincial politics are as diverse as the spectrum of governments across Europe (there's actually an elected communist government in a province). The ruling coalition nationally doesn't enjoy rule in majority of the provinces and indeed has little line sight to it.

Therefore, sitting inside India, it's really funny to see outside columnists trying to paint broad generalizations of Indian politics.
Well the announcement has Torvalds as posterboy (quite plausible he compiled UEFI a few times), boasts upstreamed sources for the drivers and the laptop comes with Linux pre-installed. While I generally agree with your sentiment, GPs expectations are not surprising, even if over-optimistic.
For F sake! Why can't I get a 16Gb without this freaking touch screen? This "Customize and Buy" section is a joke, there is nothing to customize. So I get either a garbage laptop with 8Gb and 128Gb SSD and a decent battery, or I spit $1800 for a decent config with a stupid touch screen that will kill 3 hours of my battery life?

Am I doing something wrong and just not finding the page to really customize the specs?
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TLDR: Get educated. Get Angry. Get Inspired. Take the time to read a great book.

It's ironic that people are arguing that books are a waste of time - on HN.

There are certainly too many one-idea books, but there are also many extraordinary, irreplicable works: A Pattern Language, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Landscape of History, The Modern Firm, The Diffusion of Innovations, Bowling Alone, The Life You Can Save, And the Band Played On, and on and on.
Can we assume they'd be willing? Here in Canada I use orders of magnitude more water than oil products, and would be willing to pay commensurately less.
Oh man! The Big Lebowski reference is 200% accurate. On a serious note though, it feels almost certain that the Modi Government is going to lead India into another bloodshed, sooner or later. I hope not but that sinking feeling just doesn't go away given his track record.
Those must be very small startup offices.

Even moderately sized still have copper to every desk. Latency wins when doing development.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone else have trouble loading AMP pages on their iPhone Safari browser? Almost any AMP page I try to load is blank with a banner on top containing the address of the page, and then my only solution is to load the desktop version to see the page.
Pipelines for water are only energy efficient if you have gravity working for you. I'm willing to wager that there isn't a 10x difference in the cost of towing that water to the Barbados versus pumping it in a pipeline. And, of course, you don't need a pipeline when you tow it. (though you do need big bags)
One reason immigrants start more small businesses is because it is the only way they can generate an income. For the first decade I lived in the US (before I got my green card), my social security card was stamped “Not valid for employment”. So I incorporated a US company as a subsidiary of my foreign company, and just continued to work (legally) for my original foreign company, while marketing its services here in the US through its subsidiary. This is standard operating procedure for many immigrants, so of course the statistics are skewed in that direction.
"colleges were accepting way too many Asians"

Some of this is just kids being dumb, but some is Americans have a weird relationship with their Empire.

On one hand their parents and student loans are paying more money to fund the foreign exchange students and every foreign exchange student present is quite literally one local taxpayer who isn't getting an education yet is somehow supposed to pay for the system without an educated-level job. Even if the school accepts everyone, that just means the local taxpayers are on the hook for capex to make huge buildings that wouldn't be necessary without the demands of the Empire.

That sounds like a horrific deal for the local taxpayer, and it is, but Empires always suck at some level or another for pretty much everyone involved. However from a foreign aid and propaganda perspective that money is well spent, who else gets to propagandize the entire world's youth for practically no cost compared to military expenses? Its a lot cheaper to indoctrinate the world's kids at an American school than to wave expensive F-35 fighters at them in a threatening manner a decade later. In typical American corruption we officially spend like 0.1% of our federal budget on foreign aid and then bury things like state Uni budgets in the individual state budgets to pretend our Empire spends roughly nothing on foreign aid, but we really do spend lots of money on the Empire, for which we're theoretically running a profit, or if not "we" at least someone is running a profit.

I'd estimate the total cost to the GDP of empire has got to be something like 5% but its cheaper than the alternative, or so the people getting rich off the empire insist.

At any rate, my point is some of it is just kids being dumb, yet some of it is knowing for federal level foreign policy reasons their old high school buddy named XYZ can't go to college with them, despite his having to pay for it in taxes, because a foreigner is there in his place and supposedly everyone is better off for it, yet fundamentally on a personal level they still miss their old high school buddy XYZ.
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> The author is just making a big deal of small things and quoting things out of context.

.. and that's exactly what people should do to make sure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Ignoring the seemingly small things is what leads to much bigger issues. History has taught us this again and again.

It's not a pointless rant but a careful warning of what can happen. Let me guess. Whatever dangers the author exposes here are not applicable directly to you. You feel safe and that is why you don't see what is wrong with India today.

For supporters of BJP, the best thing to do is to make sure India doesn't turn to Fascism by keeping the government they elected in check instead of blindly defending it at every corner. Only way to prove the author wrong.

P.S. I don't think those are small things for a democracy like India.
As opposed to sending children to substandard charter schools under the guise of school choice, while really wanting to redirect tax dollars to weaken unions and enrich private actors?

The real answer is, of course, to fix the "substandard public schools", but that would require addressing the underlying poverty, which one side doesn't want to do and the other refuses to acknowledge exists (unless it's needed to shame teachers for strikes/walkouts).
There is also a jump for the screen from non-touch to touch. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?3x_n...
> it's really funny to see outside columnists trying to paint broad generalizations of Indian politics.

It is anything but funny. In ways similar to the rhetoric "Should everyone else go to Pakistan?".
For one thing, if we (meaning you, i.e. the USA) stopped 'interfering' in the middle east the F-35 program would be completely unaffected. The F-35 is not being used in Afghanistan, and was nowhere near combat ready during the Iraq wars. I believe they are just beginning to be deployed overseas actively now [1] but that is still a long way from active combat.

1. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/washington-deploy-f-35-fighter-jets...
This isn't paid for by the government in any way, so no, that's not a reasonable conclusion.
Mythical Man Month and Peopleware both deal with managing work: estimating work, problem of quality, feature creep.
Agile offers methods to address these same problems, just a little more evolved, imho.

* working in sprints forces estimations over smaller pieces of work (aim small, miss small).

* sprints, in my experience, challenge feature creep. teams are much more aware of time and challenge anyone making changes to scope. nothing is free.

* teams are responsible for dev and testing (e2e); no throwing crap over the wall.

These books deal with more than these topics.

btw, the quiet room for 2-3 people as described in Peopleware is being thrown out where i work. walls are being torn down to build team collaboration spaces. times have changed.
you really need to study up on it. It is not about trying to disadvantage groups, it is all about using the identity of a group to defend any actions or positions they take. Worse is when it is applied to candidates for office because every disagreement with that candidate is taken instead as an attack on them because of their race, religion, sex, and orientation.

It is a shameless exploitation that the left has championed for many decades. Pitting one group against another and laying the bigot/racist card on anyone who suggest special rights for a particular class/identity are not warranted.
Do you know China is not just the mainland?
but what about their deliverability / spam score?
Yes me too. The issue I see ahead is finding work with Phoenix.. I live in a town in New Zealand, and there's no elixir-Phoenix shop that I'm aware of, and I imagine getting remote work without a year or twos production experience won't be easy.

Still, it's fun and I'm looking forward to trying this year's adventofcode.com in elixir :)
Ask HN: What ideas have you heard that turned out to be remarkably prescient?
Why I'm asking this:

I've been using thanksgiving weekend to learn as much as I can about React&Redux, and I remembered how in 2008 I took a beginning CS class that was especially challenging because it was all on functional programming paradigms which were hard to grasp at first. I remember that a kid in the class complained about it, and the teacher's answer was basically that it was the way people would program in the future. He argued that the increasingly distributed nature of computing and the need to manage ever-larger and more complex applications would make this more and more a standard paradigm.

What really got me thinking is that, at the time, is that I didn't really think too much about that comment. It didn't announce itself as an especially deep observation that I should pat attention to. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that advice/thoughts/suggestions that I've come across have a lasting value usually don't. In fact, the ones that come with a big "PAY ATTENTION TO THIS" sign I often conclude later that it is simply garbage. Which, ultimately, makes it difficult to know a priori what is worth listening to and what isn't. I was curious as to how I could train myself to be a better listener and learner to make sure I either didn't miss out on potentially really insightful ideas I came across simply because of the context that it is delivered, and how to protect myself of the inverse scenario as well.
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Well, slavery is mostly no longer a relevant issue in the U.S.
How about we stop tagging people with such derogatory terms unless they do something that proves it?
He not explicitly said or done anything anti-Muslim, especially not after since he became the Prime Minister.

He has said that Islam had ‘many good aspects’ but, ‘when one community says that my community is different from yours, it is higher than yours, and that until you take refuge in mine you cannot get Moksha [salvation], you cannot get Allah, you cannot get Jesus – then conflict starts’. Hinduism taught "truth is one in different ways", and there would be no conflict if it was accepted that ‘all religions are the same’.
What are the issues you've run into? I'm using the older 4K model, so it's not Kaby Lake, but many of the HiDPI complaints I would have had three years ago are now resolved.

The only apps that don't scale in 4K are things like Unity and Steam, but those are a problem on Windows as well.
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Right, but I'm still surprised they've not at least implemented "if can't read EEPROM at boot disable EEPROM writes".

With the architecture used, they're never going to be too robust to physical access. Overall EEPROM reset button on motherboard would be best, and just admit there's no really security against physical access here.
I really wish I could get 16gb RAM without paying for a touchscreen. It was possible to get an Ubuntu XPS configured that way as recently as two weeks ago. Should have pulled the trigger then.
It is a fact that Modi encouraged killing of Muslim families to catapult himself at centerstage politics. One of his cabinet ministers is even a convicted murderer!, of his own colleague in office: research on home minister Haren Pandya.
I personally do care about the open source aspect - not only because I work on open source projects, but because it means I'm not so awfully dependent on the manufacturer. Does the proprietary driver support the kernel version / distribution / whatever you wanna use? No? Bummer. The more the stuff is open, the higher the chance someone will make it work.
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If Lenovo were serious about security they would encourage such discussion and exploration to improve their product. Of course this is Lenovo we are talking about, the company that thought Superfish would be a super idea!
Why is there such a circle jerk around fascism? Some people are commies, some people are fascists, what's the big deal?

Just because you support fascism doesn't mean you want to genocide people. Yes, it's happened in the past, but so has it happened with democracy, communism, and any other political ideology you can think of.

Fascism in some places has been very effective, for example Park Chung-hee. You might disagree with some of the things he did, but he made South Korea very prosperous.
> I'm just a science fiction writer

Did you write anything we may have heard about?
No, if you read Eco's essay he takes pains to clarify that he's not saying "you can see it coming" -- he's describing the seeds of fascism that are present in many, perhaps all societies, which fascism can potentially latch onto and grow from... the aspects of our socieites that are usually checked, but have the potential to germinate into something worse.
Thanks for writing the review, it's a summary.

BTW. Without judging whether AMP is good or bad, I'll say in this comment you just highlighted the mechanism by which many a bad thing becomes commonplace. "I wish $thing wouldn't be done, but because $market_realities, I figure I should adopt the $thing for now". Even if nobody wants $thing to happen, when many people think like this, it'll get adopted anyway, and then enshrined as the new status quo.
As you should. If Zuckerberg does it so do you.
I haven't personally used it so I don't have much to say. It looks like it requires a commercial license so that doesn't get me particularly excited about it.

I'm also not sure how hard Qt actually tries to give you UI components that look like what you would find in a typical app. If you have Qt experience then I'm sure you can make it work, I've heard good things from people who have used it.

I'm also guessing it has much more consistent and robust UI behavior compared to running things in a web view.

You'll have to find someone who has actually used it though to get a real opinion, I'm just speculating here.
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It's already happened with the lynchings, killings and sporadic riots, but at scale of India, it just doesn't leave a big enough mark. It's kind of sad really. India rationalizes the most horrific acts of humanity, shrugs and moves on.
Google is so big some % of it is always down. Just low chances to hit it, and if you do a reload and you will hit another server.
I like this line of thinking! Not-really-obstructive limits that prevent abuse.
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Is it actually available in Europe?

Here in Germany it always displays "Product currently not available", regardless how many times I visited the web site.
One other point. You don't even need to remove the EEPROM, you can reprogram them in-place using an SOOC-8 clip and an SPI interface (eg buspirate). There lot of info available.
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How do you protect your eyes?

Serious question.
Cannot up vote this enough. Same experience with a current generation Razer Stealth Blade. Power remaining jumps from 6 hours to 1 on the UI and only lasts 45 minutes at best.

Dual boot into Windows 10 and everything is great. This is 100% a Linux kernel and power management issue.
All the discussions focus on AMP in isolation, but I keep wondering - is AMP just a knee-jerk reaction to the utter absurdity of current bloat proliferation on webpages, or is it a part of a bigger idea for reshaping the web? If it is the latter, I'd love to learn what the idea is, so it can be discussed in full.
Do you recommend the 5510? I am seriously considering replacing my MacBook Pro with this. I currently get an hour and change of battery life when running my Windows VM even though OSX gets 7 hours easily.
I still want my magic box.

Here is why:

- Get rid of water and sewer pipes.

That would be huge. Together with passive house technology each and every house in a city, town or countryside would be 'off grid'. That kind of independence would make our infrastructure much less fragile. Building downwards (a recent topic) will be easier.

- Our magic box is an isolation point for dangerous and toxic substances.

That will prevent every household from contributing toxicity to the surrounding environment. Adaptions to new forms of waste become possible at source.

If toxic elements can be compacted and stored, useful compounds/elements derived, and some used for energy, then in the future we won't need pipes anymore than we needed pneumatic tubes for sending messages/parcels once we developed automotive transport. The self driving bots will simply visit periodically for a new cargo to be delivered as industrial inputs. Since the magic box performs some level of element/compound sorting there is probably a market where your waste is automatically profiled and sold. It pays for at least part of its own operation.

Last but not least many countries have no ability to construct decent infrastructure for political reasons. The magic box solves that problem in a way that scales with population.

tldr; Back to the future, since 'night soil' historically was a commodity collected from each household.

> The ISS toilet that keeps malfunctioning is the American one, no? Because I seem to recall the USSR cracking the urine-to-drinking-water problem on Mir a couple of decades ago.

Yes. Calcium from astronaut bones (another serious issue) was clogging up the system at a much higher rate than on the terrestrial surface.

I don't know how the Russians solved it but I sometimes think with Americans Business acumen and Russian Science there would be very little we couldn't get accomplished. I'm sure you've heard of Russian phage technology for medical treatment. Cures for alcoholism.

One of the things that is fascinating about the Cold War is how we saw Science developing differently. That is something that should trouble the thoughts of more people.
I must look into bookmarklets. They can write to disk then?

I also use a wiki synced in dropbox. I wrote a hacky Android app that links into all the sharing dialogs so I can share a link into my wiki super easily. But I like the idea of both the shell command talked about in a different comment, and your bookmarklet.

One wiki to rule them all, and in the darkness find them ;)
Off topic, sorry; but why do you use his first name only here? Normally we would refer to minor public figures like him as 'Elon Musk' or just 'Musk'. Using someone's first name is reserved for personal friends. I have also seen this with Linus Torvalds, for example, and Linux aficionados. It seems like there is an exception for some people, perhaps it just has to do with popularity within a segment of the population, in the same manner as pop stars become mononymic to the general public?
It is a feature, not a bug, of fascism that it tolerates contradiction and does not care about constructing a coherent picture of the world. Truth is irrelevant and aesthetics are fungible. Fascism is unlike more sophisticated totalitarian ideologies like Marxism-Leninism. Umberto Eco's points are a summary of nucleation points for fascism: tendencies in society that can be the starting point for the process of fascist development. I think this is the best you can do in such a short essay. Eco's comparison to Wittgenstein's game is apt. "You know it when you see it".

If I were to try to grasp fascism from a different angle and how it relates to other totalitarian tendencies I would characterize it by the social class that puts it into power. The middle class has been the historical base of power for fascism. The points Eco makes are quite resonant amongst middle class people in many countries in particular the downwardly mobile middle class who feel like they are being cheated out of something they are entitled to. That is the mechanism by which fascism takes hold.

In contrast, Marxism-Leninism is primarily concerned with the proletariat and intelligentsia. Maoism is primarily concerned with the peasantry. Really, you can identify a political ideology without looking too closely at its details by examining how it goes about class struggle: its implementation as an actual political movement and not an abstract set of ideas.
Yes, because you can't buy a standalone webcam...
In my opinion there isn't anything about Reddit that is like HN. It's why I stopped reading Reddit and came here. Too many haters and trolls on Reddit.
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