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With National Popular Vote, big cities would not get all of candidates’ attention, much less control the outcome.

16% of the U.S. population lives outside the nation's Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Rural America has voted 60% Republican. None of the 10 most rural states matter now.

The population of the top five cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia) is only 6% of the population of the United States and the population of the top 50 cities (going as far down as Arlington, TX) is only 15% of the population of the United States. 16% of the U.S. population lives in the top 100 cities. They voted 63% Democratic in 2004.

Suburbs divide almost exactly equally between Republicans and Democrats.

Big cities do not always control the outcome of elections. The governors and U.S. Senators are not all Democratic in every state with a significant city.

The main media at the moment, TV, costs much more per impression in big cities than in smaller towns and rural area. Candidates get more bang for the buck in smaller towns and rural areas.
So.. what's the changelog for v2.0 ?

There is no link in the text or in the video pointing to that info.
Unfortunately we see people continue gullible to extremism in order to find a life purpose, but it's maybe a commentary on our materialistic and empty capitalistic system (which has all the wrong incentives lined up to stifle education about the wealth of life experiences you could have to find purpose) that religion has been steadily on the rise. Religion gets adepts both from oppressed camps as well as disillusioned followers of the "things" religion--that is, more power and things as a life purpose. Extremism happens because it's much easier for a person made ignorant and alienated by our society to accept a system of thought wholesale, as a framework, otherwise there would be too much friction in their heads to enjoy the religious experiences (much like an athlete can't have cognitive friction when performing). It's the sense of bonding, community and shared powerful, meaningful experiences that keep extremists together. Once our educational system gets its act together on teaching how people can find these things elsewhere it should get better.

That said, in this case, the article points to some rabbis with a more progressive mindset who may shake things up a bit from inside their society. Not necessarily promising but it's nice to hear of an oasis of good sense/empathy/tolerance once in a while.
Ha! I started using it because it's just so easy for me to skip breakfast and/or lunch. I'm not replacing food with it. Just works better than not eating.
It is powered by a distributed network of people but they're bolstered by a lot of software. This gives a very personalized experience while gaining the efficiency of software behind the scenes.
Eh, "implement X in Y lines" for Y < 10 is pretty much always a cheat. At least this cheat has solid computer science behind it; most such cheats boil down to "import library; library.cheat()", or, for the particular "implement a programming language", JavaScript "eval".
I worked on one of those "opaque" stacks, and as you can imagine, I disagree. Not least because everything we develop is done in the open.

As a developer, all I care about is that the code I tested locally and that passed on CI runs the same way in production, without further thought or effort.

As an operator, all I care about is that I don't get paged when a bad piece of dev code rampages and chokes the shared resource.

PaaSes have solved this. There's just no reason left to roll your own.
Arguably it's more accurate to say that fusion has invented us ;)
How Agile CRM built a million dollar SaaS company in India
The ground work for Surface Pro was Windows 8, so yes, Microsoft did hybrid OS, and Surface Pro was their "Hero" device. The touch/type cover was innovative but annoying. Surface Pro (with Windows 8+) like it or not is a ground-breaking device.
With 10 bit colour support?
At first glance, had no idea what I was supposed to do or how it worked. At second glance, it seems like you're just setting price inflation on a number of components, trying to get the weighted average to be 2%. Wildly overhyped "game"?
This is very interesting to me. I'm 48 and play hockey 3 days a week, often against guys in there 20's currently playing college or Juniors. I have been actively increasing my leg workout for the past year and it's noticeable, esp. in my quickness and overall speed.

I'm actually about to start doing squats which are something I've never done much of because I've been lucky genetically and have always had very large calves and thighs. I picked up a book recently espousing the benefits of squats in particular (Starting Strength for those interested) and I think that's the next thing for me to keep or maybe even increase my speed.

The other thing I started doing about a year back now is a upright bike 'sprint' where I basically peddle easy for around 20 seconds, then 10 seconds of full-on max aerobic type sprint. I then rest another 20 seconds peddling easy, followed by 10 more seconds, and finish the same on a final third sprint. When I say full on sprint I mean to the point where I nearly barf every time I complete this part of my workout; you really have to push yourself and not just go a little faster. Prior to switching to this sprint type workout I did a rotation of long day/short days on an elliptical; on my long day I did 40m and on my short I'd do 20m.

What I noticed as I've gotten older is that my endurance remained fairly consistent but my 'explosiveness' was going away. Just switching to the sprints has helped me regain a lot of my speed. In fact a good friend that I've skated with on and off for about 15 years remarked that he thought I was faster now than I've ever been. Considering I've been chasing down 20-something Junior players on break-aways, it seems about right to me.

I think adding in the squats will further help diminish my leg muscle decline and hopefully give me a bit more quickness my first three 'chops' from a dead stop.

I write about all this stuff on my personal blog which focuses on fitness, health and most of all hockey such as this recent post: https://existentialquandary.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/sunday-...

Edit: Book title was wrong - link is in another comment - thanks for linking to it!
I can't image them letting you keep the old phone, as you haven't paid full price for it in a year.

EDIT: "Just trade in your current iPhone for a new one, and your new program begins."

Source: http://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
I'm surprised Samsung doesn't try it, with their whole "let's throw it out there and see if it sticks" strategy and all.
Is the 6s plus screen still 1080p down sampled from the native resolution?!
yeahh that looked pretty cheesy but it's more of a comfortable summer clothes he's got on I thought, not actually a man's dress kimono or anything. He's a writer too so it's like he's just hanging around the house in his pajamas
> I mostly agree, but there are far more white people living within the boundaries of the Kansas City Public School District than you realize. It's difficult to find numbers, but I guesstimate that at least 30% and probably more like 40–50% of residents there are white.

That guesstimate looks high, based on what I could find of the boundaries of the district and the racial data from this map: http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/
Getting an Uber ride with the Amazon dash button
Usually not a good sign when a company known for creating innovative real-world products shifts to creating innovative financial products.

Except for Berkshire Hathaway moving from textiles to being Warren Buffet's investment vehicle -- that was a good move...
Walled garden, Panopticon, what's the difference.
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This quote is making the rounds on Twitter right now. The non-snarky response to which is "that's an ancient quote", the more snarky one is "It's been 7 years. The market changes. Deal with it."
That's fine except, at least anecdotally, I've only seen photos and videos take up the majority of the space. I'm not sure what's typical of the average person but everyone I know with kids takes gigabytes and gigabytes of photos and videos every year with their phone.
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I think you underestimated your nerdiness back then. Here you are all those years later responding passionately in a thread on rescuing programming from the von neumann style.
Good point, but remember Apple license the ARM architecture from ARM (the company), and they probably aren't allowed to deliberately ship partially-compliant ARM hardware.
Was there an announcement of a paper edition of the rust lang book somewhere?
I had a beautiful spacious apartment in midtown for $800 with all utilities included. I now rent a two story three bedroom house in midtown for $1300 not including utilities. Overall, it's extremely affordable, and there are single bedroom options that aren't as big as those places for even less.

Not all of these are listed on sites like Craigslist, so it helps to reach out to some property management places.
Facetime Voice also sounds great. (Though it only works when you're calling another iDevice.)
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The xperia compact series is an amazing line of phones, but also super fragile. I've destroyed two. both from "waist height" drops. Also, I couldn't find an otter box or other sufficiently protective case for it.

The touch screen is built in such a way that any small crack and half the screen or more stops accepting touch.
I'm a pretty heavy Apple TV user, and the reason I love using it is because of the beautiful, slim aluminium remote. Aside from when I lose it, which is always.

I'm not sure about others but I hate using my phone as a remote: grabbing it, unlocking it, launching the remote app. And then having to think about its battery level (especially if using AirPlay). It's nice when you're in a tight spot (have to enter a sensitive password in front of friends, need to AirPlay a quick video), but a phone is horrible as a general purpose remote.
They are a frustrating company to care about. They have so much that's so important that they're working on, but they're like some half-interested genius teenager with a short attention span. They just don't have a significant commitment to anything other than making money through ad revenue, and that's practically heart-breaking.
There is no 64GB. It's 128GB without cellular for $949. They have high price points for latest models. Retailers discount.
You are absolutely correct they aren't scaling storage. As a business, they want you to use iCloud AND/OR get a bigger GB phone. Simple. They are a business, you can't fault them for that.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population is a significant and
growing market, making up about 11 percent of the
country’s 8.3 million people. The community is expected
to comprise about 18 percent of Israel’s population
within 15 years, according to government statistics.

I just can't understand how this is happening. This is not how it -- meaning the progress of civilization -- was supposed to go.
I had little idea what it would look like when I first started experimenting with window managers, but it was Paul Fisher's initial mock-ups and font designs which steered things towards the Mac "look". I was just happy to have some guidance and help regarding the visuals, since I was too busy with code to design fonts. But it's clear that Paul took a lot of design cues from System 1-7, and this led me to study those same GUIs closely, although I diverged from that when it came to the tab controls on the Profiler (task manager). But yeah: homage it is, and it's also practical, since it looks good at such a low resolution.
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Depends on HW, but that likely takes less resources than most websites. For reference, an old CF website used to support 60k users and a few thousand page views a second on a dual 450 MHz (Pentium III Xeon 450) cpu's. A modern CPU could probably serve 10x that.
sorry but kids walk a pretty good distance to school. high density doesn't mean school is down the block, plus some school is based on your skill level not your distance from, so you may be in the upper public school across town because you did so well. What Japan has is a lot more responsibility and empathy at crosswalks. They are used to traffic and respectful of others. Selfishness leads to speeding, mistakes which leads to crashes.
but you can't compile code on the device itself which is kind of a big deal
You could also take your proto-eval and spit out ASTs into your favorite language for your given special forms and bootstrap a new interpreter from there.

Hy does this for Python (except that its initial implementation started from a parser). It essentially becomes a syntax for manipulating Python ASTs as plain old data-structures instead of classes with terrible interfaces. It's actually a great way to become intimate with the inner workings of your host language.

It's funny how far you can get by sprinkling a few parentheses around.
You'd be hard countered by Nozdormu.
I don't know about "the Watch"; it's more that they constantly push you to say things like "I'm using my iPhone" rather than "I'm using my phone", whereas with the "Apple" products, they seem to encourage you to just mentally commoditize them and say "I'm using my watch."

I could hazard a guess at the reason, too—everyone knows what a phone or a tablet (or a laptop, or a PC) is, and theirs don't break from the trend, so they need to differentiate their product in those lines using the name. Whereas, with the "watch" and the "pencil", they're making a new thing that attempts to redefine the category it's in, and so they want people to start using that name for the category as a whole. Specifically, they want people to think of any accessory-computer used for passive alerts and alarms and checking notifications as a "watch"; and a stylus used primarily for finesse drawing with extra sensory features to enable that as a "pencil." (The latter is also, I think, trying to avoid the current image of a "stylus" as effectively a prosthetic finger for those dumb devices that can't read your touches without it.)
And it works! I am amazed at the hype this product gets on here.
I just turn subtitles on when I watch a movie on Apple TV.
Yes, and my Nokia windows phone has had this feature for a year.
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Apple is much bigger than arm and could easily change the rules.
Court Ruling, Homeland Security Misstep Imperils 50,000 STEM Workers
Yea, part of me wondered if they took on this money to help go IPO...
Really sad to read that this new batch isn't certified gluten free.

Eating gluten free is often a struggle for ppl with celiac disease.

I'm sure a gluten free soylent would be greatly appreciated by the celiac community! (as least I would!)

The way I see it, a gluten free soylent would be my go-to lunch meal when I'm in a hurry or when there are no leftovers.
Well the US military (from whom the term comes) doesn't seem to understand the difference between tactics and strategy...

This is 90% of global history since WWII, in a nutshell.
My suspicion is the Pencil will not work with it, or if it does, will not have acceptable latency.
The turtle ship wasn't sudden (the Koreans built the first examples over a century earlier) and didn't alter the war. Toyotomi Hideyoshi had the entire peninsula under his control until the Ming Emperor intervened.
Yes, this, thank you!

There's a very good argument to be made that the reason nobody wants "apps" on their TV is because the experience can be charitably described as utter shit.

Smart TV's are known for awful UI's with awful lag, high end consoles such as the Xbox One stutter and hitch on their simplistic home screens, experiments such as Google TV have failed for the same reason, set-top boxes from outfits like DirecTV have the same problem, lag, lag, and more freaking lag.

If anyone can put a decent user experience on this whole idea, it's Apple. After this, expect the rest of the market to shape up quickly.
SHARP also makes compact high end phones. They seem to only sell them in Japan though - with the Aquos Crystal being the only time they tried in America recently. Unfortunately it's decidedly mid-range and tied to Sprint.

I love my Aquos SH-02F though.
Related: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20020801/is-caffeine...

I'll probably never know for sure, but I can't help but wonder if overdoing the caffeine contributed to the heart attack I had last year. For quite some time I'd been stressing myself really hard, working way, way too much, and ingesting ridiculous amounts of caffeine to help prop myself up.

For example: I'd work all day at my regular job, during which time I'd drink maybe 2-4 cups of coffee. OK, nothing crazy there. But... then I'd leave work, go to Barnes & Noble or Starbucks, and sit there and work on the startup for 3-5 hours, during which time I'd routinely drink a 2 or 3 shot latte, drink a can of Red Bull, and eat a pack of two of chocolate covered espresso beans. And that was my routine 4 out of 5 nights during the week. Weekends were more of the same... go sit at a coffee shop and work 3 or 4 hours, maybe leave and go eat some real food, and then come back and work a few more hours, and, again, chugging down lattes, Red Bull and espresso beans.

In hindsight it was absolutely crazy, and I should have known better. But we all think we're immortal right up until we find ourselves on a gurney being wheeled into the ER.

To be fair, there are lots of things that contribute to heart issues, and I can't say for sure that caffeine was a factor. I was overweight and hadn't been very active the past year or so, and my diet wasn't the best in general. But still, I'd encourage anyone who's hitting the caffeine as hard as I was, to consider backing off. It might not kill you, but it almost certainly isn't particularly healthy either.
Those people have a Surface and run Photoshop, Illustrator, Manga Pro, and other software not available for iOS.
If that is a genuine concern you have, I suggest monitoring your intake of rice and fish (sorry - don't have a good fish site to link to)

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-...
http://www.consumerreports.org/content/dam/cro/magazine-arti...
I'm sure it will be turned back in, refurbished, and resold in developing markets
Because a bunch of engineers is going to know best about that sort of thing. (It wasn't invented by gastroenteroligists was it?)
Ripping DVDs you own is legal. And I've spent a lot of time ripping my DVDs to run Plex on my Roku.

If Apple doesn't allow this, I'm not buying an Apple TV.
surface pro 3 has been out for over a year. also has more storage capacity for all those comics you want to read.
> Casual gamers don't care about playing on their TV.

Wii Sports says otherwise.
Wow apple is embracing javascript
Older phones (the ones designed by phone manufacturers, not computer companies) had sidetone [0], making it a lot easier to talk on the phone when it's windy. They where better phones than today's portable computers with a phone app.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone
Create a project,

1. Create files e.g. index.html
2. Create css, js files
3. Link css / js to index.html
4. Change layout to split view and see css / js / html changes live in the browser as you edit.
5. HTML files can also be edited inside Design view.

Sync files to dropbox or download a zipped copy to your computer.
> absurd pricing strategy

Apple in a nutshell. Are you surprised?
I wonder how bad is that for your teeth if you don't have to chew on your food.
"no way of legally obtaining non-DRMed video files of movies or TV shows"

Uhm what? I know the studios are doing their best, but fortunetly non-DRMed video isn't illegal yet. Ripping your own dvd, recording from tv, public domain or cc licensed footage, buying from independent distributors or the authors themselves, video blogs, conference recordings and learning material etc.
Can someone make a comment on the sustainability of our current water consumption, in terms of the US, other parts of the world, and the world itself?

If we are not living sustainably, should we expect more investment across the world on things like desalination plants (I understand that desalination is really energy-expensive currently, but will that change by much?)
In general, there are many reasons (fragmentation, quality, portability, dependency management, compiler support) it's preferable to have concurrency tools standardized. Standardization is only going to get harder in the future.

Specifically, it's great that Rust has a capable atomics library. I'm sure we'll see many good concurrent data structures come from it. But that's not quite what I meant by concurrency tools. The thread primitives Rust offers are the same ones POSIX standardized twenty years ago. It would be very valuable to have something like OpenMP (parallel loops, etc.) and something for concurrent IO (either asynchronous or coroutine-based).

There's no reason Rust can't have the performance of C++ and the easy concurrency tools of Go or Erlang.
Often when a company has to switch to a less obvious name at the last minute, it's because of trademark issues. There is already a registration covering "ForceTouch" as an input method for computers.[1]

[1] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85616589&caseType=SERIAL_...
Running speed for any event beyond a few seconds is not limited or determined by muscle strength, but the much much much more important aerobic capacity (as they discuss in the beginning, but of course don't bother to make the connection).

Performance in endurance sports also peaks around 27 years of age, so most people will naturally get faster until then and only decline afterwards. So you don't simply get slower with age.
Keep in mind that Microsoft spent 2 generations before converging on the current strategy: 'non-Pro' Surfaces 1 and 2 were ARM-powered Windows RT devices that could only run Windows Store apps (similar to iPad). When noone seemed to want that, Microsoft went out and made 'non-Pro' Surface 3 just a cheaper, slimmer, lower-powered device, running the same version of Windows as its bigger sibling; also non-Pro was released after the Pro and just after the newest Intel Atom chip: http://ark.intel.com/products/85475/Intel-Atom-x7-Z8700-Proc...

I actually expected the iPad Pro to support OS X apps; maybe via being powered by a new Apple Ax frankenchip that runs iOS ARM as well as x86 code (another payoff from the investment to custom chip design) and/or by requiring to recompile with the latest XCode for the App Store (a payoff from the long investment in LLVM).

Maybe next year.
To everyone here whose response to the 16GB model is that they are trying to push icloud, how do you transparently and painlessly free up storage on your device for photos/videos that are already backed up on icloud?
Yeah, I'd really like to see this benchmarked against µBlock Origin. I'm fine with switching if it truly is faster and works comparably, but until I see proof of that, I see no reason to switch over.

The authors of this product should run their adblocker against all of them here: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested...
Wow, this is major news and I almost missed it
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stock-in-trade
If you upgrade after a year, that seems probable. After the full 24 months, I believe that it would be yours. Don't quote me on this, though.
It breaks capslock?