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During the 110th Congress, the Democratic leadership of the Senate specifically blocked Republican President George W. Bush from making any recess appointments with the use of pro forma sessions.

In 2012 President Barack Obama attempted to make four appointments during a pro forma session, calling the practice of blocking recess appointments into question. However, on June 26, 2014 the Supreme Court of the United States determined that the President had improperly used his presidential power to make these appointments stating that while the Senate was in recess punctuated by pro forma sessions the period of time between the sessions was not long enough to invoke such power.
The Tribune link works for me.
I agree that the 2016 election becoming a foregone conclusion is a circumstance in which a nomination might happen, but it's the only one. Equally importantly, by the time the election becomes reasonably predictable, Obama will be butting up against the limits of the window in which he can get a nomination through even in favorable conditions.

Obama will not replace Scalia. I like the Dem's chances this cycle and so am not despondent about this.
> At Chrome, we like the IE/Edge behaviour, so we're going to align with it. This allows the progressive rendering pattern of CSS described above.

Kudos for chrome giving a nod to MS edge, and to the edge team for making things cool.
I wish Gore had won, and I don't know enough about law to have an opinion on the specifics of the case. But I am at peace with it for a simple reason: that election was within the margin of error. We can put a lot of stake into details of state law, but in reality it was a draw. Frankly I think the fairest thing would be a coin flip. In absence of that, I think "play it where it lies" is a fine proxy. I don't think a recount would've been any more or less fair.

I think our energies are better served changing the widespread voter disenfranchisement which does in fact distort the ability of our electoral system, as enacted in law, from representing the will of the people.
That might be the case, but stalling a justice nomination isn't as severe or visible as a government shutdown and might not get the same level of attention.
The entire appeal to women for Clinton by some of her folks is kinda tone-deaf, in my humble observation. It's basically saying "Hey, this person is a woman, you're a woman, therefore you should vote for her." This is the exact same sort of oversimplification pandering and objectification that a lot of women have fought very hard to separate themselves from.

Additionally, the increasingly hardline message of "Fuck men because men" from certain radical feminists, both internet nutjobs and old-guard aging intellectuals, is not something that appeals to Millenials.

Sanders doesn't rely on messages of hate, and doesn't rely on playing one population off against another. There's only one person who can do that effectively in the current race, and it's Trump.

EDIT:

(updated a little wording above on the first paragaph)

The article, in my opinion rightly, points out a good point: there really isn't the same sort of systematic bias in the workplace and economy and culturally that there used to be (in the United States). Objectives achieved, one would expect the second-wave feminists to settle into the long haul to mop-up the last holdouts and to make sure that the next generation was vigilant to prevent backslides and to appreciate what they'd gotten.

Instead, it seems that third-wave and later feminism failed to consolidate those gains and has instead begun descending into self-parody and besmirching the good name of feminism. This timing happened to coincide with the rise of social media, and as we all know, that makes the problem of isolating a movement's more radical elements even harder and serves to discourage moderate participation.
Hey there. I wrote the Jai Primer. Ideas there are my best interpretation of Blows ideas, which I generally agree with, but bear in mind they're not his.

To quote Joe Armstrong: You wanted a banana but you got the gorilla holding the banana and the whole jungle. You wanted a way to delete memory automatically, which sounds great but in practice most language's approaches to solving this problem come with a host of other problems that at scale make the given solution not worth it. RAII solves a big problem but it introduces a bunch of tiny problems like big mysterious constructors that implicitly do a lot of work and deconstructors that don't map to any particular line of code other than an ending brace. It's tough to examine in a debugger, it's tougher to reason about when it gets to nontrivial scale, etc etc. But human brains naturally weight a lot of small pains to be less bad than one big pain, so the solution looks legit.

Polymorphism is a way of modeling the world that runs along the lines of the categorizations that people tend to make, so it feels natural to create deep class hierarchies. But in practice it doesn't match the problem that you need to solve when you make games - you have data in state A and you need to get it into state B. Example: to do a physics integration on each simulated body, the CPU wants to do a for loop over a list of position vectors. But those vectors have been scattered all over memory by the class hierarchy. So that's one problem, you also get problems like needing RTTI and casting and yadeya. Class structures have largely fallen out of vogue in game development in favor of component systems, which is a pretty good step forward.
I was one of the "lucky" people who experienced this. The main module was bitcore-wallet-client
I just don't see republicans as that cautious.
McConnell already said that Obama should wait for the next POTUS: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/269389-mcconnell-dont-rep...
Well, Sourceforge.org is blocked by my anti-malware tools, so there's that.

Site counts are irrelevant. What's your revenue share by business line (tourism, tech, etc.)?
> we were served a demand letter

Your cofounder isn't suing you yet so don't panic. They're playing the intimidation game to get what they want.

> We're now completely stuck.

No, you're not. You're in a negotiation and you need to show strength.

> Our lawyers say it would cost $150,000 to fight this in court and would take 18 months.

Try to see if the other side would agree to non-binding mediation to try to resolve the issue before bringing it to court.

> We don't have that kind of money or time to spare.

Does the other side? Does your cofounder really want to bankrupt the company in order to get equity worth zippo?

> I've given up my entire personal life for this company.

> Would you walk?

You already knew the answer before you asked the question.
True, but considering the circumstances, it's not going to happen until at least the next President is elected. The democrats would do the same thing.
Very nice video. I like how you actually made it out to a football stadium to start the video. One suggestion if you want to make this more 'shareable': start with the 2d graphics and then transition to video shot using a drone. This will let you get overhead video illustrating the defender/attacker scenarios. If your stand-in extras can't run fast, just have them run in slow-mo and then speed it up in post. Please keep up the good work!
Yes the republicans came up with a trick to gavel in each day (aka "pro forma sessions")

Which made them technically not in recess even though no business was done.

And the court ruled that was fine.
Yeah, that's pretty close to what I think about the 2000 election as well. If you're going to blame one person for what happened, well, none of them were on the Supreme Court.
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You don't need a SmartNET contract, but...

We own affected hardware and don't have a support contract. It took me about four hours working my way through Cisco customer and tech support to get updated. Now that the interim patch is applied (complete with bugs mentioned elsewhere in this thread?), it doesn't sound like we'll easily be able to get a bug-free update at a later date. So while we're hopefully safe, we might not be stable.

Early on in the process (after 2-3 email iterations) their customer support called me to say we weren't eligible for a fix because we didn't have a support contract. I'd mentioned in my initial request that we had no contract but also pointed out that the advisory said we didn't need one. I had also provided a link to the advisory in my initial request, so that should not have been an issue. I was then told my request was "very confusing".

Once I finally convinced them we were allowed the update and verified the serial number of our hardware, I was thankfully forward on to tech support. They then checked our firmware version and I was supplied with a patch download URL quite quickly. The actual download was hampered in several ways by their poor website (registration required, browser autocomplete and cut and paste caused their JS validation to fail, and I couldn't get it to work with any browser other than IE). Once I finally had the patch, it applied without issue.

In short - the patch process was long, frustrating, complex, and as a small business owner makes me never want to ever, ever deal with Cisco products again.
Sometimes "left" and "right" are useful labels, and sometimes not.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/antonin-scalia-fighter-priva...

He was intensely conservative.
On one hand this seems openly predatory toward lower income couples who are more likely to divorce and more likely to need the money but on the other I'm surprised that there are investors who want to absorb years of handing out loans, basically giving away money, to then become a debt collecting business that will be threatened by default rates. And who wants to run that business where you give people money, wait for their nasty divorce and then harass them into repayment (not that people don't repay their debts, but in all honesty harassment is inevitable here).
If you are going to build a package manager, can I humbly suggest to take the learnings of late and use a DHT + strong signing of every package?

This practice of forever chaining a language to a bunch of fragile servers out there that go bad at the rate of links is worrying.
Glad you like it, I asked a service engineer to look into your issue.
Parinfer is impressive, and I'm sure a lot of people will benefit from its use.

That said, I feel that this is a step in the wrong direction w.r.t. Lisp editing, because it focuses on vim-style text/line editing, and automatically rewriting structure around it. Editing with Parinfer or Lispy allows for structural manipulation, which is more usable and efficient IMO.
This should have "(2015)" in the title, as it's not exactly recent. ;)
Good luck collecting on that! Divorce lawyers will love it though - another thing to argue over.
> Did you know him personally, or know someone who knew him personally, or is there some other reason beyond "you profoundly disagreed with him" that would lead you to calling him a "terrible person"?

Is there anyone you would call a terrible person? "No" is an OK answer here.

Are any of them people you did not know? Again, "no" is an OK answer here.

I'm not the poster you're responding to, and I'm sympathetic to the idea that it's not constructive to call someone a "terrible person", but if we are to ever call people terrible, it seems like there are some public policy actions that might be sufficiently cruel or immoral to justify calling someone a public figure who sought and used extreme power for extreme evil a "terrible person" even without having first-hand knowledge of that person's day-to-day life.

Or we could limit our condemnation to their actions and advocacy, not their whole person.
Do you think candidates who turn the job down will be expecting another chance later?
I wish there was some option to quickly install libraries when using C or C++ on windows.

It's just unbelievable that windows doesn't have this yet.

Although the only thing I hate to do, is compile a lib for such version of MSVC, and add it in my project, meaning I have to add the include path, the lib path, the lib name, in each debug and release, after having ran CMake on it.

Windows is still a little cranky.
There's some merit to the argument that the voters should decide, too. It's not like this is a year where the outcome of the election is predictable; in fact, if anything, the GOP is on balance disfavored: call it a 50/50 shot at the Presidency, and a less than 50/50 shot at keeping the Senate, due to the 2016 map.
> The term “feminism” has been hijacked by a minority of vocal extremists who have redefined it as “gender feminism,” claiming that gender is a patriarchal social construct created in order to oppress women.

Well, radfems have to justify their existence, after all.
this is a phenomenal idea. priced like a fixed instrument, the stronger a relationship, the lower the price and the higher the interest rate. the site should allow wedding guests to hypothetically buy or sell a share of this loan (it must be hypothetical in order to avoid security law). if the hypothetical interest rate approaches zero then the couple can rethink their union and have an out clause: this 'loan' should be structured with an upfront fee that the company can collect from the couple if they decide to cancel this contract before the wedding.
Considering the constant 5-4 decisions

That has nothing at all to do with how justices are confirmed. As others have pointed out, the last two Obama appointed justices were appointed in less time.
I'm not sure about that. I lean to the left but my biggest complaint is how easily democrats get pushed around.. My guess is that after a month of editorials in the WSJ and the constant drumbeat on the trail, they'd offer to vote on a centrist candidate, the republican in office would nominate someone pretty far right, and then to save face, they'd vote anyways and lose the vote.
> If anything history proves that the powerful do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

That's simply a truism, tautology, it's true by definition of the words used.
The flow towards Europe: a refugee crisis visualised
I was re-exploring that issue recently. It wasn't obvious to me which of two strategies I commonly saw are best: extend existing languages with parallel constructs as in Cilk/C, ParaSail/Ada, or Lime/Java; create custom languages + compilers like Cray's Chapel or academic Triolet whose output cleanly integrates with apps in an existing language. My uncertainty comes from the fact that general-purpose languages founded in sequential use might be too hard to max out on arbitrary multi-core & CPU architectures. What's your opinion on which looks to be the best route so far?

Cilk
http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/

ParaSail
http://www.embedded.com/design/other/4375616/ParaSail--Less-...

Lime Compilation
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/D...

Chapel
http://chapel.cray.com/overview.html

Triolet
http://impact.crhc.illinois.edu/shared/Papers/dissertation-r...
I deliberately ignore that :)

I don't think escape hatches added as a practical concern should count against the language, as long as they're used appropriately by the community. You can defeat Rust's guarantees by using an `unsafe` block, and you can defeat Python's memory safety by adding a C extension.

Like I say at the start, if I were going to be strict about this it would be a very short blog post!
Did you mean "Yes"? Otherwise I can't understand what you're trying to say.
Reagan nominated Bork, not GHWB.
We've grown and it's out of control. diff-so-fancy moved to an org
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587
there are tons of investors that would want to invest in this. a loan with a time horizon of 3,5,10 years is certainly worth a look and would fit in with any consumer finance type investment (micro loans, car financings, etc).

the investors would obviously not be involved in debt collection, and neither would the company itself. like any consumer finance (credit card, e.g.) it is a well-structured process of third-parties that handle collection. this is a slam dunk if they can get this executed. the PR risk is real however, i grant you that. there is real regulatory risk here
There has been some discussion here about whether or not Obama has time to get a replacement nominated and confirmed, or whether the Republicans can slow things down enough to push it to the next President (who they hope will be one of them).

I wonder if it might be better for the Democrats to not even try to get a nominee through before the next election. From what I've seen liberal/progressive leaning younger voters are more likely than conservative leaning younger voters to feel that Congress and to a lesser extent the President are totally beholden to corporate lobbyists and that voting doesn't make a difference so why bother.

An open Supreme Court position at the time of the election could give Democrats something to focus their get out the vote message on (for both the Presidential election and Congressional elections) that might get through to some of those younger liberal/progressive leaning voters.
> "there's a good chance that'll be Donald Trump"

it's actually pretty unlikely. Fivethirtyeight has a bunch of good articles about this, but the simplest piece of information pointing to it: Trump is intensely disliked by about 60% of the voting public. He's got a vocal and enthusiastic following, but once you go outside that bubble, he simply doesn't have room to grow.

I voted for Bush twice, McCain, and Romney, and I'll vote for either Hillary or Bernie (two candidates I can't stand) over Trump, and I'm far from alone.
I believe a privately run recount was conducted afterwards and Bush still won.
It's kind of vague as to which law, which can be tricky in an international context as they sometimes conflict.

Maybe it needs a get out clause, along the lines of "in case of conflicting laws, this clause is void"?
Just called Cisco TAC and am heading down the same road shortly ;-)

I'm going to renew SmartNET not for this particular vulnerability but for simply getting over the NAT hump from to 8.2 to 8.3 (and whatever other gotchas have come up between 8.2 and latest 9.x). Cisco TAC has been pretty awesome in the past, definitely don't trust myself to navigate the upgrade path in production.
Why is that a terrible quote?

Remember, there's a reason that the process and traditions are followed. It helps provide (theoretically) a uniformity of enforcement.

In the case of your quote, the exact same mechanism for "evidence found after the trial changes to innocence" is quite possibly used for "evidence found after the trial changes to guilty". It nudges up against double-jeopardy.

There are other problems with such an approach.
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So what you are saying is the person who just spent their entire life, 40+ years helping build the city they live in, should now move away to a small city that no one else wants to move to? And they should do that mainly because other people now want to enjoy the fruits of the elderly labor?
`swap` uses `move` to enable swapping objects that can only be moved but not copied (e.g., std::unique_ptr<T>). Note that this swap implementation is meant to be generic---types may implement their own specific `swap` that performs no copies or moves whatsoever. Example:

namespace NS {
struct S {
friend void swap(S& a, S& b) {
// do something interesting here
}
};
}

// later..
template<typename T>
void f(T& a, T& b) {
using std::swap;
swap(a, b); // calls NS::swap(a, b) if T = NS::S
}
Yes, there are people I think are terrible.

Yes, some of them are people I don't know.

Would I say it on the day their death was announced? Tougher question.

Candidly: if I felt like most of the people calling Scalia a "terrible person" were well acquainted with his work, beyond sound bites like "opposed marriage equality" or "thought we should shoot condemned convicts first and then hear their appeals", I wouldn't chide. But it seems like the more cut-and-dry an opinion you get about Scalia, the less well-informed and helpful it turns out to be.
>The language package manager can have so much richer information than the system one, is the thing.

This is simply not true. Language package managers cannot describe the entire dependency graph of a piece of software because they can't handle things that aren't written in that language. For example, there are plenty of Ruby gems that require a C compiler and C shared libraries in order to work, but those dependencies cannot be encoded in that system. System package managers can describe the entire graph, thus providing richer information.

>Finally most system package managers won't let you have multiple versions of a library installed at all, which makes using more than 2 programs at the same time virtually impossible (because they usually want different versions of some dependent library or other).

Yes, this is a big issue with the status quo system package managers. Fortunately, there's hope on the horizon in the form of functional package management. Functional package managers such as GNU Guix and Nix allow for an arbitrary number of variants of the same software to coexist without conflict. Additional benefits include unprivileged package management, transactional upgrades and roll backs, reproducible builds, and no central point of trust for binaries (anything can be built from source).

Language package managers are good for quickly sharing code written purely in that language with other developers, but unacceptable for anything else.
That explains why it only happens in the US, but not Europe.
Trump said he'd nominate his sister. I doubt he'll get the nod, and I doubt we'll see anything until after the election since it will energize both sides. It's too good a fund raising tool for red and blue to pass up.
What sensible scenarios are there for sending 1MB messages over a message bus?
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I think that we can be more generous to a vendor who didn't test sufficiently for a failure mode that would be a legitimate use only to a (reverse) time traveller who wouldn't be able to connect the device to any network in existence in 1970 anyway. Seriously, people are complaining about problems when they go out of their way to set the date to a bogus value? Some behavior is its own punishment, people!
We've grown and it's out of control. diff-so-fancy moved to an org!!!
https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
Different modes of co-ownership.
In the building you’re talking about, each company has/rents some distinctive piece of real estate.
Not the case with gigafactory.
E.g. read there: http://fortune.com/2015/11/03/tesla-grid-batteries-gigafacto... As you see, Tesla’s saying they will be producing cells, not Panasonic.
Bette Midler did a routine telling Sophie jokes. She nailed them. My favorite joke that Bette (Sophie) told was:

"I was in bed with my boyfriend Ernie. He said "Soph, you got no tits and a tight box. I told Ernie 'get off of my back'".

Are there obscenity rules on HN? This seems appropriate to me since the joke is true to Sophie and the article was about her.