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> Once a rule is thus repealed, the Congressional Review Act (CRA) also prohibits the reissuing of the rule in substantially the same form or the issuing of a new rule that is substantially the same, "unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the original rule" (5 U.S. Code § 801(b)(2))

The CRA allows the rules to be recreated if given explicit authorization from a law by congress. So they can be put back in place, just not as easily.
Politicians are routinely bought by those with narrow interests.

By coincidence, Planet Money recently did a podcast about automatically filling out tax returns in California:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo...

tl;dr: In a pilot, 99% of people preferred the auto-filled returns, but the bill to make it law failed by one vote, because of Intuit and Grover Norquist.
I was an elected Democratic National Committee member and I can assure you corporate influence has infiltrated the D party too. I was part of a group of a few hundred people to receive a private Dave Matthews concert in the mountains, paid for by a mountain top removal company.
If you're planning to go in the big-enterprise space... the big one is Oracle Financials. Many companies use it to manage vendors, purchase sites, GL codes, buyers, approval levels, an item master, net payment terms, etc.

You guys are on the right track, but eventually you're going to hit a wall where you'll need some serious maturity with procure-to-pay.

I'm not sure how the tone of this comes across, or if it's in any way negative because you guys are onto something... but have a lot of competition that is often deeply integrated (see Service-Now catalogs for example).
From a global perspective (I don't live in the USA), this sort of thing keeps the world somewhat balanced.

Clearly the US healthcare system is all screwed up. Its astonishing that the richest country in the world can't provide basic healthcare to all its citizens. The US spends far more on health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is not longer but actually shorter than in other countries that spend far less. https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...

That's clearly bad for many Americans. Yet... America's problem is the rest of the world's gain. Countries that don't have the US's structural problems can benefit from the US's enormous medical research outcomes, without their broken healthcare system.

The two party electoral system is the same. There's been a steady move to more proportional representation systems in other democracies around the world. Yet the US persists with a divisive, broken system.

Yet... if the US got its act together and looked outwards instead of inwards, it would be a fiercer competitor to other countries. So while it certainly looks from the outside to be somewhat insane the way the US political system works, maybe it holds the US back and helps others outside - keeping the world a bit balanced, since the US holds many other competitive cards such as immense scale, vast access to capital, etc.

Its possible to look at a lot of the recent developments a bit like this - perhaps bad for the US domestically, perhaps good for the world as a whole.

So net neutrality is going to get undermined? That's bad for the American consumer, for sure. But maybe if its bad for pure internet companies also, then it might be good for their offshore competitors.
I was really looking forward to that write up, as well. Unfortunately, the author must have some rule about not breaking the fourth wall. Or they avoid softballed summaries?
Oh snap! Yeah that was probably a Cambridge Analytica strategy too! It worked in Latvia, why not here?
Ask HN: How to short startups?
Say I have a hunch that a particular over-hyped, but not publically-traded startup, is destined for failure. How can I profit from this prediction? Creative answers welcome :)
I don't know much about Nomad and couldn't work out from the repo what the jobs were. If I guess correctly, it's an app using Redis. Is that correct?

Disclosure: by coincidence of market forces, we're mortal enemies. Let's send christmas cards!
DerivePass – Password manager that doesn't store passwords
Talking lions are just lions with trans-species communicating capabilities. Lion communicate with each other instinctively. They at the very least understand each other, whether we understand lions is a different point.
Am I wrong in feeling that callback hell is a symptom of bad design? In what scenario are you making four server requests before you can do something on a webpage?

I like async/await more for it's brevity than utility.
Exactly who is paying Democrats to oppose this? They're doing it out of principle. There are major ideological differences between the two parties. Narratives like yours are unbelievably dismissive and politically deaf.
Whichever the highest version offered in the second generation Google Cloud SQL offering as of November/December 2016. If 5.7 was available, I would have chosen that. I don't specifically recall though.
Maternity leave in the UK is the highest in the EU. Paternity is much less generous, though still better than a lot of other countries.
Intel forms AI division
Yea, but that came with other benefits, like mandatory accessibility and unified look (at least on the mac). Where are they on the web? Does anyone proactively consider ARIA? Consistency of user interface is just a laughable dream.

But hey, thank god we finally have a framework we can inject ads in at will.
It sounds like your critiques are more system-related than ideology-related. That's fine. Systemically, it's a tricky question. What's the best way to ensure that 300 million people have access to the most complicated global networking system ever created? Is our capitalist republic equipped to handle it?

But your systemic critique bypasses the obvious point that ideologically, there are great differences between the major American political parties on this issue.

Denouncing the system as "all shit" does nothing to change this fact.
Not present is not a 'no' vote. Its a petty attempt to not be associated this bill once Paul knew the GOP had enough votes to pass it without him. He could have voted no and stopped this bill if he chose.
Now imagine that Microsoft Word was being used to do the selling and payment processing of those documents and it starts to make more sense...
WikiLeaks Reveals How the CIA Can Hack a Mac’s Hidden Code
Does dell offer a quad core processor without pulling in an Nvidia GPU? That is what ticks me off about their models. Upgrading to a quad core processor also requires upgrading to the 4k screen which requires an Nvidia GPU which makes battery life abysmal. Surely there are some users out there who want fast compile times, but dont want to do any graphics and want to maximize battery life?
Very cool! However, I think the author should have spent a a few more words and figures to distinguish support vector machines from standard perceptrons. Maximum margin classification and the definition of 'support vectors,' in my experience, helps demystify the algorithm.
Tgres – Time Series with Go and PostgreSQL
I felt in love with BlazeCSS, thanks to its component structure, React did to
I mean, we're talking about Europe as whole. The UK has the highest maternity though paternity is much worse but still better than quite a few EU countries.
Which one? There have been a bunch. Sure, I've signed them. I also give money. And I've helped with trying to get campaign finance reform on the state ballot, which was then shut down by legislature.

Entrenched politicians aren't going to change things on their own, but it's a false to assume that that means they are going to change things for anyone who can't threaten their hegemony.

My state is not a swing state. My representatives are both solidly entrenched and also on the take. In terms of federal issues, my vote will never count here.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN, and especially not about divisive topics?

Provoking and perpetuating off-topic flamewars counts as trolling, even if you didn't intend it that way.
That's why I keep hitting "refresh" on this page of comments, in the hope that someone with more expertise than I have comes along and tells me it's not nearly as bad as I take this to be (i. e., "we're fucked").

Still waiting, BTW.
The Orange line is $2.25 :)
Really? Huh. If it's all propaganda, then why did Democrats enact the legislation that protected our privacy? Why did the FCC implement Net Neutrality under Democrats? Why are the Republicans undoing that? Pretending there's no difference between the two parties may give you a way to feel superior to both sides, but it does little else.

I'm not saying both parties don't have issues, but if people consistently voted for the person or party that was less evil, we'd eventually end up with good candidates. However, people like you throw up their hands and say "Oh, well, both sides are bad." Yeah, they are. Like too much salt and too much arsenic are both bad. But there are matters of degree here.

The Republicans that want to sell us all out to multinationals, ban religious minorities, and deny science are in power right now. The Democrats aren't perfect. If that's the bar they have to meet before people like you will stop saying "Well, both sides are bad, whaa, whaa, whaa" then whatever. But don't feel like you're smart because you see yourself as above the petty fray. Quite the opposite is true.

In the real world, one party is doing the right thing and protecting our privacy and one party isn't. It's not all propaganda.
There are lot of buzz since some months about "senolytics".
However I think aging is a complex phenomena, including having social dimensions. It is probably not something that you could solve with a pill.
Yes, it's one of those very rare books that really made me think differently about things.
Employers will start purchasing your browsing history if this passes?
Their leverage is that you can't request another ride until either the rider or driver cancels the current request.

I was late to work and wanted to request another Lyft driver -- Uber was surging. After I canceled the hail, Lyft starting surging, as well. I ended up taking the subway to work.
I bought a phone with 6GB of RAM. It keeps getting bigger.
New WikiLeaks dump: The CIA built Thunderbolt exploit, implants to target Macs
I would be truly astonished if they're the ones pulling the strings. They're just the public faces. The puppet masters using them and their company to effect global change in some as yet unknown favour.
As a far left person, I'm firmly on the camp that believes that hyping up Cambridge Analytica's run of the mill operations (they were for Cruz, and he lost, lol) mainly benefits Clinton fans who want to believe that she lost for reasons beyond her control and that these are some geniuses.

Seeing Clinton lose, and hearing all these stories about grassroots campaigners being turned away, about Bill Clinton being told that his rural votes were gone forever, about "the Mook Mafia", about the "Ada algorithm", about Nate Silver being brutally wrong in the primaries and the NYT being brutally wrong about the chances of winning on the day of the election, and betting markets being wrong on Brexit... part of me thought this is where we draw the line. We need to go back to basics, start reacting to our circumstances, realize that something has gone very wrong, and stop blindly trusting "the data".

Instead this narrative cropped up that said "actually, we need even more even better data". And people seem to find it more palatable.
So don't use a GPU, don't suffer from old paradigms :)
Understood. My contact issue is in my profile. I saw you might be a "neighbor" and wanted to say hello. It is pretty easy to discern where I live, but I have become inured to the risk. :)
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Details at site. I will hopefully continue but am not currently doing it justice.
Hackers threaten to wipe millions of Apple devices, demand ransom
You can always disable everything except for LE.

It's not WoT because WoT is supposed to help you know of unknown people are secure (say LE and FSF trusts ABC, it probably means that ABC is reliable), which doesn't work at all
Sometimes you have endpoint A and endpoint B.

They are part of the same app.

They should not have the same level of privilege.

The secrets in endpoint A's memory should not be visible to endpoint B and vice versa.

Containers increase assurance that this is so.
> Like it or not, money and free speech are interfungible

I know what you mean (interchangeable?), and the problem is that it only goes one way. With money, you can purchase "free speech," e.g. in CA, you can pay signature gatherers a few million to put a proposition on the ballot, because signatures cost a couple bucks apiece. But you can't easily turn free speech into money: 100 million people could send nasty letters to the Koch brothers, and they'd be told to pound sand.
I hope y'all never have the chance to boot Turbo Pascal 7.0 (DOS) on a P5 class cpu. It's pretty sad. I mean a 700KB IDE with decent language to native code with some form of live check, instantaneous compilation times, modular programming, online help; multiple windows and a cult classic color scheme. It hurts.
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/death-dynasties-rulers-for-ruler...

Children were investment opportunities before capitalism. Retirement, genetic success, tribal power, I'm sure I'm missing some. If you interact with powerful families, the CGP Grey video above becomes very evident - you hit talk of people referring to families rather than individuals - "the kennedys are . . . ".

Yes, it can be chilling to see someone explicitly state implicit calculations that have been done for centuries.

How many times have you seen a powerful world leader without a family or children?
Yeah, that cache of zero days and all those DLLs aren't for mass surveillance. Ok. That's super duper believable.
Alexa is the big one. We also connect into Hue Lights, Nest, Wemo, August locks, and basically anything that offers an API. We offer a few different triggers/responses with IFTTT which creates a lot of cool possibilities.
A Hitchhikers Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code
> Will New York, San Francisco and London become unstoppable juggernauts, soaking up more talent and becoming more expensive each year?

London rent and properties took a 10% hit since the Brexit event.
And then good luck rebuilding civilization now that every easily accessible resource has been mined/harvested out.
I think that SVM's were seen in the late 1990s as replacements for three layer networks. This was because the kernel trick allowed the creation of high dimensional decision surfaces over large (for those days) training sets by optimisation. Because of the restrictions of computing power and data collection in those days the idea of very large neural networks was under explored, and most people believed that a very broad network was required to capture detailed learned classifiers and that it was impractical to train such classifiers. The idea of deep networks was not widely considered because it was thought that these would be infeasible to train, and they seemed (to me at least) to be until we found out about stochastic gradient descent, initialization, transfer learning, distributed computing and GPU's. So, SVM's became very fashionable and many people said that they were basically the end state of supervised machine learning. This made people look more at unsupervised learning, apart from some people in Canada and Scotland (and various others too!). Now people think SVM's are old because the old people that they know used to do things with SVM's. Neural networks are new because now you can do things with them that are quite unexpected.
The games we play [Drupal harassment]
Eight New Members Added to the MEP Advisory Board
So, assuming we're screwed, where's the best place to move preemptively? I know Boston isn't that place.

- I assume the coasts are a nonstarter.

- Moving inland could be nice, but the ground would need to be pretty arable to restart civilization there. I'm guessing somewhere in Africa is a safe bet, given the lack of resource exploitation there, but then again, there's not much infrastructure at the moment.
The US is actually #2 in total C02 production, and 6th/7th per capita over all.

It doesn't feel like its a problem because of two reasons:

1. Pollution and CO2 emissions are two separate issues. The US has strong pollution regulations regarding pollution near large populations, so even if it contributes to the green house gas problem for people living in cities air quality is good.

2. The US was previously the global leader in pollution by a wide margin, producing 300x what Brazil produced for instance in 1950. In recent decades, manufacturing in the US has become cleaner bit by bit, so there has been improvement. This is unfortunately dwarfed by the quality of Europe where pollution was always a lesser problem, and environmental guidelines became more stringent faster than in the US.

Many people like to compare the US to Europe, and in that respect the US usually looks terrible but the US isn't Europe and has never been in the same place socioeconomically. It is better to compare the US to China or India, because in geopolitics we are in the same place---large manufacturing nation, large population, large geography, former colony, quasi-imperial ambitions.
Ask HN: Full time vs. contractor? Which is best in CA?
Assuming equal compensation, which would you prefer?
I do appreciate the interest shown to C++ by Microsoft. I love using VS2013 for non-visual C++ work. If I could ask for an extra piece of candy, however.

I really need a visual editor much like C++ Builder/Delphi and how it uses their custom "VCL" WinAPI wrapper. That would make my life so much easier. Put the "Visual" back in visual. Thank you and I will continue to enjoy Visual Studio.
Imagine how valuable some users' history will be on the market. If I am an ISP and I know that the Zuckerberg household uses my service, that could prove very profitable for me.
> Again, without being to annoying, why does it have to be in Dallas? It doesn't, so it mostly isn't.

Actually, the answer is that Dallas is already a tech hub.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Corridor
That's encouraging at least. Obviously this doesn't make the ruling any less serious, but it doesn't sound as permanent as most of these articles make it sound.
> It's also possible it just hasn't made it into the release yet,

The proposal was just made, so you shouldn't expect it to be reflected in code just yet.
Best name for a blog ever?
> He would even keep on schedule when the time changed.

Your cat can tell time. He's planning your murder. Watch your back.
Is there a better alternative? Certainly not reusing passwords and if you aren't reusing passwords you'll have to manage them all somehow. I can't see a better solution.
Huh? Parents buy their kids crap fast food all the time. We have no cultural push to buy whatever food our kid has access to no matter how high the cost.

Contrast this with college acceptances and tuition. As soon as they get accepted, the tuition can be however high it is it doesn't matter. You still pay it. This culture of spending all and everything on tuition has allowed tuition to rise to maximally extract from the middle class.
An interesting observation. But isn't the explanation rather obvious? Writing desktop applications to sell for money, that has quietly disappeared. It still exists, somewhere, but so does horseshoe-fitting (the few experts are probably making decent money, but it's a zombie business nonetheless). Between a few established offerings that won't be looking for a new framework any time soon, desktop-packaged web and all the gratis stuff, where would new GUI toolkits find their footing? Desktop means potentially offline and offline means almost all monetization schemes don't apply. (including those that don't work except for instilling hope in investors)
I often advise to write code on "obsolete" tech. It makes every bit of cruft obvious.
Simple, find somebody else that is willing to bet the take the opposite view point and is willing to wager money. Basically, you are referring to pink sheets and you could do it through some brokers but it is hard to find people to actually go through with it.
Because when your device is off, your automation doesn't run
Seconding Digicert. They're expensive, but the most solid and trustworthy option when it comes to "old school" cert providers. EV, Wildcard, code signing.
Ehh, game engines are not really retained-mode in the way you mean. There isn't usually a cordoned-off piece of state that represents visuals only. Rather, much of that state is produced each frame from the mixture of state that serves all purposes (collision detection, game event logic, etc).

"What happens if you try to present an immediate mode API for UIs is the status quo with APIs like Skia-GL."

I don't know what Skia-GL is, but in games, the more experienced people tend to use immediate-mode for UIs. (This trend has a name, "IMGUI". I say 'more-experienced people' because less-experienced people will do it just by copying some API that already exists, and these tend to be retained-mode because that is how UIs are usually done). UIs are tremendously less painful when done as IMGUI, and they are also faster; at least, this is my experienced. [There is another case when people use retained-mode stuff, and that's when they are using some system where content people build a UI in Flash or something and they want to repro that in the game engine; thus the UI is fundamentally retained-mode in nature. I am not a super-big fan of this approach but it does happen.]

"and you draw strictly in back to front order so you completely lose your Z-buffer"

That sounds more like a limitation of the way the library is programmed than anything to do with retained or immediate mode. There may also be some confusion about causation here. (Keep in mind that Z buffers aren't useful in the regular way if translucency is happening, so if a UI system wants to support translucency in the general case, that alone is a reason why it might go painter's algorithm, regardless of whether it's retained or immediate).

"But that's the API that these '90s style UI libraries force you into."

90s-style UI libraries are stuff like Motif and Xlib and MFC ... all retained mode!

I don't agree that an IMGUI style forces you into any more shader switches than you already would have. It just requires you to be motivated to avoid shader switches. You could say that it mildly or moderately encourages you to have more shader switches, and I would not necessarily disagree. That said, UI rendering is usually such a light workload compared to general game rendering that we don't worry too much about its efficiency -- which is another reason why game people are so flabbergasted by the modern slowness of 2D applications, they are doing almost no work in principle.

Back to the retained versus IMGUI point ... If anything, there is great potential for the retained mode version to be slower, since it will usually be navigating a tree of cache-unfriendly heap-allocated nodes many times in order to draw stuff, whereas the IMGUI version is generating data as needed so it is much easier to avoid such CPU-bottlenecking operations.
Both DD-WRT and asuswrt for routers have policy based routing so you can selectively include/exclude traffic from the VPN connection.
> the old stuff worked just fine

> we don't need the new stuff

> how about we throw both away to shut everyone up, would that make either side happy?