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> Wickard was 70 years ago, interstate commerce doctrine has evolved a lot in the intervening years.

The Supremes haven't overturned Wickard.

Yes, they did decide that the first version of the Gun Free School Zones Act didn't have a commerce nexus, but they seem quite content with the current version, which affects only those guns that have gone interstate.

However, the relevant question is whether the Supremes have ever decided that something sold can be exempt from the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.

Take machine guns. A Montana statute that allows unrestricted sale of machine guns made in Montana clearly affects "commerce" (in Montana at the very least) of guns not made in Montana, aka "interstate guns".

Do you really think that the Supremes would reject that argument? On what basis?

And, if they accept that argument wrt guns, why wouldn't they accept it wrt cantalope?
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Exactly. And there's even this service that tries to automate this into Persona: https://github.com/nmalkin/janus
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As long as the gifts are more useful and desirable than their last implementation of facebook gifts, and they can provide a good API for the fulfiller of the gift to fulfill the order, whether it be virtual or physical, this could be really great. I think it'd also be a good idea if you could get numerous friends to chip in for a gift.
MSC Software Corp has bought e-Xstream Engineering
Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing hardware
Are there any new developments in this case?
Or is this just a repeat of yesterday's discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4575967
I do believe that, yes.
"... NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence -- images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels -- is the first of its kind ..."

Why isn't this front page, the implications are staggering.
I thought about the address part too. However, don't they already have locations from smart phones to determine where you live, where you work and where you hang out.
The OS X Save as PDF feature is amazing. I use it many times every day and I never have messy random files laying around. It has never, ever failed me.
Good find. I was skeptical after reading the headline.
I just bought a pack of those cards a few days ago. There is a high likelihood that my cards have chips embedded. I will write a blog post testing them if that turns up true.
Yes, I think the key word in that sentence is "legally". The following article describes the situation re: warrantless monitoring of u.s. citizens by the NSA: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_...

The thing is that they can not bring the result of this warrantless wiretapping into court. But they probably don't want to.

From what I've seen the FBI is a lot more vocal in complaining about the impact of encryption because their mandate involves bringing cases to court so they want a formalized, legitimate way of breaking encryption when they have warrants. They would also love to have the dragnet that the NSA has to know who to watch, and I don't know to what extent they do, but the bigger difference that I see is that the NSA is not interested in launching court battles (any more) whereas that is the primary endgame for the FBI.

The problem of course is that an encryption system which can be broken in a formalized way is open to the possibility of being broken by the wrong people. You can't have your cake and eat it too by having strong encryption that can be broken by the "right" people because there is no way to theoretically describe who the "right" people are. The encryption has to work the same for everyone.

Like all big issues in society there are competing rights; the need for law enforcement bumps up against the freedom of the individual. I believe that we are comfortable enough pushing this balance more heavily towards the freedom of the individual in America that a policy of embracing strong encryption is in the best interests of everyone, but I am aware that I don't have as much knowledge about this issue as some others.
yep, unfortunately it will be a while before it gets into apt
This is probably a good time to think about buying FB stock.
Huh? The share button in your desktop or your phone is not making requests to Facebook or Twitter, thus it's not tracking you. For instance, when you integrate twitter's buttons on your website, you must opt-in the "do not track" which means that otherwise, anyone visiting the website will be tracked by twitter and the data is kept for some days. Unless of course if that person has an extension like disconnect.me
How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome
I moved to The Mission in 1996 So I'm likely included in the internet crowd that ruined the city. I loved living there, but I when I visit now its not the lack of artists that I notice, its the (relative) lack of crack addicts. Lets not let the glasses get too rose colored. It might be more difficult for people just starting out or on limited income to make it there, but if they do there is a base line improvement to their quality of life that comes with living in a safer and cleaner environment. I took my son to play at the newly renovated park at Valencia and 19th the other month and I couldn't believe that there was an outdoor water park in SF, much less The Mission, that I felt OK with him playing in. The locals looked pretty excited about it too.

Besides the young and hip are doing what they always do, find new areas to make hip. I've been living in the East Bay for a decade now and I can't believe that Oakland is the new hip spot in the Bay Area. Hope it does something for my property values.
It is just a repeat from someone wanting their blogspam to get clicks.
I'm hoping that a large email provider (like gmail) will support this soon.

Getting providers onboard with this will be the make or break factor. And I'd really like it to succeed.
Yes... assuming that every site on the internet implements this system. which will never happen.
Battling Your Online Addiction
Facebook cracking down on fake 'Likes'
Bitcoin can easily be forked and changed though.
Everytime I see a mind mapping application it always reminds me of the old days were people used to flowchart out programs before coding them.

With that in mind anybody rushing to download the first mind mapping bit of software they come across need to learn a bit more planning, even if it is to verify there choice is best for them or not. Though if your a python programmer then the article does make that choice a little easier to dip into the pool.

I will add that when it comes to coding if you can get your head around the mentality of the coder then reading it becomes alot easier, this is why people can read and work with there own code alot easier than others. This is were standards help alot and take alot of the issues of programing out of your hands, mostly for your own good even if you dont appreciate why at the time.
Blueprint Health Startup Accelerator. Was it worth it?
Evolution theorist Alfred Russel Wallace goes online
I'm still not seeing a distinction. Your email account is already a single point of failure for every account registered with that email that has a "forgot password" feature.

Maybe it would help if we considered two hypothetical scenarios. A: Your email is compromised, and you're registered on 15 websites with that email, each of which has a "forgot password" option. B: Your email is compromised, and you've used Persona to sign into 15 websites. In what concrete, practical way is B a more damaging situation than A?
Has there been any information as to why those were so screwed up, compared to other blizzard titles? Blizzard used to be on my "buy everything they make you can trust it to be good" list but Starcraft II knocked them off that and Diablo 3 made me rather dislike them.

I know the Diablo 3 performance issues weren't picked up in the open beta stresstest - because I played that and the performance was good enough to make be buy the game after being hesitent to buy an online-only ARPG when I live in Australia.
It's an incredible marketing message that may or may not be in line with what actually goes on internally.

Is it believable that they have more freedom to scrap, or extend projects? Certainly. But are there are also external forces to development that include things such as deadlines, and other timings? I would imagine so.

It's easy for us to think of companies as an unchanging abstraction, but in reality a company changes very much based on who is behind it. Blizzard in its heyday is not the Blizzard today. I feel like the company has lost some of its magic, and it's not even quite sure why.

The talent is very different since the industry has matured. Their projects are run by people from industry that have been able to deliver before (C&C:SC2, DoW:D3). I can understand the desire for a certain predictability when you are spending 100M+ on a title. But at the same time, the reality is that these people spent many years delivering mediocre titles. Contrast this approach with Valve, which routinely picks up brilliant, but risky, talent and IP. Today, they have picked up DOTA, possibly one of the biggest games of this decade, which has slipped either by ignorance or incompetence through Blizzard's fingers.

Blizzard has every right to rehash their older games. But in 15 years, we see sidegrades instead of evolution. Perhaps they are using 1997 as a reference point. When you release a product with the barebones featureset of BNET2, it would have been passable in 1997, but 2012 is different. The landscape has completely changed. Blizzard is no longer one of the few providers of a functional multiplayer experience - you can get any game you can think of in your browser, desktop, or console. They are no longer a big fish in a small pond, but just one fish in a large ocean. By their actions, I'm not sure they truly understand how dangerous their position is. It's understandable to miss the change in the environment, after all it has been slow, and masked by tremendous successes with WoW.

But the times have changed, and on their current path, they will miss the boat the next time someone eats their lunch.
This reminds me that I want a Google Alerts for patents.
Here is something interesting Facebook can/may do: Apart from showing variations of the gifts (such as colors, flavors, etc.) have another option of "Save $xx as Facebook Credits." Once people have Facebook Credit sitting in their accounts they'll be more inclined to use Facebook to pay for things.
Which one of these cities doesn't fit.....Spokane? Since most of my family lives there, I would love to hear about tech opportunities there compared to...Austin, San Diego, and Seattle.
same here! it replaced bed reading material.
Ah, a mix up of definite and indefinite articles. A German parliament, not the German parliament. :)
I've seen this headline recently and it turned out to be false
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"...because nobody wants to be in Topeka."

Perhaps very few readers of HN would like to be in Topeka, but there are also families that have lived there for generations and all kinds of people who I'm sure absolutely love Topeka.

In fact, I suspect they would tell you that you can take NYC or SF and have it (or worse.) The bottom line is to each their own - no reason to disparage other's interests and life choices because you choose to live in a big city and have found a community of like-minded people, it just makes you sound like a pompous jerk.
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Excuse me while I switch over to Google Images to gather some fake profile pics.
Such a convenient way to make an empty and meaningless gesture!
Vanderbilt creates promising spinach based solar cells
Added iPad and iPhone / Android Support with Touch! - http://www.pubnub.com/static/pubnub-xkcd/index.html
Burnside: Panic's Tweet-to-Email Gateway
A Single Page App with Backbone.js, ASP.NET Web API, and F#
The all-on-one-page URL is http://www.dallasobserver.com/content/printVersion/274134/

(surely I'm not the only person that has discovered copy/pasting stories into a text editor to read makes it look like you're doing work? :-) )
Recorded a video - http://vimeo.com/50320757 - [VIDEO] of live action during the early moments of the release.
Ask HN - Should we flag blogspam?
Fairly often we see stories that link to a piece of useless blogspam rather than the original article. The guidelines say that these should never have been submitted. But are silent on what we should do if we notice the guideline being violated.

Is it helpful for us to flag those as we notice them so that editors can more easily find and kill them? Or would those flags just an annoyance for editors, and we should just ignore them in the belief that they will get deleted if they are a problem?
A message simply saying "Happy birthday!" isn't particularly personal either. I made my birthday unpublic to avoid them.

(But I'm atypical in that I don't particularly care about birthdays.)
Yes, but you don't need a separate port for every request. Is it reasonable to believe that a single client will have that many conns open?
> … through Persona "forgot password".

That’s just how their fallback provider works. BrowserID — the protocol — does not rely on email in any way. There’s no guarantee that if you have valid assertion for joe@dns.tld there’s also an email account by that name.
The voice in the video sounds a lot like Mark Zuckerberg, can anyone else confirm?
They're selling a lot of things that you would expect to see on fab.com. And I think they only have 100 vendors to start?

All Things D has a good write up: http://allthingsd.com/20120927/say-hello-to-gifts-facebooks-...
Seems like it's just old wall posts that were never private, but maybe not? I guess we'll see. Should be a fun circus if it really is PMs that are becoming public.
I wonder how many sub $100million non-security-focussed companies

A) Properly use an HSM at the root of their PKI. (Following
all the procedures for sharding their XofY control of the device)

B) Have " corporate standards for a build server"

C) Routinely audit their build servers to ensure they adhere
to those corporate standards.

At least the HSM limited the damage to the compromised servers and, of course, all the code that got signed in the interim.
There's a Stack Exchange for that! http://askpatents.com/ Just ask them as separate questions.
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That doesn't mean your way of allocating them is optimal.
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I don't know whose voice that is, but it definitely isn't Zuck.
"Through this process we learned a great deal about current issues with code signing and the impact of the inappropriate use of a code signing certificate. We plan to share our lessons learned as well as foster a conversation within the industry about the best way to protect users and minimize the impact on users in cases where the revocation of a certificate becomes necessary (as in this example)."

I look forward to this as well.
Yes, flag them.
F5 networks has their h/w design out there.
Alongside gaming, this is also particularly visible in the Hollywood FX/motion-graphics/design studios in Los Angeles. They eagerly eat their own young as long as the talent is there. And a with plethora of excellent art colleges right down the street continually pumping out very capable and ready-to-work talent, it's a vicious cycle. But, to be fair, the kids are living out their dreams through their art. So, from their perspective, it's worth it (until they want to start a family).
Considering the near unbelievable user idiocy I deal with every day as a developer for a startup, I'm confident that the complaints are entirely false alarms by people who are unable to wrap their head around the idea that Facebook used to be very different than it is today, and that the way they used it years ago is likely to have reflected that difference.

In my own experience, even with things as simple as logging into our site, I've had users file angry complaints and bug reports INSISTING that I deleted their account, because they KNOW they're using the right email, and they've tried every single password they've ever used and can't seem to get on the site. Ten minutes later I'll get another email saying "Nevermind, I forgot logged in with Facebook."

Point is, users frequently don't know what they're talking about.
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What, you can't scrape that?
I think when you get to the point of gentrification in a place like NYC or SF, when it no longer is possible for the creative class to afford living there, you do risk losing the city, and that's tragic.

It's not only a question of these being expensive places to live, but if the entirety of the city is filled with bougie restaurants and bars, is that even attractive anymore? Do I really care to live in a place filled with $15 burger joints, art galleries that don't take risks because they are targeting wealthy buyers in order to pay their leases, and music venues that have to have 7 acts a night rotating through so the space can sell enough $7 beers to stay open?

I mean Bill and Hilarie Clinton even had an event at Roberta's in Bushwick (Brooklyn) this week. The Clintons hanging out in Bushwick?! At what point do people just start looking elsewhere?

These are all questions I don't have answers to. I do love New York, and every time I leave I can't wait to get back. It's a magical place. But sometimes I can't help but think nearly free rent and a blank canvas like Detroit sounds mighty appealing.
Part of the reason may be that NASA has been crying wolf before. The 'arsenic life' announcement wasn't that long in the past. So people may be a bit wary until the images have been independently analysed.
All signs point to user error. I think it's safe to say we've all seen at least one friend post their phone number or email address on someone else's wall.

I won't believe these rumors until I see examples of intimate exchanges – whether they be sexual or personal details one would surely not publish such as a bank card PIN or SSN.
I agree, though I'm not sure if this is a possibility with a single set of tracks.

Aside from bart or muni in the tunnel, I found the fastest public transportation in SF was the various limited or express buses that go from the richmond to downtown. They make very few stops and move quickly.

The thing is, the express buses can easily pass the slower regular bus that make every stop. That wouldn't be possible with the streetcars, which I think would have to be all or nothing.
Not to burst anyone's bubble, but this is not the staggering news it's being made out to be. It is good foundational geology, yes, but water has essentially been confirmed for years now.

The story of Mars in short: flop planet, can't hydrosphere.

There is extremely strong evidence that in the very early years Mars was capable of holding on to a great deal of water: Enough to cover the Southern Hemisphere. The streambed seen here is from that time.

That downer is that this was over 3 billion years ago. Through a variety of processes and for a number of reasons most of Mars' water was lost to space or trapped underground.

The billion-dollar question that would be epic to answer: Did Mars develop Or acquire life during the time it had liquid water on the surface and if so is there any trace of it left, alive or dead?
Hugely... Especially if you're developing a payments platform.
This is not really something for the HN frontpage...
I think FB needs a lot more of this. Their API is basically essential for many tech startups these days, and a lot of things 3rd parties are doing they could and should be doing themselves. Where is the FB game development studio? The FB Spotify competitor (not FB music that was a rubbish attempt)? FB Yelp? FB amazing-idea-of-tomorrow-that-utilizes-the awesome-power-of-nearly-a-billion-users?

I still think the FB marketplace is something they haven't spent nearly enough time on. Oodle just isn't cutting it, and FB could easily compete with eBay or Craigslist. In fact, Facebook should be competing with CL in everything. I don't think it needs to be motivated by revenue, but by an actual desire to make amazing products using the FB graph in all those areas. Just some thoughts.
Facebook is just plain lying. I have zero doubt. No error here.

A friend of mine, software developer as I am, hardly use Facebook because it doesn't like it. And when it does it is through _private_ messaging. And there, on my timeline was a private of his.
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Why would that be empty and meaningless? Sure, it's not much effort, but it's nice to know someone was thinking of you. The fact that it's not free gives it more weight than a simple "Happy Birthday" post.
To be fair, DotA was a custom map made on a Blizzard game. Its a bit unfair to say it slipped through their fingers. Valve had a good enough reputation to secure the lead developer where other companies failed to. (S2 games and Riot games both tried to get Icefrog, the sole designer of DotA for the past few years, but they both failed to keep him around or even get him into the studios for talks). I think it took a special company, like Valve, to be able to recruit Icefrog and keep him happy.
Where on that page did you get the 20 cents? Didn't see that anywhere.
From this
http://gatewayev.org/how-much-electricity-is-used-refine-a-g...
It's more like 6kWh/gallon.
I guess I'm missing the staggering implications. It's cool, and these particular rocks are fascinating, but what are the implications that are surprising?

Water has always been supposed to have played a role in the state of Gale Crater, and it must have been moving water at some point...
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I came up with a good explanation for the "vision" of app.net:

A replacement for traditional communication (instant messaging) that is built into everything.
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OP here - any particular reason?
Quite so. It means that flowing water existed in this one spot for long enough to lay down conglomerate rocks. That's a pretty damn long time. And that just strengthens the possibility of their being conditions suitable for life that much more.

Also, if there was ever a significant amount of organic matter in that stream, we may be able to find out about it through the SAM instrument. It turns out someone was planning ahead and shipped a gas chromatagraph with a mass spectrometer and laser spectrometer attached. You know, just in case we wanted to pick up some dirt and figure out what the heck sort of complex chemicals are in it. Which we do!
Actually that message was present long before Apple was popular. Digital images are always super-imposed onto devices after filming because the camera picks up the actual device screen as somewhat washed out.

I do love the anti-Apple explanation you have concocted from thin air though. Plausible enough that some might buy it. However most on HN won't buy it because they aren't 12.