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>Limiting the commerce clause, and strengthening private property rights

For context, the commerce clause has been interpreted very broadly. The clause itself reads, "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"

One of the classic examples of the broad interperatation of this clause is Wickard v. Filburn [1]. There was a quota on how much wheat a farmer could produce, and Filburn exceeded his quota. The constitutional justification for this law is that wheat is interstate commerce. Filburn's defence was that he was not selling the wheat at all, let alone across state lines, but rather using it himself to feed his livestock. Filburn lost in the Supreme Court because it causes an indirect effect to interstate commerce in the sense that Filburn would have purchased wheat if he did not grow it himself.

Not that it is directly relevant, but another fun example of loose interpretations of the constitution is roe v wade, where they managed to invoke the 3rd amendment to defend a woman's right to an abortion. If you are not familiar with the third amendment, don't worry; my constitutional law teacher took a moment to apologize when we got to this part because earlier in the coarse he had assured us that the 3rd amendment would never come up. It reads:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

[1]http://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1949/1942/1942_59/
Who gets to make the distinction, or decide what Free Speech is really "about?"

If the answer is anyone but the people engaging in the speech, isn't that a little dangerous?
vector S(vector o,vector d, unsigned int& seed) {}

int T(vector o,vector d,float& t,vector& n) {}

not sure why he's copying the vectors here.
When you mention patents in the USA, there cannot be enough.
DC Police are federally funded. So is the military. All should be sent home, no exceptions, until everything funded again.

I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once?

All we have left is a "discharge petition" trick if 218 signatures can be assembled - it's actually something used in a movie. Which is insane. But that is the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition
It goes (or at least at one time went) well beyond that. Last I heard, nvidia.o was shared across Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows.
http://www.carscoops.com/2013/10/injured-biker-mieses-did-no...

I did some searching and found this link. It seems like the NYT piece was just a PR piece for the lawyer.
It seems the contest is already over.
Reddit doesn't, but it does have the "orange red" envelope indicating new activity. And there is RES (browser extension) which adds notification that's visible even if the browser isn't focused. Reddit's API allows tools like Orangered (Mac status bar icon/notifier) and Alien Blue to built, as well.
Anyone still remember how those banks got bailed out by the government? Wouldn't it be nice to have the gov save your company every time you do something stupid :-)
The robot still wouldn't want to shoot on auto. It might shoot as fast as auto, but it would want to decide & control when each round goes off, rather than rely on the fixed timing of the auto mechanism
The majority of these employees (the vast majority) have nothing to do with the NSA or related activities. Even tangentially. Those being furloughed seem to be in the industrial/manufacturing sectors. These are people making the aircraft, ground vehicles or components for them. Future furloughs will hit those whose contracts were to get funding this fiscal year (appropriations can span multiple years, so it's possible a contract is funded despite this, but many may not be funded until after this current budget is passed). And companies will likely use this as an excuse to save some money by furloughing more employees than just the ones on affected projects. And in turn I wouldn't be surprised if they try to change the terms of their existing contracts to stretch out deadlines, even contracts that shouldn't have been effected. Hooray! More money down the drain.
A rallying cry for open source if I've ever seen one.
Maybe it uses your IP to guess at a location?
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Advertising the language is valuable if you speak that language. It's a large codebase for a complete product that you might want to peruse to learn something about how a large project in that language could be built.
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One time, on my way to lunch at 200 Fifth Ave, I stopped at the top of the hill by their parking lot and chuckled as their LS3 robot tried and failed to stand up.

Also, one of them seems to be working on a pulse jet engine as a side project. I heard the world's loudest vuvuzela, went over to check it out, and saw a guy with a rocket engine strapped down to a concrete divider looking at a laptop.
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Closing air traffic would be sufficient to make it a very big deal without all of the pain being focused on people who have little political voice.

The economic fallout would be terrible for everyone, but once upon a time that would prevented a shutdown in the first place.
That would be awesome to see on a modern tablet device. The gesture interface already exists and people are accustomed to it. It would be neat to see a demo of it at least.

Thinking about it, while not implemented for the whole experience, are there any apps that do this?

To some extent Safari on OS X does this now (since what version, I'm not sure). While you can zoom in and around a page, you can also zoom out when the page is at 100% and get a view of all the open tabs. iPad with its multitasking control is similar (swipe up with 4 fingers to see all tasks, tap on one to switch to it). A photo app would, as demonstrated, be an appropriate use, same with the calendar. Instead of having to hit buttons to move up the hierarchy allow the users to pinch-to-zoom instead.
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> It's like putting a gun on their head "if you don't buy this, we will sell to someone else".

I don't understand where you're going here. The linked video shows a robot designed under DARPA's M3 program. This was DARPA's initiative. DARPA has had a string of highly successful practical robotics programs.
Another comment I made downthread might address this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495063
If I get the math right (assuming a Poisson distribution) then a week ago, based on 0 fires, they could've said with 90% confidence "The chance of your Tesla catching on fire is less than 2.3 cases per 100 million miles". Not 0; but not very high as well.
The first thing all these people do the day they are laid off is file for unemployment (justifiably).

So this passes all the costs onto the states.

I am wondering why state governments aren't foaming at the mouth yet about this.
> I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once?

It's a fairly typical feature of parliamentary systems that, if the Government fails to pass a Matter of Confidence (such as, among other things, a budget), this constitutes the passage of a Motion of No Confidence, and results in the government being dissolved.

This has happened any number of times in the history of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the UK, among many others. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeate... for a list
Your math only works if we assume you're the only driver that matters.
So basically we're not making as many weapons, in which case you won't hear me complaining.
"American authorities say swapping crossroads for roundabouts cuts deaths by 90% and crashes by a third."
I'm never worried about a refund for a book. I'm worried that I can't a refund for my time.
> "I've read a few places in Australia if your Parliament deadlocks, it is dissolved and that actually happened once?"

This is a trait that applies to (nearly?) all countries that follow the Westminster system, which is to say Britain and many of its former colonies, including Australia.

The basic concept is that if a vote of non-confidence is passed, then the ruling government must dissolve and elections must be called. The trick here is that all appropriations bills are automatically considered to also be confidence votes.

I'm not sure about Australia, but in Canada it goes one step further: any bill, introduced by the ruling party, that represents their core party agenda, is also automatically a confidence vote. So, for example, if a party wins an election on a platform of banning gay marriage, and the subsequent bill fails to pass, the government is dissolved.

This can have some positive effects - it tends to make party platforms more moderate and the legislation itself less extreme. This only works in multi-party systems though, since in a two-party system the majority will simply never lose a confidence vote.
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It would also cripple the entire economy. Having that as a risk would almost certainly prevent a shutdown, but should a shutdown occur it would take months for some sectors to recover, and probably years or never for many others. Tourism, foreign visitors and domestic travelers. Shipping, which impacts not just FedEX, UPS and their ilk, but all the businesses needing to ship things or to receive shipments. It could be a boon for the rail and trucking industries, if only rail didn't also depend, to some extent, on federal activities. Trucking would be able to continue, but would never be able to keep up with demand. Of course, how much effect does the federal government have on the movement of oil (refined and unrefined) into and out of the country? Taking this further, we have no import/export anymore. Either that or both become entirely unregulated. No border agents so free immigration (well, illegal once the gov't starts up again, but who's stopping them) for all.

So I suppose, unless we are anarchists (which I'm not) or desire the end of the US (which I don't), then leaving a few things running makes sense.
I don't buy the logic. If embedding is such a big deal then why does nearly every discussion forum allow you to embed youtube videos but not tweets? It's got nothing to do with who the community thinks could make ad money on it, it's all about the particular medium. Further, while youtube is full of content, twitter has a much higher meta-content volume. Good for 'news' perhaps, not so much for discussion forums outside of gossip.
Our past track record is pretty uneven, that's for sure. One starting point is here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/AAAI_P...
There are all kinds of adjustments done afterwards to correct for various factors. For example, you know the age distributions in USA; and if you find out your phone calls are getting twice as many seniors than the proportion should be[1], then you throw away a random parts of them so that they don't skew final 'data' towards the typical opinions of seniors.

[1] Assuming that you're not measuring average age or measuring 'who is at home', but if you want to see, say, the average political opinion of total USA population, which tends to correlate with age.
Unfortunately it's politcians in 6 countries who try to dismantle the now totalitarian levels of surveillance who end up on this shit list too. Then soon it will be you and me.
Ah, I was unaware of that bit of history.
Can someone explain me, why are they spending so much time on trying to make it run instead of just fitting it with wheels? What is the benefit of it having legs vs wheels? I must have missing something sorry...
The state governments will get the money back when the federal workers get back pay. Contractors are a different issue though.
I was just thinking the other day how much I missed notifo doing this.

would be nice if it could send notifications via one of the HN iphone clients or at least text message though
Amazing how out-of-whack headlines are from the article copy even on sites like ATD. This is from the article:

> As a result, if Twitter continues to grow into the de facto public social network, it could easily start taking millions (and perhaps billions) of valuable ad dollars from YouTube.

So "could" in the copy changes to "is going to" in the headline, while "millions (and perhaps billions)" changes to "a billion dollars".

I'm guessing the headline writer knew something the writer didn't. I wish there were a way for me to take back my pageviews from sites with wilfully misleading headlines like these.
None of what you say makes sense. Obamacare is constitutional because the Supreme Court said it was constitutional, that's how our system works.

The Republicans are dead set against the law and are prepared to burn the government down to stop it. Simple as that. It's not some techinical procedural legality as you make it out to be.
I finished the first one in 20 minutes and got bored with the second one.

I'm happy I work for the company I do. If this is what they want people to do all day, geez.
There are plenty of checks and balances against a local national guard violating posse comitatus, namely that the federal government would then send in the rest of the army - all of whom are sworn to protect and defend America and its citizens - to right the situation.

The problem with the NSA is that if they are abusing their power, nobody will ever know about it, because everybody they deal with is sworn to secrecy. Abuses are far more likely to happen in this situation, not because of any inherent maliciousness, but because whenever you have a large organization that never has to face an opposing viewpoint you end up with groupthink and a large possibility of ill-considered decisions.

I'd be satisfied with detailed congressional oversight. Unfortunately, the last time the NSA director was called before a congressional subcommittee, his statements don't seem to match up with the actual operations of his agency, as they've been leaked since. I hear some congressional reps are pretty mad about that.
Can you elaborate on why -O3 often generates slower code? I've never heard that before.
Your problem may have a solution. A search on "side mirror blind spot" turns up a bunch of products and some helpful advice [0].

[0] http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-to-adjust-your-mirr...
The author raises an interesting point, you could easily write a headline that says "Online Black Market The Silk Road Helps Keep More Than One Billion Dollars of Drugs Off Our Streets"
This has been circulated on the Rust-dev mailinglist:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/0...

Rust did quite well (given that it's not even production ready i'd say it's impressive): https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-September/0...

The only thing they noted was that the Go version "cheated" by precomptuing some values which someone removed to make the algorithms the same.. maybe kid0m4n can comment on this :)
The stories at http://evening-edition.com/ are much more meaningful.
If you want a very bad car fire, then half of your current tank is plenty enough and even overkill.

Lots of gas can do much more - say, if a gas lorry spills under a concrete bridge, then the fire can do structural damage to that.
Roundabouts are everywhere in Australia and I never understood why I almost never saw them in America.
to code or not to code... this looks almost <i>too</i> enticing.
i am glad to be old enough to remember the time before the iphone. seems like a stupid thing to say, right? but go to any tech forum and it seems like all of it is forgotten already, 2007 is kinda blurry and Apple producing smartphones completely normal.

when the rumours started swirling about apple launching a phone people could not believe it. like at all. apple, the ipod guys, building a phone?! no way, what a joke. you had the photoshops of ipods with a dial, etc. analysts explaining why this was completely wrong, impossible and apple was doomed.

same at the launch of the iPad. same at the launch of the iPod (less space than a nomad, no wifi, lame). what the fuck is a nomad one might say today.

those great photoshops of steve holding a giant iphone to his ear, hilarious. an iPad, buhaha, bunch of retards at apple. but now the galaxy note makes perfect sense. to exactly the same neckbeards who laughed at apple's idiocy before.

apple is indeed the most frustrating company. it somehow has defied gravity in the second jobs era and proven that large swaths of the tech world couldn't define taste and style if their life depended on it.

and perfection, like the iphone launch, is a matter of style and taste.
You can't enforce it, but it feels that you can get your team (that's working together) to a consensus that it's a good idea and should be done.
"In the "state of nature," without government, we are in
no way anonymous."

Not really true. Pre-government issued ids, you could literally walk into many towns all over the world and people would simple have to trust that you say you are who you are. That was the ultimate anonymity, since all identification proffered up could only be done voluntarily.
> iOS is starting to regain marketshare from Android.

There is zero evidence of that and plenty of evidence that it's the opposite. Android is activating more than twice as many phones as the iPhone every day, it's a gap that the iPhone will not be filling for at least five years, if ever.
We're going to make the same number of weapons, we're just going to do it less efficiently, with more human disruption. Disclaimer: also would prefer a much smaller US military.
It would also be nice if my company could print it's own money, and I could pick up a gun and jack the company next door and steal all their resources or extort them without any legal repercussions. It would also be great if my employees had to pay me back a tax everytime I gave them a paycheck so I could get some more guns.
Assume a Tesla vehicle has a constant risk of catching fire per mile. That is, we have a exponential distribution `P(catch fire after t miles | hazard rate) = P(t|a) = a exp(-at)` where `a` is the hazard rate (average fires per mile). Furthermore we'll assume an exponential prior on `a`: `P(a) = w exp(-wa)`. `w` is a parameter that expresses how much prior knowledge we have of `a`. In the limit `w=0` we know nothing at all, except that it's nonnegative.

Our data is the fact that we went 100 million miles before a fire, after which exactly one fire happened, so we want to find the distribution `P(a|t = 100 million)` which tell us everything we want to know about `a`.

Then use Bayes' theorem: `P(a|t) = P(t|a) P(a) / P(t) = aw exp(-a(t+w)) / P(t)`. The normalization factor `P(t)` involves an integral over `P(t|a) P(a) da` from 0 to ∞, which wolfram alpha tells me evaluates as w / (t+w)^2.

So our posterior probability is `P(a|t) = a (w+t)^2 exp(-a(t+w))`, but we can take the limit `w -> 0` at this point for a fully uninformative prior: `P(a|t) = a t^2 exp(-at)`.

So we can just set `t=100e6 miles`, and now calculate things like the expectation of the distribution: `E[a] = 2/t = 2e-8 per mile`. Or the probability that the hazard rate is less than other cars, which is the integral from 0 to 1/(20 million miles): `P(a < b) = 1 - exp(-bt) (bt + 1) = 0.96`.
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Mountains. Observation posts linked by foot trails. The film "Restrepo" shows this very well.
Legs can be better than wheels for rough terrain. Mules can go some places jeeps can't.
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Oh, rattle away with you "list as long as my arm". But only include behavior that's actually against the law.
How do we know this acrostic message was not a random coincidence? How many other "messages" can you find in the NWS archives?
I get the sense that this author is misinterpreting what a someone from the Silicon Valley means when they say they're going to change the world. To the silicon valley, "to change" means "to improve by eliminating inefficiency."

If the complaint is that the Silicon Valley should be more charitable, the author is missing the purpose of their goal. Charity rarely, if ever, improves efficiency and often detracts from it.

I'm not trying say that charity is wrong. It's just the wrong standard of success in this case.
There's a funny Ali G clip, where he's interviewing Sam Donaldson about the media and asks if it's ok to title headlines "WAR BEGINS.... with a w"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6OULO5R4Y

It's funny thinking back well before the internet how physical headlines were used to capture people's attention as they walked by a newsstand.
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Looks like it is hard to stop the military-industrial complex. Don't say you have not been warned.
So what you're saying is that the internet is a tool, and like all tools they can be used for both good and evil. That being said, how is it different from a knife that can be used as easily to cut food to murder someone? We don't regulate knives despite the danger they occasionally present. We value the convenience and utility of being able to acquires knives whenever, wherever and for whatever we want more than the safety afforded by regulating knives to prevent stabbings. The internet is an even more versatile tool than knives and regulating it will do more harm than good.
A Swiss franc is currently worth a little bit more than a dollar, so this works out to $2800/month or $33600/year. By US standards, this actually seems to be a good salary: significantly better than working full time at minimum wage.

It would cover all my current expenses handily. Of course, I'm young and single but by no means frugal. (I find that the little costs involved in worrying about my expenses easily outweigh the money saved.) So this is quite an income.

One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income. What I would really hope is that people would still do many of those jobs, but for far fewer hours--largely as a way to get money for incidental expenses and luxuries beyond the basic income. One problem I find with most jobs is that it's much easier to get more pay than less hours, even if I really want the latter. There is a large drop-off between full-time and part-time work.[1]

Beyond a certain level, I would value having more free time far more than making more money. Unfortunately, mostly for social reasons, it's hard to express this preference. A basic income could make this much easier to do.

While I suspect this might not pass, I think it would be very valuable for the entire world. One of the unfortunate realities in politics is that it is really hard to run experiments; small countries like Switzerland can act as a test subject for the entire world. Or perhaps like a tech early adopter for modern policies.

Either way, this passing would be very interesting.

[1]: For me, this is not quite as simple. In reality, there are plenty of jobs where I would be happy to work relatively long hours. But this stops being a question of pay, or even "work": after all, I'm happy to spend hours and hours programming for free. Being paid to do something I really like is wonderful, but it really changes the dynamics in ways that probably do not apply to most people.
It should also be a stacked bar chart, not two individual bars.
Doh! Thanks for the correction.
In some of the skiing villages in Colorado the intersections were ripped out and roundabouts were added. I heard it was to make the towns seem more European. As a driver I realized it made traffic flow much, much faster. What I do wonder is if roundabouts that service major roads have a lower accident rate than an intersection with traffic lights.
Meanwhile, in America, the government is shut down to try to stop poor people from receiving subsidies on their private health insurance.
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