skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The edge case is that A follows B, then A deactivates his account, then B switches her account to protected, then A deactivates account (within the 30 day window since deactivation). Now A is a bonafide follower of B (because he followed her before she switched to protected) and can thus view B's protected tweets.

I don't disagree that Twitter might as well patch up this corner case, but I think it's an extremely narrow corner case that shouldn't inspire much worry or outrage.
For phones to achieve that the GPS would have to be turned on & synced near constantly. Also the accuracy goes down with mobile devices and new strategies have to be applied given the change in altitude and greater temperature flux. It also depends on the phone's internall oscillator & the gps recv unit used.

Mobile phones use CDMA stuff to sync their clocks, not GPS
I've also created such an extension a while ago, however, it allows you to create your own replacements: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/regexr/ienlimaajnl...
GPS satellites don't do any calculating for you, and there is no "direct connection" between the satellite and your phone. The GPS receiver in your phone is purely passive. It uses latency (usually a few dozen milliseconds) to calculate its distance from each satellite.

As long as you have access to at least 4 satellites, triangulation (quadri-angulation?) allows you to determine your precise location in all 4 dimensions, three of space and one of time.
It all comes down to money right? Doing that volume probably doesn't make sense to use stripe as px and a merchant account is probably much cheaper due to leverage against the banks. I'm ecstatic about stripe though as it's so hard to start taking payments well here in Australasia. It's a massive boon for small operators.
That's a very narrow minded position.

Gosh I hope you never screw up even once, cause you'll never live it down.
"Hamas is shooting roughly the same number of rockets(~120/day), bigger rockets"

I didn't realise this - I thought the majority of Gaza-fired rockets were fabricated in Gaza and pretty ineffectual, hence the 29 casualties since 2001.
My high score so far is 30. You should have a leader board perhaps in the next update.

I've been pondering Unity for a while,. BTW, how long would it take to get the hang of it? (I am an intermediate programmer)
Israel has an “Iron Dome” for its tanks as well
But this has never happened in any municipally provided internet service to date (in fact, even municipally-funded libraries are loathe to install filters). Nor has the government-sponsored Post Office ever refused to carry indecent mails (think adult magazines and videos).

And unlike corporations, government agencies are bound by the Constitution; any attempt by a municipal Internet service to filter based on content would face a First Amendment lawsuit overnight.
Nice. Thanks for sharing
Maybe we don't: "“Naked Streets” Without Traffic Lights Improve Flow and Safety"

An article in a local Bristol newspaper explaining the effort stated, “drivers will now be expected to use a combination of common sense and courtesy to negotiate the junction of the town’s High Street, Wyndam Way and The Cabstand.”

http://thecityfix.com/blog/naked-streets-without-traffic-lig...

"Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel"

Another kind of anarchy could actually speed travel as well—namely, a counterintuitive traffic design strategy known as shared streets. The practice encourages driver anarchy by removing traffic lights, street markings, and boundaries between the street and sidewalk. Studies conducted in northern Europe, where shared streets are common, point to improved safety and traffic flow.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/removing-roads-and...
A meta-point about understanding hostilities-in-progress:

As curious analytical types, or as motivated participants in political debates about proper defense systems and policies, we'd like to know what's really going on, and sooner rather than later.

But note that in the "fog of war", confusion about what's really working and what isn't can be important. Lots of bad information will circulate, either due to natural misunderstandings or the calculated propaganda efforts of affected groups.

Maybe a myth of Iron Dome potency serves other purposes, covering for other tactics or shifting enemy behavior usefully. Or alternatively, maybe a myth of Iron Dome impotency and cost-ineffectiveness serves other purposes.

This of course makes contemporaneous democratic, open-society discussion of war a nearly-intractable task. It could be years (if ever) before outsiders and laypeople get a reasonable idea of what's really going on. This doesn't mean it's not worth discussing, just that confidence in any evidence or conclusions should be kept very, very low for quite a while.
They can name the companies MICROS~1 and MICROS~2
There is a game center leaderboard (just click on the cup).

Unity is pretty easy to understand - I'd say a couple of days?
Gaming is actually a really bad example since as you say, you can't really on the clients telling you a time as it may be spoofed. Thus the clients times are always ignored, and thus time sync is irrelevant.

I'll say that in about 10 years of working on multi-player games, I've never once put a wall, or other absolute time on the wire for any purpose than just printing server time to the player for informational purposes.
If Tennessee is willing to pay $200 million dollars, then they can have them.

> The $197 million relocation incentive package Nissan received from Tennessee ...

http://www.autonews.com/article/20140503/OEM/140509936/toyot...
The vast majority of that will be libstdc++ and libc, of which the app will be using a tiny corner. You could probably reduce that by half by sticking to C and then using a minimal libc.
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Your numbers are off. The US wants to invest that much, but has not actually done so. Meanwhile Israel has invested (or plans to, it's not clear) at least $1 billion, on R&D and a manufacturing line.

That number doesn't make sense anyway - they built 9 batteries, 2 to 4 of which Israel did before the US got involved. Each costs 50 million. 5*50 million = 250 million which is approximately what the US actually spent (rather than talked about, or planned to, spend).
When it comes to unauthorized copies that do not fall within the parameters of fair use, the theft - for lack of a better word - is not of the copy in question. The bone of contention is actually the money that you would have paid to the author in the case of a legal transaction, and which you "save" in the case of an illegal duplication.

It's kind of like "saving" money on milk by walking out of the store without paying for it. Whether you're taking possession of a finite physical good, or increasing the legally regulated supply an intangible one, you're doing something that - by law - triggers an obligation to pay another person money.

Disregarding the obligation by making a copy and retaining possession of the money which, by right, you now owe another, is where specific and definable deprivation enters the picture.

When people who understand what they're talking about refer to "theft" in relation to the unauthorized duplication of intangible goods, this is what they mean.
And you're implicitly claiming that corporations will necessarily do a better job, despite the overwhelming number of Clean Air Act violations charged to them every year: https://www.google.com/search?q=clean+water+act+violations+2...
These are the rockets being shot from Gaza:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/images/ham...

In early years they mainly shot the ones of the left, in the recent years and mainly in the current conflict they're shooting military grade Fadjr5 and M302(the two on the left) that have a serious kill payload(greater kinetic energy + warhead size).
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Ah yes just saw it!
For what purposes would you use this?
Usually, the bigger the company, the more time is spent trying to get uninterrupted time to program. When the company is smaller you get as much time as you like to program. This is because there are a lot less people you have to communicate with.

So at 200+ companies. Half of your work week is dedicated to just constantly communicating what you are doing. (Everyone must know everything all the time).

At smaller companies, you tell the one person you work with what you are doing and thats pretty much it for the week.

Everyone's mileage will very but this has been a pattern I have seen in the industry.
Ask HN: Best saas to clone?
I want to clone a highly successful saas and under price it and then offer it.which would be the most suitable choice for me.I have a small team and we want to build poor men's saas.
Most people know that ideas are dime a dozen, even good ones, hence they hold little intrinsic value.

With that said, you are considering investing in the idea, so that means you think there is some value in it, at least to you.

Offer/give what you think is fair. If it makes you feel more comfortable, maybe do 5% up to a preset maximum?
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India - they almost worship expats. Plus if you can speak well, you'll probably get a high paid job (not as high as US or EU).
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I tend to use keywords as the application name as it makes SEO easier and people know what the app does by its title.
> The bone of contention is actually the money that you would have paid to the author in the case of a legal transaction, and which you "save" in the case of an illegal duplication.

The problem with that analysis is that the amount of money you didn't give to the artist is the same regardless of whether you downloaded a copy. In fact, the vast majority of people in the world didn't pay the creator of the media.

And even for physical items, compensation to the initial holder is not what's relevant. If you take a gallon of milk and sneak out of the grocery store, but leave enough cash on the shelf in its stead, I think you will still be found of shoplifting, and I personally agree with that assessment. Likewise, if someone breaks into my house and takes my sculpture and leaves a million dollars of cash, that's still theft. What constitutes theft of a physical object is precisely that the item was taken not on the terms of the property holder.
Not sure why downvoted, vector clocks are an interesting alternative.
Its just that they won't fix your log timestamps or kerberos clock skew errors.
Sid - are you leaving LinkedIn?
Conversely, you might be able to iterate faster with a 'web' language and create a product people really use in a shorter time frame and worry about scaling later!
Give me a break, they both signed agreements in 2004 and I posted that at 2am... This page has excerpts from the city's franchise agreement with Comcast. As you can see, it's non-exclusive: http://www.baltimoregrassrootsmedia.org/PublicAccessTV/Franc....

This directly contradicts your assertion claim that Baltimore gave Comcast an exclusive franchise for television.

> It is fairly universal in franchise agreements to require universal buildout and public-access channel service in exchange for certain amenities the local government can provide. In the case of Google Fiber, they chose not to pursue a TV franchise and Baltimore was smart enough to stick to their buildout requirements.

It is fairly universal, but it is also what suppresses competition in the market. Verizon and Google won't touch those terms with a 10-foot pole. Its not smart of Baltimore to stick to those requirements, because it means people in Baltimore won't get fiber.

> That, combined with Comcast's boilerplate 'most favored nation' clauses it generally gets into their agreements, renders all of your arguments moot, as far as the end result for the populace goes: there is only one game in town. The fact that it technically shouldn't be that way is just academic.

Sure, there is one game in town, but my argument isn't about that. Your claim, an oft-repeated bit of misinformation, is that cities get around 253(a) by granting exclusive right of way to certain providers. Or maybe your claim is that cities get around 253(a) by granting exclusive franchises for television to a single provider. The implication is that a competitor is legally precluded from entering the market. However, the reality is that cities don't do those things. What they do instead is succumb to class warfare politics, and make the terms of getting a franchise unattractive for competitors.

The question is: who is to blame. People on HN like to make it seem like cable companies negotiated themselves sweetheart exclusive deals. But the reality is that municipalities are to blame. Between the build out requirements and random cash grabs for public access, cities put up massive roadblocks to potential competition. Only the incumbents are willing to put up with them.

The bottom line is that companies like Verizon and Google are ready and willing to build fiber in places like Baltimore. But the city won't let them unless they agree to ridiculous terms. The fact that even Google refuses to agree to such nonsense in Fiber cities should tell you who is at fault here.
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> a publicly owned utility has a natural advantage over for-profit companies

So what if it does? I do not think that this should be of overriding concern to us. The for-profit companies are not the only stakeholders here.
I see what you mean and I agree that parents sometimes end up pushing their kids too far. I'm not his parent and I've not tried to make him do something he doesn't want, but I'm excited that he's excited because I recognize his potential - hence the "finally". I might've had some small influence on this interest, in the same way my older siblings have influenced me by doing what they do, but what's really wrong about that? It seems a lot better to influence somebody in a direction that can be immensely productive and rewarding than, say, negatively influencing somebody by being a cracked-up rockstar. Positively influencing and affecting each other is a feature, not a bug, of good families.

Even if I had given him obvious signals I fail to see the problem. It's like suggesting a kid who's naturally comfortable around a football to try out soccer. Whether he likes it or not, trying it will be a net win: You've either helped him discover, or rule out, at least one out of an infinite number of things he might want to do in life. To your point, it becomes problematic when he tries it, doesn't like it and you insist/force him to continue, or otherwise make him feel bad - particularly if the motivation for doing so is anything but his own best interest.

Having said that (and going a bit further off topic) I also think that there are cases where you actually want to "force" kids to do things they're not immediately excited about. Think about how a big part of most educational systems work: Kids often don't like doing homework, but most continue to study for years out of their own free will. Many don't like math, but end up loving when they start to understand how it works, and giving it a fair chance is necessary to get to that point. Even if you don't like math you'll still benefit from and need to learn the basics because it's used everywhere. The same argument can (to a rapidly increasing extent) be made for coding.

Trying new things is a crucial part of developing as a person and learning what we like and don't like. It's also pretty much what being a child is all about (disclaimer: I don't know nearly enough about kids to claim that, but it seems reasonable to me :)). It's our responsibility as adults to help facilitate this learning process for the children close to us (and ourselves for that matter), and they will benefit from it as long as we're respectful about their choices.
I don't know whether armchair usability trivia helps here. Not every system deals with ephemeral web drivel; some systems interact with the real world and have impact.
previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888638

related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3336584

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6071825
but the entity that controls the use of the medallion in the end is the one assigning the price. that is important.

if you have problems with the number of taxis, you don't solve it by throwing the hole system in the garbage and going full liberal. you put the people doing the bad planning to answer for their bad work.

I know it is very hard for you to understand why taxi prices being regulated is a bad thing, you being a young yuppie in san francisco. but i hope you still have it when you are older, retired, with no close family, having to move around.
The Guardian just goes down and down in my estimation with each click-bait article on tech. I get it, you don't like the software industry, SV, 'disruption' and have a big axe to grind.

Is it just me who's noticing it, or how do other HN regulars feel about this (not this particular article, but it is the latest one I've seen)? I'll arrive home this evening to my housemate quoting this opinion piece, I just know it. Ugh.
Interesting, this. I suspect that under the currently-being-dbated TTIP, this would count as State Aid, and foreign shareholders in Comcast could sue the local government for lost profits.
I don't think that w32time is something that users like to look at! I recall a situation where you run w32time on a server and it runs fine and doesn't report an error, but still silently ignore the option you set as it is using another time source from another machine that it has designated a master.

I could be wrong, but I was disappointed that the utility didn't return any errors when it knew that it was going to ignore you.
It is fascinating to see how well its server it holding out. With Plenty of headroom to spare!.

With Higher Capacity DDR4, and Haswell or even Broadwell Xeon, and PCIe SSD getting cheaper and faster. It is not hard to imagine they could handle 3 - 4 times the load when they upgrade their server two years down the line.

But i would love to see Joel's take on it though. Since he is a Ruby guy now, and I dont think you could even achieve 20% of SO performance with RoR.
I think it starts like this:

1) at most nb of stone increase by one each time one player plays

2) nb of stone cannot decrease unless the board is full of stones

3) no one can lose unless the board has been full of stone at least once;
this is because until the board has been full of stones it is possible to increase the nb of stone by adding one and this is a new position because of 2)

4) as soon as there are n - 1 stones, the player who puts the last stone wins; because there are n - 1 different positions left with n - 1 stones and n - 1 is even
Simkl TV Tracker beta released
add the feature to see when 3 houses in a row are out. better ROI that way.
I'm most excited about the embedded Solr search engine in this release (Yokozuna), always felt that architecturally search and data should sit in the same place.
anybody care to explain the downvotes?
> At this point you DO NOT own a game yet

You can claim it's a voucher instead of a game, but the distinction is quite meaningless to me. I can see why they do this for business reasons, but it's not something we tolerate elsewhere, generally. And why is it not a restriction if I am forbidden from doing something?

We can redefine all the words if you want, but the essential facts that I've paid them money for something and they forbid me from doing certain things with the item I purchased remain.
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Would you say that making a mistake in software is equal to taking a human life?
Except due to routing 2Gbps in Japan is way worse than 1Gbps in the US for most content.
The missiles are unguided which means they weren't very accurate to begin with. The militants fills them up with fuel and points them in an angle which they believe will hit an Israeli city centre.

Most of the rockets aren't SCUD missiles or anything close to that. Here is a good picture of breakdown of Hamas' rocket types:

http://www.airforceworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11...

Note that most rocket attacks are using Qassam rockets and targetted towards Sderot which is only about a few hundred meters from the Gaza Strip and within viewing distance of it:

http://goo.gl/maps/Vkbrd

I would guess that missiles against Sderot flies at a low altitude and has a too short air time for any system to intercept them.

Btw if you do an image search on the Palestinian rockets, you'll only find pictures of badass rockets like this one: http://jssnews.com/content/assets/2012/12/qassam-rocket-powe... They like to pose with their biggest ones to seem dangerous and Israel also likes to show them because it makes the threat appear much bigger than it is. E.g Sderot was hit with 5000 Qassam rockets leading to 10 casualties. It's not only because Israel's defense is good, the rockets aren't that good to begin with.
Not sure that's entirely true, but if anyone is being pushed here it'd be me - he really wants me to help him get started ;) Also see my comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8067851
Rockets without a payload are lighter and have greater range so you can attack more northerly targets - for example Tel Aviv. They are about public relations far more than they are conventional military weapons.
The 4-part FM synth theme tunes really make it special!
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Except if you have children, then it is easier to play on a lawn than between the plants and rocks.
> It depends on the level of abstraction with which the language was designed.

> Go was designed for systems programming, and the code is intentionally verbose. A few extra characters, brackets, and syntactic constructs are a small price to pay for more control in performance-critical applications.

Rust offers more fine-grained control over memory, and things like map, filter etc. are more idiomatic than straight for-loops. They are implemented in a way that makes it a zero-cost abstraction compared to regular for-loops.

Generally I think Rust and Go gets compared too much, since they are very different languages both technically and philosophically. But the claim that things like map, filter etc. is unsuitable in a systems programming language (and Rust's definition of 'systems' has more stringent requirements than Go's definition of 'systems') is clearly false.
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5 years ago it might have been true that RoR was that much more productive it was worth using, but that doesn't match my experience today using RoR and Scala.

Update: To try to avoid turning this into a language war, there are other good reasons to use something like RoR. Ease of hiring is one. Using known tools is another, if you're not building anything you expect to get load.
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I will definitely pay for this, if it works well. Contacts and calendar sync are very important to me, and nothing else does it as well as Google, right now (as far as I know).

Feature request: Please support contact checkpoints. Some app accidentally deleted all my contacts once, and the only thing that saved me was Google's "restore contacts as they were X time ago" feature.
Me too! I just noticed. I think I've signed up to be notified 40 times.
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Under Australian law, annual leave has to accrue so it can be paid out when the employee leaves. This isn't possible under an open vacation policy.
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I think because you can't hear what they're saying so it feels like whispering. And whispering is often negative.
That's essentially Mozilla Persona, but for SSH instead of the web. The people at Mozilla are in fact already discussing such possibilities: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/mozilla-persona-for-the-no...