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It can be easily done; but I think the problem here is that if you're using the Twitter API (as is the case with the link you mentioned), you are required to honor deletion requests. If you don't, then your access is revoked, which is what happened in this case.

Now, you could just archive the tweets internally and reveal them under some other name...

I was disappointed that the author repeatedly mentioned the Twin Prime conjecture, but neglected to mention the recent work done by Yitang Zhang: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/do_the_math...

Services like Uber definitely need some regulation. I drove from downtown SF to the Castro this evening, and witnessed 4 separate incidents of Uber drivers being reckless and/or discourteous. Things like: driver stopped in the leftmost lane, at a green light, because he suddenly decided that he wants to turn right instead of left; driver stopped in the right lane to pick up passenger, when he could have just stood in a parking spot a few yards down; driver stopped to pick up a passenger at a corner, blocking the crosswalk.

I'm all for "disrupting" the taxi industry, but please don't disrupt traffic because you're too lazy and/or clueless. Is there a way to report asshole Uber drivers?

Where did the water come from on Pluto?

FTA: United unveiled the approach in May just weeks before technological glitches grounded its entire fleet twice, underscoring the risks that airlines face.

Hmm, makes me wonder: could the glitches have been caused by some "hackers" doing testing?

I live in SF. Within 2 blocks of me 3 gas stations have shut down over the past few years, to be replaced with apartments/condos. Probably it's not related to electric cars per se; but it is probably related to the decline in personal driving.

Try that in an interview. Unfortunately, too many interviewers rely on one's ability to memorize obscure tricks to cute programming puzzles.

The majors have not been able to put out a decent, reliable car in ~100 years, and you expect them to crush Tesla, a pioneer in the space?

Rant time.

This talk about "church's definition of marriage", etc. is a red herring, and just a couched way of saying "we don't like homosexuality and homosexual behavior".

I got married in India. In a ceremony presided over by a local priest. There was no "church" involved. But guess what? No Christian here (in the US) has ever doubted the authenticity of my marriage.

And then I got divorced in the US. The courts here had no problem recognizing my marriage, even though it was performed in some other country, by some unknown religious authority. The officials had no hesitation in breaking up this marriage. Why don't we require the Church's blessing to break up a marriage (I am aware that Catholics have a certain process of appealing to the Pope, but not all churches do)?

If you don't support the idea of the government getting involved in marriage, you shouldn't support the idea of government-approved divorces either! Go to your church and get a divorce!

> What should happen is the government should stop defining marriage ...

Sure. But gay marriage and getting government out of marriage altogether are not mutually exclusive. Government can still get out of the business of marriage (and divorce). Please feel free to petition your legislators to pursue that approach. In the meantime, it is only fair that the gays enjoy the same rights that the rest of us do.

> The team acknowledges that the project is in its earliest stages, and many key challenges remain before a viable prototype can be built.

There you go. Fusion be a harsh mistress.

I would put my money on Thorium reactors, to be honest.

These folks all seem like political appointees. What happens in 18 months when Obama is gone? I hope the successor keeps the initiative going, as it seems like a good cause.

If tunnel boring was that cheap, why is it costing the city of SF $1B to bore a tunnel ~1 mile?

Certificates lose their meaning if they are doled out willy-nilly. Hence, Coursera has to implement (or at least try to) some sophisticated verification technology. This stuff doesn't come cheap; who's going to pay for it?

Me, personally, I don't care about certificates. I want the knowledge; and that is still free. Methinks the OP is making a big deal about a piece of paper.

Apparently Apple has closed the "canOpenURL" loophole: https://www.ihasapp.com/

Apparently Apple will shut you down if you overuse the canOpenUrl method: https://www.ihasapp.com/

Is there an API in iOS to get information about other apps? How is Twitter doing it? I thought all apps were 'sandboxed' in iOS.

Google's strength lies in (and always has been in) the tail and ambiguous queries. Everyone can get the query "facebook" right; try the query "how to disassemble tile" on Google[1] and Yahoo[2] or Bing[3]. Google knows the difference between "tile" (the gadget) and "tiles".

[1] https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=how+to+disassemble+tile

[2] https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=how+to+disassemble+tile&fr...

[3] http://www.bing.com/search?q=how+to+disassemble+tile

If too many people use this site, Google (and probably others too) will ban the IP.

I've yet to find one significant benchmark dataset where HTM beats other methods. One.

Netflix? Senior Software Engineer, $375K.

You need to dedupe the companies better. I just searched for "LinkedIn", and found several matches:

    1 	linkedin, ltd. 	
    2 	linkedin, inc. 	
    3 	linkedin, corp. 	
    4 	linkedin ltd, inc. 	
    5 	linkedin corporation

Wait:

    nip 'function(l) { return /^var/.test(l); }'

is supposed to be better than

    egrep '^var'

?

This was on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9269760

> Pull out a phone at -40, it won't even switch on.

Same can be said about a human being.

Edit: I'm being downvoted, so let me explain. Drones _can_ be made to function in temperatures way below -40; but humans are at their limit there. My point is: those who are discounting drones overestimate the capability of humans to operate in that temperature.

> Instead, within hours, the White House and company are bragging about the whole operation.

That's because the helicopter crash threw the old plans out the window. Once there's physical evidence of the Americans' raid, you've got to get ahead of the story. Obama simply had no choice.

I'm not buying this story. There is a lot of fudging going on.

Here's a gem, for example: "None of the Seals thought that Obama was going to get on national TV and announce the raid."

What the hell. How do you explain a downed stealth helicopter in Abbottabad then? It just happened to come down by itself?

I'm an SVN user, and I'll have to move to git some day, but it's not winning any points for me :-( . I got bit by it recently. I had cloned a repo, and then a few weeks later, did

    % git status
    On branch master
    Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
    nothing to commit, working directory clean

I assumed the working copy was up-to-date, as git states.... but alas, no. I had to do a "git pull" to get the latest changes. Why doesn't git tell you that your copy is out of date?

The problem with open migration is that then those with the means (even limited ones) get up and leave, leaving the rest even poorer. As a very loose analogy, think of it as evaporative cooling; it results in a net loss for the source.

Instead of short-term fixes (which include distributing food, clothes, etc.) I would hope that Western countries would actually help build up the infrastructure in these poor countries, and let them run their own affairs.

And, for the sake of all that's good and holy, stop propping up dictators all across the world, if that means our gas is $0.05 cheaper or our phones are $.25 cheaper.

I'm a guy, and I was underpaid for many years at $LARGE_CO. I finally found this out when the CEO gave "normalizing" raises to narrow the spread of salaries at the same position, and I got a nice raise. That left a bitter taste in my mouth, and I left shortly after.

Some of us (men and women) are just not cut out to play this salary game. :-(