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by ajays 11y ago
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, wh
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by ajays 11y ago
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...
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by ajays 11y ago
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
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by ajays 11y ago
Where did the water come from on Pluto?
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by ajays 11y ago
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&qu
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by ajays 11y ago
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 pers
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by ajays 11y ago
Try that in an interview. Unfortunately, too many interviewers rely on one's ability to memorize obscure tricks to cute programming puzzles.
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by ajays 11y ago
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?
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by ajays 11y ago
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
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by ajays 11y ago
> 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
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by ajays 11y ago
> 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.
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by ajays 11y ago
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.
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by ajays 11y ago
If tunnel boring was that cheap, why is it costing the city of SF $1B to bore a tunnel ~1 mile?
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by ajays 11y ago
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, per
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by ajays 11y ago
Apparently Apple has closed the "canOpenURL" loophole: https://www.ihasapp.com/
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by ajays 11y ago
Apparently Apple will shut you down if you overuse the canOpenUrl method: https://www.ihasapp.com/
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by ajays 11y ago
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.
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by ajays 11y ago
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 kn
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by ajays 11y ago
If too many people use this site, Google (and probably others too) will ban the IP.
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by ajays 11y ago
I've yet to find one significant benchmark dataset where HTM beats other methods. One.
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by ajays 11y ago
Netflix? Senior Software Engineer, $375K.
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by ajays 11y ago
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
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by ajays 11y ago
Wait: nip 'function(l) { return /^var/.test(l); }' is supposed to be better than egrep '^var' ?
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by ajays 11y ago
This was on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9269760
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by ajays 11y ago
> 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 lim
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by ajays 11y ago
> 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, y
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by ajays 11y ago
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
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by ajays 11y ago
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 Y
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by ajays 11y ago
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. Inst
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by ajays 11y ago
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 tas

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