skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. It would seem they are trying to make it sound like MR in order to put people off of it. But really, it's just really good statistical (or data) modelling.

As they said, there probably will be questions about profiling people and neighborhoods, but if the desired result is to reduce crime and it does reduce crime, does that not in fact subvert the notion of the stereotype? That's to say, if people think this might stereotype a neighborhood as one with more than normal criminal activity and this is implemented and this brings down crime, then in time, this neighborhood would be better than normal, in crimes statistically speaking and would rehabilitate the neighborhood, rather than vilify it.

Besides, in reality, it doesn't matter what the police or the mayor's office say, it matters what people on the street say. People on the street are unconcerned with being PC. They will tell you if a neighborhood is good or bad. One of the most honest assessment I have gotten is from RE agents. They don't offer any filters --they just tell you how it is, from my experience.
There's a lot of upcoming uses of technology and law enforcement that concern me (crowd control, non-lethal weapons, drones, cctv, etc). However, on first glance, this one seems great.

I could see an algorithm come up with a lot of interesting correlations that make sense in hindsight but might not have been thought of ahead of time. For example, maybe a particular stretch of bars the weekend after payday are more likely to have confrontations just after closing time. Or maybe certain neighborhoods are more vulnerable to robberies during a specific holiday. Or maybe specific set of sports teams pitted against each other leads to conflict outside the game.

Using police to passively deter crime rather than punish it seems like a win-win.
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Morrissey said.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFIanJS6fks
Agreed. I've found myself too many times watching my kids' activities through the viewfinder of a camera or holding up and iPhone between them and me. When staring at a device, you're seeing them but you're not in the moment with them. (The other option of course, would be to stop acting as if everything needs recorded and shared.)
Yes, and it's dishonest. It happened to me once too.
often times i think twitter has become myspace circa 2006.
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Its actually not that simple. All the areas in which India has produced innovation/breakthroughs under the aegis of a govt. agency have all been "special cases". For e.g India's atomic research programme comes under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) which was created specifically to avoid bureaucratic hassles (it should have ideally been under the Ministry of Science & Tech, but operates autonomously). It is this agency which provided the funding and direction and enabled the scientists to focus on R&D rather than the bureaucracy.
The tablet project, on the other hand, seems to me like a publicity stunt.
Actually, source control GUIs are excellent for less-technical team members. I've had great results using TortoiseSVN or the GitHub client with multiple distributed teams.

It's great to be able to tell a new team member: "Press this button to get everyone else's updates." "Press this button to push your updates to the server/current branch." Later, depending on their role and level of skill, we can cover branching, merging, tagging and other move advanced features.
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The example explicitly shows that optional parameters are not required:

if (!$p->isOptional() and !isset($arr[$p->name])) throw new MissingArgumentException
Pie-in-the-sky companies have to make money eventually.
Either you start making money, or you'll have to do it later and that may disappoint some people.
I think he means sad in the sense that this should not be in application code. It should be in PHP interpreter. Fixing the interpreter in application code. Sad.
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I think the FBI figures are one that are pretty reliable and do not subjugate themselves to an individual department's claims.

I think the Minority Report allusion is purposeful in order to make it sound more sci-fi-ish and thus thus more questionable.
This makes me really excited. Recently I've gotten the distinct feeling that the time period we're living in now will be known in the future as "The Age of the Algorithm." As production and storage of information continues to explode in the next decades, algorithms will match pace, getting more and more sophisticated to deal with the vast array of inputs, and the outputs will be used to enhance society as in this article.

And then we'll accidentally create artificial intelligence! (I hope)
This post is relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552821 'How Software Companies Die'.

The engineers/product developers lost and the marketing won. It happens many times because developers are busy building value while marketing/business is scheming/planning/making deals. When this changes we will have more truly awesome products I believe, when Japan was seriously winning they were engineer and product focused but have business/marketing bloat destroying these products nowadays. Making needs as much focus as marketing.
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Took me a bit of googling to figure out the context.

It's in reference to the Java based Play framework version 2.0.
Good one-on-one teachers may not be available to everyone, true, but they can make a huge difference.

Here's a personal anecdote. My first exposure to programming was back in 2005. I was living in Tokyo and agreed to do a "language exchange" with a Japanese friend: I would help him with English, he would teach me Ruby. And so we began. We shared our frustrations; we coached each other through the rough spots; we offered up nuance and context for everything. He gave me the gift of instance_eval long before I could have figured it out on my own. I gave him the confidence to hit on foreign girls. Win-win.

The author is right to suggest new programmers should just dive in, without waiting to find the perfect teacher. That's fine. Do, don't wait. But if you do get the chance to study under someone's wing, take it!
It's much improved in 5.4. I think the grandparent post's point was that prior to 5.4, this would've looked like

func(array("arg1", "name2"=>"arg2", "arg3"));

Which is much "uglier" than the new syntax.
You need a demo and more details. When does the rate bar show? Where does it show? How easy is it to dismiss?
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Seems to me that this isn't a fundamental mistake but a featureset they could still add now. Not that it's on the table at Twitter HQ, but I believe that the window of opportunity to give Twitter the ability to read and provide microformats is still here. Existing clients would get the same tweets, but could be easily extended to link to the web to get the "attached" data.

Your idea makes me swoon, but I think it'll never happen because that isn't the vision Twitter has, not because it's too late.
You mean Twitter was better when they started out, had no way of monetizing the service & had constant infrastructure problems resulting daily service outages?

Yeah, I'd really like to make a single entity with a single point of failure a fundamental piece of the Internet's infrastructure.
In the same sense as code that uses call_user_func_array is dirty looking. It's cruft that has nothing to do with application logic. It'd be nice to be able to do away with these things.
Why is it that they keep messing with the interface? It changes significantly even in minor version bumps. I think that goes to say why iOS usually feels much more polished. I can't imagine having my lock screen and UI colors change every couple months.
Agreed, although I periodically "give" a kudo just to see if the platform has improved to allow one to revoke a kudo. It hasn't. It's a shame actual "kudos" get conflated with "what's this thing do" over and over. Was the design aspect overlooked or intentional? Either way It's a disrespectful UX error.
I'm going to make a prediction that this will get massive hype and pomp surrounding it, and three or four (or whatever) years from now when the first big result sets roll in, it'll be discovered that it turns out it's not much more (perhaps not at all more), effective than random patrols in bad areas.

Why? Because we live in a dynamic, non-fate based world. Crime is a choice, and cannot actually be predicted (because destiny is not set). I can walk up to the door of a convenience store with a gun, stop, think, and turn back. Thus random patrols in known bad neighborhoods is guaranteed over a large dataset to be as effective as 'predictive' crime technology.
You should check out Simperium (disclaimer: I'm the co-founder and Twitter's former platform lead is one of our advisors/investors). While it's not immediately apparent yet, we're pushing in this direction: it's easy to create a firehose for your app, and we're working on ways for apps to easily interconnect with each other in a less file-centric, more API-centric way.

The niche we chose to start with is device syncing, based on our experience building Simplenote (which is to Evernote as Twitter is to Facebook). We know there's a need for something more flexible and powerful than iCloud in this regard, so that's what we focused on initially. But we believe a good solution for moving data between devices is also a good solution for moving data between people and 3rd-party apps.

Simplenote's 3rd-party ecosystem looks similar to Twitter's in the earlier days. We're taking the path they didn't take. Rather than shoring up Simplenote vertically, we're focused on extending our backend data layer horizontally and generalizing it for a variety of apps and services (though specifically not as an all-encompassing "backend-as-a-service"). We'll be announcing our open source strategy soon. This is all really hard though, both technically and as a business.
Yes, let's spend more tax payer money, get more good will since the first attempt was such a grand success.
The name is unfortunate, Scribble is also the name of Racket's documentation tool[1] (which can be used for the same kind of purpose: writing prose and publishing it).

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html
What you said is "college doesn't fucking matter in any way, shape, or form in the context of reality and actually doing good, productive things".

Which is completely incorrect. I understand if you think that a self-taught graphic designer is on par with a college-grad graphic designer, but that's not what you argued in the above quote.
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I think the FBI figures are one that are pretty reliable and do not subjugate themselves to an individual department's claims.

If you're talking about UCR that's not completely true. The FBI does have reporting guidelines, but individual departments have been known to "interpret" those guidelines differently for political and funding purposes. That is one of the reasons why the FBI discourages "ranking" of metropolitan areas for crime based on UCR stats.
I think the key to doing anything where you want plausible deniability is not cleaning up after yourself, but in creating so much noise that it becomes cost and time prohibitive to establish your identity.

The more you clean up, the more little clues you forgot to wipe out stick out to a forensic investigator. The best shot you have is to produce so much noise that it requires hundreds of forensic investigators working full time to find evidence that you were there among the noise.
That's awesome that you and your wife have come up with something fun & enjoyable.

I like the frequent feedback & rewards.

Are you writing about this anywhere? I'd love to track your progress!

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I initially read the page title as "Simple scribble. Markdown Wikis" and had to do a double take before I realized it's two separate columns.
Perhaps you think that the API-centric model would have never worked, and that if the ad guys wouldn’t have won, Twitter would not be alive today. Maybe.

I think this deserves a bit more attention. It's easy to point fingers and make all kinds of what-if predictions, but just handwaving money aside in favor of a poorly defined API utopia ignores the reality of running a business.
If you're willing to wait and are willing to throw down some initial capital you can also mine bitcoins directly. Freshly mined bitcoins are difficult to impossible to trace (not even to the machine that mined them) (with small variation in anonymity depending on whether you mine using a pool, and I think whether you can assume that your enemy doesn't control the vast majority of bitcoin miners).
this reminds me of person of interest
canvas is inconsistent on webkit too. On iOS you need to create the element at twice the size because canvas size == backing size, while Safari/Mac "transparently" does this (and breaks direct pixel access). Chrome/Mac hasn't made up their mind which model to follow.

You need to look at both window.devicePixelRatio and canvasContext.webkitBackingStorePixelRatio to detect if you need to do manual pixel-doubling.
If not intentional originally, defiantly intentional now: http://dcurt.is/unkudo/
actually, you can not predict crimes of passion, but planned crimes, well, you definitely can, cant you?
I agree, this article feels like it was written in 2006. While the analysis of Obj-J is spot on, does anyone actually use it anymore? I would never consider it a viable framework, especially with the proliferation of top-notch, extremely active community-driven projects, like Backbone, Ember, Knockback, Spine, Angular, and so many others.
Many men prefer wider hips, large breasts, and youthful appearance.

If I don't, so does that mean I'm actively repressing my "inner caveman" or is it more of a hint that I'm secretly gay?

We can say all day that this comes down to taste but your inner caveman
knows that she will be a healthy and providing mother.

We somehow presume that our movie-fueled fantasy of how a stereotypical caveman must think and behave is a biological dictate. I know from many, many conversations with other people that I'm probably the only person in the world thinking this, but nevertheless I feel compelled to repeat it here: it's worth considering that we know a lot less about very early human society than we care to admit (and even if we did know more: how did we decide this was the natural state which we should, nay, must aspire to regain?) and also it's worth noting that social norms have historically often been justified by invoking (some kind of) natural law.

But as I said, I know in the end it's me who's the odd one out, not society. It's the exact same thing when people talk about religion, I just don't have the "special knowledge" built in that everyone else has. It's all alien to me. :)
Currently it's mostly written in Scala but does support Java alongside.
Not to mention their photo product (their partership with photobucket or whatever) is pretty bad... Even the two links in this article that point to twitter photos come up 404 on mobile... wtf. The third party tweet photo sites are still better.
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ExtJS from Sencha is lightyears ahead of any other JS framework as far as a polished UI toolkit goes. Its not free if you're not free and open source yourself, but its worth every penny.
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I don't see how it can possibly be safe to be in a metal tube weighing several hundred tons that's six miles above the ground. Our instincts are not good at evaluating things like this, but fortunately we have science.
Please don't make me sign up in order to see how it works. Give me a link to a representative "simple markdown wiki."
Agreed. It would be a much more compelling argument if there were examples of successful API companies presented as possible models for Twitter as an API company. (In addition to the example of Google as an advertising company.)
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+1 love, love, love the simplicity of the Lua language. If I were teaching introductory programming it would be high on my list of languages to consider.

(I wish its syntax was a little less verbose, but that's why I use http://moonscript.org (like coffeescript for lua) right now, although the compiler has some rough edges and looks like it hasn't received much attention for awhile).
Telehash is the Open Source "firehose API" you seek. The proposal describes a DHT that routes JSON. However, it seems like I've been waiting for it for years. Maybe it's the obscure telephone lingo that the API is described in terms of that's discouraging would-be implementers, but it's nothing that a good old facade can't fix.

http://telehash.org/
What? The benefit is not saved lines, it's ease of expressing explicitness (ie: inline with the function call instead of throw assigning to variables above it). Please show an example of how this is saving lines in a way that's not comprable to simply doing multiple assigns on one line (ie: destroying readability).
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"Your idea makes me swoon, but I think it'll never happen because that isn't the vision Twitter has, not because it's too late."

That, and also the fact that by now the ship has gotten big enough that turning it around would be virtually impossible. It's not just an issue of breaking third party clients, but also getting buy-in from the company and investors, completely redesigning the UI, etc.

Basically, consider this a free billion-dollar idea for anyone who wants it.
i like the idea of this. however, in practice i don't know how to implement it or draw the line between "enough iterations" and too much time spent on iterations.

Right now, with a small, strapped team, my primary problem is finding enough hours to do all the tasks necessary.

As a result, while the idea of slowly evolving the design to let customers ease into it sounds good, I'm willing to shock my users into a radically different design in order to save development hours.

My userbase, in particular is the sort that (I believe) won't dramatically change engagement based on most designs (untested, and now that I write that, ludicrous sounding, should test). Additionally, for early stage startups (at least Rocket Lease stage startups), the total user count is very low and the alienation risk carries a small absolute penalty relative to the time sacrifice of incremental evolution.

tldr: article acknowledges that there is a time penalty for an incremental design evolution. this is in contrast to the typical time BENEFIT to iterative programming approaches. i suspect that many early stage startups can't afford the time cost, so interface iteration is an important tool, but not to be used by everyone.
I'm not sure how accurate it is to say that the US is still a superpower. It's still clearly the preeminent great power, but without a Cold War to force everyone onto one side or another a lot of the force of US influence has been diluted. The situation looks more like a kinder gentler 19th century, with Pax Americana replacing Pax Britanica, and with the major powers competing for influence among the lesser states rather than naked or tacit land grabs.

China has been doing a lot of things lately, with its attempts to barter influence in South America and Africa, that look a lot like the actions of a historically normal great power to me, and if you've got great powers acting normally then there isn't an actual superpower around.
Also, never generalize ;-)
No, I didn't -- good spot, thank you.

I haven't bothered re-installing cygwin since the last nuke-and-pave, but I'll bear that in mind if I do and it's still relevant.
Also see Gollum[1], a wiki that runs locally from many markup formats including markdown.

[1] https://github.com/github/gollum/
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