skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First comment, by the OP, asked,

I'm curious as to what HN thinks about this.

Since you asked, I'll say that Crabtree has certainly mastered the Science News Cycle

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

by making a press release that has had uptake from dozens of news outlets. But none of those news outlets seem to have reporters on staff who are competent to judge the genetics issues involved, or who even know sources in the Behavior Genetics Association. (The article you have kindly submitted has better sourcing and analysis than most of the previous articles based on the same press release that I have seen, as the reporter took more care before rushing to print.) I have friends in the Behavior Genetics Association (I'm part of the Facebook group for the association), and I've already asked them about this. Gerald Crabtree has some interesting institutional affiliations and previous accomplishments,

http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/crabtree_bio.html
but he is not leading researcher on the genetics of human intelligence--I have met most of those at a meeting of the International Society of Intelligence Research. If I saw more discussion of this idea in the actual science online sites rather than just in gee-whiz popular articles, I would think that there is more "there" here.

Have you seen reviews of James R. Flynn's new book Are We Getting Smarter? Flynn's book deals with much more recent times (just the last century) but has the advantage of being based on actual IQ tests.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1107609178

http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6835805/Are%2...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044403240457800...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/28/are-we-getting-s...

Flynn is very well respected among behavior geneticists for his careful research work.
Yes. We will bring the tree inside and set it up. Outside of the Bay Area we will ship it via FedEx.
The thesis lays out in detail what REST provides:

"REST provides a set of architectural constraints that, when applied as a whole, emphasizes scalability of component interactions, generality of interfaces, independent deployment of components, and intermediary components to reduce interaction latency, enforce security, and encapsulate legacy systems."

The existence of these properties should be fairly evident when you examine the constraints.

I think large part of the confusion comes from not recognizing the difference between "Any system can be built in a RESTful style" (this is true) and "Every system should be built in a RESTful style" (this is a straw man).
Pretty expensive, but I'm sure it's worth the time savings for some people. Not so great UI, but I like the simple 1 page shop+checkout.
Wow! That sounds awesome. I really want this. Should have downloaded color :-/
A) The kind of complexity you're referring to is different from what this blog post is talking about. (Specifically cyclomatic complexity.)

B) Django doesn't have its own cheeseshop. Django developers use PyPI and pip just like everyone else. (Maybe you're thinking of Crate.io, which is a PyPI mirror that happens to use Django in its implementation.)
The messages and dates they use on the demo page are fantastic.
NASA need to justify each of their missions and the money they spend as they are already on a tight budget and being closely monitored by congress.

The 'results' from missions are stories such as this one and other discoveries.

It is in NASA's interest to overplay and overvalue the importance of discoveries from each of these missions.

It is sad that NASA has to play this game, since discovering nothing with Mars Pathfinder would be just as interesting to science as discovering something, but it wouldn't make the mission easy to justify the next time they go and ask for a billion dollars.
This doesn't seem to work on IE9 (either that, or I just don't understand how it's supposed to work). All of the examples appear to me as plain old editable text fields.
HP claims it was swindled by Autonomy, posts $8.8 bn loss
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest he was making up a metric.

Yes, McCabe is a real thing. I haven't really found it that useful myself -- I'm not sure that you can adequately measure something fuzzy like "complexity" through static control flow analysis -- but sure, I'm willing to accept that it could be useful in certain circumstances.

What I am saying is that this guy is cherry-picking a specific metric (out of many that he could choose) that makes his tool looks good. I could just as easily come up with a metric that sorts Django to the top of an arbitrary list. That wouldn't be useful, either.
Who's talking about parties? I'm talking about ACLU voter scorecards.
> Email is the last thing u want unless u like to see your inbox flooded with back and forth agreements/disagreements/whatifs/buts.

This is not the problem with emails; it's the problem with people. Back in the nineties I had internet access just in the mornings and my friend, with whom I was working on some project, only in evenings. We each sent one letter (email) a day, yet we had great conversations and were able to decide things.

How was that possible? We just put time and effort into each and every one email. Reading and replying to an email was an hour or two long activity - every point we wanted to make we first thought through and frequently we included possible counterarguments along with what we first wanted to say. We were actively helping each other with understanding and thinking, because if something was misunderstood or too hard to understand (relatively) quickly we just wasted entire day or more.

You don't have to mail back and forth each other so many times. You just need to think about what you read and about what you write. And trust the other person(s) to do the same.
> 1. [send a link for each possible combination]

> 2. instruct clients on how to construct appropriate URIs

> 3. link a URI for the starting city and then from there link them to possible choices of the second city

All three of these are possible RESTful solutions, and I can imagine situations where each of them might make sense.

But what you're probably looking for is something like this:

<form><select name="city1">...</select><select name="city2">...</select></form>

(Using URL templates is a potentially simpler way to achieve the same thing). This is, of course, your solution 2.

There are tradeoffs involved in using this style. Are they worth it? That really depends on the larger system and all kinds of details which you've left out.
This bug should be Google's last worry. There are people with Nexus devices that can't make a simple phone call.

Open issues:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=2&q=typ...
Stress Symptoms in Women
Stress symptoms in women can sometimes be solidly frustrating especially for men. "I am stressed" has been a daily expression of every woman and even the kids nowadays.
Awesome POV, thanks!
I was asked a question on this topic when I was interviewing to be an intern at Microsoft over a decade ago. To this day it is the only interesting interview question I have ever been asked.
That would be up to the consumer. If you look at his demo code he attaches it to `input[type=date]` already:

https://github.com/amsul/pickadate.js/blob/gh-pages/index.ht...
If it's a made up metric, it was made up a long time ago:

"Cyclomatic complexity (or conditional complexity) is a software metric (measurement). It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976 ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCabe_complexity
No, the problem space being "scalability of component interactions, generality of interfaces, independent deployment of components, and intermediary components".

This merely happens to overlap significantly with the requirements of public APIs.

I have difficulty imagining your distance calculator needing any of those things, though.
Cross-platform (iOS/Android) Mobile App development using C++
Interesting. I wasn't sure about buying it, but ended up purchasing. Only after realizing that it was by Steve Klabnik, a name I recognize, probably from HN. I wonder why there isn't more info on the front page, even a sample/TOC would be nice.

I'll be going through it tomorrow, if I remember I'll come back to post a mini review.
Back in 2004, a seasoned DBA was contracted to help our team set up an Oracle cluster. He said SQL Server was pretty good, but that the problem was you had to run it on Windows. In the past, he'd been in a team of 3 DBAs who kept 100 Oracle instances running on Solaris machines in a large company. After that, he helped a small financial company with their big database problems. They had 3 full-time DBAs constantly firefighting because they were running 3 Oracle instances on Windows. After he switched them over to Linux, their problems declined dramatically.

Anecdotal, but that guy saved us a lot of time and effort because he knew what he was doing, and I'd take his real life experiences over any sales rep! I'd probably also enjoy the awesome SQL Server GUI in a *nix environment if I could have that. :)
As far as I know, there is no standards-based mechanism for doing so as SIMs predate packetized cellular data over GSM, so the concept of the APN was not around to be "baked into" the GSM SIM when it was first conceived, and the SIM has seemingly not been spec-bumped since to support it. I have never run into a GSM phone that can automatically pull its APN configuration from the carrier network or from a SIM; it's either been pre-configured for you in the ROM (in the case of locked phones) or manually configurable (in the case of unlocked phones).

Apple provides an automatic APN configuration subsystem that the carriers control, but it is completely proprietary to iPhone, and it is in fact this exact subsystem that is causing me grief.

Some final notes of clarification:

1) Straight Talk isn't a "small carrier" (read: regional carrier with "rural" possibly implied) in the U.S., at least in terms of the size of the network itself. In fact, Straight Talk doesn't actually own any of their own infrastructure: they ride the nationwide AT&T network.

2) This proprietary iPhone automatic APN configuration system is used on ALL iPhones worldwide, regardless of carrier. So this has nothing to do with how carriers in the U.S. do or do not accomplish this vs. how you think other carriers outside the U.S. accomplish this. If you own an iPhone and have a SIM card in it that was issued by a carrier anywhere in the world that Apple has a contractual relationship with, your phone was configured this way, and you could run into the same problem I documented here depending on the situation.
Probably worried the Italians will throw them in jail if not 100% accurate.
Ah okay, thanks for clarification. Not as dramatic then.
I feel sad that you find being crotch-groped by anyone acceptable, let alone someone who has asserted legal authority to do so.
Would you like your 13 year old son and daughter to be exposed to the same process? How about someone who has been a victim of abuse?
Yes it's amazing to fly through the air, but the US airports, security and airlines do the level best to convert that miracle into torture.
Hmmmm ... I've actually been going around meeting a lot of digital marketing agencies (I've been doing a bit of Android freelancing in my spare time). They all seem really interested in the bids I have been putting together at my day job, but don't feel they are in a position to be able to tender on projects like that.

I wonder what knowledge/skils/experience they need to be able to bid at that level? It seems like something really valuable to be able to train a company in...
One issue: when you change the input type from "date" to "text", you lose the common backend format that date input fields are supposed to have. With a normal date input element, input.value returns a date in the format "yyyy-mm-dd" regardless of the display format (in Chrome, at least), and the submitted POST/GET variables reflect the same format. With your date picker, I get values like "31+October%2C+2012". Is there any way to modify your library to mimic the former behavior? Otherwise, you might want to note in your docs that this date picker might require tweaking your server side form processing code.

Here's an article describing the behavior in Chrome: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/08/Quick-FAQs-on-input-ty.... That behavior's in line with the current spec: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/forms.html#input-author-notes.

EDIT: I just realized that the OP might not be the author, so I'll just add an issue on GitHub.
I do not agree that you and I should have the authority to declare things "not a religion", and note that Germany persecutes Scientologists, not Scientology. That is deeply fucked up.

It's one thing to say that the government should have nothing whatsoever to do with religion, including tax exemption. It's another to say that not only should the government be in the business of picking "legit" religions and designating others as scams or cults, but that it should then be using its power to coordinate a shunning of adherents to those religions.

It's not like the problem is that Germany doesn't respect Scientology. I could give a shit; I don't respect it either. It's that Germany thinks it's the role of the state to tell people what they can and can't believe.
Ah OK. Sorry, misread. Agreed. Oh and maybe the metric you're looking for that puts django on top is "# of users" ;) :trollface:.
Oh. Thanks for setting me straight on the cheeseshop (I actually thinking that since it has its own package management system, it would have its own cheeseshop) Sorry.

As for complexity, I still think it's excessive. It's good to know the internals of a module/package/whatever, and django is really really complex, of which cyclomatic complexity quantifies I believe. I mean, if you have code that branches off everywhere, it'd be hard to follow the logic when inspecting the internals.
Wikipedia has two videos explaining what SAM is for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_Analysis_at_Mars

It seems that it is related to the question of is/was there life on Mars. It can detect organic products that are most likely produced by life, and if it has, it means we will be able to follow these products to something more conclusive.
The way Glass sits on your face would not allow this, danellis is correct.
I find django's level of complexity just about right. It has a lot of built-in things that you might not need in every case, but they might come handy some of the times. But what makes me stick with django is that it is low level enough to allow me to build whatever I want while smoothing the process.
I was at the event - he didn't attend...
I'm not sure it's that expensive if you consider the value it can add. I would say you should be actively using it, and having a large amount of experimenting going on while using it. Also, you could discontinue using it after you've done testing that shows the positive results you want - and while not experimenting, then not using it. You won't have long-term or cohort results then necessarily, but I imagine they are targeting high revenue or high revenue potential businesses.
Today we code
It is still a loss, because you are spending capital on patents you should be spending on innovation. It is a complete black hole of investment because nothing positive comes out of software patents, in the end they just feed lawyers, who are producing no benefit to society as a result of it.

It is the same reasoning why paying people to dig holes and fill them in isn't actually economically stimulating. If the fruits of labors expended serve no practical purpose, they are an effective money sink that slows down the economy.
This is what has been bothering me about the proliferation of cleaning service apps targeted at the tech crowd. I have found cleaning and other menial tasks to be rather meditative. In fact one of the reasons I love working from home is that, when I hit a rut, I can go wash some dishes or vacuum a room. It is a productive way to step away from your problem, while at the same time it is not mentally demanding enough to distract you from your problem.
An index fund just mimics the market and has no research behind it. It's meant to perform just as the market does.
Please forgive me, but isn't this rather old news at this point? Is there any new element?
A backup and comparison. And I can imagine Google uses it partially to determine value of a website in ratings. I never researched this to confirm it or not.
I've not done enough work with Python specifically to be able to recommend any projects; sorry. As for iTunes U, it's all recorded college courses (some with exercises and the like, others without); some are better than others (both in terms of content), but you'll have to look in the description about prerequisites and languages used.
that's funny that you noticed the tone. It's the tone of database guys firing shots at database guys. in another life i sat through lots of these kinds of meetings
Both Sweden and Norway had sterilization programs for "unwanted elements" (in Norway, mostly Romani, in practice) until the mid-70s.
So Django doesn't have its own package management system, either.

I'm curious: where did you read/see that?
I've been using this feature on woopra.com for a week now. It's pretty slick.

http://www.woopra.com/blog/2012/11/09/customer-profiles-get-...
nice idea.. but it looks more like a class project :) .. would be great if you have more UI for selecting height of the tree, decorations etc... but its sure is simple and nice.
I think it's reasonable for them to argue that AT&T's server's willingness to give them the e-mail addresses means that obtaining the addresses was not illegal, and that despite mulling over the darker possibilities available to them, by choosing not to put the e-mail addresses to illegal use they committed no crime. They could argue that they should not be convicted of conspiracy because they ultimately decided not to abuse the list of addresses.
Yeah, software patents should be given a rest - an eternal rest.

> He noted that during a time of growing litigation in the smartphone industry, "innovation continues at an absolutely breakneck pace. In a system like ours in which innovation is happening faster than people can keep up, it cannot be said that the patent system is broken

Innovation happens in spite of the sick patent system. Not because of it. I.e. if not for the system, innovation could have been even faster.

> Indeed, Kappos suggested that the volume of patent litigation in the smartphone industry was a sign that the patent system was working as intended.

This is lunacy. He suggests that the point of the patent system is increased litigation? He should look in the constitution more often.
Woopra has been doing this for 5 years.
It's awesome, I'm writing this comment from it right now in my bed. I particularly like the new input method in 4.2 where you don't need to actually press the keys, you just need to let your fingers slide over the keys and it guesses the word you meant to type. As you see, it's pretty accurate too. I hope this before a standard for tablets, is life- changing. I don't any bad things to say about the tablet either.
Not let it get so dysfunctional in the first place. You are right that down the track after everything the best thing was to exit.
Zero-sum means that the payoff matrix in any outcome, across all players, sums to zero. Between the firms fighting, assuming that they are in fact just buying patents for defense, the sum across all players is profoundly negative.
Because you'd need hard AR to do dynamic cookie-increasing, and neither Google Glass nor anything else on the horizon can do that. Michael Abrash explains it better than I can:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
I'd love to see how the Seed tree looks like in reality. It would a) give the site more credibility, b) probably convince me to order it :)
For this kind of problems, I prefer userscripts solutions over bookmarklets as they don't require any intervention from my side -- they auto-load, which is great. This is the typical scenario for a userscripts -- predictable URL sets on where they should fire.

Think about adding this to http://userscripts.org/.
Userscripts are handled via GreaseMonkey extension in Firefox and from what I know, natively by Chrome but I never checked.

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Side note: believe me or not, but I stopped using bookmarks toolbar in my Firefox a year ago or two; I store bookmarks with short memorable names and use kbd to launch them; CTRL-T/CTRL-L, type, ENTER. I abandoned having a toolbar since I was never able to keep visual order in it after constantly adding new items.
Find some info about your own jurisdiction(s) and pass it on to Muckrock to (hopefully) find out what they plan to do wrt drones: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2012/jul/03/drone-wat...
I really like how https://lobste.rs/ uses tags for easy topic filtering.

I'd love to see a system that does automatic topic/trend clustering, along side the manual social bookmarking bits. That would be a killer app for attention economy management. Then give the topic or trend or whatever tags (insightful, humour, etc?) dash/wiki pages of their own with Linked Data additions. Or do the automatic clustering after a page reaches a certain number of upvotes or saves.. 2p anyway..
Any chance this is just a smokescreen for other problems at HP?
By downloading the app you would have go no closer to seeing what they intended because there was never really a critical mass of people using it anywhere to make it work.
The question isn't whether cyclomatic complexity is made up. It is what his "excessive complexity" measure is actually measuring. Is it the sum of all the measures? The max? I would argue that neither of those are useful on their own.
People should however be allowed to make mistakes.
Being an invasive empire doesn't make people like you? What an interesting proposition. It might baffle a few dozen suits who run the military industrial complex, before they go back to laughing while wiping their bums with $100 bills of taxpayer money.

Same way the pharmaceutical industry, for profit prison industry, and lumber industry (last one is debated plenty) will continue to shove money into politics to keep drugs illegal and prisons nicely packed full of pot smokers. It is all about the money, not the morality. That went out the window decades ago.
I think you're being over sensitive. This is nothing I wouldn't say in person to anyone displaying the level of solipsism in this post.
I would like it to be harder than it seems to be to prove conspiracy to commit fraud.

I don't think I'd like it to be harder than it seems to be to prove unauthorized access.

I know that's the opposite of what most nerds like me want, but I think we're well served by a very broad definition of unauthorized access, and we're poorly served by vague conspiracy laws in more places than just online.

Note that under the US Code, you need both elements. Just plain unauthorized access isn't a federal crime; you need an intent to defraud.
I misread your use of "our own" followed by a reference to the Tea Party. I still stand by my opinion, though, that we shouldn't give legislators a free pass on bad legislation just because we support the positions they have taken on other issues.
Odds of dying in a car accident: 1 in 6700.

Maybe the TSA should enforce traffic laws or build commuter rail lines.
I wouldn't forget the value of it being an easier way to digest / consume information.
Support for input type="date" can be tested by creating an element like that and checking the type attribute. But how can you tell if the browser has support for the native picker? You can't. That is why this picker takes the approach of changing the type date always to text to prevent double date pickers.