skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see some kind of bot like this integrated do Telegram, is there anything?
I've been developing for 30 years. When asked for an estimate I spend time thinking about it and then when I come up with a number I multiply it by 3. Usually this works but sometimes I can be off. My typical process is to score stuff from "totally get it" to "don't have it all in my head". I then guess on hours and in the end multiply by this 3 factor.

When my clients complain about the estimate I often say we "write software":

1) The way the client thought it should be written
2) Again the way the developer thought it should be written
3) And finally the way is should have been written in the first place

I don't remember where I picked this up at, it was eons ago, but the axiom seems to work.

When my teams give me estimates I almost always fudge by this 3x factor when working with my stakeholders and explain how hard it is to really estimate development without wasting tons of time doing massive waterfall charts. Then they ask for the chart and I laugh "but then it'll be wrong two seconds after we publish it."

In all my years of coding there have been "wow that went fast" times on projects and "oh man I'm dying here" and the more room I leave to reduce stress in the "dying" phase the easier it is to break free and get back to "fast" mode.
curious, but do you differentiate between if they're also the technical founder or not?

Asked another way: Are you identifying this as a lack of tech expertise, or as a 'poisoning' of the mind irregardless of the experiences?

Thanks!
He's referring to the sequence starting at 4:15. Compare the close up real time shot that starts the later sequence to the slow motion at 2:52. The feather and ball leave the frame almost simultaneously in the earlier one but with ~25% of the feather still in frame in the latter.

After looking at it I agree with zwp, the editor really did make quite a mistake when assembling the last sequence.

[Edit: Screen grab of both http://imgur.com/EAKB5FK and I agree with the over all editing comment below. The slow motion shot as the first shot of falling in the vacuum was the thing that really stood out and I thought was bad on the first play through.]
The cold climate option just adds extra seat heaters and wiper defrosters and such accessories. It doesn't impact the fundamental troubles with the battery and such.

The Model S battery pack has an active heating and cooling system, so it avoids a lot of the problems that batteries have in the cold. The main trouble it has is that it needs to expend some energy to warm up the battery pack, meaning that you lose some range when starting cold. Secondary trouble is that cabin heating isn't free the way it is with gas cars, which also costs some range. If you're plugged in, you can mitigate these problems by telling the car to warm up in advance, which will heat both the cabin and the battery using mains electricity, saving the battery for driving. If you're not plugged in or just forget to heat the car in advance, everything still works, you'll just lose some range.

I think you mean Norway rather than Netherlands there, and Tesla is apparently hugely popular there. Whatever trouble it has in cold weather can't be too bad.
You don't know anything about the company and its "loyalty", you're guessing. (Unless you're not, in which case, you should disclose that you have inside information.)
Edward Tufte is my hero. His books were some of the ones I measured when trying to figure out my metrics. :)
You have just described the poster boy for self publishing.

As long as he prices his books over $2.99, Amazon will give him 70% of the price, so if he sells 30,000 books at $4.99 (approximately what novel length fiction sells for if it's not from a major publisher) he would make about 100k.

Let me just say, I think there are very few authors who can expect sales anywhere near those numbers. NYTimes bestsellers do a fraction of that.

Still, a busy author can easily write 2 to 3 books a year, more if the are organized, determined, and disciplined. Some authors that I know of are putting out a novel a month.

So, he can make a living. And he is MUCH better off without an old fashioned publisher.

As far as services needed, there is a burgeoning industry of freelance editors, cover designers, book designers, etc., that will provide everything a traditional publisher used to provide. OK, yes, except for a marketing budget, but talk to mid-list authors and see what publishers provided to them for marketing. HINT: nada.

How do I know? Without giving away all my secrets, I'm making way more money than I ever thought possible publishing fiction on Amazon KDP. I'm about to jump into non-fiction, which I'm guessing could be even bigger...
Most gasoline cars are designed to get best overall efficiency cruising at 55 MPH. That's kind of the crossover point where wind resistance is not crazy high and the engine is still getting good efficiency. So you're burning more gas per minute than you would be in a city, but you're covering a lot more ground per minute as well, so your gas-per-mile is very low.
Other ebook creation / selling options:

Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/

Softcover: https://www.softcover.io/
By Michael Hartl, author of the Rails tutorial.

Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/ is still around too, originally by the creator of Red Hat.

O'Reilly Atlas: https://atlas.oreilly.com/ - new; may be only for books you write with them as publisher, not sure.

There must be some others too.
This is really awesome. Good job! And the response time is pretty fast too.
They've always counted on the citizen doing nothing considerable about it. And who can blame them?
Fair enough. Never considered the disk space it occupies. Would be nice if the automatic downloading would work without downloading the app. (i.e. "Send to iPhone")
Ask HN: Anyone using Mosh? Seems development has stalled since January
Anyone still using Mosh (the mobile shell)?
Looking at their Github page [0], it seems the last commit was in January.

Is this project abandoned?

[0] https://github.com/keithw/mosh
Looks nearly identical to http://planetpayment.com this kind of thing has been around since the 90's.
Oh, I see what you mean now. Yes, definitely editing mistake :-). Apart from that, editing was bad altogether. There should have been many shots with the real-time fall. In fact, the first shot of the drop should have been in real-time.
Show HN: MarketMatrix, an intraday stock trading assistant for the iPad
I don't know about that. I see quite a few people talking about buying one, or actually buying one, and the savings in gas is a big part of it. It may sound crazy, but it makes sense for people who would spend that much on a car anyway, and who drive a lot. If you're debating between a Tesla and a Corolla then the gas savings doesn't matter much. If you're debating between a Tesla and a similarly-priced BMW and you drive a lot, saving several thousand dollars a year in gasoline can be nice. People who spend a lot of money on cars don't suddenly not want to save money.
Statistical meta studies are such tedious bunk. But thanks for posting the actual findings. The DailyMail headline will be "MILK KILLS YOU" whereas the study shows nothing.
Ah yes, if you don't use iTunes for anything else it wouldn't make sense installing it just for this.
My experience with c++ was that the standard library data structures were pretty slow. Are you sure using push_back 3m times wasn't the problem? If you are doubling the buffer size every time you only allocate 2x as much memory as you need overall. Nothing that should turn seconds into minutes.
A 3-4% dip in GDP and a doubling of unemployment is nothing compared to what would happen without a finance industry. It's one of the bedrocks of civilization. If you want a historical perspective, research how England's finance industry was closely linked to its rise as a world power.
> FYI, if the author is reading comments here,

I am!

> you can have the kindle and print versions 'linked' so they appear on the same Amazon page.

Yes, from the docs I read, Amazon does that automatically, but it can take a few days. I couldn't find any UI to do the association myself.
Valid point on worth-of-mouth. Since the app is relatively new, it might take a while for it to rank. (Not sure that's how the App Store works, but can imagine the more downloads/reviews the higher it will rank for its keywords)
I don't vote as protest that our first past the post election system doesn't accurately represent the will of the people as well as other voting schemes.
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>> if you were to write a specification in such detail that it would capture those issues, you’d be writing the software

This is the key insight imo.
Sorry but you are just flat out wrong. Operating at the scale that they are is in fact complex. They aren't creating all of this software just because they are having fun in their free time.
I live in Ohio, Never knew that the biggest vacuum chamber is here until now.
Location: Oklahoma City

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Java, C#, Objective C/Swift

Résumé/CV:

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Lol, yes, it is true.Don't you think there are a lot of people who understand Russian on HN?

See the official press-release of the ZEFS(ЗЕФС) company that installed the monument.

Google translate of the relevant press-release part:
"Monument to Steve Jobs as a giant iPhone was solemnly placed in January 2013 in the area of direct access for young students. - Said in a statement. - In the Russian legislation prohibits propaganda of homosexuality and other sexual perversions among minors. After Apple CEO Tim Cook has publicly called for sodomy, the monument was dismantled pursuant to Russian federal law on the protection of children from information that promotes the denial of traditional family values​​. "

source:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Appreciate the connection and chance X is giving. By phrasing the question in a very position based nature (legality, contract, risk) I'm worried you may be framing out and sacrifice the relationships or interests with X. Seek agreement this is a good opportunity, but you appreciate the opportunity with X. Don't make it sound superficial. The short term cards are in your hands, longer term you may well meet again people from Y.
What? No! I don't know about you, but I would have a silly grin on my face too if I actually got to see this experiment live - I mean it's such a classic result - we've all been told that this is what would happen, but very few of us actually get to see it. It's like the experience of seeing the moons of Jupiter the first time that you look at it through a telescope - yes, you know the moons are there, you've even seen photos of them in high-def colour, but there is something special about seeing it first hand.

So no, I don't think that that's a fake grin. But then, as with most female geeks, I have a huge Brian Cox crush, so I may be biased ;)
> An excerpt from the material design spec, showing how raised buttons can enhance usability

I'm pretty sure that was worked out 30 years ago.
Is there a system you would prefer that would better "represent the will of the people"?
Read SICP
Hi HN, I'm a day trader who wrote this app during the times when the market is closed. I'm trying to build an app over time that becomes an extension of the apps that I run on the desktop, and this is what I have so far. In the future, I'd like to get some direct broker data connectivity and deliver signals to the tiles in the app, but I wanted to get a feel for how others interacted with the user interface.

I wrote a quick summary set of the features over here on a blog, http://marketmatrix.edgecapture.com/blog . Your feedback is more than welcome.

Thanks all.
What is this used for? This went right over my head.
Step 1: Don't obsess about how to help yourself.

Step 2: Don't self-diagnose; observe over time, and seek a professional.
It's already opted-in and just waiting for Smashwords to ship it out. That in turn is pending Smashwords doing its manual review to make my book a "premium" one.

I thought about waiting until this was done before I made the announcement but what I've read is that they can get backlogged a couple of weeks, and I wasn't patient enough to wait that long. :)

Thank you for taking an interest in my book!
Tesla's idea of mass market is somewhat different. They're talking about selling 500,000 units per year of the Model 3. That's huge for them, an order of magnitude increase over their current sales, but tiny compared to bigger car manufacturers.

I don't think they want to leave it to generalist brands, but they also recognize that they can't go it alone. Musk wants (or says he wants) to drive EV adoption above all else, and the Model 3 is as much about getting others to follow suit as it is about Tesla's growth.

Regarding the cost savings, a lot of it is supposed to come from the gigantic battery factory they've started building in Nevada. Batteries are still really expensive, which is why every cheap electric car has crappy range. If they can meet their price projections for batteries from the new factory, that will make up a big chunk of the difference in price right there.
Do you have the opportunity to vote in your location? If yes, do you?
Blurb and Lightning Source are two others I recall looking into.
Erotica is VERY different. It may look saturated, but well written short stories with attractive covers and good blurbs can still sell incredibly well.

And, with the advent of Kindle Unlimited (if Amazon's payments hold at the current level per borrow) sales plus borrows is proving to be even more lucrative than sales alone.
But it’s basically free considering that we all pay for Prime anyway. :)
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That is most certainly not what ADD is.
Good point. Consumer washing machines certainly don't seem to have much utility to me, but for shared appliances, something like what you suggested might make sense.
Maintenance and updates for machines and software could also be handled by a contract with the building (which isn't really desirable for consumer products).
at best, an MBA signals that a person does not know what job they like and are in for a career change.

it can augment existing, core skills. haven't gotten/seen a candidate where an MBA was the core of his/her skillset.

if you get an MBA at very expensive institutions, you also get access to a network of likely-minded, rather rich people.

personnally, if you're already in tech and love it, getting an MBA seems like a giant waste of time.
The Model S P85D is not for the "vast majority of people". They increased the max speed to appeal to the tiny fraction of people who care about that number enough to spend a lot of money on achieving it.
> am seriously considering buying the book weren't it that I still got a stack of reading of both new and borrowed books that I prefer to make smaller before I make it bigger.

I feel your pain. I still have a copy of SICP staring at me, making me feel guilty for ignoring it. Maybe now I'll have the time to actually work through it.
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> Voting is the essence of democracy. If you believe in democracy, you know your vote makes a difference every time. It makes a difference in how you take part in the decision making, how you are a citizen.

We are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. Pure democracies are generally terrible systems anyway.

Voting is for people who have delusions about what our system really is.
Exactly. If I were the author I'd come up with a more unique name.
Sure it is. It's a company selling a trip to "space". If they succeed they can reinvest the revenue into R&D to build better "spaceships", and so on. Additionally, other people will see a profitable company and try to enter the market.

There's a whole snowball effect. Tesla is doing the same thing with the electric car.

By the way, outer space does begin at 100 kilometers.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
Me too. I grew up on Horizon, Tomorrow's World and QED.
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Statistically there's no point in me voting. I'm in a 90% dominated (R) area. So I won't be and I encourage others to do the same.

Democracy is real, but a state which is two party FPTP is only barely within the definition. It is set up so there is no legitimate third choice, and even if there was they would have no power to accomplish anything anyway.

Whatever we currently have exists to make us feel like we have just enough choice to keep us quiet and passive, "wait for the next election" they say, "you can change things" they lie, but statistically almost nobody in the country has the power to perform real change (less than 10% of states, and even in those states only a relatively small swing-district minority).

Go vote, but you've fallen into their trap. The trap of believing that US "democracy" isn't fundamentally broken/useless. Until the baby boomers and older literally die off the whole thing has no purpose at all (unless you happen to be in the 1% of voters that matter).
I have an S already and am also looking forward to the III. I am not worried about the brand loosing value by producing an everyday car and I do not know any other owners that are. I hope Tesla doesn't go for those cheap gimmicks and just continues to focus on engineering excellence.

I do hope they can maintain their level of service as well. I think they will. The S is already a fairly reliable car and electric cars are fundamentally more reliable that their gas counterparts and by the time the III comes out Tesla will have improved their QA further.
I smell a bubble in online photo storage. Every pic I take gets uploaded to G+, Facebook, Dropbox, and apparently now Amazon.

Aside from the pure storage bubble, I know Amazon is pretty good at shipping, so being able to frame and airmail photographs of the kids to Grandma with free 2-day prime shipping sounds appealing compared to the 50 other competitors in the market with less legendary logistics stills. Take a pix of the kids on the 22nd of december and amazon could probably guarantee grandma would have framed copies delivered before christmas. I could see it.
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I think that the immutable data structure of lein is largely superficial. Once the final project map is built, all bets are off for the effectful behavior of downstream tasks/plugins. The only clear benefit from it is that you can capture a "complete" configuration with `lein pprint`. However, it does introduce significant cost in terms of the declarative configuration wack-a-mole, where you never quite know what magic ^:replace or :special-key to include to get what you want.

If you're not going to attempt to fix this superficiality by pushing immutable data deeper in to the system, then it makes perfect sense to discard it completely.
Reminds me of Kairos - facial recognition API apihttp://www.kairos.com/
I've developed in C# professionally since 2002, but also have created endless critical systems with Java, C/C++, and VB6 (yes I said Visual Basic 6...real world programming can be an unholy bitch sometimes.)

I love the current crazy ecosystem of languages out there, but when I need to get shit done...C# is my first choice. I've bet my career on it, and it's paid off nicely.
Sure would be nice if they started getting the basics right. When I moved all the primary actions for my apps into the top right action bar, no colors no gloss no 3d no labels as Google requires, users could no longer find them. Complaints went up. Successful app metrics went down. User testing where you have a user try to accomplish a set goal using an app had less completes. Google is just doing whatever looks pretty and ignoring user testing.
There are two slow motion initial drops closeups:

* 2:52 -> http://youtu.be/E43-CfukEgs?t=2m52s

* 4:51 -> http://youtu.be/E43-CfukEgs?t=4m15s

The second one (4:51) looks like a drop in the air, because the barbules (the small parts of the feather) go "up" and flutter.

The first one (2:52) looks like an actual drop in vacuum. But I think that the oscillations are not related to the speed of sound in the feather, because I think that the sound travels too fast to be visible in this video. (I'd like to see some measured data.) I don't see waves traveling in the feather.

Initially the barbules hang down. After the feather is released, the feather is gravityless (in the non inertial reference frame) so the barbules go to their natural position, so they go "up", but only slightly and the flutter is minimal.
Historically America residential property has been a zero return investment. It kept up with inflation and that was it. It's only recently that America has seen the boom and bust property cycles that affect other parts of the world
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This picture is meant to show the value of drop shadows as a guide to interactivity:

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MD234.jpg

Yet arguably the most important buttons--the persistent OS navigation at the bottom--do not have drop shadows or any other kind of affordance. So which is it? Are drop shadows essential to interactivity or not?
Yup, there is no UI to do it manually, but you can email the people at KDP and they will link the book for you. I've waited for it to happened automatically in the past, and it hasn't worked out for me.

Once linked, you can also do cool things like offer the ebook at a discount (or for free) if they buy the print version.

Having both versions on the same page really makes the whole thing look more 'professional'.
Sure! Here's the first three chapters:

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/sample.pdf
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A few things:

80% of the projects I've worked on already had code written for them when I showed up to work on them. There's no difference between the existing investment in legacy code and the existing investment in a property.

New home builds also have gotchas.

Programmer's promising "magic" goes back to my original point of communicating with the stakeholders. If you're promising "magic", you're just asking for the project to fail. Be clear an upfront, and your customer will realize you're an engineer and not a miracle worker.
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I'm of the mind that build tools aren't going to get better unless we forcibly insert instrumentation between our build tasks and the stateful resources upon which they depend. To that end, I'd like to hear more about both your Clojure runtime isolation and filesystem isolation mechanisms.
How does one use the task component of google calendar on an iOS device? How are google keep's tasks integrated with my google calendar?
Quite often, it's simply:

"Whoever was left standing when the other person quit / got fired / we got bought out / the boss had one temper tantrum too many", etc.
> Think student/teacher or adult/minor sexual relations

You are literally comparing working for Walmart to being raped? That's a bit condescending not only to people working for Walmart but also to rape victims.
AV, IRV, ranked vote, the Swedish system [0], or heck even the popular vote. "Almost anything else."

You have to be pretty politically ignorant to imply there isn't anything better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Sweden#Voting
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Even though material design looks really good, it will really take time to get acquainted and running in the app ecosystem. I hope all new apps follow this, then the bigger players will also follow. Otherwise, this is going nowhere.