skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Reasonable time frame is often 5 years a large company.
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That would seem good, but I don't personally need it at the moment. But I can see it as a very helpful service for someone else!
The Quest For Certainty
Some of my list:

- Magical receipt bookkeeping with year end submission

- Total communication solution, Phone # + IM + Cell & Desktop clients.

- Group collaboration/communication (Campfire sucks), I like IRC but it's limited.

- Social media hub, that is well thought trough for each service.

- Movie Downloading service (streaming is not good enough)

- Coffee beans + loose Tea delivered.

- Better e-mail solution (email fixed).

- Automated topic research.

more to come...
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I'm in the UK.
Thanks for all your comments. My goal with this site is to get you thinking about your freelance rate / business in general, a starting point if you will. I'll be doing an iteration on the design and copy shortly.
Are you me? I do, or have done, almost everything on this list.

My rule for adding habits is to wait every 21 days before adding new ones. It's also important to make sure you don't have too many habits to maintain, as they impose a cognitive burden. If you can reduce them to code or programs, do it.

Couldn't agree more. I have a very hard time maintaining more than 10 total daily habits or about 90-120 mins of daily habits.

What do you use for your quantified self measurements, in terms of devices, apps, etc?
Vim and Ctags
+1. Your story sounds a bit like mine a that guy's - http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-learning-haskell-pytho... :) It's a bit old, so some things don't apply anymore, but still.
HBO with Go, on demand, PC, and on my Apple TV + Showtime Anytime, on demand, PC, and on my Apple TV.

Something like FIOS or faster U-Verse (I currently have the 24 down / 3 up service from U-Verse).

On demand handy man to help me get stuff done around the house.
What's most inspiring about this dude and his team is the seemingly endless drive to just create more stuff.
Understanding and using $wpdb object in WordPress
For performing database operations WordPress provides a class wpdb. In this article we are going to see how we can directly interact with the database.
It's an apprenticeship, I work 40 hours per week at 2.60 per hour, I have rent to pay, council tax, bills, transport, etc. I came in to the job with 2 years freelancing experience, but as I had just moved countries from Spain I took the first offer I got, which was my current job.

My family all live in another country so I live on my own, after taking housing benefits in to account, I have £12 per month to myself (that's for food too, I eat a lot of noodles) - unfortunately, this is just a tradeoff I had to make in order to get myself working in this industry, everyone has to start somewhere.

I've been looking for a better paying job for the last couple of weeks and have some interviews, but to be honest, I figured most companies would jump at the chance of getting a 3 year PHP freelancer with a years experience with CodeIgniter, Joomla (1.5 and 2.5) integration and his own Google certified individual in Analytics and Adwords certificates.

Also, if you know anyone who is hiring in the north of England, please send me their email or url, might as well use HN to find jobs too as the "who's hiring" topic very rarely features PHP jobs in England.
This is going to be interesting actually. Article 19 of the Indian constitution grants right to freedom of speech.

*All citizens shall have the right* —
to freedom of speech and expression;
to assemble peaceably and without arms;
to form associations or unions;
to move freely throughout the territory of India;
to reside and settle in any part of the territory of India; and
to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade or business.

*These rights are limited so as not to effect*:
The integrity of India
The security of the State
Friendly relations with foreign States
Public order
Decency or morality
Contempt of court
Defamation or incitement to an offence

http://lawmin.nic.in/legislative/Art1-242%20(1-88).doc
I seem to have answered your question in the comment above before seeing this one :)
fighting an institution that makes the law probably isn't the best of ideas
One Laptop Per Child still not changing the world enough for Valley bloggers
Strongly agree. The fact that in most European countries, there's some freedom of speech, apparently makes it much easier for legislators to add some things to the taboo list here and there, and for the public to suck it up. In the US, where freedom of speech is a much more absolute right, it is also much easier to defend.
I think that the court's ruling is not childish. The problem with Apple is their attitude, they think they are over the rules, look at the Italian case of the warranties, the law requires 2 years but Apple would give only one.

Having them pay a fine would have not changed anything, Apple has no money problem and they often do it in purpose, name a device and than pay if it breaks some trademark or whatever.

I think the judge understood this and wanted to teach them a lesson of humility, which Apple didn't get and showed once again that they think they are more clever and over the rules. But the reality is that the judge has the power and is not a stupid, and I bet he doesn't like to be treated like one.
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That's pretty interesting. I wonder if there's a variable list somewhere in the inspector to see which ones we've previously clicked.
I find $50/m too much for single services unless they add revenue to the bottom line.

On that note, I submitted another thread shamelessly based on this one.

"Ask HN: Would you pay a 20$/m subscription for...?"
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4727420
Honestly, I'm sure Apple's lawyers were very opposed to the text they posted, and were overruled by management. Most other companies listen to their lawyers.
I think it's worth listing the things people already pay $50 (or more) for:

-TV / Internet / Phone bundle

-Electricity

-Water

-Car insurance

-Gym memberships (?)

-Daycare

-Food

-Interest (home mortgages / loans etc.)

-Clothes

Almost all of the suggestions in this thread are effectively replacements for one of the existing services in one of the categories above. That means you'd have to beat the incumbents (challenges: investment, infrastructure, partnerships, etc.), or create a new market demand. I love the idea though, keep thinking. "If it were obvious, everyone would be doing it".

Things that come to mind: a personal trainer that is delivered through the internet and scalable? Some kind of 'make my grocery list and just have me pick it up' service? Financial engineering that decreases the interest on a large pool of loans (ha!)?
Doesn't work on the iPhone. Can't read left text boxes.
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Does anyone make a multi-touch keyboard? This seems like it would be a great input device for performance users (e.g. programmers). And by "multi-touch keyboard" I mean a keyboard with physically pressable keys that, when not pressed, lay flat and can detect finger locations.
The point of the order was the court felt that Apple should dispel their previous public accusation that Samsung copied their design.

So when Apple issues a statement that says "Court X ordered us to tell you that Samsung didn't copy us, but Court Y did say they copied us." then it's not really following the intent of dispelling their claim
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Because middlebrow posts appear intellectual on their surface. They are not quite lowbrow. But they aren't highbrow either, for the reasons explained.
To be fair the Steve Jobs memorial was probably designed and created well in advance of his passing.

But yeah this is some Grade-A bullshit. Either that or Apple is worse at the web than I thought (which is pretty bad considering iTunes Connect).
If that is the extent of the law, then what is lacking is the concept of intent.
Anyone else having issues accessing this link?
+1, with the addition (maybe it was implicit in ANY TV show) of live domestic sporting events.

Best analog for $50/mo. subscription is HD/DVR cable or satellite service.
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The thing I appreciate the most about this write up is that he blatantly calls out other reviews/reviewers.
To get my startup into beta no later than the end of the month

For the record it is called Padseeker - http://padseeker.com
I pay for the VPS, I would pay for a movie streaming service that had all the film as soon as they get on dvd. Not much more.
Here's my quick sale for these guys, which I've posted elsewhere as well when this comes up.

First, what is this? It's a pulsed plasma thruster, which is basically just a railgun that shoots puffs of ionized gas (plasma) instead of metal slugs.

Second, what's so great about it? Well, electric propulsion is a fantastic way to get around in space (once you are in Earth's orbit or above) because it's so efficient. The rocket equation is brutal, it imposes an exponential fuel burden based on the ratio of how fast you want to go (delta V) to how fast the exhaust of your rocket is (exhaust velocity). Unfortunately, a lot of missions have delta V requirements that are on the scale of or significantly greater than the exhaust velocity of chemical rockets (around 3-4 km/s), which means that we'll always be dealing with rockets that are mostly fuel and even then can only just barely get us to our destination. Electric propulsion systems, such as ion engines, make it possible to have vastly higher exhaust velocities (e.g. 30 km/s), which vastly improves the efficiency of the rockets by an inordinate amount. For example, using a chemical rocket to go from Earth to Mars would require at least 180% of the dry weight of the rocket and payload being used up as fuel, whereas an ion engine could do the same job while using about 1/12th as much fuel.

The down sides of existing forms of electric propulsion are fairly severe though. They generate very little thrust and so must run for a long time to be useful. For example, the Dawn spacecraft will only accumulate about 1 km/s of delta V every 6 months. This means that some missions are unsuitable for electric propulsion, especially manned missions (where travel time is more critical). However, these pulsed plasma thrusters could potentially generate around one to two orders of magnitude more thrust for the same size of engine, making them much more suitable for high-delta-v missions or even use with manned spacecraft.

Additionally, ion engines use a grid that is exposed to the flow of the ions that become the exhaust, and that grid can often become fouled or eroded by the flow, limiting the effective service life of the thruster, whereas pulsed plasma thrusters have much different limits.

Third, why hasn't NASA already worked on this technology? Well, partly because ion engines have seemed to some like a more worthwhile technology. However, ion engines have received a lot of commercial development and are fairly commonly used on geostationary satellites, and there the low thrust is not a problem. So partly it's also that NASA has mostly just made use of otherwise well-proven, off the shelf technologies.

Overall the project is probably worth at least a few bucks if you have any interesting in advancing the technology of spaceflight.
I look at it like, "here's how much I need to be able to charge per hour, what can I do to make my time worth that?"
Annoying a judge is a really bad idea. The court system is normally quite free from corruption, but all that goes out off the window when it become personal and political. See the pirate bay court case, or just any of the police brutality cases.

If Apple is going all out with lawyers and legal prowness, instead of competiting with products, they need to get better at it.
As others have noted: it is difficult to counteract the effect of negative publicity brought against Samsung by Apple's accusations. Having Apple publicly retract those accusations is the court's way of trying to mitigate that.

Your analogy is deeply flawed. Apple had a choice as to whether to bring this matter before the courts and UK judge has no vested interest in protecting Samsung. There is no 'teacher' figure in this case; no more objective person involved in the case than the UK judge.

If Apple had no respect for the court's opinion, they should not have brought the lawsuit. In bringing the suit against Samsung into that court, they have effectively asked the court to pass judgement and agreed to respect and abide by the decision. The entire problem is that whoever is in charge at Apple believes they are in the right and that the court is wrong; the statement shows a lack of respect for the court and therefore is, in a way, a challenge to the court's authority. This is the judge's way of reminding them that they should respect the verdict and comply with it.

The only resolutions to this are Apple complies fully, or stops operating in the UK. The UK court system woud much rather get rid of Apple from the UK than allow a challenge to their authority to stand, and Apple would rather continue to operate in the UK than flounce out over a matter like this and lose the UK (and potentially the EU) market. Apple should have folded before, and should definitely fold now. The longer this silly game goes on, the more they have to lose.
That's when you start looking for tweets that promote the book...
Price gouging rules are often applied to "essential" goods and services. An easy way of identifying what's "essential" is to look at price elasticity. Inelastic goods are usually essential. For example, if gasoline prices double, the majority of people can't simply choose to stop using gasoline. They have no alternatives. They either stop doing what they're doing, or they buy gasoline at whatever price is asked. The actual measure of the gasoline price elasticity of demand is -0.26 over the short run [1].

In a city like NY, less than half the population owns an automobile [2], yet more than that proportion rely on transit systems [3]. I can't find a lot of recent data, but a 1999 study puts the price elasticity of demand for taxi fares at -0.22 [4]. Not surprisingly, that's very close to gasoline.

Based on that, I suspect that the demand for transit will not reduce because Uber double's their prices. Fewer people may be able to afford it, but with the transit systems down, they will have no alternative. This means that people will stop doing whatever is on the other side of that transport. In many cases, that's their job. When people stop doing their jobs, the economy shrinks. With a population the size of NY, that's not good for anyone.

1 - http://economics.about.com/od/priceelasticityofdemand/a/gaso...

2 - http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/04/06/new-yorks-car-ownershi...

3 - http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/12/21/census-data-show-more-...

4 - http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm11.htm
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This is reasonably interesting, however the window thing is a bit a problem for me. I found it distracting form the actual content of the demo.

Perhaps I'm missing the point, but it would have been better in my opinion if you'd found another way to make it auto play in whatever window size.
This. This is exactly what happened here.
The case for open source analytics in a Google Universal Analytics world
Using the Cloud to Read Your Mind
Founder interview: ThrdPlace - a community crowdfunding & crowdsourcing platform
If they apply it as is, I don't have a issue. The law is misused heavily. According to the law you can be incarcerated for at least 60 days, just on a complain. In other words you can be arrested just because a women complains, even if no evidence is found, or they don't even have to ask for evidence. The presumption of guilt prevails. You are presumed to be a offender. This law has been often used for near extortion scenarios. It works like this, since it covers the women of the husbands family. Often younger sister of the husband is arrested or his mother is arrested. He will be called to police station to part away his with his property, and generally the arrests are made on Friday's so that these people can stay in jail over the weekend until a bail application can be filed on Monday.

Women are heavily abusing this law for money. Its like marry a guy, slap a 498a case. Get his family members behind bars(Often happens after bribing the policemen). In India its highly devastating to a persons morale, self respect and social status for him to go to jail or see female members of the family go to jail. Then what follows is a black mail and guy is forced to pay up.

The law has been abused by the police and some women so much. From what I've heard, the judges look at every case like it might be fake. Read the Wikipedia link for details.

Some more links on this.

http://www.498a.org/
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/women-are-misusing-dowry-act-rules-court/574907
http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/law-commission-recommends-dilution-of-anti-dowry-law-188059.html

Given the abuse the supreme court of India itself has recommend dilution of this law.
From the same Wiki page

IPC 304B assumes that if an accidental death of a wife happens within seven years of marriage, it is to be assumed to be murder unless the husband can prove his innocence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry_law_in_India#Criticism
At first I wondered how you managed to extract my username and then I realized it was hardcoded when I looked through the code.
I have a description of how I choose my tools and collect data: http://kibabase.com/articles/self-quantification#tools

I am thinking of moving all the data collection to my personal site, as libreoffice clerical mistakes cost me a day of nap data(then I got a double whammy from not being able to find my blood pressure cuff the other day).
Car washing service that is done while I'm at the office.
Nope, we just re-ran our scrapers (in PlanForCloud) and noticed that... only US-East and US-West Oregon have been reduced.