skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that some people feel they still need a watch, either as a status symbol or because they feel it's more subtle in a meeting to glance at your watch than your smartphone, and for them this might be great.

For me, though? I can't say I've fully transitioned to the post-PC era, but I definitely entered the post-watch era quite some time ago.

(Aside: thinking about some sort of crossover of watches and smartphones makes me imagine a pocketwatch where the watch is an iPod nano and the chain is a pair of earbuds, modified so that the earbuds can lock on to each other and thereby clip the pocketwatch to your clothes. Might be nifty.)
You guessed right. If I wore jewellery I'd wear 24 hour watches: http://www.xs4all.nl/~andres55/cosmonaute1.htm
make it work on Linux ;)
I didn't see taxes mentioned. Portland is a fantastic place for technology, but you're looking at very high taxation and the city government is rather anti-business. Great place to live, otherwise, though. Especially if episodes of Portlandia don't turn you off (because after 30 years, I can tell you that they're not far off from the truth).
Amazon went public in 1997 for $18/share with 1996 revenues of $16MM and $(6MM) net loss.

Google went public in 2004 for $85/share at about 100 P/E
"Day Count Conventions"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_count_convention
I own two of these, and yes, they're quite limited.

The MSP430(BT5190) in this watch (requisite to run the CC2560 Bluetooth chipset) is a bit more than the MSP430 in the EZ430-Chronos.

The MSP430BT5190 comes with a FreeRTOS port. (Very) Likely this is what is used for the Fossil watch as well.
I wish I had some major time waster like that to eliminate, but sadly, TV has already gone by the wayside for me a long time ago.
I know it's not fair, but when I read this all I could think about was Douglas Adams' description of "...an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

They'll need a killer app to get any traction.

EDIT: On second thoughts maybe all they need are skins and screensavers.
Thanks a lot. I'm building web apps in Ruby and also teaching myself CS. I'm getting humbled by Abelson & Sussman, but it's totally worth it.
I credit a lot of my success as a developer to starting out with C as my primary language. Of course, I graduated an Electrical Engineer, so I might be biased. :) My first gig was writing firmware for disk drives with some of the most talented people I've ever had the privilege of working with, and starting w/ a solid foundation in C gave me an appreciation for how "things work" at a very low level. I think it must be harder to understand what compilers and interpreters actually do without that background.

But decent article overall.
Veoh, Isohunt: key DMCA arguments as content industry takes on the internet
Devlink Technical Conference, Chattanooga, TN
Not sure if it still holds true today, but in the past with some blog tech writers, you needed to submit your pitch something like this.

Hello, <insert info about startup here>.

Thanks, <insert name>

P.S. attached is an Apple Macbook Pro, cheers.
There is some truth to this. I am an H1-B visa holder who due to a lawyer mess up has been forced to file under the EB-3 category. Despite me being a productive body to my company as well as assimilating into the local culture, I am seeing at least a 10 year wait before I can switch companies or jobs or start a company. While I am at a reasonably stable company, I have the same problems everyone has at reasonably stable companies, that of an entrenched upper management with not much scope of growth. I am seriously considering moving back to India to be able to start a company. H1B's were lucrative 15 years ago for smart people as the number of opportunities were low at home. It no longer is true and smart people are unwilling to pay the culture and emotional costs it takes to make a move to an alien culture.
Large number of records table insert query
Hello All,

I am a developer and I am facing an issue while managing table which has large amount of records.

I am executing a cron job to fill up data in primary table (Table A) which has 5-6 columns and approx 4,00,000 to 5,00,000 rows and then creating another table and data in this table would continue to increase over the time.

TABLE A contains the raw data and my output table is TABLE B

My cron script truncates data in Table B then inserts data using select query

TRUNCATE TABLE_B;

INSERT INTO TABLE_B (field1, field2)
SELECT DISTINCT(t1.field2), t2.field2
FROM TABLE_A AS t1
INNER JOIN TABLE_A t2 ON t2.field1=t1.field1
WHERE t1.field2 <> t2.field2
GROUP BY t1.field2, t2.field2
ORDER BY COUNT(t1.field2) DESC;

Above select query produces approx 1,50,000 to 2,00,000 rows

Now it takes too much time to populate TABLE B and meanwhile If my application tries to access TABLE B then select query fails

Explaining query results following:
'1','PRIMARY','T1','ALL','field1_index',NULL,NULL,NULL,'431743','Using temporary; Using filesort'
'1','PRIMARY','T2','ref','field1_index','field1_index','767','DBNAME.T1.field1','1','Using where'

Can someone please help me in improving this process, or guide me alternatives for above process?

Thanks

Suketu
One suggestion would be to consider adding MyHDL to language choices.
Why should Amazon buy Netflix
Economist Tim Harford on the 3 things you need to know about failure.
Yes, thanks, that's in the works.
Since it feels kinda like paintball, it'd be neat if you could choose team colors for player clothing as well as ammo colors...then make the colors stain stuff you shoot.
Well, you're not talking about capitalism. Your whole reasoning is based on a false premise, because there are limits to the kind of transactions allowed in a free market. In a free market, you are free to do whatever you want as long as it doesn't interfere with someone else's freedom. Your freedom ends where someone else's begins.

Hence, slavery not being compatible with capitalism is a fact, not a distortion of the free market nor a mere opinion.
It's really neat. Would be good to see how many players are on.
The value proposition for network and resources in the Valley outweigh the government problems. It is a fine line though. Check the recent SF / Twitter tax situation. If California makes the wrong decisions on how to deal with debt and unpaid obligations (public pension), then expect the scale to tip.
I wonder if this would cause problems for daily cron scripts that run tasks by checking the date against == rather than than <. Not to mention monthly scripts that happen to run on that particular lost day.

Anyway, I love the passionate discussion programmers have when it comes to dates. Remember, it's only 86400 seconds that they are losing.
If you can't get the price below $199 I can't imagine anyone buying this thing. Stack it next to an iPod Touch which retails for $230 and we'll see who goes for the watch. I think the era of Brookstone and The Sharper Image "neato gadget comes at a premium" is dead, but this thing harkens back to a simpler time.
That would be the simpler approach, but Google wants you to put their logo on your results page and limits you to 100 requests per day, unless you get a paid plan. (http://www.google.com/cse/docs/tos.html)

If you're fine with that, Google Custom Search is a good option. If you're not, maybe Tapir can help. :)
nice idea! keep on the good work
The article mentions skipping around the Great Firewall, or accessing services only available in certain countries. To me the benefit would be that the phone company or whatever local wifi I am using couldn't log my traffic. You may lose out on some services using geoip for your location, but the tradeoff is acceptable to me.
Aliens? No, these insects are habitants of our freakin planet [pics]
From my own experience, and knowing nothing about you, try accounting for your time in 15-min increments for a week. You might be surprised.
Pretty cool. Can someone point me to some similar powertips for emacs + python (+git)?
Yes, I mean, there are a lot of meetups, to which I already go, but I wanted to do a thing more about doing things than talking about them!
PS: could you please up-vote so more people can see the thread? Thx
Is this just an http://getinpulse.com with an accelerometer and an extra $50 on the price tag?

inPulse seems to have an avid development community already, and I would go so far as to say that the $150 inPulse (without the accelerometer) is a more appropriate starting point for a wrist watch that can be customized. Sure there is a lot you could do with motion sensors, but this is a niche market already, and kicking the price up for a flashy feature seems fruitless to me.

Worth keeping an eye on for the hardware hackers out there, but I think I am leaning inPulse.
No Nonsense Forum
Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for Computation
For me, the main pro of a desktop computer is that you can expand absolutely everything. Upgrade the motherboard, the processor, the optical drive (or leave it out entirely.) There's also the ability to drive as many displays as you want, but for me that rarely comes into play.

On a laptop, you can expand storage and RAM and use one external display, which is enough for my use case, and you get the added benefit that you can use it anywhere. Not just for travelling, but also for just setting up shop in the living room or patio vs. the office, or taking it into a meeting room.

The ability to work anywhere in my house is the selling point for me.
I usually have a Terminal window open, so I ping one of our production servers, which is hardcoded with a short name in my /etc/hosts file. This ensures that basic networking is working. I then try to reload a random open browser tab. If that fails, I know a DNS issue is likely to blame.
But again, barring some magical event that entices 98% of merchants to accept Bitcoin, why would you accept it versus gold, silver etc?

You still need a middleman to broker the transaction to whatever the legal tender currency is, so why not just exchange shares of GLD or SLV online?
Social science: Web of war
This dissertation expands on the "The Art of the Propagator" (http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44215), also highly recommended.
well, we run many tests using junit and testNG.
my team and our partners also use eclipse so some use maven.
And, while it's not Vim's "fault", I'm afraid relearning how to do all my processes (compiling and testing java, running tests and see their results, committing rapidly, etc.) would prove lengthy in a period where I don't have much "free" time.
It's really promising. I'm a bit surprised they're apparently considering a piston steam engine over a turbine; after all turbines superceded most other steam engines in boats, power plants, etc?
Thanks for the tip. I had never heard of Co-Optimus before but I check them out and try to show them my game.
Why does it ask for permission to post tweets when I try to authorize through Twitter? Can you consider switching to read-only access? I hate that every application, which uses twitter only for authorization, seems to want to post a lot of stuff in my twitter account, which I certainly do not want. :(
A crash course in digital steganography
An algorithm for the Names at the 9/11 Memorial
It's easier to get VC than a visa
I see a Qt fork coming that maintains the current approach for the future of the 4.x line.
This does look cool, but I'm torn - I find something really attractive in its antithesis: beautifully designed purely mechanical watches that only do one thing and do it without electronics or batteries or Bluetooth connectivity. Self contained, intricate and simple at the same time. This watch will never have the same aesthetics even if it does have a Dick Tracey vibe to it.
If i may,

* Use a powerful thinkpad with linux - or windows everywhere

* Never switch machines - buy a dock station for convenience at home

* Use vi - or gvim and stick to it

* Use Dropbox or sth

* Buy an ipad for the mac eyecandy, browse the web walking around (just be careful near walls)

* Rent a VPS and use it as your personal playground server

* Write programs - it's the best way to enjoy computing
Chucking out Hacker News would help me start my company.

(there's a really funny irony to this statement)
I think most people's definition of "free market" is that people can sell or not sell their property or services for whatever price they wish - not that any good or service is legal to own or produce. People sometimes, but not always, lump the right not to have your property or labour taken from you under the term "free market" and sometimes just lump not having it taken from you except for monetary taxes (as opposed to taxes in kind or forced labour). Some people also lump freedom of contract under the rubric of "free market".

The generally accepted term for everything, including murder and conspiracy to murder, being legal is "anarchy" and if people still have free markets in this anarchy thats generally referred to as "anarcho-capitalism". Though nothing about having a free market says that murder is legal and probably says that forcing another person to work for you using the threat of violence is illegal. I can certainly see arguing that a free market implies legal prostitution, however, since unmarried sex is legal in most places.

EDIT: And as to Capitalism, well to quote Wikipedia: "There is no consensus on the precise definition of capitalism, nor how the term should be used as an historical category."
Laptops have a complete disregard for ergonomics. If you spend any significant amount of time infront of a computer, a laptop is disastrous for your health. At the very least, invest in an extra monitor and proper keyboard.

By proper keyboard, I mean one that is full-sized, has mechanical switches, and is appropriately laid out so that you don't strain your wrist and tendons.
Schneier: The Dishonest Minority: Security and its Role in Modern Society
Why entrepreneurship is risky
> nobody forces me to use Dollars

Actually, if you're in the US, you do have to use dollars. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender#United_States and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar.
Jakob Nielsen: screen space use in mobile apps
Congratulations on launching and finally going live. Expecting big things in the future!
More fundamentally, the OP assumes that the rise of smartphones (and, it assumes, tablets, but I think that remains to be proven) constitutes a shift away from the desktop platform.

There's no reason to believe that this is true, at least for most of MS's customers.

EDIT: after a bit more reflection, I think that while I can imagine a future in which everything runs off mobile devices, that is not possible with the mobile platforms that we have today. Further evolution of the platform would be necessary -- and that could well involve a shift away from today's current leaders (Apple, Google) toward the providers who already know how to provide the computing horsepower that business users and other tasks (PhotoShop, etc.) require.
They have 100 million users because it's impossible to close an account.
I think the most important thing is that they have healthy revenue growth (more than 100%). If they have $90M in revenue per quarter, they can do much better than $2M in net income, if they focus on that, but they are still focusing on growth. If I remember well, LinkedIn predicted a net loss for 2011.
Try the Pomodoro Technique
I also overdosed on TV and got rid of it around college time. That is, until Netflix came along. Now I'm thinking about unsubscribing from Netflix. I like what he says about needing a break: you just need to exercise another part of your brain. And that is what I've discovered to be the solution for work-life balance: take a break from work, and immerse yourself in family time, so that you can return to work refreshed. You shouldn't feel guilty for missing out on work while with your family, nor guilty for working while not being with your family, as long as there is balance, because you need to satisfy different needs at different times, and it helps you return to full power.
It's not impossible at all; I closed my account last year.

https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63
alas, that won't implement the killer app of weather-on-your-watch.

no wait: http://www.watchestobuy.com/RevueThommenAirspeedAltimeter.ht...
Apple is Doing Something to Protect its Customers
Facebook v. Teachbook tossed from California court but FB can refile elsewhere
what a brilliant idea. I'll try it first thing Wednesday (it's holiday here in Israel).

For future reference, while I didn't find a Scala forum post, I found the following (perhaps you referred to the first item):

http://blog.normation.com/2010/07/27/set-up-eclipse-workspac...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/501718/can-i-use-a-ram-di...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1838018/optimize-use-of-r...
That's a pretty well-known phenomenon; in fact, that's what /noprocrast is for.
I'm not sure I agree that learning multiple languages in the first 2 months of studies is a good approach. I think it's difficult to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of a language until you've really used it for a while, and I'd underline that several times if we're talking about a new programmer learning their first languages. Better to learn one (ideally well-chosen) language well enough that they have their footing, so that they can put other languages in context and understand the problems they solve (or create!).
> Gold isn't "real material" any more than paper. It's only has its value because of supply and demand, just like fiat money.

If this is so, then why have plundering governments consistently sought to replace gold with paper?
"I prefer to build stuff for paying customers."

Thanks for this brave sentence. I already started to think it was only me.
I was a bit perplexed by this, but reckoned it was just bad journalism, and its not all fees, but that some of the existing shareholders are selling some of their shares in the IPO, so Linkedin does not receive that money. A guess, but seems most likely.
Thanks everyone for the comments on the blog post. I don't know how whoever submitted this found this one. This started as a letter to my junior in college who asked me for advice on where to start.

The number one problem I've ever seen with shitty code, over and over and over again, is lack of understanding of fundamentals.

I humbly beg to differ and would stick to my words - "Initially, screwing the algorithms and data structures". I guess I should have written the word "initially" in all-caps.

I feel that to be creative as a programmer, it's very essential that you can fuel your creative self by motivation. And that can happen not by reading too much about how to do it, but instead just jumping into the pool and checking it out (which a you, me and a lot others agree on). Later on, when interested to improve, the theory part can be learnt. The intention was not to scare away those who want to begin by telling them there's a learning curve to be followed and instead just say "here's what you can do, check these out, install these stuff and get started".

How would anyone know which language to choose without using it first?

Which is why I mentioned trying out some languages for a few hours and choosing something of personal taste + something with good docs (getting started, tutorials, etc).

About backing up files by copy-paste, IMO, it's just personal choice. Whatever works for you. Since the post was targeted at someone who wanted to begin, I thought I should clearly mention to the reader that better tools existed.

I prefer to build stuff for paying customers.

Atleast to get to that point where you 'can' build stuff for paying customers, you have to start somewhere. First, finding paying customers isn't that easy for everyone. Second, when you don't know programming at all, and are trying to deliver something technical to a paying customer, IMO, it's just building castles in the air.
My take on that is that mammalian intelligence was already a massively powerful thing, and just needed to stumble into some sort of trick to make it more, I don't know, recursive? to start the emerging human dominance. I'd bet money that going from a genuinely wolf-level AI we understand from first principles to a human-level AI is much easier than going from AIBO to the level of an actual wolf.

The problem with intuiting about this is that assessing animal intelligence is a lot harder for us than assessing human intelligence. It's Moravec's paradox all over again, the thing that seems so simple to us we used to think of it as an absence of skill rather than a skill, behaving like an animal, might be the hardest thing in making an AI.
hey mate, that page only asks you if you want to post to your twitter or not. If the user doesn't want to, he can hit proceed and move on to the next page. I haven't made it compulsory to do that. To be honest...that page is one of the reasons for the significant increase in signups.
I found it impossible to do so some years ago, and my account has been left dormant ever since as a result. I'm sure I'm not the only person who faced this problem.
The benefit has nothing to do with trade, though. It happens simply because taxes are lowered. We could grow the economy in exactly the same way by just eliminating taxes on corporation A, without the corporation moving to Bermuda. Therefore, we may view the moving aspect as zero-sum.
Yup! It's pretty cool to see our inPulse community grow. Check out this hacker who decided to write a watchapp-a-day for 30 days: http://osresearch.tumblr.com/

Fossil entering the hacker market is interesting; it's great to see the smartwatch market heat up!
The fact that he ditched TV has nothing to do with the device/media itself. I could very easily write the same article about how chucking 'playing guitar' helped me launch my startup.

If anything occupies a lot of your time, of course eliminating it will free up time for other things.
There is no implicit connection between the quality of the resulting user interface and the method you used to define it. If anything, having a nice concise, hierarchical way of defining a GUI should lead to better structured, more usable (uniformly spaced, resizable) interfaces than what you would normally get out of click-and-drop editors.
Something sits uneasily with me about this sort of target: will they be sacrificing focus on the "product" in order to focused on marketing to get that number of users.

This sort of thing says to me that Canonical no longer want to make something great[er] they just want to be famous.
Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you?
Flattr makes it possible to flattr any Twitter account
Right, because ending up a great musician instead of a great watcher of television would have been awful.
/me raises a me-too-hand.

If I can't read it in Reeder I properly wont read it at all.
I don't know (or care) if it's a slow and outdated technology as it seems to work okay for me.

It doesn't benefit me at all if RSS disappears and is replaced with FB or Twitter. Sharing news? Sorry no, the signal to noise levels are already low and I don't need to pollute the internet any further (said the man who is writing a worthless post on HN :-)
But I guess it's not meant to benefit me anyway. So RSS will properly die and I'll silently adopt to whatever replaces it.
Agree on the taxes and anit-business attitude of city/county govt (but then again, who elects these people?). Advice I heard once: Start the business in Oregon when profits are nil, move to Washington when you start making serious money as an individual.
It's currently 1pm here in the UK, but at 1pm in LA will they be in the office? Will they be on their way home from work? Will they be fast asleep?

With flexi-time and "24 hour working", that's becoming difficult with even the current system. I don't know the hours most of my contacts work but it frequently seems to be well into the small hours..