skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real "fly by wire" software as is used by Airbus is presumably subject to very stringent testing and review. I wonder what the standard, if any, is for "drive by wire" systems?
Talk about iPad on Charlie Rose with Walt Mossberg, Michael Arrington,...
I don't know, that's 230k saves a second .. that's no joke no matter what platform you're using. I am not super familiar with sharding in MongoDB (haven't needed to go there yet) but seems like 230k writes/second would stress pretty much anything, and Mongo only added that functionality fairly recently.

Personally I am not at all worried about having to deal with 230k writes/second, though. If one of my apps ever gets that large, I will expect my far-smarter-than-me head of DB ops to deal with it, then send me an email telling me all about how he'd solved the problem, which I will read with great interest from on board my gold-plated yacht.
Probably more than most people imagine ;-)
I like Skitch too, but it forces me to reinstall/reauth every month or so due to updates.
"Software apps or Apple can push updates I don’t want."

The badge on my iPhone's App Store icon that says '34' seems to suggest otherwise.
Good article. Great to see how things have come up for them since being called a has-been in 2001.
Most people that are using RTMP are using it to serve static files that they want to make harder to copy than downloading an FLV file.

As I recall, the problem with rtmpdump wasn't that it implemented RTMP, but that it included ways to bypass the "security measures" that are built-in to RTMP. It was able to spoof all of the parameters that FMS uses to determine whether or not it should serve a stream, and would save a copy of the video to disk instead of just displaying it to the user.
Recursion: http://emberapp.com/kordless/images/littlesnapper
World hottest news: Iran makes new uranium enrichment challenge
This is wonderfully on point for me. The main reason I belong to HN is because I want to create an educational game. Glad to see it here and hope to see other similar stuff in the future.
Well, it is Sunday morning. I'm not checking for comments on my work blog either.
What is your recipe to make mid six figures?
The Riddle of Consciousness
I think 1. was exaggerated. The model still works if you only appeal to a few thousand people who use your product for a while, if you can get some of them to pay you money.
Chirpie submitted to App Store
"This dearth may be one of the reasons for which the Venture Capital community is in such sharp decline"

Even assuming that we're currently seeing a "decline" of VC, there were even fewer female VCs during VC's rise.
Summary: There are people smarter than you, with more information and with more incentive to find information than you to make whatever insight you think you have about market prices unactionable. For almost all values of you.
Blocks are also an extremely powerful tool when it comes to building DSLs, and if done correctly are a great alternative to complicated options files/hashes/etc. Rails' routes and config/intializer come into mind.
How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter
Just a joke aimed at my friends in Seattle. They're just so damn nice they might as well be Canadian.
Curious ... could you be more specific?

While I wouldn't rate its web fu all that highly, it seems to get the job done. It's certainly a lot less "busy" than its major competitor, The Wall Street Journal.
The Ares I was never a particularly good idea. Solid rockets are good boosters and are easy to repair/recycle when used, but having one as your single engine during a large part of your ascent is on the edge of viable.

Solid fuel burns relatively slowly, so, if the first stage explodes, your abort parachute will be in the middle of a gigantic shower of burning fuel. It also vibrates too much: NASA had to add a hefty dampener so the crew is not shaken to death during launch.

The folks who build these machines are the smartest people in the planet, but it's a very, very hard problem. They work in a very narrow zone between what's physically possible and what their budgets allow. In this circumstances, it's a miracle they don't run into those walls more often.

I hope this decision breathes life into shuttle-derived launchers like Shuttle-C and DIRECT (and the Jupiter rocket family). The ability to send 80 tons to LEO and 30 tons towards the Moon would be really nice. I am also sure many of the scientists and engineers at NASA would be more than happy to work on a less problematic vehicle.

And so should the astronauts be.
No, but does anybody want to make a vim plugin which does this? I'd help, don't know much about Vim plugins though!
The same is true of hard drives, and monitors. Snort
But unfortunately, two of those six figures tend to be on the wrong side of the decimal point. :(
I agree with the practical aspects - the video shows a couple good opportunities for very spectacular disasters, but there are things that should be built not because they are practical, but because they are beautiful.
I did jump to full time Linux a couple of weeks back.
I bought a used pre-unibody because the mini-dvi to dual dvi adaptor is $99, and that made the price difference too great.
I admit to craptastic info overload design. When I can afford some design love I'll be very happy.

You can see an app example at http://imm.victusmedia.com
It's leaner, our first draft was overloaded
Why not? The JRE was a free download for end users anyway, and open-sourcing it removed a large source of bad press. If Java was open-sourced earlier, it might have seen more adoption by hackers, and innovation. Now, it's an "enterprise" language, which basically means it has entered the "legacy" stage of its lifetime, and will go the way of COBOL in under 10 years.
I haven't JB'd mine. Haven't had time to mess with xpwn
"So, it is clear we have a problem here: we’re holding back the most productive half of our population."

and then a bit further down:

"I’ve heard from the angry men, now I’d like to hear from the women."

Maybe he got angry replies from men because men always come out on the short end of his generalizations.
I think the bigger hurdle for most people is getting from $0 a day to $1 a day. Replicating success isn't as hard as finding success.
Is the background or motivation of women that prevents them from becoming entrepreneurs?

Women tend to do the entrepreneurial thing differently from men and one of those differences is scale: Women often start small businesses ("lifestyle business"), with no intent to grow it into a multinational corporation. Women are still saddled with the primary responsibility of (bearing and) raising kids. My ex was career military. Prime soldiering years are age 18 to 40. That also happens to be prime childbearing and childrearing years for a woman. So women are unlikely to ever compete equally with men for military careers. Although I don't have much hard data, it seems to me that founding a large company (the type that seeks VC) is probably also mostly a young person's game. (IIRC, the average age of founders in companies that got Y-Combinator funding was in the low to mid 20's.)
Does anybody doubt that the iPad will someday grow a camera?

I don't doubt that the iPad could grow a camera. But it seems to me that it's not technical limitations keeping a camera from the iPad. I wonder if it's just the awkwardness of holding an iPad in the way necessary to take photos that led Steve Job to scrap the idea. He'd rather leave a feature off entirely than have it be implemented in an inelegant way.
I think the major and very important difference is that the internet is basically totally free. For every Facebook group spewing some idiotic nazi crap there are three condemning it. If you let anyone stand on their little soapbox and say anything, then sure - people already inclined to thinking that way will stay and listen but everyone else will walk by. If, however, it's the only person speaking and you're forced to hear it, then that's different.

In Rwanda there was essentially one radio station, completely controlled by the genocidares, spewing the sort of hate mongering that makes Sean Hannity look like Sesame Street. It helped them fan the flames and importantly, it helped them coordinate efficiently. It's not necessarily why there was a genocide there, but it's largely why it was so completely effective.

It's also worth noting that this was 15 years ago - Rwanda is an amazing place to visit now. It is safe and beautiful there is some fantastic eco-tourism. If you ever have the opportunity, go gorilla trekking there, it's unbelievable.
Sounds like a great strategy if one only cares about making money and doesn't care about working on any projects, startups, software for companies, ect.
Is anyone else tired of pcworld acting as an astroturfing proxy for M$? I've noticed over and over in their sequences of (multiple) stories that they ALL start out slightly positive and then follow-on stories turn negative... as if they only wanted to appear thoughtful and neutral but actually purposefully lead to sour conclusions.
The article says it would use Hydrogen. I think that's a non-starter afer the Hindenburg, even if only for PR reasons.
You don't have to jailbreak to avoid updates - neither Apple nor app developers have the ability to force updates upon your phone. Both iTunes and the App Store ask for permission before updating your device and apps.

There is the remote app killswitch functionality, but Android has that as well.
[citation needed]

The article you linked claims that Hutu and Tsuti are little more than social constructs. There's a certain class of Marxist-influenced academics who like to blame everything on social constructs and ruling classes.

However, the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Tutsi_and_Hutu , though it discusses the Western influence on conceptions of race in Rwanda, presents arguments that Hutus and Tutsis are of different genotypes.

In short, it takes more than the hearsay of this French guy I haven't heard of to convince me that an ongoing French "conspiracy" (which the article you linked made no mention of, by the way) is responsible for turmoil in several parts of Africa. As if there wouldn't be any violence in those places if those meddling French would just stop conspiring. Please post something to support you view, if you have anything.
There's a third option not mentioned in the article. That's creating a $1/day project, then working to make it a $2/day, then $3/day.

Either through improving the thing you're selling, or by finding better ways to sell it. Take, for example, Patrick@bingocardcreator.com . He seems do have done pretty well following that method.

I don't know if that's any more or less work than building 400 projects, each selling for $1/day though.
As the author of the article on SISC, I looked int ASE. The emphasis, as far as I can see, on the ASE is on 'scripting', running scripts to access certain parts of the android os. Which parts of the OS depends on the interfaces the ASE projects implements for the respective scripting languages to connect to. So far, I don't think the ASE project is focusing too much on the interactive elements (in android speak, 'Activities') of Android, those elements that users/developers think of as part of the 'app'. So, at the moment, ASE isn't really about building apps, but allowing scripting functionality to apps. Using JRuby or in this case SISC Scheme outside of the ASE environment could lead to full Android apps. (Hopefully)
I think that's the first option. Which is focusing on one thing and making it better and making more money from it.
Safari 4 on Snow Leopard doesn't crash when flash crashes. You get a nice little blue box with a question mark on it where the flash used to be.
I could make a guess. Adobe is a big corporation that can still put a lot of pressure on others in many different ways. They probably have devs who could write own implementation of H.264 given enough time. They could release their solution based on a licence that doesn't prevent linking with closed codec. Or many other things...

Mozilla is bound by the license. If you find a good enough codec, you can create a plugin yourself - but it will not be included in the main package, unless it's open.
He hasn't fully accounted for the motivations of women as to why they don't create more businesses. He shows that female entrepreneurs have the same motivations as male entrepreneurs, but that says nothing about what proportion of females have those particular motivators.

A potential explanation, then, is that fewer women have the motivations that cause people to create businesses. Given that men trend more towards risk-taking, it's plausible that more men have entrepreneurial tendencies.
This is an interesting post, and I'm eager to hear what other people who have spent more time in the startup scene think of it. Here's my thoughts:

1. I think I've seen the "two groups" that the post talks about, but I have begun to have serious doubts that they're as fatalistic as they're made out to be. For example:

The in-crowd live in the U.S, they attended MIT or Berkeley, they write well, have interesting blogs and are followed by 400 or more people on twitter.

You can't change where you went to school, but you can improve your writing skills, start a blog, and get 400 followers on Twitter. In fact, this is trivial over a period of months. Writing good content is not only for the elite; it's how you become one of the elite ;)

2. If you do a little research up front on the market for whatever you're going to create, you might be able to just create one product rather than 400. It might be more difficult in the beginning, but you just might learn an incredible amount and turn out to be one of the most well-rounded sources of startup insight on HN. See patio11 / Bingo Card Creator for an example :)

3. My main concern would be sustainability; those 150 projects that make you $12k / month aren't going to do so forever. You'll run yourself ragged trying to keep them all together, and at some point, you'd probably be better off with a job. I guess what I'm saying is to try and pick a model that will scale more than $1/day projects will.

In spite of these criticisms, I did enjoy this article for its thought-provoking angle that's very different from a lot of the stuff I read on HN.
Leads
Health insurance leads
Although I wouldn't see myself doing 400 "half baked" projects, I understand that it could be a solution for people who are in it for the money. That being said, I definitely agree with the fact that your social network and environment can have a big influence on your success. We don't all have the chance to live in Silicon Valley.
there are things that should be built not because they are practical, but because they are beautiful

Oh, I agree. I love innovative and beautiful design as much as anyone, believe me. And yet I am an engineer at heart, and when I see something like this, questions spring to mind, such as "what is making it move" and "how does it control its buoyancy", amongst others.

The greatest triumphs are a meeting of minds between good engineering and beautiful, functional design. This is a lot of the latter and not a lot of the former. Still, I appreciate the story and hope it inspires those capable of the former to think about how it could be made to work.
1. It's very very difficult to learn to write well or be interesting. I have many friends and I know that no matter how hard they actually tried, they would not be able to write stuff people want to read. They are good at what they do, but they can't write even if they tried.

2. Creating one product is the route everyone takes by default. Yes, it works, but this is introducing an alternative route

3. Part of the optimisation is focusing on projects that are easy to spin off into new projects. If one project is selling clothes and the next is hospital management software, that's just stupid. If one is an auction management dashboard, the next is a sales management software, then it's easy to adapt. You learn quickly what ideas have generic code bases that are easy to adapt, and what ideas are very specific in their technology and are difficult to adapt.
The Large Display Paradox
On the up side, you site inspired me to finally install flashblock. :)
Maybe they can use waste helium produced by the on-board fusion reactor...
Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem
Is Om Malik sad?
Secret London Facebook Group Amasses 180,000, Morphs Into Startup
those 150 projects that make you $12k / month aren't going to do so forever.

I guess what it really comes down to is how much each project makes over its lifetime, relative to how much time you put into it. Pulling more numbers out of thin air, if it takes one day to push out a project making $1/day (a reasonable assumption, I think, once you've already made 100 of them or so), and if the project's useful lifetime is about 1 year, and if you work 200 days a year (so, 200 projects), that gives me $71000/year. You're not getting rich off this, but you can live comfortably almost anywhere in the world.

Of course, the catch is that the projects should require zero maintenance, otherwise it adds up very quickly.
Sigh. Indeed. Hydrogen inflated anything is a powerful fear trigger in the ignorant, similar perhaps to Chernobyl and nuclear power opponents. No matter the decades upon decades of progress since the time of the accident.

Of course, these same people have no problem getting on board a flimsy aluminium tube surrounded by a hundred tons of jet fuel, right below which is slung - gasp - an open flame!
Ah, that photo brings back memories. That's the keihin-touhoku line in tokyo and believe me, it's an accurate depiction.
1. You might be right :) I still think more people could do it than think they can. And also, you don't have to write all that well to be popular online. Witness the majority of popular blogs.

2. I guess I'm arguing for fewer (several) as opposed to hundreds. I just wonder if creating 400 projects is sustainable, as well as whether it's the right mindset to have. But on the other hand, I'm guessing that, as you said, most people will hit their income target long before that, and I'd also guess that most people would naturally optimize this kind of strategy and focus on the most successful projects.

3. I'd have liked to see more about this in the article.
Ask HN: Is there an API for HN ?
Is there an API for HN ? I've seen a lot of apps around HN and I'd like to build my own. Is there an API for HN or are those apps scraping the content?
Ubuntu Now Calls Google Docs the Standard
pedantic:

Digest::MD5.digest(x), not Digest::MD5.hexdigest(x). If humans aren't reading it, don't convert it to hex.
Other starting points for you to read:
- http://www.afrol.com/articles/16082
- http://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/509/No...
- http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/mitterrand-legacy-under...
- http://crinfo.beyondintractability.org/case_studies/rwandan_...

Perhaps "conspiracy theory" was a poor choice of words since they're not so much theories. The approach of divide and conquer had long been used in Africa to manage populations within colonies. Further, the identity cards that marked large "H" and "T"'s to denote Hutu's and Tutsi's were both used and encouraged despite intermarriage between the two groups being "frequent" as documented by the UNHCR (http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2d0c2,3df4...)

I note further that it is no secret that French colonies have significantly lower economic growth than their British counterparts: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/G/Robin.M.Grier-1/religion.pdf (pdf). Africa in general has faced a number of difficulties - but even within Africa there are some much better examples of governance than others and in almost each (if not all) of those cases, those examples were not French colonies (there's a TED presentation by Hans Rosling if I recall, that speaks to economic growth/poverty in Africa)
Generally, Electricians can do things similar to that if they follow the local electric code. I've watched them work--they don't consult the building drawings or whatever, and they can make some pretty extensive changes.

The PE license gets you the ability to sign off on drawings, so if there isn't a drawing change involved, there isn't any engineering to sign off on.
Archetypes and personalities of the financial crisis
It seems like marketing would still be an issue though. Even to make $1/day, someone has to find your software. If you're not marketing through a blog or Twitter, that leaves advertising. So now in addition to writing good ads, you need to make sure each project is making more than you're spending on advertising, which is a lot of work on its own.
Here's a video of their earlier presentation: http://vimeo.com/6307559
a very interesting graph: one that shows the number of code commits to WebKit

Except the graph is of commits/day, not overall commits. This means even less than the way TC wants to advertise it. Integrate the lines and it'll be a long time before Google touches Apple's contributions in the way this story implies.

In fact, TC's coverage is flat dishonest by stripping any mention of scale and then zooming in on the overtake point. It's never any surprise to conclude that TC is sensationalist lying, but when they post numbers it casts hard light on the truth of the matter.
The other side of that is that if you don't have to work, you can work on anything you'd like.
Google overcomes Apple in Webkit Commits
I will write about specific time optimisation techniques sometime later - I could write a lot about that, but I don't want to distract from the core message.
Depending on the 'timeliness' you can scrape the google cache or you can ask Paul if it is ok to scrap HN directly.
I'm confused then, because it seems from your post that you say the first option is difficult unless you're a US-based MIT-educated elite startup founder Twitter-chasing wunderkid with VC money coming out your ears and good writing ability.

At the risk of stating the obvious, I am not a US-based MIT-educated elite startup founder Twitter-chasing wunderkid with VC money coming out my ears. Nor do I think any of these are pre-requisites or, well, even all that helpful in terms of building successful businesses. Some of them even contribute to the pathologies in our industry, like obsessive focus on building products to be used by ourselves rather than reaching out to more diverse groups of customers with desirable properties such as "pays money for software."
Download 49$ Ashampoo WinOptimizer 6 For Free | beingPC
Play nethack.
Electrical engineering
Hello HN,

Please suggest books which teaches all(fundamental) aspects of electrical engineering,books which teaches essential physics and math
Assuming a 20 day work month and a 10 hour workday that will give you half an hour a month to work on each of your 400 projects. And assuming (optimistically) that you will spend 2 weeks doing each project it will take 15 years to get to 400.

And that's not counting overhead such as accounting, etc. for all of your projects.

I like the idea of the post, but maybe he took it a bit too far...
I wrote a script sometime ago, which sells about 4 copies a month for $25 each. The only way I marketed was by adding it to directories such as HotScripts. That will you give you some traffic if you're providing a solution in a field that's not highly competitive (a niche).
You could try that.
Actually, it's not. If you have to move 1000 copies of software in a month, then you need to market. If you want to move 1 copy a month, list it on download.com and you will move 1 copy. That's the beauty of the system - it minimises the need for marketing and instead ups the project count to make up for the loss there.

You are basically moving resources from one thing (marketing, promotion) into another (designing generic software, finding new ideas, writing software very fast). The second options are easy for software developers to do compared to marketing.