skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoofed telephone calls can't be called back either, exactly like IP.

These emergency phone calls are two-way communications, exactly unlike the IP spoofing situation (seriously you really want to stick with the wrong IP example?)

You are asking that the originator of a call be identifiable somehow

Wonder of wonders, yes I am. The world phone system is a completely routable system -- providers effective own prefixes or even individual numbers, which is exactly how one can call someone. The notion that if a call comes in that says "Hi I'm 555-5555 from Verizon @ 555 Blaxberry Lane" and it can actually be verified if not authenticated by Verizon is hardly some big technical marvel. It's actually TRIVIAL, and it's exactly how the world pay-phone system works (note that these people aren't spoofing numbers to call pay sex lines because the telcos actually care about that). This whole ball of nonsense is because telcos have zero obligation to give a crap, so they don't.
Brutal ROI for writing a Q.
Honestly, this was coming and everyone knew it. Only an illiterate would believe in someone trying to get rich building just forms. Sigh, I wish only one thing - That more people realized that you need to solve problems instead of trying to build the next cool thing! I wish this 14 million was donated to something else that could have impacted our lives - Like a new motor technology or an electric car. I can't imagine anyone rational funding 14 million on a company that had just forms (for consumers) as its business model.

Personally, I stopped using this service the moment it started spamming my inbox with boring questions.
Publish Less
DRM:

His story, The Right to Read ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ) would be one example. His vision is a bit more extreme, but we're heading in that direction.

The default state for anything we electronically "buy" is now "indefinite rental, until the central server crashes/the company running it goes out of business/the company decides not to run that any more/..."

We now have bookreaders which can have their contents remotely removed ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama... ). I know that they claim that feature's been disabled, but it's probably still there in the code. Besides, similar remote deletions are possible on other systems ( http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/06/apples-ability-to-deacti... , http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-apps-can-be-deleted-rem... )

Software Freedom:

Back in the day, the GPL forced NeXT to release the source to its Objective-C compiler. There was a similar situation where CLISP had to go GPL because it used GNU Readline ( http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/faq.html#faq-gpl ). And then there are the various BusyBox GPL violations ( http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/10437.html )

These days, the GPL is largely neutered because of two forces: the rise of BSD/MIT/WTFPL-licensed code and the rise of web services (because GPL'd code triggers on distribution). The AGPL was a response to the web-services loophole (just like GPLv3 was a response to the Tivoisation loophole), but it never really caught on.

Here's what I fear. The next generation of technologists aren't going to know what they missed. They missed a world where you could easily mess with your machines. They missed a world where users and developers respected each other (When doom came out, iD software asked the community not to make mod tools for the shareware version. They didn't. DeHackEd, an exe-hacker for doom, would refuse to operate on known pirate versions.) They missed a world where you can run your own code on your own devices, and you didn't have to exploit a bug to do it.

As with the recent discussion about DRM in HTML video, people are splitting hairs about mechanism and policy. Why are we talking about building the mechanisms when there is literally no policy that is good for the user?

Further reading: "Richard Stallman was Right All Along" http://www.osnews.com/story/25469 , and an old HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3417033
Why? Because taxi drivers are blue collar workers and people perceive them as commodities who should feel lucky to be employed. It works the other way also. Try getting sympathy from a mechanic because Yahoo wont let you earn 6 figures writing code from your house.
Seems like the goal for addressing the first point is to get better at planning and estimating. Learn what you are capable of and then get better.

The second point is based on that Hemingway quote right?
“The best way [to write] is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day…you will never be stuck.”

I've tried it a few times. I didn't notice much improvement. Maybe it makes most sense when you are working on a problem that excedes your comfort zone.
Working of course which I am guessing you realized?

I am not debating that Uber is a huge help for getting business. I just feel that their employee conditions are not what many others expect in their daily jobs. I don't feel that is wrong.
Also, it was Gerald Ford that pardoned Nixon.

LBJ was the successor to Kennedy.
I can’t disclose the costs but I can share a few things:

- Our cassandra and Redis clusters are/were the most expensive pieces of the architecture.

- the PHP front-end wasn’t really efficient and required many `medium sized` instances.

- Sites with huge fanout effects are expensive to run.

- Multi-platform : iOS, Android, "touch" and www. Maintenance gets expensive.

- Multi-AZ on RDS comes at a price

- If you intend to run on AWS, Reserved Instances are your best friends.
Big Data Will Solve Extreme Poverty
Both technologies seem to have shifted toward center stage as the default "cool" stack to develop on. Neither perform particularly well, and those that say they do have yet to demonstrate (to me at least) that this is true with actual numbers. Javascript as a language is poorly designed as a server language, doesn't support hot swapping, isn't object oriented, and misses a number of features other functional languages enjoys (sensible typing being one of the biggest ones). The choice to use MongoDB "to learn something new" is wrong for something that you actually hope others will use. Better reasons would be something like: "my ideal architecture uses a data model perfectly suited for MongoDB," in which case, I'd ask why not use a different document based db that actually scales. Or, "I'm a mongo expert that can do crazy tweaks to make mongo fly."

This whole thing just doesn't seem well thought out, and I certainly will not invest any of my own energy into it or expect anything to come out of it.
Then they shouldn't use ambiguous stars for a rating system.
A list of people who got into the tech scene without tech skills:

1. Julia Allison - she tried to cheat her way into a fundraiser and despite that ended up on the cover of WiReD: http://gawker.com/284123/an-east-coast-hustler-tries-to-chea...

2. Nick Starr - my cousin who is a cop is still interested in talking to you for laptops that were stolen that you are selling.

3. Hermione Way - I honestly wanted to work for you as a coder because you had entrée into all these "cool" parties, but despite now having an app that gets 100,000 photo uploads a day (Via.Me) I'm still not cool enough to work for you? WTF?

There isn't a scene to get into. Instead there is a long standing list of problems that have existed since the beginning of computer science. Read Knuth or something similar if you don't know which these are. Either you are on board for solving those problems or your real interests lie elsewhere. Decide which you are.
> Of course, Twitter is trying to kill RSS too, subscribing to new feeds doesn't seem to work.

What about a cloud-based app that kept synced across your devices? I wonder if it would be possible to create a client that would let you quickly read Twitter, app.net and feed content, and filter the latter two? (So long as you stay below the 100,000 user mark?)
You are apparently not the only one :-)
Quoting Jefferson isn't a call to action

But it sure makes you sound like a man of action!

Two political Sects have arisen within the U.S. the one believing that the executive is the branch of our government which the most needs support; the other that like the analogous branch in the English Government, it is already too strong for the republican parts of the Constitution; and therefore in equivocal cases they incline to the legislative powers: the former of these are called federalists, sometimes aristocrats or monocrats, and sometimes tories, after the corresponding sect in the English Government of exactly the same definition: the latter are stiled republicans, whigs, jacobins, anarchists, disorganizers, etc. these terms are in familiar use with most persons."

- Jefferson in 1798 - you'll note that he was arguing that the republicans of his day were insufficiently democratic, rather than the other way round.

As much as people think the world is different, the difference is really only technologically. Instead of stealing horses, people steal cars. Instead of bootlegging liquor, people run marijuana.
Instead of slave masters, we have human resources.

Well, there's a slight qualitative difference in that if you quit your job, HR can't come after you and compel you stay in it. Your creditors may sue you for everything short of the shirt off your back, but you can't be forced into servitude.
As a regular user of reader, I'm more or less shrugging. The features I use aren't anything I can't put together for myself pretty simply out of available tools; having reader there just prevented me from bothering.

I realize I won't be getting things like the recommendations, but I've got plenty of feeds going presently. There may well be other features others love that I've been missing out on, but obviously I won't be missing them :-P
I had a Sidecar driver this afternoon who told me he was suspended by Uber after he had the bad luck to get Travis Kalanick as a passenger, and failed to pick him up on the right side of the street (according to him).
I didn't want to outright accuse the commenters of that sort of sentiment but that does seem to be the case.
I see where you are coming from and your response is of the form that expected to receive, but I am not convinced by your objections. Part of the problem, I realized while writing an initial response to you, is the split definitions of "free time". On the one hand, there is free time that we take because we find our performance declining, and so we stop our activity for efficiency reasons. And then there is free time that is really The Time. Free time of this sort is what life is all about, it is why we work.

My query was intended to refer to the second definition.

Neither of your objections have much to do with the first definition, and they do not satisfy me with regards to the second form of free time. If you consider the case of someone like a physicist, for whom their great love is also their form of achieving "success". For people of this type, and for ambitious people who discover fulfillment through worldly success, work is exactly the sort of activity that brings them happiness.

So perhaps that's the split. People of these types concern themselves with free time for efficiency, and the rest concern themselves with the second sort of free time. Perhaps this is also the split between the elite players and the music teachers.
Digg Is Building A Google Reader Replacement, Complete With API
If they are telling riders this, then everyone will end up giving drivers a 5 unless they had a bad experience. This artificially inflates every score such that a 5 score ends lumping in the exceptional drivers with the slightly above average.
Working for car services - many of whom Uber has soundly defeated in the relevant cities and no longer exist.

The "if you don't like it, tough!" angle sounds nice, but is untenable in cities where Uber has absorbed the lion's share of the towncar market.

Just because Uber is "one of us" doesn't mean they're scrupulous. I'd be very wary of trading disparate, crappy towncar companies for a single monolithic one with startupy roots.
That's true, but:

1) that doesn't prevent you from asserting defenses if you are sued;
2) the government's actions can effect a waiver of immunity in specific cases;
3) the government has waived immunity by statute in a very broad range of situations;
4) it doesn't stop you from suing government officials in their personal capacity.

For example, if the government breaches a contract with you, you can sue it because the government has broadly waived immunity in contracts cases. You can sue federal agencies for their actions under the Administrative Procedure Act. As an example of (4) see: Bivens v. Six Unknown Named FBI Agents.

Also, habeas corpus offers a way to challenge actions that result in detention without needing to sue the government per se.
White House Deletes Google Reader Petition
Thank you for summarizing what I was really trying to say here, chaz. Even half of YC's consumer focused tech companies should be so lucky.

The team, the direction they took the product, and the VCs/funding aside, Ade's clearly massive effort is inspiring and should be congratulated rather than completely drown out with sarcasm.
I don't mean to be a dick but this is completely devoid of content. It boils down to IF you don't have technical skills, THEN develop them OR meet people who don't care that you don't have technical skills that will hire you.

Further I fail to see how someone wanting into tech would be better reading a bunch of PG essays than actually, y'know, learning to code. Unless I'm not taking the title seriously enough, and the goal is only to get into the tech SCENE (as in social), not a technical job.
I've never given less than 5 stars. Every ride I have had with Uber has been perfect - aside from the cost :)
I honestly hope i can keep this advice in mind for the rest of my life
The Uber drivers I have asked have also all been very positive. I asked one whether he was dispatched by anyone else, and he said that he used to be, but no longer - now he was Uber-only and he was glad he could ditch the dispatcher model.

The guys that own their own cars are not Uber employees - they can sign up to be dispatched by traditional radios instead (or as well). So, from my sample in NYC, Uber is way better than existing models for the drivers.
I saw a HackerNews thread ranking/listing RSS alternatives, found Feedly was the top one and migrated my feeds from google reader. Now, I kick myself for using Google Reader all this time when Feedly is clearly far better (for me).

While I've lost a little respect for Google, I am overall happy to find a better RSS reader alternative.
Agreed, they should have a colored scale from:

red -- poor -- 0%

yellow -- ok -- 5%

green -- fine -- 10%

blue -- great -- 15%

gold -- superb -- 20%

Attach a tip % to each (perhaps)
The science of love
Well, the government is constitutionally obliged to defend the citizenry. Any President that went on TV and said 'you know, we sort of deserved that due to our past foreign policy, so we should take it on the chin' would almost certainly have been impeached. Now I do see whare you're coming from, and somewhat agree, but I'm making n argument about what's legal as opposed to what's right. I think, for example, that once we withdraw our troops from Afghanistan Congress should sunset the AUMF and define the scope of Presidential authority to fight future terrorism much more narrowly.
SimCity Update: Straight Answers from Lucy
Let the unintended consequences begin!
I always found this change suspect; a frequent rationale was that the rest of the world does it this way.
Yeah, you can check out everybody’s profile without signing up: http://www.formspring.me/pims and you can see every public thread. And until very recently, you could even ask questions without being a registered user to the users who had this feature enabled.

The only “private” features you don’t see when not registered are your stream (similar to your Twitter timeline) and your inbox (similar to your FB messages).
Oh yes we did :-)
I'm sure it's been rediscovered by lots of people who hadn't heard it from Hemingway. Notice he didn't say (IIRC) "finish everything you start" but rather "finish everything you decide to finish". If you, for example, finish all the features you wanted to, and then leave a failing test case for the next day, that is consistent with the feature article's thesis as I understand it.
If someone really wants to guess random addresses it isn't hard for them to write it themselves.
Used GroupTalent in the last three years? Has your client? Then they owe money.
https://grouptalent.com/legal/tos/

Notwithstanding the provisions set forth above, Users may agree to provide or receive Services outside of the GroupTalent Platform with Users identified through the GroupTalent marketplace. If the services are rendered more than three years after the Developer is identified to the Employer through the GroupTalent Platform, no GroupTalent Fees or buyout provisions apply. If Services are rendered outside of the GroupTalent Platform within three years of identification of the Developer through the GroupTalent Platform, payments for such Services will not be subject to the GroupTalent Fee provided that the Employer of such Services pays GroupTalent a “Buy-Out” fee in accordance with the following procedures...
Uber should have audio and video captured. And review the audio/video whenever a rating is poor.
Why wouldn’t they? Many people have dedicated hours of their time to craft thoughtful and funny responses, I’d assume they would want to keep a record of this.
Uh, I most definitely am a mother to a ten year old son.
$ python server.py 12366

...

$ python client.py localhost 12366
IonicDB> insert foo "if(3<2)else(sys.argv[0])+"
IonicDB> select foo
server.py
it seems kind of ridiculous to presume that one rogue one star rating would get a driver fired. i would assume that there is more to firing drivers than simply the rating system – someone must talk to the passenger to figure out what is up.
What is gimbal lock and why do we still have to worry about it?
I think they should just make reviews less than 3 stars require a text explanation.
The rationale I've heard is that "first to invent" is not always easy to determine, which adds overhead. Note that prior art is still valid. If you publish your idea, that can invalidate someone else's patent. But an idea in a private notebook isn't enough anymore.
> tax evasion scheme

That is the most logical explanation up to now :)
JSF 2.2 Proposed Final Draft Posted
If Linux were a dog
Time will tell how long union-strong industries can hold off tech disruption. This is just the beginning.
Synchtube shuts down
Mostly pink and purple, is my impression.
I suspect faulty financial journalism.
Steam for Linux, Oculus Rift, Hawken, HTML5 sponsored sessions come to GDC 2013
> "You say that as if $60 million would be any less absurd?"

I find neither price absurd. It is clear that Dropbox has not bought Mailbox for the purposes of selling copies of Mailbox - making $100mm back that way is, of course, insanity.

Dropbox right now is having its core feature (online storage) attacked by competitors with far-reaching and deeply integrated stacks. See: iCloud, Google, etc, where the cloud storage is deeply integrated specific content on your device. Photos, documents, email, etc.

It would seem like they're trying to develop this stack for themselves and take on Google and Apple directly. Whether or not this is the right strategy I cannot say, but a cloud email service with a best-of-breed UI will certainly help them cement the market share they need.

And having seen Mailbox, it's very competitive with what is IMO the next-best mobile email client, GMail, and takes iOS's Mail.app out back and shoots it.

I expect the next moves to be either developing or acquiring media sharing (photos, videos, etc) apps. This is the sort of ecosystem they need to create to hope to sell Dropbox as the "your data, everywhere, without lock-in" value proposition.

Mailbox isn't just a half-decent email UI, it is the best email UI we've seen in ages, in a field where there is no shortage of competition. Even vaunted Apple's email app pales in comparison.
With Dblcam, Use Both Your iPhone's Cameras At Once
Correction: generating revenue. Just not enough to cover the costs.
Youtube did a pretty interesting article on how they were switching to a thumbs system (like or dislike) after using stars for years and finding people either used 1 or 5. Found it, not as interesting as I recall: http://youtube-global.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/five-stars-domi...
Eclipse-Based Tool Suite Supports Embedded Linux Developers
Canonical: The Next Apple
Well, for one, you could build it and buy a million users for $100 a piece for about the same price. Granted you can't do that with inflated stock, but still...
by that rationale, programmers are a commodity with a range of skill levels. right?
My thesis: Health care costs are higher in the US largely because the US has more per capita wealth than other counties. Look at per capita spending: http://www.oecd.org/norway/BriefingNoteNORWAY2012.pdf

The biggest spenders are the US, Norway, Switzerland and Luxembourg--the same counties with the highest per capita GDP. Health care is simply something a person will spare no expense on: everybody eventually enters a period of chronic poor health as they age in affluent Western societes, but would pay anything to remedy it.
Adding Empty Set Literals to Python
Netflix Announces $100,000 in Prizes for Coders
Sure is. I wondered if that was on purpose.
> You can't continue to patent everything under the sun

I see what you did there
HN commenters are just people like you and me. They care about people like themselves more than people not like themselves. To HN commenters, Uber's founders are like them and taxi drivers aren't. Of course they're going to side with the company here.
I used to talk to all my drivers about this, too - an easy conversation prompt to pass the time if nothing else. But while most spoke positively, I began to get the impression that they follow the basic rule of don't bad mouth your employer to customers. Pair that with the risk of saying the wrong things to a secretshopper-type riders, and it's become difficult for me to take Uber reviews from drivers at face value.
Reader was basically a power tool for trend setting not a trend itself.
That's one of the reasons they are complaining because it is ridiculous there isn't anything set up. Now it might not just be one rogue star rating but maybe a collection of others. But there is no room for error when you can get fired by having a 4.6 and not 4.7 star rating.
"I felt it was a fairly average ride."

I'm not a uber user (have no need for it). Could you detail what factors to you makes a ride "average" or "good" or "great" etc?
The combination of having a relatively low-skill and undifferentiated job (as a driver) and of having no employment protection (as a contractor) is unfortunate.

I feel for these men, but I think their best choice is to find other employment - this protest will lead nowhere.
28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented
TempleOS has no networking. God is God--ouija board, basically.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\PLATO.TXT

and will be administered in a spirit unlike
that of other States, in which men fight with one another about
shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in
their eyes is a great good. Whereas the truth is that the State
in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best
and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager,
the worst.

Quite true, he replied.

And will our pupils, when they hear this, refuse to take their turn
at the toils o