skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cooperate-Cooperate, Betray-Cooperate, or Betray-Betray.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_game

In the golden era we imagine the corporate worker relations was a cooperate cooperate game, producing hard work, good will, and strong meaningful community for everyone.

Then corporations realized they needed workers to cooperate while reserving the right to betray them (layoffs, terminations etc) because as the market grew more cut throat due to everyone's success, a company needed to stay lean and competitive.

Workers are now growing wise to this and we are entering a betray-betray era. Corperations are working to force cooperation while reserving the right to betray (see google/apple/facebook engineering cartel) but workers in high demand fields are becoming savvy as they can use their skills to go anywhere

The problem is the net result of the betray-betray game is assumed to be net lower than the other strategy to play the game, causing the community at large to gain less over multiple games.

To me this is the net result of cynicism: damaging the community in the name of optimization. Capitalism as practiced is a pain-optimization machine and until we choose to risk playing the game as a cooperative endeavor, it will never improve.
> Many believe addiction is a disease, and if that is the case, one wouldn't look down on someone with Aspergers. They would help.

Sadly, people still stigmatise and discriminate against people with mental health problems and with learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities often die younger than they need to (even after adjusting for the health difficultites caused by the LD) because of poor quality of care.

I agree with everything you say though. People are often horribly judgemental toward people with addictions.
you most certainly have the right to silence in the UK.

> while I appreciate this is a US legal case, in the UK the right to silence can be used against a defendant

as you correctly identified, only inferences in a somewhat defined range of cases can be made.

> One thing that puzzles me, though, is how am I supposed to know what I will rely on in court before I am on trial?

if you fail to answer a question during the investigation, and then later rely on the answer of that question in court. before you get anywhere near a court room, you must know what you have been charged with, arrested, and interviewed, etc. (unless of course you're a terrorist, then, you know, fuck you)

and yes, the ECHR wouldn't be happy with any inferences drawn from silence. i'm sure if a case hinged on these inferences, and the defendant was found guilty, an appeal to them would likely be successful.

although you wont want to hold your breath waiting for it, ~7 years is a long time..
Linux Airways

The pilots, stewards and mechanics are all either 15 or 60 years old. The planes are all either six hours or fourty years old. Wherever you turn up to fly, the plane you want to fly on is in a heap of parts on the runway and the employees are bickering over it, mostly ignoring you. A few try to convince you that it's perfectly fine by pointing to other airlines and other airports where you can see Linux Airways flights taking off on schedule, with well built aircraft and regular people working there, and publishing impressive safety and efficiency statistics. You set off to that airport instead, but when you arrive it's like chasing the end of a rainbow from here it looks exactly the same as the previous airport. You look at the previous airport, the heap of parts is gone and the planes are flying at regular intervals. You wonder if this is the twilight zone.

You get so engrossed in the heap of plane parts on the runway because nobody has let you see so much of the insides of a plane before. You spend the next fortnight redesigning the seating plan to account for passengers with Fibrodysplasia ossificans who can't bend their legs, apparently that's a big problem, not noticing that you haven't travelled anywhere yet and you had somewhere to be.

Mac Airlines

Sometimes you end up landing in a remote field; other passengers will gather around telling you which wires to pull out of which engine management units and where to put them. As soon as you take off again, everyone pulls together and says it didn't happen. Some passengers don't arrive at their destination. This never happened.

There's a bit of fuss because the Wright Brothers are dead and the passengers aren't yet sure if planes can still exist and keep flying.

Windows 8 Air

Passengers refuse to fly because the stewardesses have new buttons on their uniforms. Passengers who try to fly are often faced with barely edible meals, luggage compartments that can't hold their bags, and stewards with barely intelligible speech impediments. The supply companies suggest these services were designed for Windows XP Air and have you tried running in compatibility mode and disabling Windows Firewall and UAC?
hmmm, that's not cool. It should link you directly to the page without having to signup/login
Leaving all those unsavoury associations of perfecting surveillance en masse
aside: Are they quite sure their transmission channels are strictly uni-directionnal?
Are Google and Facebook Pretending They Want Limits on NSA Surveillance?
Quite possibly. My grandfather's working life stopped in the mid-1980s. I had hoped to communicate that the search for human villains and heroes tends to be misleading. Our actions are often reactive to larger, more complex trends in politics and finance.

It is easier to say "Jack Welch, big badman, such fat meanie" than it is to track all the myriad complex changes in tax policy, central banking, technology, society, and in other fields.

"I find suspect that someone who is not particularly ambitious man working 9-5 survived long in that stab back otherwise you will be one of fired 10% environment."

You're entitled... to your feelings. I would describe someone who worked for over 30 years without attempting to reach an executive position as 'not particularly ambitious.' I could also be lying. Or paid off by GE. I could even be Jack Welch.

Don't trust what you read on the internet.
Thanks! I hope someone does find some inspiration out of this. Feel free to share it with someone who could use a pick me up
That's the way to do it - you can also use the tool interrogate:

https://github.com/carmaa/interrogate

/shameless plug
If you are able to extract concrete, detailed information about these things from their wiki, blog and forum, congratulations. I can't. It all sounds pretty vague to me.
Right, because what works for one person works for everyone?

It's great that you were able to do that, and it grew up doing this work myself in a time in which you didn't have a lot of options BUT to be self taught. But I know I certainly would have benefitted from a program like this 15-20 years ago, when I learned a lot of things the hard way and much more slowly.,

every candidate I talk to about this gets the same spiel: you don't have to pay to learn this material. It's available online for free. But learning in a guided way will get you over the speed bumps a lot faster.. moreover, the best value from these programs isn't even the education: it's the network. Connecting with peers, mentors, and instructors is a benefit that pays dividends throughout a career, and this is often something students are completely up equipped to achieve on their own.
your idea of "terrible" luck basically means "having to switch jobs several times and making less than $250,000 as a 30 year old".

Nah, that's not what it's about at all. It's definitely not about the salary. If you're a novelist and you make even a quarter of that number at mid-career, you're a huge success.

It's about autonomy, importance, reputation, etc. Personal financial stress (which I have suffered, although most of that was because I picked a bad startup, thus my fault) is toxic sludge, but the difference between comfortable and rich means zilch. What does matter is control over one's destiny, rather than being blown about by others' political games, and having the resources to implement one's own ideas rather than being a tool in someone else's box.

Software used to have an R&D flavor, but we've let ourselves become a colonized, defeated tribe. As a consequence, we have to deal with closed allocation, project management bullshit ("story points") and constant political intrusions on the ability to do our work properly.

I've realized (perhaps too late) that it's not my fault, because no one really has that authority based on technical ability alone. One really does have to suck it up and play politics. As I get older, I realize that my negative experiences are ridiculously common. Most people hide away in shame when bad things happen to them in their careers. I won't. To protect the good, I come out, throw down and fight.

I can understand why you're envious.

Envy != resentment. I'm not a very envious person, but I take pride in resenting those with undeserved success. They get into power, make bad decisions, and it's almost impossible to flush them out. They're a cancer. I'm the chemo.

Envy is wishing one had another's unfair or undeserved advantage. Resentment is pushing toward fairness. You're not trying to grab that coveted token or advantage for yourself (that would be envy) but you're trying to expose its stupidity and render it meaningless. Envy is an emotion; resentment is an attitude and somewhat of a social strategy.

My emotions toward the Evan Spiegels and Lucas Duplans of the world (I don't feel much either way for them, to be honest) are irrelevant. What is relevant is that they make good anecdotes, and when they embarrass themselves they can be cast in such a way that they take down other, much more important, targets. Does Lucas Duplan deserve to be ridiculed more (or less) than any other young douchebag? Not really. Should we mock him mercilessly if it casts aspersion on the chickenhawks who backed him? Yes, absolutely.
Remind me to never work for an institution like that.
Please post link for Stanford iOS course? Thanks! (I'll save the 12k I think..)
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Wow. Best of luck to both of your but I have to say a dev boot camp for iOS is the last thing I would ever consider spending 12k on even when I was just learning Objective-C.

Now blowing 12k on a trip overseas together after a 2 year long distance relationship... that's something that I could get behind.

That said, please please make sure the class sizes are very small and the instructor ratio is like 1:5 max. You will be paying a premium and if they put you in with 30 other people or even 15 (60k/month for them btw) you are just getting ripped off.

For 12k you could hire an experienced iOS dev to teach you this stuff in a couple hours a week. Even if Catherine paid 125/hr (and I bet someone would do it for less for the hell of it) that's still almost 100 hours of 1:1 time. Just food for thought. I'll donate anyway in hopes you take a nice vacation :)

PS. My friends website of as many tech schools as he could find says the rails program @ Flatiron has 32 people to a course - http://schools.techendo.co
honest question; where do you work?
This isn't a weapon, it's an easy-to-fly truck (whereas helicopters are notoriously difficult to fly). Armies need trucks, for humanitarian missions as well as conflicts. Some companies target the military as a first customer because if a product does what they need they'll buy at scale and you can recoup the development costs in a much shorter timeframe.
have faith in your GI system...it usually figures out what to absorb.
Obviously it's Mrs. Charlotte Faye Wylie Med's National Provider Identifier Number -- what did you think it was? Did you already forget??!
Instagram goes down Saturday morning, Twitter panics
The headline is a lie, but the other part - Goldman did not steal open source, because what is being given for free can not be stolen. (Moreover, if they didn't redistribute the code (which I assume they didn't, based on the article), they didn't break the OS licence either.)
Maybe Akamai should create a challenge just like Cloudflare did...
An idea to solve the CloudFlare Heartbleed challenge
Isn't it a felony to make false statements to a federal agent?
To me the lesson is:

1) Avoid GS like the Satan. Actually avoid the whole financial industry.
Deep learning these days
Dart + CI with a few lines of code
C# is fine for web development if you're in an enterprise, and in fact, it's preferable.

The last thing you want is developers using production web servers as test/dev/qa environments, and it's all too easy to push code changes out to a scripted environment like python or php.

With the requirement that a build cycle occur, it slows developers down so that they don't make the idiotic choices many will, and use production systems for anything other than production web serving.

That said, I don't use C# for anything other than freeswitch and mobile development, and it's perfectly fine for that.
hmm used to be 30 mins in a taxi to haethrow and the train journy takes 5 hours.

And the british airways cream tea was amazing as it should be for >£200
Drug trade is multi billion dollar industry.

Anti-drug trade is also multi billion dollar industry.

Seeing how different modes of business work is interesting. This guy raises an interesting point about selling heroin. He does it to earn a bit of extra money to buy drugs. But if he has enough money to buy spare heroin then he doesn't need to sell it because he has the thing he needs.

Also, HN readers enjoy thinking about puzzles and about incentives and disincentives. Stopping criminal gangs earning millions from drugs; reducin harm from drug use; avoiding criminalising drug users; saving money; - these are all interesting and complicatey entangled problems that would make the world a nicer place to live in.

A lot of crime was (still is?) driven by the need to earn money for drugs.
If the community puts up $12k for Catherine to attend this program (which, to echo other sentiments, seems really expensive for a three month iOS intensive given what's available out there for free, both content and community)...

If that happens, Catherine should -- after she's graduated and is making a nice income (which she will be, as an iOS developer) -- pass it along and give $12k back to help the community somehow. Give it to a program in NYC that's helping give underprivileged kids access to technology, for example.

That would seem fair to me. It does seem a little weird to beg for donations so someone who already seems pretty smart and well-connected can further their career a bit (in an expensive way -- see above) when there are so many ways $12k can be used to really change someone's life. Or many people's lives.
A couple of thoughts:

1) What is the educational value of a course at Flatiron School - is there any accreditation?
2) What are the other options: graduate program at good program (Stanford, UW Seattle, Berkeley, or if NYC, why not check out the NYU digital arts program or the new Cornell initiative that Bloomberg has been touting)? Internship or entry level job into Google or another organization that has good mentorship? Granted, these may be even harder to get into, since competition is w/ CS majors from stanford/mit...

Just my thoughts musing out loud, not actually in the CS field, but it's interesting to ask - what's a good steppingstone for a young person just out of college into a CS-related job?
I also got the Cloudflare private key with the same technique you describe, tried both incrementally increasing the payload size and choosing it at random (between 3 and 18427 bytes - anything higher than that triggered an alert). The incremental increase worked better: there was a range in the mid-hundreds that continually emitted one of the primes.

Other possible contributing factors: I was hammering the server with empty https requests hoping it would leave traces of calculation about, and was running a few dozen of the heartbeat keysearch in parallel. I don't know if either of these helped or not.

Who knows, maybe some anonymous benefactor carefully extracted the primes out of a more opaque data structure and uploaded them neatly back to the heap for us all to find!
> Starcom's position is very firm and clear (and horrible, and against the security of the internet). [...] I won't be using their service again.

Funny the author didn't see it that way when he started using their service.
crappy e-begging
The programmer types were different from the trader types. The trader types were far more alive to the bigger picture, to their context. They knew their worth in the marketplace down to the last penny. They understood the connection between what they did and how much money was made , and they were good at exaggerating the importance of the link. Serge wasn’t like that. He was a little-picture person, a narrow problem solver. “I think he didn’t know his own value,” says the recruiter.

This infuriates me to no end. These engineers need to be rounded up, and given a serious life lesson on the reality of markets. Knowing your product/service's worth is step 1 of any free market activity.

Engineering is the only profession where the most talented engineers occupy the lowest compensation brackets with respect to their worth. All sorts of bullshit excuses are made up for this (my favorite - they're "Specialists"), but the bottom line is they are not being compensated at anywhere near what they're worth.

This is why startups, and consulting firms, are so key. If the market you're trying to enter is too big for a small operation (like Wall St.), then just consult. Those 20 superstar programmers need to meet up and start a consulting firm. Then, they sell their services to these banks and charge them whatever they want (read: a lot).

They then use this compensation to hire the best engineers from across the world, and keep them out of Wall St's hands. This wouldn't be too difficult, because Wall St would never match salaries because they are traders, and would die before they paid an engineer more than themselves.

To all of HN: please don't underestimate your worth. It hurts everyone, including yourself.
What do you mean? Goldman Sachs would have owned the copyright, not the employee. (It gets a little more complicated for contractors.) And even if you distributed to a subsidiary, you can simply provide the code to the subsidiary, too. That's fully within the license terms of the GPL.
You could get a ballpark figure by looking at Crossrail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail

73 miles of track, 40 stations, 26 miles of tunnel under London. £16bn ($27bn-ish). So, for your project, I'd handwave at $1-5bn.
I have the same os+browser config, tried on Chrome and it works. Just click on 'Click for a new pattern'
Actually that was the other point (the one made in the article), which I wasn't missing but was simply not commenting on. The post above mine brought up a second point, which is the one I was questioning as the circumstances between Zappos and Amazon seem significantly different.
"it is in the national interest to responsibly disclose the vulnerability rather than to hold it for an investigative or intelligence purpose."

Like all of the exploits used in their "FOXACID" program?
Ignoring all the Oculus/FB stuff, what will be intriguing about this kind of thing is how the whole idea of editing to fit an existing narrative with time adapts to any sort of VR. For example, any ideas of transitions, or attempts to draw attention to one thing in a scene, use of zoom lenses and so on.

Anyone that's spent more than a few weeks in the wilderness in one go knows it has a profound effect on your ability to spot something out of place very quickly indeed. The curious thing here is if you could recreate such a situation with VR, or if the attention span of the audience will drag you back to a situation of having to highlight everything for people not accustomed to that sort of scene.
Well, if they pay you high 6 figures it's not so you can take the work that you made for them (which is not yours) and use it to set up a competing product and fuck them over.

It's really not that difficult to comprehend. And it's really not as bad as it sounds, if you want to work in your projects for fun, you do it in your own time. And you can still leave, it's just that if they catch you doing shit like this, it's not going to go down well.
I'd be nauseated if I found my picture plastered all over one of those flavor-of-the-month scrolly sites...
You must have strange ears.

"the people involved" -> pro government city council members and police administrators. Those are the people with the purse strings, and money is what ultimately makes something like this happen.

They will be looking at this as an opportunity to 'positively involve citizens' in security efforts, without paying any mind to the likelihood that they will get ~100% noise and ~0% actionable information.

edit: swapped in 'likelihood' for 'fact'
Words cannot express how grateful I am. This seems to be the very thing I looked for the long time and missed somehow! Seems not to cover really All the Mathematics I Missed however (nothing on algebra and number theory for example, which is admittedly my weak spot), but I'm already thrilled to start reading.
Mobile is still wide open.

Backend works for Mobile or Traditional web. Front end technologies for web dev do not as much. I suggest open source based backend dev.

.NET is incredibly corporate, and will want a degree most likely. Most of the .NET demand is NOT in startups, but giant corporate behemoths with lots of bureaucracy and crazy processess
Travesty it is.
So, this is insidious in one particular way:

It doesn't actually help do any sort of immediate surveillance (right now, anyways, thank god). But, it does mean that any gathering of people with phones out is potentially spying.

This specifically is excellent discouragement against perhaps the biggest threat the establishment faces today: peaceful gathering and protests.

This is (intentionally or not) targeted almost perfectly at Millenials and more tech-savvy folks, because those are the ones who'll recognize the threat most clearly.
Regardless of whether this works or not, it is becoming clear that the future will involve a lot of cameras practically everywhere.

Historically crimes were punished severely because it was hard to catch people and prove they did something so the expected value of committing a crime had to be lowered through strict punishments.

For example:
If $1,000 in cash was in an envelope sitting on a table in an outdoor cafe with no visible video cameras, it would very likely be stolen if someone walked by who A) needed the money, B) didn't have a strong moral compass.

He would calculate like this:
IS (Chance of not being caught X value gained by crime) more or less valuable than (Chance of being caught X Punishment).

The equation is balanced when it is just slightly less valuable to commit the crime. With the advent of cameras it appears that the % chance of being caught has gone way up, so I feel like we need to reduce the punishments to balance the equation.

Having longer punishments is not positive for society, it is expensive, doesn't help the person doing the time and doesn't help the victims. Reducing punishments as we can catch a higher number of crimes makes sense.

I hope that the discussion about crime and punishment shifts to reduce sentences to help balance that equation. I'm sure there are better ways of putting what I said, but hopefully people get the idea.
I am unsure of how you could read the comment in any other way. How would you restate the argumentative form in the comment?
We Massively Underinvest in Internet Security
I don't normally bring this up but in this case the site formatting is essentially unreadable for someone with poor eyesight who needs to expand the text and make the container narrow to avoid constant left/right scrolling.
Mostly Google does tell people to create good content, but there are still swarms of SEOers who will try to reverse-engineer Google's algorithms regardless of how much or little information Google releases.