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That's what I was thinking as well.
Thanks for including the salary!
I can't seem to find any intern positions on your careers page. Am I missing something?
TIL that either I am dumb, or all of my supposed friends are phonies.
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Do you use Tor?
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Thanks for this comment! I thought this thread was dead.

I was searching for online simulators that let me tweak the rules of the game, but I could only find those that follow the original rules of the puzzle.

In thinking more about the Ignorant Monty scenario, I realized it's equivalent to having 3 contestants pick doors:

Me
Montgomery
Switchy McSwitcherson

First I pick a door. Then Montgomery picks a door. Finally Switchy McSwitcherson gets the remaining door. Once all the picking is done, Montgomery opens his door first, and is saddened to see a goat. At this point, who is more likely to win? Me or Switchy McSwitcherson? Since we both had 1/3 initial odds, there's symmetry there, and one of us can't reap all the odds-boosting.

But the classic puzzle is more like a 2-contestant game, where I pick a door, the host selects a goat to reveal (and reveals it), then Switchy McSwitcherson is assigned the remaining door. In that scenario, I'm mad that they made me pick first before the host eliminated a door for Switchy. Switchy enjoys all the odds boosting.
It has a daily schedule: I set mine to charge after 11pm when rates are low. I haven't seen a weekly schedule.
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As usual* the result sounds awfully unstructured and unenjoyable and could be aswell be achieved by some random walk through a musical scale, since if you put some basic music theory in program form, you can get these small harmonic structures pretty easily.
(*since projects like this seem to pop up every couple of months)

Like other people already mentioned, the part that usually gets neglected is the overarching dramatic structure of a musical piece. Compare a complete shakespeare piece to a pile of randomly thrown together half-sentences.

I don't fully understand the fascination of music generation with some ai-neural-learning buzzword bingo technique that always gets kickstarted by dumb-force-analysing a human made music corpus to achieve it.

What in a musical sense is much more interesting is to generate _new_ music that cannot be composed by a human, and cannot be played by a human. That's playing to the strength of the machines. Sonification of large datasets, sonification of function behaviour. Sonification of the binary world, that's so different to ours. This is much more interesting than the 10th failed emulation of a simple folk song.

Nevertheless, as a students piece about programming neural networks, it's certainly ok, the presentation is nice, but the result is uninspiring, like building a car tire out of bananas, just because it's possible. Just let the folk songs belong to the actual folk.

As a side note: what would happen if the result were millions of super nice catchy folk tunes on a button press? Would it be the end of pop music as we know it? Maybe i redact my opinion.
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As an aside, in HTML, CSS classes have had the ability to be unicode for a long time.

See an example here: http://9ol.es/unicode-demo.html ... view the source
That is my single biggest complaint about G+, that they would have compromised search for the biggest boondoggle google has ever created.

I would definitely say that implementing that was 100% when I saw that google was done making good decisions and on the path towards making their core product worse.
That's a pretty good article, but if anyone is looking for a less ideological take here is another: http://www.askamanager.org/2012/09/do-what-you-love-is-not-g...
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Maybe coalesce neighboring bad IPs and subnets into larger bad subnets.
Really depends on the bank, some of them have a decent 2fa system for 3d secure.
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My coffee table book "The Physics Book", by Clifford A. Pickover, dates practical applications of the clothoid curve back to at least 1901, when an engineer by the name of Edwin C. Prescott received a patent for their use in rollercoaster designs (after discovering the acceleration problems associated with circular loops some 1~2 years prior).
"It's like selling alcohol (cigarettes, porn, gambling), but not to minors."

It's not like that at all, because selling to everyone other than minors requires identity. Sure, you just need to verify the subject is over 18, i.e. you don't need to know name, birth date or address. But you DO need to know identity to issue the token that provisions the token that proves an age > 18.

And that breaks Tor's raison d'être.
I don't know the specifics, but it may not have been officially incorporated yet.
Google understands users the same way an AI will understand what a sunset is, and why people like to look at them. It'll be able to tell you it's yellow orange, happens at 6:10pm eastern time, from your GPS coordnates will be appear x cm wide, has a brightness value of y, etc. It'll understand the uniqueness of the color range.

But the AI won't really understand why people watch a sunset.
As the company has become a generic conglomerate, its sense of humor has been lost.
> Everybody should know that working on free software in general is not healthy. :) There is no way that the fame, name recognition in the community, gratefulness received, CV padding or whatever makes up for your hours of free work. The time investment wont pay off.

How about personal satisfaction? That's definitely worth a lot. Not to mention that I got my first job from free software contributions alone. That's also worth something and did pay off (of course that's not why I contributed to free software).
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Yeah, okay, that sounds pretty conclusive. When I replied, I hadn't yet seen a non-jokey-sounding report of a real person saying they'd experienced it. That sucks – both because the apparent negative impact on real people's lives and because I was really hoping it was an elaborate prank on the media.
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This makes me wonder what the process is for these "jokes". Has anyone here been involved in an April Fools day joke that was as visible as this or on as important a product as Gmail? Where does the idea originate? How many people are involved in its approval? How much time and attention is paid to it? I think the answers to these type of questions would be pretty interesting.

We need an April Fools day postmortem.
They are being defensive.

> Tor exit nodes were far more likely to contain malicious requests

They also were far more likely to issue requests in general. This data point has no meaning. But that's statistics for you :)
Google does this with Linode servers. I route my HTTP traffic through a proxy on a Linode server. Google blocks me all the time for no reason other than that some other IPs in my range are doing bad things. I've tried to contact Google about this but they could care less about a handful of users.
"Free time" is when you do it, sure. The point is that you are not a machine and probably should not be working on code every single day.
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> I'm not following the connection between a large percentage of Tor requests being malicious and the fact that Tor users have almost the same conversion rate.

The point is that blocking or de facto blocking an IP address which is shared by many different users just because one is malicious is costing CloudFlare's customers money.
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>if you only get to read the EULA after paying

Not relevant to Microsoft, or any consumer-facing company with a website really.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/useterms
Quoting from our post (https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/):

At CloudFlare we've not explicitly treated traffic from Tor any differently, however users of the Tor browser have been more likely to have their browsing experience interrupted by CAPTCHAs or other restrictions. This is because, like all IP addresses that connect to our network, we check the requests that they make and assign a threat score to the IP. Unfortunately, since such a high percentage of requests that are coming from the Tor network are malicious, the IPs of the Tor exit nodes often have a very high threat score.

With most browsers, we can use the reputation of the browser from other requests it’s made across our network to override the bad reputation of the IP address connecting to our network. For instance, if you visit a coffee shop that is only used by hackers, the IP of the coffee shop's WiFi may have a bad reputation. But, if we've seen your browser behave elsewhere on the Internet acting like a regular web surfer and not a hacker, then we can use your browser’s good reputation to override the bad reputation of the hacker coffee shop's IP.

The design of the Tor browser intentionally makes building a reputation for an individual browser very difficult. And that's a good thing. The promise of Tor is anonymity. Tracking a browser's behavior across requests would sacrifice that anonymity. So, while we could probably do things using super cookies or other techniques to try to get around Tor's anonymity protections, we think that would be creepy and choose not to because we believe that anonymity online is important. Unfortunately, that then means all we can rely on when a request connects to our network is the reputation of the IP and the contents of the request itself.
You're right that there's a natural alignment of incentives between pilots and their passengers, but as wnevets points out above there are other critical participants in the system that aren't travelling in the plane.

Your "binary nature of problems" comment is wrong though. First common misconception: statistically the most probable outcome for someone involved in an airplane crash is survival, not death [0]. Second misconception: investigations routinely happen for incidents not resulting in crashes. In fact the whole point of promoting self-reporting of incidents by pilots is so that such investigations can be conducted for incidents that would otherwise never be known.

[0] https://app.ntsb.gov/doclib/safetystudies/SR0101.pdf
> Is it uncommon to do some free software work in your spare time?

No. But life for many people consists of more things than just software development.
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What if tomorrow some engineers at Google think it is okay to do a normal update to their automated cars? or their robots? and the car/robot goes berserk due to that?
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* facepalm *

No room for nuance, huh? Or appreciation for the position CloudFlare is in and their obligation to their clients?

How would you solve this? Abuse from Tor IPs is a known and documented problem. If you have a solution, I'll bet CloudFlare has a job opening.
> This whole thing makes me realize I should just switch to Microsoft's apps/ecosystem and retain my Gmail address. There's no reason to put up with Google's terrible product decisions anymore.

Why specifically mention Microsoft? Seems like you could have concluded you 'should' switch away from Google's ecosystem without coupling it to your desire to switch to Microsoft.
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This is pretty clever, thanks to the author for releasing it.

Personally, I might rather just add the script tag to my site's layout rather than introduce another gem dependency. But maybe if you have lots of sites to maintain, this could be preferred?
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It uses a servo(angle) function to turn to a specified angle and a state machine to string together turns and thrusts.
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Hi,

I'm completely sympathetic to your problem - Tor is used by lots of spammers - totally understandable to try to prevent this spam from hitting your customers.

But most of the services I run can't really be affected by this sort of spam (no public comment systems for example). I use CloudFlare on a few of my domains, if I don't care about bot traffic and just want to turn this CAPTCHA system off entirely, is there a way with just a pro account to do so? I appreciate the anti-DDoS protection and certainly having it automatically kick these CAPTCHAs on with only extremely high volumes of traffic could be appropriate, but enforcing them is just too much.

I have security level set to minimum, but recently spun up a hidden service because users were still getting CAPTCHA'd over Tor.
Complain is exactly what they should do. People should care about privacy even when it's other people's privacy.
I dunno, I see an AWFULLY lot of new pickups and SUVs on the road, and most of them are in that ballpark new if not way, way above.
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