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What if tomorrow some fools at Google think it is okay to play April fools prank with their automated cars? or their robots? and the car/robot goes berserk due to that?

This type of foolish pranks should backfire more strikingly. If they cannot treat their main (or at least one of the very important) business seriously, then they may face some very unpleasant things later.
I think this is the actual April Fools' prank: the story about the failed prank.
Nobody sane will approve a product feature such as this.
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Base65536 https://github.com/ferno/base65536 (only slightly /s)
>I live in Calgary and have seen many peers move to Vancouver for better job prospects.

Where do they live? Even a crack house in Vancouver costs $1M. Vancouver has probably some of the most expensive real estate in the entire world now.
That post doesn't really offer any solutions.

It would be interesting to find out how CF came to the 94% figure but a lot of the other claims made are not countered and presumably valid.

I doubt CF's (paying) customers are particularly saddened by Tor users being inconvenienced.
From his wikipedia page it does seem like it

>In the early 1990s Wayne sold the original Apple company agreement, signed in 1976 by Jobs, Wozniak and himself, for $500. In 2011 the contract was sold at auction for $1.6 million.
It is worth noting that like C++, Scala use in production tends to come with guidelines in terms of what subset of the language people should use.
The problem is people are using it as a signal for measuring someone's worth.

There are so many other signals -- learning new programming languages, fixing broken tests, creating awesome new features, cleaning up crufty API libraries, and so forth -- but GitHub isn't showing them on profile pages.

Clearly there is a desire for such signals as people are either 1) using it to elevate one's perceived stature 2) using it to measure other people's perceived stature.

Personally I think this is an opportunity for GitHub to obviate such a signal, one that accurately measures someone's quality of work.
Yup. https://www.dropbox.com/s/28xcoithtls9wo5/Screenshot%202016-...
(I thought it was kind of funny, FWIW, particularly when it hit a mailing list. :)
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Yeah, 94% seems very high, and although I guess it could be possible, I can't imagine it is quite that high. Cloudflare is zeroed-in on Tor users, but am I crazy for thinking that there are several other ways bad actors could create issues not using Tor?

It seems like they are trying to come up with an amicable solution, but for the moment, legitimate Tor and VPN service users suffer. If Cloudflare really refuses to acknowledge that their view may be a tad skewed, I don't see how this is readily or easily remedied.
I'm not that smart. In smart enough to know where smart really is and what that future economy means. But I'm not smart enough to add value to it.

And the crux of it is that unless you add value to the system - there is no reason the economy should support you.

From the PoV of the system, I and many others are dead weight, and people who bring the economy efficiency gains , develop new growth paths, remove old pain paths - those people add value.

In short- there's no way such an economy will ever exist. Because such an economy will serve itself and its needs first. It will build reserves for lean times, to preserve itself.

If you don't contribute, why should/would it help you?
> Chris Stanford, a digital editor in London, creates the system architecture so The Times can run a blog.

Huh?
I assume the actual claim is that 94% of fraudulent traffic comes via tor. Which is quite a different claim.

There's a pretty obvious calculus. If you approach the question as 94% of the fraudulent traffic comes from the x% of total traffic that comes via tor... deciding to block tor exit nodes seems rational (particularly if x% is particularly small... say <1%).
It wasn't there, at least not by default. We use google for Work gmail and no one in the company saw the button.
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(As someone who can't write concisely (without inserting a lot of (unnecessary) context)) I would love (to use) an automated version ((of this) so I can just write with full context (and let people choose the level of details they want (to read))).

I would love an automated version.
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>the site only accepts payment via PayPal >and/or credit cards, and paying with those in >itself gives up a good amount of privacy.

i think both methods have proven not to be private at all.
I have predicted this for a long time (not just me, but a lot of people).

The demand for human labor is going down on average, so wages are going down - and have been on a decline since the 70s. Capitalism relies on employers to value their employees for the money to trickle down and the system to work. Our grandfathers used to work for the same employer for decades and got a pension. Today, that loyalty is unheard of from either side. We have the rise of temps and the contractor economy and unemployed living with parents.

Yes, the cost of mass produced consumer goods is going down. So the wage repression is mitigated. With the explosion of consumer credit in the 80s and 90s, the unsustainability of consumer spending was also masked. Now it has come to the fore, in exactly the areas where costs are not going down: rent and real estate. In every major city including NYC and SF, the costs of rent are sky high relative to wages. Wonder why? Look at the rest of the country and it's true too -- the rents are slightly lower but the wages are lower too.

So the predictions are borne out... automation has reduced demand for human labor, reduced wages for the average worker (or they got laid off / became temps), reduced the prices of mass produced goods, but the cost of real estate keeps rising.
Google understands users better than you think. They mine millions of interactions to see what people are doing so understand what is liked and not liked. This prank was not a data driven so back fired.
I feel that week-based streaks could be a good compromise here.

You still have the ability to quickly gauge how active someone is on GH, while allowing people who care about such things to keep a streak running without sacrificing weekend time.
I think you are shifting WAY too much of the blame to the investors.
Great. Freedom of speech in fucking quotes. National security is nuanced. You've got to be kidding me. America has disappointed me.
GPUs are useful for deep learning and a few other easily parallelizable algos, but the majority of open source ML software is still stuck in the CPU.
After creating a developer account and logging in I still do not have access to the subscriber knowledge base.
>the site only accepts payment via PayPal >and/or credit cards, and paying with those in >itself gives up a good amount of privacy.

I think both methods areactually not private and have proven not te be private at all
Reminds me of a stack canarys, stuff you put on the feet off a stack and check with the scheduler.

Also to all those ready to do a checksum on a struct, rememember that structs are plattform dependant (padding bytes).
>>Perl gets proper OOP

Curious what about Perl 5 OOP makes it not proper. Is is just the required constructor boilerplate, like bless()? Or is it the lack of enforced private methods?

Neither seems like a showstopper to me...honestly curious.
> I don't know what the solution is here.

Should the ToR network be doing some amount of self policing? (Can it?)

I know this might be against some of its principles, but it seems that ToR is there to create privacy, not to be used for criminal activity. And yes, criminal activity differs based on jurisdiction, but I think fraud is generally something everyone agrees should not be allowed.
Do you want highly-productive knowledge workers in your country to boost its tech economy or not?

If not, then fine, we'll find another country that wants to greatly improve their tech sector. You don't want anything like the economic juggernaut that is Silicon Valley in your country? That's your choice, but seems pretty shortsighted to me. Most countries actually want to import people who grow their economy a lot and contribute a ton in taxes without draining their social-welfare systems.
But to be fair, in Cloudflare's case they aren't "banning" access, they are putting it behind a captcha.

Still far from ideal, but it's not banning.
I was focusing on the number of doors in pointing out how the parent's post didn't make sense. Thanks for the clarification, I don't know the exact vehicle classes obviously.
That is brutal.

I guess this kind of thing is why we no longer have flight simulators in our spreadsheets and so forth.
I feel like Tor is burying their head in the sand here.

I think Tor is great, but I don't find it at all surprising or unlikely that 94% of traffic (not users) is malicious (spam, vulnerability scanning, scraping, etc) because it's likely that malicious traffic is automated while legitimate traffic is not.

That said, I'd also like to hear more about CloudFlare's methodology.
Email clients can change their interface or fuck with your mail in other ways. They may not do it on a "one day only" basis, but they can certainly introduce other problems.
Why does this site, and Github, and StackOverflow, among others, all feature a points/reputation system? After all, they're all meaningless; you can't go cash them in somewhere. And yet it still affects user behavior.
It sounds like he's talking about encrypted mail from people he doesn't know.

I can't speak for others, but the proportion of email I get from strangers that ranks high on a content-quality scale is approximately zero. Encryption status, encoding and MIME types don't seem to have much to do with it.
The scope of the game has gotten very big with how much money they've raised, which means it's taking longer to develop that originally planned. Some people aren't thrilled with that.

As far as the Derek Smart guy that somebody linked, he's a nutter who likes the attention from his doomsday predictions of Star Citizen falling apart (it's the only reason anyone's every heard of him). Most famous for claiming last October [1] that Cloud Imperium Games would run out of money and collapse within 90 days.

Obviously it's been longer than that and development is still moving along. Alpha doesn't have a huge amount to do in the universe yet, but it's very playable. For example: the most recently flyable ship (Khartu-al) [2], and the much larger Starfarer [3] which is mostly done on the art side but not yet flying.

They've said Squadron 42 (single player campaign) will be out this year, with the multiplayer universe following sometime after.

[1] https://archive.is/Ofyjz

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNfsSUfxp0c

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxDIGQb2kOY
I think this theory is too simple. For example, I find both well-written Perl and Haskell to be beautiful.

It's a bit like saying some people only like minimalist writers and some people only like maximalist writers. But a discerning reader is interested in quality over the style. That is, they recognize that there is good maximalism and good minimalism, and appreciate both.
Okay, that's a fair point. I do think you bring up something important: we're all aware that a perfectly green graph means that it's either been gamed, or that the person spends an inordinate amount of time coding, but someone new to the field would have no idea.
> Among its shortcomings are its inability to incorporate feedback other than its own into its pull requests and its slightly worrisome trend to revert many pull requests made by humans and favor those it has made.

checks date

sigh

Sounds like another "clever" April Fools gag to me.
That seems like a reason to pass on them, to be honest.
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What am I looking for? Screenshot?
It's because the problem isn't growing food, it's distributing it efficiently.
This reminds me of Chile's attempt to distribute and automate their economy (back in 1970) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
I do not think eradicating the concept of national sovereignty is the best solution to the problem. That would certainly decrease the happiness of a lot of people :-)
This article lost me at traffic jams and full parking lots.

Most people - if they need or want a car, will buy a car. There is an incredibly huge used car market - some people, won't even buy new cars; they only buy used cars for resale value reasons. My first car when I was 16, was a beat up '86 Buick Regal - I got it for $500. It was a real POS, but it was still a machine that got me from a to b with 4 wheels, using the most common type of fuel.

So while the Model 3 may make it cheaper for people to own an electric car, I don't see how this relates directly to more congested roads. $35,000 is still in the ball park of entry level Mercedes, BMW, Acura, Lexus, etc... And not everyone drives a BMW 3 series.

Tesla will for sure help improve plugin infrastructure and the Gigafactory will churn out more batteries, which one could only assume, they also sell those batteries to 3rd parties (at least, in the beginning to help generate more money for R&D). But even this part can't be compared to Apple. Other then iCloud, Apple didn't build new infrastructure. Unless other auto companies adopt Telsa's power adaptors for their plugins, this point is moot as well.

Apple DID convince ATT and the rest that followed to sell phones with no pre-existing software or branding - breaking 1 of many links that tied phones to their carriers so you could say Tesla and their show rooms will help change the buying experience, but this article doesn't even touch on that.

Unless the government bans combustion engines, I think there will always be an appeal to them. I'm considering a Model S for my next lease and 1 (of many) points that make me think I might still go with a "traditional" car is nothing compares to the sound of a nice, performance engine and exhaust. The thrill of shifting, hearing a turbo spool up or discharge - you can't get that in an electric vehicle. And some of us, actually enjoy driving for the thrill of driving; not to just get from point a to b.
The "weekend" people mean here is a period of time when you do not do work at all
If the ID requirements are tight enough, I could see people stealing identities to buy phones.
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As a reddit users, might this give us standing to make a class action suit to see the letter?
Oh no, think of all the COBOL programs that will have to be updated by next year!
> I assume the actual claim is that 94% of fraudulent traffic comes via tor. Which is quite a different claim.

The claim is thus:

> Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious. That doesn’t mean they are visiting controversial content, but instead that they are automated requests designed to harm our customers.

Meaning that for any given request coming from Tor, the odds are heavily in favor of it being malicious.
I love, love, love the Golf. I'm not the kind of person who always needs a new car -- my other car I've had for 10 years, a Z3 M Coupe. But despite not having owned a ton of other cars, I've driven quite a few (and especially the ST/WRX/STI/etc), and the R is head and shoulders above the rest. The number one thing is it oozes quality -- just such a nice car, it would feel premium even if it wore a BMW badge; it's not just "nice for a VW".
Performance is great, torque everywhere, handles great, great grip. Love it.
Ya just replace the word "Smart" with "Autism Spectrum" and you've got a lead on your issues...
I haven't heard of anything like what is mentioned in this article from my friends/classmates in China. Usually news like this will show up in my WeChat groups in no time.

I am NOT trying to prove or disprove the credibility of the article.
That's an interesting point.

Cloudflare is doing something somewhat similar. If you are deemed "possibly a bad person" then you are asked to solve a captcha. If you want to give up some of your anonymity, you can keep the cookie they give you as a token to "prove" you are a good person.

If you don't want that though, there is nothing cloudflare can do to know you aren't a bad person.

It's much less than "heavy regulation", but i can easily see how it could be both a pain and a security issue for some.

This is a shitty problem for all involved with no good solutions...
But those Docker images are not reproducible. They don't build everything from source from a trusted, well-known set of bootstrap binaries, nor will they produce bit-identical binaries. Docker does absolutely nothing to aid in the task of reproducible builds. See https://reproducible-builds.org for more information about initiatives that are helping.

Using something like GNU Guix instead of Docker, one could make good progress towards a reproducible Android tool chain that produces bit-identical APKs. Reproducibility is an ongoing problem, but Guix has been carefully designed to maximize reproducibility and to help identify what isn't reproducible.
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Erm, can't edit thanks to noprocrast -- "As Reddit users" would be more correct.
As I mentioned in another comment, I've had interviewers grill me about gaps in my contribution history before.

I sometimes will link to a pedagogical Python package that I maintain to show how I work with Python/Cython, and also that I know the ropes with packaging, complex travis-ci scripts, and workflow management on GitHub.

I expect them to ask about that project, or the handful of other open source contributions I've made, but would never expect them to go hunt down my contribution history and nitpick.

In one case it was a non-technical HR interviewer who thought it was clever to grill me about why I hadn't made a commit to a certain repo in several months. It was the repo where I store configuration files, like .emacs, and I just didn't have any config updates in that time period. However politely I tried to say that's just not the sort of repo that would reflect regular engineering, she did not seem willing to drop it, and went on about how they want to hire "passionate" developers who code "because it's in their DNA."

O_o

I really wish GitHub would allow users to disable the contribution tracking if they wish. I don't like the idea that an interviewer, or a boss, can go digging around and maybe even try to use it against me (e.g. you said you couldn't come in to work this weekend, but I see that you were able to commit something on an open source project...)

Even if that risk is low, why should we have zero ability to choose not to bear it?

The saddest part is that when this has happened in interviews, it's been with two major US tech companies that are popular and widely regarded as places that many people want to work. So it's not as easy as dismissing a recruiter who snoops through your GitHub contributions. The company they represent may be widely known to be excellent.
I am not aware of any places that ID for purchasing prepaid cards, let alone prepaid burner phones.

One of the way scammers get "cash" is to buy Amex gift cards with stolen credit cards. Then use those Amex gift cards to buy more amex gift cards until they feel confident the trail is murky enough. Or they use a combination of store gift cards to buy Amex/Visa gift cards.
The only correspondence you had with the CloudFlare CEO in that thread was:

> eastdakota: I work for CloudFlare. We don't get anything from Google for using reCAPTCHA.

I think you might have gotten a username confused.
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Wow... I was absolutely sure that this backfire story WAS the April Fools' joke. It just seemed so farfetched. The animated gif I could understand, but actually blocking all future replies? That's where I figured that nobody would ever actually implement something so stupid and dangerous.
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