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Once candidates have submitted a complete application, we typically let them know within one week whether we would like to meet in person. Most likely, there are at most two rounds of interviews, the first of which will include some basic coding questions.
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> university because you ain't gonna find that environment

It's also hard to make absurd amounts of cash having fun during university too (well, at least it's like that in the US).
I would love to get a hold of the playlist that they mention.
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Yeah, birken is right, that $400 million is to a fund they are helping to manage. The fund money is not theirs and is not a direct factor in AL's valuation.
Most companies I've worked with in the past year or so have made the decision that SNI support is good enough and have switched.
This makes the app flat out not work for me. I just get blank panes top and bottom.

https://s11.postimg.org/by249fhsz/IMG_1459.png
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Of all the comments I think this sums everything up the most effectively.
seconding the request for links or proof of this.
I accept it because I don't really care if Uber knows where I am for a couple of minutes after they drop me off. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you don't like it there's nothing stopping you from uninstalling the app.
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This is wonderful! I can't comprehend the need to mine for diamonds any longer. Such a dangerous, dirty, damaging practice. It is sad to see that the industry is trying to paint these as inferior.

I would love to see some sort of tariff or sanction placed on mined diamonds to make them restrictively expensive. There is simply no need for them any longer.
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Yeah, but why does Uber need/care about that information? If I ask to be dropped off at X and walk a couple blocks to Y, Uber shouldn't care. I can understand the argument that maybe going to certain buildings you have to be dropped off at a specific spot, but that seems like a minor gain for something that's more than just a minor intrusion.
I am very irritated with this update, it is so unnecessary and iOS is complaining about the location access as well.

I dont see any possible use of tracking the location after the ride except tracking the users location and create a surge pricing out of it.
I did something similar (not for laptops) but Amazon rejected my affiliate application because there was not enough "original content" on the site.
GPU shaders are, by design, arbitrary GPU code execution. You don't have to do anything special or create an attack per-se. Shaders can't lead to execution of CPU code on their own, they are blackboxed and only have access to (limited) GPU memory.

I can imagine the potential for a combined CPU-GPU exploit, but it's not likely to hinge on a shader. I wouldn't say absolutely "impossible" but if I was looking for GPU exploits, I'd poke at the compiler and API first.
>Uber

Some teams do
Note well that he also warned against a "scientific-technological elite".

Something that hasn't been given as much attention.
On iOS at least - the (current versipon of the) Lytf app specifically asks " … to access you location while you use the app." Uber _used_ to have a "while using the app" location option, but the recent update took this away so you choice is either "Never" give it location info, or "Always".
So by this definition, an interpreter is a compiler plus a virtual machine, bundled together?
I believe they follow the same reporting process regardless of vendor, Google included. Here's one that Google fixed in Chrome about 15 days before the 90 day public release threshold: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=16...

(You'll note the explicit discussion in there about the deadline:

"Chromium issues should be treated the same as any others. So there's a 90-day deadline (which was not exceeded in this case), ...

Same disclosure warning to the Chrome team was in this bug:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=51...

And project zero explicitly warned the Android team about the 90 day disclosure policy in the one bug report I checked:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=182510

Edited to add:

Here's one where they disclosed prior to Android fixing the bug:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=86...

with the note "deadline exceeded". Unfortunately, the link to the Android bug is still protected, so we can't learn why AOSP hasn't fixed it yet.
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They don't need the information.

They care because they are data driven and not personally culpable for their invasions of privacy. Why not collect everything you can without getting more permissions?
Yea, mild is good :)
There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:

- Cache invalidation

- Naming things

- Off by 1 errors
I meant to say, mild
It always requires a partial interview loop (the "conversion" interviews) now; they changed it in the last year or two.
If you kill an app on the iOS, it stays dead until you launch it again, iirc.
Too many heroin profits and so few countries left to colonize.
+1

typescript is to js as c++ is to c. Not a perfect abstraction and still with some problems, but realistically as good as were going to get any time soon.

It's even implemented the same way, a massive preprocessor built to take away most of the pain from something so ubiquitous that it's unfixable.
Well, I actually didn't mean it that way. While I don't like Nazis either and think that Varg is a pseudo-intellectual tool, I just find Burzum to be musically boring.

I do actually welcome controversial lyrics and imagery in metal. I see it as sort of a canary in the coal mine for freedom of speech. With lyrics that are racist, misogynistic, militant, or even pedophilic, it's hard to tell how these bands straddle the line as far as actually advocating the ideas in their lyrics vs. wanting to evoke negative emotions and shine a light on the ugliness of humanity. The band Cynic summed up my view of extreme metal nicely with one of their demos titled "Reflections of a Dying World", and so in that sense I think even the most heinous lyrics have their place in metal, because anything else would be ignoring who we really are collectively as humans. I also find it a bit odd that the metal scene gets particularly worked up about racism, whereas murder, rape, torture, etc. are more-or-less par for the course in extreme metal nowadays.
almost every other good tech company interviews using the same types of questions
Central Minnesota -- cheap house rentals (very few apartments at all) and Fiber optic internet in my city. I've got the low speed plan and I get 5ms ping and 20 up/20 down for speeds.
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The issue then becomes Uber is doing it so all the other ride hailing apps start doing it.

This is how the Overton Window shifts, and how our right to privacy is rapidly eroded.
Varg got out of jail, moved to France, changed his name, got married, makes weird videos.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThuleanPerspective/videos
Yeah, I definitely understand why VCs would be pushing them to expand fast. I mean, that's basically the name of the game for VCs; pick a startup, pump them full of cash, push them to scale as fast as possible, and hope they turn into a unicorn.

What's in the best interests of the VC isn't always in the best interests of the company, however, and in this case I think the VC influence was toxic. If they'd stayed small and kept sustainable (remember, their original kickstarter alone pretty much had them funded) then they would still be around.
Waze doesn't allow "while using the app" either making it unusable unless you give it unfettered access to your location at all times.
I had to restore my iPhone from a week old backup in order to get the previous Uber version back. It's a shame there's no easier way to downgrade an app on iOS.
it stays dead until the system decides to reload it. It may decide to do this for various reasons such a entering a geofence, significant location update, or push notification. But turning off background app refresh should prevent all of these things from turning on your app I think.

Also low power mode can also be used as a sort of incognito mode because it stops all background activity to preserve battery.
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> While their explanation is reasonable

Their explanation is illogical:

> Previously, Uber only collected data from the user if the rider had the application open. Now, if a rider calls for an Uber and closes the app, Uber says it will continue to collect location data up until five minutes after the ride ends. That means Uber can see where you end up after you leave the car.

That's the change; the reasoning for this change?

> Uber hopes to eliminate the most frustrating part of the experience: the game of phone tag that both the rider and driver play when trying to coordinate the pickup spot.

That, of course, doesn't occur in the five minutes after I get out of the car. They of course mention more generically,

> "We do this to improve pickups, drop-offs, customer service, and to enhance safety," Uber says on its website.

But that's not really enlightening … and not a convincing reason for having it persist beyond the app being open.
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Only 30% cheaper?

I once heard a dollar a caret from one of the startups a decade ago...
A Googler posted on their blog that they were looking, so I emailed him and he referred me. At the time I had dropped out of an EE+CS degree, had four years of suit-wearing professional experience writing enterprise webapps in PHP and ColdFusion, was halfway through a part-time Masters Degree in Design, and had a bunch of small JavaScript/C++/Art side projects. They hired me as a SWE, am now in UX.

I won't pretend that I wasn't very lucky in timing, interviewers, etc, but you won't get anywhere if you don't roll the dice.
It's about self driving cars. So they know where to drive you to; to actually get somewhere.
Lyft, sadly, doesn't seem to have the talent it needs to pull this off. Although they're still worth something, it just doesn't seem like Lyft will be able to eke it out unless something really game-changing happens to Uber.

I've been a longtime Lyft user because of the stories that surfaced a few years ago about Uber considering blackmailing reporters and politicians with their ride data, but the last time I had to use the app, Lyft for some reason just wasn't working - their auth service seemed to be broken. I ended up downloading Uber and signing up because I had to get somewhere in a hurry and didn't have the time to look up another rideshare service. Their text notifications about driver arrivals are also always off, on the order of up to a minute or two (I don't know if Uber is better, but I would assume it is.)

FWIW, I'd also sunk something like $300 into Lyft rides just two weeks before that for business travel, and I didn't experience a problem once.
Aren't pearls cultured for decades now? They are still sought for, nothing is more beautiful in a woman's neck than a pearl collar.
See also Bob Sturm's work on genre classification: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10844-013-0250-y
Or maybe it’s just for the sake of fun! There are some eccentric people out there, but I don’t think the point of having upside-down work areas is to cater to eccentricities.
I think a rootkit and a mitmproxy with very low software quality would make it hard to ship any secure software. Now multiply that by however many antivirus suites exist. Would you type your credit card number into something running on that platform?
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I think its pretty relevant if someone is looking for uber help that they could use the location to help narrow down who should be dealing with the issue...
Of course you'll keep your firewall. NAT != Firewall

Your firewall may start with a simple "deny all incoming SYN packets" rule, but IPv6 gives you the option to open up holes in the firewall to any device or devices on your LAN (port forwarding only works once per port through a NAT).

The real benefits probably don't exist yet. There are entire categories of network software that have remained unknown and unexplored because it didn't work behind a NAT. There were several projects I wanted to write ~15 years ago that I never even started because it required a real internet connection, not a NAT "party line".
Yes, I read OVH does this. Though I don't understand, for what reasons are they doing it?
Why would I ever want to make my light green?

And how does a red light on my desk stop noise?
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When it comes to fashion and tech, if you see a charger, they blew it.
From personal experience, there are such things as bad trips.

I recently had one of my friends -- a relatively experienced psychedelic user -- dive out of a window because he thought the world was going to end. Among other things this resulted in my friend barely escaping death by hemorrhage (I called emergency services, he was hospitalized), an uncomfortable police encounter, quite a few articles of clothing lost due to being soaked in blood, and some unsavory legal consequences for my friend. Not to mention a rather scarring mental experience for myself.

Set was good, setting was good, substance was known good. I had absolutely no reason to suspect anything going wrong. But it did go wrong.

Even if you know what you are doing and are experienced, it is always possible for bad things to happen. Getting cocky and saying there are no such things as bad trips is an invitation for trouble.
Because assholes who care about things that aren't really their business are difficult to deal with.
> "What's in the best interests of the VC isn't always in the best interests of the company"

Don't get me wrong, I definitely agree with you there, just pointing out the reality of the situation!
How can one distinguish between these two descriptions of a drug's effect:
1. it brings psychological insights resulting in lasting peace
2. it permanently disables part of the brain responsible for fear and anxiety reactions

Obviously one sounds good and one sounds bad, but I wonder what study you could perform to accept hypothesis 1 but reject hypothesis 2.
Bah, Philistines. Don't you people ever google unrecognized terms?
> It's funny how tastes in music work. No 2 people are ever the same.

Yep, attach an obligatory "IMO" to every statement that I write in this thread. I definitely agree that there's no objective truth as far as enjoying music. I listen to so much death metal that would sound like noise to most people and that contains eye-rolling levels of goofiness too (e.g. frog-like guttural vocals that I endure only because I like the instrumental parts so much).
You can install Greenify to do exactly this. It helped me kill some pernicious apps that I needed once in a while but that would run all the time, killing my battery (I'm looking at you, Mi Fit).

The only annoying and inexplicable thing is that some apps run their own background process for push notifications, rather than using GCM, so pushes stop coming in if you kill those.
> Some medical professionals held the studies at arm’s length. Dr. William Breitbart, chairman of the psychiatry department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, questioned this use of cancer patients. “Medical marijuana got its foot in the door by making the appeal that ‘cancer patients are suffering, they’re near death, so for compassionate purposes, let’s make it available,’ ” he said. “And then you’re able to extend this drug to other purposes.”

I don't like this guy. And he's the chairman of the Psychiatry department at a major hospital.
I was just in the 5:30pm re:Invent session at The Venetian.

The service works via the SDK's in various languages, that report tracing information to a local daemon that runs on the host, over UDP.

The daemon then batches the data, applies sampling (Which is configurable, all the way to 100% - report everything), and sends it en-masse to AWS.

Edit: See Sampling Rules section here - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-sdk-nod...
It's a very reasonable reason. It sounds like something that would be reasonable to expand the APIs on the OS to allow and enforce.
I thought that Cyanogen had something like what you are describing. Can anyone confirm?
I left the office at 5:40pm tonite, about majority of my team had already left.

Most Googlers I encounter are extremely humble. I'd say one of the most valuable things about Googley culture is the lack of prima donna alpha-male macho-engineer behavior. Because Google has so many highly skilled engineers, and because it frowns in general on being an egotistical jerk, it's hard for even huge egos not to adopt some humility.

How can I think I'm the bees knees, when I work at a company that employs Rob Pike and Jeff Dean?

I've worked at IBM, Oracle, and several mid-sized companies over my 20 years as an engineer, and while many of those companies had high quality engineers, I'd say the biggest benefit of Google is the Company culture it created, not the skill levels of the people.
Interestingly, I was about to make a related (?) comment, that I think it's important to think hard about the effect it has on some people that they are "provided for fully" by the government.

The people that I've met who have gotten addicted to drugs, and even committed suicide, were actually those on the dole.

Not sure why.

If the government lets people stay at home and "engage in addictive behavior" (which we humans tend to do) sometimes they degenerate to harder and harder stuff, and even suicide. They're not happy. Are we doing this people a service?
If a union eventually grows out of this, fine. If a lobbyist or voting block emerges, that's fine too.

But in the short term, I suggest the focus be on preserving the industry from the large number of threats it now faces via cooperation from all roles in the industry. Once a habit of cooperation emerges, further future cooperation among members would be very likely.
Any you trust them (as a company) that they'll "only track you for 5 minutes after using the app", and you trust each of their staff members will have controlled/secured/audited access to only the 5 minutes location data after a trip, and you trust them to never deploy a production bug in their tracking code, and you trust every law enforcement or business partner request for that data including gag-order-backed-NSLs.

And that's OK - if you're good with that. Now go and ask some women you know whether they have all that trust? Or minorities. Or activists. If you were a Muslim or Mexican in the US right now - do you suppose you'd be happy leaving an Uber app with "Always" location tracking permission on your phone past Jan 20th? If you had a close friend legally and peacefully protesting the pipeline in North Dakota right now and you knew they used Uber - would you be checking that they know this?

I reject the position that because _you_ don't really care, that it's OK to "accept" this. Even though _you_ don't care, tell Uber you do not accept this because of what it means for your sister or friends or coworkers or neighbours or your allegedly "freedom loving" society...
The sugar in chocolate is dissolved, right? So there aren't any granules in the final product. They already mix air into most cheap chocolate-like candy products.
Worse than something like this happening is seeing former Solaris engineers rushing to gloat on what would be the mass riffing of their former colleagues (and the remanining Solaris "elders" who helped them become who they are today).
>" It may decide to do this for various reasons such a entering a geofence..."

Can you elaborate on this? Whats the connection with relaunching and a geofence?
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Data driven and being a giant Hoover isn't the same thing. One is about making decisions rationally. The other is about acquisition for acquisition sake.

Personally, over never seen any evidence that Uber actually knows what it's doing except making a shit-ton of money. Even the self-drivIng car strikes me more as a sideffext of having a bunch of money they needed to spend and it won the rock-paper-scissors contest against rockets.

Doubly so for the "ME TOO!" Doordash / Postmates competitor.
This mindset is exactly what is destroying democracy around the world.
I agree with your approach! I built a non-Turing-complete Forth-like interpreter in Go a few years ago with words similar to the set you've defined above:

https://lawlessguy.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/an-rpn-interpret...
>I don't like this guy.

Why?
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