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>>They pass fizzbuzz, OK - what do you do next?

Algorithm tests only measure the number of man hours the candidates spend on career cup daily. Or how good they are rote memorizing things.

There are many ways to check how good a candidate is at doing their actual work. For instance you can take a candidate to a code review and see what kind of inputs they contribute to the discussion. This alone will give you good deal of idea on how well they understand code and quality. There are other ways, like say asking them to write unit test cases for a class- That would give a lot of idea on how they think with regards to breaking and fixing things.

One more way I have after doing basic checks is pair programming, or picking a totally new problem and working with the candidate to see how they think, how they work and how good their communication skills are.

There are many other ways too. Recently I've been given coding assignments for very practical applications, though those turn out to be a little difficult and time consuming. And at times the expectations are very high. Like asking the candidate to complete a whole application in very short times. It can be hectic with your current job, and a family. But generally those are a good indication of how good the candidate will do at their actual work.
And that business model explains why Apple shares have a price-to-earnings ratio of 16 while Google has a P/E of 30. It's very tough to keep designing great products decade after decade - just ask Sony. It will be much easier for Google to keep collecting more personal information than anyone else, decade after decade.
It's hard to disagree, fiction is made-up stuff having only so much in common with actual reality. And sure there's good and not-so-good fiction and the movies show it. When he brought up the possibility of a great story not based on idiotic behavior I too immediately thought of Apollo 13, truly spellbinding in its entirety.

Then again, if idiocy sells, it's natural that producers will make idiotic plots a priority, though if only limited to movies, there wouldn't be much to write about. The bigger thing it points to is the way really important discourse has increasingly become infested with the very same attribute.

After all, in recent years TV news has become more or less devoid of authentic news reports. Calling TV news "sensationalistic" is hard new, not only failing to qualify as factual, but even if intended as entertainment, it's lousy fiction every bit as idiotic as a B-movie. People do watch it though, and that what counts.

To the extent idiot plots are the standard in national and local politics, it's far more damaging than the movies, but perhaps the point is the same roots underlie a whole gamut of idiotic forms. But where are the rest of us who are not idiots? What trouble do we go to express our non-idiotic ideas where it does some good? (I suspect posting here is more or less like preaching to the choir.)

Ultimately fiction is so much less compelling than real life. I love a good story well told, but it pales next to the meaning of actual experience, provided one is tuned in to experience as it is. The article hints at something not quite said. We humans so often accept fiction and discard reality, we don't or even refuse to see what we are seeing. Maybe that's the definition of real-time "idiot plots" playing out all around us.

Easy enough with movies to know fiction when we hear it, the trick is to hear our own inner voice, and make that distinction within.
The API is pretty comprehensive, and is growing daily. With the exception of some legacy features, all of the web app's UI is built on top of it, as are the mobile apps.

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/index.html
It feels somewhat sad to see them take away the physical keyboard. I find myself regularly using the keyboard on my current Kindle to annotate books as I read them. Even if it is more efficient to have an on-screen keyboard, physical keyboards symbolically imply that one could potentially be an active critic and participant rather than only a passive consumer of media. For the same reason I have always preferred computer to console video games, and I have never completely warmed up to the iPad even though I own one. Then again, my physical paper books always seemed to become filled with sticky notes and (erasable, penciled-in) annotations, too.
PDFs are really meant for printing (on standard size paper); a better solution would surely be for more journals to publish in ebook format.
"Describe your home network" is an interview question now? Jeez, guess I shouldn't leave my job, I'll never get another one.

I am going to go ahead and challenge the assumption that your willingness and eagerness to learn on the job is not really correlated with how you spend your time outside your working hours.
If someone asked me what Yahoo's core offering today was, I couldn't answer it. If you asked me that 10 years ago, I would immediately say search.
hate crime laws don't apply to every attack upon someone of a different color. they only apply if the attack is BECAUSE of the victim's color. if you're attacking the other guy because he goosed your sister, it's not a hate crime no matter what color he is.
A backdoor is a mechanism for someone to be given access to an internal system, or internal data. In the case of data being "pushed", it most certainly could be done so, and the same statement would remain true.

If your comment was true, you would also assume data handed directly to authorities in criminal cases where subpoena's are issued would also be ruled out, but we know that information is handed out to authorities as required by law under subpoena.
His claim is the opposite of that.

Smoking one cigarette does not make you unhealthy.
Smoking one cigarette does make you slightly less healthy.

Think of it as death by a thousand cuts. Lopping off the tip of my finger won't likely kill me, though it does hurt. Keep lopping though, and eventually I am less and less healthy, until at some point, I am dead.
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Well, like GP said, it depends what is meant by "backdoor." Laws requiring data to be turned over to governmental parties, and in some cases gagging anyone from saying it happened, seems like exactly the function of "backdoor" even if it doesn't take the form of a master password the NSA has or something.

So long as a company can be compelled to do this in secrecy, their assurances about "no backdoor", "no direct access", "we process every request ourselves" are basically meaningless, since not even they have control over their customers' privacy (if they comply with law.)
I've been using it on my iPad 3, which is functionally slower than the iPad 2, and it's fine.

The biggest annoyance is the password screen animation doesn't really work at all, and I'm sure other animations aren't as fast as they could be but the login is the only place I notice it. The iPad 2 has more GPU/pixel so I wouldn't expect it to be worse.

Apps work fine, Safari is better than ever.
I'm in roughly the same boat as you, with my household having owned so many Kindles that the names are something like "8th Kindle." I go with special offers as well because I usually run with the antenna off for long periods anyway, so the device eventually switches to a default simple background.

I completely agree that the removal of the hard-buttons for page turning was the biggest deficiency with the touch-screen models. I'm so happy to see hard-buttons return. The Voyage looks a bit pricey compared to the last few I've bought, but I'm willing to pick one up.

Here's something I've wanted for a while, though: a small bluetooth page-advance button for bedroom reading. Maybe some day.

I often wish Amazon would focus on the Kindle e-readers since their tablets and phones seem a distraction.
That's interesting. I bought a Kindle for my dad, who is an avid reader (1 or 2 books a week), about 3 or 4 years ago. Last time I had checked he had moved to the Kindle app on an iPad (and not the mini) as his main reading device. He told me he doesn't use his Kindle at all any more.
That exists, its called a co-op. I couldn't graduate without doing x months of co-op.
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That lab was the most fun I've ever had with a homework assignment (too bad my own school didn't offer it...). I got it off the CMU website as well.

A couple of years ago I did a (mostly) full walkthrough of the Binary Bomb, and it still gets a lot of hits during the semester. If anyone is curious: http://www.vedranb.com/post/19338235616/phase-1
I read that to mean that other languages can solve both real and "non-real" problems, those where one can try ones tools for the inherent joy of using them, but that Go probably doesn't inspire one to do the latter and focuses solely on the real problems.
I think he is explicitly saying that. They're not in the business of using your personal data, they're in another business.
People really want to make something out of this, but it's very simple: the NSA found the "goto fail" bug and exploited it. (We know they also exploited heartbleed.)

We know they have active programs looking for holes in open source code and fuzzing commercial services looking for vulnerabilities. How is that so hard to believe?
I realize that the reminder might cause unwanted emotion so soon after a breakup, but as long as it's easy to permanently dismiss the reminder, I would guess that the informativeness of the reminders when they were applicable far outweighed the brief heartache. But then again, I generally prefer to be given a stream of relevant information forthrightly and unfiltered, whether from humans or machines. I'll take the convenience even if it comes with the occasional unpleasantness.

But just wait. Someone will be really freaked out when one Thursday Google fails to show him the traffic to the girlfriend's house, then when he gets there, she breaks up with him.
Looks like a great upgrade to the Kindle Paperwhite, in particular the return of physical page turn buttons. But my biggest wish--native epub support--still isn't there :(
Similar concept to a fashion related tagging platform my friends worked on last year - http://ascotproject.com/. Last I checked it hadn't really gone anywhere.
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Wow, this makes a lot of sense.
In what ways is this different to the way I was taught through school and university (that for a+-b * c+-d, the answer was (ab)+-sqrt( (b/a)^2) + (d/c)^2 )?

I can see that ((a-b) (c-d)+(a+b) * (c+d))/2 is different to a*b, and that makes sense when you think about it, but the second part is confusing me a bit.

Also, I'm a bit confused by your suggestion to break it down into cases, do you mean if an uncertainty is negative? Because at the moment I'm making all uncertainties positive, but if there are cases where negative ones are correct, I need to fix that up.
Another Kindle release that I can't have. All these cool products that aren't available where I live.

Seriously though, does anyone know whats stopping Amazon from making their offerings available in more countries?
Yeah, just like Lavabit and Yahoo, oh wait...
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Windows RT tablets didn't do well because they were too slow and too expensive. They were basically pitched as full computers, but the chips were too slow for that. The Surface Pro was only a bit more expensive, and offered much better performance. But performance of ARM is rapidly improving, to the point where it will soon be sufficient.

And Chromebooks have always been available in x86. It's easier for notebook manufacturers to convert low-end windows notebooks to Chrome OS than to design ARM-based systems from the ground up. From what I understand, ARM Chromebooks have sold pretty well.
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Did you not RTFA? The file system keys are stored in the SoC secure storage area and there are no facilities for retrieving them, meaning you must perform the decryption attempts with the phone's own SoC.

Of course an iCloud backup file is another matter... At least they are turning on two factor auth for that, but it's a difficult problem if someone has your password and the keys are on a phone that you no longer have.
Discussion thread for the actual Apple policy is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8333595
They probably have stupid regional licensing agreements with publishers. I guess that without the books to release for the Kindle, Amazon doesn't think releasing the Kindles to be worth it in these countries. I don't know, that's just my guess.
Yes, it's more general. The schemes that just do functional encryption are more efficient because they don't need to do everything else FHE needs to.
"“How can you tell what type of cellphone an inmate uses,” he asked, “based on what’s in his cell?” He let me think for about two seconds before cheerily giving me the answer: you examine the bar of soap on the prisoner’s sink. The safest place for an inmate to store anything is in his rectum, and to keep the orifice supple and sized for the (contraband) phone, inmates have been known to whittle their bars of soap and tuck them away as a placeholder while their phones are in use. So a short and stubby bar means a durable old dumbphone; broad and flat means a BlackBerry or an iPhone. Pity the poor guy whose bar of soap is the size and shape of a Samsung Galaxy Note."

This stinks of the standard urban legend trope structure, and with that in mind, I don't think it's true. There's absolutely not reason to keep an ass pocket supple and sized for contraband. And it's absolutely not true that you need a place holder for the contraband, when the contraband in not being hidden there.

Lastly, regularly putting a bar of soap in one's anus would be incredibly uncomfortable, and inmates would quickly stop that process, replacing it - if it was really needed in the first place - with something plastic and chemically inert.

http://drbenkim.com/dont-use-soap-private-parts.htm

How do I know? I live in the Bay Area. Healthy sexuality is discussed over wine by people of all sexual persuasions.
A little increase in size would be nice too. I want to be able to read real books and papers with schematics, illustrations, tables, graphs, equations etc.
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Actually within US law and case law, even the horrible Patriot act, that is not true. The government cannot require you to design your photo service (for example) to allow eavesdropping. They almost made that a law back in the 90s but enough tech companies freaked that it got shitcanned.

Similarly, you cannot be ordered to lie and say the NSA has not been given access to your servers, you can only be ordered not to discuss it if it has happened.
Homebrew has pretty much solved that problem for me, and iTerm 2 is pretty spiffy.

I'm not super hardcore about shells or whatever though so I probably don't get exposed to many of those issues.

I do get the feeling that Apple is trying to take the approach of the Ubuntu LTS series and be fairly conservative on what they're including in the OS.
I've heard a rumor that it's a directive straight from Jeff Bezos because he wants reporters to have to actually write their own articles rather than copying and pasting.

No idea how accurate that is...
The issue is not covariance. And, if you were trying to use my example, you got the numbers and the operation wrong.

There's lots ways to measure uncertainty, but based on this quote "What this means is that the actual length of the pencil could be anywhere between 15.1+0.05cm (15.15cm) and 15.1-0.05cm (15.05cm)." from your page, I infer you're doing interval arithmetic. However, the calculator isn't calculating any measurement of uncertainty correctly. (The mathematics behind multiplying and dividing normally-distributed variables is nuanced and not close to as easy as the addition and subtraction cases.)

I recommend at least reading the Wikipedia article on interval arithmetic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
That's definitely an exception in my experience. Most long form readers that I know are e-ink all the way.
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To me it seems that these statements are needlessly specific. They remain technically truthful if:
- The back door was created by a third party. Apple didn't create it.
- Apple created a backdoor without working with a government agency.
- Apple provides a "frontdoor". Some sort of bulk access to the data that is not considered a "backdoor."
- many variations on the same theme.

Same thing with allowing access to their servers. They may provide access to some other part of their infrastructure. The government agency may provide their own servers that are a mirror of Apple's in a way that does not require direct access to Apple's servers. And so on...

Tim Cook should have said something like "We do not provide bulk data to any third party."
Can you turn off the frontlight on the Voyager?

[It was a slight annoyance of the PW that you could never entirely turn off the light, just turn the brightness way down.]

Or, even better, is there a physical button to turn off the light (as on [some models of] the Kobo)...?
How do you propose to solve the problem of a user's house burning down with their phone, laptop, and iPad? Tell them sorry, your iCloud backups are encrypted and now all the keys are gone?

So encrypt the iCloud backup with a password you say... Except you need a password to get in to iCloud already so how is that any different?

And for the record, Apple stores password hashes, so they don't have your password. Unless you think they are just lying repeatedly for no good reason.

When was the last time you verified the chip layouts for your CPUS to ensure there were no back doors? Didn't think so.
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> You raise a good point: the post is just one anecdote. Yet, if you read the post, you have to admit it was thought-provoking. How to explain this contradiction?

No, it wasn't. I personally don't like sandals. I'd happily give you lots of reasonable-sounding explanations for why I don't, but it's just the preferences of a single guy in the end. Nobody would spend more than a half-second considering whether my personal choice is relevant to the futures of the footware industry.

Yet suddenly because it's the internet and teens, we think the subjective personal experiences of a couple teens is more important than actual data. It's ludicrous, and not at all thought-provoking (except in the sense that humanity's continued inability to think statistically is provoking).
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Do you know if they did anything to mitigate replay attacks? If not, you could potentially capture someone's first call-hope and replay it until they fail.

Presumably no one would want to, but people still like messing with one another for fun. Also, if you discover a vulnerability like that, you could plausibly claim that someone exploited it to bomb your grade, particularly if you used it against a bunch of people.
Diet. Artificial sweetener concerns aren't much different from "cell phones cause cancer" fears. Meta-analyses of decades of aspartame research shows it is safe.

Sugar, in liquid form, on the other hand - not so much.

Eg. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12180494/
See I'm totally the opposite. I don't ever annotate books and losing the keyboard just meant more screen space for me. But if I did use it a lot it would be really obnoxious, their on-screen keyboard is pretty laggy and bad.
Kindle Voyage looks like almost perfect reader.

I have been Kindle user since they had Kindle 3. I love K3 but I wish it had backlight. I bought Kindle Touch but gave it away, cuz touch screen was clumsy to use for page turning. There were so many times where I tapped a link accidentally while turning a page. However, I liked touch for quickly tapping word to look it up in dictionary.

This Kindle Voyage with dedicate page turn buttons, backlight, and touch screen might just be perfect..

If only it had "Text to Speech." I guess not many people like to hear books in monotone. But I use it to listen to old classics, blogs, or other fiction while walking on treadmill, driving, or when I just too tired.
Old school virii that could burn your display card comes to my mind. Working with root is always a threat. A livecd is consience but still does not make it fully secure.

I told I am being picky. Most of my concerns may be handled but their are not shown to be.
I've taken a whiteboard test that asked me to come up with an algorithm that was difficult for me. I got the job even though my solution was horribly inefficient (and I knew it), and the interviewer later told me that the point wasn't to see what algorithm I knew - it was to see if I acted like an ass when I didn't know stuff.
Apple does not store your credit card data. They generate some sort of tokenised account information with your card issuer when you first add your credit card. They do not store the tokenised account information, it is only ever stored within the secure area of the SoC on the device.

From that point, Apple is completely out of the payment equation. The tokenised data is used to generate a once-off payment authorisation with your bank when you pay for a product using Apple Pay.

But I agree with the point of your post: if Apple thought collecting data would result in a significantly better product, they would probably do it.
Yahoo is a holding company focused on large, category-leading sites in Asian markets. They also own a struggling portal in the US.
It depends on your definition of gimped. As this is Amazon's "Android Light", you're stuck in their app store with no Play Store, Google Maps, Chrome, Firefox, etc. If you want to consume Amazon-purchased media and play a few games, it's great.
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Maybe I'm just really cynical, but now I'm imagining scenarios like mirroring their disks to copies someone like the NSA is allowed full access to. Would that be "access" to their "servers"? Maybe they don't include Apple's own private keys, so at least the NSA can't impersonate them, just read every byte of data they have?

Then again, it's sort of moot because they can probably be legally forced to provide full "access to [their] servers". Some comments here are pointing out they have the choice whether to obey the law, so is Cook actually saying they will disobey it?
No backlight on that version, which is a dealbreaker for me. After the Paperwhite I realized how nice it is.
No, it's not. Murder is ~12% of all state incarcerations (state prisons being where the majority of all US inmates are housed). For context, all drug offenses put together make up just 17% of 2011 state incarcerations. If you include manslaughter, which you should, because (a) it's a form of homicide and (b) many murder prosecutions plead down to it, you get to just about 14%.

Homicide is a significant component of all US crime. There's no way to look at the numbers and characterize them as "very small".

If you released everyone currently imprisoned for drug crimes, you'd set free about 250,000 people, which is great, but you'd be leaving 1.1 million people incarcerated. Drugs aren't the big problem. Something else is.

(Prostitution, a "public order" offense, is a rounding error --- women represent 5% of all public order offenses, meaning that the category captures not just prostitution but is a whole myriad of offenses mostly committed by men. Very few women are actually imprisoned for prostitution; Texas is newsworthy for having around 300 of them, against a 5-figure female prison population).