thoreauway | 6 years ago | on: I turned my interview task for Google into a startup
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thoreauway | 8 years ago | on: Console Security – Nintendo Switch [video]
Mirror: https://vimeo.com/249107036
thoreauway | 8 years ago | on: An Early Engineer's Guide to Early Stock Option Exercise
The spreadsheet with formulas is more helpful than I would have imagined (remember to look at the assumed constants tab).
thoreauway | 9 years ago | on: New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary
When does this take effect?
thoreauway | 9 years ago | on: Impossible Foods says it is close to finishing a large-scale production facility
I've had the hamburger before in NY (~$9 w/ fries) and it's pretty delicious. Probably would have thought it was real beef if I hadn't already known. I'm extremely bullish on IF.
thoreauway | 9 years ago | on: Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow
ENHANCE. ENHANCE.
thoreauway | 9 years ago | on: Slack phoning home
Nothing to see here.
thoreauway | 9 years ago | on: OS X/Keydnap spreads via signed Transmission application
This is the 2nd time Transmission has been compromised this year.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589
thoreauway | 9 years ago | on: Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
Doesn't Google OWN Niantic? So now Google has access to our Google data? Don't see the issue.
thoreauway | 10 years ago | on: TSA can now force you to go through body scanners [pdf]
As someone who always opts out, this makes me sad.
thoreauway | 11 years ago | on: Elementary OS Freya Released
If you have a MBP Retina you're not using, maybe I can use it? :)
thoreauway | 11 years ago | on: White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm
Anyone have information on how to contact them/be a part of this group?
thoreauway | 11 years ago | on: What was your best passive income in 2014?
se at priest com
thoreauway | 11 years ago | on: What was your best passive income in 2014?
I'd consider purchasing it, do you have more information?
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Here's the exact challenge:
UberCab Coder Challenge
1) Write a program that determines the wait time, trip time, rating, and fare for a black car trip in San Francisco, given that the customer's pickup location and destination is randomly placed anywhere in San Francisco proper, and given that there are X number of cars all placed randomly across the city. Use GoogleMaps API for trip duration time. Run simulation 100 times for 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cars. Output average wait times and trip times for each # of cars the simulation was run on.
2) Take #1 and do the same pickup and trip time calculation given that there are Y customer requests per hour (extra credit if this is done with a Poisson distribution ;)). Take into account each car's availability (given that they may have been selected to carry a customer and are in transit on pickup or on actual trip, and thus unavailable). Run simulation given the number of cars in #1, but for each simulation in #1, run once for Y=1x, 2x, 5x, the number of requests per hour (X being the number of cars in the city, as defined in #1)
3) Take #2 and then make a GoogleMaps mashup that then shows the various trips that were taken for each simulation. Provide mashup interface showing all trips but also provide ability to only show trips for each driver.
4) Write a "Hello World" app on the iPhone that for a certain driver logging in shows all of his trips taken in the last simulation, the average rating that he got, and the total fares he collected during those trips.