Interestingly in my home state of Kerala situated in the south western coast of India. Tea is called Chaaya while tea leaves are called Theyila where ila means leaf. The heavy commercial production of tea was started in Kerala only after the British arrived.
Fellow Keralite here. I can relate to this. Chaaya in Kerala is tea made with tea leaves and milk. Black Tea is called "Kattan Chaaya", literally translates to "strong black tea".
It was actually one of the stated secondary goals, with an appeal involving such currency being used by terrorists. However
1. While a higher than usual fake currency was detected the total fake currency detected was roughly 1 in 100,000. So there wasn't a fake note problem in general circulation.
2. The new notes launched do NOT have any additional security features, and hence while there will be a latency in getting the fakes right, it will continue to be a problem(albeit a small one).
I have faced issues relating to requiring specific versions of JDK for each software. I don't work with Java so using a docker would have been a simpler solution, sadly this was before dockers became mainstream.
Disclaimer : Developer at HackerRank, however I do not know details about how Furlong was hired, so I can not go into that. Also this is not an official response, but a personal one.
So I think the source of misunderstanding is that we have multiple rankings on HackerRank. The leaderboard Mr. William Ross became #1 was in the practice leaderboard for the Java Domain[1], which is based on practice problems, and which is intended to get people upto speed with Java.
We make the distinction of Contest based leaderboard which are based on your performance in contests, and practice leaderboard, which is the one Mr. Ross got on to.
This is based on contests and the forums during contests are monitored for answers and solutions, and this is what would be considered really hard to get on to, and I know the #1 there, uwi is amazing.
Our regular domains available at our domains page[3] are meant as a learning tool, where you can rise up as you solve problems, and yes the solutions are all available in many places. However since this is a practice area we do not do many of the things done in contests like restrict forums, look if solution is available online, run plagiarism(code similarity) matches etc, and generally we encourage people helping out in forums, although yes we should keep a watch on direct solutions appearing in forums. This is not intended to be a competition.
While I do not know how Furlong was hired, I can tell you the common ways that people do get hired.
1. Companies conduct contest or sponsor HackerRank conducted contests.
2. Candidates apply via HackerRank jobs[4] which again has a HackerRank test that follows.
3. Candidates practice on HackerRank after which they may be approached by companies seeing their positions, but generally this involves a HackerRank test as the first round.
4. Common test for a LinkedIn placements (currently in India alone)
5. The regular HackerRank test companies send across.
Well in practice areas it would if you take it without cheating it will. We do not want to make practice areas competitive in nature. If you want to really get to know your ability or challenge yourselves then I suggest the contests[1]
Indian EVMs are not as secure as ballot boxes. It is dead simple to "inspect" a ballot box once received for any backdoor that might be there, but not the same for Indian EVMs, in fact there is an attack where the attacker can change a single IC, and make the machine remotely editable, or "distribute" votes, and that can be turned on and off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkSkb6Ak3I
How would you "inspect" a ballot box from which real votes have been discarded and which has been stuffed with fake votes? Once you have sufficient access to open a voting machine (electronic or otherwise) and change components, all bets are off.
I was talking about inspection once it reaches the election agency. After that, till counting both are same, however the fact that they can be tampered with during manufacturing is what bothers me. Essentially the ballot boxes only require one trustable entity the election agency, the EVM requires two trustable entities the EVM manufacturer and the election agency.
The next generation of EVMs apparently come with an additional printer unit (VVPAT) that doubles up as a ballot box. The voter can verify that what got printed was the vote he/she cast, and the papers collected in the printer unit's "ballot box" can be manually counted and used to cross-verify an EVM's result.
If malicious actor swaps the IC, new one won't have the secret material that original had contained (and which IC will only disclosed upon receiving court-signed audit order, permanently burning a fuse at the same time). And if they try to tamper with the IC, they'll need to spend significant amount of time with it.
This isn't even remotely perfect, but can be used as one of the measures. Throw in some more redundant systems with different approaches, ensure their integrity at the end and you'll have some proof that the results are authentic enough to a certain extent (measured in amount of efforts needed to perform a successful attack).
That's security through obscurity. You want any citizen to be able to audit the security of the device, if you have to trust the government or some institution then what's the point?
After voting, each voter would receive a receipt -- a record of his choices that would be encrypted, or put into code, and could be deciphered only by a collaboration of all the election trustees. After polls closed, all receipts would be posted on the Internet. Each voter could use his serial number to find the image of his receipt, and make sure it matched the one he carried.
Not foolproof but still better than what we have now.
Come to think of it, in India I have almost never really "thanked" many among my family, but have done it for almost everybody else, and often I have found a compliment works in places where a thanks might seem too formal. Saying "I had an amazing time at your place and will miss the food" carries the sense of gratitude without the sense of formality in India.
Snapdeal happens to be looking for people with 10+ years of experience in Big Data/Cloud , while in India 10 years ago, even product companies were hard to find, and I am not sure cloud focussed and big-data companies existed anywhere other than places like SV. In such a case it seems only reasonable that they are finding it hard to find the programmers they need in India.
Another reason is in the Indian sub continent many books (assuming you don't purchase illegally) the "Indian Sub-continent" edition physical copy is cheaper since Kindle books are almost always on the global price (though often cheaper than global print editions). This is especially true for many technical books.
