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Yes - I am 95%+ confident that we will not have a generalized robotic cleaning system capable of doing what your average human hotel room cleaner can do today. I've been closely watching advances in robotics for 10+ years, as well as AGI advances. Neither of them have demonstrated any trends which would suggest that hotel room cleaning is even remotely possible in 10, or even 15 years.

In comparison, the predictions that I would have made about computing systems in 1995 about 2015, would have been almost bang on, with the exception that online teaching never really took off the way I thought it might, and libraries are still buying lots and lots of books.
That's what I was thinking, too. Given that each frame is about 42ms, that's not a trivial oversight. Much easier would be to use stenography to slightly manipulate the color of sets of pixels in the video. Far more information available to mess with, and extremely easy to hide (do it in various corners of various frames, keep the secret carefully guarded, or only let parts of the "secret" out to different groups, so that no one person knows all of the manipulation information, except, perhaps a head of security coordinating the entire thing)
SSL doesn't require relying on any third-parties, any more than NaCl does - you can use a pinned self-signed certificate, and you don't need any CDNs.

CA issued certs are only used in websites, because you don't have a secure channel with which to transmit the pinned cert, but they're redundant for apps.
If it's 30fps, each frame is about 33ms. One or two is sufficient. Most films are 24fps, or 23.99 for some weird NTSC->film->NTSC reason.
The telcos and the government are trying to spin this as affordable Internet for the poor. Essentially, it does break net neutrality [0].

> At first glance it may appear that all traffic is handled equally in this charging model, but the fact is that once you have used your quota, the traffic that is exempted will be allowed to continue, while all other traffic will be throttled or blocked. This is clearly a case of discrimination between different types of traffic.

Now, if this is so altruistic and for benefit of all - I would make three "requests" from the telecoms.

1. Telcos should not prevent ANY app/website or any other service from being registered on the zero rating platform.

2. Telcos should post every detail of their financial deal with zero rating partners public. Essentially, I would like to know if a zero rating partner is paying for this affordability or are these costs passed on to the consumer in secret.

I am sure since this is for the good of everyone, telcos would have no problem agreeing to these two reasonable requests.

[0] http://eng.nkom.no/topical-issues/news/net-neutrality-and-ch...
I start my day just as if I were going to work. Get up with the alarm, do morning chores, take a shower, dress decently (but not office-nice), sit down and start working.

My first task: send email to someone, preferably a team.

There might be a little web surfing first, but I did that in the office, too.

My work doesn't require set hours. I do it this way simply for the discipline.
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Does this mean it will be even harder to DDoS sites protected by Cloudflare now?
I'd wager $10 this was done by an intern who can barely use email correctly.
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I've worked remotely in an apartment with my two kids (5yo and 3yo), and is not easy: sometimes I ended up working during late hours because then I had quiet time.
On the other hand, I find it priceless I can take a quick break and play for a couple of minutes with my kids.
What helped me is to use earphones, isolating the noise and signaling that I'm working and not to be interrupted.
this exactly. I expect they are paying below average wages, have huge churn of people looking for anything to do while the perfect job arises. Throw in some people new to the area who need a job now, some old contractors who have money and are looking for pocket money and more stability (who's CVs are amazing, they have the gift of the gab but get bored really really quickly and just don't care about the job) and that is a the instant recipe for churn and crap code.
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What percentage of the web traffic flows through CloudFlare now?
I've been working from home for the last three years and I can say that I'm far happier and more productive on a day to day basis. I worked in offices for about 10 years and just never felt comfortable in the cube life.

I think one of the biggest improvements is that when I need to take a break, my breaks feel productive. 20 minutes of cleaning the house, as an example, feels completely mind-clearing and, in some cases, actually helps me solve an issue I may have. I really enjoy my daily runs or bike rides, which help me feel like I'm more than just a developer, that I get to take advantage of the day.

That being said, I believe the biggest drawback is the monotony of the at-home routine. Some days and some weeks just feel like one large workday, and sometimes I can go for a day or two without saying a word to anyone other than my wife, or my cats. That's the greatest challenge for me. Working in a busy coffee shop probably appears like it would help the improve the feelings of isolation, but it oddly does the opposite. I see the same folks coming and going, day after day, and rarely do I get in conversations. And I'm actually quite social.

I don't think I'd go back to an office if given the choice, but I'm still working on the best way to feel less alone. I've been road bike racing on a team for the last few years and I believe having that constant outside-of-work social activity has helped quite a bit. For me, the cats are also huge! Plus, I just love cats. But there's certainly room for improvement and that's something I think about often.

I should note that I was hired to work remotely. My whole team is remote and spread out around the country.
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I can very easily believe that pesticides exist which are completely neutral to humans. I eat chocolate and garlic perfectly fine, but my pets certainly wouldn't enjoy them. Worst-case they're like acetaminophen and require liver pathways that humans evolved recently so they're inefficient but unique. The big issue with pesticides is that the manufacturers are messing with the science that would let us figure out how safe they are.

As for the flippancy, I see it as a reasonable response to the fearmongering about modern agricultural methods. Anti-GMO and Anti-Chemistry beliefs are harmful enough that I'm not going to try to keep my arguments kosher. I'm just going to try to convince the believers in whatever way I can. Arguments to emotion seem to work for them, so I figure that they'll work on them just as well.
No, they do fit into sprints, quite nicely. Time boxing gives you a deadline and accountability. Using research and development as an example, you go off, spend months researching a new search algorithm, only to come back to hear the customer tell your approach was wrong in restrospect. The sprint mechanism catches that sooner, preferably at the end of a single sprint, then months down the line. It's fail early fail often. Splitting a story into an epic forces the realization the feature is complex, and in many cases, seeing those numbers there quickly turns the feature from a must have into a "nice to have."

A key point to agile is that you are presenting the output of your work to the customers at regular defined intervals so the customers can decided if what you're doing it worthwhile. The daily sprints are a mechanism to detect when something is wrong.

Fail early, fail often is a fundamental component of agile.
A useful tool to fight against the modern distraction epidemic: http://focusr.co
I have worked 100% remote for the past 3 years and am way more productive at work and at home.

It takes discipline though to ignore issues at home and keep delivering.

Another key is to find an organization that is `Results Driven` vs politics `I see you in your chair` driven and that everyone there embraces a remote work culture.
This is a basic challenge to our attempts to get off fossil fuels. The only way for alternative energy sources to be viable is if they are cheaper than fossil fuel. But since fossil fuel supply outstrips demand, and prices have been set since the 1970s by cartel rather than market forces, there's always been the potential for the cartel to simply drop prices through the floor if they felt it would advance their interests.

That time is here.

But as Ghandi said, first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. They've gone from laughing at alternative energy to fighting it.
10% of households bought a new car, and that means that the average lifespan of a car with its FIRST owner must be on average 10 years. Cars might last 20-30 years in the UK as the previous poster pointed out, and longer in the rest of Europe which is already "rich" relative to India. I think you're proving his point exactly.
What do you mean by "support winxp"? Websites are pretty OS agnostic. Do you mean they aren't compatible with IE6? Can't really test it currently, but I can't imagine these sites would work in the latest Firefox on Win8, but not on the latest Firefox on XP.
There are audio watermarks on these leaked videos, and potentially other video watermarks that might not be visible at first sight.

The watermark which has been blurred is a just a visual warning to the original receiver of the file to remind them that they have a special copy, it's not meant to act as a form of identification.
It's just an example, but zoom should scale both the element coordinates and the mouse coordinates. This sort of validation can be made a lot more elaborate.
"double web content transfer times"

That should be speeds.
So is it reasonably easy for one to step out of the walled garden? I've considered buying one (Kobo) but I've read comments saying it constantly wants to connect to wifi (after a factory reset which sometimes is required because of buggy firmware) and transfering files without using the desktop software is nearly impossible.

I just want to read PDFs, text files, possibly HTML with some light CSS. I'd like sync to take at most 30 seconds of work. Would you recommend one? Any alternatives?
Because the House of Saud (ie the royal family) are relatively secular people whose main interest is in maintaining power in a country of extremists. They are willing to fund their own radicals to keep from having a revolution. But at the same time they are scared that those same radicals will some day decide the royal family is too corrupt to lead a pure Islamic state.

ISIS represents exactly the kind of movement that they are afraid would lead to this result.
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Stop using Baidu for one.
> ...doing it wrong...

Back when I was a wee lad, with nary a keyboard callus upon my digits, I learned about a little thing called Murphy's Law. In brief, it says that if anything can be done incorrectly, someone will eventually do it that way. It was a warning to those designing things, to make doing the wrong thing impossible, or at least much more difficult to do accidentally.

As a result, among those taught about Murphy's Law, "doing it wrong" was a design flaw. If, for instance, you could destroy radio reception in a handheld device by holding it in a particular way--a way that did not cause pain or discomfort in an ordinary human hand--it was the fault of the device manufacturer, not the user.

If you can do Agile "wrong", then it is a problem with Agile.

As for myself, I just think to myself that someone, somewhere, has weaponized an idiot, and has launched it against me. It is equal parts Inspector Clouseau, Mister Gumby, Ali G, Drunken Master, and a particularly evil djinn. He will do exactly what you ask, in the most malicious manner possible. He will follow a process with absolute rigor, and produce the worst possible outcome.

I firmly believe that such people actually exist--individuals so brutally incompetent that they are indistinguishable from malicious trolls. So you might as well plan around a person intentionally trying to break your design while still maintaining the plausible deniability of not breaking any of your rules.

Agile cannot hold up under the assault of a weaponized idiot. There are simply too many possible attack vectors.
I remember reading about a chap who context switched from "home" to "work" by walking round the block as his commute. He was reported as saying it really made a difference to him.
It's amazing that we've known for decades that concentrating decision making at the top leads to outcomes like this.

It's far better to push decisions as low as possible, and let higher ups coordinate those decisions, and only overrule when absolutely necessary.
> I am not sure why businesses paying the data charges of their customers

This is a HUGE assumption. I would go out on a limb to say that that's what is happening. Consider this - an telecom firm named "UnfAir Tel" and e-commerce firm called "Glitch Kart" enter into a zero rating deal. Now, Glitch Kart is asked to pay UnfAir Tel some money to be called a Zero partner. Glitch Kart passes on these costs to the consumer (on every product) - minute costs like 20c per product. So consumers now pay to keep Glitch Kart accessible without Internet AND UnfAirTel for providing NO extra service.

> It might be anti-competitive and an abuse of market power, but unless the traffic was prioritized over other traffic how is this a violation of net neutrality?

I think the Norwegian Communications Authority explains this best.

> At first glance it may appear that all traffic is handled equally in this charging model, but the fact is that once you have used your quota, the traffic that is exempted will be allowed to continue, while all other traffic will be throttled or blocked. This is clearly a case of discrimination between different types of traffic.

http://eng.nkom.no/topical-issues/news/net-neutrality-and-ch...
They don't, however, involve everyone. The standup does. That's key. If person A needs to talk to person B about an issue, and it's done in standup, it wastes person C, D, etc's, time, even though they don't need to be involved. Doing it with just the required people is, obviously, required anyway, and the problem a lot of people doing agile have is they end up wasting everyone's time by bringing it up during standup.
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Oh, this "self-organize" reminds me of a company I worked at where the management insisted on "only hiring people who are self-managing."

I realized, much later, that it was because management was completely horrible at management.

Why would a person who can manage and run themselves so well that they don't need management come to work for us?

I wasted many fewer years of my life there than some other people (including those management quacks) did, so I'm pretty happy about having escaped.
My biggest complaint with the kindle (post beige / side buttons era) is the black plastic. If i read in the sun for 20-30 minutes the device begins to get very hot. After 40 minutes the heat starts to cause performance and display problems. Using a towel or newspaper helps but it screws with the mechanics of holding the device and turning pages.
> by saying that banning zero rating is to deny poor people access.

I may be naive but I kind of agree. I also think zero rating sounds great in theory. The alternative is that people cannot access at all? Can you post some arguments of why it is bad? Net neutrality doesn't tell me anything. Why would I as a consumer care about that?
When I first heard the rumors about a larger iPad I thought who on earth would want a big iPad? But Apple obviously knows what their customers want.
Not only that, it takes away an avenue for companies with large coffers from doing charity. For example, Google might want to make all of Khan Academy available via 'zero bandwidth' to Indian customers, by footing the bills themselves. Forcing customers to pay for the bandwidth (when someone else is willing to pay) goes against free-market principles.
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A 45 minute meeting that spawns off of a 15 minute meeting is still a total of 60 minutes of meeting time. And yes, while that 45 minutes involved fewer total people, that doesn't mean that others won't have spin-off meetings of their own.
That's awesome, I'm looking into it now. Thanks man!
I don't understand this obsession with big sizes watches maybe it's because I actually don't wear a watch but I've ordered the 38mm model (and I'm a man). My reasonning is that the last thing I want is something big on my wrist.
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And yet every single YC company job post is on site only. I've been watching the jobs section for about a month and I haven't seen a single remote job.

There really needs to be a culture shift in SV to support remote workers.
The first and last definitions I find are very accurate. Do more! (Retrospective, velocity, stand-up.)
I'm not seeing a connection to ISIS and the price of oil.
It won't install for me. I suspect it's being caught by av or anti-malware software on my machine but I'm not excited enough to troubleshoot it.
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> When your management is bad, there is nothing an engineer can do. They can attempt to bring their concerns to leadership, look for another job, or play the fiddle while the product burns to the ground.

Well, they could step up and start fixing problems in the organization themselves. Improving communication flow between departments, building better processes, discovering metrics, these are things that you can do to help make your company better without having to get the leadership involved. Not every improvement needs grand strategy, there's often lots of low-hanging fruit that one person can own and push by themselves.

Just Friday I was sitting in on a planning meeting and realizing that while we have a front-end guy, we don't really have a decent web designer that can draw out ideas and come up with plans for implementing them. So now I'm thinking about how to go about the task of managing that information flow.
My four year old does this. "So, daddy... , you know?" wherein he states something he as learned, deduced or conjectured.
I was also wondering about using phonetic matching as a substitute for spell checking.

I guess one downside to phonetic matching vs spell-checking would be that you're not really telling the user that results are shown for a different term from the one they entered?
I got a Kindle Touch, jailbreak isn't supported on it and they don't think they'll be able to do it anytime soon.
Working from home is a problem when you have a toddler of two running around. I'd imagine that even if I worked remotely I'd go for co-working instead.
Fine, "product owner" or "scrum master" or "person who schedules meetings and fiddles with the JIRA board". Whatever. I don't care what piece of jargon you want to substitute in.

Let me ask you this: why should any customer or business unit give a flying fuck about your "points"?

Customers and business units should have a strong voice in prioritization of tasks, yes. However, in the process of prioritization, an estimate of time for the task--be it your estimation or theirs--will be a factor. If all you tell them is a number of points, then guess what? They'll back into their own time estimations from your points.
I am interested in this as well. Who's using a different process?
Its interesting how now I am investing in my childs future by NOT buying her a computer so that she learns to develop other skills before being sucked in to the vortex.
A consistent thread through reviews of the aWatch is that the sport band is surprisingly awesome-feeling.

Which is a sign for hope from Apple. The truth of the aWatch is that only the success of the $350-$400 models matters. If those sell well and summon up customer enthusiasm, then the watch has at least a fighting chance to be successful. If people don't like the $350-$400 models, then all the enthusiasm in the world for the $1,000-$17,000 models will not create an ecosystem, and the aWatch will be, at best, a tiny niche product.

If Apple has recognized that and not bought into their own marketing hype about premium whatever, and focused all their attention on making the basic model as good as possible, then they're making the smart play.
Great point...

I have worked, in order, in a no WFH open office, yes WFH with private cubicles in the office, and yes WFH open office.

#1 was terrible. In the case of #2 while I could WFH, I would deliberately make it to the office at least 4 days a week because I was so much more productive. And #3 has me staying at home when I want to work, and showing up in the office when I want others to know that I am working.

Take away the nonsensical open office system (which may work great for jobs which are almost completely collaborative at all times, but are terrible for most jobs) and an office which provides some privacy is actually pretty awesome.

You get to control your interactions with coworkers, and are far more efficient interacting when you really need to.
working from home never works.
The web browser works decent for me. I mostly use it for gmail and reddit, which both have mobile versions that are pretty stable.

If you have trouble with a site, try turning off javascript temporarily and turning on article mode after it loads.
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But wouldn't it be trivial to notice that in the reencoding step and throw it away?

"Huh, this frame is supposed to be delayed by 3ms. Ah, screw it, [checks 'force to 23.97 fps' button]."
To me, this speaks bigger to your work culture and processess es - what tools were you using to host meetings and have conversations verbally?

Assuming the right toolset, having a strong voice and impaact in a company is not impossible from a remote position.

Yes, there is real value to face time, and I agree with you on some level - but only given the proper tools and a company that respects them. Given your example, it sounds like you didn't get the attention you deserved.
I think maybe the most interesting open source companies today are Couchbase and Mongo.

AFAICT, everything Couchbase does is Apache Licensed. An old-school traditionalist could look at them and conclude that they have no proprietary IP at all.

Mongo has perhaps a little more of a boundary because they use the AGPL (which will scare away more enterprise customers than the Apache license will). But still.

AFAIK, both of these firms are paying the significant costs of developing their own software. Neither of them can be characterized as building their business model on low dev costs from the use of community-developed code.

These firms have more funding than many open source firms get from an exit. Both of them seem to have significant and fast-growing revenue. Both of them seem to be on track to a successful IPO with reasonable expectations for continued growth thereafter.

Even in today's open source world, what these two companies are apparently doing seems kind of amazing.
Everyone in her claims that there are mechanisms to add non-visual watermarks into both video & audio, anyone have any suggestions as to what products / systems to use so this can be implemented? Minus writing one yourself (like writing your own framework, you don't know all the gotcha's of an expert)
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"Valid U.S. Passports in 2012 is 113,431,943 (36%). In 2002 it was 55,169,571 (19%). In 1992 it was 17,950,578 (7%). " (http://andrewhy.de/percent-of-americans-with-passports/)
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