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Doesn't the same happen in TV, radio, newspapers, etc? I understand why the Internet is different (and better, imho), but that doesn't mean we should ban other mediums. Just don't call this service Internet access.
Ask HN: Lawful interception and encryption
Stories of mass surveillance and less stringent requirements to intercept communication are becoming common. How are companies like telegram able to offer encrypted chat [1]? AFAIK, telegram is based in Germany and EU laws mandate lawful interception. So how do these companies comply with the law?

Is there any country in the world that does not try to snoop communication systems or try to retrieve data stored online (cloud/other hosts)?

[1] https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-secret-chats-different
To what? Lithium Ion battery production?

That's just as bad as oil, and in some cases worse.

This type of manufacturing process requires tremendous inputs of energy, particularly the forging of materials like steel, aluminum, glass and plastic. Interestingly, lightweight vehicles can sometimes be more energy-intensive to build than heavier cars because lighter metals like aluminum are harder to forge than stainless steel [source: Moon]. Experts estimate that 10 to 20 percent of a vehicle's total lifetime greenhouse gas emissions are released during the manufacturing stage alone

Unfortunately, both nickel-hydride batteries and the newer lithium-ion batteries rely on the mining of nickel, copper and so-called rare earth metals. The production of lithium-ion batteries account for 2 to 5 percent of total lifetime hybrid emissions and nickel-hydride batteries are responsible for higher sulfur oxide emissions, roughly 22 pounds (10 kilograms) per hybrid compared with 2.2 pounds (about 1 kilogram) for a conventional vehicle [sources: Samaras and Burnham et al].

source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-my...
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One faction known as the Knights of the Button created a Chrome extension called Squire to coordinate button presses in order to keep the timer running for as long as possible.

The craziest thing I've seen so far is that another group known as the Assassins created a fork of that extension that would claim they would press the button, but in fact wouldn't so that the timer would run out.

There are groups sabotaging other groups' code based on their goals for the button.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Knightsofthebutton/comments/31x3c0/...
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"The big difference between consultancy and product based development is that with consultancy you're building what the individual customer needs rather than building what your product needs strategically in the long term...."

If so, then focusing only on product development is going to be successful only if you know what your customers in aggregate need better than they do. Isn't that the whole 'agile' lesson?
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I think that is good advice. What I don't understand is why does social life have to be tied to work? I mean, its quite clear this happens a lot, to the extend that the President and First Lady met while working (not to say dating is the only form of social life too, btw). Although I don't work from home, I do try to develop and maintain more friendships outside of work than from within it. It helps to keep "work" and "play" separate.
Teleoperated robots to do aircraft refueling is probably already technologically possible.
Yeah, I feel like the language is one of the worst things. A "scrum" is a bunch of sweaty men moving down a field in a pile. The idea of that makes me want to get a different job. I'm attracted to programming because I love sitting in chairs, not engaging in violent pile ups.

I agree with what you said about "sprint," as that is the second worst word in the canon.

And user stories is trying to change the term "feature" so that developers will be more user oriented in their thinking, but the term "story" is disturbing.
Ha, I do have a small office but it's hard with multiple kids that are able to run around and open doors. Sometimes it works out and sometimes not so much.
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Holy shit dude, living this now. The pain in terms of support and phantom, impossible to reproduce errors will go on for years.
Been working from home for a year now and I will never go back. My productivity has gone up 2X, mainly because I'm not physically present in an office pretending to work by just being there. I need to push code in to prove I've done work.

Once you're comfortable with your setup, you can pretty much work from anywhere. I've been travelling regularly lately. As long as I have my laptop and a decent internet connection, I'm good to go. Huge benefits for the business and for me.
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That those workplaces would fail regardless of any methodology.

That sort of technique would fail regardless when applied to software.

The first thing you do, is not use that approach.
> it would need to be subtle as to not interfere with viewing

Pre-release screeners often have big ugly on-screen watermarks. Almost anything is better than a scrolling mid-screen line of text "PROPERTY OF STUDIO NAME DO NOT PIRATE THIS FILM".
It helps to be familiar with steganography; the post is basically proposing to make a unique watermark in a video by changing the starting times of each scene, and the rest of the post is mostly math to figure out how much you'd need to alter it to let you identify a single leaker from a given number of people.
"When actually estimating tasks, it's purely point based"

The problem is that project managers and other business units don't give two flying shits about points. They want to know when things will be done.

PM: "So, how long will it take you to have that new logging system implemented?"

Developer: "It's a five point feature."

PM: "So....two days, then?"

D: "Well, I dunno...it's five points."

PM: "Two days it is!" [puts deadline of two days from now into JIRA]
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Reading over his points make me think the OP is a PM who doesn't understand Agile nor his role in it. The number of misconceptions he presents reads like someone who has never bothered to research agile, but only knows what consultants have taught him.

I think the number 1 misconception is the sprints. He seems focused on 2
weeks as being the requirement, when it's on the recommendation. Some team have gone as long as 4 weeks. The whole point to a sprint is that dedicated time to a delivery with fast feedback from the customers. It's mainly so you can fail early, ail often. It's much better to spend 2-4 weeks building the wrong product than 6 months.

Second, his claims that product development, research and design, and architecture don't belong in a sprint are also misinformed. The focus on user stories to remind people that they need to focus on users, not gold plating. In any technical project, there are a plethora to improve on the design. People can (and have) sat down and refactored and "rearchitected" for days and days. At the end, they build beautiful systems that don't offer any advantage to the customers, or have implemented a number of features the customer didn't want, or have fixed a series of concerns the customer wasn't concerned with. There is give and take of course, as the engineers needs to give feedback to help the customer understand the benefits of the feature or risks of not fixing the issue, but those need to happen first before people go off and construct digital masterpieces.

Third, micromanagement. If you have endless meetings in agile, you're definitely not doing it right. The 3 big meetings, planning, retrospective, and demo, are ones that take the most time. Standups take no more than 15 minutes. The other tasks, meaning, backlog grooming and prioritization should not involved your sprint team. Those need to be done offline by the product owner. Agile may be about teams, but you still need strong leadership.

The only point of his that has any relevance is the last one, where consultant firms have made big bucks spinning out variations of agile because people just can't understand how simple it is.
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You may like Philip Armour's Five Orders of Ignorance, http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/3308-07/p17-armour.pdf

"0th Order Ignorance: Lack of Ignorance. I have 0OI when I (probably) know something.

1st Order Ignorance: Lack of Knowledge. I have 1OI when I don't know something. With 1OI we have the question in a well-factored form.

2nd Order Ignorance: Lack of Awareness. I have 2OI when I don't know that I don't know something.

3rd Order Ignorance: Lack of Process. I have 3OI when I don't know a suitably efficient way to find out I don't know that I don't know something.

4th Order Ignorance: Meta-ignorance. I have 4OI when I don't know about the Five Orders of Ignorance. "
One problem with working from home - being forgotten about.

I worked as a technology analyst for many years and when my kids were born opted to go part time, working from home. While the routine work came through, those 'interesting little projects' that makes work so interesting dried up, partly because I lost sight of the interesting little problems that cropped up that would make interesting little projects.

After about 4 years, I was in the situation where I was being paid really quite a lot of money for not doing an awful lot. The CEO was was very nice and we would meet up sometimes and he would say "I promise there will be something very engaging to work on soon, we value your experience"

But in the end, I ended up resigning, despite the fact that they wanted me to stay on and pay me lots - I just couldn't keep taking their money in good conscience. Shame - it was a great firm.
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To elaborate, intellectual property law is essentially "use it or lose it" - a company that does not defend its IP against unauthorized use is likely to have it invalidated. One that actively promotes unauthorized use is almost certain to.
He is disagreeing, by indirectly stating the guy doesn't have valid points.
It's only relevant because the button is still active. The sub will probably die once the button is deactivated.
The Cave Experiment seems even more planned out than this.

My gut says this was just a silly April Fool's joke to confuse Reddit users, but now it's evolved into its own animal.

(I don't plan to click, anyway)
Let me translate what I said / meant, then: What Grass was saying is wrong, and by the way it didn't surprise me given his shady history.
The OS does not know what data the app is sending to its API, so it couldn't provide this specific of a warning.
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Facebook 0, aka internet.org still exists and is growing in many developing countries.

Basically Facebook goes into local carriers and makes an agreement to the effect that users can reach 0.facebook.com for free on their network. They've now started adding other sites as well to that 'free tier'.

I imagine Facebook is paying something to the carriers for this, though at the very start it may just be seen as a competitive advantage by the carrier so perhaps not.

I actually find this practice super disturbing and find the naming of it as 'internet.org' even more so. The Internet is great because of the very opposite of this type system.

Say in an alternate reality Friendster did this a decade ago, would Facebook even exist if people had to pay to access it? Is that a state of the world we are comfortable with?

I very much understand the arguments towards the utility of the internet (even Facebook) to the poor and marginalized, but this isn't the right way to do it.
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It's not that the law doesn't apply, they just categorise it as a private rather than public space. Most education facilities for girls are the same even if some of the staff are men. I've actualy been there a while back, it's a fantastic facility.
One of the participants will sooner or later set up a proxy.
Quite distressing. Especially considering we've now had several decades of these sorts of stories in the popsci press. You would think people would be more aware of these sorts of issues.

Like, don't people know freemium smartphone games are a scam? I see people who had the same education as me, people I know have read the same psychology textbooks, paying hundreds of dollars to play these games that have no compelling "fun" factor. These games have such shallow verniers over their slot-machine nature that I don't understand why supposedly intelligent, knowledgeable people can't see them for what they are.

I get needing entertainment and I get not spending 100% of your time single-mindedly focused on "business" or whatever. I watch movies, play games, read books, drink in bars, go to sportsball recitals. I'm here, posting on HN. At least with HN I, get practice writing, have my opinions challenged, learn about new and interesting things, and get a chance to share my own work for feedback and traffic. I don't get money out of HN, but I do get real things out of it.
"use it or lose it" is only a property of trademark laws, not copyright or other IP laws.
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> If your organisation can't commit to you working full (pretty much) time on a project working on a set of things that have been committed to without pulling you in another direction

See, this is the thing: on the one hand it's supposed to be all about committing to a specific direction ahead of time and not letting yourself be pulled somewhere else -- on the other hand it's supposed to be all about developers being empowered to work on what's most important at the moment (I mean it's right there built into the name!) Those seem in direct conflict.

We don't have organizational pressure pulling us in different directions -- we have reality pulling us in different directions. I'm not going to tell a customer "no, you can't have that bug fix or that new feature yet, we have a Methodology to follow."

> "Project Managers" don't exist in Scrum.

Right. Just project owners, product owners, scrum masters....

> In your case it seems like you've had something foisted on you by external people talking out of their rear.

I think you're onto something there. (They keep changing their minds, too: one week it's fibonacci sizing, next week it's T-shirt sizes. One week it's scrums, next week it's kanban. The actual working process seems to stay the same, only the jargon shifts around.)
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Why do we think the blur is sufficient? The blur loses information, but there are presumably a small number of watermarked versions, and a lot of frames. It's almost certainly possible for HBO to reverse-engineer the blur algorithm — I bet it's a stock option from a common tool — and then run it over all the originals and see which produces the best post-blur match.
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The problem is your company has no idea of what it's doing. You don't estimate bug fixes or research and development. You time box them, and once you've spent all the time allocated, you report back to your team on your findings. If you can't fix the bug in a sprint, you simply work on it in a later sprint.
Second, real feature developments sounds like an epic. Those are stories that will span multiple sprints. There are ways to handle them.
I think with lots of things, there is not enough volume and cost relative to personnel to justify the R&D and ongoing operations. For quite some time you would still need an operator and there is always the edge cases that a human can deal with on the fly that the robot cannot.

Bottom line, the world needs a finite number of plane refuelers and they are cheap. No need to replace them anytime soon.

But yes, technically possible at this point, I would agree.
Sounds like you needed to use something like Slack for office communication. It's very important that everyone adjusts their habits to integrate remote working rather than just the ones who are remote. When the communication stays within 4 walls but some of the team is not within those walls then problems such as yours arise.
Yes, I agree with you so much.

I used to beg my parents to order me various forms of an encyclopaedia, I used to devour bookshelves. I remember reading every breakfast food box and piece of junkmail, just because it was something new.

I remember my mom telling me how shocked she was when I was like 6 or something - she didn't believe me that I read one of these young adult books in a day, and so I then rambled the entire story out, and she was proud of that for a while. I told my mom recently that I was watching an anime, and she was surprised and happy that "I watch TV again", because I've pretty much stopped watching TV for the past 10 years or so. The contrast of these worlds is stark.

I remember this stuff and I feel like I've become dumber, because I feel like I can't hold as much information. What is really happening, is I can't hold as much information as a computer can. But then there's some kind of process that seems to run on top of the memorization, that feels more like it's something I'd call a sense of self. Sometimes it is tiny iterations of a swift selection mechanic operating on information that has already been indexed, sorted, qualified, quantified, translated and weighted countless times, other times, it is a way of being intelligent that I don't ever think I could ever program. It is the kind of thing that makes the comparison of AI to actual intelligence laughable and ridiculous to even begin to pose the question.

To me, it's more about being able to find a real signal in a world that is constantly producing enough noise to consume us all.
I'd advise against working from home for everyone in compliance with the separation of concerns principle as context switching is not easy at all and it will burden the person with a lot of stuff to sort out with regard to the work/life balance and the mixture of the incompatible job/home environments.

However, I'd definitely vote for and favor a more balanced approach that combines both remote work from a dedicated office that has been set up specifically to handle this type of activity that is independent and detached from the home environment, and the formal workplace to maintain the bond and harmony between team members.
The problem with working for home is that the person who gets half of what you do done, but stays in the office, is more visible to the higher ups. So you want everyone to work from home and meet when needed, rather than half and half.

In 2011-2012 I had one guy actually consistently take credit for what I was doing because I would work at my place and show up once a week with deliverables (there was a hardware part to the job, and I'd rather use my small workshop built next to my home if I can).

Essentially he told everyone that he was the team leader for the project, and people started to believe him. All he did was walk around the offices and make powerpoints.

He kept telling people that he needed more men and resources to complete the project... all the while, me and another guy were doing good on the project (about on budget, a little ahead of schedule).

Eventually this guy's whining, intended to give him a little empire, is heard by one of the actual bosses. We get called in to explain why we're behind and need more people.

And that's where the crazy thing happens. We show up with the first batch of production devices -- not even prototypes -- and do a full demo, and say "this has actually been ready to field test for a couple weeks now". Great, right? Except... everyone was so used to talking with the douche guy that they didn't really pay attention to us. So we got a dressing down for being late (douche said "it'll take two months for this to be ready to go unless I get two more guys on it"), with the finished product happily beeping and logging data on the conference table!

I felt like Galileo before the Conclave. These were scientists and scientific administrators, believing some twerp's word over their own eyes.

And that's the story of why I quit NASA.
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Yes, I was wondering why they sent 4 episodes for review. Then I watched the first episode and I saw why...nothing is going to happen until the 4th episode. They've been teasing us with white walkers since season 1. And those dragons too...they were born in season 1 or 2 and they've hardly killed anyone yet.

I guess I'm a sucker for the never-ending suspense...best show on tv.
While stego might be a route, blurring the watermark may not be enough to obscure the source.

Given a known frame, they could blur the same portion of the same frame on all watermarked copies, and the one with a matching output is your culprit.

Blurring loses information, but is more akin to a hash than a deletion, as it's a deterministic process.

Edit: this sort of thing. http://dheera.net/projects/blur
The window between "teleoperated robots to fuel airplanes being economically viable" and "autonomous robots to fuel airplanes being economically viable" is probably too small for teleoperation to become a big thing in general.

(Be sure to ponder the full meaning of "economically viable". As you say, teleoperated robots to fill gas tanks are already possible today, but clearly they are not economically viable in any but the most expensive of situations because humans are still cheaper.)