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> It's costing you future money when you paint it a 'non-natural' color in the lost prospective buyers

And how is that? No one is coming to buy it while it is my home. Oh, and it was painted not beige in the first place, so apparently it didn't cost them 'future money' either.

Your home isn't an investment.
Similar experience here, although not as frequent or egregious, it's still noticeably inferior to other means of shipping.
UPS/Fedex have to pick up and go anywhere.

Amazon only has to move things between their warehouses and consumers. 99% of pickups are at their warehouses. Hell if they use UPS/FedEx for returns then it's 100%.
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I saw a comment today on HN showing voxiebox[1] which seems to have a better volumetric display, unlike this one which has a very small number of discrete layers.

[1] http://www.voxiebox.com/
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Late one night (like 9pm) I was just arriving home in my car and hit my garage gate when I saw someone with a flashlight at my front walking gate (like 15ft away). I drove in to my driveway while looking at the person, got out of my car and walked back around to see what they were doing. When I got back to the sidewalk they saw me, threw something over my fence, and then ran away.

It was my package, they were the Amazon courier and couldn't figure out how to open my front gate.

It was bizarre.
> not inheriting someone else's design decisions.

It takes a day to paint a room, your not inheriting anyones paint job unless you want to.
Yeah, you have to pretty much assume that if you balk on their "weeder" test, they'll balk on you.

The only alternative is to be at least -somewhat- compromising -- as I don't mind these tests too much, if they're on the short and sweet side (up to 90 min timed, or 3-4 hours untimed). But once you've decided what your limit is, hold to it. "I'm sorry, but I've done enough of these already -- sometimes without getting any response at all from the company, even though I felt pretty confident my solution was at least ballpark correct -- so unfortunately I can't justify the time investment for your drippingly pretentious mandatory 4-hour HackerRank hazing session."

(Same goes for ridiculously over-hard and/or over-rushed algorithm questions which in realistic terms almost no one is able to genuinely "solve" in the time provided -- unless they crammed and/or did them very shortly before. Just sit back and assess the situation for 5 minutes before jumping in. And if, heaven forbid, you don't think you'll be able to crank out the flawless the solution they'll undoubtedly expect in the next 35 minutes -- just say, "I'm sorry, but I done challenges like these before and I just don't they're realistic problems to ask people to solve on the spot. So I'll have to pass.")

Of course you don't have to use the exact phrases "drippingly pretentious" and "mandatory hazing session." But at least you're giving them a qualified rejection (instead of "Neah, I'm just too cool for your shit.") Which they'll also almost certainly decide to pass on you for. But if so, then at least you've managed to hold your ground, and keep your head up.

And who knows, maybe at some point these companies will start looking at the response data on these poorly considered "challenge" tasks -- and will move on to some other filtering fad.
That is wrong, the ketogenic diet is prescribed by doctors to patients suffering from seizures and it works. There are long term studies and the NYTimes has been reporting about this since the 90s. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21Epilepsy-t.html

Everyone picks a diet. If you just randomly eat anything thats available to you, in the developed world, you are most likely significantly overweight and at very high risk of diabetes. With rare exceptions, most fad diets will leave you better off than with no guidance whatsoever. Sometimes pointing someone in the wrong direction is better than them walking off a cliff.

Diet science is definitely progressing and getting better. We knew the basics, like what happened when you didn't get enough vitamin C, but the rest of the details are finally getting fleshed out and accepted by mainstream science.

That said, people following the ketogenic diet need to be doing it correctly and under a doctor's supervision. If you half ass it you can end up just eating a shitload of bad fats and miss nutrients while not actually being in ketosis. That will not lead to a good outcome.
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Some babies aren't old enough to have been vaccinated. Some people are immunocompromised, including children. Some of these people are unable to be vaccinated. In order to avoid infection, these people depend on having enough other people be vaccinated.

If it's a question of personal discretion, shouldn't the parent of one those children have the discretion to force others to be vaccinated, in order that their own child won't die?

You asked "who decides?".

Jacobson v. Massachusetts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts ) decided "that it is within the police power of a state to provide for compulsory vaccination. That case and others had also settled that a state may, consistently with the federal Constitution, delegate to a municipality authority to determine under what conditions health regulations shall become operative. Laurel Hill Cemetery v. San Francisco, 216 U. S. 358. And still others had settled that the municipality may vest in its officials broad discretion in matters affecting the application and enforcement of a health law. Lieberman v. Van de Carr, 199 U. S. 552."

That quote comes from Zucht v. King, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/260/174/case.htm... , which settled that a city could require vaccinations in order for a child to attend school.

You may not like it, but Prince v. Massachusetts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_v._Massachusetts ) established that "the government has broad authority to regulate the actions and treatment of children. Parental authority is not absolute and can be permissibly restricted if doing so is in the interests of a child's welfare."

So yes, the parents have some discretion. It isn't absolute.

We have a government in part so we can collectively make hard decisions like this one.
The official website of the "Openbaar Ministerie" (Dutch Public Prosecution Service) contains a press release, including some animations and intercepted calls [1] as well as a page with documents from the presentation [2].

[1] https://www.om.nl/onderwerpen/mh17-crash/@96068/jit-flight-m...

[2] https://www.om.nl/onderwerpen/mh17-vliegramp/presentaties/pr...
The artifacts along red/blue edges in JPEG can easily be fixed without giving up chroma subsampling. Everyone recovers subsampling with linear or nearest neighbor upscaling because it's "fast".

If you take one of these subsampled images and use a proper upscaling filter, or better yet, use the Y plane for edge hinting, it'll look great.

JPEG's really not good enough for efficient 4:4:4 but I do think a newer format could handle it.
Exactly. The question is effectively equivalent to "have you recently taken an elementary number theory course", which, apart from being not at all a brutal mathematics problem, is totally irrelevant to what makes a good customer support hire.

The whole interview process comes off as having been designed by someone who had no idea what they were doing.
Where in the recording did he say it was easy?

And where in the recording did he say it was going to be hard?
https://www.npmjs.com/browse/keyword/mozjpeg

https://github.com/as-com/mozjpeg-js
>In the obvious way that when A and B are similar enough (as font variations are) a delta between A and B is substantially smaller than bundling A AND B.

Are they similar? I would expect that between a bold glyph and a normal weight glyph, exactly zero points would be the same.

>In the abstract, no, but in 99% of the cases where it's used in computing, e.g. it software updates, rsync, etc, it does, and that's exactly why it's used.

You're comparing vector deltas (which are presumably floating point) to deltas between binaries, where you can take a line-by-line or byte-by-byte diff. This is apples and oranges.
I think these "alarming trends" are highlighting that operational complexity is an easier pill to take than conceptual complexity, for most workers in the field.

Microservices address that gap.

And in the process the field is transformed from one of software developers to software operators. This generation is witnessing the transfer of the IT crew from the "back office" to the "boiler room".
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The same thing is true of home electronics: you can have any color you want, so long as it's black.
Some of the confusion is the language is of internships and employment, the behavior is more apprenticeship and early journeyman level.

Historically its very unusual to pay apprentices full rate. Nothing, or room and board, or more recently a sliding scale of 50% pay for 50% of formal apprenticeship completed. I've seen three internship situations where grunt labor pay results in grunt labor tasks being assigned instead of learning happening.

In the very long run programming is likely to fracture much like the building trades, where most will get an apprenticeship then journeyman then master coder job, there will be some scientists doing research in the trade, and there will be some engineer/architects doing advanced design and verification work. I suspect welding will be a good model. There will be certifications and tests and levels based on industry (or in the coding world, based on language).
How so..? Open-source is twice free. Free as in beer. Free as in speech. So, OSM could give away the map, but provide value added services to city planners, sell api tokens to advertisers, sell services to private developers.

Oh wow, I just thought up three possibilities in a minute which still allow it to be kept free for individuals.

Last week I began working on a bicycle routing app for android, and there is no obvious way to have unlimited calls to OSM, even if I paid. So, what I must do is host my own instance of it. That's a lot of overhead for most use cases. This is pretty much the opposite way app development has been going, where I build off an api as a service.

If I'm using OSM wrong in this case, I'd sincerely appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

side note, I'm assuming you down-voted me, but thank you for at least saying why. other down-votes received, because i guess they are right. feels like high-school popularity contests all over again when receiving anonymous down-votes. heck, maybe it's possible to have a dissenting comment without a down-vote. HN obviously believes this mechanism is good enough for letting the best stories rise to the top. not sure why HN feels that people's comments should be down-voted but stories shouldn't...
Japan is not famous for its natural resources of metal, especially prior to the 19th century, so maybe that makes sense too.
I didn't click "like". I didn't in any way directly interact with Facebook. I googled articles on loneliness, picked one, read it. When I got to the bottom without clicking anything I was effectively informed that Facebook knew and recorded I had just read the article.
Eh, not hard to paint your walls the colors you like and I see plenty of crazy furniture colors at IKEA. The "white blank walls and wood floor" is a choice people make and like—there are plenty of colorful houses.
This is false (or at least, is not universally true, and is false pretty frequently). It's costing you some of the future buyer pool, but making it more desireable to another portion of the buyer pool: those who have similar taste to you. Because these are exactly the people who are most likely to like other (non-paint-color) aspects of a house that you also like, this is a positive trade off (unless you anticipate needing to sell on short notice, in which case, yes, be as generic as possible).

Make the house you want to live in. There are enough people that someone else will want to live in it, too, and in the meantime you'll be happier.
I'd buy the "beige adds resale value" argument if it was normal to flip your house every year or so. But people are living in these houses--for years, yet they leave the walls beige (or more weirdly, repainting them in a slightly different shade of beige).

You can buy a house but you can't buy taste. Most people look to the media to tell them what other people think is tasteful, and they simply ape that. See also: Bland McMansion architecture. See also: most cars are either white, black, gray or red. See also: media-driven definitions of physical beauty.
I didn't order a package from Amazon, but it was shipped from the company to me via amazon. (I refuse to buy from Aamzon) The amazon delievery person ended up putting on the slip "in the flower bed." I've had other horror stories about delivery people being clueless about leaving it, and/or where to leave it.

I've had a lot less issues with UPS than I've had with the Amazon delievery service.
The point of 2FA is that you combine something you have, and something you know. For the something you have to be a strong authentication factor, you have to maintain tight control over it. When you use SMS as the factor, you're effectively mailing the second factor to someone with a lot of intermediate steps in the chain of custody.

When I use an authentication app on my phone (assuming that I destroyed the seed immediately after loading it), or I use my physical OTP token, then those keys are pretty direct proof that I have possession of that object at that time. If I lose my token, then I know I lost it and I can disable it and get a new one. As this thread demonstrates, it's possible for someone to hijack your phone without you realizing it for a period of hours to days.
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But most people don't repaint their house (in my experience, at least). If the paint colors don't offend them, they're OK with it.
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Units from third party (3P) sellers made up 49% of total units in Q2 2016, and Amazon only reports their commission as revenue for 3P sales rather than the total gross merchandise volume (GMV). A better comparison point is thus GMV, which was estimated at $225B for 2015[1], compared to $482B for Walmart.

[1] http://www.channeladvisor.com/blog/?pn=scot/deep-dive-into-a...
Probably well against JPEG2000, which isn't actually that good. Wavelets look bad when compressed because they blur so much.

JPEG will have a really hard time competing against WebP, x264 --tune stillimage, or HEVC. Nobody uses those though.
What do you consider "large well established highways"?
My one comment would be: GET OUT OF THE VALLEY. People have far less resistance to hiring people of various ages outside of Silicon Valley.
The Vasamuseet (the Vasa Museum) is one of the most awesome museums I have ever been to. Also the War Museum, which is also in Stockholm. If you ever get to Sweden, those two are certainly worth a visit. If you can only go to one, definitely make it the Vasa, but if you like museums, you will really enjoy both.
I suppose, but that would require you to install the add-on that does that, or for it to be included by default.. both of which seem unlikely.

Having google or facebook check REMOTE_ADDR for every client would work though, but most people wouldn't understand what the notification means. Plus, on a network that isn't using nat you'd never get the alert since the IoT device itself would never be REMOTE_ADDR.
The US is kind of at a disadvantage for this because distances are so huge, but in smaller european countries it's not uncommon to get <20ms pings to gameservers around the country if you have a decent broadband connection.
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The resolution does seem super low, but I think they're trying to target the low budget market where it might make more sense. Their "How It Works" page says this:

> Volumetric displays have been around in research labs and a few small companies for decades. But they have always been extremely expensive — a staggering $100,000 per unit.

> Volume is nearly 100x less expensive than the systems that have come before.

Of course, their lowest price point is still $999, so I still wouldn't call that cheap.
Convertibility is huge.

Earlier this year, my wife and I were in China helping her mom close an old bank account to move the money to Hong Kong (she's been an HK permanent resident for over a decade). It was almost $10k USD worth. The easiest option was to get it all in cash and take it back to Hong Kong. The largest RMB note is the ¥100, which is about $15 USD. Our pockets were stuffed with hundreds of notes. It felt very awkward. Even though it was legitimately our money, I was afraid at any moment I'd be pulled aside and charged with some kind of crime.

So yeah, I don't see RMB as very practical when the largest note available is equivalent to $15. Pretty much necessitates that every moderately large transaction will go through a bank, under the watchful eye of the Chinese government. I can't see many foreigners being interested in that kind of arrangement.
FiveThirtyEight also does a great podcast where they discuss the assumptions built into their model and as polls change over time or events happen in the election they explain the impact on their models. I've found it really educational for both politics and statistics.
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`mpv movie.mp4` and boom - you're watching the video with no cruft. Not rebuilding font database and other bullshit you don't care about. It runs really well on older hardware.
The reason I don't really buy into the paleo theory (yet) is that people have lived in all parts of the world, with vastly varying diets. I haven't seen any conclusive scientific evidence on it yet (to be fair I haven't been searching).

Intermittent fasting would be something that I imagine that most humans experienced wherever they lived however, and rat studies seem promising.
> I just want quality stuff at the cheapest prices.

Which Amazon has been spammed by chinese dropshippers.

> cheapest prices

Not always. Depends what you're looking for.
Amazon has been doing this for years now, and they'll never completely abandon using the USPS, UPS or FedEx for the foreseeable future. Their line haul network has always been solid, and they've been using other carriers to do the most expensive portion of the package life cycle, the last mile delivery. The article touched on the fact that they've been doing trials of deliveries in large cities that have the package density to make it profitable. Amazon certainly has volume to fill delivery trucks, and I expect them to continue this trend by identifying profitable delivery routes. However I don't see them competing with a nationwide network on the scale of UPS or FedEx anywhere in the near future. Amazon will continue to be a customer alongside a competitor of them.
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I can't help but notice that this very website on which we are writing comments is beige. ;)
This is a fairly deep topic so your question has a really long & detailed answer. The simple answer is "aliasing." The concept is that picking one sample for each pixel makes an aggregate image that could be confused with other images, whereas a good downsampling algorithm only represents a (lower frequency, bandlimited) version of the original image.
This explains the few houses that are about to be sold. What about the beige houses that are lived in for decades? Do these people all coincidentally like beige?
JSON is not inherently schemaless, it's just generally not used with one.

Initiatives like JSONSchema go some way to restoring some constraints to the format and prevents unchecked deviation over time.
Exercise is incredibly important for our health. It mitigates or even reverses ailments tied to lifestyle choices. To use myself as an example I have a bad shoulder as a result of stupid amounts of online video games (MMOs...) and every Thursday for the past two months I have specifially worked out the muscle group that's causing me pains in my right shoulder. And what do you know, after the initial muscle soreness goes away I feel slightly better and less sore. If I stop my regular exercise, the pain comes back.

I used to suffer from depression and anxiety. Meds didn't really help and I changed my lifestyle around. It helped. I do agree with you, exercise as well as diet is incredibly important if you want to feel normal.
I wondered about that. 'Tastes like sourdough' might not mean actually sourdough. Good to have a confirmation of my suspicions.

I said bakery, but there are commercial bakeries around and I meant a baker bakery (a boulangerie, if you will). The place I went to is the sort where you walk in, the bread is on wooden racks and they give it to you in a paper bag. I figured there are maybe three places I can think of that are more likely to be doing 'real' sourdough and they're all in the other direction.
Most of the places where Amazon is painting over still requires people to make cool stuff and let people buy cool stuff for their web storefront, EC2 and other enterprises. They have a vested interest in the economy itself working well, and most of the things they are participating in are in race-to-the-bottom sort of scenarios.

I find that smaller unique shops still have a huge edge, it's just the medium to large shops that are losing. I still would rather a world with lots of small people making good money selling unique goods via post/internet then a huge segment of the population just punching the clock at minimum wage.
Who says it's an addition of calories? For many people breakfast is just coffee with coconut oil and butter. It's not adding calories it's just consuming them at a different time. You're still going to be at a deficit at the end of the day.
Beige is warm, cozy, and has a natural feel, simple as that. Perhaps its been overdone for sales purposes, but you are free to customize as you see fit upon purchase.
I like beige and neutrals. Minus a soft teal accent wall, my whole house is various shades of blue-grey and beige. (Excluding the yellow guest bedroom and faux-painted basement I haven't gotten around to painting.)

I think some of this is current "modern" aesthetics: in the same way we don't have avocado refrigerators and brutalist architecture. I think TV reflects those trends rather than the other way around.

And sure, resale has something to do with it. I'm going to budget $5k to have my next house repainted, because that's what it costs. But I'd make the same aesthetic choices no matter what.
HTTPS servers will no longer offer timestamps from TLS 1.3 onwards since that feature is being deprecated due to performance reasons.

Any such clients have to fall back to TLS 1.2

A TLS 1.0 to 1.2 based time sync client called 'tlsdate' already exists.