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I'm not a professional but I cracked a tile on my kitchen counter and replaced it and you can't tell. Likely difference between you and me? My uncle is a tile man and he walked me through the whole process (remotely), from finding a matching replacement tile and grout to what kind of tile glue works best for this kind of tile to grouting and cleaning.
> And in the end you'll have spent more than you would have with a regular plumber, you'll have a bunch of tools you won't need for another 10 years, and the job will look terrible.

That part of the business model worked well for Home Depot.
> the prosperous part of the Southeast

For those of us who are unfamiliar or ignorant about this, which parts of the Southeast are most prosperous?
I didn't see any replies to his email. Is this people giving them the cold shoulder because of how they behaved in the past or is it just logistics (e.g. people didn't have the time to look into his proposal)?
Does your ISP have the ability to censor the internet for you?

Do you watch Netflix? If you don't, that's ok, because most consumers do use it or a competing service. Internet Companies absolutely did try to charge Netflix extra, and in some cases throttled them. This was well documented.

I don't know if you're a corporate shill or just genuinely lack the ability to comprehend how bad this is. Spectrum, Verizon and their ilk have absolutely shown zero regard for consumers and there is no reason to believe that pattern of behavior is going to change anytime soon. If they can screw over their consumers for a dollar, they will, just like they have continually done so in the past.
Instead of a single source of censorship, against which the people can fight, there will be multiple sources of censorship, and fighting one won't solve the problem.

And in your E911 example, there are already ways for this to be solved without requiring censorship or throttling of data on the public networks. You can already buy life-/safety-critical bandwidth that is "off-Internet bands", if you need it - the point is, this isn't lumped with the 'general public Internet'.
Wow, I'm not GP, but thanks for that comment. I was surprised that no one is talking about how this will affect internet quality and price in many regions. Turns out, no one's talking about it here because it isn't the issue I thought it was...

The more you know.
It's amazing how much you can bend fiber. Fiber is really hard to break just by bending it, assuming it is well insulated. You can have performance loss with bends and kinks though.
You will be free to accept the ISPs offered plan(s), or not.
Let us please keep the weasel-words and politics out of HN.

"I don’t think they are important for current government, who are too busy worrying about mythical characters to muzzle freedom of expression and speech (want to behead an actresss)

You have intentionally phrased that to read as though the govt. wants to behead an actress.
You are right that this is a problem with personal responsibility.

Your parent comment is also right that this lack of personal responsibility is cultivated or exacerbated by poverty. Personal responsibility is as much a skill as it is a trait. Therefore, if one has neither work experience nor a role model for responsibility, one tends not to have good work ethics.

IMO, the solution is thus both to praise personal work ethics and to break the trap through social programs at the same time.
Here’s a todo app idea:

1. Take a standard notebook and a regular pen (or pencil, if you prefer).
2. Write down things you have to do. You can even organize them by date:
3. Actually do the things instead of yak-shaving solutions to making basic lists.
4. Cross each thing off after you do it.
I love this project! Have some quick feedback:

—I had no idea how much this was going to cost. Consider adding the price near to the CC field.

—I had no idea where this money was going. I assume to send the letter, but what company? How will this appear on my CC bill?

—Non-SSL form for CC info. I know this is still a work in progress, but will be a concern for some.

—Next button was on the left. When going through the process, I would expect the primary action to be on the right.

Best of luck!
Who cares what Evil Shmit does anyhow.

His fake lying news business(read ads!) is finally doomed to fail anyway in a very near future.
Song translation is a really interesting "intelligence-complete" [constrained] optimization problem. You have an objective function that needs to take into account:

- closeness of meaning to the source language for each line or group of lines

- rhyme scheme in the target language (often completely absent in the source language)

- meteor/scansion in the target language (i.e. strong syllables on downbeats, see: http://www.patpattison.com/perfectmatch/ - and, as is often the case when the source language is a language like Japanese where syllable stresses are ignored, the melody is not written to make this easy)

- if the target language is tonal or semi-tonal, the degree to which words match the melody increasing/decreasing in pitch

- overall natural feel of the lyrics as dialogue

So the song re-writing is an iterative process as indicated here: over time, you explore the space of possible translations, evaluating against these metrics, and recognizing that changing one line could have higher-order effects, i.e. you need to change the rhyme scheme and therefore require a reordering of two other previous lines, leaping out of a local optimum and throwing out a lot of progress to make the overall song even better!

Skilled songwriters, of course, can instantly discard huge portions of the space, and know intuitively where to begin. But even the best still need to iterate. And I find translation a great exercise for songwriting, since it lets me practice navigating this subspace of the much more complex general problem: how do you write a song starting with a blank page?
That quote was from Tom Wheeler, ex-chairman of the FCC who opposes ending net neutrality. He was being sarcastic.
It seems the fight has already been lost.
the times were extremely different, and the rules can't hurt
Sure, but personal responsibility is learned/cultural. It could take a while for people to break the cycle when they grew up seeing their parents make poor decisions, who also grew up seeing their own parents make poor decisions, etc. Not saying that all poverty is a result of poor decisions but that the two feed on each other
> All everyone is talking about is weed which I’m sure most of us agree shouldn’t be tested for

Speak for yourself, pothead.
Might be just too early.
the actual case arguments of citizens unitied came down to pointing out that the supressing a corporations free speech rights would effectively lead to banning books. That was actually brought up in the arguments made by the side against Citizens United and a least according to that Radiolab episode was the point that decided the case.

It can effectively be boiled down to something like you write a book critical of Trump. You try to release it during the next election cycle. Because the book is published by a corporation and because it would arguably be political speech it would be banned. Banning books is generally frowned on by many people and the government deciding which books are political and which are not sounds like a very slippery slope.

In the actual case an example was given - you write a 200 page book about global warming - at the end you put one sentence - "therefore don't vote for candidate x" - the side arguing against Citizens United confirmed that book could have been banned
> No one is required to give you a job

And no one is required to work for you at the wages you can afford to pay...

Want affordable workers? Increase supply or decrease demand. If you can't do the latter, focus on the former.
It's not there yet, but mobile broadband is becoming increasingly viable.

It's far from ideal, but 4 (soon 3) competitors are better than the 1 choice I have for wired broadband.
>Why would ISPs want emulate that failing model?

It's profitable and with their lobbying, they can protect themselves from competition. If cable companies had the opportunity to cut streaming services at the knees 10 years ago (and the foresight to understand how it would affect their market) you bet they would have.

This is as anti-consumer as you can get.
I'm not surprised. There are a lot of jobs outside of the main metro areas that don't pay that much. They could be, for example, a DB admin for a non-tech company where their priority is not IT because IT is viewed as a cost center. Or perhaps a third party B2B company that is the low cost solution for a larger, more recognized company. You might be surprised what some people make in those cases.
I used one of the companies they acquired (MeinFerbus) and had a very positive experience - but now that they basically acquired a monopoly by buying out everyone else they are turning out not to be so nice. Many popular routes had the frequency cut down to ensure every bus is full to the brim, travel times became longer because they combined 2 routes in one, etc.
$35k isn't an unusually low starting salary for lots of tech jobs outside major hubs. IT positions, starting network techs/sysadmins, hacking on PHP/Wordpress, that kind of thing.

Under the broad umbrella of jobs-you-can-land-with-a-degree-containing-the-word-"computer", there are a great many that aren't making Facebook creepier, or making Gmail's interface worse, or other, similar, very high-paying jobs.

There are even, believe it or not, many that don't pay as well as not really understanding how to write code, but nonetheless somehow landing a position writing enterprise Java or DotNet at some boring bigcorp, then never leaving because you never actually get any better at programming than when you started, but these people don't seem to care and there are a few competent people here picking up your slack, so why risk going somewhere else? AKA the broad middle-tier of people working as software developers.
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I've been a web developer since the beginning, so I understand this frustration with the current generation of web developer that reaches for React first purely because it's trendy with complete ignorance of the strengths of traditional approaches.

However, you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Client-side rendering saves server resources, and allows a single API to power web and mobile apps. A pure API is easier to optimize, and is generally a sensible separation of concerns. Of course this doesn't come without overhead, but you don't have to have Facebook-level complexity for this architecture to make sense.
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Is Amazon cheating me?
EDIT: My bad. Amazon clearly states that the final price on the cart will reflect changes as per delivery address and that the front page is a guesstimate.

"The prices on our webside for goods sold by Amazon are displayed in EUR and inclusive of German VAT. However, your final price may differ depending on the actual VAT rate that applies to your order. For orders to other EU countries, the German VAT amount will be deducted and the applicable VAT rate for the destination country will be added. Your final price during checkout will reflect the correct VAT rate for the destination country of your order."

The € 118.99 product magically/deceivingly turns into € 124.99 at checkout with free shipping..
I wonder if there is any explanation to this behaviour at all?

Product link: https://www.amazon.de/Canon-Selphy-CP1300-Foto-Drucker-schwarz/dp/B074QH7NFF/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511285317&sr=8-1&keywords=selphy+cp1300

What I see:

https://imgur.com/a/Yu9El

Appreciate any explanation...
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The times were three years ago.
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Might as well plug my update experience as well, although you in particular have already seen it:

https://gist.github.com/FichteFoll/903baad8447ce83e81dee1789...

Regarding multiple tabs, I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-han...
It also cooperates with Tree Style Tab (since it's from the same developer)
Ultimately, my solution was remote work. Interestingly this also solved the problem of high cost of living on the west coast (moved to the Midwest). It also helps distribute economic and social influence across the whole of the country instead of densely packing it into a few privileged areas.
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> People are dropping cable due to the heavy-handed control and lack of choice. Why would ISPs want emulate that failing model?

Because the cable companies are the ISPs, and without ISPs acting differently, there's less impetus for people to ditch their cable companies as cable companies.

Especially when the phone/cable/ISP firms can block or tax into submission services that compete with their phone and video offerings by virtue of their control of internet access.
The difference in latency is only noticeable in Windows 7 with DWM disabled though, is that your current setting?
They are, until it benefits them not to be.

It'll never benefit the consumer to go this way. Google and Netflix are allies of convenience at best.
Net neutrality means that ISPs are required to be neutral to Internet-based services. You might disagree with if this regulation is required, but the term itself is not "Orwellian."

People who will be harmed is anyone who doesn't want their media coming from sources controlled by large corporations such as TimeWarner, Facebook, News Corp., etc. Such conglomerates will get special deals that make it harder for more "alternate" media sources to compete.
The problem in this case isn’t centralized App Stores. It’s software that relies on a centralized server. If Skype we’re still P2P, then maybe it could evade the Great Firewall a bit easier. But it’s not, and China will just ban the Skype servers and render the app useless, even if you’re able to side load it.
> Guys literally posting in company-wide Slack channels that they're "feeling a little sleepy this morning, gonna be in later."

That is primary advantage of flexible working time, which is something everyone up to now praised as huge improvement. I dont do that because I have family, but dont see a problem assuming a.) they work full time when you cont worked time and b.) I can come sooner as norm + leave sooner and not be punished for it by management assuming everyone gotta stay late.

> Can you even imagine somebody saying that to their boss in some black-and-white movie from the 1940s?

Movies are not representation of society as it exists. It is not true now and it was not true back then, especially because censorship back then was heavier and because 1940 was second world war time.

Notably, films could only present "correct standards of life" (for the times) unless the plot called for something else. Alcohol consumption, could not be shown unless the plot called for it. The law had to be respected and upheld.

I remember old movies from later eras where both white collar and blue collar dudes drunk on the job and were various grades irresponsible.
LOL. No issues with the education system. Cool. I'm just going to start practicing medicine tomorrow. I'll just Google everything. No need to pay 150k for med school. Random internet person said there's no problems with that.
It's kind of useless, but not illegal. You won't be able to stat/open any of the files in the directory, although anybody can read their names. Putting a .txt on a directory name is also perfectly legal and still in bad form.

I agree the most likely explanation is accidentally putting the d in there in the editing process.
Love what you guys did wish PageDash. Archiving locally is perhaps the main reason why I'm paying Evernote and not PageDash, however. However, I've never been happy with the way Evernote tries to be a filing system and I like the simplicity of PageDash. That said If I'm going to invest time to archive I would like to know that the effort won't be wasted if you go out of business.
We screwed up by not making this a campaign issue.
I'd like to have a quick shout out to Tom Wheeler. I was very worried when he was first appointed, but it was great to see someone who used their experience lobbying to stand up for consumers instead of continuing to act in corporate interests.
That reminds me of this famous work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
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You actually think potheads will have the self-control not to toke up the night before? And any time they fail a drug test, they totally didn't smoke pot for like a full month bro, it was the poppy seeds in my bagel dude!

LOL. Grow up, get a life, stop smoking pot you lowlife. Weed doesn't make you cool, it just makes you a loser.
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you won't see it. they will force netflix to pay them more. And the charge will be passed on to all subscribers.
I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't lose much business at all. With Flixbus, people pay 22€ for a 7:15h bus ride from Munich to Berlin. With DB, people will have to pay 150€ for a 4h train ride from Munich to Berlin (without a Bahncard). This is not affordable for the typical customer of Flixbus.
> The company has been working with restaurants that cook with a lot of grease to remind them to collect it and throw it out, rather than dumping it down the drain. It has also instituted a campaign — "Bin it, don't block it" — asking Londoners to help prevent fatbergs.

Is there no requirement that restaurants have grease traps?
That could be true in a causative sense, but not a correlative* one. Not that it's ethical to do so, but by testing for marijuana smokers, businesses/insurance companies may by proxy be testing for other traits likely to cause accidents
I had the same experience. Got locked out of 2FA, spent two weeks waiting for a reply from support, only to be told that I should just make a new account. Unfortunately I haven't found an easier option for buying BTC.
Not that I think it has much relevance as an argument, but my employer pays for Ubuntu. Which in turn seems to be this developers employer. Presumably this is part of his job there, since the commit was made during the day.

As I said, not that I think it matters. But "no one pays for open source" frequently just isn't correct these days.
It's unlikely popular and profitable services will be hindered by the lack of net neutrality.

But any new services that threaten existing ones will be hard-pressed to compete.

Imagine I start a new streaming service. In order for my service to reach people, ISP's will charge me a higher price than Netflix, probably a _significantly_ higher rate. This will make it extremely difficult for my new service to reach enough people to make it an ongoing concern.

This is just another nail in the oligarchy coffin we are actively sealing ourselves in.

It will also allow ISP's to control and block content if someone pays them to do so. There are still anti-competitive laws on the books, but are any of them even being enforced anymore. We allowed the banks to become monopolies, we've allowed the AT&T fox back in the hen house.

If we don't fight back, we're going to become slaves to the digital age.
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I pointed it out, and I don't really care exactly--I just think it's common courtesy for the person to disclose it.

He didn't, so I did for him.
I have a recommendation, and it's going to sound scary at first so please read all the way through.

We should convince the firearms industry that Net Neutrality is in their interest. They benefit heavily from an internet presence, and recent actions on Youtube related to demonitizing firearms content have already affected the community.

Firearms related content is absolutely an easy target for ISPs to block and censor.

And if there's anything the firearms industry is good at in the US, it's fighting tooth and nail and using their reps to get things done.

I realize it's an uncomfortable and unlikely alliance, but it could be a powerful one.
Where can one go to learn these "blue collar" skills? As a recent home owner I'm learning first hand how valuable these skills are by way of my wallet. Seems like most people I meet who do these kinds of jobs were "born into it", and learned by helping a family member who was already in the industry. Are there IIT type schools which teach these kinds of things on a part time basis?
Sure, with tiny data caps and even more artificial restrictions on speeds and content.
BitBlt is done in DMA ram by the CPU, so it may be even worse than just a copy as there is likely a wait involved too to prevent shared access. Using DMA ram prohibits the GPU/Driver from doing optimizations on that ram that it could do if the buffer was in dedicated gpu-ram. This is why DX12 resources are generally always copied into non-shared buffers.
I use unique passwords and unique usernames for everything
This is in fact the case.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certif...

Every CA is growing except StartCom who were distrusted by most players last year (and Microsoft, belatedly, remembered this year) and have recently declared they're throwing in the towel, won't try to get back their trust.

The big categories which shrank are "None" and "Invalid Domain", ie people who didn't have SSL, or were on shared hosting and never switched it on for their site or whatever.
What did he do that was so horrible? It must have been bad because he publicly apologized.
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They managed to cool the corium by flooding it with water.
Why not just not cater to druggies or enable their behavior at all?
They would have to pay the ISPs? It may well benefit them in the long run by increasing the size of their moats, but it will immediately affect their bottom lines.
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Really not much different from using a unique "error" number, and certainly easier to communicate without transposition or other unintentional errors:

Compare:

"The program says 'atrocity' and I don't know what I did wrong!"

vs.

"The program says 'error 567231' and I don't know what I did wrong!"
Yes, but what the FCC declines to regulate the FTC might decide to regulate. Indeed, it sometimes has appeared that this division, reallocation, reassignment, of regulation has been a goal of the administration. That is, FTC type stuff belongs in the FTC, not the FCC. Maybe that will happen in this case.
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“Staff Engineer” is about halfway up the technical career ladder in many places, with a few possible (but increasingly rare) levels above, and a few levels below. Someone promoted to staff engineer likely has at least 5 years of work experience (probably more) and is self-motivated, good at their job, gets along well with their coworkers, and has some technical vision.

Many of these people might have some quasi-managerial duties (interacting with other parts of the organization, helping with recruiting, ...), get roped into more meetings than they would like, or make high-level technical decisions and delegate work to a handful of more junior engineers, but most of them are sitting at their desks writing code a significant part of the day (or perhaps rewriting the schlocky code that the junior engineers just handed in).
Where I live, I like spectrum-formerly-timewarner-formerly-roadrunner cable Internet just fine. There are a lot of alternatives to using it for home Internet around here, and I'm pretty sure the two are related.

If you want better internet access, instead of begging the FCC for scraps get on repealing legislated monopoly rights for kinds of wires and/or unbundling last mile from ISP.

Then ask yourself why internet reform is focused on NN instead of provider competition.