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>Canadian here from Toronto.

Canadian in Vancouver here.

> Taxes on the middle class have become absolutely ridiculous.

I disagree. We are lower taxed than some US states, depending on which province you are in, and get much much more in services.

> Property taxes rise every year

Citation needed. They have actually dropped here.
See: http://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/residential.as...

> electricity prices have nearly doubled

Citation need. BC Hydro's rate went up 4%, slightly above inflation.

> payroll taxes take away a third of your income from every paycheck.

That's odd as Canada doesn't have a payroll tax. Perhaps you mean payroll deductions for income tax withholding and pension/employment insurance premiums? None of these technically have to be withheld from your pay, but it is helpful to do so.

> The vast amount of benefits in Canada go to the lower class, and disappear if you move up a tax bracket.

It doesn't work like that. The middle class gets the bulk of the benefits (roads, airport, higher education, etc). Secondly, there is no case where making more money doesn't put you further ahead. All programs, like taxes, have progressive scales applied to them. This just isn't an issue.
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[duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13009796]
The worst part about all this, is that the same party that claims to be about Tolerance is so intolerant that you can't even explain to them why this (Trump & Brexit) happened.

No I'm not saying a word and I advise the HN members who "know what I'm talking about" to STAY quiet as well. I know it's tempting but I've tried it before on HN. I tried explaining, I'd type up these long posts with links to video evidence, scientific papers, psychology today articles and still the you-know-what-leaning downvote brigade got me. I don't mind downvotes but when you see how these people attack and censor and get you fired from work it's just not worth it. I deleted all my comments before the deletion time limit hit and vowed to just stop.

I know some of you are curious but honestly, this is your punishment. Your punishment is not Trump and Brexit, your punishment is never truely knowing why Trump and Brexit happened.

This is your hell. You made it.
I Don't get it. They last updated in august. Wouldn't the next be due in December?
The Republicans never brought forward any proposals for improvement but voted 40 times or so for repealing Obamacare. I don't think they have any plans other than letting the market fix itself and if you can't afford healthcare you just have to do without.

In reality, American healthcare is just a big scam and ripoff. On my last trip to Germany my girlfriend had a problem with her eye. We went to an eye doctor there and paid 25 Euro out of pocket without insurance. Doctors in Germany don't starve but they have nice cars and houses. In the US she had recently several surgeries and every hospital bill has had massive errors in the range of thousands of dollars. It's just a racket. How about enforcing some standards of billing accuracy instead of allowing this kind of scam?
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No thanks, we've got our own thing going here in the Northwest. An independent California would be a great neighbor, but if Washington and Oregon seceded, we would be doing our own Cascadian thing.
That's definitely true; maybe if you know there's an anglo-sounding unopposed candidate and you have an anglo name, you can probably find an anglo friend to run alongside you.
> While I'm not going to complain about a price reduction, I'd honestly be more excited if S3 implemented support for additional headers and redirect rules. Right now, anyone hosting a single page app (e.g. Angular/React) behind S3 and Cloudfront is going to get an F on securityheaders.io.

You can setup "Origin Custom Headers" in CloudFront ;)
It's entirely possibly that most people might be planning on voting for a candidate, but incorrectly believe that most other people were planning on voting for their opponent.
Per [1], the epicenter of the Kaikoura earthquake was 59 miles from Christchurch. The New Yorker article reads, "But Monday’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake, centered near Kaikoura, sixty miles north of Christchurch...". So perhaps an editing error (a misplaced modifier), rather than an outright blunder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kaikoura_earthquake
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Wikipedia has pages for federal tax dollars paid[1] and federal spending[2]. The spending data matches this publication from the state of California[3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state#F...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_...

3. http://www.lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/131
Yes, I am the same way. I would like to think I'm reasonably good, but I still have to watch a video when I truss or carve a bird. It's partly because I don't do it that often, though. Pepin is a master.
EDIT: My mistake, this is the new S3 pricing! NOT Glacier pricing! Thank you res0nat0r.

Am I understanding this right? $0.023/GB/month for Glacier, so * 12 months/year = $0.276/GB/year, which means:

10GB = $2.70/year
100GB = $27.00/year
1TB = $270.00/year
...

And this is only the storage cost. This doesn't take into account the cost should you actually decise to retrieve the data.

So considering a 1TB hard drive [0] costs $50.00, how is this cost effective? I can buy 5x1TB hard drives for the price of 1TB on Glacier.

I understand there is overhead to managing it yourself. So, is this just not targeted to technically proficient folks?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Cache-Desktop-Drive-WD10EZEX/dp/...
I think the featureset that Windows 10 provides is good enough as an alternative (see my top level comment[1]). EAF was never that useful because it uses debug registers and the ROP protections have been "replaced" by CFG (control flow guard). Everything else is provided by a vanilla Windows 10 install.

The usefulness of the EMET protections were that they could be used without having to recompile an application where protections like CFG do require recompilation with the latest Visual Studio (and for you to Opt-In to CFG).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011211
Is anyone using either S3 or Glacier to store encrypted backups of their personal computer(s)? I've only used Time Machine to back up my machine for a long time, but I don't really trust it and would like to have another back up in the cloud. Any tools that automate back up and restore to/from S3/Glacier? What are your experiences?
"but unless you were matured to adulthood in a lab, it's hard to argue that men as a class do not benefit from improved and cheaper access to reproductive healthcare for women."

There are plenty of single men that should not be forced to pay for women's reproductive healthcare.

"What state do you live in? "

http://time.com/money/4535394/obamacare-plan-premium-price-i...

8 states rose by at least 30%.

"States could voluntarily permit policies to be sold from other states. For example, states in different regions could elect to normalize their regulatory schemes and open up their markets to each other. There's plenty of precedent for this. It doesn't require Congressional approval; just coordination among state legislatures like is so often done for other regulatory frameworks."

Great, but Obamacare in its current form needs to go.
Where are you going to keep it? On site? Not so good for disaster recovery.
That's comparing apples and oranges - your hard drive doesn't live in a secure, fireproof data center in the cloud you can access from anywhere.
I'm not a big fan of all the maintenance of "good knives", I buy Kiwi-brand knives from a local Asian market. They're very sharp and cheap enough (max $5) that when they get dull you can just use another one. But yes, most home kitchens have criminally dull knives. A truly sharp knife is a revelation after you've bumbled around trying to use those.
FYI the 90s were not the boom years. The 70s were good at least relative to elsewhere.
This paper, from 2014, says that the Hubble space telescope is oversubscribed by 4:1 to 5:1. [1] That's a higher acceptance rate than most government funding grants these days (unfortunately). Perhaps it suggests that there is still a lot of unmet demand for good science to be done with it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3528
You should keep in mind that S3 really is an object storage. It's named as such, advertised as such, priced as such and the limitations you're hitting are because it's built as such.

It does work if you want to host a static site, and it's nice that they offer a bunch of extra niceties to help make those work... but expecting things like user-agent-specific redirects is a bit much for what's essentially a filesystem.
Why do you think it happened? I'm asking in good faith because I am in a liberal bubble, and I feel strongly that more empathy and willingness to listen is needed from my cohort.
Back then, "faster" really meant faster. These days, there's far less of a gap between processor generations for a consumer use-case. Running Firefox on Windows 10 to check Gmail and Facebook and occasional Word usage probably wouldn't feel much slower if you're on an Apple A10 processor vs a Skylake core i5. We long ago reached the point where an iPad processor was fast enough for consumer usage, and I knew plenty of college students who were happy with their Surface (non-pro, ARM-based).

For you and I, we want the fastest machines possible, and right now it's x86. For everyone else, I doubt they've even given it a thought, and I don't think they'd notice.
It may be for backing up infrequently accessed data (compliance logs, etc) for example.

Hypothetical: you create a logging service for users to send all their log data to you. You promise 365 days of archives, but 30 days of data accessible at any time. You create a lifecycle rule on your S3 bucket to automatically archive data to Glacier 30 days after creation. On the 31st day, your user decides they want to look at an old log. They click the big Download button. You display a message saying they'll get an email from you when that data is ready to download.
Wheres a link to the site?
Where in the article does the author "push the point that people simply have a misguided perception of reality"? I don't see any such point being made anywhere. The author stated that people perceive that they have lost something. Whether or not this perception is rational, is something the author does not take any stand on.
Obama can't/won't pardon him because of his vendetta with Russia and the damage they caused the DNC during this election cycle
That's for sending headers to your web server or S3 though, not for sending headers to the user. There are a few extra headers you can send to the user, but not the security related ones.
> For example, retrieving 500 archives that are 1 GB each would cost 500GB x $0.01 + 500 x $0.05/1,000 = $5.25

Shouldn't that be $5.025? Or did I misunderstand?
You smart home for 1983 in 2016
Glacier is not for data you want readily available. It's for when you care more about storage than access.
that brings up an important point -- being convicted or incarcerated might affect one's daily mood enough to change their resting facial expression -- so to control for that the study should have made sure to only use photos of criminals taken before their first arrest or conviction, perhaps even before their first confessed criminal act if possible.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isi... A year into the Syrian rebellion, the US and its allies weren’t only supporting and arming an opposition they knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups; they were prepared to countenance the creation of some sort of “Islamic state” – despite the “grave danger” to Iraq’s unity – as a Sunni buffer to weaken Syria.
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The new glacier pricing is $0.004/GB/month, those prices above look to be the new S3 pricing. Also you get 99.999999999% durability.
This is just awesome ... AWS continue to surprise with new features.. now only if I could mark a bucket encrypted so anything uploaded automatically gets encrypted!!
Why not? If you have ever worked with any asynchronous API, you have already been introduced to the "come back later" model. Does it really matter how much later it is?
I do not have any personal vendettas.
> basically, Windows 10 doesnt use EMET

You can still use EMET on Windows 10 though. I believe the main takeaway from the article should be that they're discontinuing it.

You can get almost all of the EMET provided mitigations except for EAF and the ROP protections from a vanilla Windows 10 install (see my top level comment[1]). There's also the cert pinning but currently that's only useful for IE.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011211
Of course any idea can be reduced to absurdity but, as a general concept, I have no problem with city-states and free cities and would be very happy to see them revived as a widespread form of sovereignty.
Is the outgoing bandwidth still the same price? Bandwidth cost is kind of high compared to other services.
Your comment implies it's obvious why they happened. Is it? I've read many nuanced, data driven, and mutually exclusive articles about why Trump won.

What is so obvious that all this complexity is unnecessary? And if it doesn't seem obvious to so many people, why should I (or anyone else) update their beliefs and say ah yes of course; all those careful investigations were just missing the point?

I hope this doesn't come across as derogatory - it's not meant that way. I really am curious about the epistemology; when many people say complicated and some say obvious, what evidence should cause me to believe the latter?
Pundits who were 99.9 percent sure Clinton was going to win, are making new predictions and analyses with equal confidence.
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It's been a really bad day for my on HN, with people making strawmen out of my comments, and accusing me of saying things I did not say. That's not even remotely close to what I was saying, and I'm officially done with HN for awhile.
It's a relevant quote that matches the sentiment many of us have toward banks which are "too big to fail".
> The Republicans never brought forward any proposals for improvement but voted 40 times or so for repealing Obamacare. I don't think they have any plans other than letting the market fix itself and if you can't afford healthcare you just have to do without.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/18/13678690/r...
Wood version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A
Why doesn't within the EU count? There are dramatic differences in trust and economic levels between didn't states in the EU, as well as dramatic language differences. Seems like it would be a perfect case study for a region crossing sovereign states without passports.
Almost none of the use cases financial institutions look to blockchain to solve have anything to do with settlement or clearance.
If you don't want to mess with all of that, you could use the standard "aws s3" command to upload your files to your s3 bucket like normal, and just apply an archive policy to your bucket or archive/ prefix or whatnot and it will automatically transfer your files to glacier for you.
I didn't go over the entire list, but I was convinced the issues you faced were very much local concerns when the Flappybird clone worked fine on my iPhone 6S. As did the paper planes game (which I thought was very cute.)
A system that enforces comments can't enforce good comments.
Simple is easy to shop around. Their goal is not to make pricing simple, don't hold your breath.
> The last person that died from a spider bite was in 1979.

There was one this year, actually[1]. Non-fatal bites are more common, but there's no official statistics because it's not a reportable medical emergency.

Folks that live near bushland of any variety know to do the basics like not sticking your fingers into areas you can't see, and not weeding/digging in the garden within the Sydney region with bare hands.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/young-man-dies-af...
Android and Linux is (shockingly) also automatic. I plugged my phone into my laptop because I didn't want to run down the phone battery while using it as a mobile wifi hotspot. I was shocked to notice that I had Internet access on the laptop before I even enabled the mobile hotspot functionality.

It turns out that when I plugged the phone into the laptop USB, it showed up as a USB ethernet device, which NetworkManager then happily auto-configured.

So clearly 2016 is the year of the Linux laptop.
While cool, this is only valid for the first 12 months of an AWS account.
I won't be impressed till they run DOOM or the Linux kernel on it
I believe this HUGELY simplifies glacier pricing.

I don't think you understand just how insanely, incredibly, bizarrely complicated the old glacier pricing was.
Well, that's a less bad list.
That's certainly quite possible.

But in the final weeks the US election had close polling. Clinton was leading Trump by less than 5% in most polls and was actually behind in a few of them (Matt Drudge always managed to find those polls to link to).

So it's hard to understand why people might have those beliefs in a relatively close election. Easier to understand if the election was predicted to be a blowout.

But blowouts don't happen that often. The most recent true blowout I experienced was Reagan vs Mondale in 1984. An electoral blowout, only Minnesota and DC voted for Mondale. But the popular vote was closer, roughly 59%/41%.
Amen! Have been baffled by the urge to move stuff to S3 for app hosting. I understand the convenience (sort of) and the scalability aspects (mostly) but you seem to lose loads of functionality.
Swap out some brand names and that's almost exactly what I'm building right now. Micro services! Let's make everything like that now!

I miss WinForms.
That is in fact the purpose of downvoting :)

To help enforce good comments :)

Adding comments to downvotes would be a DISASTER.

It would mean that you would suffer through huge amounts of dumb comments before you would be able to tell the quality ones.
I mean they let you put S3 behind Cloudfront with a TLS cert. Having read through all the documentation, hundreds of blog posts, etc., I've seen absolutely nothing that indicates that S3 + Cloudfront isn't meant for serious web hosting.
Check out Duplicity or Duplicati. Also Arq for OSX I believe is very nice and has a great GUI but isn't free.
Agreed.

Glacier was, from my point of view, literally unusable. Now, it's usable. I still may not use it but at least I can.
So, 8 nuclear submarines, give or take? Or a couple dozen F-35s?

I'd say it's a better investment.
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Ah, thanks for the extra info. We have several web apps that take user uploads and store it to S3 buckets here too, but still we don't see an adversely high request load. Not sure if the handshaking involved in getting a pre-signed URL will be upping your count?

We just use the AWS SDK on our Ruby back end. The user file is first uploaded to the (EC2) app server, then we use the SDK call to transfer it to the S3 bucket. Our storage and request costs are about equal at this stage.

Using Lambda/Node, I guess that the SDK is not an option and you have to use the pre-signed URL method? Or else use Python and the SDK library?
> It will incorrectly rewrite this template literal.

That is a bug and should be fixed.

I'm not sure what visual signifiers that GraphQL has which this doesn't.

It's a fairly clear pattern of what's going on. I really don't see what is "unreadable" about it.
> Continuum -- the capability that will allow Windows 10 Mobile devices to connect to external displays and keyboards -- is going to be a key for the company

This actually sounds like a very good move by Microsoft. Just issue people a phone and they will do all their work on that. There's really no need for giant workstations anymore, and I think this will be more successful than a Chromebook-type thing.
> There are plenty of single men that should not be forced to pay for women's reproductive healthcare.

I have to say this attitude makes me viscerally angry. Men have a much higher incidence of heart disease, so maybe women should not be forced to pay for that? Men engage in lots of unhealthy, risky behaviors, but I've never heard a woman make a statement analogous to yours. It's like saying "Well I'm not handicapped, so why the hell should I have to pay for special accommodations for those people?".

If you accept that socialized healthcare is a good idea, then it seems to follow fairly obviously that we're all unique and will have individualized healthcare needs.
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Frame Count != sort speed. Cache effects are going to dominate. How close together the red dots are will more closely represent how fast it is.
Does this count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xCd55oSgO4
I feel like reconciling the divide between the client/server relationship is the next major opportunity for abstraction
I don't use Google services for anything work related (we're government so we have "good old" Outlook and Exchange), just personal stuff and side work. Basically, as long as it can sync with the calendar and contacts on my phone, I'm set.

Thanks for the warning though, and maybe one of the FastMail devs will see your post and address it.
Hypocrisy. At least here in India, the hypocrisy of what is labeled the "liberal left" is nauseating.

- I clamor for women's rights but when a certain religion is guilty of trampling over women's rights, I go quiet

- I clamor for equality before law but when a certain religion asks for different laws for different religions, I go quiet

People don't take too lightly to their sense of fairness being trampled over, and this feeling of unfairness seems to be a cause for growing discontent.
I use Arq (https://www.arqbackup.com/) and it works very well. I've only tested retrieving small amounts of data from it so I can't comment much on a large bill. I only wish it worked on Linux. I've been thinking about seeing if it would work with Wine.
You're right, I missed that one, I read the other one:

10,000 yuan borrowed on an annual interest rate of 24 percent within a week.

Even the greediest moneylenders here rarely go beyond 10% weekly.
> Never mind that wires will always be better ... than wireless.

For some values of "better". For me, not plugging in and needing to carrying around wires is always better.

> and more private

Wireless can be secure and unencrypted wired transfers can be sniffed via the electromagnetic radiation they emit. This isn't as cut and dry as some like to pretend.
That video looks more like wolfenstein
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I saw this story and was alarmed. Why are there so many incidences of cancer in San Francisco for a relatively small population?

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/11/404931/broad-new-partnership-launches-plan-reduce-cancer-san-francisco

Is it something to do with the old construction, or is it the air, or is it lifestyle? I was under the impression that most San Franciscans (including myself) lead an active healthy life(style).
Heyo, sounds not quite right if you wanna shoot me an email randhunt@amazon.com I'd be happy to try to figure it out. Your API calls shouldn't be that much more than the storage cost without a really strange access behavior. I don't know the answer off the top of my head but I'm down to try to find it out. GET's cost money and outbound bandwidth cost money but PUTS/POSTS should be neglible.