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> or domino theorists in Washington

Domino theory wasn't just an abstract concept that artificially created conflict. Every country involved in the domino theory (Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, and India) experienced conflict due to the massive shift in political power after WW2 when the former colonial powers started to withdraw.

It's too simplistic to assume that any western involvement in these countries was purely at the behest of Wall Street or due to the perceived threat of communism and had nothing to do with the internal conflicts created by years of colonial rule. The ruling class in nearly every one of these countries was more than happy to have continued military and economic support from the west as they fought their own civil wars.

Communism was also not a benign form of government - millions died due to purges and famine caused by communist theories of central management etc. Again, it is far too simplistic to assume that the motivation of western nations were purely economic.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that economic interests were not a critical component of why the west was involved but I do think it is far too easy to ignore the complexity of these conflicts for the sake of a convenient "the west is only involved to make money" narrative.
Agreed. Everything else equal, I'd personally go with the more stable IaaS provider as opposed to fringe ones that can go out of business or be acquired out of existence.
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I think solar efficiency improvements played a very large factor and also the cheaper labour costs in India.
Automating a way to identify what people belong to what groups is possible, buts its definitely not as easy as a regex
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There's a lot of managed services on AWS and it's growing rapidly. But they're delivered through partners, not AWS directly. I didn't write down the numbers from this segment of the Re:Invent Global Partner keynote yesterday but, as I recall, "next generation managed service providers" was highlighted as a big growth opportunity.
> Those icons are Font Awesome 4.7, which is completely open source so you can do almost whatever you want with them.

Pro vs Free still bothers me. Couldn't one of the stretch goals been to make all fonts free and open?
U.S. border agents stopped journalist from entry and took his phones
I agree with the first comment, but Android is "not fine".

The lack of a sane updating model is a real security problem.
A lot of the Netflix "Orginals" are really just Netflix being the exclusive distributor in a particular region of a show produced by someone else.
The threat with red, though, is that it also has a strong symbolic link to "error". If you power down your console and suddenly see a red light, it conjures up awful memories of the Xbox 360.
True, but they're mostly decorative spots that hardly consume any light at all. Especially compared to old school flood lights that cast wide glows on sides of buildings.
That's just referring to the VPS itself. If you keep reading the FAQ you'll see that there are ways to exceed that amount.

Plus there's nothing stopping someone breaking into your account and upgrading it in all kinds of evil ways (which has been a huge hassle with AWS tokens being stolen from e.g. Github).
Dependent types are the big win for me as well, even though I'm pretty inexperienced with both Haskell and Idris. I've heard LiquidHaskell thrown around when people talk about dependent types, have you looked into that before?
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Is there anything preventing me from using these servers as proxies with incredibly cheap bandwidth? I assume it stacks? When we reach transfer limits I can just spin up an additional $5 instance to add another 1TB?

$5/mo per 1TB of bandwidth = $5.00 / 1024 = $0.0049/GB compared to EC2's normal $0.09/GB -- That's a 91-95% discount on egress data!
Hi kasano.

One of the most relevant use cases of ToroDB Stampede is precisely what you say, replacing MongoDB to PostgreSQL ETLs, where you have to design the schema, solve data type conflicts, maybe flatten or discard data, etc. And other problems like real-time replication, managing HA, etc. Stampede addresses all these problems.

While most people may want to use an empty, dedicated database for Stampede, it is not required to do so. Stampede will generate the tables under a schema name that matches the collection name. So as long as there are no name conflicts, you can happily have ToroDB-generated tables alongside your own. Needless to say, this gives you the ability to JOIN information from different data sources.

So sure, go and give it a try! :)
You can try "Cloud Storage Transfer":

`Transfer data to your Cloud Storage buckets from Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), HTTP/HTTPS servers or other buckets. You can schedule once-off or daily transfers, and you can filter files based on name prefix and when they were changed.`

https://cloud.google.com/storage/transfer/
How much did making the video cost?

When I first saw it I thought that commercial itself must've cost around the ballpark of the amount you were trying to raise (30k) and can't possibly be worth it. But turns out it was a brilliant move!
Nice! I'll travel with a bunch of kids to a place without internet. We would like to watch a movie at night in a projector connected to a laptop.

It looks like it won't be possible to stream the contents of the netflix app in my phone to the projector.
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You're better off just having a reliable supplier who cares about your health because that means continued business for him.
This is a really clever trick, I'm surprised I haven't heard it before.

"Hide your indicator lights" really isn't reasonable, but marker or masking tape would be good candidates for blocking 80%+ of the light.
Same thing. You get a VPS, but more non-AWS-expert friendly with less complicated pricing structure.
Google in most cases is not the device's manufacturer, and in a mobile device OS and application SW are tightly coupled, so you cannot really have OS updates separate from firmware updates, bypassing the actual manufacturer's own updates.

Google (and Apple and Microsoft) can totally do it for devices that manufactures and maintains on its own, and actually it is one of the selling points of their new phone.

In addition, at least in the US, devices connecting to a cellular network have to go through a certification process, enforced by the carriers, and every firmware update requires additional regression testing (time and money) for the device to be admitted on the network again.

(That's my guess of why Lenovo dropped the policy of fast updates for Moto phones when they bought Motorola)
Yes. They could sell the IP address to someone else.
I don't know why were you downvoted, but it really is true. If they really cared about the environment, the massive pile of garbage in Delhi would stop being burned [1]. This is the National Capital we're talking about. And the landfill is not somewhere far off the city either, you can see it smoking if you board a yellow line Samaypur bound train and look outside the windows near Azadpur station.

So yeah, we're going to burn a ton, or two of coal, and keep building Solar power plants.

To be fair, I applaud the efforts being taken, however, pretending that the problems don't even exist is what's unfortunate.

[1] http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/smouldering-mountains-of-garb...
Yep, I'm stuck on 4.4.2 because verizon doesn't provide OTA updates any more and the 4.4 update ensures that the phone bricks if you go through the process of installing cyanogenmod.
Its all about the over-ear mate.. over-ear..
Don't college educated people also receive social security benefits? Why should they receive more benefits over someone who isn't college educated?
If you really start saying things they don't like you will lose your ability to get snail-mail (in Canada).

I can just hear it now... what's the big deal the Canada Post is under no obligation to do business with you.
Actually, there's quite a bit of cross-distro compatibility around Snaps. Beyond Ubuntu, Snaps are known to work in Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, openSUSE, Yocto, and OpenWRT. Snaps simply require a modern systemd and snapd daemons. With the appropriate SELinux profiles and an updated snapd, it's entirely feasible for the same docker.snap to run on both Ubuntu and Fedora (as well as others). You can learn more about Snaps and Linux distributions at snapcraft.io.
Your reply deflects from the parent's statement. Sure, a lot of westerners supported the Bolsheviks, but that doesn't mean Jacob Schiff was one of them.

> It must be nice living in this world where official truth always === truth. I officially apologize as an Anglo-American for all those sleek smug copies of the Economist we export. Make sure you don't read too many (((books))) tho, it can cause you all kinds of real-life problems!

It must be nice living in this world where smug secret truth always === truth. I officially apologize as an Anglo-American for all those sleek smug "I know better than you sheeple" opinions we export. Make sure you don't read too many (((books))) tho, it can cause you all kinds of real-life problems!
But... they're selling it to you.
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I think Juergen is an interesting and intelligent guy. Besides his work on RNN architecture, he also holds a belief that it is possible that a short computer program has generated our universe.

I think it would be interesting for him to talk about the relationship between his belief that a deterministic universe theory is possible, with his practice of using statistical learning algorithms. Some people might view ANNs (including RNNs) as good learning algorithms for sorting out statistical patterns of probabilistic systems, but not as helpful for analyzing deterministic systems. But I think there is some good insight to be had from exploring the value of statistical learning algorithms on deterministic systems.
It's a really cool idea, although their statements about efficiency seem rather questionable to me. LEDs are only twice as efficient as traditional bulbs? A laughable statement, since I get the same light with 1/5th to 1/8th the energy using off the shelf bulbs.
BTW, I don't know how much of it [0] is true;

Then why post it?
Avoid LSD.
> Amazon’s AWS strategy sprang from the same approach that made the company successful in the first place

I'd argue that Amazon isn't a successful company, they are a popular company with a few large successes surrounded by decaying and decrepit failures that won't die. But then again I'm biased.

As far as Amazon's AWS strategy, I can't comment (I worked in the retail business side). But I can comment on a relatively small aspect of management that I witnessed. At one point in time I had a very strong need for PostGIS, and I lamented on an internal email list about AWS not having a Postgres version of RDS. I received an email directly from Raju Gulabani, VP of databases in AWS. He scheduled an appointment with me, him, and two product managers. He asked me pointed questions about why I wanted Postgres over the other options, how I would be using it, what extensions I wanted, and what features were important to me. He thanked me for my time, and less than a year later it was released to the public.

In the retail business side, I never had more than 2 minutes at a time with someone at the director level, and not once had I spoken to someone at the VP level. Literally zero communication from the bottom up, everything was top down. Whether AWS had already been working on it or not I don't know, but they definitely took the time to hear my case, and when it was released it was almost perfectly as I had asked for. And that, IMO is waaaay more important than anything regarding the size of a team or whatever the fluff pieces have attributed.
UWP apps can't be run outside of the MS store. So that's the lock-in he was talking about. It would be nice if Microsoft enabled "mini-VMs" for legacy x86 apps at least.

That way it could shoot two birds with one stone - make x86 apps a little slower and more resource intensive, and thus give both users and developers a reason to switch to UWP, while at the same time it would also make legacy x86 apps vastly more secure.
So this is why my RPi is no longer responding to SSH?
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Haha ok...I guess technically I'm wearing "over-ear" headphones right now. Hyper-X...pretty cheap gaming headset, extremely comfortable, no flashing led lights or other weird gamer features. Decent sound too.
I got my first bit of AWS credit in a cloud class and something like this was common. From what I've heard they will null out the bill if they can see you didn't use it.
> while DO & AWS have a different security story

That we know of. For better or worse, we're relying on these companies being transparent about account security issues and compromises.

Perhaps it's just me, but I doubt we are being kept in the loop, especially over something which has such a major impact on customer confidence (as evidenced by the sibling comment & replies).
Welcome to the web :)

I can recommend Yii (PHP MVC framework) which can help you get going quickly. It comes with a code generator and also takes care of things like JavaScript form validation and other front-end related things.

Personally, I like to only use JavaScript frameworks/libraries if they are really required. If you need to do a lot of stuff dynamically on the front-end, you can also look into libraries like Backbone, which give you a nice tool belt but keep things more flexible.

Have fun! :)
Did the model predict dark matter, or was dark matter introduced to get the model closer to observed reality?
When I tried it it was slower than bigquery. Plus you've got to mess about creating hive schemas.
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i'm doing my masters in computer vision and augmented reality and am really surprised how these apps keep getting really big which are essentially just implementations of research papers that are out there and public. In a way it makes me feel good because i know "i could do that". But obviously the hardest part is having the idea in the first place.
100%. I can't stand it. It's unlimited liability for anyone that uses their service with no way to limit it. If you were able to set hard caps, you could have set yours at like $5 or even $0 (free tier) and never run into that.

One of my services had a Google BigQuery "budget" set at $100. One of our test machines went haywire and continuously submitted a bunch of jobs. The "budget" turned out only to be an alarm, and even that they sent us 8 hours late, after $1600 of charges had been racked up. I responded in 20 minutes and shut it down. Google insisted we pay the full bill. After I wrote up a blog post on the situation and had the "publish" button warmed up, they finally relented and refunded us for the amount of time their alarm was delayed. Absolutely ridiculous that's not their policy to begin with...
Really? What are these evil ways?
Either I'm missing something (not uncommon) or, whoever claims this is the most funded software project seems to believe video games aren't software.

Star Citizen ($2,134,374) and Double Fine Adventure ($3,336,371) leap to mind.

I'm actually very slightly surprised to hear that there's no non-game software kickstarter that's raised more than $891,989.
Actually, we think the best way for us to keep making Font Awesome Free as good as it can be is to figure out how to be sustainable so we can put more time into Font Awesome.

And the already-funded 38 stretch goal icon packs give 10 each back into Font Awesome Free. So that's another 380. That means FA Free will be over 1,000 icons in version 5 (up from 675). Also, the $1M stretch goal makes the SVG framework and all the code open source.
It would be nice if they managed the transfer themselves via AWS Snowball. Sure, they would have upfront costs, but based on what I spend on AWS monthly, it's probably worth it to them.
Yes, exactly. And in addition to better education, better counseling and support for addicts (including alcoholics) who have fallen into negative patterns of usage.

We could afford a lot of that if we stopped incarcerating people for possession offenses.
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Has he also duct taped over the brand name? 2016 San Francisco, I see you!
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Check out Flask[0], which is a microframework for Python. Pretty easy to start with plus you will be learning Python down the road.
[0] http://flask.pocoo.org/
What I was hoping for was a bare-metal (not-run through VMs) container runtime like Joyent Triton[0] but with more pay-for-what-you-use pricing.

Unlike VMs, which statically allocate mem whether you use it or not, containers have the chance to grow and reduce mem as workfloads go up and down, which means you could pay for GB/h of mem usage on the right-sized # of vCPU base.

Not sure if any IaaS/PaaS is doing this.

Joyent pricing[1] is still for static resource allocation and not cheap compared to these larger players.

[0] https://www.joyent.com/triton
[1] https://www.joyent.com/pricing
How many Junior Chicken with pickles and onions does the unemployed cashier order? When its your turn thru the chipper shredder of the economy and you will never again have money, how many Junior Chicken with pickles and onions will you order at that time? Remember its only a matter of when, not if. When there's no one left with money to buy a Junior Chicken with pickles and onions does that mean the economy "won"? And who exactly is doing this "winning"? And whats the next step?

The problem with the historical analogies is no reaction mechanism is specified, or if one is provided its invalid or inapplicable (perhaps the new mechanism works, but only if all participants IQ are above 140...).

Without a plausible reaction mechanism, its just a gamblers fallacy. Say you're temporarily in a temporarily advanced civilization. You're playing a game where you flip a coin and every time it comes up heads, civilization not only survives but gets better, while every time it comes up tails the civilization collapses and most people die and there's nothing but ruins. In fact your world has no shortage of academics and the archeological ruins of dead civilizations that they ruminate over. Back to the game, so far every time your civilization flips the coin it came up heads, therefore its impossible for it to ever come up tails at any time in the future. Sounds logical, right? I do wonder why those other civilizations all failed, sometimes we're not smart enough yet to know, or there's no longer enough evidence, or using 20/20 hindsight and Monday morning quarterbacking it seems very self evident. Whatever, I got a coin that can only come up heads lets flip it a couple times, what could possibly be the downside?
I'm curious about this too.

Also, how many nights of shooting in the bakery were required?
It's widely accepted. And I'm also a sceptic. More recently scientists have started actually mapping out regions where dark matter is concentrated than - from gravitic perturbations - and have discovered galaxies which contain more dark matter than others, up to 99% as well as the mentioned globular clusters which contain very little dark matter.
Meanwhile, in France: https://www.scaleway.com/

Same thing with OVH, you can get a powerful dedicated server with unlimited bandwidth for the price of a medium EC2 instance. I hope they will open their datacenter in California soon.
My quick 5 second take is that lightsail gives you shared vCPUs/memory and cheaper bandwidth. But I'm still confused myself.
The FAQ is extremely unclear, but if I'm understanding it right, doesn't this make transfer out to Internet significantly cheaper if you insist on using AWS? Instead of paying $0.09/GB, transfer to Lightsail for $0.02/GB then transfer out for $5/1000 GB=$0.005/GB. You do have to deal with changing IP, but you get a 1.26 order of magnitude decrease in price, and that's assuming you don't bother actually using the extra compute.
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Given HN is a huge source of traffic for you, if it were me, I'd do a blog post today on it, post it to HN and try to get feedback on the topic.

For example, I really like how Inc 500 applications are structured and verified [1], but others just like hearing the startup stories.

By posting a single blog post and liSting it HN, feel like the feedback would provide a better source for understanding the issue.

Really do enjoy Indie Hackers, thank you!

[1] http://www.inc.com/inc5000apply/faqs.html
Shipping container homes, land optional;)
The proper response to this is to treat addiction as a disease or disorder, which is to say medically instead of criminally. Interestingly enough, some psychedelics also show signs of being an effective treatment for addiction.[0]

In addition, we know from alcohol prohibition that (besides failing to stop or greatly curtail usage) it tends to incentivize drug producers to push more of the hi-octane stuff because it minimizes their risk: beer was not popular during prohibition while liquor was. If opiates are generally legalized, this evidence shows that the vast majority of people who decide to use them (which is already a tiny minority) will stick with making tea rather than messing with syringes, minimizing the creation of new hardcore addicts. Many benefits come with legalizing all drugs; an exhaustive set of arguments can be found in the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari.

[0] See James Fadiman's studies performed in the 1960s before it all got shut down. A collection of these can be found in the Psychedelic Explorer's Guide.
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Load bearing materials actually carry significantly higher loads than mud; those Haskell constructs have not even been used to build software as intricate as common industry practice, let alone break new ground. Are they truly more powerful? That's a popular hypothesis among those who are aesthetically drawn to those concepts.
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Fair enough! We're going by Kickstarter's definitions:

- Most funded: https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology/s...

- Most backed: https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology/s...

I'll link those up in the article. Good point.
_E_valuation?
No we don't have that distinction. We have places where outsiders, typically from heavily regulated industries like finance, like medicine, like areospace, have imposed testing and validation procedures and best practices onto the software industry. Left to our own devices, we get IoT bullshit like Nest thermostats that randomly turn the temperature down because they turn off[0], security exploit via unneeded running service part 2028, the 9382nd installment of security exploit via default credentials, the 11 millionth edition of buffer overflow security exploit, and the list goes on. These problems screw up not just it, but other systems (see mirari dns ddos, see ransomware, see ransomware on MUNI, see all the other effects from people that coded up things that relied on a ubiquitous persistent internet connection)

[0] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/fashion/nest-thermostat...
Yes but if you're on IBR this is minuscule. I only paid ~$2k my first year in repayment, a small part of that was interest, and because my income was low enough the taxes on that small part was only a few dozens of dollars.

But absolutely when you're making $2250/mo before taxes and extra $20 in your refund is awesome :)