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Just curious on your thoughts, are not most modern companies (startups) dependent on cheap computing (+ smart folks)?
Well usually if you pay more for something like a manufactured good or art work you get more value, but the rule for software seems to be the more you pay for it the less value you get.
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> In any given year, trillions of dollars sit safely in the offshore financial world, effectively stateless, protected by legions of well-compensated defenders and a tangle of laws deliberately designed to impede creditors and tax collectors.

This. I always worry that if/when I get married -- in California where the Divorce laws are heavily in favor of the woman -- that I will be middle-aged, penniless, and will have to start over in my only known career (software development) that is brutally ageist.

So my sincere question (not trolling) to HN peeps. Are there any such banks / off shore options for the 99% not-so-wealthy crowd, whereby I could "squirrel away" just a few 1000 $ (maybe like 40, to 50K) so that in my worst-case-scenario, I don't have to start from 0. I understand there is no incentives for the "well compensated defenders" since the $ amount of such accounts won't be in millions, but surely there must be some countries / banks that offer this?

(NOTE: The intention is more to safeguard my individual future from a bad marriage and divorce and not greed. Hope you understand).

Thank you!
Exactly. There's certainly a market for VPSs and other cloud services that have a hard cost cap. AWS has apparently decided that they're fine with not competing for that slice of the business.

Setting cost caps on more complex applications that use a lot of different AWS services would get complex in a hurry and could easily have unintended effects.

As someone else wrote, I view this as primarily a simple VPS for people who are already using AWS for other things. I suspect that AWS isn't really interested in being a VPS-only provider for the most price-sensitive customers.
Once again, building on FB api == bad idea.

Sadly, FB has eaten so much of the world - there may not be much of an alternative.
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It looks really interesting but I'm surprised they launched it with the create table flow broken. The query you see here was generated by their wizard...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s4cw5x7yyrdl3ch/Screenshot%202016-...
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I think you can sideload them since 1607 (or even 1511?), there's a developer switch in new Control panel for that.
And although the article doesn't state that PyPy is a JIT, it's one of the implementations that the author tries to obtain a speedup.
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Well that sure is a killer feature. AWS is far ahead of Google Cloud for postgres users.
It isn't meant to be different, it is just "packaged" to make setting up a working AWS instance cheap and easy.

If you're familiar with AWS then you can get a similar offering directly, particularly using reserved instance pricing.
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At some point (many 1000s of terrabytes) it is faster and cheaper to ship the data on physical devices than it is to send it over the network.

(I work for AWS)
Not as troubling as a government depriving a citizen of their inalienable rights. That is by far the more troubling outcome - especially given the greater societal implications.
"Buy-twice" methods like this further convince me that a stronger incentive is needed to ensure such junk is not manufactured but is integrated into what many are calling a "circular economy". I wish it was the responsibility of the manufacturers to take back all failed and end-of-life products and recycle the materials such that their waste output was minimal. Likewise, the I wish the wholesaler and retailers were responsible to take back the product from the purchaser or consumer and send it back upstream (and not drop it in the dumpster like Costco does).
Is it accurate that if you're using Font Awesome 5 Pro in an open source project you can't include the icons in the repository?
The default resource is time and people will always want to trade for more of it.

What does a world look like where people have no value to each other?
Is anybody still thinking about Idris and HoTT?
https://github.com/fmota/HoTT-Idris/blob/master/README.md
I don't see anything more recent than the 2014 discussions.
Cloudwatch alarms can stop running EC2 instances. We do this to prevent accidentally leaving expensive instances running. If that helps a little.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. For all those data formats you have to painstakingly make table schemas for them before you can query them. Not like Snowflake or BigQuery. One of the biggest strikes against Presto IMHO.
Hey Eren,

It's not like that email addresses are that hard to find when they are listed on websites publically...

ereny*gdir*n[@AT]gm*il
The problem is that transferring data to/from GPUs is already problematic performance wise. I guess it depends on your application whether the data transfer rate hit is acceptable or not.
> Closures are difficult to use for this due to Rust's concept of values having one owner, making it fiddly to share values over multiple closures without e.g. wrapping them in Rc<RefCell<T>>.

But note that most UI toolkits already effectively expose all their objects as reference-counted aliasable-mutable—the same as Rc<RefCell<T>>, but more ergonomic.

I wonder if the right solution for this for these frameworks to allow programmers to easily create their own classes in the native widget class hierarchy (COM, Objective-C Foundation, GObject, QObject, etc.), with some combination of macros and other boilerplate generation. Then the rule would effectively be "instead of using Rc<RefCell<T>>, create a native widget class to hold your data if you need to multiply close over it". Not only would this be more ergonomic than the pure-Rust solution, but it'd also interoperate better with the underlying widget system: for example, on macOS and iOS Objective-C introspection APIs would work with such objects.
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OVH is still cheaper, with half the disk space but 4 time the RAM.
Nuclear requires huge up front investment, may not be so easy for gvmnt.

Solar farms (I believe) can scale slowly even after being operational.

I may be wrong but it's also likely that deeper analysis of the cost for solar doesn't look that bad as you're probably spending most, if not all of the money on your own people - giving jobs and pouring money back in, not out of the country.
tldr; competition is good.

Google Cloud UI is vastly superior to AWS. It's clear to me AWS didn't put a lot of effort into their interface, Google console is nice too in order to quickly experiment with the platform. On the other hand, it seems to me that AWS is still cheaper than GCloud right now.
A prenuptial agreement would probably be easier? And cheaper...
> Caffeine is debatable, because for many people it's not about recreation, it's more about giving you that extra kick so that you're more productive.

Oh, how many times I've heard the same thing, except referring to opiates, cocaine, or amphetamines, rather than caffeine.
Would a prenuptial agreement help?
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The difference between iOS and android could not be more clear in this regard. It's interesting to see the difference in security between the two. It's night and day. Google has some serious problems to address. But it seems like they don't care. Their track record is deplorable regarding android security.
Is this really the best google can do?
Hopefully Google Computer Engine will also compete at this price now. Even though it seems to be cheaper than AWS in addition to having a good interface, it'd be good to get a bunch of cheaper servers to do the small projects and also give it out to developers in situations where static ips are a requirement.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
I can't tell if the author has absolutely no concept of what empathy actually is

Does anyone publicly talking about empathy know what it means?

I've heard it used to mean "not being a sociopath" all the way to "agreeing with the precursors to my political opinions," and many stops in between.
Looks like the use case that they have in mind is focused on CAD / CAM. Don't see much mention about deep learning and I would guess that isn't being targeted at all.
This happened yesterday (Tuesday 29th November 2016) afternoon. There was a meeting with the FDA where they would give a verdict, and they gave approval during that meeting.

Information explaining the significance from fruitsforhire

> Okay so here's a little background information on what this specifically means. It has taken 30 years to get to this point. MAPS has been around since 1986 with the main purpose of getting MDMA through the legal prescription system in the United States. Some extremely talented and dedicated individuals have made it their life goals to study MDMA (and other drugs as well) and to get them through the absurd regulatory hurdles Western nations have enacted since the War on Drugs.

> Phase 1 trials FDA trials for MDMA were greenlit in 1992, and Phase 1 trials are simply trials to assess safety in a small handful of individuals. It's just the step after animal safety trails. Preparation for Phase 2 and then subsequently Phase 2 is what has been going on for a decade or so which is small-scale human trials meant to start studying the actual effectiveness of the drug. It's all extremely expensive and complicated work building the foundation for Phase 3 trials which are absolutely massive in scale compared to anything else before at roughly 10 times as many people involved as Phase 2. It is one of the toughest and most rigorous prescription drug regulatory systems in the world. Phase 3 is going to take many years, and it'll cost tens of millions of dollars.

> Most drugs never even make it to Phase 2, but on top of that most never make it through Phase 3 either. This will be the last crucial many years and many millions of dollars that stand in the way of MDMA becoming a legal prescription medication.

> If you believe in this cause and have money to spare then I highly recommend donating. Phase 3 trials cost an immense amount of money to fund. MAPS is a non-profit organization, and the only one of its kind in the world.

> More information can be found at maps.org and mdmaptsd.org
By type checking I mean something like typescript which is able to statically verify whether the right types of attributes are passed to the right component, or whether expressions embedded in the template are of the right type.

Re encapsulation, the way that JS provides it is scope. JavaScript's lexical scope ensures that things you define in a function are only visible in that function, or that things you define in an ES6 module are only visible in that module. Even with the tiny quirks of function based lexical scope, its natural and intuitive: if you can see the definition (or import) in the (function/module) parent(s) of the code you're looking at, its available. Its a tried and true solution.

Template languages don't always bother to add something like "import" or the concept of lexical scope, so when you want to share something from JS (or other templates) with them (like data, or processing functions, or components) you need to somehow put it in their own custom scope. Many template based frameworks make the mistake of working around this not by adding import mechanisms to the template language, but by registering things globally - e.g. when you register a component in Angular or Vue it becomes globally available. This has the same problem any other global variables have. (I suspect this in Angular 1 is what led to the totally parallel "module system" with dependency injection, although maybe they just didn't like the existing ones)

Regarding supporting first class components in template languages, its not really that difficult. Its just that we believe the fallacy that we need the template language to be underpowered. Also, once you add support for first class components and JS scope sharing (or at least import/export) mechanisms to a template language, you've basically reinvented JSX (perhaps with a different syntax)

Sandboxing isn't harmful, its just extremely hard. Angular spent years trying to write a proper expression sandbox and every new version of it was broken successfully - thats why 1.6 removed the sandbox.

What I'm hoping for is that someone works out what contributes the most to popular framework's size, takes the common parts and provides them as built in API in the browser in such a way that the frameworks can take advantage of that instead of writing their own implementations.
Very interesting. I'd still like to see the JVM pick up the FPGA as a possible compile target, that way people could run apps that seamlessly used the FPGA where appropriate. I have mentioned this to Intel, who are promoting this technology (and also have a team that contributes to the JVM), but so far no one is stating publicly that they are working on such a thing.
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Very cool, can anyone tell if it supports PostGIS?
It would be great if there was a cohesive roadmap showing how Snaps fit in with Canonical's overall strategy wrt System and Application containers across Cloud and Embedded systems.

Lots of little "islets", not so much an "archipelago".
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As far as I can tell, it's "just" the relevant AWS services, repackaged in a more non-expert-friendly frontend, simplified for a DigitalOcean-like usecase.

Doesn't expose the full, intimidating complexity of the AWS management console and workflow.
> For some people a dashboard is a static page that gets refreshed periodically. I.E. "Lets show the current line speed in big bold 48pt font size and auto-refresh the webpage every 15 seconds."

What do most people use for this kind of use case, assuming changing of the values needs to be scriptable?
Yup, sorry -- working on fixing that now. Check back in a bit.
Sorry to see for Enterprise DB and Citus. Tough biz to be in.
Like mail in rebates it creates a moral hazard on the vendor's part.

The right thing to do is to just discount the product and just re-use IPs unless otherwise reserved. Mail in rebates can be ignored or "lost in the mail" and seems to happen often enough for me to have lost trust in them. I have little control over what the vendor does, so I would rather avoid vendors who think screwing with me is ok.

I don't buy products with mail in rebates and now I won't buy into lightsail (Presume this thread is accurate and Amazon doesn't fix it).
"More recently scientists have started actually mapping out regions where dark matter is concentrated than - from gravitic perturbations "

This is not evidence of Dark Matter - it's really just quantifying and classifying the perturbations and anomalies derivations in gravity that we see.

Basically, more detail to the observation that 'galaxies are not rotating the way we think they should'.

That doesn't validate Dark Matter, it just more deeply quantifies the unknown.
I think that hiding money in a divorce is illegal and you made this post with what is presumably your real name. But maybe money you squirreled away before getting married is different, i dunno. IANAL.
>AWS is still cheaper than GCloud right now

How so?

I thought this was brought up just a week ago saying GCloud is consistently cheaper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12993021
What's the advantage to using this over RDS?
UI doesn't really matter for people with enough instances to care about money. Nobody is going to blow $1,000/mo because the interface is nicer.
> We are also planning to support all of the PostgreSQL features and extensions that are supported in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

RDS Postgres currently supports PostGIS, so this should as well.
Apparently you didn't learn the correct number of n's in Zimmermann ;)

(prz is very particular about his n's)
The recruiter should be charging the company. If the recruiter is not it's a red flag. The company just treats the fee as a normal business expense and the recruiting process as a normal business operation.

Going outside the normal is less likely to be your benefit than making things simple for potential employers.

Good luck.
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>you know how simple, useful, and powerful the Alexa-powered interaction model can be.

This is so comical. Alexa is phenomenally bad at conversation, it is so bad that there are almost no successful "apps" built around it despite having an API and app platform.

Alexa is decent at single command/action model nothing more than that.
If you scroll up, you'll see that throwawayhn was arguing that India manages to successfully built projects "by not giving much of a shit about the conditions that labourers have to endure."

I was disputing the fact that this played a major role by citing Spain, Germany, Hong Kong, etc.

My specific claim is that we do not need to choose between Spanish/German/Singaporean levels of worker safety and not getting big projects done. We can have both.
From the blog post, they say that's a planned feature.

"We are also planning to support all of the PostgreSQL features and extensions that are supported in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL[1]."

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
I started freelancing full-time 8 months ago. What I found really supportive on my journey was the Creative Class from Paul Jarvis (https://creativeclass.io).

Remember that you have something valuable to bring to the table, namely yourself and your unique experiences. I would not recommend freelancing websites for one simple reason: race to the bottom. On those websites you will often be competing with super low rates.

I think one of the most effective "techniques" for finding the opportunities you are looking for is to connect with people. Spend time where other people with work opportunities are spending their time, talk to people and help others.

All the best!
You can just fill the sphere with tritium gas and coat it with phosphorescent paint. Radioactive decay will emit electrons that will impinge in the paint, generating light.

Or, you can just buy a keychain or a torch made using this principle. Will provide continuous light for +10 years: http://www.kitmonster.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/638
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Not when you use Amazon's new regions, us-fin-1, that is within the exchange's datacenter. /s?
>It's infuriating that the money is going to paying for self-preserving bureaucracy and campus beautification projects like replacing the flowers every month.

You forgot paying for sports facilities...

Edit: Downvotes for wondering why universities are paying millions for sports facilities. Nice.
It's probably since the ones listed above are the typical VPS to go to when it comes to cheap hosting. The ones you mentioned are lesser known.
He's talking about Mac Pro (desktop), not Macbook Pro (laptop).
I don't believe the "anyone that wants to get high can" mantra. This misses a very important part of the equation which is that they must also be willing to face the consequences and repercussions of said decision including up to loss of freedom, financial costs and deal with the sketchy providers. In addition, it does not take into account the social stigma still associated with some drugs and/or usage in general. I know people who have used all manner of drugs who will talk pejoratively of individuals who still continue to consume, and have not 'straightened out'.

Even with drugs that are pretty available like alcohol, alcoholics have to curb their desire and usage based on many external constraints. And there is definitely no alcohol drought, but there's also no permissive free for all for consumption.
In case you're wondering, most firms in this business won't even talk to you unless you're looking to hide at least $10MM. Below that amount, the costs of setting up the corporate structures and paying all the necessary parties aren't worth it. It is kinda funny there is a practical cut off point for being "super-rich" at which point the rules start working for you.
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But a person with a traffic ticket getting jailed and registered as a sex offender is better? Both are equally troubling. In my mind, the latter moreso.
I'm at re:Invent currently, and this morning's keynote by the CEO has a superhero theme! :)
"Pollution" was used in English for the same purpose as the "poluce" you discovered in Czech:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pollution

"Recorded since the 1340s, as "discharge of semen other than during sex", later, "desecration, defilement" (1382), from Late Latin pollutio ‎(“defilement”)"
More of the same with Ramnode. Really not a lot of competition, is there? Every plan starts around $5/mo for a KVM instance, and each tier increases all of the specs, while doubling the monthly fees each time. No ability to customize to your specific requirements.

What if I need a lot of CPU power, but not much bandwidth? What if I want lots of RAM, but don't need much disk space? What if I'd rather have an HDD with more storage than a faster SSD? There's nobody offering a "configure your own VPS specs" plan.
Google have an approval system before they allow a manufacturer to bundle Google services. Update mechanisms could easily be built into that approval process. I suspect that they haven't turned the screws too hard on manufacturers for fear of Samsung or LG making an Amazon-style fork.

Google have already drawn their own roadmap with the Android One project - a number of low-end manufacturers have devices that get updates directly from Google. They could easily create a Nexus-type brand that manufacturers can opt into, guaranteeing timely updates and long-term support. This could be a big draw for mid-tier manufacturers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One
As a gamer I was initially surprised that works. It makes sense if server side use cased are more batch oriented/compute intensive.

Latency to start and stop "jobs" is critical in gaming as you are trying to hit a 60-144hz job time.
Me too. I want protection against my own stupidity, as well as sheer ignorance of the charges. This put me off AWS for years, and I was deeply shocked there was no one-click 'suspend at x$'.

For a company that supposedly puts the customer first, this is appalling.