skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that actually holds up. There are certainly some people that want "ironclad guarantees", but the reality of cost here is pretty close: you pay $5/mo max for the server. The things that can cost more are either overages on bandwidth/dns (and here, 1TB of bandwidth on the low end is included, eliminating a lot of the flux from EC2), or things you choose to initiate, like snapshots.

It feels like the larger thing they're trying to solve, that I expect actually stops the majority of people who don't choose AWS, is the complexity around setting up VPCs/SecurityGroups/Subnets/etc.

Most providers in the VPS space already charge overages for bandwidth, and most of them don't support suspending the account vs just billing you.
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A lot of it has to do with byzantine regulations.
> The pricing is on par with these alternatives in the VPS space.

Linode offers the double of the RAM for the same price for $10, $20 and $40 VPSs.
TechCrunch report of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072155
You can read some of the comments here, e.g. "Java is probably very widespread, but less popular from a publicity standpoint." Java is objectively vastly more popular than Go (just do some Googling), and who cares about publicity when writing code? It's about business results. I don't care what language the website I'm using is written in, I want it to do what I want and be fast and have good UX.

So translated into objective facts that statement is just "Go is cooler than Java."

At DockerCon EU a couple years ago someone who worked in VC firm mentioned that every startup they were talking to was choosing Go. Go is better than Python in some cases, better than Java in others... but in many cases you could just use Python or just use Java and it'd be just fine. Often Python is better (much more libraries) or Java is better (much more libraries, and has generics unlike Go's "let's reinvent all of Java 1.0's faults" design).

But Python and Java aren't trendy.
Be careful when you google for this or it might get NSFWish: Top result "Amazon Athena" is a page on their shopping site - I clicked a bit too quickly, and it was a listing of women's lingerie. :-|
I think it's better for someone from the Canonical/Snap team to comment on that. I'll ask them to comment.
I think a million VPS hosting companies just cried out in terror.

The major reason to use a VPS host instead of AWS is that AWS is complicated. This seems to be just as simple as DO or a million other VPS hosts, with the added benefit that it's easy to hook up to Amazon's other services if you need to.
Given how fast pledge was able to be put into production, I think it was the right move. I get SELinux can and has (2008) had tools for this, but it really doesn't seem to have caught on.
If that's your requirement, you wouldn't. But every project has to start somewhere.
>I'd welcome an account suspend instead of bill shock.

The big question here is what to do with stateful data. Would you accept an immediate deletion of all of your S3 data? RDS instances and snapshots?
My city has a transit app they maintain, but I'm afraid that'll stop if Google gets too ubiquitous in this area. It's really too bad that information that should be released as clean openData sets is so difficult to acquire and parse easily. Really should be some regulation around what, how and how often public information should be published and maintained.
Are you saying you don't wear a superhero outfit when you're coding??
People want /r/all to be a community of stuff they like, without stuff they disagree with. Those people seem to disagree with the idea of a content agnostic platform. How would those people feel if gmail stopped delivering ultra left liberal emails.
Looks like you can spin up three of these instances as a proxy and pay $15 for 3 TB of bandwidth from AWS.
He is a ninja rock star hacker.
>Running it in a VM

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/user-faq/#can-i-install-qubes-i...
For SEO it's not critical; but for users it is.
Think about your domain, twitter account, and FB page as trademarks. Actually, they should be trademarked sooner or later.

Don't buy a domain without a match or near match in twitter / facebook (like $domainname + "app" or something like that).

I don't do it.
I maintain VPS across different providers (Linode, DO, vultr, budgetvm, etc) and haven't had any real issues with them. Based on my interactions with their customer support, the level of support you receive is about what you'd should reasonably expect from providers in that price category.

The only real gripe that I have is that they don't statically route the /64 they assign to your VPS so I have to run a ndp proxy daemon.
I had both Vultr and RAMNode servers, but shut them both down and moved them to DigitalOcean.

The control panels in Vultr seem like 3rd party reseller ones akin to the cPanel/WHM days. I was not able to upgrade my Vultr VPS to a larger one with a few clicks like I expected to be able to (and am able to on DO and Linode). I guess you are expected to put in a support ticket or something. It felt very much like a basic Xen setup, though they have made recent strides to help with that.

With DigitalOcean, I can upgrade my VPS with a few clicks, and even downgrade them as well if the storage disk is not expanded when you upgrade. I am very impressed with their offerings, and the ease of use of their control panel setup.
part of this can be done with openSSH by setting the banner option in sshd_config.

"Banner The contents of the specified file are sent to the remote user before authentication is allowed. If the argument is ``none'' then no banner is displayed. By default, no banner is displayed."
i'm still using linode. been using it for 10 years.
Right but one of those 3 (linode) has been pretty brutally hacked (a number of times, at the control plane level) while DO & AWS have a different security story.
Naomi Klein's first book - 'No Logo' was quite good.

The 'Shock Doctrine' was kind of a mess.

What happens is that these authors become very famous by putting out a good book with an opinion.

Then, like a one-hit-wonder rock band, they are urged to publish more red-meat for their readers, who want to hear about how the world works in a certain way.

Though the 'Shock Doctrine' is not a work of almost fiction as is 'Economic Hitman' - the premise of the accusations are really, really shaky, in many cases absurd.

She's very unrealistic about most things, and recently indicated that the Canadian Postal Workers should double as nurses and visit people door-to-door (because hey, they already do that). Which is neat for a brainstormed idea but fails in so many ridiculous and obvious ways it's laughably absurd.

Since that book (Shock Doctrine), which by the way makes some reasonable points, but mostly not - she's become a 'book agitator', she can't be taken credibly.

I can understand how people could read the 'Shock Doctrine' and be upset, but it's the absent contextual information that is missing that ultimately makes these books in some ways 'misinformational'. There are a lot of facts - but they are highly, highly selective. Add to this - some of the actual bad things the USA has done in the past - and you get the allowance for someone to spin great conspiracy theories.

Klein lives in my neighbourhood BTW. I see her around :)
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I would say there's still a pretty big difference between using malloc to allocate space for an array of structs which you have to remember to free later and letting variable definitions and scopes handle that for you, like in many managed languages.
Cost of solar has gone down dramatically since Topaz was built. http://solarcellcentral.com/cost_page.html

Module price per watt is about 50 cents right now IIRC and would have been something like $1.25 when Topaz was built. Labor and installation is obviously more expensive in California than India.
The loan provider is in a much better position to know who will and will not be able to pay back a particular loan.

They have no reason to care since the government backs the loans.
There is such a thing as more than one kind of obligation. Are they LEGALLY obligated to share? Likely no. Are they MORALLY obligated? That's definitely up for debate.

EDIT: The parent does not deserve down votes because you disagree with their opinion. Grow up.
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Context: I've been a mobile native developer my entire career (~6 years, primarily Android in Java) and am finally playing around with JavaScript and the web.

To build a full-stack web product (optimized for productivity and ease of implementation on my end), which tech should I learn?

Things I've looked into but have not committed to: Iris framework built on Go, React for front-end.

Thanks in advance!
Organise an army, go to Westminster, kill your enemies, done. This is a proven, working way.
I'm a little confused. How is this different from EC2?
"So no, sending fake economists is not beyond belief."

The CIA - yes, entirely plausible.

The NSA - no, absolutely not, no way, completely absurd.
Speculation, but DO may be overselling their servers at a higher rate than AWS. I know for a fact that lots of other VPS providers do this.
Technically paying for a license to play said content in the Netflix app.

I agree that DRM is a waste of time and the pirates are going to get the content whatever happens, but a $10/m streaming service is only licensing you to watch video in a few specific scenarios. If you had spent $3 an episode (or whatever it is on iTunes/Google Play these days) to own it, then I'd expect a DRM free file to be available (Though I doubt you actually get one in reality).
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Yeah, putting the keys on Github seems pointless and contrived: there's no remediation to putting a known-bad key out in the open. What are you going to do: block their IP? Oh boy.

I see value in the other examples, though, because they are dead simple tripwires, and, unless AWS is scanning your instances, they should never see this and it shouldn't be a problem.
Worth noting: $0.09 per GB for bandwidth overages. So, your $5 server with 1TB out becomes a $95 if you have 2TB out.
What difference does that make?
I digress on the TLD part. If your users are DESKTOP users, TLDs are not so important.

If they are mobile users, they can type ".com" on their on-screen keyboard.

If they don't remember the domain, they will go to Google and you might have some trouble with people advertising on top of your #1 positiom...

... which will happen only if you're successful, of course.

I totally agree on this: you should focus son the product, not on the name. People will buy your product - name changes are more frequent than we think.
As an android phone owner for just over 30 hours.. at this point: yes. I grow less inclined to change that. OTOH, I never trusted my previous I-device with any significant data either, and any paid apps on there were gifted from a separate account on a desktop machine.
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No, it's a Trojan horse. Users installed what they thought was a legit app, but it came bundled with malware that stole their auth token.
I do not, just wanted to throw a couple that I know of out there. Hopefully neither of those third party stores because I like and use them both. I hope it was clear from the question marks in my post that those were just examples, certainly don't want to smear either one.
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True, but that is a little exaggerated. Yes, they were hacked in the past (over a year ago); one of their small data centers went down. Their US East center has been solid for the past 8 months that I have been using, no hiccups.
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Sadly, I'm used to that on all three at this point. In order of most frequent "Surprise! Node Reboot!" emails from most frequent to least, it's been Vultr, Linode, DigitalOcean, for me.

(for anyone curious, it's ~50 servers across 8 different data centers, roughly equally distributed)
That's really not necessary. "Immortal" people aren't going to live forever; something is eventually going to kill them, like a speeding bus, or a skydiving accident, etc.

Also, it's been proven over and over that when people have more education and resources, they breed a lot less, which is why all the developed nations are looking at zero or negative population growth if you ignore immigration. Make people biologically immortal and they'll end up not having many kids at all, on average.

I think you're worried about something that isn't going to be a problem.
Schiff and many Americans were definitely involved in funding Russian revolutionaries -- that was quite a common thing. The posthumous memoirs of Samuel Harper, a Rockefeller man and one of the founding figures of Slavic studies in the US, are quite frank on this point. Not online, but I recall an anecdote about some little old lady in Chicago writing a check and saying "I hope this one pays for the bomb that blows up the Czar!"

https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Believe-Memoirs-Samuel-Harper/...

Your second point is entirely correct. However, they're not one click away from "Haven Monahan", yet another Fidel eulogy, Trump as the puppet of Putin, etc. You can't possibly think it's this easy to have a clue?

A nice factual fact, by the way, is Averell Harriman's giant manganese concession in Georgia in the '20s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiatura_mine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman

Giant holes in the ground are hard to sweep under the rug...
Not at all. Do you want a rapist getting out of jail earlier? That would be troubling.
I use AWS for a bunch of things, but the console has always been immensely painful to use, especially to create a no frills simple VPS for a fiver. For that reason alone, I use DigitalOcean and fiddle with AWS authentication if I need to use some of its services there.

Lightsail looks excellent since the setup is just a gazillion times more user friendly than the standard EC2. A single page affair, a launch script, authentication, it's all there. Once launched, I get all the info and metrics I need.

I kinda wish they streamlined their usual console to this level, but this way it's fine as well. I don't tend to use S3 and EC2 as much as I'd like given its non-existent UX, but this gives me hope that Amazon is taking user experience seriously.

Sure, it may be underpowered compared to DO or Linode, but having all services under one roof is worth it to me. I'm happy.
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You'd think that if there is a job where you can do silly things like embed Lua in Python, you can just use Lua on that particular job.
Smaller hosts will make a decent margin on managed services. That's just not a game Amazon want to get into.
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"In any way, we must give up the added value"

Often the added value is just not caring about people far away dying. Fundamentally a lot of low labor goods are offshored because the toxic waste dump is someones backyard, if employees die due to lack of safety gear that's simply not an issue, etc.

If we were honest with ourselves we'd use trade policy either to foist the EPA and OSHA on the entire planet, or remove them as a restraint against locals. People usually are not honest with themselves of course.
FWIW, bandwidth overages at Linode and DO are $0.02 per GB, LightSail is $0.09.

Ow.
having worked in data entry on a green screen app, as well as the .Net, Windows Form "upgrade", I agree with this sentiment.

the green screen app was highly optimized for efficient and accurate data entry without use of a mouse. The modern alternative looked better, but a large portion of the functionality was much less efficient in comparison.

the only redeeming factor of the new application, was it allowed much of the manual data entry to be automated. This however required considerable time, technical knowledge, and industry contacts to develop and implement, which not all organizational users possessed.
No one has ever died directly from an MDMA overdose (as far as I know). Yes there have been indirect deaths usually from over-hydration (which causes the brain to swell, with or without MDMA), which usually happens in a rave/dance setting.

I'm sure there have been many indirect deaths from cannabis as well. Lung cancer, car crashes, falling down an elevator shaft, etc.

This is going to be true of any sufficiently powerful psychoactive substance.
> All they should care about it is "is this illegal?"

In many countries, the UK included, many of the posts on the fascist subreddits are illegal.

> But why should we not fight for them?

Because the value of life should be held to higher value than the 'destruction of free speech' (Except Reddit isn't doing anything to their free speech, they're denying them a platform. Which is objectively different). These people quite literally stand for genocide.

> I don't have the right to not be offended

Yes, yes you do. That's part of free speech, isn't it?
I was hoping their pricing is competitive at least if not better given they are so late to this I just need one VPS market.
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They're definitely similar.

The Mentat logo has more triangles in different positions. The exterior shape is similar, though Gitlab has a flat section in the middle and Mentat doesn't.

It's subjective, but the Mentat logo is different enough that I'd call it "inspired by" rather than "ripped off", and also possible that two design teams ended up with similar logos without having seen each others work.
>There has been no wave of LED-encrusted buildings.

Lol. Give them time. Here's two examples off the top of my head, in my city: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2015/07/aura-illuminates-downtow...

http://canderelresidential.com/files/styles/building/public/...
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> just like selling heroin in stores did in the early 1900s

Does anyone have a good resource for reading about what actually happened when they sold heroin in stores? Statistics about addiction, anecdotal reports, etc.
You can win. Sane defaults. Allowing the potentially unsafe method "expert mode" is OptIn. I wouldn't buy a car if the dealer held the only key to the hood, still I don't expect everyone to be a grease monkey nor do I think it remarkably safe.
I thought Windows did away with C completely and only supports C++ now?
Your question, while interesting, is not a counter argument to any of my points.

Anyhow, western countries do not have enough resource to finance clean energy in India. Or, at least, there are more pressing issue from the point of view of the average elector/citizen.
The business model is viable in terms of the studios deciding to sanction it. So not treating the studios as black boxes.
I use Vultr and there are some DC that are more stable than other. Generally speaking it's worth what you pay for and I can't complaint.
Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure gmail uses it. I'd say that's a pretty big endorsement.
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I'm not saying the calculations are wrong. I have no time to check their sources, and no knowledge about them. What I do know is that there can be specific safety regulations that drive up the costs. Again, see fire safety at german construction projects (which btw should have no connection to subway lines, apart from the station). Apart from that, stepping away from safety, there can be differences in the costs of obtaining the build rights, and vast differences in how the contracts are created. There can be corruption, there can be ineptitude, there can be the common failure of an unregulated market.

It it even worth arguing that? I'm saying "specific things can drive up costs, safety regulations for example". If I understand you right, you were saying "specific things drive up costs, I call it social technology". Why does my position even conflict with your theory? That fits together, just view those regulations as a factor in your social technology model. The sole position to give up would be "safety regulations don't drive up costs at all", which is ridiculous anyway, thus not a hard loss.
Exactly. Even at 20 hours a week you're looking $20k/month. As a freelancer that is a great rate with little overhead. There is no doubt that being the author of Hapi is a major reason why he can charge that rate. I get being burned out and/or wanting support but not recognizing the correlation just comes across as entitled.
All low-end VPS offerings use shared cores, so # of cores is a fairly useless comparison unless they also tell you the oversubscription rate or all of your neighbors are idle.
Interesting. Pricing is worse than Digital Ocean here. Looks like Linode is still best bang for buck strictly for price to power.

Random thoughts from shameless noob:

- I like Digital Ocean's OS/app images for speed / smaller projects. Looks like Lightsail offers this with Bitnami. Not sure how complicated that is in their console.

- Amazon IAM comes with a bit too much overhead for noobies like myself. Glad this doesn't require you to set that up when you just want a quick and dirty VPS.

- Bah. Resizing/upgrading requires you to do it through API currently. That kind of sucks.

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That's not to say Google has no responsibility in this. Google's OS has a terrible security-update policy. Being able to buy a new computing device from a store that will receive no security updates is terrible, and is fairly common in Android devices.

Now, there are valid technical reasons that Google can't be as good as Microsoft at pushing out updates to every device running their OS, but still, it's hard to say that Google has made fixing this problem a priority. Even their own 1st-party devices have a pathetic 2-year upgrade window from launch, which, I'll remind you, still means somebody can buy last year's device on a store shelf and stop getting security updates before the device is even out of warranty.
Price breakdown vs DigitalOcean, VULTR and Linode.

Of course all things are not equal (i.e. CPUs, SSDs, bandwidth, etc).

Provider: RAM, CPU Cores, Storage, Transfer

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$5/mo

LightSail: 512MB, 1, 20GB SSD, 1TB
DO: 512MB, 1, 20GB SSD, 1TB
VULTR: 768MB, 1, 15GB SSD, 1TB

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$10/mo

LightSail: 1GB, 1, 30GB SSD, 2TB
DO: 1GB, 1, 30GB SSD, 2TB
VULTR: 1GB, 1, 20GB SSD, 2TB
Linode: 2GB, 1, 24GB SSD, 2TB

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$20/mo

LightSail: 2GB, 1, 40GB SSD, 3TB
DO: 2GB, 2, 40GB SSD, 3TB
VULTR: 2GB, 2, 45GB SSD, 3TB
Linode: 4GB, 2, 48GB SSD, 3TB

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$40/mo

LightSail: 4GB, 2, 60GB SSD, 4TB
DO: 4GB, 2, 60GB SSD, 4TB
VULTR: 4GB, 4, 45GB SSD, 4TB
Linode: 8GB, 4, 96GB SSD, 4TB

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$80/mo

LightSail: 8GB, 2, 80GB SSD, 5TB
DO: 8GB, 4, 80GB SSD, 5TB
VULTR: 8GB, 6, 150GB SSD, 5TB
Linode: 12GB, 6, 192GB SSD, 8TB

In an easier to read gist: https://gist.github.com/637693650bc8bb9baadf6293a99e1813
Your are not considering the servers location. If you aren't in the USA, and your site isn't resource intensive, how near the server is from your users will make the greatest difference in access speed.
"Amazon Athena uses Presto with ANSI SQL support and works with a variety of standard data formats, including CSV, JSON, ORC, and Parquet."

I wonder if this is essentially a Presto SaaS product?
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