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It's truly helpful to hear experiences first hand across different providers - especially so specifically.

I'm really interested in your experience with OVH - how long ago did you last use it, and what problems did you have?

I've used OVH successfully for various unimportant things for a while now. I'm about to setup a prod environment on OVH for a side project that we anticipate getting some good initial traction. So, not trying to spend a ton, but willing to forego the conveniences of AWS the best cost to performance ratio.

OVH has made a big Openstack push, it seems. "VPS Cloud n" series is KVM (Openstack), with NVMe drives, using Ceph (Openstack) storage, and a moderate 99.99% uptime (same as DO).

It's quite attractive at their prices - so I'm trying to gather as much relevant intel as possible on others' experience with them.
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Yes, I went through the same process, obviously in hindsight it is a tube, all that can remain is the bottom half of the circle underneath the floor.

Fascinating look at those part assembled planes.

Interesting how a politics is just as 'real' as economics - the plane is purposefully built around the EU to spread the jobs and buy in from member nations, why not include the US in that too?

With the UK leaving the EU I can see those parts being moved to the US and more being done here. Pity it's because 'cheap labour' though -having said that the cost of living in Mobile, AL is a lot lower than the European sites I'll wager.
If you have your own business, I can see that.

But as I usually work for somebody else, the risk of being replaced is more present.
It isn't a very good way, because it describes everyone who did vote, as well, no matter who they voted for.
It's not clear to me whether the US Border control can ask you to login on their desktop even if you're not carrying any devices. In such a case, there's no way to avoid being subject to search.
Payroll is a terrible number to look at to estimate if automation is worth doing. Automation provides ancillary benefits which are often more important than simply replacing people. For example automation can provide increased consistency (perhaps reducing human error?) for some tasks it can do the work faster. Sometimes automating things allows a company to do that thing more often.

There's a bunch of reasons to automate, and replacing people is probably the last reason to do it (since often the people just get shifted to tasks which previously didn't have enough resources to do, sometimes those tasks pay off big)
This URI has a lot of hex sections and numbers in it, and I'd like to point out this is still 85% of the Base64 encoded version of that URI, even tho its 114% of original.

I think we could get this size down below parity by encoding the numbers and hex sections.

Thanks for the comment! If you have some ideas how to improve the compression, I invite you to please submit an issue or PR, thank you very much.
Linux didn't really have software that "phoned home" in the past. Most of the software was open source, so you could literally look inside it to see if it would ever "phone home". But now proprietary software for Linux is getting more popular, and I guess this makes people paranoid.
Bravo, a wonderful app indeed. I just see so many uses for it. And it is priced just right for it to pick up quickly.

The app design is just wonderful - minimal and quite intuitive. Good luck!
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The "otherwise unused" isn't true. Any time your phone is transmitting, it is using some of available bandwidth in the air. It does go other the control channel is GSM rather than setting up a data channel, and is was originally just for testing, carrier announcements etc. The per-SMS charge is far higher than actual costs, but so is everything. Mobile networks are almost entirely fixed costs in building the network.
As a Greek I consider him a jerk. He enforced capital controls due to his incompetence and his ideological approach to financing. Furthermore, he's a pathological liar. While in many occasions he had admitted the faults of the Greek economy he never took specific actions in correcting them.

If it wasn't for the group of clowns that constitute the current government and gave him the keys to the economy, nobody would give a flying fuck about what he says. He's a second rate economist at best.
Nice to hear that :)
If it only handles web browsers currently then I think it will be a hard sell. The use I see of this would be in settings that companies don't trust their employees (call center monitoring comes to mind). That being said, they would most likely be tracking HTTP traffic already so they would be able to tell what sites the employees were visiting. If you could parse out other applications I could see it being a hit.
Passport stamping. I'm on the Visa Waiver Program.
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Some facts:

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...
> "taxis must all be electric"

Interesting! So say we convinced the taxi lobby to demand that all ridesharing vehicles were electric as a nakedly protectionist measure, then a year later convinced citizens to pass an "even playing field rule," we might dramatically accelerate electric car adoption.

I think I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not 100% sure...
No, obviously humans brought them over. Those same humans also brought the rat all over Europe, and with it the Bubonic Plague aka. the Black Death - which killed a third of the human population - full stop. Think about that one for a while.
> When you get into hunting/sportsman's issues, you might find yourself surprised at how politically...moderate it can be. I was.

> My wife's extended family is really into hunting so I ended up taking a gun safety course to get my hunting license. A LOT of gun safety is preached there. [examples]

The gun safety doesn't surprise me at all. But it's a bit unclear to me, are you saying that's to do with it being politically moderate?
So they took the people that quit/got fired and then asked them their reasons for being a loser?

I have also asked some friends why they quit their jobs (I knew they were showing up late, more interested in politics than work).

You know what a lot of them say?

"They weren't fair to me because of X"

It be nice if their study controlled for liars.
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Why not MassDrop? They are optimized for group buys of things that already exist. Sometimes it is short production runs of niche goods, but I have also seen (and bought) goods available elsewhere.
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CQRS is not rocket science. In any case, your schema for your reporting database is usually different from your online database.
I agree but only partially. I noticed most people who complain about hot weather dress very badly.

The trick is ample light colored linen clothing that covers as much skin as possible. It might seem counter intuitive to cover your whole arms and legs, but linen is actually very good at evaporating your sweat and keeping you cool while protecting you from the sun.
That's probably true, from a "bang per buck" perspective. But a scooter needs insurance, plates, gas, oil, costs tax and at the end of the day they are lawnmowers on wheels, so if something goes wrong with the motor, and it will regularly, you probably can't fix it on your own and are stranded. Even if your battery fails or the boost you would likely still have a fully functional bike, just some extra resistance on the pedals.

And legally of course, a scooter restricts you to streets that cars can go on. That might not mean much in an American suburb but even here in a bike backwards German town we have pedestrian zones where bikes are explicitly allowed, one way streets with exemptions for bikes.. being able to use bike-legal paths can make for a more direct, faster route.
It's a bit of a second order effect but EV buses are more pleasant to ride than the ICE equivalent, and share much of the same tech as the EV cars, so they share e.g. battery cost reductions.
Not sure if you mean the CO2 claim or the battery recycling claim.

CO2 claim is open to argument I guess, but the battery recycling is pretty certain. They will definitely have battery recycling at the Gigafactory and it makes perfect sense to be able to recycle their own batteries better. They've got all the schematics of how they were built and so can more easily pull them apart.
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The visual here is awesome. Although all good programmers are antiheroes in my world, so I read that as a mustache twirling Guy Steele merrily evading the bumbling cops. Practically the whole point of Real Programming is to evade the limits of The Man. (Cf Mel: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html )
So if I read a book about Obama abusing the power of the US presidency, how will that impact my thinking about whether the approach to border policy has changed under the new administration?
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A disease is a good fit if you can just inject the therapy into a localized region (say, the eye, or an organ) and the treatment works for a reasonably long period of time (months+). Typically another requirement is that the target is a defective gene where the phenotype can be repaired through addition of a "corrected" form of the gene, without the defective gene needing to be removed. This is the case in X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, where the genetic cause of the disease has been understood for some time, it's relatively simple underlying mechanism (so we think), and you can deliver the medicine to the retina with periodic injections.

Treating a disease where you have to remove an inserted retrovirus from a large number of freely circulating or "hidden" cells (which is the case in HIV) is far more challenging- you need a way to recognize the cells of interest, access all of them, and get 100% transversion. All without causing negative side effects.
Hi, HN!

Excited to share Swish here. I'm a developer who started as a designer, so building an app that bridged the two worlds seems obvious.

Swish lets you browse dribbble by swiping through cards not unlike Tinder. You can learn more about a shot and it's designer, or just add it to your collection of liked shots!

It's still buggy here and there, if people use it ill keep adding features and fixing things!

Pumped to hear feedback from you all :)
> Now the Airforce is advocating for a technology that is directly counter to the interests of NASA

I'm out of the loop on most of this, but is there a reason they can't give NASA the funding to cover both interest groups?
Edit: The example of loans-neighborhood relationship is real. See http://www.dictionary.com/browse/redlining
Exotic is bad when it costs the US economy $167bn a year, which is a realistic estimate of the amount lost because of the effects of invasive species of all kinds.

If you think that's a "naturalistic fallacy" perhaps you need to brush up on your economics.
What does any of that have to do with citizens of Nation A refusing to trade with companies in Nation B because some of the citizens of Nation B elected a leader whom the citizens of Nation A don't like?

That is the kind of attitude that drives people apart, creates hostility, and eventually leads to war. In what world is that a good idea?

Can you imagine Americans refusing to buy BMWs because they don't like Angela Merkel?
What I truly hate about the bicycle push is that some of us cannot ride bicycles for very legitimate reasons including medical problems or a job that requires a vehicle.
Yes, Not only does it allow people that use RSS readers, but people who use readers that build on RSS.

Also allow email syndication. A non-insignificant number of people use email syndication as a fallback from RSS, or simply a solution in itself. Pre-ramen plans should be cost-free.
The article also cited the lower wages in Alabama. The pay scale tops out at $23 an hour, and the workforce is not unionized.
Conservationists. There's a distinction made between conservation and preservation - skipping the details I mostly don't remember, on average conservationists want to use resources "wisely" (sustainable forestry, low impact mining, controlled hunting) where preservationists believe more in the intrinsic value of the land, and frequently be more against logging at all, or mining at all. In my experience most environmentalists like or at least agree with hunting, but most of them are also conservationists.

Also, somewhat off topic: the need to manage deer populations is a direct result of killing large predators, and our tendency to break up large local biomes into smaller fragmented ones. No wolves + lots of edge habitat = lots of deer.
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Hi - Everytime I find a cool company, I check out their jobs page and look if a specific job is available. If its not available, I am looking for something that can notify me via an email at least as soon as the job gets available. Anything that does that?
To me, that seems like an excelent risk profile, and no reason to sell. Uber seems to have a stench to it lately, and to be free of that large customer influncing your growth is a net positive. But stocks react in real time.
> You must be able to get a job if your company collapses

On the bright side, with lower cost of housing the mortgage will cost you less and will be easier to pay off. I'm in my early 40s, have three kids, and we actually own our house. If we had lived in a similar house in a larger city we'd still be grinding through the mortgage.

I guess what I'm tring to say is that there plenty of middle ground between living in San Francisco and living the Unabomber dream in the Montana forests. There are a lot of places on the face of the earth where there are not hundreds of nerby companies hiring, but maybe five or ten within driving distance. And where you can actually afford to buy a house.
Yes. And so could etsy for rating buyers and sellers. You can't spam easily if you have to spend money to do it.

But the grandparent suggested crowdsourcing saleable articles, for the kind of articles that are meant to be (simplifying) handmade.
...the point of the tax cuts was to supercharge growth.

No, the point is that we subjects get to keep more of the resources for which we work.

Any primarily agricultural state would have had trouble "supercharging growth" over that period. Also Kansas sucks, so it's perfectly possible that "tax cuts" were implemented as direct handouts to the Koch brothers, which of course I wouldn't defend. The general idea of tax cuts is fine, though. b^)
There's a trend? I've never heard of it.
Thank you for the feedback!! I never thought about that aspect. You just set the minutes and the website you want to visit and start browing.

My idea was to make it as clean as possible so I don't have space for much explanation.
What do you think about starting with something like: "How long you want to browse the web? ... minutes"
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The process depicted in the video is a variant of Stereolithography a process by which photopolymer is solidified by exposure to directed UV light. The video depicts the authors using a commercial 3D printer created by Digital Wax Systems. Reading the paper, it appears that they mixed in amorphous silica to the resin and ran the printer successfully. Few details are given on their test rig.

This approach has been applied successfully to create ceramics in the past, and doesn't seem particularly novel to me. Companies such as ADMATEK are already commercializing this technology.

Weaknesses of this approach are that the end part needs high temperature sintering to remove the photopolymer from the part, and will not yield the same material properties as monolithic glass. Significant shrinkage can be expected and the sintering process means that you are limited in the thickness of the parts that can be designed.

All in all, this is a nice note, but isn't fundamentally introducing a revolution in the 3D printing space.
That's not the bit that concerns me. It's that it's yet another reason for desktops not to update, which is just plain painful for people who develop ClickOnce applications.
A presidential candidate can win the election with only 21.91% of the popular vote.

Something closer to that might be enough. However, I don't think that the electoral college could be changed because the parties responsible for changing it would be decreasing their electorates influence in the government which might be unpopular with said electorate.
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That's probably not the reason. At least not in the malicious sense.
Sweet. Gratifyingly bloat-free source. No LICENSE file, sadly
>>but it seems to not happen with planes and cars.

Sure, most people I know don't care about their cars, it's just a thing they use every day. But go to any car enthusiast meet and they will tell you how their car has its own character(and usually has a name too).
This was the most striking part to me: "According to The Seattle Times, the starting rate at the Airbus plant, about $16.50 per hour, is comparable to the starting wages at Boeing’s passenger-plane plant in Renton, Wash. But the Airbus pay scale tops out at $23 an hour, while experienced Boeing workers can earn $45."

We now have so much surplus labor that even this relatively skilled job only pays $16.50 an hour.
I've seen the throughput argument being made continuously for the past decade, including in academic papers where the Opteron's higher throughput has been shown to beat Xeons in HPC applications.

Another interesting aspect is that in HPC applications, where floating point performance is more demanding, only about 1 in 7 operations is actually a floating point operation. The remaining 6 operations are there to move around data, including requests to push data down the cache memory hierarchy. That's one of the reasons why the performance of AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver lines scaled practically linearly up to the core count in spite of each floating point unit being shared between a pair of CPU cores.

Consequently, HPC research tends to be focused on strategies to minimize the amount of data being moved around, as well as minimizing cache misses, or to take advantage of technology with higher throughput, such as GPGPU. As AMD's Ryzen offer greater throughtput, performance also increases.
A lot of them are kind of misleading junk though.
The split is political. It can be quite inefficient: When the Airbus A380 was in development, the non-unified production caused severe delays because only at assembly did Airbus discover that the electric cables are not long enough to connect the different plane parts[1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/business/worldbusiness/11i...
Surprisingly, there was a report a few years ago that the distributed nature of Airbus also was more efficient. But yeah, it's mainly for political reasons.
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I miss regretsy.com. It had the ability to shame some of those vendors while being entertainment.
It's the reason business schools teach through case studies and is the reason Warren Buffett mainly reads biographies. Learning what other people did or did not do and why can help you in your decision making processes.
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To say nothing of the fact that automated tasks work 24/7 under the most basic human observation. Silly humans needing to sleep, eat and rest.
Your comment is full of weird stereotypes about urban people. Stereotyping and cendescension work both ways.
Interesting business model. So, are you not going to manufacture anything from the crowdfunding campaign? What are the backers going to be getting as a product - the software, 3D print files, circuit board designs, build instructions, and tutorials?

Thanks for the encouragement on RiffPod. Yeah I have looked at iRig - RiffPod has 2-channel (mic + guitar) streaming, has an headphone/amp output and supports iOS and Android. Those are the main features that set it apart from iRig.
I didn't intend to sound hostile?
I think it would be pointless to try to automate the assembly of airliners completely.

These aircraft cost in the order of $100M and they are produced in the thousands across many years for the most successful models. And it is likely to stay this way, it's not like if someday, we'll all have our own personal Airbus.

The economies of scale don't justify a fully automatic assembly line.
Wow. Even using the mouse just works.

The OpenStreetMap data used is slightly stale though; I would guess a year old?
If 50% of the people driving cars switch to (e-)bikes that will be better for everyone. Including those still using cars.
If you can go ahead and mail me a duplicate of your debit card, I'd like to intercept it. I promise not to collect it.

The fact that the infrastructure is in place and rampant abuse has happened in the past make the distinction essentially meaningless.

If someone is going to justify interception they need to justify collection, because we all know it's going to happen unjustly to at least some citizens.
Try to use VSCode or Atom on Windows on a 4k display - blurry text, text that random switches between blurry and not blurry. Seriously, I had it so every even scroll was crisp and clear but every odd scroll was blurry and awful on VSCode for some reason, I confirmed this looking at it on a 100dpi screen.

The relevant bugs are upstreamed to Electron.
It is already working, but not as you suggest.

As I mentioned on my comment, instead of allowing their own employees to do remote work, they outsource the work to consulting companies that actually do support working remotely.