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I hate AWS so much.

I spent 3 hours trying to get a bucket to host a static single page of html and failed completely.

I use amazon polly. I wanted to know how many characters I was using each month. I spent 2 hours searching through hundreds of pages and literally couldn't find that information.

I thought of trying to start a little text to speech service for dyslexics to make it easy to use Polly but one of the main thing putting me off is having to get my arms mangled in the AWS machine.

The whole thing is so totally maddening. I would love to be able to sit in on their meetings where they talk about usability, what do they say? Do they think everything is fine? Do they know it's totally broken and don't care? Are they unable to hire a UX designer? What is the problem?
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I do front-end, UX design (Javascript ES6+, React, Vue, HTML/CSS, d3, Webpack, etc).

My colleague does back-end, devops, system administration (Ruby on Rails, Java, PostgreSQL, Elastic, Docker, AWS, etc.)

We're hireable as a team or individually.

Read more on http://codetree.co
Regular turbine will be always be more efficient per square km of wind plant, but are you you sure that regular turbine will be always more efficient per dollar invested in construction?
You shouldn't use root to bind to port 25; just the capability CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
Capitalism is the private ownership of capital. That's the definition.

Capitalism is also 100% merit-based and unauthoritarian. Nobody is forcing people to use Amazon or McDonalds or Walmart. You might be confusing it with socialism, which is authoritarian as hell and has no regard for merit...
I am wondering, does DNS-over-HTTPS really helps since the way I understand it, after the domain name is resolved to an IP address, the client contacts the IP address so the ISP could still know the website visited especially since many if not most websites have dedicated IP addresses. So ISP could simply crawl the web and map domain names to IP addresses.

Is there anything in DoH mitigating this? Or maybe is this attack vector negligible in practice because most servers typically host multiple websites? At least this adds plausible deniability in a wide range of situations I guess. But is it really true? And for example, would it really help in a country where a website like Facebook is censored? (Since their IP addresses are dedicated).
At the end of the video the dude was barely able to break the 170 kph on straights.... The performance degradation throughout 2/3rds of a lap was atrocious. The driver was pretty decent considering he was hauling around a massive sedan, the guy knew the ring very well.
Americans love elitism and self promotion. That’s why hype products make so much money in the US but not in Europe. This is changing quickly as the EU has a strong push to Americanise Europe. The whole world might end up being the same set of fast foods, big chain restaurants and same faff food.
Can you run this service yourself easily?
Turbines killing birds is just nonsense that global warming deniers and NIMBYs say. Wind turbines kill fewer bird than fossil fuel power stations so even if these people really did care about birds they're better.

But we can tell they don't care about bird because they don't complain about glass buildings, cars, power lines or cats, all of which kill more birds than wind turbines.

http://theconversation.com/wind-farms-are-hardly-the-bird-sl...
What are you talking about? Google neither sends nor sells any of your data to "third parties". I don't know why people parrot this nonsense.
Funcy – A Serverless Slack App Using Azure Functions
I now noticed that you can read the page if you hit escape fast enough:

https://www.nytimes.com/programs/better-reader/day-1

When you visit it, it shows the page for a split seconds. Then redirects. By hitting escape in that split second, the page stays on screen and the redirect does not take place.

Modern developers :-) Implement everything clientside in Javascript.

It's kind of a fun game. Especially since the page then has no ads at all. All newspaper pages should look like this.
To an extent that makes sense, but I think Amazon is just generally bad at web design for reasons unknown to me. Their plain old shopping site has been horrible ever since, inconsistent and confusing, and here you can't even excuse this with diving people to an API. Maybe it's to keep people browsing for longer and get them to buy more but that's assuming it outweighs the frustration induced by it.
> metaprogramming sometimes is easier in Python, sometimes not

Now, I've been exposed to more ruby, and more metaprogramming in ruby, than in python - but this stil surprises/intrigues me.

What kind of metaprogramming do you find easier in python?
> Some examples by contradiction: tax returns, AWS Dashboard, many programming languages.

By programming languages, do you mean Rust?
Most of the train station vendors in the UK sell two types of food. Long life sandwiches from companies with a sale or return approach. And frozen products that are heated up. They don't have the staff or space to make products on site and are dependent on delivery. So it is really a logistics problem. The quality is usually better at stations with enough volume for more regular deliveries. My hunch is that less "developed" countries in Europe source local fresh products rather than rely on a logistics system. But in the UK the local producer probably won't be able to compete on price and does not want to bother with a relatively small volume of sales. And local companies find it hard to secure concessions in train stations so can't sell the product themselves.
Interesting. Like what?
I'd personally prefer to be greeted with a screen providing me with the option of multiple DNS-over-HTTPS providers, and the option of not using one at all, than being silently forced into handing CloudFlare even more of my data.
How China is Cashing in on Group Chats
For some reasons I am always fascinated/hypnotized by the actual machines making "simple things" (like paper clips) in slow motion, see this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDdmDFDYHA

around 2:00
Samsung’s open source key:value SSD is a game-changer for unstructured apps
I can think of two very influential books that have caused (are still causing) untold human misery.
I appreciate you coming here and commenting.

One question, do you construct "templates" for faces that are unmatched by existing templates that are correlated?

This would allow a shadow face recognition profile to be generated that could be later matched to a known image.

I've had face recognition turned off anyway, and I'm not particularly concerned about it, I'm interested though in how internally FB manages "unknown" images, shadow profiles etc.
Yes. However with Cloudflare, now everyone would effectively be under the jurisdiction of the US which is not necessarily better.
>...sell user data to cloudflare...

Cloudflare claims they "will never sell your data or use it to target ads."

You can read their 1.1.1.1 privacy policies here:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...
Might want to automate it further: https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import
no, they are legal certs.
If We Find Alien Life, Can We Avoid Harming It?
John Romero about Doom: 25 Years of Rip and Tear
So after reading this your first instinct was to comment how you know better than the world’s greatest philanthropist?
As a Swede, it was mind blowing to see that California is nearly the same size area wise, but about four times larger in population. Plenty of room for us to grow still!

Also interesting to see both Russia and USA fit inside of Africa, more or less.[1] I always thought Russia was much bigger.

[1]: https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY2NjQzMjQ.MTYzNzcxMQ*...
PrimaryBid closes $8.6M round for its platform aimed to help retail investors
Wow, that is sick!! Thanks for sharing.
How did you market your websites?
What would be the equivalent of $2 in the US?
From the title I was hoping against hope that it would allow me to easily call functions written in one language from functions written in another.

Disappointed again.
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We're a high-grade self-managing team of two specialized in mapping out, designing, and delivering complex custom-built web applications on time.

Recent projects: https://codetree.co/case-studies

We help people polish their ideas, turn those ideas into high quality working products, and bring those products into the market.

Most often we collaborate with companies, but we also have a lot of positive experiences working with non-technical founders and guiding them through all stages of the product lifecycle.

I specialize in front-end, UX design (Javascript ES6+, React, Vue, HTML/CSS, d3, Webpack, Node, etc), and also do light back-end work.

My colleague specializes in back-end, devops, system administration (Ruby on Rails, Java, PostgreSQL, Elastic, Docker, AWS, etc.), and also does light front-end work.

We're hireable as a team or individually.

Read more: https://codetree.co/

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All economical decisions have some degree of irrationality like that. Behavioral economics is making strides, but the old models still have a huge mind share.
To my knowledge Ted Kaczynskis experiences with MKultra didn't involve any substances. He just sat in a chair while some folks screamed at him trying to aggressively undermine all of his views.
If I'm not wrong I can add a methods like this

def m2():
print("nuovo")

object.new_method = m2

instead of redefining the class. It's similar to JavaScript. However I don't have a computer at hand now. I can't check the details and what could be done on Ruby.
I completely agree. I feel stupid everything I try use AWS. I have a pile of credits in my account that I am not using because I cannot bear to try (and fail... Again).

It's maddening and they clearly do not care.
Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians
Prices are set by supply and demand curves. Demand curves are set by how desirable the land is, usually determined by how economically productive the land is for farming, resources, or proximity to jobs, but also luxuries like weather and amenities such as beaches and mountains.

The supply curve is dictated by zoning mostly, but generally, it’s very easy to modify an existing house or rebuild it compared to getting approval to build a house where there wasn’t one before.

Hence, the component in least supply is land, and since more people who have more disposable income want to live in fewer areas, their competition to purchase that land drives up its price.

Home prices are not going up everywhere, not even keeping up with inflation in some places. It’s the places with many high paying jobs, or the places where those with high paying jobs like to vacation, that are going up.

Edit: In the US, also affecting the demand curve is people’s desire to live near other high earners, since where you live determines where your child goes to school. Everyone wants their child to rub shoulders with other children who have parents that are highly educated and/or earners, and so you end up with various income bands grouping up in areas around job centers, roughly approximated by how much of their future income they can give up to purchase a home in the “right” school district.
Word of mouth, mostly. Sometimes I comment on threads like this and people tell their friends. I see Slack and Facebook Messenger in my referer logs pretty frequently.
I seem to remember there was a polemic about supermarkets locking their bins from scavengers. Did you have any problem at the time? Was it before or after there was a change of law?

Just a few more questions out of curiosity from a fellow french student:

How much time a day were you expending in exchange for free food? Did you also use extreme frugality for other commodities?

What motivated you to to take up this lifestyle? Do you think it would have been possible to “have family responsibilities” in your situation?

What alternatives seemed available at the time?
It's hard to say whether its good or bad right now. Give it a few years.

Social norms are changing very quickly these days in ways no one expected. Look at the polls on acceptance of gay marriage prior to 2000 and today. There is a big shift, not just in the US. Hard to believe such shifts can happen in such time scales, if you read old sociology text books.

What is different today is how connected society is and how fast social pressure can build up. And thats having effects people haven't seen before - good and bad.
This over-simplification of the theorem made me think of the theory of Light Field History. In the 15th Century, Leornado Da Vinci noted "The air is full of an infinite number of radiant pyramids". Later Michael Faraday gave his “Thoughts on Ray Vibrations”, His ideas
were intended to do away with the ether in favor of lines connecting the particles; light being the vibrations of these lines or rays.Today we know it "light field' as consisting of the total of all light rays in 3D space, flowing through every point and in every direction.
There was a 2007 legal case that, though the jury ended in deadlock (as to whether or not the shooting of a cat was legal), suggests that cats do in fact kill migratory birds. Stevenson v Galvestone, I believe.
If you’ve eaten at one Pret you’ve eaten at them all, which honestly is big part of why I’ll typically go to one if I need food somewhere I don’t know quickly. As chain coffee shops go they’ve got the best food, even if it is a bit uninspiring.
In addition to 20% VAT that others have mentioned, I believe e.g. the better consumer protections increase prices. In EU the seller must refund/fix/exchange faulty products for a long time after the sale, unlike in US.
The Booker is interesting because it's a big deal in the UK, and winning does seem to make a big difference to sales. But the long listed books don't sell many copies - usually fewer than 10,000.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/10/booker...

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/19/441459103/when-it-comes-to-bo...

On a tangent to the article I find the UK's CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway awards useful to find books for children.

https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive.php

I start by buying the winners and the short-listed books, then you look at other books written by / illustrated by those people. There are some excellent children's books today. I mentioned this (some time ago) on HN and someone created this lovely website, in German, to help people find great children's books published in German. https://www.schoene-kinderbuecher.de/
related:

https://undark.org/2019/06/27/monsanto-gmo-crusade/ 06.27.2019 / BY Kavin Senapathy "I Was Lured Into Monsanto’s GMO Crusade. Here’s What I Learned. Public debates about science and technology are rarely ever just about the science and technology."

"...Monsanto hired Crowe, a communications strategist, as their director of millennial engagement. ... Crowe preached a scientific gospel of GMOs that went something like this: If you’re pro-science, you must be pro-GMO. If you’re anti-Monsanto, then you’re anti-GMO. Therefore, if you’re anti-Monsanto, you’re anti-science. His objective, it seemed, was to render opposition to GMOs as ridiculous as belief in Bigfoot, and to amass a movement that could be counted on to shout that message from the rooftops. ..."

"... catalyzed an awakening, and suddenly I saw the landscape of the GMO battle with aerial clarity. Everything I’d written and said in support of GMOs was factually correct, but my approach had been all wrong. It’s impossible to have a constructive conversation about GMOs without acknowledging that underlying the unscientific claims made by many GMO opponents is a legitimate desire for trustworthy behavior from the companies that dominate the agricultural marketplace. ..."

"... The entities that push unscientific, fear-based narratives about GMOs will never be defeated if the powers that be neglect to sincerely tackle the people’s underlying mistrust. As I said in a speech to fellow skeptics this past fall on the steps of the Sacramento capitol building, “While the scientific method may be the way we interact with the world, largely by choice, the scientific method is wielded by people, and what drives those people are values.” I’m hopeful that Monsanto will get the message, but I’m not holding my breath."
I think you may have misunderstood. I'm talking about having Swiss health insurance in Switzerland. The standards for health insurance and cost for treatment in "Europe" are not always lower than in the US as the parent commenter implied.
If I ever write a library to perform stress tests, I'll call it one-fifty-four.
Any respectable publisher includes multiple projections of the world in their atlas, with an explanation section describing each at the beginning (i.e. which one is angle-preserving, which one is area-preserving, etc).

It’s beyond me why people seem to be baffled by the area distortion of the Mercator projection - is this not taught in high school geography classes in the USA?
* language wonks
* systems programmers
* product engineers

nice terminology and nice categories
It seems to me that there is a quite profitable business case in a thin abstraction over AWS/Azure/Google App Engine (or whatever it's called now).

There are lots of services like Zeit Now and Heroku that supply a complex abstraction to the point where it feels like an entirely different product. What I would want is something that allows me to host docker images/K8s on one of the big three (I guess others as well) and lets me to use configuration as code to the extent possible, but with UI/command line/API helpers that create a uniform abstraction so that can easily switch.
I was referring to Swiss health insurance in Switzerland and the cost of an ambulance call here. This has little to do with the EU. I live in Switzerland so I'm quite aware it's not in the EU.

EDIT: Also, for the record Switzerland does observe the EHIC system so health insurances from EU/EEA countries are valid here and vice versa, so your example of Belize isn't even accurate. Switzerland isn't in the EU/EEA but has a series of bilateral treaties which harmonize many things such as this, research funding for EU projects, freedom of movement of people, etc.
If you hate AWS so much, wait until you use Azure. Worst support ever. UI not in sync with the az-cli, documentation super chaotic, lots of basic features from AWS not yet supported in Azure.

From my experience, AWS has up-to-date documentation pages for everything. And when something is hard to understand from their docs, you can find really everything you need by searching on Google. Literally, everything. And if you ask the support forum, you'll be provided with an answer in relatively short time. Competent answers most of the time.

So, what's the alternative to the ugly AWS web console? Learn the basic concepts, and maybe use the aws cli.

Speaking about the bucket -> https://medium.com/@P_Lessing/single-page-apps-on-aws-part-1...
Here in the UK where 'rent to own' is a concept that exists but has never quite taken off, the traditional business model is to borrow money to build houses and then sell as soon as possible to recoup the investment. Often the buyers will then rent out the house to someone else at a premium.

It's a hugely inefficient process that results in poor build quality and high costs.

Build-to-rent is an option that mass-housebuilders are catching on to (maybe 15 years too late) but there is still resistance to changing existing business models.

I believe the real problem is that people like to own the house they live in and will pay any price to achieve this. In a bubble of ever increasing house prices though, who can blame them?
I can’t tell you how jealous I am that Ginger Pig are your closest butcher. In a previous life I worked for a company that delivered from them, which meant I got a 20% discount, and it resulted in almost all bacon I eat now coming with a tinge of disappointment. Likewise for Fromagerie, although even with a discount their prices were just a bit too high for everyday purchases.
Yes, it should work here as well because Switzerland uses the EHIC system. My experience is with Swiss health insurance, and how an ambulance call can cost more than it does in the US even in a place in Europe.
Link doesn't work on mobile?
Show HN: DuckDuckSometimes – Redirect some of your Google searches to DuckDuckGo
Would there be efficiencies in combining this with a 3 blade fan? Your already putting a mast up, could you include this as part of the mast?
Your comments would actually make sense if, say, Microsoft wasn't simultaneously going after Android phone makers to impose an "Android tax" during that very same period [1].

This is like saying: "I was really getting into open source. But I also wanted to contradict myself whenever it was convenient and profitable, as long as no one noticed. Its not really my fault that my left brain doesn't know what my right brain is doing as I am a large organization". While Microsoft may indeed be so big as to have such a dysfunctional brain, the rest of us don't suffer from such debilitations.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/android/is-android-being-stifl...
Drowning in plastic: Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles
The tax-free import limit in EU for air travel is 430 EUR after which you have to pay VAT (and duties, if applicable).

I bet many don't do that, though...
Porsche increases stake in electric car maker Rimac Automobili to 15.5%
Ah. Sounds like the cache wouldn't be much use for .au since nothing is in it currently. Gotcha.
> I am pretty sure the AWS business model is to get you to write your own code that interacts with the API so that when you think about switching to another provider, you realize that you're throwing away months of work and decide not to.

Same applies to all other cloud providers.

Typically, you solve this problem partially with tools like Terraform, etc. However, of course there is never a one-size-fits-all solution for such things. Vendor lock-in is an issue that many companies try to solve by adopting standard solutions, but that's it. Kubernetes for example is one of these solutions.
That’s akin to giving a fish to someone.

I think that what philanthropist can do to help is to effectively replace the government: build infrastructure, educate people, provide healthcare, employ the locals for these jobs.

Any money you give to anyone for free will just get someone rich while the rest will continue suffering.

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Also, to directly answer your point, you can give those $50 to a person OR spend those $50 to get 50 people to donate instead. This is the point of this “expensive” documentaries.
You’re assuming a fixed target. I was enumerating which targets get hit to solve the problem for all cubes up to some fixed size.

If you’re assuming a fixed target, you don’t know how large you need to check to find an answer. That 53 bit numbers sufficed for 42 was not known in advance, and is not the bound for other targets.
The most we know yet is this post:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/07/2

That implies it is the processing from the spool that is at fault; something is serialized and later read back.
Horton Hears a ... color named doctor
I’d love to use DoT, but afaik it’s currently mostly only supported by DNS resolvers (Google, CloudFlare and other privacy-exploiting companies) rather than authoritative DNS servers.
I think now in France supermarkets are 'legally encouraged' not to lock their bins and the culture of food waste is not as prevalent.