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They have a "distributed" setup: http://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide

Out of curiosity how have you found the performance of clustered Minio? I've been checking out Riak S2 but the simplicity of Minio is attractive. Thanks!

Yep just got bit by this as well. We're heavy users of the API and this was a surprise. Would have preferred some notification about the change OR better yet, just create these instances with new plan ID's.

Thanks for sharing - this is really cool.

If you have some time and are looking for something easy check out Proxima:

https://www.jamroom.net/proxima

It's really designed for someone that is not a developer first. I built a MBaaS quite a few years ago, and Proxima was something I built on the side since I wanted an easy backend to power my own app. I also wanted someplace to do documentation, support, newsletters, etc. - so the idea with Proxima is that you can focus 100% on JUST your app and Proxima will handle your backend/website, etc.

Note too that it's not a SaaS - you would download and install it on your own server (although we do offer the hosting as well if interested). It's open source and free, so check it out if you're looking for something easy. Feel free to contact me as well if you have any questions.

Hope this helps!

Thank you!

Are there plans for providing an API for creating mailboxes/domains? We previously used Mailgun for mailboxes (back when they still provided them) and ever since they discontinued mailbox support we've been looking for a solid mailbox provider that can handle any number of domains, mailboxes and aliases.

I think a lot of people believe (rightly or wrongly) that in a "true" libertarian ideal it is "buyer beware" - the idea that bad companies will go under because people will stop buying their products - however there is collateral damage while they are sinking :/

I'm going to guess that a lot of HN does NOT think it is OK to fire people for their opinions - however if your core beliefs are out of line with a companies beliefs then it just might make you a bad FIT for the company. Not about your opinion, but about you fit with a group of people who's opinion and beliefs are opposite.

Both parties have been complicit in creating the power structure that enables surveillance - it's certainly is not something new. It has been growing ever since WWII and supported by both parties. Neither party wants to be seen as anti-military, and a lot of the technology used for domestic spying originated in the military (or as off shoots of the military). Saying that liberals created that power structure is disingenuous.

He says he's using S3 for media and uploads? Unless I'm misreading it.

$20 a month for the DO droplet, but out of curiosity what's the monthly bandwidth bill from AWS? That's always the kicker - bandwidth from AWS is not cheap.

Yep - am using one right now and have had no issues. To be honest this is my third battery - the second one I got from Apple only last about 2 years and ended up swelling up to the point the track pad no longer "clicked". Have been with the one from OWC for almost 2 years now and no issues.

I also have a 2008 unibody aluminum MacBook - just an FYI you can still get new batteries for it:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple_laptop/batteries/MacBo...

This is a standard way to present price changes. We don't say "the price was multiplied by 1.5" - we just say the price went up 50%. This isn't there to "wow" anything - we should already be wowed by the greed being presented in this case.

I actually agree with the original statement. PHP, for quite a few years now certainly has NOT been the language of choice for most startups, yet we still see the majority of them fail.

"and miss all of the tremendous losers who picked php and got nothing for it"

certainly applies equally across all languages in my opinion.

I've gone one step further and created a template:

Some companies are succeeding in spite of [insert language]. There are many, many users of [insert language], and we'd expect that there would be considerable variance, with some users doing awful (no traction, buggy sites, etc) and some hitting home runs (facebook). Because it's such a popular language, it will have users across this entire spectrum.

It's easy to cherry-pick the winners and miss all of the tremendous losers who picked [insert language] and got nothing for it.

Of course they do - this is like Android phones "destroying" the iPhone when it comes to sales volume. For a very large percent of students the Chromebook will work just fine - no need to drop a grand on an entry level Macbook.

There's no money in eating less sugar.

These pharmaceutical companies are interested in one thing - making money, and therefore they need everyone to be a "customer" by taking one of their pills every day. This means even if there are simple (i.e. non patent-able) solutions to health problems, you won't see them pushing it - instead you'll see them ACTIVELY work to prevent it.

A good example is the recent case where these companies have spent $880 million in the last 10 years working against marijuana legalization, even though studies are showing that it can work as a good pain killer replacement for the more deadly opioids that they are eager to hand out.

See: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4d69f4b41cbc475ca42f424524003...

Not "cannot" - just "easier" :)

Absolutely true - however, in a true "apples to apples" comparison, if you're only running a single EC2 instance (for example) and it dies you're offline as well - AWS does not "automatically" have a failover setup for you. In this case 2 dedicated instances with a load balancer is going to get you the same setup you'd get on AWS (only likely cheaper and a lot more powerful setup).

Yes - I would assume so since this is a Stripe transfer, which means it is money being moved from your account to another account, so likely you already paid the 2.9% + .30 on the money coming in.

This quote from the article is a great one:

"It was a very smart thing the sugar industry did because review papers, especially if you get them published in a very prominent journal, tend to shape the overall scientific discussion"

Has the acceptance policy for prominent journals improved that we're sure this is not happening now? I have suspicions that this is likely still happening more frequently then we might expect (i.e. pharmaceutical trials, etc.).

It matters if you have years of documents that you still need to be able to view/edit. Not everyone wants to upload these documents to an online service (i.e. google docs), so having a free option that is not tied into any monthly subscriptions is nice. Sometimes it's just nice to keep things local and not have to rely on the "cloud".

Really? At least with taxes your money is likely to stay local (whether you agree with how it is spent or not), whereas with a multinational corp like Apple, Tesla or Google your money is just as likely to go somewhere outside the country.

Why not? "Getting carried away" is the fun part :)

I have an iPhone 64G and iOS 9 runs just fine. In fact it runs so well I've not seen any reason to upgrade.

Probably less than you would think - even older iPhones have fairly decent resale value.

As an AT&T data point, I pay $162 a month for 3 iPhones on a 25 Gig data family share plan, which I think is still too expensive, but not that bad.

I've checked out Wable - are there any other providers that you know of that provide resource bundling like Wable? I really like Wable but I don't see an API, and for what I'm doing would have to have an API to control creation/deletion of servers. Thanks!