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wingsonfireon Needle-less Vaccines which can be self-administred

Oops -- Updated it to needle-less. Excited about technology but my autocorrect still does not understand me :)

wingsonfireon Millennials Flee Vancouver for More Affordable Cities

Exactly same issue with India. India has tons of IT Company and Government invests a lot in education.. obviously pay is more in US but I think it is also environment.

That makes me wonder what has US done right to remain talent magnet

wingsonfireon Crude Falls Below $30 a Barrel for the First Time in 12 Years

That is true but think what will happen if Crude was still at 100$. Can you imagine trade deficit? Rupee would have crashed

wingsonfireon Crude Falls Below $30 a Barrel for the First Time in 12 Years

Countries that export crude are having recession.. To name few Canada, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, Venezuela, Australia (commodities not just crude), at the same countries like India who import and depend heavily on crude are having good times (relatively).

So finally is it crude that runs all economies and everything else is overrated.. That scenario if true is so scary!

wingsonfireon Here’s $100. Can you win $800M at Powerball?

May be peer to peer lottery tickets as service. I have heard friends/colleagues used potlucked money to buy tickets and if they win share the prize. Have a service for it with nice Web 2.0ish dashboard :P

wingsonfireon PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data

I meant no human user has access to it. But application user that connects to credit score engine, map reduce job, or something similar has access.

I know applications can be compromised but now you can freely share your DB freely with other teams to analyze or play around

wingsonfireon PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data

I am looking forward for Row Level Security, Though cell level security will be even more awesome to have.. Difficult to achieve in SQL. Only Apache Accumulo in NoSQL space has it.. But once we have it make sure no one has access to SSN column and we will be protected to one degree in data breaches.

wingsonfireon Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?

I think every parent has same concern - middle class is vanishing, normal degree will not be enough, etc.. I have read in one of the book "65 percent of children entering grade school this year will end up working in careers that haven't even been invented yet" (I know data science is consider new field, it is just derivation of CS).

At the same time, if we feel our kids are smarter they should be able to figure out their way out if they have good basic skills ( leadership, teamwork, co-ordination, communication, passion etc).. So we as society should focus on such skills and not expect every kid to make multi billion company out of college room..

wingsonfireon AWS mistakes to avoid

Yes.. It is mature and very active too. AWS keeps on adding services and also make them available on CF. Troposphere community is very quick in implementing them..

wingsonfireon Ask HN: Cloudflare for web applications?

I think you can achieve that using AWS OpsWork.. So you can configure local machine as well as cloud using same Opswork agent and when on premise one dies.. It should scale it on cloud.

Though it requires decent knowledge of AWS.

wingsonfireon Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB

Thanks for pointing out.. AWS is constantly pushing things.

wingsonfireon Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB

Nice! When AWS starts offering elasticsearch it would be awesome package to have.. (Titan + DynamoDB + ElasticSearch)