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A lightweight paragliding set can be as light as 3 kg these days, and experienced pilots can travel 200+ kilometers regularly with a tiny bit heavier set (say 8 kg).

OVH does.

You can choose to use OVH's kernel or factory kernel at install time.

I believe he means OVH (+Kimsufi, Soyoustart), Online.net, and Hetzner for example.

If you are interested in what 1/100th of AWS price looks, have a look at Online's server order page for example [1].

[1] https://console.online.net/en/order/server

Yes, I was surprised it's not the first on that list. Amazing product and amazing people behind it!

You can use Docker as a VM. Discourse is doing so, and Baseimage Docker is the #1 unofficial image on Docker Hub, so it means a lot of people believe it makes sense to use Docker like this.

Why is running a DB in Docker so different from running in an OpenVZ VPS? There are millions of Wordpress websites and other PHP CMS-es hosted in OpenVZ VPS-es, running MySQL reliably.

Also, Discourse.org's default setup is PostgreSQL hosted in a Docker container, it also has probably 1-10 thousand live forums and is a reliable platform.

And then you didn't mention the whole concept of storing everything in one-huge-always-expanding-blob ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/Docker.qcow2 file which contains all Docker related storage, images, data volumes etc.

Now that file just loves growing to 40 GB+ and there is no supported way to reclaim that space.

You can delete the file (or click Reset to factory defaults in the GUI), but then you loose all your Docker's storage, like data volumes.

Simply just backup it up. There is no way to back up Docker volumes, except for making an other container only for this purpose which runs rsync or something similar.

Yes, and especially for tools like PostgreSQL which uses features of the Linux filesystems which Docker simply didn't implement or implemented in a buggy way. My only solution was to use data volumes for PGSQL mounts, which at least provide native ext4 experience and compatibility but then you loose the directory sharing part.

I could never possibly come up with using a dongle that way, but you are right it can indeed fit when used like that at the device.

But it's impossible to even plug it in: it has a male USB-C and a female mini-DisplayPort sized plugs.

> You can plug a TB3 device into a TB2 laptop with a simple adapter.

I don't know of any such adapter. Do they exist? The Apple one allows you to use TB2 devices with your new TB3 laptop, not the other way.

Also from OVH, have a look at OVH Object Storage, which is pretty much S3 but for 1/10 of the price [1].

There is also a GitHub comparison for all object storage providers (this price reduction isn't included yet as I see) [2].

[1] https://www.ovh.com/us/cloud/storage/object-storage.xml [2] http://gaul.org/object-store-comparison/

I don't understand their headlines either.

They just raised $8M Series A on March, 2016 [1], and their business modell is basically about trying to serve you those crowdsourced photos made by volunteeers.

Like $249 / month if you are trying to use those images in your map [2].

There is nothing wrong with that, but I believe it's the opposite of "available for all" and "open repository of photos", as you've quoted as well.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mapillary#/entity [2] https://www.mapillary.com/solutions

The best project by far is osm2vectortiles.org. It pretty much allows you to have a global OSM map on a USB stick, or render it live from a 4 GB VPS.

There is one critical issue which needs to be solved though, Mapbox reached out to them and asked them to rebuild everything from scratch [2], which means that it'll be a few more months before it's legally "safe" to use vector tiles produced by this project.

(disc: I'm just a user)

[1] http://osm2vectortiles.org/ [2] https://github.com/osm2vectortiles/osm2vectortiles/issues/38...

Exactly the same reason why I'm not applying for TopTal. I started their tests and realised what it is about is the opposite of what I consider to be good programming and problem solving skills.

Congrats for doing this and writing so honestly about it! But why only $1000? There are 134 "green" jobs * $50 which would be $6700. Or the Stripe integration was added that much later on?

Not a physicist, but if a plane is flying by 900 km/h compared to the air, and the air is moving by 100 km/h relative to Earth, it can make the plane fly 800 or 1000 km/h relative to Earth, can't it?

Their biggest competitor - Online.net - is also French, yet offers recurring payments and even PayPal subscriptions.

Can someone explain what is referred as "Golcondan wealth"?

You can select "no credit card" or similar when creating an Apple account. It's hidden behind a button but definitely possible.

To me it seems that OpenStreetView was made especially as an answer for Mapillary. Mapillary has almost 80 million photos uploaded by enthusiasts, who did it free charge.

Yet, even for a simple embed on a website, you have to pay them $99 / month. Using the images for custom maps: $249 / month.

Accessing the data is not publicly available, but is probably in the range of enterprise pricing options, only listed as "Contact Us". To me this seems to be the opposite of the OSM model and there is a huge need for a OSV like platform.

This is absolutely brilliant! One thing what I would love to see, next to the timezone info is the actual timezone in UTC+2, etc. format. That way you could for example immediately see why does Portugal and Spain have a one difference in sunsets the western parts, for example.

Like any Internet Explorer on any non-Windows 10 systems?

If 47% of all CloudFlare users are not connecting via HTTP/2 (even though it is supported server side), I believe it means that those users do not have client side support (or are behind a proxy, etc. which doesn't allow it).

At the end, if someone is thinking about making a website which would be much slower for non-HTTP/2 users then right now it means around 47% of their users.

Yes, but the problem is on the client (browser) side.

Please have a look at the data before writing such statement. In the latest CloudFlare article [1] about it (Feb 2016), they concluded that only 52.93% of their users are connecting over HTTP/2.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-impact-on-the-http-2...

Hi, sorry to hear that. At the moment, we are using Mapzen Search [1] for geocoding, and unfortunately it has issues like this. They are working actively on fixing it, and we are also looking into implementing our own hybrid approach which would combine multiple search providers.

[1] https://mapzen.com/projects/search

Hi, yes, I totally agree, calculating elevation profiles for imported and drawn tracks is a very important feature which we are working on.

Hi, jsbin/jsfiddle/gist like sharing is one feature we are discussing, but it is quite a delicate issue and not without risks, so we still haven't decided about it yet.