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Ask HN: recommendation for VPS/Dedicated Server
I am running a SaaS startup company in Mexico, right now I am using a shared server but now looks like it is time to transfer to something bigger, I would like to hear your recommendations. This is what I need:
Fast service (fast response with requests).

Possibility to add sub domain names automatically from shell.

Possibility to create databases from shell. (each client uses his own subdomain and his own database)

Modern Linux environment. (Preferably Ubuntu 10.04)

Not hidden charges

I am looking for something around $100 U.S. Dollars/month. I am using Webfaction right now. Their service is very good, but with shared hosting I can't do points 2 and 3 (I have to manually create them each new client is registered). And spending $350/month for a dedicated is just not possible for us
This is the first plan that had me thinking that I'd actually buy one. I've definitely found myself in spots where I'd have liked internet access but I don't need (tethered) internet access so badly that I would commit to a 2 year contract. It seems this is the best of both worlds.
Keeping your business plan flexible (and competitive)
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I agree with your argument on a logical, rational level. I can concede, however, that "branding" is important to people in ways they rarely care to admit

Bingo. One thing I remember from Jeff & Joel's podcasts when I listened to them was how much thought they put into facilitating a sense of a community on the site. Another is being surprised how technically competent Joel is, when it comes to technical CS stuffs (explaining the difference between the halting problem and NP problems, for example). He's also certainly no newbie when it comes to building a brand with a following.
I don't think I'll ever see a StackExchange topic on motorcycles.

Wy not? there's one about bicycles: I don't think I'll ever see a StackExchange topic on motorcycles.
Seriously, a 2007 news article based on a 2006 unrefereed paper is on the front page today?
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^this (thread over, you won :P)
Studies have shown that a person’s ability to savor experiences predicts their degree of happiness. Savoring is defined as the emotions of joy, awe, excitement and gratitude derived during an experience.
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So the visual reminder of money in the experimental group prompted the participants to "savor" the chocolate for less time: 32 seconds vs 45 for the control group.

Doesn't imply "unhappiness" though, just happiness experienced for less time.

Belgians and their bizarre studies. . .
You're taking it for granted that she didn't report the ad, though the question doesn't necessitate that that's the case. Even if she didn't, though, her guilt doesn't absolve Craigslist, and it doesn't make the question invalid, though it probably could be worded better.
Thanks for linking to the post with the methodology, it was interesting. It does show the difficulty of trying to get accurate numbers, although the author has clearly made an effort to.

Re: the effect of inequality: sure, that's the effect on income. But that is obviously not all that matters.

Yes, the things I am referring to are subjective. Yes, they are hard to measure. But this doesn't mean we should just ignore them, and focus on what we can easily measure. Sounds like a recipe for optimising the wrong thing.
I think that pundits' predictions are largely colored by their own bias, much like political pundits.

I have to admit that I'm a consumer and I still don't get the iPad. It's like an underpowered laptop that I have hold instead of letting it rest in my lap. What could the benefit possibly be? But... here I am, eating my proverbial hat.

Netflix, on the other hand, I get. I had it early and people would say, "Why would you want to wait for your movie when you could get it at the video store?" I would explain that 1. I wanted movies I couldn't get at the store and 2. I generally had 2 or 3 going, so I wasn't without something.

It's just a matter of what you value and then projecting those values onto the observed behaviors of a large population. If you see a bunch of people going to the river you might think that they are thirsty, but in reality they want to go swimming. That uncertainty makes predicting hard.
I think I remember doing that and it didn't seem to help, I was using my Ubuntu box if that matters.
Is there any reason why this + the new iPod touch + Skype/google voice wouldn't be equivalent to an iPhone that is $60 cheaper per month?
What is "burst" advertising?
Uh.. Yeah, I did catch that.

Here's the thing: You pay CL a fee. CL has a review policy. CL reviews and then posts your ad. Posting. That ain't hosting: CL has explicitly taken some deeper editorial responsibility there.

Does a newspaper "host" or "publish" classified ads? Can classified ads in papers still be used to advertise illegal activity? Sure, they can. IMO, CL's best defense would have been to go grab a copy of a typical independent news weekly -- one that has all the personal and prostitute ads in the back.
Screw making an Android version, until Google fix it for you. I am in the same problem in Australia, have the SDK and a Nexus One to test, but I am refusing on working on this until we hear from Google. They have not talked about this problem for a long time.

Google, you only have yourself to blame.
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I understand and partially agree that AMQP is a bit complicated.
Much like XML is a complicated version of JSON.

However, I can personally vouch that this 'complexity' once somewhat mastered can be used to create messaging schemes in no time.
What's so complex about it? You have exchanges, queues, and bindings.
With a bit of practice, it's fairly simple to grasp the concepts.

"AMQP is quite unusual in that it starts low on the stack, building on protocols like TCP rather than HTTP"

This person has obviously never built anything truly high performance. Using HTTP would add a lot of latency, and he complains about message speed?
Sure 0MQ is the fastest, but with RabbitMQ you get <1ms latency.

"People who today read the AMQP specifications tend to make one main complaint: the protocol is too complex."

I wonder how many of these people actually use it.
He goes into a bunch of useless analogies but doesn't actually discuss WHAT'S complex about it.
(Usage wise, NOT implementation wise.)

A protocol doesn't HAVE to evolve. JSON being an example.
But, in the end, AMQP isn't perfect, but it can still be used to build good software.

This person knows very little about building messaging software, and he admits it himself.
I'd take his complaints with a huge grain of salt.

You can use something like protobuf to get really fast de-serialization if you really want encoding.
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> if you want to avoid unplanned pitch adjustments

I read that as 'detours to the nearest hospital'.
I have the virgin MiFi and in NYC it is SLOW.
Cool... I wonder if the algorithms are transferable to something a bit more practical, like preparing me food :~).
How far can you push commercialization?
I know a girl from Kerala. It is a very beautiful place - very lush - from the photos I have seen. I will have to ask her about the Red Rain.

"Growth and replication of red rain cells at 121 oC and their red fluorescence" (2010 August)

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.4960v1

"The Red Rain phenomenon of Kerala and its possible extraterrestrial origin" (2006 January)

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0601/0601022v1.pdf
If you're talking about 12-15% after 5 years and not 12-15% per year, you can stick it in a GIC and not worry about risk. I'm in Canada and ING's 5 year GIC is 3% per year, which will end up giving you almost 16% after compounding (1.03^5 = 1.159).

If you're looking for 12-15% a year, you'll have to be doing some very risky stuff. Returns like that are hard to come by. Let me know if you find anything though ;)
That is alot of speculation for something that the article says is "rejected by the scientific community at large" and "yet to be verified".
While sometimes it's hard to hypothesize, there are other times when you've done enough research on the topic to make a very astute guess.

I imagine that, by now, you've read The Onion's absurdly prescient "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'" from January 17, 2001 -- http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nigh...

Maybe I have different ideals than the original poster that I replied to, but I feel confident in saying that yes, we are better off not having elected McCain/Palin.
Yes we know Tom and Fenn from Adioso, and we are going to the next local HN meetup before the submission deadline - I think the biggest thing that anybody would get out of YC is becoming part of a community of very passionate people, which makes a hell lot of difference!
> First, thanks to the incredible complexity of the U.S. fiscal system, it's essentially impossible for anyone to understand her incentive to work, save, or contribute to retirement acounts absent highly advanced computer technology and software.

If the article is arguing that everyone pays roughly the same taxes, that would mean we have a de facto flat tax anyway so the incentives should be clear.

> Second, the U.S. fiscal system provides most households with very strong reasons to limit their labor supply and saving.

That would mean unemployment would be low, given the lower labor supply.

> Third, the system offers very high-income young and middle aged households as well as most older households tremendous opportunities to arbitrage the tax system by contributing to retirement accounts.

If one had a crystal ball, yes. Marginal tax rates are at some the lowest in 60 years, so it is entirely possible that they will be higher at the time of retirement withdrawal.

> Fourth, the patterns by age and income of marginal net tax rates on earnings, marginal net tax rates on saving, and tax-arbitrage opportunities can be summarized with one word - bizarre.

Doesn't sound very objective.
I have a couple boxes with http://hivelocity.com/ that I throw a lot of traffic at. You can get some pretty sweet bargains on their stuff through this forum:
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The team's findings are yet to be verified.

Sigh. Nine years, no independent verification. For reproducible incredibly unique behavior like that? Verification of a real phenomenon would be massive and immediate.
Louie is a surprisingly good show. I think I like it for the same reasons I like Breaking Bad and Mad Men, which is it sticks out from the rest of tv (American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Bones, House, Law and Order, etc.) I think what's nice is that its not just another over used trope, spin off, sequel, trilogy, reproduction--it's original. I especially enjoyed the episode with his mom. The authors arguments are really interesting and I tend to agree with her. There are flaws in everything though.
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Two useful implementations that this article misses are Array-compacted tries (aka dual-array tries) and Array-mapped tries. ACTs are nice due to the small memory footprint and good cache-locality, but have the downside of being difficult and time-consuming to construct. AMTs have a bit-array for determining existence of children and a sorted array of child-pointers in each node and are surprisingly fast at both insertion and search. Both have been described elsewhere, but I like the explanations by Phil Bagwell in his paper, "Fast And Space Efficient Trie Searches" (1998).
the method and software are working and good.
why is this upvoted so much? your points are all off base, and frankly sound like they're coming from someone who doesn't care to do iPad development.

The real factor here is the iPad has only been on the market for 5 months. We've had the iPhone SDK for over 2 years now. We just need more time to figure things out.

to your point: what do we expect skype to do differently on iPad vs iPhone? how about something creative?

it's embarrassing that Facebook doesn't have an iPad app by now. Kudos to Twitter for trying (and shipping) something new and exciting.
This is not an appropriate forum in which to seek or give investment advice of that sort. Those who respond risk accidentally running afoul of securities law and you risk getting (and, worse - taking) very bad advice.
Nice! anyone who's worked on wall street has seen how much people pay for K
Except that airwolf's special capabilities are all fictional.
> so it is obvious a hash table will work well for them, whereas a trie will waste space trying to find common prefixes between random keys.)

It is obvious, but it is wrong. I observed Judy beating out many hash tables in specifically this situation, and comparing favorably to google's sparsehash. Given its much smaller code size and fewer dependencies this has demonstrated itself a huge win at my organization.

Link to my benchmark: http://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bhxwh/hash_table_be...
The paper from 2006 (second link above) has very interesting scanning electron microscope pictures of the critters (3D reconstructions).
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I've been apart of two failed (or mostly failed) startups.

Wesabe closed down recently and they did open source almost all of their code. I think that speaks well for their main backers, OATV and Union Square.

Odeo struggled for five of the seven months I was there. I think it was pretty clear we were a bit lost and the board was very kind about it, i.e. they knew they weren't going to come up with the the innovation that was going to turn into a big success. George Zachary from CRV was the primary guy there. I like him personally a lot.

For some reason I feel like the board gets crazier the more success you have, in other words they're not going to fight with you over how you lose your last $100k, but they're damn well going to fight you to make sure you don't blow your $100M valuation. I don't have much more than anecdotal evidence for that though.
Wow - that's fascinating.. sounds like you are saying that 'sometimes even a perfectly tuned piano is not hitting the 'right' pitch for a song' is that right? From a music theory perspective I'd love to know more.. Can you provide any links for an interested amateur to learn more?
This is documented now, at least for creation times, short names, and file IDs. Apparently the filesystem can choose what to "tunnel" across the delete+rename.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172190

http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=22

History: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/15/43926...
I think Apple is missing the point with Apple TV. People don't want another machine that they have to change inputs to view the content they want.

I think Google TV has a better direction but who knows when they plan on releasing it. http://www.google.com/tv/
This was often discussed in the past:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/49367/why-not-one-si...

It is terribly annoying and often has hit me myself. Some programming related question about Xorg? -> moved to superuser. Some filesystem question about iPhone on superuser? -> closed because mobile phones are offtopic. Some question about OpenID on superuser -> moved to serverfault (actually, it has pointed out in the end that it was programming related...). Question about JVM performance -> closed as too argumentative. Question about Bash on stackoverflow -> moved to serverfault (because I didn't put the word "programmatically" into my question). Question about ACL in the MacOSX filesystem on stackoverflow -> moved to superuser.

Ok enough of this. The point was probably already clear in the original post.

I really wonder what we can do about it. I like Quora for being universal. And I like Stackoverflow because of the somewhat better management (despite all the different sites) and many details. And the killer argument for Stackoverflow: Everything is open, all content becomes cc-by-sa and I can download the full database. Sort of like Wikipedia. And I often get much more and better answers on SO (probably just because more people are using it).

So I mostly end up asking on SO (or related sites).

I am not sure if they ever will fix/change this mess. I hope that they do at some point but I actually doubt it.

Maybe another solution would be another, new and open solution which just works as SO but is just as general as possible (and some more simple way to filter for a bunch of tags). The database of SO could be imported there and some metasearch-engine could also be linked with it which automatically searches and links questions on other sites.
Is it so hard to type "I agree with this"?

This.
Why not cool enough for js1k?
Do you think the costs involved in hosting a large scale web application could be paid for entirely from donations?
"Verification of a real phenomenon would be massive and immediate"

Incorrect. Something involving alien life, comets, etc? Scientists run the other way.

In a sense, this publication is verification by scientists in the UK of a previous paper by Dr. Louis that described the cells/particles/whatever reproducing at high temperature.

If the cells are of extraterrestrial origin and are not DNA-based, this will be the scientific discovery of the century. One would hope that other labs will step forward and attempt to reproduce the work.
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It's easier to dismiss theories than nail one...
tweetirc made the preliminay 10th place http://nodeknockout.com/
Link to the paper:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1008/1008.4960.pdf
Canadians also appear to pay more for books that Americans. $30 for a hardcover, are you nuts?
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The team also found an unusual pattern in the way the cells changed colour under UV light, known as "fluorescence behaviour".
They said it was "in remarkable correspondence" with red emissions from the Red Rectangle planetary nebula some 2300 light years away, "suggesting, though not proving, an extraterrestrial origin".

You have got to be kidding me.
I wouldn't worry about the quality, the way you do lower in the thread, it's excellent.

About your parting words:

> I rather like getting 100% of the returns.

Do you mean that you'd rather run a smaller company at 100% than to have a larger company with outside investors or do you mean that you don't think you'd be doing significantly better if you had more money to spend to grow your business?

The first would make sense, that's a personal preference, but if it is about the return itself in an absolute sense then outside capital can (but doesn't have to be) a booster, you could come out ahead even after the fact that you no longer have 100% is factored in.
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I guess the question is, why does this theory deserve to not be dismissed? There are (pulling a number out of my ass) tens of thousands of theories on anything and certainly not enough resources to test them all. I think the burden of proof rests with those pushing a new idea. There are people working on this, but without further substantiation, there's nothing special about it.
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This is an interesting idea. What jobs would not exist on the free market? Let's just take, for example, a traffic engineer. Someone whose job it is to make sure the network of roads runs smoothly, interconnects between states and more or less provides a consistent infrastructure for the transportation of goods. It's quite possible this wouldn't exist in the free market, just look how long it's taken to standardize the web. Of course, we were able to standardize on TCP/IP, but that was probably government influence.

I'm not trying to troll, but I'm curious how different the world would look if we left things like infrastructure to the free market.
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How hard can it be to verify?

If these things actually reproduce, couldn't they give some to someone else? That someone else could then check to see if the things behave as reported. The "came from space" claim is more difficult to verify, but the other things (e.g. no DNA and no RNA) should be easy to check, and are interesting in their own right.
K is a great opportunity for anyone looking to work in finance and technology. The programmers are in exceptionally high demand. This project will make it easier to become proficient in K. Anyone looking to branch into this area now has an interpreter and the corresponding source, which wasn't available before.
There must be a bug in the lastest Dev version of Chrome. Some strange transparent white box on the "top" of the buttons.

http://imgur.com/CTVFM.png
There is a difference between no plans to exit, no exit occurring. No exit ever occurring is currently going to be a failure for any technology investor, because currently, at least, there is no custom of technology companies (unlike perhaps restaurants) paying dividends. Maybe such a custom will develop, but there isn't one yet, and it's not what YC is designed for.

The best illustration of the distinction between no plans to exit and no exit occurring is 37signals. Jeff Bezos's investment in them is a sign that he believes there will eventually be an exit. As far as I know he didn't insist on them paying him dividends; that would have been very unusual; so without an exit there would be no way for him to get his capital back.

We too would have bet on 37signals, because it's hard for technology companies to stay medium-sized. They either peter out, in which case exits are a moot point, or they grow so large that they either go public or eventually receive an acquisition offer the founders are willing to take.
Pulling out your wallet and counting out the bills while giving it to the person? I certainly hope that's not how you tip in a good restaurant.

There's a reason why your check comes in a little folder that can discreetly hold cash. It's the same reason why you don't hand the money to the server directly and why you show some tact when approaching the maitre d', and it's got nothing to do with 'bribery'. Splashing around money indiscreetly has always been gauche.
As a side note, one interesting difference between owning equities from a company that you started versus that you purchased from savings is that your work invested into the company is NOT taxed.

If you can create $100k of value a year in your own company or earn a salary of $100k (which after taxes nets you only $60k that you can contribute to purchasing assets), it will take you a lot longer to build up the value of your assets. Of course, capital gains distributions from either asset are taxed the same.
I bet that if you put 30% of Americans on the public payroll, our unemployment rate would go way down too.
So, I did take a look. It's mostly dead. Pity!
> This person knows very little about building messaging software, and he admits it himself. I'd take his complaints with a huge grain of salt.

The author of the article is the main author of AMQP/0.8 and OpenAMQ, and the founder of the company that produces ØMQ.
Depends on where you are. Airlines wouldn't fly into rural North Dakota because it would simply not be worth their while. That doesn't mean that people supporting energy and agricultural production don't need to fly. If you weren't subsidizing them with your tax dollars, you would be with your airline tickets. This would probably lead to fewer people flying, less tourism dollars, etc. thus requiring the government to come in and subsidize them again :)

If you took the government out of the airline industry now, the country would look very different.