skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, to be honest, you get a shell account. I'm hosting stuff on dreamhost, and it's entirely possible to killall my-errant-script when you need to. Just realize that you're a pretty low-priveledge user.

It's a great deal for static file hosting though, if you're a data intensive site as opposed to CPU-intensive site (or even a data-intensive site in addition to cpu-intensive)
But it's "cutting edge" design (in a salute to disco sort of way) and probably will look like your best set of flairs and loose open shirts in a couple of years. My list for cutting edge design this year and last is:

- large fonts (because the rest of the text is 8pt italics)

- fading text (more is less, but fade so there is less)

- minimalism sans menu (so I can't find my way around)

- excessive js (slows down browser for longer reading time)

- bright pastel colours (so the message burns into your eyes)

- link to 'foo' (because everyone needs to read it)

- rounded corners (we tried with html, we can use the images as beacons)

- hard to read names (if it's hard you'll learn it... forever)

- non-iconic icons (because every image can be an icon)

- date dice (Y2k proof MMM, NN in a box)
I just found http://www.linode.com and it looks like a winner. $20/month you get a virtual server (so w/ root access.)

256mb ram, 8Gib disk, 100Gib/month $20

1gb ram, 32 gib disk, 400gib/month $80
I went with MediaTemple. They are cheap and seem to offer scaling possibilities. Some people have warned me about them here on YC. I haven't launched yet, so I can't really give you feeback on them
Memory leak patterns in JavaScript
I did the same, after two months of repeated failed attempts to hire someone to design a logo (one of the logo companies we hired sent us about a dozen horrible ideas plus the Verizon V-Cast logo, as though we wouldn't notice). I've since made two logos that I'm reasonably happy with, both using Inkscape. I'm not a designer, by any stretch, but the T-shirts we had printed up with this one look great:

http://www.virtualmin.com/images/logo-185x38-background.png

And I made a logo for our example website (our product manages webservers and websites, so in our demo video we build a website from scratch and launch a useful application in a couple of minutes): http://doxfer.com/twiki/pub/Main/WebPreferences/logo.png

This one was whipped up in literally five minutes (once you know how to make the Web 2.0 "shiny" text thing, it's numbingly simple to do).

Neither are going to win awards, but they've allowed me to get on with work, and I'm not ashamed of them. When we take funding, or when we're making more money, I'll hire someone famously good to re-imagine our logo. Until then, I've been burned enough by bad anonymous logo shops.

One thing to keep in mind, that most non-designers (and even some designers) do wrong: Keep it simple. Imagine it in black and white. Imagine it on a T-shirt (and imagine paying for all of the colors you put in it--twice the colors is twice the price for printing), coffee mug, letterhead, and your website. Look at successful companies for inspiration, not just Web 2.0 companies (even if you're building a Web 2.0 app). You'll almost never go wrong by simplifying a logo design, but you'll certainly go wrong by putting too much crap in it. Also, pick your colors using a color scheme generator--not at random. Unless you've got the queer eye, you'll pick ugly colors. I guarantee it.
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it is good

http://teenwag.com
Ok, I just made cookies expire in the distant future. This new release also has more protection against various kinds of abuse.
wow this is gettin really interesting

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nope murdoch is the smartest

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wow but a simpler way to improve it all is to use postgresql

http://teenwag.com
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Microsoft Memories on Fractals of Change
Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the web
Dell Picks Ubuntu Linux
Joost no longer in private beta
I thought about the "more" part a little, just a little; there are some important problems to think through before carrying this further. First of all, it only provides a substitute functionality; if news.yc gets PM then this is totally unnecessary. For more features, there are more ambitious projects like medium (I'm not sure if they're in the same category).

Second, being an unofficial product degrades credibility by a lot; there's no reason why a user would expect to find messages for them on an external server. I imagine this as a disposable tool, like mailinator, in case some people want to trade emails or other non-public data without having to write here or disclose anything personal. Post and delete. For this specific purpose I do think its useful, but how much further beyond the audience especially concerned about privacy, I don't know.

Third, loading an external page in a frame can confuse and annoy users, so I think it's not a good practice. news.yc users might tolerate this kind of hack because they know what's behind it, but I can't say for sure.

Of course, if you have other thoughts/suggestions, do let me know, publicly or privately :)
Lots of dedicated hosts will include a 2-5 TB of transfer a month for $100-500. Media temple will sell 1TB chunks on shared hosting for $20/month.

I've seen dedicated hosts that price bandwidth above their included allotment at $500 per TB. You can also buy based on peak bandwidth.

You'll see quite a range depending on business models, peak transfer caps, etc. Mediatemple, for example, is clearly hoping that most people will never need their full allotment, and when they do, they only need it occasionally.
Yes. They do it better than most.
I can't believe it - Now I need to see what all this buzz is about. Could Silverlight from none other than MS be that good? Has anyone here tried it out? Will MS now rise from the dead?
Digg fights user revolt over HD-DVD ban -- Digg founders took HD-DVD sponsorship
That sound you hear? That is the sound of google swatting small businesses.

(with a huge wad of cash)
The killer features I see with Silverlight is it's ability to run javascript four orders of magnitude faster than the current average browser. Firefox 3 is apparently taking Adobe's ECMA script engine which kicks the speed up a few notches, but for browsers on the market, this is amazing.

The other one that makes me giddy is the fact that Silverlight can control the DOM outside of its shell... and I can code in Python.
I did this a few years ago.

Grew a site to 10k+ daily uniques while it was running over a DSL connection at my parents house!
The video demo is pretty amazing. Sadly the plugin itself requires an Intel core duo processor.
LayeredTech.com. You get a big bang for your buck.

Service? It's ok.

Totally unmanaged, so don't expect much on that front.
iminlikewithyou invite in exchange for site feedback
EDIT: Turns out it's one invite. See reply.

If you haven't seen iminlikewithyou.com, you're missing out. Their
AJAX-rich interface is definitely slick. Lucky for you kind souls post here offering invites for nothing. Unlucky for you I'm not one of them. This time you have to work for it.

I want you to go through the demo on ourdoings.com and give useful feedback. If more than five people give feedback I'll pick the five most useful. "Useful" is defined as matching the feedback I'm getting from my actively-posting users, or that I imagine would help them.

The target market for ourdoings.com is people who have a lot of photos but little time to share/organize. Parents with lots of kid photos is one example. Travlers are another. This isn't a social networking site for photography enthusiasts; it's designed for speed and simplicity.

I know there are people who frequent news.yc and are in the child-rearing phase of life. You know exactly what this is about, and I really hope that both of you give feedback. For the rest of you who see this as a boring site for old people, just think of all the fun you'll have with your iminlikewithyou invite.

http://ourdoings.com/
Digg's response: http://blog.digg.com/?p=73

Edit: huge update, digg surrenders - http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18652
Great script!
SoftLayer is indeed very good. The virtual LAN is awesome - you can even setup a PPTP VPN connection and access your virtual LAN from it.

VPN in your gateway box at home and it is almost like having the servers in the other room. They don't charge you anything for data that goes over the VPN, so you can upload/download from your server without using your bandwidth quota - it is a great for pulling off site backups.
If you use FastCGI/Rails with Dreamhost, as soon as you get any traffic they will shut down your account for "Excessive CPU Usage". I've seen it happen to a lot of sites hosted there that are linked from Reddit/Digg.
Most companies are using Maxmind GeoIP database for IP-Location lookup.

In general there is almost no practical way to verify age. Credit cards are the best filter, and even that has flaws.

Have a legal disclaimer that must be accepted before any content is available (cookie-based). Ensure your obeying your local laws regarding distribution of pornography.
So I know that they're trying to say it's not just "applets 2007", but how is it all that different? There's a 4MB download, it's running a VM (a mini-CLR), and it's probably going to have security limitations.
online porn? that's the one YC startup people would actually use! ;)
It's only a 4mb download. Java is 100mb+ last time I checked and no one uses it much for applets.

Security limitations? I would expect them to be the same as the Java applet security limitations. Or no limitations at all since this is Microsoft we're talking about :P
On behalf of Linux users: MS can lightly kiss my silver ass.
I think a vertical for child-rearing parents is a great idea. These days verticals rule. There is alot of reading to do on your site. This might be good for people that are not used to technology, but I still believe that your site should be intuitive, so that you don't need lots of text to explain things to people. I mean even my grandma knows what publishing is...
I have to advise against these guys. Hate to do it, because the support is good, they seem like nice guys, and they are reselling SoftLayer servers, so the network is amazing.

But I've had VPS's on three different physical servers with them and they were all starved for disk IO. They take quad core servers with 16-32GB of RAM but only put two 7200 RPM IDE drives in them. A 7200 RPM IDE drive is good for about 120 I/Os per second, so if the server has 20 users you get a whopping 6 I/Os per second.

Check it out:

$ time ls -l /etc /dev/null

real 0m12.530s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.046s

12.5 seconds to list a directory with ~150 files. This is from a VPS account I have with them with nothing running on it.

To be fair, most VPS hosting probably sucks just as bad.
Moral of the story - post a topic instead of using the feature request post? Or would that get annoying too quickly?
Ease of deployment/integration is the crucial issue, of course. The Javascript+DOM+xmlhtmlrequest model is just so horrendously, hackishly chicken-wired I'm always ashamed to even touch it...much less use it professionally. Flash and java applets from day ONE were superior in every, single way...utterly superior...except when it comes to deployment/integration. Java applets have the habit of seizing up the machine and mysteriously failing to load...flash is a bit better, but is gradually turning into this decade's popup launcher. Neither work well with webpages. Their failure to really become platforms just shows that an extra second or two of wait time can be a competitive killer.

But, if MSFT can do this right, goodbye javascript.
I also have an iilwy invite, which will go to the first person to reply to this message.

If you give brlewis site feedback as well, then I'll even throw in an upvote :)
Geez, pick another name.
I just opened up my first photo account with flickr and it was amazingly easy to upload several hundred photos from a trip to the botanical gardens and then email the series to friends. It's so simple even my grandmother can use it.

I'd advise you to work on your copywriting. With all the free photo hosting sites out there already I don't think people care about average number of photos times x number of cents to host per year. They just want to know how easy it is and that it's free or that they are getting an incredible deal by paying a subscription fee.

If you're targeting people who are new to the web, talking about zip archives will likely scare them away. Keep it simple.
Digg the Blog: What's Happening with HD-DVD Stories?
Which message? :P
Can I have one please. davidsmit at gmail.com
I'm pretty curious about what the rest of iminlikewithyou.com looks like. So, hopefully my contribution is useful:

I think I got all the way through the demo, in any case it is very frustrating. I think that the whole interface is insufficiently intuitive. Considering the fact that your target demographic is (often) non-technical families, I would reorganize the methods of interaction.

There should be a simple pathway for every task that hides irrelevant actions on each step. For instance, once someone uploads a set of photos the option to upload more should be hidden until the user complete modifying the photos or returns to a 'home' page.

You are facing some very serious competition. There is a lot of work to be done before you launch.

Frankly, if you need a tutorial for an application like this, your interface isn't good enough.
I'd give away more invites here as well, but the last time I did, two people I invited didn't even bother to sign up. You guys suck.
Too late dawie, the invite is mine! Thanks Sam.
Starting a company is like going to war [1998]
I would appreciate one. Their front page is gorgeous and I would like to see what AJAX I can learn/rip off the rest.

falsestprophet at g mail
Site feedback? First, make the text larger. Especially the demo/tutorial and change it to say, "Test drive!" or "Try it out!" or something attention grabbing like that. You could put the "What makes it great" text on the front-page. Much more helpful to users if they know what the site's about.

In the demo, the text should be larger.

I'm also not sure what to do with photos. Can you link them to entries?

You need to make a link that says "Home". I don't know which is the main page that I'm supposed to be looking at...edit: Maybe make a main page that is just those links you have in the bar above with a short summary of what you do on that page.

This is a neat idea though and it is quick and simple.
Additional info (from the e-mail I received) in case anybody cares:

"P.S. Please note that the reduced bandwidth rates shown above will also take effect for Amazon EC2 and Amazon SQS. The bandwidth tier in which you will be charged each month will be calculated based on your use of each of these services separately, and could therefore vary across services."
I really want one. I promise to sign up.
Can I please have a iminlikewithyou invite?
I really want to check out iminlikewithyou. I keep on missing people giving away invites, so I am just going to ask nicely... Please
Does anybody know why not PCLinuxOS? Has anybody tried their new 2007 edition, or has positive experience with Ubuntu they want to share?
Update: every single story on the Digg front page is now related to the HD-DVD key. This is certainly an interesting event in the history of community based sites.
I for one am very interested in this. I make games, and this would mean I could use the same code (Ruby!) on the desktop and web versions (right now it's not really an option unless I use Flash).
Or, of course, just an ActiveX control and other similar technologies on other platforms, but it's a bit of a nightmare.
Duke MBAs Fail Ethics Test
don't trust those MBA types...
Cool Concept: BarCardz Is the Cyber Calling Card
Having seen only 5-invite offers posted here, when I saw the "we just gave you some invitation codes" message I thought I would have five. In fact I just got one. Falseprophet, did anybody else give you an invite? If not you should get it.
Question: Is silverlight really part of "the web"? For that matter, is Flash? (Were applets?) It seems to me that "the web" consists of things built around W3C standards, to a first approximation.

Just because something plugs into a browser doesn't make it part of "the web"; that's just a sneaky way to put a thick client on the user's computer.

I'd argue that Silverlight _might_ be the future, but it's not the web. (Whether that would suit MSFT just fine is, of course, open to speculation.)
I would like one as well. It'd be very appreciated.

kbeshay@gmail.com
Arrington has completely lost his credibility. He doesn't know what he's talking about. I remember hearing him at Future of Web Apps saying that Adobe's Apollo is the greatest thing ever. Now this nonesense...

Is he being paid by MS to push this crap?!? Either that or he's the most gullible blogger alive.
Ideas are worthless? Nonsense! Ideas can solve problems
Digg's mistreating of their user base will take them down the Friendster path. Oh well...
Digg shuts down user submissions after every story on the front page is the HD-DVD key
This is great. It's like a business card, except the information is already there, you just punch in a 5 digit code (or such.)
This is a really interesting case study. Especially since it seems as if hundreds of new users are migrating over to Reddit. I wonder if there will be any noticeable impact in Reddit's traffic because of this.
Sent you one. danwie, I don't know your email.
and 7 of the top stories on reddit are about digg.
Arrington is not technical. He's being sold on these things by slick guys in suits, with even slicker demos. He's good at evaluating new consumer products but there's no reason to assume that extends to evaluating new technologies. His lack of knowledge does make him extremely gullible.
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I think what makes this the most interesting of all is that from the standpoint of stomping out knowledge of the key, AACS's attempt at censorship has resulted in a flat-out catastrophe.

I don't own an HD-DVD player, and have never made any effort to learn how to break its encryption. I'm sure many people are just like me. If it wasn't for the user revolt I wouldn't know about it. (I don't typically use Digg, and use Reddit only rarely)
Yeah this is ridiculous. Screw you MS even if you do support Python and Ruby.
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I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'd like to sell him ;).

You're absolutely right, he's just too gullible. I don't think he's taking money from these companies which products he's pushing but to someone else it might look that way.

ANY dev environment that requires you to download and install a runtime before you can run an app is bound for failure. Web apps will be impossible to beat... and they run on anything! You think you'll ever be able to run these RIA on a phone?! Not any time soon.
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got another one? nicholas.s.barnes at gmail.com
Does anyone use SUN's Startup Essentials? Just wondering.
Good idea. I have a bunch of iilwy invites that could use good homes. Problem is my site hasn't launched yet. but ahh... check out my splash page and tell me if you like the logo/color scheme :)

www.omnisio.com

First 3 replies get invites.

R
We are using flash 9 and silverlight for videos

http://teenwag.com/show/videos
it's definitely been an interesting day for social news...
Up for grabs:
http://www.iminlikewithyou.com?invite_code=LJBM
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Kevin Rose gives up: http://blog.digg.com/?p=74

Is it too late for Digg?!
By that blog post, no way. Respect for that move!
back up, delete me
Apparently Digg isn't the only one doing shady stuff...google is as well
would be interesting if this signals the downfall of digg.
You can kill the revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution.
+1. Much Respect.
now it's down;

http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/digg.gif if you want a screenshot of what it looked like before it died :P

edit: back up now
It seems to be a 13MB download: http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

100MB is probably the SDK, which you don't need for running applets.

The problem with plugins is not so much the size, though, it is the administrator rights. A lot of people surf the net from their offices in big corporations, where they might not have the rights to install anything on their computers.
A Teen social network that has been growing organically released by Myspace
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Yeah, honestly I bet those AACS lawyers are reeling right now.

I'm sure they'll have it all straightened out in the morning, but right now I bet they feel like I did that time I stepped in a hornet's nest by accident.
Just wondering...what's wrong with MediaTemple?
I don't know if this is true. If it is, it's a serious blow to Google's hopes of becoming the new Microsoft Office. Who is going to want to keep their files on Google's servers if they know Google is going to read them?
I really don't understand certain users. Digg is a great and useful service, why try to abuse it?

Are pirates so proud of stealing that they have to broadcast it to the whole world?
SysAdmins of Well Known Web Sites Discuss Disk Monitoring For MogileFS
Is that really necessary man?
Kevinrose:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_This_09_f9_11_02_9d_74_e3_5b_d8_41_56_c5_63_56_88_c0_4
would really appretiate one.
codebutterfly gmail.com
would really appreciate one. codebutterfly+gmail.com

Looks good to me. But then again, the choice of colors and sleekness of logo all depends on your target audience. So saying "its sweet" doesn't really make much sense as of now.But again, thats my first impression.
Kevin Rose's response
"cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET"

So it will work on Linux:
http://silverlight.net/Default.aspx
I wouldn't encourage overusing this technique.
Sadly, this is probably Intel's doing. They're always looking for new reasons for users to upgrade their processors. Case in point: Microsoft Chrome.
The interesting thing to me in this story is that MSFT spent ten hours selling Arrington on this. They must really care what the startup community thinks of them.

If I were in his position, though, I'd be cautious about saying stuff like "Silverlight will be the platform of choice for developers who build rich Internet applications." If this turns out to be true, it will be the first time since the mid 1980s that Microsoft has produced a platform voluntarily adopted by good hackers (as opposed to something they had to use to make stuff work on Windows).
09_f9_11_02_9d_74_e3_5b_d8_41_56_c5_63_56_88_c0
Sphere Redesigned to Focus on Connections Between News Stories
I'm on a (dv) 3.0 rage and it's great. With plesk and root ssh I can do anything, even install another OS. default is RHEL.
It's a number. You can't copyright a number. It's also censorship. Censorship is bad.

People shouldn't need these things explained to them.
Unanimous Supreme Court decision against trivial patents
Can't you copyright a number? If you can copyright text, why not digits?
likebetter.com's on softlayer and we're happy
if you decide to make your own, be sure to use illustrator or somesuch "vector" program. don't use photoshop else you'll have to redraw later when you need it at another size.
question: do companies have dedicated teams to go out and find small companies to eat, or it more or less a random process?
Browser JavaScript implementations use refcounting instead of proper garbage collection? If so, why?