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A suggestion: avoid screencasts for communicating information related to software as much as possible.

Text please.

I will never watch a screencast about programming unless it's Rich Hickey.

Thanks for the Stack Overflow link, I'll take a look!
Yes, from the research I did the M50's were maybe the most mentioned model....I was just having a bit of trouble pulling the trigger on the $150 price tag.

I have a feeling I'm going to end up with the Koss Pro DJ100, they're supposed to be pretty fantastic for ~$50.
Cosmologists will tell you more but it doesn't contradict how gravity works at large distances at all - we just see gravity working on something in a familiar way and don't know quite what it is.
If you reduce your mobility and spend longer periods of time in places you can drastically reduce costs. You may also find that you get a better experience and understanding of a place by staying there for longer. I completely agree about travelling by land rather than air! This is a great tip!
I cofounded slicehost and spent a lot of time at Rackspace thinking about this exact problem relative to Rackspace Cloud Servers.

The real issue is hardware skew. We like to buy/sell and build on cloud as if it is a pure utility where every unit is equivalent, but every year processors change, go EOL, etc. As a provider you have to make a call about how much of that complexity you expose to the end customer. Some customers want complete transparency, which I understand, but the downside of that is hundreds of variations of pricing options and complications around managing heterogeneity (e.g. how do you represent simply how much available capacity there is when you effectively have 300 variations of the same 'size' instance).

Of all the component parts of compute, CPU is the one that changes the quickest. Disk capacity is easy to model, disk throughput has changed much at all (minus the introduction of SSD), memory is pretty stable (minus some increases in databus rates). All in for the typical instance in a multi-tenant virtual environment, the same today as in 2006, the two most vaguely defined attributes are cpu and i/o. With the increasing use of 10gigE as well as SSD, hopefully we finally push through the i/o piece. Not sure what it will take to get us there for a clean way to model and describe 'standard cpu' as a provider.

Also, if anyone has specific questions about Slicehost cpu priority handling circa 2006-2008 or Rackspace Cloud Servers cpu pre OpenStack, just ask and I'll be happy to answer.
I'm in the same boat, any ideas?
It needs a "Yes, and I don't know why I do it" option
Accidentally revealing server stats because of a bug handling a trivial authentication token is less of a big deal than giving a third party root shell access to your server, is my point.
Leaving out his name would have made all the difference.
We might be hitting the limits of Heroku's free instance… Try http://demo2.telesc.pe/ or http://demo3.telesc.pe/ if the site's demo link doesn't work.
Confirmed -- I've used WebStorm and it's derivative PHPStorm for several years, they are excellent IDEs.
The fact that most telcos in US offer cheaper prepaid plans with the same resources (unlimited voice/sms/data) than their 2-year-lock-in counterparts still surprises me... Is the lockin there really just to offset the price of the subsidized device?
It's also a year old.
Their prices do seem to bounce around a bit, even for countries that use the same currency.

There's an issue in that (as I understand it) in Germany you have a quote VAT inclusive prices but in Ireland you can leave off VAT for goods aimed at businesses. (The same is true in the UK).

Even taking that into account there's about a 20% price bump from Ireland to Germany, though!
Been using DataShack lately: https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/

I pay roughly $78 a month for this: http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2012/09/28/NkHEVWXUAKwf4USF
Dude this is awesome.
Unfortunately address space randomization techniques make this much harder.
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Thanks! Would something like this work? http://embed.ly/

Also thought I would mention that I have recently gotten more into meteor and related technologies so am going to throw up some links others may find useful:

Here is a "made with meteor" site. Lots have the code: http://madewith.meteor.com

I also went about re writing the "peepcode tunes" app in meteor and then with meteor using the angularJS package. I know lots of people here like AngularJS so maybe you'll be interested. Here they are:

Meteor and angular: https://github.com/Jonovono/Meteor-angular-peepcode-tunes

Just meteor (not done): https://github.com/Jonovono/Meteor-peepcode-tunes
how many concurrent requests killed it?
Your sample size is too small, and your data isn't independent. Both magnetic disks and ssds fail, multiple backups are the only way to protect data.
So Formlabs wouldn't be good for toys then? What's the best alternative for that then? The Replicator 2?
if there is truly no difference in productivity from excellent programmers over 40 and "young" programmers why wouldn't there be companies that take advantage of this obvious bias and hire primarily older programmers? Wouldnt the decrease in market demand for older developers drive their salary levels down and thus provide a large market advantage to the company hiring them exclusively? (obviously assuming equal or better creative and productive output)

I know this is a classic laissez faire market argument.

Hypothesis: On the whole, older developers are not as productive.
hah thanks!! I plan to do a lot more with it. I made http://tunesicles.com awhile ago. So am kind of rewriting it in Meteor because it's so awesome. It's so easy to add new things. But I will be adding playlist/logging in next. Oh and better searching (not just youtube).
This is silly.

If you cook, buy a great chef knife. It doesn't have to be the best in the world, but spending a little more will get you a terrific blade with a great service policy that you'll use constantly and enjoy forever.

Buy a bunch of cheap scissors though, and stick them in every room you ever find yourself wishing you had scissors, and then never worry about that problem again.

Some things you might need more than once, but not all the time, and you'd rather it didn't break, get old, or get lost but you wouldn't mind quickly replacing it if it does. I'm thinking shower towels on this one, but yours might be something different. That's fine. There's no reason to get the finest terrycloth, but I'd rather not rub my skin raw every morning with sandpaper. Whichever towel is slightly more expensive than cheapest on Amazon will do just fine.

Not every purchase has to be an uncompromising statement on your position and perspective on the world. Choosing something other than the absolute best in every category does not mean living a life of cluttered crap. This entire debate makes me seriously question the rationality of anyone with religious devotion to either extreme. There are better things for smart folk to be spending their time thinking about.
People trust the Internet but lie to it anyway
You're a consumer, fella, better get used to it.
i have a high-school degree and did two interviews with google, second of which followed up to live interview with MV engineers. didn't got hired because i wasn't good enough and i suck at interviews. always felt i was being judged by my talent, so i think that may be a myth ?
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Wow, I would have been a "poor fit" when I was 20-30 because (1) I can't stand the taste of most alcoholic beverages, (2) I can't stand being around drunks, and (3) I thought the purpose of having a job was to do some damned work, not find a social club.

For me, work is about doing something that produces value for the shareholders so they can afford write me a paycheck on a regular basis. When I've finished doing that, I'd like to use my time the way I see fit, thank you very much.
That's one advantage of foursquare: after you've checked in at a number of restaurants, it does a good job of suggesting places based on where you and similarly minded people have checked in.
Hi, what is the benefit of your offerings vs installing openvz on a managed host?
We all need great hosting optimized for scaling if our ideas get crazy popular. But until then, you need something that you don't need to worry about, so you can concentrate on building and testing your product.

We recently switched to PagodaBox, because I have no interest in handling sysadmin stuff at the moment, and I'm loving them (writing a blog post about it soon).

Cross the scaling bridge when you come to it. In the mean time, find something solid that just works for now.
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For all intents and purposes you don't. People that already have substantial followings can drive traffic for you. If you are a normal person, you can grind out signups, but those people will forget who are you by the time you launch.

So, what's a person to do? Well, build a product worth using. Get a few people using it and enable them to spread the word for you.

Good luck!
Ask HN: Log file monitoring tool
We're looking for a SaaS product that monitors log files on a server and sends an alert if it sees a line containing an error. We'd give it access to the log files on our server and it would periodically check the files we specify.

I remember seeing a bunch being mentioned on HN before but I can't remember the name! Would appreciate any help.
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I used to.

But I stopped selecting text right after... perhaps I began using a WebKit based browser. Sometimes, text selection in WebKit based browsers looks ugly and weird compared with that in Firefox, however, these browsers are just damned fast.
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JavaScript touch events are sort of an odd bird, but not too difficult to untangle. The bottom of this blog entry has a link to the web app in question, and the source code is unobfuscated, moderately commented, and free to learn from. Or steal.
granted, having your own kids and raising someone else's might feel very different. I don't have experience with actual kids, but I do with dogs: my dog is always perfect and precious, whereas anyone else's dog is just annoying in a matter of hours... :-)
Use your existing networks. When we had our initial landing page up for matchist (http://matchist.com), my co-founder and I used our networks to spread the word. That consisted of our Twitter followers, Facebook friends, and other personal connections via email.

We also had an existing community from our other company, Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, which was actually our target customer base, so we sent out some emails to them as well.
Yes. My kitchen is full of bent spoons, probably mostly from trying to serve ice cream that was too cold, although they predate me here, so I'm guessing. I've broken plastic forks innumerable times. A couple of hours ago, I cut the wrapper of the butter without meaning to, because I was using a steak knife to carve off a chunk. And, yeah, there's plenty of silverware that just doesn't feel good in your hands.
It all comes down to what you are building and how your target audience will interact with it. Being mobile first is definitely hard when you are trying to penetrate into a sea of tough competition in the market especially if there is better use case to be web-first.
For you, I feel you gained enough traction and very positive response by being mobile-first. I am sure that helped you get 1M or so users quickly on board and now that you want to go from 1M to 10M, you obviously need to think of entering new markets and platforms while maintaining your lead in mobile. This becomes hard and frustrating.
We are a mobile-first startup trying to bring business cards onto mobile. It wouldnt make sense for us to be web-first, hence we are mobile-first.
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I did the same experiment with Dvorak and had the same experience.

At times my brain got really confused and I would mentally converge the convenient parts of both layouts (which brought up an idea of using predictive typing to use the most comfortable keystrokes of both layouts).
What does it break? This new default makes it behave as most users of it would have expected it too when writing their code. IMHO the users who require un-safe writes will be the ones to read this kind of news and notice and could alter it, if needed. I don't think this is true vice versa.
And Python3 is definitely my reason for not moving to Django.

Python3 became the living branch of Python during the Bush Administration. Django has been claiming ever since that there is just so much stuff in Django that, even in early 2013, they won't be able to honestly recommend it to Python3 programmers, except for "experiments".

So with this much baggage, what chance is there that Django will soon become a sleek racehorse of a Python3 framework? It could happen, or not, but I'm probably not the only one in the market for a sleek racehorse based entirely on the living branch of Python.
I'm inclined to think 47% of Hacker News is 37.
Surprised they made one in the first place.
Sorry but is this meant to be marketing for Meteor or a legit project? Am I missing something or is there no test suite? This doesn't bode we'll if this is the example of how to write a Meteor app.

Please correct me if I've overlooked something.
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Create some sort of composite performance profile, then give me CPU information in terms of that. EC2 sorta does this[1], and although it's far from precise, at least it gives us a rough guideline and is at least an actual statement on what we're going to get.

The other issue, which I don't see Rackspace (or Slicehost or many others) addressing is the actual commit. It's fine to say "you get 2 cores", but then not tell me if those are reserved or if they might be sometimes overcommitted. This is a larger issue, because it means things might work fine... until they don't.

(I tried one provider out, and things worked swell in all our tests, but rarely in production, the entire VM would get paused for a few hundred ms ore more; something that wouldn't happen if there was a non-over-commitment guarantee. Right?)

1: "One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor."
Great, thank you. I was looking for this kind of advice :)
...every year processors change...300 variations of the same 'size' instance...

Shouldn't it be four variations? (Or maybe only two if you count a tick and a tock as the same.) Would it really kill providers to offer something like Nehalem-1C-4GB and SNB-1C-8GB?
* Face it. No matter when you’re reading this, it’s probably 72 degrees and sunny right now in L.A.

The article's credibility starts to crumble at reason no. 6
Because facebook is a waste of time, and if you put that $100/mo for 45 years in an IRA with an index fund you will have enough money for at least some heath insurance in old age/senility (may you live to 120). This is coming from someone who graduated college last august.
If people are relying on the current speed, changing the default to safe would break them.
Don't lots of other email clients do this too?
256gb is a bit overpriced at the moment for ssds, the sweet spot is a 128gb drive for as close to 100$ as possible.
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I'm hopeful that these will be updated around the same time or moving to Python 3 won't be an option for most people. I suspect most Django apps are based on MySQL.
Non-starter for me. Can't find this on Google Play, and don't have (or want) a Facebook account to sign in.
For example, if 1x means 32 VMs per server and 16x means 2 VMs per server (assuming fair sharing), then the labeling is proportional to the minimum performance you can expect.
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for just cpu change, less than 300 but certainly more than 4. In just the 2 year from 2006-2008 before we exited to Rackspace we had more than a dozen cpu variants in production. We loaded the machines in a way where 'roughly' (with some hand-waving) things were the same for a given VM machine to machine, which allowed us to keep charging 20 bucks a month for the same instance regardless of which physical host it was on.
About 150. This seems pretty good to me for a free Heroku instance, it could probably handle more on AWS.
Yet elephant brains have half the number of neurons as humans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_ne...

Perhaps the caloric requirements of a brain are driven by the number of moving parts. The article suggested a "calories per neuron" metric.
much better: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6363/ocz-vector-review-256gb
Great response, thanks; I had not even considered the d=3 possibility. I'd just like to say in my defense that mentioning OAEP wasn't assuming the application was encryption: it was simply the first provably secure padding that came to mind.
GET /cityDistance?city1=Chicago&city2=Austin

Also, while POST can mean "create", it can also mean "append" or "process some arbitrary request."
I've just (in the last hour or so) started using it in a site I'm building for a client and already will be adding it to my jekyll skeleton. I was previously using jekyll-assets, which was doing the job but I'm finding that yours is much easier to extend so far!
I run W3Counter which tracks over 100 million page views a month. Every load involves both reading from and writing to a database, and about 50% of the time, dynamic image generation... so no CDNs or response caching.
I personally don't feel like downloading all the hundreds of megabytes of KDE runtimes just to fire up an IDE for a test run (this is on Xubuntu).
"remember, until V8 raised the standard for speed, Javascript VMs were slow."

Actually, it was Apple, not Google, that kicked off the JS performance wars. Apple and Mozilla were deep into JIT tech before anyone knew about the existence of Chrome.
Cool. Have fun in Japan!
Awesome! Thanks a lot. This was helpful.

I had not heard of some of that for sure.
An interesting message board feature would be the ability to (self) tag posts plus a filtering mechanism to allow users to avoid grammer or spelling nitpicks. Or they could be styled differently. Instead a full reply, it'd be an asterisk that you'd hover over to read if you really wanted to.
awesome!

Do share with us how the application hold up at the end of the day
In the comparison table, the Corsair Neutron GTX scores magnitudes lower IOPS for 4kb writes 477 vs ~ > 10,000 - 17,000 for the rest of the drives.

Anyone can shed light on this? Can this benchmark be flawed somehow? (I myself am trying to convince whether SSD is good or not).
I'm pretty sure Google's home page doesn't include every possible search term for you to select from, and that's a perfectly RESTful example of an exposed function (search). Forms are a very powerful hypermedia construct.
Do your research if you're planning to soup up a Macbook with an OCZ SSD. Whichever party is to blame, they often don't play well together. Mine randomly freezes for up to 30 seconds every couple of days. Others have reported worse symptoms. By the time I get another SSD, I'll probably be getting a new computer, but for anyone else thinking about it:

1) Don't buy OCZ, OR make sure it has a SATAII, not a SATAIII interface, (That may apply to other brands if OS X is to blame; I'm not an expert on the issue)

2) Take out the optical drive and put it there.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476016
Getting a headless browser up and running really isn't that huge of a hurdle if you're capable enough to build a search engine whose intent is to be competitive with Google.
OVH have similar offers in many countries as mentioned by others here already, e.g. on their Irish site or their Polish site. I signed up through their German www.isgenug.de brand (which now simply redirects to their main web page) about six months ago and got a EUR12/mo deal which isn't available anymore. The server is fine, but administrating the account is a pain.

I thought I'd be able to get access to a server within a day or so of registering and paying. Oh was I wrong. Before even charging my credit card they requested an officially stamped/signed proof of address (issued by the town I reside in in Germany), a scan of my credit card (!), and a scan of my German national ID card. They were friendly enough to let me substitute my passport since I don't have an ID card. I was travelling at that time and had to have the proof of address mailed to me, so it took over a week. Ironically, all that jazz was required because I was travelling - apparently signing up for a server with a German credit card from a non-German IP is "suspicious".

Two weeks after signing up I finally had access to the server. Stupid me thought they would make it easy to stay their customer. Instead, I have to enter my credit card details into their Web0.9 backend system once every month (or once every year if paying annually). To make sure I don' forget I receive a reminder email once every day for the last 14 days of every month. The only alternative is to set up a recurrent wire transfer to them and then cross you fingers that it always gets booked correctly on their end.

I see that many others here report on having an account with them. Am I the only one who finds it so difficult to give them my money? I'm really happy with the server (I use it to compute meshes from worldwide elevation data sets for our geographical iPhone case creator on http://www.printablegeography.com/creator) but giving them money is just waaay too hard.

edit: typo
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Unfortunately almost all SSD models have had noticeable firmware bugs. But they're still worth it; just have backups.
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The change (removal of some plans) is a couple weeks old.

About CPU priority, Linode never kept it a secret.
For the small VPS (512MB RAM), you get a guaranteed 1/20 of a 4 core XEON processor and it scales linearly with each plan's RAM.

As explained on their FAQ, their machines have 8 cores each and house 40 512MB VPS.
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Only when I am changing font sizes on the page, to bookmark where I am. Browsers tend to jump around an article when you do this and it's easy to lose your place.
Thanks for putting this together! I think more designers should be exploring the possibilities of these real-time frameworks :) Today, it just seems like something a lot of devs get excited about, but I think it's when designers get a hold of something that the REALLY cool stuff starts showing up.

P.S. I'm a subscriber to your newsletter -- great stuff! Keep it up.
To be fair, if you only look at sequential access numbers on any disk your likely to be disappointed unless you happen to have a very sequential workload, which isn't terribly common.

Loading large applications, copying large files, loading the OS, some types of video editing, etc may benefit from sequential performance but for the majority of real world workflows 4k random I/O per second is a much better metric (though certainly not universal). IO/sec is much more important in the area of dev work, database performance in particular. The current generation of SSDs are massively faster in IO/sec than older models, much greater improvement than the sequential numbers indicate. That said, you still may not notice a difference if what your doing doesn't hammers a database that is 'safe' (guaranteed consistency on disk) or if your working set doesn't outstrip the ram you've allocated to the db.
There are a ton of corner cases that can produce weird results, so it's possible that that result is correct (but probably not representative of real-world performance). If you read a different review that uses a different workload driver, it will probably produce different 4KB write numbers.