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I've been with IOVPS after RapidSwitch sold their VPS business to them. I have one trivially underused server, so I can't speak for performance.

They can't handle recurring billing automatically (you have to log in every month and pay - which leads to late charges if you forget) and they are much more expensive than Digital Ocean.

I've tried BrightBox too. Someone else has already mentioned them, and I left a big reply there - basically, very good if you need to jump from 1 to 15 servers automatically to host your massive app, but very expensive in any other case.

I'll be switching to Digital Ocean with their Amsterdam data centre when droplet deployment is back up - it's just so much cheaper than anything else I've seen, and perfectly matched to my requirements (if anything, generous - $5/mo compared to £18, or £26 with BrightBox, for a tiny 512MB RAM, 20GB HDD Linux box.)
The last bit is the main thing I think. The original has exactly the same title and original poster has a lot higher karma.
I suffer quite badly from anxiety. I consider myself a good developer, but sometimes the stress of the job will make me nervous and I'll make silly mistakes. I'm used to it enough now to make myself take a step back and relax before continuing, but it really affected my confidence a few years ago. Something as simple as having someone watch me while I code would make me feel to pieces.

Although I don't exercise as much as I'd like to, I still go to the gym three times a week and get in a ton of cardio. Nowadays, I tend to go to the gym after work and I find myself craving it after a hard day. It's almost as if the fitness benefits are a secondary goal for me, as the sole reason I do it is to cheer myself up and to relieve the stress of work. I can have a terrible day, and I know that if I run 10k and do a ton of cardio I'll head back home happy and relaxed.

Ideally, later on in my career, I'll land a job with an on-site gym so I can get my exercising done during my lunch break.
Same here. And the mention of "fibre" in the article made me think along the same lines.

If I hadn't misread I would have been impressed by the bridge.
Very impressive. Well done!
That's fair, I modeled some aspects of the system after FiSH-irssi, which also doesn't have user authentication or MITM attack mitigation. That'll teach me to post to HN prematurely. Both SSL with proper endpoint authentication (and session keys) and user authentication are on the todo list.
One of the few places where I support the death penalty is for "international crimes" - genocide, crimes against humanity, etc. I think official sanction of torture should be on that list too.

This puts me in the odd position when the weirdos call "bring back hanging" of saying "yes, but only for politicians."
IE8 is a problem.
Hmmm, all that will do is fuel the stupid debate we in the UK have over being in Europe at all. Personally I think the EU should haul us over the coals, not just a fine, but actual sanctions. However, I'm not sure the EU really has the balls to do that. And frankly I don't want to give that nasty UKIP bunch any fuel what so ever.

An issue I see is that actually the UK is more in to this that even the US. Might not have the depth and scope, but certainly the intention, with out even the fig leaf of a constitution. American citizens have some rights to work with, we dont. When you get down to it, we are facilitating the US spying on the EU, as we seem to be some sort of gateway hub between the EU and the US, and we, for some reason I do not understand, favor the US over Europe. While much of the embarrassment is on the US, the Snowden lark puts the UK in a very exposed piggy in the middle position where we might get forced to pick sides. The US can take care of its self, but the UK could be left deservedly politically stranded.

On the other hand, the EU has a lot of its own problems and Im not sure it has the motivation to pick a proper fight with the UK. All we'll probably get is some posturing to appease who ever is complaining, and normal BS will resume.

I have to say, given all that, it rather amuses me that a few years ago Obama was telling the UK it should look more to Europe than the US. Heh, I suppose now we know why: We are the US agent in Europe.

I have to wonder if long term the Snowden leaks are more damaging to the UK than the US. People will still deal with the US because of its economic and military power, neither of which apply to the UK.
Impressive.
I've found that shaking my head was more effective for controlling the slides - but it gives a weird effect...
Yeah, you could interpret my feedback as saying that you're addressing the what but not the why.

Looking at it as sales/marketing copy though I'd say that your biggest competitor by far isn't people not understanding what it is but people thinking "Why don't I just change my site and see what happens?"

In that context I'd guess this story telling format is perfect for taking a concept like 'prevent acceptance of false hypotheses by controlling for external variation through randomized trials' and turning it into a visceral "Oh fuck. That's painful!" moment your target market can relate to.
What motivates web designers to tell stories by repurposing the scroll mechanism instead of, say, using video? This type of "scrollmation" feels incredibly clunky to me. I have never got to the end of one.

If you need that much animation on a page to tell your story, isn't it a good sign that video might be more fit for purpose? Video was designed for storytelling, it will work on most devices, and it has well-established UI and conventions, such as a play button and progress bar.

If you're going to provide a play button in your scrollmation to automatically advance the action anyway, you've already recognised how irritating it is to manually page through an animated story by scrolling or swiping. So why then go to the trouble of creating a scroll-based animation that repurposes a 20+ year old convention and attempts to reinvent a tiny proportion of what video has to offer?

Is it just for the novelty value?

Is it because it makes you feel smarter?

How is it better for users trying to understand your story?

I'd love to hear from anyone who's considered both video and scrollmation and chosen the latter.
Congrats on not only seeking help (and keeping a solid friend that stuck with you through the trying down times), but your 2 month streak, may it never end!
I you can write code there are a lot of countries you could support yourself in. I've visited and in some cases worked in 49 countries with minimal foreign language skills.
not in Germany though
Even if you only earn $10k/year (or $0k/year), you still consume about 20k/year [1].

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

As for cooking, carrying groceries and doing laundry, I do all those thing sfor myself.

Incidentally, your mental picture of the poor is a bit off.

As for owning things like washing machines, the gap is far smaller than you think. 65% of poor households have one, compared to 80% of the US (see table 2-4, pg 52).

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

I think terminology is confusing you. You hear words like "poverty" and assume a certain lifestyle. But the word "poverty" doesn't correspond very well to the lifestyle you are visualizing.

[1] It's been pointed out to me that at least some people in poverty are business owners who took a loss. I don't know to what extent this is the case, but it messes up all the numbers if it's a big factor.
OVH - https://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/

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Mystery radio bursts from outside the Milky Way may help locate missing baryons
> Flashy loving != Flashy itself.

I was only quoting the previous commenter there :)

> Shiogama, for example, is primarily centered around the fishing industry. You can imagine what my friend was compelled to get into when he had his heart set elsewhere. Since the tsunami cut deep into the family income, he was a little more accepting of their needs and slowly, but surely, he's growing out of it. It may take years for him to fully integrate into society though.

That was actually my point. That there's a whole side to Japan that isn't like the western culture perceives.

> Also, people need to stop thinking of Tokyo as a "city". It's big and varied enough to be a "county" in the Western sense.

To be fair, that's true for many large cities - even in the west.
> the time has come for Old Europe to become Bold Europe

I like that. But understanding Iceland's position is important. Iceland is due to its position, natural resources and political influence extremely free to do what it likes without threatening its diplomatic relationships.

Iceland can effectively 'show the necessary leadership' because they have little or nothing to lose, at least not as much as their European countries. In addition, Iceland has been blessed (although not currently) with a rather progressive political environment.

Other European countries are unfortunately not so lucky, and they are afraid to risk too much of it by being bold. However, if the European countries gather together to be bold, then the risk is vastly reduced.

But of course, this is one of the purposes of the EU; alone we are weak, together we are strong.
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I love it that you've produced this and I think the simplicity of it is wonderful but I fear the story could leave someone a bit confused.

It's confusing first of all because you've chosen a product which people don't generally sell online - fish. If you'd chosen bikes or clothes it would have made sense.

The other thing is on the "play" version - it takes about half the animation before you even get to the online bit and when you do, the illustration of how A/B testing actually works only takes up a tiny bit of real estate.

For my money I'm not convinced that the offline analogy really adds to it. You know your market better than me (or anyone else here except Pete and Dan) but I feel like you could jump straight in with a story about an online store.

"Mike sells bikes online but he's not sure which ones to put on the front page. Will he get the most sales from showing someone bikes on the frontpage or showing them chainsets? He doesn't know and he finds it hard to read his analytics to figure out which one is best. VisualWebsiteOptimiser does all this for him..."
I think scrolling is better in the way that it does not aquire audio and user can controll the speed of information. This part is boring and I get it, lets skip to the next part. Video has no way for that.
Didn't work very well. May be the quality of the webcam though
Firstly, thanks, I didnt know that.

Secondly, don't write the Scottish off just yet. They let that Lockerbie bomber go home, and that really annoyed both the UK and US. They did the humane decent thing, despite the pressure, which in the end came to nothing. Remember too the politics between Scotland and the UK. I am fairly sure that if they can prove anything, they will make a big deal out of it.

BTW, makes my blood boil too. Rendition was, and still is, a disgusting abuse of human beings and national power. Kidnap and torture by a state is something that should be internationally outlawed and offenders properly punished. Yes, even former US presidents and UK MP's. I'd like to see both Bush and Blair rendered to an international court and face jail for this. Yeah, I can dream.
If we're "forced to pick sides", I don't think we'll pick the US. The government might want us to, but all it takes is a list of the stuff we all hate about US foreign policy - Drones, Asymmetrical extradition (and Gary McKinnon), Guantanamo Bay, etc etc. That stuff has no mirror in the EU, all they're trying to do is get us to obey our own laws.

I hope the EU has the guts to give us a short, sharp shock - or I fear your last hypothesis, about UK isolation, may be accurate.
Patents on seeds are particularly worrying as a result of The Patent Box (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ct/forms-rates/claims/patent-box.htm) in the UK. Basically means income from patented "inventions" is tax free, which means that Monsanto and chums will only get richer, and the market less competitive. Tweak a gene, repatent, ad infinitum.

Never mind that this is a complete perversion of the purpose of the patent system (innovation and the common good).
I use https://github.com/oesmith/morris.js
I've made this sort of stuff before at request, and I can't stand it either. It quickly degrades the one thing that users can expect to do; control the vertical position of the page.
Indeed. It's pretty obvious that most patents are owned by corporations who paid someone to do the work and not by the inventors themselves. My personal assessment is that in contemporary times, patents only slow down progress and fill the pockets of already-rich people.

That said, I am wary of anything environmentalist since those people often seem to not have done even the most minute amount of research on their topics and then continue to spread misinformation or plain lies (see the anti-GMO people for instance).

The mentioned site for example, seems to imply that plant/animal patents will diminish biodiversity ("The organisations behind No Patents On Seeds are especially concerned about […] biodiversity.").

I have no clue how granting patents on plants and animals is supposed to diminish biodiversity. Won't new plants and animals increase biodiversity? I mean yes, without the patents you could crossbreed and remix GM and other plants more freely which would boost the increase even further, but even a small increase is still pretty much the opposite of a decrease and dismantles the argument.

And before someone gets into cross-pollination and other ways of patented species overtaking 'natural' species habitats: For that to happen you need the GM species to be vastly better at reproducing. The chances of this happening without it being a goal of the development (which it usually isn't, since they want you to buy shit again and again…) are pretty small. As far as I know most GM organisms are even made sterile.

And while the risk of GM organisms "taking over the world" is relatively slim, naturally occuring species do this kind of stuff right this moment. The so-called 'Killer bees', some species of fish and crustaceans, red fire ants. et cetera, et cetera.

Many people have this sense of nature being balanced and that if we don't touch it, it'll all be alright ("Man made everything bad!", the environmentalist version of original sin). This is complete and utter bullshit, just doesn't work that way. Ecosystems are not static, they are extremely dynamic and never balanced.
That is mostly correct. Though I would argue that anti trust law is not primarily concerned with protecting consumer interest (for this purpose serves unfair competition law), but with protecting competition as an institution. Consumer interest is but one measure amongst many to assess the existence of a functioning competition in a certain market.
Really nice work Kushagra - I'm looking forward to your blog post.
It was actually pretty easy to deal with. Since we usually have around 50-70K visitors/day we are used to a lot of traffic.

Our setup is one Windows Server 2008 R2 with 12gb RAM and Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27Ghz with 8 cores. The page is built with ASP.NET MVC + Web Forms (The alternative page is Web forms).

Anyway, ASP.NET scale really really well and since only a small % actually login to the site we can just cache more or less everything. Usually when sites go down because of massive traffic increases i think there is some kind of bug somewhere or they are just being blocked by their hosting provider.

/Ola (From AlternativeTo)
This blew my mind.

It's weird how scrolling forward from your right to your left is more easily detected than scrolling backwards from your left to your right, but it's an amazing proof of concept.
I'm using VPS.net for a few years now, I think they are great and they have a good and quick support team. They're a British company as far as I know but they have data centers everywhere, and you can choose where to host your VPS.
You definitely do get some kids that are lazy though. And I know this because I was one of them. I should have made more of an effort at school, but instead I coasted on natural ability. Which has meant that I'd had to put double the effort in later life to make up for the advantage I should have given myself at school.

However I do agree with you that we shouldn't be branding kids as "lazy" without investigation first.
The sad thing is that will have been designed to incentivise innovation/R&D, when in fact it incentivises registering more patents. :/
We haven't thought that much about it actually. The only experience I have with it is that the whole web is filled with crappy spam sites that is using the content from Stack Overflow to earn a few extra bucks and that is kind of irritating.

Maybe someone has done something really useful with the data as well that i don't know about though.

But if someone have any awesome idea and want to do something together we are always listening :)

/Ola
Thanks for the feedback. Yep, we had debated whether fish is the right product to be sold online. We concluded that probably the choice of what product is sold is not as important as demonstrating the actual confusions during the sales process (both online and offline). We considered selling books, cakes and some other products but with fish, the options were limited and very clearly distinct.
The gossip in the Scottish legal community was that Megrahi was almost certain to win his appeal - letting him go early was arguably the best option for everyone directly involved.
> Won't new plants and animals increase biodiversity?

The issue here isn't that - new plants and animals may be good or bad, but that's an environmental argument. My concern is allowing people to patent biochemistry/DNA sequences, which is clearly bad.

EU law doesn't allow software patents, perhaps it's time to define DNA as a computer program, thus making it illegal to patent it.
This shows crypto is much too hard. You can configure a bunch of things, but half the choices you can make (key length, exponent, etc...) will render your encryption worthless. I shouldn't have to know about the chinese remainder theorem to use crypto properly.
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Can someone comment on how broken it was to use 1 as exponent? Is it just a theoretical concern or does it mean the crypto could have been easily broken (as we saw with cryptocat yesterday)?

I'm asking because they seem to treat it like a minor issue:

It's of course questionable whether 1 (not a prime) was a good choice for the exponent to begin with, but it's hardly necessary to lose faith over this.
I'd say it is mostly novelty. Video could do the same job, maybe even slightly better. We have considered adapting it into a video as well, but then everyone does that. Second important factor after novelty was integration of signup form and other interactive elements within the story. With video, that's not possible.
While we are at it let's have the US stop funding the EU's defense and use the savings to fund healthcare. It won't be great for Europe in the near term but they really need to be self sufficient eventually.
I'm starting to think that we didn't deserve Edward Snowden's sacrifice (kind of like nobody deserved Jesus, in case he existed).

And then the next question:

What must future potential whistleblowers feel, when they're forced to think "the public doesn't give a f##k".

I feel, as a whole, we're currently just not worth the brave wo/men.
"with out even the fig leaf of a constitution"? What? We have a legal system going back almost 800 years to the Magna Carta. Constitutions are for noobs.
No. The death penalty is wrong, end of. I dont care who we are talking about, if it is wrong to kill, then it is wrong to kill. That has to be n absolute or we just get mission creep in the application of the law. And you know what happens, juniors get to shoulder the blame while the people at the top get away with it.

Ever seen a rich powerful person get the death penalty in a western democracy? Look at the US. Its pretty much all economically poor minorities on death row. No politicians, businessmen, bankers, senior military officers, just poor people.

I understand your motivation, I "feel" the same way, but I have to disagree with any one who supports the death penalty, for any reason. It is wrong. And for me, that is an absolute.

Put it this way, are you prepared for you, your partner, or children to die at the hands of a court in a miscarriage of justice? Are you prepared to even risk that? Do you trust the system enough top gamble your own life or that of your loved ones? Yeah, politicians and associated scum are humans as well.......... unfortunately.
But politicians are telling people they are trying to prevent crime... and people seem to support that idea. Why wouldn't they ? Preventing crimes before it happens is good.

Of course no politician tell them (or know) how ugly the surveillance is really going to be. People may not realize they are wishing for a dictatorship but complete control, or attempt to get complete control, leads to that kind of political system.

My point is: few know what totalitarinism is and how to recognize it.
On a scale of 1-10, it was about a 15 on the broken scale. As explained in the comments on the patch, a public exponent of 1 means a private exponent of 1 (it's the inverse). This makes it completely, trivially broken.
Reposting from some hellbanned chap:

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Non-EU is probably even better if privacy is your concern.
It's quite obvious that the maintainers are often being economical with the truth, for example, from their article on Monsanto (actually Seminis) receiving a patent of a specific subsort of brocolli: (http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/information/news/monsa...)

> "Today the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich granted a patent on conventional breeding."

Really? The process of conventional breeding is patented? I thought it was about brocolli?

> "It additionally covers a “plurality of broccoli plants .. . grown in a field of broccoli.”"

Quote mining. The patent makes it clear that this sentence is about the brocolli subspecies that was patented, but the authors of the article rip this sentence out of context to make it appear that all of brocolli now belongs to Monsanto.

Also, note that in their article only 5 sentences, about half of the first paragraph, are relevant to the patent while the remainder of the article (4.5 paragraphs) are about on how terrible these patents are. They barely discuss what the patent is really about and the article only seems to be a kneejerk based on a quick scan of the patent. Why should I agree with the author and sign the petition if he needs to be intellectually dishonest?

I'm not sure what my position on patents on plants are. Almost all plants that we currently cultivate could never have existed without artificial selection (unintentional or otherwise). In this specific case, Seminis had to perform focused work so that these plants could exist. It's not as if these plants just fell out of the sky.
strato.de are very good too, and have very similar offerings to hetzner: I've been using them myself for years. However, they require payment by German domestic bank transfer, and the contracts are a little harder to terminate. I'd try hetzner the next time.
Gandi is no longer a European company. Around 2010 they opened new offices in the USA and should be expected to act as a US company.
If you are concerned about privacy, I would also be wary about having servers on some EU countries and check on their relationship with USA in data sharing.
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i presented this a few weeks ago at the viennajs meetup http://miniqr.com/onsnap.r audiocontrol your presentation