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Ask HN: Recommended VPS providers
Hey guys, I currently have a 2GB server with slicehost which ends up io bound a lot of the time (big db). I'm thinking about getting a server with more ram - 4, 8, or 16GB depending on cost. Do you know of any good providers out there who are low cost - or who provide higher ram packages with lower bandwidth and hard disk offerings?

I'm looking for cheap as I'm completely bootstrapping and doubt I'll be bringing in any revenue in the next few months. Any suggestions appreciated.
What do you guys like about it? I'm ~20 pages in & I don't get it.
Please don't! Build something original. It really is possible!

Once you've built a UNIX clone, you have polluted your mind as an OS designer. I did so (as a standard college homework assignment) and it took me years to shake the crud out of my head.

As for the tutorial, it is very well written, but x86-32-centric and therefore worthless. There are nontrivial differences between x86-32 and x86-64 from the standpoint of an OS author who wants to make full use of the latter's capabilities.
Intense, thorough tutorial. Nice to see a pragmatic Hadoop walk-thru.
I use SilverRack (http://silverrack.com/) and find it very cost-effective.

They have some discount codes you can use, and if you ask them they'll probably give you one.
Overview of Penile Cancer
How many comments there are could be visible without any detrimental effect.

I simply suspect that the 'points' system has a shadow side and that as the site grows the shadow side starts to overpower the positive portion. By temporarily switching it off and asking the community what they felt about being 'point blind' for a short period and if they thought the quality improved or not you can make a 'metric' that is much easier to measure than some of the more technical tricks you could pull:

Customer Satisfaction.

A simple poll after the experiment would suffice. Or you could make it switcheable on a user basis if it is a toss-up or too close to call a very clear preference.

If on average more people feel better without the points visible than with them after a short trial period then it's something that you could consider doing permanently.

Another option would be to keep author and points hidden until after you've voted for a comment, but that may have other side effects.

I think the content should stand on its own, regardless of what the voting history and the author are it is what you think about it that counts.

Right now the choice to vote or not to vote is made plenty of time based on the current number of votes, which leads to plenty of feedback loops. I've seen 'flip-flops' (bi stable and tri-stable, 0,1 and -1,0,1), positive feedback loops, and negative feedback loops.

By breaking the loop we could end up with a more balanced view.

Imagine what the effect would be of a running tally during an election, it would completely affect the outcome, and not necessarily in a positive way.

Again, it's just a gut feeling but I think there is some truth to it, and it's a very easy to do experiment, worst case we will learn that it did not work.
After seeing Textmate crash for the thousandth time, I also made the jump back to VIM. Seems like a bit of a regression, but at least its stable and I dont have to worry that opening a large will crash every project I have open.
What if you could view the down votes made by any particular user from their profile page? A little passive accountability...

Personally I think the comment voting system is working alright. The overall s/n is more of an issue for me-- it would be nice to see some kind of karma based throttle for posting new articles.
that's a good one!

There is a downside to that though. Plenty of people use the 'up' as "I agree" and 'down' as "I disagree". I know that's not the way they are intended to be used, but it opens the door to 'I don't like you' and 'I like you' votes as well.

Without having them split out like that you will then only be able to view those votes through your own perception of what was voted on.

This will eventually lead to meta-moderation (not necessarily a bad thing), that's a lot more work than a simple switch, which is one of the reasons I asked this, it's dead simple, takes 2 minutes to implement and we'll have results in a couple of days.
All this ultimately depends on what is the goal of HN. I believe the goal is to foster discussion. So, the number of comments would be a great metric.

Regarding clicks, I think even if people just click every comment link to find out what the discussion is about, the site/design has achieved its goal. It may reveal whether the points cloud new interesting articles.

Perhaps, this experiment could also include clouding of domain to see if techcrunch and other popular domains get extra juice thanks to its popularity.
What makes you think we're not a nation of criminals? We're just really GOOD criminals, so no-one's caught us yet.
In the late 90s, I cracked a shareware but didn't do it too well, it was a quick and dirty jump flip; the developer was testing for cracking attempts, and as soon as I left the debugger and stepped back into ring-3 I notice my Windows start button now read "0xDEADBEEF".
Ask HN: What are you using for scaling, monitoring and analytics?
With so many to choose from, what are you guys using and why? We are using AWS. This is what we are thinking of using...

Scalr.net - auto scaling for bringing up/down EC2 instances. Customizable, scripting and cheap. Not sure if proven though.

Cloudkick - monitoring. Easy UI and free.

Mixpanel - analytics. On action type analytics makes it easy to see which features are used and which are not.
One thing I've learned from A/B testing large sites is that you change only one metric at the time, but the domain clouding one sounds like an excellent candidate as well.
I think we have ourselves a READER.
Thank you for further elaborating your idea.

I think the experiment would be a great idea and doing it the way you propose with empirical data to back up the machine generated statistics could provide very valuable insights.

Also one could start experimenting with the approach/idea e.g. let the number of votes appear after voting or not displaying a number at all
Professor Sharkey shows a great deal of social and political insight for someone whose academic specialization is in neither of those domains. Let's hope he continues to make these points heard.
While this makes sense to me from the illiterate angle, book safes have been around for ages. it seems unlikely that a burglar wouldn't just throw all the books off the shelf and see if on impact one of them exposed some cash, jewels, etc.
Not sure what you mean by "using for scaling". Can you be more specific about what "scaling" means to you?
In publishing, non-obvious mistakes are used to detect copying.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
Have you any evidence of any of those things actually happening? The only thing on there that is true is that their website got hacked back in Sept.
It's not the drones, it's what they consider a fair exchange. Guerrilla wars are like that.
Auto scaling. The ability to bring up/down instances based on load and other metrics. Made an edit for clarification. Thanks.
Super Mario AI Competition
Yep, that is right. Though you can do multivariate analysis, sticking with plain A/B test is best.

That said, you can (and should) measure performance on multiple benchmarks like clicks, comments, time spent. Gives you a correct picture of tradeoffs.
Thanks for commenting, but their largest VPS only has 1GB of ram. That's half what I have now.
I agree that most psychiatrists dont make money of the plates, but some of the complaints come from the company that makes the plates. I wouldn't be surprised if the company is making this into a bigger deal than the psychiatrists would on their own.

This is also from the article:
"Hogrefe licenses a number of companies in the United States to sell the plates along with interpretative material. One such distributor, Western Psychological Services, sells the plates themselves for $110 and a larger kit for $185."

"Trudi Finger, a spokeswoman for Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, the German company that bought an early publisher of Hermann Rorschach’s book, said in an e-mail message last week: “We are assessing legal steps against Wikimedia,” referring to the foundation that runs the Wikipedia sites."
I believe OP has hope. Sounds like he has tons of local businesses who need what he has to offer but don't realize it. Therein lies his problem. I may be a little naive, but after reading his post, I still don't know what he has and why anyone would need it. I know what a blog is, but I'm not really sure what a CMS-Content Management System is. Why would a local small business need a "CMS"? Why would they want to blog? If I'm not clear, you can bet his local prospects aren't, either.

This has the makings of an excellent local lifestyle business which would be 90% product and 10% service. OP's ace in the hole is himself. I know that small businesses who would use his product would still like to see his smiling face once a month and be able to call him as needed. This is a huge plus!

My advice to OP would be to temporarily forget about the software, the technology, and the jargon. Instead, become a trusted sympathetic advisor to his prospects. Learn about their situations and understand the pain they have but don't even realize. Meet them on their turf and speak their language. And most of all, solve their problems and help their profitability. Nothing else matters.

What I have just described is all the sales and marketing you need to know. You had passion for the product when you had to, now is the time to have passion for your customers.
I want to see the hinge that allows the front wheel fold up close. looks like a potential weak point.

I wonder how much he spent making the prototype.
This always seemed like a horrible idea to me. What happens if you hand over your fake wallet and the mugger decides to search you and find your real one? You will have seriously pissed off the mugger and will be more likely to be roughed up or killed than if you had complied.
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Actually, one of the biggest Russian IT social news sites (habrahabr) has this for quite a while - you can't see a rating of article until you vote (up, down or "zero", but you can't upvote or downvote if you vote "zero", you just get to see the rating). It's working pretty well ever since it was implemented.

On the contrary note - bash.org.ru, which is kind of a clone of bash.org, tested this idea, but then they got back to showing the rating beforehand.
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I'll echo the recommendation for Maverick, I believe that it was (maybe still is) the top selling book in Brazil. http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workpl...
Fold up bikes are a great concept. There is one 'but' though, they are not nearly as robust as a regular bike and hopping a curbstone or a pothole can have serious consequences.

The pedals are usually a little lower over the road surface than on regular bikes and the wheels are small. They are also less rigid.

When I was a kid I would ride a fold up bike to school every day, for two years without incident, then one day one of the hinges suddenly gave way. It's very surprising to find yourself on two half bikes in the middle of a busy city intersection!
Doesn't changing only one metric at a time tend to lead to getting stuck in a local maximum?
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Ask the families of the 687 civilians if they thought it was a fair exchange...

It's the de-humanizing use of terms like 'fair exchange' and 'collateral damage' that make this kind of atrocities possible in the first place. If we just called it by its name (cold blooded murder by remote control) then it would be looked at quite a bit differently by the general public.
Software Development and Philosophy
Ok. Point well taken. Thank you. I'm being both over-optimistic and arrogant.

And hey, apparently there's closures in PHP 5.3 anyway...
iPod touch for writing things down on the go, but text files or drawings on my laptop when I'm using it. Everything gets synced back from my iPod, so I always have my ideas in a searchable form on my laptop.
You just have to remember which books you put the money in. Every now and then I open a book that I haven't read in years and there are five 20s pressed between the pages.
Are You The Best Developer In The World?
More like, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Fake financial accounts are pretty common among corporate companies for detecting database breaches as a sort of last line of defense (or awareness, anyway), aren't they?
I do not see anything useful in reading about failing again and again. There are infinite number of mistakes so it will not help you if you know some fraction of them.
Why Don't We Document Our Software? Part 1: False Excuses
* cough* new coke.
IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language
That isn't as disruptive as you might imagine.
Where do you keep your laptop when you're not using it? Also at the bank?
I see just two phases in this list:
1. create product
2. fail to sell it
Customer Experience is Not about Coffee
In a machine like the LHC, there are two important quantities:
\sqrt{s} = the collision energy which is designed to be 14 TeV
and
L = the luminosity which gives you an idea of how often there will be collisions. IIRC, this is designed to be two orders of magnitude above the Tevatron.

\sqrt{s} tells you what kind of "range" you have in discovering new physics. Even at 8 TeV (both beams at 4 TeV), the reach is increased over the Tevatron by a factor of four. This puts the most likely Higgs mass in reach. More extravagant physics may or may not be out of range until the design energy of 14 TeV is reached.

L tells you how long (as in hours of running) it takes to achieve certain statistical significance in a given result. Rarer results take longer to achieve. The difficulties in achieving this goal are not addressed in the article, but are roughly tangential to those of achieving high energy. From what we heard during the couple weeks of running last year, everything was on track to make their goal possible.

What's notable about the article is that the experimentalists are all fairly happy about the performance. While last year's mishap was worse than what anyone hoped for, nobody was expecting to be at the full energy even by now.

On the other hand, it's interesting that the theorists are so pessimistic about the delays. A lot of them have spent the last 15-20 years coming up with predictions for what the LHC will see. A lot of those predictions will be invalidated when the first LHC results are published.
Is High-Speed Rail a Good Public Investment?
If you hand over a wallet with a reasonable amount of cash in it that appears to be a used wallet, why are they going to decide it's a fake? How many people really carry one?
A good subset of those mistakes are things that every entrepreneur will come across.

Failure analysis is the hallmark of solid engineering, it allows you to go forward instead of being stuck in the same place.

Whether you're looking at an airplane, a business or a piece of software, the same principles will apply.

Of course there is no point in continuously reading about the same modes of failure, especially not if those have already been 'dealt' with.
8 months initial dev cycle seems long - what is the prevailing idea about how long this should be once you commit to building?
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Ultimate A/B Testing resources and how I used them
If you're interested in A/B testing, the impact of A/B testing, or how to setup A/B testing, this entry may be of some value to you.

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It is painful to invest 8 months of one's life into something that wouldn't have produced any returns in the first place.

Painful, yes. A waste of time, I don't think so.

Although I would never recommend building something without understanding the business model, all is not lost. OP probably learned more valuable lessons (and technology) in that 8 months than he would have in a job or at school. Now is the time to put that education to work. Not doing that would make it a waste of time.
Speaking of checking your case law, you should look into the statutory damages. If there is no punitive element, then why are damages elevated for "willful" conduct?

There's nothing novel about applying due process limitations to statutory prescriptions. "Always upheld" isn't remotely true; the issue of due process restrictions on punitive elements in statutes has barely been considered even by District Courts (much less appellate courts) in the wake of the Gore and Campbell cases.
second that, it takes a while to read it though, it's a long piece but well worth it.
A lot of people have left a comment complaining that they keep their money in a bank. This seems to be missing the point - do you also keep your fine china in a bank? How about that jewelry you like to wear on Friday nights? That copy of Adobe Photoshop? Laptop?

There are plenty of things that are exceedingly valuable that AREN'T cash that you may want to hide from potential burglars. The advice in this article is just as salient when it comes to hiding those things as it is to money. (Granted, larger objects can't always fit in the same places as bills, but that's really not the point.)
It takes some courage to admit that on a site populated by software entrepreneurs.

(I'm not condemning you -- but I do think that cracking shareware is the computer equivalent of meticulously planning how to steal coins from the collection plate at a slum church.)
See my response above. "Statutory" does not equal "solely compensatory," particularly not where the statute includes a punitive element for "willful" conduct.
Are You The Best Developer In The World?

I don't have to be.

But I do have to be the best developer on what I'm working on. That's what I strive for. I want to be proud of everything I do.
I always always sign off using my first name now and nothing else. I've found this the best way :)

The only time I dont is on my work email when interacting with clients - when I use regards.
For sufficiently high values of drowsiness, the difference can become negligible.
As just as this is, I can't help but wonder at the timing. It looks like an attempt to distract people from the GV affair. If that's the case, it's just another, albeit subtler, abuse of the same power.
The US better get out in front on this and engage in the debate and get something they can sign. Elsewise the result will be something impractical and both 'good' and 'bad' guys will get a pass.

Don't pretend everyone won't be able to afford this because robots will be cheap enough eventually for both sides to go this automated.

Engagement is the better option.
I live in Brisbane and I know a fair few people who commute between here and the Gold Coast (about 70k away) every day for work. Many wouldn't think twice of driving 100k north or south on the weekend to go to the beach. So my impression is that us Aussies are closer to the US than UK in terms of car usage.

I must confess I'm not a big car fan either. Maybe if you could sleep in the damn things then it would be a second home but otherwise it is just a place where you sit while trying to avoid becoming a road fatality until you reach your destination.
I aspire to being neither humble nor arrogant perception of myself; I aspire to having an accurate perception of my self worth in every area.
House Burglar: hide your money and valuables where I can easily find them. Thanks!
An adherent of "originalism" would have supported Lessig in the Eldred case; your "original" view is at odds with the understanding of copyright at the time of the Constitution, yet oddly consistent with the understanding of copyright by the RIAA and MPAA.

More importantly, your objection is ridiculous. Of course Congress has ample authority to regulate copyright. That doesn't mean unfettered authority to impose excessive punitive damages in civil cases in violation of the due process clause.

You act like a clash of constitutional clauses has never occurred in the history of the Republic. The constitution was designed with "checks and balances," a phrase you may have heard before. The bill of rights (including the due process clause) is a check on the powers of the government (including to regulate copyright).
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I'm not saying they will think it's a fake upon seeing it. To give you an example:

* A mugger asks you to hand over all your goods.

* You hand him your fake wallet and cell phone.

* He decides to reach in your pockets to see if you're hiding anything else (maybe an iPod or something else).

* He finds your real wallet and now is aware that you tried to hide it.

* He gets angry and shoots you (whereas otherwise, he would have just run off with your stuff).

Is a slightly increased chance of getting beaten or killed really worth the difference in cash between the real and fake wallet? I think it's smarter to just prepare for the possibility of a lost/stolen wallet and know how to quickly cancel your cards and apply for new ones.
Something important to note is that melatonin is not going to force you to sleep. You're not going to fall asleep staring at a computer screen if you take a dose of melatonin. It will make you sufficiently tired to sleep if you lie down and close your eyes for a bit, but it's not going to overcome the awareness-brainhack that is staring at bright light.
I have tried using Lion Kimbro's method. It was very interesting but too intense for people wanting to be efficient.

http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/
"A more sustainable fashion" relative to what? Carbohydrates, I'm guessing?
Folding bikes are nothing new, but if he's right about this one being able to 'take punishment', I'd buy one. My current folding bike is handy for taking on the T, but besides that, I call it the clown bike because of how it looks and how it handles.
Very handy to know! Thank you.
Here's my blog post about this from about two years ago:

http://www.ordecon.com/2007/06/11/why-geolocation-by-ip-suck...
Remember first of all we are cultural beings. The culture you are part of is the most important determining your dreams, thougths and life.

The richer the culture the finer you might be.
Why on earth is Alan Turing missing from this article ?
It's a very honest account of living a bleak life and not having any idea how to get out.

Further, it postulates that the kind of puff pieces that used to fill Wired, Mondo 2000, et al are all pretty much fake. While not literally true, it does seem like those guys were putting an awful lot of spin on what they were writing about.
The lower the price of something the higher the volume.

Risking yourself while killing somebody else increases the price on your side. If that risk disappears the 'cost' gets so low that the volume might increase dramatically.
A hotel with free internet in yurop? Impossible!

On a more serious note the author is right that it's highly annoying to be in a country where you don't understand a word and when looking for some familiarity you open the internets only to find out that they too have been translated.
I've read them all before, way back in high school. Then the site went down, and I've literally been waiting five years for it to come back up.
Here's a simple way to detect the UI language (for glocalization): ask your visitor for their choice. It only takes a few seconds, and it's much more reliable.

When in doubt, ask, don't assume.