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World's Roundest Objecthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y%3Fhd%3D1The world's roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement -- how to define the kilogram. A kilogram isn't what it used to be. Literally. The original name for it was the 'grave', proposed in 1793 but it fell victim to the French Revolution like its creator, Lavoisier. So begins the tale of the most unusual SI unit. The kilogram is the only base unit with a prefix in its name, and the only one still defined by a physical artifact, the international prototype kilogram or IPK.But the problem with this definition has long been apparent. The IPK doesn't seem to maintain its mass compared to 40 similar cylinders minted at the same time. The goal is therefore to eliminate the kilogram's dependence on a physical object. Two main approaches are being considered to achieve this end: the Avogadro Project and the Watt Balance.The Avogadro project aims to redefine Avogadro's constant (currently defined by the kilogram -- the number of atoms in 12 g of carbon-12) and reverseAug 3, 2013 12:21 PM
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Tools to monitor website performance?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068848Hi,I'm curious what the current state-of-art for website performance monitoring is?Most of the tools I've seen are either Pingdom-style applications, which simply tell you if a website if up or down, or they're like YSlow-style, which run a bunch of tests to see if you're following best practices.But is there something like say, Chrome's SpeedTracer that you could run as a service, and monitor your website's performance over time? Or before/after each commit?What would you guys recommend to track the performance of your own website over time, or gather deep-level metrics?Could you use something like PhantomJS to achieve this?Are there any existing open-source projects that already do this?Cheers , VictorJul 19, 2013 8:06 AM
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Ask HN: What should I be asking for salary wise as a soon to be graduatehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827099I am soon to be Computer Science/Business graduate in the Los Angeles,CA area and am trying to figure what to be expecting/asking for salary wise.My background:-I have been programming for 9 years-I have worked for the CTO of my college through out college designing and implementing J2EE web applications from end to end.-I have had an internship every summer during college all related to computing/programming with companies including the Walt Disney Company-A colleague and I have a start up project on the side of school that I have developed in Rails.(I like rails a lot )-I know some other web frameworks including Play and Django.-My strong languages are Java, Ruby, Pyton,HTML/CSS, Javascript(Jquery and a little Node),SQL,PHP(basically anything web app related)Here's my linked in for more:http://www.linkedin.com/in/griffinmartyThanks in advance for the advice!Jun 5, 2013 5:24 PM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d0aa9f634d5da3365ab6b0fba611&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ec39e475431c812df0980b6420b3&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ca9f01cb4da69b4ab2269fc2fe55&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85cc88714f418f9c8f3b8acdb5312e&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d7244a0d4673928e79b7654f32f5&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ea0d5d9f4637ac10a61d3d87c698&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e5cc4ea649cab60206dc6b905347&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e18e99dd404a8b4e0b0a5a139e90&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd4e53254709ad589b77fa29b6d9&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d2e79566478f8052c8d8fb0ec3aa&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c8be85f34d51baafc727373a24a1&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e3a996794b31ac4041348b8ae8ce&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ce85d6064207ac7797b6b773e939&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setupshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d51f31504205b33a3271350c2319&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcworld.com%2farticle%2f456613%2fmultiple-hard-drives-working-together-all-about-raids.html&c=7590695096872458849&mkt=en-usStevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...Feb 14, 2013 7:39 AM
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Unbelievable adshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/23102238@N00/8385524275/in/photostreamright in the middle of multiple simultaneous blitz Chess in chess.com, this chrome ads pops up blocking the board, and there is no way to get rid of it...The point I am trying to make is, raping people's eyeballs for attention is the worst type of ads, which unfortunately, we are still largely depending on.Jan 16, 2013 11:19 AM
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Has minimalism gone too far?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4721593I am a minimalist at heart, but practicality & utility override any and all desire for a minimal UI.To a degree minimalism increases usability, cuts down on distractions with other links to other articles,media,etc and lets the user focus on the article or whatever work they're doing if its a desktop app.To be quite frank I'm sick of websites with three miles of whitespace on both sides of an 80 character wide column article text and no navbar or links to get to the website's homepage.examples (from HN's top articles about 30 mins ago) http://mkronline.com/2012/10/30/you-arent-imagining-it-the-web-is-a-mess/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-most-advanced-voice-search-has.html http://joel.is/ I'll admit, to a degree, some of it is bad coding/design using fixed sizes in pixels instead of relative sizes for things (em) so the page renders the same independent of screen resolution.The same sort of thing is going on with desktop applications, menus and options are getting gankOct 31, 2012 7:17 AM
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THE PIRATES PIEROGIEShttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89b23a867f451dbc9453d908ffe045&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fpirates%2Ffans%2Fmascots%2Fpirates-pierogies&c=6091074201497429815&mkt=en-usThe Pirates Pierogies are an important part of in-game entertainment for all Pirates games at PNC Park. Following the end of the 5th inning, the Pierogies take the field to run the 280-yard Great ...Jun 4, 2012 2:44 AM
