skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MaxCDN guys are on top of things. Great service from them for over a year. No issue and handles 550k unique daily visitors with no problem.
There's also an "automatic page generator" button if you go to your repository settings, where you can even pick from pre-designed themes :)
You can set up New Relic, whose monitoring will ping the site frequently enough that it won't idle, or if that's not an option you can set up a cron job yourself to do the same thing.
Superfund sites: http://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/vwsoalphabetic...

Brownfields: http://www.epa.gov/region9/cleanup/california.html
And Rust, linked to that Servo seems very interesting.
This is pretty basic, but often ignored advice for information architecture.

The article linked to [1] was also pretty interesting. The line that caught my eye was "The URL will continue to be part of the Web user interface for several more years...". Keep in mind that was published in 1999, therefore Nielsen seems to be implying that he believed the URL will eventually become less relevant as a part of the UI. I don't see this happening anytime soon on the "web", but it's certainly true on "mobile".

Modern Web Application frameworks such as WordPress, Ruby on Rails and many more are forcing good practices on the web moving forward. Most startups today are following all the practices detailed in this article as a result of the frameworks imposed on them.

[1] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/url-as-ui/
> How can I learn more about where these sorts of toxic environments are located?

It depends. Some cities and counties have maps available online with this information. Also the EPA has maps of every site, http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/
like help get better video drivers to linux faster
That statement doesn't appear in the linked article. He says that copying his ideas is plagiarism, which is something different. And in this particular case he is suing over copyright infringement.
Anonymous ftp still works, it's just hitting the maximum connected user limit. Better to use an FTP client than the browser as it will persist the connection.
Seeing that rats nest I would have let it burn!
The way the benchmark is constructed, it's really more about JSON and DB performance. Snap makes no decisions for you about those things, so the numbers really won't reflect the performance of Snap all that much. I don't have great expectations for the "Snap" code that is in there now because it is not using very fast JSON and DB libraries.
The point of this article is that breaking a ToS is illegal, so ToS's themselves are de facto laws.
Sure, and I'd like Tesla Roadster at a lower price point too.
Nice to see a big name company is doing this. It will surely help Linux adoption by a wider array of users.

On another note, anyone else get that floating ad? Horribly placed and very annoying.
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I like the idea of Posthaven, but the academic research lab I used to work with can't afford to move its ~10 Posterous blogs to Posthaven at $5 each per month.

One of the nice things about Posterous was that you could create new blogs freely to clearly separate different projects within an organization. Charging per-blog removes this affordance and we're back to the Wordpress-style monolithic blog.

I can't find anyway to contact the Posthaven guys about this.
>practically does this really matter?

JavaScript is also a compiler target. Even smaller less heavy applications can benefit from these optimizations.

>up-front costs of JIT

You have to reach some threshold. The code is optimized as-needed.
Reminds me of Godel, Escher, Bach.
> 40x rent for a 3-bedroom (family) apartment in SF is $120,000 a year

I know plenty of families (with kids) who live in 1-bedroom apartments (in Poland). 3-bedroom apartment are considered lavish.
You can also consider moving elsewhere -- I'm paying $9.50/month to webfaction to host my app. While it took about a half hour to set everything up, (In my case rails, postgres, etc) I use Capistrano to deploy just as easily/quickly as Heroku.

Certainly cheaper than paying for 2 dynos.
The browser will eat everything.
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I agree. However this is pretty much it for how to do it.

It is quite easy to get started, jekyll is very simple.
What is your source for this statement? According to the EPA, "The primary contaminants detected at the site were trichloroethene (TCE); 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA); tetrachloroethene (PCE); gallium; and arsenic."

Wikipedia says "The IUPAC name [for trichloroethylene] is trichloroethene." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene
These are just tools. Each tool has its place and its users. I learned vi first and I still feel very efficient on it vs. sublime. But for something, I prefer Sublime.

At the end of the day, it's like the meaning of life, everyone has theirs.
Design work is dotted with long periods of thinking and exploring. You only need a high APM rate because photoshop terribly sucks for anything other than manipulating bitmaps, you can do things much faster in an object-based editor like Fireworks. If only Adobe would make it 100% compatible with PSDs and actually mantain it, it would completely take over web design.
think about any other profession and think about saying that you refuse to buy the tools you need at a 70$ price point. Even if you wait tables, you would likely have 70$ in clothes you would need to buy and wouldn't think twice about it.

I can't think of any other job where you could even try the tools for free, much less complain about them being 70$.
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The fastest wireframers I know seem to use Illustrator, which like you said is object-based. Good point.
Surely it would make sense to at least offer a dual boot option?

I can't really think of a solid reason for buying this, Steam on Linux is great and all but when your marketing is saying "With over 25 gaming titles available"..
Psychological approach to why promotional products workd
Ask HN: Best Business Book For a 13-year-old Girl?
My daughter turns 13 this weekend, and I would like to get her a book on business.

She has run her own bubble-gum vending business for a while now, but it's very low maintenance. I know she is interested in the web and writing, and she likes creating things.

What book would you recommend? Is a book even the right medium - perhaps a audiobook or a series of videos?

Initial thoughts were Seth Godin's "Tribes", but there are a ton of great options out there, like "How to win friends and influence people" or "$100 startup"
Possibly a few, just how some comedians have responses ready for hecklers. I also imagine many of the horrible movies would fill him with enough negative energy to channel into creating the witty lines for each film.
Such considerations aside, it's quite possible that they'd make more money if they priced it lower. I would think the potential market for a $20 or $30 editor is much larger than that of a $70 editor.

Then again, I assume they considered this carefully and made an informed decision when they set their price point. I'm definitely in the "I'd buy it if it were cheaper" club, though.
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We're currently looking for IN-HOUSE software engineers to work on Green Driver, a smartphone app that uses real-time data from traffic signals to help drivers find the fastest route, and ACFP (Advanced Computer Flight Planning), the flight planning system used by the US Air Force for routing cargo planes and tankers worldwide. We're a unique and small (25, soon growing to 50) company focusing on search and optimization. Employees here are treated incredibly well and have a lot of freedom to get the job done, or to create something new and useful. We hire smart people and then trust them to get things done, which means refreshingly little babysitting occurs. The work environment is friendly, informal and intellectual.

What we're looking for:
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Although our core IP is in optimization, bringing these solutions to market requires complex client-server applications with challenging network, user interface, and database components. We have code written in Python, Java, C, C++, Objective-C, and other languages. An ideal candidate will have a strong background in algorithms and will be comfortable writing both high-level and low-level code.

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How much do you think is good?
I agree that this is the appropriate way to look at bitcoin. It is not so much a currency at the moment, it is more like an asset, like stocks, bonds, or gold. If we assume bitcoin is an asset, we are not seeing deflation per se, we are seeing an increase in value.

A store of value that can be anonymously transferred and exchanged without significant costs has some inherit value in society. The only problem with bitcoin, is that if we consider bitcoin to be an asset, than it's price is entirely determined by speculation and nothing else. At least with gold, there are industrial/commercial uses for it that put a lower bound on the price. Not so much with bitcoin. Personally, I don't need an anonymous store of value, so if I am going to be speculating, I would rather do so with stocks of companies, as those are actually backed by the value of the company itself. I may throw some money into bitcoin just for fun, but I wouldn't do it to use it as a currency. My gut is telling me that most people jumping in are not interested in using it as a currency either.

Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean bitcoin won't become more like a currency in the future. It is possible that it will stabilize. Considering that the world has never really seen anything like this before (well there were a few attempts that failed in the past), it is impossible to predict what is going to happen.
I agree that thinking about memory use steps a bit closer to the world of server administration, which doesn't thrill me. We've actually had 2X dynos in alpha for close to a year, but we never pushed forward with a public release precisely for this reason.

However, the demand from customers — especially apps on the JVM — has been overwhelming. There's no way around it: once you start doing heavy background processing (e.g. geospacial or image processing) or web concurrency with a memory-intensive language like Ruby, then you care about memory. It would be very head-in-the-sand for us to not serve this need.

I'd love to imagine that there's some design that allows us to abstract away memory, but despite a lot of attempts, we haven't seen one. Further, memory is generally the most expensive part of server-side computing resources these days, so decoupling memory use from price isn't very feasible.
ITC judge says Samsung infringes key part of Apple patent
This is one of my favorites: About Shyamalan's "The Village":

"To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

"And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets."
I wonder how loud it'll be.
Also, in the Navy, where halon is also in heavy distribution, for fuel fires (nothing scarier than a fuel fire on a ship at sea), the training still includes that the person who smells smoke needs to find the fire, or at least some legit smoke before exiting the space. Most watch standees now have radios, which makes the decision of when to call a lot easier.
I'd say that most of the mistakes in this are pointing at Crunchbase not being updated. Some of these firms in the top 10 have had several investments in the past 6 months as reported by Techcrunch...
Hacker News is actively censoring links to Arrington story.
Too bad the hardware is overpriced... Reflects bad on Ubuntu.
Show HN: Bitcoinproof - Create a forgery-proof timestamp for your data
I just wanted to say that Anand Sharma is a gentleman and a scholar. And a phenomenal designer! Anand is responsible for much of the design of our site (http://theory11.com). Unbelievably talented.
I used to hear this argument from WoW players a lot.

"It's skills you use in every business management, so it's just like work!"

Go ahead and list it on your resume if you believe it.
I'm not too keen on the fact that for ALL programming tasks in ANY system you can pick amongst dozens of languages, but the web is still limited to just one. That is not modern at all.

People need and demand choice, that web programming is still a monopoly to this day is bad, even though people do achieve tremendous things with Javascript every day.
Previous discussion from a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5411811
There's an unusually high number of commenters on that website who have never heard of let alone played Starcraft.
You can reach them through Twitter.
https://twitter.com/posthaven
Agree with this. If it's the best tool it's not that much money. But the other argument is: is $70 worth the change in productivity compared to other similar products? In that sense, comparatively, it could be considered overpaying. But to each their own, and I'm sure for some that answer is "yes".
Probably because many can get by on cheaper / free tools. I used Sublime for X days and loved it but still can't justify spending $70 for it. It's a nice-to-have.
I especially like the APM analogy. The best designers I know make using photoshop/illustrator look like playing a piano
Ask HN: When you wash your hands, do you apply water before applying soap?
I've seen people rub their hands with soap before turning on the faucet at all. For no meaningful reason, I'm trying to apply this same practice to my hand washing.

Happy Friday.
The problem with this job is that there are tools which would do essentially the same job, but completely for free.
Agreed, this seems like a weird shortcoming on their part. Not clear how best to get the message to Google, though.
>$70 for a ST2 license is obscene

Oh come on. I think that's a very fair price if it's a tool you'd use daily (especially in a professional capacity).
That does not solve the security issues that they're looking to mitigate.
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But what if you could pick up other clothes for free, but they weren't your favourite colour?
Because that just results in the creation, and subsequent abandonment, of a lot of junk pages?
See the Google Map link below my piece. You can zoom out to the entire state of California and then into any neighborhood for any chemical over various time periods.

It isn't pretty.
Yeah, no doubt we could use the expertise. Shoot me an email at pfrazee@gmail.com
> I agree that the best developers will probably seek to emigrate

I think the truly best developers will stay in their countries while earning States-level wages via telecommuting. Why pay $1500/mo in rent when you can pay $300?
I can't vouch enough for that.

As someone who used to develop in Vim, I can attest it can do a lot of things and there are many useful scripts, but is neither intuitive or designed for our era, there are too many obvious UX flaws - modes in particular is not the magic pony people like to say it is, it's just archaic clunkyness.

You can replace Vim entirely with Sublime since it also supports scripting and smart editing movements, and "Go to anything" in particular blows Vim away.

I just wish the author iterated ST2 more before starting ST3, I'm afraid of another Textmate.
Its not the traffic that they send, its the quality. TV, printed, and radio traffic are still very good. I once had a magazine mention and only had about 50-ish extra visitors. But, that turned into doubling my sales for the next 2 months. Its not the traffic, but the conversions and sales.
Vim is good to have in your toolkit because it will work on nearly any terminal.

Don't use an old serial terminal? Well, you might actually get stuck only having serial console access to a physical machine in a datacenter. Maybe you're trying to fix a mean bug in production and everything is exploded and you are using some person's laptop which for some reason has a horrible terminal configuration.

I haven't used hjkl to move in years, btw. That's vi. Vim lets you use arrow keys - it's VI iMproved. ;)

This sort of nonsense rambling not only leads to serious generational knowledge gaps, which leads to people using utter shit like pico/nano, which I would fire someone for doing.

It also ignores the fact that TextMate is totally awesome and has something Sublime Text doesn't seem to : a command-line tool for opening files from the shell.
I suggest making the 'Demo' button more prominent! It's tiny and low contrast (white on light green).

Both 'View the code' and 'Download' are bigger. People could ostensibly want to view the code before seeing it but I can't imagine many would want to download without demoing first.
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I happily would pay 10x that for a good editor; thankfully, I use Emacs and don't have to. But skimping on tools is the falsest of economies.
Is gawker.com on the list of banned domains?
I think the poster was being sarcastic? E.g. "Is this ok? Because this is what you're doing, and it's obviously not ok, and you'd never agree that it was if framed in this way."
Technically, the AT&T store is at 2805 El Camino Real. 640 Page Mill Road no longer exists. It's a soccer field.

Still, all of these are in the zone, including the apartments.
My first thought at "Cookie Dough Tree" was this (NSFW-ish):

http://www.thefrisky.com/2010-04-12/a-tree-that-smells-like-...

OP's contaminants are a class of chemicals called dense nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) and they have a nasty habit of collecting at the bottom of aquifers (they're denser than water), making them particularly hard to clean up. They eventually degrade into vinyl chloride, which is a carcinogenic and toxic gas with a (yup) sweet smell.

(This is probably glossing over a lot, but it's the summary I got from my boyfriend who does site investigation for soil and groundwater contamination—It could be summed up as "never live downgradient from a dry cleaning establishment").
Sublime has the same sort of command line tool as TextMate. It's called "subl."
Whether or not that price is reasonable is not dependant on how often I use the tool, it depends on how much value I gain. If the tool is a tiny improvement to my life vs a free editor, then I will only pay a tiny amount to use it. With sublime I don't see anything it offers to make my life better/easier at all compared to say, notepad++. So why would I pay $70 for it?
I'm a carpenter and it's obscene that my lathe wasn't free.
I don't, I think it is wasting water for no reason (of course it has little impact). The only problem is when, at times, I have discovered there is no water through the faucet :(, then I end with my hands full of soap.
Not open-source, no thanks. I'll stick with LiteIDE for Go and Netbeans for Java and C++.
Posthaven sounds too much like PlayHaven, the company that fired that developer over a dongle joke. Took me 5 minutes to realize it wasn't the same.
1. Blame me. I put together the charts and tables. I'll try to get some sorting added for the next round! :)

2. Pat (pfalls) should know the answer to that more definitively, but we are definitely trying to use the CPU cores as fully as possible. I think you'll see some comments by Pat elsewhere in this thread suggesting some things coming in round 3.

3. Good question! Mostly because we haven't had the time to add it. I would really like to see it added, though. If you know Go and can write the code, might I entice you to submit a pull request?

4. I believe that is the plan, yes.
How do you see the issue of possible copyright infringement when self-hosting pinterest clone? Normally, if you republish copyrighted photo (even smaller version), you might get accused of stealing it - you are basically posting a resized version of a photo, which might not be fair use.

Pinterest can get around this by claiming that it was the user who pinned the photo, not them, and they also allow websites to opt-out from pinning (and some websites like National Geographic actually do that). But if you self-host, you are responsible for what is posted...

I am asking because, if I could legally run a website where I would publish smaller version of any photo I find on the Internet, then well, there's a great monetization potential there. But I don't think it would be so easy.
I just hope they don't partner too closely with canonical.
Please warn in the title that it autoplays audio.
The golden age of groundwater contamination is just getting started. Fracking fluids are going to become part of our environment and bodies for eons to come.
An important distinction is that there are no characters to level-up in Starcraft, so you can't get "better" by just investing mindless hours into the game. The start of a Starcraft game is just like the start of a Chess game: both newbies and pros have the same options in front of them. You have to objectively improve as a player to win more Starcraft.

I never played WoW, but I would believe that there are some different managerial aspects to running a guild or organizing raids with 40 other players.
This is why Google Now is so awesome. It's a whole suite of basic apps that most people use, pushed to you only when they're relevant. It's the most impressive software on my phone by far (and I have 200+ apps).
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>Efficiency from Keeping your Fingers on the Home Row

I prefer to use just keys. I find the context switch distracting.

>I can’t stress how bad of an editor vanilla Vim is. Plugins are essential to make Vim usable.

I love vanilla vim. I used it for a long time that way. Even now I barely have any plugins running, just YouCompleteMe and a couple others.

>If you want to write a plugin you have to deal with Vimscript.

I thought one can write in Python and other languages for plugins now?

>Everyone remaps Leader from backslash to comma.

I didn't.

>Vim is hideous by design.

I find the minimalism allows me to work without distraction. If you hate it so much, vim bindings are available in other editors. I use XVim for Xcode and some other plugin in Eclipse.

>To code in Vim, you have to keep Vim in your head just as much as the code that you’re editing. You have to constantly think about what you’re doing.

I barely think about the things I'm doing anymore. And I've only been at vim for about a year.

This blog post needs a giant [citation needed]. So many unjustified claims that are really just his opinions. Just use Sublime and get back to doing something productive.
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At the very least, anything written by Adrian Chen probably should be.
It's actually pretty expensive to build that powerful of a system in that format.
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