skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The basic test I performed involved me logging into a site with a standard window, then opening a new window and navigating to that site. In the new window, I was logged in, because my cookie was shared and the session could be re-activated. When I opened a new Incognito window and navigated to the same site and logged in, and then opened a new Incognito window to that same site, I was not logged in.

Right, I can reproduce this behavior. This much works.

If I was to open a link in a new tab from the logged in Incognito tab, that new tab would inherit the session from the parent tab, but opening a new window or tab and manually navigating to that site forces the site to create a new session.

This behavior I cannot reproduce. Here is what I see:

* Open Chrome. My configuration removes cookies at exit, so I'm in a fresh session with no cookies yet defined.

* Open a new Incognito window with Command-Shift-N. Login to Gmail in this new Incognito tab.

* With the Incognito window as the focus, create a new tab with Command-T.

* In the new Incognito tab, navigate manually to http://google.com/. In this new tab, I'm still signed in to Google with same account I used to login to Gmail.

* Make the standard/plain (non-Incognito) window my focus. Create a new Incognito window with Command-Shift-N.

* In the tab in the new Incognito window, navigate to http://google.com/. In this tab, I'm still signed in to Google with the same account I used to login to Gmail.

So I'm only seeing 2 cookie contexts: one for standard tabs and one for Incognito tabs, regardless of how they're created.. For the record, I'm using the beta channel (currently on 6.0.472.63, Chrome wants me to restart so I'll be on 7).
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why are they targetting motorola? Don't these patents apply to, well, every smartphone in existence? It can't be a matter of stupidity, so I wonder what made them decide to go after Motorola, and not Nokia, Apple, HTC, Palm, and everyone else who makes a phone with a "Contact Database."
I've wanted that level of civic participation for many years too - but when you think about it, it's only in the last decade that this has become even remotely practical.

But someone should indeed implement such a thing - if they can attract enough traffic, the aggregated preferences would start to become extremely useful, though not always in obvious ways. The only ones I've seen so far tend to be sponsored or created by lobbying groups that want a highlight a particular positive or negative policy outcome - you know, the sort of thing that says 'on current trends, everybody in the US will be employed as a member of the general staff by 2073, and safety razors will have 48 blades.'

...although a recent careless razor purchase turned out to have 6 blades - and I didn't even notice we'd passed 5. So what do I know?
Sorry, I didn't realize it was a log-in article. I didn't have to log in, got there from Google.

EDIT: why are they (FT) doing that? Coming from Google doesn't require registration. Coming from HN does. Weird.
Facebook users, myself included, care a good deal.

Facebook's introduction of 2000px wide images (close to the output of most consumer cameras) makes this all the more important. If Facebook's letting people upload directly from their cameras to the site with no scaling, the format the camera uses is a big deal.

Also, Facebook is a very large portion of photos shared over the web.
Holy crap, what is the story behind making a start up in Yellowknife?
This is excellent. I would have preferred a title like "US Navy drops frozen, dead mice in Guam to feed Tylenol to snakes."
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...

It's a quick read that will give you tons of "A ha!" moments.
Infographic: When Do People Save the Most Money?
Great! Don't lose your focus - Rome wasn't built in a day, or even a week.
Thanks! Good points -- I think the language-specific IDE tip is a good one for utter beginners like me.
Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We have fun problems at scale - real-time decision making plus web analytics. We have hired people from HN before and I will go hound them to post about how much fun we are having. :)

We sell SAAS to internet retailers allowing them to test site content, target to visitor segments, and personalize web experiences.

Currently hiring for positions here: http://monetate.com/about/jobs/ - product engineers, front-end developers, QA, sys ops

We work primarily in Python and Javascript but are looking for talented engineers of any background who like solving new problems.

We are backed by First Round Capital and are growing quickly.

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Here is the original report. Far more useful, in my opinion.

http://media.ft.com/cms/5b341edc-cd80-11df-9c82-00144feab49a...
That depends on what you mean, for the custom data uploads you can feed it anything. For Google Analytics you can view the stats (e.g. pageviews) for today (partial), yesterday, past 7 days & past 30 days and compare them to the previous period e.g. page views in the past 30 days are up 12.5% on the previous 30 days.

However, we don't store data (besides temporarily caching it) so if you want to view history it has to be present in the existing feed.
But do you call that living?

(Really, as a human being, would you want to pursue that lifestyle?)
Our action today merely seeks to ensure respect for our intellectual property rights infringed by Android devices; and judging by the recent actions by Apple and Oracle, we are not alone in this respect.

Well, it does not make it right.
In terms of things I don't like about California that might be better elsewhere:

* "Real people" as someone said below. People can be kind of fake and superficial in certain parts of California.

* People in it for the long haul: so many people in places like the Bay Area are not planning to stay there. Indeed, unless you make a lot of money, it can be pretty difficult to stay there if you want things like a family. In any case, people are constantly coming and going, so you tend to be a little bit more guarded/less committed in your dealings with people, whereas elsewhere, people stick around a bit more, so you can get to know them with less fear that they'll be leaving soon.
The never said that open source means non-commercial. They said that above and beyond being open source this promise only applies to these situations.
Thanks for the words.

StackFu, however, is not a replacement for Chef.

With Chef you provision and manage your server's configuration, while StackFu is a social place for people to share "recipes" or stacks to be installed on your server.

Ideally, this will be the place for linux savvy folks to share their scripts. And for people who just wants to get something installed (like WordPress) to go, search and easily get it up and running.
If anyone wants to find out more, Join us at #stackfu on Freenode IRC and follow @stackfu on twitter.
"Cardboard wings and green party streams" were attached to the mice. Classy.

Here's hoping that The Big Picture has a feature on the sky-party-drug-raver-mice-bait.
FTC Lessons From The Flash Crash
The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice - Outlines the essentials of page layout, emphasizing the four concrete principles of design--proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast
Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

Do you prefer keyboard-driven window manager? and how do you arrange your windows to be more efficient?
I know what it is, but they simply didn't show anything about it. It was thrown there like a buzz word and the parent post repeated / confirmed the phrase. So I'm puzzled about where does that Modern Perl exist in the presentation / why does it matter.

Re. size. I didn't say it takes away all the points. Simply, it's a funny thing. Just like telephony engineers getting dropped calls, abstract mathematicians making trivial addition mistakes, etc. They lower the size to make the experience better during the game, but at the same time make a huge presentation. That's all.
Because if they didn't, Google wouldn't crawl the article, and then users wouldn't find it through google.

IMO, Google needs to stop that.
Recon-Zeal Transcend goggles--GPS and head-mounted display included
I am. I've begun development and have working prototypes for #1 & #2 of the 3 ideas. I'm looking for rockstar marketing/sales talent and rockstar graphic design talent.

The three startups:

1) Automated UI testing (can't say more)
2) HTML5 canvas to create a handful of small web products. (can't say more)
3) Beer oriented (can't say more).

#1 & #2 can be bootstrapped. #3 I want to develop a little further then pitch to a YC or a Techstars.

jeff.a.bail {at} gmail.com
Another way to look at it is that most successful entrepreneurs follow something similar to this formula. 'Being very good' == professionalism and high standards == domain specific binary search == solving problems in logarithmic time == orders of magnitude more productivity == orders of magnitude more value == ??? profit.
MetaOptimize is hiring contractors for exciting project work building real-world NLP + ML systems.

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We are looking for generalists:

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And also specialists:

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Alternative read?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39460135/ns/business-stocks_and_...
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San Francisco, CA - Elation EMR : http://elationemr.com/

(Telecommuting considered for the right candidate)

Elation is an angel-funded healthcare technology startup dedicated to improving the clinical encounter. Our team currently consists of extremely passionate founders who bring years of health IT and healthcare industry experience and are deeply committed to improving the delivery of healthcare. Our investors include a practicing physician and the creators and backers of some of the world's largest and most innovative web companies, including Asana, Facebook, and Quora.

In the near term, we are focused on building an innovative web-based electronic medical record for physician practices. Our alpha product -- built by the founders -- has gone live, and we have aggressive plans to expand its use.

Front-End Engineer
We are currently seeking an extraordinary front-end engineer to join the core of our technical team. As one of the first hires, you will play a key role in shaping the team and culture, architecting the foundations of a very complex system, and designing the experience for a highly demanding user.

Your role as resident front-end guru will be to push the boundaries of what is possible in a browser, create an experience that makes users forget they are on the web, and engineer elegant solutions to client-side challenges more demanding than even Gmail's.

The ideal candidate is:

* Fascinated by making the web fast

* Excited to concoct UI magic

* Comfortable navigating and optimizing server-client boundaries

* Product-minded with a keen eye for usability, style, and design

* Eager to step into users' shoes and sees extraordinary value in doing so

Desired Qualifications:
* B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent technical field; or simply being an awesome engineer

* Expert skills in Javascript, HTML/CSS

* Experience with Javascript frameworks (jQuery, Prototype, YUI, etc.); contributions to Javascript frameworks a plus

* Proficiency programming in Python; experience with Django a plus

* No healthcare experience needed but ready to get excited about building technology that has the potential to deeply impact people's lives

If you fit the bill and are excited, or if you don't fit the bill but still feel you could be a tremendous asset to our engineering team, please send us your cover letter and resume to jobs+hn@elationemr.com.
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We're hiring for a number of our properties including: eHow, LIVESTRONG, Cracked, Tyra, and Demand Studios.

It's an exciting time at Demand and it's is a great place to work with a fun atmosphere and a lot to offer: great benefits, high scale and high profile projects, fun diversions (on-site game room, parties), flexible schedules, smart, fun people, stocked kitchens, serious hardware, and awesome locations.

We're mainly looking for:

* PHP Developers
* C# Engineers
* Python Engineers
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We have a lot going on and tons of exciting projects coming up, check out: http://www.demandmedia.com/jobs/
Could someone make all scientific journals free to read, I'm super fucked off stealing access through various student friends accounts.
http://www.korea-dpr.com/business.htm
I can't comment on the technical parts of what you're offering as I don't know Rails, but it might be a good idea to use full sentences in your introductory text:

"For example, deploying full rails environment to your server for your new app. Or as simple as installing and configuring iptables on your existing live server. "
No luck on IE5 for mac :(
Polymath 3: Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture
What could possibly go wrong? These sort of eradication measures always seem to create more problems than they solve.
This would bring a whole new meaning to bad DOM.
The principles of great design are pretty timeless and are rooted in psychology, how our brain works and history.

You're right that you can learn a lot by intuition, but it's more likely that you're learning what you prefer, not what good design principles are.
(edit: these settings are not optimal. See followup post)

I don't know what magical encoder the author is using, but I was easily able reproduce the original post's results (for JPEG, I didn't try WebP). Steps:

1. Download the original image from < http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs21/f/2007/275/f/4/f4e91d2565442... >

2. Open in your favorite image editor.

3. Save it with whatever optimization settings you want, until it gets down to the goal size (in this case, 44.5KiB).

4. Compare to the original.

For example, I used GIMP, with these settings < http://imgur.com/SIasU.png > , which produced this result < http://imgur.com/8Sclu.jpg >. Although the author is using a different encoder, I doubt it's this much better than GIMP's. (edit: with better settings, GIMP's result is < http://imgur.com/8aEPJ.jpg >).
There's that ribbed drum lookin' thing that gets used as a database icon.
Well you have to read the actual claims. The title means nothing... like literally nothing. It could be that in their patent they require the contact list to also show a nickname, and only Motorola does that.

Who knows, but you should never speculate based on the patent name.
There is actually an API available. I'm currently working with it to produce a longer lasting version of this same concept, though the concept is kind of not interesting now that like a dozen different people did this...
The best way to learn is to start a business/become self employed.

A book would be:
http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Day-MBA-Step-step-Mastering/dp/068...
> What I like about these lawsuits is the possibility that the big players will start aggressively campaigning for patent reform.

I wouldn't count on it -- if anything, they'll think, "hmm, we could be next, we'd better start getting patents of our own." Then once they have patents, someone in management will ask, "hey, we have these expensive patents, why don't we deploy them against the competition." That's especially true if some exec wants to get credit (and bonuses) for a license royalty stream or a damages award.
16:30:33 spade@ruta-corsica:~$ passgen
jygugiy5
16:30:35 spade@ruta-corsica:~$ file `which passgen`
/home/spade/bin/passgen: a /home/spade/bin/js -ws script text executable
16:30:40 spade@ruta-corsica:~$ head -n 3 `which passgen`
#!/home/spade/bin/js -ws
/* passgen - configurable password generator
* Copyright 2005 Colby Russell
Urban Airship in Portland, Oregon.
http://urbanairship.com/jobs
Friend of mine told me she didn't cancel her wow account for many months after she stopped playing. it's just something people do, I guess...
http://i.imgur.com/YQbRH.png
what is the "social" part? I'm not entirely sure I get what the product is. is it the sort of thing where if you don't get what it is, you probably don't need it?
India's surprising economic miracle
It would be really interesting on an evolutionary level (though obviously detrimental to Guam's ecosystem) if this resulted in the snake population developing immunity to acetaminophen.
Do you have plans for how scripts will be reviewed/flagged? I see from the video that one can see who else has deployed the script (with the assumption that a script deployed many times is most likely "safe"), but I would still feel a bit nervous about running a script blindly -- can one see the script code prior to hitting deploy?

Edit to add: I'm certain you don't want to be liable for people hosing their server with a malicious script -- I hope you have plastered all over the place that these scripts are not reviewed for quality nor mal intent (unless of course, they are?).

Another edit to add: I think this is a great idea! I could see myself using this -- I didn't mean to be such a negative nancy.
Well, if they want the traffic from Google they have to put out the content. Google is very clear on that and I agree with them.
It just doesn't make sense to close out traffic from other sites. A visitor is a visitor is a visitor, coming from Google or not.
Rare IBM M15 split ergonomic keyboard hits eBay, bids pass $1600
Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android
redis-object is useful but it's not closer to Redis. In terms of functionality, it is comparable to Nest (http://github.com/soveran/nest), but because it translates Redis commands to Ruby syntax, it has 1026 lines of code vs Nest's 32. Ohm, which in your view is not close to Redis and more complex, is actually closer because it uses Nest to solve that problem (and it's just 764 lines of code, 262 less than redis-objects).
I believe it's social because it's a community where people can share their own scripts and improve on existing scripts. As well as deploy them easily, of course.

It's a great idea I think.
The social part is, imagine like a github, where people put up code and you can see it? Same thing with stackfu. People can put up stacks and you can deploy them to your server.

Example: A user made a stack for Rails, you need rails, you go and deploy the guy's Rails stack. You'll be able to make a copy of it, edit it, review it, and make it yours if you want, fix it update and push your own version so other people can deploy it.
Palo Alto, CA - imo is looking for software engineers and an operations engineer. (https://imo.im/jobs.html) Our current team consists of top TopCoders, ACM ICPC World Finalists, and medalists of the International Olympiads in Informatics. We work on challenging projects that we choose from the ground up that have direct impact on our users.
Google has some informations on microformats for webmasters, it seems that microformats, microdata and RDFa are used to generate extra information displayed on search result pages:

- About microformats
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

- Rich snippets and structured markup
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=...
Possible the worst UI rape I've ever seen.
The parent said _understanding_, not writing your own[1].

To take an example of a web startup (just because the are the most common), here are some question that require understanding the basics of operating systems:

1) "why is my database cache constantly being swapped out to disk when there's enough memory in my machine"

2) "why are the pages taking so slow to load, even though I'm only serving a few hundred hits a second"

3) "what is my webapp doing that's making python/ruby take up 100% of the cpu" (to find this out, you'd likely be using gdb, ltrace and strace which very explicitly require at least a passing familiarity with C and POSIX)

4) "why is there a process showing up in ps/top that I can't kill even with kill -9"

Finally, you certainly have to be a good programmer to start a startup: not the best one, not a "10x programmer", but a good one (irrespective of what sort of applications you write). You can't be a good one without understanding how your programs work.

[1] That said, I had my hands dirty in Linux source code when debugging an issue while working in (of all places) an email security company.
My hometown of Fort Collins, CO came up with that brilliant idea. GO TEAM!
I didn't say that the homicides are committed by "gun nuts". Among the dangers of having a gun is that if you're robbed, you may be killed because you have a gun (you don't even need to react) or have your gun stolen and be used in a homicide. Not to mention accidents involving guns.

"The Victim Survey (NCVS) estimates that there were 341,000 incidents of firearm theft from private citizens annually from 1987-92.":

http://www.firearmsid.com/Feature%20Articles/0900GUIC/Guns%2...
U.S.: 62 mpg for cars by 2025
Damn. You ruined my day.
Bullshit.

If this really was no big deal, if we really hard regarded Guatemalens as people, it could have been done here at home in the US on white people. Instead, it was performed on people who didn't matter -- just like the Tuskegee experiments. The difference here between the US and Mengele is one of degree, not kind.
I'm looking for European cofounders or partners that would like to be part of a startup involved in one or more of the following:

Making a commercial version RepRap machine and selling it. There are numerous ideas and designs floating around for bootstrapped 3D printers, begging for a company to put them together in a nice retail package.

Running a coworking office for startups and freelancers.

Running a hackerspace with lots of cool tools such as 3D printers, open to both paid members and the public.

Running a small fab-lab for on-demand rapid prototyping and fabrication services.

---

I'm still at the research phase, so I don't have much existing work to show you. I've started wikifying some of my research notes which you can find here: http://punkmanufacturing.com/ . I've also found two plastics companies that might be interested in supplying base printing materials for us to resell. There is also the possibility of developing new printing materials or tweaking existing ones.

I'm looking for someone who is passionate about any of the above subjects. Qualifications, background, etc don't matter as long as you have some skills applicable to this hypothetical startup. You must be able to work in the EU, so European citizens preferred. Personally, I'm willing, and able, to relocated almost anywhere in the EU to work on this.

Contact me at http://disattention.com/contact/ or point me to your contact info.
I don't get it. Your website looks like crap, your writing is poor, and the color scheme you chose looks like it came out of the 90's. This is pretty pathetic. What makes you think that anybody would hire you over someone else with better, more impressive, credentials?
500 shares sounds a lot better than 100... important for hiring top talent... What's really fascinating is the secondary market. Sharespost must be loving this.
One of the more disturbing things in Portal is that GLaDOS stands for "Genetic Life-form and Disk Operating System." The whole plot of the game revolves around a malevolent and extremely advanced form of DOS.