skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'... His results offer new evidence that morning and evening types think differently. Early risers prefer to gather knowledge from concrete information. They reach conclusions through logic and analysis. Night owls are more imaginative and open to unconventional ideas, preferring the unknown and favoring intuitive leaps on their way to reaching conclusions. Social behavior diverges as well: Morning people are more likely to be self-controlled and exhibit "upstanding" conduct; they respect authority, are more formal, and take greater pains to make a good impression. (Earlier research also suggests that they are less likely to hold radical political opinions.) Evening people, by contrast, are "independent" and "nonconforming," and more reluctant to listen to authority'
Everywhere -- rip, mix, burn.
Trying is very different than actually delivering.
Exercise on the Brain
Med 2.0?
That must not be a very common saying because Google didn't return anything for it but this.
well to be fair they do have a much harder job (at least for one organization to do) than Apple...

developing software for a seemingly infinite combos of ever changing pc components can't be easy

(i forgot to add this to my 1st post)
Radiohead Responds to Download Stats: Says They're False
Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy
EA donates SimCity to humanitarian project (One Laptop per Child)
As an add-on to that point:

Make sure what you are doing is SOLVING a user problem, not giving them a WAY to solve their problem. If you are making a site to help entrepreneurs find co-founders, you'd better deliver on that promise: if people that use your site can't find a co-founder within 3 weeks of trying, they are not going to come back again.
I always thought that Americans are first business partners and then become friends. Your story looks like a strange deviation :)
Feel like a beer? Let's stop off at Microsoft
The more regular your sleeping schedule is, the more likely you are to be a "morning person". So if there is causation, it's probably the other way around: who you are determines how you sleep. That's pretty boring.
We have a place to meet and discuss ideas:

news.yc.

Good enough for me, just remember to put contact information in your profile.
it's takes 0 employees, they use outsourced robots.
internet drama about startups i barely remember - just what i like to read before i go to bed! (why did i click, then?)
It sounds like you're already off to a great start.
how many hacker trackers do we have now? 3 or 4?
beautiful design. I wish I could help =[
Are you selling to consumers or to doctors/hospitals?
CSS for Programmers
I have never noticed the blue glow before, and I must say it is hardly at all visible with my theme (some Vista standard):

http://screencast.com/t/bZ5XX0u1uCg

Maybe the glow is a bit more apparent in some other UIs or with other kinds of color themes?
You might say where you're located, or hope to be in the near future.
I'm trying to understand the technology here:

Will this product enable me to make a personal website where I can easily pull together information from lots of different places, regardless of format (Google maps, data from a social network, data from an SQL database), combine it with my own contributed text and images, and display it on a public Web page? Sort of like an "information mash-up tool"?

I feel like there is something very interesting here, but I just don't know what... would appreciate an explanation!
It's consumer-oriented, with a doctor/hospital component.
FWIW,

When I find something is distracting me from work really bad, I overindulge until it wears off, rather than trying to limit it. But even if I was trying to limit my news.yc intake, this wouldn't work for me.

Normally, I open all links I'm interested in in new tabs, and then I proceed to read them, closing them as I go. I sometimes follow links from interesting articles, but links within news.yc are rare.

So given my current habits, maxvisit would be actually limiting the time I get to skim the frontpages opening tabs. A couple minutes of that could spawn hours of time wasting, if I wasn't otherwise careful.
This idea would work if you can license e-Harmony's matching algorithm (or build a similar one of your own) to pair people up with prospective co-founders. Unless you really know someone, you don't want to go into business with them.
What happened to the quite simple idea of me giving money to an ISP in return for unfettered access to the Internet?

Oh, that's right... ISPs oversell bandwidth in the hope that most people don't [try to] saturate their connections. Then when they do, the ISPs come up with b.s. excuses like piracy to throttle customer's connections.

I'm not saying piracy isn't a problem, but the ISP's job is to [p]rovide [I]nternet [s]ervice, not decided what I should or shouldn't be able to do on the Internet.
Adobe to redo Photoshop interface
Interesting .... one corner-case I see has to do with mouseover. For instance, some sites (http://www.newegg.com) use JS to dynamically expand/contract menus based on mouse travel. I don't think a simple ImageMap would hack it in that case. Do you have a workaround in mind?

(Granted, sites are typically built to not _depend_ on this sort of fancy JS.)
No, the information comes from the companies' websites, from wikipedia, magazine articles and so forth. I'm sure not everything is correct. Sometimes it's very ambiguous who exactly is considered a founder and who's not. It's only a rough picture.
Health Care in California
I'm looking for health coverage for a company in California.
plusbryan likes Kaiser because they do things online and their doctors answer emails: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74555

However, negative things were said about Kaiser in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30326 Is Kaiser better/less evil than other HMOs? Does anyone else have doctors that answer emails? I would like someone that has more options in plans than Tonik.

Is there anyone like this web-enhanced, housecall only, doesn't take insurance doctor in the Bay Area? http://www.jayparkinsonmd.com/
IBM torpedo about web-enhanced health care
Ask YC: What is YC using to avoid spam bots registration?
Performance-pay Perplexes
I'd heard that procrastinators were perfectionists, and so all of their tasks loom like enormous projects because they envision all the thousands of tiny details they'd have to get just right, while normal people just have this rough idea of the task that doesn't look so hard. So then the procrastinators put it off because they just don't feel like taking on an enormous project. Which is funny, because in saying this I'm reminded of pg's essay that talked about starting with easy small projects rather than big earthshattering ones, because you'll never actually finish those.
my god, you're right. that's why i'm no longer on okcupid.
/sigh...
I have a feeling that the pay dating sites must work better and have more attractive people than the free ones, but I haven't yet been willing to pay to find out.
I'm using my little brother who owes me a favor and is an awesome designer.

Find sites you like, ask who their designer is.

csszengarden.com or oswd.org
My Irish is a bit rusty, but I think this is the gist of it:

"...is Patrick Collison from County Tipperary who won the top prize at the Young Scientist Competition in 2005. Even though he was only in transition year in Colaiste Chaladh an Treoigh in Limerick at the time, he did the Leaving Cert the year after that and did so well that he obtained a university place for himself in the USA.

But when he came home on his Christmas holidays he decided to set up a company with his brother John - and he suspended his university course. They rented offices in Limerick and started work on developing software - business tools for people selling items on the internet site 'eBay'.

They failed to get investment from any company in Ireland, unfortunately, but the American company 'Y-Combinator' came to their aid - and put them in contact with two men in England who had developed a similar product. The two companies merged under the name Auctomatic.com. They continued developing the products and are doing so well that it looks like Patrick will not ever return to university!

Patrick is only 18 years old (soon?) and John is 16."
I hope so. Personally, I'd rather it not be necessary.
Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the dinner.
Advertising Everywhere the way of the future?
Om Malik thinks so. I'm arguing that there is a lot more online advertising coming our way, but with highly targeted technologies, it won't seem like it.
How to propose to your future wife using a custom Halo 3 map
Facebook Ads: Slam Dunk or Daring Dud?
Look at csszengarden if you have a decent budget. Go to oswd if you're looking for cheap.

I'm very happy with a designer I found via csszengarden, but she isn't cheap. I'll write a blog post about the whole process when it's done. Currently ourdoings.com is using a half-finished design from her, because even half finished it's 10x better than what I had before.
San Francisco startup hopes to clean up with high-tech toilets
The answer is obvious: you need to find your Wozniak to help you start your company.

Anything short of a Wozniak will not do it.

Anyone in disagreement can go and ask Jobs.
Russia to invest in venture capital firms
SF Spill closes bay beaches as oil spreads, kills wildlife
I find two issues relative to using this (sorry to be so quick on negativity):

- Screen readers. They won't work!
- Usability is somewhat odd, as the entire time the mouse cursor will be a "hand", making everything seem clickable.
Space-Based Solar Power - Pentagon Fights Global Warming with Satellites
Redfin Rolls Out The Red Carpet
Digital Telepathy Helps You Build Your Web 2.0 Startup
Interesting point, I hadn't thought about mouseover.

I think it is supportable, though, but the UI isn't perfect. You could easily have a UI toggle that says "Move mouse to", versus "Click on", when you press a X,Y on the screen.

Granted that isn't as clean as it could be. How would you solve it?
Accessibility of Entrepreneurship
Screen readers won't work- True. But keep in mind, this isn't a primary design for any site.. It's a work around for un-supported browsers. People browsing with a screen reader would probably be using something which gave a user-agent of IE6 anyway.

Alternatively, if you really wanted to ensure that it supported people who it isn't intended for, you could always include the text of the page you're Translating at the very bottom, as black on black in a 1 pt font. The Screen Readers would still pick it up.
Are the guys who did the study early morning types or evening types? I remain sceptical...
Found mine on xing. One I found by comparing the works of several designers I found on Xing. Another one found me on Xing when he needed a coder, and in turn I asked him to design.
Apple Form Factor Evolution - 1976 - 2007 (pic)
Lisp and agile development
29 Years Old, Start a Business or Have a Baby?
i don't know if 'old browsers' is the target market, unless there's some funny niche somewhere that can't upgrade their browser.

maybe a neighboring idea would be creating a proxy for low-bandwidth devices -- e.g. transparently compressing/downsampling images, CSS, JS, HTML so that browsing on EDGE is a little more bearable with an iphone or other mobile device. (this might already exist, but i haven't heard of anything like it)

although i guess that wouldn't really use your imagemap hack or screenshot tool :)
My guess would be a combination of IP checks, and Obscurity.

There isn't much incentive to auto-spam a site that not many people know about; It's much quicker just to have an intern do it manually, if that's the way you swing.

The thing is, News.YC is a pretty small and focused community.. There's not much advantage to robo-spamming it. It'd be obvious what you were doing, and the people who were reading it would just ignore you. Since you'd likely be the only fool to attempt it, PG would probably notice and just ban the IP.
maybe Google likes me better:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+second+engine+f...

from http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/multi.html

Q: In an underpowered twin, what is the role of the second engine?

A: It doubles your chance of engine failure, and it will fly you to the scene of the accident.
Syntax Highlighting / Code Colouring
Is that one of those games that auto-aims for you?

Good luck against a seasoned Quake player (if they dare to enable that option). XD
As you mention, It would also work well for phones with bad web browsers, or devices who's browsers will become out of date, such as the browser for the Dreamcast.

I suspect there are more people on older browsers than you might suspect- There is a staggering number of people still using browsers which don't natively support simple things like PNG transparency, or Properly nested layers.

Essentially, you could think of it as a last-ditch fallback, which ensures that it displays properly, even the UI experience is no longer ideal.

The nice thing is that you wouldn't need to run it on the client-side.. They could just browse to http://fixthispage.com/news.ycombinator.com and it would give them a version as an imagemap.
I've used rentacoder.com in the past and didn't have great results.

Now I just tend to do it myself, with mixed results.
What's a "Friend" These Days?
Most people don't know how to use HD -- certainly a system failure, but also needed info when thinking about what people want. I'm talking about things like cabling and other junk that people have no idea how to properly configure.

If I were the MPAA, I would push partnerships between player makers and TV makers. Make it trivial to play super HD content. They should add their own P2P download rental service to schedule movies -- another convenience factor added on. If a TV just worked with super HD, and if it were internet enabled to get the content I want, piracy would significantly decrease. Piggyback on top of FIOS, and you'd have something great.
>I think a better definition for quality of life means experiencing a range of emotions. Is there anything more thrilling, frustrating, exciting and depressing than a startup.

Obviously not a parent!

I think he's correct to make the choice however. Having a baby considerably alters your focus in the same way that a startup would. If I could, I would have chosen startup first, then baby.

By no means though does having a baby make a startup impossible, but it makes it very difficult to focus on.
I believe he's advising to look at the sites that you find attractive- See what elements they have that you can emulate.

As someone mentioned in an earlier thread, one easy way to get better at good design is to use good reference designs.
No reason why he cannot do both
opera mini, google's mobile search
New iPhone App Suggests Device Is On Its Way to Becoming a Business Tool 
There's a new application from a company called MIR3 that takes advantage of the iPhone's unique user interface to improve emergency notifications during disasters or other such situations, as well as enhance the IT service alerts process and other notification purposes.

It's notable because though the iPhone is clearly a consumer device, this application is business specific--it's one more reason the iPhone may soon be know as a corporate device.
On the downside, a startup can only make you go broke, while a baby could turn into a serial killer and make you miserable for your entire life. On the upside, a startup can give you money and experience and set you up financially for life. A good kid is another human being that is part of your life's journey, which beats the physical and emotional peaks of being a huge startup success. Having a kid is a very average and pedestrian thing to do, while having a startup is more of a stand-out, brave thing to do.

I don't know -- looks like a close call. How about marry a girl with money who won't mind raising the kids by herself while you're out pulling all nighters on the startup? By the time the kid gets old enough to do stuff with you will have beat the growing pains out of your startup anyway.

In all seriousness, doing a startup is an act of ego and ambition. Having a kid is an act of love and selflessness. The motivations, time span, and payoff is so different, I don't think they're comparable.
Sounds like a baby isn't really an option for him, as he doesn't mention a wife or other willing female.
Wow, no mention of Christian Neukirchen , the guy who invented the tumblelog.
What a waste of time! What are they going to do about people who use GigaTribe, which encrypts all exchanges, huh? huh?! http://www.gigatribe.com
Quite true. Lots of people try the angry rant schickt, but most come off as merely vulgar and cranky/whiny.

uncov makes it work. It's funny and true.
Actually, it probably actually takes one MSFT employee to do it, the maintenance guy who's responsible for that particular building! Maybe the exec that just got fired will be that guy soon!!

John
http://www.gigatribe.com
Facebook's New Ad Platform Illegal?
How would you make forms fillable?
GotCast Is Looking For Talent
Not sure how this will pan out. I find it interesting because the amount of people that want to be a "star".
That's easy. Give the user a blank form underneath the picture. Click on the form in the Imagemap, type the form into the picture, and hit submit.

Boom! Text is now in virtual-browser.
You can do both (as I'm doing), but not exactly with the same ambition. I'm more of a lifestyle entrepreneur, growing the business slowly, managing my hours and spending some some great time with my wife and baby.

If you're aiming for the VC-backed billion-dollar startup with 80 hours work week, surviving on pizza and coke... Then your setting yourself for a failure as a dad/mother if you try to have a kid at the same time.
haha - definitely no wife and very few willing females, since you asked
Thanks for the well thought out comments. Of course things are very different. It is just funny to call a friend and he talks about his kid and I talk about my business.
You should try having this same conversation with your wife. :)

As hard as startups are, I think kids are harder. Maybe that's why people talk about their kids so much. Biological units are just more difficult to program and debug ;)
It is increasingly dangerous to have a child past 30. The danger is most pronounced for older women. If you want a family, I think the time for the bootstrapping raman startup has passed.
Hardcore Erlang: The Book
> It is increasingly dangerous to have a child past 30. The danger is most pronounced for older women.

Do you mind explaining? It seems like I see more and more people having children after 30, even 40 these days.
If You Can't Create Interest Move On
In my posts Create Momentum and Maintain Momentum I talk about how to increase VC interest and drive the process forward. However, sometimes these efforts don't work because a VC has insurmountable concerns about your business. In these cases you need to gracefully move on.
'In America I believe that it's technically illegal to invest in a child, but let's run the numbers.'

If this guy is capable of running a return on investement on his own son/daugther on becoming a professional golfer, and reaping the benefits, this guy is going to make it as a businessman, it can't get more callous than that.
That sounds like a challenge...
make em an offer they can't refuse.
Passwords are broken because they're incompatible with human behavior
this honestly isn't that spectacular. I have coded stuff like this in my spare time.
How To Do Well in Programming Competitions
Blu-ray's DRM crown jewel tarnished with crack of BD+
Where to find a programmer for 2 month project 
Hey,
I am interested in developing a new site should take around 2 months and is a really interesting concept.

I am looking for a programmer. I could pay + will give equity stake. Basically I could build the whole thing myself, just very busy with other projects. I will help the programmer if any problems arise.

This is for a personal project involving AI and website filtering. I could code all of the AI part myself. Looking for someone who could code all of the frontend + backend (preferably in PHP) If you are interested in getting involved on coding the algorithm I would teach you everything I know.

I have been a co-founder in a Ycombinator funded startup in the past.

Thanks.

My email is bkmrkr at yahoo.com
I was going to say something similar...

At your startup you may have to clean up some sh!t, but with a baby you will be literally cleaning up sh!t.

However, finding a girl with money with money who won't mind raising the kids by herself while you are out? Just a moment here...where exactly do you plan on finding such a girl? I think a lot of guys would like to find her, startup or not!
Being different in the manner you describe is overrated.
Auren Hoffman of Rapleaf on managing your reputation
This is an interesting point. If you pay for performance, you have to measure performance over a long enough time. Stock options have a similar problem, actually. What you should really do is pay people not for what they do to the stock price today, but what they do to it several years from now.
Twitter-like Kernel - Social Conscience Shell
I've just put up a few sites and would appreciate your comments. They use social networks to explore and understand the few huge problems the world faces.

The main site is http://www.bippr.com. This brings together all the conversations from the other help sites.

I guess the best way to think about it is that it's micro-blogging, with a purpose.
Bay Area?
Thanks, I think. This is obviously a joke, but I'm sure you have seen the crazy parents at the kid's baseball, football, soccer, or hockey games.

I'm sure they at least have some ambition of their child going pro and bringing home the big bucks.
This is only an issue for women. Risk of problems with pregnancy (and birth defects) goes up significantly for women as they get older (best time to have kids for women is in their 20's). The male reproductive system is much, much simpler though and I don't think age is a factor for men at all. Of course as you age you'd have to find someone increasingly younger than you to carry a child. That would be the only problem.

On the other hand some men would not consider that to be a problem at all (assuming you can find a mate). And if you're a 40 yearold millionaire you shouldn't have a problem finding a 20-something to have a kid with. :-)
I think the conclusion is that you really want to do a startup, and not have a baby. If your gut says so, you don't have to rationalize it, especially with such dubious arguments... Please, don't compute a baby's expectation value ever again!
Can anyone give a range of prices they've paid for designs?
If you need more than 50 hours/week for business then postpone the child but don't wait too long. Kids are fun but at the same time you don't want to be chasing a 10 year old when you're 50 and raising a teenager when you're 60+.
The author requests that you link to this site which explains the context, rather than the image itself.

http://jowstr.com/2007/10/14/apple-evolution-poster/
Move Over, the Robot's Driving
Springboard: 4+ billion raised for women entrepreneurs and counting