skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done both - spent time working early mornings and also into the night. I found that working early in the morning I'm more productive per hour than I am at night. I find nighttime working to be more creative though. The mornings are good for me "getting things done" and by 9-10am all the planned work I had was done
There very little aspect of learning, challenge, and fun in just buying something off the shelf, however.
Are you kidding? This will be available on a massive actively-used and well-differentiated install base: every iPhone, Android, and Pre device.

Though it's kind of depressing that it's easier to get people to sign 2-year $2000 mobile contracts to get decent phones than it is to get them to just stop using IE for normal browsing.
Basically, rhesus monkeys on a restricted calorie diet only lived longer if you remove "non-aging related deaths".

But some of those deaths (eg, dying under anesthesia during a blood test) could have links to their diet, so removing them is just withdrawing non-supporting evidence to prove your (pharma-funded) hypothesis.

In other news, riding your bike to work is considered safer than driving a car ... once we remove those cases of bike-riders killed in car collisions.
I'm trying to create a web analytics SaaS for blogs that is usable and provides some publishing-specific metrics (unlike GA and most other services). I started it because I love design and visualization and it was a pain for me to derive any insights from available web analytics services.
Teachstreet - a web directory of classes
Really? If they're attentive enough to turn off masking, why wouldn't they just enter their password into notepad and then copy/paste?
Why is this still an issue?

The problem of displaying passwords has been solved by Unix years ago: do not show any visual feedback whatsoever. Security over convenience.

The problem of storing and subsequent input of random secure passwords has also been solved by Schneier and others via pwsafe and variants thereof. No worries about mistyping at all.

For special cases like Blackberry-type gadgets, what is needed is simply a port of pwsafe.
Summary: junk science reported by junk press.
I have been learning Python by implementing genetic algorithms.. Anyone else interested in machine learning? I'd love having someone to shoot ideas with. I'm in medical school so most of my friends don't know too much about programming.

moejoe16.geo@yahoo.com (this is my spambox that i only check when expecting email)
According to Ohloh, there are 199 committers to Chromium:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome/contributors?page=1

A few of them probably don't work for Google, some are duplicates, but still nowhere near 20-30 people.
All of that spending thus far has been on marketing / advertising bullshit.

They're probably blowing piles of money on datacenters too, but they'd be doing that anyway even if the Bing thing never happened. They see Google doing it and feel left out!
Yeah, that's about the level of sophistication of this article.
I didn't say that it was in the public domain _because_ it was government funded or that all government funded work is in the public domain. That was your implication.
"some interesting banter about how we (a VC firm) spent our weekends." ?¿?
I don't really know what the fuss is about since the simplest solution is the most obvious one. Masking should be optional, it should be enabled by default and controlled by the checkbox next to the entry field.
I use newLisp's Wiki, it's small, simple and powerful. Easy to extend if you like. Take a look at :
http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?Applications
I'm working on revolutionizing the fiction publishing industry.
Unfortunately, discussion about this article seems to have fallen into the meta-wastebin.

It is a good submission.
Trying to polish off metapaw-dip in my spare time http://www.metapaw.co.uk/projects/metapaw-dip/
Get rid of your commute. It sounds like 10 hours a week at least. Moving to a different part of the country and repeating the same mistake won't help.
Because it's less convenient.
Thanks, I'm really glad you like it! The IME wasn't difficult because unlike most cases of Japanese input, there is no need to convert it to kanji, which saves sooo much extra work.
The only reasons I can come up with for pulling an all nighter is that a deadline is near and that it is much more quiet at night. "Increased Mental Stamina" is a metric I'm not familiar with, is that how many pushups your brain can do ?

Mind you, I'm one of those 'night owls', but this quote from TFA is very funny:

"Maintaining their natural schedules, the volunteers spent two consecutive nights in sleep labs. After 10 hours of being awake, the early birds showed reduced activity in brain areas linked to attention span, compared with the night owls. The early risers also felt sleepier and tended to perform tasks more slowly, compared with the night owls, when their level of alertness was measured."

So, the night owls get to maintain their natural rhythms and spend their nights in a sleep lab and so did the early risers ?

But for the night owls that makes the situation totally different than for the early risers, after all, the early risers are going to be quite tired by that time and they'd like to sleep, but being in a different environment they can't or will not sleep as good as they normally would. The nightowls just hang out, go home and sleep it off...

Or am I missing something here ?
Taken at face value, this means that if you get enough people to vote for something, then it's ok, no matter how "off topic" it is.

Since there is no check for "being a hacker" to join this site, presumably I could find a bunch of people interested in, say, the Tour de France, get them to join, and start voting up bike racing articles. Or for that matter, perhaps there are enough people already here interested in bike racing to vote up those articles.
I'm wondering: what's your target audience? That would influence my suggestions. But generally I'd strongly second the "don't start with blank page."

Would a few examples of a range of possible end products possible (even just screen shots) help noobs envision the usefulness of it. [sorry if that's getting you into marketing issues (?prematurely?).]

Maybe noobs could even be shown an editable example (eventually: several examples to choose from - templates essentially) to play around with: i.e., a "sandbox".

Nice work!
And what data do you have? I don't have statistics favouring a checkbox password masking option neither.

We're into untested territory thinking here, and I don't believe calling for statistics will disprove anyone. In the absence of hard numbers, I take your challenge.

staunch, I bet you $25 (via PayPal) that two users will not uncheck password masking off, when presented with an explanation what it's for, without looking either to the left, right or behind before typing the password.
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I keep wondering what makes researchers doing that kind of work so confident that they have captured all the relevant variables.

It may well be that being a night owl is not just genetic but acquired by people who are unusually motivated to stay alert for longer times. Don't we all know the feeling of not wanting to stop?
although this may be true, the study is quite superficial. personally, my issue with sleep has been that if you leave me alone in a dark room (like in my bed), i'll come up with all sorts of ideas... also, distractions taper off as the night progresses, and i'll be like 'k, this feature, then done' - but then you realize you need another feature but you have all this information in your head you need to get out -- and the details keep piling in. if you were to jot down notes, you might as well have coded it and tried it out.... and then you realize something else you can do. other nights, you go ah, this is nice, and just know what the next step is and as long as it's somewhat concrete, it's easy to sleep knowing you'll do it tomorrow.

generally, i find it easier to sleep if i've hit one of these plateaus, or if i'm stuck, or if there's too many options of where to go from here; the answer will be clearer tomorrow. It's when the answer is -almost- clear, just need to try out a few things, that sleeping feels like trying to swim upstream.

i've tried to 'fix' my sleep so many times in life now, by which i mean be consistent - and so far, no success. nothing too bad has happened to me, either -- if i don't get enough sleep i know i'm sub-par but i feel capable of at least being 'average' until i get home and get more sleep the next night. on the other hand, i've taken vacation simply because i know if i don't solve this ranking algorithm, i'm going to go insane - so i took three days off (wed-fri, so i got weekend too), and worked through the day and night, sleeping as fit until it was all good, and that itch in my head was resolved.
Amateur Formula Drifting
Formula D drifting is a popular sport. In fact, being relatively new in the United States, at the professional level, sport has a good fan following.Some of the fans who want to become professional drift, yes. Are you one of those people?
Fascinating. And I had no idea that most engines could be explained in a 2D picture, without the need to go 3D.
My communications engineering profs revered Shannon and one lamented that there was no appropriate Nobel prize for him to win. Shannon's foundational work in communications theory is definitely one of the most important individual contributions of the 20th century.
Well, in my experience, the average behavioral researcher isn't so much "confident they have captured all the relevant variables"... as "confident they have a research paradigm that will yield publishable data." —from a recovering academic

As for "Don't we all know the feeling of not wanting to stop?"... maybe us on HN.

But your comment raises a significant issue: those who do readily get into that "not wanting to stop" place are likely to end up working late because of that engagement (and hence focus).
Poll: Are you a night owl or a lark?
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/k-lee7/www/kesl/speak/night_owl_lark.pdf

Lark:
True larks get out of bed as early as 4 or 5 a.m. and go to bed by 9 or 10 p.m. Your periods of
high alertness are about two hours earlier than those of people with standard profiles. You do your
best work around 8 or 9 a.m. You might want to think twice before taking a night job.

Intermediate:
You have a standard circadian profile (body rhythm cycle). You're comfortable waking up
between 7 and 8 a.m. and going to bed between 11 p.m. and midnight. In between, you have periods
of high alertness in the morning and the early evening, with a period of low alertness in the early
afternoon. If your score is very low in this range, you're still in the standard profile, but you can
identify with the lark's ability to rise early and go to sleep earlier in the evening. If you're on the high
side of this range, you have the standard circadian profile, but can identify with the owl's desire to
sleep late in the morning and stay awake past midnight.

Owl:
True owls love to sleep late, but have no trouble staying awake and alert past 2 or 3 a.m. Your
periods of high alertness and sleepiness are about two hours later than those of people with standard
circadian profiles. In addition, owls' circadian rhythms tend to be more flexible than those of people
with standard or morning profiles.
Night owl
Woman on Toilet Accidentally Shot
A 53-year-old woman is shot in the leg as she sits on a toilet in a hotel bathroom stall in Florida. Police say a gun discharged from the next stall, when another woman accidentally let it fall from her holster and the weapon hit the ground.
> Besides YC, I've been working on Arc. (No writing lately. I can't seem to focus on more than 2 things at once, so it's always a choice of Arc xor essays.)

Fatherhood, Arc and YC are three things, though:-) Don't know if it's your intention to share anything about the first one, but I'd be curious if you did, and very understanding if you didn't.
Let me first say that I agree that the OP overstated the case: many 14 year olds are perfectly capable of making the right judgment call in cases such as this. However...

and any 14 year old that is capable of hacking a tram is intelligent enough to have picked up on society's general distaste

Intelligence has little to do with the ability to empathize or with social skills in general. Yes, an intelligent person with an autistic disorder may be able to mitigate the consequences of his disability by learning the required responses. However, a fourteen year old will never have mastered that technique yet and some never do. And no, I'm not claiming this boy has an autistic disorder; what I am claiming is that many such people, myself included, have traits that much resemble those of people with autistic disorders, to the point where I often feel like I'm responding from knowledge to social situations, rather then from feeling. And I remember a particularly (in hindsight) stupid thing I almost did when I was a 12 years old, because I had no regard for the people involved. Nor for the consequences for me BTW. That is one important point people are overlooking: the boy may also have failed to realize he could go to prison for this. So busy tinkering and playing that he lost sight of the outside world.

What's more, if he was aware enough to study and record the tram system then he was aware of the danger

Rationally knowing something could go wrong and linking that to actual people actually suffering is a huge step for some people. Eichmann is probably the canonical example. Yes, he was liable and he was rightfully held accountable. That doesn't necessarily mean he was guilty in a moral sense. Can you be guilty of failing to consider consequences to other humans, if failing to consider those consequences is your natural way of being? I'd rather call it a mental disability than criminal intent.
CTP. I just tried testing it. Can't use the SDK unless you have Vista, though.
The claims in the article, including those specifically attributed to the researchers, go far beyond anything justifiable by the research. The "genetics" claim is especially unjustified.

Personally, I can and have slept and worked ANY schedule, as long as I can get enough sleep. Creative work or intense studying though work best with a split schedule, where I have two 3-5 hour sleeping shifts, so I am always fairly fresh.
"Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions."

(from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Solved problem: Emacs :-)
Polishing Twiddla. It's amazing how much work you can put into something and have it still look sort of the same from the outside. It does a lot more though, and it does it a lot better. Our customer service load is as low as it's ever been...

I'll be tweaking the revenue model a bit over the summer, to make sure it keeps bringing in enough to finance the next 6-12 month roadtrip. I'll be flying one-way to Guatemala in October and slowly working my way south for some surfing in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and bullet dodging in Columbia. Just picked up a used Thinkpad X60 that will fit in the bottom of the bag without bogging me down, should hopefully survive the trip, and will be powerful enough to run VS.NET from the beach.
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The Words You Wear: We don't trust fashionable words
No difference. public static readonly string Empty = ""
Interestingly I missed the author's name at the top, and read the whole article assuming it was written by a man. I was surprised at the end to discover the opposite.
Work-In-Play Limits in Agile Software Development
That's the simplest solution in terms of people, but it adds another layer of complexity to whatever technology you're working with.
How to log your life
My experience mirrors this. I get through a lot more work and admin in a given day if I work from 7am-4pm, especially if there's a lot of drudgery involved. In contrast, if I work from 9am-6pm or later I'm more likely to procrastinate but I get a spurt of creativity that starts in the late afternoon and gets amplified at night. So I try to structure my work day around that, using early mornings to race through necessary but boring work and to tie up the remaining loose ends from the day or night before while leaving particularly challenging problems for later in the day or the evening. Not to mention that the feeling of getting a bunch of tasks out of your way early in the morning usually acts as a potent motivator for the rest of the day.
Not as much as I'd like to be. Lots of consulting, and http://BikeChatter.com for fun. Hopefully going to be doing some more with Hecl soon. Being a dad takes up a lot of time.
How are you trying to make it suck less? (I'm just curious: recently, I had three MRI scans while I was in hospital).
O'Reilly talks about success of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" as an iPhone app.

The app has outsold the book, and O'Reilly explains the business model validates as, " the data suggests that they have created growth without sacrificing print market share. "
Crime pays: Kevin Mitnick: "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history" $15K to $20K.
For those baffled by "CRM" or "SCRM": "Social Customer Relationship Management".

This was a TechCrunch panel presentation, and so may have been overlooked here, but I think it presents another niche market that could be ready for several types of startups.
It depends on your definition of freemium & your definition of user, I suppose. The 95/5 is Chris Anderson's guess/recommendation, not mine. But I'm sure you can find examples at all ratios.

I'll look at what I use. Both Weebly & Dropbox (I use the free of both) follow a true freemium model. IE, they both offer a perfectly usable free version. I'm not sure what percentage they do, but 1% - 10% sounds about right to me, especially if you discount those who are really sampling vs those who actually use.

I also use Gmail & Gdocs. These are theoretically freemium too, but at a much higher free/paid ratio.

You're going to see quite a lot in the professional/business software category. My explanation for this is that it is software people pay for. If you can sell your software/service, maybe can probably sell it with a freemium model.

If you can't sell it (eg photo sharing/search/etc.), maybe you just can't sell it. Freemium isn't magic.

The percentage has to relate to your marginal costs in some way. Even 1:2000 can be fine if your marginal costs are zero. You care about conversion rates only inasmuch as you care about absolute numbers.

*I recoiled a little when I read Anderson quoting an actual ratio. I think that it's a bit off. But I do think segmenting businesses by their ratio would be an interesting way of looking at them. A 5% business isn't following the same model as a .01% one.
Yahoo protects user privacy and gets fined?
I noted that DanielBMarkham didn't have to stretch that far and use examples such as a resume service as preying on the "weakness" of humans not being able to write as an reducio ad absurdum argument that cellis has an overly broad definition of human weakness when cellis stated that a large portion of firms in a capitalist economy prey on some human weakness or another. I continued to note that the psychologically manipulative tactics used in advertisement are used by a large portion of firms in a capitalism economy in order to prey on some human weakness or another, implying that it is not as broad a definition of human weakness as DanielBMarkham makes it out to be.
I'm doing a project that could use the Webkit 3D abilities that have now been added to the nightly. Finally, yay! How long till this shows up in Safari though? What's the regular release pattern for these kinds of additions?
FYI: his main favs:

Creative Commons; FairShare (tracking for dynamic); Plagium (tracing for static); Tineye (image tracking); Change Detection (takedown detection)
Is it really necessary to hear a counterpoint?

The debate has mostly been around whether or not it is a viable business model, not whether or not it is always the best business model.
There's already a W3C standard for this, so I would bet on more widespread adoption in the future.

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/
> Why America is flunking science

Two words: Intelligent Design
Hence the flag button and editors.
Just make password masking a choice. For many people working mostly at home the only person "shoulder surfing" will be a family member. Masking passwords is really an annoyance. I don't want to know how many hours get wasted on retyping passwords over the years.
Also people tend to save passwords to overcome the typing annoyance thus making them less secure.
Yeah, but you can't use Tor effectively as a client if there are not enough nearby servers IMHO.
Police Couple charged with having sex in drug car 
The car was a-rockin , and the law went a-knockin. Bexar (BAYR) County sheriff's deputies drawn by the actions of an amorous couple in a parked car allegedly found.
working my regular job and doing a side startup has def made me embrace the night-owl shift. I find that my first hour of night work, say 9-10, is less productive then I'm able to pick up the pace from 10-1, at that point I have to go to sleep or I'm wrecked the next day. Ideally, when I'm able to go 100% on the startup, I would work from 8:30-5:30, come home chill with the fam, then work 9ish-1ish. that way I get 6 hours sleep, have time to hang with kids and still put in a solid 12-13 hours. funny that my dream is to be able to work 13 hours a day, but its really about doing something I love and own, and the crazy hours are a side result.
Yeah, Archive.org is great for that but it was so long ago that I don't remember most addresses.
Interesting!

There are a lot of different subsets of products that you could sell using the freemium model (content, raw infrastructure, access to applications and so on), I figure there are probably ballpark figures for the conversion rates for each of these.

What the big question is to me is what the 'optimal' conversion rate is and what the path to achieving that is.

Another huge factor (and one that the article completely overlooks) is what the competitive landscape looks like. If you're in the business of providing some freemium based item (say free email with a 100MB inbox, more is paid) then you're toast if you get a competitor with deeper pockets that gives away the same product that you are charging for.

Storage and services related to it (and bandwidth) will converge on '0' so you will need a lot of users on the input side of the funnel in order to make it work for the few that will max out your caps and that don't want to game the system by setting up multiple accounts.
I'm somewhere in between intermediate and night owl. Once you have a family with kids and pets you can't sleep like a teenager anymore. I'm working hard on improving my morning alertness.
>(The big failure people have in grasping this is missing the facts that valuations are personal, and valuations != money. After that, this logic flows simply and inexorably.)

Till this point, I thought you were defending Swoopo and your logic actually made sense to me because the parties involved in the auction have different valuations. If a person spends USD 10 bidding on a product, the mere possibility of having a USD 1200 product for such a low price may be more valuable to him than Swoopo's valuation of the transaction (USD 10). Plus the suspense and thrill adds to the valuation by the bidder :)
Not saying that you are wrong, but I don't see why this would be important, besides from the security point that you are making, perhaps?
Interesting, but the site doesn't handle tools like NoScript gracefully.