skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Light bulb changers, light bulb changers, light bulb changers!!!
I wanted to say that this was probably discovered by a Hacker News devotee who was sifting through every instance of "pg" on the internet. Then I noticed who submitted this.
Just in time for Japan to have no exchanges to regulate. (Other, I guess, than LocalBitcoin. Which may or may not count, and would be hard to deal with anyway.) Or does someone know of one that doens't show up on any of the charts? Gox is the only JPY exchange I've seen.

Question is: does this help or hurt MtGox's chance of resurrection? Probably makes it less likely to happen, but somewhat more likely that people will come back if it does.
That was a great article - very insightful. A question though : Is it possible to get into YC without having an actual working product? That is with just a general idea for a product that you want to build?

The impression I got by reading all the stuff in the tech press, is that almost no one will fund just an idea - even seed funding - you do need to have a working product, and traction and customers, etc.

The other question is : Is it possible to get into YC if you are much older than your mid-twenties or early thirties? I know it is theoretically possible - but are there any YC founders in their forties or even fifties?
Thanks for that hotkey!
I am from north India and agree that menstruation is still taboo in our culture (mostly in villages).
-During menstruation cycle women (mostly married) sleep in separate room, they are not supposed to touch anything and after 4 days all the clothes/bedding they wear/use (even mattress) will be washed.
-Most of these rules are tied to religion.
-I think when these "rules" were started there were no sanitary pads, so may be this was done for hygiene sake, but today it doesn't make any sense. And I think in those days if someone wanted people to follow anything just say its required by your religion and people will blindly follow.
-This guy is doing really great work, happy that BBC picked it up.
TED.com gets a makeover
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It will be hit or miss. I was able to see it after several attempts.
yes, which i am sure you are the master of.
Not sure if she'd get that as a teacher? Its the same work requirements as a H1b, just for Australians.
Indeed. But I hope you're not implying I am doing that. ):

Love, a liberal Canadian bent on destroying freedom, liberty, capitalism, and all things good.
This is even true of cash — people get paid under the table all the time. However, if you get caught doing that too much…
"Taking PHP Seriously" by Keith Adams (Facebook): http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history

Usage of server-side programming languages for websites: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...
I remember Bill Nye doing this in one episode. He had the earth as a golf ball, I think? He was running around a soccer field showing the planets. And he drove miles away to show where Pluto would be.

Edit: this episode! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRIVwGwdxI8#t=250

Edit2: nope, this one (guess he liked this trick lol) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_OWnlS56rE#t=325 Pluto is only 100 meters away, but Alpha Centauri is 700 km away!
Not in the UK. The creation of pseudoimages, including in some cases, cartoons, has been held to violate the same law. Concur on the correlation vs causation stuff though. But the creation of the material creates the demand, which leads to more abuse, which is why it's doubly damaging. There's fairly strong evidence (look on The CEOP website, the UN concurs) of that.
It's more common than you think. Take Verdana's capital I:

http://www.identifont.com/show?XG
I just used the shortcut buttons at the top. Your solution is more fun. :)
It doesn't need to be any more sophisticated than the taxing of every other asset that gets traded. When you realize a gain or loss from buying or selling gold bars, train engines or copy machines you're expected to report that.

If you make a lot of money buying and selling Bitcoin, you're probably going through exchanges that are licensed and can be subpoenaed for records if your own are in question. If you are accepting Bitcoin as payment on a website, you're probably using something like Coinbase to facilitate it, which means there are 3rd party records of your income.

If you're trading drugs on Silk Road #3, maybe that won't be taxed, but neither are most cash transactions on Craigslist; the government doesn't attempt to put an auditor in every home to catch every transaction that's supposed to be reported.
Super simple interface, I like it. However it seems to be lacking an obvious way to leave your current conversation and enter a new one.
I've always found it incredibly amazing that psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, DMT etc) were outlawed in responses to forms of massive, peaceful "movements" in which taking psychedelics was something the members of the movement were known to do; that legislators and policy makers were so afraid of the affects these chemicals would have on society that they had to put the serious force of the law behind getting them out of the hands and the minds of the people.
No, I am not making up random responses. I am all for real national health coverage (not Obamacare). That would accomplish some of the things this is intended to accomplish. Historically, it was more feasible for a nuclear family to have one breadwinner supporting multiple members in part because family medical coverage was more common. One of the things that keeps young women with children in the work force is that family medical coverage has become relatively scarce. Most women who have small children feel conflicted about working and wish the could either work only part time or be home with their child. They work in part to retain medical coverage.

Homemakers and dependent children (who can be young adults -- like college students) are technically "unemployed" but are not simply cut off from societal resources. I am sorry you do not see that but it is at least a partial answer to the issue of distributing resources to non-working members of society in a way that does not destroy the social fabric or economy.
How NIST Develops Cryptographic Standards
Also, for something that's emphasizing thin weight only the bold weight has italics? What's with that?
Stop trying to innovate keyboards. You’re just making them worse
GitHub's New Atom Text Editor Is Open Source, Sort Of, Though Not Really
http://newinventions.in/profit.aspx

Their website says that the raw materials for 8 pads are 7.15 rupees.

So that's about .9 rupees/pad.
Short of a serious undisclosed bug in iOS, malware should not be able to record keystrokes from other apps.

But you are right in that if you don't trust the OS manufacturer not to be snooping on you, you can't trust the app. In addition to logging keystrokes they could be logging the contents of UI text controls as they are set. Even if you implement your own custom keyboard and UI controls and your own encryption prior to sending anything over a socket they could still be snapshotting the phone's framebuffer regularly. There's no way to reliably hide data that you can see visually (or data that has to be unencrypted in memory at some point, even if you don't see it) from the lowest levels of the OS.

Having said all of that, they probably aren't doing any of this, but they could.
Let me get this straight:

Step 1: Start by completely ignoring civil liberties and forcing telecommunication companies to hand over data on their users. Bonus points for giving an NSL so users aren't aware of their breach of privacy.

Step 2: Allow said companies to bill for providing the data. This makes sure they keep quite and don't speak up to the things the government is doing because lets be honest, what sort of businessman is going to complain about thick margins?

Step 3: Repeat steps 1 & 2 until there is a leak and the world finds out about everything that's been going on.

Step 4: Wait for the repercussions of step 3 to blow over. Now that everyone knows what's going on, no use in quieting down the companies by paying them off so let's sue them for charging too much.

How do they have the balls to do this kind of shit? Makes me want to vomit.
This is basically a less humanistic version of Frutiger. As a designer I find the entire face irksome. The legibility doesn't come close to Adrian Frutiger's namesake.
If you're taking down a SQL DB to make schema changes then you're doing it wrong. Even resource-intensive changes can be done online by applying the changes in stages.
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tell them the cost of your support package?
It is hard to get in to YC without something, but we didn't have a demo. You can read our whole app at: http://blog.zactownsend.com/our-yc-s13-application

In my YC class, I would say the median age was roughly mine: 28. Any number of founders were in their late 30s and 40s.
Giant virus revived after more than 30,000 years
Ideas are only powerful if they move: how to build a presentation that wins
Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping
MediaGoblin campaign for federation and privacy in 2014
Speed Test: Go vs Node.js (vs PHP)
This...makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure why the idea didn't occur to me before--I guess its hard to reason logically when you're disturbed by something emotionally sometimes :P. Thanks.
It has a regular weight italic in addition to the bold italic.
"LSD - My Problem Child" is also well worth a read IMHO. It's by Hoffman and it tells the story of its discovery, also giving a few of his thoughts on what happened afterwards.

Personally I'm not a huge fan of the "wonder drug that will cure all ills and open your EYES man" theories that abound around psychedelics. They can certainly induce a sense of the profound but I'm not sure they actually produce profundity.

That said, long term changes to thought patterns and moods are certainly evident and I think research in this area could be very useful.

I also think it's a person's own business what they take, that the dangers of "drugs" are vastly and deliberately overstated, and that the drug war is an inhuman waste of lives, time and money. That probably makes me some sort of crazy hippy radical...
> Crisprs is supposed to be somewhat noisy

Since you seem knowledgeable: Do you know how they compare to other kinds of methods for cutting/splicing new genes into DNA, such as Zinc fingers or homing endonucleases? Specificity (non-noisy) seems like it would be the most important feature of something like this. Although I guess we don't really know, I could imagine "noise" turning into other horrible diseases, loss of viability, etc.

Edit: And now I notice that they discuss this further down in the article. Nevermind.
I'm a bit put off by the "bent-iron" quality of how the curves and straights meet, like this is a type designed to mimic neon signs. There are some nice touches, though. It looks great bold.

That said, having that image with the type super small and basically at the extreme limit of legibility (I can barely read it) I don't think does you a service. Do a nice big species with lots of common use cases! This one looks like mush.
Note that the included webfont variants have fairly enormous filesizes (WOFFs: 120K+, SVG: 1.2M+).

Quickly running the .ttf through FontSquirrel at default settings produced versions several times smaller (caveat lector, not sure what glyphs are being stripped out, etc.)
So I'm guessing this will work on the retailer/exchange side? Any transaction of guaranteed value (i.e. not just shifting wallets, but something like BTC->goods or BTC->cash) will just have a built-in extra cost in JPY equivalent, if the party gaining money is definitely in Japan?

Sounds great to me, though the volume will be very small to begin with. This is a great opportunity for sites and services to demonstrate legitimacy in the eyes of the law and their users. Of course there will be some dark exchanges and the like for those who'd rather not have a tax record attached to their wallet, but for lots of people this will be very beneficial.
their big strategy as of the last few years is to spin off features of its main app into multiple apps.

this has three benefits they want:

better app store coverage

better home screen coverage

fewer taps to do a task on facebook
OK, the PHP test was written wrong, with count() being called in every iteration. So this person didn't know the internals of the functions they were testing.

Nevertheless, PHP is about 3x slower than v8 for the optimized tests
GIF that swaps time and space
Unfortunate, but not surprising, to see it incorrectly implemented across the entire site: http://cl.ly/image/260h1Z302T24

If you want to use multiple font weights, you have to load and reference each weight in your stylesheet. Otherwise, you end up with a browser-added faux-bolding instead of the actual bold font.
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All those things are subjective to where you want to live, what you want to eat and what you want to do.

The events YC provides are free. Depending on where you live your rent will obviously vary (you can pay $5000/month for an SF apt, or you can share a place in Mountain View for $600/month).

Like Zac said... the $$ invested should more than cover your expenses for the 3 months. Of course, that money is for kicking off your company - not fine dining.
Further proof that the world doesn't need any more fonts.
Ycombinator hardly "gives money away for free." They carefully hand pick people whom they invest in. There is a contract which states Ycombinator gets a cut of the business. These are people who apply, who have skills and a business plan, etc. It is not like Paul Graham grabs random people off the street says "Here's $20,000. If you happen to make a successful business with that, I want a cut!"

If you do not see the vast difference between the kind of careful investment made by Ycombinator and simply handing everyone money who happens to be a U.S. citizen, I don't know how to go forward with this discussion.
Maine has a scale model solar system about 40 miles across. I drive by it every summer.

http://pages.umpi.edu/~nmms/solar/
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Not all big companies avoid it.

Some big companies do use, others do not.

The reason for the variability is that it's neither the be-all-end-all framework not a de-facto standard, so no reason to prefer it over another good framework like Ember or Knockout etc.

Besides most companies already have codebases in other frameworks.
I believe it was Aldous Huxley who, on his death-bed, requested a mixture of LSD and Opiates to leave this world by.

Frankly, I applaud that kind of thinking.

EDIT: My apologies, I did not see dns's comment below, saying the same thing, but with actual links :)
Stephen Colbert plays a character that satirizes conservative jingoistic "patriotic" mouthpieces of the Republican party, the kind typically found on Fox News and some talk radio stations.
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Nicely done! I've always wanted to build something like this, and have never gotten around to it. I can't imagine it would have ended up as good as this.
Helvetica one font to rule them all
Is a designer's taste more important than someone else's?
NoSQL DBs definitely have their place. For instance my current project uses one to handle and do limited querying on data from other systems without needing to have a full schema for that data. You could do it in SQL by breaking out the columns we need and storing the rest in an XML blob, but it would be annoying. One rule of thumb might be that anytime you want to stick an XML blob into SQL, consider NoSQL instead.

That said, I think you're right that 90% of the time SQL is a better solution. You don't fully realize all the great stuff a real SQL engine does for you until you have to go without it.
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I think it was just a convenient way to continue to suppress the counterculture while also looking tough and moral, because we all know how much our politicians love that. The effects of LSD in freeing peoples minds or somehow waking them up to reality are exaggerated IMHO.

I mean, do you need LSD to know the government is wasting your money and making insane legislation?
I like Open Sans http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
Drunk on Vanity Metrics - myDocket
The good news is that you already know how to program, even if you are intimidated by OOP. The other commenters are probably correct in suggesting that previous coursework from your class will give you the best sense for what you'll be tested on but, if you have 10 days to learn about OOP/C++, you could do worse than spending at least a little time reading some well-presented explanations of classes, inheritance, operator overloading, virtual functions, polymorphism, and the like, as a means to supplementing the language-agnostic programming concepts you already understand (through your adventures in PHP and JavaScript).

There is a ton of C++ info on the web (of varying quality, of course) but sometimes I think, when trying to learn something new, getting offline and looking at a physical book improves my focus.

I've read many C++ books over the years, but the one that finally made everything click, at least for me, when I was first learning C++, was "C++ How to Program" by Deitel and Deitel. The copy I have is 20 years old (yes, I'm old :) ) but I suspect the newer editions (http://www.amazon.com/C-How-Program-8th-Edition/dp/013266236...) have similar approachability.

Good luck to you and, as others have suggested, do not panic. Though it seems like a massive deal to you right now, rest assured your perspective will change down the road.
Fair enough, I see what you mean with that example. Does that only happen if one of the pairs is Zapier or are there others where it does too? Your other example seems to work, and in the comments they claimed it's used too.
Actually, in that one, the earth was the size of the ball of a ball-point pen.

The sun was the size of a soccer ball.
will probably be really good for engineering organs (for clinical use) or organisms where you can afford to throw away mistakes.
Sorry for that, I found it in livejournal.com without any reference to the original author.
An answer this very smart person drew was that there's not sufficient data to back statements about legibility

http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...

That said, I as a news designer I believe there to be conventional reasons for using, for example, sans serifs for headlines and serifs for large blocks of body text.
QNX ... In late 90s there was a story making rounds that all street lights in Toronto were managed from a single 486 box running QNX. Does anyone else remember it?
Ukraine under cyberattack as US-Russia tensions rise
And down in less than 40 minutes.
Just having an idea is tough. Having a market for that idea, with some interest is better.

When we did YC, I was 36. I wasn't the oldest, but it was close. There have been founders in their 40's and even 50's (as far as I know - could be even more).

The problem with older founders... your needs are different (financial burdens, children etc) which makes it more difficult to succeed. As a "kid" you are much more likely to live with 6 other people eating ramen and coding 18 hrs a day.
Seems like they just forgot a zero at the end...?
Most companies are accepted before their product works. But you sound like you haven't even started trying to build it yet. Start building something. Hacking together a crappy prototype always brings surprising insights.

Many founders are in their 40s and some are in their 50s.
Its working now, maybe just update the title to say that TED.com gets a makeover
Blockchain.info buys trading platform RTBTC, merges into ZeroBlock
Tiny Experiments in Doing
Can you elaborate on this? (do you know why running it through FontSquirrel results in smaller sizes?)
Some predecessors, just out of interest:

http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/
This page has been kicking around for ages, not sure how long though.

http://www.scalesolarsystem.66ghz.com/
More recent. This one is vertical (so whiners can scroll with wheel, although all these pages are scrollable in wheel-click mode)
I think that they forgot a digit, and you commented on the wrong article.
I thought, at first, it was the only option. I wonder how many other people did.
imo is a great chat client. slick, modern, beautiful & has a web app. This decision is very unfortunate as there don't seem to be any good alternatives. Here are their founders explaining the reasons behind it.

http://maratryndin.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/why-imo-messenge...
It would be cool if besides privacy for users you contributed/used already existing open source mail related software. You know, follow the model of those companies that are based on and expand oss.
It is interesting how profession changes perception of the language. I work as a software engineer and "modify DNA" sounds as a more natural description of the process to me. I am speaking in context of taking existing DNA and using a technique to identify specific locations in order to change them. In other words there is no "redo" if you get something wrong. In news world editing is much more natural and encompassing term.
Well, why are you triggering on something that appears to have a completely random amount of delay? Either you choose your line in the sand, or you monitor the dependency that is causing the variability.
Awesome Zac
... write a program which tells the difference
between two integers ...

I don't understand what that actually means, but you could start by:

1. Write a precise example of an exam question,

2. Write a program that you think answers the question,

3. Make sure it runs,

4. Ask for advice about what you've done well, and what you've done badly,

5. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Egison - Nonlinear pattern matching language