skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The developer salary costs seem really outlandish. 500k euro for a "top notch developer" and 250k euro for "supporting developers". Where are these estimates coming from?
The bigger issue is not that the dilution from the option pool creation happens at that early stage (rather than JIT), it's that VC's require the creation, and therefore dilution, to happen pre-money. Because of this, the founders carry the burden and the new investors don't -- despite the fact that the investors will reap some of the benefit (equity being available to grow the business they now own).
GP meant that offering asylum and then turning Snowden over to USA custody would cause a damaged reputation. I think that's optimistic...
This is what's referred to as "blood money".

I wouldn't sell out my fellow man for anything less.
Because "head transplant" is more fun to say. It's a self-deprecating joke to say "I need a head transplant". https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%22I%20need%20a%20head...

It probably is incorrect, though, as a head transplant would mean that the head would be assuming the identity of the person carrying the body. While amusing it seems a lot to ask of the person with the head.

Edit: even more people say "I need a brain transplant" https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%22I%20need%20a%20brai...
You just have identified the primary reason why this entire head transplant thing is badly thought-out fiction right there: we haven't mastered reconnecting nerves yet. At least not reliably and not on that scale.
I didn't say anyone put him up to it. I'm saying that Russia has an incentive to get on his good side for the time being. He has information that they undoubtedly want and have probably been working to get their hands on.
I'm not sure why Google's results might be said to be /useless/? There's definitely an interesting argument to be made about Google using a monopolistic position in search to cross-promote some of their other products (local, ads, maps), but the OP's examples seem to show results that quite likely exactly what the user would have been searching for.

I guess what I'm saying is that pure organic search isn't necessarily the optimal way for a user to find the information they're looking for.
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Even if Android let them make money, it is broken beyond repair with its funny idea to run everything in Java sandboxes, invent a new packaging format and releasing source code months after the actual release.

No thank you.
It's not, although I don't think it should be too hard to port. I haven't done it yet because I don't have ready access to a Windows machine with an OpenCL-capable GPU.
Here's the only important sentence:

Connection of a spinal cord from the head of one creature to the body of another has never been attempted even in animals, so Canavero’s paper must be taken as an exercise in speculation.
Those who are affected by LSD in that way will probably also be more susceptible to drug induced HPPD or Schizophernia from other controlled and non-controlled substances. It has to do with the structure of the brain.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/178/4/337.full
Basically they are born with less ability to distinguish reality from fiction. A good indication for this would be the well known ink spot test.

Responsible self-admission of controlled substances would always advocate starting at the dose that might cause an adverse allergic reaction of some sort, and move up from there.

I've seen a Scanner Darkly, and I've tried hard drugs.
In my experience and knowledge of stimulating drugs like amphetamines and esp. cocaine. The chance of psychosis from these line of drugs and the potential of abuse are of an order of magnitude worse, while we blindly prescribe our ADD and ADHD suffering kids to methylphenidate (Ritalin) and amphetamine salts (Adderall). I would advice you to look them up.

The abuse potential for these kind of drugs are huge with ADD/ADHD patients since their disorder pretty much means they require more dopamine stimulation to be able to complete tasks, and these drugs are very much addictive in nature because of their actions on the dopamine system.
Stimulating this area in the brain is way more "rewarding" than for example serotonergic drugs like LSD.

I understand that a lot of street drugs are adulterated or chemically inferior to the medical grade stuff, but it is still hypocritical and dangerous to make a Black/White area of what is supposedly not bad for you (i.e. prescriptions, OTC or legal substances ) and bad for you (controlled substances).

I understand that these drugs are prescribed under doctors supervision, but the reality learns that this is usually not a game stopper for abusers. Also they are being given to patients for a number of disorders without adequate research backing their perceived safety profile.
Long-term effects on kids and teenagers who have been on these medications are not known at all.
I wonder how to deal with the issue of nutrition and digestion (some sort of synthetic digestive system?), which would be necessary to sustain the brain. Also, how would the head perceive hunger and thirst?
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The graduation requirement is "intermediate-level" skills in any modern foreign language (not necessarily Spanish). This translates to 3 semesters at college level. Considering that 2 semesters (or 2 years in HS) is the entrance requirement, an extra semester really isn't that bad.
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> Firefox OS is one of the most obviously-wasteful and doomed efforts we've seen in a long time.

You didn't see our orphan-powered fax machine initiative then.
The price for "serving it yourself" on the web is not listed: if you serve it yourself, more than 50 computers will be able to download it!
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With a larger number of startups, there will likely be some amount more of hits per year, but I think the cap (or even large percent of growth) is not actually determined by this.

Rather, I suspect that the 'about 15 big hits a year' is actually more about the public (and how many 'new' things the masses will actually adopt a year) than it is about the overall number of new startups each year.
>The App Store is a marketplace you have no control over, and you're hoping the owner plays by the rules.

Which is beside the point. It's not Apple's whimsy that's under accusation here, it's the BS behaviour of a competitor.

>The uncertainty of such of a marketplace has to factor into your outlook. (No one assesses their business without considering both risks and opportunities)

That doesn't mean you should bend over and take it. Risks can be eliminated, especially if they are non essential to the operation of the marketplace, and even harmful to it's owner.

The history of this particular marketplace has shown that Apple has some willingness to listen to it's developers (e.g the reversal of the Obj-C only policy, changes they made to the approval process after assurances for it's betterment by Cook, continuous automation and fixes to the provisioning profile handling, the changes to allow easier giving your app to third party developers for testing etc).
If calling it a body transplant bothers you because you don't think the definition of body works with that, then call it a "torso and limb transplant" or something. "head transplant" is absurd.
Your own content != be a corporate shill / spammer.
Nit: isn't "first-ever" kind of redundant, since "now possible" necessarily implies it wasn't possible before?
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Firefox OS launches ahead of other open source mobile platforms
Can you explain how this works or provide a link to an explanation? Thanks.
It's the cost of renting a developer with security clearance from BAH. Snowden would likely be in the same salary band as a "supporting developer." He was taking home $122K, thus his actual cost to the government was likely $250-$300K.
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> It's even more relevant now with all the front end
> JavaScript frameworks that so many web apps rely on
> these days.

Hardly. The number of people who chose to disable JavaScript is utterly dwarfed by the factors that get in the way of JavaScript successfully executing on the page.

Very simply: A browser can not execute JavaScript it hasn't received:
http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/DisablingJavaScriptAski...

You are reliant on factors outside of your control. For example, a well-intentioned DNS Blacklist took down loads of Fortune 500 companies:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/05/google_opendns_clash...
They should be spending some of that cash lobbying for online gambling in the US. Zynga Poker is their best chance at becoming relevant again.
Wouldn't that be an interesting business opportunity? While both Github and Bitbucket offer privat repositories both free and paid, non of them can be shared or viewed without additional accounts and management.

If one could host or upload repositories which are private but can be viewed read-only by the means of a password, or a passphrase shared via mail, that would be great.

Although I wonder if a recruiter would even go trough the hassle of entering a password you provided on your resume.
Except that post Chavez I think the Venezuelan's are less inclined to keep provoking the US vs spending time fixing things at home.
He has NOT asked Russia for asylum.
http://rt.com/news/edward-service-immigration-russian-493/
This guy is a neuroscientist so presumably he has given this question some thought and I would imagine he too has 'studied spinal cord anatomy a bit.'
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Obama tries to ease NSA tensions and insists: Europe spies on US too
The author counts the storage on a yearly basis (servers to store a year of data). If you allow an expiration date for the records (let's say 4 years), after that period you can spend less on hardware, as you can free space from the old records. Then you only need to spend money on the traffic difference (as the traffic would increase in 4 years).

As the storage boxes in the article also have a nice CPU, the collected data can be indexed and then compressed, saving a lot of space.
Oh you're not alone. I dislike Java as well, but there's no denying the power of the JVM and the ecosystem around it. If you really dig into it and look at it as a polyglot platform with choices like Groovy, Clojure, JRuby, and Scala, it becomes more palatable.

Regardless this post is not about .NET tooling, more about server efficiency and cost. Two areas where I think the JVM is a little further ahead.
Check the linked video, it's a great talk on memory access patterns and why it matters. If you already know "everything" about it, then I guess there's not much new in my article but if you're like many of my co-workers, ordinary web developers some of this might come as a surprise.

I think performance optimization overall is under-appreciated in the wider development community, too many devs expect the runtime/compiler to solve it for them.
Sweet I'm putting my head onto a baby's body next week I'll totally own the other kids in chess club this time through school!
I have read that even if the petitions reach the goal the government does not really take action. Or they might put it off for a really long time.
I'm so glad my elementary school here in the US gave us 2, 45min (~10:30 and 2pm) and an hour long lunch/recess period each day. It really made things much more bearable; except Spanish, it was right before the afternoon recess
Thanks. :) I'm still mostly using Lua 5.1.4 most of the time, and I forgot to include that.
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Detecting Outliers: The Six Sigma Test
Right, because someone who exposes gross abuses of the law has every reason to trust that those he exposed will obey it during his trial.
"We conclude that ethanol was a preferred fuel preventing fat, and to lesser degrees, CHO and protein, from being oxidized."

How can you read that and write that alcohol is the "preferred substance for [promoting] oxidation"? The study says precisely the opposite, hence the title "Ethanol causes acute inhibition of carbohydrate, fat, and protein oxidation and insulin resistance."

Now that this is resolved, let's be clear: I am not suggesting that having a drink on occasion will on its own make you morbidly obese, but there is a very good reason athletes shun alcohol while training (if not altogether) and you're more likely to find a spare tire than six-pack abs on a guy who drinks a couple of six-packs every week (which falls under the category of "moderate" consumption). I know, I know: a ripped midsection does not equal health, but there is plenty of evidence that belly fat is insidious.

As for changing goal posts, you posted a study concluding that moderate alcohol consumption increases longevity, ostensibly in an effort to support the notion that moderate consumption of alcohol is beneficial to health. I simply responded to it with further details about a similar study in which the authors readily stated that other factors may explain the correlation. The implication that longevity equals health is your own.

Finally, the point that you seem to be overlooking here is this: even if alcohol has some components that may be beneficial on their own, there are almost always alternatives for attaining them through other food sources that come with fewer drawbacks. Again, as an example, the person consuming a couple of glasses of wine each night while saying "I'm getting my antioxidants!" (yes, I have heard this) is providing a poor excuse for drinking because it's easy to get antioxidants from less problematic sources.

So you can eat your fish and drink wine too, or you can just eat your fish, but let's not pretend that one isn't likely to be healthier than the other.
It's also pretty bad at rendering SVG, I don't understand why this wasn't tested considering the popularity of the d3.js library.
I don't see why it should be an issue in a world where we already do transplants. It is just more of the same, an iteration, albeit a very impressive advance.
A little discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928510
Or just let me opt out of your paper spam. If I want something, I'll go find it on my own.
Technically, you may be able to, but legally, the license doesn't allow for it.
Yes, I have tried the nightly at some point, indeed I saw some improvements, but also broken stuff:
- scrolling in firefox produced really weird "oscillations" that never really went away unless quitting the application.
- youtube stopped working (not that i can use it reasonably otherwise)
etc.
I guess I should try it again one of these days.
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most probably "connexion" in relation to "password" was used in an unrelated (english?) phishing attempt.

mixing different languages might be bad. try changing all the page text (and corresponding content-language header) to the localized language instead of just changing the submit button. maybe this have the classifier use the contextual meaning of "connexion".
Some random JS tips
Just as a heads up, my map screen is different so I presume it's randomly generated.
Microsoft entertainment head may leave to be Zynga CEO
Edward Snowden 'applies for asylum in Russia'
(dB. from Artsy here)

I'll find out who owns copyright on that image. My guess is that it was taken by a photographer at Christie's.
Bradley Manning is rotting away in some military jail and the average American still thinks he's a traitor. If powerful interests want to spin your story a particular way, they will spin your story. Snowden at least has a voice while he's on the run. He may be persecuted, but he's not silenced.
and with Italy since much longer. Marina Petrella is still in France.