skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a mean follow-up of 3.7 years, it should surprise nobody that no significant differences could be shown. The study quality is low, because the follow up is so short, which likely explains the low-impact journal for publication. Even then, the point estimate is 0.9 and the confidence interval barely overlaps 1, suggesting that after longer follow-up, even this analysis would come in line with essentially every other study which shows benefit.

In higher-risk groups in the same timeline (this time, 5 years)[1][2], or in other analyses such as the Cochrane analysis [3], statin use for LDL-cholesterol lowering is demonstrated to be effective even on those same short timescales for reduction in mortality. Whether it's cost-effective to do this at scale is not clear.

1 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16214597

2 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9228438

3 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164175/
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I like this idea, but I'd also like to point out that in some (many) cases, the outcome may be the opposite of that envisioned. For example, a large part of Southern Connecticut is mainly a bedroom community for New York City; based on the typical commute, you'd think it should join the state of New York, but I can guarantee you people in Southern Connecticut are perfectly happy paying less in state taxes. Conversely, if they could choose to secede from the New York State, Westchester County would join Connecticut in a second, although again, it's a bedroom community for NYC.
I wonder how it equips children for the real world where there is both positive and negative reinforcement. If they only deal with positive reinforcement, will they have the emotional conditioning to deal with negative reinforcement. For example, dealing with a negative review or getting skipped for a promotion. Something we probably all experienced, getting yelled at by a manager.

Anecdotally, being raised by an asian mom. I was subjected to negative reinforcement of her disappointment if i didn't do well. I attribute that to both my and my sister success because we both didn't want to deal with the shame of failure.
Probably just truncated.
Ask HN: What can we achieve with 1.6 trillion dollar?
the world's top 15 military spenders spent in 2015 about 1.6 trillion dollar, I am wondering what are the things that humanity can achieve if such amount of money were put in a good use, for example in research, education, health care, etcetera. do you guys have any ideas ?
For example
https://www.google.com/amp/s/scalibq.wordpress.com/2015/04/1...
That is to say, you could join a vfx company using your existing web dev skills and once you are familiarized with the vfx environment and pipeline, transfer onto a pipeline team.
That is how the state government chooses to handle this situation, but the Feds are not involved, which was the original point.

Colorado could wake up tomorrow and change its laws or initiate the change process and Uncle Sam wouldn't care.
Whilst it's healthy to have some cynicism about news stories (and the reasons they're spread), I wonder what level of proof you'd be looking for before you were convinced. Aside from finding equipment involved in the alleged signal jamming, what sort of information is likely to convince you? If someone took the time to triangulate the source of these attacks and could link those locations to government officials, would that suffice?
Instead of leveling ad hominem attacks at me, why don't you go look up the drought data?

Ah, another rhetorical ping-flood attack, forcing the recipient to do the research necessary to dispute a vague positive claim.
So I've actually been transitioning my personal communications over to Protonmail (on a custom domain to future proof the address), and keeping Gmail for transactional emails (because of utility in Inbox grouping, Google Now, etc).

I've realized that I don't really care about Google having access to my transactional mail (things knowable from third parties anyways), but do want personal communications properly encrypted. Basically, I've only moved over my "priority inbox," and keep using Gmail for junk.

Very satisfied with Protonmail though. Especially knowing they are working on fixing their lock-in issues.
i challenge you to reread this article and view it as skeptically and through the lens of itself being propaganda advocating the "fake news" censorship angle in a different way.

This pushes similar views of the pro-censorship rhetoric that but reframes it for those skeptical of google/control. The real problem is massive consolidation, which gives outsize levels of control to very few entities.

This article focuses on a trifle and is misleading and complimentary to the pro "truth" censorship of the nebulous "fake news".

Google serves 42% of the world with the lyxury of access to internet. It serves traffic at scale estimated to be3x the size of Facebook[0].

This article is a strawman that google (built by 2 jews) leads people to conclude jews could be bad...erm maybe. But here is the real scare:

- 1M google pws leaked; gooligan.

- All search engines based on Page Rank, immitate google. Google influences what is shown on the other 4ish search engines that cover most of worlds traffic.

- control what is & isnt indexed.

- control email, have lionshare and dictate what is "spam". Running a mailserver is hard.

- "too big to fail", imagine that dns, cloud, search, email, browser, store, android went out. Not only would google apps/email halt biz, but failover of redisistributing 40% of worlds traffic === the biggest ddos ever

- see 40% of worlds thought in realtime.

I know this is pretty extreme but I cant help but see this article as pro censorship shilling wrapped up in plausible alarmist rgetoric.

Yes google has influence, probably 1000th on list of dangers is people "going down the completion rabbit hole" and being misinformed. Sure, it happens, bur it is a symptom of a symptom of the problem.

TL;DR this article uses a real problem to push the "fake news bullshit" from another angle. Ecen has the inflamatory "jews" or "muslims" are bad to make it go viral. Thos is real propaganda, look closer

[0]google it. Wolfram alpha had estimates of 3.8ish total / 1.6B and wolfram has them doing 3x vol. on mobile google it, it isnt in 10-k filings because they are facing tons of comp.
Not really true for old-enough movies. Old celluloid sits there and gets older and then bursts into flame.
There was plenty of discussion in relation to the US election though https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Trump&sort=byPopularity&prefix...
"GLIntercept is a OpenGL function call interceptor for Windows that will intercept and log all OpenGL calls"
I really appreciate the work you do! It's great to be out of Google's ecosystem for this, as it is not extensible enough for my needs.

Is there any plan to add NPM support anytime soon? I tried using the NPM library but icons did not work (got invalid path error) so I was forced to use div icons.

The leaflet/npm ecosystem goes out the window when you take into account plug-ins as well,
As they require script tags.

Thanks for all your hard work!
So, then 64 bits is enough ( because the problems are being solved at present under 64 buts)? From personal experience, numerical ill behaved problems don't benifited from more precision, rather they benifited from being scaled to be numerically stable. Things like trust parameters, or preconditioners like SSOR.
This information would be useful when planning the next-gen transportation network..
Ask HN: Starting a career at Google. Is it possible to reach $2M after 10 years?
Hi,

As the title says, I'm about to start a career at Google soon (bay area).

I'd like to hear from other googlers and people in the industry if it's a realistic goal to reach a net worth of around $2M after 10 years at Google, with no investments other than company stock and index funds.

Any advice on how to reach this goal would be greatly appreciated.
"Better" if you don't care for performance. Or memory usage. Or GC pauses.
Providing you have them, I can chop then off and use them.

Seriously, use your eye or fingerprint as a password and there is someone ruthless enough to remove them from your body.
now this is interesting! what exactly is the rationale used by those who would prefer it remain secret? i assume it's for the preservation of their job or hobby, but i doubt that would fly on its own.
It isn't?
Startup valuations drive me crazy. Preferred stock is not common stock!

This article says they sold a 1.6% stake, derived by taking the amount raised divided by the valuation. Once again, preferred stock is not common stock.
No. Then I'd be a millionaire.
This is part of the reason Windows Hello won't use standard webcams for facial recognition. They require a depth camera (very unusual feature on laptops, usually marketed as Intel Real Sense) so that a simple photograph isn't enough to fool the camera.

This is still far from perfect though; a truly determined bad actor could create a passable 3D model, or even a face mask, and probably still fool the sensor. It just takes more work. The whole point of passwords is that no one can know them but the person intending to use them. Using a publicly visible part of my body is just asking for trouble.
The most useful purpose of being labeled a billionaire is being identified as one who has the ability to spend a billion dollars. Obtaining $1 mil doesn't qualify, and it's highly unlikely the other 99.9% of the company would be bought for $999M, so from my perspective the only other purpose of being labeled a billionaire would be for clickbait/marketing.
Generally probably worth keeping in mind but it seems extremely unlikely someone developing a tool for developers is going to make a stink about reverse engineering anything except for license validation code.
A paper billionaire, yes.
Fingerprint technology is hackable, easily so.

Edit: Face recognition is even easier. Iris scanners are the only sure way to recognize someone.
Riga, Latvia fits those requirements
http://www.labsoflatvia.com/why-latvia
In theory they could do some of them, but they'd have to be done in asm.js or WebAssembly. Both for speed, and because otherwise the lack of statically sized structs will kill you on memory overhead.

For other things (like a very nice minimap that actually renders based on the shape of characters) you are limited by what the DOM is capable of in terms of custom rendering. You can get around this by doing what https://www.figma.com/ does and rendering everything with WebGL from asm.js, but that would be a total rewrite and you lose all advantages of using Electron and you might as well just use C++ and OpenGL directly, and at that point you are just cloning Sublime.

Also Jon Skinner is a performance-obsessed wizard who does things like write a custom regex engine just to make the fastest syntax highlighting engine even faster. Whereas the VSCode team is the kind of team that wrote a text editor in JS. I will hand it to them that they did pretty well at optimizing and VSCode is the fastest JS-based text editor, but they don't seem to have the kind of performance-at-all-costs approach it would take to match Sublime.

It's not so much that it's impossible, just that I'd bet at high confidence that VSCode will never match or exceed Sublime's performance on most text editor operations.
The owner of this website (www.truekey.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (BY) from accessing this website.

Awesome.
I kind of doubt if neural nets have to be the right model.

Any model that gives reasonably similar results to human thinking will be useful. Planes don't have feathers and don't eat bugs, but we say that they "fly" anyway, and they carry far more cargo / passengers (and faster) than birds ever could.
What is the tax situation like there? Some bordering states have given up on reciprocity requiring residents to file two state returns.

Such a pain.
Is there a legitimate reason a _text editor_ developer should be allowed to make their software call home?

I've only seen Electron-based editors doing metrics, perhaps web developers are less offended by the idea thanks to pervasive usage of things like Google Analytics.
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This is an excellent overview of optical networking - one that I wish I had found years ago. As transceivers are getting cheaper, more and more industries are finding use for optical systems. Having a basic understanding of how these systems work can open up a number of creative solutions to problems that were very difficult to solve before.

The amount of throughput that fiber achieves over huge distances is incredible. It's amazing how easy it is to move 100+ gbps between two cities over a single 2-core fiber run.
If you define as "millionaire/billionaire" as strictly the amount you hold in cash, yes. However, the commonly accepted definition includes entire net worth which would include the valuation of shares in companies owned.
Why are snowflakes symmetrical?
Replied to a sub-comment below, reposting... any feedback on how well Amazon's SaaS solution for screenwriting [0] works as a replacement for Final Draft?

[0] https://storywriter.amazon.com
The caveat doesn't work for a technical reason and a more important practical reason. Most relationships, even ones that aren't proper functions, can be transformed into a linear model. An absolute value function is non-differentiable for one value of the input, but it'd be perfectly fine to model with linear regression. More importantly, the audience I worry about isn't the type to pay attention to parenthetical notes using jargon. Linear is somewhat accessible jargon, but differentiable is less so. I'm not claiming that I write clearly, but I aim to write such that I don't need caveats.
shortly followed by "political-buildup offload week"?
The thing is that Apple actually has a pretty good track record for security and not violating the privacy or integrity of customers' products. I have a lot more trust in Apple doing this correctly. I'd be fine with Intel taking on secure computing, but there's been some pretty bad stuff with the IME (like sending data to the internet outside of user control when using intel NICs), so I'm skeptical of this approach (especially when they're talking about facial recognition as a security measure).
I ask this only because I'm generously curious, and not out of any malice: has this incident caused you to reconsider Dell products and perhaps look at other manufacturers who might have handled this better, like Lenovo or Apple?
Wait...there was a glass ceiling preventing Europeans from creating companies ?
Perhaps that was a bit snarky, but then let's also agree that the article is severely oversimplifying things. I guess I just react with annoyance when I see the press do that.

I didn't mean to belittle the accomplishment of the founders btw - keeping such a high stake in a company at such a late stage IS impressive.
Nobody in the C world really cares about const, it's extremely rare to see it in the wild. The // comments, though, are ubiquitous.
Curious about an example of this. As someone who spends many hours reading Wikipedia, the time and effort put into very niche subjects seems fantastic. I haven't opened a physical encyclopedia in probably 10 years.
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tawk.to does the job nicely..and probably the most widely used, and you can't been the price.. 100% free! :)
Sending mail with AWS SES and Route53
Since Patrick and John have as much distaste for bullshit as the rest of us, I don't think they'll mind if we excise the silly euphemism "billionaires with funding" from the title.

Also, this is kind of a weak article that doesn't add much if any information. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037654 was a big thread on the actual recent story.
There are two differences though. One being that the equity is highly illiquid. The other (and more important) being that there is no market validation of the valuation.
Part of what you lose other than large files is little features that need high performance to work.

For example Sublime's fuzzy finder previews files behind it as you type, VSCode/Atom/Emacs can't load files fast enough to do that.

Sublime's minimap beautifully renders each character in the correct shape (at small size) using the same renderer as the main body. The DOM memory usage and thrashing when you type an unclosed quote and the whole file gets re-highlighted would kill Atom/VSCode if it did that.

Also the little things just have far lower latency. Opening a file, typing in the fuzzy finding window in a large project, deleting a closing quote that re-highlights the rest of the file, etc...
I'm a masters student studying software engineering and into memes too. Contact me on sangit.dhanani@sjsu.edu. I can help on any aspect of the technology stack.
Agreed, generally if its on bloomberg/TC, etc, it's gonna be simplified for the catchy headline
Microsoft takes aim at Amazon’s Echo with Windows 10 HomeHub feature
(cough cringe PR cough)

You could create similar optimistic charts for US, China, India, etc.

The EU ( 550 million ) tech industry is dwarfed by the US ( 350 million )

Looking from a higher abstract plane, EU produces the least new entrepreneurs and innovative companies compared to the beast that is US and Asia.

The EU also has the most unstable political and financial system globally with entire countries on the verge of defaulting on their sovereign debt.

The reason why every European developer migrates to London is to escape the craziness of the continent.

Every European developer's final 'dream' is to work in the US tech industry - London is the second best thing to reach.

(.. Money Talks .. )

You can see how much value that tech is given in europe by just looking at the salaries in europe vs N.A - so much for valuing hard tech.

Seeing that both the US and Europe have similar numbers of developers (~ 3 mil) - how is european tech industry 1/8 the size of the US ??

Oversupply of developers due to better engineering school ? ( my sides )

More like MBAs from Cambridge are not as smart as their counterparts graduating from Sloan in creating value out of tech.

-- Not an American --- Direct experience with London and Berlin tech scene ---
If you set initial-scale=1, isn't width=device-width redundant?
> "The real problem is, when all you need to justify a crackdown is to make a peaceable assembly unpeaceful, it's relatively trivial to insert agent provocateurs to instigate violence and fade into the background or through the police lines as they push."

It has been suggested that this tactic has already been tried in the DAPL protest, with an DAPL-linked employee called Kyle Thompson:

http://thedailyhaze.com/kyle-thompson-knightsbridge/
Equity
We did something similar using Realm (granted it was in a native mobile app, but I think they have a node port now) and it really kicked ass performance wise even with a boatload of observable queries.
Why so unlikely? Companies are frequently bought out at or above current valuation.
They still can't process my card.
Cosmic ray bit flip also a possibility.
This happened to me. I left my wife. She stayed the same while I felt like I improved a lot. I'm sure I'll be told what a horrible person I am for making the immoral decision, but I'm happier, and that's all I care.
what a crappy link. are you taking the piss?
What if I convince someone to give me one dollar for 0.0000001% of my company? Am I a billionaire then?

How much do I need to actually have to be a billionaire?
Apheresis, HMG-CoA reductase inhibition (statins), PCSK9 inhibition (-cumabs), and NPC1L1 inhibition (ezetimibe) all lead to reduced LDL-C. Statins and ezetimibe lead to reduced MACE and death. The -cumabs should be reporting trial results in the next 12 months, but the genetic data strongly suggests that they will reduce mortality.

Unusual for cholesterol modification agents, some of the CETP drugs (which were designed around their HDL-C raising properties but do lower LDL-C) increased MACE, while others had neutral effect, so there is something about CETP that we have yet to understand.
And thanks for adding "Paper" in its place, too.
Show HN: Emoji usage on Reddit
Who Gets to Be a Science Nerd?
Up until a few minutes ago, the title did not include the 'paper' part.
Pretty much all commercially developed software has usage collection. Why is a text editor any different?
Is there anywhere good for floating open-source project ideas? I have ideas, but sometimes I:

a) could do with brainstorm for a good design

b) know of already similar projects, or better approaches

c) know of people wanting to collaborate
From my limited use of Bitcoin, the merchants only required the transaction to be broadcast They didn't care if it had 0 or 1 or 100 confirmations. They only cared that it was broadcast. Which makes sense. Considering they all apparently only did 4 Bitcoin transactions a month if not less. (2 cafes and a pub)

This is completely different to how online stores have processed my Bitcoin. Usually waiting for 1-2 confirmations before shipping (Trezor is my example here)
You’ve probably been tricked by fake news and don’t know it
I've skimmed over the movements "book" detailing a few things, and here's what I can't figure out.

1. They plan to take a big chunk off of the U.S. GDP and probably harm the economy along the way, but still want to use the U.S. dollar

2. The U.S. are a bunch of evil warmongers and if we leave, we will have no enemies. Except for maybe the U.S. wanting one of their largest states back or perhaps the more red parts of California.

3. The U.S. can keep their bases and other federal buildings, they just have to pay for them. Hahahahahahahaha
How about this definition: If you have enough assets (liquid or otherwise) to convince a bank to lend you a billion, you are a billionaire.
> I don't totally follow the conclusion you're trying to draw w.r.t. the definition of a patent troll

Then let me make my view of StreamScale not being a troll perfectly clear. I think they're good faith entrepreneurs taking a risk and developing something new, patenting it ($30-50,000) and selling it. That's not trolling. Shutting down academics from the UofTK is not a realistic source of revenue; it is however reasonably defending their rights which is expected of them now if they're to defend themselves later.

> that's not what the patent claims cover

Careful. You're not a patent attorney (and neither am I). But my attorney told me the engineer to not read claims and certainly not to read them to understand them. (Definitely don't write claims either but that's another matter entirely.) The Supreme Court has said that the claims section is the hardest legal document to write. You both want to avoid prior art (narrow) and preclude inventing around (broad). That's hard to do and hard to understand.

Read the specification for what it's teaching. That's what it's there for. The specification has to teach+support the claims and this one says Galois field all over the place.

Lastly, never say I feel like you're deliberately missing the point. Just don't.
Actually, it's not even close. 10,000 attempts to guess a 4-digit number are certain to succeed. 100 attempts to guess 100 4-digit numbers have a good chance of resulting in no hits. For each 4-digit number, you produce 100 different guesses (with no repeated guesses for that number, because that would be silly). There's a 100/10,000 chance of a hit, and 9,900/10,000 chance of a miss. The chance of missing on all 100 4-digit numbers is (9,900/10,000)^100 = 0.366 = 36.6%. That's substantial!

Guessing 100 numbers, there's a chance to produce 2 or more hits, of course.
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