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My understanding is that early presentation to hospital with ischaemic stroke does not improve survival [1]. The reason for early presentation is that if thrombolysis with clot busting drugs is administered early then long term neurological outcome is better. Survival alone is not improved however.

As discussed in another comment, the earlier the better. The idea is for as little time as possible to have elapsed between blocking off the blood supply and opening it up again. The reason for this is that when part of the brain becomes ischaemic, a central core dies instantly but around this there is a halo or penumbra that is not dead but at risk. This penumbra of tissue dies off over time, and can be saved if the blood supply is reconstituted. The penumbra can be visualised using quite clever MRI [2]. Having said that, trials that have tried implementing this kind of imaging to guide thrombolysis have not been positive, as compared to just thrombolysing everyone.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23791822
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfusion_scanning#MR_Perfusion
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> when the overwhelming majority of people involved with high-performance graphics are pretty sure that the abstractions have failed.

Poor abstractions. I'm not convinced that there can't be a well designed cross platform graphics API that is sufficient for the majority of cases. Prove that it's impossible or stop, because otherwise your claim that you don't advocate lock-in doesn't sound sincere.
TCP is not required for larger messages if EDNS(0) is available--which it probably is--and the network allows; which conservatively, it probably does at least till the 1280~1450 byte mark.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6891
Indeed. Also, why not do the same that worked before with big tobacco? Ban soft drink sport sponsorships. Ban advertisement of high sugar/hfcs foods to children. Add surgeon general notes to junk foods.

Health consequences are paid by the rest of society, in one way or another. Nurses say hospitals are filled with obese patients. It's getting out of control.
I am glad someone is giving Azul competition here. Their products are ridiculously expensive. I hope Oracle also takes notice, great throughput is great, but sometimes latency bounds are also important.
Similarly, the Apple II used a 6502. Even the Atari 2600 used a 6502.
You are inventing the problem you want to exist. The traditional database server security model does not allow any application users to have permissions to any tables at all, only views and stored procedures.
Or just add a calorie tax. That would pretty effectively do the trick. Would negligibly affect the cost of low-calorie-density food, but boy that soda and/or butter becomes expensive.
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>I wandered outside the boundaries of telemetry. They lost my heartbeat. When I returned, they scolded me.

The audacity of health care industry workers (those who should know what a certain disease entails) who place blame on their patients for acting normally is infuriating.

I had kidney stones once at a young age. I remember barely walking into the emergency room one night after they became too painful.

As soon as I arrived, white as a sheet of paper, they asked me a few questions... doped me up on morphine... and managed to "lose" me on a gurney in a hallway somewhere for a few hours until my girlfriend at the time came and found me.

They took xrays I believe and I was free to go with some more painkillers in hand.

Apparently the hospital told me that I was supposed to call them by X date if I wanted any more painkillers.

I called them back about a week after that date had passed, asked for a refill, and was scolded like I was some drug addict just looking for a fix. I think they even hung up on me. How could I be so stupid as to have forgotten a date they told me when I was high as a kite by their own doing? Right.

I ended up passing them without any painkillers which as many of you have probably heard is unbelievably painful.

I understand that it can get monotonous working in a hospital, but with the amount of money they're paid to work there you would hope that they would be required to operate with a little compassion. Considering the fact that many people in a hospital are leaving this world.

What if the author's last memory was that of a person she didn't know berating her for something she wasn't sure she even did?
> I'm glad to know that my experience helps people gain further understanding of strokes/brain injuries.

After my severe traumatic brain injury, I'm trying to do the same thing. Brain injuries are so broad and so complex and dangerously invisible. I would guess this is the one unifying thread between us.

This is a solid A-level piece. Good job on both the writing and content.
It's called "out of pocket limit". After you meet your deductible the insurance company will pay for every covered cost except for the copay and coinsurance. Once you've met your out of pocket max they will pay for every dollar of every covered cost.
>Or really any access control model?

The same way you already do?

>Database security is at best per-command and per-table, when true app security often needs to be per-row, or even per-column, perhaps depending on data in the other columns of the same row.

Stored procedures already solve all the problems you are imagining. Sane people already use them anyways.

>As far as business logic, how is an RDBMS going to make sure that your remaining balance on your gift card is higher than that order you just put in?

The same way it already does? If your database is not enforcing those rules then you are already doing it very wrong.
Bernays would be jealous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

http://vimeo.com/85948693 The Century of the Self - Part 1
Oh absolutely, this is a really neat conversation that I was hoping could happen. You mention how predictable stories are, and we all have those moments on social media sites where we're all rolling our eyes. I think it might be interesting to look at HN from something like Google Trends, wherein tracking the topics that are upvoted/downvoted. Maybe do some penalties for topics that have a large front-page success rate and upvote/downvote ratio (and throw in comment # too, same with comment length) and you could start to probably see trends for circlejerk material. We'll always have people flagging stories for duplicates or the like, but certain topics always get through by virtue of many people submitting about that topic.

The advantage to so something like Reddit is if a topic is talked about too much or not at all, you can just add a channel and grassroots it. On HN, you only have a single timeline and front-page (yes, there's searching, but people are lazy). News sites have channels but editors which controls the stream (and most restrict who can edit). I think a more algorithmic approach to provisioning up and down channels for specific topics could be neat. Not really sure where I'm ultimately going with this, kind of free-forming based off issues I've seen with internet discussions and IRL discussions and recent controversies as of late. I think it's important to look at how HN does it's news/info vs. reddit vs. twitter etc, to me it doesn't feel like we've really 'optimized' it yet for user distributed news ... or maybe I'm not hip with the latest app.
>If I write a script with #!/usr/bin/python as the interpreter, I can be fairly certain that it work

No you can't. Only some (poorly though out) linux distros do that. Sane linux distros (back when those existed) and every other unix-like system in existence won't have a /usr/bin/python. This is why /usr/bin/env exists and is a posix standard.
Yes! I agree that many times one can learn a lot about the process even when the results are not favorable. If getting a rejection makes you quit then maybe you weren't meant for this. At the very least the application process teaches you how to evaluate your product and effectively communicate its value proposition.
OpenGL is just for drawing. If you want asset management, you'll probably find it in SDL[0], which is also cross-platform and used heavily by almost everyone that uses OpenGL.

[0] https://www.libsdl.org/
Actually, with the passage of the ACA, the limit is a requirement for all health insurance plans (a few were grandfathered in, but they will disappear over the next few years).

It goes up each year (adjusted for inflation), but as an individual, your maximum out of pocket (includes everything: deductible, co-pays, co-insurance, etc) is ~$6,750.
I work in public health research and the blame on soft-drinks is not unanimous. Soft drinks are pointed-at because they're the simplest target. Dropping soft-drinks is not a life-shatteringly hard change to make, and it's effective.

But at the same time, other things are being assessed for their contribution. Suburban sprawl, the dual-income household, and the rise of more sedentary hobbies are all being examined.

Now, soft drinks are still a cause for the modern obesity epidemic, just not the cause. There are many other shifts in modern lifestyles that are also contributing.

edit: clarification. Also, caveat: I'm IT in public health, not a researcher.
The fact that animals have experienced significant weight gain is by far the best evidence the author provides to support a factor exogenous to the calories-in-calories-out model. What are the leading explanations for this phenomenon?
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> The term "engineering" has a place: to convince non-techie stakeholders

This is my biggest gripe with it. I don't want to label people "non-techie stakeholders."
For the first example used:

public void addBar(Foo foo){
Bar bar = new Bar("baz");
foo.setBar(bar);
dao.update(foo);
dao.save(bar);
}

What would the functional version look like?
If it helps, this is primarily what I'm setting out to solve building a sort of cloudera/red hat for deep learning at skymind. An open source google brain for big companies to solve interesting problems is appealing provided the right interface.
My mother had a stroke. The fallout is very, very hard for the patient and their family.

Diet and exercise are, apparently, the easiest levers you have to control for stroke risk. Trust me: this is the best of all possible reasons to care about those. You do not want to go through it and you do not want your family to go through it. Specifics elided for privacy but suffice it to say that it combined elements of a heart attack, advanced Alzheimer's, and a profound war injury in a compact package that arrived on a normal sunny Tuesday.
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As Marshall Mcluhan said: The medium is the message.

When television came to dominate the media landscape in the 60s, it also redefined news and media. Now social media and the internet is starting to do the same, in its own way. Inherent properties and biases of this new medium are distorting the types of content that fit in it.
Thanks for mentioning me! Admittedly a lot of work to be done. Looking forward to a stable release here soon that will hopefully allow easier access to models while not compromising on speed and ease of use. It can be hard problem to solve and I myself have learned a lot along the way.
What's amazing to me, and a bit shameful, is that we haven't figured out a safe way to speed up the body's metabolism to the rate of a 95th-percentile 17-year-old. That's a level that we know is safe. (Obviously, if you increased the metabolism too far, you'd run into issues with heat stroke and malnourishment.) I'm astonished that we haven't found a treatment that can let everyone have that.

I think that obesity is maybe 10 to 20% personal fault. Some people overeat, or eat stupidly, and I've seen that. However, I think that socioeconomic forces (and food supply issues, and I wouldn't be surprised if ambient toxins were involved) produce most of the remainder. There are a lot of people who eat reasonably, exercise as much as they reasonably can given their work commitments, and are still fat. We're not supposed to live in the psychological monoculture of modern work, or to have inflexible 8- to 12-hour commitments on the majority of our days. Inactivity and low energy levels (a consequence of living amid hierarchical, bureaucratic organizations in which almost everyone's a subordinate) do a lot of damage. The trans fats and high fructose corn syrup aren't doing people any favors.
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It is fascinating and worth appreciating that neuroscientists can derive structure in the brain from complex phenomena such as visual hallucinations.
Paper: http://web.mit.edu/rruth/www/Papers/RosenholtzSPIE2011.pdf
Might I add my "effort" to this conversation -

I've lost almost 30lbs this year. I know a couple people that have also lost a similar amount of weight with me. We all _look_ like we do the same things - eat less, eat better, walk/jog/gym more. But they're healthy with no chronic problems like me, and their worst problems just don't even compare. I'm the only one completely hopped up on asthma meds and painkillers for nerve damage in my legs while burning through what limited effort I can put in every day (yay ADHD) because I feel my health is more important than working. (Might I add I've had all these issues before I was overweight/obese, or they were caused by something out of my control... so while losing weight is good, it doesn't make anything better.)

This is before I even get started on the horror that is telling people to eat healthy while earning a low income - one of the people above is someone I hired for my restaurant, and the drastically increased wage she's been earning under me with a better job in general enables her to eat well and lose weight.

You're right. I hate people who fat shame. Everything is conveniently just swept under the rug of "just put in effort" like it doesn't matter, but it really does. I have already come to terms with what it's taking me to lose weight (on a better day when my leg isn't on fire, I'd call my diet/lifestyle change "pretty easy") but to act like that's trivial is beyond insulting.
What would you like to do? I made deeplearning4j for this express purpose? Don't need hadoop, command line aws (just specify the number of machines), with a consistent data pipeline interface usable in either single threaded or distributed mode. Happy to take feature requests and answer questions.
I discussed this very concept at[1]. The industry as a whole could really benefit from representation learning. There's a lot of unstructured media to analyze. What's missing I think is the proper interface to do so. I think the tools will emerge in the next few years that will allow us to do this.

[1]: https://gigaom.com/2014/08/11/gigaom-meetup-talk-learn-and-h...
I found this article to embody every problem with the attitude of journalists from traditional media institutions. The author effectively is lamenting his loss of role as the gatekeeper of all information. Apparently, all journalism was 'pure' and devoid of any conflicts of interest and the only way to receive the 'truth' for a reader.

You can see this near arrogance flow through much of the anecdotes. "Ugh, more and more PR people trying to get my attention all the time. It's sooo annoying." "Ugh, PR girls are even trying to sleep with me, but you can't compromise my editorial integrity." It's perfectly represents the entitlement of the gatekeeper role that must've been built into that last generation of journalists.

Sorry for the mild rant but sites like Hacker News and Reddit have shown that readers are plenty smart, and capable of sifting through the bullshit, whether produced by a corporation, a newspaper, or an individual. When news media held a monopoly on distribution and there were few sources of info, I understand the danger of a corporation holding the sole lifeline of info. That's no longer the case.
That does make tenuous sense of it, thanks.
the original "product hunt"! :)
This is the kind of thing I want to see when people criticize systemd: an example of what they'd do differently (other than just "there's nothing wrong with having a million lines of copypasted bash in init.d, I'll stick to unsupervised several-minute boot times tyvm"). Bravo.
Given that the article is largely about (1) fitting in and (2) maturity, the term "person" could likely be improved upon, and certain controversies could be avoided. Both "citizen" and "adult" capture key pieces of this essay; note that "non-participant in society" and "child" are two of the significant methods for someone to fail to be a 100% "person" in this article.

Thinking a little outside the box: perhaps some sort of portmanteau like "persozen" (a person who is a participant in society).
I really enjoyed OhLife. Reading your own writing is the best way to improve it. OhLife helped you do just that.

The one additional feature I'd like to see in an OhLife replacement is the incorporation of some cues about my day to help me get writing. Show me my calendar entries, photos, check-ins, etc. to jog my memory. This would be especially helpful when back-filling in entries a few days later. It would also discourage you from writing simple lists of what you did in your journal. These lists make for dull reading a year later. It's much better to write about stuff that won't be recorded otherwise: what you were thinking or looking forward to.

http://www.danvk.org/wp/2012-07-01/ohlife/
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How is that different from progressing as a software developer? I learned 90% of what I know today from hands on experimentarikn
I just saw Memento last night (for the first time), so reading the article felt like an incredible coincidence.
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Real butter is quite healthy in moderation. And already expensive enough!
In 1993, my operating system was a real mode DOS 486 application that started in real mode like you launch any application and changed to protected mode. I never wanted protection. In 2007-8 I converted to 64-bit mode.
Design is complicated and very much like taste - subjective. Of course there are guidelines of what goes together and what not. Overall it is nice to see transition between the different stages of the product.

As per product itself, I assume it is very much alike tomahawk, is that right? It would be nice to have well designed tomahawk type of product which would work fast and be easy to use, so keep up.

Want to notice that I've tried to download application, but windows "SmartScreen" tells me that app is from Unknown Publisher and strongly encourages NOT to install. I assume this will prevent most windows users from installing this application.
I can't answer your question, because I don't know (the OP covers the leading explanations, as far as I know) but... calories-in/calories-out is technically correct, but there are some complexities.

Calories in: calorie counts are guesswork. For the healthier foods, there's even more uncertainty about calories. You know exactly what you're getting with Coke, but you shouldn't be drinking much of that if you're trying to lose weight. If you eat an apple instead, you're talking about 10 to 20% variation each way in calorie count. Finally, there are individual variations based on the microbes in our gut, and how we absorb nutrients.

Calories out: people vary in basal metabolic rate (BMR) and we don't always know why. Even if we could get a good idea of how many calories we were taking in each day, and we can't, most of us have no idea of what we're burning. There are ways to tip the scale (build more muscle, spend more time in cold temperatures, and, obviously, be more active) but it's impossible to know, in general, how many calories you burned in a day.

Given that an error of 50 calories per day is 5 pounds gained per year, precise calorie counting isn't possible. It's largely a problem with two factors:

1. Individual metabolic variation. People with shitty metabolisms are going to get fat if they eat restaurant meals portioned for 24-year-olds. For 40-50% of the population, eating portions that the median person can is going to lead to fatness.

2. Silent failure. The body punishes calorie errors on the negative side (hunger) or even tries to adapt (low energy, starvation mode) in ways that are counterproductive in modern times. It doesn't punish, in any immediate way, positive calorie errors.
Only a nigger would think the brain could control when you read a 14Mhz clock.
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That'd be great way to establish a regressive tax. Luxury foods don't have more calories than cheap ones so as a percentage of cost cheap food prices would increase more. Not to mention that percentage of income spent on food for low income people is much higher than % of income spent on food by rich people.
I don't work at Netflix, but from talking to someone there they use FRP in both Java servers and JavaScript apps. Being that the creator of Elm works at Prezi, I'm sure they would be interested in sharing practices.
> readers are plenty smart, and capable of sifting through the bullshit

This has an opportunity cost.
> Given that an error of 50 calories per day is 5 pounds gained per year, [...]

As people get fatter, they need more food just to stay the same. So if I took my exact current caloric needs to stay the same weight at my level of activity, and added eg a constant 500 kCal each day, I would not in fact gain kg after kg year in year out. But rather, my weight curve would look like the charge/time curve when loading up a capacitor.
I've only had a mild traumatic brain injury, but it's been about 1 3/4 years and I still have some symptoms. I could emphasize with a lot of what was written in the article. You're right in saying that these injures are complex and invisible... and I would say that that is true as much for the people around you as it is for the person experiencing the injury.

Even for someone who understands the symptoms conceptually, it's a completely different matter to actually experience what it's like to be unable to speak the name of a person that you see constantly, or to experience real pain from light, or to be around people and then be utterly exhausted afterwards. It took time for my family and friends to grasp the extent of my injury, especially since it didn't occur in any dramatic or obviously horrible way.

If you are like me, you'll have moments in which you feel completely frustrated and hopeless. Be patient and merciful with yourself. Last year I wondered if I'd ever be able to have a job that required serious mental thought -- but this year I've successfully switched careers to become a full time programmer.

I apologize if this is unsolicited advice, but I guess I'm saying what I wish I would have known when I first got my concussion. And for others who read this: if you get a concussion, see and listen to your doctor -- and if your doctor doesn't take you seriously, find someone who does (especially if you have a clinic nearby that specializes in concussion / brain injury). I can't know for sure, but I think my life over the past two years would have been a lot different had I simply _rested_ in the period afterwards, instead of staying up late studying.
Do you really believe this?

If Buzzfeed can achieve financial security by creating an audience who enjoy feeble drivel ("54 Things You Probably Didn't Know About 'Gossip Girl'"), surely if they then start replacing that material with long-form, well-written, thought-provoking content (like this article), they run the risk of losing that audience? It seems to me that the people who want to see 27 pictures of Beyoncé with staccato-sentenced captions - and haven't grown sick of this type of content yet - probably don't ever want to read a long article about something more important than Paris Kardashian.
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