I saw this story, but didn't know it was in my hometown and current city of Spokane, WA (~200k people, growing city). Very cool. The hill where he fell is the crux of our annual Bloomsday race (running/walking/wheelchair, 12km) which ~50k participants each year. Hence the name "doomsday hill" in the article.
Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
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Haha what? The AEDs are locked up? I don't think I've ever seen that here in the US.
Nah, vast majority aren't locked up here, from experience. Pubs in the UK tend to have them, as do larger shops, community halls, libraries, I've seen old red phone booths repurposed as AED storage, in Birmingham city centre I saw a really modern one like one of those light-up ad screen / phone booth / touchscreen signs, which could simultaneously call emergency services, deliver CPR advice on the screen and dispatch…
Must be a southern thing. I've never seen an outdoor (or phoebox) one that doesn't have a keycode lock on it. You're supposed to call 999 before using one anyway, so it's not a major impediment.
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#663I really want an Apple Watch for this and the EKG / Heart stuff. But I hate the idea of having another bit of technology on my wrist when I already have the iPhone with me. I like watches, the mechanical kind. I love them as the art of design and as fashion item to be match to what you are wearing (when appropriate). I do not want to give that up. In the end I will likely give in and get the Apple Watch just because…
I like the Apple watch fine, I had the Series 0 and also bought a Series 4. I never use them because I love my mechanical watch and you just look like a massive idiot wearing two watches. Bummer really. Would love an Apple watch in a form-factor where it can complement a watch.
I like the concept of the Sony Wena, which is a smart watch strap which can be used with any classic mechanical watch (even if the current implementation isn't something I'd want) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qMKj_Z-ls
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The study had some serious confounding issues which were not dealt with, though. For example, determining whether the bystanders were actually friends walking together with the target of the incident. Also, the bystander effect deals with the probability of any individual helping out. It's still possible that there are two forces at play here: the declining probability of any individual helping vs the increasing prob…
Just a layman's guess here, but I strongly doubt the bystander effect is strong enough to overcome the chances of a single person helping. Note that for the bystander effect to happen, all the people in the vicinity have to not intervene, while for it to be defeated, it takes a single individual to act. I doubt that as N increases the "network" effects are strong enough to overcome the chance that someone that will h…
That would be my guess as well, at least for large N. It might still show interesting behaviour for smaller group sizes, for instance a group of 2 vs a group of 6, or when the probability of a single person helping is comparatively low to begin with (for instance, in a bad neighbourhood known for scams).
The effect is informative regarding what to do when you need someone's help, though. Since the basis of the effect is the diffusion of responsibility, it helps to address a person directly when asking for help. Instead of asking whether anyone in the group can help with something, point to a particular person and ask them whether they can help. In this way, the refusal to help becomes explicit and people will be less likely do that. This is something I've observed from personal experience too.
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Why couldn’t you? I had the Apple Watch track me during my hour long bike tours, GPS and heart rate sensor on and all, without any problems and with battery left to spare at the end of the day. Seven to eight hours is probably the critical mark, but anything below that is no problem at all.
Ultramarathons (full 100 miles) usually takes between 24-30 hours according to one source (WaPo). I'm guessing you're thinking of regular 26.2 mile marathons.
Yeah, ok, no you can’t do that with an Apple Watch. Seems an alright trade-off for Apple to make. The amount of people running ultra-marathons is probably miniscule.
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#666Is this US only, or does it work in EU countries too? F.i. if I have a similar accident in Poland, would it call 112?
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In the future, everyone will wear a smart watch (2015): https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo... I’m disappointed that Android Wear didn’t take off. More competition would greatly increase innovation.
>I’m disappointed that Android Wear didn’t take off. More competition would greatly increase innovation. Android wearables have a chicken and egg problem. Manufacturers aren't innovating because nobody is buying and nobody is buying because there are no innovations. Apple is fully vertically integrated so it can recoup the high R&D costs for new silicon and other components through the price of the unit but on Androi…
Isn't Samsung also fully integrated on the hardware side of things? And they even make the displays.
edit: Apparently the Samsung Galaxy Watch series are Tizen, not Android
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> had to How about instead of brushing your hair and playing with your watch you concentrated on driving?
you seem to be assuming I was steering the car
I was assuming you were driving the car, as that’s what you said.
I inferred you were on a public road. If you weren’t then I apologise.
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It’s not really related to determination of use value or other qualitative questions. If my blender, or even my blood pressure machines, gets recalled, the company doesn’t break into my house to cut the wires for my safety. How is this not a basic violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? Edit: canada and cyprus only is why.
Right. But you own your blender. It's naïve to think you own your phone just because you carry it around.
Is it? That definition of property worked pretty well. Try and take it I’ll hit you, etc. Otherwise why pay for it and why not just take it by force?
Just a matter of time before these companies get too greedy and get hit with violence.
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There is no built-in quote formatting, so code blocking is basically the only way to have it show different. Attribution is important to some, and a proper quote format would help with that.
I don't think there's any formatting that is better than simply prepending quotes with a ">". Formatting may improve such quotes that already begin with ">", but the problem is that people come up with their own inferior solutions instead of simply using ">". For example, some people try to use italics which are hard to see, hard to distinguish as quotes, and don't even render as italic on some of the HN native apps…
Interesting there was a small Help link[0] next to the text areas for a quick minute, but they have since been removed. This was definitely there in the past month.
dang, was that something you were testing?