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Re: The Other Half

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Post by komali2 »

kozak wrote: post #39

I sleep with my Fitbit Charge 2 on my wrist, and I found that the Resting Heart Rate value is extremely sensitive to what happens with my body. Drank a little alcohol? See a change on my Resting Heart Rate value for that night. Got too much stress, or maybe spent a day at home without exercise? Yes, I see it on the graph. So my question is whether such an event as the one that is described would be clearly visible to…

I'm currently wearing a Zio Patch, which generally is used to track and monitor arrhythmia over a 2 week period. The last time I got the results back there was a section for something along the lines of "cardiac arrest" or something (which had a nice 0 next to it for me). Whether the patch itself has the computational power to both sense and interpret a cardiac event like that, or whether they can only do that after in the lab, I don't know, but I bet it could be modified to start squealing if it detects a heart attack. It's basically a 2 week EKG.

The only problem is my insurance pays 1000$ every time I wear it.

Re: The Other Half

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Post by jrs235 »

tptacek wrote: post #95
lkrubner wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tptacek, I never suggested that the person submitting the article should have monopoly control of the title. My comment is aimed at dang. I suggest the default question to be answered in the title should be "What part of this article is interesting to the Hacker News crowd?" It's fine if dang re-writes all the titles, but why re-write the title to make it something dull or confusing? We've all seen cases where the or…

Ah, sorry. That's a more reasonable request. I shouldn't have responded so petulantly. I still think it's not going to work out. There aren't many moderators, and fixing the titles on this site is a huge amount of work. For instance, it's also probably not reasonable to expect the mods to read every story on the site, or even just the stories with broken titles. A thing you can do to help is, when an article has a ti…

And rather than rely on the moderators having to sift through comments and hope they see a suggested better title, email them directly with the HN submission link/id and your suggested better title.

Re: The Other Half

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Post by roywiggins »

smacktoward wrote: post #37
chrisper wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is a long time? I came to the US in 2012 and haven't been to a doctor since. Not going to lie, the $ sign is a deterrent. But I am moving back to Europe this year so I will go to a doctor there and get all checked up etc.

Most decent insurance plans will fully cover the cost of a routine checkup, or at least only charge you a minimal co-payment. (They don't want to pay for a hospital visit for you any more than you want to have one.) I'm no doctor, so I'm the wrong person to ask about how often you should see one. But if it's been five years, it's probably time.

"Wellness visits" under Obamacare are supposed to be covered in full, with no co-pay, but exactly what counts as a wellness visit (and not an office visit) is (probably intentionally) confusing.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/12/10/confusion-su...

Re: The Other Half

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Post by tombone12 »

pmarreck wrote: post #4

I sat on a "weird pain" in my chest for a few days. Basically it was uncomfortable to sleep on my left side, and I felt a bit short of breath. Turns out I was suffering from a double pulmonary embolism , and that the only reason I wasn't doubled over in pain is because by an odd fluke of nature, the interior of the lungs do not have nerve endings (only the exterior) and had I waited any longer I could have died. At t…

"What’s the biggest single factor that puts you at risk for ignoring your health? Being a man.

Sociologist Lisa Wade, interviewed in New York Magazine, says that 'some scholars argue that being male is the single strongest predictor of whether a person will take health risks.'

Men like risk it turns out. Most of them also hate putting lotion on their skin (too girly) and being afraid of things (not manly). They are also more likely to have outdoor jobs and do household tasks that involve being outside the house. Think lawn mowing and BBQ-ing. They also pay less attention to their skin and so don’t catch early warning signs.

Women, generally speaking, don’t mind lotions, do pay attention to changes in our skin, wear sunscreen to avoid premature aging and wrinkles, and often also wear make up year round that contains ingredients that protect skin from the sun."

"[...] part of the reason that married men, or men with female partners anyway, live longer. They’re nagged into healthy habits and visit the doctor more often."

https://fitisafeministissue.com/2014/08/16/men-and-skin-canc...

Re: The Other Half

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Post by pmoriarty »

tptacek wrote: post #79
lkrubner wrote: post #70

Once again, the policy on headline titles for articles on HackerNews is a bit bizarre. The original title explained that the man almost died. This current title is "The Other Half" and does not explain anything at all. As a practical matter, the policy seems to amount to "We use the title of the original article, unless it is strongly stated, in which case we regard it as clickbait and change it to something dull." T…

That doesn't work. The submitter of an HN story doesn't own the story; stories are community property. Submitting doesn't entitle you to choose for the whole site what is or isn't interesting about a story. If you want to do that, you write a comment, like everybody else. This is one of the oldest meta-arguments on the site. Once or twice a month, perhaps, we get a story that isn't particularly well served by the gui…

"stories are community property."

If stories are community property, then the community and not the editors should decide whether the story submission with the title it was submitted with was valuable or not by upvoting it (or not).

"Submitting doesn't entitle you to choose for the whole site what is or isn't interesting about a story."

I don't see why they couldn't. But using the same argument, the editors shouldn't get to choose for the whole site what the title should be either.

I've run across so many, many great stories with super generic, boring titles that will never be even glanced at by most readers. Those stories deserve better, and editing the title to make it reflect what the story is actually about is helpful.

HN editors should restrict their roles to keeping the conversations civil, and let the community take care of the rest.

Re: The Other Half

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Post by sambe »

lkrubner wrote: post #70

Once again, the policy on headline titles for articles on HackerNews is a bit bizarre. The original title explained that the man almost died. This current title is "The Other Half" and does not explain anything at all. As a practical matter, the policy seems to amount to "We use the title of the original article, unless it is strongly stated, in which case we regard it as clickbait and change it to something dull." T…

The policy avoids encouraging/endorsing clickbait. Aside from that, headlines are not purely functional. Preserving the author's creative choices seems valuable to me in cases such as this. If I haven't got time to skim the start, I probably shouldn't be on HN right now.

Re: The Other Half

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Post by cstejerean »

smacktoward wrote: post #14
pmarreck wrote: post #4

I sat on a "weird pain" in my chest for a few days. Basically it was uncomfortable to sleep on my left side, and I felt a bit short of breath. Turns out I was suffering from a double pulmonary embolism , and that the only reason I wasn't doubled over in pain is because by an odd fluke of nature, the interior of the lungs do not have nerve endings (only the exterior) and had I waited any longer I could have died. At t…

Or even if you're not experiencing any pain -- if you haven't been to the doctor in a long time... go to the doctor. Get a routine checkup! It can save your life. I almost learned this the hard way a few years ago. I was in my late 30s, and handled going to the doctor the way I always had since reaching adulthood -- which is to say, I didn't bother with it unless I was feeling out of sorts. Routine doctor visits seem…

You should definitely keep an eye on your blood pressure every once in a while because there no symptoms of high blood pressure until it's way too late (kidney damage for example). Even if you are too lazy to go to the doctor, at least in the US you can find blood pressure monitors frequently installed in the pharmacy area of your nearest Safeway, Walmart, etc. If it's been more than a few months and I run into one of these things I sit down and take my blood pressure just to see how it is. If it's a bit high on first read I will repeat the test two more times. This usually gives my body a chance to relax to make sure that I get an accurate reading.

If your blood pressure spikes a lot when you are stressed that's good to know too. For example I've found that when I drink coffee my blood pressure reacts to stress a lot stronger than when I don't drink coffee.

Re: The Other Half

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Post by mikeash »

matthewowen wrote: post #83
lkrubner wrote: post #70

Once again, the policy on headline titles for articles on HackerNews is a bit bizarre. The original title explained that the man almost died. This current title is "The Other Half" and does not explain anything at all. As a practical matter, the policy seems to amount to "We use the title of the original article, unless it is strongly stated, in which case we regard it as clickbait and change it to something dull." T…

Movie titles according to Hacker News: Man finds wife's head in box. Therapist of boy who sees ghosts is a ghost. Man who killed hero's father is actually his father. I get that you want more information, but sometimes getting the information makes reading something less pleasurable. The author here doesn't disclose the detail you're talking about until a third of the way through. Disclosing it in the title fundament…

Movies are meant to entertain, and creative titles are part of that.

News is meant to inform, and non-creative titles are part of that.

Look at any decent newspaper and the headlines will look like your satirical movie titles. HN is much closer to newspapers than movies.

Re: The Other Half

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Post by mikeash »

tptacek wrote: post #79
lkrubner wrote: post #70

Once again, the policy on headline titles for articles on HackerNews is a bit bizarre. The original title explained that the man almost died. This current title is "The Other Half" and does not explain anything at all. As a practical matter, the policy seems to amount to "We use the title of the original article, unless it is strongly stated, in which case we regard it as clickbait and change it to something dull." T…

That doesn't work. The submitter of an HN story doesn't own the story; stories are community property. Submitting doesn't entitle you to choose for the whole site what is or isn't interesting about a story. If you want to do that, you write a comment, like everybody else. This is one of the oldest meta-arguments on the site. Once or twice a month, perhaps, we get a story that isn't particularly well served by the gui…

The rules already allow using a different title if the original is misleading or clickbait. Adding "or totally uninformative of the nature of the content" to that wouldn't be so bad.

Re: The Other Half

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Post by pvg »

mikeash wrote: post #119
tptacek wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't work. The submitter of an HN story doesn't own the story; stories are community property. Submitting doesn't entitle you to choose for the whole site what is or isn't interesting about a story. If you want to do that, you write a comment, like everybody else. This is one of the oldest meta-arguments on the site. Once or twice a month, perhaps, we get a story that isn't particularly well served by the gui…

The rules already allow using a different title if the original is misleading or clickbait. Adding "or totally uninformative of the nature of the content" to that wouldn't be so bad.

No, that would be bad. A criterion that's both subjective and elevates pedantry over writing - "this thing is totally not about bananafish!"
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