Daylight saving time linked to heart attacks, study finds
Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 per cent, compared to other Mondays during the year, according to a new US study released today. […] The study found that heart attack risk fell 21 per cent later in the year, on the Tuesday after the clock was returned to standard time, and people got an extra hour’s sleep.
One clear answer: we need 25-hour days. More details: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140329175108.htm —Researchers used Michigan’s BMC2 database, which collects data from all non-federal hospitals across the state, to identify admissions for heart attacks requiring percutaneous coronary intervention from Jan. 1, 2010 through Sept. 15, 2013. A total of 42,060 hospital admissions occurring over 1,354 days were included in the analysis. Total daily admissions were adjusted for seasonal and weekday variation, as the rate of heart attacks peaks in the winter and is lowest in the summer and is also greater on Mondays and lower over the weekend. The hospitals included in this study admit an average of 32 patients having a heart attack on any given Monday. But on the Monday immediately after springing ahead there were on average an additional eight heart attacks. There was no difference in the total weekly number of percutaneous coronary interventions performed for either the fall or spring time changes compared to the weeks before and after the time change.
(tags: daylight dst daylight-savings time dates calendar science health heart-attacks michigan hospitals statistics)
Steve Jobs on the disease of believing that 90% of the work is having a great idea
Good quote
(tags: steve-jobs quotes entrepreneurs startups making products building ideas concepts apple history)
DNS results now being manipulated in Turkey
Deep-packet inspection and rewriting on DNS packets for Google and OpenDNS servers. VPNs and DNSSEC up next!
(tags: turkey twitter dpi dns opendns google networking filtering surveillance proxying packets udp)
Phusion Passenger now supports the new Ruby 2.1 Out-Of-Band GC
a reasonable workaround for Ruby’s GC problems in web apps
(tags: ruby gc ops performance phusion passenger rails unicorn out-of-band web-services)
Duplicity + S3: easy, cheap, encrypted, automated full-disk backups for your servers
actually sounds quite nice
(tags: backups s3 aws servers duplicity ops duply unix linux)
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This is a couple of years old, but I like this:
Turbo Boyer-Moore is disappointing, its name doesn’t do it justice. In academia constant overhead doesn’t matter, but here we see that it matters a lot in practice. Turbo Boyer-Moore’s inner loop is so complex that we think we’re better off using the original Boyer-Moore.
A good demo of how large values of O(n) can be slower than small values of O(mn).(tags: algorithms search strings coding big-o string-search searching)
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in a field as critical and competitive as smartphones, Google’s R&D strategy was being dictated, not by the company’s board, or by its shareholders, but by a desire not to anger the CEO of a rival company.
This is utterly bananas and anti-competitive. (via Des Traynor)(tags: via:destraynor wage-fixing apple google tech paris r-and-d steve-jobs jean-marie-hullot france competition poaching assholes)
[#1259] Add optimized queue for SCMP pattern and use it in NIO and nativ… · 6efac61 · netty/netty
Interesting — Netty has imported an optimized ASL2-licensed MPSC queue implementation from Akka (presumably for performance raisins)
(tags: performance optimization open-source mpsc queues data-structures netty akka java)