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When diving to 90ft+ you get 'stupider' (nitrogen narcosis). Our instructor had us do simple math problems on a board underwater and timed us. We were doing them very very slowly b…

This american's life's episode "Three Miles" ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/550/t... ) won the reporter her Peabody award and is one of the most touching …

found a 2008 article on similar honda 'legs' http://www.wired.com/2008/11/honda-announces/

enjoyed reading your comment, but if one is drawing too many similarities between their work environment and prison, it could be time to find/create a new work environment.

a subtle but important distinction has to be made. the experiment mentioned in the blog shows a correlation between people who claim they are lucky and the fact they found a text s…

1980: India 181 B China 188 B 2010: India 1.5 T China 5.7 T regardless of future predictions it seems to support 'the vastly diverged since' claim. China's economy is almost 4x tha…

Just because something can happen anywhere does not mean that they happen to the same degree. India has a corruption perception index of 3.3 (out of 10) in 2010. Below even countri…

if they can pull it off (terms of service violations and what not) this will be brilliant, it is just a viral bomb ready to go off the things that can happen. I see chat roulette l…

trying to predict how the company is based on the job listing is on the same order of magnitude of effectiveness as trying to predict how good the candidate is based on the resume.…

you just need to not get involved they will figure it out eventually. I am not sure at which point my son started to use the home button properly but it definitely happened without…

a great part of the fear is that you can not see radioactivity harming you. Water I can see. Mining coal feels like it is within my control whether I engage in that activity or not…

I don't think I would take the time to input things about my car. (not to say that is a general case, as I'm sure there are people who care about their cars more) But even in my ca…

there may in fact be correlation between doing those things and being successful. and it is possible that both are caused by lowered perceptions of risk. I think I read at some poi…

you are absolutely right, most hotornot sites have that kind of low barrier to entry. my problem is that people who vote but don't submit photos don't really add to the project (no…

Hi, I've a identical project but for flickr photos: elograde.com with over 200k comparisons so far and some very quality photos. tho the flickr community has not really taken to it…

I am curious about this as well, especially since when working on a facebook photo app we did A/B testing of the difference between asking for just the basic permission and asking …

thanks guys i kinda gave up after seeing no comments at first, but im glad i checked back. I will write several versions of it as articles and hopefully it will be worthy of showin…

link to the data mining report: http://wiki.elograde.com/full:data-findings

Hi HN, I did data-mining on my site and did some charting and such and BELIEVE my data to be interesting and blog worthy. I created it hoping to get it out there and drive traffic …

absolutely. tho the rejection was actually for a different project.

thanks for the link, i hadn't run across it til now. google has a game thats similar also called matchin ( http://www.gwap.com/gwap/gamesPreview/matchin ) is likebetter still maint…

thanks, its hard to see that as the developer. target audience are people who want to get a rating for their photograph online. my thought is that the ratings u get tend to be very…

Hi, i created an account hnlogin / hnlogin if you do not feel like signing up. i will think about what interactions there can be without signing up.

Site: www.elograde.com Hi all, long time lurker and a YC interviewee reject here looking for some help =) I believe I have come up with a way to objectively rate photos so that the…

really really loved the super simple interface. got what it did instantly and love the idea also. but i am not able to update my email, i keep putting it in but it's still 'none'. …