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Disintegrating parts of a car does not speak to "attention to detail". :)

But I agree, there is sometimes a visceral, non-quantifiable "feel" to a product that makes it worth using. My favorite car was my late 70's Mercury. Stupid big, ate gas like there was a hole in the tank, small tasks like getting out of the driveway had lots of engine drama. But man it drove like a dream.
For the species or society, likely none. But consider the individual gene. Assume there's a gene X, that causes a desire to have many children. Let's say people with gene X have twice as many children on average as people without it. The society is affluent, so all of those children survive and spread the gene further. Eventually gene X will become dominant in the gene pool.

(The fate of such a gene is quite different if food is scarce and there's a danger of starvation, which has been the case for most of human history.)
I'm gonna have to disagree. It was entertaining, but the movie was entirely farcical. Its assumption re:how the world might potentially degenerate was silly, but I'm baffled at how people think that could possibly happen. It's like watching Office Space by the same director and thinking that taking a guy's stapler will definitely lead to him burning down a building.

Comparing the influence of a cheesy movie to one of the stapleholds of science fiction is ridiculous. The fact that Idiocracy owes its existence to the concepts of The Time Machine suggests that it's a derivative work, meaning it's not as influential at all. I'm not saying The Time Machine was a good warning, either, not as much as 1984 and certainly not as much as Brave New World, which is arguably the best prediction we've seen from a book, so saying Idiocracy is as right as The Time Machine isn't saying much to begin with.
As opposed to physical/psychological addiction in the general case?

I've never done any research into this area so I have no what the literature says.
Celery supports scheduled tasks (including recurring ones like cron): http://ask.github.com/celery/introduction.html

It was originally written in the context of Django but it is a general purpose Python library now.
What do you mean by it is a symptom, not a disease? How is a disease even defined? Something is causing the symptoms, what is causing them?
That's true, but that's a pretty big assumption.

In past agrarian cultures, a large family wasn't just an advantage, it was required due to high mortality. My girlfriends mother is one of eight, all girls. None of her aunts, and none of their children have an above-average number of children, and between them I think they're below average.

On the other hand, my sister and I are out of a ridiculously small family, and she just had her third baby. Plans for more are uncertain, but not ruled out.

It's a sample of two, but if nothing else, it shows that if it's a biological trait, it's pretty weak.
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You are right that it isn't exactly the Dunbar number. In a forum with a normal participation curve (what percentages of users have what activity level) the breakdown is around 300. In forums where everyone participates actively it breaks down a lot sooner. Lurkers are basically disregarded.

On a site like Hacker News where I don't recognize many posters at all, you are right, it doesn't really matter. Except that whatever "culture" HN is aiming for might be diluted.
But we already know that there are several nutritional deficiencies that can cause depression.

And we also know that one of the greatest mediating variables is social interaction, and presumably people who eat homemade meals are more likely to eat with their friends and family.

So I'd say that this fits very well with all of the previous research.
Does anyone have real-world data for the likelihood of SHA256 hash collisions for actual user data (music, movies, documents, source code, etc)?

In my toy backup app I'm doing pretty much what they're doing - I assume that each block with 1MB of data will have a unique hash. I haven't tested it on serious amounts of data though, and so I'm very curious to know how likely this scheme is to survive an encounter with the real world.
Depends how old your Apple device is. I've got 4 ipods of various vintages (mostly given to me after their owner upgraded or some part of them broke), and they all work fine to sync to Linux boxes using gtkpod.

(Newest one is a 3rd Gen 30Gb, so I don't know about newer ones, but I suspect it's not too terrible)
Pretty much exactly how I lost 18 pounds in 24 weeks. Budget 400 calories (technical kCal) for each of three meals, allow 400 kCal for snacks, fruit, biscuits in meetings, etc., and allow a blowout every week.

Works for me.

Sneaking the weight back on - three weeks visiting the folks back home will down that, but getting back on the plan again and looking forward to seeing the progress again.
Apple has supplanted cron with launchd within Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server:

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
How is it that women working outside the home is better than women working inside the home?

Perhaps you could ask some women.

You'll also find that there's not exactly a shortage of literature on this topic.

I'll offer just one feature: If you have a job outside the home, you are free to quit your job and take a better job when conditions change. Not so easy to "quit" the "job" of raising your kids, or of living in your home when you have no other home to live in and no work experience that you can use to find a job somewhere else.

US literacy rates from 1850 to the present

These have little to say about the question. Literacy rate in the USA is a poor proxy for "education" because it's just too basic (you can be considered literate in American English and still have only a fourth-grade education) and is covered by the universal primary education system that we've had for years. The US population has grown largely through immigration since 1850, which makes it misleading to attribute changes in literacy rate directly to trends in childhood education. And, even apart from that, the major factor in the US literacy rate from 1850 to the present is likely to be the difference in education available to different subsets of the population, and the relative sizes of these subsets:

http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp

In 1870 80% of the black population was illiterate, presumably because it was composed of former slaves who had generally been forbidden to learn to read. And this illiteracy rate among the black population declined fairly slowly and remains higher than among the white population, a fact which has a lot to do with the hundred-year period of Jim Crow segregation that started soon after the Civil War was over and continued through the civil rights movement, with legacy effects lasting to this day.
Comparing Norc to batch is similar to comparing it to cron. Many of the limitations of batch processing come with retrying or auditing complex trees of dependencies (bigger than a handful of tasks).

It's like wrapper scripts. They work well until they don't: managing the logs, getting efficient execution, understanding what happens when all become quite unwieldy, whereas a Norc-like approach proves more self-documenting and easy to manage.

I believe resource management is limited to overall system load. Batch isn't designed for things like managing available licenses.

I'm not a huge expert at batch, so if I've missed something let me know.
I would expect no less from someone running a GPU computing startup. :-) If you guys need any beta testers or what not, my best friend is a nationally recognized overclocker (top ~20) and always has ridiculous cutting-edge video card setups. Feel free to drop me a line.
Sun's storage team would work really well either as an autonomous unit within Oracle or a seperate company (unfortunately the last is unlikely unless the staff themselves do a 'JRuby').

Solaris is doing poorly as a general purpose Unix OS to sell Sun support / hardware for, but as an embedded hardware/software appliance Sun kit is both better and cheaper than its counterparts, and they have some extremely talented engineers (though they've bled 27% of their staff since last year).
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it isn't boolean. there is a distribution ranging from bleeding edge to last guy in the room to know. it would be cool to see the popularity of things graphed over time and compare distributions (twitter may make this possible).
A disease is basically a specific thing that's doing harm to the body. For example, H1N1 is a disease because it's a specific thing. AIDS, on the other hand, is not a disease because it's caused by HIV, or one of a few other things.

With depression, there are several things that can cause it: several known nutritional deficits, prescription medications, chronic illness, lack of social interaction, lack of exercise, poor diet, stress, etc. And similarly, the vast majority of people respond better to treatments that don't involve drugs.

There almost certainly are some people who do have underlying problems in their brain, but even still the depression is a symptom of whatever this disease is; calling depression itself a disease not only prevents the people without biological problems from getting care (the vast majority), but it also prevents scientists from looking for the root cause of the biological problems in the people who do have them.
i didn't make an account or anything, but just looking at the front page - you should extract the price from each item and display it along the right side of the line.

some items have the price/discount first, some at the end of the text. if they were broken out and displayed in a different/bigger font along the right it might be easier to browse.
I tend to eat unhealthier when I am feeling down. Of course, when I resolve an issue with a bug that has been given me trouble, I usually celebrate with unhealthy food as well. Many people have habits that are based on unhealthy food as a reward mechanism.
I got to try this last week at our company Halloween party and the ice cream that came out was pretty amazing (very creamy).

Also, it's really fun pouring liquid nitrogen into a bowl with a mixer and ice cream batter.
I would provide an example scenario near the top of your home page. I know what a "Custom Search" means, but many internet users might not. A quick little story of someone creating a custom search, signing up for an email, and getting a good deal could go a long way.

Also, I find it helpful when the website logo is a link back to the home page. (The blue on blue links in the top right are a bit hard to read).

I like this type of business model. Provide a service and earn commission on the sale. Lots of competitors though.
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I've heard some great things about Celery, and I think it may be better at handling massive amounts of tasks (10s of thousands) without using SQS like Norc.

How does it handle logs, resources and changing trees?

Gonna have to look into it more!
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Make your site easier to scan/read, put the savings in their own column.

eg, change this:

"Save $243.66 on SomeProduct WithArcaneLongProductName XL22000!"

into this:

"SomeProduct XL22000 | $243.66", where the second column has a "You save:" header
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It's just a name though.

Disease seems to be used to cover loads of things that IMHO aren't really diseases these days - eg alcoholism, obesity.

I think maybe it's to excuse the person of any guilt - "I can't help it! I have a disease"
I forgot to mention something: now I need active users to vote and comment on the deals for the website to be more useful. That is the biggest challenge for me right now.
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I'm actually extracting the price alrady (from title or description), and put it first in the title. When I can, I remove it from the rest of the title, but it is not always possible. off course, I cannot do it automatically when the deals says "save 50%" only.

But I agree I should make the price in a bigger fount, I will do it tonight.
That jsvars plugin sure is sweet. Has a lot of followers on github, too. You can get to it here: <a href="http://github.com/ejschmitt/jsvars rel="followtothemax">http://github.com/ejschmitt/jsvars</a>;
I visited Zumbox yesterday, as it was mentioned in a post here. I was unhappy with the design. I felt there wasn't enough information there, and I grudgingly watched the video, only after I couldn't find information in non-video format. I should note that I am in the market for this service and only gave them the extra time I did, because of that. Were I a more idle visitor, that back button would have had skid marks on it. No, I didn't convert. I went with another company, also mentioned yesterday.

The author doesn't like "distracting nav links". Maybe. If I was an expert, I'd be rich. But after struggling with this stuff for awhile, it's my opinion that when the user's trigger finger starts getting itchy, he's going to click that mouse. On Zumbox, there's almost nowhere to click but away from Zumbox. Seems like it would be better to let him stay on your site at least.

Zumbox was notable for me, in that I actually had a negative opinion of it's landing page, where usually I'm neutral or I find things to admire about almost any established companies page.
I'm slightly different. Maybe I should go for the mutants.
Amen Brother!

The best part about a newsfeed controlled by _you_ is that _you_ can fix it by adding the content you like.
For most deals, I don't have the original price. Based on other feedbacks, I should make a column for price, and add the saving when I get it. Something like:

$220.00
(save $25)
Why would this be very useful? How often do you store two copies of the same data on one disk?

Edit: let me be more clear. When do you have situations where duplicate data is stored on the same disk and the best way to deal with it is through the filesystem?

If you're talking about a webapp with lots of users uploading the same photo or something, isn't that better handled before you hit the filesystem, so that you have dedupe over a number of independent disks/locations?
I don't like the way they present the result of how unlikely hash collisions are... The number (2-256) gives much more comfort than saying:

If you hash 4KiB-long blocks, then every possible block will share the hash value with (on average) 128 different 4KiB blocks. And on a standard 200GiB disk you can fit (more or less) 52,400,000 blocks.

This explanation is a bit less reassuring. Now consider the fact that your data is never random and you hit the same patterns all the time (loads of zeros / ascii letters / x86 code)
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"It's just a name though."

But the claim is almost always "Depression is a disease caused by a biological problem in the brain." And the solution is usually just drugs.
I was interested that income level was not considered as part of the potential correlation effect. Perhaps they imply that education level approximates this, but we do know that income level is relevant because of the higher "at checkout" cost of actual food. One correlation effect would be the higher income advantage in obtaining and regularly consuming fresh foods and what I suspect would be lower depression rates in general among more affluent participants (this is my postulate, not addressed in the study as far as I can tell).

Note: I'm not saying that poor people are all sad and rich people are all happy. My real world experiences run to the contrary in significant ways. I'm just suggesting that amongst these civil servants, there could be an economic feasibility bias that impacts the correlation and would further suggest against causation.

EDIT: corrected poor grammar.
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If I understand the question the answer is yes. I think you're asking if you can retry portions of a job, like if a task breaks but doesn't exit with an error, thus causing the rest of the job to continue.

In this case, yes, you can retry a task in the middle of a tree of tasks, and retry all the children tasks as well. This will leave some tasks untouched (the parents and peers) and retry the children in the same order as the first time.

If a task in the middle of the tree fails children tasks will not run until it's been skipped or successfully run.

Retrying children tasks would be a great job for a GUI for Norc because then you could choose which children tasks to retry interactively from a web app or somesuch...
On the west coast the salary will be higher, and it will cost a lot more to live. Central jobs will pay less, but it will cost a lot less to live. So don't just find out what people make, ask where they are.
I haven't actually seen Idiocracy, but I know enough about it to recognize that (a) like most SF, Idiocracy is a commentary on the present disguised as a commentary on the future; (b) The folk theory of demographics embodied in Idiocracy (together with the time machine, of course) is a framing device, designed to give us an excuse to adopt a ridiculous perspective. It's a deliberately silly theory, just as Beavis and Butthead were a deliberately silly representation of the average fan of MTV in the 1990s.
Provided the events are run locally (not distributed over multiple servers), this could be done pretty easily by running make targets out of cron.
It's in Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
http://www.wfu.edu/uac/public.html
All the time. One of Netapp's HUGE selling points is dedupe support.
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I think they looked more to people who eat processed foods as part of their normal diet and not people who eat processed foods as a reward.

It would be good to know how much processed food within some recurring time frame - say weekly - the people with recurring depression ate.
I think calling something a disease, or as with obesity in america, an epidemic, serves to alarm people and local governments and does a lot more good than harm.

Also, I don't know what root cause you're looking for beyond correcting the imbalances in serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine.

I'm not sure if fixing the modern world's tendency towards crowding, emotional isolation, biologically toxic environments and stress is really in the jurisdiction of my physician.
This is just what professional disciplines tend to be like, as the author notes. You might just as well say that "the main product of structural engineering is not the production of bridges but the reproduction of structural engineering." It's probably true in the same sense that it's true of academia, but so what?
In all seriousness, I think you should pick something other than a pig for your logo. I realize you are going for "piggy bank" but most people will think "H1N1." Or, perhaps it's just me :) Good luck anyways.
"Academia" is not shorthand for "Humanities Academia." Maybe this author's argument is true for the humanities, but I know some academic researchers in science and engineering can move into industry. That is, their skills are valued by people outside of their academic circle.
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I think the problem is that wynand didn't make the original reply to you, he just inserted himself into the debate without saying anything substantial.
I'm sorry? Nationally recognized top 20 overclocker? There's like a league for this sort of thing now?
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Some other nice periodic table displays including element samples:

http://www.element-collection.com/html/installations.html
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But maybe humanities academia has the benefit of giving you more freedom as your research is not evaluated as objectively as in science and engineering?
If some bit of your DNA says have more children than normal, and that’s the major factor in the number of children that live to have more children, then in time everyone will have that chunk of DNA.

The engine of evolution is the ability of your decedents to continue to have children. If at any point all your decedents fail to have children then you fail. But, if your decedents have more children than the replacement rate over time, your DNA gets mixed with everyone else in that species. Once you become an ancestor 5,000 times removed from of 90+% of the population, most living people will have a random slice of the useful bits of your DNA and the harmful stuff should be less common.

Edit: DNA can also evolve odd stratagies. EX: Say each person has say a 23% chance of wanting a large number of children, which let's family's build resurces over time, and then have lot's of children and then repeat. With longer streaks of accumulators, and breaders possible even with the same DNA.
Well, its actually a fairly new idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia

In any event, whats your better solution? Not to say you don't have one, but I'm curious.
I see about 5 of these articles a week. Whats the point? Are any of us going to change our behavior based on slight correlations reported in non scientific journals? Do the social and life sciences really experience breakthroughs every week? Or are these articles just fluff?
Cool. I wasn't suggesting that you be irresponsible with your credit, especially given that it's not just _you_ taking the risk. But clearly you've though through your options, that's all I was getting at. That what you'd make, even in your first month of not being under normal employment would more than cover the minimum payment (and hopefully cover most of your expenses).

CC isn't the best sort of debt, I understand that, but it's the one most readily accessible to most of us, especially when looking at small amounts and short terms.

Have you guys looked into things like kickstarter? I'd be interested to see how well that could/does work for a startup, and not an art project.
HN submissions can be modelled using Diffusion of Innovations theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

Innovators: Startups

Early adopters: Math/CS

Early majority: All things "hacker related"

Late majority: "Technology" Blogs

Laggards: Lolcats
Except to the extent that they are inherited traits, which could be significant.
Well, they're already profitable. If you're looking at a year or more, I'd agree, it's crazy; but they're asking "how do I make the jump, and be profitable full-time".
a seperate company

One word: 3Par.

(Longer version: 3Par was founded by ex-Sun types who wanted to make storage appliances based on Solaris. Sun responded by charging them outrageous licensing fees. They went with Linux and now their business is doing just fine...)
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What prevents someone from creating a throwaway account, then creating a "losers" list say, and then adding a bunch of people to it?

Some of these people may eventually notice that they are on this "losers" list and block the person in question. But by then the damage to their reputation may have been done.

A better implementation would give you the option of approving each request to put you on a list. Moreover, if the list is renamed, then you would need to give your approval again.

If you are cynical, you might think this list implementation is a ploy to get you to check your twitter account frequently.
I once read that anyone who actually finds a SHA256 collision should publish it in a paper. SHA256 collisions are supposed to be the just shy of impossible to find (you know, the whole old trope of millions of machines millions of times faster than the ones we have now working for millions of years will find a collision at some point). Some confirmation of this would be welcome.