skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(This is getting rather long and tangential. Would you be interested in continuing it via email? My address is in my HN profile.)

> women's self-reported happiness levels

There's that word, "self-reported". There are a lot of pitfalls to self-reported data, and many of them apply here. Women used to be openly discouraged from displaying negative emotion because it would make them unattractive, or bad wives.

Arguing in the alternative, it's also inconsistent that you mention this point in the first place, because of your earlier criticisms of "hedonism". Career-focused today might be lead busier, more stressful lives compared to the lives of housewives, which is a loss for hedonism and perhaps a loss for "self-reported happiness", but doesn't it fulfill higher virtues?

> I also question the assumption that all those extra marriages ensured by the non-acceptance of divorce were necessarily unhappy.

I don't think they were necessarily unhappy either, but there was simply no good, acceptable outlet for the ones that were abusive or unhappy.

> The culturally-enforced economic dependence of women on men probably would be unworkable, but that's not what I'm arguing for.

One of the reasons women can have careers is because they can delay marriage, and one of the reasons women can delay marriage is because there are socially acceptable sexual outlets other than marriage.

> I just think that people would be happier in a society more oriented towards family formation than our current one.

Among people I've known, the ones who were having premarital sex between 16 and 25 still got married and had kids between 21 and 30. Having kids seems to be something people naturally want--you don't have to trick them into it by trying to withhold sex from them.

I guess you could add social pressure for people to have kids, so people who didn't actually want kids felt forced into having them anyway. But I've known people who were raised by parents who didn't actually want kids, and they seem more adamant than me that people shouldn't have kids unless they really want them. That's what it's really about--personal freedom.

> All I'm doing is criticizing our present time and its prevailing values.

No, see, you're criticizing it from the perspective of the past, and you are saying the past was better at least in some ways if not in others. I'm trying to show that the "bad" things about the past--the things we can agree were bad--are intricately linked with what you think are the "good" parts. And I'm criticizing our present time and its prevailing values too, but from the perspective of a possible future where everyone is perfectly okay with consenting adults safely doing whatever they want with each other.
Find a cool domain name
So I run a blog where I've been listing desirable domain names. I have a pretty large database that contains an a large list of domain names that are coming available and I use various strategies to widdle them down to those that I think are somewhat interesting..
For example, if I search for the domains coming available with the word 'linux' in them, I get - http://i.imgur.com/zan3T.jpg

Does anyone think this tool is worth making publicly available? How would you advertise it? So far I've put together the blog at webengers.com but I don't think that's a very good strategy.
Is there any real chance she could fail to get re-elected?

I suspect some other reason for her stance on this (can't fathom what, though).
Habria disco inedito de Amy Winehouse
Security Camera
Security camera is now being installed and used in every house for safety purpose.This camera has find a vast use in prime locations where large number of people assemble like railway station, air port, ATM counter, bank etc are some of the prime locations on which these security camera is used
Infant Car Seat Covers, Boutique Infant Car Seat Covers 
Infant Car Seat Covers from Girl Infant Car Seat Covers to Boy Car Seat Infant Covers We offer Hula Moon Kids Infant Car Seat Covers, Itzy Ritzy,Baby Bella Maya and Nollie Covers which offers Custom Infant Car Seat Covers
Follow up conversation at: http://www.bradlanders.com/2011/11/17/visualizing-sourceforg...
Max Burn Weight Loss
Max Burn is a great weight loss diet with which you can make your health and well being filled with energy and vigor unmatched. This product will help you chop off all the unwanted bulk and flab away from your body and make your tummy appear petite your hips and butts firm and tight.
Interesting, Can you please illustrate with an example how this could possibly end up looking like?

Will be nice to have something like this.
A very interesting paper (I used to work in quantum computing, so I think I understand the paper pretty well after reading it a few times. Like most foundations papers is deceptively short!)

The basic idea is fairly simple. From quantum states (the wave function) we can determine probabilities of outcomes when these states are measured in different manners. A major problem in quantum foundations is how to understand these probabilities arise, i.e. where do these probabilities come from?

For example, it could be that the probabilities arise from our ignorance of knowledge of the system (these are what people traditionally call hidden variables.) Imagine a hard disk with a bunch of information on it. If you don't know all of the bits on this hard disk, then your computer can act in ways you can't explain because you don't know all of the bits. Each time you setup your system and run a program you may get different results because that extra information on the hard drive could be different, and so because you don't know all of the information you will see probabilities of outcomes. Mystery solved. Coming up with such a theory however currently always runs into a problem with locality. But that's a story for a different comment thread...

Here is what the authors ask. They say: well it could be that all of the information that is specified in a quantum wave function is all that matters, that is for each quantum state there is a one to one correspondence with a configuration of the hidden information (they allow for extra information, but that's basically irrelevant.) That is, literally, the quantum state is written on your hard drive in all its glory detail, and each quantum state is distinguished for any other quantum state. Contrary to this it could be that the information overlaps in some way. That is for different quantum states, some of the bits, say, will be in the same configuration. The authors then go on to show that this later assumption isn't compatible with the predictions of quantum theory (and show an experiment that can be done that will verify that the later interpretation is not correct. If the experiment fails, then quantum theory is wrong, and all hell will break lose. Assuming quantum theory holds, this shows the second interpretation isn't viable.) Very neat.

There are a couple places where the argument seems a bit odd to me. For example, it is really not clear to me why the measurement device in their system has to depend on the portion of the information that is shared between different prepared wave functions. If this information is ignored by the measuring device, I don't see how their contradiction will arise. Of course it self tells us something kind of interesting because it puts a limit on how shared information is revealed to a measurement device (this seems almost Kochen-Specker theorem like.)
The House did manage to pass a bill upholding the status of pizza as a vegetable: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/us-usa-lunch-idUST...
Kindle Fire is gunning for the iPod Touch market. Yes, it's only got 8GB, but it costs the same as the lowest-tier iPod touch.

If I were Amazon I'd be courting the casual game developers heavily to promote their games on Fire.
Great. Another blindingly fast phone that sucks batteries dry. I love the zippiness, really, but I need a phone that runs longer than 4 hours, K? I actually use my phone TO MAKE PHONE CALLS.
If another lab using different equipment were to reproduce this result, that would give a positive result in less then 10 years?
Marketing Tips: IPhone Gold Back Cover - Customized Back
Home Health Agency Disaster Protection
Make sure your home health agency is prepared for the possibility of disaster. Plan ahead, protect your data and read more from CuroSphere.
not all cultures believe that.

I did not say that they did. Sucks to be them.

Ever considered the possibility that we (humans) don't have rights.

I did. I've grown up and moved on.

just because you think the world should be like that

I don't think the world _should_ be like that. I believe it's a universal truth, like love, gravity, and the idea that puppy breath smells good.

The world _is_ like that.

doesn't mean the rest of the world wants that.

They are welcome to their wants and desires.

Note that where people have a chance to run their own affairs, live unafraid of their government, and etc they prefer it over the alternative.
WRT this topic, I tend to agree with you. But Ron Paul is not some Valley Libertarian. Did you know that Ron Paul doesn't believe in evolution?: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/29/307010/the-cont...

More broadly: http://www.tnr.com/article/94477/ron-paul-distorted-libertar...
Apparently, the unknown represent the auto updates right through the application itself, but sourced from SF

https://twitter.com/#!/rbowen/status/137305778875936771
Yes, though in reality, it doesnt happen often because it is difficult to build a case without the primary witness.
Actually nothing ever truly replaces those classic tools bash/awk/sed/perl.

But every now and then you will see <insert some new tool> being compared with a <insert classic tool>. And then told since the <insert some new tool> is a little famous now, its likely to replace the <insert classic tool> and that <quote some irrelevant search engine statistic> actually proves <insert classic tool> is dead and <insert some new tool> is actually going to replace the <insert classic tool> in the future.

Then suddenly expect a stream of tweets, blog posts and forum discussions on how useless <insert classic tool is>.

Please replace <insert classic tool> by "Perl","SQL","Php".

Please replace <insert some new tool> by "Python","Ruby","Tcl","NoSQL","Django"..

Please replace <quote some irrelevant search engine statistic> by Google search stats or Tiobe(Which is the same ,but presented differently metric).
It's especially outrageous since Carmack came up with the technique independently of Creative. If it doesn't show that this is a fundamentally trivial patent that should be thrown out, when pretty much the second person to even look at using depth shadows in performance-critical code independently "invents" the technique, I don't know what it would take.
Wind Mobile backer regrets Canadian launch
Why I've Started Buying CDs Again
"Call me an ignorant youth, but it seemed like, if they wanted to, they could raise salaries, fire the bottom X%, and hire some more talented QA testers, and still come out ahead."

Not ignorant at all; this is a very insightful observation. I've seen the same thing from the programming side. Unfortunately, an unskilled programmer can create more and longer-lasting damage than an unskilled QA tester -- some code sticks around for decades and has layers and layers of new code built on top of it. Thus, bad programmers can drag down other programmers' productivity long after they've left the project. So the advantage of replacing a lot of bad programmers with a handful of good ones who are better paid could be even greater.

Not to mention that a smaller group has much less communication overhead than a larger group (as described in The Mythical Man Month).
Neil deGrasse Tyson claims that another possibility is that of a new particle moving backwards through time.

Not that I understand that.

He said it in his recent "Ask me anything" session on reddit.
Isn't that what Duck Duck Go does?
I am assuming it will pass, at this point; I'd be happy to fight it, but at this point I'd definitely be looking at how to mitigate the damage technically, challenge it in court, etc.

There is way more money lined up to support it vs. oppose it, so I suspect going into an election season, a lot of congresspeople will support it for financial reasons.
Daily18nov11
GPS onboard clock is corrected for relativity due to it's orbit height and speed so it's clock time is approximately correct

But measuring the simultaneity of an event between two different points with a moving clock is a lot trick.
At their latitude (~45 deg), the distance the earth travels in the 2ms it takes light to travel the distance is around 76cm (someone check my calc if you will).

They know the distance to within +-20cm, so the 76cm of Earth's rotation would be very significant (but not significant enough, again with my rough calculations, to bring these results back in line with c).

The distance is significant enough that to get an accurate measure of c over that distance you would have to take it into account. ie. it would be obvious
Internet Explorers are an interesting beast. You can't install different versions of IEs side by side but you can install Chrome, Firefox etc with IE.
If speed to unlock is what's so important, what is the point in locking it at all?
That's one of the big steps which is necessary. It still leaves the questions of (a) funding, (b) how do you reproduce it and how long does that take, and (c) how do you explain it.

Many problems in science are considered to be "twenty year problems," by which we mean that they'll probably be solved eventually, but that it's unlikely to be any time soon. Many such problems go on for much longer without a solution despite significant progress (see also: fusion power plants). This isn't quite on that scope - but it could evolve into one if it actually ends up with a result which can be reproduced on command.
If I were him, I'd want Jennifer Granick on my team.
Ask HN: What percentage of customers pay?
SaaS companies with a free plan, what percentage of customers pay?
Window shutters
Get a quote for made-to-measure window shutters, blinds and awnings from Signature Shade. High quality products, high quality service.
There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of the Fire, but Ament's review fundamentally amounts to "I'm used to the iPad/iOS, and this isn't that."

My capsule review: it's got some rough edges, but it has a few big things that I enjoy already built-in, working out of the box. At $200 I will have no compunction using it in the kitchen, bathroom, cafe... wherever. And as an Android user, most of my familiar apps translate directly. It's a fine value.
I'm sure six lines of Carmack code can contain a solution that is novel, useful, and non-obvious.
1. BSA has long been critisized as a fornt for MS. [1]
2. Microsoft is widely believed to be largest contributor to BSA [2]

How is it a fallacy to assume MS has a large voice in deciding BSA's policy? Also when you dismiss an argument with a pithy "Textbook logical fallacy", shouldn't you disclose that MS is one of your clients? [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Software_Alliance#Crit...
[2] http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AwsAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70&...
[3] http://www.matasano.com/about/
So long as we're doing this, here's a solution in ~73 lines of Ruby: https://gist.github.com/1375695.
I'm a big fan of the study group setting for these classes. It's been a great way to find and work with like-minded people. I'd encourage you to find one for future classes, but I'm not sure how sustainable they are.

The AI and ML classes drew a lot of attention to start with (over 100k signups). Follow up or repeat classes will obviously draw less interest. I'm interested in seeing how that translates to viable study group sizes. The good news is that the minimum viable size of a study group is fairly small.
Web Funk Designs
Freelance web designer creating simple, user-friendly, and affordable websites for small businesses on the Sunshine Coast.
> "I'm sure the goverment wants the public to have better access to this information."

Right, because our government has been so good about pursuing openness and transparency in other areas.
Do You Really Want To Get A Surefire Education Logo Design In No Time 
As I see it, there are two things that make an education logo design a success and they are the quality of being

memorable and uniqueness
The way English works, not all of the dictionary definitions for a word need to apply to any particular usage.
Err - it's a bad bill that will screw over many of her constituents.

It's unclear how motivated her constituents are against it, but it seems likely that all that letter writing may be paying off. In extreme cases, sitting members can be vulnerable to losing their nomination within the party (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#2006_Senate_elect...).

Edit: Downvotes? I'm not from the US - what did I get wrong?
All patents are monopolies on ideas. How is a software patent any different?
JBoss attack proves Microsoft’s Zero-Day findings
This is a really cool article. I love the application of the analysis of plane crashes to software development.
Software is math, and until a few years ago, math was generally held to be unpatentable.
PayPal unveils a Facebook app for sending money to friends.
thats pretty awesome, i think its really handy. seems to me when i look around for domain names i have to blindly guess and check to see if theyre available. a cleanly built tool like this would save a lot of time IMO (but my experience is limited)
> This result points the direction for future research.
Thank you.
I fully expect them to destroy the Earth by the end of 2012.
Apple reportedly prepped AMD-powered MacBook Air, dropped it at last minute
Our brain is capable of creating several personalities that argue with each other (see split identity disorder). Of course it can handle multi-tasking.
World's Lightest Material Is a Metal 100 Times Lighter Than Styrofoam
Pctr : free, unlimited photo hosting
Gah! You figured me out! Secret shill for Microsoft!

The fallacy is, "if they're not guilty, all they need to do is deny it". It's used by the powerful against the powerless way more often than it's used against big companies, which is all the more reason not to legitimize it.
Motorola Mobility stockholders all in for Google buyout
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
Google: Introducing Closure Stylesheets
A particle moving backwards through time === a particle moving faster than what we have currently established to be the speed of light
OK, this might be a stupid/ignorant question, but what do they mean by "[it seems very unlikely to be true that] if a quantum wavefunction were purely a statistical tool, then even quantum states that are unconnected across space and time would be able to communicate with each other."? Why is this less likely than the alternative?

It reminded me of the single electron universe hypothesis by Wheeler(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe) and wonder if anyone can speak to whether this changes perception on seriousness/testability of that idea.
Think Big, Make it Big the Koozie Way
EML to Outlook 2010
Conversion of eml to outlook 2010 is 100% possible with PCVARE’s the eml to outlook 2010 convert program that is scorching and most excellent solution to import eml to outlook 2010, outlook 2007, outlook 2003, outlook 2000.
The subpixel count is about the same as the iP4

Exactly the same, 1280x720x2 = 960x640x3.
Just thank the gods they haven't (yet) figured out how to patent the idea of "whitespace" and "comments".
Rocket Italian course
This course has a very simple and user friendly interface which helps the user to master in the Italian language. Rocket course is much more than just words, phrases and dialogues. It provides 31 language and culture lessons, videos games etc which makes learning more interesting and enjoyable.
Okay. I'm stopping this here. We do not need HN to turn into /r/politics.
Madurai Travels & Travels in Madurai
http://www.maduraitravels.net/
I think Marco was trying, unsuccessfully, to be to the Kindle Fire what Siracusa was to the Jobs bio. He even got a nudge from Gruber, who called his review "scathing". "Bitching" might have been more apt. I can imagine him grimacing as he bared to open the UPS box.
I love this sketch. I'll never get over Devil's Deuce Interactive. On a related note, I just found this:

http://www.angeldump.com/
Intel Xeon E5s take 10 systems on Top500
Ask HN: Anyone been to startupweekend?
Planning on attending startupweekend in NYC tomorrow. Any words of advice from your experience would be much appreciated.
Healthcare: Saving by the Bundle
by emailing a document (again, try that on an iPad)

huh? You can read attachments normally on iOS, and mail them in. Since 5.0 (wi-fi sync) you can also just drag & drop the files onto the device in iTunes.
Why Stack Exchange Isn't in the Cloud
So far I don't trust any kind of analysis of the reviews. One of the top negative reviews was, "Didn't have a camera. WTF. Returned."
And that's why you should always have great analytics. Monitoring is what found a similarly subtle bug at my past job once.

In the later afternoon a marketing guy on the traffic team came over and told me there was a problem with our trial signups. They'd dropped ~7% today for no apparently reason. We looked at the charts and today, for most of the day, compared to many other days and the past week there was indeed a dip. There were no changes to their marketing campaign or traffic levels either so they concluded it was a software bug.

But we hadn't pushed any new code that day. All that got pushed was some css changes from a designer so I concluded that it couldn't be a dev problem. I started looking from an ops perspective but couldn't find anything abnormal there either. There weren't a lot of memcached evictions, the db was doing fine, server loads were normal, etc.

I spent easily a couple of hours trying to find the source of the problem when marketing found it for me. Someone else was going through the metrics and noticed that we had the same trial signup rates for firefox, chrome and mobile browsers, it was only ie that had dropped. When filtered by ie and broken down by browser version he noticed that IE9, IE8 and IE7 were all the same as other days but IE6 had a 0%.

When you signed up to our site you signed up as a free member but were immediately offered a 5 day trial for a premium account and we had enough volume that the signup rates were predicatable and didn't vary much. When I created an account with IE6 it put me directly into the home page without showing me the trial offer page first.

Turns out the problem was indeed from the stylesheet change. The designer had not only changed a couple of buttons, he'd also added a font-face declaration. This font-face was not yet used anywhere and the font itself hadn't been uploaded to assets in production. What happened was IE6 would try to download the font-face and, when logged into our site we don't output 404 for pages that don't exist we redirect to the home page. So IE6 would get the redirect inside a stylesheet and follow that redirect in the browser. All the later IEs and other browsers simply ignored the redirect.

It was a very strange bug that would've resolved itself on its own the next day when the designer actually used and uploaded the font but it sure gave me a lot of head scratching and I never would've found it without the analytics.
Link appears broken as of now, FYI... (1:00 AM EST)
HVDC transmission lines aren't terribly new. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects

There probably is some savings to be had in a data center by putting the backup batteries directly on the distribution rail. (IIRC Google's servers do something similar with a battery in each unit)

But yeah, the rest of the article is content-free fluff and an attempt to portray a conflict where there is none. For example:

> Of course, AC remains by far the dominant standard for electricity, and many are dubious about “DC is better” arguments.

But what else would you expect from the NYT?