skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Women not being allowed to vote is actually an inherent flaw of democracy: Those who are allowed to vote decide who else may vote. All democratic countries make this kind of decision for many groups. Voting age, if and when immigrants may vote, whether to let people convicted of a felony or prisoners vote: all of these are cases of the voters deciding on who else will share their privilege. Switzerland was just slightly different because referendums are binding and were not overturned by the supreme courts, and the discriminated group was more visible/obvious.
Try:

https://www.google.com/ncr#q=google+in+1998&safe=off

The ncr part is "no client redirect", this should keep you on google.com instead of redirecting you to a localized version.
Carbon nanotube computer
On reflection, using something larger doesn't help, since if sizeof(void*) == sizeof(i) then a[(__typeof(i))-1] will almost certainly refer to the same address whether i is signed or unsigned.
>My experience is that writing long, insightful pieces of prose is just hard, miserable work. People do it because they feel compelled to, not because it's a fun way to relax. So it's easy to procrastinate or avoid it, especially if there aren't any external demands or deadlines to meet.

Is it a problem if they don't? There are now many, many insightful essays on the internet; one could spend a lifetime reading them and barely scratch the surface. If you were actually writing for the attention it gets you, rather than for the sake of the writing (and the comment about favourite or retweet makes me think that's his real motivation here), and then you find a more efficient way to get that validation, isn't that a good thing? The internet won't miss what you didn't write.
This. I would go as far as to say this is where the PC is headed. Consumers will have one device like the Surface2 which is a tablet on the go and can be docked on the desk. Its already powerful enough for most peoples computing tasks and this will get alot better in the coming years.

The traditional desktop PC will be (or already is) a niche again like workstations from the past for professionals.
True, but the UI is the only part that defines it as a web app.
Thats why you host it on-site and not with a hosting provider. Any company worth its salt will be able to run one or two servers at its location under its supervision.

Hosting providers are for those small php sites that depend on AdWords for their income.
Many Linux distros come on a live CD allowing you to try them out without changing anything on your hard drive.

Or you could try a virtual machine.
I don't understand. What exactly are you saying is not true :
1) islam is a system of laws

2) those laws include slavery

3) people who are fighting to introduce those laws to society are reintroducing legal slavery

4) the muslim world is the major hotbet of slavery

Copious evidence for all claims is easy to come by. Start with :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_views_on_slavery
And if you want to hear it from an imam:
http://www.islam-qa.com/en/94840
(note that many of the "advantages" slaves had are the exact same as they had in the Roman Empire. An owner, for example, would generally treat his own educated slaves better than fellow free men)

If you want to be completely horrified by this site, just read the category
http://www.islam-qa.com/en/cat/362

Some examples, and the TLDR

"Islam and slavery" (TLDR: taking slaves is allowed "in war" and buying them and kidnapping them. There are lots of rules about slaves)

"Intercourse with female prisoners of war." (TLDR: allowed for men)

"What is the ruling on intimacy with slave women?" (TLDR: allowed for men)

"Intercourse with a slave woman is not regarded as zina (adultery)" (TLDR: true, provided certain conditions are met. Also: A muslim man fucking a non-muslim woman is perfectly OK if not done in an islamic country, because any muslim is at war with everyone outside of muslim countries) (note how he squirms to avoid saying what the ruling is on muslims living in non-muslim nations. Why ? Because that's punishable by death, except for soldiers and -maybe- ambassadors. Where do you live ?)
...

Your "evidence" that this is not true, is, as I read it :

a) 1/3rd of the world follows islam (in reality, it's probably between 1/5th and 1/6th)

b) "no-one wakes with knives searching for slaves to kill" (that's not allowed, btw, you have to buy them first)

c) Winston Churchill is a hypocrit with often similar socialist eugenic standpoints as the people he fought -> not a surprise to anyone who knows a smitten of history. Nobody denies he was a keen observer and a very effective leader either.
There's no bitvector in clojure persistent vectors. The difference between vectors and a hashmap without the hashing stage is that a persistent vector can't be sparse!
Performance wise it's more efficient using a base class (.glyphicon) and a modifier class (.glyphicon-adjust) instead of applying base styles with a pattern ([class^="icon-"]). Read about the other motivations for the change here: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6342
Hmm.. Let me name a few big retailers that uses NFC

Macys
Peets Coffee
Walgreen

Both Peets and Macys deliberately placed labels by their cashier that reads: "pay with Google Wallet"
Why humans can outrun horses but can’t jump higher than cats.
Does that look like a turtle shark to anyone else?

Awesome.
Devices like the Surface2 with docking capability could very well be the future of the PC. I could totally see myself getting one of these for my girlfriend or my parents as its all they need for personal computing.
BookHunch - the anti-pinterest bookmarking site
Pro tip: advertise an alert for when a popular product goes back in stock. (eg popular electronics)

I made a one off app for the nexus 4 release to account for low inventory, and got quite a bit of traffic for low/no effort.
The main discussion seems to be over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447783

There's also a list (yes, by me) of other submissions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447900
> Islam and specifically the second Caliphate is the only state in history that has a documented history of killing slaves for fun).

Ancient Rome would like to disagree.

> Slavery (if you define it as forced labour without compensation), in case anyone doesn't know, is part of every religion.

Buddhism would like to disagree, probably many more. I'm sure there was forced labor of some kind pretty much everywhere, but that doesn't make it part of the religion, and I'd also say that that it's a too-broad definition. Slavery IMO implies more than just forced labor without compensation: it implies that people are considered property.
Actually, slight correction: you can use spotlight preferences to set the order in which various matches are displayed. Every now and then this is useful.
So now one can track and manage his own wishlist.
This sounds like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist in reality.

You basically only ever actually need navigation when driving/riding in a foreign city that you don't know yet. If you're on a cycle, using headphones to receive audible instructions should suffice (unless you spend most of your days riding foreign cities).

If you know the city instead, you generally know its quirks better than any navigator.

If you're travelling on highways you can just take a look at the map on your phone and preplan the few next turns in advance. When on a cycle, it's easy to just pull over and check where you are and whether that little road will take you in and out of some location.
Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change
I'm certainly not qualified to make predictions even for next year, but one thing I believe and truly hope we'll see more in the gaming industry is Haskell.

Any complex software like games, or at least core parts of them, can really benefit from the guarantees and trade-offs Haskell provides, such as near-C performance, compile time type checks, controlled side effects, etc.
Show HN: radurls.com
Not really. The current flat design fad will look tired in a few years too. (I'm going to do a dance in the street when the designers finally get tired of Helvetica Light.)

What's really interesting is that the link to Amazon in 1998 looks basically like Amazon today. There's one site that hasn't really changed at all in 15 years; instead of switching fonts around, they built fulfillment warehouses instead. Interesting when you look back into the past.
This sounds interesting, I would appreciate for some tips on how to go about the Live CD or choosing the right Distro something other than Ubuntu.
Tricky though, for someone who probably gets paid at least partially because of his social media validation, to not care about it....
Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager (Ben Horowitz, David Weiden)
IOS 7 Beats Android, Windows Phone in user experience shootout
I wish the Gnome Team all the best
The website scours the internet for popular URLs and then ranks them according to how popular they are on facebook!

I would love to get input from HN on my new project!

Thank you very much in advance.
I feel they must be doing this by.

1. By paid content.
2. featured Articles.
3. Doing reviews on products. (Highly paid way for bloggers)
The yellow URLs beneath each title is very bright and hard to read.
The difference here is that the stadiums will likely stay empty during the world cup.
They are litterally doing that for nothing.
AFAIK, "three columns" is not semantic. It has to relate to the content, not the style. Otherwise one would have defined semantic as "using full words". As a CSS framework can't cover all the cases, you need to apply it in a semantic way. Some pseudo-LESS-code would be like:

.introduction {
.column;
.one-of-three;
}
s/Elton/Alton
Thank you I will fix this.
Gmail chat is sent to wrong person
Huge sale on design grab bag - $1,500 for $39 for 24 hours only
This just happened to me, it was extremely weird. Any message I sent to one person, another random contact received them. Very scary bug...

More: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chat...
"Evidence from slaves is rarely viable in a court of law. As slaves are regarded as inferior in Islamic law, death at the hands of a free man does not require that the latter be killed in retaliation.[81] The killer must pay the slave's master compensation equivalent to the slave's value, as opposed to blood-money. At the same time, slaves themselves possess a lessened responsibility for their actions, and receive half the penalty required upon a free man. For example: where a free man would be subject to a hundred lashes due to pre-marital relations, a slave would be subject to only fifty. Slaves are allowed to marry only with the owner's consent. Jurists differ over how many wives a slave may possess, with the Hanafi and Shafi'i schools allowing them two, and the Maliki school allowing four. Slaves are not permitted to possess or inherit property, or conduct independent business, and may conduct financial dealings only as a representative of the master. Offices of authority are generally not permitted for slaves, though a slave may act as the leader (Imam) in the congregational prayers, and he may also act as a subordinate officer in the governmental department of revenue.[10][82] Masters may sell, bequeath, give away, pledge, hire out or compel them to earn money.[47]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_views_on_slavery
(following the links you'll find the following quotes)

"The same punishment was imposed on believers and what is similar to the act of the crime in the case of a homicide, by virtue of description or actuality. A freeman should be killed for another freeman but not for a slave, a female for a female, but a Muslim (even if he is a slave) must not be killed for an infidel, even if that infidel is a freeman."
Jalalan (p. 24)

"The Shafi'i and Malik prohibit the killing of a freeman if he slays his slave or other men's slaves. This is because 'Ali Ibn Abi-Talib mentioned that a man had killed his slave and Muhammad scourged him only; he did not kill him. It was related on the authority of Muhammad that he said a Muslim should not be killed for a non-Muslim, nor a freeman for a slave; also because Abu Bakr and 'Umar Ibn al-Khattab did not kill a freeman for a slave. (This was said) in the presence of all Muhammad's companions, and no one disapproved or objected to it."
The Commentary of al-Baydawi (p. 36)

"A man is not to be killed for his slave nor the freeman for a slave."
"A believer is not to be killed for a non-believer, nor a man for his son, or a man for his slave or for a woman."
Ahkam al-Qur'an (p. 275)

Need I go on ?

As to how slavery is justified:
When the Saudi national Homaidan Al-Turki was imprisoned for holding a woman as a slave in Colorado, he complained that “the state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution.”

In other words, the point that complaining about forced slavery is racist against muslims is in fact on the legal record as a defense against getting convicted for practicing slavery in the US.
I had a Dell laptop at work with 1900x1200 in 2003. Things have definitely stagnated.
It depends on situation of video game market, industry will look after other tools if it falls into trouble.
Wiki:

"A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a vehicle similar to a station wagon or estate car, usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on- or off-road ability. Some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or large sedan.

Since SUVs are considered light trucks in North America, and often share the same platform with pick-up trucks, at one time, they were regulated less strictly than passenger cars under the two laws in the United States"

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

People do not want trucks OR cars they do want BOTH.
I hated that new thing Google and stayed with Alta Vista until the end :)
How would you suggest companies that design systems like ARM survive under your concept?

I'd be for much stricter terms for patents, ie, they have to work with a physical device.. not a "virtualized computing environment" ex: no software patents. Or, software patents should be limited to 3-5 years.

All patents should have to be both unique, and non-obvious... no more derivative patents, or limit derivative patents to 5 years.

A patent system where there are different classes of patent, lowest being 3 years for system, process, or strictly software patents... to 20 years for hard, physical manufactured inventions.
The author does a really shitty job of pointing out the differences between Bootstrap/Foundation and SemanticUI but if you browse through the documentation and examples it becomes clear that this framework has several features, components and modules that neither bootstrap or foundation have like dimmers, 3D transforms (shape), equal height columns, dividers, validation, ...

It features a lot of UI patterns that are pretty hard to pull of with bootstrap alone and that imho makes it worth it.

I'm not yet convinced by the actualy class name semantics, it might be a learning curve though. And i absolutely hate the button-divs ... bootstrap does a way beter job at keeping html semantics for buttons.

That being said, this seems like serious competition for bootstrap and foundation. I'm curious for the final release.
Plebs are never assessed on merit because they don't have any. So you get better treatment for one pleb or another pleb because of what school they went to or their gender, but in the end it's all just interchangeable plebs anyway. If you have real talent ("tech bloggers" need not apply) and a bit of a spine then that is going to be the dominant factor in your success. But we see so many stories these days about how various little plebs aren't getting some perceived due that it's becoming a degenerate force.
Again, in France it's not "_loser pays_". It's "_judge determines who pays, and does so in such a way as to deter financial bullying_".

The very reason why we have judges, rather than only cops, is that mechanically applying rules doesn't work. In most non-trivial cases, we need a human being who defends the sometimes subtle spirit of the law. That's one of those cases.
i started with making custom iso's of slax linux and then moved on to slitaz linux, haven't used any other linux since, ended up learning bash awk, setting up webservers/cgi, compiling pretty much anything out there on the internet, making it a router/firewall etc.
Also a side question: does me commenting in this thread make it less likely to sink? Because this is the kind of submission that needs to be aborted in the womb.
>>> People like these should think about their own morals before talking about somebody else's.

People like Winston Churchill can't think anything because they, like Winston Churchill, have been dead for decades. And in all civilized countries slavery has long been illegal. So if in one country - namely Qatar - institution of slavery still exists, Churchill quote from the thirties is not actually a good way to prevent somebody from talking about the morals of Qatar slaveholders.
Checkout part of a file with git checkout -p
Try telling Netflix that.
Web crowd continues to struggle with the concept of interrupts, what else is new?
The argument is that they bid for a World Cup scheduled for June and July of 2022, so if the World Cup is not in fact scheduled for those dates, it was fraudulent for FIFA to solicit bids under the premise that it is.
How He Launched a Successful Marketing Agency Right out of College (part 2)
The Linux kernel should support the receiver and xbox 360 gamepad out of the box. If its not currently I suppose this has a very high priority for fixing at Valve.
What I miss most is the "cached" link being directly visible. Mostly because 90% of my Internet browsing has to be done this way due to draconian proxy rules at work. Anything forum-like is blocked (yes, even StackOverflow).

I cried a bit when they made the cached link a 2 click process.
The problem isn't post-PC era, but the problem is that our appliances will be PCs only crippled by a piece of software and you can be ruined for "unlocking" them.

Imagine if you wanted to use your toaster to do Folding@Home while not doing toast and you get two years in jail.

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

Another more dangerous side is that is a real risk of someone misusing these computers in ways that make it hard to distinguish hacking something for use from abuse.
I apologise if you felt my post was targeted directly at you. That certainly was not my intention. What you do as a parent is ultimately your choice and I have no right to tell you what is right and wrong for your family.

I was simply sharing my opinion that until a few years ago no kid grew up with these automated digital restrictions and pretty much everyone seems to be ok.

I understand that such things can be helpful however my personal opinion is that it is a little sad that there is such a need for such features. I would bet that most people on Hacker News are successful in their lives because of unrestricted access to computers as children/young adults. I know that is certainly the case for me. I would spend hours typing in BASIC from computer magazines sometimes into the early mornings. I would get told off and have my computer taken away now and then for breaking the rules my parents put in place but this was ultimately good for me I feel (both the breaking of the rules and accepting the punishment).
It's not a lack of regulations, it's a lack of basic contract and law enforcement. If somebody promises you wages and does not pay, it's theft, plain and simple. One doesn't need any special regulations to prosecute theft, any basic legal system has prohibitions against theft.
>Netbooks didn't get screwed up

Oh they did. Every new generation of netbooks was actually worse than the previous one (I don't even know how that was possible, but it happened).

Hard disk space converged on 320GB, RAM on 1/2GB, display size was never seemingly available greater than 1024x768 and battery plateaued at ~5 hours.

I adored my first netbook. My second was blah. By the third I was starting to think everybody in the PC market was certifiably insane. What on earth made them think they should release computers that get worse year on year???
Its really hard to find a decent 15inch laptop with high resolution screen - unless its targeted to gamers.

For some reason a few years ago the PC industry decided that 720p is good enough as if people only watch movies on their laptop. Trying to squeeze a full featured IDE in 720p is like looking at the screen through a key hole.
Have a look at VirtualDUB (http://virtualdub.org/).Should do everything you want and more.
5,000 driverless cars by 2014? Yeah. That'll happen. Nice pipe dream though.
Makes a prediction that there'll be a movie soon involving a group of partiers on vacation who get slowly gobbled up by this fish

(It'll be in 3D too)
I'd be open to something new if it serves the purpose but I wouldn't mind getting a mouse and keyboard in my living room if that happens to be the best way to play a game. But that's probably just me.
Depending on your requirements the remote end can be responsible for ensuring that you receive and acknowledge the wake up. Once you hit your own timeout you might do any number of things, not necessarily repoll the other end.
It's a bit funny and sad how VLC has touted new stuff "for anime fans" for a few releases, yet every time they've done it they still haven't managed to catch up to the "standard" solutions in those circles. If you're on Windows (and a ton of people are - the lion's share of VLC users included), CCCP is an equally simple one installer solution that can be pushed even further with things like madVR and XySubFilter.

For example, VLC's dithering of 10-bit content still seems to be worse than CCCP out of the box, leading to banding where there shouldn't be any, and it seems to be doing something weird to the colors in all the things I tested it with. I'm not exactly sure what it is, though, as it's not a color matrix or luma level issue - I'd post some screenshots but I'm at work now. Also, Nvidia users still seem to have luma level issues out of the box that requires a trip to GPU settings to fix.

Congrats on the release anyway, VLC has come a long way from the 0.8.6 days as far as high-end media playback is concerned.
Google seems to be the biggest culprit in breaking keyboard shortcuts: backspace, keyboards, etc. Surprises me, because surely many of their employees are 'power users' - doesn't it infuriate them, too? I wonder if Chrome has a 'don't hijack keyboard' extension ...
I really got into Linux by setting up servers on CentOS back in 2007. Linux, the resources and the community are great and the fact that those servers still run fine today is a testimony to that.

If you have some time and you would just like to read some good basics start with http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/for... and go as far as you can.

If you would like to get down and set up a server grab a Debian install kit.

The other option would be to get a RaspberryPI and start with that. Tons of resources and much closer to the hardware as a server install. Good if you re into electronics too.

I am a Mac user myself and you will find that the BSD underneath is mostly what Linux works like. They do say that MacOS is the best BSD available :-) So learning Linux will definitely help you to get much more from your Mac as well.

Have fun!
I think there is quite the difference between automating curtains or a computer turning on or off and parental control systems. Please do not take offence but I feel kids deserve more than an automated system that tells then when they can and can't use something.