skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USA ratified the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention. That makes Washington loath in using the word. So, the New York Times isn’t doubting this is genocide; it is asking Washington to acknowledge it and take action (http://www.economist.com/node/18772664: As Samantha Power, an author who works for President Barack Obama, has disclosed, a paper by a Pentagon official urged caution in using the G-word: “Be careful …Genocide finding could commit [the government] to actually do something.”)

I can’t find a reference, but I think there is a more recent, stronger statement by the USA that requires them to take action as soon as politics declares something as genocide anywhere in the world.
I've always assumed the reason was that the bankers could point fingers and name names of people in government who facilitated the fraud. If there was some better reason, the SEC would have given it to us a long time ago. The silence speaks loudly enough IMHO.
Some foggy thoughts.

To me it's all contingent on whether your brain is healthy, functioning properly, ideally at an optimum. People who talk of Life Extension say that improving 'healthspan' and lifespan are connected.

Probably society needs a range of brain ages to function, or has done until now at least. That said there is no possible utility to people getting degenerative brain disease, I don't see the point of keeping the vehicle if the driver is dead.

Also consider the tasks a person does in life. A blue collar man dies much younger than rich woman, I think 20-30+ years. Some of that may be avoidable through better healthcare or technology or simply unavoidable because of genetics but it's also hard to imagine intense physical labour doesn't affect your metabolism in such a way that it ends your life sooner.

As a blue collar worker I'm becoming aware of this drawback..!

On the other side I know workers who've worked physically demanding jobs who are in their 90s and are still trotting about, have full head of dark hair.
It's really unfortunate how the oppressed turn into the oppressor the moment they are given power. It tells us a lot about humanity right there. The very people telling other's to accept they have a different opinion when they are in the minority, but then turn around and deny opinions to those they disagree with when they are in the majority. It is shameful.
Is that really a big deal? You barely notice any benefits between 2-4 versions on Mac. What's Mavericks? 10.10? And High Sierra is 10.14? I have a computer that is 10.9 or 10.10 and a 10.13 computer. I can barely tell the difference between them.

My 10.13 computer is my main one and was on 10.11 before when I upgraded only because I did a clean install right before the newest release. Don't remember noticing any changes.

I'm a huge Apple user but don't keep up with OS changes since they are so minor. This really isn't an issue. And if it's for business then the apps that are trendy and only for newer versions won't matter either.
Awesome project. I'm surprised we don't see more msp430-based watch projects. Bonus points for ham radio functionality. I'd be all over this if I didn't hate wearing a watch.
I think this idea has some merit to it, but I don't have any experience in building that kind of software.

This is essentially how teams that build huge software systems work. Like for instance, operating systems like windows/linux. The various teams at Microsoft, or trusted comitters for Linux, organize their various modules, components, subsystems, etc. independently, and eventually compose them into a coherent functioning whole to ship the whole system.
> And many possible cultural explanations have been ruled out.

You say this, but quote absolutely no science to back it up. Maybe this is just an intuitive perception that you have, rather than a fact? I actually quoted two articles that prove the contrary, and you have no retort for them, but rather just glance over them as if they didn't exist.

> Poor and communist countries have less gender disparities because people have less choice over their careers. E.g. poor parents shove their kids into STEM because it's see it as a way out of poverty. In rich countries people have the freedom to pursue their actual interests.

So you are going against your previous statement and saying here that culture plays a major role? Unless you use the word 'culture' in a very narrow definition that only includes things such as food, drinks and folk dances.

Communist countries, especially Russia, made a big deal about erasing gender inequality (they saw gender roles as another form of oppression.) That's the main reason why Russia had such a high participation of women in STEM, it wasn't because "parents would force them because they were poor."

I'm all for having a conversation about this, but are you willing to take new evidence and process it, rather than keep pushing your intuitive notion?
I'm afraid that, despite your screenshots, a lot of your information is inaccurate.

Developer edition download page:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
0 mentions of "shield", "studies", "study, "crash", "experiment" two mentions of data in the context of developer features: "Storage panel: Add, modify and remove cache, cookies, databases and session data."

Beta and Nightly download page:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
0 mentions of "shield", "studies", "study", "data", "crash". 1 mention of experiment/test pilot way at the bottom of the page, unconnected to any version. The Mr Robot addon was not part of test pilot and is not listed on the test pilot experiments page. https://testpilot.firefox.com/

> Info about this study taken from their study page:
AFAIK this information was added after people started asking questions.

Furthermore, just look at the confusion here from people at Mozilla who understand the shield policies and can't find the correct "paperwork" for this study:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424977

Also see Mozilla's CMO stating this:

> The experience was kept under wraps to be introduced at the conclusion of the season of Mr. Robot.

https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-...
At least one word of regret or even simple acknowledgement would be appropriate from Mr. Kaykas-Wolff. Reiterating that it's not a privacy issue is insulting to everybody who recognizes it as a privacy issue. Is collecting data the only way to breach privacy? Assume for the moment that it is. That means for example that everybody is totally okay with ransomware, which only writes to your hard drive. No, I think actually possibly maybe everybody's right. Can you get all caught-up first please, before you address the public?
> men and women are alone in a room
> you are literally saying that men need chaperones ("If you find there is only two of you left, then go home.").

I wasn't saying that at all, you have removed the context reductio ad absurdum. The context was at the end of an evening of socializing. Now we have two drunk people, boss and sub-ordinate, in a bar together after a night and everyone has gone home but them. Presumably everyone else exercised their good judgment that it was time to leave.

I'll tell you what you can take literally, I literally saw that on a sexual harassment claim. In this case it was withdrawn, and my best guess of what happened is that it was consensual, but lead to an awkward situation which they found uncomfortable in their small team.

None of what I am talking about is relevant to the sexual predator scenario. However strong guidelines on professional conduct do help stop predatory behavior hiding behind 'just being playful'
Please, if anyone has steps to reproduce this behavior (beyond anecdotes of other people experiencing it), please file a bug. We engineers (I work on spidermonkey) put a lot of effort into making sure opt-in things are truly opt-in, and make sacrifices as well. (I would love to be able to automatically gather cpu or memory profiles with full urls included, to make it easier to reproduce field problems. Heck, we can't even tell if a set of crash reports comes from the same user. But I'd rather not have any of that, given the privacy risks. )
Can AI Help Turn the World Meatless?
Eh.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FA4Y7N2/ref=oh_aui_sear...

I bought that 3 years ago. I think mine is doing okay but you can tell from the reviews that it wasn't a quality cable. I doubt Amazon has really up'd their game since then.
They have physical evidence?!
> these people personally and they're not fake

I totally understand where you're coming from on this, but, you're 100% wrong here. Fakespot is looking for unbiased reviews and friend-reviews are not unbiased, what do you think the odds are that one of your wife's friends was going to leave a negative review?
It seems insanely obvious to me that only people who have purchased the item through Amazon should get to review the product.
Why not just shop directly with Alibaba/aliexpress then, skip the big markup :D
This game is based on a Ludum Dare entry I did a couple of years back where you dig deeper and deeper into an ever-expanding pyramid together with strangers. It's basically a social experiment.

Apart from monetization, the miner helps combat the problem I had with bots in the original LD entry.

The backend is 100% Firebase + Google Cloud Functions.

Let me know what you think!
>and also in the form of "bugs" that slipped into the browser largely out of a lack of consideration for users' privacy by devs.

Tor Browser is based on Firefox. Human lifes would be at risk, if Tor Browser were to send additional data over the net that it's not supposed to send. So, Firefox is going to be very well vetted for whatever kind of bugs you imagine to be there.
That it has become acceptable is seen as a regression of society. We should be eliminating bullying not debating who the victim should be today.
Snails, Hedgehog Heads and Stale Beer: a peek inside premodern cookbooks
The one guy featured in this article, Luis Elizondo, is apart of Tom Delonge's (guy from the rock band Blink 182) wacky new company To The Stars Academy https://tothestarsacademy.com.

So yeah, I'm not sure he can be taken very seriously. Just listen to Tom Delong on Joe Rogan's podcast and see how wacky this all is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_3mnJfHzY
I think what is being talked about is this, or what happened, right nextdoor by essentially the same organisation, and therefore what could reasonably have been expected to happen if the revolution by muslims had succeeded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_vio...

So yes, this is a bit of a case of "A tried to commit genocide on B. B won and, as it turns out, is not happy with the attempt".

One might also point out that the treatment of non-muslims in the original country of these people (Bangladesh) is worse, in terms of legal rights, in terms of treatment by the security forces, in terms of destruction, in terms of death toll, ... and yet ... no complaints from the UN, and certainly no action by anyone.

So let's just stop joking here: these people are being attacked because they directly attacked the security forces. That sucks. But these people also constantly commit violence against minorities in their midst (in fact that's how this conflict started), so let's just not pretend otherwise : yes, Rohingya are losing here, and yet they're still the racists in this conflict, and do commit genocide. Such a thing is in fact possible.
I don't mind if you're being combative, but I think, if you're being combative, then it's about something I never said- the bit about "forcing people to be cold to each other". Are you reading more than I wrote, in my comment?

For what it's worth, I consider "being friendly" and "being friends" two distinct categories. You can be friendly to people (or polite, corteous, respectful etc etc) without actually being buddy-buddies with them.

On a personal note, I have been lucky to have had some strong working relationships with (male) colleagues who offered me valuable mentorship. They were great teachers to me and helped make me the professional I am today. Still- we were not friends, in the sense of slapping-the-back, rude-joking, buddy-buddies. I'm not saying that sort of relation (a colleague who's your mate) can never work. All rules are made to be broken etc etc. But I do believe that unless you carefully compartmentalise your professional relationships from other kinds of relationships, you run a very significant risk of making a mess of all your relationships.

Edit: as to ignoring organisations were people are friends and the sky doesn't fall- that's just the survivorship fallacy, innit. Just because you can swim with sharks without being eaten doesn't mean swimming with sharks isn't dangerous, in general.
The dark net market space has been going through a lot of upheaval in the past ~year (lots of markets going down etc) but there is a meaningful shift away from bitcoin to monero going on.
DZCoin: bringing the Algerian Dinar online
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15941390

Should HN just truncate query strings?
It's designed for children but Absolute Genius is pretty good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/absolute-genius-with-dick-a... (UK only)
I initially talked over career changes with my ex and she went with a no name bootcamp. After that bad experience she wanted a full degree and is finishing up Oregon now. She has been very happy with it. I forgot a BS in another field was a requirement for the program, which is a bummer as I liked the material she showed me (I'm self taught but just web dev)
I don’t really bother reading the reviews anymore. They’re invariably useless promotional crap
> There are not grey areas about "usefulness". I don't care if you're Albert fucking Einstein, I'm not going to let you scare off the other high performers or even cleaning crew that make my business productive and livable.

Okay, that’s a fair position and that essentially answers my question. I don’t really have an argument for or against what you’re saying here, I was just curious to see if there is any level of utility at which you’re okay with someone being disliked by the rest of the staff.
> If Firefox disappears and the fork remains, the fork dies because maintaining a web browser is work that needs a corporation's backing behind it (or a government's).

Perhaps the problem is the fact that the Web is so complex that popular web browsers could only possibly be developed by corporations to begin with.
A Computational Design Tool for Compliant Mechanisms
See also https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15941580), which is an extension of this story.
How much do you think the MS helped?
It's noteworthy that all three are Ethereum-based.
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The most interesting part to me

>Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.

>“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”

They claim to have physical evidence? Seems like a buried lede if even remotely true.
Does it make sense that this is now a headline even in hn? The current commander-in-chief is a former "reality TV show star".
Well, I don't have a choice, do I?

about:addons uses Google Analytics, and yes, I know Google promised Mozilla not to look at that data.

But either I have to trust Google that they don't use the data from Chrome's Enterprise and Chromium builds. Or I have to trust Google that they don't use the data from Firefox' about:addons and Firefox Focus, and that CliqZ doesn't use the data from Firefox.

If I have to trust Google anyway, I can just use Chrome.
And VS supports C++17 anyway
They don't really care about that. They'd prefer to see Mozilla fail than to see someone with different opinions to them as CEO. Mozilla is just a battle field for their agenda, not a browser.

More specifically: Eich is not a human with failings and the chance to change his mind. Eich, to them, is simply an enemy like in a video game, where the only winning move is to strike him dead and collect the rare drops from his corpse. It's the politics of our generation.

And your words of support for Eich and Damore make you into such an inhuman enemy as well. And thus, your downvotes.
There's also an equal or bigger amount of science proving that gender "interests" are driven in a large part by cultural background. As I linked elsewhere, Communist Russia used to have a huge participation of women in "STEM" fields, while Europe and the US were still moving from single-income families to the current standard of working professional women.

There's nothing we can do to fix the - alleged - biological differences between men and women. There's a lot we can do to fix the cultural factors leading to gender inequality. So why not work on the stuff we can work on rather than assuming "awwww, why bother, if there's some chance it might be biological?"
I looks like the plane is making a left turn, and yet the object is dead center in the screen with barely any shake. And it's definitely not stabilized, because all the lines on the display are still.

So maybe the pilot has some crazy ability to track a flying object perfectly while turning, but try doing it in any game and I think you will fail.
Police and criminal courts use a high burden of proof: "beyond all reasonable doubt".

Anyone else doesn't have to use that. If someone who's called a rapist sues for defamation the courts will use "balance of probability".

People get confused by the apparent contradiction between "innocent until proved guilty" and the fact that someone not prosecuted (or even prosecuted and found not guilty) may have done the crime.

For an example see the comments about football player Ched Evans being found "innocent" - he wasn't, at all. He was found "not guilty" which spans the range from "he definitely didn't do it" right up to "he almost certainly did it, but the prosecution didn't persuade me beyond all reasonable doubt".

So if you're Microsoft you can do what you like. If it ends up in court it's probably going to be "balance of probabilities".
These are pretty big NYT stories. I haven't read them but I don't see why they don't make sense for HN. We don't need four on the front page though.
Does Docker for build environments make a lot of sense? I want to package up an existing environment that predates Docker (by long enough that I don't think there's an old enough base OS image on Docker Hub unless I leverage J. Random Hacker's image that's been tweaked for another project) to make it more portable. Would I be fighting against the design of the tool? Perhaps it would be better to just make a chroot and tar it up? I've tried to educate myself on the tool and make my own judgment, but it's surprisingly hard to find material about Docker that is actually about Docker instead of primarily being a sales pitch for containers and microservices that happens to describe them in Docker terms.
By the way, if you stop and think about it, you'll realize how much effort it is to "stay in one place" if you have some kind of anti-gravity drive. For instance, right now, I'm sitting at a Starbucks in New Jersey. From my point of view, I have not moved during the last 8 seconds. And yet, planet Earth just moved front-to-back over a point on its orbit around the Sun. And the Sun is rotating through the galaxy at about 40 kilometers per second. So long as you are constrained by gravity, you don't have to worry about this. But what if you had an anti-gravity drive, such that you never experienced gravity? Can you imagine the incredible effort it would take to remain in a "stationary position" if that position was, from your no-gravity perspective, moving very fast, in several dimensions? That's why this jumped out at me:

"The craft was jumping around erratically, staying over the wave disturbance but not moving in any specific direction"

We should exactly expect a craft to be "jumping around erratically" if it has an anti-gravity drive, yet is also trying to stay over "fixed position" relative to another object that is rapidly spinning (the Earth).

And boiling or frothy water is, again, exactly what water should look like if it is being effect by anti-gravity:

"The disturbance looked like frothy waves and foam, as if the water were boiling."

If you could wave a magic wand and make all gravity on Earth stop, the ocean would rapidly disappear into space, and as it did so it would look as if it was boiling.
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Somebody trusted their browser, because never before they attempted such things as installing code that has nothing to do with the browser and is an advertisement gimmick.

I am genuinely astonished that somebody up the corporate tree at Mozilla thought this is a good idea. I mean, I get the appeal of getting the money and doing the cool IRL tie-in to the show, but that's not just how you do it. If I am a fan of a particular actor, I don't expect him/her to suddenly be in my bedroom when I come home one day. I would prefer to invite them first (if I am so inclined).

The trust here is specifically trusting them not to do such things. Which now has been violated. And the fact that CMO says anything else than "Man, did we screw up! We're so sorry, would never happen again!" is deeply sad and concerning.
I went on this one once, it's actually the worlds oldest I think. Short, but incredibly steep!

https://www.salzburg.info/en/travel-info/arrival-traffic/cab...

<del>I can't find any info on an exact percentage but I'm surprised another railway beat it as it really is very steep</del>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m507EEHp34

EDIT: 62% according to wikipedia (once I found the right name for this railway). That's less than half the one linked in this post. Impressive!
Fox owns a bunch of production rights that they haven't been using, especially Marvel. E.g Hulk, X-Men etc.
Indeed, we do have plans to support nosql in the next few months. Our Pricing for nosql will be really different and a lot lower for the storage. We started with relational db first because a lot of developers have existing skills with RDB and it was requested by ALL our beta testers.

Our platform is a fully automated system with high availability & zero maintenance required. So you don't have to setup a RDS box + front end server for the api + load balancer + .... maintain / update all that stack.

And YES, we are very flexible and open to suggestions related to our pricing
This is also why we posted here, to get valuable suggestions and comments :)
Because if you were smart enough to understand that the banks own quite literally everything as they control currency itself and they're not going to put themselves in jail.