skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IANA timezone database[0] contains some real gems in the comments. A lot of research has gone into making it as accurate as possible.

For instance, at the top of the UK entries in the "europe" file, you get this:

# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06):
#
# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
# and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph
# of the text said:
#
# 'An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands
# beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude
# was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed
# this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They
# made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament,
# but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking
# along the towpath within a few yards of it.'
#
# I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's
# position is 51 degrees 28' 30" N, 0 degrees 18' 45" W. The longitude should
# be within about +-2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761.
#
# [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]

Or in the "northamerica" file:

# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09):
# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian
# Community office (using contact information available at
# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla
# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States;
# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether
# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their
# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I
# did not inquire about practices in the past.

And for furthere errata, I will mention the artist William Kentridge, whose video installation "The Refusal of Time"[1] was one of the cooler pieces I've seen in the last few years.

[0]: http://www.iana.org/time-zones

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaPnBorIMmc (YouTube doesn't really do it justice, but if you like art and you ever get the chance to see it, I highly recommend taking the time)
I am like this also... I wish I could just type into a search engine what I'm looking for and it comes up with

"Hey, this thing is available at these local retailers for these prices, all within 5km of your house. Here are the returns policies for those places. Here are the caveats to their warranty programs. These places have free parking. Caution: Place X, Y or Z only takes cash. Here's a list of ATMs enroute."

I really only buy from Amazon if I don't need something right now. Parting with my money only to have to wait for what I paid for for 4-6 weeks rubs me the wrong way.

Conversely, retail outlets could easily win me back by having their full catalogue on their website, which details in-store stock availability for my closest stores along with their final prices (including applicable discounts and taxes) and allowing me to place a hold on that item so that when I get to the store, it is there, waiting for me. The store locators are good and telling me how many are available in the store I've chosen is a good starting point, but it would be way more useful if I could put in what I'm looking for and then the site tell me the closest store that has availability and allow me to place a hold. Don't make me dig to figure out where I've gotta find stuff - remove the friction.

I've gotta be honest, it would take almost nothing to get me to go back to retail stores. Mostly I don't go because:

- I hate queueing up to wait for stuff - because I hate crowds of people and I hate wasting time. Time is the one commodity that nobody can replace no matter how rich you are. Stop wasting mine.

- The customer service is atrocious. I'm in your store because I need a product that you happen to provide. You're after my money. Appreciate that I could take my business somewhere I don't have to put up with the friction I have to suffer at your store or your diabolical staff attitudes.

- The warranties and provisos to their return policies are intentionally misleading. You have a product I want. You don't have to mislead me to buy it... if you're being so underhanded as to lead me to purchase items that are actually of zero use to me by making me believe that they are of use to me - until such a time as I try to use them and find that they are useless, there's a special place reserved in hell for you.

Find ways to remove those obstacles and I'll be back in a heartbeat. It doesn't take much:

- Appreciate my business.

- Make it easy to do business with you.

- Remove the obstacles and unnecessary friction that make me want to go elsewhere.
I'm near the Netherlands, if you have advice on the good ones, let me know.
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Lazer is shown as 'Available' on their registration form, FYI.

Thanks for sharing your story - I think a lot of people who have been following this thread can't believe what's unfolded.

I hope your feline friend continues to get better.
I wonder how successful Wikipedia would have been if it weren't for being the first result in almost every Google query.
I'm using app.hackerwebapp.com for browsing HN from mobile - easy to use on mobile.

But anyways keep.
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For 8 bit RGBA, using around 10 bit HSV, you can round trip if you're very careful in your code.
There's a short list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting
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Thanks very much for confirming. Glad to hear it may really be gone!
How do you think it got that way? Honest question, I don't know much about SEO.
A drunk guy in a back seat is always better than behind the wheel, I agree. But there is a limit.

The driver could have been gentler than provoke a drunk guy.

That's akin to saying "the girl got raped? Well, she shouldn't have worn a miniskirt". Being less than gentle to a customer is not a crime, hitting someone is.
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Heh. They're dead right about the difficulty of cutting through a million options. I feel lame every time, but I find myself just going to thesweethome.com or thewirecutter.com, and then buying whatever they tell me to :-/ Either online or locally, whichever is more convenient and/or cheaper.
They meant to say north east Germany, it's a minor typo.
"It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment run by utopian radicals."

I have absolutely no recollection of this. Wikipedia has had some trouble, just like any other successful project, but has in my view been widely regarded as a pretty successful project that everyone wants to have around (unless you sold encyclopedias).
It isn't fair to compare U.S with countries like Japan, Denmark etc. U.S is very big and very diverse compared to these countries and that presents a different set of challenges.

Once a friend and I started counting languages as we walked around Times Square. In 20 mins, we counted a dozen then gave up (we couldn't identify the others we heard). With such diversity, it is not easy to agree on anything without lots of effort, discussions and compromises.
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Agree with all.

On the warranties: I think that the warranties are offered by someone else. The airlines do it that way for travel insurance. It's probably a no brainer for an executive meeting with a warranty rep to say "hell yeah, almost no cost to us, and lots of people are stupid enough to buy this."

The retailer is paid to disrespect you.
Indeed. So why does the title here (and not on the original article) describe the number as prime, when the whole point is that it is not prime, and cannot be prime.

Hence my comment that the submitter might want to change the title.
People who work at facebook probably have enough money to not be desperate about earning more

Based on casual observation of my surroundings, some of the highest earners I know are also the ones that are the most desperate to keep and grow their earnings.
Do you by any chance have links to those studies? I'm building a crowdsourced platform, so that info could be super-valuable to me.
I made a site where I can list comedy videos I like. What do you think?
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I notice in that page it compares the number of "full" Ashkenazi Jews in the population, to the number of people who won various academic prizes who had "full or partial" Ashkenazi ancenstry, which seems like a very blatant distortion.

On reading slightly further I see someone else has already spotted this and added that disclaimer to the text.

Seems like it would be relatively easy to compare like with like here, which makes me suspicious of why it isn't done. Does that mean that the effect disappears when you do that comparison? It's certainly going to be reduced.
The CEO is not even trying to do the damage control.
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"Human brains have evolved with a flitting, fleeting ability to maintain focus on any one thing."

I thought that was just me. The ability to pause, rewind or replay a lecture is just so incredibly useful. I wish this had been available when I was young.
Santayana explains.
Isn't it an indicator of success that it is the first result in almost every Google query? The articles don't write themselves and Google tries to show the most relevant information, hence the articles must have some standing before they percolate up the results.
I'm working on a method to containerize standard shared hosting.

I got the idea because a bunch of my previous clients / colleagues from when I worked in the adult industry are still stuck on shared hosting environments because of cPanel and the like.

I want to achieve the simplicity of shared hosting, with the awesomeness of being able to deploy it anywhere and the beauty of Docker.
They're tweeting that most of the comments on here are coming from competitors. I think the problem is they're so overly defensive they're completely in denial.
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17 years of experience, seen all the paradigms come and go, have a solid CS background. So far, I've stayed away from native mobile development, choosing to specialize in other areas.

Looking for any resources (free or paid, print or online) that will get me up to speed on native development quickly, ideally geared towards experienced programmers so I don't have to wade through chapters on setting up IDEs, etc.
Seriously? One guy (who is not even affiliated with a political party nor has a political office) makes a tasteless comment and suddenly the whole of Germany is supposed to be on the verge of turning fascist again? And even if 25% percent were going far right - there would still be 75% holding other political views. Trust me, Germany is far from going extremist any time soon.
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Befehl ist Befehl ;-)
Snowden should be welcomed in the USA, too.
Tokamaks need, to contain the plasma, a continuously changing magnetic field. To create a continuously changing magnetic field, you need to continuously increase or decrease the current.

The issue is that you can not turn up the current more than a maximum level, and you have to keep the direction the same (so you can’t switch between turning off and on).

Stellerators instead solve this with complex geometry and the plasma creating its own continously changing magnetic field.
Yep. Seeing the same thing on a Nexus 5 using Chrome.
NO! NO! NO! NO! What product are you reaching? What is your business model? What features belong in the product? Who are you reaching?

Marketing should be the FIRST thing you do. https://hbr.org/1991/01/marketing-is-everything
"Comments clip off the screen when you click into a comment section. When you zoom out, they're harder to read"

Yes, this is frustrating.
Could I suggest a less restrictive license? :-)
One special kind of bias I'm aware of is something obviously done by religious fanatics who invest significant amount of energy adding "a religion section" to every famous person's biography and formulating and selecting his/hers statements as the support for the belief even when the statement was obviously made as the opposite.

As the most prominent example, the religious people take a deep care not to have this quote of Einstein on his main Wikipedia page: "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends."

The goal is obvious: to present "the smartest people" as believers, "one of them."
Right; but that doesn't work in health care because of the regulatory environment (which in this case, is absolutely necessary). It's not like the hotel business where if you have a bad experience, Airbnb can just solve the problem with money. There is a long history of misleading health claims on products that has existed for almost all of human history; so any product you claim improves the health of the user has to be backed up by data.

"Redefining the problem" is marketing speak for finding a way to trick consumers into using your business model. It's fine in the case of something like Uber where you're short-circuiting a bunch of disparate and protectionist taxi laws, but federal regulatory agencies are rarely fooled by such tactics, and aren't shy about labeling you and your company as scam artists while sending a federal prosecutor at you if you try.

Basically, if you're gonna fuck with the government, make sure you fuck with municipal and state governments. The feds don't take crap, and will steamroll you if you threaten to circumvent their jurisdiction or deceive them in any way. This happens to hundreds of companies a year (just look at Theranos and 23andme for some high-profile examples), so they're definitely not bluffing.
Or sometimes they don't do it at all. Just look at Berlin's new airport. Still not open.
Knowing next to nothing about cameras, I just bought my wife a DSLR (the Nikon D3300) based on the recommendation of thewirecutter.com, and she loves it. I don't think there's a need to feel "lame" about it -- there's a limited number of decisions I can make in a day[1] and an even smaller number that I can truly be well informed on. For all the rest, I'm totally happy to outsource my decision making to online review aggregators like yelp/amazon or curation platforms like thewirecutter.com. It seems to be working so far.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10490354
It seems like a case of the fallacy generally known as "poisoning the well". You can start there.
My inspiration from massive science projects is more like: "With that in mind, debugging this 1500-line function is nothing!"
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So far as I understand it (arm chair physicist), Stellerators "shape" the plasma in a "natural" way, Tokamaks force it into a more "unnatural" shape - like trying to put a beach ball [plasma] into a box [torus].

If I misunderstand it disregard my comment entirely, although I'd like to know why.
It's not about pandering, but about being inclusive in an educational setting. You're giving a talk so as to inform people, not imply they are lesser in some way. To concretize, consider replacing "the front-end developers" with "those unfamiliar with the concept":

> I will explain shared memory multi-threading in a bit, especially for those unfamiliar with the concept.

Versus the condescending:

> I will explain shared memory multi-threading in a bit, especially for the front-end developers.

Tiny change, makes all the difference. Be inclusive; don't be condescending.
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I am not saying we are turning into a fascist country again. Definitely not.

But the right wing terror is getting scary, with dozens of asylum homes being burnt down just this year.
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"00:12drmjgoh no. #1 we can but as you know is not like we go and delete each account instantly as 80% of users who requests account deletion come back after two weeks to requests their account back and are mad we deleted it
00:12drmjg#2 people who requested account deletion in pasts used the accounts for credit card fraud and then re-create new ones"
"as the population gets larger wealth gets more concentrated. Even so, the very richest person holds a smaller fraction of the total wealth." http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/01/future-wealth-inequity...
Seriously. "Whoops, zoned out for a minute, lets rewind" is soooo much better than "Whoops, zoned out for a minute, and now I have no idea what's going on and might as well zone out for the rest of the lecture".
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My thoughts: https://rlafranchi.github.io/2015/11/02/would-you-hire-a-convict/
10 years ago I was optimistic about Wikipedia.

For me Wikipedia and Stackoverflow are now only reference material; - I rarely even consider contributing. I still pay a bit once in a while for the fundraisers but my feeling is that will decrease as well.
Seconded. And some people are making themselves much less employable — that commit history is there to stay.
When I had a cat who would wake us up in the whee morning for food we (my family) ended up just putting him in the back room and closing the door.

In the end we'd walk in about an hour after was his wake us up time and he'd just be sleeping on the chair, so it didn't seem to detrimental to him.

And of course there was water and I usually left a small bowl of food.

Now when I left for college one day and basically disappeared from his life, he got pretty sad (he started sleeping on my bed which he'd rarely done, and meowing more often) and when I first came back on some vacation he'd barely let me pet him. It took a bit to regain his friendship.

I always felt pretty bad about that, he was a great cat.
"When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.

Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.

Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

Be unreasonable and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

Don't order new working' materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.

To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope."

Seems like items 1-4 are strongly in effect at most places I've been to, unintentionally of course. The statements on committee-forming and pedantic wording ring particularly true, and I fear that these things are what people are learning from each other. You don't need a committee or meeting for most decisions, and the wording seldom matters so long as the spirit is there for internal documents.
On the other hand it teaches those on the ground that obeying illegal orders is perfectly fine, because, hey, you won't get punished.
Ada represents everything that is wrong with the U.S. Department of Defense's approach to solving their organizational problems.

Systems integration projects routinely fail in the military community, and the reason for this, of course, must be purely the result of so many different programming languages! Anyone who has worked in that industry can tell you that the problem Ada was trying to solve wasn't the actual problem.

Limited number of available programmers due to absurdly arbitrary security clearance process: Check
Highly bureaucratic culture which has multiple middle managers for every person who actually works: Check
Contract award process which is so complex that it favors proposal writing skills over software writing skills: Check
Bloated fiefdoms whose members actively fight any and all efforts to integrate to protect their own jobs: Check

None of these problems are ever going to be solved by a programming language.
Right, I meant the search team. oh well.
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Yes. If you don't block facebook on your network then you get what you deserve. If you have friends or acquaintances who openly use facebook next to you then you get what you deserve.
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But in reality, Hacker News doesn't merely represent a large potential user base... there is almost a hardcoded, "#include <HackerNews.h>" kind of dependency for anything that claims to be a platform for sharing the development of software products.
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and yet the "I was only following orders" line of defense should not be very popular anymore, especially in a german context.
If you care, you can pull birth certificate. That will have birth date, mother, father, and other relevant information.

But who cares?
It's really hard to argue against consensus reality. If enough people are all convinced that Alicia Keys is born in 1981, they will all keep repeating it until it's true.

My own pet battle in this war for truth is that "open source" was coined as a synonym for "free software" in 1998 and nobody called free software "open source" before then. There are so many people who argue so vehemently that "open source" was a term that people used naturally for software before 1998, and this gets repeated so often as to become consensus reality.
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Accelerated reference alignment (via something like an FPGA) is definitely a way forward as the problem is now relatively well understood.

Would be interesting to see where things go with respect to de-novo and graph alignment.
Not at all. Pull request created. Sounds a bit better too.
> If you care, you can pull birth certificate.

Can you? These things aren't exactly public record, are they?
If it's helpful: the "sting" of this attack is that it works even when you can't inject Javascript into the page; that's why it's referred to as an "HTML injection attack".

The canonical HTML injection attack is cross-site scripting --- it's so canonical, in fact, that we usually just think about XSS, and not the generalized flaw of HTML injection. This is an illustration of how even closing off Javascript as an attack vector doesn't stop HTML injection attacks from working.

See also:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/postxss/
I also have no recollection of this. 10 years ago I was in college and Wikipedia was ubiquitous enough that every professor had a policy about its use. It never seemed doomed, maybe it seemed to be finding its place, but to me not doomed.