jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do use UTF-8 for my entire web stacks, but I encode characters in their special characters:

Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn

Becomes:

I&ntilde;t&euml;rn&acirc;ti&ocirc;n&agrave;liz&aelig;ti&oslash;n

When outputted to the browser.

Can anyone tell me if that is correct and sane?

Translating characters like & and € to &amp; and &euro; saves me a lot of hassle with validation:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2...

Line 265, Column 190:
non SGML character number 157
<code>â€œIÃ±tÃ«rnÃ¢tiÃ´nÃ lizÃ¦tiÃ¸nâ€ </code>

You have used an illegal character in your text. HTML
uses the standard UNICODE Consortium character
repertoire, and it leaves undefined (among others) 65
character codes (0 to 31 inclusive and 127 to 159
inclusive) that are sometimes used for typographical
quote marks and similar in proprietary character sets.
The validator has found one of these undefined characters
in your document. The character may appear on your
browser as a curly quote, or a trademark symbol, or some
other fancy glyph; on a different computer, however, it
will likely appear as a completely different character,
or nothing at all.

Your best bet is to replace the character with the
nearest equivalent ASCII character, or to use an
appropriate character entity. For more information on
Character Encoding on the web, see Alan Flavell's
excellent HTML Character Set Issues reference.

This error can also be triggered by formatting characters
embedded in documents by some word processors. If you use
a word processor to edit your HTML documents, be sure to
use the "Save as ASCII" or similar command to save the
document without formatting information.

Line 344, Column 79:
cannot generate system identifier for general entity "src"
An entity reference was found in the document, but there
is no reference by that name defined. Often this is
caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded
ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;).
The most common cause of this error is unencoded
ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands
in URLs".
I love the comments saying that giving $500k instead of $125k will make things worse. Clearly YC should have made things better instead, by giving less!

Why stop there though? If YC really cared about founders, they'd give them nothing. Better yet, make them pay - now that would have really been helpful! But no. Clearly YC doesn't care about founders and is only trying to exploit them.

YC really ought to stop making things worse for founders like this. I mean how dare they.
Most of the people I know who did competitive programming in high school spent a just a few evenings preparing for FAANG interviews and still got offers in the end.

I have the feeling that all the bitterness towards this interview process comes from people who refuse to do the initial investment of time to learn the foundation for solving coding challenges. Once you go through and understand a few hundred coding challenges, things start to repeat themselves and then it just takes practice and consistency.

Personally, I find coding challenges fun and even quite enjoyable at times, so I don’t see why it’s a waste of time to get good at them. At the very least, I learned a lot about Java doing them than I would‘ve learned if I did a side project where I‘d need to use some framework or library that’s based on Java.

Edit: grammar
A lot of these products are failing to innovate in meaningful directions. Instead, they add silly features to justify your continued use of them and their development team salaries.
> It means that the value of Harley Davidson in India in US$ would be equivalent in the US when the price is 21.3x

You lost me here. Can you elaborate on this more please? When it came to data comparisons you literally did multiply 21.3 with 9 cents and arrived at the value of 1.91$ per GB. So how is your comparing data costs using PPP as a normalizing factor fine but not fine when it comes to me comparing cost of manufacturing an iPhone or a Harley Davidson in both countries? Your argument isn't consistent. How can you ignore exchange rate and only look at PPP and decide the cost of living? It just doesn't make sense to me. Sure PPP gives a rough idea about where countries stand relative to the US when it comes to purchasing power parity but, more often than not, it is too far off from ground reality.
> Despite running html5zombo.com for over 10 years now,

Thank you for that.
Our security team ensures that visitors of our online shop have a safe shopping experience and their personal data is secure with us. In addition, the team also protects our corporate data and the equipment of our employees. Protecting customer and company information is an important part of our business and our team is passionate about improving it. Our goal is to create a secure environment without restricting or slowing down business processes.

From now on we are looking for a Security Engineer who is passionate to work on these topics, but also wants to take hands-on responsibility. The two possible profiles we are looking for are

1. An experienced penetration tester who wants to become better in defensive security
2. An experienced “blue team” player who wants to improve his offensive security skills

What you will do

Development and implementation of protective measures and security concepts
Conducting regular security tests and code reviews with developers collectively
Development of creative solutions and testing of new own tools
Implement security measures for the AWS infrastructure and improve existing systems (e.g. Inspector, GuardDuty, WAF)
Optimization and automation of work processes
Further development of our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system
Incident Response and creation of Incident Response Plans

Who you are

At least 2 years of hands-on experience in the IT Security field
Experience in Pentesting, Ethical Hacking, Bug Bounties, Compliance Checks, Black/White/Grey-Box testing
Very good knowledge of a programming language (like Python)
Completed training as an IT specialist or a university degree in computer science is advantageous
Knowledge of AWS is an advantage
Fluent English: spoken and written

Nice to have:
Ability to read and understand PHP, JavaScript

We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal!
It's not a linear function for what it's worth. It breaks the f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y) part of linearity.

It is a linear equation, confusingly enough.
That explains why people would pay less for a gift card but not more??
> The negative impact of this goes on his shoulders

Well, in this case, people are mad at Azure/MS and Canonical for betraying developer trust, not the individual salesperson. He's just a pawn in the game. It's not like this guy went rogue; this is his job.

The system is setup in a creepy way to enable this type of upselling, which makes people uncomfortable. Whether or not Azure or Canonical change policies, we shall see.
The article isn't easy to read unless you have some knowledge up front about the used technologies and what the problem is.

This definitely drives people to comment on other things.

My gut feeling screams they made a problem themselves in the first place which they then "solved". Similar to a "solution running around looking for a problem" type of deal.
Because Google runs ad servers. Using an ad blockers would be pointless if Google domains were allowed to bypass.
An online services firm that is 100% different in how it works compared to Google/Facebook's models. All of it's services are subscription based and tailored for people who bought their devices.
Username reminds me of an old saying in charities etc - if you want something doing, give it to someone who has too much to do already. Very appropriate..!
> But I'm not so sure about your proposed solutions. There are already many alternative rewards - Wu herself was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978 - and none come close to the public recognition that the Nobel has.

The Wolf Prize is only $100k, do any of the alternatives exceed the Nobel's amount of approximately $1 million?
Yes he used to work at Apple in the Maps team for many years but left a few years ago... thus his guess.
Offtopic, but one of the best things about Thinkgeeks site is the footer. Scroll all the way down to the bottom :)
If you really work hard, you can get beer potomania, too!

Edit: I see that HN is not the place for hyponatremia jokes.
The simple matter here is that people should not be attacking Mahalo because of their "spam" or whatever else you think they're doing. If you want to attack them, you should also be ripping apart all the results for the front page results for viagra, weight loss, acne, etc.

All they're doing is taking advantage of Google's weaknesses. If you use Google on a daily basis, which the majority of us do, but their results are not the high quality you're expecting them to be, why the hell would you be getting mad at the results showing up instead of the site serving up the results?

Everyone needs to lay off and start criticizing Google if anything.
I am assuming that exposing a filesystem to the native filesystem via fs.expose.fuse is not going to work in Windows, though?
Worth noting that Android 2.2 "released" a month ago still isn't officially available. Android fan here, by the way.
Here's a much better article on alcohol:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/par7.htm

There are much healthier, perfectly legal, and arguably more fun ways to alter one's neurochemistry than alcohol. If I told you all how to do it though, then dumb kids would take it way too far, the moral panic would ensue, things would get banned for no good reason, and I'd have to go back to drinking alcohol.
Perhaps they are maximizing earnings with an outlook of fifty to one hundred years. Allow their engineers a free hand so that product offerings are as diverse as possible and can later be integrated for advanced usages. Build interesting things and simply give away those not immediately profitable to gain and maintain constant mindshare in consumers. Rather than product ideas starting at the top and trickling down through layers of bureaucracy,
anecdotes seem to tell of a flattened structure wherein thousands of independent projects churn in a chaotic maelstrom of ideas, with internal popularity and management approval selecting how projects will be made public, monetized upon or released through marketing machinery.

As to your example, free optical opens consumers to try new technology since their costs are minimal. This creates general consumer knowledge that the technology exists, which creates demand, which can be fulfilled by monetizing the persons already geared for running and maintaining it. And if the experiment fails, it was decent marketing and proved the market doesn't exist without having to gear up and release product specific sales, marketing and other auxiliary offices needed for a paid product launch.

One presumes that shareholders of google buy in with the knowledge and approval that the company works differently than many others. Whether this direction will be advantageous or disadvantageous is what the stockholders are wagering upon.
This is really insightful. There is actually a huge body of research that does exactly what you suggest, and it largely supports your implied conclusion: people prefer death in hypotheticals, and prefer life when the question is no longer hypothetical.
Maybe this'll light the fire under Google's asses to hurry and release it OTA. I'm starting to grow tired of waiting to get it on my Nexus One without downloading the leaked ROM and rooting my device, which I'd really rather not do.
I'd like to see a discussion on HN about implications, but don't know well how to start it. If, to (violently) paraphrase Warhol, in the future everything is obsolete after 15 minutes, and slowly evolving humans, those who don't evolve to become machine-like, become ant-like relative to Godel machines in very short order, then questions that matter to me, questions about the meaning and possible dignity of being human for instance, take on a different and more urgent character that philosophy or religion seem ill-equipped to deal with, in part just because they are so anthropocentric, and seem to assume a more or less stable concept of the human. I've no idea if and when general AI will arrive, but with a three-yr-old son, I feel the need to think about it.
Thanks.

"Study what you feel like in this list."

That's part of the problem. Some items crowd out others. And there are a lot of items. :)

Since I often don't follow up on setting aside explicit time to focus and study and practice, I end up focusing on some things to the exclusion of others.

That may be a way of telling myself the effort isn't worth it. But I think it's really me just doing what seems easiest. While it helps to enjoy what you're trying to learn, there are future benefits to things that may not be that enjoyable now (like practicing the violin).

That's why I'm trying out assorted "learn in the background" sorts of things. Like running a flash-card app or playing German language videos while coding; it's sort of on the peripheral, but I still pick up some things.
That is correct. But until they're actually put into the standard they shouldn't be labeled HTML5, unless you want the term HTML5 to become meaningless.
I agree that an overhaul is needed, and coming, to the current education system. For better or worse, the traditional model will become less & less effective. I have no idea what the new model will look like, but I'm assuaged that prominent & resourceful people such as Bill Gates, Fred Wilson, etc, have either spoken or written publicly about this. Hopefully, it will come soon...

IMHO, the traditional classroom environment isn't an effective educational system. Many people smarter than I have written about this already, so I won't go into all of the reasons, save to say that I agree.

Some of the newer systems that encourage emotional & social intelligence are promising - and even more so, because digital media can sometimes have an anti-social effect.

My friends and I talk about this topic all the time. The education needs to be changed. Technology is changing social behavior in fundamental ways, good & bad. Could these fields, mixed with new learnings in sociology, anthropology, child psychology, and developmental biology, come together to form a new educational model that fosters academic, emotional, and social intelligence? Or, at least, a truly well-rounded individual capable of thriving in today's world, and evolving it where necessary?

We sure think so. If we aren't the ones who are going to come up with this first, I'm sure someone else will. Perhaps even someone here on Hacker News ;-)
There's lots of examples of successful lone founders, but most of the angel investors I met cringed at the thought of putting money into a one-man band. It's possible to overcome that with enough traction, but it is an extra obstacle.
I always found the idea of parental control of media to be rather badly thought out. What i mean is that my development as a young teen was greatly influenced by my access to violent and sexual music, movies and other content unsuitable for my age group, and yes, even pornography. I consider all of it to be beneficial, because it led to my current development as a person, and even though i don't conciser myself perfect, im quite happy with how I've turned out. Im not a parent but I'd guess that artificial restrictions on technology(which are also easily circumvented) are no substitute for good parenting.
All App Store apps that access user-generated content or browse the internet get this warning. Opera isn't being singled out. Nothing to see here.
I just tried submitting this but it's submitted with a changed title here. The actual title is:

The Real, Terrifying Reason Why British Authorities Detained David Miranda

The entire premise of the title is that, and the shorter version misses the point quite a bit.
Can't forget about the anthrax attacks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
Yeah. A movie like that might only get ten Academy Award nominations.

http://gravitymovie.warnerbros.com/
That's a completely different take on the financial crisis than anything else I've read. The history of the financial industry is one of the industry finding ways around existing regulation, over-leveraging itself, and then crashing.

Financial panics were a common occurrence before there were regulations. You're saying that less regulation would create a more stable system, but that historically has not been the case.

In other words, for what you're proposing, we tried it and it didn't work.
To me it sounds like you never had a long-term plan for the treatment or your own future. You jumped in, blew your savings, and now you're stuck.

It's too late for "could-have, should-have", but if you somehow manage to procure more money, at least consider alternatives such as slower treatment schedules or flying your mother to a country where such treatments are cheaper (India comes to mind as a potential option)[0]. Also, consider a second opinion to understand whether continued treatments will make a fundamental difference.

>I’m also terrified of driving in the snow (PTSD). I Uber everywhere

I've heard of PTSD from rape or war, but this is totally new to me. What happened?

>I’m yet to get a paycheck after almost 2 months of work because my co-founder hit a snag with some investors from a previous gig. I’m OK with this because in the long-run things will be golden.

That sounds very strange to me. If my family was in need, I personally would jump on a first job with a stable paycheck that I could get so I could (slowly but surely) provide money. This seems like poor timing to bet on a lottery ticket (which, as HN reminds us, most startups are).

[0] - inb4/none of these are an option because reasons
> we've open-sourced over 80 of the libraries

Some of them look quite interesting already.
> Bitstamp was bitten by exactly the same bug (the malleability bug

This is not factually correct. Bitstamp and MTGox's issues were unrelated, and the transactions that caused problems for Bitstamp were never seen on the network prior to a couple hours before MTGox's press release (and in volume, until after it).
> I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country

I also grew in an Eastern European country (Romania), and I remember thinking about those poor Soviet citizens who needed passports to travel inside the USSR. It all seemed very surreal, having to have special approval from your government in order to travel inside your own country.
They are memory hogs with or without particular extensions. I leave Chrome with 10 basic tabs open and in 4 hours, it's already "using" 2GB of RAM. The new Firefox Developer Edition with "process per tab" is similar. The best resource-friendly browser on OS X is Safari.
I mined my first btc on a laptop when that was thing. It was so hi tech when it was launched. It seems like it’s features are mostly gradual and around the edges.

Mobilecoin feels hi tech
I'm not defending shell, just pointing out how it works.

One of my biggest annoyances with shell is that there are these magic programs such as [ that pretend to be part of the language but aren't.

If if $var has an exit status (because perhaps you insanely want to have var be some program set elsewhere) your if statement would work....

These other examples have operators (test or similar expanded builtins), and those set the exist status that the if block reads.

so
grep -q hacker < /etc/passwd
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then echo hackd! ; fi

is an indirect way of saying:

if grep -q hacker < /etc/passwd ; then echo hackd! ; fi

Shell is terrible, but the way people use it makes it even worse because the sugar hides what's actually going on.
I found some information about this on : https://www.legaltile.com/
> Unless you're poor, self control and financial literacy pretty much take care of almost everything you mentioned.

You are correct! However, personal responsibility and accountability are a distraction from the real problem, which is a culture of profound ignorance. If someone has zero instruction in financial literacy and no training in self-control then is it a surprise that they don't practice either?

Trying to apply personal responsibility and accountability to a person who is completely ignorant for cultural and educational reasons is absurd. If a person doesn't even know what a budget IS then is it a surprise they max out their credit card? If a person is taught only compliance throughout school and their childhood then is it a surprise they have no sense of self-control?

Most of the people I know are in a sort of endless anxiety cycle about their finances with no understanding of why their finances are such a mess.

Applying responsibility and self-control to someone who is ignorant of even the most basic aspects of being an adult is ridiculous. This is like yelling at a puppy who pees on the rug who doesn't even know that they can go in the backyard instead. They just learn to resent you and the system who holds them accountable for something they don't understand. At best they just learn to comply with everything people in authority tell them to do and hope for the best, accepting that every so often they will get yelled at for an unknowable violation.
I have been noticing a line like this in job ads lately:

"this is a remote position but candidates must be able to commute to the office"
It seems like most of them do[1] (inc. ext4, zfs, btrfs), but they’re fairly limited in size (but should be fine for media tags and such).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes#Linux
Well done. It took me a moment to understand the joke but then I laughed hard. You should consider putting an actual store in there, I’m sure some sales would convert.
It initially wasn’t a concern, but the “only one external monitor” thing is really starting to get to me. Otherwise, performance, battery life, and lack of heat and fans are great.

I will probably upgrade the moment a new one comes out, if I haven’t fled macOS yet.

Edit: yes, I know about DisplayLink. I don’t do third-party kernel drivers, and the cost for a good DP module is more than I want to blow.
So why bother using Kotlin?

Seems like it fixes trivial things (makes simple classes a bit more terse) but retains the more fundamental problems and hangs on for Java to actually fix those.
NASA seemingly can't develop a simple rocket. How are they going to create a nuclear powered one?
tech guys are basically the core audience of rationalism/SLC
Yeah also somewhere after Java 7 (I think) Java stagnated because the next version was too ambitious (stuck in development-hell). To get back on track they cut a bunch of features, labelled it Java 8 and moved Jigsaw (the biggest hurdle) to Java 9. After this they also moved to the fixed release cycles.
What is your specific dislike about Google on the Rust Foundation board?
They won a Pulitzer Prize for the reporting and stories they broke about Weinstein:

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/new-york-times-reporting-le...

* For explosive, impactful journalism that exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators, including allegations against one of Hollywood’s most influential producers, bringing them to account for long-suppressed allegations of coercion, brutality and victim silencing, thus spurring a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women.*

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018

The idea that it was “easy” to report these stories is hard to believe when he was able to abuse women for decades without publicity.
If he had learned from his mistake, he would have shut down facebook by now.

Creating a website for the purpose of exploiting people you see as "dumb fucks" could be a youthful indescretion. Continuing to operating your dumb fuck exploiting service for nearly twenty years is the behavior of a sociopath.