skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify to those who downvoted; Steve was a Buddhist. As you know, Buddhist underlying position on live after death is that it doesn't exist. After death you are simply being reborn. So Steve had nowhere to "rest in peace". He's alive again.
> oh and also people with one hand.

That's why there are two shift keys.
And maybe it should affect what (if not how) you perform. If you are probably going to die soon, maybe you would feel your life best spent in a different way than if you had decades left.
If you were in New York City during Hurricane Sandy, in the lower half, at least, you got a taste of this first hand.

I had to walk home into the unpowered section of Manhattan every night from work. I took some photos during that time. Unfortunately, as it was still overcast, we never did get a chance to see the stars from downtown Manhattan:

http://tumblr.eyeheartnewyork.com/post/37636219209/i-finally...
Not to sound catty, but try to tell an elderly person what StickyKeys is
I've mapped caps lock to control on my keyboard but I like to use caps lock when I'm typing on a phone. For acronyms and such it is useful and the inability to hold shift on an iphone makes caps lock a better option. However, on a keyboard when it is trivial to hold shift, it is useless.
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I agree that display lag can be an issue. But HDMI is not the cause. Sluggish post-processing in the TV is (if it does color correction, sharpening, noise filtering, etc. etc.).
You're right, I was being hasty in my post. It's more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reengineering_(software)
yeah, but that's still different, especially when you want to show something like shaking the phone, or switching devices.
I don't think mortenjorck particularly disagrees with you.

I think they are reading [HDMI] specifically as [HDMI] rather than [The use of an external display, via HDMI].
Clickable: http://js1k.com/2013-spring/demo/1387#.UVLAsFETayc.twitter

Love the blur effect following the cursor, well done :)
Working to curb anonymous bad reviews on app store + get user feedback
There are actual use cases for the caps lock key. For example, drafters working on any kind of technical drawing will extensively use capital letters.
#include <def.h>
and many C defs and libraries(notably Gtk+ with so many constants), macros, and constants... This applies to C++ and Java as well.

I rest my case, from a C programmer.
That has nothing to do with what JohnnyCache was saying. JohnnyCache was saying that cops put on a punk "costume" but forget to muss up their clean shoes, unlike actual punks who are out all night eating and drinking and running around and generally making a mess.
Nonsense!

The average person uses CAPS LOCK a lot more than those function keys at the top, or the scroll lock or pause/break key or the insert key.

I use it when typing addresses for shipping labels or sometimes the column names for excel spreadsheets or serial keys or case sensetive captchas. I know it's not much but it's still a lot more than the function keys, pause/break, insert, or scroll lock.

I've never in my life used F1-F3 and F5-F11. (alt+F4 closes windows and F12 is for full screen, those I use).

Perhaps Capslock and Backspace should be switched?
That's good to hear. I always hate to see good projects die because their creators are super busy. Good luck with taking things over!
> on a keyboard when it is trivial to hold shift, it is useless.

I take it you are a touch typist and/or don't suffer from any motor skill problems?
Ivy educated and a two timer. How will you feel when she dates the next guy and after a few dates dumps you?

I don't see the need to brag about her education? Was that in some way relevant? It sounds like you might be feeling like you need to compensate for her to timing behavior.
Color theory? Typography? Layout? Art history? Hello!!! Asking a coder for advice on how to be a designer is like asking a designer to tell you how to learn how to code. Look there are no shortcuts. Can you learn to be an average designer in about a year or two? Yes. Can you learn to be a designer in a week or two? No. And not for nothing, there's a wealth of inexpensive talent out there willing to work for little...
I have my Caps Lock mapped to Control on OS X (10.6.8). Since the last update, the mapping disappears randomly. I googled and there're other people with the same problem, but no solution yet.

Figured I'd ask here if anyone found out how to fix it.
I don't know, Lua is pretty nice.
Ahh, that makes sense too.
Unlike most keyboards which have the ctrl key on the bottom left corner, MacBook Pro keyboards for some reason have the useless fn button at that location, and the ctrl key to the right of that. This makes text navigation with the emacs keybindings (eg, "ctrl+n" and "ctrl+p") even more awkward than it usually is, given that touch typing requires you to stay close to home row.

The solution to both this problem and the uselessness of the caps lock key is just to set the caps lock key to act as ctrl.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/162907
Sign Up is broken.

http://www.cupidwithfriends.com/sorry :
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

The same issue with Chrome:
The webpage at http://www.cupidwithfriends.com/sorry has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

I've tried to sign up under different fb accounts.
I've done my share of tech support, I don't think grandma has a hard time understanding sticky keys.
Complaining about the caps lock key has become somewhat cliche.

As a Vim user, just map it to control.
WTF. I had no idea it did that, and so I would press the key a bunch of times in a row until it "took". Sometimes 20 or 30 times. Drove me nuts, I just thought my keyboard was intermittently broken. grrrrrrr
>I use it when typing addresses for shipping labels

>the column names for excel spreadsheets or serial keys

Why would those need to be upper-case?
Letting a recruited negotiate for you is horrible. They have no interest in getting you a great salary. They say things like "just so I know the ballpark, how much do you need to pay your bills?" and then they will tell the hiring manager exactly what your minimum is, just to close a deal.

Recruiters are good for one thing: to make introductions. Good recruiters are good for that, and deserve the SALES commission for their SALES job. Recruiters aren't your lawyer.

Get two job offers, auction yourself off. That's how you negotiate.
Check out the position of caps lock on the Apple II keyboard, they had it right back then.
I have this set up on OS X and I love it. It's explained in this blog post http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/ along with some other cool things.
They don't, they just show up much better and bigger on the label.
If there is literally no light pollution in your vicinity (like in the middle of northern canada, hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest small town) on a very very clear night it does look something like this.

I've never seen the milky way with that much color, but the amount of stars and the star clouds of the milky way are not that far off.

The title is not just removing light pollution, it is removing most of the atmospheric interference. On clear cold nights you can get something close to this if you're truly in the middle of nowhere. Emphasis on clear and no towns within a few hundred kilometers.
> Real estate agent fees are typically 6%, equally split between buyer / seller agents.

This is long obsolete. Only a fool pays more than 4% these days.
This! For the same functionality on OS X, I use KeyRemap4MacBook (terrible name, great program).

Edit: sbader beat me to it. His link is where I originally got the idea, and is definitely worth a read--to some extent I think a lot of it is very thorough yak shaving, but... sometimes it's fun to shave some yaks!
That's pretty much the target group for the capslock key then?
For what it's worth, as someone who used to type with one finger, (And still does on occasion.) you have an entire other hand to press shift with barring a missing hand.
I'm going to get to the point. I was in the entertainment industry for 10 long years. My Jewish agent Yvette Bikoff told me to change my very German last name. I after setting up a joint account with her and moving abroad to shoot series (i was a from hte mid west and naive) she ended up trying to abscond a lot of $$$$ from the joint accnt. Long story short the woman who played my mother, her husband was a Jewish lawyer and threatened due to the sum to, to put her away for a very long time... There's the good the bad and ugly of SCHMOLLYWOOD. More bad, and ugly than good. Schmollywood is puppy mill for young goyim (means anyone not Jew) to come to Hollywood and try to make it... It's a total scam where if you gambled at a vegas casino you would have better odds... So the the stories Hollywood writes are ok'ed by Jewish heads of studios... All major TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) major movie studios (I live by Paramount) are headed by Jews. Its as if they want to dumb down the nation... The in Hollywood are incredibly racist and generalize other colors and creeds. but you'll never see a bad Jew in a movie, sitcom, or network show. Marlon Brando spoke about this on Larry King. (google) All the major Hollywood A list actors know this as well but would never say anything lest the studios black balled em... Mel Gibson, anyone...? They will not allow a media source or out let criticize them or their ideals in anyway. Pirate the fck out of them, fight for NO COPY RIGHT. Judaism is about power through financial collusion and control via the debt system. This is not a novel concept. The concept is not on the major networks so the idea or counter argument is never considered or if it is its' some white power idiot allowed on air to show that anyone who criticizes is an idiot conspiracy theorist... by the way I have a nice pension coming from the industry but if means people wake up and the media is once again fair and balanced Ill give it up in heart beat. Keep fighting. That being said a lot of Jews hate Hollywood too. Everything exists in the shades of grey. Rant off...
Are pre-paid credit cards really indistinguishable from credit cards?

I thought that some merchants didn't accept them for various reasons.
What? The job is what's for sale, not the employee. The hirer and the employee are the seller/buyer (or vice versa, doesn't really matter)
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/swyft-card/apple-s...

Very true. (it was swapped with control)
The USPS still recommends addresses be entered in upper case: "We recommend that you write addresses in all uppercase letters." [1]

This apparently used to be a bigger deal back when the USPS relied on OCR more heavily for bulk mail delivery, but barcodes have become the method of choice.[2]

[1] http://faq.usps.com/eCustomer/iq/usps/request.do?create=kb%3...

[2] http://smartystreets.com/kb/faq/should-addresses-be-in-upper...
I have to say, replacing the caps lock with a "search" (super) key is one of the best design decisions on my chromebook. It automatically brings up my Gnome3 app menu/search, which I used to have Gnome-Do for.

Needless to say, the "search" key is the first one pressed every time I boot up.
I totally agree.

From what I understand ZFS will never be supported for RHEL (and that's mostly what I work with) so I'm hoping for the best with BTRFS.
Early number sense plays role in later math skills
Super rare internship with YC S13 company
This is a very unique experience for the right person. We are doing YC this summer, and would like to have you join us.

We are building a new software environment that is meant for large server deployments. It is going to turn a lot of current thinking on its head. We already have great customer and partner traction.

About you:

- You love to write software, and write it fast.

- You're very comfortable with Linux. Maybe you run it on your laptop, or have used Gentoo in the past.

- You love, understand, and want to hack on open source software and work with open source communities.

- Your favorite languages are C or Python, but you've been tinkering with Go recently.

About us:

- This aint our first rodeo! There is a reason why pg accepted us into YC without hesitation.

- We are super technical. Our "business guy" can stump you.

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What we can offer you:

- Horrible pay.

- Health insurance, if you need it.

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- A opportunity for a part-time job when you go back to school.

- A HUGE (in caps!) opportunity to make an impact.

If you're interested, send an self-introduction and links to any public code, research papers, or security advisories you have contributed to.

If this is not for you, but you introduce us to the perfect person for this role, we'll send you $100 worth of bitcoins!

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As someone outside of Apple, the few times I got replies from SJ were of similar brevity, aside from one, which was a vegan cake that used apple sauce instead of eggs along with directions. I wish I had kept it longer, knowing his fate.
If email is important to you then you should have your own domain, then you're free to move it wherever you like! You can even set up GMail to forward your mail to your new address.

I moved to Google Apps (all the benefits of GMail without the lockdown) while it was still free, but I'd definitely pay for it if I had to.

When I changed addresses I created a filter and label to mark any messages that were sent to my old address, I went through the list every so often and updated my email address on the websites I still cared about. It takes a while when you've been using an email address for a long time so I'd start on that as soon as you move over!
> If I was the client I would be furious.

What if everything has turned out great for the client and he loves the result? Is it fraud if you "harm" someone, but they don't care?
Of course it does. Any draftsman worth his salt will tell you that many standards dictate all drawing text to be in caps - in fact, I cannot think of any proper design drawing that does not use full caps. Even drafting calligraphy used on hand drawn design drawings uses a very specific writing style that is all-caps.

Why would you permanently hold down shift for that? You have to type:

- general notes

- welding notes

- the bill of materials

- title block text, names, etc.

- dimension / tolerance info

- much more

all in capitals. There's simply no reason not to use caps lock.

On this point, it's also useful to note that the shift key allows the user to shift capslock off temporarily. This is the use case of all draftsmen I know, as the only time lowercase is used on drawings is for some dimensions (eg: the unit for millimetres is 'mm' in lower case).
So that functionality as part of capslock is necessary too.
What would be an alternative to the caps lock key? When I type final and/or static variables that are more than a few characters I don't want to be holding shift the whole time like a neanderthal.
I laugh off every resume that claims to have saved/earned the company $Xmillion based on some BS accounting that I couldn't verify even if it wasn't obviously fake.

Tell me how you can save/make me money, and I'll listen. Tell me that "You reduced IT spend my $5million" dollars and I won't have any reason to believe you.

Same for people who take sole personal credit for building something that obviously is the work of dozens.
This is somewhat of a repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5205058

Kinda surprised nobody else said that yet...
we are working on getting program going where corporate season ticket holders can donate their unused seats or suite as last minute as they want thru our app to upgrade youth groups like boys and girls club of america at the game to an amazing experience. some details to be worked out but hoping to make good use of all unused inventory at an event
Isn't zsh mostly a superset of bash unless you're just going nuts on both ends any how?
It's interesting to me that none of the "mainstream" (Mashable, TechCrunch, Wired) articles have discussed her public shaming of the two programmers, or how she dealt with the issue in general (i.e., not confronting them directly). In fact, most of these articles focus on the "rape and death threats" that Adria received which I'd like to think are the at the fringe of this discussion. They're nothing to take lightly, but I don't think it's fair to say they're representative of the tech community at large.

Public shaming is a method of cyber-bullying, and in this scenario, I think that label fits Adria's actions. While cyber-bullying is also a hot topic these days, it seems to be completely overlooked in this matter.

I'd hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but think Adria got her friends in the media to write some fluff pieces.
I didn't want to express that these studies don't take the utmost precautions to guarantee a reproducible and significant result, using animals that are essentially clones of each other and all the things you describe.

But at the end, results come down to whether a statistical test found that their findings are statistically significant. They don't exactly try to establish a causal nexus: they admit ignorance over the controlling factors.

ATHEIST did just that, run a bunch of statistical tests, and they all yielded p-values lower than what passes for statistical significance in that Nature article.
"I’m no expert but that looks like a horizontal sync pulse followed by a colorburst to me. But there was still no color on the TV."

You're an expert
It's only a couple hours from Tucson to the Kitt Peak Observatory, where they have astronomy programs for the public. I talked my wife into doing it when we were there visiting friends last year.

I highly recommend it. The astronomy is fairly basic, but the experience is incredible: You're up on a big mountain, surrounded by gigantic telescopes, in the middle of a vast desert wilderness. It's freezing cold outside after dark. When the program is over, you have to drive down the upper half of the mountain without headlights to protect the observations that are happening.
I think you make fair points and I don't have any strong disagreements. And it's true that I may have extrapolated "working for a start-up" to "founding a start-up."

However, I really do think that places like Github aren't dime a dozen and even calling Github a start-up (at this point, or even in 2010) would be somewhat of a misnomer. Working for a start-up seems to be defined by "wearing many hats" as the presentation states. The "wearing many hats" phase generally only occurs in the early phases of a start-up. That's where my extrapolation stems from.

And don't forget that many start-ups go under (again, we're talking about actual start-ups here, not Github in 2013). This was briefly mentioned in the presentation. But again, I don't think most college grads are resilient enough to handle that. I guess I just have a very serious problem with the romanticization of start-up culture -- it's a jungle out there.
Remapping Caps Lock on OS X Mountain Lion
Having spent some time in the White Mountains in northern New Hampshire, the sky I saw looked a lot like those pictures, I think they are fair depictions. I definitely remember it as being my first and only time when I could actually see the Milky Way.

(it's also a little freaky being above a thunderstorm at night)
Can't tell you how enormously surprised I am by this. :/
Uppercase characters are usually more reliably unambiguous when writing by hand.

With printed words, lowercase words are more legible because of the words' distinct shapes.

It seems that uppercase is just carryover from hand printing. I work with technical drawings and labels are uppercase for no reason whatsoever, and it's fatiguing to read.
Trey Burke leads giant Michigan comeback vs Kansas - Stabley Times
Look at how we respond to the US N&WR like all the other universities, by increasing our advertising spend and getting people who aren't even marginal admits to apply.
HBR: Presenting data on slides puts you at an immediate disadvantage
Fantastic post. Thanks for the great breakdown :)
As an engineer, there are a lot of technical documents and drawings that often require 100% caps. I wouldn't be able to do my job without Caps.

There are also a variety of applications and situations that I have used it, as simply a home user as well.

Not including being spammy or 'shouting' it
Once you get past the 'Someone is yelling' in all CAPS. Most of the time ALL CAPITALS IS EASIER to read for many people. It prints more legible.
Wow, those are really beautiful shots that you took. I did wonder what being in lower Manhattan was like after the storm and your photos capture that first hand. Thanks for sharing.
I don't know where the author gets his statistics from, but I am skeptical that 75% of the population in the US uses online dating. It often takes decades for social and sexual mores to change (if you don't believe me, take a look at the ample evidence from history). I suppose I fail to grasp the value proposition of a service such as this, though it is certainly an interesting experiment.
Same. "Oh--two CHARACTERS."
So basically you're suggesting the honor system. But in the early days of home computers etc., when a lot of software was published with no copy protection, people just copied it. I have a whole bunch of CDs gathering dust on my shelf, and none of them has any DRM or copy protection, so how come they are pirated?

Look, I used to run rave parties. We started with just a donation box, but eventually we switched to selling tickets because when we used the donation box we always wound up losing money on the costs of renting the soundsystem and the location. I hate to tell you this, but relying on the innate goodness of others - something that I naturally and greatly prefer to do - is a fast way to go broke.

Instead of going on and on about how awful DRM is - which I largely agree with but which frankly makes you sound a little unhinged - please show me some evidence that the honor system works on a larger scale. Because if I'm selling files for $5 with no copy protection and Joe Pirate is giving them away for $0 (but he doesn't want me to disrespect him by filing legal action against him or hurting his feeling by labeling him a pirate), tell me why people are going to give me $5 for the same thing that they could get for free?

'I hope people will do the right and give me the amount of money I ask for' is not a workable business plan. Nobody is going to write a large check for production costs based on that, because they're virtually guaranteed to go broke.
Those photographs are stunning – and haunting. Thanks for sharing them.
Right, every time I emailed him, he'd reply within minutes. Always just a couple of words, but the questions lended themselves for that. In person, he was a lot more chatty. For instance, I met him at MacWorld Expo SF in January of 1999, we discussed the merits of the hocket puck mouse for over ten minutes.