skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you're more likely to know the sociable people with Asperger's than the antisocial ones, right? What you describe is not the case with all the people who have Asperger's. Some avoid social interaction because they know they don't understand the norms and prefer to avoid potential conflicts. You can't make a generalization there.

Shyness is all about anxiety about social interaction. Oversensitivity to social norms can cause it, yes, but also bad experiences or low self-esteem.

Introversion/Extroversion is about where you focus your mind. Introverted people are more focused on their own thoughts and mental processes, and extroverted people are more focused on interacting with the mental processes of other people. If something, introversion would imply caring less about social interaction and social norms, not oversensitivity. That doesn't mean introverted people don't care or follow social norms, or that they're not sociable. They just need more time with their own thoughts and feel less stimulated by petty social interaction like small talk. That doesn't mean introverted people are not sociable. Some introverts are very sociable and good at conversations, because they try to make their conversations interesting and stimulating. Some other are not interested in being sociable at all.
For a more comprehensive list: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-devel...
When I (caucasian) moved first to Japan for six months I had a difficult time telling Japanese people apart. By the time I had been there for 4 months this effect was significantly less. In addition I remember being startled to realize that people looked "less japanese" to me.
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My guess is its a deal that won't be happening again? :-)
I agree. This felt like a test of whether or not one is conditioned to recognize how actors use their eyes to express certain emotions rather than a test of how well one can empathize with the feelings of others in the real world.
Just curious, does that link cause you any problems in your browser? If so, what browser and on what platform?
Just adding my score of 32, which was a surprise. And quite a confidence boost. Just hope the test results aren't rigged. They ya go, over-thinking things.
I actually think software engineering has quite a bit in common with construction. We both work off blueprints, we have certain regulations that our creations have to adhere to, and we acquire skills as we gain experience that allow us to shortcut the conceptual underpinnings of the work of creation. A framer, for example, should have a rudimentary understanding of physics. They should know why certain shapes are strong, and how much load a given frame can bear. As they gain experience, however, they begin to recognize shortcuts. A joist in one circumstance should be 6x8", 10x14" in another. The knowledge of which implementation needs each size is not, however, rigorously determined or proven. The framer knows from experience which is required.

The same is true of software engineers. We gain, through experience, the knowledge as to what solutions are suitable for a particular problem. In general, however, we don't arrive at this knowledge through rigorous proofs. We arrive at it by empirical testing, and figuring out which solutions work best in a given scenario. Just as the framer is generally unconcerned with the principles of architectural engineering for the business of building a house, so too is the software engineer generally unconcerned with the theoretical underpinnings of their code when it comes to building a product. Certainly, if one is designing a new non-relational database language, or a new search algorithm, then you'd better have a very good grounding in theory. When it comes time to implement them, however, we generally accept that they are theoretically correct and concern ourselves with making it work in the real world. In the same way, a framer will generally accept that the architect knew what they were doing, and not concern themselves with the theoretical correctness of what they're building.
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EBS definitely has performance limitations, however creating striped RAID arrays of EBS volumes significantly helps with performance.

This blog post walks through a bunch of things you can do to make the best out of the flexibility you get with EBS, and includes scheduler tuning, RAID block size planning, etc.

http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs...

My team runs a large AWS/EBS backed implementation and, while we've seen some of the EBS performance issues, we've certainly engineered past them to get us where we need to be.
Or with Schmitt Triggers -- I built a little synth around a schematic from Music From Outer Space -- makes awesome Forbidden Planet type noises.
If you're in this situation, you might try honing your focus - if you can zero in on the most lucrative/time segments of your consulting practice, you may be able to make this work.

This does depends greatly on your client mix and financial situation.
21/36 - high functioning autism. Should I go see someone about this perhaps? Weird.
Seconded. It's not a done deal until the money is in your bank account. If someone offers something, you write a Memorandum of Understanding at least to clarify the details.

Also, never trust anyone who asks for a little bit of work at a discounted rate in return for the promise of more work later. Even if they're a government department. They may mean well, but they're almost certainly not in a position to back that promise up.
When do you know you should keep pushing and when should you pivot/move on to something else?
I always seem to be battling with this question.
While it's possible that I do have Asperger's (and I'd be interested to know if I did), I'm not sure how this properly tests anything. I know that Asperger's is sometimes characterised by a lack of understanding of social nuances and non-verbal expression, but how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words?
32. At least those responding corroborate your prediction. Could be self-selection. Those I got wrong I spent too much time analyzing, might have selected the "correct" answer if I had acted quicker. Does that corroborate Dunning-Kruger a bit?

EDIT: Reading further in the comments quite a few folks revealed a lower score. Actually that should not be too surprising, since some number of high-achieving, socially awkward types find fulfillment in hacking (Bill Gates).
I heard about a guy who did this named Steve.
Yes. Caused both firefox 3.6.12 and safari 5.0.2 on osx to have fits.

firefox on ubuntu and chrome seem to work without trouble.
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Out of curiousity -- is 'UAW' United Auto Workers?

I would find it funny that they were outsourcing ANYTHING.
We'd almost done that - had a brilliant marketing plan drawn up and everything; then burnout hit myself and my business partner (hard). The coup de grace was delivered by the GFC

(Even here in Australia, small businesses were hit - and all our clients were small businesses or primary industry and simply stopped paying invoices or returning calls.)
In cartoons - eyebrows are used to express a great deal of emotion.
Have you tested to see if the delay is diminished? There are so few of those I can't imagine they're placebos. When I lived at GWU I can only remember the ones across Pennsylvania, and everything else was automatic.
As someone else points out, without standard deviations it's hard to know how indicative this score is. I got 23, which is consistent with previous tests I've taken (on which I score somewhere between "autistic" and "not autistic").

For some of them I felt like I was doing it "in software", using rules that I know consciously instead of intuitively recognising the emotion. But I don't know to what extent that's actually true (or if it's even a particularly meaningful distinction).

I definitely felt like I had an easier time with some emotions than others. That's not surprising, but it would be interesting to see statistics for each individual face.
I don't think you'll get many answers, because your question is simply too vague. The world is huge. What kind of place are you looking for, what are your expectations regarding work, what about contact with other people, what are you trying to achieve, what are your preferences? Every single country would a different answer here.

"Abroad" is a very large and diverse place.
Wow, did you actually just say "If you want a better UI then look at Google TV." as a sentence? Just...WOW.
The issue with piracy is because Apple lets their DRM be cracked by just running gdb on the encrypted processes (while running) -- if they put any effort into it (kernel level blocks, etc) they could make security possible even with these hacks.
Compared to Comcast's current guide? Yes.
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That's not directly downwind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_faster_than_the_wind#Sa...
On the sales side I don't stop till I'm told we've lost the deal. Even then I still ask for feedback and try to see if there's anything that can be done to recover it, but direct B2B is a bit different to what most people do here.

For other stuff, to be honest I'm just as guilty of holding on too long or overinvesting time in something that won't work at the expense of something that does as much as anyone.

I just try to recognise my mistakes, learn from them, how to spot them happening again and how to avoid/evade them. I think that's all I can really do. I try to suck a little less each day, with varying degrees of success/failure :)
Bad partners who didn't want to work hard. It's toxically demoralizing.
I created a helpful product that 9 out of 10 users said they would recommend to a friend, with about 1,000 paying customers. I was too shy to market it or advertise it anywhere, though. I got dejected after being declined from YCombinator in Spring of 2007, and on top of that, my dad was laid off that August. I decided to make the program free to focus on a job I started, and I stopped maintaining it soon after.

Another is that I got into the iPhone Store beta program in March of 2008 due to this product, and purchased a MacBook Pro to learn Objective-C. I felt it would be correct for me to quit my job right then that March and spend the next few months creating an app to release to millions of iPhone 1G and 2G users while app expectations and competition was very low. I didn't want to deal with the stress and negativity from my dad of quitting my job just six months after starting it, having dealt with that negativity for years. I was also doing some dental work and the job had a $2,000 dental insurance. Instead, I created mockups for the company I worked for that were shown to the COO/CIO, thinking I could maybe get a bonus money. Instead, my manager was promoted. I applied to UMass that same March in case I wanted to go back to school in September, which is what ended up happening; the idea being that college was a good place to find a co-founder. Although I ended up winning one of the two entrepreneurship competitions here, the overall feel of a state school is to get a job, not do something entrepreneurial.

I'm about to make a third business mistake: trying to get into the grad school so I can continue working on the front-end of a rails app I'm already doing undergrad research with right now.

The problem with being a single founder is that there are so many people trying to tell you you're wrong, and with increasing intensity, that even if the signs are all positive it can eventually get to you. My customers love my product, and that's actually all that matters according to entrepreneurship logic. But when your parents or others don't see your customers, as well as pretend not to care in order to demotivate you from it, to them, it was like I was just home all the time.
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Same content but instead of being HTML it's RSS 2.0.

http://static.scripting.com/hackernews/rss.xml

That feed stopped updating this morning. That's the issue. I want the API that it's built from to be turned back on.

Hope this helps alleviate the confusion. :-)
I hesitated about posting this because of the date, but it seemed that it had enough relevant content to warrant sharing it.
>According to Grossman, the next step is “to use a combination of simulation, chemical intuition, and databases of tens of millions of known molecules to look for other candidates that have structural similarities and might exhibit the same behavior.”

That last bit was the most interesting part of the article to me. I've read and studied a fair amount about number crunching to try and figure out the behavior of proteins, but I haven't heard about anyone trying that in reverse and just throwing random chemicals in a simulation and seeing if they have the desired properties. It seems like that sort of chemical simulation for material science would predate folding at home and the like.
How does that effect compensation? Do people plateau in compensation because of the lack of formal levels, or is compensation not tied so tightly to your title/# of reports/etc.
Wasn't the Gnutella protocol/network designed to be impossible to kill for this reason? Limewire's increasing centralization (in an attempt to "monetize" people stealing stuff) was what made them vulnerable.
This has been a really good resource for me: Learning iPhone Programming: From Xcode to App Store

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-iPhone-Programming-Xcode-Stor...

Has some really good practical examples and does a good job explaining it.
Very similar to some of the automated logic I needed to create for price tracking & prediction for my new startup www.happybuy.com.

What I found was that the biggest savings list:

http://www.happybuy.com/search//by-savings/

Needs to be quite intelligent to filter out a lot of product noise.

A lot of this is due to pricing manipulation whereby a price is low but the shipping is high. Also a lot of the products with the biggest savings aren't that useful :)

We've managed to improve the value of the list but are constantly tweaking it to get a good balance of savings and useful products listed.

Its especially important as we use a bot to auto-tweet the best saving of the day through twitter & facebook. Trying to get a bot to do this sometimes produces unintended (and often interesting) results.
The same goes for any people who either don't fit (to a much lesser extent) or for toxic people who bring politics into the game and suck the life out of a company. Those are mistakes I've definitely had to make more than once to (hopefully) avoid in the future.
I don't think those are the only two possible motivations.

"Nor could he ever wean himself from the notion, which is perhaps especially an American notion, that success and virtue are the same thing."
How does your code smell?
Now I feel like a jerk for discouraging you. Motivation is fragile. :\
I'd like to know that too. I got 28. The ones I got wrong I'm sure I got wrong because I started to think about it. I'd wonder if the person was smiling for example.

When I didn't think about it, And trusted my instincts and feelings instead. I always got it right. And figured it out almost instantly. But logically I can't explain that. It was like magic.
Those drivers never had the same form factor! even in the same eeepc they used to differ.

my eeepc 1000 has 40GB of SSDs. 8gb in fast SSD drive, and 32 on another, much slower. The 8gb measures some 8cm. the 32gb measures 7cm.

There were also dell mini9 that measured some 10cm if i'm not mistaken.

Those drivers use some non-standard pata (newer asus) or sata (older asus and dells) over a mini pci-e connector.

I have no idea what was standardized as mSATA, may be something completely different, or could be the sata version of those mini-pci-e
I'm just waiting for someone to build a searchable distributed index for bittorrent that connects you not with a peer but with a hop that just happens to be on the network. The people who actually have the files don't ever connect to the people they're sending it to directly. This network is self-aware enough that fast seeds tend to connect to fast hops and slow to slow. You pay a throughput penalty but you get a massive "security" boost.

Of course, the legitimate reason to be on this network is a tor-like "to help dissidents access files they're blocked from".

Seeing the *AAs trying to litigate that would be something.
Also a 32 here, and (at least when it comes to reading social cues) I've got all of the classic Aspergers symptoms. For example, my wife had to train me to make eye contact during conversation.

I think that training boosted my score a lot. You might say I've studied for this test...
Bug count is a poor metric for this. Not all bugs are created equal; some have orders of magnitude more impact than others. And then there's the philosophical question about what is or isn't a "bug". Most software isn't advertised with detailed functional and non-functional requirements covering every possible use case. So if the software doesn't do something the way a user wants it to is that a bug, missing feature, or simply working as designed?
Apple's iAds still not working outside of the US & UK?
I was pretty excited to do some of this when I got home from work, but my preferred language (Python) is only supported in an ancient version (2.3.0).

I wasn't sure when this version was released so I decided to look it up, 2.3.0 dates back to 2003.
I has became a bit like a nomad. In the last ten years I have been living in several countries (Spain, Italy, Germany, Romania, USA and now I just move to Denmark)

Some countries are more difficult than others. Work visas can be a pain in the ass, I left the US because the H1B wasn't really a good deal. Languages are always the biggest barrier, but in some countries you can start working even if you only speak English.

Three advices.

- Be positive, there will be times that things go wrong and/or you feel lonely. Don't desperate it take time and effort to build a social network in a different country.

- Keep in touch with your family and friends back home, Sooner than later you will be back.

- Try new things out of your confort zone. The job that I liked best so far was when I restored a very old country hause in Italy.
I know I left the question very broad. At the moment, I'm researching my options of where to go. I'm not tied to a specific location like Europe or Asia or more specific: working in Madrid vs. working in Tokyo vs. working in Santiago vs. working in Vancouver. Each of these locales have their pluses and minuses.

I can consult numerous guides on living abroad in all kinds of locales as well as read various blogs on this topic.

I am more curious about how the HN community members made it work for them, independent of their locale.

As for "every country would be a different answer", why not have every country listed here?
I don't have any studies on hand, but I specifically remember a lecture I attended where it was noted that infants do not have specialized circuitry to process faces. Their affinity for their caretakers, at least at a very early age, is actually not a result of recognizing people, but of the caretakers subconsciously learning how to better provoke an affectionate response.

You also saw this effect with the emotional robot Kismet at MIT. Its reactions were totally hardwired, but it managed to fool people into believing that it "liked" them.
For a separate project I've worked on (non-YC), we negotiated 50% off bandwidth and somewhat reduced server rates. You just need to ask for it.

Not sure what the YC deal is, but I assume it's similar.
Disable keepalives:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...
Sorry about that. What do the fits look like?

How much can they penalize you for opening a web page that has (what amounts to) a broken link?

BTW, I use Firefox on the Mac, on machines that don't have my CMS running on it (that's what the link connects to) without problems.
Right, and being on the receiving end of money transfer, Apple would not allow such software to exist as it would not only reduce sales for developers, but also percentage revenue for itself as well. Apple will always have some sort of fear in regards to safety, but money-watch will be at the top of it's most important worry list. Customer safety is a given as well, however there would be nothing wrong with Apple allowing some sort of choice where customers would have the option of deciding whether or not they want to allow extension software. This leads back to the aforementioned statement; Apple's primary concern is its revenue, just like with any business.
If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Could you give some advice/tips on getting work visas in the countries you've been?
I'd say, carrots don't taste nealy as good as potato crisps. They taste much better. (But that's because I don't like potato crisps.)
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One potential reason not to move: Security.

A good friend deep in the security community once told me, off hand, that EC2 was "owned." I didn't take this too seriously until another good friend, who has been working at Amazon for the past several years, told me that engineers at Amazon were generally forbidden from using AWS due to security concerns.

That much said, I still decided to use EC2/RDS/S3 to host the infrastructure of my latest startup. It is just too convenient to walk away from. Once it matters, I can move the critical stuff to dedicated servers.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not suggesting that Amazon knows AWS is "owned" and offers it to others anyway. I'm only noting that, for certain critical services, they themselves do not appear willing to take the risk.
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yes, 'UAW' are the United Auto Workers.
I scored 29. Not stressful, but kinda odd all the same.
Security AND Compliance, eh?
You can also try to grow more muscles by, say, weightlifting to get a more active metabolism.
While starting a ad driven website, we relied on Google Adsense. We were trying to bootstrap the site on very little funds. It wasn't until we'd been running for a couple of months that we dared to try and find local advertisers. In 1 month we were able to make more than double with local advertisements than what we had made the month before with Google Adsense. Our traffic didn't grow very much in that time, but local advertisers were much more willing to buy space on our site than we anticipated.

If I could do it again, I would try to book specific advertisers from day one. Slap a guarantee on there if necessary, but only use Adsense to fill in the gaps.
>how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words?

Not often, but supplying only the eyes is a good way to bring the scores down into a more useful range for the test. Assuming that eye-specific recognition ability is a close enough proxy for overall ability, of course.

Personally I don't think this test has anything to do with Asperger's. My feeling is that facial recognition is to some extent an acquired skill like anything else, and that the lowest scores are largely going to go to the people with the least experience in attending to the emotions of others.
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Employee 0 (apocryphal).
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True but in theory the advantage with RackSpace is you can mix and match to balance the cost of your known requirements with the flexiblity for your unknown.