skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you planning on open sourcing your OT framework? I started working on an OT implementation as a learning experience a few months ago, but eventually got caught up in other things. I would be very interested in playing with your code!
A 'Manifesto' makes me think of Marx and the Unabomber.

A manifesto is just a public statement or declaration. I thought of the Cannibal Manifesto and the Hacker Manifesto in addition to the Communist Manifesto. There are lots more listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto#Notable_manifestos
While it certainly sounds scary to relinquish control, what has been fascinating is to find how much people are hesitant to overstep. In our open democratic model to date we have not been burned by giving the "copywriter equal say". In fact it has made our work richer to open it up to many voices helping us out.
It would be nice if they'd tell us the standard deviation in addition to the averages. I got 19, which puts me below the mean for the Asperger/HFA population, but I'm fairly sure I'm not in that category. Really, the two averages are barely more than four points apart, which is a rather modest interval compared to the range of scores that's been reported in this thread so far.

Edit: It'd also be cool if they gave us more data than just the total number correct. Like, which emotions was I the best at recognizing? How well did I do with male faces as compared with female faces? Etc.
Also 26. The average on HN seems a bit higher. I wonder if there's some selection bias towards reporting higher answers.
One little bit of difficulty I had was that, while the original image was a bit too small, the zoomed-in one was (I felt) too big - I would have preferred an image size somewhere in-between.
We have specialized circuitry to process faces. People are congenitally deficient in this regard suffer from prosopagnosia (in the same way that some people with normal hearing are tone deaf).

That said, you're not completely off track. It is very likely that said circuitry becomes better at disinguishing the kind of faces it has been initially trained with.

A nice complement for this study would be to test mixed race and adopted people.
That's a real shame, I was thinking of building something on it too. I wish there was a way to get HN pages in simple JSON/XML.
Because the pyramid defines a group "fruits and vegetables". I could define any set of edible things I wanted in a small g group, but the pervasive inclination to think about "fruits and vegetables" inhibits my goal of getting people to think about them separately. Fruits are not the same as stems and leaves.
Programming experience?
What is the general average? I didn't make it far enough to get told what the scores mean.
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That's still a decision.
For those referring to "REST APIs" as part of single-page apps:

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

Point being, if your AJAX app is built in the typical fashion, it is very unlikely to be at all RESTful itself. It is however enjoying the many benefits of being built on top of a RESTful protocol (HTML), like running in any standard web browser without any pre-deployed client software.
There are some things that Java just is more verbose at. For instance, my pet peeve - accessor methods. Most other modern languages have properties, which allow you to only write special cases when you need them.
34. I think you might be on to some thing.
That's exactly what my API did. JSON, JSONP, and XML for pages, comments, profiles.
C Puzzler - Like Java Puzzlers, but for C
Or any semi-modern scripting language, for that matter.
It's not as elegant as, say, the lightbox window providing you with the URL to link to, and does cause annoying issues with the browser history.

That said, it's a lot cooler and more robust for site owners who might be looking to provide linkers with a little more context than serving a standalone image.
Where can one download this new Limewire?
Ask HN: Sign up for my HN November side project beta: Minklinks
As an alternative to NaNoWriMo I decided I'd do the HN November Launchpad - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398 for more details.

My project is now underway, there's code checked in and some basic functionality, but I need people to sign up for the beta (either next week or the week after) to try the app out.

Basically Minklinks is an anti-social bookmark sharing service. It creates a personal bookmarklet where you can send links to your friends with one click. I wanted to write this as my wife and I send lots of links to each other, and I was fed up with signing into e-mail on which ever computer I found the link on. If you like the concept, please sign up for the beta at http://www.minklinks.com/.
I totally agree that it is more suited to non-profits and other social enterprise. Those are certainly the folks we are directing our message to. However I do think it has wider applicability for any team that is interested in working together in a more decentralized way.

In terms of the heirarchy, it is not a total open free for all. While anyone can vote and comment on open projects, only the votes of the members are binding. Therefore we create a forum for all voices to be heard, while still allowing the devoted team members to drive the work in the right direction for the team.
I think software quackery is perhaps the most easily drawn comparison here. Pick your favourite popular 'thing'; Rails, or BDD, or the grand-daddy, Agile.

Now, do we have charismatic preacher men drawing up a crowd and selling their patented tonic? Does it make your dick bigger and your stories more complete? Will it put a sparkle in your eye and a boost in your conversion rate? Will it How! All for the low low price of $99.99, that's $99.99!

Does it sometimes work? Sure! Is it a sure thing? No! Is it quackery? And How!
thanks for the feedback, I think you make good points. We will revisit that homepage. Such an important first impression.
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23 over here.

Of the ones I did get the majority were calculated guesses. I would have scored a lot lower if it wasn't multiple choice... or as my roommate pointed out if there was a fifth option: None of the above.
Thank you for the confirmation.
Will the ihackernews browser interface remain active?

I hope so, because I love it and use it every day.

Whether or not it will, thank you so much for creating it, as well as the API!
31... Agreed.
25 - "average" but I'm sure there will be reporting bias in HN comments.
From the title here, I wouldn't have guessed the article was breathlessly proclaiming the software back from the dead like a zombie vampire Jesus!!1!
This is actually quite nice because it allows permalinks to the lightbox items. This makes for a rough browsing experience if you need to go back, but I like the detail that lets you link somewhere that someone can actually find in the future vs. "go to this page, then click here, etc...."
While one-liners are almost always bad, the lack of non-crippled anonymous functions is the one thing that really bothers me about Python. They don't /have/ to be on one line; see Ruby's each blocks, for instance.
How about Your First iOS Application? http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iPhone...

Don't underestimate the quality and utility of Apple's free documentation.
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1800 calories a day isn't going to be a major challenge to his insulin system, no matter how high the glycemic index, even in the long term. What he might have to deal with is the increased hunger from lack of satiety signal (leptin, et al), which would then require more will power to avoid overeating, a precious commodity. Better to spend under your caloric limit by eating foods with bulk (broccoli, carrots, etc) and some strategic fats (a sprinkle of cheese on your salad, nuts for a snack), thereby maximizing the satiety signal you get for those 1800 calories.
see my response.
31. The only stress was that at a point I was alarmed because I felt I was misreading too many.
Do you mind explaining? I can't tell if this is meant as a joke or a serious counter-argument. At any rate I assume there is some sort of firmware controlling the lights [edit: guess not, read juson's comment below], monitoring the buttons/ induction loops, etc. and the easiest way (to my mind) to disable to buttons would be to disable them in this software and have the system stop monitoring them. However if you have any insight into how the lights work that would be great.
Huh? He's also the one who posted this to HN. It seems to me like he wanted to have conversations with both the HN community and his readers.
As an alternative to NaNoWriMo I decided I'd do the HN November Launchpad - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398 for more details.

My project is now underway, there's code checked in and some basic functionality, but I need people to sign up for the beta (either next week or the week after) to try the app out.

Basically Minklinks is an anti-social bookmark sharing service. It creates a personal bookmarklet where you can send links to your friends with one click. I wanted to write this as my wife and I send lots of links to each other, and I was fed up with signing into e-mail on which ever computer I found the link on. If you like the concept, please sign up for the beta at http://www.minklinks.com/.
The buttons are almost certainly a disease vector. I'd hardly say they aren't causing harm.
Introducing LivelyCouch Part 1 – writing Node.js handlers
Do rankings change often enough to need daily emails?
Why "the customer is always right" is wrong
Transform Your iPhone into a Stun Gun
The general population average is 26.2, and the Aspergers/High-Functioning Autist average is 21.9 according to the end of the test.
Units of Measure in F#: Part One, Introducing Units
That was the point of my piece. Ronnie has done some great work, and deserves all our gratitude.
The new HTTP externals proxy handler is a big deal and makes pairing CouchDB and Node.js really clean. Thanks Paul for writing it!
Thanks, I appreciate it. Yes, it will remain up unless I'm told by PG to take it down :)
Balanced arguments are more persuasive
Yeah. Or a single transistor.
Agreed. Also, with the image zoomed in, I could no longer see the options, so the entire test was far too taxing UI-wise. And I can't remember my exact score and after clicking Next can't get back to it, even though I assumed I could because it had a Back button before that. I was expecting more information about the score after clicking Next, but all it did was close. And it's unnecessarily in Flash.

This seems very poor for a site that appears to sell software with which to make quizzes.
Can you add something that tells me what it does without having to watch through to the end of the video? Even after watching it I'm wondering how it knows which friend I want to send to and why it's anti social, does it not say who it's from?

This might be interesting if you can get the pitch across clearly. Nearly 1/3 of the way through Novemberm good luck!
Thinking if you build it they will come. It doesn't. You have to go out and sell, you have to push harder than the other guy, who may be bigger, stronger and cheaper than you. You still have to do it. You have to get rejected and have your skin make a Rhino's hide look sensitive.
I did a version of this test without instant feedback around a month ago and got 20/36, and just got a 25 on this one.
>such as that people of one race are most likely to be around people of the same race

Not to mention that that likelyhood can be (much) more so than any individual would prefer:

http://web.mit.edu/rajsingh/www/lab/alife/schelling.html
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Segregation
Or iterators/generators and itertools.
In my mind, Electrical Engineering is closer to hardware engineering. I went through Comp Eng, and did many a hardware design internship, but I am quite a low-level fellow. Many of my colleagues were EE, not CE.
Quite possibly. The test is also long enough that I probably would have bailed out long before finishing if I had felt I wasn't doing well enough to be curious about the end result.
If someone pushes the button and the door doesn't close immediately I wouldn't say nobody is the wiser. More likely, someone just caught the common cold for no reason.
Head can also sometimes get around restrictions in place. Some web servers place access control restrictions on GET and POST requests only, and when combined with other silliness (such as returning 200 OK or 404 errors for almost everything) then the HEAD will usually tell you what's what.

Of course sometimes it's the other way around and the HEAD request will give you 200 for everything.
15 seconds of thought went into this linkbait.
Had it done a year ago. I had really bad vision with astigmatism, don't remember the exact numbers, but they told me my right eye would never be 20/20. I went with the Lasik / WaveFront / Intralase, figured these are my eyes I might as well not take any chances (I'm in California, imagine an earthquake during the procedure). Cost me about $4500. From research to procedure it took me about a year to finally decide to do it.

Took about 15 minutes for the whole procedure and my results were awesome. A few minor side effects: After the surgery on the way home my eyes began to burn a bit, like when you get hot sauce in your eye, but not unbearable. Only lasted for about 30 minutes then went away. Also for the first few months my eyes would take a little while to adjust to night time. At first I would see larger halos in the street lights. After a few minutes in the dark halos would get smaller. After 4 to 6 months I didn't have any issues adjusting to night time.

I'm very happy I had it done, it's really worth it. Oh and even though my right eye will never get to 20/20 my vision is still excellent. Definitely life changing.
I believe Dave Winer has always advocated writing on your own space and linking into the conversation. I feel this is very insightful advice and pro-web and really "getting it".
I didn't get a chance yet to see what experiment Dave was building, his firehose, because scripting.com is down. But I'd give Dave the benefit of the doubt...
Really? I didn't feel that at all, although I did get an above-average score in the end. I felt I could name an emotion with most images, but I found it hard to select an appropriate match from the choices given and was often not satisfied with my answer. Some images I could not read at all.
As always, it should be noted that it seems likely that people who got high scores would be more likely to post theirs (few people like to show off as below-average!), which is one reason taking an average of the scores posted on this page isn't indicative of an HN average score.

(Me, I got 26. They don't call me Mr. Average for nothin'.)

EDIT: If I'd gotten 25, do you think I'd have included that last line?
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I'm also extremely introverted, and I got a 34. Asperger's and introversion are very different.

A lot of people get Asperger's, introversion and shyness mixed, but they are three completely different things.
Seems to be correct so far, 32.
I have had a DX Graphite for a couple of months and I am very glad I bought it. Firstly the screen is a decent size and I can read technical PDFs without a problem, second it's an e-ink screen and I can easily read it in direct sunlight unlike with LCD based tablets and it cuts out the eyestrain too. The only big drawback is the lack of colour, if you're reading about data visualization or any other subject that needs colour illustrations I wouldn't recommend it, personally I have an old Samsung Q1 Ultra for that, which is more than adequate, I'm waiting for devices with Marisol displays to come out before I upgrade. If you want to know more about different options for an ereader I'd recommend you check out www.mobileread.com
Python has == for value, and 'is' for reference -- that seems like a good solution to me, since it works for both "primitive" and "complex" data structures.
UWW Hackation in Whitewater, WI
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is hosting an open hackathon overnight on December 3-4th in Hyland Hall, Whitewater, WI. Come hack together code. Free food and T-shirts, door prizes.
Got 30/36. Yay! I'm not a Cylon.

Didn't find it stressful. It was interesting though when I would get one wrong and absolutely could NOT see why it would be the emotion described...
At least you could submit. They had some sort of catastrophe four years ago when I tried to submit -- there was just some sort of "come back in a few months... yeah" blurb.

I forgot all about it until I saw this, so I guess I'll check back sometime in 2013.
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i do not understand the video's tie in with "social justice" and the environment? is this a manifesto or project management software?
Yep. I went to read it expecting some insight (as I don't know Java) but was disappointed to see the article was so generic.
Maybe outsourcing QA isn't such a good idea after all.
Does anyone have any comments on outsourcing QA?
Here this would only be the case if the traffic had already been flowing for a certain minimum amount of time.
When humans see a face, we apparently focus on the eyes and the lips. Once, for a summer job, I worked with our school photographer retouching the scanned images of the incoming freshman class. For efficiency, we just blurred the images to obliterate any scanning errors, and then restored and hand-retouched only the eyes and lips. Subjectively, the difference between blurred and blurred-with-original-eyes-and-lips was astonishing, while the difference between original and BWOEAL was comparatively rather small. I would assume that human expression and human vision evolved in parallel, in a complimentary fashion.

This also explains why humans so easily find faces in inanimate objects, or in three-character sequences like :-) and ^_^. We're just highly tuned to recognize and parse very particular physical features.
The entire post can be summarized in its last line - "Eventually we'll find out if he's Jeff Bezos . . . or Jerry Yang."; and it is definitely a perspective, not a conclusion. So, no need to go high for/against Zuckerberg.

The way Facebook has been growing amidst all its Privacy issues, there is no denying to the fact the someone out there has been taking some amazing decisions and has been working really hard. I think information sharing (photos, status updates et al.) is just the beginning. With the volume of data that Facebook has, it can potentially do things like targeted search results, targeted shopping suggestions, targeted music suggestions and what not!
I've been diagnosed with apsergers and got a 32, nice!
The solution is not to change browser behavior, that's fine. Just remove the hashtags from the images so the URL doesn't change when you click on the picture.
Alternatively, http://www.frostwire.com/ is a pretty decent LimeWire fork.
It would be stranger if he didn't post it on his blog. After all his blog has been around for almost 10 years longer than hacker news, was around before they were called blogs. Dave was also the guy that invented RSS.
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Bookmarklet - easy and quick way to translate any text on the web.
Weird bit of trivia: in photos of faces, the eyes carry most of the emotion, but in cartoon faces, the mouth does.
Thanks for that.

Basically when you want to share a link with someone you have a lot of options but none that are both easy and ubiquitous. Minklinks changes that by making it really easy to send links to anyone without using a social network or opening up your email.

Email is ubiquitous, so your link gets submitted to minklinks and is sent on to your friend. You can specify friends when you create the bookmarklet (so I can create a "Send to BarryDahlberg" bookmarklet) or (if I have time) a little pop-over with a countdown timer will kick in, where if you click inside you'll get a form to add people to send it to. When I send you a link, you get an email from Minklinks telling you that iuguy minklinked you, with the link, a title and an optional message.

I'm hoping to get the initial bookmarklet done this weekend, all the mail side works, the creating a minklink via a form, user registration etc. Once I have the basic bookmarklet, I'll open up the beta to people who submitted their email address, then I'll have open registration.

Thanks ever so much for the feedback on the pitch, this is just what I need!
I think code quality misses the issue.

The right metric (IMO) is actually fairly easy: bug count perhaps normalized by project size or reach (number of customers). Whether the software does what it is advertised to do is the very definition of software quality. There is nothing more or less than that.

Code quality is obviously a component of software quality, but it's not the only one. In fact, there's no study out there right now (that I'm aware of) that says messy code leads to bad software quality -- just a hypothesis and lots of anecdotes. I would think that it probably is true, but it's nowhere near self-evident.
Common problems with proxies
Ask HN: What's your experience living/working abroad?
I would like to spend a year or two working abroad, teaching English and/or programming and contracting. I am wondering if anyone has done something like this. What advice you would have: financial, finding work, living arrangements, language skills needed, best places in the world to start off, etc. Also, any resources you can suggest would be great.

Thank you
If you like Python but not the ":", check out the Cobra language: http://cobra-language.com/samples/WordCount/. FWIW I do like the ":", reminds me of a TODO list; in fact my plain text notes tend to look like Python ;)
Your customer segments aren't needy enough
What impressed me about Zuckerberg was when I read about the reported offers throughout Facebook's young history. Millions here, a billion here, MTV, Yahoo, Microsoft. It was alleged that Ballmer casually dropped the "$15 billion offer" while walking with Zuckerberg.

And still, he turned them all down. It leads me to believe he knows something we don't, because you'd have to be insane to reject that much money at that age. And still, Facebook grows, rakes in more money, and becomes worth even more.
I recently finished developing a simple news app for the iPhone. I wanted to reduce the overhead of the app as much as possible and I wanted a refresh feature but I didn't want the user to have the ability to receive news updates from my service at his will. So I made the cache only expire after 15 minutes. When the user clicks the refresh button within 15 minutes of a previous click it actually does nothing, but display an activity indicator for 2 hard coded seconds. This isn't for critical news updates. Just very slow niche news updates. It's my most recent version of a placebo button.
The page doesn't load for me, Google Cache got it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I was extremely surprised by this, I had at times almost gone so far as self diagnosing myself with aspergers due to my complete lack of interest in all things touchy feely and human, but hey; 35/36.
We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace.
So welcome :) In a couple of months, if you really want to have that "moment of zen" again, give a chance to SICP (it's a wonderful book) which will teach you functional programming and Scheme in the same time.
Why not attach a buffer to the front of the synth and run the audio rendering in a separate thread? Isn't this how software synths work now? What's preventing this from happening in the browser?
great tool - but it seems to be returning your raw source code right now vs. delivering the index
personally, the sidebars do nothing but intrude in productivity. When I feel like being social though it's great.

What has sold me on the browser is speed. Hot dog is it fast! Pages that would normally take a second or two to load in chrome load instantaneously for me, even over choppy campus Wi-fi. Couple this with that search bar and I'm good to go.