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Note: I am not a developer. My experience is in e-commerce marketing and my degree (est. May 2013) is in Statistics.

I've loved the field of human persuasion for years, and I think I can add something that I have written in the past to this conversation. I essentially made a list of marketing "truths", based on my research and experience, and have tested it against others. What remains of the list is what no one has been able to refute, so I think it's decently close to a list of universal irrefutable "rules of marketing."

The Truths of Marketing

1) Ethos (your perceived character) is the most important.

2) People make judgments by comparison/anchoring.

3) People process information best from stories.

4) People are foremost interested in things that affect them.

5) Breaking patterns gets attention.

6) People look to other people's decisions when making decisions.

7) People will believe things more easily that fit their pre-existent mindset. The converse is also true.

8) People handle one idea at a time best.

9) People want more choices, but are happier with fewer.

10) People decide first, then rationalize - If people are stuck with something, they will like it more over time.

11) Experience is memory, the last part of the experience is weighted heavily.

* Keep in mind that this should not necessarily be used a checklist; see what the director of a large creative agency says on the subject:

"I think that in broad strokes these truisms are accurate, but they aren't really how I personally get to the bottom of the marketing equation when working on a brand.

Of them, I think 1 and 4 are probably the closest, but I think the biggest problem is the same problem you find in how any analysis of consumers, or what is usually called "consumer behavior" is used -- it is, by definition, one step removed from what you're trying to analyze, yet it's treated like the consumers themselves.

Because consumers are often perceived as black boxes to marketers, there's a temptation to analyze their behavior and then market to that analysis instead of to them. Maybe this is because I'm on the creative side, but for me the most useful role of research is to inform and guide what is a form of for our consumer. To not just analyze what drives them, but to genuinely it yourself.

Reading research about twelve-year-old girls' purchase decisions and focus group transcripts is not the same thing as thinking like one. I have a client in that market, and I read everything when I'm working on something -- research, web sites, fan magazines, television -- but none of it is a substitute for sitting in a dark room and genuinely trying to imagine the trials of what it must be like to actually be a twelve-year-old girl from a first person perspective.

It sounds absurd, but that's how you come up with great ideas -- to do your best to become a twelve-year-old girl, and then develop things that you would enjoy.

So I think truisms like yours are useful as long as they remain a means to an end, and not, as they so often do, a checklist, or worse, the end itself."
At http://crowdhack.crowdconf.com/ the winner got a nepalese knife http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri.

I really wanted to win that.
Does it surprise anyone else that they're offering television with this package?

Clearly it makes sense, and seems like a great way to give Apple TV/Roku etc. a run for their money. Plus, if they expand this program, which they presumably will, it could put Google TV in a lot of homes... although it doesn't explicitly state that the 'tv box' will be running Google TV.
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grep doesn't need any more evolution. grep is the final result of the evolution.
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For big companies, the degree is just a requirement. If they ask for a minimum of bachelor, then they likely do not care if you have a Ph.D.

For smaller companies, experience is everything.

And Masters in English is not an advantage, unless you apply for a blogger position or something.
Eastern time zone, eh? Are you open to the possibility of a job in either Durham, NC or Chicago, IL? A job that could involve the need to travel up to 50% of the time? If something like that could work for you, email me a resume, my dayjob employer (Open Software Integrators) could very well be interested.

Otherwise, my only real advice is: start an open source project, or at least a side-project of some sort, even if it's closed/proprietary. Use the fashionable / cutting-edge stuff, even if you might not otherwise feel the need. Use it as a platform to learn the stuff you think you're lacking. Side projects / OSS work do "count* with (at least some) companies. And the kind of companies who do "count" that stuff are probably the more attractive ones to work for anyway.

Unfortunately, that is more of a "long game" strategy, and doesn't do much to help you in the short-term.
One of the things we did in my machining class was we built miniature brass cannons. They were .177 caliber (In the US that is a common size of BB). They were fully functional. You put in some gun powder, a bit of wadding, and a BB, then you could fire them by putting a match to the touch hole.

Somewhat difficult to wield in a gun fight though, not that we didn't occasionally imagine the students holding off an attack by firing a broadside from cannon of various quality :-)
As far as I can see, the problem is with the Yelp organizers, not the security. I have attended quite a few tech talks by banking and finance firms in Chicago. Quite often they're also in some of the most high-profile buildings in the United States. On the listing of their events they always say in massive font at the bottom: IF YOU'RE NOT REGISTERED YOU WON'T GET IN.

There's nothing wrong with this policy. The problem is that the Yelp event organizers didn't sufficiently publicize this policy.

Edit: Apparently there was a guest list, everyone's name was on it, and hers was marked as not allowed for some unknown reason? This is not clear from the article, but I gather from the comments.
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As a response to "On Leaving Academia", http://cs.unm.edu/~terran/academic_blog/?p=113
I don't think hypotheticals are particularly relevant.

What I would argue is that (unless you're the bouncer at a nightclub) it is pretty shitty to refuse someone entry without explanation. If you don't know the reason, you should be willing to call your superior and find out, and maybe sort out the situation properly.

And if it's a company where that kind of information is "secret" and not disclosed to the people who are enforcing it, that's a sick culture.
My point is, once you try to determine the primary uses of certain things, you come to the conclusion that certain popular items are primarily useless and serve mainly to keep emergency rooms in business.
Hm, well I see your point. Direct investment in companies is risky for everybody, governments and individuals.

But what else is there? How is government supposed to create the right conditions for a market solution? The solution was supposed to be carbon credits by making using polluting materials gradually more costly over time and thereby creating the conditions for clean(er) energy to be viable in the market. But that was rejected outright as a "tax."

Government as a member in the market is bad, we can agree there. But outside of direct investment, it gets politically difficult to change anything.
I completely understand the start fresh mentality. I just know there is a lot of man hours that went into the Bukkit API to get it to the level of features it at now. I would hate to see it take just as long to get the official API up to feature parity.
EDIT: This is meant to be educational, not a rant. I'm hoping people take it that way.

Maven requires a standard directory layout. Maven chose that hierarchy, because:

1) Namespacing. With tens or hundreds of thousands of packages out there, there needs to be an unambiguous way to refer to them separately.

2) Multiple language support. Maven can do Java, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, and so on - in the same project, even. It can even do Javascript, which isn't a JVM language, in certain cases. For the JVM languages, if you want a multi-lamguage project, there has to be an easy way to interoperate (this is enabled by namespacing).

3) Separation of test code and program code. Don't ship tests with your binary package.

4) Separation of code from data.

5) Automation - of packaging, IDE support, etc. This has to do with all of the previous ones. You want to produce a JAR, but don't want to include the default log configuration. So you package the project up. It just happens. You want to edit the code in your IDE. So you add the project. All libraries are downloaded and on your classpath. Add a few lines to your config (as a per-system-user setting or per-project setting, take your pick). Java documentation and source code for those libraries is automatically downloaded. Eclipse hooks it up for you.

Suddenly, this:

src/main/java

src/main/scala

src/main/resources

src/test/java

src/test/scala

src/test/resources

...makes a lot more sense. It's hardly overengineering, but even then, the engineer isn't the one engineering the build system; these are details Maven takes care of.

[Aside: I am appalled and flabbergasted by the ignorance typically leveled at Java by people who don't understand it✝. It has real flaws, don't get me wrong, but making dependency resolution and installation ridiculously straightforward, multi-language builds dead simple, and unit testing a core feature - these are good things.]

Take a look at ant and compare it to maven and you'll see which one makes your life easier✝✝.

✝ I have worn many hats, and have experience with Python, Ruby, PHP, C, Java, and a little bit of Scala in real world contexts, among others. So I'm not a noob who hasn't experienced elegance or conciseness or performance. Java is actually an amazing language that many people don't give it credit for. Though the syntax can be pretty ugly even when the code is conceptually solid.

✝✝ Losing a bit of nuance here - ant gives you configuration. maven gives you convention. Ant is good for very custom; maven is good for straightforward processes.
This. I think you may want to add that detail to your post. It's really important context.
Exactly. There are probably plenty of consumers who spend 90% to 100% of their time in iLife, iWork (or MS Office), iTunes and Safari.
Ah, I read your post as if you guys literally just showed up and expected to get in. Did they know you were all together?

I think you did the right thing by allowing the rest of the class to attend, but I feel terrible for your student, especially given the push for more women in engineering.
This is partially due to Maven as well. Its a pretty standard convention that most IDE's can abstract around.
Seems the sample is timing out- just an fyi.
I think you might be surprised. The internal perforation rate of ingested foreign objects with sharp points is low. People who swallow nails are routinely told to go home, watch for the nail to pass, and contact their doctor if they develop symptoms. The mortality rate for all ingested objects is extremely low.

It is possible that even when compared with nails, magnets are uniquely dangerous.
I really like the tutorial. The presentation on the main website is really good, too. Good work.
> What is the primary, if not only, use for a weapon?

What is the primary, if not only, use for a really fast motorcycle? Separating morons from any organs that can be salvaged after that final crash.
Doh! Should have included a link to this. I just added it to the post.
This is true. I like people not knowing whether or not I have a gun. It lets me free-ride on other people while greatly reducing the risk of a gun accident in my house.
You are the first person to mention this but it is completely true. We are not a mono culture by any means. As a nation we have deep divisions in our cultures and ideologies. Yet to be politically correct they are almost never discussed.
Since Steve and I first learned of digg (a couple weeks after we launched) all the way to right now (as a board member) -- I'm always reminding myself of how little there's to be gained from thinking about competition. Founders, regarding competitors, be aware but don't care!

On a related note, something I saw or read recently made a point that "more companies die of suicide, than homicide." I think that's a pretty apt statement... well, maybe not "suicide" but "self inflicted wounds" at least.
Or maybe only browser makers should be deciding what HTML is?
I'm pretty happy with my telco. They are owned by the customers, so everything they do has to be with the customer in mind. It is kind of funny when people in the big cities are still practically lucky to have dialup access while here they have fiber installed into farmhouses.
> I think developers do get too concerned with turning a user into a perpetual revenue stream however. This is really an old business model that is somewhat outdated.

Outdated?!?! I thought it was more relevant than ever with all the web apps out there.
Give onlive a try... it really is on the level. AFAIK, they receive your input and process it server-side. What you get is in essence a live video stream. I am sure that it is more complicated in execution, but they make it work - and damn well.
If you are going to be carrying around an external keyboard / dock to make your tablet behave like a laptop why not go for the real thing?
What's the big deal? It just lays out shitty photos in multiple columns.
Centralized or decentralized, just a resource everyone will know.
My point was that nobody was locked into any language. But if you have a large complex website with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, the company is somewhat locked in to the language. When some non-technical executive mandates that we're all switching to language X and everything is going to be rebuilt from scratch, you will get some pushback.
It didn't have to do with the name in and of itself, but the fact that it wasn't on the guest list.

Did you ever get to the bottom of why it wasn't on the guest list?

Did you ask the security guard (or did the guard offer) to get someone with authority to rectify the situation?
The overqualified part definitely applies, since they assume that you'll quit as soon as something better opens up. Which, to be fair, is usually true.
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You are right. Our API is strong enough that you could implement a SQL database on top of it efficiently. I have done it (using sqlite4 as the front end) as a proof of concept.
6,000 rounds is like 120 boxes. I have that many in my closet and at least as many empties. I don't know why this is getting tossed around as some unreasonably large amount of ammo. If you go to gun shows, you see nice deals all the time and it's kind of hard not to collect that much over a period of a few years.
Huffington Post's SEO abilities and juicing every possible pageview from a story don't make the best example for what book publishing should be like IMO.

We already have plenty of low-quality newspapers 'optimized' for sales all around the world. Invariably they have one or more naked girls on page 9, and "funny" police sections. Is that the future of books? Pure entertainment?
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Ask HN: How to interview the interviewer?
What kind of questions should a programmer be asking an interviewer in order to figure out if he/she should work at that company?

Is there anyway to "try before you buy", like to work for a day and see it's a cultural/technical/social fit for you?

It's probably different for different people/companies so I wonder if I can just get HN's broad perspective on this.

Thanks a bunch
Yes, guns destroy human beings, that is their purpose. And it is difficult for a lot of people to grapple with the idea that such seemingly fundamentally, some would say, evil devices can be used for good.

The comparison with cars is a good one though. Cars are an example of how lethal power exists in the hands of many in society. And that's true to an enormous degree, not just with cars though they are a prime example. Most people have the ability to take the lives of others without a great deal of effort. Imagine what would happen if, say, 1ppm of humanity woke up and decided to do murder that day. There would be a lot of killings. And yet society is still largely peaceful. Because most people can be trusted with the lives of their fellow humans. And it's important to realize how deeply we take that for granted. Something as simple as riding a bus or driving in traffic represents a tremendous trust in our fellow citizens to not murder us, and they trust us not to murder them as well.

Firearms do not represent injecting a unique capability for death and injury into society, they're just make that aspect of daily life more blatantly obvious. But just as with cars, knives, fists, pencils, hammers, bricks, fire, and all that most people can be trusted with firearms most of the time. And indeed when firearms are allowed into the hands of citizens of good intent they can be used to thwart crimes quite often. Many rapes and roberies have been stopped by firearms, often just by the mere presence of a firearm (not even counting the deterrent effects). And in some spectacular cases firearms have been used defensively to stop mass murders in their tracks. But these examples tend to be less dramatic than successful mass shootings, so they tend to be less well known.

On the whole, the point still stands, it is safer for the average person to own a gun than to own a car. And that is a testament to the trustworthiness of the average citizen, and the degree to which many people take gun ownership seriously and solemnly.
"However, for a more specialized position, such as Full-Time English Instructor or Editorial Assistant or Professional Lobsterman, I’m sure there are far fewer résumés submitted."

I suspect that this is not even the case, as many/most people doing the resume machinegun routine blindly apply to everything in sight.
> If he's already hot-blooded, it seems reasonable that he won't care.

Good point, he might do it anyway due to "blind rage"

> Ah, okay, but why not something like a 12-gauge shell, or just a blunderbuss? Or just normal/common 9mm/.45 ammunition?

I was making the assumption that any home-made rifle would be crude and small caliber, probably bolt-action (at best). I was assuming it would have less "killing power" because of the time to re-load and crudeness of it all. (I was not commenting on the force of the round itself)

> Mankind has been using knives to kill in great numbers since we discovered the first sharp flint. Even in only the past ten years:

The first incident was 8 children killed (and let's be honest, you can kill 7 and 8 year olds with your hands). The second incident was 3 adults killed. That's a lot different that 12 dead and 70 people shot overall with a semi-auto.

> Cool. What models, out of curiosity?

The .30-06 is a Remington 700 XCR. Up here in Yukon by law you must use a minimum of .30 for bison, so it's good for them (we gone one last year), moose (we got two), caribou (still looking). The season opens next week, can't wait.
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Seems to me like you're making comments just for the sake of making comments. Dear god, stop abusing that privilege. First of all, don't tell someone to stop abusing "that word" without mentioning what word you're talking about. Second, if you're making a point, be prepared to back it up. What is "losing all meaning"? In what ways has it already? What the heck are you talking about anyway?? How is your comment benefiting the original poster at all?
For people who don't have personal or professional connections, sometimes applying to job postings is the only route. I'd also note that to get above the other 626 resumes, you need to use other avenues of attack (like phone calls, etc.). Probably relevant to mention job-buddy.com here, a site I manage to help people track this kind of activity, and keep on keeping on with this arduous cycle.
There has to be latency issues, but as anyone that used to play Quake over dial-up can tell you: you get used to it.
I think he was driving at the idea that people who make malware tend to go for larger ecosystems.

The reality is that everything you do on a network involves some form of risk. You can mitigate these risks by performing tasks in a standardized way using only approved software, but a packaged Zero-Day that's tuned for your environment will generally succeed.

Getting a Kaspersky Payload isn't that hard to find any more; preventing hackers from knowing what anti-virus you're running is your responsibility.

In short, everything is about risk mitigation. Running the same software as everyone else exposes you to the same risk.

By the way, this point is tangential to the larger point at hand which is: Apple doesn't care about its developers.
You have a point. Now I have to find them... ;-)
This sounds like a lazy (likely contracted) security "officer". Call the company he works for and relay this story. There simply cannot be a policy that does not account for people sharing the same name.

If so, then THAT'S the story here...
Just tested myself. You need to change the browser default language to make it work, but it does a very good job!
This idea has been floated around many times. All you would be doing is telling every criminal where guns where. Not a good idea at all.

Also almost 50% of the people in this country own a fire arm. So I am not sure it would have the same "stigmatizing effect" as it isn't illegal or generally thought of as being a terrible act in and of itself.

Please keep in mind most people who shoot buy large amounts of ammo as it is cheaper to do it that way. Shooting 6k rounds a year down a pistol or small caliber rifle is very easy to do and isn't a sign of someone stock piling for Armageddon. So yes I would gladly share a wall with someone who has 6k rounds of ammo.
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All time is a bit rich, given how long the shares have been available.
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There could be a lot done with eyeball tracking. We already have setups that can accurately determine where you will be looking a fraction of a second in the future.

Eyeball tracking combined with speech or handwriting translation could be quite powerful. The eyeball tracking could provide a lot of contextual information to make speech/handwriting recognition more accurate.
By this logic we should live in a police state. Anything to keep the crime rate down right?
No one needs a Hummer, but someone's buying them.
and how old are these students? Pointing someone in the direction of public transportation and telling them to go sounds irresponsible. I get the author was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Certainly there was a better resolution...

Of course, there is no context in the story, so it is hard to say...
If it just had been the open source clone of instagram which I could host somewhere of my own to really own the results. And get my friends to join this shared space as well, so we wouldn't be dependent on instagram as much.

Something like "diaspora-similarity" but with instagram features.

Or heck, I might just revert to email. :)
Wonder if they use a similar technique to putting out oil well fires, albeit on a much smaller/controlled scale. "Typically high explosives, such as dynamite, are used to consume all the local atmospheric oxygen and snuff the flame out." [1] Granded, they are not using dynamite, but if they can duplicate the displacement of oxygen it could probably work.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well_fire#Extinguishing_the...