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Ask HN: How to talk smart?
I am always intrigued by people who talk smart. This could be James Bond, lead actor in 'the spy' movie ( forgot his name) or Kevin Spacey in HoC and many more...
My current boss has somewhat similar quality about talking.
All these people speak slowly and clearly, feels like they are doing calculated talk but always make lasting impression. Its not about winning or losing argument rather making the point, make other party
think twice before they utter any word.

What can i do to aquire smart talk skill?
Any books , podcasts I can listen to?

This skill is largely possessed by spys, diplomats,
political leaders, executives but I cant find enough resouces to attain such skill and master it.

As always, obligatory thanks in advance for all responses!
NHS is firs party when NHS is making recommendations.
Software people might be interested in "The Bloom Paradox" for a case study in this kind of thinking.
No, I'm saying that when a chain restaurant with a psychologist on staff drafts the new menus, they will look at the entry for "Pho - Vietnamese rice noodle soup", and edit it to say "Pho - Vietnamese rice noodles in beef broth" instead.

"Normal" restaurants don't know all the tricks to get customers to spend more money, but businesses for whom that marginal 1% of revenues is significant will absolutely pick over their menus looking for loaded words and design tweaks.

If you have ever seen a smiley face on your receipt, that is a psych trick. It is experimentally proven to increase tips for female servers in midscale casual dining restaurants. Squat, smile, mimic. Push appetizers, booze, and desserts. Say you enjoy a dish yourself. Touch customers on the shoulder. Tell a joke. Pose a brainteaser. If a server does any of those things to you, they may have done their tip-boosting research.

Menu tweaks are pretty simple, actually:

- put cheaper, high-margin items near the most expensive thing on your menu
- create seasonal specials
- introduce new menu items as specials, sides, or appetizers rather than as an entree
- draw boxes around the popular items, or highlight them in some way
- carefully match descriptive tone with the desired clientele
- destroy all currency symbols
- suggest beverage pairings with the entree listing
- make high-margin items more discoverable
- chunk your menu into graspable categories; a giant pile of items should form a tree rather than a flat list
- make the most expensive thing on your menu more expensive

The word "soup" is a psychologically loaded word. You should only be using it on your menus if your overall marketing strategy is to attract value-based consumers.
I totally agree with everyone saying that you should know how to market yourself. If you can't sell yourself then who will?

Blogging\twitting is a good way to get yourself out there.

I had two options - blog\answer Qs at SO\tweet\contribute to OS projects or choose entrepreneurship. I choose entrepreneurship because I thought rewards are much higher if things are able to click. Unfortunately, things have not clicked the way I had wanted but I am not giving up. Did I made a wrong decision? May be not.

Now, I am thinking about starting on a slow speed on blogging\tweeting so that I can get myself known.

I know few people who started with blogs and made contacts out of that. It is a good form of networking. These contacts landed them few consulting gigs which slowly turned out to be a multi-million dollar business per month. There is nothing like when things automatically fall into place.
Canonical source: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
That's fair enough. In fact, I never even met my supervisor, which was just fine.
Cases where the challenge come from the donor don't seem to fall under the scope of the OP's strategy: a donor's challenges would be evaluated on benefit to the donor, maybe in terms of marketing their brand to the community, as opposed to how it affects donations. As you use the word "genuine" for that case, maybe the idea of whether matching grants are "effective" or not is simply an incorrect question?
I wonder if it's possible to create a streamlined platform for this kind of work. Like others mentioned being able to start at an outline stage and then move on to fleshing the parts out would be interesting. I could see the outline being its own repo and each "unit"(probably chapters) get their own repo and maintainer. Nightly builds could be conducted to merge the work in the repos into a coherent whole, reconciling missing parts with their outline bullet points. An interface over the "build" to make quick commits and PRs would be nice too.

Additionally a community style guide and "story bible" would probably be in order. I believe a lot of writing projects which involve a large number of writers like video games and TV series do things like this. On an unrelated note, are there any tools to enforce natural language writing style compliance? Like code linters for human text?
Yep, but if your lambda creates a new file in that bucket, it'll get called again (as an example).

Edit: realized my mistake in the wording of my comment above - _how_ I made the infinite loop had escaped me for a moment.
One would think that 20 additional characters per function don't really matter if you can save 100 keystrokes.

Compared to JavaScript, I have to press fewer keys when I write Dart. (This would be also true without shorthands like method cascades.)
I love OneDrive, possiblt the best native synchronization tool out there, at least for Windows anyway. Mine does a funny thing though, whenever i git clone a repo into a folder in OneDrive it will crash. Does that ever happen to you?
Talk with smart people. Get off your computer.
That appears to be from a 2012 paper, even though the result it trivial undergraduate statistics material, known for decades?
I have to disagree about this.

As a development environment both Windows and OSX are noticeably more broken out of the box as compared to Linux / FreeBSD. Neither comes with a package manager and you have to go through a song and dance to get a compiler / debugger / profiler toolchain setup on either platform.

You cant dump out the list of installed packages from your prior machine and use it as a recipe to get your new machine setup. On a linux box, I can provision a new machine and have it behave exactly as I want in under 10 minutes.

Getting nfs setup with good transfer speeds was an exercise in frustration on Yosemite (Ultimately I gave up, even on an ethernet connection I cannot coax my macbook pro to do > 2 Mbps nfs transfers). On Windows I had to buy an enterprise version for NFS share support.
typical white person response
The dollar sign is redundant and a constant reminder that the customer is giving up dollars they already have for food of unknown value. Humans are also hardwired to value a thing they already have more than something of equal nominal value that they could easily acquire.

In the same way that freemium games elide your spends of real money behind a layer of invented virtual currency, the goal is to make the customer forget that they are spending actual money.
" The process of converting long, tangled scripts into a composition of functions was totally consistent with writing proofs in upper-level math courses, like real analysis or topology. Mapping concepts in functional programming to axioms in functional composition continues to guide development in my projects – and the mapping helps me reason out some of the more esoteric elements of Clojure."

Interesting that Farmlogs came to this exact conclusion. Read through the requirements for back-end engineer: https://www.farmlogs.com/jobs/backend-engineer/

"We maintained our Clojure project for almost a year until it became clear that the project couldn’t be actively maintained by the deforestation monitoring (read: remote sensing) community. We are rewriting the code once again in JavaScript for general use and maintenance — which is sort of heartbreaking. I’m no good at writing poetry."

Why isn't there a greater up-takeup of Clojure?
A lawyer won't even take the case unless it is able to be proven that you were discriminated against.

You assume the interviewer will tell the truth in court, he/she will lie and make up a different reason why they didn't hire you to avoid being fired or covering things up.

You almost have to record them saying it, or having a letter or email where they say it. It is really hard to prove. It comes down to your word against theirs.

They aren't stupid enough to write down "This guy has a mental illness I refuse to hire him" they will make up other reasons to cover up the fact that they don't want to hire a mentally ill person.

I've been through this many times, filed with the EEOC, talked to lawyers, ended up on disability because I couldn't get a job. They never say they rejected you because you are mentally ill. Always "not a good fit", "overqualified", "not a team player", "lack of social skills", whatever they decide to write down even if it is not true.

Lawyers would not take the case because it was hard to prove.
I always confuse Peter Thiel with Chris Thile. So headlines like this really throw me for a minute until I get the two properly sorted.
This is the biggest myth that you will hear from every recruiter. If you do not get the problem correct, you will not get an offer.

If you go through a 3 person loop and get 2 problems right and 1 wrong, you might get an offer, but I guarantee that the voting would be two "hire" votes from the questions you aced, and a "no-hire" vote from the one you failed.

There are a couple of reasons for this. The most obvious is that, given two candidates, the better choice will (at least appear) to be the candidate who got the most questions right.

The more common scenario that I have seen is that engineers simply work backwards. If you got the solution wrong (or didn't finish) their thinking will go something like: they got it wrong -> they went down the wrong path since they chose a hashmap instead of a tree -> they are weak in data structures -> no hire

I am at one of the bigger tech companies, and it really is a roll of the dice on if you get a question on a topic you have studied. Especially if you have been out of school for awhile.

The worst part is that bigger tech companies force hiring on the engineers. Hiring candidates becomes part of your own career advancement. If it is a big company, you will go to a day of training and suddenly be a professional interviewer. It is even worse since my opinion (that this system is awful) seems to be the minority. All of my colleagues think they are great at hiring, pontificate over lunch on what makes a good candidate, and discuss their favorite questions (well, their favorite questions from the standard set of questions from the company bank. This is science here, obviously we use standardized questions.)

Of course, if you fail in the interview, you can always come back. It's not like I've ever heard a colleague say, "sigh I am not looking forward to this interview; We've already turned them down once."
Except the macbook pro ergonomics are horrible. After an hour or two of use my wrists looked like I had been trying to cut my wrists with a plastic knife all day. Apple rounds every single corner/edge on the laptop except the one you're most likely to come in contact with. Thinkpads round that corner aggressively so you're not likely to even come in contact with it.

It's my pet theory that it's only a small percent of the population that faces issues with the macbook pro hurting their wrists due to a ratio of (long)arm length to (short)torso length. Never the less the common response is to blame the users (and google macbook pro wrists to see they are many), instead of realizing people don't always get to work in a perfect ergonomic setup.
You might not have a Registered Trademark, but if you use a name or logo in commerce, you still have a common law trademark and still have protection against others in the industry using a name or logo that is confusingly similar.
Listen more, speak less. I can't say I have mastered it myself either. But what I learned in watching others that have that trait is they listen intensely and then respond appropriately with as few words as needed. I am working on the as few words as needed, but that's my two cents.

As for what to look for. Honestly, there are probably some books, but I don't have any recommendations. Instead I'd say, try speaking less, listen more and only say something when you have a point or a reason to speak. And try to be concise and to the point. That is probably 90% of the entire thing you are seeking.
If you perform an objective analysis of sound reproduction, it quickly becomes apparent that once you reach a certain price/performance threshold in speakers, the most critical element -- the element that has the greatest influence on the overall sound quality -- is room acoustics.

But it's so much easier to sell expensive cardboard boxes containing obscure brand electronics; there is so much more markup in homeopathic rolls of copper wire, than there is in convincing someone to ruin their marriage over living room decor. Plus, it's just not a sexy investment, and requires expertise to be done properly.

It has become the industry's inconvenient truth.
One thing that I've seen that I thought helped a lot is having a tenure-track style system for teaching faculty. I believe at UVa it was called "expectation of continued employment" instead of "tenure", but the idea was similar; after working for 6 years your performance was evaluated and if it had been satisfactory, your job was guaranteed in, as I understand it, a similar way to a tenured faculty member.

All of the teaching faculty in the Computer Science department, if I remember correctly, were on that track (or had been and now had the guaranteed employment), and were definitely a big part of the departmental life. When the department's accreditation was renewed, they were highlighted as a particular strength of the department: which I think would be really rare for the typical adjunct teaching model as I've heard it described.

That being said, I did see the adjunct/research faculty caste system develop elsewhere at the university, although I don't know what the details were RE: expectation of continued employment/etc. I think it is possible to avoid, but requires a concerted effort by the department as a whole to avoid, and that requires it being something enough people in the department want.
Lawnmower robots – the end of VLF time signals?
Google turned sour with Eric Schmidt leading all this "social" effort there. So interoperability was thrown out with excuse that "others don't care". Of course opening up Hangouts and making it a IETF standard as an obvious alternative wasn't done either, which only highlights the hypocrisy of that excuse.
Apple bundles the OS with the hardware. Once you buy a Mac, you get free OSX updates until they no longer support your model for the new OSX versions. The cost of OSX is bundled in the price of the Mac, which is why Macs cost more than PCs.

Microsoft cannot do that because OEMs sell PCs and bundle Windows with it. A totally different business model than Apple has. Steve Ballmer tried to copy the Apple Business Model with Surface Tablets and the Microsoft Store, and he failed.
That's why I take melatonin tablets ~20min before bed. It's one of the best known methods to improve your sleep and overall well being.

http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
The person who kindly shared this link may like to read this response:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/salon-pu...
It kinda depends on what you mean, but GNU Style and Diction [0] come to mind.

[0]: http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/
"High-level lying nevertheless remains the modus operandi of US policy"

Is there a person alive that doesn't know this? The same can be said of any powerful nation's policy throughout most if not all of history. Ending the story on such a truism as if it's an exposure is lame.
Sorry but I furiously (hack: Reddit; just: in my mind)
Look. Downvoting should be renamed first things first. It should be
named "spam?" or something suitable like that.
And "upboats|upvotes|uppies|plusones|..." should be renamed VOTEs!

Just votes. First let Us skip the renaming of downboats. But introduce
a behavior upon each instance of VOTing, like this:
Some dumfuck posts on reddit, and gets a lot of "meh..." for his
posting:
Some one (idiotA) has a chuckle out of that posting and he/she
upboats the posting.

Another user (idiotB) sees the chuckling (the upboat) and _his_
"meh" grows into the frustration of "this is insolentio!,
i must be acting it right now out!" and downboats the
poisoned posting.

Now! An alchemy of site-behavior starts bubbling!
First, when the VOTING period is OVER, ALL the VOTERS get their
"LOCAL karmic action Judgement day"

The Karma gets calculated, the posting is "frozen" now, and:
Karma application RULEs:
?
All the upboaters get "+1" on their comment/content karma.
Nothing more, even if they _voted_ after the fact of:
their !!Karmic_weight = upboats/downboats <> goodness_threshold!
ALL the downvoters GET AWAY with their downboat instance
if:
their !!downboats <> current: goodness_threshold!
(say 4, or the mean of all the upboater's
(default: goodness_threshold config...whatever...
)
otherwise:
They get punished somehow:

1) Their comment/content karma gets
reduced: -1, so that it hinders
their further VOTING

2) They ARE BANNED from voting on the OP's
thread/posting

3) ??? You can go on with the HELL creation

...
This is my Word, and I expressed it to
the fullest in the best way
I am capable of.
Goodbye for now!

Have fun for this is the true
purpose of the Internet!
I agree. Everyone should do their own cost benefit analysis. Git has a set of features and costs that make it highly suitable for some combinations of organization and project and not so suited for other combinations. There is no silver bullet.
Presumably they won't be breaking driver compatibility often.
So it seems like Lambda is too risky of an option because of the potential for catastrophic failure. It would probably make more sense to try and work with something like Elastic Beanstalk or a lone EC2 instance Im trying to avoid a large amount of time being taken up by doing server administration. As I mentioned in the other post a new hobby tier Heroku Dyno and DB at around 19$ a month is possible within my budget if they make launching a node backend for my app significantly easier. I know this is getting off topic from the OP but any guidance from HN would be appreciated.
ThinkPads are incredibly easy and quick to repair, most repairs could be done quicker than you could drive/transit to the nearest hardware repair shop. There are access panels for hard drive, memory, etc labeled with icons next to the screw holes. Not to mention if you have kids, perfect time to teach them a little about hardware.
Its about 2 things - content and delivery.

Content - this is similar to what davismwfi said i.e what you're saying actually has to be smart, and directly address the topic very well. Don't beat around the bush, laser focus and say exactly what is required.

Delivery - This is about confidence. Speak slowly, calmly and clearly, keep an upright, open posture and directly look at the other person. Expect that the other person will listen because you have something valuable to say (and the content should match this caliber). Speaking slowly, taking up space with your body, eye contact - all of these things signal assertiveness/confidence.

You can work on delivery all the time, but don't expect to come off like Bond all the time because you have to know exactly what you're talking about, AND the other person has to believe that (very hard in subjective matters unless you've already established a great reputation) to pull that off. I think the delivery should match your confidence about the content - for example, if you sound super confident when you dont know what youre talking about people will eventually peg you as a bullshitter.
I've been playing with re-com for a couple of days, and am very impressed so far. My only complaint is that there is no mailing list or forum, and none of the commiters show their email addresses. I have a few issues with re-com, but haven't found a place to discuss them. What do you suggest?
No, the reality is not just Java. It's Ruby, C#, Objective-C, Python, etc. Other languages have made object systems that aren't as ugly as Java's
It did make the fight against polio harder.
Not part of the effort but I've found that lack of experience rarely seems to hold people back. Its a good thing in that they develop experience but it also means that when they show up asking for investment with no experience, it is unlikely to to be successful.

Of course the trick to solving any huge problem you have no experience in solving is to line up a list of all the things you would have to know before you could be successful and knock them off the list. In this case I'd expect first on the list would be to get a ship pilot's license.
The valley can visit them?
Thats a pretty basic game theory problem. I don't know why people in tech continue to expect companies who view ownership of the platform to suddenly standardize and open it up for everyone to use.

Open ecosystems like Android continue to be profitless while closed ones like iOS rake in billions.
You mention Russia, and I'll add China. Both countries were massively feudal and got brought forcefully into the 20th century for one, and into the 21st century for the other, over the course of a few decades. The GDP increases of both countries were astronomical once they settled into state capitalism (early for the Soviet Union, after a few decades for China).

Cuba is a more mixed bag because they don't have the benefit of the massive geographic and population sizes that the previous two countries have, but for the ordinary Cuban, for a few decades, the gains were astronomical.

The seeds of the Iranian revolution were that of a popular, anti-colonial revolt, before it got high-jacked by the clerics and turned into a theocratic shitshow.
Sorry for the text. Here is [my posting](http://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/35jxw4/the_votin...) on reddit.com, and I am prepared for the consequences of my karmic_resolution_actions <3
Vista and 8 did do a great deal of damage to Windows' reputation. (I'd say somewhat undeserved in the former case, and there are plenty of people who will defend the latter. I'm sure it's great on the Surface).

That said, I'd agree that it'd be a bad move to rebrand Windows just yet. Then again, DOS was a well-known and well-liked brand too.
Russell-Einsten Manifesto
I'm not so sure. The changes on the graphics side from say Windows 8 to 8.1 were minor, leaving out new features such as directx tiled resources.

The windows driver model had its last major revision in XP -> Vista.
it's funny to see the same defense (JEE is design-by-committee crap ) over and over :)

> that lack of external perfection does not make JEE usable or worthwhile.

So tell me, which framework does not lack of external perfection and make it usable or worthwhile.
Future: Walk in to your home office, drop phone on desk, it connects wirelessly to your mouse, keyboard, monitor and home network.

This was the original vision for Ubuntu Phone
I guess what s/he meant was having something like this in the store:

handleComment(comment) {
if (comment === '') this.dispatch('comment-error', 'empty')
else svc.send(comment)
.then(() => this.dispatch('comment-success')
.catch(err => this.dispatch('comment-error', err))
}

The view/controller (or whatever it's called in React) will then listen to the events and set its state accordingly so that the UI can be re-rendered.

It does look quite complicated compared with typical error handling code. Not sure if I misunderstood something or whether this additional layer of message dispatching is worthwhile in most apps.