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The article made a good point and I agree with it. In most of my classes, I was usually one of the or the only person who would either ask questions or attempt to give an answer. Equally important trait of a smart person is the willingness to answer a question - even when you are not fully sure. It is a great mean to understand new concepts.

1. If I am right, it validates my understanding of the concept.

2. If I am wrong, it bring misinformation to surface and gives me a reason to go over previously discussed material. If I never had experience where I was wrong, it puts me in the cycle of "I know everything, so I don't need to study."

3. It keeps me awake in class because asking and answering questions requires paying attention in class.
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I assume that it's the same sort of thing as talking to a federal officer - even an accidental lie would count against you? Such as, say, getting blackout drunk in college and taking a hit off of a joint, and then passing out in your bed with no memory thereof - but the incident being clear in the memory of someone they're interviewing about you.
Unless you encrypt your mail, or host it yourself, you can't really stop things like this from happening. Nobody can set up a perfect hiring process that screens 100% of creeps like this.
Smart people challenge everything.

I don't understand why that is offered as the take-away, because the article does not support it. It supports the take-away that smart people ask questions. The examples do not mention questions that challenge what has been said, but rather questions that result in a better understanding of what has been said.

Challenging people is not always the optimal way of exchanging information. When you think someone is wrong, asking questions to understand why they think something will work or is correct is sometimes much more constructive. This is in cases when it leads you to discover a different underlying assumption, a different main goal, a piece of information you missed, ...
The working environment in general is less conducive to it I feel. But especially when there are many people in a meeting and its in a consulting environment where you have to manage the client relationship at the same time. I don't think anyone chooses to feel insecure, but I think after having been in that kind of environment, you become conditioned to asking fewer questions.
I probably should keep my mouth shut, but after seeing so many posts about how great Path is for giving such a genuine and heartfelt "mea culpa", I can't help it. A friend of mine did some work for an older version of Path.com which included an installable desktop client. One of the key features in the spec was the ability to grab the users entire address book without ever letting them know what was happening (e.g. no alerts or confirmation). This behavior wasn't a mistake or an oversight, it was completely intentional from the beginning. Of course my friend thought this was a bit shady, but the truth is that shady tactics are used all the time in the software industry for one reason - because they make money.

When Path states they didn't realize users would feel deceived and that they only intended to use the information to make better suggestions for the user's contact list, well, I don't want to sound cynical, but I think anyone who blindly believes these kinds of statements (from Path, Facebook, or any other company) is either personally/financially interested or extremely naive.
1. http://ccodearchive.net/info/json.html
The most important part of this: "With that said, I think it’s a bad idea to use a @gmail.com address (or any other domain name you don’t own). If Google – or your email service of choice – does turn evil or shuts down, at best you have to change your email address, and at worst they own a critical part of your online identity."

I understand that some people are too lazy (or whatever) and use Gmail. But do you really assume that you won't switch your mail or chat provider for the rest of your life? That's exactly like the people who used @hotmail.com a decade ago.

Your own domain costs $10-20 per year and it's trivial to setup (either on your own server or with Google Apps). And if you decide at some point that you want to switch to another provider, all you need to do is to point a few records (MX, XMPP, SPF) to your new provider - this only takes a few minutes to do.
Truly smart people have always come across to me as not needing to prove how smart they are

Smart people don't care to convert me to their way of seeing the world. Be it using Ruby, Apple, or not, they are able to see a bigger, wider picture where everything is possible with the right amount of understanding and well placed effort.

Smart people see the patterns and similarities in everything that unite, instead of the differences and exceptions that divide.

Smart people aren't righteous. They don't seek external validation / conversion to fuel their own beliefs.

Smart people don't add to a situation if they're merely replacing one set of confusing concepts with another (theirs). They are driven by clarity.

Smart people are genuinely, insatiably curious about everything.

Smart people know how to take the good from everything, and deeply understand little knowledge is new, or truly unique.

Smart people I've met live in a mindset of possibility, not doubt or skepticism. One fuels creativity, and the other douses.
An honest question. From what I know Hotmail et. al. is free, so without ads how do they (Microsoft) make money?
For those of us who are confused what "monochromatic rectangles" actually means, this article shows it perfectly:

http://mathlesstraveled.com/2012/02/09/17x17-4-coloring-with...
Agreed. I think asking questions is more a trait of successful people. Most of the very high IQ people I've worked with have been much more likely to make bad decisions by not asking questions than lower IQ people. When I interview people I don't look for intelligence as much as I look for awareness of the the limits of a person's intelligence. Intelligence will not cure hubris. And from what I've experienced, intelligence and hubris are highly correlated. I'm glad to hear that the author of this article has had a different experience. There is nothing more delightful than working with a person with a high horsepower brain who is good at steering it.
Weren't most of the laptops being discussed originally manufactured in China?

It seems strange to consider the devices to be contaminated if privately inspected by Chinese officials, when there were plenty of previous opportunities to root them at the factory.
Is that a contrived scenario or are you thinking about something concrete? Curious as to what that might be.
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I'd like to read more about these "required" back doors.

If you mean that they have to comply with court orders, then yes, that's a "back door". But companies that comply with valid court orders to release emails are actually protecting your privacy. If they refused to comply with the court order, the government wouldn't say, "oh well, we tried, too bad", they'd come physically take all the servers and disks that they thought could possibly be relevant. That means that the government would now have access to your email, even though you weren't the target of any investigation.

Ultimately, if you want privacy from government intrusion into your email, stop electing judges that will sign warrants for your email. You can't expect major corporations to violate the law to protect your email. It's just not going to happen.
The point is that you're locked into a single provider and it's hard to switch. Using your own domain isn't much harder, looks more professional, and allows you to switch provider at any point in time.
that is not included in the step-by-step instructions at the end of http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-...

i agree that, if it was done, then the transfer is more secure, but, as i said, that does not appear to be the case.
If you do go with monthly payment options, PLEASE make it possible to pay for a full year of months. Part of my fatigue with these services is the monthly credit card payment paperwork I have to file at our institution for each of these charges. As we use more and more of these services, the tracking ads up.

SaaS fatigue wish #2...add LDAP support.
Every business is not a startup. A startup is a business which doesnt have guaranteed or well known cashflows. Or rather its trying to figure out its chashflows.
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It surprises me how many security precautions taken sounds more like superstition to me than an educated understanding of protecting your data.

Cut and paste instead of typing -- really? We all know the clipboard is equally insecure. This is logic that seems to come from a child-like understanding of how computers work.

Why don't more organizations have their own secure token system? Then add a layer of secondary authentication over access to any sensitive data? Security is more about creating reasonable inefficiencies that ensure the right people are accessing information than it is about protecting your passwords from key loggers.
Awesome, this is some superior reply giving a very good insight about your industry! Thank you! My question is, is there something specific about the photography vertical which makes all the sub-niches so lucrative? For example, email newsletters: is it so popular because of the heavy amount of photography tutorials, articles, etc. available on the web and only a few other industries would experience this kind of demand in newsletters? I think photographers are the most heavy consumers of online tutorials and articles along with hackers and designers.
How would we deal with spam? Anyways, it's part of their policy and you don't have to use it. Also, you may not understand how these sorts of things work, but most other services will keep such things, that's one of the benefits of the Internet. I don't get you conspiracy theorists on HN.

Down voting doesn't make an argument.
Why don't you ask your question later, once the client relationship part is no longer in play?
Humility is the key to understanding, but hubris often prevents people from growing because they believe their understanding is right from the beginning.

For a while I have understood that people see the world in fundamentally different ways, but about two years ago I had an epiphany that really crystallized it for me. Now I see people existing in either one of two camps:

1. Those who believe the world is the way they see it.
2. Those who realize how limited their perspective is.

Alan Kay (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful...) has a developed a similar view. He often quotes the Talmud saying, "We see things not as they are, but as we are.” And he often says, "We can't learn to see until we admit we are blind".

When Jim Collins was doing his research for "How the Mighty Fall", he identified hubris as being the first stage of decline for great enterprises (http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10565). This is the concept of "pride goes before the fall," and I believe one of the reasons for this is because we stop asking questions and begin to "lean on our own understanding."

We become complacent with our picture of the world and continue on whatever trajectory we were on when we stopped recalibrating. Unless we were right from the start (which almost never happens in a dynamically changing world), we'll veer farther off course.

A better way to go is to constantly be asking questions -- continually adding to your perspective, refining it, and recalibrating your path based on what you learn. As the saying goes, "you don't know what you don't know".

This seems so simple, but admitting you don't know everything and continually asking questions requires humility.
Thank you so much for the reply. I should be more concise.

1-I am a developer.

2-I have tested shopify as a concept as it would be a good fit for small retailors to dip their toe in the water

3-I have done sccessful ad campaigns in the past for clients (one client has contributed over 750k in adword related sales for a campaign although they were a decent sized company with good market share already :) )

4-I am testing how adwords works with shopify. All adwords ads are approved and active

5-My 'test' shopify site has not generated a single adwords impression in 2 weeks

6-This is really odd.

7-I have tried to contact google and to read everything I can to see if this problem has come up for others and can't get any traction

8-I just need a fresh perspective as I'm at my wits end

Main question:
Have I missed anything obvious that is causing me to be ignored by adwords. I get the horrible feeling that I've overlooked something obvious. I'm not trying to get you to generate me more traffic I just wanted you to have a quick look and say whether you can see a probelm

I've tried

-A/B testing of ads

-Using both redirect url and shopify domains in ads

-Targeted really non competitive key words and searched for them directly in Google to see if I can get adwords to acknoledge my ads

-My campaign has hundreds of keyword recommendations from the adwords keyword generator.

-Would it have been better to use Exact match domains and targeted a 'selling' word(s) for the sites name?

Occam's Razor suggests that this is a average site in a competitive market that is a hard(ish) sell to customers?

I really don't want to waste your time so sorry. I just need a fresh pair of eyes pls

tyvm
Undoubtedly they will do so when they receive the chargeback, without your help. Not that it will be of any consequence to you or the actual person that opened the account.

http://www.stopthehacker.com/2010/03/03/the-underground-cred...
Yeah, best part about commuting to SV by transit is that you can pretty much work the entire way -- driving might be quicker, but if I work on the train it's like I'm not even losing any time.
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"It's worthy asking "Why do smart people ask questions?""

Smart people also are secure in what they know and what they don't know and aren't afraid to show it.

If you asked PG, Fred Wilson or Steve Blank about a company - if they had heard of it - they wouldn't feel self conscious if they hadn't. They would probably assume it just wasn't well known at that point.

If you asked the same question to a "newbie" on HN I'm not sure they would be so secure to admit the same because they wouldn't know how ubiquitous the company was. And they would be afraid of showing how clueless they were.

I mean if you are in a meeting and are an expert on the subject matter you feel pretty secure that if you have a question it's not a dumb question. Nobody likes to ask the dumb question.

I've notice with customers that call us that an overwhelming number of (at least smart sounding) people start the conversation with "this might be a dumb question". It's like laying down with your belly exposed to acknowledge what you don't know.
There are a couple of things to note about that particular comparison.

First, Haskell--particularly on GHC--gives you a ton of options for speeding your code up, including unsafe* functions and pragmas. So the fastest code is going to use things like {-# INLINE #-} and unsafeAt as opposed to ! (the array index operator). However, you would only use these things in performance critical bits of your code.

Secondly, the length of the identifier (! vs unsafeAt) actually matters because the benchmarks do not measure the number of lines--they measure the compressed size of the code. [1]

[1]: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#gzbytes

Finally, these are all small algorithmic problems. The goal is to write the fastest code possible, not something readable or maintainable. Some of the biggest reductions in Haskell come from generalizing and reusing functions in different contexts; I expect this does not happen in the benchmarks because of limited size and the focus on performance.
I disagree. Asking questions is most often a way of challenging something.

For example, in the lecture hall example the students thought they understood the guest lecture and the only person to ask a genuine question was the tenured professor. The way I interpreted it was that the students accepted their understanding of the subject as "good enough" while the professor wanted to be 100% certain he understood the subject correctly. The professor challenged his own understanding.
I have a little bit of a funny story regarding web 1.0. In 1996 or so, my then grade-school age son put up a web page on one of my sites with his then favorite subject, the Goosebumps book series. Somewhere along the line, I helped him add a few ads and he maintained the page for a bit, but he eventually lost interest. Now, 16 years later the page hasn't been touched for at least 11-12 years, but it continues to bring in a couple of bucks per month from the ads. And my son went on to get a job at Google. So, good investment all the way around!
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+1 for Berkeley, my rent is less than half of what I would be paying on the other side of the bay, not to mention it's just great out here.
And it probably wouldn't be as good in terms of security and spam filtering. So you have to setup and support something of lesser quality, no thanks.
Here you go, documented - http://pypy.org/performance.html

I think your point about "should work for most purposes" express my view as well. Choice is tricky and especially programs violently optimized for CPython might find PyPy's characteristics strangely different. I don't see any particular design decisions that would prevent PyPy outperforming CPython on everything in the long run, but this is certainly not the case right now.

Maybe our PR got too strong or something, but I think "measure yourself and report if it's too slow" was always our motto. In fact we're definitely more interested about hearing when people find their programs slow, rather than fast because it gives us more optimization opportunities. It's however entirely pointless without a way for me to reproduce it, since I have entirely no clue.

In short - I think we violently agree and if PyPy's PR is not up to the standard and fairness you would expect, I apologize.

Cheers,
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I love using Grooveshark and would HATE to see this happen. This would be even worse than when they started playing the loud video ads that would keep cycling.
Show HN: Custom HN RSS Feeds
So I'm building a new Hacker News iPad application and the biggest challenge, personally, was to get the number of comments, points, submission time etc., from the frontpage, latest submissions and highest rated pages. Unfortunately the BigRSS wasn't much help, nor were the numerous APIs - so I made my own version, albeit not RSS spec compliant. Any suggestions for a more compliant feed are welcome!

http://thequeue.org/api/frontpage.xml (updated every 4 minutes)

http://thequeue.org/api/new.xml (updated every 6 minutes)

http://thequeue.org/api/best.xml (updated every 10 minutes)

2 reasons for these odd update times: I do not want to stress ycombinator's servers. 2. dreamhost has odd CRON job times - basically nothing under a 4 minute interval is allowed.

One of the key advantage of those feeds is the ability to preview the submissions before reading them.

Feedback is always appreciated
I'm confused as to how Apple's lack of regard for the privacy of its users is a story, but Path's lack of regard for the privacy of those same users is a non-issue. One of the parties failed to protect the users' data, another one of them took it without asking. Both should be held to account in my mind
Smart people ask questions because they are smart enough to know what they don't know.

You can't know until you don't know.
I close my eyes, count up from 1 to 5, and say (in my head) "I am now coming out of alpha, feeling wide awake and better than before."
You aren't checking the return value of json_alloc() in new_value()
Honestly, it sounds like you really need to decide what you want- do you want to launch an internet startup or do you want to continue as a professional oral surgeon?

If you choose to take your money and launch your own general internet startup (ie a "Dropbox"), I suggest you quit your MD tomorrow. Treating an start-up as a side project (and a side skill) is a bad idea. After all, your competitors are spending 100% of their time on their competing start-up.

That said, you do have domain expertise in oral surgery- try and leverage that domain expertise. Use your unique blend of skills to your advantage.
Simply put, the civil liberties aspect of using Google (or Facebook - complaint applies to all equally) for the vast majority of your information services is a big concern. The consequence of someone unscrupulous having a single point of access could be profound.

I have read far too much history and current events to believe that we are in a new and trustworthy era of humanity.
I buy dog food online - rotations. I think the company struggled selling through traditional distribution so they went direct by selling online. It's a great business model. They have a differentiated message(it's bad to feed your dog the same exact food for its entire life) and the prices are comparable to premium dog food purchase in a store.
We also use New Relic and are extremely pleased with it. However if we agree that all 5 of the OP's points are legitimate identifiers of a well-rounded monitoring system, New Relic only meets 3 of the 5: deep integration, high resolution, and dynamic configuration.

New Relic is indeed an excellent monitoring tool but it's not perfect. Alerts do lag behind anywhere from two to 5 minutes, and there are no context-sensitive alerts... at least not that I'm aware of.
Specifically, I'd start off even simpler than this. There's a lot more to it than "simple terrain traversal" and "open-world rendering".

Understanding things like a run loop, how game objects work/composed, and building your way up are crucial to success.

While we're on the topic, begin considering articles like these:
http://www.pixelprospector.com/indie-resources/

And as you build a game, you'll hit that hump. Derek Yu of Spelunky fame talks about what it took for him to finish a game, and the topic in general.
http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-game

Here's things to start building, and build them COMPLETELY. This includes menu screen, level screen where appropriate, etc. etc.

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-progr...
Ask HN: Where are the cheapest places to live in the Bay Area without a car?
I'll be headed out west to go to school for the Fall 2012 semester and I really want to be in the Bay Area, but it's an expensive place.

Where are the cheapest places to live in the Bay Area? I won't have a car (I might invest in a road bike), so San Francisco is appealing to me, but it's one of the most expensive cities in the country, I hear.
I spoke to it in my response to lucasferre. The problem is that if you don't ask the "dumb" assumptions early on, it becomes too late to ask afterwards and you can get stuck in that situation.
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