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This is just an optical illusion. The "structure" of primes is that they are the atoms with which we can build the natural numbers (via multiplication). There are just enough primes (and they occur just often enough) to do this.

My question would be, are there things analogous to primes in other types of number systems, particularly useful ones.
I understand where you're coming from since it's strikes a very personal chord with you+facebook (it might only do that for a few other people in the world.) The facebook examples in the post are meant to be small examples within the context there. There's certainly more than meets the eye and I certainly don't have any idea about the details/final arrangements between you and Mark. You could replace the facebook example with other similar examples in business. If you want to refute the arguments with your own personal first hand experiences in the Facebook situation that would be useful.
I'm wondering if something that said "Best Value" would be most honest. Or similar remove the "Most Popular" wording and just make that option bigger.

I suspect the answer to your 'wondering' is that the startups have copied what 37 Signals is doing.
So is there a memoization library in hackage that uses unsafePerformIO?
I hear lots of people talk about how their idea is some competitive advantage. Ideas are cheap. Ideas can be stolen. It's how you execute that counts, and that's what Jason's post drives home. Nicely done.
You are your first customer. So, the "Most Popular" plan should be the one you would choose for yourself.
The problem is that it's very vulnerable to attacks by people who know me -- they tend to have interacted with many of my friends. I wonder if Facebook deliberately chooses the photos from different clusters of people.
As far as an SPH simulation goes it does. In real life, not really.
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Honestly, with the exception of a few things work pays for (and I don't need outside of work -- looking at you outlook calendar), I have no need for any software that isn't (legally) freely available. If I owned a mac myself, I would consider buying a copy of omnigraffle, but, again, I don't ever have use cases for it outside of work...

In fact, when I have bought software in the past, I have ended up pretty disappointed with it. Most recently, I was having hard drive issues (fat fingered a partition delete on the wrong drive). At a friends suggestion I bought eazeus to recover it. This $50 purchase was a giant waste of money, and did nothing to fix it. Later another friend pointed me at a free tool (testdisk) that did fix it. This seems to be the common experience for me -- pay software is way over hyped and under performing.

Does this ring true for anyone else? Is there some magic software out there that is worth the money in personal life any more?

Aside: exception to all of the above is video games. I have no problem buying the occasional game.
Never talk to police. Let a criminal lawyer or some competent authority do the talking for you.
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And that they announced prices too :)
Were? SIGGRAPH hasn't even happened yet! :P
And my favorite: Grice's paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Grice#Grice.27s_Paradox
I see cheap LCD TV's of 40" or more for sale at Fry's for $600 or so all the time. I think that's your answer. As for what's used at trade shows, just that, large TV's, and they're rented at exorbitant rates!

Going to be next to impossible to find something without audio or a remote, and if you do, it will be a "monitor" designed for high-end use and will be way to expensive.
I personally think that "Best Value" is better verbiage anyways. When the news about the economy is consistently bad, you can catch people's attention with the promise of value or savings.
I'm so happy that YouTube now has HD options so that researches don't feel the need to post 100 MB Quicktime videos of their presentations, hosted on sad servers that can't handle it.
> Would the alien ever learn to distinguish good dancers from poor dancers?

He could hack the problem like this: instead of figuring out which type of dancing is impressive directly, just watch reactions. People react to what they think is good dancing, so by watching people he can learn what's considered good dancing.
So this seems to be what spotify is supposed to bring us, but actually working in the US?

I use Rhapsody (on Android), but the lack of offline mode is making it frustrating. If this has that working on Android, it's got my interest. The no multi-task comment is pretty troubling, though.
Give me a break. There's no comparison between the Watergate affair and this. One is about a sitting US President conspiring to cover up illegal activity, the other is about the CEO of company not telling us everything about the design of a product.
Thank you. I didn't use the phrase "ideas are worthless" on purpose. Reason being, they're worth something (maybe not in a tangible form at least). It's actually hard to find an idea that has the right market size, begging for the right product, which you can build a relevant team around it. Now can people steal the idea? Sure. The points I outlined would probably be sub-sections of execution.
Hi Patrick...

I'd just wonder if it would be safe to say that A/B testing is a good tool..., but should be used in conjunction with other tools such as knowing-your-customer, intuition, expertise etc.

I'm not in a space where I can A/B test anything but from the outside it seems as if A/B testing can be mis-used as a replacement for traditional methods and can be obsessed about because it IS measurable.
I think rear-facing car seats kill more infants than they save. How many children survive a car crash only because they were facing backwards should be weighed against the number of children who die each summer because the parents forgot them.

If the child is front facing, your rear-view mirror will be filled with your child's face. But imagine the child falls asleep in a rear facing car seat after you have been up all night with them. It happens every summer to good parents.
Erm, so the trouble with meritocracy is that higher education is bad? And we don't want to subject underprivileged demographics to the intellectually conformist ... education conveyor belt?

That we want to keep underprivileged demographics at home so they can critique the elites from afar?

Clarity is severely lacking. It's hard not to file this one under Anti-intellectual tripe.
Unlike democracy, meritocracy cannot accommodate diverse cultural and socioeconomic society.
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I agree that boring things shouldn't be memorized, and that being familiar with the concept of a regular language helps identify where a regular expression could help.

Two points:

+ A lot of programmers aren't familiar with the concept of a regular language, especially those that are hobbyists, or who went to shitty schools. Sad but true.

+ Regular expressions are useful commonly enough that I would be very surprised if an okay programmer with any sort of experience under their belt couldn't remember at least [] . * ? + .

I definitely agree with your main point. There is, however, a weird subjective layer of knowledge that tends to be present in developers of any experience. That doesn't mean that I would look down on an individual programmer who claimed experience that didn't know how to make a regex character class off the top of their head, but I would be a bit surprised.
I'm guessing "describing the material and construction properties of every object such that it can be moved, collided, broken, and deformed convincingly." "Convincingly" typically isn't quite what you want either, you usually want "spectacular" which means hand tuning for all breaking/deforming events of interest. Movie effects, for example, start with pure simulation, but nearly always have lots of knobs for artists to play with to give the intended effect (e.g., the last page of this article http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-01/... ).
I like the site. Very nice job. I don't know how big your market it is. It appears to be targeted at developers, but we are the ones most likely to roll our own solution to this type of thing. I think I would be more apt to want to buy a one time license and run the software myself, then to commit to a monthly service fee.

Perhaps you should looking at a consumer market where you would do the work and then host it yourself for them giving them a link, or publish it to a subset of popular sites (facebook, flickr, youtube, wordpress, etc.) Your typical users on these sites will not/cannot leverage libraries to do what your service does. Make it easy for them to just upload & publish so they don't have to think about it.

Just my thoughts.
I like to look at ideas as "potential energy". Not necessarily worthless, but hard to tell how much you get out of them until you actually get them rolling.
It's time to reinvent management..
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So it sounds like you're convinced you should aim lower, but are having trouble actually doing it.

Oh no, you don't ask for feedback from your colleagues - you get it from people with the problem you're solving. From users. Your fellow developers can't even know if you solved the user problem; the best they can do is point out things like grammatical errors which, as you say, is useless.

EDIT I guess your PHP friend wouldn't have been able to bring over users for his very his first app, and I bet he remembers it vividly. You could email him, or talk on the phone. He's not the only person in the world to have shipped, but you know him, so he's an excellent person to start with. You could visit him. Consider: 500 km vs. 4 weeks. Sounds ridiculous, but if you take this journey, you won't forget his point of view.
uhh, what is that disgusting thing on the picture near the top?
Was it a critical security flaw?
As a colleague who lived through conflict in Serbia once told me of a conversation he had with an opposition soldier with a gun.... long story short - the soldier said "I have no choice, I'm just following orders"... and my friend said "YOU are the only person in this situation who DOES have a choice - YOU are the one holding the gun."

IT's all too easy for people to forget they are individuals and capable of individual choices (which yes, have consequences.)
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Here's the theory behind Google's hiring strategy: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg.... It can be summarized as "Don't choose good enough, hire people better than the rest of the team". That's why they won't let individual projects do the interviews, they would lean to hiring the best of the pool, even when that person is not good enough.
The ACLU should make these cases a priority. I'd join again if they did.
if you're going to call him out.. would be nice for more explanation of your situation.
There is an iPad app called AudioNote that does what you describe:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audionote-notepad-voice-recor...

I haven't tried it yet, but I think I'll grab the free version and give it a whirl.
Why are high-usage users "low profit"? They charge you money for every megabyte of data you use and every minute you are on the phone.
There's a couple of software I'm happy to pay for, sound software, utilities, etc.

If I see a software I like, I pay for it if I have to.

I find that perfectly acceptable (eg to pay for software I use). Software is expensive to make.
Your canvas rendering bug is probably worth $0; this program is intended to incentivize people to search for security bugs, so that Google (and Mozilla) can win the race against organized criminals doing the same thing.
You made the edit while I was posting. The edited post is different, like I have mentioned. My reply was to the original.

It's a classic concurrency problem.

A = thinkcomp, B = me:

A posts
A starts editing (1)
B starts replying (2)
A finishes editing (and sees no reply)
B finishes replying (and sees edit)
B edits his post
* (1) and (2) can be reversed for this point to be the same

Based on this sequence, there it is reasonable for you to think I was replying to your edited post. It is not the case tho, please take my word for it. HN provides no way for me to know that you are editing as I write.

As for profile etc, you are the one making the claim, it is your responsibility to present qualifying references if you want me to think your statements are valid, not my job to chase down the source of every 2 sentence comment on HN.
If one plan is "Best Value", it implies the others are not.

"Most Popular" is right. It simplifies the decision-making process on behalf of the user. It leads and reassures and solves the "what do other people choose" problem.
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A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Which is why they have to steal it.
I wish that both CS and MBA programs taught students to listen more. One of the few similarities I find between programmers/engineers and MBAs is the need to completely dominate a conversation. A few seminars on active listening would help everyone :)
Very interesting!

My first impression of the homepage is that the graphics are a little all over the place (in terms of consistency, not layout). Your logo has a pretty slick look to it, while the large balsamiq image is rough and 2D, and the "Let us do the processing" images are somewhat rough and 3D.

The forgot password page layout looks off to me, the recover button is displaying to the upper right of the email label.

The signup link at the bottom of the login page directs to a different account creation form than the signup links on the plans/pricing page.

"Proceed to enter credit card" seems a bit rough or robotic (can't really think of a good word to describe it honestly), maybe it could be changed to something like "Proceed to finish signup".

Although I didn't look too deeply, the docs look great!

PS: I'm not a designer, I only pretend to be one on the internet, so take all of that design advice with a grain of salt.
My biggest objection to this entire piece is its lack of specificity. Mr. Douhat simply waves his hands at a lack of "intellectual diversity" within the "elite", without ever defining what he means by "elite" or "intellectual diversity".

Even if we confine ourselves to the Washington elite, we find a vast difference of opinion between places like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute and places like Center for American Progress and Brookings. If we move outside of Washington, we find an even greater range of views amongst the "elite". I mean, a lot of programmers are fairly libertarian in both social and economic views, and don't have a real home in either major party.

I think Douhat isn't thinking clearly about the topic at hand. If he was, he'd see that he's being spooked by the shadow of a problem rather than the real problem, which is the rising inequality of achievement and opportunity all over the world. You want to increase the diversity of the meritocracy? Allow more people to demonstrate their merit.
Someone should take that QuickDraw source code and build a hyper-fast version of X-Windows on it.
If you haven't already read How to Win Friends and Influence People, you definitely should.
That's exactly what I thought.

In the context of Adams' mind experiment there's a problem with this approach: the aliens need to now both there is a goal to dancing or conversing well, and what that goal is. (Which is confounded a bit by there being multiple goals for these activities, and not everybody's going for the same ones in any given context. Two people who just met will want a different thing from conversation than two friends shooting the shit.)

However, Adams' rhetorical questions (though not, I think, his mind experiment itself) have a flaw: people with Asberger's syndrome generally know what the goal of those activities is (or at least, what they want out of it), but are unable to judge whether they're actually achieving those goals (since they have a hard time gauging other peoples reactions as you suggest).

This fits with the mind experiment though. Suppose the aliens figure out that conversation and dancing have goals - even what those goals are. The alien still can't tell who the good conversationalists or dancers are without understanding things like human body language, vocal inflection, or subtle word choice - which is nearly the same set of problems people with Asberger's have.
I really only use free software. Outside of software development I don't really have any other software on my laptops. I have purchased tools and never pirate them. Is pirating more of a Windows user's thing?
The tardy thing is excessive. Getting a social work case opened up because you get out the door a couple minutes late is nonsense. It would be funny, and not at all surprising, if people who's kids are missing weeks of school at a time are having less trouble with the authorities; not giving a shit about anything is a good innoculation against social services, which is part of the tragedy of how these programs tend to work out.
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Anyone who is really interested in this concept should pick up "Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships" by Dr. Temple Grandin and Sean Barron.

Dr. Grandin is herself autistic, and asserts that people along the autism-Asperger's spectrum need to learn the rules explicitly, like actors learning their lines in a play.
Where are all the new Facebook apps?
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Liveblogging Google's search event with Marissa Mayer.
I really like the website, the API is well documented and the features looks good.

In my company we're currently using heywatch for encoding and after a rapid calcul it looks like you're cheaper.

We're paying 5c the video encoding and 10c for HD quality.

I'll have a deeper look this week.
it seems that sometimes the first clunky round of human+technology gives "everyman" what he wants, then only-technology provides for a tech-savy niche, and then finally the technology and automation get good enough to go back to giving people in general what they want.

so, i wouldn't say "welcome to the early 70's" is necessarily bad.

another example is when people used to mail their harddrives to external datacenters to back up. anyone could use that service! then we got a bunch of command line and self server backup options, which could be a pain in the butt even for people with some amount of tech-saviness. now we finally have user friendly "send your data to get backed up by someone/thing else" services such as dropbox and time machine.

haha, when the robots make our food we can say welcome to the European 1200's, where you (royalty) were served by serfs.
Good idea to service consumers, but Dropbox already does this.

Maybe charge a transactional fee and let the developer pay for the hosting with S3 themselves (most developers already have S3 accounts). This keeps the revenue directly in line with where you add value.
Are there any states with laws in place to explicitly protect citizens from this kind of abuse?
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Yes... partially agreed. I think the acting makes it extremely watch-able. And there are some excellent episodes (for example; "The Internet" is a nice little circular jab at non-geeks & geeks alike or in the latest season I was quite tickled by the Countdown episode)
sounds like a little burn out to me. I've been in somewhat similar situation putting things on hold to get through this phase or this release and then I'll get to the vacation or work on the house, etc. What I've released that there is always more waiting and another reason to hold off.

But that said, if you really feel like it is close for the business to break out, I'd give it a bit more time. Talk with your partner, pick a date in the future, say 6 months out and commit yourself to that deadline. Either things will be running really well, or you will have released that there will always be another thing holding you back. Either way, at the end of 6 months, take a month or 2 months off and do some traveling and see the world. But commit to taking the time off and work it out with your partner ahead of time.
I too have no problem paying for software I use. I just prefer to use no-charge software, as I rarely find for-money software that is better than the no-charge equivalent. If it is not better, why would I pay for no-benefit?
Like the Republican Party in the US is dedicated to fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, and maintaining a free society?
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I have felt this way for a long time: In general, the more you pay for software, the worse it is (this is why anything with the word 'Enterprise' in the title frightens me). Note: I don't play many games, so this may not apply to them.
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I was born and raised in Florida, all of my family is in Florida we have been here for 13 generations. My grandmother's uncle was the first US citizen born in Florida after it became part of the US. I am the caretaker of my grandparents (the only reason I never moved to the Valley). Other than the Valley, Florida is the only place that I would want to live. The only way I would have ever considered taking action against them would have been to leave Florida and be out of their reach. It was really not an option given my history and my grandparents needs. They are an organization known for their retribution against individuals who try to oppose them. They are extreme powerful and not really an organization to be trifled with unless you are willing to endure some extreme hardships in the name of principals.

If I had taken action, it would have been less for money and more to force their hand at bringing the wife that made the allegations up on felony criminal charges. That is a personal vendetta of mine and would served no good for my family, so now I just let sleeping dogs lie. As I said, I give them a wide birth and try to avoid any contact with that organization.
Definitely cool tech, but while some of the underlying techniques might translate into simulating videogame physics, it's highly unlikely anything from this package will.

It's a different problem domain. An effects system for movies will have tons of configurable knobs and parameters, allowing the artist to tweak it so it's exactly right for that shot. Some of these settings will produce interesting and gorgeous effects, but they're designed to allow maximum customizability. If the system has some artifacts in particular situations, they can easily be worked around by tuning some knobs, adjusting the camera angle, etc. Hell, you can even paint in 2d over the final output frame.

In a game, the effects have to look good from all angles and in all situations - many of which you don't know in advance. When I wrote a cloth simulation for a game, most of my time wasn't spend developing the core sim (which took all of an hour or two), but actually spent making sure the cloth behaved appropriately under all circumstances - even when the player would make sudden, exaggerated movements and animations (some of which weren't even physically possible).
But people also react to what is bad dancing; you'd have to know what reactions are favorable, and what reactions indicate displeasure. This would be hard for aliens, who wouldn't know what facial expressions mean.
> It seems to me that there is an element of hypocrisy in some of the complaints above; it is as if they were saying

Apart from the "nightmare" part, this statement you made up happens to be factually true. What is your issue with it? It's exactly what happens: in most other langages, every line is indeed unsafePerformIO. Isn't that fact one of the reasons Haskellers give for using haskell in the first place?