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There are companies which offer litigation insurance (someone I know recently got some for a potential lawsuit). But AFAIK, they generally require you to present your case along with expert legal analysis to them before they'll even set a price for the insurance. Which goes back to one of the problems with patents -- there are so many of them which are bogus, how could you ever do a truly exhaustive review of potential infringement?
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Yes. But "adding" is a pretty small subset of changes. If you need to do even a trivial migration like the classic "merge first and last name columns into a single column" is pretty hairy if you have a dozen legacy apps that assume "customers" have "firstname".

In the end it means you give the data an elevated role in the system, and you write the code around the data. When the code would be cheaper to write or maintain with a different data representation - you can't. It's a comfortable situation for a while, but when you eventually grow out of the current system it's a world of hurt.

Like I said - it's two bad (non) solutions but I very much prefer duplication, isolation, inconsistency, a forest of small obscure APIs etc. where I can add/remove/normalize/denormalize/add caching etc - to "the data is the ground truth and the schema we can only change through addition" non-solution.
It is surprising how many companies in technology and related spaces don't have any redirect to a bare domain name, and assume everyone types 'www.' before it. 404 simply exists without the www prefix.

That's serverside at least, whichi is easily remididied given simple education Much harder is the more than 70% of exotic browsers used by millions; I hate 2345 in particular.
I didn't say that, but I can see how you'd interpret it this way, if you consider the parent comment.

"as is" was referring to "understood".

Sorry for the missing context.
If you have not been charged with a crime, can you just refuse to hand over your cards?
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They declared. Government agent started explicitly threatening them with multiple felonies for proof disclosure and threatening 4th guy's family if he will not sign papers.
Packet sniffing is passive.

If client has already sent connection request, replay is not going to work if only one connection is accepted. You need to be able to block the traffic from legitimate server or be faster (how?) to get there first.
I upvoted this comment after reading yours.
Pretty much all research has shown that the best way to improve poverty is to give people money, and not some sort of good that you've decided is better (goats, chickens, cows, whatever).
Unfortunately, giving away money just doesn't sell. :(
That reduces the likelihood of success (erick-t/srede requires 2 typos) but doesn't eliminate the possibility.
How many articles don't add anything useful to the headline?
"guilty until proven innocent"

He also said they look for inconsistencies in your story. So, the more you talk you have more to explain.

It's curious to see the case of lawful vs unlawful corruption evolve, in different countries.
That change happened because App Store's management was transferred from Eddy Cue over to Phil Schiller. While Eddy Cue was completely deaf to developers' complaints and needs, Schiller seems to be giving a damn and he's trying to improve things. They now employ ML/algorithmic means to test submitted apps and catch simple rejection issues. I'm also pretty sure that if you have a pretty good record of submissions & approvals, they spend less time scrutinizing your app. And if you're just issuing fixes or simple changes, they don't spend any time "human testing" at all.

PS: I've come to a conclusion that whatever Cue runs, it is shit or turns to shit quickly. He's in charge of all the Apple services and they're a complete mess. I hope Cue retires or just transfers his responsibilities to someone who cares about them.
it makes frivolous lawsuits even worse. It means if i bring a lawsuit against a major corporation the either have to put up a very cheap defense so that i dont get much money for my lawyer or if they go all out then i have the money to hire top lawyers and drag the frivolous case out. It would make patent trolling even worse because lawyers would just sue big companies so they have work for a few months that is guaranteed to be paid by the corporation
They figured that if they can steal your cash without any consequences that they should go further, wow. What will it be next, your home?
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I'm sorry, but I still must disagree with this advice as it pertains to beginners. I would rather a beginner "overnormalize" their database tables rather than have them default to an array column type. It's much easier to transition from "overnormalized" db tables to one that uses array columns when appropriate than it is to go the opposite direction.
> But it does not much resemble the behavior of most actual organizations engaged in a legitimate line of business.

Attempting to avoid taxes through legal loopholes is exactly the behavior of many large business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Compa...

In case you think taxes are a completely different scenario (an opinion which I would take issue with), companies trying to avoid other laws in other countries also happens very often. See Google vs. Spain, for example, where Google fought to not have to change their practices to comply with local (Spanish/EU) laws.

Complying with laws in another country often means having to change how a company does things. Change almost always means costs for the company, either in rebuilding things, retraining people, or general loss of revenue. Therefore it's often in a company's best interest to resist such change, if they think they have a chance they can.
No, Apple should have added upgrade pricing years ago and I would gladly pay for upgrades that way. The fact that they still haven't added upgrades and are instead pushing for a subscription model rubs me the wrong way.
And what has such a man accomplished at the end of his life?
Rotisserie chickens are often a loss leader for grocery stores[0].

0- http://debtblag.com/why-rotisserie-chickens-so-cheap/
Aristotle was, as opposed to Plato, and much to the benefit of humanity, an empiricist.
Yes, at least in my experience. There are many who expect updates and new features because they have already invested so much of their time into your free app.
How about not allowing fantasy ideas that have no basis in reality to be patented? That will solve a whole lot of problems, the least of which is this.
I think the IRS is a special case; I'd add them to the list I gave above.

A local police department or city government does not have this power.

Update: few more examples: http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/bankruptcy/wage-garnishm..., apparently this is quite common; still don't think PD can do it for this reason
Once it gets really good at video games, you can then put it into a robot. How is the real world different than a video game? Navigating a 3d environment, planning, etc, are all important skills needed in "real life" AI. And deepmind has been making great progress on some of them.
With a computer in every pocket, we're ready for a peer-to-peer Internet. I'd rather host my own wall and email than rely on Facebook and Google. Of course I would still rely heavily on some good open-source software. And for most people this open-source software would have to be packaged nice and simple, like "apps."

Also I've read that distributed networks (or "meshes"?) are much harder to get working well than centralized ones. I don't know much about them, though. We might need to wait for another battery breakthrough, too, if my phone will be doubling as a server. I guess we would also need more blockchains, sharding and encryption like with Tor, and a greater comfort with eventual consistency.
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Why not a website? What's the advantage in having it be an app?

And do you see potentially new social networks platforms being delivered as mobile apps in the future as well?

EDIT: another possibly related question: We know that huge userbases by themselves are valuable. Is it possible that mobile userbases are for some reason more valuable (more data mining potential?) than web userbases (assuming the same demographics)?
This is a relevant question to ask. This stuff is hard and it takes a lot of oversight to make it work. But that doesn't mean that we should assume every charity is producing negative consequences which outweigh the good they do. That would be just as naive as assuming charities have no negative consequences.

For what it's worth, Heifer International has released quite a few detailed reports on their projects which you can review here: (http://www.heifer.org/ending-hunger/our-impact/reports.html). If you're satisfied, maybe consider giving. If not, and you're qualified to offer a contrary explanation, please share it.

But assuming a negative impact without reviewing their approach is a perfect example of what has come to be known as "middlebrow dismissal". "Charities can have negative consequences which outweigh their good, this is a charity, therefore it has negative consequences which outweigh its good" is not a valid argument. The propensity of charities to produce negative unintended consequences is a sign to be careful, but not sufficient proof to dismiss charities outright.

Note that Charity Navigator gives Heifer International a nearly perfect score on Transparency and Accountability. (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...)
I actually enjoy setting up that kind of stuff. It is easy and kind of relaxing compared to the stress of developing software sometimes. I'm not trying to be a system admin, but setting up routine services is relaxing sometimes after a hard day. All those services you mentioned have no unified API to automate the process, so it seems like there would need to be a specific script for each provider.
I am excited to share this with the HN community. More apps will be coming out of beta soon.

It’s worth noting that we are offering Cachet (Status Page) and InvoiceNinja installations completely free.

Our mission is to make it as easy to launch and, more importantly, maintain open-source applications as any SaaS provider.

A comparison may be found here: https://www.orionian.com/comparison/
Is there a unified place one can donate to that people think is the best way to put some money toward real change in the system? I'm happy to send some money to the EFF, but I'd up that 100 times if I knew it was going 100% toward killing patent trolls and I thought it was the best organization to fight that fight.
And for that matter, in Archer, too. Woodhouse and his army buddies set up a tontine.
> Postgres's concurrency control (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/mvcc.html) does fine with many clients adding rows with numeric IDs derived from a sequence.

Which is fine for circumstances where a database round trip is acceptable at that point; there's situations where assigning IDs to items is something you want to have happen without database interaction at all.
i know, its both sad and outrageous, good on the states putting an end to it on their own.
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>The morality is already clearly established: in exchange for a very small monthly sum, you get the property when the owner dies.

That's, again, the contract. Seems some people can't tell between legal and moral, unless we talk about the 70s and segregation or something like that...
Which ISP is that? (not Virgin, I hope)
Indeed, I can't wait for the day we see DeepMind (or its ilk) playing games like StarCraft, I expect it'll be quite uncanny.
Searching for "debit" brings up this:

> In addition to presenting the value associated with a card, the terminal will read other card types such as credit and debit cards. While no value can be provided, the terminal will display a “card not supported” message to alert the trooper that this is not a prepaid card. The trooper can then compare the four digits displayed on the terminal with the last four digits shown on the face of the card to determine if the card has been cloned. If the last four digits on the face of the card do not match the four digits displayed on the terminal, the trooper should note the discrepancy and pursue further action in the investigation.

I'm not really sure why they compare the last 4 digits to detect a clone, that seems wrong to me. But in any case, that strongly implies that they can't seize from debit cards linked to bank accounts. They can only seize from prepaid cards.
Many judges seem to exert themselves in finding excuses to not have to apply the law, to not have to do their job at all, and to escape consideration of the lawsuit at hand.

A higher court will only consider an error in law from a lower court. But when the lower court commits an violation of natural justice/due process by not even considering what the original lawsuit is about and being incredibly obtuse about what they did consider, a higher court has nothing to rule on.
You can make the argument that a certain price point justifies free upgrades within a certain period of time or to a certain level (e.g. buy 1.x and get free up to all 2.n versions), but "I spend a lot of time in your app" is not a valid reason to get more of it for free.
Maybe this model is good for games, but as a predominately "Music Creation App" user I sincerely hope this "Subscription 2.0" model doesn't catch on in that arena. Paying up-front is suitable to me, and sometimes updates offer a lot (Propellerhead Figure has been through several improvement phases, for instance). I seem to recall other software trying to go 'subscription' in the music or creative arena with not-so-great public reception.
Most people use the word "unamerican" to describe something much different from "this isn't currently occurring inside America".
I suppose it's circular since it's human view but I think whatever the biomass of humans, we have capabilities that other animals simply don't.

We have the ability to talk of seeing things "from the viewpoint of an X" and possibly even imagine that viewpoint. But no one other animal or entity (that we know of) has the ability to talk about or imagine taking the viewpoint of another species. And such capacities seem to have been instrumental in the rise of humans as apex predators everywhere, etc.
> Things that would make me buy MORE apps (demos, …

It's been pretty much proven that demos actually sell fewer apps than no demos, at least at the price levels seen in the App Store (once you get up to several hundred dollars or higher, then presumably things change). Even at the $60 price point of AAA console games, demos have been proven to hurt sales (which is why you never seen demos of AAA console games anymore).
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What about $0.99/mo, or even $0.49/mo? My initial reaction is the same as yours, but I could see myself agreeing to $0.99/mo for some of the apps I paid $2 or $3 for. Still relatively cheap for me but would dramatically increase income for the developer.
This is very cool, and useful.
That's a flaw in all app stores (perhaps by design to force everyone to a subscription model someday?). For example, ImageLine's FL Studio was warning everyone that their new app will be completely different than their old app, but they weren't able to change version for their customers by the store policies, so they were asking users to be careful about upgrade.

So currently your only option is to release app2, app3 etc. without the possibility to address your customer base (offering upgrades etc.)

Subscriptions are basically renting apps for regular time periods. If forced, this would kill all indies for sure as most people would spend budget to the few main apps they need. I can also barely envision how the platform would attract creative people as it would feel like oligopoly. Frankly, with computers we have a chance to break natural constraints on availability but companies seem to be hell bent on reintroducing the same stinky approaches from the past. Why?
It's almost certainly about being a nuisance to your neighbors. Roosters crow super obnoxiously. Like.. wow. If you've ever tried to sleep with one nearby you know what I'm talking about. Just handle that edge case (e.g. don't keep a rooster around) and NO ONE will care if you have chickens that don't bother anyone :) Especially if you're into sharing the eggs!
I don't understand. In what way are you disagreeing with me? I didn't say there's less GPL out there. All I said is that with more open source projects popping up than in the past, and given how a random developer who understands English can also follow the BSD/MIT/ISC license text fully, how most new projects are liberally licensed, and most of the time MIT actually. GPL and Apache licenses are hard to use because you place your trust on their interpretation to lawyers, which is fine since many large projects trust it, but it's equally easy to understand how single developers or small dev teams choose, say, MIT for a new project. They don't choose the Apache license because it's a long legal document. I tried understanding it all and I failed to understand their contradictory sometimes-disclaimed-sometimes-not liability clause. Upon further inspection, I noticed that pretty much the same text is in GPL3's liability clause, so I concluded this must be something they must put in, even though as a developer to do not 100% disclaim liability as you do with MIT/BSD/ISC licenses.
Isn't the timestamp pretty much the most likely thing to be unique in the data, generally?
You are so right. One cannot succeed in technology outside of politics.
Re: many people wondering why this hasn't happened organically, it is easy to underestimate how much cultural attitudes can affect common practice.

As an anecdote, when I visited rural China a couple of years back I asked my friends who grew up there why, if most people had one chicken, they didn't simply grow a few more?

The response was "you don't know what it was like back then. In the Mao attitude people would say ... 'who are you to have two chickens when everyone else only has one' " ... which was enough social pressure to keep everyone to one chicken, no matter how much that contributed to malnourishment.

I'm not proposing the same social attitudes are at play in these regions, but there may be other non-obvious contexts discouraging people from getting started with a flock.

For some scenarios I could imagine an initiative like this helping to break through inertia and change norms.
The government keeps legally meaningful records of deaths. It can be done.

Blockchain assassination market was a thing a few years ago, IIRC. Obama and Bernake had prices on their heads.

I wonder if these two products can be combined somehow, Highlander style.
If citizens united proved that money is speech, does civil forfeiture not impede on the first amendment?
I don't understand what you mean. Would you mind expanding on this?
Nope, funds were returned. Bank "made a business decision" to close account and decline any future accounts of mine with them.
How do you cram 200 hours into a few days?
Pretty rad.
> Don’t bullshit

If someone simply abruptly said "I don't know" without any follow up, then it would give me serious pause for concern.

By all means, be succinct. Admit you don't know. Ask if the interviewer wants to hear your methodology you would use to get to an answer.

A good PM tailors the message for their audience. My experience set is different from OP, I interview product managers in the non-technical B2B space.
How would a poor person be able to sue now? They don't have the money to hire a good lawyer. If the lawyer is working on contingency, then they are only going to take cases they are pretty sure they are going to win anyway, so they will still take cases where 'loser pays'. Granted, a contingency lawyer is probably going to need a higher guarantee of victory in a 'loser pays' system in order to agree to the case, but I don't think that would be a HUGE factor.
The giant graph showing the old revenue scheme vs. the new one was particularly unnecessary.
>> "updates offer a lot"

This is the main issue I think. The only way to charge users for an update is to create a new version of the app and then try to inform users about it. A subscription will enable ongoing development for apps which is unsustainable at 99¢ per download.
"I'm not really sure why they compare the last 4 digits to detect a clone, that seems wrong to me."

It catches lazy counterfeiting. Stamp a whole bunch of cards with the same number and info, while the magstripe is what gets read and is the real account you're stealing from, the theory being that no-one really cares about the number printed on the card.

Some retailers do this too, ask or enter the last four of the card to make sure the imprint matches the magstripe, as if they don't it's most likely a cloned card.
The morality is that he got exactly what she offered and exactly what he asked and paid for, and the arrangement was perfectly consensual. It would be immoral for him to demand more, without additional payment.

I fail to see anything immoral here.
A subscription model would definitely benefit specific types of apps (we make games and are excited at this possibility).

The easy money's already been made in the App Store; with a million+ apps it's a visibility issue. No amount of changes to the App Store will remove the problem of there being a dozen apps that already solve the problem that your app solves.

That said, a subscription model with a reduced cut could improve monetization prospects for a lot of developers, indie especially.
While your point is valid, I think it's theory vs. practice. I think most databases don't get used for wildly different applications. I'd rather design my database for something that I know is performance-sensitive than design it for an imaginary application that might exist in the future.

Reminds me of the cynical saying for data warehouses, "Data in, but never out." :-)

What I have seen frequently enough is myopic data designs hurting flexibility later. For example - assuming 2 level customer relationships (Corporate parent and individual store) with things like regions appearing at tags, rather than flexible hierarchies. The assumptions behind this then gets built into the code base, and fixing it requires more than just a database update. (And even if you fix the database, you are missing the historical hierarchies)
A day without a needless racial slur is better than a day with. Maybe the comment was ignorant, but using a racial slur to try to undermine it is even more ignorant and needless. It is a misappropriation of power of the word, it wasn't necessary, and is an incredibly disproportionate response.
password reset email #123 gets url /user/123

password reset email #124 gets url /user/124

password reset email #125 gets url /user/125 but that doesn't work because someone predicted it and got there before the requestor. no idea what account they'll get, but they'll get an account of some type.

This also comes up in shipping records. OK where do we go to steal an XYZ delivered today and sitting on a front porch? Well lets check

/shippinglabel/345

/shippinglabel/346

/shippinglabel/347 oh look delivered today, sitting on back porch step, and the address is right there

Another fun one is online financial documents with sequential accounts.
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Minor correction, according to the article it is 1894 not 1864.
I think in general these types of neural networks are flexible enough to be resistant to trivial changes like this- Whether that specific change for this specific NN would affect results would likely need to be checked empirically.