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Someone could start an App Approval business. Applications don't require approval to go on to an app store / market place, but if the developers submitted their code to one AppApproversLtd, those guys could review it for a small comission, then upload it to the app store as a trusted application. Though there's a slight conflict of interest (i.e. the person paying the approvers is also the person sending the code) I believe it's in the AppApproversLtd company's interest to do a good job since their business depends on them giving a reliable evaluation / building up a good reputation.

Using that business model keeps flexibility in place, where users decide if they want to risk trusting an unapproved app, or would rather go for an app that's been approved by one of these companies (potentially incurring additional cost if the developers passed the approval cost on to their users rather than offsetting against advertising).

AppApproversLtd could offer different levels of approval / ratings - i.e. just checking for malicious code vs. checking for polite error handling, efficiently written code, best practices, impact on battery life, etc.
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I think a guide to sex positions is as sexually explicit as it can get, it's just not necessarily pornographic.

I also think that the argument that it keeps the store clean so kids can browse it does not really work. Other online stores like Amazon don't have this, you can search for and buy porn there and nobody is outraged. A much better idea would be to give apps a suggested user age, so you could filter the store.
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Web workers doesn't really work. Somehow, It still blocks the main UI thread.
In the ideal capitalist's world second hand sales would be banned completely, forcing people to always buy new.

It is pretty hard to attack the first-sale copyright doctrine head on, but you can go after the edge cases. Slowly but surely you eat away at the fair use concepts until there is nothing left.

We are seeing a massive shift in the concept of copyright and ownership. The next twenty to fifty years are going to be very interesting as more and more content becomes digitized.

Can I resell that e-book that I have already read and has been sitting on my virtual shelf for over a year? Um, no. Dream on...

The actual first-sale doctrine is already null and void when it comes to digital content. The media companies must be pissing themselves laughing, whilst still charging the same price as they used to do for physical copies, the customer is prevented from reselling that digital item.
As a current Chargify customer, I'll list some of my pain points:

1) Price keeps changing. We've had the underlying price change multiple times over the past few years. This can make it very difficult if your margins are thin. I see your price guarantee, and I think it's a good idea except for one thing: what if your underlying service providers (Authorize, Samurai) change their prices?

2) Still waiting on better reporting. This is a good article on metrics to track: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/09/6-saas-metrics-you... A recurring billing provider should have most of the info to provide these. Sure, I could write it all up in excel, but I have other stuff to do. Make my life just a teeny bit easier.

3) Vendor lock-in - As others have mentioned, portability is a big concern. If we had to switch away from Authorize.net it would be a nightmare to get everyone to re-input their card details. You should make it absolutely explicit what new customers need to do in order to achieve portability. This means knowing your underlying providers, but trust me, your customers don't know them. The reason they're coming to you is because they want to offload the burden of knowing and managing all that.

I wrote up my reasons for going with Chargify a while back: http://peachshake.com/2010/06/15/saas-subscription-billing-o...
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Is it possible that Ikamasutra developer sue Apple and win in court?
I think that was sort of the point; with credible economic backing, some types of crime are civil matters for the courts. Without them, those same crimes are criminal mafia pirating conspiracy wow.
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>A tonne of people would pay $1.99 to learn a Radiohead song on piano //

Sounds like a rights management nightmare as the location of delivery (assuming the location of production is the US) is likely to have particular rights groups that you have to handle. In the UK you'd need to get rights from the PRS, the artist (if you play a clip) the production company for trademarks and what have you and probably a few others.

Just a suggestion to look in to IP rights issues before you get too far along with things.
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Actually, that's one of the few reputable casual sites that cover the field of aging and longevity research, along with my own, Fight Aging!
True, an indication of recommended age may help in the Happy Tree Friends case. But I think some 10-year-olds might also not like it very much, and they are teens already. If it said "strong violence", that probably works even better.

Of course the best thing is watching a trailer on Youtube, but you can hardly do that for every series the children ever watch. This is more realistic with games, at least until they start buying or downloading their own games.
Well, if Apple want to win the [OS/hardware/whatever] war then all they need to do spend a chunk of their cash stockpile and ensure that Episode 3 launches on OSX first.

Or more seriously, if Valve wanted a hardware partner then why wouldn't they work with Apple?
Imagine all the titillating books 13-year-olds can read in a public library without their parents knowing!

Seriously, though, there are much better sources of porn out there than books and sketchy non-explicit monochrome drawings, and kids are well aware of them.
I had an account with 2Checkout awhile ago. At the time their terms were like that I needed like $600 in my account before I could withdraw.

I earned like $470 over time, and then they started deducting various fees from my account effectively wiping my balance.

They rank alongside paypal in my book, and I avoid them with the passion of the christ.
> Once the mentality cements, everything is eventually someone else’s job, and they’re being a toad for inconveniencing you with it.

There's so many parts to this that they actually need unpacking.

Someone discovers a problem... are they responsible for it?

Someone can't do an aspect of their work... how hard have they tried before seeking help? How busy is everyone else?

There's five things broken, is the new one higher priority than the other four?

You can tell when the situation's right: several people volunteer to help, one steps up, responsibility is shared. Likewise, when it's wrong, there's that awkward... silence...

I'm glad to read even a short post about this. My feeling is that people are mistaken if they think they can give away responsibility for something. Someone must choose to take it from you, and in all cases you share responsibility for getting it resolved.
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Very interesting summary. I've never been on a jury, and I learned two things from that article:

1) The lawyers can say basically whatever they want, but the jurors are "supposed" to only consider actual evidence - stuff shown from the witness stand, with a few exceptions - when making their decision. I guess this is why you want a really good lawyer... he can convince them to interpret the evidence in his way.

2) The different parties can present stuff while talking (like the Lindholm emails) which aren't evidence, and it's basically up to the jury to remember what's what. Potentially very confusing, and again, I guess that's why you want a good lawyer.

If I'm wrong on either of these, I would appreciate it if someone who actually knows something about law would correct me. Very interesting, thorough, and well-done writeup!
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Unless the title of the blog post has been changed since submission to HN, why the editorialised title?

Edit: I've since learnt that that is actually the title of the post. It still seems kind of sensationalist none-the-less.
i've always wondered how the app approval process works...I imagine there are diagnostic tools that search for suspicious behavior in the code. But how much time is spent going through the content? clearly there's not a rigorous effort to test stability. Besides crashes, I've seen games where much of the UI is just broken through bugs.

But seeing how quick they are to jump on objectionable content...is it safe tos ay that most of an app-approver's time has to be spent skimming for nudity/extreme violence/cuss words? how else could this reasonably scale?
They probably won't agree, though I have no basis for that claim other than witnessing capitalism-in-motion for so many years.

However, does it really matter? With things like ad-block, ghostery, noscript, etc; in the end the consumer more or less has the final say. Awareness of these type of plugins will only become more ubiquitous over time as the world becomes more and more tech savvy; and/or this tracking has a negative effect on consumers that they actually feel.

If someone cares enough to look for a do-not-track setting, likely they can be bothered to find a plugin that enforces it.

In the end though I agree with `methodin`; the line for tracking is really fuzzy without breaking basic functionality. The nature of the internet is such that users are going to have to take their anonymity, in-so-much as they desire it, into their own hands; and tools that make it easy for them will continue to be, and I presume grow, ever more successful.
App stores should do what is good for their shareholders

Apple is trying to move from being the cool kids counter-culture creative types alternative to the PC to being the corporate acceptable alternative to the Blackberry.

A story about karmasutra apps or ifart in the WSJ could cause a CEO to change their mind about allowing users to use their iPhone on the corp network.

And of course the best way of preventing such a story is, as we all know, to make a big splash about banning such an app
So, uh, how long until the novelty of writing old programs in a new framework wears off?

A review of the entire history of programming indicates the answer is 'never'.
But like any big organization, there are likely idiosyncrasies that have bubbled and been allowed to continue just because, "that's the way things are." For example, the whole iphone4 antenna thing was surely seen by many people...but it's likely that someone at top said, "It's passable" and everyone else on the team learned to just accept it. Just because lots of people recognize a big problem doesn't mean that all efforts have been made to rectify/smooth it out.
Yes, but when Goldman Sachs engages in fraud and damages the economy, they can plea bargain with the SEC for a paltry sum and never have to answer for their crimes.
Just wondering...
If you had a software calculator such that after you typed in the question, the calculator returned, say, four possible answers, you chose one, and the calculator confirmed or corrected you, would that infringe on this patent? You're not actually inputting a calculation directly so I believe not, but I know nothing about law.

Maybe I should just build one and wait for the knock.
Wondering whether this article should credit Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" as these ideas seem to come fairly directly from that book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/d...
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Zero exposure when your app is removed from the store (look at the news). Beside that, I am not a fan of Apple the patent troll and very reluctant to build an app specifically to them. HTML 5 has great exposure on EVERY computer.
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I was disappointed - surely a live web version would be easy to mock up, and give a good feel for how things work?

This wouldn't need to give away any details - if need be, just have 10 example calcs with the tolerance hard-coded.
Also it might be a good source of motivation for teams, ensuring you keep making progress on your idea if you know you've got to send a regular update out! :)
The title of both the HN submission and the blog post are "Apple Hates Brunettes" at the moment, unless I'm getting some kind of cached copy?
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Yes, it's weird, but that's not Apple's fault, it's a reflection of the society we live in.
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Even if you don't use tracking for advertising targeting, a lot of untargeted / contextually-targeted ad buys require frequency caps. No frequency caps, no ad buys.

You seem skeptical that ad targeting works. In fact, it works pretty well. Not perfect, could be better, but it's certainly profitable.
Perhaps there is going to be an Apple gaming console with Valve or perhaps they are expanding Apple TV to include it?
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With the great things that Stripe and GoCardless are doing I worry that the market for apps like this Chargify and the others will start shrinking soon. Stripe may not be able to gobble up the whole market themselves but I'm sure there will be other services inspired by them.

Rather than focusing on the nasty PCI compliance stuff there could be a bigger opportunity to work a layer higher. Think business tools for managing and measuring subscriptions across different services. Recurly, Chargify et al seem to have stagnated on that front, probably because they're having to spend so much time on retaining PCI compliance while scaling.
Would you want to use a computer language that only gives the answer (of a numeric integral or the number of registered users) after you give a suitable estimate?

The problem is that this is a tool that an author designed for another people to use. There is an essay from pg that says that the good languages are designed by the authors for themselves, but I can't find the link. The same idea applies to the other tools.

I'm teaching elementary calculus and linear algebra in the university, and I think that it is very important that the students get a general idea of what they are doing. (For example: The integral from 0 to 1 of e^-x is less than 1, because the area is inside a 1x1 square. If a linear equation system includes x+y+z=1000 and each variable is positive, then x=2117 is not a good answer) But an annoying tool is not the answer to this problem.
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If I remember well, there were rumors that Megaupload had plans for some streaming service of its content too (fact check me on that please). That would have been a threat to almost everyone in this sector, so I can imagine that some people were a little bit worried about a company like Megaupload becoming public. After that they would have been a member of the club, have a load of cash after the IPO and have a product and content to offer, I can imagine quite a few names who wouldn't have been happy with that.
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So English (UK?) constitution === stare decisis with common law?

That of course makes the constitution unknowable because the supreme court, the House of Lords, can ignore precedent. So that still leaves us with no way to know the constitution the best we could hope for is to form a quorum of Lords and check that something is legally OK with them; even then they could changed their minds.

I still think that without a clearly defined and codified set of basic principles a nation doesn't have what I would call a constitution.
Perhaps there should be an 18+ section that can be blocked by parents with a password? If you have an out-of-the-box iPhone you can get any manner of porn within Safari. Why shouldn't you be able to get real porn with a better experience via an app?
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slightly off topic.

Today I realized that my 3g plan is censoring adult content. I also listened to a podcaster talk about renaming his podcast "talkings hit" to get passed the itunes criteria. The paper had some silly fluff article about Facebook and breastfeeding pictures. Youtube is stricter than TV on nudity (and laxer on violence).

These were all little corners of the internet up until recently and it seemed all right that they all have their own rules. Suddenly they pretty much are the internet and soon the will be the computer.

I don't like it.
Take a look at Epoch[1]. It’s written by an acquaintance of mine, Mike Lewis, and I’ve watched it mature over the years from a mere forum thread into a fairly robust language. Unfortunately he tends to be quite busy, so development is slow, albeit constant. Still, the design is solid.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/epoch-language/
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"qwe sdawrqre sdzaamik3432 mkl" -> that's cryptic.

This is not, it's simply a bit vague. If it attenuates age-associated increases in oxidative stress then it probably has an anti-oxidant effect. Alternatively, it affects the systems responsible age-related oxidation - in other words, an indirect anti-oxidant action.
I think iOS is (again) the game changer here.

The iPad is making serious inroads as a gaming platform, and not just for casual games. The recent release of Max Payne for iPad shows how fast this platform is evolving.

Valve is not present on iOS, and under current app store rules cannot expand their portfolio easily there. Now, talks between Apple and Valve might just solve this conundrum.

Where does a potential Apple console come into play? Why do you need one at all?

Take Apple TV and Airplay. Extend the iPad game to the TV. Already possible. Only thing that sucks is controllers - if you could use a classic controller (via Bluetooth) with that iPad/aTV setup you suddenly have a pretty powerful console, and a portable one too.
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If this is true, the whole case just got one notch more interesting. And IPO would mean that the company and it's business model would have to be vetted by lawyers and bank people, that's something someone with an illegal business model could not be interested in. So it could be cited as a fact that megaupload genuinely tried to have a legit (maybe shady) business.
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Oh, my mistake - that is actually the title. Thanks.
Let's not act like he would have cared about this while he was alive. Apple's products and services always place family-friendlyness over any kind of free expression.
Now yes, but Apple's put them in a tricky position for the future. Thanks to the influence of iOS, Steam will be in a rather tight spot once Windows 8 rolls out (as the WinStore will be the primary source for games by default; exclusive on ARM); the presence of the App Store on OSX isn't doing them any favors either.

On the flip side, if Apple wants to take the consoles head-on (a fairly safe assumption), they're going to need strong console-level games. Partnering with Valve puts them on mostly equal footing with Microsoft and Sony in terms of publisher relationships, as well as a few headliner exclusives.
I used to work support for a SMS aggregator. The core business was delivering texts to mobile networks. Mobile networks break all the time, it turns out. And can't really be replaced - there's only one T-Mobile.

Now, when they died or sent garbage, our software wouldn't crash. But our service would stop functioning. And alarms would go off, and we would have to confirm why, and call them, and ask them if they knew if it had stopped working and why.

(The follow up was indeed to always ask to be added to the mailing list that would let us know this ahead of time. These proved remarkably unhelpful. In once case, we ended up setting up having to set up a mobile number to receive SMS alerts - this was apparently the only way they would notify anyone?)

And reasonably often actual engineers would be needed to be woken up. And in several cases, change the parsing behaviour so we could handle sudden unexpected changes in the format they returned. Yes, in the middle of the night.

Our system wasn't perfect, but I'm not sure our problem was simply a lack of system or unit tests.

During the day, we largely dealt with more minor customer complaints, and ongoing maintenance, outages and other nonsense fromt he carriers. Engineers would often have to dig into these edge cases too, and there was a nominated maintainer to look at this stuff, to let the rest of the team add features and work on long term fixes. But sometimes you just need someone to wedge LargeCustomer's encoding settings because they can't figure out how to properly specify it on their end.
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I'd love to learn how you grew so quickly.

Affiliate income on tabs, sheet music, musical equipment, recording equipment.

Subscriptions - just like DeviantArt or Flickr.

Use Earbits's business model - pay money to promote bands. People who play music listen to music. After all, you are building out an audience.

Sell tutorials - hire the best guitarists to teach techniques, etc. Just like on the iMac.
More like everyone making mony with content braodcasted or streamed in wht manner ever. :-)

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well after being here for a few months I found if I ever put some none-hype comments I got negative scores, this by itself tells me ycombinator and many of its followers are on drug and ignoring reality.
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Yea it's certainly a complicated situation for both you and the police to figure out. The problem is I don't think I'd trust them to not try to strong arm you into confessing and saying who it was, assuming you did order them even if they couldn't prove it.
Why would they ever do that?
I guess this does the opposite of what you want to do:

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