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Is this the most ambitious AI project in recent times that has a deadline? wow... I don't know what to think.
I don't think he meant it as a legal obligation, just an obligation to its customers. Selling a censored album, even if it's labeled, isn't selling the real album. It's a rip-off. Considering the movies and video games they still sell, it's also hypocritical.

And you're right, Green Day made the right move by deciding not to have their album cut down. Seeing as it debuted at number 1, their fans seem to agree.
YAGNI isn't a piece of cake either. I remember when I first got a job as a junior I used to spend endless nights trying to template stuff in C++. I feared it might not work for the general case. As it turned out several months later in practice:

1. I didn't knew what the general case was so it wasn't supporting that.

2. Code was so fucking complicated trying to suit the general case. I had to throw it out. I had to write new code that actually solved new cases.

3. I wasted about a week on what could probably be done in 30 minutes at that time.

4. There were third-party libraries (Boost) that were written by people who actually dealt with the general case but I wasn't allowed to use them since they "bloated code". Those libraries would've saved me time when I wrote the original damn thing, when I had to introduce new cases (probably), and when I had to debug that crappy code of mine.

Number three has also caused me to learn what kind of stuff can bring someone's productivity up by orders of magnitude.

I also learned that I should have freedom on what libraries I have to use because micromanagement is dumb.

Conclusion: micromanagement sucks; YAGNI rocks.
I wish someone would review my code and say "this and that sucks".

But I think most of my cow-orkers would take offense if I did this to them..
Which is, IMHO, more interesting that the article here. Apparently she spent only $10 to do all the investigating of the former bankruptcy filing, tax records, etc.
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A careful read of the post turns up very little actual information. There’s indignation over the story, indignation over us not giving them a heads up, and a statement that it’s impossible for data to be sent to CBS without Garrett’s knowledge. They also say “Any suggestion that we were complicit in transferring user data to any third party is incorrect.”

We need more than that.

Isn't it the accuser's job to prove that someone is guilty, rather than the defendant's job to prove his innocence? TechCrunch is still publishing this based on only a couple sources. I realize that it is hard to get even a couple sources, but what if even one of those sources is fake? Since we can't know anything about them, we have no way of validating what TechCrunch is saying.
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Aha. This changes the perspective of that NYT article completely, because the NYT article does mention (but not blame) the spending habits of the wife breaking the budget.
Edmund Andrews responded to this and claimed that the largest of the BK's was due to his wife's ex-husband's failure to file tax returns for 5 years. McArdle points out that you can't simply discharge IRS debts in a normal bankruptcy. That's two strikes now on Andrews, who continues to collect plaudits from the journo elites for his courage while evading simple questions about his story.
Somehow nobody there mentioned Paul Buchheit:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paul

They got all the other well-known people I could think of.
Is there any clarifications of what exact data TC accuses of being sent? ie usernames, ip addresses?
I think it is a poor deal not because of the money or the tax consequence. I think it is a poor deal because he is being treated as an employee and not as a co-founder.

Entrepreneurs often preceive their net worth based on how much effort they have put in and not on how much more it will take to get to the end goal. So it is not the details that made this such a bad deal but the assumption.
Summary: his theory is that it is similar to the sound of you damaging your teeth, since teeth have no nerve endings, the sound of them being damaged makes you cringe.
Does being an author automatically make you famous? For me, it's just a job. (Not that I don't enjoy it, of course, but I've found people to be WAY too excited to meet people who write books. ;)
What's a better way to keep a log, if desired?
The implications from requesting ip addresses appears to be attempting to find the original leak source, ie the earliest scrobbles not accountable to journalists, execs. (This is a guess, not something I know)
My dad knew someone who aimed to walk the full length of every street in San Francisco, at least one per day.

There are several thousand streets in the city, so it took a few years but the guy did complete his mission.
Exactly, RAC is all about the race to the bottom. It's like buying a car for $50. Yea, you're only out $50 but you most probably won't get a car that will take you where you need to go. It's for people who are already convinced that they are going to get ripped off so they might as well get ripped of for less.
I find it extremely unlikely that Last.fm is outright lying or trying to obscure the truth. That would be pretty stupid of them.

But I also doubt Arrington would be this direct about the issue if he didn't have some really, really solid proof.

It's hard to decipher. The only thing that benefits from this stuff is TechCrunch, though, which is something to think about.

Someone is committing PR suicide. I can't decide who yet.
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Maybe it's just me but I don't like seeing speculative crap like this on HN. I'll read it once there's an actual incident with some proof but this is just drama and it's the same reason I don't watch soaps on TV. Flagged even if it is not spam/fake.
It depends on how well his/her book(s) sell with respect to other books in that domain.
Yeah, but the modal number of copies sold on e.g. Lulu.com is 1 (repeating hearsay seen on 2blowhards.com, I'd check it out but posting from phone)
Let's assume last.fm did indeed provide information to the RIAA. Won't we find out the truth once the RIAA starts suing people based on that information? Surely last.fm would plan for something like that instead of issuing denials.

This leads to one of two conclusions: either (1) last.fm isn't guilty, or (2) the RIAA doesn't intend to act upon the information they got. If (2), why did they request the information in the first place?

Personally, I'm inclined to believe the TechCrunch story is nothing more than linkbait, and last.fm is trying to give them as little attention as possible.
> 1) An 83b is irrelevant for this problem (you aren't vesting over time, thus there is no chance of a large increase in the share price before you get your grant)

How do we know that he is purchasing all his stock up front with no restrictions?

If he is, he can quit now and get a job that pays him market rate while keeping all the stock. Somehow I doubt that that's the case.

If he's purchasing stock each month (or getting the right to keep stock that he's been granted, that is, repurchase rights are expiring), 83(b) is relevant.
For (2), they probably wanted it for research purposes.
Scrobbing data is publicly available, so even that has holes.
I still say that's a remarkable claim. Modern computers are complicated (not to mention language runtimes and frameworks), and few applications admit straightforward algorithmic analysis.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2009/05/ed-andrews-...

Original NYT author responding to recent revelations.
As good a theory as any. But: If I'm right, then ANY toothed animal is programmed to respond to it What about animals with teeth which regrow or continuously grow like rabbits?
Arrington is the master of the weekend drama.
"So just because you know someone involved in some stories, doesn't necessarily mean you're getting the whole truth either."

Honestly? No, the stuff I'm talking about does not consist of events where people could reasonably report different accounts. I have seen TC literally fabricate things out of thin air with absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever.

The only thing about it that's amusing at all is watching, say, the founder of a company find out from TC that he's allegedly been conducting acquisition talks. Because, you know, their "sources" (pixies and unicorns, I believe) are so much better at knowing that than the person who's allegedly doing it...
It doesn't matter if Walmart chooses to sell their album or not. It isn't as if they're being hypocritical, they aren't, they frequently sell censored material. They were the first to drop GTA after the Hot Coffee scandal; I believe I recall discussions of them possibly not carrying the game at all. Meh. I won't buy censored music or music with DRM anyway, so I very rarely buy music from Walmart. It's marked I'm not being ripped off and that's the way it should work.

Walmart has no obligation to their customers to sell a given product, their obligations run toward taking back broken and rotten goods. It's not as if they have a monopoly on musical recordings.

I'm more annoyed with Greenday here. Their album goes straight to number one and, still they play the bitch.
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Us types go crazy over this stuff, while this back and forth hurts a start-up, a company, peoples' livelihoods they put their blood, sweat and tears over. Years of work possibly down the drain because of a start-up's blog insatiable appetite for drama(traffic). This start-up blog is supposed to be on the side of start-ups; nurture and report on them. While they are reporting on them it's out of a tabloid magazine reporting! Why wait til a holiday weekend to report on this?

If you were listening to a leaked album you were breaking the law and should not be so dumb to flagrantly share it on a network with your friends. The law sucks, but it is law!
"this is a huge privacy concern" ... agreed!

Let's hope Apple clean's up Safari's messy behaviour that disregards the privacy of users everywhere.
"I'll read it once there's an actual incident with some proof"

TC is claiming that there _was_ an actual incident, they're claiming the data already _was_ handed over to the RIAA and they're basing this on an anonymous source (a technique which has broken some of the most famous stories in journalism).

TC would be insane to make it all up as this surely would meet the standard for libel.
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You may want to look at Inky -- it's not traditional console/text, but rather taking some of that feel into a "command-line for the web with rich visual feedback:

Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1llZnsye0M
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If you point and stare, they'll leave. So ixnay on the arfucking-stay, mm-kay?
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I see the motivations line up as follow:

TC reasons to lie: generate traffic, personal animosity

TC risks by lying: libel lawsuit

last.fm/cbs reasons to lie: cover up alleged activity which would be in violation of EU law

last.fm/cbs risks by lying: bad PR (but compare that with an admission of guilt)

Based on motivations alone, I think TC would have be insane to fabricate this story.
For (2),
They were trying to catch the guy who leaked it from the inside… not sue everyone who listened to the new U2 album. </quote> [from the comments]
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Looks like TC are aggressively deleting comments that disagree with their opinion.
Mine is here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBayAreaErlangFact.... If you're interested in distributed databases I talk about the one I did in Erlang.
I agree, it's impossible to come to a conclusion based on what we've seen from both sides thus far. I think it's best to wait-and-see on this one.

Perhaps Techcrunch and Last.fm are "both" right from their perspectives, and we're seeing a confusing mess? Time will tell...

For now, I think Techcrunch should name their source publicly. Or, if that source is worried the exposure will do them harm, have a neutral 3rd party verify the source's credibility while keeping their confidentiality. Is this a current or former employee? How high-up are they in Last.fm/CBS? How long have they worked there? Are they a current or former employee? etc etc...

Last.fm's trust is potentially on the line here. Techcrunch's integrity as journalists is potentially on the line here as well.
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You are missing the point.

If your messages hit the disk, ever, then you are either not implementing a "real-time chat" or you're doing it horribly wrong.
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From the 2nd article: "The person who first leaked the news was terminated from CBS for the leak, says our original source, and threatened with legal action."

Even assuming that they were telling the truth and that TC would cover the legal bills, the source would have to be pretty brave to expose themselves any further.
you are right in marketing its called selective retention and attention. In terms of beliefs people will only pay attention to and remember things that support their current beliefs and values. Most people are like this. Only a small portion of the population are able to critically think and come up with unbias opinion on things.
And another ICUG (Inventor)! I'm surprised as it does sound like me (or at least how I think I am).
If someone manages to port the 64-bit version to Java (which probably requires some JNI or JNA work), I would be very happy.
Persecution doesn't necessarily mean a lawsuit, when it's an instantly verifiable claim. If everybody is doing it, then it's a matter of finding and reporting those people, and either having it removed or pressing charges against the criminals involved. (Once it reaches that point, a lot of people will find ways to stop ripping off writers. I hope it doesn't reach that point any time soon.
the problem with journalism is the disruptive technology of the internet to its old distribution system and how it changed the way we consume news.
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They wanted to become the "Youtube for documents" and they did. Nobody that I know of has a better docstorage method, and, like Youtube, Scribd feels cheap and often gives me results that lied about what they were to get views. I'm not mad at Scribd for doing that, since it worked, but I have to wonder who would willingly demean his life's work for the sake of popularity. Perhaps that's just my pretension speaking.
This is an article for people who don't know anything about AI (or, for that matter, CS in general). I was skeptical when it opened with the perfunctory Terminator reference, and it didn't fail to disappoint.

The MSM's conflation of actually existent AI (search, learning, etc.) with AGI is becoming a real pet peeve of mine.
I'm really glad they posted this. I saw a lot of twitters at RailsConf about how great this keynote was. Now that I've seen it, I personally don't see that much to like about it, but at least I'm no longer left wondering
i have a 2gb image of win98 simply because win98 has generic kernel (you can swap the hard drive to any hardware and most of the time it won't BSOD).

driver for samsung mfc was installed (never buy korean again, their hws are not friendly toward mac/unix), maybe gvim, putty and some other softwares

i didn't even install antivirus since i can just dd the hd again if it's acting weird. it's fair to say i don't use windows. it's there only for win-only hardwares which over time lose their significance.
Yeah, it's called the local user's group for the technology of your choice.
Does it output as image? How does it handle highlighting, copying and pasting? Do you have a link to a sample page for this?
You know an article is good when Rob Enderle is quoted.

It'll be tough to unseat Google, but Microsoft already knows this. I'd love to think that they learned that from Live, which was an excellent search engine that still happened to look and feel exactly like Google and so had few fans, but I won't hold my breath for this thing.
Like an image in Firefox:

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s/verbal body-slam/public demonstration that I am an absolute tool/
Presumably, no one is going to try to prove something wrong that has already been proven wrong, so unless there are many obscure flaws in one's work that take multiple papers to uncover, it shouldn't affect the citation count much.
I would think that this is parable rather than history. Some of the giveaways are the dig at "operational research" and the mention of the DoD (which a meticulous writer like EWD would have known did not exist until much later).
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Are you in the bay area?

Also what's your area of expertise: developer/designer/marketing etc

mine is engineering/product
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There have been a bunch of papers over the years, with varying levels of success. Here's a short one that tries pagerank on a set of physics papers:

http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/28/44/11103

Reading past the usual academic exaggeration (where everything is "promising" and "has potential"), the data is underwhelming -- there's no clear indication that pagerank has an advantage over traditional citation metrics.

Here's a Google cache link to a paper that discusses some of the things I was talking about (i.e. how the metaphor breaks down when moving from web to journals):

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:KdKSGivmckgJ:www.cais-a...

As I said, there have been lots of other papers. I don't recall seeing one that made a convincing case, but I'm certainly not an expert....
The hypocrisy comes from claiming the censorship is based on moral grounds when it clearly isn't. Dropping GTA but keeping Saints Row; not selling 21st Century Breakdown because of profanity but selling The Boondock Saints just two aisles over. They aren't doing it for moral reasons, they're doing it so they can claim the moral high ground when scandals hit.

Labeling something as censored means the buyer isn't being scammed. It's a rip-off because it's a bum deal. They aren't getting the real product. I doubt there are a lot of Nirvana fans happy with their Wal-Mart copy of In Utero having the song 'Waif Me' on it. Isn't that the reason you won't buy censored music?

You nailed it about their obligations. But that's the problem: they should have an obligation to their customers to sell them the best possible product. It could be one of the many reasons they aren't the top music retailer anymore.

And how is Green Day playing the bitch here? They aren't going after Wal-Mart. They aren't suing or filing complaints. They didn't even bring up the issue.
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You assume that one is breaking the law by listening to an unreleased album. I do not believe that is the case.

The primary assumption is that you will (or have) copy(ied) and thus violated copyright. That's only true in cases you actually copied them. If somebody else handed you copied discs, then it is they who broke copyright, not you.

Listening to them would be perfectly legal, as long as you dont copy them.
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I think the idea behind this is great and I'm happy Mozilla is doing it. I just wish someone would put a little more thought into how this could be done in a collabrative way and not as a contest. Anyone who has designed anything with a team knows that a single idea from someone else can have a huge impact on what you're thinking.

I'm man enough to admit I've had whole trains of thought de-railed by someone pointing out a flaw in my logic that I just couldn't see without their help. This contest is like everyone showing up with their "first day of design" ideas and then leaving with no discussion. Still a cool idea but limited.
There's a third possibility here, which is that TC was tricked. The sources' information could be fake, because the sources want to make Last.FM look bad.
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Ask HN: How to use Amazon Mechanical Turk from Canada?
Currently, Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk.com) only allows "Requesters" based in the United States.

Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around for someone based in Canada?

Do we need to partner with someone in the US? Their sign-up requires a US mailing address and phone number. I'm not sure if they also require a US bank account.

I'd especially like to hear from anyone in Canada who has used "mturk.com" ...
Indeed, all salient points.
Turns out he didn't tell the part of the story about his wife's bankruptcies: http://kottke.org/09/05/economics-reporter-gets-caught-in-mo....
People said the same thing about yelp when they were caught suppressing negative reviews and that didn't seem to slow them down...
"It's the sound of body damage; but it's a particular type of body damage for which there is no pain ...yet no healing."

That's not actually true. Teeth do heal - which hurts his theory, except that while they do heal, they don't do it well, so there could be something to it.
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I'm not so convinced that the existing stuff is actually I (intelligence). So their conflation is not so wrong.

But I agree that this article was a waste of time. Especially since CPU's are not getting faster, and have not for several years.
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hit the desk? I havent heard that phrase before (and neither has google), guessing it means go into a database

if querying history is a functional requirement then your data has to be stored somewhere, filesystem is an easy win, but if something can provide distribution, replication and querying without breaking your other requirements then how exactly are you "doing it wrong"?

My point wasnt even that couch would be particularly great at these, it was just that most of this "common wisdom" applies towards traditional rbdms, databases can be built with exactly realtime messaging in mind
Yet again, Apple allows an app after getting a black eye in the press. I'm shocked.
The article fits a general audience well. Does NYtimes ever have technical articles up to HN's par?

A growing interest in AI is a positive thing.

Kurizwells book on a global brain sounds interesting - the inspiration must of came from the Asimov's "The Last Question".
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This is fundamentally a legal problem - namely, that our virtual and physical privacy are treated much differently. Our online data is often held by third parties who need not respect our wishes about how our private data is handled and cannot necessarily be trusted to act in our best interest. And this problem isn't limited to last.fm, it spans multiple classes of private data, from webmail to credit card transactions.

Hat tip to http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0905.html#3
Thank God. It was nice app. It would have been a shame if apple hadn't corrected it.

Hopefully a day will come when develpers can get the attention of apple without a big hue and cry