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> Someone has to explain to me exactly what we should have done differently here.

Completely frank and sincere feedback:

1. The two paragraphs taken from the source should have been block-quoted

2. The first paragraph of the story should have established source

3. The first link should have been to the source, not your own blog

4. The links used to backup the story should have been part of the blockquote or via'd

5. Misuse of 'via'. You didn't find the story 'via' Joshua, rather Joshua's post was the story

or options 2:

1. You realize that this is an interesting story for your audience, you check the license of the story and if it is permissible you republish it on your blog with Joshua as the author and a link back to the original

Suggestions:

1. Have an editor check every post before it is published for fair attribution. It is common that a single person can miss an attribution in 1 out of 100 cases, but with two people checking that becomes 1 in 10,000.

2. Re-publish stories that you think may be interesting for your audience rather than re-blogging and wrapping them

3. Circulate something internally about standards of attribution and perhaps also publish a page about it on your blog with a contact email address if any problems arise.

4. Respond to criticism better, the customer is always right etc.

It is cases like this that cause the media to constantly deride blogs. I really think you should take a step back and re-evaluate your response to this, and I say that in all honesty, complete sincerity and with absolutely no disrespect (there are writers at TNW whose work I follow and enjoy and I have been a long time reader).
Good lessons learned. We've all been there at some point in life (the rash response thing).

TheNextWeb usually has plenty of good, timely posts and it'd be a shame to consider it sullied so I, and hopefully others, hope some good can come out of this drama long term. (I've been in the role of editor and got the blame for sloppy fact-checking by one of my charges; it definitely helped me get my eye back on the ball :-))
'echo .*' and notice how the second entry is .., the parent directory. It won't go up the tree indefinitely, but it will go up one level.
You are correct, which is why I called what TNW did plagiarism in my parent post, and elsewhere in the thread. Their understanding of the concept is both sad and frustrating. (Check my comment history.)

I'm making a separate point, that the contribution of the article in question is minor. And that, combined with the level of outrage, just makes me a bit uneasy.
It's clear that you react to it (reading through the CEO comments)
Just curious but does it mean that having quantitative skills in those fields implies that you probably have some job experience in those fields?

I cannot imagine high schools providing substantial education to develop skills in those fields.
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Well, that happened to me at least once on Linux, ten years or so ago. I don't remember if it goes backwards up the tree or just one level (I think it's the latter), or if the current 'rm' protects against this or not.

Imagine you place yourself in '/tmp' to throw away all those pesky '.' directories and files that applications leave there. You run that command, it matches '..' and your whole system is gone (btw, 'rm -rf .??*' avoids this).
Quit using manager-bullshit-speak. Here, let me write your entire "processes AND policy" manual for plagiarism:

1) Don't do it;

2) If it occurs, fire the guy who did it;

3) Apologize and try to make it right;

4) Shut up.

You seem to find each one of those steps challenging.
I agree; that is an excellent speech.
It wasn't a typo. It was just a garden-variety spelling error. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll try to remember the correct spelling in the future.

I guess I hold myself to a higher standard than you do. I have old-fashioned ideas. Writers should be competent enough in the fundamentals that even their informal remarks meet a certain standard of composition. When you are a good writer, you put the same level of care into your work regardless of the purpose. Quite frankly, a writer who thinks, "The editor will catch it," doesn't deserve to be paid for the job. It's bad craft.
I'm still under the impression that modifying and completely removing are different things, but perhaps it was a sloppy configuration or that they put too much trust in their employees.
I got your point. And yes they are two different things with (probably) two different sets of commenters. Many people provide many different rationales and justifications for why piracy is ok. It is unpopular to say otherwise and will get you downvoted. That is just how it goes.
Monitor the uptime of PingDom... so that people know if Pingdom goes down.
Python is great for that sort of thing - but there do exist CLI helper libraries for Java in Apache Commons that make it almost as nice. It's just wierd to me to make development tooling for a langage in a different language - and indeed, if you find yourself doing this you might want to ask yourself why. (Of course there's a clear market reason - the hosted Ruby on Rails market is locked up by Heroku, but the hosted Java market, apart from a subset of JEE supported by GAE, doesn't even exist.)
What it this "low task-switching barrier" ? I mean, even though, the language is the same, back end coding and front end coding are really different. For example, your front end development may have lagged because of lack of front end development knowledge, not because of this mythical task switching barrier that everyone is talking about !
I'm not bothered much by "ur" (since it's Twitter, and you have only 140 characters) than by his tone.
true

Q: is that human nature or indoctrination of democracy at play ...
If you have a PO Box, the USPS will also take package deliveries. You have to sign up for the service and use the address of the Post Office and they will leave a notice in your box when the package gets there.

It's a way to get deliveries from companies that won't ship to PO boxes. My local PO told me about it a few months ago, but I haven't had the need to use it.
But I don't want to go to FedEx Kinkos to ship a package. I live in the city and its a pain in the ass to walk 5 blocks with a couple of big packages and stand in line at a Kinkos. I want shipping a package to be as simple as receiving a package. Then, I want to be able to receive more useful information on the package's status delivered in real time to my smartphone.
I largely agree that gradual replacement has the far better claim to preservation of identity. I would have hardly any desire to be uploaded any other way.

However, the car of Theseus example allows for a worrisome wrinkle. What if you kept all the old parts during the process you describe, and then after, you re-assembled them? Which car has the superior claim to being identical with the old car? I think it obvious that the reassembled old parts have the superior claim over the car produced by part-by-part substitution of new parts.
This is what I do, but then nobody's happy. I'm probably paying over the odds, and they're probably shipping goods in a van which is underweight. They could fit another parcel on there and make more money.

This actually formed part of my experience with UPS. When the guy said to me "How much does this TV weigh?" I had no idea: the TV was in my parents' house a few hundred miles away. And why the fuck should I have to weigh it? He wanted my parents to take a heavy TV set and put it on some scales in order to weigh it. When I told him to make it up he said "but we might get it wrong and undercharge you!" I don't care. Just charge me a penalty or something. Shipping is one of those things that I don't have any sort of inclination as to how much a competitive price is.
This is my take on Facebook Timeline, except for a sports player's career.

The goal is to easily visualize a player's career based on the year and month. It's a neat way to relive a player's ups and downs. For example, it works nicely with Jeremy Lin.

There are a few outstanding bugs and I plan to further improve accuracy, but overall I'm excited to let everyone check it out.
I think people have an amount of money they are willing to spend on music, and they allocate that among bands they want to support. Then they torrent all the other music they want to listen to. Those are not necessarily the same bands.
"do something as antifeminist as doing the dishes or the laundry."

Stop assigning things like washing the dishes to a gender. In a marriage, you work as a team and split those things up.

I also find it funny that women only pull the feminist card when it involves something they don't want to do. When it involves paying on a date (most women still want the guy to pay) or being treated like one of the guys (There was a women on here awhile back that wrote a bot involving not being offended (and I'm not talking about being harassed), it's a different story.
Yeah, I didn't want to wander into the muddy puddle of discussing plagiarism. As a moral offence it's harder to quantify and discuss than copyright infringement in a concrete way. Nothing wrong with discussing journalistic ethics, of course, I'm just not the best at it ;-)
At least here in the US, such services exist - there are high-touch courier services that deliver same-day with very high service levels. They're also very expensive and used by almost nobody other than bankers, lawyer and advertising firms that can expense the costs to big corporate clients (and even then, the firms will generally use a normal carrier unless the package is very timely or sensitive.)

Most people don't want to pay the $6 or so for UPS shipping... Paying $200 would restrict your customers to a very small part of the market shipping very high-value goods (jewelry, bearer bonds?)... I wonder if even armored car shipping is that expensive on a per-item basis.
As another poster points out, I was advocating the creation of a better shipping company for human beings, not for companies who are addicted to the margins they make on shipping a gajillion parcels a year where they know the weight to a zillion decimal places so they can make a penny more on fuel costs.
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No it isn't that at all:

Piracy: "here is a free copy of the avengers"

Plagarism: "here, I made you a movie, I call it the avengers"

One about replicas, one is about credit. There is a difference. Quit being disingenuous about them being the same.
I think that could make a fascinating blog post and then discussion on HN. If you want to ride on the back of this one (you know how HN has flavors of the week), consider it! :-)
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Not entirely. Chrome has a permissions system for extensions: an extension needs to declare any sensitive or intrusive APIs it wants to use in the manifest file. Some permissions are even displayed to the user before the extension is installed.

https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/manifest.html#perm...
https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/permission_warning...
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Is yours the Technorati Top 100 as well? I feel like this has been done many times in the past, both by individuals and businesses of monitoring products.
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And spam the guys twitter saying he is overreacting and that its ridiculous that hes getting the slightest bit annoyed at the fact that you ripped his work off? Wow.. Just WOW.
So if I made a website called http://thisisstep1.com/

And it said "Coming soon."

And someone found out they can goto http://thisisstep2.com/.

Should I be able to say "But.. you aren't meant to go there!" ? At what point does your legal boundary lie for what is considered a public webpage and what is considered "not authorised."
How about: "xyz user did some calculations on what a few buttons did for NYC taxi drivers. Read his excellent post, the $144 million button here"

See how that gets the users to clickthrough?
I've never seen one. We have the Post Office, but there's a good chance that the item is bulky, what with me wanting it sent via courier instead of just putting it in an envelope, so why should they assume that it's convenient for me to take it from my house to a store? What, you want me to pay for a taxi to your store when you guys have vans that drive around dropping off boxes all day long?

> Why is any of this a problem?

I agree. It's 2012. This can be done so much better.
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Interactive reporting of every Groupon deal, this demo account goes back to 2011.
The admissions people say they reject excellent-but-bland applications, but perhaps it's a matter of degree.
> all if you manage to give me good feedback on how to do a better presentation next time around.

You really should ask the audience that question.

What a web based tool could do is integrate a feedback mechanism, maybe even tied to specific slides. Imagine you are giving the presentation, and I am bored to tears by your slide on profit margins increasing in Q2.

So I open the synchronized viewer app on my phone, and touch the frownie face icon or the icon that says 'zzzz'. Hopefully you will replace the bullets with an animated chart for your next presentation.

Maybe there already is an app for that?
"huge demand for reasonably-priced, "home"-user oriented shipping"

It doesn't matter how large the demand is if you can't do it profitably. And at the prices necessary to make money focusing on home shippers, you probably wouldn't have much demand.
This really really reads like:

"Oh uh yeah... this is what happened... we aren't just stating it's the case because it makes us look semi-ok..."
I think he means that by framing an activity as a "growth experience", it loses a bit of it's soul. Ghandi, Lindbergh, Jobs - they all changed the world because they had a fire in their belly and couldn't sit still. They didn't pursue things because it would grow their character. They did things because they we're compelled to.
A strict policy that includes insulting the original poster, accusing him of being "too extreme" and vowing on Twitter to avoid him in the future. At least this policy was written down, agreed to in advance and followed to the letter in practice. There's leadership for you. Or chutzpah.
The harder truth: You've misread my putting forth the case for a disruptive personal shipping company as my attempt to get UPS and FedEx to change their businesses.

(That'd be kind of odd on a site where discussion centres around technology and startups…)

When you can't get the vegetarian food you want from the supermarket, you go to the smaller, pricier, vegetarian outlet.
Although I do feel they copied you mostly because the look and feel of it, I also don't think they meant to as the type of service that Pingdom offers is very similar to yours. I see it more as Target saying "oh Walmart now has a grocery section, we need one!" type of ordeals.
So are you going to fire the offender or what exactly are you doing to prevent this happening again?
The toxic liquids tend to be actually fun to many :)
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Perhaps it needs to be replaced with a bottle of water?
Ensuring that artists receive both exposure and fair compensation is important to us.

Presto.fm currently uses music content from YouTube, which is licensed under Google's agreements with the major labels and the NMPA, so that artists can receive royalties from the ads included in player.

Many independent artists also upload their own music for free, just as they do with Soundcloud, etc, as they recognise it as a great way to reach new audiences.
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The tech of 1999 is certainly underestimated today

Still, in 1999 I had a PII 333MHz and 10GB HD (and Windows 98, sigh)

But reading about the history of Pixar, the difficulties (in the first Toy Story) involved the workflow of creating a full-feature film (apart from all the other problems they had)

So I'm guessing, since Toy Story 2 was their 3rd feature film, things were still a bit raw (especially given their fast pace)
So, I'm pretty sure ou can do this with racket.
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"Finally... Lesson learnt? Don’t respond while emotions are running high"

Wow, after all the drama you still don't get it. Lesson learned should have been: do not copy/paste, especially to such a degree where a majority of your "content" is actually not yours.
I dropped by the thread to suggest the fade-in as well.

It'd also be super nice if there was a header for each view with the commit message/description :)
I did this to myself in college, thankfully on machines where I didn't have most of my stuff. I figured it was an annoyance and put in a restore request to the support group. Days went by and I was getting frustrated that they still hadn't gotten around to it. Finally I caught the head of the support group in the hall and asked about it.

"Well, the good news is that we're getting a new backup system." Long pause. "The bad news is that your files are at about the third gigabyte of a two gigabyte tape."

Ever since, I'm always frustrated by people that assume things are backed up. If you don't test your backups, you don't have backups.
The UI is nearly identical. Tough to argue that they took your idea and made it their own.
Depends on the filesystem. Traditional unix permissions are simply r, w, x.
talk about a great way to ruin a company image... just shows that a company can't do this anymore to the masses, the people are not as silenced. Its now actually in a companies best intrest to be legitimate ;)
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Perhaps it is best for the database team to talk about that themselves - wouldn't want to put words in their mouths. They gave a Tech Talk in December last year, which you can see at http://livestre.am/1aeeW
At this point, you're not looking for a carrier. You're looking for a moving company, someone who comes to your house, wraps up the object, transports it to the desired location and unwraps it. There are definitely companies in that business, but UPS/Fedex/et al generally aren't, because that's not what their customers want.

Amazon uses something similar to this if you order a TV from them - they have someone who actually brings the TV into your house, unwraps it, connects it and takes away the box.
Or a hacker with the right tools (assuming such tools exist for the nix file systems - they certainly do for fat32 and NTFS)*

*nix file systems purge the file immediately, unless it is still opened by some program. fat32 deletes the entry from the file allocation table, and the data is eventually overwritten as new files fill that same location.
I think by "bland" they just mean that they reject people who don't have enough of the conforming resume-building activities that they expect :)
I'll go a step beyond. Most people look to others for cues. Some others bend over backwards to not conform (like the "I wake every day at 4:54 am" weirdo--just say 4:55 man!). Much more rare is the person who just does exactly what they want.
I'm surprised by the continued negative drum beating by some. The technocommentariat has had it in for their favorite "big Ponzi scheme" for awile but ... here Groupon is, not going bankrupt like the top comments in every related HN thread for the last year have assured us they shortly would. On the contrary they're doing great.
> "Someone has to explain to me exactly what we should have done differently here."

Obviously there are things your writer (Harrison Weber) could have done differently:

1) include the attribution and link at the outset

2) either provide true quotes or true rewrites, rather than slight paraphrases of the original text

And you yourself could have behaved differently as well:

3) when challenged, be friendly, even if you are (or appear to be) in the right. Summarize what you're seeing and then ask a question, instead of making accusations or insulting Joshua.

If your first tweet had instead said "we cited you as a source, which is standard procedure. Is there something else that's bothering you?" and then you waited for a response, you'd have given Joshua an opportunity to clarify his stance regarding the ninja edit, and you'd have given yourself an opportunity to apologize on behalf of your writer for the initial mistake.

Even if you had been right and everything had been sourced correctly from the start, a friendly stance and a few kind words would have done wonders. Consider this exchange: "...is there something else that's bothering you?" "Your wording in paragraph X is very similar to mine" "I've turned it into a direct quote. Does that resolve the issue?" With the issue resolved and no insults thrown around, Joshua would have had no reason to escalate, and instead of reading about plagiarism, the HN audience might be reading an article about conflict resolution, with your behavior put forth as a shining positive example.
Because with CloudFront there are dozens of origin servers around the world, and problems like the ones I experienced could be caused by a DNS server somewhere putting someone in touch with an unavailable server. S3 serves from one location (the location where you created the bucket) and hence is less likely to fail in the same way.
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Strange that this has been greyed out? Not condoning the act of plagiarism but seems fairer to allow all parties to say their bits?
There aren't too many colleges which offer courses on Rails, Django, Coffeescript, or Nodejs. Smart people manage to get by with the internet, without going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt.
Nah, ours is our personal favorites + a few others that we felt were popular at a global scale.

If you have any ideas for sites we could add I'd love to hear them!
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I don't think they are the same and I don't think I claimed they were. Clearly the words have different definitions and apply to different actions. One takes the work of the creator and passes it along to others without the creator getting [paid|credit|traffic|whatever creator desires] for it. The other takes the work of the creator and passes it along as their own work without the creator getting [paid|credit|traffic|whatever creator desires] for it. I was trying (with humor) to explain why some people will defend piracy and then rail against plagiarism. They do have a common thread in kind of screwing the content creator a little... but in different ways. And often in a "Big Guy vs Little Guy" scenario, people will take the side of Little Guy... regardless of who took which action.

Also... kind of funny to see the difference in the meaning of plagiarism among those outraged by this plagiarism. It seems that even among those that are angry here, there is a disagreement over whether plagiarism is or is not simply about giving credit. Some seem to think that it is an issue of credit or proper use of quotes... while others seem to think that even with proper credit given plagiarism still exists. So maybe plagiarism isn't so easy to define/avoid? Not sure.
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Git playback of git-playback repo gives a blank screen and navigation buttons do not work. Is this because of HTML escaping is missing. Or is the script limited to python src alone?