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Update: see this comment on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972875

Zee from TNW here.

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

I honestly have absolutely no idea what we should have done differently here to illustrate an interesting fact with our readers and reference the original source (we did that twice in the article...even with his full name (a screenshot of which he conveniently didn't include in his post))...and still he comes out guns blazing like he wrote a full-on opinion piece and we decided to just copy/paste.

We work immensely had to product original content as well as link to original sources when deserved...this case was absolutely no different.

I'm honestly amazed that this is crawling up Hacker News quite frankly.
Interesting.

I'm also scratching my head as to why we're now ~3 (maybe 4 counting ITA?) levels deep for purchasing of airline tickets? Hipmunk -> Orbitz -> ITA -> Airline

That seems to be the sign of a broken system.
>there's also a need to be able to fully control the event loop so you can test arbitrary event orders

Hmm, something doesn't sound right there. I'm not really sure why you'd want to "fully control the event loop" for testing, but if you did you can install a callback on every tick:
http://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process_nexttick_...

If you want to test arbitrary inbound event sequences, you'll need to run at least two processes. You could run two node processes, one generating events for the other. This would probably give you a better test environment then hacking the event loop, too.
Have you seen some of the early Bittorrent code? Code with lots and lots of this[n:-3] or this[1,:,:] sprinkled around in the same piece of code starts to get like regexp or Perl. It's a cool operator to have to get stuff specified in a few keystrokes, but that makes it quite terse, so high density use of it is hard to read.
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I'd love some elaboration on these points, especially the one about testing as it's an area that interests me.
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Sleep and anesthesia break continuity, as has be reported elsewhere in this thread, so self is not about moment to moment continuity.

The reason your copy is equally you vs. Warren Buffet is that your copy shared every molecule in your body and every thought in your head for your entire life up until the moment of splitting off.
Also, the Overbite project which adds back in support for the gopher protocol.
Actually, it's tortured turtle analogies all the way down.
I parse this question differently. Most commenters seem to be answering 'can ALL priors be objective' when the question is only asking if any exist.

For people not sitting this exam, the probability of passing it is zero.
The author should have put quotes around the paragraphs that were blatantly copy and only slightly tweaked to show it came directly from the piece and wasn't written by Harrison.

Oh, and your Twitter response was laughably immature to me.
I'd honestly much rather be brutally honest than go down the artificial PR route.
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Yes, you were plagiarized. TheNextWeb was in the wrong, and they made it worse by their reaction.

But I also feel that the main insights of your posts were not your own. They were that of the NY Times reporter Michael M. Grynbaum. That is, I feel the main insight of your post were two things: the doubling of tips, and the attribution of this to the buttons on the credit-card machine. Your contribution was to look up a few other stats to get the $144 million figure.
I agree Bottle is simple and has some nice features, but I'm a little wary of the decorator-based "micro"frameworks. In my experience it can lead to strange code structure and it's more difficult to translate into the class-based handlers of larger frameworks.

Moreover, I don't think the barrier of entry to use Tornado, for example, is significantly higher than Bottle, and you can use it for any sized project. I realize that is both a server and framework, but truthfully I guess I'm also wary of WSGI on the whole and wouldn't recommend anyone even start down that rabbit hole in this day and age.
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Exactly - and if FB issued debt - it will trade higher than that of Ford's (with the implicit assumption that FB is a better credit name than Ford).

Those debentures are usually used to finance pension liabilites. I am not sure if corporates are still issuing debt with that kind of duration anymore after the crisis :)
MongoDB has good drivers for Node (as for most other languages) but also a fully-featured ORM that can save time in these kind of projects: mongoosejs.com

MongoDB also ships with a JS runtime so you can run map/reduce calls written in JavaScript entirely DB-side, as well as other goodies.

So it's fair to say that the language that makes the most sense when using MongoDB is JavaScript, even if that wouldn't be enough IMHO to justify using Node for a project.
My big gripe right now with UPS is that the person who delivers our package has put us on her black list, and I've tried several times to get things sorted out to no avail.

Here's what happened: I ordered a fairly pricey vacuum for my wife that was on sale and had it shipped to our house. I received a notification that it was on our porch at about 2:30 PM and arrive home about 4:00 PM. There was no package there. We reported it as missing. The company we bought it from shipped us a replacement immediately.

A week or so later, the UPS driver comes by and tell us that b/c the vacuum went missing, we'll have to sign for every package. Since then, every single package, big or small, requires a signature IN PERSON (not just sign the piece of paper). We've asked her to leave it on our back porch, allow us to sign, etc, but apparently this is some kind of punishment.

The thing that annoys me is that they left a $400 package with the contents clearly displayed on the outside on our front porch before, and now need a signature for a $10 book.

Anyways, I'm pretty much fed up. On top of it, we gets lots shipped to us since we're Amazon Prime customers. Arrgh! No accountability with these services, and when you buy something, most of the time you can't specify the delivery service :(
"and we decided to just copy/paste"

You answered your own question.

Also, your reaction to the original author via your public tweets was incredibly unprofessional. If you want to respond with such toxic language, you should so do via a private email. You're the face, the vision, the voice of TNW and I now associate your rude remarks with TNW as a whole.
The legal precedence is in the Feist Publications vs. Rural Telephone Service supreme court case

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
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Why do employees (and apparently CEOs) of online tech publications always seem to have so much trouble with basic English grammar/spelling?

"I honestly absolutely no idea what we should have done differently"

"We work immensely had to product original content"
"Nobody rationally torrents a CD rip and then goes to the store to buy the real version."

Except this behavior is commonplace. Probably as common as people buying music they've heard on the radio.

Maybe to you it isn't "rational" in some sort of twisted Homo Economicus model, but in the real world it happens all the time.
Your Twitter response was completely stupid. As people above mentioned, there was no effort put into spelling (although it is Twitter, so I'll give some slack). But blasting the dude with like six hilariously "ridiculous" Tweets just made yourself look worse.
What's the point of only releasing a subset of the tracks?
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I get a 503, is there a mirror available?
They're not even comparable. xmlrpclib is a library for remote procedure call. Pykka provides an implementation of the Actor model, which is a model of concurrent computation.
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I'm sure this is still a work in progress, but the charts feature doesn't really do anything at the moment, it just sticks a chart-looking image into the infographic.

Honestly, like many people, I'm more than a little annoyed at the popularity of low-information-density infographics. That said, I like the idea behind this project, as a tool like this could definitely encourage people to create better, richer infographics with more interesting data. However, if this is to be the case, the "chart" module should be the first module that you get working correctly - charts are THE most important part of infographics, everything else is just fluff. The fact that the most important feature is currently just a placeholder does not bode well for this project.

I will stay optimistic about the future of this tool, but call me when you get charts working, until then it's basically just a drag and drop design toy.
My answer is, instead of copying his text word-for-word, you post the link and that's it. (See: Gruber.)

In this case, it's not like there was a ton of content in the first place, but by copying all of it (including the picture) you essentially gave the reader no reason to go back to the original source.
I'm not trying to be rude here, but as the CEO of an online magazine, why can't you write with correct grammar?

"I honestly absolutely no idea…"
"work immensely had to product"
A problem with this approach is that freedom-enhancing technologies are both more expensive and less monetizable. For example, P2P was almost completely replaced with client-server Web 2.0. In the near future I expect we'll discover that the FreedomBox is more expensive than the personal cloud.
Native Client is orthogonal to the APIs mentioned in the article. These APIs are available only to certain kinds of Chrome extensions, and are currently enabled only if several Chrome flags are enabled. If those conditions are satisfied, it should be possible to make a P2P client in JavaScript.
The issue is you did not credit him initially. Are you saying that he was credited in the initial publication of the article and his screenshots that show this is not the case are fabricated?
Yeah for me the CEO's response is the absolute worst part about this... very aggressive and defensive, he could have just said sorry we should have asked. And they definitely should have - I'm sure the author wouldn't have said no.

In fact, he said on twitter: " I don’t have any problem with you sharing my post. By all means! But the last two paragraphs were barely rewritten." (https://twitter.com/#!/endtwist/status/202089166975148033)
Isn't republishing someone's work without permission a blatant copyright violation?
Someone has to explain to me exactly what we should have done differently here.

I'll give it a shot. What you should have done, in my opinion, is just provide a link alongside a one-line summary, along the lines of "Here's an article we found fascinating."

If the article you are writing is based on a single source, it's not an article-- it's a paraphrase.

We work immensely had to product original content as well as link to original sources when deserved...this case was absolutely no different.

so, which was this? It was more than a link, but it surely doesn't qualify as "original content" by any stretch of the imagination.
Yes.

First, despite the simplification of the cables, physically connecting it can still be a challenge, for example if there's no convenient place to put a laptop within 6' of the TV. And power for the laptop there too.

Second, once its connected, it's no certainty that the external display will be correctly detected or set to the correct resolution. Is the picture streched? When you hit full-screen, does it only show on the laptop? Is sound going over HDMI too? Tinkering with settings and troubleshooting a multi-monitor setup can be intimidating for the "average consumer".

Even if you get everything setup, many laptops do no come with remote controls, and long HDMI cables are uncommon.

I've owned or own a Roku, a TV which had USB and could play anything FFMPEG could read, a PS3 with netflix and recently an AppleTV+iPad.

I'd consider myself reasonably technically inclined and have had an HDMI cable which comfortably reached my couch for quite awhile but I still use that as a last resort for content I can't play some other way.
Hooking a PC with HDMI-out to a TV isn't that hard, but now what do you do? How do you control it remotely, are you going to get up and walk over to the PC hooked up to the TV every time you want to change the "channel"? And what exactly are the "channels"? A web browser open to YouTube?

Before anyone answers these rhetorical questions -- I know full well that things like USB-irda devices, XBMC with plugins to automatically torrent your favorite shows or more-likely-used-legally options like Windows Media Center exist, but there is actually quite a lot of software complexity that you are handwaving over here and you'd be surprised how close to technobabble gibberish this currently existing stuff sounds to an "average consumer".

Internet as the primary means to deliver tv content is absolutely inevitable and if I were a shareholder of a cable company and the CEO of that company was completely oblivious to the move to this future, I would be concerned. OTOH we are still at least a few years off from this being a really viable option for the masses. The current solutions all have pretty serious gaps. This is a big part of the reason the idea of a true Apple iTV is continually churned on the rumor mill. For whatever you think about Apple (I'm not a huge fan), one would expect them to deliver a true end-to-end solution, which hasn't really been done yet.
Well that last slide is just a hint that the algorithm isn't completely right yet. It is clear that every square to the left should be completely white because there is no chance of a ship being there.

A better way to calculate would be: given that a ship is here, what is the probability that other ships are in the other spaces. It's more complex but you can rule out a lot more spaces.

I'm aware of Nash equilibrium, I'm just curious about what it is for this game.
In defence of Harvard, whilst at one point over 90% graduated with honors it is now capped, so that only 50% of the class will graduate with any kind of honors. I used to get a significant number of students emailing me when final grades came out moaning that because of their B+ they'd never make the cap for honors (I Head TA'd a few courses).

I do wholeheartedly agree with you: using GPA as a filter is fairly pointless.
It looks to me, reading the screenshots of both articles, as though the source piece was used as the basis of the article and reworded. (Note the odd placement of system in the sentence about installing the system.) Copy original article over, paste in, and then do some quick rewording so that it's not a 100% copy-paste job.

What should have been done differently is the original article read, notes taken, and then observations made and the original article linked to. Had someone re-written this from a blank screen, it would not have ended up so structurally similar and looked plagiarized.
Thanks for letting us know about this. Your article was obviously original research which many "mainstream" media outlets have given up on. The article referenced was clearly copied directly from your original research and article without giving proper attribution or payment. It also misrepresented the source of the material by claiming to be written by a "Harrison Weber". In addition, the exchange shown with Zee where, caught in a lie, he threatens you by saying he will punish you by "staying well clear of anything ur involved with in future", shows that he is a disreputable person. Thank you for warning us about this site. I will stay away from TheNextWeb and anything they or their present staff are involved in in the future.
You could have just taken the entire article, said it was written by the original author and then linked back to the site.

Instead of taking the premise of a popular article to raise pageviews on your site. It should have never said "by HARRISON WEBER"

Rewriting an article on a proven subject doesn't count as producing original content.
Because you hire editors to do all that stuff?
If you copy yourself, you will be creating two originals. They will both "wake up" and be "you".
that I can appreciate, but to come out and call it "plagiarism" publicly although we couldn't have done more to reference him...is absurd to me.

Feels like this guy is trolling every single one of us here - myself included - to get a reaction.
I'm not that familiar with xmlrpclib, but as far as I know from a quick look xmlrpclib lets two programs, possibly running on different computers, communicate over HTTP.

Pykka helps multiple threads (or eventlets if using pykka.gevent) in a single program to communicate in a safe and easy matter without requiring the developer to manage locks and whatnot that he would have if he used plain threads. Under the hood Pykka is just an abstraction on top of threads and queues.

It's not uncommon for actor frameworks, like Akka, to support communication between actors on different computers, but there is currently no support for remote actors in Pykka.
The hard truth: If it isn't worth your time to buy a scale or measuring tape, you aren't giving them enough business to be worth making all these expensive changes.

This is like me walking into my local supermarket and asking them to replace the meat section with a giant vegetarian foods section — yes, it would make me personally overjoyed, but it probably wouldn't be a good business move.
Simple: don't copy-paste.

I'm looking at this now: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/05/14/how-3-simple-but...

You reproduced everything he said. If I saw your post only, I would assume that what I was reading were Harrison Weber's words paraphrasing Joshua Gross. Instead, it is what Gross said. And not even in quotations.

So what should you do? After the original text by Weber, post a title and a link to Gross' post. That's it.
Do I think you'd be convicted for manipulating URLs idly to prove a point? No.

Do I think you'd be convicted for manipulating URLs and grabbing their entire database? Very possibly.

Do I think you could incur five figures of legal headache in either scenario? Yes, I think you could, depending on how savvy the "victim" is and how close to "fight or flight" you push them.
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What? Maybe not copy his paragraph word for word. I don't know, seems a common enough practice though.

But even so, in no case whatsoever behave like you did on twitter. That was not only unprofessional but full-on juvenile. Just look at what you wrote on twitter vs. what he wrote.
and your Twitter response was laughably immature to me.

That is what put it over the top for me. The astonishingly lazy copying was bad enough, but feeling entitled about it is shocking.

Here's the thing -- people linked from sites like TNW report little to no traffic (which, of course, is wholly the intention of sites like TNW -- they don't want the eyeballs leaving). Quite the opposite, in fact, because this blogspam (is it anything but? Was there anything of value added?) steals traffic and linklove that would have gone to the usurped.

TNW: Drop the laughable notion that you're doing anyone a favour when you steal their content. It sells to no one. Good content will find its way atop the social news sites quickly, and all you're doing is getting in the way and trying to steal off some of the traffic of other people's work.
Not copying text might help. I don't think anyone here takes issue with using the numbers, but copyin text verbatim (or very close to verbatim) is definitely uncool.

As for credit - one of you is lying. He explicitly claims no link back was provided in te original post, while you explicitly claim there was. So... Which is it?
I haven't. Have you had any experience with it?
Has anyone tried jqMobi?
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I am from New Delhi, India. Is it possible for me to finish a product and start a company in USA. Should I be able to raise money from VC's if my product has few thousand users and is getting good traction? What are the options for people like me to penetrate into US start up world.
A case of poor timing, I think. TNW posts a non-attributed version of the article [1]. Author complains on twitter. Meanwhile, TNW notices the error and ninja-edits the post with proper attribution [2]. You check the updated post. Drama ensues on twitter.

Edit. Oi, I'm not saying TNW is in the right, people. Just pointing out something that their CEO seems to have missed.

[1]. http://cl.ly/0q1C3n1j323R3C131X0d/o
[2]. http://cl.ly/1a0c2y2p291H1u2T2s3S/o
I'm sure Peter is a great guy, but I've stopped paying attention to what the newest hype is around what some VC is saying of how you should run your startup and career. Unless they have heavily funded my startup, then I really don't care. It isn't their startup or career. We can't all be them, nor should we be.

We should stop playing follow the leader. Peter's advice will work for many, but not for all. One size does not fit all. Maybe Peter cares about people's university credentials, but when hiring I'll look at each person on a case by case basis as a sum of their parts. There's some great people out there without ivy league degrees, and some terrible people out there with ones. Better to evaluate the stack of history and competency than a single component.
I downloaded half of the Ghosts album from NiN, linked it and then bought the physical album. Not exactly the same, but maybe that's how it should work. Release 50-80% of the work for free. People will download it from you, because you're the official source and probably have better PR capabilities. People still want to "own" something and want the rest 50-20%, so they buy the CD.
Brutal honesty tends to work when you are performing a critique, not when you're addressing a complaint from someone who unwillingly made your business money.
that sounds reasonable.
seems like they had to pay for your missing $400 package, and they would like to prevent that from happening again. i see no problem here
I'm still using it; don't know if it's even maintained any more, but for my app it works really well.