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It doesn't work that way; copyleft/ShareAlike is not a automatic trap that can be applied to your work against your will. It's a condition for permitted reuse.

If you violate the condition, then you have no permission to use. Then, since you've used without permission, the copyright holder can sue you for damages, and/or to stop/mitigate the violation.

The copyright holder might propose that relicensing your work under copyleft/ShareAlike would be sufficient penance for them to settle. But it's not automatic -- "you used X, thus your work in now licensed as X demanded".
Am I the only one who's a little disappointed by the fact that this has got to the top of the front page of HN?

Just seems more Reddit-esque to me...
lol.. Copied from a "stay safe from a bomb run" page? ;)
Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset
It is a very clever coverup of a very stupid crime.

The publisher's PR team was on this faster than you can say media disaster. Get "Oops, I goofed" out there as quickly as possible while shifting blame to someone or something else (software, confusion over citation format, whatever).

If this happened to one of Anderson's own writers at Wired, I suspect he or she would be out of a job just as quickly.
It's great that this is getting a lot of attention on Twitter. I just hope MS is willing to listen enough to fix it...
Please link me. I would kill to buy this for my grandfather.
So if he had said, "I got this from this wikipedia article," then his book would also have been ShareAlike?

Maybe he didn't want that... I don't understand really, did he think no one would find out? What is his response? I looked on thelongtail.com but don't see anything.
I don't care too much about outlook and I use it every day - I just rather plain text in email honestly, websites can stay html ;)

but that twitter wall looks amazing! Looks like he may have coded it up himself - I know some activist groups would love to have one of those!
I hope they realize there's no shortage of email clients which wouldn't render that monstrosity the way they had in mind.
slackers wear flannel shirts and loose jeans.

hipsters wear flannel shirts and tight jeans.

slackers drink Grain Belt Premium.

hipsters drink PBR.

slackers smoke marlboros.

hipsters smoke parliament lights.

slackers listen to pavement.

hipsters listen to MGMT remixes.

slackers have jobs but don't do any work.

hipsters don't have jobs at all.

by definition if you have an engineering degree and are working on your startup or at google you aren't a slacker or a hipster.

get it straight.
Just a quick question. Why is Tesla more deserving of a loan to accelerate their development of electric cars than a company like Aptera (http://www.aptera.com)?

This is the fundamental problem. The government is not funding direct research in a University setting, they are directly funding one company over another in a nascent industry. Why do Tesla's shareholders get this advantage over other startup company shareholders?

This is one of the problems this conservative has with this situation.
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It's interesting, but how many old machines can actually boot from USB?
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I liked the part where he neglected to mention any possible benefit of the current arrangement or the fact that many of us have no problem with actually being required to type well and remember stuff.
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no html email please..
And I'm sure dropping the background check would actually make the service more attractive to people.

I'm sure that there is tons of personal info that could be found by someone motivated enough, but I'm still not comfortable giving out detailed information on myself. So I would be hesitant to use a service that required a background check, especially if I don't think the information is needed.

And not requiring a background check would have let them be more flexible. For example, they could have started selling at the airport one-time use of their lines.
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It's unusual for one YC company to acquire another, right?
I think most are misinterpreting this article. Take a look at Dudley B.'s other writing. It's all a tongue-in-cheek commentary on office life, a la Dilbert. For example, "How to surf the web at work and avoid wandering eyes" (http://www.examiner.com/x-3040-Life-in-the-Cubicle-Examiner~...)

I'd say most of his satire is very much on point.
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Congratulations guys!

(even more so because there is a screenshot of my slinkset on Techcrunch!)
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... why was that downvoted? I was just curious as to the details; it's mentioned several times but not explained.
To make available possibly-incriminating information once someone knows who you are is one thing... providing identifying information to possibly-malicious strangers is a different animal entirely.
I always find this idea interesting, that newspapers economic woes have something to do with journalists getting worse at reporting the news.

When were "they" markedly better?

Aren't the executives more to blame here?
I'll likely get downvoted for this, but oh well...

I actually found this hilarious and worth being on the top of HN. Sure, it's not as intellectually stimulating as most of the articles here (and that's a very good thing), but every once in a while I think it's a good thing for a community to get together and have a laugh.

As long as we keep the quality up most of the time, I think it's alright to have some fun a bit of the time.
Note to tech bloggers: want a story that gets hits this week? Find an example of someone sacked from Wired for plagiarism and run a compare/contrast of their iniquity vs. this one.
Please note the domain name of the submitted URL.
Well, that's one way to get exceptional coders (I assume Garry and the other Sachin made them sign employment agreements).
Be brief.

When their are three ways to do something, do the one that takes the least code (assuming it's not completely obscure and ridiculous).

It's analogous to talking to people: the more you say the less they remember.
Except that "crime" and "plagiarism" imply (to my mind) an intent to deceive, or at least acting consciously. That doesn't strike me as very likely. It would mean that Anderson is an idiot in at least two ways: thinking he wouldn't get caught ripping stuff off Wikipedia, and taking a big risk for trivial gain.
That twitter wall definitely is cool, but the pop-in moves the text and makes it hard to read. It would be better if the new tweet tiles slid in, animated. The speech bubbles should also stay fixed, but their tails should move along with the animation.
Somehow I agree w/ you & the GP at the same time.
My understanding is that they're not available for purchase overseas yet, although if you're in the EU you might be in luck in the not-too-distant future. FDA approval is probably going to take, well, five to ten years.

http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/faq/index.html
did some money change hands?
I'm not sure they were better. They might have deserved it for a long time. :)

The MSM does seem to be getting worse to me, but this might be an optical illusion - an effect of the contrast with how much better its emerging replacement is.
Same reason you shouldn't ever expose (or use) auto_increment numbers.
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The background check was probably necessary to get TSA to let people cut in line.
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i think it will become inevitable. as yc increases its number of investments, there will be more companies doing similar things and competing. i think the ethos of yc is to prefer a partnership (or downright acquisition) over competition, as most times, you have other competitors, and you can find ways to team up and take on the big guys. why not work with the same people who went through the same seed fund as you? the real question is: at what point is it acceptable to merge or get acquired?

paypal and x.com were a great example of what can happen through a merger. they could have spent their time killing each other, but they merged and set their focus on much bigger things: taking advantage of ebay's mismanagement and poor execution to deliver the world's leading online payment platform.

private acquisitions seem strange, but i have always believed that the real reason large companies cannot form from start-ups is because people may be too resistant to team up with their leading competitors to take on an even larger competitor. i wonder what would become of microsoft had they not teamed up with ibm, or apple.
Um, Brad, you employ one. Sure, it's not strictly a Chicago story, but the hits would be nice.
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As someone who isn't a trained journalist, who cares? It's not like it makes the book any less good.
They're not going to tell us, but it seems obvious to me that the bulk of the deal was in stock. Crunchbase has posterous's funding as YC's 15k + 725k in an uber-angel round which doesn't make a cash acquisition realistic.
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It's 20 karma to create a poll, you can see when your logged out and try to create one.

And I never use wolfram alpha, maybe when I start classes again.
Eventually people will have to change their names when they turn 22 to outrun all their accumulated net debris.
Billy Mays was a guest at a hotel where I used to work in the 90's. He asked me to copy some documents for him, and verbally acknowledged the hotel charge for copy services. He was in a hurry and was very impatient. When I finished copying the documents, which were hundreds of pages long and had to be fed in manually one page at a time, he refused to pay. He basically didn't think I should charge him BECAUSE he was Billy Mays. I didn't know at the time who he was, not that it would have made any difference, and I thought he must be a retired sports figure (I knew who WILLIE Mays was, but somehow still thought Billy was a formal baseball player.)

I usually waived the copy fee if it was just a few pages or the person was nice, but because Mays was a jerk about it I charged the maximum fee to his credit card...and I was also less than discreet when he disputed the "special" movie entertainment he had ordered. Because nothing says celebrity like weird porn. This story is apropos of absolutely nothing and is my worst hotel/celebrity story...but it's my only Billy Mays experience and seems to fit in with the overall quality of this article.
Maybe it's just me, but Clear always pissed me off. You shouldn't be able to pay the government to cut to the front of the line.

I'm perfectly fine with paying more to the airline to cut to the front of their line. But everyone should get equal service from the government.
(I love that they're called cyberdyne. Though I doubt they're so named because of the movie)
The copyright belongs to the contributors, which means that any of the people who wrote the plagiarised sections may sue, but Wikipedia cannot.
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> Er, but are they controlling for other environmental risk factors? In other words, I would guess that most kids from the suburbs learn to use weapons from authority figures

Yes, they were controlling for every environmental factor they could. (FWIW, this isn't a "gun" study. Gun stuff is just one of the things that popped out.) We're comparing kids from the same neighborhoods.

And, while legal gun ownership is higher in the suburbs, it isn't unknown in the inner city and it isn't universal in the suburbs. As a result, we can observe "learn from parents" vs "learn from peers" in both situations.

> but they were probably never going to fall on the wrong side of the law anyhow.

As I wrote, their criminality wasn't affected, just their use of weapons.

Correlation vs causation and all that.
This may depend on the data package. The required data package with the Sidekick probably gives you unlimited IMing. On may last two T-mobile phones IM's and emails have both been charged at SMS rates when using the built in messaging apps.
Privacy and their modus operandi aside, I'm intrigued as to how they expected to survive such a high overhead cost operation with only $100 an year/customer, without any economies of scale or federal govt. support.
Sad fact: Not going to happen anytime soon. Definitely not for Outlook 2010.

They turned to Word for HTML editing/rendering in Outlook 2007 because there was no Internet Explorer team during development. IE7 was released in 2007, but Office 2007 was in development since at least 2003. No IE team means there was no one to send design change requests to. Office doesn't like being at the mercy of other teams, so they break dependencies whenever possible. The lack of an IE team was a perfect example of why this is a successful practice for them.

Word offers a significantly better editing experience and most email clients only render a small subset of standard HTML anyway. Gmail, for example, throws away all headers including CSS. It was a perfectly reasonable cost/benefit trade off for the Outlook team to switch to an editor and renderer they could directly change or influence. There wasn't a big loss of compatability, but there was some. Most HTML email in actual usage renders the same between Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 because they would have to be written to the lowest common denominator in order to render correctly in most other mail clients as well.

Outlook 2007 added DRM to emails which, besides being the most annoying thing ever, was a feature highly demanded by customers. This feature is based on Word's DRM.

So, putting on my Microsoft PM hat... let's do a cost benefit analysis of switching Outlook to use the IE8 rendering engine:

Benefits:

1) HTML email authors (who don't pay us anything, by the way) will have a slightly easier time now.

2) HTML email authors will have a significantly easier time in the distant future.

Costs:

1) Second release to break HTML mail compatability in a row.

2) Will need to re-implement DRM. This includes a full battery of security reviews.

3) Will need to re-implement all recent editing improvements.

4) Once again at the mercy of the IE8 team, who already have a huge backlog of work and probably don't care about our DCRs.

shrug Not going to happen in 2010. Probably won't happen in the next release either. When some version of IE supports 100% of all standards and is as fast as a hypothetical future Chrome, such that they have time to deal with the Outlook team, then maaaybe, just maybe they can tackle this... two releases of Office later.... If you're lucky.
> Much of this PR nightmare could be avoided if there were no weapons.

At what cost in effectiveness?

If you don't tell the loons to get stuffed, your life is run by loons.
This is a start in the right direction. If this was combined with markerless motion capture and cloth physics simulator, then this might be more viable, but that's obviously a good ways off. Until something like that is created, I'm not sure how useful I would find this.
I think Google has done a less-than-excellent job of describing/pitching Wave. Describing it as email if email was invented today sells it short, and although realtime wiki is accurate, what they do with that realtime wiki is much more important. My elevator pitch (sort of) is included in my review at: http://gcanyon.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/bing-wolfram-alpha-g...
The fact that representative govt is better than the alternatives does not imply that it is good enough to give free rein.
Without specific reference to a company called Cyberdyne or its flagship product HAL, I will note that Japan is the second biggest market in the world for Hollywood cinema, and leave it at that.

Anyone who thinks cultural diffusion is a one-way street should ask their friendly neighborhood biologist what a sonic hedgehog is.
Sending webpages as email is broken — let's not do it.
Well, their robot suit is called HAL. Does that change your mind at all?
See, that's a valid view. People are welcome to think they're all getting what they deserve. I just don't think it makes sense to connect the quality or perceived lack of quality of today's mainstream journalism to the financial straights of the big media companies.
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(aside from admiring their gorgeous site?)

I came across this company and am curious to know if any HN folks have experience with them. In particular, I'd be interested in qualified opinions of their security claims.

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No. Only if he says, "I license my work under copyleft/ShareAlike", is it under ShareAlike.

Anderson's response is quoted at the end of the article.

Roughly he says: "Whoops, we copied it by mistake, it should have been quoted or rewritten. We'll correct online and in future printings."

It doesn't in any way change his copyright/license. (He may very well offer the book for free, given his schtick, but there's no automatic compulsion to. And if you copied his work without permission, you couldn't argue "but he did the same thing" or "he accidentally gave me permission".)
I hope so. And the day Oracle kills Java I'm going to throw a huge party.
To be honest I assume that most of my code is crap. Otherwise I would never get started because I would be stuck with architecting for the next 2000 years.
No one takes into account that it may have been his publisher's wish to not include wikipedia citations.
From what I have read, I think the PayPal and X.com merger did more harm than good. There were a ton of ego clashes, technology preference differences (unix vs. .net), etc.

But merging with the right team will certainly help, and I am sure the 2 teams coming out of the same YC class probably know each others' capabilities fairly well.
This is interssting because there was an article in yesterday's NYT talking about liver transplant wait times, and how the rich could travel to places where they could avoid line ups.

It mentioned this very hospital as having one of the shortest waiting periods.
Fascinating insight into the level of visionary thought that goes into managing a sprawling product portfolio fighting for survival. This is an excellent read if only to appreciate the level of complexity that Microsoft deals with at the top.
Judgments. My mind is making them all the time, and I let them go.

Am I afraid of what I am showing to others? No, why would I be afraid to be me. And, why would you afraid to be you? Judgments. But, the truth is we're way too busy thinking about our own stuff to be making judgments about other people's stuff.

Let's show up.
Is it really newsworthy?
Is "acquires" just a fancy term for "agreed to work together"?
Surely Microsoft can fix this problem by adding more toolbars and icons to the GUI or by further degrading Outlook's ability to search large mailboxes. At that point no one will even remember Word HTML rendering was an issue in the first place.
I am the other Sachin Agarwal (at Dawdle.com), and I know nothing, but I will say this: I will bet you a beer that you're wrong.

As an acquiror, you want to do a deal as cheaply as possible. Given that Slinkset never really took off while Posterous has, a deal was probably done in the sub-six figures or perhaps none with just offers of employment. At this point, even though you lose the cash, it's cheaper to use $50K cash than $50K in stock given that you'd reasonably expect the stock to appreciate in value at this point. Acquisitions usually only happen in stock in either "pooling" transactions (i.e. Kayak/SideStep), where the acquiror cannot afford to pay cash (i.e. pick your keiretsu deal from the late 90s), or the seller values the stock more than cash (i.e. Twitter/Summize).

Why, yes, I am a former technology M&A investment banker.
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Yes, unless you find premises to drop, thus changing the problem. Sorting is Omega(n log n) under the premise that all you have is a computable ordering relation. Radix sort removes that premise and reaches a different lower bound.

In the particular case of the Hanoi problem, I don't see droppable premises (except "you can only move one disk at a time" -- drop that and there may be an O(1) solution).
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But on the other hand, to legally quote Wikipedia the book would have to be ShareAlike licensed, too? I think that is quite shocking, I thought Wikipedia was more open than that.
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This is the reason why I am kind of laughed at, and why my comments are kind of feared, because I either don't need comments at all, but once I need comments, they usually end up being a page of things you need to know about this unit.
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I have another version that I prefer: "Try not to write comments. Make your code speak for itself. Then comment it."

Best of both worlds.
50% faster on a long running for loop is not the same as 50% faster baseline from CPython... At least from my knowledge PyPy's RPython is not faster than CPython.
No Chicago angle. My tech guys have been a bit elusive as of late. The whole Citizen journalism thing's a bit of a crock. :)

Besides, we're gearing up to blow the Taste of Chicago out of the water this weekend.
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Wow.. They are expensive. $100/mo for shared hosting? I could get a VPS or a dedicated box and secure it myself for that much
I agree. I prefer to attach a 5-line comment to 10 lines of code to writing 15 lines of code. If the reader knows the idiom great, if not, he can grasp it without going into the details.

Not everybody agrees, though.
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Congrats Slinksetters!