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He's putting in a lot of hours. He's moving cross-country and it's taking him longer than expected. Those are excuses.

Ivan is a smart, hard-working guy. I think he will emerge from this experience scarred, but smarter. And I truly wish him all the success in the world -- Honest Injun. (someone will probably get all bent out of shape b/c of that!).

Problem is, you're missing the point. He's not working the grill at In'N'Out. He is the leader of a company that is operating in the financial services sector. And that company is taking other people's money, while making commitments to those people. As the leader, he does not have the luxury of going dark.
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I don't think anyone should be faulting the advertisers. Some of the may not even know what's going on yet. Others may have advertising contracts in place that extend well into the future.

They're not advertising on TechCrunch to support TechCrunch. They're advertising there to support themselves and reach their target demographic. If you (their target demographic) stop going to TechCrunch, they will stop advertising there. I don't think there's any fault to be laid on those companies that advertise there.

And no, I don't run/own/have any interest in any of them although if I could afford to advertise on TC I still would (unless nobody I care to market towards is going there any more).
Why? Are you embarrassed by how crappy your note-taking skills are? :P
I'm not so sure about this. A large number of IE6 users are IE6 users because their corporate IT policy requires them to be IT users. How many corporate IT policies are going to change to allow their employees to watch YouTube on their office computer?

However, the chain reaction has the potential to shake things up. Especially as advertising increases on YouTube, and advertisers won't be receiving traffic from IE6 users from YouTube ads.
So when can HN finally ban TC submissions?
"Nevertheless, the publication of stolen documents is irresponsible and we absolutely did not give permission for these documents to be shared. Out of context, rudimentary notes of internal discussions will be misinterpreted by current and future partners jeopardizing our business relationships."

-http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/someone-call-security.html

Sounds like the beginnings of a law suit.
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... no, really. :)

In order to poll Twitter, each device registers itself on our server. Passes in the oauth token etc. So I can keep a consistent watch on things server side, but actually verify the legitimate sales (vs. pirated copies) the next day, once the daily reports are available.
Great app, btw. Just bought Boxcar. I wonder what a HN mention will do to your stats?

Is support for multiple accounts on the roadmap?
"Reddit is overtaken with athiesm."

Eh?! There are many things one could say it's been overtaken by, but atheism is pretty low on the list.
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Going after advertisers is actually an effective method for protesting. The only way a lot of companies "get the message" is when they get hit in the pocketbook.

But is it the right strategy in this case?

I'd be furious if it were my company that was exposed like this. But if it were an internal leak -- as opposed to receiving stolen information -- would the anger be justified? Some publications (the Wall Street Journal and AllThingsD spring to mind) live off of leaked internal documents and tips. No one is going after their advertisers.

How should TC have handled it?
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Seriously guys, enough of the drama about TC and Twitter docs. Twitter got screwed, TC got the docs and probably published less than 25% of the total docs. It's not that bad and it's good for us. We can see how another larger "startup" functions and learn from their mistakes.

Now let's get back to work on our code, marketing, business stuff and stop bitching about the (un)ethical/(il)legal behaviour of TC.

I got some work done from my task list today, did you get anything productive done?
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He has been a douche for years, they know what's going on.
According to insiders I've talked with, the whole business model of TechCrunch is to hype up every company who gives them exclusives, and to completely trash everyone who doesn't. This is because they know exclusives get the most pageviews, so their entire business model is built around extorting companies to get them.

If we want to teach TechCrunch a lesson the best way to do so isn't to ban them or boycott their advertisers; that's unrealistic. Better just to ban any news published by TC until it's also been covered by another source, so that way they no longer have the power to blackmail the entire industry.
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And yet - it is important that they be published. This is newsworthy. Every paper in America would have printed this, if their audience would find it relevant. Does nobody care about journalism anymore? A free and independent press is vital to a functioning democracy. Techcrunch showed enormous restraint in their publishing of this data. They acted properly.

All the outrage is misplaced. Be outraged at the cracker or disgruntled employee that stole the documents, assuming that is what happened.

There are no trade secrets here, there are strategy secrets.

I am shocked that such a smart group of people fail to understand the basic underpinnings of our society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_St...
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I think this "wall of shame" is absolutely ridiculous but:

I don't think anyone should be faulting the advertisers.

True, but I don't think that's the intention. The goal seems to be to make the advertisers aware of TC's transgressions to reduce the value of TC's advertising space (a despicable goal, in my book, but still).
Here's a post on your.flowingdata explaining it more in depth:

http://flowingdata.com/2009/07/15/collect-data-about-yoursel...

This is exceptionally awesome. I didn't realize it until I saw it, but I'd been looking for exactly this for a very, very long time.
If it's gut feeling, say so. Don't make up statistics.
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I would like to see fewer submissions of TC stories, that's not really helpful as discovery, I can always go look at his web site should I choose without having to see the same titles here too. The purpose of HN is to discover new interesting hacker/technical related sites of interest that are not already obvious.
We use amazon and gogrid pretty extensively but also have a few servers at softlayer so when I saw them release this I got pretty excited.

I went to my account and went through the process of setting up a server. Once I clicked confirm on the confirmation it brought up a page saying someone would be calling to confirm my order which seemed a bit weird since I'm use to amazon and gogrid and clicking create server and having one a few minutes later.

An hour or so later(maybe two I can't remember exactly) I got my softlayer cloudserver. Considering how fast they are setting up dedicated servers it really wasn't any faster than that. Could just be an early adopter problem though. They also lack the ability to do server images that I could see when I used it which is pretty much a no go for me(I use puppet with gogrid to make due because of their location but I'm desperate for their server image solution to be released). I ended up canceling it and any plans of using their cloud services going forward.

That said I still love them for their dedicated servers and service related to that and maybe I just used it at a time when they were still shaking the bugs out. Given how great their other services have been I'm sure given time this one will be awesome too.

*Fixed some typos and wording, been a busy week and I'm half asleep.
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Those graphics are misleading because it describes the number of reported cases (doesn't include people who didn't come in or who weren't tested), yet they're putting that number next to general estimates of flu strains.

The most recent CDC press briefing is here:
http://www.cdc.gov/media/transcripts/2009/t090626.htm

Salient point from it:

"As you may have heard yesterday, we at CDC are estimating that those reported cases are really just the tip of the iceberg. We're saying there have been at least a million cases of this new H1N1 virus in the United States so far this year."

Luckily, H1N1 (why does their graphic use roman numeral I?) isn't particularly lethal at this time, but lots of eyes are on the southern hemisphere.
Seems like an over-reaction. I think I'm comfortable just not reading TechCrunch any more.

(Ok, ok, I didn't read it much before either)
There's a kind of company that does this. They're called newspapers, they've been around for 100s of years, and they're part of the foundation of a free society.
I thought maybe it was just me. When I was a postgrad at Cambridge (2003-2006) I supervised for this course a few times, thinking that a course surveying a bunch of interesting languages would be fun. I seem to recall a bit of smalltalk thrown in, but it was mostly BCPL. I walked by Martin Richards' office and noticed a poster announcing a port of BCPL to .NET or some similar abomination.

It's time to let it go...
If people stop voting them up, then there's no need to ban them.

Banning the domain smacks of censorship. If people at HN want to discuss a TC article, lets give them a place to do it. The answer to ugly speech is more speech, not censorship.
FWIW, this is all done in "user space". The metaclass instance is attached to every instance that it creates. When all the instances go away, there are no more references to the metaclass, and it gets reclaimed. The destructor handles deleting the symbol table entries that were added, and that's that.

There is something to be said for not baking things into the language.
Oooh, the beautiful web.

I've seen it, and it is beautiful!
I'm not angry because they published. I'm angry because they're talking up the fact that it's hacked info, trumpeting their legal right to act like dicks, stringing it out over umpteen million stories, comparing the situation to the Pentagon Papers, posing as a victim of all the criticism they're getting, and acting like we should be fellating them for choosing not to destroy the careers of the interviewees that innocently ended up in the files.

I've never really been on the TechCrunch sucks bandwagon before, but now, seriously: what a bunch of fucking douchebags.
I approve of this message. Who cares about TC and Twitter? (I think Twitter is a nice service and I enjoy using it. If it dies tomorrow, though, I do not care at all; I can just use something else.)
No one is blaming the advertisers. This is a fairly typical form of protest in this kind of situation. Complaining to or boycotting advertisers is a proxy for attacking the bottom line of a company that makes it money selling ad space. It's the only way to vote with your wallet when dealing with a media outlet because they're the ones footing the bill for the content we consume.

We don't need to worry much about the advertisers. They're not going to suffer. If they think it's worth their while they'll pull some ads or issue a stern warning. They're certainly not going to let it get to point where they're losing business.

Remember the Imus fiasco? People went crazy and threatened boycotts of all his advertisers. Al Sharpton was on TV every day raising hell about it and talking about all these scummy companies that supported him. They all dropped him the next day and now no one even remembers who was advertising on his show.

This has been going on since the very beginning of ad subsidized content. Censorship by sponsor.
It doesn't say "Boycott these companies", it says "Ask these companies to stop advertising on TechCrunch", i.e., it's the active version of passively not reading TC anymore in hopes of drying up their dollars.
I work as an ER nurse in Silicon Valley. We've actually been seeing a number of flu cases the past few weeks. The Santa Clara county health department is saying that 98% of flu cases in the area are H1N1. For the vast majority of people, it's just runs its course as a case of the flu. We have had a hand full of cases of people ending up in bad shape, but it's a small percentage of the total swine flu population.

So, if you have a fever, cough and runny nose and GI complaints, do us all a favor and don't go to work. Instead isolate yourself for a week. But, by all means, come see us in the ER if you're having trouble breathing or feeling really ill. :)
How worried should I be that these people can't even get the name of the strain right?
If Twitter's trade secrets are enforced, it will either be via A: Federal or B: State law. If free speech gets abridged as a side effect of enforcing trade secrets, then the legality of that aspect/interpretation of trade secrets laws is a constitutional question.

You may be thinking of something like contract law, where someone can enter in to e.g. a non-disclosure agreement, and federal or state governments can enforce it. Such enforcement has been ruled legal, since the party to the contract had to voluntarily agree in exchange for something. Barring Twitter's EULA, Tech Crunch isn't a party to any contract with Twitter.
Most of these companies are pretty awesome in their own right. We shouldn't stop doing business with them. But we should ask them why they want their names associated with this kind of "news".
Do not use the flag button for things like this. That's not what it's for. This is not spam or off-topic.

If you don't want to support the story, don't vote for it.
Your definition of trade secrets is different than most court's definition. The definition used by most jurisdictions is:

1. Not generally known or ascertainable by legal methods (TechCrunch violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to get the info.)

2. Must provide competitive value (Strategy plans provide competitive value)

3. Must be subject to reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy (the password, while weak, probably does constitute a reasonable effort)

edit: I see that you edited your post to include the New York Times case. The facts of that case are different than the one with TechCrunch. In NYT, the Federal Government tried to abridge the freedom of press. That triggered the 1st Amendment protections. Here, with TechCrunch, neither the Federal Government or any State Government are trying to prevent TC from printing the information. Therefore, the 1st Amendment does not apply.
Seems wasteful, just to save a few keystrokes.
For all their analytics, you'd think they'd have figured out that I'm really loathe to sign up for an account when there's absolutely no indication how much it will cost to use it on my site. :)
What is the cost to the project of maintaining their own JIT optimizing compiler? I presume, knowing nothing of LLVM other than what I have read, that it will continue to improve in performance with or without Mono or any other single platform on top of it. Let's presume that the Mono developers switch to LLVM as their sole target platform. What else could they spend their time on if they don't have to worry about a JIT?

Note that I'm not necessarily asking these questions rhetorically -- I don't know a lot about this technology stack and want to validate my core assumptions.
You seem to have zero respect for the press. By your standard, Tobacco cancer data should never have been leaked and printed.
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The hack is done. It appears that Twitter had poor security policies, or that Twitter employees weren't following them. Either way, the information is out there and the person(s) who chose to break in took the evil route.

Ev Williams got it. He's handled this situation very well. I'd invest in this company based on his response. He's appealed to the sympathy of all of us and essentially said he can live with the disclosure that TC will deliver despite it being something I'd be happy to toss my life savings at to suppress. Reality: it's out. There's no suppressing.

TC is operating as a journalistic outfit. "Unnamed Sources in the Pentagon", "An employee speaking on the condition of anonymity" and "A private investigation firm hired to break into the voicemail accounts of prominent individuals" IS journalism in the 21st century. TC, on the other hand, has been quite transparent. They stated upfront that they received a pile of (unsolicited) juicy information from a person who compromised accounts from Twitter employees.

TC could have posted the raw text of every message, removed names, been sued, gotten more publicity for having been sued, shined more light on the topic and become the place everyone pretends to hate but visits anyway because of the "nipples". Thus far, they haven't. They've given an insight into a company that folks on the outside who watch Twitter shouldn't find all that surprising ... it's just more directly stated in the terms of a business person summarizing reality.

Which brings up the next inevitable situation: At some point the entirety of what was collected will be made public. Hopefully it will be done after TC has had their last point to make.

Maybe those paying attention won't have stopped paying attention, but at this point ... they've begun to feel sympathetic about the situation and grant the benefit of the doubt to Ev and company.

I won't go so far as to say that journalism isn't journalism without these tactics, or that ignoring the back channel means just publishing press releases. There's a fine line. I think it's too early to know if TC crossed that line.

Full disclosure: I enjoy reading Arrington's posts. He calls out "Elephants in the room" when a lot of the tech media pretends the elephant is invisible. Yes, it's a business advantage that lends itself to accusations of tabloid journalism because calling out elephants irresponsibly results in calling specs of dust "elephants" and TC has been guilty of that.
It is not a Constitutional question, and I am not thinking of something in contract law. To be a First Amendment issue, there MUST be involvement by the Federal Government, or a State Government (via the 14th Amendment), or by a State Actor (a person or entity that appears to be the State Government).

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

There is nothing in there that says companies (ex. TechCrunch) have a right to print whatever they want, whether by free speech or by free press. It only says the government cannot pass a law that prevents the printing of free speech.
Yes but they didn't build it. They bought it. Maybe to sweeten the deal for a buyer. MySql might not have sold to Oracle directly?
I really like that it works with other windows (other applications).
My assumption according to this article that this JIT compiler focuses on IO.
The non-revenue arguments usually fall flat simply because you're already punished for speeding in most places (you get demeanour points until your license is removed, and having a mark on your license can exclude you from certain jobs, increase your insurance and other consequences) yet they apply an overly underecessive fine.

The simple fact of the matter is speeding is a crime, yet you don't get punished for it by the fine, you're essentially taxed for it.

Here in Ontario they've finally started stepping up the punishment for speeding. If you're going overly fast (I believe it's double the local speed limit for most places) your car is towed and you're taken in for street racing. Fines in school zones and construction areas are doubled, which is now putting more 'punishment' toward risky behaviour.

However, when you're handed a $100 speeding ticket in a $40,000 vehicle, it's never going to punish the person and the systems around the world have purposely ignored this. Their logic seems to be backed by revenue (if everyone speeds its another $100 x (n) million population) and not punishing criminal activity. However they ignore the fact that taking the persons $40,000 vehicle will likely get them the same amount of revenue and provide greater risk for the crime.

I know in the UK the cameras have not been used for safety. When I learnt to drive there was one near-hairpin corner that the legal speed limit on was 60mph despite being barely able to make it at 20mph, they eventually changed the section to 30mph (where it can be made). However last time I was in the UK the corner still didn't have a camera on it, but had a sign saying like '42 people died on this road last year'. Yet they have cameras littering roads that have never had a death on them. It's hard to argue it's not for revenue when they've all but avoided any attempt to use cameras for actual safety (at least in the region I grew up in).
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That's helpful! Thanks a bunch
I have to say, I really like the design, and if you seriously wrote this in one night, I'm going to jump off a bridge, I couldn't design a site that looked that nice and actually worked in a month...
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I think it's free for now.
One option for "higher security" could be to have forgot-password services dial a pre-registered phone number to confirm your identity. Probably harder to intercept than an email account's password.

This is how Google Voice asks you to confirm your phone number: an automated system dials your number and gives you a random numeric code which you have to enter on the website.
But computationally intensive applications will definitely benefit from this. Financial and scientific users will surely appreciate this performance boost.

Or... uhm.... game developers...
1. I have tremendous respect for the press and the work they do. I am separating personal values from what the law is. But I do believe that this is a case where the law and ethics are on the same side.

2. This isn't my standard. It is the standard that courts across the country use. The majority of states (including California) adopted a less stringent version call the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Only 4 states, including my Massachusetts, whose version you see above, haven't adopted the act and instead employee their own versions.

3. Tobacco cancer data might be distinguished. First, it is a stretch to find that it has competitive value. Therefore it would not be classified under trade secret. Second, it probably isn't even covered under copyright because facts are not copyrightable, no matter how much effort was undertook to find them.

But I don't really know the facts of the leaked cancer data. I would have to read them in order to determine whether it was legal for it to be leaked to the press.
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That's a pretty stupid conclusion to draw from that data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_St...

If the President of the United States can't block secrets from being published... you think Twitter can? I would submit your knowledge of the practices of Journalism and the law in this area are lacking. Publishing secrets is the business of newspapers. It happens every day. Its their job.

I am very surprised that so many people here fail to understand this. Just because you like Twitter does not mean its not appropriate to publish their extremely newsworthy secrets.