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I attended university in the early 90s, and majored in Computer Science. On a lark, I took a class on Native American Literature (just on the name alone, I thought it would have been more Native American lore; it turned out to be contemporary fiction written by Native Americans). The entire grade was based on one mid-term and one final. The mid-term I failed. When it came time for the final, I realized there was no way I could even answer the single question and simply walked out of the class.

I fully expected an F for that class, but I ended up with a C, which surprised the hell out of me.

I was recently talking with a friend (a former English instructor for a well known university in the United States) about this, and he said I either received a "Gentleman's C" or (more likely) the instructor simply thought he lost my paper and erred on the side of grade inflation.
The FBI response letter is linked here and seems to list a specific Reston, VA address: http://f.cl.ly/items/2t13422O1n441b1R2F3E/Instapaper%20Raid%...

There is another FOIA request still outstanding here: http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/united-states-of-america/wa...

I am curious to see the results of that second request, which is more broadly worded.
Many, many clients expect face-to-face meetings. I have clients overseas and interstate (including some I've never met or even spoken to on the phone) but the majority are greatly comforted by meetings. Many have a strong preference for going through things in person as opposed to writing down requirements in an email.

(Have run a web design company for 13 years now.)
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Why will you lawyer up? I'll be cheering you on, but to what end?
I'd file this under Hanlon's razor. It would be very odd for the FBI to conduct a raid in a way that made everything they found inadmissible in court.
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I delete files because I don't want to see them. I don't want to see an ugly "Archives" subdirectory in every directory on my machine.

Far nicer would be an "arc" folder in, say, my home folder. But at that point I might as well just wrap git commit, and get branches and diffs.
Holy crap. I thought I was the only one. I know I'm smart, I just don't put in the effort to study. I'm friends with all these people who don't have the problem I have (or they've figured out how to solve it).

At the same time though, I'm constantly working on side projects. Currently, I'm building an autonomous tricopter, because I thought it'd be cool to build. Last semester, I wrote a webapp to handle an event we were having. Previous semester, I was working on a way to control my room from my computer (still working on that, just not as intensely). These all easily answer "Why am I doing this?" (tricopter: because it's cool. Webapp: Might be able to make money from this [Note: didn't make any money from it ): ]. Computer-controlled room: It's cool, and it allows me to be incredibly lazy.)

I know that I'm not an idiot, I should be getting As, and I do get As in the classes that genuinely interest me. Unfortunately, at least 75% of the classes I take don't interest me, so I get lost in trying to answer "why am I even bothering with this?"
No, they shouldn't.

I have zero interest in managing and maintaining circles, and have already given up on doing it in Google+.
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Hi, newfriend here. I've been lurking and this is my first ever posted question.

I just finished playing around with Rails for Zombies, and surprisingly had a lot of fun. It has me interested in learning more and building something with it.

Just out of curiosity, what are some of your favorite apps and websites built with Ruby on Rails?
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Would love to know how many web design company owners are reading this article and thinking "Could I?"

I've run a web design company for 13 years (currently a team of three) and it's tough work. To your friends, you're the guy who can work anywhere and at any time, charge a decent hourly rate, etc. Reality is you're juggling hosting and domain invoices, maintaining decade-old sites, having your designs ruined by weird requests and on it goes. For every gem of a client, there is a difficult project that was tough to foresee or avoid for whatever reason.

My problems are never contract-related (I don't bother with them at all, figuring that if a relationship ever needs to refer to the contract, it's as good as lost) and rarely about being paid (the money gets there eventually). I also don't worry about competition from smallfry (rarely unhappy to lose a job because I'm too expensive). Yet even without such critical issues as legal, billing and competition, it's still a difficult line of work.

Why don't I experiment with products more? Since I am the client, I can't give myself a serious must-hit deadline and that final 10% never gets done. I also get distracted by the next idea before I finish the last one.
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I've read both, and I greatly preferred "In the Plex". It seemed like a book that really had a thoughtful (if sympathetic) view into Google's inner workings. Levy's book drew from numerous interviews, and wove them together into a narrative that had structure, meaning, and was a great read.

"I'm Feeling Lucky" is a more personal book; It gets a LOT more into the nitty-gritty of personal politics, which can be interesting in a ValleyWag way, but didn't necessarily make me feel like I understood Google in a more meaningful way.

I got a lot of insight into Edwards' family, his mindset, and a much lower-level view into the Google offices.. But if you're only going to read one, read the Levy book.
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when 2.4mil are following an account, it's safe to say word will spread :)

feel like i've run into the issue with facebook likes before. have they really not resolved it by now?
Well, I certainly hope not to. But I'm a paranoid person by nature, and I run a service for users even more paranoid than I am, so I'd like to get some documentary evidence about what happened.

I don't trust the DigitalOne people at all and so far everything we know about the raid has come from them. If I have to I'm willing to throw some money into the legal system to get some answers for our users.
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Yeah, it should be totally optional in twitter' case.
I believe tptacek knows that. I think his point was, what do I hope to accomplish by tilting at this particular windmill.
I think some domains allow themselves to be modeled with enough accuracy that an abstraction allows for the useful observation of data.

I would suspect that domains that can be usefully modeled with a constrained set of abstractions will more practical to work with given the way scientific knowledge is growing.

I hear biologists, neuroscientists talk quite often about the complexity of their domain. If these domains can not be simplified, it may mean that research becomes prohibitively expensive verse other research problems that can be simplified.
I'm not sure how Teti's was worded, but I can't imagine Mocek's is any better - it's asking in regards to assets owned by the datacenter's owners.

Edit: Just was there are more FOI requests on that site for the same information
And I already know about the twitter's, hulu's, etc. I'm more looking for creative uses of RoR.
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So Firefox took 10 years to go from version 1 to 3. And took 1 year to go from version 4 to 8.
I don't agree with the entire concept of anti-trust, let alone support any case against Google - but I can see it happening
Not directly relevant, but on the subject of Google in foreign languages.

Every time I visit a foreign country and use a local computer there, the default search language is in this local language (in spite of me being logged in into my non-local google account). One can click to search in English, but the next search is shown in this language again. And "google.com" redirects to "google.local country". If you stay abroad long enough, it is a great way to learn some Pavlov reflexes in obsessive clicking.

Definitely a first world problem, but if someone could let folks like me know how to address that issue, that would wonderful.
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I am just curious, but would a FOI request work for a current/open/active investigation? Seems like that would be a very exploitable process (by the "bad guys") if it would.
You are now running a denial of service attack on yourself.

Pretend I have Oracular knowledge about this case. What could I possibly tell you that would be more important to your users than your next three weeks of regular operations? Is "The FBI had a warrant for someone other than you." that information? Is "The FBI did not have a warrant but thought they had exigency, targeting someone other than you?" that information?
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The trick is to create a circle of people you want to follow, and then click that circle on the left side of the stream page to see only what they think. I submitted a request for a main stream editor but I doubt they'll implement it.
Not really. San Francisco and Chicago are governed just as badly as some third-world kleptocracies, but those cities fortunately have relatively little general obligation debt (proportionally much less than Greece). Eventually they will probably declare bankruptcy and repudiate their ridiculous union contracts.
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Why fantasize about Da Vinci? Why not choose a subject much closer to our own time like, say, Francis Crick? I recall a story he told that as a child he wanted to become a scientists but was concerned that all the important discoveries had already been made.

Really...if you don't know Crick's story, go read up! In his lifetime, man went from not even being sure what category of chemical was responsible for inheritance to sequencing the full human genome, and Crick was there for a number of very important steps. Oh, and did I mention that he was originally trained as a physicist? and that in his final years he was deeply involved in neuroscience research concerned with the nature of consciousness?

For anyone who is really concerned with knowledge and its limits, I would also recommend the book "Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits". Don't waste your time with this sort of pop science drivel...
> After the passenger is cleared, the image is deleted.

Though this is claimed, I thought there were some instances where this was not true.
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I would say that these domains cannot be simplified because we lack the tools. Imagine trying to describe Quantum Mechanics without complex numbers. That's essentially what biologists are stuck with today. Luckily, graph theory is making fast progress and should eventually give us the tools we need...
Yes, some gag orders last 90 days for certain felonies...namely computer break-ins..ie hacking ..do not know about the other ones...
Aw, it's shut down now.

Maybe it would be good to open source this thing and get lots of people to host their own. Distributed Exodus.
Thanks Darmesh. Its pretty much the approach we took, I guess the only thing is that we should have walked away at your point 4. We discussed it, what stopped us in the end was that even though the deal had now changed, it was still a deal we would have happily done.

In retrospect it was a bigger deal than we made of it and we really should have walked away. Rather than focussing on the terms we should have focused on the signals this was sending - something fishy was going on and internally these guys weren't communicating.
When it was open, I tried it out and let it process my friends list, but then instead of clicking the final invite button, I opened a javascript console, and found in the log an array of all my friends' facebook email addresses, so now I can invite them manually.

I don't know why I'm posting this though, since the site is closed. :/
Wouldn't Google likely have a patent on the circle?
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> If the goal of terrorism was simply to kill as many
> people as possible

The goal is to terrorize. If a significant amount of people either stop flying altogether, or at least are afraid/paranoid/looking over their shoulder while in the terminal, then the goal would seem to have been served.

It would be the same as if terrorists had randomly chosen a handful of cars in a handful of cities and all wired them up with bombs on the same day. People would be afraid to get into their cars, or they would at least be thinking 'what-if.'
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Prior to the 90's there were a number of AAA-rated bank holding companies in Japan, France, Germany, etc, who participated in securitizations by issuing Letters of Credit, lending those bonds their AAA ratings. The downgrades of those led to alternative structures, e.g. reserve funds built up from the collateral pools streams of principal and interest, to garantee timely payment of the bonds' P&I obligations.

A lot of the AAA growth from 1990 forward comes from the application of these structures to securitization of non-mortgage consumer loans, first auto and credit card loans, then others.
I am not aware, things like these could be patented ? That would be horrible to imagine. If that's the case, facebook may have patents on so many things, which google+ has copied.
Judges issue sealed warrants. My understanding is that an FOIPA request would acknowledge the existence of a sealed warrant and affidavit after they're executed though, unless they're part of a multi-part warrant. Search warrants expire in a matter of days. Since some or all of the hardware seems to have been returned, there's no reason for it not to show up in a properly worded FOIPA request.
Yeah, the takeaway from this is "pick vendors better in the future" (I know a lot of great hosting/colo options, would love to have Pinboard...), and "have redundancy ACROSS providers." Don't focus on recovering losses, focus on the future.

Buying colo (or especially higher level stuff like managed hosting or even worse, EC2 or PaaS) from a single vendor with multiple sites doesn't protect you from:
1) Them going out of business
2) Them deciding to bounce you as a customer
3) Them getting raided by FBI/Al Qaeda/etc. at multiple sites

You ALSO want to make sure the providers you pick don't share much physical infrastructure (e.g. don't use SoftLayer AND Internap at the same physical buildings...).

The hassle is it means 2+ sets of support numbers, 2+ sets of provisioning procedures, 2+ sets of billing and contractual relationships, etc., but it's worth it. This is why having standardized provisioning procedures across vendors is awesome (everyone uses x86 now, but having standardized management tools and APIs would be nice, especially for cloud stuff).
> Does conversion mean I sold something?

Yes, in the context of cold-calling, that's exactly what it means.

Generally, it means achieving your goal. And while in 100% of your phonecalls you are well on your way of getting to that goal, your goal is getting them to pay for your services, not allowing you to give them another sales-pitch (which is what you achieved).
I wouldn't hold my breath. Their records system is terrible, in the sense of being woefully under-resourced and their software is out of date. For a recent case like this, it's highly likely that it has not yet been processed into their central records system. As a first step, I'd say go to the FOIA page on their website and look at the current backlogs. I haven't followed this episode closely, but I'd say the chances that they just steamrollered their way in without a warrant are quite low.
A question..should not an article of on such a serious subject be devoid of errors?

Not just grammar, but illogical assumptions, errors in logic, etc? See how many errors you find..I find too many to rely on the article on any basis.
Hi Bediger, thanks for your advice so far, I feel like I should not start the service.

I don't know why you feel there will be spam, every service gets abused by spammers I know. But we thought of preventing spamming this way:
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I'm hoping this might be 'steam engine time' - in this instance, a self-organized cue for 'civil disobedience'. If the system is so utterly broken that innovation is forced into stagnation - fight it! Flaunt the unjust laws, openly develop cool ideas using appropriate technologies, 'do no wrong' (in a moral sense), and FIGHT your corner.

Living in the EU, I'm not quite clear on some of the legal aspects - can't defendants represent themselves in court in the US? It would be a pleasantly unbalanced situation: nominal legal fees on the individual's side, but many magnitudes higher on the opposing party's.

Imagine a legal wiki, with shared experiences and legal knowledge... Why not use our common smarts and networking savvy to take on this biggest of threats to the independent developer?
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Creating problems may need to be done carefully, but there is no reason it can't scale. Khan and a few others can create thousands of good problems and distribute them to every internet user.

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They rarely do care, but they did the one time that I was trying to get some luggage through with a couple of Xmas gifts that were jars of food.

Also while trying to take a souvenir snow globe home I found out that TSA says that snow globes are banned even from checked luggage. Huh? I had to ship the fucking thing home.

edit: Just checked the TSA site and apparently they can go into checked luggage. That's a change because I remember looking it up at the time and thinking that it was insane the ammunition was allowed in checked luggage but snow globes weren't.
Evernote has $93M in funding...

Just saying. :)

I wouldn't pay $7/m for this service though. :)
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There is a major difference between being fired in the US and for instance most countries in Europe, where workers rights are very strongly protected.

In the latter case, it is often very hard, time consuming, painful and costly to fire someone. However comfortable this may seem to from an employee perspective, if an employer decides to fire you they must really, really badly want to get rid of you. And that can seriously damage your reputation.

The result is that instead of firing people, both parties usually make a deal: the employee leaves "voluntarily" and gets a big fat final paycheck. Technically no firing has taken place and the whole process is way less confrontational. Employers will gladly give you a reference and keep quiet about why you were let go in exchange for a smooth exit.

You'll be hard pressed to find someone in the tech industry in Europe who has ever been fired.
I'd never even heard of this company, but IMO they really should provide a much longer wind-down period.

Similarly to Ron Conway's "if you have to shut down your company, that's fine, but do it properly -- pay your bills, pay your employees in full, do it in an orderly fashion -- if you do, I'll invest in you again, otherwise I won't."

There should be a "responsible startup code of practice" for winding down operations where customers might depend on it. Especially in the summer, when people could be on vacation, providing 3-6mo of notice for a shutdown would be good. Exceptions if it is really arterial bleeding of cash, or some legal problems which expose you to ongoing civil or criminal liability, but if it's just the cost of a few EC2 instances, there is no excuse for not keeping it running until users have all comfortably migrated away. Otherwise, people will be less likely to trust cloud services in the future, which pisses in the pool for everyone.
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Rdio's desktop app used to be adobe air. Now it's something else, probably native. Spotify is C++. Most of the others are just browser sites. Grooveshark is now mostly HTML5 with the music playback component in flash.
Google's circle feature is incredibly useful to me. Not only will it come in handy separating my three professional spheres from each other, it is ideal for separating those from my family and friends. Each of these groups is interested in and privy to different types of posts from me, and finally, there is a way to share with all of them just what I want through a single account.

Twitter's simplicity is at it's core, however. I don't think Twitter could slip a system like this in very easily... nor can facebook.
Indeed. I think the article could be improved by simply removing that pseudo-evolutionary bit. It isn't needed for the argument at all, and is just distracting.
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