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Did you read the article? Twitter was arguing that the subpoena was incorrectly issued in the first place, not they are somehow above the law.

The subpoena was based on rules that assume that the twitter user's email address and direct messages (like public tweets) are already public. This is surprising since I think most Twitter users would agree that those things aren't expected to be public.
>The judge also turned Twitter’s own policies and businesses decisions against the company as rationale for upholding the subpoena, pointing out that Twitter in 2010 signed an agreement to allow the Library of Congress to keep an archive of all public tweets ever made on the service, using the information sharing as an example that Twitter itself didn’t consider the content private.

Does this mean the government sued twitter to get information they could have simply looked up at the library?

The judge is missing that no one is entitled to put an administrative burden on twitter, especially for information they can get off the internet anyway... Archive.org much?
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It looks like the judge did agree on that part, that Twitter DMs are a separate category of message more like email.
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What I mean is that projects like coffeescript, and spine.js build classical inheritance patterns on top of JS and they work rather well.

I'm looking for someone to contrast either a classical inheritance system built on top of JS prototypes vs using JS prototypes in another way, OR just show me something cool you can do in JS prototypes, that you can't do with python or ruby classes. Contrasting js prototypes with classes in another language is fine for this exercise, I'm trying to understand conceptually why prototypal inheritance is good. Otherwise, I don't see how prototypal inheritance adds value over python/ruby inheritance schemes.

I also believe it's completely feasible and logical to critique language features, and still use them at the same time out of necessity. I still use prototypal inheritance, just through coffeescript classes
Sometimes it seems to me that FB doesn't have an impact assessment process. This is a very important data change you're making to 900-ish million records on a system that is inter-woven with and syncing to... everything. I understand bugs happening, but really, the cascade effect of this email change had to have been foreseen by someone... no? Bueller? Bueller?

I really don't mean to trash FB as a lot of good people work there. However... when I read about something like this, and then I see a company like Google figuring out a time smear function to seamlessly account for a leap second in their servers to avoid cascading system changes... it's hard to feel the two companies are functioning on the same level. (I know, a mis-balanced and irrelevant comparison, but it's just for a 'gut feeling' sense)
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Hmm, did you try selecting "gin" from the drop down menu at the top of the Stocking Up box? We default to showing everything liquor stores offer, but you should be able to narrow down to just the base liquor you want.
Ouch. Talk about not thinking it through. Relating back to a common topic here, one of the things that distinguishes between senior engineers and not senior engineers in my experience is the ability to visualize both secondary and tertiary consequences of a particular change to the system. They stop and say "Ok, we change this, that means ..." and then walk forward past the change in their mind exploring the ramifications. In order to do that they have to have a broad understanding of the system involved from both a technical and operational perspective. They come back with "Oh if we do that then we'll get this effect and that would be bad, how can we prevent that from happening?" and if the answer was "We can't." then they spike the feature.

One of the most frustrating things for me as an engineer at Sun early on was bouncing some whiz bang idea off Bill Joy only to get one of his one line zinger 'but that breaks X' type replies. Always annoying but often right as he would take what was proposed, extrapolate two, three, or a half dozen steps and then point out the now 'obvious' flaw.
Me, I would think long and hard before I dropped barriers, even informational ones, between stupid college kids and excess drinking. Yes, they will drink, and yes, they are hearing about these specials from their buddies. But if something like this accelerates the process of drinking, especially by novices, isn't there the chance that someone gets hurt?

Also: After you've ignored me -- free country, go ahead -- and should I prove right -- happens every now and then -- you will NOT want legal discovery turning up statements like "fuck the world" in reference to your compliance with alcohol advertising law.

More important, you won't want your own self-discovery coming across such statements at 3am when you can't sleep because some user of your site has suffered something.

There are lots of clever ideas in the world, you don't need this one. And if you're going to do it, you need to be a lot more careful than you are here.
>I don't own or plan to own an iPad.

Why not? Why do you plan to purchase a Windows RT tablet then?

>Now ARM boot restrictions from Microsoft directly affects me, as soon i can't buy any ARM based machine, given the way the markets work.

So you think Windows RT tablets will be such a success that you won't be able to buy any Android tablets at all?
Something that many B2C developers may not be aware of, but for businesses that interact with a small number of users (most of B2B), it can be incredibly important to track a specific user. The expectations of privacy are definitely altered and many customers would be delighted to have direct contact with a customer experience team that knows their exact behaviors.
Whether the case should be prosecuted or not - let's leave that alone.

Chain of custody - fair point, but realize that's the case with every piece of evidence. It only becomes very important, as I understand it, once it is in the hands of the prosecution/law enforcement. Before that, it is what it is. Evidence tampering is illegal of course, and we like to think it's hard to prove digital stuff, without crypto sigs and all that, were not altered - but it's nothing new.
The defence would have to have some kind of evidence, even he-said-she-said (defendant says that's not what he wrote) in order to open that door - it's not a freebie. And perjury is a crime.

As to how one can prove what a tweet conveyed - that's what the trial and jury are for.

It is your right to speak. The actions of your words, however, can have consequences - if you started and organized a riot (like, you really did) then society has a vested interest in investigating that. If you did that, you need to be dealt with - it's wrong (no inference implied to the current case, just an example).

And the constitution doesn't say "freedom of speech" - it says something like "Congress shall make no law..(snip) or abridging the freedom of speech.... (and more)

It doesn't say they can't investigate your role in things, which may include your speech.
You say that like having a friend who knows what's up is a bad thing. Tose guys are usually pretty fun to be around so it's not like it's a chore. I'm usually one to hit up my friends instead of replacing them with software.

Maybe I'm not the target market, or I have a full paycheck now and understand if I'm going out to drink I'm gunna get screwed either way.

With my time at VT, the only thing I ever needed to know was the $4 pitchers of yueingling at sharkeys. Done and done.
For as many sales that exist behind closed doors with b/s valuations, here's a few guys who used standard metrics (sales, gasp!) for valuing their company and made multiple attempts to sell it properly.

How about this? Nice job guys. Congrats on sticking to your guns and getting the price you felt was fair.

I would have sold for less.
I've been working on EMR and similar tech for 15 years. As an entrepreneur I look for opportunity where I can find it and I think there will be opportunities for scrappy startups once ACA rolls out.

It might be a "Boom" for some vendors, but I think it will be harder for the small startup to get traction implementing innovative solutions in the EMR space, because it appears there are more artificial impediments to implementation with the new government intervention in healthcare.

I think you'll see monolithic software vendors like GE Health[1] with their Centricity EMR get the lion's share of government investment. They'll use their clout to impose more 'certification' on small vendors, raising the bar for participation and market entry.

It's already begun with groups like CCHIT[2]. A non profit certification body that apparently works in concert with the above mentioned large software vendors to create an expensive hurdle for small companies in terms of cost and compliance.

The hammer to get provider participation? Providers will have their future medicaid/medicare reimbursement rates cut if they don't use a certified EMR. With Obamacare/ACA - reimbursement is likely going to be a much bigger portion of the average doctor's revenue.

There is some incentive for 'meaningful use'[3] which is a cash reimbursement for adoption of the certified, monolithic software, but it's not clear if it completely offsets the cost of acquisition, training and support.

[1] http://www.gehealthcare.com/centricity/
[2] http://www.cchit.org/
[3] http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=...
The top comment, by Tangaroa, points to 18 USC 2703 which covers this. A company can be compelled to give that information.

You really find it odd that the government can force company X to turn over your ip address, name, email and other such information?

The concern over growing fascism comes from warrantless government behavior. This, on the other hand, seems completely within the realm of government acting properly.
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You're right. I stand corrected. I found the article confusing, but maybe it's just me. If the judge agreed that the subpoena is inadequate, why did he still order Twitter to disclose all public and private data from September 15, 2011 to December 30, 2011? I guess some of those protections are based on a date range?
I agree. But I think that's a big part of why this case interests people.
Would be curious how contractors respond to using Acunote. You may need to explain to them that tasks are like a punchlist.
Got a citation for that last sentence? While I agree it's a valid counter to a subpoena, if you have evidence and a judge issues a subpoena ordering you to hand it over.. it's pretty clear cut if everything is done by the book.

Why not go to the LoC? Because the judge can just order twitter to produce it, which one would expect is probably easier.
LoC may be far from having a way to do this easily.
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I'd assume it's some variant on: "if you need to edit / knows what the PATH environment variable is, you're likely not the sort of user who's going to be scared away by an unfriendly UI".
They knew what they were doing. Not having a complete rollback was intentional.
"Here is how to write a monad using Go channels".
My takeaway,

"... consider some other ways to profit from the EHR boom. Software will need to be written that will interface with these integration platforms and make it easier for those doctors and their staffs to navigate their patients’ histories. Customized devices, like tablets and handhelds, will need to be sold to those same doctors. Or perhaps some will prefer customized apps for their smartphones. If you’re not a hardware or software person don’t worry: all of this change will require services too – consulting, training, project management and support. "
OR/CS is not the ultimate combination. If you want to do interesting work in this space you ideally need a background in all of optimization (ILP, convex NLP, stochastic optimization),control theory, certain areas of economics (general equilibrium, game theory, mechanism design, concepts behind applied finance), statistics/econometrics (out of sample performance, hypothesis testing, causality, dealing with non random samples) and probability (mainly stochastic processes).

OR itself contains a large number of applications that combine many of the above, e.g. network revenue management, but someone who has taken grad courses from the OR department alone would genuinely struggle to do anything significantly new or interesting.

People from computer science departments have also been gradually moving into these areas, witness growth in machine learning, algorithmic game theory etc.
Since the first OSX, all upgrades were point upgrades and all of them were very significant. They were also more frequent than Windows upgrades.
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If a subpoena can identify that there is reasonable belief that those messages, specifically, exist (as opposed to broad fishing expiditions) then none of them are safe.
Private email can be subpoenad under the right conditions.
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Ah! So you do. I feel silly now; I didn't see that.
If I were a woman, I would probably feel like SnazzyRoom had no interest in hiring me.
The EHR incentive program is "working" in the sense that adoption rates among physicians are way up, but it's only because they're being forced, not because the software is any good.

Every encounter I've ever had with EHR systems, whether direct or indirect, has been a complete mess. My online EHR through Kaiser is completely unusable, and according to the people who evaluate these things, it's supposed to be one of the best. [1]

Last week I was at the doctor twice, and both times the doctors were complaining about their EHR software, once because it takes so long to boot up, and the other time because it takes longer to sort through allergy testing results in digital form than it used to take with paper charts.

The problem is, the incentive structure in place forces docs to either adopt what's out there or miss out on big incentives, and eventually get penalized [2]. This creates a twisted incentive structure for software companies where they basically can capitalize on the fact that the docs have to adopt a system. All the software company has to do is put out something that's compliant with gov't standards, even if its totally unusable by doctors. Just take a look at the website of the company touted as a great example of the success of the gov't incentive program in the article: http://www.medfx.com/ Would this pass muster in the consumer internet space? In enterprise SAAS? Not a chance.

So the startups are incentivized to get something out so they can get in on the scheme before the window of opportunity closes, what about the big companies who have been building these systems for years? Well, they make most of their revenue from implementing, training, and maintaining systems, not from licensing software, so their incentives are to sell contracts, not make their software any better, because that ends up hurting their bottom line [3]. All they have to do is maintain relative parity with emerging companies, and get real, real good at sales.

It's really a shame, because there is enormous room for real innovation in this space. There is a truly incredible amount valuable data is siloed off in these systems, thats sometimes not even available to the physicians themselves [4] let alone researchers who could use the data. And that, of course, is not mention the potential to help doctors spend less time wrestling with charts, and more time caring for their patients.

[1] http://thesash.me/who-will-fix-the-ux-of-healthcare-a-3-tril...

[2] https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHR...

[3] http://thesash.me/who-will-fix-the-ux-of-healthcare-a-3-tril...

[4] My dad had to hire a consultant to make updates to his EHR system so that he could run queries for certain things among his own patients
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thanks man! We need some investors to agree, but we'll work and do our best!
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> couldn't some core code be shared between all these projects

There are also advantages to having independent implementations for such crucial software. A fatal flaw that no one caught in one implementation may not take out the whole system.
"Move fast and break things" should still require that you think through what you're doing. The problem seems to be that the complexity of Facebook's system is beyond the understanding of anyone who reviews these changes.
Perhaps not quite the same scale, but do check out the story of Rob Walling's acquisition of HitTail, still being discussed regularly on their podcast:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511437

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-83-hi...
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No. I'm pretty sure the subpoena was for _public_ tweets and personal identifiable information (ip address, email, ...).

I think you are confusing personal identifiable information with direct messages. The direct messages _do_ have an expectation of privacy around them, but that information was never requested.
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I believe Facebook is capable of doing sneaky things to advance their business goals, but Hanlon's razor [1] comes to mind here.

[1] http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/h/HanlonsRazor.html
Consulting, training, and support currently represents the vast majority of revenues generated by the Health IT industry.

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I've followed this story (as best as one without a physics degree can) for quite a while now and it still confuses me.

Can anyone tell me how this will effect my life in the next 10-15 years to justify the excitement?
Since when is $3 for a couple of hours of entertainment (each if you have a family) a bad deal? I have a hard time understanding how our standards for how much things should cost has fallen so low.
You make that sound like the government should somehow be bound by Twitter's privacy policy. That's absurd.
Does Baltimore count? C'monnnnn.
I have the list:

1) Don't do anything an agent of the government doesn't want you to do

2) Don't do anything a future agent of the government won't want you to do

And they say the legal system is complex!
Quoting:

> Today Facebook also admitted that its API for contact sync on phone and device apps was set -- on which devices and systems we're not told -- to take an individual's most recently added e-mail address and overwrite their correct contact e-mail in everyone's address books with the new e-mail.

and

>> Since Facebook changed the email addresses on contacts, I've actually lost every single one of my email addresses including those for work.

From this article it sounds like actual data loss occurred on some address books, where non-facebook.com email addresses were permanently deleted from contacts. For those people who don't have a backup of their address books, it might now be impossible to recover those lost email addresses.

Isn't this more worrisome than any issues around how Facebook handles incoming messages?
Pretend it's a real riot-starter you don't like and think about it.
The internet changes nothing. It's not a free ticket to anonymity, any more than putting up posters in the middle of the night was. You run the risk of getting caught.
Privacy policies are between you and a company, not law.

The danger is in widespread digital fishing expeditions by prosecutors - we can't have "turn over everything so-and-so said ever on your service". We need specifics, like everything else... thats' the danger.

The internet is not a thing - it's a bunch of cooperating entities running networks all over the world, and a bunch more people running services on top of that.

The courts have ALWAYS been able to subpoena information during investigations. Why should digital information be different?
I'm part of the team that bought Sortfolio.

We'll be doing a more formal announcement and proper introductions soon, but there are a couple of things we wanted to add to this discussion.

First, we are thrilled to be at the helm of Sortfolio. We have a lot of experience in the area and are excited about the plans we have for it.

Second, the guys at 37signals were a pleasure to work with. They were open, transparent, and are committed to the success of Sortfolio.

We'll be doing the full transition in the weeks to come. Once we are all done, we'll post a proper retrospective and fill everyone in on the details.

We can't wait to share more!
MVC is not a standard. I also don't find it useful to have different names for ideas that are effectively the same with some distinction that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Maybe there is some significant difference, but you haven't outlined one other than "it's not what person X says MVC means".
These seem like standard criticisms of lisps that have been raised for decades. I dont know the responses or solutions, but surely they exist in abundance on the interwebs.
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More good reasons to never:

a) Associate your phone number with your FB account.

b) Download the FB app.

The more you can keep Facebook sandboxed on your devices (and in your life) the better.
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"Move fast and break things" should refer to your servers and your data, not your customers and users devices and their data.
The prosecutors have to convince a grand jury to issue an indictment. That's what the initial investigation is about.

They may not have the duty to disclose, however, the warrant/subpoena has to be specific, and what IS scary is the idea that those served can be put under a gag order not to talk about it. For big RICO cases it made sense, but for smaller ones that's an abuse.
That was my reasoning when I purchased http://www.moredrunk.com - that and it was ridiculously cheap.
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Agreed. Especially with 'phones' like the galaxy S 3 looking more and more like mini tablets.
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There is already GitLab[1], which I haven't personally used but have heard exceptional things from people who have. It's MIT-licensed, distributes new releases regularly, is designed to fit exactly this need, and is attractive.

I don't know if it's feature-for-feature complete with Github, but from the screenshots, it certainly looks close enough to fit the needs of many.

Are you planning to start from scratch?

[1] - http://gitlabhq.com/
We have been using Clojure for a product for about 9 months now, and in my experience, I have no trouble identifying what different blocks of code do. It may depend on proper syntax highlighting, but I think one of the keys is that there is so little boilerplate in Clojure that all of the code is important. You're not skimming over getters and setters, assignment of constructor parameters to the object, or some of the other things your eyes tend to automatically skip when reading, say, Java or Python. It tends to be pure logic or pure data, with very little else in the way.
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