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Not really this is one of those rules that makes people think they can win court cases that they can't really win. The idea that if you catch the police in a small error you can get off in a criminal case. You have to catch the police in a big error that they based the case off, or a serious breach of your rights. This will hardly ever work.

There are others :

1) If I follow the law I won't lose a case. Cute. Try being unreasonable to a judge and see how that works (A popular one : tell the judge that because a car accident happened on your own property, you got to set traffic law governing that accident. Technically correct. Try it)

2) If they don't have proof I can't be convicted. (and sometimes : video is not proof). False (well the video thing is true). The big mistake here is civil versus criminal cases. If it's not the government suing you, or "technically" not the government, e.g. mall security, then proof is not required, and video is perfectly admissible. Even if you are not recognizable on the video, but there's good reason to think it's you (e.g. a credit card record). Second, witness statements from people watching video can be accepted sometimes.

3) If the opposing party makes one tiny mistake I can get off scott-free. False. The justice system's job is to make the smallest possible change to the arrangement that makes it legal. If you sign a contract "I will kill my firstborn and pay $200" (extreme, ridiculous example), obviously you do not have to kill anyone, you will however, be on the hook for the payment. Interesting cases result from the use of "or" instead of "and".

This goes for government integrity too. Suppose Ulbright's lawyers get this one. The next thing that happens is the judge telling the prosecutor to go home, have a good night sleep, start the case from scratch and try again (in the same court case). If he succeeds, that's fine (of course he might not be able to).

4) With a lawyer I can tie up any case for any amount of time. No you can't. Ridiculously complex contract law cases, yeah sure (even then best take a good lawyer). Not paying your car repair bill, no.

5) They can't get to me if I move/hide/other state/other country/... Might be true. Not true for any place worth living. So good luck with that.

These things should be taught, with a few example cases illustrating what can happen. It would lessen the load on the justice system by 50%.
Python on ZeroVM is pretty safe[1].

Of course, you make all kinds of sacrifices using ZeroVM. Nevertheless, it's pretty robust and lightweight.

I managed to get Python-on-ZeroVM running on Docker (ie, LXC) which gave me a pretty decently safe platform for running arbitrary code. It's atrophied since it was working, but I think it had some real potential.

[1] https://github.com/zerovm/zpython2
I'm curious why you didn't base this on Kolab [0]? It looks like you share a lot of common components [1], but they've already done the integration work and added additional features.

[0] http://kolab.org/
[1] http://kolab.org/sites/kolab.org/files/u51/KolabServer-Compo... vs https://mailinabox.email/static/architecture.svg
that makes a lot of scenes, but all of this will surely be turned into profit one day. ofcore they can not do all of this with no profit.
The site's completely broken in Opera 12.
This is the most disgusting hack I've seen in a long time.

It's also beautiful. More like this, please.
Not really, how many networks do you use in a week. Perhaps 3 or 4. And with this, once a link has been established between the IP, it becomes a permanent static link. It is trivial for advertisers through browser cookies to establish this link, and they only need to do it once.
i'm not too sure what service it's suppose to provide.
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I don't see how you read Parallel Construction from there.

Instead the amended declaration is responding to the claim from the defense that "there's no way FBI could have found our boy's IP address without NSA hax!!!!1"

The reply to that can be direct: "DPR configured his captcha wrong, it was actually pretty easy...". This is all that's strictly needed, which is why the rest is in a footnote.

But the footnote isn't unimportant: It explains further that it's not that unlikely (again, as the defense had been claiming) for DPR to have leaked IP addresses, as the evidence on SR's own logs showed in retrospect DPR had been having difficulty with that.

This further undermines the defense claims that only mysterious NSA de-anonymity programs, but it doesn't need or even require parallel construction, as the agent clearly explained how he actually found the IP address: from the captcha routine.
You completely missed the point of the article. Yes, he acted naively, and assumed that the company that he was working for would act in good faith. Thats not the point.

The point is that this is a terrible company that acted in bad faith, and took advantage of an admittedly naive person, and nobody in the developer community should ever trust Unbabel again because fuck them.
One big issue is that we're just not a good product fit for something heavy, so I would expect most people who want more than what we'll give them for $4.95/month to eventually discover that Webscript is the wrong service for them. (For example, technology-wise, they should be using something that doesn't spin up a new Lua VM on every web request.)

We could certainly adapt Webscript to be a better product for bigger workloads, but that would be a lot of work on our side, and that product might end up just being "Heroku but with Lua," which is probably a bad product. :-)

I also doubt that your experience applies here in terms of those heavy users wanting 2x the use for 4x the price. At 4x the price, Webscript would cost close to $20 per month, and we would start to compete price-wise with shared web hosting or VM hosting solutions. I'm not sure there are really users who want something like Webscript for that price.
I really hope owncloud won't try to reinvent the wheel for email; Kolab already provides those features.

http://kolab.org/
Where's the sarcasm tag?
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Nice work!
FYI I did quite the same app for BlackBerry 10 a while ago.

link: https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/51602887

Good luck!
Yeah, it's a huge bummer that this leaked before it could be set up for a heavy load.
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Scrutiny is fine, but the "scrutiny" on display in this thread is quite fanciful indeed. It's almost as if people were hoping that FBI is, somehow, someway, wrong, instead of skeptically analyzing the data presented using critical analysis and then following where the evidence leads.

E.g. the top comment right now claims that a footnote practically proves FBI employed parallel construction, based on no reasoned argument, and without examining even the possibility that there is a reasonable explanation on the FBI's behalf.

So if scrutiny is the byword, let's practice scrutiny. But I'm just seeing advocacy.
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Rand Paul, a US Senator, has introduced a reform bill: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/25/r...
I do.

Just because it's that way in France I see no reason to start thinking it's the new normal.
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If the agent's claim is true it wouldn't have come from an HTTP header anyways, but instead the IP address was leaked by the captcha part of the SR website, which the agent would have noticed on his wireshark-equivalent dumping TCP logs.
I took $9500 in internship savings in cash across the border with Canada a few years ago. I wanted to put the USD directly into my RRSP (Canadian 401K) and a wire transfer would have cost $40 and international deposit of a bank draft would have taken 3 weeks. I would have taken more but >$10k requires a customs declaration which I didn't want to deal with.
First off, you are using a TON of blaming statements (which are mostly ad hominem) and are using a trolling technique to attempt poll others for feelings. It's a nasty habit and your comments only serve to make someone angry. I believe you are aware of your intent and only use it to illicit fear.

We still have enough liberty here that this article can run in the newspaper freely. That is evidence enough America is far from stinky. Do we have unfair levers of power here? Yes. Are we attempting to determine how the levers got into a few people's control? Yes. Will we figure out how to stop them and keep it from happening again? You bet we will.

And none of that will come to pass because of your crappy comments. It'll happen because we are Americans and aren't going to allow our liberties to being eroded by a bunch of fear mongering asshats. And THAT, my friends, is a blaming statement.
There is a word for armed men who prowl highways looking for valuables to seize.
Then again, I found it incredible that HeartBleed hung out in OpenSSL for as long as it did, when you'd think there'd be at least a couple of people in every security group out there reviewing each patch for new vulns.
Facebook laser targeted ads work wonders here if done correctly:

> UK, London, Single Men/Women, Interest:cooking, TV shows: Biggest loser or Hells Kitchen.

> Then send them to Landing Page.
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I've been in a sonic boom under a navy plane in the continental USA, not adjacent to any military base. But it only happened once, so maybe it was a mistake.
Sorry, but no it isn't a 100% tech company. It, like many many others, are actually service companies that are using technology as a means of implementation. Understanding that separation is critical.

Should they have outsourced their development? Absolutely not, but only because they needed to iterate in order to find what makes the service useful for their customer base.
Generally speaking it's the data associated with the calls that is risky, not the bytecode itself.

The way the JVM works is by having specific permission checks at points within the code, and they are enforced by the JVM. I think the CLR works in a similar fashion.

You can run Python on top of the JVM and take advantage of this, but I think the version of Python (JYthon) is pretty old.
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Samsung's F2FS always seems to have an edge in all these benchmarks, I wonder what its secret is.
> France also doesn't have freedom of the press, and I'm ok with that.

I'm not okay with that, nor should someone else be ok with it.
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I went there and immediately received a very nice looking 500 error
Like everybody else... I made a search, got results, didn't know what to do, then left.

I guess I can't figure out where(what?) google or bing is leaving off when I search for something
Note that the documentation contains the following:

"RestrictedPython was bad idea and mostly causes headache. Avoid through-the-web Zope scripts if possible."[1]

[1]http://docs.plone.org/develop/plone/security/sandboxing.html
They sould start impounding cars. Those are weapons.
So I don't know what is Julia, and I still don't know what is it. It's a box for Julia, look greats.
there is a samurai on the site. that's why.
Here's some examples of people who accidentally carried drugs in their car, because the vehicles they purchased had been seized after drugs were found in them, then sold at government auction, except that the authorities hadn't actually managed to find all of the drugs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
Put this on a spacecraft with a nuclear reactor and you have 50-100 years of propulsion. You could probably run a thousand of these thrusters together to get some speed, too, without hardly stressing the reactor.
I read a translation of (some recent version of) the PRC constitution once. It didn't strike me as materially different from any modern democracy's, and included private property protections.

Reading it can be pretty surreal, but it's really just a reminder that laws of any sort are worthless unless there is a societal respect for the rule of law.
google maps does the same!? i think it's totally valid here! you're navigating a map!
Correct, it was not. Though even a moderately healthy swarm today can easily stream (prerecorded, this is important) linear content. It's a lot easier now that residential bandwidth and seedboxes are so prevalent.
Yea, it's not great anymore, but with the exception of France; it's still the better alternative. That Governor
who was caught taking money made me proud of our system. As to the whole Cop problem--I don't have any answers, except buy dash cams.(If you drive a vechicle). The more outrageous footage we have of these guys abusing their power the Better.
Almost everything involving a bank costs money. Checking accounts have both monthly fees and overdraft fees. Check books cost money. If you're well-off, as virtually all HN commenters are, the fees aren't a big deal or they're waived entirely. If you're poor, as virtually all the victims of roadside asset forfeiture are, the fees are significant so you just don't use banks. That means you end up having to carry large amounts of cash.

Now, you prefixed your comment with "This is by no means a justification" so this isn't directed at you, but one of the reasons the criminal justice system is so messed up is because people in a position of power (judges, prosecutors, but also voters) don't realize what it's like to be poor, so when a poor person does something that they wouldn't do (like carrying large sums of cash), they assume it's either suspicious, or if not suspicious, foolish, so the poor person deserves what he/she gets. A bit of empathy could go a long way here.
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Ask HN: What are some good product demo videos?
Hi everyone,

While making a product demo video recently[1], I spent some time looking around for really good product demo videos to use as references. I came across the original Dropbox video[2] which I thought was pretty good, but I wasn't able to find many others.

If you have any examples for really good product demo videos, please share them here and let's discuss the high and low points of each.

Thanks!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM4exYgp0Hk
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE
We tried Rewe and Bringmeister. Rewe seems a bit better overall.

Ocado still seems light-years ahead in terms of flexibility, convenience and service.
You said cash is neither convenient nor safe. I've paid with cash, and I find it convenient and safe.

If it's generally known that nobody carries large amounts of cash, I imagine it might make muggings a bit less common.

It's not so much you personally carrying lots of cash that's safe or unsafe, it's what fraction of the population carries lots of cash that makes things safe or unsafe.
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I should clarify that I'm talking about web product demos here: screencasts of an application being used.
If you're letting yourself be tracked through your web browser, it really doesn't matter what IP address you use.
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> For someone carrying 5-figures worth of cash, how can those costs be prohibitively expensive?

When it's all you have, and already allocated to an expense that's necessary in one way or another. The fact that cash is in paper form, and not electronic form doesn't imply that it's from the discretionary part of your budget.

Also, there is the phenomenon of people with low incomes opting out of the banking system for various reasons including distrust of it.

[edit: 11:24AM CDT added second paragraph]
In France, don't you have to buy your matches from the government? (because you have too many laws, not everybody should)

Also, according to the video, I don't know what the lower limit is but they seized $2,500 from someone (less then 2000 euros at current rates).
It seems their dividing line is mostly related to quantity of legal issues (subreddits generating huge numbers of takedown requests, and possibly other things like subpoenas). They don't seem to care about inconvenience in more of the "politically inconvenient" sense, e.g. the neo-Nazi subforums aren't touched. I've also seen warez-heavy subreddits shut down, though one dedicated to sharing paywalled academic papers has flown under the radar.
Tribler has been around for a long time and it has tons of good research behind it. However, it simply doesn't work. Tried stream a variety of content and it just doesn't show anything unless it's a really healthy torrent which is very rare.
Vasco states that "Andreas himself was very happy until the day he was fired, which shows that he was unaware of the consequences of his behavior, or even of the issues that existed already, which is both potentially a core reason for the problems of communication and why the decision was unexpected." Now, how do you just fire a person who has no way to figure out he wasn't meeting the "culture" expectations? No feedback at all? Is this Unbabel's culture?
In the USA, withdrawing $10,000 in a single day requires a form from the IRS
Hard to tell what's going on here - but it looks like the developer of a mod (Bukkit) has a large enough userbase, that he's using that as leverage and trying to blackmail Mojang to open source the official Minecraft Server.

--EDIT-- fixed spelling.
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The new I-phone looks very interesting, I think this should do pretty good again the new Samsung N4
"this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" printed on every dollar(s) bill in circulation should settle the argument. Cash should always be an option. It's the law. If that law is invalid, how can I know that the law that says "don't pay for more than X in cash" is valid?
Well here is the truth of the matter: If your investors get their money back you'll probably get investors again. If your investors do not get their money back, it will be much harder to raise next time.
Has a slightly stronger connotation than "temporary", sort of... extra-temporary, such that it only exists in a fleeting sense. Th term is also used in cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_key
I used to believe this as well. Experience is the toughest teacher because of the method -- you're given the test before the lesson.

When you're young, you are bulletproof and ten feet tall and can run through walls and you have no concept of your own limitations. What seems obvious to those of us who have gone through the cycle of a startup is the greenfield learning experience for starry-eyed newbies.

Paul Buchheit has talked about the "danger of experience" (http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-technology.html). It's tough, but it's compulsory on us to apply our experience while simultaneously challenging conventional thinking.
There were many articles about this years ago, particularly of the abuse in Tenaha, Texas

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-pro...
What does your estimation of Ulbricht's moral standing have to do with anything? The HN community is advocating for due process.
Afaik reddit has the same policy about pirated stuff (unlike The Pirate Bay). You can't have a subreddit that's dedicated to mainly posting links to unauthorized copies of software/music/etc. Or rather you can if it's low-key, but if it attracts any outside attention or legal complaints, Reddit will shut it down.
And then you would likely serve jail time for assaulting an officer. This is the exact problem with the system as it currently works. There is a significant imbalance of power that allows police to go on power trips with no real way to stop them.
Mandate interest, and the road becomes a lot shorter.
The way people talk about Microsoft around here, you'd think that they never contributed anything to the tech community either.
And I would also have my opportunity to explain to a judge and/or jury why I punched him in the face...
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So what is proof that the money is not linked with any crime? Does a envelope count, sealed by a notary with a letter that explains the purpose?
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Let's look at the facts:

1.) Unbabel is a YC company that recently raised 1.5M

2.) Andreas is a contractor that was given a 3-month at-will contract, for a job that required him to move to Portugal from Sweden.

3.) He worked for 1 month and then was let go and given pay for 1.5 months.

4.) He managed to lose all his money that he made while working for Unbabel, due to a 4 month rental agreement that Unbabel helped him secure a week before Unbabel fired him.

I am not sure if the founders are psychopaths, but there are clearly psychopathic behaviors here. Here's an employee that put his trust into the company to move and sign a contract he couldn't understand, and the company did the following things:

1.) Could not even pay out 1.5 month of contract left (after raising 1.5M)

2.) Could not handle the rental situation

3.) Could not help this guy land on his feet

4.) Could not apologize to Andreas after the article has posted, or manage to help compensate

5.) Continues to answer with posts that try to emphasize how great it is to work for the company or work in Portugal

If this wasn't a YC company we would be alot harder on the company.
'The offer letter he received, which was in English, stated clearly the “at will” nature of the contract. The relevant clause is below.
- "While we hope that your employment with the Company will be mutually satisfactory, employment with the Company is for no specific period of time. As a result, either you or the Company is free to terminate your employment relationship at any time for any reason, with or without cause. This is the full and complete agreement between us on this term. Although your job duties, title, compensation and benefits, as well as the Company’s personnel policies and procedures, may change from time-to-time, the “at-will” nature of your employment may not be changed except by an express writing signed and dated by both you and the President of the Company."

This was also explained thoroughly upon signing of the actual contract, which was a standard contract of full time employment within the Portuguese law, which includes 3 months trial period, by default. At the time we did not have our contract translated to English, which is why we took great pains to make sure everything was clear, but shortly after all the contracts were translated to English.'

While there are similar terms in the German law (6 months in most cases) at least in Germany it makes a really bad impression if people get fired while in the trial period. This is about one step above "hellbanning" the employee, since you can rely on the fact that the next employer where you apply, will ask lots of question if you were fired in the trial period. Thus if a company fires people unfairly while the employee was in trial, the employee has reasons to react really harshly.

I really don't know how this is in Portugal, but if there is a similar culture, I can understand Andreas Wild completely.
Last week, I switched banks. Rather than wiring the funds or spending money on an official check, I took out all my money in cash and brought it to the new bank. I could have been buying a kilo of coke, or funding terrorist activity, but I was just switching to a bank that's present in the state I moved to. I've done this twice before, and amazingly, I'm still not a criminal.