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>The judge can't rule based on the fact that the FBI will eventually prove that Ulbrircht. //

But don't they need to do this at some point in order to get a conviction - if this server is that used to run Silk Road and they want to prove that he ran the Silk Road then it seems like a necessary step. At the point of them making this claim surely the judge has to say "if this evidence proves the defendant owned the server then you've infringed his rights under the Fourth Amendment and the evidence must be discounted"?
A narrow four lane highway is scarcely better than a wide four lane highway.

Get rid of the highways downtown if your goal is better cities. Don't just make the lanes look less safe to slow people slightly.
You should re-read the article. He specifically states he is no talking about highways, and further specifically states that throughput of traffic remains the same in areas with 10-ft lanes, and gives references to prove that.
There are no such things as natural rights. The 4th amendment defines legal rights, and does not have extraterritorial application. Foreigners have no rights under the Constitution for the same reason they have no obligations under it.
This guy has turned Larry David's social assassin service into a business. I can see similar services popping up such as ask a New Yorker and ask a southie where people are real. Real opinions outside of high school may be marketable.
The problem with your analysis is that investigators' illegally gaining access to evidence does not in itself necessarily trigger the suppression-of-evidence remedy for Fourth Amendment violations. The suppression remedy is reserved for constitutional violations. So, yes, whether or not the evidence should have been suppressed crucially depends on Ulbricht's relationship with the server and whether he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in its contents.
They are outdoor bridges, so perhaps I used the wrong term. I do not feel like it sucks any life out of the scene, since even some of the bridges have bridges between them to connect over some nice landscaping.

The university I went to is not like the one I see in Madison or Chicago. The entire campus was self contained and did not have non-university buildings there. So not much car traffic through the actual campus (as there were few roads, although the walkways were wide enough for maintenance vehicles to get around).
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The unfortunate part of all of this is that we're now in a system where you win by paying more money to cover more technicalities than the other guy.

Sure, this follows the rules, but it seems perverse to lose on a technicality that is easy to resolve with a "hey, prove you own the server. you did? ok."
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Your typo fits the Pesci's accent.
You can just divide by a hundred and multiply by 3.

Edit: You'd be surprised how good at calculating percentages you can be if you do them a lot. It just becomes automatic. Source: binged-watched Shark Tank, got real good at multiplying by percentages and their reciprocals in the process.
I think the argument is that the information found on the server shows that Ulbrecht was running this. It'd be like if I was using eBay to sell drugs. I don't own eBay, so I couldn't claim my 4th ammendment rights were violated by a search on eBay.

I don't understand how this isn't an illegal search irregardless though (maybe the server hosts gave the FBI permissin? I'm not aware of the specifics)
How do I know what are all the fields available on a file?
This is especially true when your insolvency is the direct product of a criminal enterprise conducted by the lenders on such a massive scale that it threatened to wreck the entire global economy.

In other words, my obligation to pay is contingent on your not demolishing my ability to pay.
The "hacking" was speculation on the defense's part when they filed their motion in August. If you read the motion[1], because the defense didn't yet know how the FBI located the server, Ulbricht's lawyer wrote a long statement speculating that the NSA/DEA was providing the information to the FBI through parallel construction. The defense did not show any proof of their accusation.

A month later, the FBI gave sworn testimony[2] indicating that they found the server because Ulbricht had failed to configure it properly and it was leaking out its actual IP outside of Tor channels. There hasn't been any proof shown that the FBI hacked his server. A number of people have claimed in the past that they came across the actual IP for Silk Road's server as a result of misconfiguration[3][4], so frankly it doesn't surprise me at all that the FBI also found a leak.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/doc/235692879/Silk-Road-4th-Amendment... (starting on page 40 of the PDF - the page number in the document itself is 28, entitled "The Searches and Seizures In This Case Failed to Satisfy the Fourth Amendment")

[2] same link as my grandparent comment (https://www.scribd.com/doc/238844570/FBI-Explanation-of-Silk...)

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1b1lvy/warning_the...

[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1dmznd/should_we_b...
You're not seriously debating the validity of the social contract with regard to banks that operated multiple interlocking frauds on such deep and massive scales that they just about wrecked the entire global economy, are you?
I agree the better argument is the "stroad" or street vs road philosophy: http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2013/3/4/the-stroad.html

I could do without the bragging about rubbing elbows with White House staffers and setting public policy through executive orders.... and a little more discussing the elephant in the room -- namely that most cars on the road will be mostly driving themselves, much sooner than you think.
"That's not what this means. You can't claim fourth amendment protection on someone else's property"

Ok, so if you rent a car for 3yrs, then they can search it without your consent because technically you don't own it?
> That's hardly related to TOR, but most probably a misconfiguration of the web-server or application which leaked the IP.

According to http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-did-the-fbi-find-the-si... "He also says that the logs provided in the new evidence don't match up with the pages described in Tarbell's declaration." So it's most likely a case of parallel construction
Given the massive bailout provided by the taxpayers - to say nothing of total de facto immunity from criminal prosecution - yeah, writing off the economy-chocking overhang from the credit bubble is the least that should be expected.
If the accusations about him running the Silk Road are true, I think two things:

1) The technology and political material he published as DPR is compelling, interesting, and worth reading. This contribution is meaningful.

2) That there is nothing inherently criminal or morally reprehensible about allowing people to freely transact with one another.

...but that's not the point I was making. The point I was making was that any time the government targets somebody, we find ourselves saying, "I don't want to defend <x>, but I will say..."

But why not? Especially with aaronsw. I find it shocking that this phrase was suddenly through around so often after the indictments. We all knew what he was doing. I supported him 100% and do not believe he did anything wrong.

At the end of the day, we have to be willing to defend not only each other's speech and actions, but each other's characters if in fact they're worth defending. I think aaronsw and DPR are characters that are worth defending.
'I find it highly dubious that the FBI has legal authority to access that server without the permission of its "owner" or a warrant.'

The server was public, the Feds don't need a warrant to investigate public facing web content any more than they'd need a warrant to look at a storefront. They fuzzed some content to get the thing to leak an IP (according to their account). Given the incompetence of the Silk Road admin, that's honestly not a real stretch. There were SQL injection bugs in the search on the site, and he left PHPMyAdmin running on the server. It was amateur hour. With that IP they contacted the ISP in Iceland who gave up the data since the server was violating it's TOS, and the Iceland authorities got legally involved (with no legal issues in that search).

The fuzzing of input to get the IP is iffy, but it's certainly not a cut and dry case where a warrant would be required.

The investigators did get warrants for some of the evidence they collected (esp. the evidence that tied , and I'd imagine if there was a a clear legal requirement for a warrant to investigate the web server, since they had overt probable cause it would have been trivial to get one.

Besides that the only way Ulricht can claim that the search was illegal is to admit that he owned the server, at which point that admission will certainly put him in prison, so an appeal isn't going to do him any good.
Yes, but at this point there's no proof that the server belongs to him so the judge can't throw it out because he has no standing to challenge it's admissibility in the trial. I don't think that this precludes it from being thrown out on appeal or later in the trial but the motion to dismiss before the judge couldn't go through. What the judge ruled right now is just about the pretrial motions to dismiss. I'm not well versed enough in the legal system to say if this is prejudicial against it later being found to have violated his 4th amendment rights, judges can strike evidence from the record at later points though.
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The source appears to be Reuters[1], but I couldn't find anything beyond that.

[1] http://www.fr-online.de/literatur/selfpublishing-die-demokra...
From a quick look at the photographs it appears that you have to lift up the entire device to flip the pages, then set it back down again on the book. My first thought is that that would become fatiguing very quickly. Most of the other DIY book scanners that I've seen use other methods to lift the platen.
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That's nasty, but my favorite florene compound is still the apply named FOOF also known as "Satan's kimchi".

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won...

"And yes, what happens next is just what you think happens: you run a mixture of oxygen and fluorine through a 700-degree-heating block. "Oh, no you don't," is the common reaction of most chemists to that proposal"

"When 0.2 (mL) of liquid 02F2 was added to 0.5 (mL) of liquid CH4 at 90°K., a violent explosion occurred."

I mean how can't you love a substance that will violently detonate things at -180C.
Simpsons already did it! Or rather, the Bold Italic did:

http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/5607-a-four-year-old-r...
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I think the widespread insecurity of home routers will not improve anytime soon.

Background: I work at a company which makes a "home router". It's not one you will find at a big box store, but internally it's not much different.

Most of these routers are built from a MIPS SoC manufactured by Broadcom, Atheros, or Marvell. Since their business is selling chips, not routers, these SoC companies need to make it easy for your LanWan Company startup to choose to use their chipset.

So these SoC companies will give you a reference hardware design. They will also give you a completely functional software package with Linux kernel, drivers for all the peripherals (Wi-Fi, ethernet, etc.), all the necessary user space utilities, a complete GCC cross-compiler toolchain binary which runs on Ubuntu, and a bad web app. You can literally unzip this package, run 'make', and end up with a functional filesystem image ready to flash onto the reference board.

So LanWan startup can start manufacturing routers with only one or two software devs who know some C and a part-time hardware engineer. Manufacturing is contracted out to China.

The vendor-supplied C code is not written by expert programmers. It's obvious when you (try to) read the source. It's also a huge and messy pile of code.

Where I work we use the vendor-supplied kernel but we wrote all the user space ourselves. All this stuff is written in C. The software devs here have more than a few years of experience writing C, but are very uneducated about how to write secure code. They don't think about it. And management does not think about it. The only thing that matters to management is that the box passes the tests.

I've been around long enough to have figured out that things are like this in most places. Whether small companies or big companies doesn't matter.
Fluorine can be so dramatic.

I witnessed a test of a small (500 lb thrust) H2/F2 rocket engine. The fuel & oxidizer were fed into the combustion chamber with small turbo pumps, which was the point of the test. The native fluoride protective coating failed in the F2 turbo pump, and there was an explosion with subsequent metal/fluorine fire.

Blockhouse sealed off and we all grabbed the Scott packs as a yellowish cloud of fluorine drifted by, setting fire to sagebrush as it went. Can't beat exotic propellants for excitement.
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Whoa. Anyone stopped to consider what this might mean for a future where all content becomes hash-addressable on an anonymizing network... for instance, telehash over tor. So if every site is anonymous, and isn't certain to be owned by citizen of nation X (based on geography), then it's ok to break into. Anything found on any anonymous server is admissable. Disputing the break-in would require claiming the rights of citizenship, ie. claiming ownership of the server.

So basically, any hacked system with incriminating data is almost an automatic hit against a defendant.

This seems like bad news for due process.
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Its possible, but I have many other items prioritized above that.
Ya, and what about the people like me who gave up on that scanning and came here to find the tldr, but instead just found your complaint, and then read this complaint about the complaint!! When will it end?!
If we have quantum computers, then isn't P vs. NP the wrong question? With quantum computers, the more relevant problem to study should be BQP versus QMA (the quantum analogs of P and NP/MA, i.e., computable versus verifiable in polynomial time on a quantum computer). Are complexity theorists studying the wrong problem?
In Terminal.app you can use the mouse to move the cursor at the command line. Since at least 10 years.
Good luck getting me to perform there. It's already hard enough to get people (paying customers) to laugh. And as a customer, I'd avoid that place too. Wouldn't want to enjoy myself too much.
As a refresher to what exactly happened in the investigation that the judge ruled "not an illegal search":

1. FBI agents noticed the captcha mechanism on Silk Road was not configured to go through Tor (revealing the server IP address)

2. They asked Icelandic police to get an image of the server.

Another part of the argument is that the TOS of the data center said that servers could be "monitored" for lawful use (probably removing expectation of privacy questions, independent of localisation, in the prosecution's mind).

I wouldn't call this "hacking", but the constitutional question remains. I think the crux of this is that information obtained from foreign agents seems to be admissible independent of how they obtained it. Not a fun state of affairs.
On the contrary, I think people are most often suicidal because they fail to perceive their role in society as meaningful. To the extent this happens it is because of deep-seated problems in modern industrialism c.f. Ted Kaczynski. The cracks are just far too large in modern economic systems. Public social welfare programs play a large role in disconnecting people from their kin and neighbors; it becomes easy to feel irrelevant in supporting others.

The failures of modern industrial capitalism and social programs don't change the the underlying reality of suicide, however. It is a form of desertion, or dereliction of duty. This is more apparent in smaller scale societies.
But it does, for reasons laid out on page 12 of the opinion. In short, a 4th amendment attack requires your privacy to have been violated, not just anyone's. You can't say 'that box is not mine, and looking inside it was a violation of my privacy rights'; you must pick one argument or the other.

If it really is not your box then you don't have any privacy expectation. The 4th amendment protects '[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects [...' (emphasis added). You don't have a right to security in other people's property, eg if we are both drug dealers and I keep notes about you in my notebook, you can't make a 4th amendment claim about the privacy of my papers even though they incriminate you.

Even if those papers are the fruits of an illegal search of my apartment, only I have the right to demand that evidence is suppressed. If I don't (perhaps because I cut a deal for immunity, or perhaps because I was smart and blew town before the police suspected me) then that's just too bad for you.
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I don't mean to be rude but that's just some backseat lawyering here. That's not how this works at all.
Have you actually read [3] and [4]? Based on the comments, the two posts (Made by the same person) were from a notoriously anti-Bitcoin troll on the day that market prices were at an all time high.

I was with you up until I actually read the posts, which I suspect you did not.
Oh, thanks, I hadn't thought of those. I was thinking `Why'd Woody Allen take drugs for acting?'
At the risk of having you compete with a project I would not even start, ;) you should dynamically reduce the resolution so that it runs in WebGL and create a backend in Akka or Erlang. You could get real funding with what you have here.
But your friends have been lying to you.

About your website/app/resume/outfit.

You need to know the truth.

How can you afford to not know?
Or by a sufficiently smart compiler that realises it can fuse the intermediate steps into a single loop (like GHC)?).
I think one of the main problems with startups today is that founders don't think of making money at all..and the company folds within a year.

Money is the life-blood of any company. Any investor, including PG will invest based on a good chance that they will get an ROI. It's silly to pretend otherwise.

If a startup has "no chance of making money", it's not a startup. It's a hobby project..and it should be treated as such.

I only start companies that I know can make money. In fact, I find the profit model first..and then build my idea around the profit model. There are challenges and fun in almost anything.
Ask HN: When do you risk it all?
I don't have a "startup" yet, necessarily, but I am curious if anyone has advise on when I should "risk it all."

I have been driven to build my own company since I was ~10 years old, and am pretty sure my idea is a good one. Further,

[1] I have a prototype, which tentatively proved (to me) my theories/ideas will work.

[2] I have several individuals offering investment(s) in my idea.

[3] I recently applied to YC, haven't heard back, and who knows with a 2% acceptance rate.

[4] I am pitching my idea at an "open pitch session" to Max Levchin + HVF 10/20.

Regardless of the out come from any of the above, I don't know if I could stomach working at a company.

I have a standing offer with Capital One (Research Labs), am applying to graduate schools, and am interviewing with Google monday. However, I can't see myself any of those places three years from now..

When do you just take your ideas and build it into a company?

I know my idea is excellent, but I have next to no resources, minimal credentials, and nothing but math to back me up (oh an $100,000 in student debt).
I understand why he invested. You have great passion and fantastic taste, I didn't know about this project until now.
Are you familiar with Plan9?
Everything is a file. Everything.
Erm, that Github link is the "Download source" link
Looks a lot like webshell (http://webshell.io). I wonder if there are other similar tools out there?
"Cyberchase" is a genuinely great program. I watched it with my son (born 2001). At first I thought it was just another annoying kids show. But then I saw the episode where they were playing "NIM", and learning game theory, and being exciting at the same time. Quite an accomplishment.
Here is a free one: The "See More Creatives" link 404s hitting against makers.html
Agreed. This bit me once.
Sigh, another super fancy web design that utterly fails on mobile. The article is covered by a popup ad that is impossible to dismiss or even covert on!
I made this. I'm pretty new to Clojure and have just been playing around a bit with the language. Let me know if you have any comments.
Yikes. All those nines of durability that Amazon provided for Dropbox...brought to naught by a bug in Dropbox's software.
I drive this god forsaken freeway just about every day. Average top speed during commuter hours is about 10-15 Mph in both directions.
I believe this is the premise behind EFF's open router project. Provide a higher quality base router distribution that can be used by anyone, including SoC and router manufacturers.
Snapchat and Spiegel’s Interesting Call on the Hong Kong Demonstrations
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Your anger should be directed to the person who linked to the site, and not to the author.

The information you want is available at http://nacto.org/docs/usdg/lane_widths_on_safety_and_capacit... and in exactly the format that you want. Indeed, this is the source material for the article that you are angry about, as was cited in the text.

The author wrote the article for people who want to read "shitty and annoying writing". There's enough of that writing in the world to know that those readers are in the majority. Those people also need convincing, don't they?