skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is knowing their names and faces the same as public stoning, sir? I just don't understand what emotion led you to conclude that?

We should always know who said what in the case. It's important to know who led the indictment, who pushed a criminal case instead of a civil suit and so on...
Clever: What to say when someone tries to reverse engineer a link from your app
JavaScript. Even with its pitfalls and numerous headaches. The first language I learnt was JavaScript and it made it so much easier to learn others afterwards.
Why can't the police get the message?
It is for collecting data.
I would introduce them to scratch regardless of their age. http://scratch.mit.edu/

When you don't have to deal with syntax and can concentrate on nothing but logical components it becomes much easier to understand.
I hope that you have found peace and a better place Aaron. It was too soon to lose you, we need the brave ones.
I think this mostly shows a different perspective contrasting all those two-minute hate threads that you mention.
The last person who tried is now dead after being threatened to rot in jail for life by his state.
What I said was:

> When programmers care about lack of efficiency before it's a problem, they're doing it wrong.

That doesn't mean that you shouldn't identify problems as quickly as possible, just don't try to improve performance when you haven't got a problem in front of you.
Exactly. It won't catch on because most people will not know what UTC means, and will think you're crazy and eccentric. Most people do not even know their timezone offsets from UTC, and if they did they would consider the strain of applying that offset too taxing. They prefer that the meeting organizer state the meeting time in the attendees' local time. If it's not, and the meeting is important, they'll try to convert it, but they may get it wrong (especially with daylight saving time in the mix).

A great example of this is that most British think London time tracks UTC even during the summer. You talk to them about meeting times in UTC, and they'll be an hour off as long as London is observing DST.
Aaron Swartz really did co-author RSS spec at age 14
Creative Commons Launch Party Pic, Dec 2002
R.I.P Aaron.
You're get followed now and forever for all the good things you've done. We'll continue fighting for a better world.
Actually, the prosecution began in July 2011.

Still, I agree that focusing attention (positive or negative) at particular people who may be involved in the Swartz prosecution is inappropriate, so I have flagged this submission.
I hope it's taken that way. Some of what was in those threads was disturbing.
Characterized as idealistic.
Reference #11[0] on the Wikipedia article for RSS points to the 1.0 spec. On the spec, he is the second-to-last listed author.

[0]: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec
Apple had the Newton before Microsoft, and other companies launched "tablet terminals" even earlier.

It's usually rather hard to know who invented a concept like tablet computers. After all, the concept existed long before they were even possible to fabricate (e.g. in sci-fi).
Yeah, but hosting services expire too, not only domains. Anyway, archive.org already crawled the entire website: http://web.archive.org/web/20121028095100/http://www.aaronsw...
The only way I can really react is to say that I'm here to talk for any friends (or anyone dammit). Community support is community.
>it never stops to notice that the Joker is actually the hero. [...] his various games only have one innocent casualty

Blowing up a major hospital (even an evacuated one - at very short notice I might add) or having firefights in the streets does cause casualties, even if none are shown on-screen.

For that matter, the joker WANTED more casualties, as outright stated in the ferries incident. A failed mass murderer is not a better role model than a successful one.
The guy replied to thank him, so you would appear to be completely off base.
good on her, standing up to those meddling kids
Aaron left instructions for his digital estate.

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity
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> You are just moving complexity though

changing to UTC everywhere is moving complexity, I stand by the "keep the complexity where we have it already" :)

> Right now, while you can assume at 11:30 AM public transportation is available, you have to look up what actual time zone wherever you are going is in and do math to figure out when that is for you.

well, no. If I book a flight/bus/train it says that I get somewhere at 11:45 local time, they don't give me zulu time.

But assuming they'd tell me the hours in _my_ time, the complexity of doing a 2 digit sum is, IMVHO, not a major complexity over looking up what the time zone is (or equivalently, what the "beginning of the day" is locally).

It is possible that we are undergoing a shift towards more unified time.
But for what is worth, I can tell you that the time shift in Italy over the last twenty years has been in the same direction as yours (e.g. TV prime time used to be 20:00, then 20:30, now it's 21:00), so maybe europe's being pulled from east asia being pulled from americas being pulled from europe ad infinitum.
And that has the advantage of not breaking existing links. Same goes for hosting.
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Additionally, it appears Archive Team is on the case: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/290097792838406145
A Chat With Aaron Swartz
Last year someone else did this. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231531

Two years ago someone did this. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109

In between, before all this, there have been people insisting that suicide is the cheaper option compared to living. This is very much a thing.

I don't purport to have a solution because I fight depression, suicidal thoughts myself and at best I can only say depression is something that you don't get rid of, only something that you learn to co-occupy your mind with.

But one thing I can say we here all live and work in a field that deals with great extremes. Great extremes of success and great abyss of failures. So take care to not be swallowed, by success or failure.
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Does anyone have source to theinfo.org or any of its previous versions? I have a full archive of the short-lived mailing lists and would like to ensure this site isn't lost.
How many journal articles have been published (ever)?
Here we call them something like a 'crisis line'. They aren't just for people who are considering suicide; I have had friends with extreme anxiety who phoned to talk through their fears. This helped them work through crippling anxiety attacks and allowed them to go to class, work, etc. afterwards.

The people on these lines are very well trained at active listening, and that can be useful in a lot of mental health situations where suicide may never have been the end result.
So does FireFox, if anyone's wondering. about:config -> plugins.click_to_play
I've emailed both Linode and Name.com asking if I can pay for his domain and hosting to continue on for eternity.

http://d.pr/i/2ysc (and they're looking into it - https://twitter.com/namedotcom/status/290111405410091008)

http://d.pr/i/CEji
Python. If the person is a statistician R
It's a very interesting documentary, thanks for the tip. I am looking forward to the rest of the course.
I too am on OSX (10.8.2) Perhaps it is your browser? I am using Chrome (Latest Version - 24.0.1312.52)
>> "nor committed large war atrocities"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
And not allow the government to be the scapegoat for corporate-driven changes and rules.
My brother has one of those as well. He's been really happy with it so far.
Your posts in this thread -- especially the one above -- are not productive. You should take your own advice and sit this one out.
Additionally: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_the...
That's why I said "probably". Obviously there are local differences and customs. Nobody claims you can magically predict exact opening times for where you happen to be at the moment, but you'll find that the day to day activities generally are aligned with the local solar day, and in fact, most probably the siesta has it's reason in the extreme heat during the afternoon in Spean.
If you think I'm going to be okay with driving home in the dark 365 days a year, you've got another thing coming, buddy!
Is money a good success measure for a startup and its founders?
Does anyone have a copy of the source to theinfo.org or any of this previous versions? I have a complete archive of the mailing lists. I'd like to make sure it doesn't disappear, it and other things Aaron did inspired things I made.
His tweets don't seem suicidal. In other words no sign of stress, isolation, fatigue, burn-out. Mentally unfit people on the edge aren't usually writing about re-booting democracy and the importance of future peer-to-peer research. Concern for the future, holding politicians accountable, even warning politicians about their replacement! That is bold. So the bold activist kills himself. Something seems odd about this, but I guess it was suicide if they say it was. Meanwhile I'll keep reading his stuff.
> Shortly after Larry Page re-took the reigns as CEO of Google

He re-took the what? You don't take the reigns, you don't give free reign, and you don't loosen the reigns. It's REINS.
Aaron Swartz's talk at MIT Startup Bootcamp 2009
I must admit I find this and other variations of "let's use the death of a person to force other people to do things" very offensive.

Black out your own web site. Mourning is a personal thing. If PG decides he wants to black bar HN, he will do it. If not, he won't. What's it to you?
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I would also be happy if people in the US would adopt 24hr time in everyday life. It's a lot less ambiguous than 12hr. And less stupid. For example, in the US, 12:30am happens before 11:30am on the same day.
Can pg or someone with the access please put the black bar on?
I would like to save his entire site on my Hard disk. I did not know he had written some gems on his site.
Let us know if you want contributions to help offset it. Count me in.
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Thanks for posting them. I admire Aaron's work very much but will admit to not knowing of everything that he has written. I guess I don't have the photographic memory like the parent commenter
I only met Aaron once, in 2000, when he looked like this: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000291

I was always amazed that the wunderkind with the pizza stain on his shirt that visited us at Arsdigita University accomplished so much. He was reserved, but focused, forthright at such an early age. I couldn't help but feel he was a little disappointed in the rest of us, but he never showed it.

RIP, Aaron. We'll miss you.
As someone posted above, here's a post by his mom: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047398

OPs assumptions seem warranted.
I don't know what to say, but if you want to talk to someone sort of like you, my contact info is in my profile.
Just to clarify, does this mean you don't think it's a worthwhile service? It kind of sounds like you're implying that people who phone aren't really serious, but does it follow then that people should call, or that they shouldn't exist, or what?

I'm very grateful that you volunteered with them, but I'm really curious what conclusion we're supposed to draw from your experience. At worst it sounds slightly dismissive of the line and the people who call.
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No, if you want to be logical, it's clear that suicide is rarely the right choice, and that it's the suicidal person whose critical thinking abilities are impaired.

It's simple: Most people who feel suicidal are feeling suicidal because of/in conditions which are shared by hundreds, thousands, millions of other people. All you have to do, as a rational actor, to decide if suicide makes sense, is to look at what those other people are making of the same situation. In the case of being prosecuted for white collar crimes, most people go on to take their lumps (deserved or not), then go back to their families and a perfectly reasonable existence. There is life afterwards, plenty of it. In some cases, like fraud and hacking etc., quite a few folks turn their experience on the wrong side of the law into valuable consulting gigs. Humans have been evolutionarily selected for resilience.

And, on the flip side, if we're talking interminable physical pain or a fatal disease which is incurable & will only lead to worse and worse deterioration and an unbearably slow death, you can use the same approach to see that suicide may make sense in that situation, to avoid an inescapable fate that all those other people in the same situation are definitely and verifiably experiencing.

The thing about suicidal depression is it cuts off your ability to think like this. You cannot even IMAGINE a world where things get better, where there's an "After." You feel utterly alone… often because you cut yourself off from people who love you & would help you. You think your pains are so special and unique, nobody could understand, and you may even get angry when people try to help you because they can't possibly "get it". You think they're against you. You imagine how much your death will hurt the parties trying to persecute you (real or imagined). Maybe you even think "I'll show them!" or that you will make a good martyr. All of which is nonsense, even though it's very persuasive nonsense… when you're in a suicidal depression.

That's why suicidal depression is clearly, logically, and provably the impairment.

This is why, if you're even remotely contemplating suicide, you should ALWAYS, ALWAYS reach out and seek help. Because if you make a permanent decision, you will have been working off false information. As one of my favorite authors says, "DEPRESSION LIES."

In most cases, suicide is literally stupid. And such a damn shame.
Upvoted before I got to the "glorious ending" line. Wish I could take it back.
A beautifully written article.

I only knew Aaron Swartz from the things written about him on the Internet. But it really feels like he had a lot more to contribute to this world, not just technologically, but socially and philisophically as well. His death to me feels much like when Kurt Cobain died, back in 1994. Both were artists who had much more to contribute, but their lives were cut much too short by mental illness/depression. It's sad.

Kurt Cobain died just a few years before the Internet really took off. I always imagine that he would have embraced this, and would have done things like released his music for free, and would have radically changed the way music was distributed. In a few years, there will be even more technology invented, and it could very well be that had Aaron Swartz stayed alive, he could have found other ways to contribute new things as well.
Sad. Terrible news.

I was just reading 5ish year old comments on reddit about him and suicide http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof... which lead my to this blog post of his describing a suicide http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying

I lost a friend to suicide. It is and was the worst thing ever. I still miss him dearly about 1.5 years on. Breaks my heart. My love and condolences to his friends and family.
Did you see The Dark Knight Rises? You should definitely admire Swartz, not Nolan.
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> changing to UTC everywhere is moving complexity, I stand by the "keep the complexity where we have it already" :)

Like I said, it eliminates the class of complexity that matters. Scheduling appointments and synchronizing people across time zones, something more common today, and will become more common forever into the future, and will become absurd once we have regular space travel, is a much larger cost set than when people move across what are currently time zones permanently, and need to adapt to getting up or doing things at different numerical times habitually.

> well, no. ..... so maybe europe's being pulled from east asia being pulled from americas being pulled from europe ad infinitum.

They won't tell you the hours in your time, and if they do, they are doing time zone conversion math already. Right off the bat, you have undue overhead in communicating time. The question is that people would be used to having the "day" be between a certain set of hours in one place, and then by migrating across what was a zone boundary what they would expect is now an hour off from their internal clock, because most people still behave in some synchrony with the sun.

1. You won't avoid someones internal clock being off by moving into an area of different daylight hours. To note, time zones only make the number match by longitude as well, latitudinally crossing the equator or going extreme distances north or south produces the same effect (different areas have different patterns of awakeness based on the availably of the sun) so that will already offset regular operating hours of various things, just moving north or south. Using UTC universally makes that concept ubiquitous as well, rather than having the disparity that moving east or west "changes' the time, but going north or south doesn't, but going anywhere societies change the operating schedules.

Like I said, I think it is much easier on anyone considering business to have a unified time standard, and accept that the hours of public services and resources will be different wherever they go, instead of converting time across zones for purposes of communication or meetings.
Ruby is a great start because it provides syntax, can be run locally on command line and also has many widely available examples you can read and bootstrap quickly.
I'll grant you that I'm in a somewhat unusual circumstance. Today, sunrise was at 8.49, with azimuth 133 degrees, and sunset was at 15.49 at 227 degrees. It's easier to remember that it rises in the SE and sets in the SW this time of year than to estimate where under the horizon it would be at 6AM or 6PM.

In summer, at 22.00, it's also easier to think that there's another 30 minutes to sunset, which will be in the NNW than it is to figure out where it was 4 hours previous. The knowledge of where the sun will rise at 03.30 is helpful when setting up a tent, since it's easier to sleep when in the shade.

Though since I've found I'm rather bad at estimating angular width, I pull out a compass instead of eyeballing it.
https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=106

"I was told confidentially by an IT Security specialist from a major bank that the public would be shocked if they knew the amounts that are stolen daily from online financial institutions via ACH and wire fraud. Typically, breaches and total numbers are not revealed because they don’t want to advertise a weakness and they certainly don’t want to alarm customers. Some of the more vicious attacks are State sponsored. I believe him. That’s what bitcoin is up against as it progresses into the mainstream. The leading security experts are in that world, already protecting against the barbarians at the gate. They are not in the bitcoin world."
I'd be curious to know what they teach the people manning the phones. Sometimes I ponder volunteering, but honestly, atm anybody talking to me would probably be more suicidal afterwards than before.

Are there even universal things to say? Perhaps somebody religious needs to hear "god loves you no matter what", whereas I for example found solace in thinking about atheism and evolution theory. Probably the first talks are not even about such things, rather about convincing the person that most problems are solvable and that they can get help?
They'll sleep fine, mission accomplished, and move on to their next target.
Less Wrong: http://lesswrong.com/user/aaronsw/overview/
For signed applets which get full privileges anyway, yes, Java will prompt you to accept the certificate. However, Java does not prompt before running unsigned applets (which run with limited privileges), and the actual security issue allows unsigned applets to gain more privileges than they should have. So, unfortunately, the prompt doesn't help.
The page is broken in by browser, none of the shortcuts work and I can't scroll with the mousewheel either. In short, it is impossible for me to read beyond the first page.

Firefox 18, Win 8 x64
It is more regrettable.
I don't see suicide as a shame thing. Just very very sad.
reddit account: http://www.reddit.com/user/AaronSw
I do expect the browser to police the internet though tab isolation, incognito modes, and plugin policies. These plugin vendors are a persistent source of exploitable security bugs.

An analogy, if my butler allows you into my home and he notices you opening the door to criminals, then he's going to demand that you leave. If he doesn't, I'm going to fire him. (Disclosure: I don't have a butler.)
Oh wait, 10 seconds of research on TPB says:

Gangnam Style [one song] - 8k Seeds*

I'd like to point out that the legality of sharing is not determined by the fact that it's available as a torrent or that the torrent has been posted on a specific site.

I couldn't find the details about the licensing of Gangnam Style, but your argument seems to be that it's not "free" (an almost uselessly vague term in this context) because it's on TPB.
He founded Infogami. The company was very ambitious but sadly went nowhere. He also authored web.py, a python web framework. Meanwhile Reddit switched from using Lisp to web.py. PG wanted to help Aaron out, so he suggested having him join Reddit. Reddit sold for a few million dollars shortly after. Aaron cashed in along with the founders for an undisclosed, but substantial, amount of money.
"I'm not dead yet!"

Damn, that feels weird to read right now.
Also http://lesswrong.com/user/aaronsw/overview/
It's painful to go through life so angry. Serious question: would you prefer to die now, or to feel a little less angry and disappointed every day? I also found therapists to be useless, and probably like you I was too smart for my own good. But there was something that totally changed my life. If you'd like to feel something other than rage or emptiness, please get the audiobook (this is important - the audiobook) of When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron. It's not touchy-feely, feel good bromides… in fact, it's the opposite. It's about radical understanding of how crappy the world really is, and learning to work with that. Pema delivers everything in a way that someone in misery will identify with, but without PITY or condescension. Please try it.
I bet there are people like you out there somewhere. If only there were some kind of communication network that could help you find each other, without having to reveal your true identity to all the ignorant and judgemental people.
Aaron was someone who I only knew tangentially until yesterday, and now can only wish that wasn't the case.

I happened to be with some people who knew him much better than I did, and I could only imagine how they're handling this.

Aaron was by all definitions a brilliant guy. His death is visibly shaking the hacker community 2nd only to Jobs (measured by front page stories but also personal experience).

RIP
"Larry Page ignored Steve Jobs’s deathbed advice, and Google is doing great"

First, they were competitors so take your competitor's advice with a grain of salt, Jobs or no Jobs.

Second, there is a lot more to it than just saying "focus on a few things."

Third, Google has a lot of goodwill from way back, any potential downfall will take years. That means that people could tolerate G+, the many ads etc for a while even if unhappy.

Fourth, Maps, Gmail, Now etc can all be folded under one: "Mobile Apps" so Google can say we're focusing.
I don't expect the browser to police the internet - it's not its job.

Protecting users from getting compromised is part of the browser's job. Security on the internet is important.