skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm.. It's a fantastic idea and really great website, but the actual algorithm is very unprecise.

See this:
http://i.imgur.com/ulith.png?1

You need to get a higher percentage of actual matches before you can use this for anything.
Treating life as a hackable problem seems to be a recipe for despair. It may be interesting, but there lies madness.
Hope it goes well for you! Even if, like me, you don't end up with an offer I think they're fantastic experience.
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this is a computer operator cheatsheat. there are no systems administration tasks being implemented here, just basic unix.
file_get_contents is an interesting one , it creates variables out of thin air ( though i think the scope stays "local") when called from a function.
Damn the mess that's our current society
Damn it... aaron kid... so the US government thinks it can file a case against you and make an example out of you by sentencing you to 35 years in prison.. so what?? you either were committed enough to think that your point of academic papers should be free was good enough to do an aang san su kyi to hte US govt. or even otherwise..( i find the idea of spending 35 years in prison sick for any particular cause, ), you could just go exile.. damn it, i don't know how one can pull that off in our current world and i damn well don't know thow the federal government works, but i would have fonud every way i can helpp... hell, i can get a job later(though probably am better off keeping it and helping out financially...)... i'll have quit and come down trying to get you out of the country, if i had any idea, you were this depressed....
Damn it, i would have launched a campaign to finance the same if your accounts were frozen.. ..hell , i would have gotten in touch with all(admittedly few) my friends and ask them to do what they can and if it weren't enough, will be happy to have gone to the dark web(torred net) to do the same.... Hell, i didn't before today you were this brilliant...i.e founder of reddit and migrating the code base from lisp to python... I had come across your blog in my past research interests and was reading it rather regularly for some time.....then i unsubscribed.. .i am sorry i did.. after that i came across you being arrested for downloading papers and thought damn... i hope he's okay.. but forgot about it.. ..,... Damn it.. i should have written out in support ....tried to start a movement(am no good at it, but still).....i remember agreeing with the principle of that act, but not daring to act against it.. .... Damn it wake up aang.. it's time to act for what you believe in and hang the consequences...
Looks like a useful tool. Thanks!
Pretty sure Australia has done just that. State owned central ISP (NBN: National Broadband Network).
I'm glad this is on the front page. Often when I learn of the suicide of someone I knew or respected I briefly experience idle "sympathetic" suicidal thoughts. This always leaves me shaken because we've all been taught to seek help immediately if we ever experience suicidal thoughts, but I know I'm not depressed, even if life is indeed very difficult sometimes. I imagine someone truly depressed and suicidal might experience a very strong impulse to act on their thoughts upon hearing news like this.
It is for a client who is not comfortable publicly sharing the name of the domain. Is there anything I can do besides waiting it out?
Is Aaron's death any less regrettable because it was a suicide rather than a car accident? I don't think so. The black bar signifies sadness for the loss of someone, it's not a political statement. I, for one, would like HN to be black barred for Aaron simply because the world is a worse place without him in it.
The intention is to help others contemplating the same thing. Who knows, this may help one person out there turn their life around.
I think you're right that it needs to be more general support, someone I loved had just the last 7% of her life 'covered' by suicide hotlines and 26 years of suffering before them. The final days, weeks, months, it was all just a delaying measure at that point because she'd already come to terms with what she wanted to do.

I don't really think the solution is more hotlines, even generalized ones because you have to want to get help every single time. I think the solution is to shine so much light on mental illness it loses all of the mystery and stigma and becomes as widely discussed and debated as the following 'mentally healthy' ways to kill yourself or someone else:

- Euthanasia, or "mercy" killing because we are glad someone's suffering has ended

- Abortion, literally deciding to end another person's life who is incapable of asking you not to

And of course, the preferred method of suicide that most people will use:

- a slow poison of shitty diets and deadly vices

We never even discussed mental illness or even suicide in high school like we did ethical dilemmas.
How many people are killed or injured due to accidents caused by having to wake up an hour earlier? What does this cost our economy?
That's so strange. Such a smart person, who been able to figure out the fixed-set-mentality (which has another name - Learned Helplessness) should be aware that all those symptoms are going together in feed-back loops, and that individually crafted cognitive behavior therapy - slow-but-steady, iterative, but radical changes in ones behavior, ones habits is the only way out. He also figured out those fallbacks-to-default-mood, which is, again, a mere habituation. Sadly, being smart is not enough. Self-control and "emotional intelligence" are required.

As any bookish kid will eventually realize - no excess of theory could compensate for the lack of practice. This is a very unpleasant realization after half of life was spent reading.
Insensitive? Sure.

But the OP is just so over the top. No point in suggesting he get real help because he's already exposed those frauds! He's got it all figured out.

'probably doing fine already' is about the last thing we should be responding with here. What happens at 25 that makes mental illness irreversible? Younger than 25, you just get over it?
See https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
> Parental income is highly correlated with child IQ.

I would need proof of that statement. I can see receiving a bad education, but they are not inherently stupid.
It is part of media regulations in many countries/organisations that reporting of suicide must be done in certain ways to reduce the negative effect that may have on potentially vulnerable people. A full list of countries that enforce this on a national level is available from the International Association for Suicide Prevention http://www.iasp.info/media_guidelines.php

One of these requirements is any story involving to suicide or mental health must be accompanied by information about 24-hour crisis support services http://www.mindframe-media.info/for-media/adding-helplines-t...
Yes this has shot us. Your approach is much better. Half of our outsourcers use Firefox with a screenshot tool which is a java applet. This just stopped working. So Monday is going to be a days work for our operations guys to sort out the mess.

I don't expect the browser to police the internet - it's not its job.

I'm actually gaining respect for IE these days - it doesn't pull shit like this and we have more control over it in a corporate environment.
The point is that there isn't a perfect correlation between "unable to pay" and "covered by aid", despite the best intentions, so some of those people not getting aid are not wealthy at all (and they may be downright poor).

People fall through the cracks, and that's a problem.
wow. so sad.
"Suicide is never, never the answer, it can just seem like it sometimes when you are very, very low."

How about when someone is facing a terminal disease in constant pain with no prospect for improvement? My opinion is that someone in that condition should have that choice.
Given the context of this discussion that's insensitive and very presumptive.
It's you that needs to step away from the computer.
ActiveX still works fine on IE10...
> continues to be wildly and purposefully unfocused

Unfocused? Last two years Google killed tens of products. They even killed Google Wave. Moreover, they unified UI across many products.

In my opinion Larry is doing exactly what Steve advised.
There are people out their who through their own greed destroyed the economy. They will not be prosecuted. Hell, no one will even give them a talking to.

Threaten someone's profit model, and you go to prison though.
In Germany we call it Werther Effekt (following Goethe's novel Die Leiden des Jungen Werther). Public attention to a suicide often triggers additional suicides.
DVD players can be had for less than $25 so throwing away the DVDs out of spite seems a bit silly. Many of the remote controls that come with TVs etc can also be configured to also control your DVD player, cable box etc. The actual IR codes are standardised but you do need to know the manufacturer.

I use a Harmony remote which also retains state (eg it knows what is already on and on which inputs) and so sends the necessary codes to all devices such as if you want to stop playing a DVD and switch to a game console.
I created a facebook cover, tribute to Aaron : http://i.imgur.com/Cl7ME.jpg

His articles inspired me and helped me get out of my depressed times, Can't believe he helped thousands "get better at life" then he lost his own .. so sad
Isn't there a risk for this service to be used as an image proxy? The analyzed images are rehosted on their S3...
I don't know whether I'll be thinking of his legacy or not in 6 months time. For me his legacy is not technical, it's personal. His series "Raw Nerve" gave me courage and hope. For this, I do care and feel sadness.
Carmen Ortiz, who charged Aaron Swartz with wire fraud, Bostonian of the Year
I would imagine that in reality the percentage of callers that actually intend to commit suicide is probably pretty low, regardless of 'studies'. How are you going to really study something like that objectively? I can't imagine that anyone would ever hear about someone who used one successfully. Only the actual suicides are going to make the news like this, which is sad. However, I would think it would be worth it even if a hotline is only able to dissuade even 1/10000 callers intent on committing suicide.
How about the most recent US-Iraq war? The one justified by "OMG WMDs and Al-Qaeda", and a vial of scary stuff waved around at the UN by our Secretary of State?

Merely saying a few things and seeing what might stick in order to justify your actions doesn't automatically qualify them as justified or reasoned.
The news and eulogies are all over the net, so I don't see how denying him a black bar would prevent possible copycat suicides.

The stigmatization against suicides as something dishonorable has to end. He was a great hacker and distinguished activist, and through I don't know him personally, I'm pretty sure he was a great guy overall. He deserves a black bar.

He died from depression. Others die from other diseases, car accidents, smoking, drugs, heart attacks, strokes and what not.
Aaron Swartz's presence in various networks:

In HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw

Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:aaronsw

His last tweet was on Jan 9th, https://twitter.com/aaronsw

In reddit: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/reddit

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGTlB14AAAAJ

Writings: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/writings

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Things he has made

https://www.jottit.com/

http://openlibrary.org/

http://watchdog.net/

http://reddit.com/

http://webpy.org/

HN will miss your contributions. Rest in Peace. Love.
How Google (and we) encourage suicide:

The first link to "suicide" search results (https://www.google.com/search?q=suicide) to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide which unfortunately has "Reasons" & "Methods" before "Prevention" and has no mention of why you shouldn't commit suicide.

At the bottom of the first page of the results, the first related search is "suicide methods" http://imgur.com/7lJ02

Further search for "suicide methods" results in the following first three links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods

http://wantdeath.blogspot.in/2011/07/fastest-and-painless-su...

and

http://frater.com/suicidelist.html

There is no mention of why suicide is bad and it just gives the depressed person a way to end his/her life.

I don't blame only Google, but I think the entire web & the web community (with SEO, SEM, etc) contributes a lot for this disaster.
by responding to a 'my god i am so special, no one is like me' post with a simple webcomic that succinctly points out that this is laughably wrong I am myself exhibiting the same behavior?

interesting piece of logic.
It's saving not savings.
This is a pretty intelligent bunch so I hope there is rationale in discussing it honestly, but do you really think so? What had Aaron done lately?

I only raise the question because you say the opposite, and in such situations the absolutely worst thing the community can do is canonize someone, exaggerating their accomplishments and raising their words above actual merit (the front-page is full of his old entries now. Why?)

I suspect that Aaron's curse -- the thing that made a very privileged Western existence "too painful" as others have said -- is that he peaked so early. He did the right things at the right times with the right people, and while he was clearly a very bright individual, I think that ended up becoming baggage that dragged him down, every future effort unlikely to ever shine as bright.
In that vain of thought, one could argue that many actions should not be done because of possible, unintended, consequences. Perhaps some software should not be written? Perhaps even code you wrote will have unintended consequences? Where does this line of thought stop?
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I believe you can only do that if you have a certain karma level. I for one, don't :(
until you get to the end game and you realise you have a lemon on your hands which is going to require a rewrite because it's so slow when you throw 10,000 users at it...

"Be mindful" is probably better advice. Tradeoffs are easier to make earlier on and everything is a compromise after all.
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I believe that most tasks can be characterized by three attributes: importance, size and urgency. Unfortunately, most people want immediate gratification, so they will tend to focus on small, urgent tasks so that they can get that immediate reward, even if they have other tasks to that are important, large but not yet urgent. By the time the important, large tasks become urgent, there frequently isn't enough time to do them properly, and they get rushed, with predictably unsatisfactory results. It's really hard to work on a task with a deadline a month away, when there's something that can be completed easily, that's due today.

I believe that the best way to solve this problem is to take those big, important problems and divide them into much smaller chunks, and then give them intermediate deadlines that will ensure that enough progress is made that when the final deadline approaches, you won't be facing a huge task that hasn't even been started.

Of course, this idea doesn't give you a free pass from exercising some self-discipline; you have to honor those intermediate deadlines and actually make some progress on those important, big problems.
A link I read today that I followed from Aaron's own writings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_inconsistency

Just because it was his own personal decision while depressed doesn't mean it was the right thing to happen. I don't believe in removing people's personal agency but don't dismiss something (the irreversible decisions made under vast psychological duress) that you don't understand as a given.
Aaron Swartz's presence in various networks:

In HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw

Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:aaronsw

His last tweet was on Jan 9th, https://twitter.com/aaronsw

In reddit: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/reddit

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGTlB14AAAAJ

Writings: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/writings

Things he made:

https://www.jottit.com/

http://openlibrary.org/

http://watchdog.net/

http://reddit.com/

http://webpy.org/

HN will miss your contributions.

Rest in Peace. #Love.
Regarding ctime, some Unix versions(or I should say filesystems) really store the creation time(birthtime) of the inode. FreeBSD's find has the -Bmin switch for searching for true creation time.
You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. You thought we could lead by example. You thought the rules could be bent but not break… you were wrong. The world is cruel. And the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair.
funny .. the FBI terminates its cases with fire ; the US Attorney with suicide .. there is a long history of this ... Waco, Ruby Ridge, Abbie Hoffman SDS. the Prozac sanction : So they take a deposition after 3 hours offer you a drink of water after 6 more hours they reschedule more .. the drug in the drink goes to work. It's only a matter of time from there ...
Darn Hipsters.
> The stigmatization against suicides as something dishonorable has to end.

I agree completely. Someone who has hope does not commit suicide, black bar or not. Perhaps we, as a society, should work towards a world that will not leave anyone without hope.
Have you considered staying here just to see what happens next in the world? To me, it's kind of like a movie that I can't (don't want to) stop watching, even if I'm falling asleep and want to go to bed. I'm not sure it will end before I die, but it is possible and I wanna see it (I would love seeing a zombie apocalypse. But I would settle for another biological or nuclear one too). And if it does not end, at least I wanna see how far we get. Maybe I will live to see the colonization of Mars or something.
The interesting thing about that first bit, is that on recent versions of OSX, when using Chrome, you have to use Java 6. Java 7 is 64 bit only, and Chrome on OSX is only 32 bit. So you can't use a Java7 plugin in Chrome.

From what I can gather, progress on a 64 bit OSX build of Chrome has stalled.
Although I have no actual experience with a 'Google Offer' I'd say that it'd be important to land on the project that you want to work on, that you're committed to and believe in.

Looking back at say Wave, I bet some developers thought that it'd be a winner, and even though it was awesome, the consumers didn't like it, even being loved by people such as ourselves. So I'd say, don't go for something because you think you'll be recognized for working on a project, do it because you want to do it.
Aaron's domain registration runs out in Sept. We should archive it in his memory
Have you been to Yunnan? I lived there for a year. The two cities I've seen the most of were about at east-Europe levels of development, surprisingly (to me). The rural areas fare worse, obviously, but I wouldn't expect to meet that much Haiti-level poverty. Wikipedia pegs the "absolutely poor rural population" at 3 million - out of 46 for the whole province. For Haiti, there is 54% of abject poverty.
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Goodbye, my love
Indeed, I was also surprised by the 'Say yes to everything.' statement.

I'm currently doing nearly the exact opposite, to reduce my stress levels and avoid a burn out. Saying yes to everything might work when you are young, full of energy, and without kids, but in my case, with two young kids, saying no to a lot of distractions makes much more sense.
Ideas are cheap. Execution and delivery are hard and at the end of the day they are what matters.

For example, how could Bill Gates recognise back in the 90s that mobile was the future of computing, but a decade later Steve Jobs walked away with all the market share and money from it? Because Steve figured out how to execute and deliver, and Bill for all his genius and achievements in other areas (I am not doing him down in general, just in this case) didn't. Great artists ship.

That's why the intellectual property patent system is such an economically damaging disaster.
Not quite, I'm talking about replacing the various important java interfaces in clojure.lang (IFn, ISeq, IPersistentMap etc) with protocols, so you can implement them yourself without using any Java-specific language features.

Dunno how feasible this is, but if a language is going to define its own abstraction features (here, protocols) on top of the underlying platform, it would seem cleaner to eat ones own dogfood in using these abstraction facilities for the core abstractions which the language and its core library are based on.
While I agree, most teens who are rebellious do things like stay out way too late or get involved with that bad person that their parents warned them about, rather than not taking "no" for an answer and going on to create great things. It's still pretty commendable.
To be clear -- I'm totally fine with people who knew Aaron well commenting on these matters. I did in fact assume that was not the case and apologize if I was wrong there.

I guess my rub is two-fold:

- The visible portion of public figures lives is only a fraction of the complete picture, and extrapolating from that visible portion rubs me the wrong way.

- These things are complex. As another commenter noted, suicide rarely has a single reason. (And I think we put labels on these things mostly for ourselves; it's easier to cope when there's an label to pin onto a tragedy.)
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In his young life Aaron demonstrated that he wanted the world to have knowledge, ethics and community. I think the best way we can honor his legacy is to carry those things forward as best we can.

RIP Aaron
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What is the replacement for "Drag the link to your bookmark bar" for those that do not have a bookmark bar?
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This is terrible news, but, not knowing much about the case, how was it morally right to download a bunch of pay-for documents?
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This might theoretically be copyright infringement. Since Aaron didn't specify any license (like CC) for his blog, reproducing his content without his estate's permission is technically illegal.
Whether or not the premise is true, can't we stop abusing the death of Steve Jobs to generate page views?
This kid had it all, fame, fortune, brains.

So what we wrong? Why was he so unhappy?
This is the sum total of human academic knowledge. It must be freed. The first tragic thing was that he failed to torrent it immediately. Now this. A great loss.
I'm not sure if this is free or not. Someone in the comments below mentioned this was a bait and switch scam where they make it look free, then push some payments on you.

Any confirmation on the 'free' status of this course?
It can be super tough to deal with a combination of symptoms that can seem unrelated, or miniscule on their own. I suffered similarly for most of my life - turned out I had a celiac disease and just had to eat Gluten Free. Lack of nutritional absorption, effects of dehydration from diarrhea. And yet to
Normal treatment for depression in the UK should be short courses of CBT; or short courses of CBT combined with an SSRI / SNRI.

Or, for something more persistent it might involve community psychotherapy and medication.

"lengthy" stays in hospital should be unusual for depressive illness, unless it's major depression, where the illness has been severely affecting the person's day to day life for some time.