skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are more than one version of this story. Aaron's version is there: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/reddit, here is Alexis' version: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexisOhanian/posts/HJz9Vd58Wtb and here is what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History.
I believe he was a part of Infogami (also funded by YC) and only later on joined reddit.
> If Apple does cement the iPhone as a status symbol alongside the LV bag it is going to soak up a tremendous amount of profit.

This idea fascinates me because tech brands have always been commodities or at best trendy. If Apple can achieve long-term status along the lines of upscale fashion labels that will be absolutely amazing and yet not undeserved.
I own a large tech blog that runs ads for revenue.

I have a few apps on the App Store that do well.

I run a few SaaS products.

These revenue streams generate enough income to give me, my business partner, and our employees a comfortable life. We have an amazing office in Ann Arbor. The business has no debt. We don't need funding. I designed and developed all of our products myself.

At the time, maximizing my current revenue streams is far more important to me than generating new ones. It's not easy managing multiple products and websites.
I would actually recommend visiting Shenzhen as well. I have been there a few times over the last five years and it's really interesting to see the rise of luxury items (fancy cars, expensive (real!) handbags and the token iPhone and iPad) in the city centre.

Shenzhen is even in China (though, in a special economic zone).
Apart from the legal reasons that may have forced them to do so, they also got other people contributing to the codebase and fixing bugs. Other companies can also use the component, which is a great thing for a rendering engine - it will get more popular and websites will have to test and optimize for it.

Regarding iTunes, Apple wouldn't want anyone to release a competing program. You could probably outsource some common libraries/components, not sure if this is done. But anything specific will not be used or improved upon by others anyway, so there would be no benefit in opensourcing it.
PG himself clarifies the situation here: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...

(Not a 100% sure if that's the real Paul Graham though..)
The big problem for Amiga programmers was that the Amiga was sold in NTSC and PAL versions, which ran at different framerates (50 and 60hz) with different resolutions. While PAL Amigas could play NTSC games (and most TVs could render the screen properly) I don't remember it working the other way around (although I could be wrong - any American miggy owners care to correct?).

Anyway, consequently things like funky horizontal copper manipulation relied on the Amiga either running in NTSC or PAL mode, but not both. This is why a lot of people would use the copper for gradients on the earlier Amiga 500 games, that and the fact that a lot of earlier Amiga 500 games were ports of ST code.
He co-authored the RSS 1.0 spec at the age of 14. The mind boggles at what the tech world has lost out on.
Self-printing Game of Life in C# [2008]
That's not really possible to answer definitely. Most of the speculation is centered on his pending criminal charges.
You don't have to wait PG to wake up, I already set my "topcolor" to black.
After following Aaron's career for a decade, I just interacted with him directly for the first time four days ago, in what seems to have been his last day on Twitter. :`(
Yes, it's broken in most browsers. For example my system language is set to en-gb which is British English, but my browser reports en-us which is American English. Most websites don't distinguish between these two languages though.

The main reason that Accept-Language is problematic is that it forces the user into using the system language, so a Sweedish person in London at an Internet cafe ends up with websites in English, so there must always be an easy way to change the website language within the browser.

But a browser-wide setting would just annoy bilingual people who want content is different languages depending on context.
It's too easy to have a sticky key and type sudo !1 by accident. As a rule, not a good idea to do sudo from history without examining it first. So do up arrow or CTRL-P and the edit the command.
Gus: Generate static sites from textile, markdown, and mustache
I'm terribly sorry for what you have to go through, Aaron was a source of much inspiration to me, thank you for bringing such a wonderful person into the world.

He did more in his short life than most of us will do in much longer ones, but he'll inspire for many years to come.

I wish you and yours much strength.
Wait - how is "equal connections to services from various telecom companies allowing customers to choose which service they want" the same as "net neutrality"? Can you elaborate how specifically China is "head of the U.S." in that regard?
Languages are not countries. This website described in this article has the flag of the USA followed by "English", which as a British person I find both alienating and historically bizarre.

Likewise, you shouldn't be serving up content to Latin-Americans with the Spanish flag on it! How about the German flag for German-speaking Austrians? Or the Chinese flag for Mandarin speakers in Taiwan?
Actually that's not the most amazing part. They didn't want to let him onto the RDF working group, so Aaron hacked the W3C process at the age of 14.

> The rules said that while they could reject any requests to join from an individual, if an organization that was an official member of the W3C asked to put someone on the working group, they couldn't say no. So I looked down the list of W3C member organizations, found the one that seemed friendliest, and asked them to put me on the Working Group. They did.

- https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget
True, anyone who pays taxes has a hand in this. The issue is that deciding not to pay your taxes means that the dogs are set on you. This is not a free society, unfortunately. Perhaps bitcoin will change all of this. I've been contemplating the idea of a shadow economy where people work remotely and anonymously, getting paid in an anonymous currency and completely circumventing the current economic and political systems. Anyone hiring developers for bitcoins?
RIP Aaron. You were awesome.
I, for one, don't care. It was his personal decision to end it this way.

Also I'd like to know how many of you will think of his 'legacy' on a daily basis in 6 months time.
Aaron Swartz at the Creative Commons Launch Party 2002
Why are people posting all of his stuff after he's died? Because I'm pretty sure it's not because the 3 part trilogy of his life just ended and now it is the best time to marathon. Karma whoring at its finest.
The parent is narrow, but you beat him up with a position which is also contestable.

For some people, obedience to the law and its flaws, is itself a virtue because of the net win we all have by having a strong rule of law. Others are outraged at abusive exercises of power and find virtue in any struggle against it, even obligation. Others are indifferent to the system and focus on practical experiences. I think when you understand the way that different positions are built up, it's easier not to be heated about this.
Why isn't this anywhere on reddit.com?
OH NO!

Stunned & heartbroken.
If I travel from one country to another, how will I figure if am supposed to be at work or at home? Have breakfast or is it lunch? ( without stepping out that is )
Agreed. It's absurd that a simple civil matter is turned into a criminal one with a possible penalty of 35 years in jail.

And this not even considering the recent tragic event. :(
India has the fortune of being a country that is not too big east to west and having a single time zone is very comfortable for everyone. Didn't realize that a country as big as China has just one time zone.
A sincere thanks to gkanai for the link. I look forward to going back and reading his works again. This pic is to also to remind us that even in mourning his life is one to be celebrated though his time with us was so short. He lived his life with integrity and true to the same ideals he held as a child.
Also, his second to last blog post was an analysis of Looper, which also ends in a sacrificial suicide.
Today I learned: "publically" is apparently a valid spelling of "publicly".

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/publically
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw
Aaron will be remembered for ever.
The interesting thing is how much the retail strategy has played into it.

If you walk down the high street in Ginza, Tokyo you see the Apple Store (which is always packed to capacity) just down from Chanel and Cartier. Which with its strong architectural design really makes it feel like it belongs alongside those other brands.

What's telling as well is that the Sony HQ in Ginza feels so dated.
Ask HN: Gmail Account Consitently Hacked
My Gmail account keeps getting hacked and spammed by the same email address even after changing my password. A few other accounts have also bee hijacked including PayPal. Any suggestions welcomed.
Raw Nerve is the best series I have ever read on getting better at life. In the last email communication I had with him (when he wrote only 4 parts of the series), I suggested that he turn it into a book. This was his reply,

http://jumpshare.com/v/Z7HjqR

Mirror: http://i.imgur.com/qPzol.png
Aaron Swartz: How We Stopped SOPA
That's a very narrow minded way to look at it. It's difficult to comprehend what he was going through to take such a drastic step. I understand that he was facing a unreasonably long prison sentence for downloading academic papers. As someone points out in another thread, that basically meant he didn't have the freedom to really move forward with his life, even before being sentenced he had lost his freedom. Thats a horrible life to lead. Perhaps he finally lost hope...

His legacy will live on as long as people use Reddit or RSS (or perhaps even anything derived from it), you don't necessarily need to "think" of him. I'm sure a lot of people will be using RSS and Reddit in 6 months.
You can get to now minus n? Can I use your time machine?
It was posted in /r/news but didn't make it to the front page. Weird indeed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/16ffph/reddit_cofounde...
Of course they have that discretion -- prosecutors decline cases or seek reduced sentences all the time. Given the overbearing nature of our legal system, it would be impractical to do otherwise. This was just pointlessly maximalist DOJ behavior. On the other hand, shame on us for allowing these laws to exist at all, and creating opportunities for selective enforcement and massively unreasonable sentences.

I'd also like to add here that while maybe the DOJ had no way to know that Aaron would kill himself, their general pattern of ruining people's lives over minor offenses will, it seems obvious to me, result in some number of suicides. Heat up a pot of water and some percentage of the molecules evaporate. So while we can't hold the DOJ responsible for Aaron's actions, we can certainly hold them accountable for the aggregate misery they've created for so many people. And we should.
Did you scan your computer before changing the passwords? I think you have a keylogger installed in your computer.
Every morning I wake up and check my email to see which one of my projects has imploded today, which deadlines I'm behind on, which talks I need to write, and which articles I need to edit.

Maybe, one day, you too can be in the same position. If so, I hope I've done something to help.

A great talk, a great writeup, with a sad end when you read it today after the sad news. With all my respect, this is not a sustainable way of living your life. Expectation of high stress every day makes anyone collapse.
> I can't imagine doing work (writing code) on laptops with their degenerate keyboards.

Of course you can't, but a simple USB adapter will allow you to fit a proper Model M to any laptop.

Then you just need a good bag like Michael Douglas' in Falling Down to carry it around.
I think a fuller description of your problems might be called for if anyone is going to come up with anything helpful.

Try to be clear and explicit and avoid generalised terms like "hacked" and "spammed" that might have different meanings to different people.

Describe what has happened and what you did in response.
I remember most of the teachings from those days, back in the early 2000's. Before hacking, before startups, before entrepreneurs, before changing the world felt like a cool, common thing.

Before all of that, I remember this guy doing it, doing it well. And that inspired me to believe I can do it.

An artist's only passion is to create, until the day you die. In between you fight all sorts of battles that they don't warn you about. But the most important being that when you create, you carry with you a savagery of sorts, of making something new, of living in the edge.

And it's hard to survive. Nowadays we take for granted the Google style lunches and buslines, but being at the edge of something has always been trying to eke out in an hostile environment.

But this guy was there, all day, all night.

And that's special. Because it's an isolating experience.

I get the same suicidal thoughts that drift in and out too. It's partly chemical and it's just your personality. When you stand outside of the system long enough, watch long enough, suffer the heartbreak of seeing the wrongs enough, you may end up there too.

This was the glorious ending I wished for him.

May he truly rest now in peace.
كيا بيكانتو
كيا بيكانتو تقدم العديد من المميزات الى عشاق سيارات كيا حيث جاءت كيا بيكانتو بسعر مميز مقارنة بسعرها ويقدم سيتى موتورز العديد من الخصومات الحصرية على السيارة كيا بيكانتو فسارع بإقتناءها الان
> it would be the first time that someone who committed suicide had a black bar on HN to mourn them.

You are wrong.
Hence the word "directly".
US government advises computer users to disable Java software
I am so sorry for your loss. Aaron was a true hero of mine, of the net, and of the world. We will all miss him greatly.
I like DST, but let's not kid ourselves that it's about energy savings. It's not, because energy savings are minimal to nonexistent. It's about culture. People in northern latitudes like their 9:00pm daylight in the summer, but no one wants 8:00am darkness in the winter, so we switch back to "standard" time (which is now the anomaly, covering only 4.5 months) in the colder months.

This also explains the lopsided calendar of DST. It corresponds with the warmth and outdoor activity, not daylight. That's why we start it near the spring equinox and continue it into early November (a month and a half from the solstice). That would make no sense if it were about daylight: it's not symmetrical. It's also about weather. Daylight wise, October and February are roughly equivalent. However, October is warm and has pretty leaves, and February is cold and snowy. When it's warm, we adjust the clock to have an additional hour of light in the evening. When it's cold, we adjust it back to have daylight in the morning (most of us will be leaving work in the darkness regardless of DST, so let's at least treat ourselves to a couple hours of light in the morning).

So long as my life is semi-constrained by others' marking of time, I'll be in favor of DST. I realize that it's a ridiculous hack that exists because the sensible time to wake up (for me, 30-60 minutes before sunrise) shifts around in terms of clock time, but it's a ridiculous hack that works.
The description, from Aaron's writings, sounds like untreated (and possibly undiagnosed) bipolar.

I may be seeing this through bipolar-coloured glasses - I don't have it myself, but I have loved ones with it and know very well what it looks like from outside. It's not normal ups and downs of mood, it can be really scary stuff.

The legal case probably didn't help, but it's quite possible there could have been no way to stop this short of someone present on depression watch.
Turn on two-step authentication.
> I, for one, don't care

Goddamnit, have some sensitivity, he only just died and many people on here know him personally.

If this is a troll then why don't you go reevaluate your priorities in life? Take some magic mushrooms and think about how your actions alter the world.
It would be nice if an online site existed where we could dump all a persons writings, images and video for anyone to view at a later date. Really get a feel for what the guy was all about.

Like a wiki-style crowd sourced memorial site.
Man. What a shame. We lost a seriously talented and creative guy.
> The Joker scares the city onto its two ferries. Once the ferries are in the middle of the water, he cuts their power and gives them both a button to blow up the other ferry, thereby constructing a prisoner’s dilemma (one boat is filled with real prisoners). The passengers discuss and vote. One of the prisoners makes a Ulysses pact and credibly commits by tossing the detonator overboard.

This isn't actually a prisoner's dilemma. In a PD, both players decide simultaneously, and your payoff depends on both choices. In this, your payoff simply depends on who defects first, with the caveat (which turns out to be false) that if nobody defects you both die.

(If you assume both boats decide simultaneously whether to defect or not, it still isn't a PD. The payoff matrix looks like 1,1 / 1,0 / 0,1 / 0,0 if nobody dies when they both cooperate: it's not a PD because defecting doesn't increase your score. If everyone dies when you both cooperate, the payoff matrix is 0,0 / 1,0 / 0,1 / 0,0: utility is not maximised by both players cooperating.)

Nor is tossing the detonator a credible commitment, in game theory terms, unless the other boat sees it.
A promise of a pardon would have done just as well, especially for federal prosecutors. The DOJ isn't going to make a big case out something their boss has promised to throw out. That said, the president being superinvolved in an ongoing case like that would be very strange.
Good point. I considered doing this, but then it ends up being a "surprise" to users when they quickly go to triple-click (select all) and the interaction is different than expected.

What I find really useful is you can immediately type some characters to filter, and then tab to the command you want. It's automatically selected in that case.

I'll likely stick a "copy" button on hover shortly — had some initial problems with z-indexes (it uses flash) but this solves the "one click to copy" issue without affecting the default and expected interaction.
مطاعم
يوجد العديد من المطاعم داخل المدن المختلفة والتى تقدم انواع مختلفة من الطعام وتتميز المطاعم دوماً بوجود العديد من الأصناف المختلفة على خلاف الطعام المنزلى الذى نادراً ما تدهب الى مطاعم
Its numbing how you don't realise how much somebody on the other side of the world has affected your life until you find out until something tragic enough happens to them that it makes the news...
This article is a little fanboyish. Google hasn't actually invented anything either. Google Now, Glasses, self driving cars, Google+ have all been done before many years ago.

What Google is doing is simply executing them in a far more polished and integrated way. Similar to what Apple does.

I personally believe that the real raw innovation in the industry is surprisingly coming from Microsoft.
JSTOR's claims of innocence are simply not credible.
Unbelievable! Do you have a picture or something of this? I used to work on similar interfaces for a competing company and this stuff fascinates me :)
Man charged after recording deputies has free lawyer
This is exactly how I use it. A time saver for mundane "whups" moments.
Philip Greenspun on Managing Software Engineers [2000]
Very cool. Which service are you using to send out the sms?
Using a time unit not related to the metric second would be a step back. If you use a new unit equal to half a metric second, that's too fast for normal human heart rate.
I read the full post and came back to post this exact sentence as a reply.
YES, this is all part of my master plan to be THE KING OF DEVOPS!!11one.
Would be clearer if the active one looks "pressed", sort of like real radio buttons do.
With recent enough SSH (> 5.4), SSH tunnels can be achieved with

Host <alias>
HostName <ip>
ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p <bastion host>

Which doesn't require nc (or anything else) installed on the bastion host.
pathetic

I used to be tormented by demons. I'm immune and self confident.

Let's see if God says something mature.

God says...

full of new wine.

2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and
said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem,
be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 2:15 For these are
not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the
day.

2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 2:17 And
it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of
my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall
dream dreams: 2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will
pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 2:19 And
I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath;
blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 2:20 The sun shall be turned
into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable
day of the Lord come: 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

----

I used to worry about the end of the world. I used to be afraid of being the most special person on Earth.

Now, I look forward to the end. I am special. I was hoping for the Mayan appocolypse, getting giddy. A comet!! Cool!

Then, 1000 years of Christ's reign.

I'm sick of the bullshit.
People don't just steal ideas, that is only part of it. They steal implementations instead of working out the best way to do something. They steal success without taking the risk.
That you have a different criteria for what cases to prosecute doesn't make them evil.

Oh, but it does -- it makes them morally questionable in -- at least -- jacquesm's eyes (note, he didn't use the term "evil").

How else would you decide that someone's actions are morally dubious, other than using your own moral criteria? By consulting a lawyer? Running a popular vote?
You could be just as easily be accused of karma whoring for posting this reply. As could I for responding to you like this. But the truth is, you felt strongly enough to post the reply, as did I in responding to you, as did the original posters. Any action in a karma-rewarded community can be brushed off as karma whoring, but that doesn't mean it should.
Are they talking about conducted heat, rather than radiated heat (which is light)?
You can. You just need to sign in to Google again, not G+. Or, you can log out completely.
It's not so clear as you claim. It's disputed, and there are arguments both ways, as "reddit" was part of another company, "not a bug", which was the result of the merger w/infogami.

Nonetheless I did not mean to appear "high and mighty", but that there are other threads regarding the reddit situation.
I am terribly sorry for your loss. Aaron was a huge inspiration for me too, just as he was for countless others. He has accomplished more in his short life than most can in much longer ones. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.
They may not 'think' about it as you refer, but will likely be using RSS in some form, or reading a link via reddit or some other interesting achievement.

Have some bloody respect.
I was hoping to hear from PG on this .... :( nothing yet
Very pathetic to hear the pain he has gone through. Rest in peace, kid!! We all love you for the work we did.