skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the only thing I've found, thus far: https://twitter.com/textfiles/statuses/137387291617394688
What, defend yourself ? What would happen to the prison workforce if poor people could avoid conviction simply because they were innocent ?
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Easier to read: http://pastebin.com/cefxMVAy
> A large majority of the tech world supported Obama.

I didn't. Fuck Obama. He had voted to give retroactive immunity to telecom companies for spying on American citizens when he was a senator. That showed his true character. Everything else was just marketing.

He even got awarded the "Marketer Of The Year" award from AdAge. Beating Nike, Coke, and Apple. Since then I feel largely my hunch has turned out to be true. We are still at war, we are still engaged in extra-judicial rendition, we spend our tax money trying to show 25 year old programmers in jail for 30+ year for downloading scientific papers, the list goes fuck.
No. No, no, no, no, no. I will miss Aaron more than I can say -- he was a great guy, an excellent developer, and one hell of an activist -- but a pardon does not do anything valuable. It doesn't bring him back, it doesn't make the world a better place, and most importantly, it doesn't stop this shit from happening in the future. We need to make sure that no one is ever in a position like this again, and make some serious changes. Being exonerated feels great when you're alive, but Aaron won't feel that now; let's follow in his footsteps and make this world a better place.
A google for that exact phrase shows this: http://gnusha.org/logs/2012-09-15.log

I don't know enough about the case to dig further.
It's clear that the severity of the charges were because the action was a political statement. That is why she wanted to "send a message"

Had the same action been done by a non-political individual who simply did he "because he could" there would have been a quiet, minor settlement.
In keeping with agwa's, and others', analysis that the system itself is broken, Aaron's thoughtful analysis of The Dark Knight is very interesting. Aaron concludes that, of the various desperate attempts to change Gotham's corrupt systems, the Joker ultimately has the most success by causing chaos. The eerie part is the last line:

"Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide."

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/tdk
You can't petition the White House to change laws...
That may be true, that may not be true. I don't know.

What I do know is that the issue is larger than Aaron himself.
That's not the argument here. The argument is that there may be some other specific point to apply activism towards. She is the head of her office but this is clearly not the most important case at the top of her caseload. It could've been a subordinate who made the calls and had the delegated authority.

Technically, President Obama has the power to install and remove U.S. attorneys at his discretion. Should we start a petition asking him to resign, too?
I'm not disagreeing here, simple asking for information: how has she demonstrated an ignorance of technology?
> Destroying her career and seeing her fired in disgrace will send a message to all other overzealous prosecutors, ...

This is Timothy McVeigh thinking, and it makes you a loser just like it did to McVeigh. You can never kill or destroy enough people to defeat Washington, D.C.

To win you have to think like Osama bin Laden: turn the system against itself. Wholesale, not retail. Scale up, not one off. TSA, not EFF.
That's not entirely a relevant point.

Also, notice that it was not "We're giving you 35 years in jail" it is "The absolute most that you could possibly receive for this crime is 35 years". I somehow suspect that number is far higher for rape cases but, as your comment demonstrates, that number is not necessarily indicative that that's how long you would serve.
My suggestion, start a whitehouse petition. If that gets to 25k people, the whitehouse will respond. If Reddit gets involved, 25k people is quite doable.

The wording of the petition should be as strong as possible. I'm off with my children now, but if I get back tonight and I see a decent petition on this, I will definitely sign it.

Edit: D'oh, the petition has already been written. I just had to sign it.
I don't really understand the quote. What does it mean/imply?
I agree especially with your last sentence. The torches-and-pitchforks crowd is missing the main point here.

However, whether or not she is "evil" is irrelevant. She clearly went after Swartz with a self-righteous zeal that was far divorced from the seriousness of the alleged crime. I don't know if someone in the US Justice Department had beef with Swartz they wanted to settle, or if they just wanted to make an example of someone, but one thing is certain and that's that until these prosecutors face actual backlash to their jobs and reputation when they go so far overboard, nothing whatsoever will change. They simply have no disincentive for this kind of irresponsible and unprofessional behavior at the moment.
I know you're responding directly to the parent comment but for my part, I'll say that that's not my own accusation, just a possible speculation. Sometimes the reasons for terrible machinery to move ahead are rather banal.

I'll say for sure that a lot of the initial backing by legislators for SOPA/PIPA was just status quo informed by vague technical understanding of the issue, and not because everyone was in the pockets of the movie industry.
I wholeheartedly agree. It's understandable that after a tragic, upsetting event like this people look for someone to blame. If you are looking for someone to blame, blame the law. Prosecutors take cases they think they can win. No prosecutor wants to lose a case. The decision to take a case is made based on the law and precedent.

Getting a DA fired solves nothing. What happens once you have achieved it? What have you accomplished? The law remains the same, and these type of cases continue to be brought.

Change is difficult. But I hope that if people really cared about this they would put as much effort as they can into changing the law, rather than trying to place the blame on a single individual - because the latter can easily result in even more misunderstandings.
Then Swartz was no threat. He was going to upload the articles to other people if he wanted to. He was going to have to provide the search tools.

I don't understand why they would "[secure] from Mr. Swartz the content that was taken, and [receive] confirmation that the content was not and would not be used, copied, transferred, or distributed".
End of the line for "razors and razorblades"
Her entire career, professional circle, and reputational supports have made an error in backing her, and they need to hear that directly.

She hounded someone to suicide, and the repercussions for that are light if they are limited to ending her career.
If all the encouragement isn't doing it for you, this one helped me:
Your death won''t stop the pain - you won't feel any (if you're lucky - there are many more failed attempts than successful ones) but your family, your friends will never recover. At least you can handle it - too many people don't understand what it's like to live with the pain, think about them before you go.
What you described is just standard ETLs in any Data Warehouse system - again in my opinion a typical functionality in a BI stack. QlikView tries to do it in-memory and live but it puts strain on OLTP systems for example freezing cash machines (seen it!). Every system requires maintenance, question is where's Comprehend's maintenance effort placed?
Yes, it is possible she will have to be the proxy/figurehead towards which protest is directed...but if actual reform is the goal, then it's not a bad thing to examine fully what went wrong, if possible. Her office clearly has better things to do; who was the prime mover, if not her, in directing resources to this?
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In this startup subculture, we really do despise people who don't inflate themselves, even if we only do it subtly ("as much as I admire...")
Is this news? I feel that Dimon has already accepted responsibility. He didn't dodge responsibility on the shareholder call that I listened to.
I wasn't aware the closet was unlocked. And apparently used by a homeless guy to store his stuff. So, even the bare minimum real crime that I thought he was guilty of (Breaking into a closet) which is a crime serviceable by community service in this context - turns out not to have occurred.

I've been sad all morning. Reading this article just makes me angry.
Great point. Our goal was just to have a campaign but it would be nice to have a system to keep track of the resolutions and maybe have resources to keep them.
Besides being apparently bright mind (some would say genius), and freedom activist, he suffered depression and committed suicide. You should seek the reason in the combination of all these factors.
By Drew's standards, Hacker News is yet another time suck. I don't mean to be incendiary, but it's debatable whether knowledge of Aaron Swartz's death has any actionable impact on my life.

I do agree with his thoughts on smartphones. While some smartphone apps are genuinely useful (e.g. workout apps, weather widgets, your smartphone's camera), there is a whole class of apps out there that facilitate mindless consumption. Every mobile game and social media app falls into this category.

Going off on a tangent, I haven't played a single, good mobile game (i.e. one that isn't a mindless time waster). There isn't a single mobile game in existence that naturally ties in with the hardware, the way that trading Pokemon was a natural fit for the Game Boy. I really wish there were these types of experiences on smartphones, because Pokemon was a significant slice of culture.
You're quite right that race shouldn't have anything to do with it; I shouldn't have written it that way. But this is clearly wrong:

>No laws are being rewritten posthumously for 'sympathetic white girl'.

We pass laws for specific sympathetic victims all the time. We often even name them after the victims. Megan's law, Amber alerts, etc.

It isn't that they're white that matters, what matters is that they're sympathetic. At best, if we assume society is fairly racist, maybe we see them as more sympathetic because they're white. But let me admit that was a mistake and move past it, because it's going down the wrong path.

The point is that most of the innocent accused in the existing justice system are poor, uneducated, largely unsympathetic urban youth who no one in power cares about. There is no powerful lobby to fix it for them.

In this case we have a brilliant kid who everyone loved, who was subjected to the same injustice. This should never have happened -- not to him, not to the others. So we should rally behind this tragedy and while we have the support of public opinion, prevent it from happening again, to anyone.
While Cameron Ortiz' actions towards Aaron Swartz were unjust, I think that she is receiving an unduly large share of the ire, and as a result, several other agents and factors in this scenario are receiving an unduly small share. While I don't particularly want to defend her, I believe that a) justice is never served well by a lynch mob b) other actors are more deserving of blame, and by focusing on Ortiz we give them a get-out-of-jail-free card that involves throwing her under the bus.

Ortiz was prosecuting Aaron for actions that are, in fact, crimes, as defined by US law. That's her job, that's her responsibility, and 95+% of the time she is serving the public interest by performing that task. Creating just laws is not her responsibility, it is someone else's. Specifically, it is Congress' responsibility, and they fucked up big-time. They deserve dragging over the coals as much as she does, as do the interests interests who benefit from restricted access to knowledge who lobbied for the creation of these laws. If our reaction to these events is to remove Ortiz, but leave in place the laws themselves and those responsible for their creation, I would call that a failure on our part to hold responsible those who are responsible.

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Intentionally separating this part.

While I do think that Ortiz is in the wrong for using bullying tactics, I do not place much blame on her for prosecuting according to an unjust law. For better or worse, that (fucking terrible) law was enacted by a democratically-elected government. I expect her to prosecute based on the laws enacted by a fair democratic process, and not based on her personal views. To do otherwise, I would consider an abuse of power.

She had faith that the laws given to her to uphold were just. In this respect, she was let down by those she depended on. While I wish she had not chosen to prosecute, I do not consider it a failing of hers that she did so. I pile far more blame on Congress than anyone, because it was their responsibility to make sure that the laws are just and fair. While several parties acted in a fashion I disagree with, they are the ones who had the greatest expectation to do otherwise.

Again, that is entirely separate from the bullying tactics she used in prosecution. Those actions are not defensible.
I originally found that in one of the legal docs, here:

http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Aaron+Swart...
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Try telling the businesses that. Far too many businesses (especially entrenched, large employers) are stuck in the 8 to 5, 5 days a week schedule. Allowing more flexible schedules would be a boon all around (less traffic congestion, allow employees to work when maximally effective, etc). But even places that pay lip service to flex time are ironically inflexible; usually they just have slightly different hours, but everyone is expected to stick to those hours, or they lose face (bye-bye promotions).
Get help. Honestly, especially if you have health insurance, see a psychologist. I just started and it's a great first step.

Edit: Not directed at this poster, just at anyone who might be feeling depressed. I didn't realize how depressed I was until I talked it out with my psychologist. You sometimes just take it for granted that the misery is baseline.
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I created a White House petition for this, please sign it:

Terminate prosecutor Carmen M. Ortiz for overzealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz, leading to his suicide.

http://wh.gov/EO5n
Amazingly enough the thread about his passing [1] has 34.340 upvotes and 31.742 downvotes.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/16fjjm/aaron_shwartz_r...
If anybody is partial to listening to music during times like these, I recommend Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6 [1]. The fourth movement in particular is extraordinarily moving and an ice cold glimpse of disdain, depression, and ultimately the death (some say suicide) of a romantic genius [2]. Of course the entire work is something to behold in all its movements.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Tchaikovsky)
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtLq8wj0p80
There is also an emotion that I'm feeling now, for which I am a bit ashamed: here is someone who had some principles that are really similar to mine. Someone who had the guts to act according to those principles, and who faced the consequences of those actions. Some who did what I did not, and probably will not.
He makes me feel complacent with some of the evil I see and don't act upon.
No, that's not what obsolete copyright. But copyright is intended as a give and take and if I can't watch Resident Evil on my terms they've broken their end of it. I see no need to be the patsy in every situation, either prevented from using something I own, or prevented from owning things I need (not that this is an example, but a compiler perhaps) because of what strike me as unreasonable rules.

What obsoletes copyright entirely is that it's a horrible way (like patents) of meeting its modern goals. Its authoritarian roots in censorship make it more focused on controlling distribution than rewarding the creator of valuable things. You (generically) might have noble goals with copyrights but they're a legal minefield stifling activity. And all because we won't reward a creator but merely give them a letter of marque to go try to reward themselves with. If we really cared about the public good (the supposed reason for copyright) or the creators, we'd make copying unrestricted and we'd reward the creators from a public tax pool that we'd fund by stopping all restrictions on copying and the savings from not legislating/litigating/enforcing this nonsense.

As for DDOS attacks, in what ways aren't they like sit-ins? In both resources are intentionally wasted, customers blocked, and often the harm spills over to surrounding businesses? Not defending them or decrying them, but why isn't it a fairly good analogy?
Fortunately common suicide logic, which should be defeated whenever it comes up, doesn't apply here. Aaron had extenuating circumstances. Those that are shaken because you thought Aaron was too strong for this: you're probably still right. There are plenty of smart people like Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow who have cited the very real threat of a long prison sentence as a factor.
This Kid, and he was still a kid, accomplished more and ended his life in less time than I've been alive.
Both a motivator, and a tragedy.

Remember Happiness.
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Is there a way to get the list of those url's ? If anybody knows how show me the way.... or you can email me agatto2@gmail.com
Stephen P. Heymann deserves special attention. He worked for the "Security Division" of EMC. He may have a past record of inflating small exploits with no criminal intent into federal cases. We don't need lawyers like that practising tech law.
Unfortunately this conflicts with the reality of Federal law in the US, where prosecutorial discretion is essentially the beginning and end of the criminal law system.

At any given time, any person and any company could be easily convicted of enough serious crimes to put them in prison for life or out of business. Prosecutors don't pick cases; they pick defendants, based on what are hopefully well-intended criteria. They then go through the extensive but essentially mechanical process of the justice system, which hopefully at least serves to shine enough daylight on the matter that prosecutor misbehavior is hard to hide.

Saying we should not pressure them to pick in a way we would prefer is to abandon the only actual influence over the system we have.
Not to mention it's highly variable; I've easily gotten my heart rate up to 192 BPM; when I was in better condition, my resting was mid-forties.
I'm the author of the petition, so allow me to explain my thinking; and why I don't expect Ms. Ortiz to lose her job over this.

1. Obama appointed her, and by many metrics she is doing a good job.

2. The DOJ under Holder is anything but Liberal in it's outlook, a DOJ that's onboard with killing civilians who are American citizens without requiring even a closed hearing from a judge does not care what you think about prosecutorial overreach.

3. Using outsize threats and the power of indictment to coerce defendants into pleading out is policy, and goes well beyond an individual D.A.'s practices in a given case.

That said; the purpose of this petition is to raise embarrassing questions in a way that demands an answer.

Justice in this country should aspire to be more than "the shadow cast by the powerful upon the weak".

note: I'm aware that I should have had someone else proofread the text and that my misedit of the first paragraph is now unfixable.
Thanks. I'll have another play around with it and see what I can come up with.
How do you get a hold of the list of urls?
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Yes, but good luck getting a ruling saying that.
Doing the right thing so many times you've lost count doesn't excuse doing the wrong thing.

And the way this was handled, it feels more wrong than right, and she certainly had some considerable say in the way it played out.

Maybe she's had plenty of opportunities to reflect on the consequences of her actions, maybe not (if it was all mob bosses and drug companies, probably not). In light of what's happened, at the least, she needs to reflect and grow from this experience.
Be very careful. One doesn't want to send a signal to people contemplating suicide that everything will go away if they complete suicide.
I hate to say this, but 4chan will take care of this and they will be effective.
What do you think about jury nullification?

If more people knew about it, do you think "we the people" could reign in out of touch congress critters that write these laws (don't repeal or change them) and the over zealous executive branch (prosecutors and police) that attempt to rack up and level up charges.
It would imply that she was called in front of a grand jury to testify against Aaron Swartz. I presume she initially refused to do so on the grounds that it might incriminate her - as is her right under the Fifth Amendment. Therefore the government gave her a letter of immunity, something they can do without her permission. Once she was immune to prosecution, the government could compel her testimony.

I assume she didn't want to go to jail (she does have a daughter, after all), so she testified. I can't say I'd hold that against her. You have very little rights in front of a grand jury.
This is such an obvious move that I signed, and shared on social media at https://plus.google.com/114613808538621741268/posts/E3wWNB2s... and on FB. (Ironically my previous post was a request for people not to share so many political links.)
use window.pushstate instead of urls with hashes,

you can change URL in window address without reloading entier page

Google will index "hashbangs", but they will rank poorly and you will get only small amount of traffic from search
Remembering Aaron Swartz in His Writings
"as a society we have compartmentalised social life, so that the help one previously expected from his family/friends (and ultimately: from the way he can structure his life) is now to be had from paid professionals (or tacky volunteers)"

What if the depressed person is estranged from his family and friends? Or what if he has none? What if he feels he can't talk to either?

You overestimate the help that family and friends can give, even if a depressed person is willing and able to go to them for help. They rarely have the training or understanding of human psychology to do more than provide the equivalent of first-aid.

Expecting family or friends to help someone overcome severe depression is like expecting them to be able to successfully perform surgery. Sure, if they happen to have significant medical training, they might succeed. But in most cases such expectations are completely unrealistic.
Quinn Norton:

"It wasn't Carmen Ortiz that hounded Aaron to death, it was Steve Heymann. And the system that helped him do it: that was all of us." https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/290204205124304896

And Tim Carmody:

"FWIW, Carmen Ortiz just runs the US Attorney's office in MA. Stephen Heymann is the Assistant US Attorney going hard after Aaron Swartz." https://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/290192055488094209
It doesn't matter what else she's done, we are judging her only by her actions in regards to this case.