skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is it with blogs getting more and more clickbait-y with titles at the moment, even The Verge has gone that way.

Page smoothly managed Google into a position where they have many projects ongoing, and the core business is incredibly focussed. Saying he ignored Jobs' advice to focus is incredibly stupid, as he did bring a level of focus back into the business and it's working incredibly well for Google.

You can have multiple projects, and multiple exploratory avenues and these are healthy things, but Google for a period was throwing everything at the wall to see what stuck.
I appreciate your optimism. You do know not everyone in the world is interested in, let alone willing to make such changes? I'd guess less than 1% would be. The cost would be in the hundreds of billions.

Meanwhile, try getting just the US to switch to the metric system....

As far as space goes, interstellar time is probably rather different than Earth based time. I suspect there will be a new system based loosely off of GMT. But that won't matter to most humans for at least 20 years, more likely 100.
$ man wget
So he could have gone to jail for hacking into the MIT machines/library. Machines where they knew had already gained access to.
For the record, a few months ago we had a back and forth about his writing process, and he was kind enough to write one of his pieces in one of those editors that keeps track of your changes so you can see the piece evolving. Very insightful.

At the end of that, I wrote a reply commenting on what I thought about his writing process, and never got anything back. He must have not been feeling great at that point.

I feel bad now.
Many sub-reddits have formed around various types of support groups. Reddit has changed my life, so I guess Aaron Swartz is partially to thank.
Sure, as long as it's gentle. I just don't want a discussion on why it is wrong to not make the bar black or what not. And as I said, I see this in a long tradition of making people do stuff because somebody died, which I don't like. It's all peachy as long as people comply, but if they don't, suddenly they might be labeled as cold hearted, sociopathic or whatever. Why not just let it be an individual thing?

As somebody else pointed out, PG is probably still asleep and will probably black the bar anyway. I don't think he needs a reminder. Also, I know nothing about his personal feelings towards Aaron.
Also Sam Roweis in 2010 : http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/People/samroweis.html
Suicide is almost never a solution. It's a real shame this couldn't be prevented in due time. Rest in peace!
Modern medicine has a habit of attributing unknown physical ailments to a sketchy diagnosis of mental illness. The thinking goes "well we don't know what's wrong with you, so it's probably anxiety or depression". The symptoms he states could be allergies, Lyme Disease, a brain tumor for all we know, or something else. The quickness with which some doctors rush to a diagnosis of anxiety or depression is scary, sometimes doing so before running any tests.

Your post kind of comes off as blaming the patient. This is the quickest way to get people to avoid seeking help, because they will be told they are at fault for all their symptoms, which makes them want to seek treatment even less.
If I get hit by a truck...
On yesterday's horrible news I would have to add Aaron Swartz who for all of us gave more than he took. RIP.
Why such a strange name?
> The real breakpoint is that you can't build software for the device on the device anymore

Right, but that's because the open source programmers don't see the point; if it's already a hassle to find and buy the proper hardware to turn your device into a full-blown ergonomic development environment, they figure it's not worth the effort to even think about software.

But if devices already come with easy to use virtual interfaces -- Google Glasses seems to solve the big screen problem, now we just need a virtual keyboard and mouse idea -- it's only a matter of time before veteran hackers say "This is ripe for a community, let's crack this baby open".
Logo, really gives the fundamentals in an accessible way.
Ask HN: Require a sign-up or allow anonymous/guest users?
When you launch a web application, more users will try it out if they don't have to sign up first.
Logically, if they like it enough they'll eventually sign-up to use more features.

But when you require a sign up in advance, you can:

1. Stay in touch with the user (contact for feedback or when features available)

2. Have better analytics (also, the sign up itself is a signal?)

3. Use social features

Any insights on the subject?

Any rule of thumb on where to draw the line and require a guest user to "convert"?
Microsoft was late to the party. This is a pretty good overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers
It's well meaning.

"Hearing about a suicide seems to make those who are vulnerable feel they have permission to do it" -- David Phillips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

Unfortunately http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/16e15s/i_transcribed_... was posted and front-paged yesterday.

Google returns a local suicide prevention line number when you google suicide.
Perhaps social media sites should discourage posting on the subject at the time of submission, or trying to wrap such content with reminder to the readership that they matter.
I suspect a lot of applets are similarly futile - we have a timesheet applet at work than somehow manages to be clunkier and more annoying in use than anything you could knock up in plain HTML plus a bit of JavaScript.
Typo. Meant to write wasn't.
I am so sorry for your loss. Your son was a genius and a generous person true to his beliefs -- the rarest sort.

You should always be proud of him.
Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz: Image Atlas
Yep, I direct people to http://lauchbit.com if they want to advertise.
I agree that C++ gives you a great understanding of programming, but I don't think that people with little or no understanding of programming should have to worry about types, compilers amongst other things. I feel that C++ is a great choice for your second, third or even fourth language.
Alternatively, such a paper could lead many a reader to implement a dead end. Each assumes they did it wrong, and after much wrangling, silently move on. Later, the next intellectual victim comes along.
Relieving stress: Tips and tricks to make it through MIT
Looking through a website that was made by someone who is dead now feels very weird.
It seems like Nolan used to make interesting movies that, while not always great film, at least had something unusual and interesting about them. Memento, for example, wasn't the most amazing masterpiece in the history of cinema, but it was solid, and the backwards-chronology as a narrative device was compelling.

But increasingly, Nolan's films are trending towards the dumbed down, using shallow and boring twists in place of actually interesting writing and direction. It seems to be a profitable strategy, and I can't blame the guy for liking money, but it's also sad to watch.
In the UK a certain over-the-counter drug that can be used to commit suicide is only sold in quantities insufficient for suicide.

There is nothing to stop a person from going to several shops, but the measure is effective because that takes longer.
According to Paul Graham, that was the agreement and that Aaron was not wrong in calling himself cofounder.
A couple quick points:
1) If anyone ever comes up with a location-agnostic language icon for English, I'll implement it in a heartbeat. Using the Japanese flag for Japanese seems very safe.
2) Based upon the traffic to my site so far, all of my English-speaking audience is from the US.
3) The only time you'd be seeing the "US" flag (which does represent en-US, in my case) is when you're on the Japanese version of the site.
Especially the "I'm not dead yet!" note on the bottom of the page :(
They are great libraries! Alex replied to my post and I replied with:

"I’m very familiar with your work (on both Jed and messageformat) – I hope to have a need for them some day! In my personal application I have no need for gender (there are no user accounts or socialization) and only very limited pluralization requirements (which can be mitigated with just basic one/other string replacement). Perhaps as the application grows something like that might be useful. We’re looking at possibly using your work for some upcoming i18n work at Khan Academy, we’ll see how that progresses!"
-- and if the gluten-free diet does not work, please try the more restrictive, "specific carbohydrate" diet.
No, that's just a normal 5 bitplane display mode with a copper trick. Real original 6 bpl HAM didn't need copper, it depended on current beam position left side pixel. For each pixel right side you could either set all RGB to one of 16 color palette OR modify red, green or blue value, but otherwise 'copy' left side pixel color.

So say you had white (15,15,15) pixel left side. Current pixel 'color'-data is "modify red 7", thus pixel becomes (7, 15, 15). Green and blue color components were held from left side pixel.

It was important to select those 16 paletted reset colors carefully for maximal effect. Otherwise you'd get a lot of ugly 2 pixel horizontal streaks when multiple color components changed from horizontal pixel to another quickly. You could of course use copper to change that 16 color palette for each scanline, too.
Scratch is a great! I do worry that people would then begin to learn a language and be frustrated by it's syntax. I don't know?
But can it stream Crysis? Nvidia's new cloud gaming server explained
How is my response in any way not compassionate? Is this the period where we all go under the cloud of delusion to show "compassion"? HN is FAR above that: this is not people.com.

Judgmental pop psychology? Hardly.
And this is the reason why I don't force anyone into viewing a particular version of the site -- I only use it for displaying an opt-out notice guiding them to the version that I think they may prefer.
EDIT: By my calculations, even in Anchorage the average slew rate would be only two minutes a day, which seems practical enough to me.

With two dimensional time zones, each region could choose the strategy that works for them. If the slew rate is too great at peak, it could be smoothed.

Note that I am not suggesting that the hours in a day change (much), or length of an hour, or an attempt to keep both sunrise and sunset constant; sunrise would always be at seven, and sunset times would change. This way you maximize sunlight time while still going to bed at the same time each night. They would seem valuable for Alaaka.

To be honest, though, tus sounds a lot like an argument that humans are not naturally adapted to live in the arctic. Perhaps there no time system makes sense.
> and that individually crafted cognitive behavior therapy - slow-but-steady, iterative, but radical changes in ones behavior, ones habits is the only way out.

This statement sounds nice and all but I don't think you can back it up with non-anecdotal evidence. Cognitive behavior therapy is one way that some people can overcome depression, and as this post even states it has a 50% success rate. There is no factual basis by which you can claim that those other 50% just "didn't try hard enough".

The fact is there are many ways people overcome depression, through cognitive therapy, through exercise, through medication are very common ways, but there's also things like electroshock which are still practiced today for extremely severe depression. No one approach is guaranteed to be effective by any means and it's likely that the majority depressed people will need to use a combination of approaches in order to experience relief.
Aaron Swartz was a key contributor to Markdown
I actually find this "making it about you" self absorbed type of comment pretty sad. Get over yourself - nobody cares what you find offensive.
In his own words from 2004 http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189

Something many of us use every day, just like RSS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
I know a lot is being speculated about how the whole JSTOR story is what could have possibly pushed Aaron over the edge. And I think the discussion is important in its own right, about easy access to academic journals. But, I think it is very important that we do get to know what it actually was that triggered this extreme act on part of Aaron. If someone as capable and intellectual as Aaron could fall prey to something that makes one end his life, what becomes of the average hacker who tries hard to achieve a level of success such as that of Aaron, and goes through phases of depression in life.

There has to be more to it then just the JSTOR case.
That doesn't refute my point at all.

Aaron intentionally did something that would draw him a lot of attention to him, and then fanned the fires again and again. It exactly loops back to what I said.
AaronSW may have left everything to Givewell, an efficient meta-charity
* http://www.reddit.com/user/AaronSw#c4e7n4h

* http://www.givewell.org/

In this age of famous tech names donating millions or billions to charity, it may surprise you to realize that many of us consider these donations to be missed opportunities in terms of how much good could have been accomplished for the same amount of money, given more quantitative ways of evaluating the good done by a charity. Givewell is the leader in this form of evaluation and makes an extremely credible claim to be able to identify charities that use well-analyzed methods to achieve literally orders of magnitude more good per dollar than the usual suspects. There is no efficient market in utilons, but Givewell is trying to create one.

By giving to Givewell itself, Aaron Swartz's final legacy may be expected to accomplish far more good in the world than less carefully chosen gifts involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

I am not myself employed by or otherwise involved with Givewell, and my opinions and phrasing of the above have not been seen or approved by Givewell.
I see. &lt; script src = &quot;ad-1.js&quot; rel = &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/&quot; &gt;&lt; /script &gt;

I like the idea.
The Verge Awards: the best of CES 2013
But your old profile is still online. They day it is matched with you (picture) you are uncovered.
I'm very curious of why people down vote me on this.
"Maybe apple is really a fad that will just die out on its own, ..."

Well... Android can give iOS a run for its money.

But there's no way Windows users who switched to an Apple laptop are going to switch back to a PC running an OS made by Microsoft.

Most people love their Apple laptops and they are now so entrenched in schools and amongst devs that there's no way Apple is going to "die" anytime soon. They could stop selling iPod, iPad, iPhones and whatnots that there would still be a market for laptops. It would be back to the "old" Apple selling, well, computers. But dying? Apple existed before I was born and I think they'll still be there long after I'm dead, just like IBM.

For what it's worth I'm no fanboy: I'm using a PC running Linux...
yes, not half but a bit slower. i read this from a book long time ago, but don't remember where. the guy was saying that the 'second' was a bit slower than the average heart beat rate and that made people generally unhappier because it is reflected in many things during a day.
I'm one of the original kickstarter contributor of coffee joulies. For me, it does work. Coffee came out of my keurig brewer are at drinkable temperate immediately. But I'm not sure if it can hold temperature longer. I guess I'm just using it a ice cubes without diluting the coffee and also not accidentally making it too cold
Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
Hi,

TL;DR If Swartz's death is triggering suicidal thoughts, you must understand that this will pass, and life will be worth living.

After seeing the impact of Aaron Swartz's death on the Hacker News community, I am concerned about the Werther effect (the tendency of a prominent suicide to trigger other suicides). I hope I can help by sharing what I learnt through 10+ years of depression and recovery.

Depression robs you of the ability to:
1. remember happiness
2. feel happiness
3. anticipate happiness
4. make considered decisions

#1-#3 make you miserable, but #4 is the killer. Bits of your brain actually shut down, and you run on pure emotion. For example, when I was depressed, I was easy prey for offers like "4 for the price of 3 on this crappy overpriced chocolate" because I couldn't weigh it up. All I could think was "chocolate: good. 4 for 3: good. 4 for 3 chocolate: irresistible". But if you're running on pure emotion and your emotions tell you "everything sucks" well ... suicide looks like a good option.

So why didn't I kill myself? Somewhere in my guts, there was a stubborn belief that "this will pass". You might even call it a sense of entitlement: "come on world -- you can give me something better than this!" And you know what? It DID! Thanks to some wonderful people, and to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, I found a way to recover.

With the best 10+ years of my life lost to depression, starting from scratch in my 30s has been hard, but it's still a life, and I swear that life is worth more than you can possibly understand when you're depressed.

Stay strong,

Pitarou
Did you know that that Stanford team only came second in the Urban Grand Challenge, a likely more relevant measure, as far as succesfully bringing autonomous driving to market goes? Did you know that in both challenges, the relative time differences between the top 3/4 competitors were so low that they may not tell anything about the quality of their software? Do you know why, in both competitions all teams were US based (my guess would be that large external players such as Mercedes-Benz and Toyota do not want to give away too many secrets for little gain. US competitors who do well there stand a chance of getting orders from the US military, but non-US ones? Unlikely.) Do you know that Mercedes-Benz claims that this year's S-class model could ride autonomously, if laws permitted it (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/its-the-dawn-of-t...)?

Do you know none of that has anything to do with the issue at hand (the OP lauding Google for bringing successful products to market, while they didn't even bring them to market yet?)
> This is how we evolved, after all: to wake with the sun.

Is there any actual evidence of this? what about all the non- morning-people who seem to like to wake at noon?
50 million is quite a large number -- especially considering that a lot of the articles involved funding, research and work not obvious to most people but those who are specialists in their field. I wonder what the average cost of a research article is? I know that getting funding for research involved difficult proposal writing, etc .. I wonder if startups like https://microryza.com/ going through and figuring out crowdfunding science will have as big of an impact as kickstarter or the various microloan sites will have.

Imagine a world where science funding is not only drawn from the public, but where the public, by the very nature of going through research ideas also participates in learning and staying informed about science. Pretty cool, eh?
suck copyright, world miss a genius,rip.
I understand where you're at, I've posted on this here before[1]. Not existing is an option. It is not cowardly to choose "not today", it is a combination of biological drive to stay alive, and the fact that the choice of suicide is a one-time choice, you can't hit undo on a decision like that, so it is prudent to approach very cautiously.

That being said, I find myself to be fundamentally broken in ways similar to what you describe for yourself. I have found that this apartness can be mitigated, lessened and and accepted by myself and people around me. It isn't easy, and I have to consciously focus on it. However, I also know that by having looked at how I can solve my apartness and lack of understanding with less drastic measures, I have found solutions that work for me. This is why I've chosen 'not today' so far.

I would be glad to talk to you about this, share my experiences and strategies for interacting in a world of people I don't get. I won't try to talk you out of your choice - it is not mine to make. I won't condone it either - that too is not my place. The best I can provide is a simple sharing of my brokenness and hacks to fix it. The tl;dr of it tho, is: treat it like a puzzle or game, it helped me figure out the rules, and the resulting deep analysis helped me get some empathy and insight, allowing me to fit in better even though I didn't really "understand", and that feeling like I have a place even if my role is "that weird guy in the group" really is pretty awesome, and worth carrying on for (to me).

contact: $HNUSERNAME at gmail.

[1] clicky: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3350666
1) It pretty obviously is gentle. In the most extreme scenario pg is bullied into briefly making a minor change to the CSS.

2) HN is a community site, which exists and thrives largely because of the community. I can't see anything wrong with members of said community making suggestions on occasion, particularly on occasions like this.

3) People are far too quick to take offence these days, particularly on the internet. IMHO the world would be a better place if these people were instructed to get over it rather than pandered to.

4) Finally PG is free to say no and I for one will not judge him ill for it.
Thank you for this post and helping to get the word out.
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I wonder what the take on handwritten digital input on a tablet/iPad is.
It seems to me that the problem in many situations is that suicide is a permanent response to a temporary problem. In most of these cases, were the person being rational, they would probably consider the expected remainder of their life to be more good than bad.

There are certainly exceptions. Terminal illness is an obvious one. A chronic disease - whether physical or mental - that has few prospects for effective treatment is another. I'm inclined to think that Aaron's legal troubles were not, by themselves enough to make suicide a rational option, though I don't know enough about the situation to be sure. If, however, he concluded that his legal troubles were part of conclusive evidence that the world is a bad place that isn't going to get better, suicide might look more rational to me.
> There's very little pirating of content that is over 20 years old

As someone else pointed out there's a lot of decent old music, as well as older films (Star Wars or Snow White anyone?). One thing people forget is that there's a lot of Software that's getting older. There's plenty of older games that are being pirated but there'll come a point when OSes we use now reach that age.
It is also experiencing sick growth. So huge that it has to slow down otherwise it's not maintainable.

The middle class alone in China is bigger than the entire eurozone!

And it is not a "lot poorer", china's GDP is only half that of Europe and they have much more room for growth than us.

It's just a matter of time before they pass both Europe and the US.

The "western" world is really in trouble. For example France is expected to lose its status of "World's fifth power" to Bresil before 2017. It is even possible that if Hollande is re-elected in France by the end of its second mandate France would be out of the G8!!!

Many countries are resting on their laurels and "cheating" the economy with endless money printing. Meanwhile other countries are purposely under-valuating their money and closing the gap quickly.

The world is changing and its changing quickly.
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Could one say the same if coffee was replaced with cigarettes?