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I don't know how often you need to connect to your online bank : I do it once per week or so...

You could boot a Live Linux CD / DVD / memory stick. Either a Live Linux CD / DVD which already has Java or add it yourself to the Live CD or keep the Java install file on a memory stick. Java can be installed without being root on Linux, which is great and the installation process, once you have the install file, is very very fast (a few seconds). You could then connect to your bank's website (and only to that one) and be quite safe.

Of course it's not for the faint of hearth...

But that way you don't need to trust their code to behave well: you're basically booting a read-only Live CD with zero information about you on it. And you don't have to fear Java applets exploits from other sites (because you use that Live CD to go only to your bank's website).

I access my online bank from a Live Linux distro (Java applets aren't needed here but the principle is the same: by booting from a "read-only OS" and which I use only for online banking, the risk of being pirated are pretty small).
Even from this chat you can see he was depressed a lot. Women rights, racism, etc. Look what lib-dem propaganda can do to you! Horrible!
I second the idea of learning on the job, especially by things going bad.

I have the feeling ops people can be somehow.. "measured".. by how many things they had exploding in their face, and then learned how to fix them.

For example, looking at TFA, the first thing I thought is "oh, `df -i` should be there too".

Because I ran out of inodes enough times that I learned to check that (though I am not a sysadmin).
Seems like if it was working, it's stopped... perhaps a quota for scraping Google Image results has been hit?

(Any Googler with the sway to temporarily waive any such limit for this site?)
Argh! Thanks.

I also spelled my name wrong. I'm actually "Pitarou" rather than "Pitaroua". Post in haste, repent at leisure.
He was also a key contributor to Markdown:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/#acknowledgement...

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189
Exactly what I thought when I saw the year in the URL. This is just incredible. There isn't a slightest hint of being written by a 16 year old. What a huge loss
Don't forget his quote blog.

http://qblog.aaronsw.com/
You could argue that Google is using a barbell strategy. Play it safe with the core business (search has hardly changed in all these years, just a few minute layout changes and algorithm tweaks. The biggest change, real-time results from Twitter, was rolled back. They have also been very aggressive about protecting search from threats/substitutes, hence vast sums spent on Android and Chrome to protect the visibility of their search ads), then have lots of small-scale dabbling in diverse, blue-sky projects.
Try completely clearing your cookies perhaps?

I think G+ sees the cookie and forces a login. Google Groups does the same thing, and it drives me insane.
All academic journals where the underlying research was paid for by the state should be available to any taxpayer without cost -- which for all practical purposes means any person without cost -- because they have already paid for them.

Paywalled journals are a form of rent-seeking which while arguably an acceptable evil in the days of print are an unacceptable evil today.
Because most academic research is at least partly funded by taxpayers (even more so everywhere but in the US), and scientists pay submission fees (again, with taxpayer money) to cover what the journals consider their contribution to the process.
For some more information about the business practices of this industry, this is a nice, short text: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/22/academic-pu...
"How do you know she isn't?"

I questioned what you said I didn't (when I asked you) state that the poster wasn't his mother. I don't know that she is or isn't.

That said I will now say that I feel that it's highly unlikely that a mother who has lost her son to suicide is going to open up a HN account [1] and post something when a loss like this happens.

Of course if a HN admin has access to IP addresses or where and how the account was setup or some other non public information that's something else.

[1] Adding: so quickly after the loss
If that's the case then what I suggest is that you try to contact the registrar as this seems to be a mistake on their part.
I was thinking of making a python web app integrated with Twitter. Why did you choose python over other languages and what else was in the stack?
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I ran from the police.

I wonder what that meant (appears just after the sentence you quote).
To prevent it has undertones that he can't freely choose what he wants. That to me, is more depressing than being jailed with depression.

I keep seeing the same retorts, here, on Reddit, Gawker, and whatever outlet treating this as if it's Kurt Cobain.

That if only someone had talked him down, or that if he had opened up more, that the DOJ was bullying him, so on, so forth. The most egregious offense I keep seeing is how selfish suicide is.

That, to me, is a very intimate and personal thing to say. That's something he shares with him, his family, and close friends.

But my conclusion is this... emotional guilt tripping someone to say their suicide creates pain for others thereby he should never choose to commit suicide doesn't perpetuate healthy growth.

Moreover I think it's interesting as to how a community responds. The first thing people are doing is to find a solution, to problem solve depression which has many variables, vectors, causes, and results.

I believe this is our challenge oriented engineering brain at work. But maybe that's not the right approach, maybe like dealing with your girlfriend in a the relationship, the point isn't to immediately jump to rescue, just listen.

Just say hi.

Having spent some time on and off the past few years on suicidewatch boards I keep seeing the same pattern over and over again. The majority of people just want to talk, a sign, and they'll take anything, that they are worth it. There's a minority of people, though, that just wants the pain and suffering to stop. Death is incidental.

To those people, I don't wish it, but if it is what they want, I don't want to ever be further trapped than I would already feel.
http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/11/it-gets-better-geek-versi...
This is terrible news and I am very sorry to learn of it. I have tremendous respect for Aaron's activism, and I am sure that I am not the only one who feels that way.
>Winter time is unadjusted and tracks a true solar day.

That really depends on where you are in the time zone. If you're right at the edge, you may be closer to tracking a true solar day in the summer.
>Depression robs you of the ability to: 1. remember happiness 2. feel happiness 3. anticipate happiness 4. make considered decisions

I've spent many hours thinking about how each of us can dig ourselves out of our dark places when we unfortunately get stuck in them from time to time; I don't think I've seen the core symptoms of depression expressed so succinctly in these few years since my own difficult times.

I spent Christmas week with friends in Hawaii, and I told my friend (who has lost an older brother to suicide -- so we talk about this sort of thing from time to time) that being conscious of "happy times" like this and making an effort to remember these great moments during our difficult moments is probably a key factor in preventing suicidal thoughts in us. He agreed.
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Studies of suicide[1] show it's an escape from yourself (kinda obvious), but I think the insight is: it all starts with blaming yourself.

If you don't blame yourself, the chain of suicide doesn't start. People don't suicide themselves because somebody else has annoying life circumstances. Circumstances are relative too. Modern society is constantly throwing other people's success, joy, accomplishment, and bravado in our faces. It can make us feel less than what we are. It can make us feel like our lives aren't good enough. Stop comparing your life to anything you've read anywhere anytime. We live in an age of magic. Be a wizard.

Blaming yourself is a dangerous path to go down. Don't blame yourself. The world is big and time is long. Things will work out.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2408091 and summarized at my http://suicidescale.com/ site.
What a brilliant man he was, so sad. Do people still make these types of pages these days?
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The "I'm not dead yet!" felt like a bullet through my head. I never knew him, but being just a human being, I can feel a loss I can not describe.
I've got a 'KeyError at /twitter/thanks' when refusing access from the app to my twitter account (no offense meant, I was just testing it out) and then clicking on "Go Back to This Year" (which, I guess, is supposed to redirect me to the app?). I can send you the full error page if you want.

Anyways, kudos on your first Python app & keep building things!
This is sad both for me as a person, and for the internet community as a whole.

Aaron Swartz was the sort of person I wanted to be, his works, his personality, and what he stood for.

Since nothing can ever be done to reverse this, may this occurence illuminate the fact that laws are made for people, and not people for laws..
As a side question - I have set my own (different) color for the bar, will my bar turn black if PG sets it?
The "I'm not dead yet" at the bottom gives me chills.
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> Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to
> three articles for free every two weeks.

Calling that free is seriously insulting to aaronsw.
One of the objectives of SE is to build a vast Q&A, which relies on the assumption that all questions can be definitively answered. There's typically no canonical solution to design/architectural questions (there can be many solutions, with varying degrees of quality).

Because of this, http://programmers.stackexchange.com exists, which is a site that allows more free-form questions.
I agree that we should be careful about glorifying suicide, but if you want to minimize suicides, you have to raise awareness about depression among those affected by it and the people close to them, not tabooing it.

If the affected accepts professional help, it's curable. Too many don't, because they are completely oblivious of their medical nature of their condition, because of the fear of being stigmatized, or because they are literally not able to muster the strength to go to the nearest clinic. It's of utter importance that the they, or the people close to them recognize the situation and take the necessary steps, instead of berating them for being lazy, restless or whiny and giving them lectures about how good they have it.
There's a good chance that this is a warning sign for you. You may be mildly depressed yourself.

Depression is not something to be taken lightly. Something in your brain is overloaded. Whatever the cause (it could be many things) it should be taken seriously. Talk to somebody you trust about it.
Interesting is the discussion of this article on reddit, in which he, Randall Munroe, spez and pg make appearances

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...
What kept (and still keeps) me running: I don't want to let the suckers win. I want to see the movie of my life for as long as possible, no matter how wrecked that could be.
And record yourself when you are okay. Play the movie back to yourself when in the dumps. It helps.
https://www.facebook.com/events/529167430436385/?notif_t=pla...
http://dl.nux.ro/aaronsw/qblog.aaronsw.com/
That is actually also criminal.
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I wish I could upvote this twice because it's the best explanation WHY we want DST. Late daylight summertime is very useful for all kind of outdoor activities. The late daylight is mostly applicable for those of us at northern latitude, and exactly we are these who can enjoy most outdoor activities only in the hot part of the year. So I guess DST makes much lesser sense to those living near the Equator.
I coincidentally just stumbled upon that thread, too, when seeing if Aaron was even an active member of Reddit (his account is 7 years old but he apparently didn't use it as often as you'd think)
His answer about tech industry being sexists is so poignant.

Having worked in startups, some stuff guys say are so offensive. They wouldn't normally be tolerated at a bigger company with HR department.

Girls are as smart or not smarter than guys. We're just treated with lots of discriminations.
Yeah, site-wide recolor (christmas, death) overrides your own.
In fact this is the first time after Steve Jobs that the front page is so dominated by one person.
Can anyone link something about this? We have two contradictory opinions and I'm not sure who to believe. The Wikipedia article on ctime isn't at all helpful either:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctime
If we all operated in UTC time, you would probably very quickly get a feel for when other people are at work. I'm on the east coast, and when working with people on the west coast I often just imagine them as working 12pm-9pm.

Trying to remember the hours people work in Japan may be a problem, but I don't think it's any worse than trying to remember timezone conversions and I don't think it's a large enough problem to warrant varying the way people measure time. It may have made sense at the time, but today it is vastly overkill. That said, I doubt it will change anytime soon due to inertia.
Can you consider saving users data via cookies or ip? That way the next time they come back their stuff is still there. Now on the second run and beyond, you can remind them that they can take their data with them to other computers, or privately, if they create a login.
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The vast majority of US pharmacies are already able to receive prescriptions electronically from physicians. SureScripts [http://www.surescripts.com/] is the leader in that space.

If you don't already have e-prescribing, it's probably because your physician is behind the times.

The above applies to doctor-to-pharmacy communication. For any other combination, paper and faxes still reign supreme. Examples that are still almost always faxes and paper: pharmacy to visiting nurse, specialist physician to primary care physician, physician to assisted living facility, even pharmacy to original doctor when asking for refill extension.
I'd rather not have to ask every company/partner what time they are in the office - assuming that 9:00 - 5:00 eliminates that step. And it's certainly much easier for me to remember what city a partner is in, than to track what UTC time periods they are in the office.

DST is yet another reason why time zones make this better. Particularly with Melbourne/Brazil which seem to get out of Sync with Pacific Time - being able to eyeball Big Page O' international clocks to see what time it is in those regions this week helps me keep our meetings at a sane hour.
As a proportion of my few submissions (21 at this point), yes. I don't read much else on HN apart from the questions, as I find the news feed can't compete for my money with Twitter, so I guess it's natural that if I do put something forward its pertinent to this section.

Shouldn't be a reason for down votes though, especially if it's of general interest to the startup community.

Perhaps this is not the point of the Ask HN section, and therefore I've missed it.
It's OK to feel sad. If you start feeling worse, reach out to someone. Happy to talk if you need---email in profile.
Why the heck do people want same time sunset every day? What's so great about it, I really don't get it. It's like dreaming to have 22 C and sunny all the time. Sounds cool until you really try it.

The nature is not equal every day. I see no point in trying to make it so.
> There is a good reason for leap seconds though

Isn't that the only reason for them?
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hmm...I was down with social anxiety, panic attacks...mild depression and did take meds for them....but i'm fine now...
I too am concerned about the Werther effect.

Traffic on reddits /r/SuicideWatch has exploded. [1]

[1]http://stattit.com/r/SuicideWatch/
Your unwavering sycophancy toward the Almighty State in the face of a clearly wrong prosecution is absolutely sickening.
I just found out I am gluten intolerant. The symptoms he describes are that of an intolerance to gluten. After reading the post, I was glad to see a comment that recognized this. It isn't fun and is really hard to get things done when you constantly feel sick.
It's up to the HN owners what colour scheme they put on their website and why. I don't mean to sound callous at all, but if HN black barred every deserving death, it would be a permanent black bar. I had never heard of Aaron Swartz until he is now dead. Why can't we honour the living?
It's all over HN but Reddit's front page is still memes and cats.
I thought the point of pre-fixing with "Ask HN:" or "Show HN:" or "Tell HN:" or any other such tags was to make sure that it appeared in the "Ask" section, and ranked separately?
This guy kicked the pants off me in everything I care about.

And this:

"What do you consider most important today?

I think we need to do a better job explaining the state of the world to people, which is mostly an old-fashioned research and writing project. There’s an enormous amount of curiosity these days about how things like the government and the media work and how, in the US, things have gone so wrong. But nobody is doing a very good job of providing the answers."

Like reads my mind, very frustrating and confusing this morning eh.
And he specifically wishes that that footer be replaced with a link (I take it a link pointing out that he's now death).

That guy obviously had a sense of humor.

R.I.P.
If we're just wanting to know what phase of the day it is, at a particular location, a sun projection is a good enough approximation.

e.g. http://www.die.net/earth/
Mourning the loss of someone is a personal thing, yes. Friends, parents, teachers will mourn his absence in a deeply personal way, fondly holding on to fading memories.

The encouragement to black out HN is an acknowledgement of a communal loss. This is not "everyone change their desktops to his face." This is "let's unobtrusively black out the top bar of a site frequented by people just like him." This is someone who made contributions to the software community and fought for open access to information. People of similar calibre fought and continue to fight to keep the internet free and open.

It is not just for him, but to demonstrate as a community that we're here for anyone else facing similar issues. It shouldn't be "offensive" as a group to recognize our like-minded allegiance to the ideas and vision he passionately pursued.
I am suggesting that Wednesday would continue to run from midnight to midnight, but in a world where "midnight" means "midnight UTC" rather than "midnight in an appropriate local time zone", the block of time occupied by Wednesday would be less useful. I am concluding that having the entire world use UTC as its local time is not practical.

See also California, when the day of the week would change while you were at work in the afternoon.

(Did you mean for your comment to be in reply to sxp or zanny, not me?)
Why people need to feel so depressed to commit suicide? I don't understand. Programmers are supposed to be rational, non-emotional. Take it easy. It's just another day in the universe. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
Most of us who have to deal in multiple time zones have a Web Page/Dashboard/App of clocks with all the time zones that we deal with. 45' away from me I actually have a physical wall of clocks with cities noted above them.

I know that my partners/customers/colleagues in all countries are available for calls from roughly 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM without ever having to ask them.

That's basically what TimeZones do for you - they provide a common basis to keep everyone in sync around with world, without me having to check, on an office-by-office basis what UTC hours they are in. It's just agreed that 9:00 - 5:00 is a reasonable time to schedule a meeting, and TimeZones tell me when 9:00 - 5:00 is for any particular office.
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"we have to pick a battle that worth fighting for and be prepared for the hard, long, lonely journey"

I think that's an important takeaway from this most unfortunate incident.
This is probably the first time a HN story has got so much traction in such little time. This explains how much people will miss Aaron. RIP bro.
I would agree with you if the separation of powers would work flawlessly, but it seems to me that even in many modern democracies, prosecutors have the means to do things that are quite punishing.
Dave Winer wrote some of the mutually incompatible RSS specs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#History), but not 1.0, which Aaron did work on: http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec
Do you come across a kind, thoughtful suggestion and think "what's the most controversial comment I can write to score some karma" or something? Because honestly, there's no rational universe where your comment remotely makes sense.

And yes, it is Hacker News against you now, as you victimize yourself below. I sure as shit think this comment is disgusting, I hate that you left it, and I'd certainly hope that people would call you out for it (or I'd lose faith in the community). It's comments like this that make Hacker News look terrible to people that don't contribute, and it's one of those comments that's better left thought in your head.

Aaron was involved in this community in multiple ways, God forbid people express themselves at your displeasure.

It's really sad because Aaron's death hit me pretty hard last night, and I wake up this morning and see this suggestion and think "boy, I bet someone's going to piss in the Cheerios in that thread," and it almost hurts that I'm right. What a terrible place this is becoming.
Java Applets had great promise. Early interest was high. For the life of me, I can't phantom how Sun managed to biff this one. I'm among the biggest Java fans, so my disappointment is acute.

#1 - Netscape. Their Java support always sucked. Broken thread implementation. The joke was write once debug everywhere. The early troubles soured most and Sun lost the precious mindshare. Relying on a third party for the success of Java was a huge mistake.

#2 - Sun killed their HotJava web browser, written in Java. It was the ideal applet platform. Ran great. Had a great UI for the time. Imagine if they'd kept that going.

#3 - Sun waited until Java 6, a full decade, to revamp their Java plugin. Way too late to make a difference.

#4 - AWT controls looked terrible, were too minimal. But Swing was just too heavy. The design was great for time, being the logical successor to NextStep -> Cocoa -> Netscape IFC development line. But Sun never put it on a diet, either the API or the payload.

(Thanks for the floating point parse bug tip. Writing a web server using Netty, that's a good one to know.)
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Most tropical countries don't have DST, because there'd be no point in it when there are no seasons, but some use a different time zone, which can have the effect of "year-round DST".
Why? He finished all his work quickly and got to leave early. Some people don't squander their hours.