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The Amiga hardware was designed for 32 display colors - which doesn't seem like much today, but at the time was up against Herculese monocrome, CGA, and B&W Macs.

The system could be hacked to display 64 colors fairly easily. Getting all 4096 was a bit more complicated and required using HAM mode (hold and modify).

The technique allowed the 32 display colors to be reset for each scan line. With careful attention an artist could create a better image by adjusting the pallet scan line by scan line. IIRC one lost the ability to use the hardware sprites and HAM mode was never used for games, just static images.
What a terrible loss. Aaron had many fruitful years ahead of him. He left us far too early. My condolences to his family and loved ones. I hope at least this compels others who have depression to seek help for themselves.
What programming language would you use to teach someone to code?
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> That's an assumption on your part.

Are you assuming that, or...?
Well, that's an often repeated meme, but I'm not sure it's true, really. Didn't Microsoft create Tablet PC (without multi-touch) long before apple? Isn't same true for smart wristwatches, etc?

Microsoft has good ideas but doesn't execute on them any good.
Thanks for posting this; this is really great stuff and still relevant to a lot of 2D indie devs.
Very sorry about your loss. It's a sad day.
Did you try experimenting with monetization ways on magicscroll?

Good luck with getting hired!
I would probably choose JavaScript, Python or Ruby.
Being down in the dumps is not good for your mental health :)
You've very accurately described a humour that I find myself in from time to time, sometimes for years, and it's no fun.

The tired tropes are society's collective knowledge on how to deal with it, so to trot them out: I've had to grin and bear it as the saying goes, get some fresh air, cook myself proper food on a regular basis and seek company without getting intoxicated. Sometimes, music is the answer (upbeat stuff does it for me, no radiohead - although even radiohead works for some people). I make a routine of doing these things. I eventually forget the frame of mind, while still remaining a contrarian at heart.
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>It must be freed.

That doesn't follow.
The Wayback Machine will most probably take care of the archiving. But if you want to host a backup, better ask for forgiveness than permission... I'd be surprised if a DMCA account were to be sent.

Since his mother appears to have registered an HN account today, we could ask her directly.
Anyone with access to a university network has access to those documents. I have access to JSTOR also. What moral issue can you possibly raise with someone using their access to download these documents? It's OK to download 10, but not 1000000? Do you have a moral issue with automated downloads -- and if so, how can you justify JSTOR itself?

It is worth noting that JSTOR did not want to press charges in this case. After contacting Swartz, they were satisfied that he was not going to share the documents with others (and they "recovered" them, whatever that means), and that would have been that. The government decided to prosecute, probably to show how serious they are about restricting access to human knowledge (or whatever it is that they thought this prosecution would accomplish).
Losing someone to suicide is terrible. I am so sorry that you're going through this.

Many people had immense respect for your son. He was seen as a good person. Clever, decent, principled, kind, generous.

> The grief is unfathomable.

I cannot understand the depths of that grief. But yes, the grief is unfathomable.
Volvo has plans to sell autonomous cars in 2014.

And this idea that Google has invented something that the car companies haven't is just ridiculous. Car companies have been selling millions of self-parking and auto avoidance cars for the last few years. So they clearly have the ability to deliver intelligent control systems.

As for Google Glasses well all I've seen to date is a video camera on your head (around for years) and a science fiction promo video.
By this standard no one is really inventing anything anymore, and future inventions may in fact prove impossible.
What about being in jail with a laptop and internet ? That kind of prison seems more human in this case.
You don't have to do a latitude adjustment if you anchor your expected position of the sun to time rather than sunrise/sunset. The mean sun is always due east at 6 AM, due south at 12 noon, due west at 6 PM, due north at midnight (usually below the horizon except for arctic summer.) And you can interpolate between those, south by southwest is 3 PM and so on.

Just shift the time points an hour for daylight savings if necessary, or flip north and south for the southern hemisphere. You don't have to calculate from latitude.
MS should put in an explicit checkbox to disable Java. Bet they'd love to do that; now they have a reason.
The news got removed from multiple subreddits. Even a picture of him was on the frontpage and on top of /r/pics/ for a short time is now removed.
yep he had many controversy too but he did many good things too.
Dan Haubert,Ilya Zhitomirskiy and now Aaron Swartz dont know what is happening.
is the situation so bad that life has no meaning.
Might not be true for all TLDs, but I think you can actually pay to renew one's domain even if you don't own it.
Aaron Swartz's presence in various networks:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Things he made:

https://www.jottit.com/

http://openlibrary.org/

http://watchdog.net/

http://reddit.com/

http://webpy.org/

HN will miss your contributions.

Rest in Peace. #Love.
Thank you, Cory. This wonderful post will bring understanding (and maybe even comfort) to many of us who are sad and confused today.

It will also probably save some lives.
I don't think he would have opposed "technically illegal" copyright infringement aimed at making more content publicly available.
I was thinking about this a few months ago, but I couldn't find a way to make it affordable.

Showing banner ads doesn't seem to be enough, since the cost to send one SMS is greater than the profit from one banner. Perhaps that's why those sites had so many banners?
> 1-in-200,000 chance that it could strike Earth in 2036.

Previous discussion from a different source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5031161 (38 points, 3 days ago, 51 comments)
I do not believe that even Aaron Swartz could have given you a full answer to that question.
I don't think it's dishonorable at all. He obviously was dealing with very difficult problems and I cannot judge his actions.

However, there is evidence that copycat suicides are a real phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
Again, not in Spain, where 16:00 is siesta time for many if not most shops and a closed period for restaurants. You seem to expect what you're accustomed to, all over the world. But it doesn't work that way, even for seemingly simple cases. And it isn't just Spain--for example, Hong Kong's electronic trading closes from 12:00 to 13:00. You'd have thought you could trade at mid-day on any exchange, but you can't!
Thank you for the gift of your son while we had him.
He was a light in the world.
This is a good thing.

I guess Reddit is trying to avoid the Werther Effect (copycat suicides) and a huge Reddit Mob attacking random bystanders.
You can't figure that by stepping outside, because even today local timezones do not make breakfast/lunch/dinner/sleep/wake times constant across different timezones or cultures. When you travel to a new place in an all-UTC world, you'd note the local typical work hours, meal times, socialization time, and night time just as you would now. It's up to you how closely you adhere to those norms, depending on your work and social habits.

The logical extreme of local timezones is to have your gps-equipped mobile automatically adjust the time so that the sun is highest in the sky at or shortly after noon. Of course, that would create chaos.
Their product side is definitely a follower. But Microsoft Research is a whole different story:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx
The situation in the US is this: prosecutors advance their careers by winning cases. It makes no difference whether or not the cases serve the public interest or even if those who are convicted are guilty. There are a lot of people in America -- possibly a majority -- who love the "law and order" approach to government and who will vote for a lawyer-turned-politician who runs on a right-wing platform and points to his history of throwing people in prison. If you want to see just how out-of-control this can get, read about the Kern County child sex abuse prosecutions from the 1980s, where one prosecutor proudly put dozens of innocent men and women in prison for crimes that never happened.

There is also an established system of prosecuting people the government does not like, and of robbing them of their ability to build a good defense -- usually by freezing their assets before they have been convicted, and building enormous cases against them that overwhelm their attorneys. I suspect Swartz was a victim of these tactics, probably because the government wanted to drive home the message that human knowledge must remain locked behind university firewalls and that hacking is a heinous offense. I would not put it past them to include Swartz' suicide in future propaganda about copyrights, as evidence that copyright infringement leads people to depression and suicide.
Wow, I didn't know about that. Thanks for sharing.
I don't think that they use a paid API to give the service. They somehow have a free access for sms sending. But most of them get banned after some time.

Actually if there would be a legal way, it can be very good business model. For example; 1$ monthly subscribtion for 1000 sms worldwide monthly. There some voip services, but they are too expensive.
That depends on your philosophy about knowledge. If you believe that the ability to communicate our knowledge to each other and to future generations is our most important advantage, then anything that makes it easier to access knowledge is a good thing. If instead you believe that individuals should profit from their knowledge, Swartz is just as bad as JSTOR and our government is corrupt for not prosecuting the lot of them (most of the people whose articles were downloaded were probably paid nothing for their writing).

Or, maybe you believe that corporations are our saviors and therefore anything that goes against their interests is a bad thing. In which case the government is doing exactly what it should be doing.
We have a Nightline at University of Leeds for anyone to call for anything. It's a great thing for people who just need someone to talk to. Whether they're feeling suicidal or just a bit stressed over exams.

And the number is on the back of every student ID, which means anyone can find their number really easily.
Considering Aaron's legacy of "full-time, uncompromising, reckless and delightful shit-disturb[ing]" as so eloquently put by Cory Doctorow, he probably wouldn't have wanted us to deal with the trivialities of copyright law at the expense of a good cause.

Aaron knew about copyright's implications - hell right around the time of RSS, he helped launch Creative Commons. And he didn't put a license on his site. So maybe by not stating a license he was making a statement about copyright. But now we'll never be able to know for sure.
I think that since reading Lean into the Pain my quality of life has improved. I repeat it as a mantra, so I too was shocked to hear this news.
They were all posted on Hacker News when he wrote them.

Here is the extensive original conversation around one of the entries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474724
> Anyone with access to a university network has access to those documents

The JSTOR site says "Libraries and organizations license full-text content for their patrons, and if you are affiliated with one of these institutions, you can access those complete articles."

Their site seems to say anyone with a uni affiliation.
Maybe I put it in the wrong way. But the way I see it, he was a person with dreams. He wanted to go great things. Do you really think such a person wants to die? He was an activist - he lived doing stuff. Dead people can not. I am sure if he could think about it rationally, he was brilliant enough to understand that.

So I personally believe whatever happened is because he felt this was the only escape. To me, again me personally, suicide is no glorified option.
Suicide is complicated. Not talking about Aaron here.

Some people engage in self harm behaviour. They do not intend to die. They die by accident.

Some people engage in self harm behaviour. They have mild intent to die, and they do die. Sometimes these attempts are repeated often, for years, before completion.

Sometimes people feel themselves to be in an impossible place. And thoughts of suicide are comforting. At least there's a way out. And when someone has decided to try suicide they often appear calm and happy. Things are decided and they know what to do.

There are many things that contribute to people committing suicide. These things include mental ill health, relationship breakdown, debt, legal pressure, societal pressure.
If IRC chat logs are legally admissible, I can provide documentation going back to at least 2001 of Aaron being in favour of putting all of his work into the Public Domain.
That makes a lot of sense, but it seems like there would still need to be some sort of qualitative way to consider the "effective time zone" of someone you're communicating with.

This may not be typical, but when I set up a call with someone on PT (I'm on ET) here's my current thought process: "OK they're on PT so whatever time that works for me is 3 hours earlier for them"

If we switched to UTC I would still have to think something like: "OK they probably start / end the working day 3 hours later than I do"
Many JSTOR articles are now (sort of) free to the public
I think it was one of the All Things Digital talks with Bill Gates / Steve Jobs were they thought that much of the new innovation would come from startups. It could well be that the future of the industry revolves around acqui-hires.
UK* and France would not be happy. Poland especially, but they are between two historical enemies and can't really resist either of them militarily. But the Germans know their history, they lost twice and a third one might be fatal for "Germany".

*Thatcher was against reunification, IIRC.
"So, it was even less serious than that."

I would say that it was about as serious as parking in a loading zone. We need to stop this nonsense where we expect people with no legal background to pay attention to copyrights. We don't tell people they will go to jail for 35 years if they park in a loading zone, nor do we threaten them with prison if they routinely park in loading zones; we give them a small but annoying fine and send them on their way.
Here's a work in progress, still needs some loooovvvee: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a0rx9c28euwokaz/cheatsheet-pdf-ver...
Found out that it seems to be the drawing of the progress bar, as weird as that may sound. When I switch to another tab, the CPU usage drops. I'm on Linux using the open source ATI radeon driver, that might have something to do with it.
Here's a first version, still working on it though: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a0rx9c28euwokaz/cheatsheet-pdf-ver...
HN cannot be read without an account?
Still working on it, but: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a0rx9c28euwokaz/cheatsheet-pdf-ver...
Did you know that the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge[1], was run by Sebastian Thrun [2] - who went on play a big part in the creation of Google Street View?

And did you know the Grand Challenge winning cars made use of LIDAR and machine vision to identify road features and obstacles, high precision GPS, and inertial navigation? And that very similar sensors can be seen on Google Street View?

If you wanted a test data set, to refine your self-driving car by simulating driving every road in the developed world, you could scarcely do better than Google's data. This could be valuable in advancing from a car that works well on wide, well maintained freeway to a car that can work well around towns and cities.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoiJeIb0wBA#t=21m50s
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun
My dad was diagnosed with celiac disease several years ago but (mostly) refused to go on the diet because he's strong willed about things like that. He's in a rather bad way now, so if anyone here gets diagnosed with it, please follow the diet.
> "You can't blame federal prosecutors for doing their job?"

Since when was it their "job" to tactfully subject a civilian under stress of facing criminal law with potential 35 years of imprisonment?

Apart from above, the intent to know the people and faces behind such a bench (read DOJ) is not the same as blaming them for the part called suicide in this entire story.

We should definitely know who said what in the case, just to estimate how much weight one added into the sinking of the ship. Blaming justice system "DOJ" is like letting the real criminals getting away with it, however you may want to put it.
I understand what you mean, but it's the kind of logic I can only follow when I'm actually feeling suicidal. "This is a rational decision, it's not a bad thing to do, society has stigmatized it but I have a right". But (for me) a few days later, the weight just sort of lifts, and suddenly it seems like a really terrible, selfish idea again. I know it'll come back, and I dread that, but in the meantime I can't consider that it would have a been a reasonable choice. Things feel very real and very logical at the time, but looking back it's hard to understand why.
Your point is weaker when the link you provide starts

> Though there are few standards for modern day EMR systems as a whole
Samsung cancels Windows RT tablets in the US
I'm sure Steve Jobs though Apple should do hardware, Google should do web software, and as long as they both stuck to their sides of the line, they would both dominate.
Or anyone who is a patron of a university library system, which in this day and age means anyone who has been given access to a university network. Where I am, anyone can get one-week access if someone who is affiliated signs in and generates a unique token for the guest; we frequently do this when researchers from other schools or companies visit my group, but there is no actual restriction on who can be given access. Most universities have a system for allowing members of the public to access their library system, and by extension, JSTOR.

Really, it is not much different from walking into a university library and reading the books there. Most of the schools I see allow anyone to walk into their library, without having to prove they have any sort of affiliation.

It is as though universities believe their purpose is to spread knowledge or something crazy like that...
We will always remember and thank you Aaron when we hear "JSTOR"

https://public.resource.org/aaron/
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My sympathies to the family and friends of Aaron.

tl;dr While it hurts to lose a loved person, at least that person no longer suffers.

One point from the blog I have a hard time relating to: "Because whatever problems Aaron was facing, killing himself didn't solve them. Whatever problems Aaron was facing, they will go unsolved forever. If he was lonely, he will never again be embraced by his friends. If he was despairing of the fight, he will never again rally his comrades with brilliant strategies and leadership. If he was sorrowing, he will never again be lifted from it."

I'm not sure what your religious beliefs are, but to atheists [like me] it's pretty clear that death is the end, and while he may have suffered a lot in his life, he surely is no longer suffering, and "his problems" no longer exist. They're gone with him. And in that sense, yes, he solved them for himself. Yes, he gave up the potential rest of his life, but I can relate to the idea of letting go at some point, possibly even without much regret as to what might happen in the future.

I can see how people close to him will now suffer a great deal at this loss, but again, the problems a man struggles with are his own, and I'd rather not mix the perspective of his loved ones with that.

I sense that many people (even non-religious) have a very 'judgmental' view of suicide, like it's some kind of disgrace or stupidity. I'm not saying the blog post author is one of those people, but really, having seen lots of [absurd] suffering in my life I am very understanding of people who are brave or desperate enough to let go.

To me it was the same with a couple friends who died in young age of serious illness. It hurt both sides when they were ill; now it only hurts me, but I am glad they didn't suffer endlessly (or for an extended period of life). To some, extended suffering is hell. I can imagine that it's not the case for everyone though.
> It was his personal decision to end it this way.

I'm not one for flaming people and calling them a dumbass, but I can't let this one go. Your attitude shows you don't know shit about what really goes on when people kill themselves.

It's most likely that Swartz killed himself because he was severely depressed. You can't really call a depression-induced-suicide a decision, because severe depression robs people of their ability to make decisions. It massively distorts perceptions, and literally shuts down the parts of the brain involved in decision making. If Swartz had survived and recovered, I'm pretty sure he'd have told you himself that he wasn't in his right mind at the time.

> And I'd like to know how many of you will think of his 'legacy' on a daily basis in 6 months time.

So what? We show our sorrow now because that is when we feel the loss the most keenly. This is the normal human response. Are you any different?
We have to be careful with the way we talk about people who died by suicide.

We have to be careful because copycat suicide is real, and we do not want to cause it. Yes, other sites are being irresponsible with their reportage. HN is not other sites.

This has nothing to do with continuing the stigma against suicide or suicidal thinking.
People usually call it "euthanasia" in such a case.

I think it's worth noting that depression and terminal illnesses are different cases. Euthanasia advocates emphasise the difference. See for example the legislative system that was passed in the NT in 1995:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_the_Terminally_Ill_Ac...
If its so large, why is it a cluster? I didn't know the universe was that large...sounds like these objects are actually scattered fairly thinly.

Also, gotta love astronomers and their affinity to naming things:

"For simplicity we shall also refer to U1.27 as the Huge-LQG and U1.28 as the CCLQG"
What's the point of this? The half dozen other front page stories didn't have enough two-minute hate threads directed at the US Attorney's office?
Apple disabled the Java plugin via the XProtect plist, which now means that I am totally unable to log in to online banking in Denmark on any Mac. It's a bit of a disaster.
Also, this is from 2011, before the prosecution.