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What a lame article. If you compare Google now to Google a few years ago, the difference is marked. I know think of Google in ters of a handful of products today; that was not the case then. Google has definitely put its wood behind fewer arrows.

The bigger question is did Steve Jobs have anything to do with it? It would surprise me if Page wasn't going to go down this path either way. Maybe a nudge of encouragement rather than a massive course correction.
But Page did focus Google. He focused it on Google+. Compare the current everything integrated around Google+ company and the company of two years ago. The difference is astounding.

I actually think Page's biggest test is to come over the next several years. With declining per ad revenue and potential competitors (in Amazon and Facebook) Google runs the risk of having its core revenue stream reduced significantly, while over in the OS space it has to deal with the death thrash of a Microsoft that knows its do or die time and several minnows (RIM, Ubuntu) that may slice off small chunks of market share and a whale in Samsung that may just walk off with the rest.

If Page can navigate all that then it will be worth writing articles about.
Well there's some nice 10 cent psychology, but I'd have to guess that the stress of dealing with government persecution for the last few years probably had a strong effect on his mental state. However, I sure as hell don't know that and you don't either. I see most of what you said as judgemental pop psych bullshit, but maybe I'm misinterpreting your intention so I don't want to turn this into a flame. It doesn't take a lifetime of anguish to commit suicide, you just need to back yourself into that mental corner where you become convinced your problems are overwhelming. I think you should be more compassionate.
It might be a good idea to collect, archive and publish (on-line) his collected works. I have a feeling that there is still much we can learn from him.

An Aaron Swartz memorial online library.
I get so tired of articles confusing running Java on a server and running Java on a web browser via a plugin. The latter is dangerous the former is not. But this is rarely made clear when people write about it.
This photo of him posted on the OP just blows my mind:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/aaron-swartz-2.jpg

He can't have looked more than 15, if even that. And to be so passionately interested in not only the cutting edge parts of the Internet, but their civic implications at that age...what a loss.
Very sad to see someone so young end their own life. To me it does not sound like his current legal situation was the reason so, but it was his overall mental state.

But I must admit, I never heard of this guy. Not once. I have never used reddit and skip over all the non-technical/startupy articles here on HN.
I'm going to just imagine that he staged it and is now sitting at a cafe in the south of France.
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"When you say self-driving cars and Glasses had been done before many years ago, you must mean experimental prototypes that never made it to market, right?"

Ford, GM, BMW and Toyota are among manufacturers working on what Google is getting virtually all the press for. We'll compare them when you can buy a Google Self-Driving Car at your local dealer.

How can you judge Glasses and compare them to others? How many have you used and tested?
There's been plenty of input from the people. The people vote every 2 years for representatives and every 6 years for senators. By and large, the people's input has been to keep the congresspeople who voted for these extensions.

I'll never understand why people think this is a valid argument. We're being asked to conflate topics that are not closely related and, by voting, make unnecessary compromises. An overhaul of democracy is pretty much overdue.
How would prosecutors go about that? Going through all his blog posts to look for depression? And that would be standard procedure for everyone they prosecute?
I experience a lot of text selection issues, with similar effects on forms. I tried to login to HN on Chrome for Android on my phone the other day. Every single (not double or held) tap on the username field would select the field, zoom in and deselect the field. Incredibly frustrating given it's the simplest HTML possible, so really it's Chrome's fault. No issues on larger screens though.
Keep up the good work… seriously. Remember, depression lies, so it's no surprise that people argue against you simply trying to help a fellow human being.
"but I think you can actually pay to renew one's domain even if you don't own it."

In general it depends on the policy of the registrar (we are a registrar).

But even though renewing the domain gets by the defacto problem of payment there is still the contract between the registrant and the registrar. If the registrant dies then something happens to that contract. As a registrar for example we don't care who pays for the domain name and this happens quite frequently (designer pays etc.). But paying for the domain doesn't get you access to login and gain access to the account. In order to do that there would have to be some legal document (court document) which allows the new person to take control of the account. (And we've received this).

Now on a "wink wink nod nod" basis of course a registrar can do what they want to do whether legal, allowed or not.

But in the case of this domain, if we were the registrar, we wouldn't because the entire thing is to high visibility.

It would actually be quite easy for someone to (for whatever reason) blow the whistle on name.com doing something like this. ICANN may look into it and do something (they are auditing 1/3 of the registrars right now) or not.
Regardless of everything happening in his life, it's terrible in any instance when someone is pushed to the point where they rationalize taking their own life. Best wishes and thoughts to Aarons family and friends as they mourn during this horrible time.
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Painfully reminds me of David Foster Wallace describing depression in Infinite Jest. Rest in peace, both of you.
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> I suspect that Aaron's curse -- the thing that made a very privileged Western existence "too painful" as others have said -- is that he peaked so early. He did the right things at the right times with the right people, and while he was clearly a very bright individual, I think that ended up becoming baggage that dragged him down, every future effort unlikely to ever shine as bright.

Yes, that and the impending worry of a 30+year federal prison sentence for carrying out an ideal that most of us respect, even if we disagree on whether the execution was right.
How I would play this: 5 or more people, no limit.
if x no of people are playing, then there would be x no of folded paper carrying each rank. Once everyone opens his chit, he would be given the rank written on it. say, A, B, C, D, E.

Each round of game, 100 coins are to be distributed, everyone starts with 0, the goal is decided as per the length of the game. Say if you want a fast game, then whoever gets 100 coins first, wins. else, a larger number.

same way of proposing. the highest ordered guy proposes, people either accept or reject. if he is rejected, he is not eliminated, but instead, he would be given the lowest rank possible. and the second-most senior pirate will be the captain.
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Aaron Swartz may have left everything to Givewell. This makes it even sadder somehow in ways I can't fully describe.

http://www.reddit.com/user/AaronSw#c4e7n4h

The same page shows that the last Reddit comment he ever made was on /r/HPMOR. I don't think I noticed at the time - I don't think I knew he was a fan.

I have said and will say that Aaron Swartz acted heroically in trying to free the scientific literature. It was a good try.
okay.

I am speculating that it's because of all of the anti-gun laws in America that led up to his suicide.

Can we start questioning them now?
"Maybe you feel like arguing this line with his mom?"

How do you know the person who setup that account and posted that is actually his mom?
People live on in their ideas.
That was exactly the problem that started time zones in the first place! Every town had their own definition of noon, which made it impossible to schedule trains across long distances. Time Lord, about Sanford Fleming is a great book about how time zones came to be: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Lord-Sandford-Creation-Standard/d...
love this quick guide - not only does it do a nice job of explaining the difference between introvert and "shy", but also provides some practical tips. Nice job!
Right, Euthanasia is a different subject and completely out of scope here. Was just getting pretty sick of the apparent defence of suicide as a good move in this case, and "blaming" various people/organisations for causing it.
Spez, from Reddit, says he isn't a cofounder:

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_the...
The mobile market is still growing, there's sufficient room for competitors to share the market with google. Also, samsung does not pose any threat, because samsung is bad at software development. The weakest part of samsung's products is the software. I don't think they're capable of developing a successful competing OS to android. As long as they're getting android from google, google is the one with the power.
Though I am unable to answer your question of whether a legal and profitable SMS system can be built, I'd like to point out a hidden answer in your statement — "after sometime they shut the service down, something happens. I don't know why"

Most of these "ugly websites" are fly by night operators. They are spammers looking for in-use phone numbers to build a database. The database then could be used to send bulk spam SMSes or could be sold to tele-marketers for a profit. So essentially these websites never make any profit from actually sending the SMS but instead scam the users to share their phone numbers.

Now you know why!
Nice! I had written a audio serving app using ffmpeg to compensate for lack of browser support for various codecs & containers: https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/audiostream
Same here, Firefox 19
Warn yes, ban no. That is the problem. Anything which takes choice away from the user is negative if you ask me.
hmm, is there a sorting function on the different columns? ascending and descending according to ID, name, date, status?
Has it been established that black barring HN would cause copycat suicides? Maybe the amount of attention Aaron is getting on HN (top stories all about him) is sufficient cause for copycat suicides. Should we all stop upvoting stories for fear that it might cause copycat suicides? Should we stop discussing the subject altogether? I think discussing it is very healthy for the community since we might be able to draw conclusions about what we could do better to help those in the same boat.
I feel like it should be clear-cut. A button should always describe an action. If I can click on it, I want to know what action will happen when I do. Labels are for states. We need to stop combining the two. The easiest way to do so is to make sure your button always has a verb in it.
One would say that external constraints imposed upon a criminal, which often includes said criminal taking action to correct his mistake in whatever form the imposer deems appropriate, as the criminal "taking responsibility". Germany is in no way the only country which has taken responsibility for war atrocities, but it is AFAIK, the only country which repent voluntarily and willingly. You may want to keep this in mind next time you play with semantics.

Only direct, total democracy leads to peace. There is no such government in place in the world right now. The US, though it has not formally declared war against other "democracies", it has in many instances, conducted clandestine subversive activities that one nation may use as the casus belli. For example, in 2001, Haiti democratically reelected a Catholic priest as president for the third time. In 2004, with the backing of the CIA, the president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from office in a coup for reasons many accused as Aristide simply not being obedient to Western powers.

The US has also openly supported many oppressive regimes in the past and present time. This is also one of the pretexts Al-Qaeda used as justifications of their attacks against the US.

While Japan may not return to its imperial and militaristic roots in the past, it is perfect as a proxy vanguard against China and Russia. The US is good at proxy wars. As long as Japan is catering to the US's demands, the US may just turn a blind eye and condone Japan's rise as yet another aggressive nation in North East Asia. It only took Germany a decade to become Nazi Germany after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haitian_coup_d%27etat
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C++ is the best language to understand the basics of programming, its not easy, but its not that hard either. It will make one's foundation strong from the get go.
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Let's say I'm a guy that obsesses over a girl I like. I send her creepy messages and generally make her uncomfortable. She gets a restraining order against me and I kill my self.

Would you be sitting here blaming the girl and the restraining order laws in the US?

I feel like many people here are trying to get their own opinions out by blaming the law that he broke (and the government).
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"Thirty years ago, if your life got fucked up, you could pull a Don Draper. You could pay people off to represent themselves as past employers and reconstruct your career under an alternate name, and move halfway across the country. In 2013, that's becoming increasingly hard to do."

You can still do that today although agreed it is much harder. You could simply buy someone's company for example with a history and claim that is where you were (and modify the website with the appropriate collateral.) You can fairly quickly setup a linked in profile and get lots of contacts of people in any industry that you don't even know (source: I get people writing to me wanting to be a linked in contact constantly as I'm sure most people do.)

There are people that actually have an inventory of old websites that have been around since the 90's (and domains registered back then) representing a wide range of industries.

That said this is not as easy and of course if someone does a really through vetting much will be uncovered. But how often is that done?
> They would have been doing what they think is the _right thing_ to do: prosecute suspects aggressively

Or the "thing" that improves their career, or annual review.

Let's see: Essentially defenseless hacker-type, historical success of draconian prosecution strategies, and penalties /way/ outside the realm of reason because of fanned-up hyperbole, fear and misunderstanding in the criminal justice system.

Low-hanging fruit, to a prosecutor. Three before breakfast every day. Aaron probably did not _matter_ once he was in the system.

Cases won versus cases lost. In this one, we all lost.
How big does my project have to be to unit test?
PG's recent answer to this is that Startup=Growth http://paulgraham.com/growth.html and that revenue is the best way to measure that. In the same article he says that funding helps start ups grow faster (and presumably since that's what a startup is, a growth machine, they will always take it).

I'm ok with pg's definitions, but I do think there are a huge number of tech businesses, that aren't first and foremost about growth* that encounter a large of the same technological, and even business challenges as "startups" as defined above. And for those companies, cash probably isn't a very good measure at all.

*Perhaps they are building a tech, or a lifestyle, or even short term profits. I would argue that a good number of startups get started NOT to to produce giant growth, but rather because the founders had another goal (usually to build something) and culturally, in tech, the funded startup seemed like the only route forward. And once you are in it you find you are building growth, not the thing you thought you where.
A prosecutor's duty and role is to seek justice[0]. Justice isn't always black and white, but it certainly isn't applying the toughest charges that could possibly be made to stick nor seeking the highest possible penalty in every case. The prosecutor should attempt to determine what a just outcome to a case would be, then seek to achieve it.

[0] http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_sec...
> However IIRR Page shut down dozens of projects (wave being a big example).

Indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discont...

And partially gutted some, forcefully shoving G+ in them (e.g. Reader)
He is a legend. And legends never die, they stay in the minds of generations to come.
Me too - I wrote a Mandlebrot generator on the Amstrad CPC 6128 (3.7MHz Z80 based computer with 128kb RAM) after reading a copy of "Chaos" by James Gleick that I found in the school library. It took 3-4 hours to generate a 16 colour image of 160x120 (Mode 0?) and used some undocumented calls into the BASIC interpreter ROM for the floating point calculations. I'm sure I could have made it faster but I was producing it as a static image for a demo (demo scene).
Apparently he suffered from depression for many years: http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
Uhm... That is what is happening in Japan. But Not in China.
> Internet marketing blahblah, (Web)technology blahblah, Lifehacking & Productivity blahblah, Entrepreneurship & Business blahblah.

I love how this literally is distilled down to <buzzword> blah blah blah.

Seriously though, couple of decent suggestions.
Public.resource.org's touching tribute to Aaron Swartz
care to elaborate on that?
"I don't purport to have a solution because I fight depression, suicidal thoughts myself and at best I can only say depression is something that you don't get rid of, only something that you learn to co-occupy your mind with."

I will say to you that depression is a state of mind that you could totally get rid of. How do I know? I got depressed myself and my family members have the tendency to depress, seriously. Members of my family that almost killed their selves now are much much better.

The are also very smart too (probably it has something to do with it when you think too much while in a negative state).

A lot of people believe that when you are depressed you just could uplift your spirits,making you smile or laugh and in fact you can, for a very short time, but not too long, because depression is an addiction of the brain. The brain has a very powerful chemistry inside and you can't change it too fast.

In the western world, depression is epidemic, because we have things like cars and iphone, but the essential things that people need we don't, like friends and lovers or freedom, or time with yourself or with others, or time outside.

Like rats on a cage since birth, they don't know what they don't have but someway they know they need it, because they feel empty inside.

As you probably know even dogs get depressed if they don't go outside and run enough, people try to care for them but if the basics are not met the dog does not improve.

My advice is:

0-Understand that it took years for you to get into depression and it will take a lot of time to you to get out completely, but you will eventually. Don't try to get out in a weekend because it is impossible, your brain chemistry will change over months, not days.

1- Look at the normal things you need for your life and get them: sleep well, eat well, do exercise every day and love the people around you. Everything else is secondary, Internet, TV, "too much work".... they could wait.

2-Start designing and changing your routines, and change them one by one. Only one every 30 days. The body can't change faster than this, the reason most people fail changing is that they try too much, and this is not reasonable. You can change 12 routines a year, like getting outside very day.

3- Learn to do meditation or if you believe in God, pray. Every single day start thanksgiving (another very important routine).

4- Break the negative cycles in your brain, there is a meditation technique for that called something like "leave your thoughts pass like clouds".

5-Learn from other people, you are not alone:
http://www.mortylefkoe.com/rid-depression/?utm_source=rss...

You get the idea. Hope it helps you.
I read this as I was preparing to head to my brothers memorial service in a couple of hours. He committed suicide last week.

I just wanted to say that I understand why some people do it. My brother suffered from schizophrenia - he was an incredibly nice and giving person who kept on hurting people due to his disease. I understand why he took his own life and I don't fault him for it. Of course I am incredibly sad about it and wish I could have done so much more, but 20 years of intense suffering wears on a person.

We don't know the exact details behind Aaron's decision. A significant percent of the people who knew Stephen, even those who knew him well, didn't know about his diagnosis either. It's impossible to draw any more conclusion than "he was suffering and couldn't bear the burden anymore". My condolences to his family, I truly know what they are going through and it's absolutely shit.
Calling a gentle suggestion from the HN community to make a minor change to mourn one of our members "very offensive" is a bizarre overreaction.
My own take (which some might even find depressing, but it helped me): life is very short anyway, it is hardly worth ending it prematurely. It will end soon enough on it's own accord.
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For prescheduled meetings, you're absolutely right. "I'm available 8-12, and you're available 5-9, so let's chat at 8" is a clear improvement.

But what if it's not a scheduled meeting? If it's the middle of the day where I am, and I need to give you a quick call to verify something, I need to figure out if it's appropriate to call and if you're likely to be in the office.

Currently, that means converting my time to your time, as easy as looking up the offsets and doing a simple sum. Context clues make it easy to figure things out: if it's 10:30am your time, there's a high chance that you'll be in the office. If it's 3:30am your time, you're probably asleep. Sure, there are still cultural fudge factors at play (do you come into the office late, do you take a siesta, etc), but a ballpark estimate isn't hard. Assuming it's not an emergency, I don't care if I get your answering machine if you're in a meeting; I do care if you're offended that I woke you up.

If we're both operating in UTC time, this conversion now requires cultural knowledge of what your working hours are before I can even get a big-picture idea of whether it's appropriate to call.
Are you suggesting that Wednesday wouldn't only start at 00:00 UTC but that each place would make up its own start time for the weekdays? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of getting rid of timezones?
If you read the description on the site, you'd know that the face detection stops after finding 4 faces.
Apple had its own mobile failure in the mid-90's with the newton. You wonder if steve's presence could have made the mobile revolution happen a decade sooner, or whether the technology of the day simply couldn't deliver the experience of the iphone. Its strange when i look at my old palm pro how competent that device was. I keep wondering how palm managed to lose it all.
Deepest sympathies to you and your family and all who loved him.
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I was a counselor at one and yes they will train you on what to say. Generally, you will be trained not to give a lot of advice, but to do reflective listening. It was interesting for me and has helped a lot in my personal life.