skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what you mean by "taking responsibility". Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan all have received the wrath of US military power and paid with enormous human and economic costs.

The revival of a militaristic Japan is actually more likely than you think, tho still very unlikely. The reason is simple, most of the conditions that led to WWII still exist today. Japan is still controlled by a largely hawkish right-wing elite aristocratic class. Japan still brainwashes its population by denying war crimes committed during WWII. Japan still has virtually no natural resources enough to sustain its large population. Japan is still the premier military power in East Asia. Japan still spends an enormous amount of money on its military, however "defensive" it may be (I honestly don't know how a military that has helicopter carriers is defensive in nature). The only difference is that Japan is now militarily aligned with the U.S. and that China is no longer a political, technological, economical and military weakling. The Chinese would like to believe that the only thing standing between a peaceful Japan and a militaristic Japan is the PLA.
Your account is only 47 days old?
I used to use the analogy of type I diabetes, but now people are mixing it up with type II.

I think that the way to beat the stigma is talk openly about it.
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I started seeing a therapist recently, to address the issues that lead to my depression. If things go south on me again, I have someone to talk to. Kind of like having a lawyer on retainer.

Thank you for your compassion.
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Example of data, August 2007:

Oh no, there's no risk to these mortgage backed securities at all! They're priced to be AAA by everyone on Wall Street!

September 2007:

Oh shit...
Congress decides the range of punishments for breaking laws, not the Department of Justice. Congress is elected by the people. Instead of trying to identify individuals to indict, consider the role of 300 million Americans who implicitly backed those decisions.

Or you could just take a step back to pause and lament the toll of depression.
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People with mood disorders (e.g. depression, bipolar, cyclothymia) and psychotic illnesses (e.g. bipolar, schizophrenia, schizoaffective) are at elevated risk of suicide. People with anxiety disorders (e.g. social anxiety, OCD) also tend to be prone to depression.

I'm not a big fan of diagnostic labels. Every individual is a different case. [disclaimer, worked in acute mental health, and brain injury rehab total seven years, before getting sucked into the software and analytics industries]
Aaron,

I miss you, we never met, but you inspired me. You burned so brightly, yet so briefly.
Holy crap, stop being such an asshole. On the off chance you're "just playing the devil's advocate": it's time to quit, now. You can't possibly believe that Aaron deserved in any way what was coming to him. It also stretches the imagination that you actually think lawyers are in any way protecting the innocent. Your opinion on depression is likewise both immature and disgusting in its callousness. You should really be challenged for these beliefs if they are indeed your own.
In my experience, you pretty much learn this on the fly. You don't know how to do X, you google it, if you do X often enough, you'll eventually learn. After a while you end up mastering most of the unix suite (ls, grep, awk, du, etc..) so instead of googling stuff you write it.

Unlike fundamentals (think books like SICP, Introduction to Algorithms, K&R, the Dragon book, et al), this is just a collection of useful commands that do not bring barely any collateral learning aside from learning the 'UNIX' way.

If you really want to put up the effort to learn this, and you don't have any projects or anything that requires this knowledge, I've noticed lots of tech offices have a copy of UNIX in a nutshell always have a copy around. I've checked it out myself and it's pretty useful (I already 'know'), not sure how good is it for learning this stuff from the ground up.
Yes. I've been suicidally depressed.

I'm one of the fortunate people for whom first-line SSRIs (in my case, sertraline) are very effective. I no longer rely on the meds, but I have additional comfort knowing that they're there if I need them.

I still have bad patches. And it's weird, being inside yourself, intellectually cognisant that this emotion of pointlessness and worthlessness is an illusion, that it doesn't exist -- yet being, sometimes, unable to beat it.

I know that, left to build gravity, the black spiral is stronger than me because it is me.

But I also know that the treatment is stronger. And that is there, if I ever need it again. If I ever get too many of those days in a row, I won't hesitate to seek help.

And neither should anybody else. The suffering is entirely unnecessary.

Get help. You are not alone. It gets better.
As a society we do agree to follow the law and punish those who break them. But remember that the law of the land is not some God given set of laws. Several people broke segregation laws during the civil rights movement and in my view they should not have paid up (I think you may also agree with this). Turing paid up because he broke the law but now I guess there is almost unanimous consent that him paying up was not the right outcome. So paying up for breaking the law is not as black and white as it sometimes seems. Lets reserve our judgements for some time.

Edit : Also as Udo points out lets stop this line of argument for a bit. Some members of the community either knew Aaron or were affected by his work, lets not subject them to this argument right now.
This is still a concept but would love to see someone implementing this: http://gadgetose.com/vibrating-ring-alarm-clock/

EDIT: another link with more details http://mmminimal.com/minimal-ring-alarm-clock-designed-for-c...
From SICP:

> Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

When programmers care about lack of efficiency before it's a problem, they're doing it wrong.
Perfectly possible to think about it but never act. I don't think there's been a day in my life in which I haven't contemplated the ramifications of offing myself.

Each and every time, I reach the same conclusion - it would be pointless. Null isn't a value, so I'd rather strive for happiness, even if my mood usually lurks around -1.
I agree with you.
The parallel to bullying is a good fit and the only reason it is not _really_ comparable is because of the imbalance of power.
I would not be surprised to find myself and most others taking the same sort of action in a similar, unjust, situation.
Would you rather die today or suffer more than you lived so far in prison for something like that ?
Isn't just a matter of the law being unjust, I think this is pure evil and wrong interpretation of a wrong law.
The law needs changing and the people pursing this case need changing too.
You already have to do that. Some pubs in England serve lunch only until 2 pm and some restaurants in Spain open for dinner at 8 pm. Go either place from the US and you already have to learn new opening times. America is one of only a few places with many time zones yet consistent opening times.
I like having control over my scrolling and being able to see the structure of a document at first glance. One can often quickly locate where the "meat" of a document will be just by looking at its structure, and scanning the first line of each paragraph.

I also frequently go back and re-read previous lines when I'm reading, because I sometimes just don't absorb things on first-pass. The auto-scrolling line needlessly introduces an urgency to the reading experience that I don't particularly enjoy. Sure, you can pause it, but then that is something you consciously have to think about doing while reading. "Free scrolling" doesn't introduce any extra thinking, because you do it subconsciously most of the time.

So, no, I don't find this particular useful or innovative.

A better solution? A scrolling system that tracks your eye movements in conjunction with a sophisticated AI to adapt to your preferred scrolling behaviour over time.
The Department of Justice decides which people get pursued through the courts and which just get ignored. Its decisions have always been aimed at protecting the wealthy and influential no matter what.
http://www.acstede-test.co.uk/blackhill/images/stories/Lleyn...

Sheeps were detected as horses, faces but not as cats or cars. This seems to be the current state of the art for a general purpose classification. I haven't seen anything better yet (unless you'd specialize in sheep detection)
> this UX seems be like playing an cruel game where I have to drag just enough to scroll a whole page

just use the mousewheel / trackpad scoll area / two finger trackpad scroll gesture or swipe your finger on the touchscreen to scroll as much as you want at a time! it seems quite natural. I always though paging things is a very very bad UI pattern, but this "fluid paging" works great for plain text ...though nothing beats good ol' scrolling for a media rich documents or something with a fancier layout...
I don't mean to seem rude, but please, seek help. This doesn't sound like a healthy way to think and feel.
You do live in the land Kafka could only have lurid nightmares about, though.
Did you even read the posted link, or are you just responding to the headline?
People even now often prefer watches with no electronics at all. Hours in Japan a couple hundred years ago were variable in length. How did they manage to keep their clocks running properly then? Slaves.
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+1000 - if you go back long enough, I'm pretty sure that you can find atrocities committed by any people in the world.
Lets all just go read books.
Hi, would love to have this API on Mashape.com
I mostly agree. But a potential 35 year prison sentence hanging over people for a white collar crime is sure to send a percentage of them over the edge.

With a more realistic and efficient judicial system, people would be under a lot less unnecessary stress and there'd be fewer straws to break the proverbial camels' backs. Being threatened with 35 years in prison for what he did is indicative of a sick judicial system.
I can't stop reading his writings. He was a talented writer, amongst other things. I really feel the connection even though I never met him.

My condolences to his family and the entire community. :(
> I think that the way to beat the stigma is talk openly about it.

Easier to say than to do. If you're depressed / bipolar / schizophrenic and talk about it openly it can make people very uncomfortable, which can result in their not wanting to be around you, which can result in further isolation for you, which can make your situation worse.
ctime is also useful because it's harder to forge. You can normally set the mtime on your files to whatever you want, but forging the ctime normally requires either directly modifying the filesystem structures on disk, or changing the system clock.
Russia and Singapore have both taken to using "summer time" all year round. I think this addresses your concerns.
It's easy to deride suicide but fact of the matter is that it is the final but a very powerful option we have at our disposal. Instead of saying that a particular person should not have committed suicide, our hope should be that if a suicide happens, it is well thought through and is not done in haste. If a particular person decides that decades of painful life is much worse than simply ending the existence, who are we to question such a personal decision?

Of course, if everything was alright, I would have loved to see Aaron existing in this world for many more years and do wonderful things but not knowing what led him to this step and how he judged the current/future life for himself. Simply commenting that he should not have committed suicide is being insensitive to a person who has already done so much great work for humanity.

Life is not always better than no life. Context matters. A lot.
Meanwhile, the guys who wiped out literally trillions of dollars of wealth by cratered the global economy in an orgy of greed, fraud, and reckless disregard for everything but their own inflated bonuses couldn't get arrested if they tired.

There are a lot of things wrong with this situation, but the egregiously misaligned priorities of the US Attorneys are near the top of the list.
Exactly, I am right there with you.

I don't understand the people saying the DOJ was just doing their jobs either. Are none of the people involved in that process given any sort of power of discretion at all? Any person in this case who was in a position to use some discretion but chose not to should be doing some serious reflection and consideration right now.
Yeah, Turing was a total loser, right?
I just tried searching Google Scholar, and it turned up studies showing effectiveness:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1521/suli.33.4.400.252... - "Independent raters measured callers' suicidality and mental state at the beginning and end of 100 taped counselling sessions. Changes in suicidality and mental state were measured using a reliable rating scale developed for the study. Significant decreases in suicidality and significant improvement in mental state were found to occur during the course of counselling sessions, suggesting positive immediate impact."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1521/suli.2007.37.3.33... - "Significant decreases in suicidality were found during the course of the telephone session, with continuing decreases in hopelessness and psychological pain in the following weeks."

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1022269314076... - "Outcome measures showed observer evaluations of decreased depressive mood from the beginning to the end in 14% of calls, decreased suicidal urgency ratings from the beginning to the end in 27% of calls, and reaching a contract in 68% of calls, of which 54% of contracts were upheld according to follow-up data."

In case people don't know this: these hotlines also help people who are concerned about friends and family members, and there are email-based options like http://www.samaritans.org/.
In the UK most fibre is to the street with ADSL over copy for the last bit. I get 40/20 from that. I presume the street gets gigabit.
hm. wrong link... anyway, a re-run:

A friend of mine worked for one for a while. She says it is a mixed bag, you win a lot, you lose some too. It's the toughest thing anybody could pick to do as a job. She's a pretty successful businesswoman and decided to take a years break and looked for something useful to do, ended up manning one of the phones.
He has a point, though. It's pretty conservative to say "get help" for every thought about suicide. I think there's a difference between thinking about doing it or, say, wondering what death is like or whether you'd have the stones to go through with it. Honestly, I wonder what death is like a lot.

That being said, I tend to agree with you to be more conservative, but I've had similar thoughts as the guy you're replying to and know without a doubt that I'd never kill myself. Of course, there's probably a psychological argument that me knowing that is up for debate.

(Don't take this as displeasure with your efforts in this thread: thank you.)
In which case the prosecution should have realised he was a suicide risk and acted appropriately. They seemingly did not.
Al Jazeera America, test case for an open society
Don't feed the troll. Oh. Catholic. Gotcha.
You are cherry-picking bits of my argument - to be clear, it has all those features at the same time, making it an exceptionally good systems programming language (even if it is ugly). The challenge is not to find better versions of one of C++s features - that is not hard.

The challenge is to find a better systems programming language. I agree that people have made fast(ih) Lisp compilers, but I don't believe I've heard of large programs that run on any platform being made in them.

My argument is not that C++ is the only language with a macro facility - far from it. However, of the languages which are suitable as systems languages (which means they must be fast), only C++ supports one.

I've heard this argument that high-level stuff allows for more speed, but I've never seen it borne out in practice. (Before my startup, I worked in compilers, so I do have a decent perspective on this - nobody in the programming language community believes Lisp even approaches C++ in terms of speed).

Actually, I lie. Naughty Dog games produced a Lisp compiler for the PS2 (I believe used in Jack and Daxter) that had an amazing reputation for being able use much more of the PS2's power than any other game, as it was able to compile to code that ran on the other vector units and not just the main CPU.

The CL-PPCRE is all well and good, but bear in mind there are other regex libraries that compile to machine code, including YARR which is a JIT. pcre isn't the only option.
Who are you referring to, exactly?

The federal prosecutors? The division head? The attorney general?

How do you plan to identify the parties bent on indicting him? You certainly can't assume the prosecutors took this on as some sort of personal crusade.

Assuming you can identify the individuals most responsible, what do you plan to do to punish them for their actions? The implication of getting "names and faces" out in the public domain is potentially serious.

I've seen this sentiment echoed variously up and down this thread, and it is scary. Inaction is not the appropriate response here, but neither is the public stoning you appear to be proposing.
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Across Asia Wikipedia seems down(confirmed with a few friends as well). Everyone seems to be getting this error: http://i47.tinypic.com/2exbucl.png

Any clues what's the issue?
Goes to show that peeps who never had to work for their money get too confused about their life.
I wouldn't even call it a 'white collar crime'. It was downloading some scientific papers, which the site didn't really care about. White collar crime is like Bernie Madoff.
This is just absolutely shocking.

Aaron Swartz was an inspiration. To know that a person you looked up to, someone from whom you learned so much through his writings and his projects, ended up finishing his life like that...

Speechless!
It can be. I've found that being very matter-of-fact about it works for me, but I have a reasonably social personality.
They checked their conscience at the door a long time ago.

RIP Aaron, you were too soon for this world.
There is one increasingly common kind of paper out there, the 'obfuscapaper'. It's a paper which pretends to outline all the steps, but really doesn't -- key information is either missing or obfuscated. You often see that with papers published by people working at companies, or by people who are about to leave academia to work at a company.

Problem is, this kind of obfuscation is really difficult to spot unless you actually understand the paper and see all the steps necessary to implement the algorithm.
I was thinking of starting the very same petition just a few days ago. It is logical, and would save costs that laypeople fail to recognize or appreciate. DST is a fertile source of bugs in the operation of important computer systems. Financial markets are an example I'm all too familiar with, where systems in New York run at a 5-hour offset to London about 49 weeks per year. Making that work (relatively) smoothly takes a lot more than the proverbial "couple lines of code." If commissions went up by 50% during those three weeks to reflect the costs, people would care more.
You made me think. The idea that I have the option to end it makes life more bearable. Give it your best go and reevaluate.
I drive the conservative line because suicidal ideation is a symptom of depression and depression is a good predictor of suicide (and bloody unpleasant in itself).

People in a normal mood just don't think about suicide.

It's a reliable signal that something is wrong. And given how available help is, the smart thing to do is seek help.
I value my freedom and clarity of mind far more than I do some subjective "happiness", induced by drugs or lengthy stays in facilities, as is the normal treatment for depressive disorders in the UK.

The system is not there to help, it's a kafkaesque self-sustaining bureaucracy.

I do agree that suicidal thoughts aren't altogether healthy, but I'd also argue that blithely wandering through life without the merest shred of existential doubt is equally unhealthy.
Aaron Swartz v. United States (2011)
What's strange is that the NemID Java applet doesn't seem to really be doing anything important. It's just a login box. It takes a username/pwd, and sends it to the server. The server responds with a query for the 2nd-factor code, which you look up on your physical NemID card, type in, and it sends it to the server. If everything matches, you're authenticated. Afaict there's nothing going on here that couldn't be done by some HTML forms: the two-factor-authentication magic is done by the server and the paper NemID card (a card with 148 one-time-use challenge/response codes).
Even if you're right, there are many things that can turn the sanest of people "insane" (or at least depressed). See post traumatic stress disorder or postpartum depression for starters.

I imagine if I were suddenly facing a potential 35 years in prison, I'd be at a pretty high risk of becoming depressed.
Even if you're innocent, and even if you ultimately win, a federal prosecution can utterly wreck your life.

I don't think anyone disputes that Aaron was probably not in the best of mental health to be facing this kind of thing in the first place, but even for a paragon of stability, a multi-year witchhunt and prosecution by the feds will push you to the limit. I know of a few people who have been in the eye AUSA doom (and some ongoing, like Harborside Health Center), and especially for an individual defendant vs. a group, it's very hard.
If it wasn't for the conversation here on HN, I would have assumed the whole site was just a referral-scam. Not just a paywall, but a scam, since there is zero warning upfront until after you've subscribed.

And please, unless what you do is explicitly aimed at the US, treat all users as equal. We're not "international users", just list the options equally for everyone.
Man this so sucks.

If you hit someone with enough felony counts sooner or later something can snap. This in response to those that claim the DOJ didn't have anything to do with Aaron killing himself.

For some people the mere fact of being suspected of a crime they didn't commit is enough to push them over the edge. When you're placed in a holding cell the police will remove your laces from your boots so you don't hang yourself, that's how heavy being imprisoned can weigh on some.

Aaron did something that he thought was right, that he truly believed in and that upset a large number of applecarts and that had far reaching implications, had the proverbial book thrown at him and then some. The prospect of significant amounts of jail time (35 years for downloading scientific papers, it shouldn't even be a crime) and/or a felony record must have weighed very heavy on him.

For a person that is of a very stable mental make-up that would already be extreme pressure.

For someone with a mental issue it may very well be all it takes.

Aaron was inspiring to me, I think that no copyrighted piece of paper is worth a human life and that the DOJ, even if they are not directly responsible at least indirectly carry some of the responsibility here for beating down someone who was fighting for an extremely good cause in a somewhat haphazard way. The letter of the law and the spirit of the law should both be taken into account.

I hope those that had a hand in Aarons' continued prosecution will sleep miserably for a long time to come. Likely it won't weigh on their consciousness at all.
True, I didn't realize white collar crime had a financial motivation. So, it was even less serious than that.