skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no need to speculate. The DOJ bought by corporate interests is directly responsible for his suicide. They are more worried about protecting corporate interests than worrying about the spirit of law.
Sure, but by this point we've redefined "destroying the Earth" to mean "making someone less comfortable."
After seeing how Japanese government handled Fukushima accident, I as a Korean don't feel very safe with them wanting to play with a bigger gun. If Japanese government doesn't or can't take care of its own people, how do I believe it will care so much about world peace?
Its sad that this is important and at the top of HN, yet Reddit is still full of cat pictures on the front page.
This. I first saw a raw_nerve post here on HN, and that's how i got to know of Aaron. Such writing requires an ability for introspection, among many other things. I find it hard to contemplate how someone with such a mind could possibly commit suicide. Sad day, indeed :(.
A lack of a sense of humor was never very high of my list of concerning and horrifying features of the federal government.
I use click to play, and once in a while it does break a page. If a site uses a Flash uploader, or tries to show a video (<video> ain't there yet), then it will break and people won't know why. I still wish it would happen to really push against using plugins on the web, but I understand why they haven't done this yet.
> Morning or night isn't important

actually morning or night encodes most of the things.

For example, when visiting city X I won't check whether public transport is running from/to the airport if I know I'm arriving at 11:45, as I can safely assume it's there, while I will if I am arriving at 23:45 I'll have to find out whether public transport is running, or if there is taxi service I can pay with my currency, or if there is an exchange office open that late etc.

Of course you may need to check some specifics, but other than borderline cases you may assume with reasonable confidence that if you visit turkey, ireland, italy, USA, spain, finland and japan _in the morning_ you will be able to visit a city with daylight, use public transport, exchange your money, eat out.
I took these to be part of the DOJ:

"The criminal investigation and today’s indictment of Mr. Swartz has been directed by the United States Attorney’s Office. It was the government’s decision whether to prosecute, not JSTOR’s. As noted previously, our interest was in securing the content. Once this was achieved, we had no interest in this becoming an ongoing legal matter."

So it's not as if anybody outside the government was still pressing charges over this.

Judges, United States Attorneys, they could have all put a stop to this, instead they allowed it to roll on destroying a life in the process, regardless of what Aaron did to himself or not.
Raw Nerve by Aaron Swartz
Look, UTC time already exists. How about you start an experiment. Whenever you schedule meetings or do anything that involves a time, use UTC. Maybe add in a little note about it in a signature or something, in case someone gets confused.

Report back in a year on your results.
There is a good reason for leap seconds though: They make sure that UTC (based on atomic clocks) stays in sync with the solar day. If we didn't have those, the two would slowly drift apart and we would have to introduce a bigger jump at some later point.
Tracks a true solar day? Is there actually a scientific definition of when a day starts and ends? As far as I can tell skimming Wikipedia, it's simply 86400 seconds.

Certainly by my body clock, a "true solar day" is when I'm on DST.
I was all excited and then ... Seriously? Objectified is your first lesson?

http://www.amazon.com/Objectified/product-reviews/B002SOUVKU...
Hmmm... I highly doubt your site has been hijacked if you can still access the registrar and your whois information is showing.
Can you tell me the name of the domain and registrar.
Thanks
I am really upset by this. I normally feel pretty far away from news stories I read anywhere, but this feels close to home. =(
I would much rather have sunset, rather than sunrise, synchronized. If the sun always set at 10PM, life would be easy.
It's #2 on my front page (via /r/news).
Biggest Thing in Universe Found—Defies Scientific Theory
There is a mental illness here and the mental illness is thinking that his suicide is unrelated to the massive witch hunt against him by the US Federal Government hellbent on his personal destruction at any cost.

Those who deny that that had anything to do with this, and it was only a "brain disorder" or other such claptrap are truly insane.

I've had students who for years were systematically abused and tortured by adults. This abuse caused them pain, distress, depression, and suicide ideation, not a chemical imbalance. Despite this, counselors they saw diagnosed them as having a chemical imbalance and pumped them full of pills that have psychosis and suicide as known and documented side effects.

Who is insane in this situation? Who is responsible for the damage it causes when a young person is targeted for destruction by sociopaths and it causes them to crack? A chemical imbalance? Not the things that are being done to them by others intentionally trying to harm them?

This attitude justifies the abuse of people. This attitude leads to suicide. This attitude needs to stop.
The monks on mount athos do this[0], but they adjust weekly, and the time is set at sunset rather than sunrise. "Byzantine clock" makes a lot more sense now that I know this exists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos#Date_and_time_recko...
They are not exactly the same, but at least roughly: If I make a work appointment at 9:00 or 10:00, I can be pretty sure that it will fall into usual office hours. If I go to a shop at 16:00 it will probably be open.
I hate endless scroll 1 most people don't handle back button properly when clicking an item and 2 can't share a link to page 2 for example
Editing talk videos for Ignite Taipei
Why "ja." for Japanese when the ISO country code is JP?
UTC would eliminate the confusion - just say "We're in the office from 17:00-02:00" (currently 9-6 PST)

A nontrivial amount of my time is wasted responding to emails with "3pm pacific or mountain?". Asking "does 23:00 work for you?" avoids the variable.

This is twice as bad if you ever have to work with anyone in Arizona during the summer, as they already skip DST.

Fortunately calendaring software does a decent job abstracting the insanity away, but that doesn't help much with the process of scheduling things across companies, as you can't see their calendars. I suppose within a company that has offices in multiple timezones it's less painful.
This is right. I'm shocked at the "suicide apologists" in this thread.
I know this is all still proof-of-concept, but I think the only feature that was even remotely interesting in that demonstration was the ability to bridge your display to an adjacent tablet. The rest... it just seems like novelty for the sake of novelty. Maybe I'm just missing something?
Use icons!
Ack! I'm sorry! I started out with "pre" elements, but they were causing problems with copying and pasting (it looked odd, and it added a dreadful newline so the command would execute on paste!)

The plan is to have a pdf shortly; that will most definitely be copy and pasteable.
Technically, China has never issued any formal threats of using force against Japan(google that one), North Korea is as much as PITA for China as well as the rest of the world. The only reason DPRK is still here is because China doesn't want any massive influx of refugees (North Koreans can't cross into the South directly because of the landmines in the DMZ).

As much as I hate the current regime in China, I don't see them being a threat to world peace. The fear of totalitarian regimes is pretty much a BS notion manufactured by the American media. A totalitarian leader is only a threat to world peace under the following conditions: 1) He's extremely charismatic. 2) His country is running out of resources. 3) He believes he is under a great external threat.

China hasn't seen a charismatic leader since Mao, tho running out of resources, it is actively addressing it by developing renewable resources. There is also no country openly hostile to China, including Japan.

I don't have anything against Japan increasing meagerly its military budget, or even repeal Article 9. It's fully their right to do so as long as they are not hostile. But saying Japan is not potentially dangerous is not entirely correct. Japan is still mostly ruled by a right wing aristocracy that have extremely close relationship with the government officials during WWII. Economy has stagnated and arguable steadily declining since the 90s. It has almost no natural resources for an industrialized nation to speak of and it believes it is under constant thread from North Korea. All that it takes is a charismatic Japanese leader and a crappy Chinese defense to see Japan aggression rise up again.
Aaron Swartz was an excellent programmer and writer. I have bumped into his code and writings often. The raw nerve series ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve ) have been especially influential in shaping my thinking. Above all, he was a wonderful human being: the world is a bit worse off and a sadder place without him. Rest in peace, Aaron.
That would be great except as far as know it's impossible to install without the plugin. There's no download option that doesn't install the plugin as well and even if you disable it it will get re-enabled next time it upgrades (maybe they've fixed that?)
In case anybody is not aware, TreeHouse has a lot of design courses available for free.

http://teamtreehouse.com/library

I am in Singapore and as like other people here, has hit a pay-wall. The issue is at the landing page, it says: "Receive a design course in your inbox each week" which gives me an impression these courses are free. I understand good things usually aren't free, but not saying it up front until I gave my email address is something that I don't like. Therefore, I am not going back
Univ Illinois has something on QMC already.
http://code.google.com/p/qmcpack/
I actually worked for the national hotline as a volunteer. I worked at a local crisis hotline in the Maryland area, and each one of these places ties into the national hotline, as it does (and please feel free to troll me) a round-robin process and tries to find the closest center given the area code of the caller. I personally handled less than a dozen of these calls. I cannot go into details because we all sign NDA's (surprise, surprise), but I will tell you in all my time we never had someone commit suicide. Also, even volunteer people like myself are trained in suicidology assessment, and getting a stage 3 person warrants you calling law enforcement and/or emergency services given your discretion. In my over a year there, I saw that happen only once when they thought it would be close. I personally talked down many people, and it was my personal opinion those who called the hotline were rarely those were at a level so bad they were going to do it on the phone.

Just my two cents.
<sarcasm>It's been proven now, getting rid of DST is communism!</sarcasm>
I'm sad, really sad. I didn't know him personally and have never spoken to him. But few times when I read one of his tweets or when I visited a page of his site from a link elsewhere, I was saying to myself that it should be hard to be in his position actually, that it must put your life on hold and shut any of your plans to be stuck in such a preposterous legal situation. I as a simple citizen command you Aaron Swartz for all your inspirational work, Thank You.
yes absolutely. IPhoto is replaced with g plus sync all photos get auto uploaded and Google sync contacts and docs. use Google voice for messaging and calls. switch to Linux while you're at it
After giving it a thought, i'd say it's just a new buzzword for sysadmin.

Because, atleast in my understanding, it's totally in the working area of sysadmins to set up a server, install and configure software, configure monitoring, etc. The typical sysadmin will also write scripts and stuff to do that.

My bet is that it just came up by some angry sysadmins who felt like they need to differentiate from the dumber kind of admin who can barely touch a shell.

Of course a software developer may also write deployment scripts and similar stuff, so that's where it becomes fuzzy.

I never really thought about that term, but thanks to yyour question i just figured that i will drop the term from my vocabulary. It's too fuzzy, it's too much of a buzzword.
'Secret recipes' for major commercial food and beverage products are really a marketing myth - dominant brands want the public think their product is so good that all their competitors would copy it, except they don't know the recipe.

The reality is that a broad range of techniques (e.g. GC-MS) could reliably identify the chemical composition of products if competitors really wanted to know, and creating a recipe from the chemical composition isn't that hard (the chemical composition of many flavouring herbs and spices used commercially are widely available), and assuming no chemical transformations during processing, solving for the levels of ingredients from the levels of plants is simple linear algebra (solve Transpose(A)Y=Tranpose(A)AX for X, Y is a column vector giving the concentrations of the dominant species, A is a matrix giving the concentrations of each compound in each plant, and X is the unknown column vector giving the amount of each plant to use). Assuming thousands of species and ingredient possibilities, this could realistically be solved in less than a second on my home computer - no need for the supercomputer.

The real reason that big companies like Pepsi don't make an exact copy of Coca-Cola is not that they don't know what is in Coca-Cola, it is that it would be bad business - it is far better to make a product with its own distinctive taste for customers to like that is nevertheless close enough to be a substitute.
obligatory references for military spending for the lazy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...

and

http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=279 (2002 data, but still quite impressive)
You're essentially arguing that the ends justify the means.
Only in that it makes finger pointers feel better while getting their slab of meat. The difference between the two is arbitrary and simply made up.
Dear Benny,
You're a developer, the design part is lacking. And it's great that you come here for advice!

The bright bg-color in your logo is distracting me from actually reading the name of your app.
The iPhone itself is really slick, though the fonts and used colors aren't. Perhaps you could use googlefonts?
The text you use is nice, though could use some improvement. Maybe it sounds better on a video than it reads on screen. "Yes, it's that simple" is a bit cheesy nowadays.
Also, as an app user I wouldn't understand what an SVG file is for editing on a desktop. (who uses a desktop anyways, you're even targeting iOS-users only?)

Your headline is great!

If you want more input, just send me an email!
Don't be ridiculous. Nobody is directly responsible for Swartz's suicide but Swartz. That's what suicide is.
Prosecutors can usually act on their own initiative. It's because of the historical legal concept that an offence against a person is really an offence against the Crown. So the Crown takes a legal monopoly on force and logically, this means that the Crown gets to decide what to pursue. The USA inherited this concept from England.

What I was trying to say above is that a prosecutor's goal is to prosecute as many cases as fully as possible. They do not consider whether it is meritorious to pursue a case according to some outside moral standard, that's not their job. Most of the time cases are picked if there's strong evidence.

I know you want to imagine that the DOJ prosecutors were some sort of Disney villains, according to a moral standard that they themselves do not abide by. A good man is dead, we all want somebody to kick.

But the place to make an argument that a case is flawed, or that a case is irrelevant, or repugnant to the letter or the spirit of the law, it's not in the prosecutor's office. It's in front of the judge.
This is so absurd. While you may disagree with the punishment sought and the law, the government is enforcing the law, as written at the time the crime was committed.

They guy actively broke many laws over a long period of time. The government is neither acting without reason nor intimidating someone for lawful behavior.

Bullies don't enforce proscribed consequences based on written law. Bullies don't use courts with impartial judges, juries, and defense advocacy. Comparing this to bullying is insulting to anyone actually bullied.

Comparing this to beating a child? Seriously?
Product idea:

A web service where everyone has a "profile", profiles can be grouped by company, by office, by all sorts of things. Every profile keeps information on the persons location and the relevant timezone. If someone needs to arrange a meeting they select the relevant profiles ("SF office, NY office, contractor #14") and it provides all the relevant timezones, maybe even with the options to "automatically" calculate the best time to arrange a meeting for all the parties involved. Tie-ins with google calendar and the like.

We use Skype and so I rely on Skype to tell me what time it is locally for the employees I'm interested in, it works but it's far from elegant.

Maybe I should build this.
I never met Aaron Swartz but always wanted to. His work has had a profound impact on my life.

His blog was thought-provoking. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/

His work on the RSS 1.0 Specification enabled richer, more efficient information consumption. http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec

His work on Markdown enabled intuitive, unobtrusive formatting and structuring of information in plaintext and conversion to HTML. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/#acknowledgement...

His work on reddit enabled thousands—now millions—to share online information in a social manner. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

His work on the web.py framework gave countless Python programmers a head-start on serving information through web applications. http://webpy.org/

His work with DemandProgress gave Americans a political voice to protect and win back their freedom and the freedom of information. http://blog.demandprogress.org/people

His work with Creative Commons promoted the freedom of information and fair use and helped inform content creators of options other than copyright. http://creativecommons.org/

Thank you, Aaron Swartz, for all the above and all the other activism and works (https://github.com/aaronsw) I haven't mentioned here. You'll be missed and remembered by many.

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I called one once, it's pretty effective, even though his advice didn't work or was dumb, I think just having somebody to listen to you is good enough, during that time nobody, meaning none of my friends, was answering my calls.
You already have to do a latitude adjustment, and that's much more complicated than longitude.

I got quite disoriented once going to the southern hemisphere because my northern hemisphere-trained instincts though that the sun should be towards the south at noon, when it's actually to the north.

In Sweden, I had to really adjust my calculations based on the season. If it's summer then the sun sets almost in the north. In the winter, sunset is much closer to the south.

That said, I agree with you. It's easier to say "in the US, if the time is 12:00 then the sun is roughly south" than to have to localize it for the different UTC times for noon in Hawaii through to Florida.
No more or less than we can say "We're staying on standard time year-round". We've adjusted when DST starts relatively recently (twice, I think), and it seems several countries have semi-permanently shifted to DST: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/

Computers pick up on published timezone databases automatically (there was a big mess a couple years back when someone tried to copyright it or something, and they ended up backing down), so any software that can handle any form of DST should have no problem with a permanent shift - and probably by any amount.
> "To defend against this and future Java vulnerabilities, disable Java in Web browsers."

That's not the problem. Attackers can execute Java code through other attack vectors (JavaScript, Flash? PDF?). The only solution seems not having java on your search path. Open a command window, type 'java' (without quotes). If you can call java that way you are vulnerable.
Statistical significance calculator (JavaScript chi-squared test)
you guys will suffer the same fate as korea, who are forever stuck in IE6 due to ActiveX being used everywhere.
There isn't one China, there are at least 2, maybe 3 chinas. Coastal China is industrialized, urbanized, modern, and wealthy. Inland China is poorer and less developed, and the remote provinces like Yunnan are just a few steps above seriously poor countries like Afghanistan or Haiti.
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Thank you Aaron. RIP
Me neither, chrome wouldn't even let me ignore the dodgey SSL cert.
It's not your job to give this sort of advice to people here. It's not some sort of mental disfigurement to think about these things you know. He and everyone else has the right to explore and experience unhappiness. And anyway, by fixating on a peripheral detail of his post you derail the conversation and force him into a rather supplicatory posture. Not cool.
None of these strawmen remotely resemble anything I've said.
I say this is great news for us Norwegians. With enough of these incidents, we may finally get a BankID system which does not rely on Java.

Banks are feeling pressured already, with agressive customers telling them off on facebook when they try to tone this down. And I can't see Mozilla blocking BankID helping them any further.
Ask HN: Why did Aaron Swartz commit suicide?
Unease at Facebook director’s share sale
Jurassic Park 4' is coming to a theater near you on June 13, 2014
By adding more cables?
It makes calendar UIs more complex. I mean, I live near Greenwich, so telling me I've got to clean the house next Wednesday is fairly unambiguous, but if I lived in Sydney and we were using UTC there would all of a sudden we two days you could be referring to.
I have no illusion that therapy is magically going to stop all suicides.

But might help get someone to next week or next month or next year where they might feel different about life.

This is one of those things where you don't "do nothing because you cannot completely solve the problem".

I do disagree though - suicides of the young/healthy are often a sad waste, depression needs perspective which you cannot find by simply looking in the mirror.
I'm really curious what sorts of bugs you are referring to. Could you elaborate on what the hurdles are going from a small run to a large one?
Okay, now you are just embarrassing yourself.
lol,look at my mouth,leijun ni mei,xiaomi ni mei...
Responsibility is a nebulous concept. The extent to which a clinically depressed person (if indeed he was) can be said to "be responsible" for their own suicide is pretty debatable.
I am under the impression that traffic accidents increase briefly when the clocks go forward, and decrease briefly when they go back: there's no net difference overall.
Some of the first sensible advice I've read in this thread. I'm slightly disgusted by the sheer quantity of comments on how suicide can be "right" and how he was "pushed into it".

Suicide is never, never the answer, it can just seem like it sometimes when you are very, very low.
i submitted several plain and easy images to this supposed service. it failed to detect the object in every single instance.

Hey losers FUCK OFF this is a technology site.