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> The idea was that in the winter there would be fewer hours with the sun up, and it made sense to put those hours in a more useful part of the day.

Daylight Savings time happens during the summer, not the winter. Winter time is unadjusted and tracks a true solar day. Summer time is adjusted, and indeed it's adjusted in the direction you favor (to provide more daylight hours at night).
My method of killing DST would be to accept it year round. I would much rather have the extra time at the end of the day, after work.

I'm not sure if we can just unilaterally say "All our timezones are +1 now, forever" though.
Shocking and saddening. I've been working with Python lately and feel a particular loss because of web.py and all the other good work he did. My prayers go out to his family.

I wonder why some people here are assuming this tragedy is because of the JSTOR incident. It seems to me that everyone should just meditate on what's been lost, and defer judgement about why he would do this until there is evidence.
Oh, thanks !
Because he was a brilliant and loved computer programmer who was facing 35 years in prison. Can you imagine the US Attorneys office treating you in the same manner they treat rapists because you wrote a downloader script? I'd say it's a very reasonable assumption.

RIP Aaron
OMG, the shock of it ...

He was such a terrific writer, easy to see why he could code so well
On the contrary, I lived in Shanghai for many years, and just spent a month there. Internet speeds, at least for accessing any sites outside China, are notoriously horrible, as anyone living there will tell you.

Using a secure proxy is often necessary not only for circumventing GFW, but to get usable speeds to western internet services.

Did you return from the future?
Disney have trademarks on all their characters; that should be enough.
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As someone who has read pg's writings and watched YC grew, the reddit story is very close to my heart. I always felt I knew Aaron, Steve and Alexis well even though I never met or interacted with them. This is such a shock. RIP.
For some reason this is a shock to me. It shouldn't be, I didn't know the guy. But I was just playing with web.py framework. It is so strange, I thought just today, I wonder if Aaron would accept a pull request, I could see a few things to improve.

Looking back at his activity on github he was pulling in commits less than a week ago:

https://github.com/aaronsw?tab=activity

I don't know details about the "JSTOR" case or about what he did at Reddit but I can see in his code that he cared and wanted to make something better, smaller and elegant. I respect that and it is a loss to have him gone forever.
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Ok, ok, I edited the acronym... I was thinking about updating the IE's Java plugin, and I don't know if it can be done other way than via Windows Update. I'm so annoyed by the state of Java in the browser because applets are the only means of running Clojure or Jython or JRuby or your other fav JVM language in the browser, modifying the DOM and doing whatever you wish without needing to compile to Javascript. I know, this way of doing things will die out, but today it can still be done for something like a company internal app and it's really cool from the developer's pov!
Yeah, unlike reddit with their "catchy" titles. This place tries hard not to be another reddit. Your post titles would get edits by a moderator if it seems a little "too" catchy.
Will HN's colors be going black?
daylight savings creates useless complexity, confuses the electronic devices, travel plans, flights and many other human and post-human activities. artificial lighting, flexible working hours, remote working are all helping better day for everyone.

beyond that, following bold suggestion exist; 1) the 'second' time unit must be quicker to match average human heart rate. 2) time zones maybe abolished totally and 1 single time zone maybe used.
> My pet peeve, though, is leap-seconds. Life would be a lot easier if you could rely on days always having 86400 seconds.

Is this sarcasm? The only time I've ever noticed leap seconds was the story about a bug in the Linux kernel's handling of them.
This is tragic. :(

You were an inspiration at times. And more importantly, one among those who make people want to change for the better.
Honestly, those are just ease of use constraints - people with the right mentality will break through barriers to manipulate the device. A bluetooth keyboard and mouse are sufficient, and you can plug a tablet into a bigger display (though that is definitely not the new-hacker use case).

The real breakpoint is that you can't build software for the device on the device anymore, with the exception of web apps.
This feels like spam, but anyway I actually have these. They don't work as advertised sadly. I put a temp sensor on the cup and the temperature curve didn't look any different than without the joulies.
Approximately 1 hojillion[1] dollars? But I think we both know that's not the real question here. Not to dissect the frog too much, but the joke is that XML == Enterprise === Grown Up. Therefore more XML is mo betta.

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Can we not know who exactly (their faces/names etc.) were the people working in the "US Attorney Office" bent to indict him? It's easy for people to term it was not JSTOR, it was the Attorney Office but ultimately these things happen only because people forget how to treat other people properly.
Aaron suffered from a brain disorder. He had documented periods of extreme withdrawn depression and others of mild manic productivity.

Because of that brain disorder, perhaps because it was not attacked with the requisite treatment, he is dead.

If you or a loved one are ever feeling suicidal, depressed, or are acting abnormally erratic, contact an expert. It's nothing to be ashamed about. It's just a lottery of genetic expression.

There are others going through the same thing. There are excellent treatments available, and they get better each year. You might save someone's life.

http://www.reddit.com/r/suicidewatch
http://www.reddit.com/r/depression
http://www.reddit.com/r/bipolarreddit

I find it bizarre how quickly our minds jump to impossibly unlikely reasons when tragic events like this happen. Troubles with the justice department don't alone cause a bright young man to kill himself.

> I was miserable. I couldn't stand San Francisco. I couldn't stand office life. I couldn't stand Wired. I took a long Christmas vacation. I got sick. I thought of suicide. I ran from the police. And when I got back on Monday morning, I was asked to resign.

> I followed these rules. And here I am today, with a dozen projects on my plate and my stress level through the roof once again.

https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying

> I have a lot of illnesses. I don’t talk about it much, for a variety of reasons. I feel ashamed to have an illness. (It sounds absurd, but there still is an enormous stigma around being sick.)

> Sadly, depression (like other mental illnesses, especially addiction) is not seen as “real” enough to deserve the investment and awareness of conditions like breast cancer (1 in 8) or AIDS (1 in 150). And there is, of course, the shame.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick

In his short life Aaron has produced a wonderful collection of writing, code, and actions, which will all be available for years to come. He will be missed. His effects have not yet ceased.
It depends how much you pay. I'm in a city 180km from Shanghai and switched to optical fiber recently with no extra charge. I have a plan of 7Mpbs including TV and internet with price of around 200 dollars equivalent per year. They have 20Mpbs plan but the price is different. The internet connection is still 4Mbps as I tested. The TV is much better than before. In Canada I use cable service, with the same speed I pay 50 dollars per month.
I'm sure if they have the right interest, they will investigate how these devices work. It isn't as nice as being forced into learning a lot of it by necessity of the tech (think TTY only devices) but I'm sure most who possess the correct spark might end up writing web apps instead of bash scripts.
Wouldn't they just perceive this as some sort of admission of guilt?
As a Chinese, do you remember the atrocities you did to the Chinese people? You might not remember, but my grandparents remember it vividly. Now the question is, what has Chinese people done to you so far to have you make such a statement?
There isn't anything saying a business can't have employees work 8pm - 4am during the winter. Besides the fact a lot of people can't adapt their sleep schedule.
This makes me think of Len Sassaman's (cypherpunk, remailer developer,etc.) suicide from 18 months ago :( It's terrible when anyone kills himself, but when it's someone who was doing something which pushed the limits like this, it's worse.
> I wonder why some people here are assuming this tragedy is because of the JSTOR incident. It seems to me that everyone should just meditate on what's been lost, and defer judgement about why he would do this until there is evidence.

Thank you so much. It's awful to see people in here blaming the trial when suicide is much more complex than a single incident pushing someone to the edge like that.
Understandable emotion, but the country did not kill him. He did that.

You can disagree with the laws of the land, protest them, even violate them in protest assuming you are willing to pay the consequences.

You can blame the country, its politicians, or its voters for having bad laws. You can't blame those entities for this suicide. That was his choice, and it's unfortunate he will not be around to make his case.
Meta question: where do you actually learn this stuff? I am a developer with an intermediate desktop level command line knowledge learnt mostly on the job but would appreciate a crash course on system-level command line, diagnostics, devops, etc.
We have lots of imap maildir directories; e.g., ".Junk", ".Trash", ".Sent", ".Inbox", for each mail account on the server. It's kind of a special case though; I'll agree that in all other cases, your version is simpler and easier to remember.
They've achieved absolutely nothing that I've heard of.

But, slacktivisim has such a low barrier to entry, I expect this is going to go on for a good long while. If not forever.
Can you provide more information about which brain disorder?
China is a lot poorer.
Well yeah, that's why this saber-rattling is so worrying. It wouldn't be first war to start over such nominally small stakes. The mods have changed the title, but the point of posting it was to draw attention to the fact that the two countries are flying fighter jets past each other now, which is a worrying escalation in my view. Aerial brinksmanship can go wrong a lot faster than the naval kind.
Very sad, and very unexpected. He had so many interesting things going on.
You're being a bit unfair. It's equally inappropriate for me to speculate about his motives, but I recall there being an undercurrent of melancholia in Aaron's writings even pre-indictment.
While we are at it, can we get rid of time zones and switch the world to UTC? I get that it is a jarring idea to not be getting up at 8am anywhere in the world, but for international travel, computing, shipping, etc not having to constantly adjust dates and times across arbitrary lines of longitude would be such a boon.

I don't get why people inherently need 6am to be the early morning, 12pm being "high noon", and 6pm being "early evening". I'm sure different regions would adjust quickly to just having different hours correlate to different states of the sun wherever they live. Time should be measured the same around the globe, not with arbitrary divisions.

You know, we could also get rid of the AM/PM arbitrariness too and switch to a 24 hour clock. Wouldn't it be nice if time made sense.
You might be right. I have some recollection of .* stabbing me in the back once before in this command, and I know I put -x (do not traverse file systems) in there for a reason -- but I don't have any notes on why, so I can't say anything smart about it.
Disgustingly, that would not surprise me.
Probably.

To be honest if I had to imagine the people at the attorney's office who decided to prosecute this I'd imagine vaguely malevolent bureaucratic dullards who derive validation from enforcing the rules in a heavy handed fashion.
RIP Aaron.
DST doesn't shift daylight hours earlier in the day; rather, it ensures that the sun rises at approximately the same time every morning, regardless of season.
These petitions are utterly useless.

In fact, they are worse than useless, because they channel energy that would otherwise be useful into such a feckless means.

If you care about something, write your reps in congress, your senators, and the president. Clicking a button on on a whitehouse.gov petition is as useless as liking a political post on facebook.
>It has not. Instead, Adobe has made CS2 even easier to get, by removing the Adobe ID requirement. The company created a new CS2 download page, and this time around, it had no registration requirement at all.

Read this. I hope you read it atleast.
And A: I don't think it would be too difficult to get aged actors like Mark Hammond and Carrie Fisher to play older versions of their most successful characters (Harrison Ford might prove more difficult for various reasons).

Personally I could easily see a teen-focused series, revolving perhaps around the students in the re-established Jedi Academy, with Luke and Leia as tutors. If done right, it could have a nice combination of adventure, politics and morality lessons... The more I think of it the more I like the concept! :-)
'I thought of suicide.'

I winced when I got to that. It's sad to think this isn't the first time he's had these thoughts and how long he must have had them. Rest in peace.
Dude, you're taking it too serious. It was meant to be funny. Chillax bro! :D
There are different service levels. It goes up to 100mpbs/100mbps symmetrical connection. In my case living in Nanjing I pay for a 50mbps/50mbps connection to save a little money.

Inside of the firewall it's basically an instant load for everything. Foreign sites are definitely slower but still feel pretty speedy overall. Without the firewall I imagine the speeds would be really incredible.
> Paul Shawcross is still a long way from making amends for what he's done to help cripple our human space flight program, however.

And what is it you think he did, exactly? Just curious.
What's wrong with Turkey and Pakistan?
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The app is extremely simple as it helps to communicate in a more personalized manner with just three simple steps – Push, Speak and Share. A single click to copy the URL and you will be all set to send your voice note to anyone over the web. Great isn’t it!
He posted what appeared to be a suicide note on his blog five years ago, and the police were called.

It's still there, but he edited it to change the name to "Alex".

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dying
I didn't know Aaron, but I've been using web.py for years, so I kind of felt like I knew him from hanging around the online community. I really don't know what to say - he was incredibly intelligent, and made great contributions - the 'net gets a little lonelier every time we lose someone like this. :( RIP.
I also never met him, but this really upsets me too.

It was a bummer when I saw the headline, but I'm really, really upset now that I was reminded of his legal troubles.

Suicide is complex, so I don't want to speculate on whether or not he committed suicide to avoid a trial and probably incarceration. Regardless, it had to be a factor and it certainly fucked up his life somewhere between a little bit and a lot a bit.

When I realized just how many spiders I've written... When I think about that spider with a $240B+ market cap... When I think "This could have been me or one of my friends"... I started to cry :-(
Terrible terrible news. What troubles me the most is that this could happen to any one of us. RIP Aaron.
This is a hugely bad idea. You'd still need a system to keep track of local relative time of day. For example, let's say you need to schedule a phone call with someone in another part of the world, how do you determine what time you should call? There are many, many other similar problems. How do you encode all of that information? It turns out, you'll need something almost as complex as the time zones we have today. There's no escaping the irreducible complexity of the problem, there are just ways of shifting it around.
Presumably DOJ doesn't flip coins to decide which cases to handle as there is considerable time, money and other resources involved in each case.

It would be interesting to know how much political and lobbying interests influence those prosecutions. I could not find anything of substance on this topic.

JSTOR can of course officially deny everything, but other publishers, along with MPAA would probably have a vested interest in turning him into an example.

Presumably, from what I had just read here, Aaron's political views wouldn't exactly been too popular with the US govt -- maybe this is just enough to put his case at the top of the stack.
What you describe here has been happening in Singapore public sector for quite some time. Most patients in a hospital will fill their prescriptions in the hospital pharmacy anyway to enjoy subsidies.

Some patients still prefer to have some kind of paper with them, so the doctor will actually print out the prescription but the pharmacy will still process it from the system anyway. When the pharmacy is not busy, we will also pre-process pending (and short) prescriptions from the system and the patient would not need to wait that long for the medicines. It's also a boon for the pharmacy operations because they can smooth out workload throughout the day by pre-processing prescriptions before the peak hours.
Ask HN: Do StackOverflow accounts get question banned unjustly?
Do you think StackOverflow questions bans very easily? Not to be sour, It just seems like questions get closed on mob mentality.
I am deeply sorry to hear about this and it brings back memories of last year when a friend of mine did the same.

Depression is a terrible thing, and I hope we are one day able to cure it. It is treatable, seek help immediately if you are thinking about suicide! I hate that you cannot look upon someone and instantly know if they are depressed or not. If I could, I would drop everything to help a person I saw having trouble.

I hope Aaron found peace, and I wish his family the best.
Rest in peace Aaron. Someone I looked up to in more ways than words any words can explain.
Nobody sane would kill himself - it's against the nature of all beings. Besides it's the easy way out.
did he have a history of depression? perhaps it was simply due to stress or pressure? The thought of spending the next 35 years in prison for downloading documents can be pretty painful... probably as bad as someone who was wrongfully tried for murder.
We have no problem directing our attention at bullying when we consider elevated teenage suicide statistics, but if those bullies happen to be in government they are suddenly off limits and deserve no blame?
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Yeah, I would have a strong preference for permanent reverse daylight savings.
Knowing the reddit community, do you really think that is a good idea?
Bad news for us norwegians. The national online authentication system, BankID, commonly used in online banks and government services, uses a Java applet.
I'm guessing that many severely sight-impaired people would be willing to take the latency to have vision that is significantly more useful.
It's a way of describing "depression" in a way that doesn't feel compatible with blame.
The last one was very well written, and it got rave reviews in the HN comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046178

I would imagine that the public would find the Death Star response to be distasteful and patronizing, but it is apparently well received. The petitions themselves might be useless, but they are a great public relations channel for the white house.
Did any of the employees of US Attorney Office forced him (like putting a gun to a head of one of his loved ones) to do it? It was his own choice to end his life.
True shame. Regardless of your opinion of his actions concerning JSTOR, it's undeniable he made a positive contribution to the web.
UTC everywhere simply moves the complexity somewhere else. You still need time zones to know when the locals get up and go to sleep. My flight gets into Fiji at 22:07? Is that morning or night? Will they be serving breakfast during my layover in Istanbul? When should I schedule my conference call with Tokyo?
this was posted an hour ago, pg is probably in bed already.
It's simply awe-inspiring how much he was able to do with his short life. Time to revisit one of my favourite talks:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4GwftoQElJ0
Rest in Peace Aaron
That's not "corruption", though.
Ouch.. and here I thought it was just Nordea that was stuck back at the 90s. Looks like it's even worse.
First comment from a nine minutes old account... Ask with your real account and I'll answer.

Edit: Oh, wtf... see the censoring of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Also afaik, they don't teach in Pakistan about what happened in Bangladesh in the early 70s.
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Ask HN: Has my domain name been hijacked
A couple of days ago, the name server for my site suddenly changed to something else. On my domain provider it is showing as the right one. For example this is what my domain registrar is showing

example.com ns7.abc.com <---------- this is the correct value

However, when I use nslookup, I am seeing something else altogether:

example.com dns1.xyz.com

My whois entry is indicating the incorrect value. The whois record continues to show the right owner of the domain though.

Has my domain been hijacked? How can I fix this?
Working off UTC makes a lot of sense for modern companies that span the world. And it would also simplify UIs for calendaring applications. (Try creating an event in iOS that starts and ends in different time zones such as a flight). I've switched to using a Casio 3319 (http://www.casio-usa.com/products/Watches/Classic/AQ160_Seri...) with the digital time set locally and the analog time set to UTC because it makes it somewhat easier to coordinate events across disparate timezones.
> Troubles with the justice department don't alone cause a bright young man to kill himself.

A potential to spend a longer part of his life than he has already lived in prison, will probably have a serious impact on anyone's mental state.
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Time of sunrise various much more than an hour once you are far enough away from the equator. For example, http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php gives over 2 hours for Texas, over 3 hours for New York and almost 4 hours for Washington.
You should also note that Russia abolished DST a couple of years ago https://rt.com/news/daylight-saving-time-abolished/ , with the president citing pretty much the same reasons as the petition in question.