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I didn't know much about him aside from the fact that he is one of the founding member of reddit before this. I came to know about all his achievements and contribution to the things that matters a lot to me personally which he did at such young age after this incident.

Even though I almost never heard of him before, I still feel that we lost a big one. Never before I felt this way because of a stranger, and to be honest, even kinda feel weird myself. May he rest in peace.
Some of your son's essays have contributed to my outlook on life in a significant way. Please accept my sincere condolences for your loss.
You should probably set DEBUG at False. This is very undesirable in a production environment as it will probably leak sensitive information that attackers can use against your site. Unless, of course, if you use only the Django ORM.
No I don't.I'm using the Drive API https://developers.google.com/drive/ which is free.I'm still very much testing it out but there's a lag in retrieving tags.I'm curious though how it works for you now?
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Ignored the advice they said.(chuckles to himself)
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I am very sorry for your loss. He was an inspiration, and would still continue to be one. May he find peace.
Yes...if there was any hacker who could advance the state of knowledge in our society with such civic-minded goals, Aaron was one of our best hopes. I took it for granted he would be one of our leaders (not just of the hacking community) for a long time, and that this DoJ case would become a pivotal case for this age. I never met Aaron beyond exchanging online messages but I feel such a tremendous loss.
depression is not rational, it's an illness, it just happens ..
So, the one case gets way easier; the other gets no harder. Seems like an improvement to me.
I don't, working on a start up instead. Training is standard for those visiting, which can range from 15min to 3hr depending on what you will be doing. If you haven't make sure to leave enough time to complete it before the training office closes.
To me it in strange way tells that maybe he had considered something like that at so early point? Because people usually do not prepare for things they really do not expect to happen.
In the approximately 10 countries that I work with - they are all available from 9:00 AMsh to 5:00 PMsh. This may be unique to my sector (Energy/Utilities) - but it's pretty much consistent Across Brazil /UK/ Portugal /Germany /Japan/ Singapore /Australia /Malaysia /US /Luxembourg)

I don't work (yet) with anyone in China, so I can't comment on that country.
Thank you for this, I've been meaning to author something similar, but I'd choose the exact same words.

After 20 years of depression my death was averted by the words "I'd rather see you institutionalized than dead." Two weeks on the psychiatric ward and an ongoing series of changes later, I now lead the happiest life possible. You can, too.

So now, I give these words back to the community. I don't know who you are, but with all my heart: I'd rather see you institutionalized than dead.
Thank you. I am using this as my cover photo to bring awareness to Aaron's work. Strangely enough, I celebrated the death of my best friend, who killed himself 13 years ago, yesterday. Another brilliant mind taken too soon.
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Beware, there are no respawn points in RL.
Watch out for "I used to be happy, those days are gone." you need to remember the repeatable happiness, that you can look forward to.

Actually, you just need to trick yourself into committing to seeing or doing something in the future, repeatedly.
Which suggests that if they took an average of 5 megabytes to store (clearly some would take much less some more) then you could store the entire body of scientific papers in 250 TB of space. Basically slightly more than one rack of servers, including RAID6 level protection of the data with 2TB drives. You can do it in a single rack with 3TB drives.

And if you do publish 1 per minute (525,000 articles a hear) then you need an additional 2.5TB per year to grow your collection.

And what could lead to the greatest human expansion in scientific learning since the start of the renaissance is impossible to build legally because of a tangled system of copyright assignments and the journal business model.
I just see a lot of people talking about cognitive behavioral therapies. I guess it's one of the differences in the "psy" area between the US and Europe where psychoanalysis is more widespread.

I've also known some deep depressive years (after my mother committed suicide). The cure has been to read ( Nietzsche mainly), to embrace it, to listen to my brain, to little by little understand it. Understanding that depression is a pure symptom of our humanity : it's the moment you loose meaning in your life ( as Nietzsche says, the Human being is the only animal who needs meaning to live ). And then, you realize that the meaning of your life can only come from one source : yourself. We are easily trap by the need of approval, the need of existence within the eyes of the one who surrounds us. These approvals do not exist and are only projected, forecasted, approvals, it's our own devils. We are free to put whatever meaning we desire on our lives, as long as we respect others. Life is a permanent challenge to ourselves. This is the reason this is the most beautiful journey... Life is short anyway, let's make it a beautiful adventure. There is nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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> This is rational. It, for me, is not a label like "depression". It a conclusion based on my observation and experience.

Our rational minds are not somehow separate from our emotions and brain chemistry, though. Beware rational conclusions that have feelings attached, and that make you feel positive affect. And if it's only rational for you, well then that's a statement about your mind (brain), not the world or anything else.

I am also puzzled by this:
> Oh yeah, be drugged up. That solves it all. Well, it might for people with things like chemical imbalances

How would you know whether or not you have one (chemical imbalance isn't correct, but how do you know what your brain chemistry looks like?) And rational conclusions tend not to magically go away due to drugs unless it's drugs that make you seriously impaired in general (which you would notice). And SSRIs don't "put thinkers to sleep", go do some research, and note the thinkers that have been on them for large-ish parts of their careers/productive years.

Finally, have you been checked for common physical illnesses that can cause depression? Off the top of my head, vitamin deficiency is famous for this. Read about people with brain tumours and damage, too, and note how these things can have effects on feelings and whatnot without being noticeable by the person having them.
I wouldn't be offended by a black bar. I just don't like calling on other people to do stuff. Likewise you could ask of a widow to wear black for a year, and if she wouldn't, you could start gossiping and badmouthing her.

Also, there are more and more people who go through HN. Perhaps eventually the bar has to be black all the time because somebody always dies.
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Your analogy doesn't take into account political activism, which is acknowledged as a social good in the US almost every time our founding story is taught. Even then it would be a bad analogy.

A restraining order is also very different from the threat of excessive imprisonment.

If it was a threat of excessive imprisonment in your hypothetical situation, yes, the courts and laws would get a share in the blame. Not specifically for committing suicide, but for making your life needlessly worse.
See you are already blind with rage. Somebody died, and you want to leash out and find somebody to blame.

I feel sad about his death, too. I have nothing against black bars or mourning. Just against telling other people how to feel, which incidentally you do again with your post. You are sad, so you are entitled to hate me. You are welcome.
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Who wouldn't click?
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Questions we ask are not going to influence policy in China which runs by a different set of rules.
He worked on Reddit, which is very similar to HN. It's not that unlikely.
The first two parts of your sentence are correct. The last one not necessarily correct. Depression can be caused by a chemical imbalance. It can also be caused/exacerbated by your own thoughts and approaches to life. It doesn't just happen it has causes and is correctable and in many circumstances is preventable.

I think the general point you were trying to make is good. Depression can crop up in the best of us. But acting like it's unavoidable and just something you have to live with is perhaps not the best way of approaching it either.
In the copyright wars, JSTOR is hardly a bad actor compared to the publishers. It's a nonprofit formed by libraries so that there would be a single entity to negotiate with publishers and digitize journals. I'm not saying they've always moved as quickly and aggressively as I'd like, but calling their existence "practically a crime" strikes me as very wrong. If they didn't exist, most libraries wouldn't have access to the journals JSTOR archives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR
From the link in the article:

Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million.

What an absurd and unreasonable level of punishment. Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor who was behind this[1] needs to be publicly shamed.

[1] (source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c...)
Good post, but it is much more difficult to believe in "this will pass" when you could be sentenced for 35 years.
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I believe you are taking good mental balance for granted.

Remember that 'you' are running on top of a very complex biological computer consisting of billions of neurons, with hormones and other chemicals influencing its operation. It needs to constantly be supplied with nutrients and oxygen to function at all.

Sanity is actually a finely balanced thing. You need to worry about the appropriate things, but not too much, and not too little.

Little tweaks to neurotransmitter levels can have enormous effects on your cognition.

Edit: in addition to what the OP had said, also remember this: When you are well and truly depressed, you don't even want to get better. You don't want to feel good. Some part of you is fine with pain and suffering, and more pain and more suffering.
I don't know much about this system JSTOR, but you know with what you said about "scholarly articles dating back centuries" I'd expect them to have some costs associated with those efforts. Its not a popular way to raise money, yes, but who else are you going to charge other than the people interested in using that system...just saying.
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if what the government alleged was true — and I say “if” because I am not revealing what Aaron said to me then — then what he did was wrong. And if not legally wrong, then at least morally wrong.

Morally wrong to download taxpayer-funded research? I'm sorry Larry, you lost me.

More on the academic publishing "industry":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/22/academic-pu...
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Thanks PG for doing this
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'prosecutor' is too abstract. specific names should be named.
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We'd play "keep away", where you try to use the switches to divert the locomotive to crash his each other's push train while avoiding getting hit. Huge fun.

We'd play "farm riot" where the farm animals break out of the zoo and eat every one. Kind of like a zombie apocalypse.

We'd play "ValuJet!" where the plane would fall out of the sky. Not very complicated. You hold the jet up, swoosh around a bit, yell "ValuJet!" and then crash the plane into the people, trains and buildings below.

We'd play "Amtrak!". That's when the train approaches a crossing gate. Also pretty simple. You stuff a lot of people onto a train, yell "Amtrak!" and then hit the car stuck in the crossing gate, derail the train, everyone dies.

Duplo trains are superior to those crappy wooden Brio in every way.

Our Duplos got more play time than any Legos since, even the Star Wars sets. I just passed them down; it was super hard to let go.
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I agree, who is this prosecutor?

http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/contact.html
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EPIC AARON! hats off buddy!
Can you imagine the US Attorneys office treating you in the same manner they treat rapists because you wrote a downloader script?

Minor nitpick: The "justice" system treats rapists far better. Typical sentencing for rapists is 112 months, of which the typical rapist will serve half, from a system( rape is usually a state-level crime )with conviction rates hovering around 65%. Aaron was facing 3-4 times that, in a system( the federal courts )with a conviction rate over 90%.
Separate topic, but I'm curious if making a statement like that open up the possibility that one could be served a subpoena to testify what was said?
pbateman linked to an nytimes article that names 'Carmen M. Ortiz'.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c...

> Mr. Swartz was indicted last Thursday by the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, and the indictment was unsealed Tuesday. The charges could result in up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

there must be more people behind this though.
This is business as usual. Naming the prosecutor isn't going to accomplish anything - the whole system needs fixing.

Just a week ago this was on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003335
I don't think they seized Swartz' assets in this case but they didn't need to - they made his defense as expensive as possible and bled him dry.
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I believe Aaron had come to him under attorney/client privilege at that time. Just because Lessig had to step out due to a conflict doesn't change that fact.
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it's just a small bar above the color that you pick.
Ordinarily yes, but attorney–client privilege would apply here.
I helped a friend edit a nice research paper on protein synthesis and that paper now sits on his USB after being graded.

What happens to research papers students write, is there a place all this knowledge is being shared?
As a rule I find it difficult to justify a prison sentence (beyond perhaps a short "scare them straight" visit) to somebody who has committed a crime that isn't violent (or causing others to commit violence) or perhaps something that causes widespread distress (certain types of fraud).

Of course this would make it difficult to jail alcapones perhaps.
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I am currently suffering from a depressive episode. I am diagnosed OCD/ADD/Motor tic disorder... I also am in recovery after an addiction to oxycontin. I must say, reading the news was very sad, but at the same time, I know why he did it. I CAN understand why someone would do that to themselves, b/c I have considered it myself. But, I always remind myself that these feelings are transient and I will have good days.. You can't take life so seriously, you need to live and laugh regardless of who you are and how smart you are. Like the force of gravity, depression knows no socioeconomic boundaries -we are all susceptible to its effects.
What Lessig sees as the moral problem may not be the retrieval itself but the use of resources. I dunno, I'm just guessing.
Who was Alan Watts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts

His TV show also did an episode on Death [27:09]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGUpYD_Ze_E
I would like to live in a world where, what Aaron did, was neither immoral nor illegal.
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I like how the options are already pre-filled for you. It took me a second to realize I should scroll down, I wasn't sure what to do (if some element was clickable, etc).
JSTOR is a non-profit created to store scholarly articles and maintain archives of scholarly work for future access. JSTOR is and was a driving force behind the digitalization of scholarly works and most academic journals. JSTOR's sole function is to maintain these archives, even if/when it is not commercially viable to do so.

All of this costs money. Universities and companies pay for JSTOR so that it can keep doing its job. More importantly, universities and companies pay for JSTOR so that they don't have to take on the burdens of maintaining complete archives of all academic works.
Federal prosecutors have a lot of independence and discretion. She could easily have let Aaron go with a slap on the wrist or pursued lesser charges.
I'm crying and I've never met him. Seeing the love people are showing and his impact is inspiring.
I am so sorry for your loss. I don't know what to say, but may you find every piece of strength there is to find to pull yourself through this.
> architects of the financial crisis regularly dine at the White House

Is this empty rhetoric really necessary? There were no architects. It took over two decades of government (mis)regulation, whole banking ecosystem of incentives and repackaging, not to mention plenty of people willing to take loans they knew they wouldn't be able to pay back to bring about the crisis.

Same with some great moral wrong of downloading a stack of papers and making them public. Many paid for by the public or even already publicly available.
You'd better also plan and execute a... "due diligence" with your business/technology, before and during termination. This fellow has to know termination is a possibility, and while he continues to work there -- and given the attitude he's already expressed -- who knows what "mines"/"bombs"/"trapdoors" he may be putting in place.

Maybe he's not that sort of fellow. But... he already slept with your wife. And... he's not willing to take the initiative and bow out gracefully, now that this is known.
nor necessary.
Perhaps a coincidence, but the choice of date—the anniversary of his arrest—feels rather convincing.

"Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life..." http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bull...
I also found Nietzsche uplifting when some time ago I was "loosing faith in humanity"... but I never thought it a good idea to recommend him to anyone else as it seemed quite bad for one's mental health on the whole, though it worked great for me... I'm glad there are others that found inspiration in these writings :)
So why didn't I kill myself? Somewhere in my guts, there was a stubborn belief that "this will pass".

This is a critical point. If you know someone who is prone to depression, it's important to understand that they may simply be incapable of generating this kind of hope within themselves. Depression is not merely the loss of happiness, but the loss of the belief that you can ever be happy again. That's why intervention is so important when someone is suicidal: http://www.save.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewpage&p... .
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Some negative comments about the @-operator seem to be very religious. It's just a tool that one can use for good or for evil. Many of the reasons not to use @ described are valid, but there are cases when it makes much cleaner code. E.g. instead of doing:
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This works really well when you don't care whether $a[$key]is present or not, and when you care only whether it contains a certain $value. In complex comparisons the code readability difference is huge!
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Aaron was amazing. Sorry for your loss. He was and is an inspiration to many people like me.
It's not a matter of restricting access to public knowledge; it's a matter of Aaron draining the village pool.

Information shares all of the downsides of the public commons: because it is freely available, no one wants to pay for the maintenance costs. JSTOR charges fees for access to cover the ongoing maintenance costs associated with storing access to thousands of journals and millions of articles published over several centuries. Note also that JSTOR provides assistance with locating articles relevant to the user's needs (i.e., library functions), and such services are frequently more valuable than its archival functions.

A wiki will not suffice to maintain access to this information; Wikipedia and Wikileaks have shown that. You would end up with all of the articles but no practical way to find the particular article or articles you are looking for.
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From the article: For in the 18 months of negotiations, that was what he was not willing to accept, and so that was the reason he was facing a million dollar trial in April — his wealth bled dry, yet unable to appeal openly to us for the financial help he needed to fund his defense, at least without risking the ire of a district court judge.

Remember, this was on HN just a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003335

Once again we see the true nature of criminal prosecutions: the prosecutor's tactic is to bring outrageous charges that could result in decades in prison, bankrupt the defendant one way or the other (seizing assets or making the case so complex it bleeds him dry), and then use that to coerce a guilty plea. It's no wonder that trials by jury are becoming so vanishingly rare that even the Supreme Court has written that "in today’s criminal justice system, the negotiation of a plea bargain, rather than the unfolding of a trial, is almost always the critical point for a defendant." [1]

Do we really want to live in a country where your right to a trial is an empty right?

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-444.pdf

Edited to add: many people in this thread want to name and shame the individual prosecutor in this case. That is seriously misdirected effort that is not going to solve the systemic problems. It may even exasperate them, as it falsely implies that the problem is with individual overstepping prosecutors rather than a system in which it's the norm.
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