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This makes me incredibly sad.

The work I do now is made possible by Aaron's work on PACER (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html). We are all in his debt.

Accordingly, I've added a memorial banner to PlainSite to ensure that everyone who uses it daily to find cases (including many in government and the DOJ specifically) will be reminded of his contribution--one of many.
sadly the kiler app most will embrace will probably be a HD cylone toaster.

But seriousness back ont eh table I suspect this could have a lot of uses in the medical and production market.
Oh gosh, I am so sorry to read this.

I communicated with him once or twice re: rss, and I enjoyed his postings at photo net.

He was young, bright, witty. This is terrible.

I will miss you Aaron, I had such hopes for you.
"He" did not commit war crimes. His grandparents or grandparent's relatives might have. Please don't equate crimes committed in past generations to crimes committed by this generation.

Now, the recent problem has nothing to do with government structures. It's simply a case of geo-political conflict of interests. South Korea is a full-fledged democracy, if they were enough to avoid any conflicts, there wouldn't be sovereignty dispute on the Liancourt Rocks.

Japan and China are not in a Cold War. That simply wouldn't make sense since no one has threatened anyone with total annihilation under nuclear weapons yet. There's also a zero chance that China will invade the Japanese homeland, never happened, never will happen. It's more likely that they'll take Diaoyu/Senkaku by force if they have to. Diaoyu/Senkaku is virtually indefensible and uninhabitable pieces of rocks, so I highly doubt that the Chinese will do that unless they can control Taiwan and possibly Okinawa - impossible and unlikely task.
Have you been there recently?!
This should be a call to action to academia. Please open your journal archives to the online community free of charge.
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Ironically, this idea would make international travel more difficult in some respects because, when travelling to what today is in a different timezone, you would have to memorise a different set of times for when to get up, go to and from work, when to eat meals etc.
Perhaps he's suffered from clinical depression? http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick
I'm glad that Objectified seems to have had such a large impact on you, but this really isn't a good way of starting this course, or any course for that matter. Reading Dieter Rams' ten principles of "good design"[1] would be much more practical.

Also, if the site is going to be focused on helping people with design, you should make sure the design of the actual site is good. Few issues that I saw:

-404 page should at least have the logo to know you're still on the same site

-/courses & /lessons/0 should have the full logo with the page title elsewhere

-Log in page animation does nothing for design and can confuse people into thinking they can type after the text

-Has already been mentioned, but the contrast in some areas could use work. Tasks for example should be the main focus point, yet the text is light grey.

-Using social media icons everywhere takes away from design IMO

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Rams.27_ten_princip...
Reading https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget it seems he was thinking of suicide already many years ago.
Time and navigation are intimately connected. I can work out my direction during daylight hours by observing the sun and knowing the time. I have no desire to do a longitudinal conversion every time I think about the position of the sun in the sky.
So sad to lose someone that's made such a dent on the world so young.
I always like Eric Ries' take on this. You can test the theory:

If you have one 'great' idea, chances are you have more. Take your _second_ best idea and do all you can to get someone to steal it. Target individuals; shout from the rooftops; describe it in detail to everyone you meet. Nobody will run with it.

To execute on an idea you have to be personally invested, have domain knowledge and be deeply passionate. Ideas in isolation rarely have the qualities that would make them require 'stealth mode'. In fact, the best ideas come from a series of iterations on great execution.

Create success and you will have copycats and parasites, no question (Groupon, iPad, Paypal...the other examples from this thread), but at this point you should be in a position to leverage first-mover advantage, funding, and your more developed longterm roadmap.

People may copy your MVP, but Uber is a classic case where their first and prominent product (UberCab) is clearly not the actual longterm strategy. Cloning UberCab is really creating a cargo-cult startup.

The exception here would be markets - the Samwer brothers have a particular niche in cloning successful North-American scoped startups for European and African markets, but at the point you hit their radar, the 'Stealth Mode' boat has sailed anyway.
Nope, a year old ThinkPad Edge. Hardware performance is certainly not an issue. I get this message in the log right after the page is loaded.
A few years ago I was living with a light-sleeper, and I was doing some commuting which involved early mornings.

To get up and avoid disturbing her I bought a "vibrating alarm clock for the deaf". Put it under the pillow, and it woke me up and left her sleeping. Definitely a good purchase.
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Uh... it's only going to increase as the economy grows. Sorry, but I think you are in denial. When was the last time you've been to China?
I am new to HN and this is my understanding based on modest time I have spent here. Keeping discussions to HN helps keep them centralized. Secondly, there's a community here. It's like discussing/debating a topic with your friends. People know each other and have rapport within the community. There's a trust factor when you are among friends and you know there's credibility in the advice that's given out.

Commenting directly on posts is somewhat like walking into another group. You are not part of that group. There's no trust factor.
Yeah because it's saner to spend 35 years in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
If it is a depressed person's "choice" to kill themselves, then perhaps we should simply treat depression by telling people "Hey, have you tried not being sad?".

What a childish attitude towards a complex issue.
A Federal charge is a terrible thing, even before the gavel falls.

You'll note that he was indicted in June 2011, more than a year and a half ago. Throughout this time he must have been under tremendous stress: not knowing whether he'd be spending the next few decades behind bars, and not even knowing when he would find this information out. Months drag on into years and nothing seems to get any better. Your life is on hold until someone else decides what your life will be looking like.

This sort of stress tends to eat away at your insides. You can't make long-term plans of any kind; meet a nice person at the bar and you're reminded that you can't start anything serious since you might be going away for a long time. A thousand tiny reminders every day that you are already a prisoner and will be for an indefinite period while the lawyers are lawyering. All the defendant has is time to think about what prison would be like, how the course of their life is not in their hands. It is a feeling of abject powerlessness.

It's not unfathomable that a person in this situation might look at suicide as the only way to regain control of their life, even if it means ending it prematurely.

Suicide for a defendant can, therefore, seem almost enticing. A siren who sings of a quick and easy escape from seemingly insurmountable troubles. I do not know why he did it, but I have been where he might have gone to in his mind. It is a dark place, and much evil can be wrought there.
Man, I don't want to make this point here, but comparing this to bullying is ridiculous.

There's a difference between a child who is victimized while growing socially and emotionally and an adult man who allegedly broke the law knowingly.
Yes, hence the "approximately." The current system is a compromise; you can't go slewing the time continuously across latitudes and day of year, at least not yet, but you can't shock people with three hour jumps, either. I for one would welcome two dimensional time zones and continuous slewing. In an era of smart timekeeping, anything is possible.
I think it helps for the world to know.
You pull the trigger and all your problems disappear, just like that.
But what about your family, friends? They are devastated for the rest of their lives.
It sounds like the sampling and streaming algorithms you know are statistical algorithms. Have you got any good references for streaming algorithms?
I'm being quite restrained. I'm calling for a feeling of guilt, not their public lynching. If I'd been involved in the prosecution I'd be feeling guilty for proceeding in too heavy-handed a fashion and I'm sure most of the people on this forum would too[1].

Frankly if someone is incapable of self-recrimination when something like this arises I don't want them in this kind of role.

[1] Of course this presupposes a motivation of "doing what's best for the country/society" and not "showing this uppity young guy who's boss".
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Try something with Cellular Automata or something akin to Conway's Game of Life. I don't think there are any hard scientific applications for CA, but you could make some pretty nice wall art, and you could probably finish it in a semester.
Not trying to be facetious here, but are there some kind of statistics somewhere out there that show how effective suicide hotlines are? I always hear about them, but have yet to hear about someone who used one successfully.

E.g. X% of people have been dissuaded by suicide attempts after speaking to a suicide hotline.
Is there a proof that it's a suicide? He dies yesterday, and annouced as `suicide` immediately?
The article is ok, the video is a must watch. She's witty.
Depression is the leading cause of suicide. Almost all suicides are somehow connected to it.

It can have many causes. Sometimes it's innate to the person, sometimes it's brought on by circumstances; oftentimes multiple factors are involved.

But the bottom line is:

If you are thinking about suicide, get help. Right now.
> Did any of the employees of US Attorney Office forced him

No, but they absolutely chose to prosecute him to the fullest. They also I am guessing didn't do it randomly. Some decision went into it. If you look at a post above, even the original journal (at least "officially") lost interest, someone, a cog in the DOJ, for whatever reason (I assume, political) must have said "pedal to the metal with this one".

Here is DOJ, spending tax dollars, trying to shove this person in prison for 30 years or so, for downloading scientific papers. There is really no other more dangerous or more pressing cases?
Humm but the corporate drones only care about the marketing blurb, not about real security.

Case in point, the widespread use of older versions of IE
You're right, this isn't really comparable to bullying, the imbalance of power is much more extreme. It is comparable to an adult beating a child for using a profane word. A completely mindbogglingly disproportionate response; convicted rapists get less time on average than what he was looking at.

JSTOR didn't want him pursued like he was, but the justice department was trying to nail him to the wall anyway. They wanted blood, and unfortunately they got it.
RIP AARON
It's a sad, sad world we live in. RIP Aaron.
+1 this post, way to provide a well thought out measured response!
Oh, do you think that it's better to walk on your toes when you are walking pass anyone, just because they might have depression and you might trigger them to commit suicide?
How anyone can know that if you accuse someone of committing a crime, that someone will get so depressed that he will kill himself?
Do you propose to just get rid of courts?

What's this attitude on HN to praise suiciders?
Someone who could have contributed very positively to the society just killed himself. We can't reverse that, the best we can do now is to learn from this incidence and try to minimize it in the future. Explaining it away in the name of insanity will not help.
What the fuck is wrong with you? Who the hell is praising suicide?
I also think it will go hot a lot more likely than the US-USSR cold war due to culture.

The US and Russia didn't hate each other for anything but ideology. The last time we were actually fighting a war total, we were on the same side, killing Nazis together and saving the world.

Communism vs. Capitalism was certainly a huge difference, but it wasn't "your grandfather raped and killed my great-aunt and all of her village", and, by the time it was US vs. USSR, both countries were at least pretty stable domestically (China is still rapidly evolving).
I am pointing out it's sexist because the grandparent post automatically assumed the woman to be the initiator in this affair.

Now did she break her marriage vows? Yes. That's unrelated.
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No, just normal douche baggery :)
In an era of smart timekeeping, I would much prefer the opposite: minute DST adjustments every single day to ensure that sunrise is always at the same time of day, everywhere. This is how we evolved, after all: to awake with the sun.

This would imply two dimensional time zones (one per state?) with a non-trivial conversion function between zones. Once everyone's watch is GPS and Internet enabled this should be straightforward.
He was more accurately describing bipolar disorder, whether he realized it or not.

Are you implying that depression or BPD is 'compatibile with blame'? If so, that's absurd.
Just read the talk. I didn't realise it was given at the college I studied in. Sad to hear the news. Only today morning my daughter was saying how depressing classes are at school because every subject they study talks about how humans might become extinct. We can sometimes get too focused on problems and such times all that we need is a person to just say "It is not too bad. There are good things happening as well". Perhaps a lot of suicides are down to this missing person in our lives. We are all more connected thanks to the Internet, and also increasingly isolated.
Knowing the faces and names deciding to spend our tax money on trying to shove in jail for decades someone who downloaded scientific papers, should be in the interest of every citizen, shouldn't it?
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Web.py is actually a fantastic library. There still is Anand maintaining web.py I guess.

RIP I guess.
This question seems to imply that his death is the DOJ's fault, which I find preposterous.
If you break a law you have to pay for this.
Don't you have lawyers there to protect the innocent?
"Knowing the reddit community"

Could you elaborate on that?
I don't have any numbers, but I know at least 3 people who have used them in the past. When I was younger, I used an anonymous online suicide hotline site (though I don't recall which), which at least made me stop and think, which is often enough.
Thanks for starting this petition. I signed, tweeted, and facebooked it.
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Have you ever looked at date calculation code?
Apparently the little bitch cut his own wrists lol.
I live in a region where there is no DST. It's troublesome because DST applies at different dates around the world, since I work with people from different countries, this can get troublesome around the dates when the new times start on the different regions, and when I was a kid I remember on winter when going to school, I actually arrived at night at 7:00 AM and the sun went out until ~8:30, and the sun would set at 5 PM, but on summer, the sun rises earlier than 5 AM and goes down at ~8PM. I like any kind of idea that helps the world to, at least, alleviate some of our resources sucking activities. I don't really believe these random claims people throw like "Recent studies show that DST doesn't save enough energy" or something like that, at least provide some facts and studies that prove that, I don't know much history around the DST, however I'm pretty sure the countries around the world applied it for some good reason.
See charonn0's comment below (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047044).

"This sort of stress tends to eat away at your insides. You can't make long-term plans of any kind; meet a nice person at the bar and you're reminded that you can't start anything serious since you might be going away for a long time. A thousand tiny reminders every day that you are already a prisoner and will be for an indefinite period while the lawyers are lawyering. All the defendant has is time to think about is what prison would be like, how the course of their life is not in their hands. It is a feeling of abject powerlessness."
I've thought of suicide. Not "seriously," but it's crossed my mind. Sometimes life just seems so hard.

My reaction to this is that he was a brilliant guy, and it was such a waste. Such a pointless waste.

It makes the idea of giving up myself seem so wrong.

Rest in Peace Aaron. I'm sorry it had to end this way.
As a Chinese also, do you realize that the person you're talking to has done nothing to the Chinese people?

His ancestors (possibly, and possibly not), under a completely different regime that is wholly unlike that which governs Japan today, committed atrocities against your ancestors.

He does not remember, because he was not alive to witness or commit said atrocities, or indeed have the tiniest sliver of influence on the regime that did so. You are suggesting moral culpability where there cannot, in any reasonable mind, be any. He has done nothing. He is not his ancestors, and shares exactly zero moral responsibility for their actions when he wasn't even alive.

Other the other hand, I have met many fellow Chinese who have expressed, without a sliver of irony, that the blood spilled 7 decades ago needs to be repaid. Yes, I've had people suggest this to my face seriously. They suggest that committing the same atrocities back against the Japanese is somehow just.

There is plenty of hate to go around, from everyone. The Chinese people aren't saints, and to believe that only the Japanese are capable of such atrocities is the exact hubris needed to lead the world back down that dark path again.

This is a geopolitical conflict between two major powers. Nothing more, nothing less. Any nationalistic cheerleading is strictly playing to the interests of politicians, not any nobler concept like ethnicity, race, or nation.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at here. While I'll agree it was overzealous to make a federal case out of this, you can't blame federal prosecutors for doing their fucking jobs just because someone kills themselves. Many people have survived federal prosecution without dying or killing themselves.

I'm shocked and horrified by this news too. It's awful that Aaron died. But it's foolish to blame anybody but him for his actions in this.
Maybe you had a double take because that's a really bad idea?

More weapons lead to more deaths.

There are better ways to stimulate the economy and technology EG race to Mars
Do you have experience recovering from depression?
If your domain registrar is showing the right name server then it should be okay. Try to contact the registrar and talk to them about the problem, They should be able to fix it.
It may also take some time for the DNS to set (aprox. 24 Hours).
Devastation was already running rampant in this situation.
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Probably more effective earlier. Someone living while being horribly depressed all the time isn't exactly a victory, either. I assume suicide hotlines can refer depressed and "suicidal ideation" people, who aren't yet actually killing themselves, to help as well.
When you are faced with 35 years of jail and $1Mln fine - i guess you start thinking out of the box...
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I think he meant that there's a stigma associated with depression—that many of us unfortunately view depression as the "fault" of depressed individuals, as if it were some sort of choice they make.

No one would ever blame you for a [genetic] heart disorder. In the same way, no one would ever blame you for a [genetic] brain disorder. Phrasing it as such removes some of the stigma.
I'm not even 1/3 of this guy
Great for Unix Log files, bad for pretty much everything else. I work in emerging markets, and in the last two weeks I've had conference calls in Brazil, Singapore, Australia, Luxembourg, Portugal, and the UK. Whenever I'm scheduling a call with any of these people, I need to know what time it is. For whatever reason - every company we deal with seems to work from 8:00sh (sometimes 9:00) to 5:00sh (sometime 6:00) - Likewise - they know the same about me.

Different time zones make it much easier to establish common meeting times with people around the world - even if it makes parsing log files a bitch.

That's why I recommend UTC for Log files from day one, but I'm happy to have Time Zone when working with people.
I think what the OP is looking for, is for DST to ensure that the sun sets at the same time every evening.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd just like to place on the record that if I die under similar circumstances, my wish is that nobody will start an ugly witch hunt in my name.
btw I found it useful in case you would like to refer.
http://www.hnbuzz.com/#ShowHN
> I've thought of suicide. Not "seriously," but it's crossed my mind.

If it happens again, get help. I'm quite serious.
RIP. So sad.

Like many others here, may path also crossed his several times as I kept bumping into his work. He had a ton of really cool side projects. I pinged him a few times about some of them and he was always really gracious and helpful in his responses. I didn't find out his stature in the community (reddit cofounder etc) until recently and was shocked he had taken the time to reply to me.

As for the reason he did this now: I'm sure it was a combination of things that had built up over many years, however in a criminal case like this, now would be the time his lawyer would be attempting to work out a plea bargain with the prosecutors. If they were demanding a long prison sentence and multiple felony convictions, and the evidence against him was very strong (as it sounds like it was) many people would probably contemplate suicide.
You are a fucking idiot. What else is there to say you are a jacksass much like most of the people on hackernews.
This has hit me hard. So much potential, and gone so young. So sad. Rest in peace Aaron.
> he reveals himself to be a sensitive, seemingly grateful, and thoughtful person.

Definitely. He wrote a bunch of blogposts last year on improving life, called "Raw Nerve": http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Wonderful writing.
This would be a perfect opportunity for a White House pardon.
It takes your computer 323 milliseconds to convert an InChI key to a hash? You need to improve the implementation a bit there, I would expect a sha-256 operation, even with a bit of string parsing first, to take _at most_ single digit milliseconds. Add to that a small EC2 cluster of multicore machines, and you should be able to do this in no time - no need for those fancy super-high-speed interconnects that the 'real' supercomputers have.