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Perpetuating right-wing conspiracy-nut theories ("aka Barry Soetoro...") is unbecoming. If it was a joke, it was in poor taste.

Other than that, I agree with your comment.

I'll leave this link here for anybody else who was wondering, as I was, what the hell this "aka" nonsense is. http://www.bnd.com/2012/09/22/2334245/was-barack-obama-ever-...
I quit my previous job to freelance in an area I enjoy more. 2 years after that my savings have dropped considerably and I need to start thinking about getting a mortgage and help my parents as their financial situation is very risky even though they have always worked insanely hard.
I hope to go back to what I do know but the urgency of positive cash flow is more pressing at the moment.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained
Great interview with Bob Lee, CTO of Square about modern Java development
It depends very strongly on your point of view and the context.

I do not consider Aaron Swartz to be very special in the legal sense. His case was a simple hacking case (as the crime is defined in federal statutes). There was nothing special about it politically or technologically or procedurally. There was nothing special about the "victim" (JSTOR) or the victim choosing not to press charges. Indeed, even the fact that he killed himself is not unique because the incidence of suicide is higher with white collar crimes.

I am aware that my viewpoints on this differ strongly from most of HN, but if you read the comments by the other lawyers on HN, most of them generally agree with my sentiments in this regard.

Aaron was apparently very gifted technically (RSS spec, reddit co-founder, etc.), but as I know little about him in this regard, I cannot intelligently discuss this aspect of his person further.
Ask HN: What is the truth about VCs and SV?
How does a bootstrapped start-up actually get real funding? I am not talking about friends, family and savings. Rather I am talking about VCs or angels backed by real funds for seed/roundA funding.

I have put in the time and my product is near launch. Simultaneously I have worked to give my start-up the best chances of success I tried everything I could to network, make the SV connections, applied to SXSW Accelerator, LVFunding and YC,and I even succumbed to sending cold emails to VCs (despite most blogs saying VCs wont even respond to cold emails, I did get a nice form rejection from Sequoia). Of course all my efforts on the business side have been fruitless, failing to get into SXSW, YC or make any connections to the VCs much less secure funding.

The VCs, SV, SXSW, YC and all the other acronyms seem to have this impenetrable wall where you are either in or out. If you are in, then you don't even need an idea much less product and you are all but promised funding, start-up competitions, incubators, and all the media exposure and growth opportunities that naturally follow all as a result of a magical "introduction." However, if you are out, then no matter how good or original your actual product, you are still out and good luck succeeding without funding.

Realistically is there any point in going out to SV like everyone suggests? The general rational is SV is "where the connections, VCs and money are". But would it be different? I might be closer geographically, but I still will not know anyone or have any connections, and I do not think you can just walk up to Sequoia without an appointment and expect to get anywhere. So am I missing something? Is it worth it to take my start-up to SV, is so why? What would you do in my position to connect with VCs? Are you in a position to "introduce" me to a VC?
Exactly. The DC police made the (correct) decision recently to use prosecutorial discretion to not pursue David Gregory, who DID have juice in DC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/david-gregory-inves...

Having carefully reviewed all of the facts and
circumstances of this matter, as it does in every case
involving firearms-related offenses or any other potential
violation of D.C. law within our criminal jurisdiction, OAG
has determined to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to
decline to bring criminal charges against Mr. Gregory, who
has no criminal record, or any other NBC employee based on
the events associated with the December 23, 2012 broadcast.

It would have been nonsensical to go after Gregory. He only got the benefit of the doubt because he was a DC political journalist who was literally interviewing Obama last week. And it was nonsensical to go after Swartz. But he did not get the benefit of the doubt.
Regarding the email - most carriers offer email to SMS gateways. When I travel I always put in (phone number)@txt.att.net or whatever it is to receive "emails" about flight changes.
(a) Why is this on Hacker News and (b) with 9 upvotes? Ugh. Flagged.
I'm cool with that. Feel free to move the example.php into a separate subdirectory to make it cleaner too, but please fix the includes to point to whatever relative directory need be.
Not that it is any of your business but because I have no children and the education of future generations is about the most important thing there is to me. What is important to you?

Thanks for trolling me. I will try and make your contribution positive by reminding readers that if they lack a will with benefactors or executors with real world power, the state generally takes everything often ignoring legal documents you leave behind.
No, just sensible.

Being sensible about things like death provokes nervous laughter from most people, which they then mistakenly attribute to humor.
The Internet Archive's obituary makes prominent note of Aaron's volunteer work in creating RECAP, which is what Aaron helped create / used in the PACER incident.

http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-hero-of-the-...
. The United States never should have been a party to this -- it should have been a civil issue between JSTOR, MIT, and Aaron.

Except, you know...the fact that Congress passed a law a while ago that made this a crime.

This should come up in Congress because what Aaron did should not be a felonious act. At best, it should be an infraction (i.e., the lowest type of civil misconduct, like jaywalking).

But the fault lies with Congress for making this a crime, not Ms. Ortiz for enforcing the laws is ethically and legally bound to enforce.
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Ask HN: What is the trillion dollar platinum coin?
I just saw a few articles, stating, that white house is considering minting a 1 trillion dollar (wtf?) platinum coin. So my question is, what is it? and is it legit? what are the pro's and con's ?
As somebody who flirted with depression before, I can assure you that what I'm feeling now is pure, unadulterated rage.

The world was robbed of a genius by petty bureaucrats and greedy, hypocritical "non-profit" profiteers. This is obscene.
So, do you want upvotes?
I agree. This makes it all the more important that we, as a community, "send a message" by calling out her actions as unacceptable and by peacefully petitioning for her removal from office.
So what? Aaron violated MIT's policies and JSTOR's policies and the result was that a large community of scholars lost access. Those scholars would have had access if Aaron hadn't done what he did.
Nice right-left divide mentality, and your use of the conspiracy-lunatic-fringe-nutjob-retard slang is very annoying. I am not right or left wing.

Fact is Barack Obama is using a fraudulent Social Security Number(042-68-4425) which belongs to a dead man named Jean Paul Ludwig. 042 is the Connecticut SSN prefix - Barack Obama never lived in CT and did not register for a number in CT.

This has nothing to do with democrats or republicans. Conspiracy to commit fraud is a REAL OFFENSE. People go to federal prison for offenses like these. I do not appreciate being scoffed and laughed away based on the "conspiracy nutter" mentality.

I guess you can do the research yourself:

Illegal SSN 042-68-4425 registered to a man Harrison J Bounel is tied into Obama's old house in Chicago. Here are some links:

http://www.examiner.com/article/supreme-court-to-hear-case-o...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766707/posts
Basically, he fought for freedom of information to an extent that most other people would not, i.e., he risked committing (what is currently considered) a felony to uphold his principles.

In this sense, he was a martyr who didn't just talk about ideals like so many other internet commenters do, he actually acted on his ideals.
The "creators" did not charge them with this responsibility.
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No, I think you're wrong: making an example to encourage the others would be a most productive step to take.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...
I don't think this will do much good unless it applies in aggregate. Even if this act were written and passed, there is nothing stopping a prosecutor with charging someone with many counts of computer crime and asking a judge to sentence someone to serving all the sentences back to back if found guilty on all counts.
As a computer programmer, I know that you are solving so many logical problems day by day. Think of this situation as a code block or project. You know that in every second of every project, you can always start from scratch. And sometimes, starting from scratch is the best way to keep up with hard times. I hope you find a solution, and make it last a whole life.
Until late in 2012, I came out ahead far more by paying down my graduate student loan debt than I did by contributing to my 401(k). However, that is because my graduate student loans are statutorily fixed at 6.5% or higher, whereas market returns have been close to zero or negative.
"To that end, Aaron returned the data he had in his possession and JSTOR settled any civil claims we might have had against him in June 2011."

Reminds me of that spider drawing comic [0].

[0] http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html
> If not even hacker-friendly institutions like MIT will side with people like Aaron, it's a sad state of affairs.

MIT hasn't been a hacker-friendly institution since the early 1980s which is why Richard Stallman left MIT to found the free software movement.
It was a typo. They meant to say that "People read TechCrunch because they [don't] want to create something."
The only harm was manufactured by the "victims". Were it not for the "victims" manufacturing this harm, they would not be called victims at all. They essentially bootstrapped their own victim-hood. If you don't see why that is relevant in an ethical consideration of his actions, then I cannot help you.
I don't see how they could possibly do any more than they already are given the PPC search results at the side and top. Granted, they could redirect you to somewhere else to help you, but that is going above and beyond, I think it's already enough.
No. It is, however, a win to separate from prosecutorial power those who misuse it.
Federal prosecutors do have a lot of discretion. I don't disagree with much of what you say, but this is just out of control and the only way for it to even start to get fixed is for heads to roll.
The trillion dollar coin is a speculative idea that will not happen in reality. It has been all over the news in the United States during the last week.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...
JSTOR has happily allows publishers to restrict documents which are lawfully in the public domain and over which the publishers have no say except via the TOS they clipwrap you with when you try to access them.

Excusing JSTOR is like saying "Hate the game, not the players". While JSTOR isn't doing everything in their power to fix this broken system I say: Hate the game _and_ the players.
Aaron appears to have committed suicide as a result of a mental illness (i.e., clinical depression) which was exacerbated by the criminal case against him. It wasn't the criminal case that killed him; it was his mental illness.

The fact that he has a mentally ill mother is strong evidence of this, since mental illness has a genetic component (especially depression and schizophrenia).
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I think you're missing the point vis a vis "fix the machine, not the person".

The tactics described in the petition are ingrained in the US justice system. Getting rid of a single prosecutor isn't going to change a damn thing because the injustices are systemic, not the product of a vindictive individual.

Like Aaron said, shouting at the gears isn't going to fix the machine.
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Propose an Aaron Swartz Act:
The purpose of which to limit all computer crime sentences to 1 year maximum and $100,000.

This act would provide a sensible maximum penalty for what the government deems "computer crimes." As a society, we all agree that proportionality is important for non-violent crimes, especially those who we typically prosecute young people with. Many times these crimes are prosecuted under laws that aren't well defined and leave a great deal of the implementation and sentencing to politics, not justice.

Considering it takes at least $1.5 million dollars to attempt to defend oneself from a federal prosecutor, we can at least try to make sentencing sane as most federal indictments go into plea bargaining as no one other than the super-rich can attempt to defend themselves.
Noticing it's licensed under AGPL. I guess that means all projects that happen to include this (or something depending on it) would then be required to post full source code on the webpage, even if the project is for a single install?
Not funny at all, but in all honesty, I am also keen to get back to the normal flow of things, I have paid my respects and I feel that perhaps 15 articles on the front page may have been enough for now, leave his friends to mourn as they will, if you over do anything people tire of it quickly.
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There are a few "heroes" who are still outwardly racist. But for the most part they've withered under the glare of others. Ostracizing and shaming works wonders.
The petition has already reached 1,000 signers. 1/25th of the number needed to expect a response.
This is taking victim blaming to new heights. Is it now the victim's fault they don't acquiesce to a lawbreakers' demands? Doesn't MIT have the right to decide who is allowed to use their network and in what manner?

Can I break into your home and use your internet connection as I see fit without your complaint?
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No intent to troll here. I was just curious, seeing as I hold my academic institution in such high contempt.

Now that you mention it, I'm not sure where I would leave any form of wealth I had. My first intuition would be needy organizations of some sort (cancer/hiv/troubled youth--and there's always hackerdojo). Intelligence finds a way. I'm not too worried about the world on that front.
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IMO, JSTOR isn't directly to blame. They are operating within a broken system, and it seems like they are doing what they can.

Academic publishing is what needs a serious overhaul.

After having worked in an academic library and, more recently, leading technology operations for a prominent new ebook publisher and article archive, the first two words that come to mind when I think of both publishing (academic and trade) and librarianship are "waste" and "bureaucracy."

Librarians are supposed to be the ones advocating for the readers, but they are hobbled by a culture of committees, conferences, and politics. They work within organizations that are heavily stratified ("librarians" and "staff"), with all the worst aspects of severely hierarchical organizations.

Recently I was also was privy to a variety of details during the formation of a new academic digital publisher, and it was the same kind of top-heavy, anti-"lean" structure you'd expect. The amount they were raising just to get started seemed absurd, especially when we were in the process of building a larger organization that did more with less funding.

The point being, when you look under the surface, it's no wonder that everything in this space seems to cost more than necessary.

There must be enough of us fed up, skilled, and idealistic enough to disrupt this space, creating new, actually modern publishers and/or publishing platforms if necessary.

Does anyone with more domain expertise have any advice about where to start or what to focus on?
I'd be interested to know what people were expecting from MIT (and would also like a public statement).

The dockets (1) suggest MIT made the poor (perhaps incidental?) decision to involve the Secret Service, at which point the evidence became part of a federal investigation.

I think the paragraph about MIT's "tepid" interest in the investigation is telling.

(1) http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N46/swartz/swartz-suppress1.pdf
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N46/swartz/swartz-suppress2.pdf
Is it similarly victim blaming when people call shit on the RIAA for claiming thousands of dollars of damages per mp3? Give me a break, and knock it off with the emotionally charged language. MIT isn't the victim of domestic abuse or sexual assault.

> Can I break into your home and use your internet connection as I see fit without your complaint?

They dropped the trespassing charges, the only charges that had merit.
Life has no purpose.

Bullshit. We don't know how long life lasts, nor whether supernatural purposes or intentful[0] beings exist, nor what (if anything) is after. That does not mean there is "no purpose" to it. It is its own purpose.

Personally, I am most in line with Buddhism and think reincarnation is likely, and that mind (consciousness) itself is a first-class citizen, but existence doesn't have to be eternal to be meaningful. In fact, if a finite existence were meaningless, then an eternal one would be meaningless and infinite, which would be far more undesirable than death.

[0] "Intentful" is not a dictionary word, but nothing else captures what I am trying to say so I am justified in making a word up.
Nevertheless, it is true that Jstor got out of the "hassle Aaron Swartz" game a long time ago, which is why they're able to post a message like this without it coming off as totally opportunistic. The prosecutors in the case can't exactly do the same.
Nope. If the project actually uses tests for its function and it is accessible they would be required to provide the source to anyone user who requested it.

Much like the regular GPL, AGPL is dependent on distribution.

If you create a project that uses it to perform testing on the project, unless your testing is a function of the actual project then you wouldn't have to do anything of the sorts.

If you created a testing platform online that used it to render services, then you would, yes.
other actors are more deserving of blame, and by focusing on Ortiz we give them a get-out-of-jail-free card

I disagree. Calling for Ortiz to be removed in no way prevents us from also calling for whatever other actions we think are necessary.
This proposal is a really bad idea.

It over-penalizes acts like Aaron's but underpenalizes heinous acts such as hacking power grids or heart implants.
I'm reminded of the time MIT threw Star Simpson under a bus when she wore a breadboard on a sweatshirt to Logan Airport and the local authorities freaked:

http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html

At least some faculty got it:

http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N17/facultyopn.html
I would humbly suggest you're entirely mis-understanding what's occurring. I don't for a moment think the submissions related to his suicide are people 'climbing' (or clamouring, or grasping) for attention. This is the organic and natural outpouring of shared experiences from a community that has lost an integral and important friend.

Reading all the different rememberances here moves me to a depth that I find surprising, considering I know next to nothing of this man. But I suspect it is because I have know this type of loss myself, and recognize the compassion and complexity of respect which engender such words, as well as the profundity of a person's efforts which would bring on that sort of response from so many different people.

If this sort of response bugs you, a few days is probably not enough. My uninformed guess is that this event won't go gently by in such a brief span of time.
I wish the Bush daughters had quit talking to their dad in the run-up to the Iraq War II. Those two girls maybe could've saved 100K lives. But highly unlikely Bush would've killed himself. His life wouldn't have been inextricably ruined like Aaron's was. He could get his life back just by stopping the run-up.
Oh okay. I haven't really looked much into AGPL, I just assumed it was "infecting" the whole project sorta like the GPL.
Let me clarify, I don't think anyone's projects that are web facing actually use their testing library to perform the tasks. So for all intents and purposes their projects as they are "distributed" over a network are not linking to it even though it may exist in their source tree.

The only exception to this would be if the project is actually for testing, like say an online service that tests your code.

Also any private non-distributed use does not require source distribution.
Calling her a monkey is unbearably and unquestionably racist, and I think you might want to take a minute or two and think about why you said that.

From http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis :

"Looking at ourselves objectively isn’t easy. But it’s essential if we ever want to get better. And if we don’t do it, we leave ourselves open to con artists and ethical compromisers who prey on our desire to believe we’re perfect."
I expect her to prosecute based on the laws enacted by a fair democratic process, and not based on her personal views. To do otherwise, I would consider an abuse of power.

By this criterion, every prosecutor abuses their power. No prosecutor has the time or the resources to prosecute every violation of every law under their jurisdiction. They have to pick and choose, and that means they bear responsibility for how they pick and choose.
But if I broke into your house and used your internet connection, the only harm would come from you, the "victim", objecting to my behavior. You'd be bootstrapping your own victimhood, right?
Beware would be activists of the forces you put to your axe.
Like the tip of an iceberg, their great heft can remain unseen.
These machinations have no appreciation for hacks.
Even lawful men have much to fear from their vision keen.
The unlucky must contend with a 13 stringed marionette.
Whose deadly snare targets all free men.
Probing at the six lines in every hearts quartet.
The song it plays is fell indeed.

Moments of silence won't bring this man back.
But we can rally as our thoughts are often not thought alone. [0]
We can repel the forces who's wishes for the public domain is to sack.
We can refuse to reap for us what others have sewn.
Don't falter at the sight of a martyers fall.
There is always work to be done with one less hand at the helm.
Stand up and shout, silence strangles us all!
Strangled, by this intellectual miasma that seeks to consume our world with hell.

And though this life has been bought,
full speed ahead! Eight knots!

[0]: In the interest of honesty, I don't feel like I'm doing enough.
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Interest in "computers" also down by 80% since 2004 in Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=computers&cmpt=q