skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And 75-year-olds don't care neither for next 10 years they are expected to live

So the 75 year old has 10 years left to care about (actually 3.2 years on average...) while the 13 year old has well more than half a century.

If the 75 year old feels they have information and insight that is critical to the future, they should be spending their time telling younger people about it even without my proposal. With today's system they will only get the opportunity to vote a handful of more times; if they know something that their children and grandchildren need to know they should talk to those children and grandchildren to let them know. Elections are a horrific way to pass down generational knowledge. That is not what they are designed for.

The elderly should be in a position to advise, never to dictate.
By educating the masses. If they had half a brain to be able to recognise scams, phishing and security issues would they be nearly as frightened and would the problem of "cyber crime" be nearly as bad?
> Diving down a ridiculously slippery slope by jumping from voting to euthanasia is hardly productive to the discussion.

On the other hand, that jump does provide contribute to the conversation by demonstrating the exact reason why wishing for a bartending unicorn would be a better use of my time. That is the exact sort of ludicrous hyperbole you would face if you sincerely brought this sort of proposal to the public. I mean hell, people already bitch about euthanasia when public healthcare comes up.

Any sort of unfamiliar change is absolutely impossible within the confines of the political system we have built ourselves into.
> The kid commits suicide, and his first reaction is to post a link to his "official" history of RSS....

And with a smiley face after it! Unbelievable.
Anime Makes Me Sleepy - What is perfect?
A typical programmers toolbox
> affiliation with MIT right now, even as a student,
looks to me like affiliation with the Nazi youth

Take a break. Hyperbole and strange exaggerations won't solve anything.
Not true - this will pass within a week at most. This is the internet.

Also while there are definitely a large number of people who are genuinely compassionate and caring about the man himself, the majority are just people twisting his death to their own ends. It's a bit ugly, but understandable since this is likely the first time they have linked his name to any accomplishments or even knew about the trial.

It's similar to all the cars slowing down at an accident site - they don't really care who was in the accident, they just have a fascination.
The Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto.
Facebook Has Something Mysterious to Show Everyone
This article is about how the Feds disable criminal defense:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/harveysilverglate/2013/01/03/bla...

I've read somewhere she's was preparing for the Whitey's case mentioned in the article.
I absolutely W-E-E-P for the loss of such a genius with a beautiful and generous soul. We all owe him so much.
Humoring you for a moment, and assuming he isn't really American born...

...Good for him. The "natural born" citizen requirement is bullshit anyway. What exactly is it supposed to prevent? Anti-Americanism and confused loyalties? I was born in America, I am living proof that it filters out nothing of the sort.
I found on the Internet that Steven P Heymann was honored at an awards ceremony by Eric Holder. Prior to the year 2010, there's not that much on Heymann from a cursory search. But he was moving up by busting cybercrime in concert with Secret Service Agents and FBI. The power-boys club. And certainly enjoying it.
I found evidence of intent to misrepresent Aaron Swartz when they referenced him as "not attending MIT but enrolled in an unrelated Boston college." They deliberately concealed the fact that Aaron was at Harvard, to make sure that he was not viewed in any way favorably in this report of their indictment. I read the indictment and it makes every minor step into a hyped depiction of criminality. That is a legal tactic and technique, designed to persuade towards the impression of guilt.

Strategies are a collaborative effort in law enforcement.
While I do not know much about these LE agents, I do know that they intended to destroy him, exploit his history of depression (which was common knowledge and surely part of a file work-up) and put him in Federal prison at age 26 and not able to be released until he was 76 years old. As I stated elsewhere, in many states, murders and pedophiles do not face that scope of incarceration. This was more of a targeting than a criminal prosecution. They has just come off a highly awarded prosecution and unfortunately Aaron was next in line for them to reap more awards in a ceremony. I am so sad this young man was overwhelmed by the horror of the circumstances.
I hope there is ultimately a WIKI each for Steven P. Heymann and his Director, Carmen Ortiz, so that their impact on the life of Aaron Swartz in the name of "justice" stands as the award they get from the public.

In effect. Aaron Swartz was given the death penalty for being a freedom fighter. His love of freedom was expressed in radical creativity and breaking down artificial barriers. Who could have known the draconeon measures that were awaiting him?
Why is it AGPL then and not GPL? This seems to just create a minefield in the strange event when some test function needs to be exposed to the public for some reason. While this probably won't occur, if it does, suddenly the whole source needs to be released.

There does not seem to be any benefit to making this AGPL as it as the source release on use feature of AGPL is not intended to be used during regular usage.

Change it to GPL - it makes no practical difference, yet increases potential usage of the library at no cost.
Jesus give it a rest you are not helping
This is actually not that dissimilar from the argument for only allowing free male landowners to vote.

It's bad enough that people are statistically disenfranchised by things like gerrymandering and small states. I can't imagine what it would be like if you let the politicians actually disenfranchise people.
I have been trying really hard to fight my own depression for the last 5 years, and this news hit me at a particularly low point. I really want to thank the OP for posting this and helping me derail some suicidal processes I had running since discovering this. I really need help, but I am not in a position to get it, so thank you for helping me live just a little bit longer.
Oh, right. He wouldn't have gotten 35 years, only a felony conviction with 5-10 years in federal prison for downloading some pdfs. So hyperbolic to be enraged about this!
Watch The Wire. Especially Season 2, which is the weakest season of the five, but speaks most directly to your issue.

I realize this sounds flippant, but it's not.
Alex Jones followers denying following Alex Jones while in public is a fairly common phenomenon in my experience. My money is on Alex Jones even if he claims otherwise.
Although bitcoin transactions are public, if you cannot correlate a hash to a human then they are essentially anonymous. The 'leaks' can only happen when exchanging bitcoin for traditional currency. Fortunately, there are ways to do this anonymously too. With some care, it is possible to stay hidden in the true sense, even though the currency is exchanging hands in public.
It's time to rewrite Java from scratch, security expert says
For those interested, The Hacker Crackdown from Bruce Sterling is available online for free at gutenberg.org (html, epub, mobi, ...):

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101
Hiring Great Engineers: Kleiner Perkins’ Mike Abbott Explains How
Slides talk, numbers walk.

It's not fat Perl hackers and CGI weenies anymore, but rather Python dev-ops wahoos and Rails coders.

There are all kinds of wonderful toys old and new that I'd love to be using. I just don't have a practical reason to call upon them.
I've made substantial criticisms as well, criticisms that you interestingly ignore. I admit it's hard for me to take your outright dehumanizing bigotry in good faith.
There is no hyperbole here. People who voluntarily affiliated with the Nazis suffered a permanent black mark on their reputations, even when they were not aware of what was going on at the time. Those who, after the extent of their evil actions were known, continued to choose to be affiliated with them, were considered exceptionally vile.

Those retaining voluntary affiliation with MIT after these events are vile. I choose, as a matter of personal morality, going forward to have nothing but disgust towards them and will not cooperate or affiliate with them anymore than I would with Neo-Nazi Skinheads. Those who had affiliation with MIT in the past, such as graduated students, provided they disavow all connection or affiliation with this organization might be redeemed, just as Nazi youth who have since disavowed their affiliation have become tolerable. The affiliation though will always be a black mark on someone's record regardless of whether they knew the details of the evil committed by their organization.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like your life is that horrible objectively, and could easily improve. It sounds sound objectively empty, and you could easily be depressed in addition to that, but "empty" isn't the worst thing in the world, and isn't permanent, unlike death.

Why not just contract (so the 6mo thing isn't a problem), and ramp down the coke/liquor. Other than that, it sounds like things will get better with time, just a few years. Also it sounds like you're in the UK or Europe; GTFO and move to the US or something.

Hollywood or LA is a bad idea; SF or NYC if you want to be a SW engineer (which will probably make you happier and more fulfilled than being Lindsay Lohan).
Digital Activist Aaron Swartz Dead At 26
Support killers if you want. I choose not to.
While I personally like the DIY ethic I would be somewhat hesitant to recommend a novice starts developing production web apps.

For example , someone has a great idea for a site, picks up a basic PHP book, reads all of the "advice" on PHP.net and hacks it all together with a few copy and pastes from various coding forums.

Let's say they get some traction and pick up a few hundred users who start putting personal info in there , reusing their bank password and linking it to all of their social media accounts.

Problem is that the app is a mess of md5 or plaintext passwords and unsanitised input and when that thing gets owned by some hacker it can have real consequences to those users who trusted it.

This might be slightly hypocritical though, since this is basically how I learned to code in my early days but now people have so much of their life online that the stakes are a little higher.
Tech Activist Aaron Swartz Dead at 26
$100,000 is nothing, that a single fundraising call to parties interested in the freedom of information cannot collect.

I would personally be ready to donate 100$ immediately.

And then there is the example of the Wikipedia Foundation that seems to do quite well (and could incorporate this effort bringing fund raising and software engineering power to the table)

Whining about $100,000 for such a trove of information is laughable.
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Also interesting is that she's apparently a nymphomaniac who believes her "tit-job" is the best.

http://gta.wikia.com/Carmen_Ortiz
Liar, Liar? How to Know if Your Client is Telling the Truth
All of a sudden it occurs to me that two people can be called 'programmer' and do radically different things. Surely the typical programmer's toolbox is: an editor, a compiler/interpreter/magic lisp box/whatever, and possibly a debugger.
> The purpose isn't to allow the arrest of everybody though. It is to allow the arrest of anybody.

I expect it's possible there have been and are people who push laws with exactly that intention.

But my suspicion is that for the most part, the process isn't driven by scheming tyrants behind the legislation, and that most laws are probably passed with the intention of solving a specific problem.

It's only as they accumulate, as law enforcement and prosecutors learn how to push them as tools, and as courts accept and support such use that they're woven into a broader net that can catch "anybody."

Confronting this is different from confronting those who proverbially "mean to rule" -- it's confronting what it means to have rule-of-law itself.
Also read this related article on his blog - Rewriting Reddit (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit). He talks about why they chose web.py over other Python frameworks (and also over LISP)
I also wish I could be there!!! I almost had the impulse to book a flight and go down there to join the protest! Thank you for organizing this!!
Or, for that matter, Technorati (http://www.technorati.com), which I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned so far in this thread.
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I believe that there are at least three stances on this issue. One is, as you mentioned, involvement in the current system in a positive sense (steering in the right direction). Another is involvement in the system in a negative sense (destruction of it). The third is abandoning the system and using something else altogether.

The last option has the side effect of bleeding the existing one dry through inaction (within the boundary of the current system). It is similar to a software fork. We have seen many a project where the ones in charge have become rigid enough in their ways that, for all intents and purposes, the cost and probability of convincing them outweighs the cost of detaching from the infrastructure and moving in a new direction. For example, XFree86 and X.Org.

An issue that we face with activism is that the structure in place is supported by individuals with orders of magnitude more wealth and influence than what the activists have access to. This is evident in the case of Mr. Swartz where he was rapidly running out of money to fight his battle in court. We are at a disadvantaged position in that sense.

As such, every [insert your unit of currency] we pay in taxes go towards feeding the policies we so emphatically disagree with. With a nod to The Art Of War, a valid tactic in such a case is to starve your enemy and wage a war of attrition - in other words, reduce their material wealth while increasing our own. The end result is that nobody gets hurt yet they slowly lose their influence and the new guard have the opportunity and resources to build theirs.
When do you consider a website a failure?
There is a thin line between success and failure and between it is a huge load of work. How do yu turn a failure into a success story? What is your routine or plan to turn this thing around?
I think the title should be "A typical .NET/Microsoft programmers toolbox", as most of the tools listed are useable by MS devs. Case in point, I'm a web developer and I don't have/need most of these in my working laptop (an mba11).
This was exactly my thought. The use of "returned" reveals a clinging to a lie that's still lurking in the background.
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NTSC Amigas could play PAL games, but the bottom of the screen was overscanned/truncated off the bottom of the screen, and the gameplay and music was usually 20% faster.
A poem for app developer [fun]
Why is Apple working on wind turbine technology?
> You're coming across as quite the bigot.

Why is it that preventing the old from voting is "bigotry", whilst preventing the young from voting is merely an act prudence? You must remember that democracy is governance "by the people, for the people", not governance by some arbitrarily selected subset of the people. There is an age below which the majority of people are unable to make informed decisions about political representation (either due to lack of understanding or pressure from third parties like family), but I'm not convinced that 18 is that age.

Mind you, age cutoffs aren't the only way of tackling this problem.

> I don't know about you, but I learn more every year, so I imagine by the time I'm 75, I'll know at least three times as much as I know now.

Unlikely. Net knowledge growth rate usually decreases significantly with age. You'll likely accumulate more knowledge between now and when you're 75, but certainly not three times more[0]. Ask a 75 year-old ;-)

> Nor do I think being in school adequately prepares or informs anyone to be a citizen.

I couldn't agree more. In fact, that was the point of my proposal. I don't think that today's youth take an active enough interest in politics, and I believe that allowing them to participate in the democratic system could increase their motivation to become more informed citizens.

[0]: At least, not by any measurable metric. "Common sense" is completely different.
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Thoreau's Civil Disobedience (1849)
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similar to my toolbox, as an embedded engineer, the number of compilers that I have on my computer is about 8 installation for various different micros, along with this is the same number of debuggers.
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Seems more like "A typical Jeremy Morgan Toolbox". Most of that would be superfluous for being typical in the general sense of a text editor, a reader of some sort, and an execution environment.
... really? All I use is Sublime, Terminal, and Google Chrome.
Going for a seven-year walk
Kudos! It's as if he read my mind regarding what I thought it's wrong with Django! ...and incredibly sad that I would probably not have come across and read this, but for Aaron's death ...this perverse causality brought tears to my eyes
Depression isn't rational.

I can't say I've been depressed—I'm not qualified to diagnose that. I can say I've felt so hopeless I've made an attempt on my own life. Thankfully, it was a pretty lame attempt (after a lot of alcohol) that I aborted, leaving only a ring around my neck as evidence. I failed to even send myself to the hospital.

It's more than hopelessness. Life felt like an unbearable burden, a source of pain that would never end… until I ended it.

My life wasn't actually hopeless. My problems weren't as bad as they seemed—literally the day after this began the best two or three years of my adult life.

Had I been more competent, or maybe just more committed, I wouldn't have been around for that to happen. And there's no way you could've talked me into believing I'd appreciate living to see tomorrow—the very problem was I believed my life would be more of the same until I died, and I welcomed death over what I thought life had in store for me.

This story cuts deep for me because I survived and this man who's contributed so much more to society than I have didn't make it. It also cuts deep because I fear going back to that place, and seeing another man fall makes me fear a little for my own life. I've done my research since: if I try again, I'm convinced I'll succeed.

I'm among the most rational people I know. My own family thinks I'm just about incapable of emotion. Yet I've struggled with this.

People aren't rational. Not even the rational ones.
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Virtualization on bare metal as a service
I couldn't get my head around ruby, when I tried. Python stuck.

So in my opinion, it is something, that has to fit to oneself. So my recommendation would be to try some things on codeacademy (or anything like this) and see what fits.

And no, I will not wander into the "this language is better territory" ;-)
SkyDrive.com updated with new HTML5 features and share options
This should be renamed to "My typical programming toolbox"

Except for Skype (I'm moving to google talk very soon tho) I don't use any of these tools. And I highly doubt anyone on HN use any of it as well :P
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It might help if we stopped pretending that technology and programming are scary and too difficult for most people to even begin to grasp.
I'm using this service
http://smssheep.com
Regardless of the current events, wasn't the US based on dissent from Britain, and isn't the First Amendment a recognition of the importance of dissent?

Free Speech is all about dissent, and at least as a foreign, I associate free speech with the "American values", even if there are doubts about how really protected it is.
Maybe, a (typical programmer's) toolbox.
Maybe it's a Firefox OS based phone ... or maybe not. ;) I've read about it some months ago on a chinese blog:

http://all-multimedia-solutions.blogspot.de/2012/12/facebook...
I am very saddened by this young man's taking of his life and the apparent reckless pursuit by the Government to prosecute him for a seemingly minor "crime."
Ubuntu phone all Linux but open like Android
The most common gotcha I encounter in Javascript has to do with callbacks. I see this problem all the time in my own code and that of my colleagues: callbacks that have been registered either more or less times than the author of the code expected. Usually more times.

This can manifest itself in many ways. Usually in the form of a UI element being displayed more than once, but often more subtly such as a HTTP request being sent more than once. Often the bugs only manifest themselves after a certain sequence of actions, for example: click this UI element, check this radio box, then hit submit and watch the net tab.

It's so often the root cause of Javascript bugs that if I or somebody else on my team has a Javascript problem, I often start by asking myself if it looks like it could be this. Lately I have begun to wonder if there isn't some slight truth to that inflammatory "Callbacks are the new goto" story that was on here a couple of months ago [1].

[1] http://elm-lang.org/learn/Escape-from-Callback-Hell.elm
Did I say at any point that depression should exempt someone from prosecution? No. I said their handling was inappropriate.

If someone is a suicide risk you watch them, and typically ensure they're not left alone.

Stick your straw man where the sun don't shine.
History shows change has always been met with fear and persecution. It's human nature.

Anyone trying to make profound change must be willing to endure the consequences.

Nelson Mandela spent almost thirty years in prison before he dismantled Apartheid in South Africa.
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Office for iOS may be coming, but does it really matter?
I am not an american and didnt really know much about Aaron Swartz before this day. Its very sad what happened and leaves alot things open.

But making a murderer out of Mrs Ortiz is taking it a step too far imo. Of course the maximum charges were outrageous and she should face the consequences for that, but a Judge would never ever have sentenced them on him in this form, and i am sure Aaron knew this. I doubt he would have gotten any jail time at all, and rightly so.

After all he suffered from severe mental illness and did not get help, there are people killing themselves because of this everyday and everywhere and if you want you could possibly always name a murderer, even if its a whole community or the whole world which made those people suffer, but those decisions arent rational or logical and shouldnt be threated as such.
Exactly. An editor, a shell and a browser is all you need.

I feel sorry for all MS devs who have to use so many platform-specific tools.
> Aaron was accused of breaking into MIT ...

Spurrious accusation, all doors were open.

Did you read this article? http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartz...
I use none of them. Maybe it should be renamed as a windows programmer's toolbox.
Is there some article/discussion explaining why they went with SVN or a centralized VCS anywhere?
There are some newer journals which have open access as a central tenet such as PLOS. It's a non-profit and could always use more donations:

http://www.plos.org/

http://www.plos.org/support-us/individual-membership/#make-a...