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His other point is true but the facts are different. If Aaron had gone to the library, scanned 10 books and posted them online it would be different. Maybe a DCMA or a lawsuit.

Aaron was accused of breaking into MIT and a few other things. It's just a bad comparison on all levels IMO.

But yeah, having billions at your disposal and a great reputation can do wonders. The Feds cannot outspend you and they it's very hard to vilify you
I was about to post something along the lines of, "And to all those people about to post something about how useless this is, STFU." It's not useless, and it will make a difference. Aaron's memory is important, and acknowledging the gross injustice that lead to his death is important. A protest will send a clear signal that we are aware of the governments tendency to overreach, and that we, the people, will stand for it.

So STFU.
I don't mind at all ambitious, overzealous and over-exuberant prosecutors. That is all right. Even great. But people do suffer when government officials are trying to protect their own carriers and acting out of egoism; or ignorance.

And it is really sad that such officials often go unpunished. Like a case here for example: http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2013/130110secret-no-f...

They've put this 70 year old pilot: http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2013/130110secret-zone... in jail, without any violations on the part of the pilot or any ill intents. And what was the result of the hearing?

> "his case went before the judge. When his attorney returned and said the case would be dismissed if he agreed not to take any legal action against Darlington County law enforcement, he said, he reluctantly agreed"

Great. Just great.
Aaron was part of HackerNews, he posted and answered
and Reddit was a company in the first batch of YCombinator founded companies and Aaron was one of the partners.

In that sense he was "one of us"... the HackerNews community
You know, I honestly think we should hack a few years off one side of the voting population and slap it onto the other. Let people start voting 5 years earlier, and forbid people from voting once they are five years younger than the current average life expectancy.

A vote in our system is a vote for what should be. The concept of a vote is inherently tied to the future; the young have the most to win or lose because the vote is for something in their comparably massive future, while for the elderly it represents little more than an opportunity to influence a world they will (again, comparatively) soon have zero stake in.

Of course that is more of a pipe-dream than owning my own bartending unicorn.
Yeah, the result of ending her career is both to punish her, and to establish a precedent so all future US Attorneys are appropriately concerned that if they commit egregious violations of the public trust and their oath of office, even if technically in compliance with the law, public outcry will lead to their dismissal and a career working in food service.
He is not saying that it is useless.

He is just saying that it would have probably been far more useful to do it while he was still alive, which is sadly true.

Being said, I agree that's it's a nice move.
Can We Condense the A.S. entries into one feed?
Can we cover this story without being so noisy?
Stephen P. Heymann, AUSA, too.
Oh, I'm certainly not arguing Gonzalez should not have been prosecuted.

What I am reacting to quite specifically is the notion that "winning" a higher sentence is somehow a goal in and of itself.

Having worked quite closely with the legal community over the last half decade, I have to say that the mercenary attitude many hold continues to jar me.
How about if instead we have 11 January as "Aaron Swartz Freedom to Connect" day, or something like that, dedicated to free speech and free expression. Stuff Aaron would have done himself, even if the federal prosecution had never happened. Combined with a formal apology from President Obama and the AG, and removal of Ortiz and several other prosecutors within the Boston office.
Yeah, that is what I was trying to say. Nice gesture, sure. At the same time, I can't help but feel that it is a bit reactionary. As if it was only Aaron's suicide that made people realize that it was a gross injustice and had he not killed himself, no one would have cared.
Yep, they discuss that on their mistakes/shortcomings page: http://www.givewell.org/about/shortcomings#overaggressiveand...

Looks like it ended in late 2007.
http://dl.nux.ro/aaronsw/qblog.aaronsw.com/page/2
Right - the government shouldn't "pardon" him, they should apologize for the manner in which they prosecuted him. (I'm not sure they should apologize for prosecuting him at all, though.)
I don't understand. I've downloaded articles from JSTOR, Project Muse, books on top of books, and am publicly re-hosting them through my own Dropbox, which I publicly link to on my own Website.

Maybe I'm missing something here. Was he made an example? Is this the fundamental nature of the protest and the outrage, that we perceive that he was made an example of, that we are aware, and that it is unfair, in some essential way, for them to target leaders who are no less perpetrators than the rest of us?

Because we do that to them when BoingBoing or Anons cry to bring down or apply heat to CNN or pundits. I'm not playing devil's advocate, but I'm trying to understand the nature of the protest. I believe these questions can be fairly asked about [the protest] without counting as some sort of insincerity toward Mr. Schwartz.
>viewpoints are largely stagnant, so this change will probably have to occur one funeral at a time.

There's a good argument out there that a lot of the recent social change has nothing to do with Obama, the internet, education, awareness, etc but the fact that so many of the old guard are dying out and that what we Americans call "liberal" or "progressive" is the new norm. It just too many conservatives had too much sway in politics. I mean, look at the desperate Texas and other red state gerrymandering. These guys are certainly scared of something.

If you look at recent progressive victories, they're often of a slight majority. Votes that come in real close like 48-52 or 47% vs 48%, and losses are pretty narrow too.

I guess until a lot of the boomers start dying out, this stuff will continue. Heh, by the time I'm old and gray I won't have to worry about no-knock raids on harmless potheads and computer nerds being roughed up by the DOJ. Oh well, maybe I'll feel better about my country when I'm retired.
jshint seems to be more actively developed, more receptive to changes, and more flexible in terms of instructions (like ignoring certain patterns)
getting one prosecutor fired won't change anything

Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. But de-throning that one prosecutor will, in her own words, serve as a message [0] to others of her kind that reckless, power-drunk actions have real-world repercussions.

[0] http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/December/EremianVer...
We cannot see into Aaron's thoughts of course but if I had to guess, maybe he thought he was going to be Bradley Manning-inged which might drive anyone over the edge.

Stripped naked and thrown into a cell "for his protection" (he got a whopping 100 days off his 30 years to life sentence for that abuse btw, so that will teach the people that did that right?)

Perhaps we should use this energy to help the living Bradley Manning in protest as it does little to help Aaron or his loved ones now.
We cannot see into Aaron's thoughts of course but if I had to guess, maybe he thought he was going to be Bradley Manning-inged which might drive anyone over the edge.

Stripped naked and thrown into a cell 23-hours a day "for his protection" (he got a whopping 100 days off his 30 years to life sentence for that abuse btw, so that will teach the people that did that right?)

Perhaps we should use this energy to help the living Bradley Manning in protest as it does little to help Aaron or his loved ones now.
Psychoanalysis has never passed muster in a randomized clinical trial. When it has even been submitted to a trial, psychoanalysts have never accepted it, and they have not cooperated in carrying out such trials.

This is significant when Freud held his cures to be the primary evidence for his theories - and review of his published cases mostly found he was wrong about them.

If someone I loved were depressive I would seek out therapies which provided some real reason to believe they worked, not pseudoscience. Being European shouldn't mean that you reject science in favor of something which seems more local.
In fairness, a lot of fairly important details did not surface until today. It was an active case, after all. It is true that a lot of the will to act has come from the catalyst of Aaron's death, but the facts were not as clearly available before (IMO).

Edit : I should add that I believe there would have been a meaningful backlash had he for some reason lost his criminal case and been sentenced to (n > 3) years in federal prison.

In hindsight, there was a great deal of empathy to be shown to an individual who was being financially and emotionally drained by the legal system. However, that's the sort of stuff that doesn't readily occur to most people (myself included).
Ask HN: Checklist of functionality for a basic SaaS app
I want to offer a subscription using stripe on my rails site. What are some basic things that I'd want users to be able to do. (stupid question, I know, I just want to make sure I don't miss anything critical when handling people's money)

So far I have thought of

* Secure connection (SSL)
* Sign up for service
* Cancel service
* Modify subscription tier
* Dispute charge? (Should I handle this, or does stripe do it?)
* View historical charges (Same here, does stripe do something for this or should I handle it?)
* Modify Payment Details (eg: CC expired, need to update to new one)

tl;dr: what's considered feature complete for basic Software as a Service subscription via Stripe?
Lets not give thirteen year olds the vote.
How would I know that? I don't read documentation until absolutely necessary. If it claims to find faces, well, then let's see it work! And then we'll count the faces found.

In any case, the documentation is wrong if it says that. E.g., the software found all seven SEGs in the photo below:

http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/files/2011/10/Romney-Bain-Capita...
Based on what you've written, I think you'd handle getting charged with a crime a lot better than I would.
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Yes. With all the information and POV accounts that have surfaced today, I can't help but wonder if I truly would have acted differently in his shoes.

The prospect of ruining your own family in a protracted legal battle with the DOJ is nothing short of a nightmare.

There but for the grace of God, as they say. This country can be a terrifying place, although I myself occasionally forget it.
I have the exact same issues with my health; Constant sinusitis, constant chronic burning sensation in my stomach and constant headaches. Been to so many doctors but no treatment so far. Somedays I just lay in bed and do nothing out of the pain. It's not crippling enough that I can't get up but it is enough from keeping me coding or concentrating. Maybe the path he took isn't bad afterall.
Are they? Keylogging software is widely available.
This petition seems more appropriate: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...
Anyone who argues for any punishment, should first have experienced a sample of the same treatment. How can someone who doesn't know what it means and feels to live through a punishment wish to inflict it upon others. Seems like the behavior of a beast.
If I had to name the cause of the outrage, it is that the charges were so disproportional to the alleged offense that it drove a good man to suicide. If he had been charged with an offense for which the penalty was proportionate to what he is alleged to have done, e.g. a misdemeanor with a $500 fine or a fortnight in jail, I have to imagine that there would be very little protesting going on, and for that matter that he would still be alive. But they decided they had to break him, and they did, so here we are.
Presumably the protest is intended to help ensure that his death does make a difference.
>Creating just laws is not her responsibility, it is someone else's.

She has neither the power nor responsibility to legislate, that's true enough. She definitely has discretion in her office as a prosecutor, though, as executive offices tend to have. That discretion is supposed to be one of the things that makes a system with separated powers more resistant to abuse, and she and every other prosecutor are absolutely obligated to use it responsibly.

> by focusing on Ortiz we give them a get-out-of-jail-free card that involves throwing her under the bus.

Many prosecutors seem to think that making high profile examples out of someone serves a deterring purpose. Given what's currently known about the prosecution in the case, I can only assume Ortiz and those who worked for her shared that view. To the extent that it's true, I'd say it's more than fair that the careers of those in question could serve as a bright and burning example of that principle.

And that's far kinder than they've been: using the powers society granted them, they threatened to effectively end Swartz' life with 50 years in prison, and may have played a direct role in his actual death. The only discussion occurring here is about whether they would continue their careers ... not whether they'd continue to have everyday freedom of not being incarcerated.
Maybe aaronsw intended to, until he found that the rigors of the investigation and the length of the prison sentence were multiple orders of magnitude worse than he'd thought they would be.
But there is still the floagging. I have noticed some pro MS articles still disappearing suddenly, due to the flagging I presume.
I'm not quite sure how to formulate this, since I count myself a hacker, of a sort, but I've also picked up a few hints about why my psychology is the way it is.

There was the Age of Autism. My hand-wavey gloss is that we will see an Age of Williams, of people with Williams Syndrome who will "teach us how to be happy" or whatever intellectual debris gets tacked onto a population that carries the "happy gene."

Scientists, linguists, psychologists seem to be in a hurried hunt, under a hyperreductionist banner, to discover how to, it stands to reason, prevent "the hackers from killing themselves" (assuming there's a strong positive correlation between "hackers" and "autists") or to say the least, from engaging in what seems like reactionary violence against the world or themselves; that is, prevent such future tragedies by discovering the gene.

I'll tell you. 2011 I got absolutely fucking crushed, blasted. Arrested for personal weed; quitting the job out of guilt and fear of being fired; multiple dental extractions; first (at age 21!, mind you) ex-girlfriend brutally/ritualistically murdered shockingly while touring Germany (a sweet woman who, like in many Williams Syndrome descriptions, could be said to be "too naive" and "too open with strangers"); killer set to "insanity" plea after attempting suicide; mother desperately poor, frequently taking money from me without warning or call; alcoholic grandmother; emotionally gutwrenchingly dysfunctional family where accusations of kidnapping of biological sister still today go unchallenged (a sister I've "hung out" with less than 10 times); drug addict father who I've yet to talk to since roughly months ago (at age 27 now); mother riddled with disease and heavily dependent on steroids, while also hyperbaptist/religious; and on top of all of that, the only type of work that kept me afloat in Houston, Texas, of all places, were demeaning "oil and gas" industry Web jobs, where I was probably ranked less than a code monkey, though I still had to drill through FogBugz, etc.

Yet for some terrible reason, all I can think about is how I just nyan'd (http://nyan.cat) for 5+ minutes.

Even now I starve, as I await for a client to possibly say okay to a logo.

Maybe I'm not stressed out in the right kind of way. But my "happiness" is so unstoppable that what actually makes me angry or upset is the fact of being upset or angry at all. I can be frustrated, but I can really admit to only that. Even now, as I sit poor and crushed, with W3C's Specifications on the brain.

One joke. One. Absolutely one joke can take me from a SOPA-ranting lunatic or a painfully woeful and grieving romantic, to a kitty petting, child tickling maniac. And I've got most standup comics committed to my highly reliably aural-verbal memory.
I have more faith in the average 13 year old than the average 75 year old. Worse case scenario we'll (continue to) have no coherent or thought out economic policy, but I really don't see such a shift being anything but good for social policy.

The only real issue I see with it is that it could allow conservative religious parents who pump out kids to add a multiplying factor to their own vote. Efforts would need to be taken to ensure parents could not influence the votes of their children (improved voter privacy, and improved education).

Really though, with the amount of 18 year olds currently voting, the 13-18 demographic would only have token representation. The important part of this change would be the age cutoff.
As always, nationalism is wrong.
Beeing a hacker, activist or unconventional thinker has nothing to do with beeing american.

There are enough counter examples, just study history. (for example that of the CCC and his members and fellows)
I want to take this opportunity to talk about myself. And to those who might say that I'm using Aaron's death to further my self promotion, show me a post where he says I'm not awesome.

..you need to look up the definition of "burden of proof", possibly in conjunction with "social norms".
I don't want to being offensive in any way, but you can try a non-hacker website if don't want it to be noisy.
I have this discussion with friends frequently.

For instance, it is illegal to throw a frisbee on a beach in Los Angeles county(1). If you are ticketed, the fine is $1,000.

Now....how many tourists going to the beach are going to know that? How many would ever bother to check? Sure, signs could help, but does everyone stop and read the 12-15 rules on any beach/pool signs?

Even more broadly, were we, as citizens with the right to free travel on public property, notified of the various laws we are subject to while passing in and out of various jurisdictions? Are we notified of the daily changes made to them? Are we given an opportunity to leave said jurisdictions when informed of laws to which we don't want to be subjected?

How are we, as citizens, supposed to understand the laws we are required to follow when we aren't directly provided with them or notified of any changes?

In the private world, there are very strict rules about this. You have to explicitly agree to terms of service before utilizing products, companies must record your agreement, and they must notify you (or provide you with a new copy) if those terms change. (The South Park episode regarding the iTunes EULA made an excellent parody of this fact).

The whole system is getting completely ridiculous and it deserves much closer attention and more publicity.

Sources:

(1): http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/02/09/los-angeles-oks-1...
I disagree. Whilst I don't think that voting rights should be taken away from the elderly, I do think that giving a greater range of ages the ability to vote (say, optional voting between 13 and 18) could be beneficial to society. That extra 5 year gap isn't a large enough number of people to reshape the political landscape in most Western nations, but it is sufficient to stimulate a healthy interest in politics at a young age, thus (hopefully) producing better informed voters who can in turn elect better governments.
I'm not sure about my stance on minors voting, but I think an upper limit on voting should exist either way. I don't see why someone who's probably going to die soon should get to vote on decisions that will affect the country for decades to come.
I thought it was odd too, then I read his 2007 short story post "A Moment Before Dying" where he originally had the character's name as Aaron before changing it to Alex after concerned friends flooded in. It's a bizarre and quite frankly terrible piece where he repeats more than once the line "The day Aaron killed himself...".

It won't win any literary awards, but it indicates he could get himself caught in a dark place given circumstances. It's actually one of the more blatant "hey everyone I'm suicidal" messages I've heard of outside of actual self-harm from failed suicide attempts.

As always, friends can't be babysitting each other 24/7. He felt he should check out early, ok, well not easy to prevent people doing that if they're set in their ways.
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I severely disagree with this, and find it one of the most destructive mentalities persistent in society.

I have a good friend whose father was abusive, and a perfectionist. My friend, as a consequence, holds everyone to an impossible standard - most of all herself - and it's sad to watch, especially given that she's one of the most brilliant, passionate, hard-working people I know. When you expect and demand perfection from people, you will only be let down.

I believe people are well intentioned, but fallible, and demanding retribution for every failing is just a pretty crappy way to go through life. I am very willing to forgive, and only hope that, in my life, others will forgive me when I don't do right (and I'm under no illusions that I always do the right thing)