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I typed this response from my android phone and the experience on android 4.2 is still shitty.

Typing into an overflowing textarea, Scrolling, changing a sentence, spelling correction, it's just a tedious process. On a desktop I would have been 100x faster and more accurate.
Remember Aaron Swartz (1986 – 2013)
"Gonzalez stole real money, I'm sure causing many people a great deal of trouble and distress."

I don't think I'll ever agree with this. I have seen this argument brought up times and times again and every time I feel that we miss the point.

Stealing money is bad, yes. Does it deserve a similar amount of time as someone who committed a murder?

Also, nowadays, people who steal money are stealing money from businesses that are protected against those very thieves (Banks, insurances, big commerces). So basically, it's better morally to steal from a bank/insurance than it is to pickpocket since pickpocketing has a direct impact on a single person.

Don't you guys have enough people in jail already?

EDIT: corrected amount of time in comparison to murder.
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I've been having a tough time tracking down more information on this so I'll ask here. What exactly did MIT do (or not do) that people want to protest? Is it that MIT pursued legal action, or did not try and help Swartz out?
Seriously? Do you actually believe that France, Germany, England and Japan have not tortured people, imprisoned people without charge, or (gasp) started senseless wars?

ROTFL
How is this different than freshbooks?
I honestly dont know what to make of Quinn Norton.

She likes to call herself a journalist but it seems to me that she always puts herself in the story. I am seeing some of that here as well.

I'm also uncomfortable with her "claiming" him as a "lover." I'd be rather uncomfortable with one of my ex's writing articles about me after my death.

Then again, maybe I'm missing something here.
The article mentioned some native applications being browser-based.

I wonder what app development will be like if their browser actually gives some system access.
> I do think that the criminal case pushed Aaron over the edge

> But I place the blame for Aaron's death solely on his shoulders

Quoted for emphasis.
That's true for me as well. When I was a student, revising (and memorising bits that needed to be memorised) was almost always a form of holding a book and walking in circles. Or around the house.

I now spend as much time walking around the office as I do cranking code or writing on my desk. Over the years, I started recognising other habitual pacers in the department. We joke about forming a society and lobbying for a pacing room.
Good point, but what I meant is in the current era, after WWII. Since WWII the US has been the leader among western countries in torture and senseless wars.
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> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
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Working link: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...
Could be this one I guess: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...
Ask HN: What about the others like Aaron Swartz?
I have read a recurring theme about how we could have rallied to help Aaron in some way in terms of his persecution - as opposed to the great outrage now that he is dead.

My question is - are there others out there in similar circumstances whom we can help now - while they are alive?
Serious walking definitely changes one's perspective. I don't feel comfortable in a place until I've learned to get around on foot.
Which schools and how recently?
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To be fair, the original title isn't very good either.
Quote from the article: "By targeting corruption and white-collar crime, the US attorney is restoring our faith in the system.". Talk about back-fire!
Sacking one won't do it, no. But getting one sacked is a necessary step to getting them all sacked. You do it this time. Then you do it again. And again. Until they get the message.
Negative, I just picked a random link and it worked.

I am in the UK, perhaps it works for me?

From their website:

>> Sorry, but bitly is getting a quick site refresh - try again in just a minute. As always, all your existing bitly links will continue to work.
> And there are many more esolangs out there with much wilder and more beautiful semantics than Brainfuck. Implementing those can be a really valuable learning experience.

Like, for example, INTERCAL with threading via `comefrom`: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/intercal/threaded.html
Sometimes a view can be so high-level that you don't see anything meaningful anymore.

All three steps you mention are not nearly understood from either a philosophical or a biological view.

We don't know how an infant recognizes sounds: Is that some innate ability in humans or is that something that has to be learned as well? If the first, what are the basic building blocks of recognizing things? If the later, how is it learned? Think about that what we perceive as language is highly post-processed. A lot of filtering is done on sound before it becomes conscious language. Are those filtering rules innate? Are they learned? How does an infant know the difference between language and other sounds?

Association is even harder. We cannot really start to imagine how association and memory work.

Conversation is less tricky but still struggles with the question: Is it a priori knowledge we use to recognize a reaction?

All your three steps require seem obvious, but are incredibly hard to explain in full. I think you are oversimplifying the problem and only look at the most obvious parts of it. Consider a simple question: Why can infants learn language but not arithmetic given the same process you just described? Basic arithmetic is arguably a lot simpler and about as natural as language, but still won't be learned by most infants. If your answer somehow includes language as a fundamental building block of what makes us human, then you are also taking a stand on some of the things I pointed out earlier and have to unite your theories.
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30 years in prison and up to $1 million in fines for downloading files publicly accessible to anyone in the MIT network.

This is the proverbial straw that's getting people to realize and understand just how fucked up the law is when it comes to digital "crimes".
It's fun reading about other trips across the world, even if they weren't all done on foot.

Journalist Nellie Bly held the world record for fastest time in 1890, traveling the world unchaperoned in 72 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
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Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz dies from suicide
Thanks, am in a similar position now. Open journals are tricky though. I would like to think that there is a way for universities to somehow self-fund platforms for peer reviewed publications, but it just isn't happening. They keep paying huge subscription fees to the publishers of established journals with a reputation and history that is difficult to replace. It's a pretty perverse system, especially if you consider that in many countries universities are funded with public money, but I don't see it changing any time soon unless that change comes from within.
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"We're just doing all of the driving for the demos for now simply because we understand how the experience works"

This is a pretty limp excuse. I wish they'd just drop the PR-speak and say that it's not quite ready yet.
You mean "paper". It's called paper. What are you, a savage who's never seen a book in his life?
That sounds like a very dangerous opinion to present as if it were a fact.

Is it not more a matter of whether a piece of software is a "derivative" of the GPL software?

Looks like even the FSF does not have a clear black&white answer to this question: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation: "if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program"

I remember the mysql guys used to claim that any software connecting to a mysql server would be "infected" with GPL, at least if it was written to depend on the official mysql client libraries, even if the software in question didn't actually copy a single character from any mysql distributions. (?)
what service level agreement (SLA) does bit.ly provide? I can't find it.
FWIW, I don't think that is correct. See comment above.
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I think you are mixing some things together. For starters, you should distinguish between a "life's purpose" that you set for yourself, and one that you assume for other people. You can only decide for yourself, not for other people. You may wish other people had specific values, and try to enforce them with violence, but you can not decide for them.

Next, you should distinguish between a goal or purpose and the means to achieve it. If you goal is to achieve world peace, it doesn't imply that you know about a sure way to achieve it, and you don't have a guarantee that the steps you take are the right ones. That doesn't imply that it is useless to try, though.

Ultimately, what I find sad is that apparently you need some external validation for your existence. You can not stand on your own. It is as if you were missing a leg - that would be sad, no?

I am not sure how to describe it better. I think if you are feeling emptiness and can't appreciate things, very likely the reason is much more basic than "a general lack of meaning in life". Personally I think it is much more likely that the root cause are emotional problems in your life, loneliness, not getting along with family and friends and stuff like that.

Good luck in finding your way!
I remember reading about this 'hack' at the time.

I just can't believe that it ended in Aaron taking his own life. I'm sure anyone paying attention to this will be very angry and sad.
The US Attorney's Office disagrees with you. So did a Grand Jury.
And yet, what device /did/ you end up using?
It is often useful, in advancing causes, to put a sympathetic, concrete face on an amorphous cause.

"Save kittens" --> no one cares

"Save this kitten" --> everyone cares

You can think of this as hacking the human psyche, if you like.
Academics posting their papers online in tribute to Aaron Swartz
I suppose for url shorteners to go away, the web standards should provide for some way to provide content providers with statistics. That is what URL shorteners are most often used for, and until there exist alternatives, they'll continue to be used.

Wasn't there even an attribute on links for a while, which created an outcry because it would send statistics of clicks to another URL? Don't remember the details. I understand why it created an outcry, but the fact is, people will be tracked no matter what :-(
And all the crackdowns on the various Occupy protests around the country were spontaneous and local.
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Sign me up -- though the hardest problems require the space out in the Big Blue Room. Perhaps the new research on how sitting can undermine our health will restore some clout to moving about.
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How long would you take? how much help? what platform?
If we use the death of this great person to do what we want, there is no different between we and the BAD people. Justice will be served. At this moment, I think we should just wish Aaron Swartz R.I.P..
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If it is an accident, exactly what purpose would punishing them serve?

If it was due to negligence, then there is the issue of to what extent it has a preventative effect.

I'm Norwegian. One of the aspects of the Norwegian legal systems is short prison sentences. The legal maximum sentence is 21 years with a recent modification that allows for extensions (this must be included in the conviction, and is restricted to particularly severe crimes) if the prisoner is considered to still be a risk to society. On top of this, a prisoner is usually let out after 2/3 is served, assuming good behaviour, and will get time limited parole even before that (such as weekends with their family).

So a few months ago, for example, a major newspaper published an interview with a woman convicted of a double murder a decade or so ago, carried out at a cafe while she was out of prison for the day on one of her first parole days. In this case still accompanied by a police officer.

And you know what? I'm happy about that, because we also have one of the lowest re-offending rates.

Vengeance is not a good basis for a legal system.

And if what you want is to minimize harm to the public (and that includes those you put in prison, before someone gets the bright idea that lifetime confinement is a solution), punishment simply doesn't work very well.
> If it is true that MIT initiated this and they, along with JSTOR, could have made tons of noise to pull back the DOJ, they really need to engage in deep introspection in order to make sure this never happens again.

A person suspected of breaking federal law will be prosecuted by the Federal government at its own discretion. The alleged victims get no say in that. Their forgiveness may be taken into account by a judge at sentencing, but it has nothing at all to do with the pursuit of prosecution. In fact, a federal prosecutor would be behaving in an impeachable way to fail to pursue a violation of federal law.
I am with you in this.
It would be gracious of you if you stopped questioning each and every bit about this story that doesn't mesh with your paranoid fantasies. What would it take for you to be satisfied? Birth certificates? Passport copies?

Take it for what it is or prove that it isn't until you have proof that it is not have the good grace to be quiet and let these people grieve without adding insult to injury.

Enough damage has been done I would say.
I think you are missing the point! The machine is persons'!!!
In the West, the vast majority of people who kill themselves do so as a direct result of depression. Their perceptions distorted, and their decision-making skills are impaired. If you find this "hard to comprehend", then perhaps you should re-examine your assumptions.
They have to pay license fees to the publishers. That's where most of the money is going.
It depends. Consumer or commercial market? Productivity or games? Low-priced popular or high-priced niche?

EDIT to add: Win, OS X, Linux? Also, I would not do any desktop program without also thinking about how it would be as a tablet app -- iOS, Android, RT.
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"Mommy, the Internet is slow again."

"Shut up, dear, and finish your bark."

I'm reading _Escape from Camp 14_ and _Nothing to Envy_, and it's horrible. They don't need bandwidth, they need something more fundamental (and I don't mean food).
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Thank you Brian, for all you're doing in what must be incredibly hard times. I can't begin to express how this all makes me feel, it will take weeks to sort it all out I'm still too stunned to properly react. What a terrible loss. I have a short list of people that I think I've identified that will change the world in a material way, Aaron was at the top of that list. The fact that we persecute such people rather than give them the benefit of the doubt and encourage them to right what is obviously wrong is what bothers me most, the one thing that stands out for me about Aaron at the moment is that he consistently came down on the right side of any argument.
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If you're ordered to destroy someone's life from higher-ups for the wrong reasons, and your option is to resign, you resign or you are still responsible.
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Cultural imperialism is not acceptable. It is arrogance, and we British are acutely aware of that given the legacy of Empire.

You're failing to understand the magnitude of the insult which occurs when you conflate a flag - which is a transient political statement, with a language - which is cultural and fundamental to one's identity. Instead of a drop-down menu of languages, the developer ends up creating a drop-down menu of political allegiances.

Do you think that my friend's mother who fled the Iranian revolution wants to stare at the flag of the Islamic Republic just because she wants to view sites in Farsi? No. She has relatives who died because of what that flag represents. Furthermore your assertion about country-specificity doesn't work: she speaks the Iranian-specific form of Farsi.

Political statements really matter, people live and die for flags. Right now there are riots in Ireland over the British flag http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57563606/police-attacked... Would you suggest that we display the British flag to the Irish to represent "English"? They don't have a country-specific form of English either.

How about we show the British flag in Zimbabwe, where it is the first language? It's probably a crime... Maybe the French flag in Quebec? Oops. How about the Cuban flag for Cuban-Americans who fled the revolution? The list goes on, and on ...

So really, really, don't mix up political symbols with languages. For many people, it's a matter of life and death. You're not going to have a specialised version of your website for every country on Earth.
I was surprised at how thorough the article was. I went in assuming the article would be an ideological argument, but after reading it seems fairly straightforward (spoiler alert: the basic argument is that people will pirate entertainment they want when it's unavailable for purchase (I.e., when recent movies are only available on DVD, fans will look for torrents), which seems like a fairly uncontroversial position)
What exactly is Instagram? I can create a cool way to upload photos, add some filters and things like that. It is easy.

Instagram value is not only about software. You have a big community, integration with a lot of services, a lot of servers to handle the stupid amount of images uploaded in a day.

So, it is not probably about days. If you want to create the next Instagram, you should do something far better than that.
This reminded me of Arnold Schwarznegger's rules for success in life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJ4hbkLiY0 about 50 seconds in. Rule 2 -- break the rules.
I've always dreamed of taking a year or more to walk the back-roads of the US and visit all 48 contiguous states on foot. The technical challenge of plotting a route to traverse each state exactly once is appealing in its own right.
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It might help if you list what career/job(s) you want to get noticed for. It's unclear whether you are wanting to stay as a technical product manager or move into more of a programming career.
Yes, but even for the real money, I think it is too much.

For comparison, this guy[1] shot 77 people, but he was sentenced only "21 years and a minimum of 10 years" and he will spend this period in a luxury prison of Norway.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
Yes, you seem to miss the fact that it's an obituary written by someone who loved the person who has died.

Complaining that she "puts herself in the story"? On her personal blog? When someone she loved has just died? Seriously? Are you really that callous?

(And if my ex wrote about me like that after my death, then I'd be perfectly fine with it.)
The stats for online streaming would look even sadder if one steps out of US. :/
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I thought MIT was only going after Aaron because JSTOR was threatening to cut off their access if they didn't stop him?
I've seen the following phrased differently but here's a libertarian's take on the system (not that it reflects every single libertarian's oppinion):

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

I've seen it written too: "It's too late to start legally fixing the system, it's too early to start shooting people".

Sometimes I do wonder if the endgame ain't going to be civil war trying to fight oppression.
Proof? Source? I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy, but this was published 30/12/2012, when the Swartz suicide was 11/01/2013.
Then why don't they do so ?

Anyone at all (including you) is free to scan journals that are in the public domain and publish them online for free. If you scan/ocr them then there are many places (including Project Gutenberg and archive.org) who will host them for you.
Yes, but instead of 20 years, couple of months or a year could help with changing mind.
Link does not work. One of the working link is - http://www.bostonglobe.com/2011/12/30/carmenortiz/wLwkSgFqDQ...

Quite aptly, this link is behind a pay wall. Other "free" links include

http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/01/03/massachusetts-u-s-atto...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...
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My father owns a small payment processing company that does electronic processing of checks. One of his employees was busted by a federal task force for laundering a lot of money. The task force initially accused my father of being the ring leader. My father cooperated fully with the investigation, gave the task force emails, documents, etc. He had nothing to hide. They were still threatening him with prosecution so my father hired a very expensive attorney in D.C. and they eventually declined to prosecute. Total cost $20,000.

It's a lot of money but not $1.5 million. A large majority of innocent people don't end up at trial. Even a lot of the guilty people don't end up at trial. My dad's ex-employee became a witness for the government against the money launderers and avoided going to trial.
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You're conflating two issues, method of delivery and method of payment. There are a number of very successful desktop app that are SaaS (Dropbox and Evernote come to mind).

The reason that SaaS is so popular is that it provides a much more predictable and reliable income over one-off sales.
Facebook the company is kind of boring. They have one core product (Facebook) and have built a little around that (chat, advertising), but they really haven't released another core product ever that I can think of.

Kind of reminds me of Google back before they launched GMail which really seemed to alter the company's course and remind the world that "we are more than just a search engine."

I hope Facebook are releasing something new, and I hope it has nothing directly to do with their Facebook site/product.
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Do you mean the "Referer" header? It's still used, but HTTPS often doesn't pass it.
Are incessant references to Betteridge's law of headlines passé? Never mind, I'll be that guy. I think it works nicely in this case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
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