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Asserting all members of a group of people are subhuman sure does sound like something that happened in Europe in the 30s and 40s. What point were you trying to make?

Immanentize your personal eschaton,

Lil 'B
How long do you estimate until the Internet will be back up? Thank you.
I didn't mean to say dopamine is a drug. Yes dopamine is normal and it increases from many things. The problem is constantly altering it through activities that would not be occuring in nature. The videos I linked to on yourbrainonporn.com really explained it well for me. Maybe you could watch them and let me know what you disagree with. I maybe getting some things mixed up as I don't have a great understanding of the chemical reactions involved.

Yes, I am also aware of how I got involved with this. It goes back many years and this realization has helped me to identify reasons why I have sought this out as a solution.

As I mentioned, Dr. Gabor Mate's research and books have been helpful to me. He has worked with drug addicts in Vancouver and has, in many cases, linked addiction to ongoing stress in a person's life especially when they are young. In a way of dealing with the stress, the person turns to an addictive substance which provides a temporary relief which the person can get hooked on quite easily.
^ this is actually an important question.
Yes, and? The price to publish with PLoS is not meant to be a barrier; they will wave the fee if you cannot afford it.
Wow, thank you so much!

This obviously hadn't come up in relation to Arduino searches.
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Different people have different standards. Maybe Aarons choice helped protect people who follow in his footsteps.
Ah, got it. Thanks very much for the explanation. The alcohol analogy makes it lucid. When it comes to pornography I'm definitely a "glass of red wine with dinner from time to time" kind of person (TMI?), so it was out of my frame of reference to know what kind of behaviour you were describing.

"I would notice that I would put so much stress on my body, that it would really take me about a week to recover and feel normal, and then the cycle would start again" sounds, well, pretty wild and probably jolly good fun to be honest, but I can see how that could be problematic as a regular and difficult-to-resist habit rearing its head every week or so.
It's understandable that you're angry, but spamming a random site with a "random" guy from MIT that didn't have anything to do with Aaron's case isn't going to solve anything.
If only Reddit had taken on more ads, Aaron might have had enough wealth to fight.
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>"Porn is widespread enough that you'd expect the large-scale statistical effects to be manifest."

There is certainly a modern syndrome around the nexus of sex, relationships, and family (less stable relationships, fewer children raised in stable homes, fewer children, more sex, more sexual culture, technology that lowers the cost of sex, easy access to porn). It's hard to know which pieces of the syndrome are causes and which are effects.

But if you don't see anything broken with modern relationships, you aren't paying attention to the statistics. Since the 1960s things have certainly changed at a rapid rate and some of that change is clearly for the worse.
> Each time you view something new, your brain gives a hit of dopamine.

Oh dear god. That is not how dopamine works. Dopamine is a chemical that your brain secretes when you are trying to get something, not once you get it - so when you're hungry, for example, you'll have higher dopamine levels. Then when you eat, they go back down. The actual sensation of higher dopamine levels is stress and anxiousness - it actually doesn't feel good at all.

Here's an NYT article talking about the common misconception: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/science/27angier.html?_r=0

> they're addicted to the chemical sensations that their brain provides.

EVERY experience is a "chemical sensation" in the brain. Good. Bad. Whatever.

> In fact, now that I have learned about this, whenever I see a post on HN about how someone has lost their interest in programming or other activities, the first thing I think of is probably this person has a porn addiction.

What the fuck? This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. There could be a million things that cause a loss of interest in programming. Maybe they got girlfriends or started families? Maybe they suck at it, and just realized that?

It sounds like you used to be obsessed with porn, and now you're obsessed with "porn addiction"
You overestimate prosecutors by a large margin here.
They're harassing an innocent person for their own righteous cause. Isn't that what they believe they're speaking out against to begin with? Baffling.
"9/10th* of the working of the gonads is to vitalise the whole body – brain included. If the gonads would secrete a blue fluid, the whole body would be blue, and the brain very blue – and even the bones would be slightly blue. […] It is quite often the case that very creative people have very active gonads."

* fundamentally true; not correct, but fundamentally true.
>Is the "moving internationally" issue a question of travel or permanent residency?

Both
I would hate to see webpy die. It is really an elegant framework. You can see Aaron's intense desire for perfectionism, simplicity and clarity in it. I respect those qualities.
it's sad, because first reading that I thought it was a bad joke.
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>Ideally java/flash plugins will die quickly, and we can replace them with browser native technology that we can hold the browser manufacturers accountable for.

I don't know why you would think browser native technology will be any more secure. Java and Flash aren't heavily exploited because they're worse than other products - they're exploited because they're ubiquitous. And it's not like we don't have manufacturers to hold accountable here, whatever that means.

Security is hard. It's really, really, really hard to add new functionality without leaving a chink in your security armor. This cycle of 0-day exploits is not going away even when Flash and Java are only discussed in nursing homes.
> The problem is constantly altering it through activities that would not be occuring in nature.

Pretty sure humans have always been masturbating. So do chimps and lots of other animals.
>The White House really wants to turn the debate around, and argue that open access for research is a stimulus for jobs: it will create more jobs, not fewer. To argue for that requires marshaling arguments and data from the private sector to establish that if people have access to federally-funded research, that will help them in their lives, and those benefits will outweigh the costs that the journal industry may experience.

Do they have a team working on this, and is there any form of crowdsourcing being used to marshall this data?
Some things are back now. Still not mit.edu
Void of any thought.
Thanks for the article. I'm still trying to learn more about it. However, I would appreciate it if you did not judge me and wrote your response in a more polite manner.
there are PPAs out there for oracle java
Aaron Swartz: a martyr for info-freedom fighters?
Just like porn became a socialised behaviour… so can its rejection.
Wow, personal attacks already

It is dishonest to say you are checking if someone "is a cultural fit" when what you actually mean is "will take my crap".

God forbid you do your job and try to work with "difficult" people; you'd rather pass on the greatest engineer in the world than do that.
Not to worry, they'll probably begin the actual attack as soon as you get everything fixed :)
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"Both of my parents were shrinks"

Nope, it wasn't the porn.
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> Engineering is getting easier

Engineering always "gets easier", that's the whole point of engineering. Assuming that people aren't going to climb onto the shoulders of the latest giants to do even more interesting stuff is ridiculous.

How small is the bubble you are living in if you think that the hundreds of years of increased specialization has just reversed itself?

Yes, everyone in the web field should be able to make a reasonable looking CRUD web app these days. That doesn't mean this skillset is some new pinnacle, it means that this is the new minimum, accessible by dilettantes and amateurs. This is great news, it's commonly called "progress".

If all you have are generalists who can do what any high school kid can do these days then I hate to tell you what your competitors with highly skilled specialists are working on; you'll find out when they put you out of business.
That was a cryptic statement in the Lessig post.

We're Aarons assets frozen? Was he banned from Internet as a condition of bail?
One of the reasons Sun was gobbled up by Oracle is they could never figure out how to monetize their "extremely large and valuable" Java community. I don't like the toolbar spam any more than you, but Oracle doesn't have an obligation to provide a money-losing product.
Why do you think he wrote that article?
I enjoy obscure words in the books I read. They are like small treats the author has left for me to unwrap.

However, when I write or speak I'm usually trying to *communicate; the use of obscure words tends to work against that.
Did you read the recent discussion of article Black and Whitey?

It's fun to be a contrarian, but try to find a sensible angle.
"Porn isn't bad" is close enough to "porn is harmless" that I see little point in distinguishing them. not(P < 0) === P >= 0. I guess I don't see the nuance. I'll definitely admit to failing my test sometimes. It's easy to be sure you know what someone really meant.
Really? I watched that one (I was there...), and I found it absolutely uninformative. Just two whistleblowers and their lawyer, but not really anything new and or at least a good story. And one of them seemed bitter because his better surveillance system wasn't being used. I was also a bit confused about the audience clapping for basically nothing.
He has been outdone: Pulitzer-prize winning Paul Salopek is starting a walk from Ethiopia to Argentina around now, and it's estimated to take 7 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20902355
The Death Star one was simple, so it is easy to respond to. The research one is complicated. To move from the current system to one where were everything is available at no cost, without compromising peer review and without making it much harder for working scientists to follow the important developments in their field, is a hard problem.
> We have normalized porn very recently and it is just a piece of modernist faith that it is harmless.

Which is true of everything. How do you know eating chicken is harmless? What about cellphones? What about under arm deodorant? Laundry Detergent?

There are tons and tons of new things added to society all the time.

The only reason anyone has a problem with porn is because some people have moral hangups about it.
Do you know any Android apps you could recommend? Code Puzzles looks amazing.
Makes some valid points, but some of the evidence he uses in the talk reminds me of evangelical christians tv hosts - 'Just look at this testimonial! While on the porn he dropped out of college twice, was fired twice, was taking paxil, ritalin, and tried several anti-anxiety pills. BUT once he gave up porn he doesn't need those pills, has no depression or anxiety, and frankly...he feels like a stud!'
- Pagefault Liberation Army

Just a lot of fun ways to abuse x86 page tables.

- Low cost microprobing

This was probably the most practical explanation of what's involved in setting up a microprobe workstation that I've seen. Not a ton of depth, but interesting.

- Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch

Starts with a good premise and goes into sufficient detail to be interesting.

- FactHacks

Best vaguely mathy talk. For some reason, I'm always surprised when I see video of djb -- he is a very good lecturer.
I think it is time for someone create an online repository where people can upload their scientific/research papers. Many top-scientist will continue to publish their manuscripts in closed-access journals to maintain their academic status. However, I also believe many of these same men & women would also quietly upload their papers to publicly available repositories.
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> It seems like the real issue here is prestige, which then
> translates to funding. "Publish or die" is how most
> researchers seem to live. Thus I think if we are able to
> show that self-publishing/distributed publishing brings
> the money to the researcher and the academic institution
> then this idea would get traction.

That's basically right. Academic researchers are evaluated on the number and quality of their peer-reviewed journal articles. Blogging is a distant secondary concern for most researchers because it doesn't contribute, in a direct way, to tenure or grants. This is changing, but slowly.
As long as you have passion, anything is possible. :) Thanks for the comment!
I don't mean to be crass but does HN really need to become saturated with so much similar posts? E.g i was seeing lots of tributes flood in, multiple stories on how Swartz was innocent etc.

Why can't there be 1 or 2 posts?
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Yes you are correct. You can create your own startup and work for yourself. :)
>literally everyone except newborns would be in prison.

Actually, no. Newborns can (and therefore, should, apparently) be arrested for "disturbing the peace."
For some reason, people here think Javascript is the best shit ever.
This is a bit ridiculous. Moving the summary to the beginning is no better. Simply write more concisely and elegantly.

My favorite illustration of this was in the movie "A River Runs Through It"—a young Norman brought his essays to his father, who would say always "Good. Now make it half as long." This was repeated a few times, then it was good enough. Would that more writers could follow this mantra.
I don't think that anybody is saying "it is dangerous", just "the ubiquitous and instant availability of virtually any kind of high-definition porn is a relatively new thing, and its effects might be different than the wood block prints and paper magazines enjoyed by previous generations".
The finished part of my house is completely wired with cat-5, but devices are becoming much less likely to even have an ethernet port, much less to be sitting around in a single place for it.

Of the dozen devices in my room right now, six are able to be connected and, of those, four are.
Why do some note combinations sound good.

This is a discussion of equal temperament vs. just intonation ratios

http://irkenkitties.com/blog/2012/11/28/consonant-intervals-...

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You can read a lot in the subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/16h5fk/how_do_y...

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Equal temperament instruments present all kinds of problems, wolf intervals in the extreme (Pianos have inharmonicity/octave stretching, flutes effectively have octave stretching, guitars have all kinds of funkiness

http://www.truetemperament.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_interval
Unless it's just been fixed, it's reachable here from FR and NL.
Cool idea. It could be useful once it has a bit more content. Maybe it should be seeded with some more aliases from public dotfiles repos.
It's not a 'good thing' to deal with piles of legacy spaghetti code with no method to it's madness. Sure if you've been coding UIs for years, I'm sure we'd work fine together. In my experience, coding designers, have not been experienced coders.
I was under the impression that the offered plea bargain still included an excessive amount of prison time and pleading guilty on all counts.
You'll note that provided a reason why it is not fair use, and you did not dispute the reason.
> You no longer need a CS degree to build reasonably scalable web-applications.

When did you ever need a CS degree for anything? I pull mine out to show what kind of dumbass i am to have this "toilet trophy" when i spend hours unclusterfucking code written by a guy who poured concrete a month before becoming "software engineer." Oh no wait... he's a "hacker." Aside from companies in SV, nobody gives a shit. Many companies in Midwest hire developers based on how well they fit their team. Degree? What's that?
In the case of Betteridge's Law the point being made is that if someone has actual evidence then the headline reflects the evidence. It states the fact that there is new knowledge about something. If it's just speculation or useless fluff then they add a question mark.

And yes, it was not made for opinion pieces or personal narratives and, like in the examples you give, doesn't generally work in these situations.

My intention was just to point out that it happens to apply here because the headline is childish link bait.

The author covers in the piece that it wasn't really porn that lead to this and it's not going to be "forever" either if he does something about it.
I think this black and white view of a "competition" for important is stupid.

The reality is that now we are realizing that we need the 3 sides to be strong;

- UX/UI

- biz/marketing

- Dev
If it was that simple, would Lessig have said so after the case became moot?

I'm confused about this too.
There is an important distinction between developer and engineer. Anyone can become a developer, engineering on the other hand requires a bunch of training.
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Publishing is not referring to printing the physical journals (no one is arguing that those should be free).

Publishing refers to the work done by editors, copyeditors, typesetters, etc. Without those paid employees the quality of journals would drop significantly.
I was wondering this too, and also exactly what conflict of interest forced Lessig to cease formal legal assistance.
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There are many criticism towards the AA program... just because Bill Wilson think you're always an alcoholic does not make it so.
Yes, they are talking about conducting heat, which is atomic vibrations (not light)
TL;DR is a useful convention for busy readers, but it should be at the beginning, not the end.

Look at the lede (the first sentence or two) of any article in any newspaper. It's marked in bold face, and summarizes the whole story. It helps the busy reader decide if he wants to "drill down" by reading the rest of the article. TL;DR could do the same thing, if only people put it at the beginning.

I teach essay writing, so I have strong views about this. ;)
A prosecutor's duty and role is to seek justice[0]. Justice isn't always black and white, but it certainly isn't applying the toughest charges that could possibly be made to stick nor seeking the highest possible penalty in every case. The prosecutor should attempt to determine what a just outcome to a case would be, then seek to achieve it.

Being aware of a situation where it is probable to win a conviction under the letter of the law in no way obligates a prosecutor to seek that conviction.

[0] http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_sec...
I've never seen a TL;DR that wouldn't serve the reader better if it were put at the beginning, rather than the end.
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My laptop is currently backed up all the time (Crashplan), and many of my important documents, contacts, etc., are either in Dropbox, iCloud, Git, etc. So I really view it as the same difference.
This sounds compelling but I'm not willing to trust it. Where did you get this information?
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Registered domain names for attorneys who bullied Swartz
Carmen M Ortiz together with Stephen P Heymann and Scott L Garland are the three prosecuting attorneys who, by abusing their power, losing all sense of proportion and justice, relentlessly hounded and bullied Aaron Swartz. They should not be allowed to get away with what they have done.

Today I registered the following domain names:

carmenortiz.org, carmenmortiz.com, carmenmortiz.org, carmenmortiz.net
stephenheymann.org, stephenheymann.net, stephenpheymann.com, stephenpheymann.org, stephenpheymann.net
scottlgarland.com, scottlgarland.org, scottlgarland.net, scottgarland.org

They destroyed someone beautiful. They should not be allowed to forget it. We should not forget it and we should remind them of it.

I know we are all angry right now. We should take some time to grieve and to calm down. But we should absolutely make sure that these three attorneys are held accountable for the decisions they made and actions they took. We should pin their actions to them, we should make it impossible for them to flee from their responsibility in this case. Everywhere they go people should know who they are and what they have done.

There is a right way to do this. This isn't about getting revenge. This isn't about using the Internet to bully them they way that they bullied Aaron. Instead, in the spirit of non-violence and democracy that Aaron practiced, I propose that we build a website that calls them to their own conscious for what they have done and never let them escape public responsibility.

I envision a website that will let us highlight other concrete cases of prosecutorial overreach and abuse of power as well as highlighting the many well documented crimes that the DOJ decides not to pursue (bankers who sunk the economy, high ranking officials who sanctioned torture or murder by drone, etc).

If there are any web-designers/developers who would like to help, let me know.
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Wouldn't it be even better if the TL;DR was at the beginning so you didn't have to cmd+F for it?
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He said he enjoyed it a lot when he did it, therefore it's an addiction.

This is America: if you like something, it's probably bad for you.

(Less sarcastically: I remember reading that addicts don't enjoy their addiction anymore; they do it because they have to keep doing it. Kind of like me and "someone is wrong on the Internet".)
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From Alfred Korzybski, who claimed he got it from a physician.
Maybe he is referring to something like an injunction or bail terms preventing him from using the internet or speaking out about the case?

Lessig's wife established free.aaronsw.com, so I don't think he is talking broadly about donations.
There are people from every walk of life frequenting HN these days. I'm guessing the world of online porn can be pretty disturbing for the uninitiated.

The fact that an average person can't summit Everest while a practiced climber can is not a disparagement on the former.
You are mostly right here, but abuse can absolutely cause a legitimate mental illness, just like it can break bones.
It's almost like it would be nice if a hacker used library access to download a bunch of federal court electronic records and provided public access to them, possibly with the assistance of a major university.