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I think there probably are issues in this case that feel quite relevant here this week like federal prosecutorial discretion and the means by which plea bargains are achieved.
Forums and IRC actually made the Internet much friendlier ... The era in which this was written might have let you dial into a BBS and (if you were lucky) participate in usenet.
Thanks.I am switching to classical music and works much better. Right now I am listening to Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone playing Moses and Marco Polo Theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssoQbusZ7os. It's beautiful (when not interrupted by Spotify ads!)
Yeah, turns out you have to click on something first, then something else to swap them.
I think this is a good idea (I mentioned it in a comment a while back :-) ). I don't have many forums to submit, but here's one:

http://www.pprune.org/ - Professional Pilots' Rumour Network (basically a hang out for pilots and wannabe pilots)
The benefit of centralized notifications is that you can at least have control on what apps can notify, and how. This is a lot better than the mix of some applications using Growl (which you could configure) or implementing notifications on their own (which you couldn't).

Just alt-click the notification center icon in the menubar, and you won't see any :-)
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You are right. As I listen to a lot of classical music, I realize I am thinking better but also slowing down too much. Thanks
Ok, fine. Assuming this analysis is correct (and I really lack the legal background to asses this), it does not really change that Aarons accusations was in the mind of people who know what they're talking about utter nonsense.

Hence the logical conclusion is that prosecutors might be fine, but it does not change the fact that the law is completely nonsensical and this is what we should change. How about you guys fire some congresman instead?
You realize that Starcraft is fun largely because it stresses you out and makes you anxious, right? Same with, say, tennis. If you're not stressed and anxious, it's because you're not being challenged by your opponent.

The rush of fiero when you kick ass, or the amazement when you lose, washes over this at the end and gives you an emotional exclamation point to remember for the next time you think about playing: you're anticipating the end of the game.
By continuing giving MIT access after the breach of contract/license agreement, does JSTOR still have a legal claim of Wire fraud?

You're thinking in terms of a civil suit, where an aggrieved party sues to restore their property/rights/etc. This was a criminal suit where the process is very different: the party suing is always the government in criminal cases, and the only matter at hand is whether the defendant violated the letter of the law. Aggrieved parties don't even have any authority to press or drop charges in criminal cases: that authority rests solely with the government (and the government will often continue cases when the parties involved just want it to go away).
I did not it. Thanks for the link.
"I am upset that we have a justice system that would persecute me the way it did Aaron."

But it wouldn't, because we allow our fears to convince us to keep our thoughts to ourselves. And I am upset the very persons who are courageous enough to fight for our interest are eliminated, leaving us.
I've not found Gmail or Outlook filters to be different to each other in any significant way. I actually find Gmail filters slightly worrying as they don't actually let you have SPAM and decide what to do with it. Occasionally in the past, I've had false positives on other providers but there is no way to know either way with GMail.

I think people are starting to lose interest in smart phones. There is a rapid decline of them in my organisation (150 people). We've gone from all staff having them to about 90 users in the last year. The rest are back on cheap phones.
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Fair enough, seems I rushed to a conclusion.
So teens without money favour surface over Apple. Clearly the sales back them up??? It ends tipping Nokia. Gee that research was worth the money
It's dishonest to apply the word 'unlawful' with the implication that statutory law (federal penal code) was violated. Service abuse is a civil matter, it doesn't concern the state.
Conditional on the premise that the majority should govern in the first place, I think this sounds like a reasonably attractive system.

Not necessarily the case. The problem even has a name: "Tyranny of the majority" [1].

I'd argue that decisions in government should be made by a majority vote, with each person's vote being weighted by the impact the decision will have on them. Currently, we have the idea that everyone should have an equal vote. Yes, determining the weightings verges on the impossible, but is there someway the Internet might make it possible?

Note that such a scheme would make the concept of "nation" and other levels of government irrelevant. Local decisions would automatically be make by a local cluster of people, whilst decisions with a global impact would be determined by a larger group.
Everyone blames the system but we should really blame ourselves first. We did not protest Aaron's prosecution enough, we did not make him feel our support. We ourselves allowed this to happen.
I think it has a lot to do with these words and the sentiment behind them. The childen of that era (like the author) have grown up, and through their experiences and determination helped to shape a world where we can learn, explore, develop, interact and hack on things, like they did, but in a more tolerant and willing (and less illegal) environment.
Many of the stories on HN focus the problems with education, big corps and the authorities (the stories about Aaron Swartz encapsulate all of these), particularly with regards to people like HN readers. Its a different world to that story, but the issues are still relevant.
I'm getting to the "rain level", but after that, there seem to be graphical glitches (can't see my characters, and the boxes are all black and sometimes disappear).
Hi, I've been trying out your tool and it works really well but it's quite slow. I've done several tests with different IPs and it takes aproximately 11 seconds to give me a response (using firebug's network). Although if I look again an IP it seems cached and is answered really quick, good job.
The primary error in this line of thinking is to draw parallels between a racial issue and a drug issue. In the case of the racial issue, the federal government was acting on the behalf of a portion of its citizenry, and against the will of a smaller portion of citizens; in this case the federal government would find itself on the right side of history.

In the drug case, the federal government is acting against the expressed will of a larger portion of citizenry, to the extent that many of those citizens have expended considerable effort to pass legislation contrary to the federal government's enforcement; in this case, I think it is quite likely that the federal government will find itself on the wrong side of history.

Merely drawing parallels from issues of states' rights versus federalism in the past isn't very enlightening. You have to consider each issue on its own merits.

That "righteous anger" isn't because this is simply a states' rights issue; rather, it's because the federal government is acting against the wishes and welfare of the citizens of states, and it is not doing so to protect the interests of some demographic group of victims.
Best site I could find was created by a fellow HN follower :)

http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/#

I listen to it everyday and never get bored :)
Fire her pour encourager les autres.
A TOS can actually be very important in determining whether criminal law was broken or not.

Take a real property, rather than intellectual property, example: my house is private property. If you open my door and walk into my living room, you are trespassing, which is a crime (or you could be breaking and entering depending on your intent). However, if I put a sign up saying "come on in, JohnsonB!" then you have my consent to enter, and you have therefore not violated the letter of the law.

See how consent to use private property is the crux of whether a criminal violation occurred?

A TOS defines the boundaries of how an intellectual property owner consents to your use of that property. Go outside the bounds of that TOS and you are no longer operating with consent, and may indeed be committing a crime.

I'm not saying that this is how it should be. Just that this is how the law is generally interpreted.
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> District court cases are not precedential with respect to other district court cases and it is rare that there is a usable opinion deciding the case.

Lawyer and former litigator here. It's true that district-court decisions have the status of binding precedent authority only within their own districts. Such decisions, though, can be and regularly are cited elsewhere as "persuasive" authority.

For example, in a California case, a lawyer might argue, in effect, "Your Honor, in a similar situation in New York, Judge So-and-So took Action X, for the reasons explained in her published opinion; we submit that you should take Action X too."
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Fantastic to see a project like this underway, I'm a happy lastpass user but an open source version is a great long term project.
I thought it was only JSTOR that said that, and that MIT had not made that clear? Anyway, that wasn't really my main point. Prosecutions sometimes do define the law, that's the power of precedence.
The ability of a phone to interrupt me is not the core feature of a smart phone. I also have the phone auto mute every night till rather late every morning, and don't use push email nor a tone when email comes in (nor do I do that on my computers)

I can read any number of books, check my schedule for years out, get directions to anywhere, text by voice alone, search the web from anywhere, or shop on amazon. None of those are interruptive, cause a constant ping of stress, or make anyone feel like I'm not paying them attention, however none of them work well on a feature phone, if at all.

The issues people have with smart phones are almost entirely tied to people constantly checking them/audibly alerting them to incoming info, treating them as novelty delivering skinner boxes and more important than the people you are with.
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Aaron Swartz, Oshan Cook, and a legal system out of control
It is nearly a description of "Liquid Democracy"

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

http://globalfree.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/liquiddemocracy/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiquidFeedback
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Completely agree. There are many great journalists out there. How easy it is to cherry pick or dismiss journalism based on examples of how bad it can be.

fwiw, I couldn't agree less with this article. In fact, it scares me that an educated person could think this way.

RS
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Yes. http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/10?m=7165646#716564... (see follow-up discussion)

It was a horrible edit, and its author should feel bad.
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When the laws, applied fairly and legitimately, have the effect of silencing an activist working for the public benefit, one has to start questioning those laws and the motivations behind them.
You and me dont have the intellect to think what he saw.
I'm not sure 'we do it to black and poor people all the time' makes it any better. If the fact it has happened to someone else raises the profile of the issue that should be a good thing to come out of a bad situation.

From the outside (the UK) it seems like the US plea bargain system has become a cause of miscarriages of justice is some cases. The fact that the rational choice for an innocent person can often be to accept a guilty plea is something that should be of real concern. The system of bargaining combined with the ability to charge multiple counts for tightly related acts means the threat side can be very large even where the real levels of wrongdoing are small or illegality borderline.
My parents had the same problem and kinda solved it by using light alarm clocks.
As they sleep back to back, having light one side doesn't wake the other up.

I'd definitely not wake up only with light though, I am far too much of a deep sleeper :s

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Natural-Sunrise-Alarm-Clock-Simulato...

Coupled with nature sounds, it might be perfect :).
> You really think people do it to get their name there?

I’m assuming that’s the reason because I see no other reason for that edit. The editor only made one valid change, “is” to “are”. All the other changes are just there to make the edit look bigger, but don’t actually contribute anything. Do actually look at the changes, they are ridiculous: changing “Pi” to “pi” (why not do it right and change it to “π”?), changing capitalisation of the automatically added placeholder image alt texts (why not remove them or add a meaningful alt text?), linking to Wikipedia articles that have already been linked elsewhere in the text … all in all, the edit seems not like the editor was making an effort at all, and rather like he was making every effort to look busy without having to contribute anything.
Hounding someone with threats of bankruptcy or of imprisonment for longer than they'd been alive is very different from them playing games.

Your comparison of a suicide to a mass killing in order to plead the just world fallacy is ill chosen at best.
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More on this :

https://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/perl-is-not-dead-it-is...

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/01/how-forking-perl-5...
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Today I had a strange thought: did Aaron kill himself because he thought it was the only solution to end the madness of the system?
Don't try to quit. Look into how programs for quitting smoking work. Quitting cold turkey is painful. Some people can do it, but most people can't. Instead, there is a ton of stuff out there to help people step down gradually.

Instead of stopping cold, rate limit yourself. You already have a solid baseline of your current frequency. Pick something a bit less and don't go over that for a week. Figure out some strategies for coping; I'd suggest going for long walks to public places. Note that you've achieved that milestone and step it down another notch the next week.

You don't have to go all the way to zero unless you want to, either. Demonstrating to yourself that you've got a measure of control is important.
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"The law is very literal, it is like code."

(I have degrees in law & CS)

No, it's not, and it's the nr 1 mistake armchair lawyers across the internet are making in commenting on this case. Law is much more common sense than many people give it credit for; except it's common sense in a very different way than many people want it to be. (e.g., the bickering elsewhere in this thread on the intricate details of the facts and Orin's analysis of it).
Right, which points strongly to how disproportionate and broken the penalties are in the legal system.
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Ask HN: Do you have documents which help clean up when you're dead?
On December 23rd the girlfriend of a friend died at 25 in a car accident and last week Aaron Swartz died which got me thinking about what happened if I died today.

Actually it would be a huge mess I fear. So i took an hour and put together some of the (to me) important information about accounts I have on websites (like Facebook, Twitter,..), about my cellphone and so on.

Did you plan for such a scenario? Do you have such documents? And how do you manage and let your family know about it.

This is also a matter of security and trust. You're giving someone a lot of power over your life...
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There's something wrong in Chrome with the login button. It works on Firefox, but it stays disabled in Chrome. I think I had the same problem when I registered too, and I have to use Firefox. And could you add Google sign-in integration, too?
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So because something is tangentially related to something else here, it's cool, right? Like since Aaron was Jewish, Israeli politics would fly too?

I disagree and think that "7 degrees of hacker news" is a fun game but should not seriously be considered a serious or legitimate reason to include some or other article.
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Sorry, but that's unmitigated bullshit.

He didn't do "a bit of scraping", he tried to download the entire archive. On a guest account at a university he had no relationship with. Over a period of months. He was blocked with increasingly wide-reaching measures and reacted with increasingly elaborate circumvention attempts, culminating with a laptop hidden in a closet.

His intent was very clearly criminal.
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"Crazy Bad" is not exaggerated... http://brainchronicle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/air-quality-ana...
>He said he enjoyed it a lot when he did it, therefore it's an addiction.

hmmmm no. It is an addiction if you cannot do WITHOUT it and you cannot stop doing/taking it; and you feel terrible one way or the other without it and the only release is having/taking it. And when you start typical toxic behaviors like making excuses "one last time" and the likes.

Just because you enjoy something a lot doesn't make it an addiction. From all mattm said, he probably isn't addicted but put the label "addiction" on some other thing he is suffering from.
For people who went to check: it's AGPLv3. So yeah, you can modify it, provided you do some other stuff as well.
Challenge HN: Let a suit evaluate your project
This post is meant to settle a friendly argument between myself a few hacker friends of mine.

I am a 'hackersuit.' I have a business degree & work in business development. I can also hack enough to contribute to the product I work on at a valley giant.

I taught myself to code over the last few years b/c I was tired of the attitude I got from hackers when I talked about concepts & ideas. Now I only appreciate what hackers do more.

There are two premises that motivated me to write this post:

1) I believe that both suits and hackers under-appreciate each other. The lack of symbiosis is the reason most start-ups & projects go nowhere and/or fail.

2) Hackers pigeon-hole business folks just like suits do hackers. Suites think that any ol' hacker can just 'write some code' and build their product; hackers think any suit can 'do some marketing or sell the product.'

Neither is true.

What I'd like to demonstrate to hackers is that some suits (like some hackers) have 'it.' Call it intuition, business savvy, a sixth sense, whatever. It's the ability to determine whether an app, website, concepts, etc. has market value or potential.

So the idea came up to use HN to ask people to share what they're working on and then have me - the suit - give VC-style, pinpoint feedback to show why/how whatever project does/does not work in the market

Our goal here is to a) prove the importance of some suits - those with 'it' - to the conceptualization & execution of a project, and b) dispel the theory that any hacker can just 'create something and turn it into a business.'

But, the larger aim is to prove that if we want to move ourselves forward, we're going to have to develop a much healthier respect and appreciation for each other - hackers and suits.

So, if you're up for it and have a relevant, project post your MVP, app, site, whatever and I will break it down.
I wonder if Aaron would still agree that, in spending time reading coverage of this, we have not really changed our opinions or learned anything relevant to our lives? He sounds like a pragmatist, and I think he would.

Personally, as devil's advocate, reading the reports of yet another intelligent young person being pressured and victimized by the sickly allied commercial/government capitalist establishment (of their own country), it redoubles my stance that current era government lacks any honest sense of democracy; we desperately need to claw back the power of nations (and business) against the individual. (Assange is in some senses leading the charge here, and doing a good job!)

My point though is that sometimes news helps contribute to general impressions like this. I think that can be as valuable as the concrete relevant new life-actionable information that Aaron points out correctly is usually missing from news.

In short I agree with Aaron, but there are counter-points. (I haven't watched/read news regularly since pretty much ever... but consider myself reasonably informed on the issues behind the issues, ie. structure of government, general state of society in different parts of the world, methods of oppression. But that knowledge comes from the hacking community and travel (eg. Tunisia during revolution, many years living in China, some time in US&UK, Europe, most of Asia, etc.) not from mainstream news.)

Does anyone here still read news on a daily basis? If so, why?
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You and the GP are actually in agreement with the thesis of TFA (though not the specific argument it's making). TL;DR is unnecessary for two reasons:

1. If you're writing a piece in which "the journey" isn't important, then you should put your conclusions up front like a good journalist.

2. If you're writing a considered, long-form piece in which readers' appreciation of your conclusions is path dependent then a TL;DR is obviously counterproductive - if it's necnessary for a reader to actually read the piece, it doesn't make sense to reward those who skip to the end or didn't comprehend what they read.

TFA took point 1, you and GP took point 2. Nobody (except Charlesmigli) has given an argument that TL;DRs have a place.
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OK then I guess we agree in this instance. :)

I'd just like to clarify the problem I see with this: When the library is added to the project and is on the include-path (in the IDE, whatever), I think there's a non-zero risk that some developer on the project ends up putting a reference to it in the main app. At least it's something one needs to be careful about.