skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because they said they would stop their heart not cause a myocardial infarction (which led to eventually stopping the heart). Even if it could be proven that what they had said aggravated a pre-existing condition by some means thereby causing heart tissue death there would not be grounds for manslaughter. Aged billionaire's wives can rest assured.
Because they'd like to be less responsive to citizen concerns?

10,000,000 / 25,000 = 400 responses/yr. I'd like to believe our government could deliver slightly more than one well-considered response per day.
I went through the same transition, but only because e-readers were invented.
I suspect they wanted to keep things as simple as possible. But yeah, shooting for 1 or 2% of the total amount of registrants would be a future-proof solution.
They could simply reply to the x most-signed petitions every y weeks.
You start a blog to attract people to your project to help out. Having a blog is free marketing for your project. You can post updates, things you learned, and advice for others.

Your blog can link to the finished project, or if not finished can ask for beta testers to test it out so it can be finished.
He can't even be pardoned; the charges were dropped. Even if the charges were somehow still in effect, the proper thing to do would be to have the charges dropped entirely. A pardon implies guilt, it simply commutes the sentence of the convicted.
Well, unlike most defendants he chose not to find out how well it would work out, so we'll never know.
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No, but if there's prima facie evidence of criminal activity (such as the surveillance video, being caught red-handed with the laptop), then maybe you should consider it. Effectively the government was asking him to face up to the fact that whatever his views about the ethics of JSTOR were, the way he acted upon them (breaking into a wiring closet etc.) was illegal. It's not like anybody contests the facts of what he did.
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I wish there was more resolution along the x-axis; I'd really when that inflection point occurred and what triggered it. There's exponential growth, and there's literal overnight success, and this appears to be the latter.

Also, generic vague whining about the government only pretending to care.
So, what happened some time around late November 2012?

EDIT: One possible answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064211
I really agree with you but boy I find it hard!
The problem is that the legal framework as well as the general population knows it at I.P., even though this included far more than copyright and even though those different 'kinds' of I.P. are not similar at all (i.e. patents and copyright).
I don't really believe in I.P. but how do I communicate with people without using terms such as Intellectual Property, Copyright, Patents, Trademarks and whatnot ?
Information should be free, and as such so should be ideas.

Don't compare information with physical property :)
Well just a personnel preference, but I always go for accuracy before manners. It may make people uncomfortable but at least they WILL know why
Devil's advocate: if we felt the punishment was fair then would we think the prosecutors should have been leniant because the accused person was depressed? For example if we were having this conversation about a murderer or a rapist.
Yeah. Tell me about how that death star is going to go again?

That's why these petitions are an utter joke.
As I read it, the point of the post is that the student workers are the only ones being inconvenienced and that Anonymous should be targeting the administration directly.

In particular, note this part:
"Scripts is MIT's largest web host but it's run entirely by student volunteers. Any and all attacks that are supposed to get the attention of the administration are instead being handled by SIPB members."

Presumably, the author would feel differently if the ones actually affected were those responsible for Aaron's death, even if the author was personally inconvenienced.
Are you saying one should not sue, or at least weigh heavily, people's mental state prior to launching a lawsuit?

Is that current procedure, run mental evaluations before suing? Lots of people have mental breakdowns before and during trials. The trials proceed so long as people are 'mentally competent' to stand trial.

If something like this were allowed, people would pretty much abuse the system and claim mental anguish, etc. to avoid facing a trial.
Maybe they could, I don't know, filter out requests from certain malicious MAC addresses? Start dropping packets from the wrong IP address? Surely that would suffice, right?
The founders of the United States knew that a representative democracy (what they termed a "republic") has some distinct advantages over direct democracy. This fact was discussed at length in the jointly authored Federalist Papers.

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

History shows that this fact is rediscovered in each new generation through hard experience, on a bipartisan basis.
I think the consensus here right now is that because people believe the laws he broke shouldn't exist in the capacity they do, he shouldn't have been punished, and that his case is a cause for reform in things that perhaps don't deserve to be reformed on this merit alone.

It may very well be that there is need for reform in these laws, but does that give Aaron the right to break them? And if so, does this lead precedence for others to behave similarly without consequence? If so, where do we draw the line in what constitutes which laws are allowed to be bypassed? How does this not lead to massive abuse?

I do not believe that no matter how wrong we think the laws are, in a democratic society, we must act in appropriate ways to cause reform. This is because edge cases like this where laws are broken that perhaps shouldn't exist, are never real reasons to change how we prosecute people.

There is so much confusion within this whole situation:

1) Reform on the laws
2) Reform on how we prosecute people
3) Termination of prosecutors involved

Each of the above needs to be clearly defined, and a case made against each one. I don't believe this case by itself causes for reform in prosecution, or termination of prosecutors.

I only believe this case should cause reform in specific laws, and that it's said a man felt his only option to cause reform was to break the law, which ultimately ended in him taking his whole life.

I see similarities between this and the Anders Breveik case in equal but opposite ways, where 20 years life sentence was said by many to be absurd for his crime, and many called for reform, when in fact the Norwegian system is extremely effective, and this was just an edge case.
Correction. MIT did not prosecute the case.

They brought in the feds. There is evidence that they asked the prosecutor to go hard on Aaron. But the prosecutor is not directly affiliated with MIT.
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Regarding your second point, are you suggesting the legal system should go easy on criminals who may be suicidal?

I just think it is foolish to start blaming every entity that could have contributed to his mental state. Hypothetically speaking, if he had recently broken up with someone or was fired from a job would we claim that they killed him? No, they would simply be catalysts that might have contributed to his ultimate decision.
Aaron can't be faulted for that, though
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Marching down the middle of the street is not illegal. Indeed, many fundamental cases of constitutional law note that the street is a "per se" public forum, i.e., the most public a forum can be, and is thus subject to the highest protections for speech.

Marching down a street and merely disrupting traffic is thus quite legal, however, if your marching causes dangerous disruptions to traffic (i.e., accidents), then it is not.
what is the 25k here?
Both of your comments on this new account are about Myspace. Are you affiliated with Myspace somehow?
That actually exists already. It's called LikeBright, and it hooks up to your Facebook, pulls mutual friends, and has you vet them for each person, basically asking "would you see these two people dating?" And if you have a mutual friend, and that friend has vetted you, you can just go ahead and message.
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Do you have a link to the evidence?
My current understanding is that MIT didn't want Aaron to avoid jail.
Is that correct ?
I distinctly remember offloading a standalone midi recorder on eBay (pretty much useless with the advent of cheap computing) to an ecstatic older man with crazy white hair who would use it to create DIY automated church organs. Felt very good having it find a home!
What happened to cause that growth is that in mid/late November, the secession petitions went viral. This was a completely new audience of Red Staters and responsible for the hockey stick growth.
I believe this is a very, very wide net. They send it out to the upper 50% is what I've heard.
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Has anyone seen a good answer to one of these petitions? Or a policy change?
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It bothers me when people say that science conflicts with religion. It certainly conflicts with specific religious dogmas, such as young-earth creationism, but the frontiers of science fall well short of proving or disproving the existence of any possible deity.

If you go strictly by evidence, agnosticism is a tenable position, but both theism and atheism require leaps of faith beyond scientific fact. As such, atheists who claim science is on their side bother me almost as much as young-earth creationists.
A murderous anti-freedom organization that was apparently OK with a six-month plea deal[1] that Swartz's legal team rejected. So I guess if you want to go that route you can call them "anti-freedom", though I too am against the freedom to crack into other people's networks too. But murderous? Hyperbolic silliness.

You do not help the cause you claim to support by screaming, spittle-flecked, at passers-by.

[1] - http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/01/14/mit-hacking-case-lawy...
I'm not sure how or why you fail to see or accept any grey area in this. I'm not sure how else to explain my view.
Thought I couldn't be less disappointed in the Obama administration but they don't cease to fail me.

I think the first new petition should be to require petitions to return to 25K threshold.
America's population is also larger than the combined populations of those (all European) countries, and the is significantly larger geographically, making the provision of health care much more difficult.

The outcome changes when you only compare similar regions of America to their European counterparts.
You get even partially-functional MMS out of Google Voice? Is there a setting somewhere? I'm lucky to even get a blank message, normally I get nothing at all if someone sends an MMS to my GV number (iPhone, but same result on web)
In the screenshot of Patrick, Norton appears as another of the clients of InstallMonetizer.

Norton is well known to have a preinstalled version in new computers that it's almost impossible to uninstall. I don't have a screenshot, but there is one in these articles: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/can-microsoft-cure-pc-makers-...
http://hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?articleid=1731

(Perhaps the version that they install trough InstallMonetizer is more user friendly, but I'm at least a little afraid to try it.)
Aren't you aware that we already do take into account the mental states of defendants - the mentally challenged, the insane?
Though I don't trust Facebook.
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It doesn't matter what aaronsw's opinion was; it's still illegal to break intoa w riing closet and attach our computer to someone else's network without permission. If you found someone doing that in a typical workplace, you'd call the cops too. I think my local library should be open 24/7 but that doesn't give me the right to remove the door by the hinges.
In extreme cases, yes. People are put on suicide watches, but the trials proceed. The bar for being considered 'insane' and 'mentally unfit' is very high. You have people who would colloquially be considered 'crazy' go to trial, represent themselves, etc.
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Yeah. Attractive people are fairly consistently approached or hit on or treated differently or what have you every day in real life. Remove the approach anxiety that the other 90% who DON'T approach these people but want to by creating an easy forum for approach, and you have an overwhelming amount of messaging. I don't blame girls for being quickly disillusioned. Even as a guy, I feel like the pickings are slim, and I'd much rather date a friend than meet someone through OkC.
Aaron Swartz was not a very big guy at all. Aaron Swartz would have been raped within moments of walking in a Federal Prison. Aaron Swartz prison stay would have been 6 months of non-stop prison rape.

Impending prison rape is exactly the sort of thing reasonable people commit suicide about. All the time.
Yeah, that twitter is stupider than anything I've seen on HN.
The current amount of votes for a petition.
I'd be happy if they stopped supporting IE altogether.

Ten versions should be enough for Microsoft to get it right. If they haven't gotten it right by now, it's not going to happen.

Microsoft needs to fix their crap browser, rather than forcing every web dev on the planet to use nasty hacks and workarounds.
That's like saying that if your father raped someone, you raped that person too. It's the same logic that was applied to Jews, Gypsies, and slaves for centuries (and is still applied in the Middle East today). It has no place in modern discourse.
It's harsh to say, and I know that there is much reason to think that the prosecutor was over-prosecuting Aaron Swartz's case, but this kind of blame-shifting on the part of parents is not helpful to a young person who is at high risk for suicide. Civil disobedience according to Thoreau, according to Gandhi, and according to Martin Luther King, Jr. is all about being willing to do the time after intentionally breaking a law. All three of those pioneers of civil disobedience spent time locked up in conditions worse than any Swartz would possibly have faced even if convicted. No one in the United States government killed Swartz, just as no one in the United States government forced him to download the JSTOR files through a method that Larry Lessig says he would never have advised Swartz to use. Swartz tested some limits of the system, and found out he miscalculated. He caved in when it came time to stay alive to test the system another day.
I think the sign-up only requires an email verification step, so it's not clear how many people have actually signed up.
But that did not happen here, did it? Does that make Heymann a contributor?
While I agree with your sentiment.

I'd also say we are wrong to condemn young cyber-bullies. There are things in life that create adversity, then there are ways of dealing with adversity. I think conflating the two, makes it difficult to discuss.

That said, clearly the two are related, but it is correlative, not causative.
Let me know if you want to discuss further - I've lot's of ideas, but not able to make most of it happen by myself. For example, here are a bunch of (unfinished) notes about an open alternative to Google Scholar, and open social API to share citations/notes, etc. http://reganmian.net/wiki/ideas_for_scrobblr
well done, pal. although he must be bored to death riding his chair into the future.
Btw, can anyone confirm, how safe is this, against automated clicks, and paid clicks?
From the changelog:

> Model validation is now only enforced by default in Model#save and no longer enforced by default upon construction or in Model#set, unless the {validate:true} option is passed.

From the documentation on Model#set:

> If the model has a validate method, it will be validated before the attributes are set, no changes will occur if the validation fails, and set will return false. Otherwise, set returns a reference to the model. You may also pass an error callback in the options, which will be invoked alongside the "error" event, should validation fail.

Is the documentation out of sync, or do I not understand the changelog correctly?
Why exactly are they raising the signature threshold? It doesn't say.
Wow, that is disappointing. I had higher hopes for MIT.
Presumably someone asked him "when did this all start?", and he said "when I was, I think, 16? -- Louisiana passed this act and I...", and he didn't stop to calculate it carefully.

And it looked about right, and if he was off by one it's completely irrelevant, so quite rightly no one put any thought into making absolutely sure that the numbers were exactly right.
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You forgot Swartz being threatened with months of non-stop prison rape.
Okay but obviously we know that's not a real picture, but instead a hyperbole of a photo. Still proves your point, I suppose. It's fun meeting people in real life then finding them on Facebook and seeing their complete lie of a profile picture that makes them look 3-4 points higher on a 10 point scale than they really are.
It's not so much a wage thing, but companies that continue to act recklessly with their money typically go out of business. Governments and companies propped up by governments simply print more money and attempt to take more from their populace. There are simply no consequences for repeated poor actions.

I am looking out my window now at a city project to build a park that is maybe 25 yards wide and 75 yards long. The property sits between a private car lot and an office building with no nearby parking, so I'll be surprised if I ever see anyone use it. That of of course assumes it is ever finished. It has been under construction for just over a year and still looks nowhere near complete. We joked a couple months ago while we watched workers move dirt from one pile to another and back again over the course of a month.

Now of course this is a small probably <$5M project, but if government can't manage it how am I supposed to trust them to manage healthcare or retirement? So yes, it baffles me how any reasonable person could look at the retirement and health benefits situation in our country and come to the conclusion that government can provide a fix.
Similar story here. I used to own several hundred books but decided to pare down to about 20 over the last few years. Aside from making moving a breeze, the best part is that my favorite books are now conversation pieces for my friends/visitors and I. People come over and immediately dive into my coffee table books about SF's architectural history and will usually mention something about one of the biographies I have on a shelf nearby.
And they won't get them in for you?

When a book is requested at my local library they'll either purchase it to add to the lib catalog, or they'll borrow it from any other library in the country that has it so I can borrow it.
I did a quick search and it looks like it might be election related: "... eight different petitions requesting secession following the outcome of the November presidential election.
The petition for the state of North Carolina to secede from the union earned more 31,835 signatures, while South Carolina's had just over 26,000."

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Official-White-House-response...
without you telling explicitly who you want food recommendations from or tech product recommendations from its an incredibly difficult problem. Just because you talk to someone everyday doesn't mean you want their opinion on food or tv shows.
In those cases isn't it due to the fact that the defendant is unable to mentally process their crime, trial, or potential punishment?
why should they stop? MIT has blood on its hands. maybe you should email your schools president for an apology? maybe all the students should? Why are you the victim? why are students of MIT the victim? there is only 1 victim here and its nor you or the students of MIT.
"Stop bothering us."
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politician, with respect I think you need to be more concise with your questions, I would hope Aaron would also say 'no' to the vague:

'Should you always plead guilty to crimes the Government accuses you of?'

Did you perhaps mean to ask:

'Should you always plead guilty to crimes the Government accuses you of, even when you believe you are right?'

Which is still a red herring because it doesn't address the issue:

Did Aaron truly believe he broke no current laws, or did he believe so strongly the laws were bullshit, so he shouldn't be prosecuted at all? (which means he still actually broke them)
You're right. I also have no idea how to go about it. I can insist that I.P. is not property but there is no consensus for a replacement term. This is where an organization such as the EFF could be useful. Also, just a note, I'm not saying we shouldn't use terms such as trademark, copyright, and patent. I'm just saying that we need to find a way to indicate that broadly, none of these are property. They are monopolies granted by the government which in fact infringe on individual rights and property. If framed correctly, there is a chance that these monopoly powers can be restricted in such a way that they are used only for the betterment of society and not for the enrichment of the individual (i.e. in line with their constitutional mandate).
Dissolving my startup, and selling my four letter domain.
I am in the process of dissolving my former startup, and we are looking to sell our four letter domain: levr.com.

I will post it to some domain auction sites if no one is interested, but I wanted to offer it up to the hacker community first. Contact me at domain@levr.com if you're interested.
Yes, and one of the ways we do so is by the defense filing a motion to argue that the defendant is unfit to stand trial for the time being. I haven't followed the motion work in the case, so I don't know if his defense team made any such claim. But it seems to be that quite a few people are trying to have it both ways - on the one hand he was too mentally fragile to be put on trial, on the other he wanted his day in court to argue for the right to download freely and so the plea bargain with the mild sentence (which would have been served in some sort of minimum security facility) was an unconscionable deal with the devil.
A platform provider doesn't have to shut down - it could just decide that your money is no longer welcome (for whatever reason).
A DDOS is a trespass to chattels. It denies others the use of a resource they own or have a right to use.

I would rather see anonymous discover who at MIT is responsible for this matter and dox them than deny students access to their network. Doxing is like a sniper attack. DDoSing is like dropping napalm on villages.
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Why are you disappointed? Was it because they launched the site or because they raised the threshold? Since there has never been another site like this the effective threshold for past administrations was infinite. I think 100,000 is better than nothing.
Two bytes can be kept in the X and Y registers. Immediate load and add instructions only use two cycles.

CLC ; 2
ADC #b1 STA&70 ; 0 2 3 = 5
LDA #a2 ADC #b2 TAY ; 2 2 2 = 6
LDA #a3 ADC #b3 TAX ; 2 2 2 = 6
LDA #a4 ADC #b4 ; 2 2 = 4
; total 23 cycles
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You'd be surprised. In the course of 4 years at university, I somehow never once crossed paths with my roommate, despite the fact that I knew all of her friends and our school is incredibly small.