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He co-authored the RSS 1.0 spec at the age of 14 . The mind boggles at what the tech world has lost out on.
In which way was he involved in the RSS 1.0 spec? There's nothing (so far) about him on the Wikipedia RSS article.
Black out your own web site. Mourning is a personal thing. If PG decides he wants to black bar HN, he will do it. If not, he won't. What's it to you?
Aaron Swartz's presence in various networks: In HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:aaronsw His last tweet was on Jan 9th, https://twitter.com/aaronsw In reddit: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/reddit Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGTlB14AAAAJ Writings: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/writings ---------------------------------------------- Things he has mad…
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Is Aaron's death any less regrettable because it was a suicide rather than a car accident? I don't think so. The black bar signifies sadness for the loss of someone, it's not a political statement. I, for one, would like HN to be black barred for Aaron simply because the world is a worse place without him in it.
Aaron Swartz's presence in various networks: In HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:aaronsw His last tweet was on Jan 9th, https://twitter.com/aaronsw In reddit: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/reddit Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGTlB14AAAAJ Writings: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/writings ---------------------------------------------- Things he has mad…
I imagine it'll get black barred in the morning (california time). Apart from everything else Aaron Schwartz was also a YC alumni from YC's very first class in summer 2005.
Does anyone know the full background story on this? Every time I hear the story, it was mostly Alexis and Steve including the retelling of how they pitched PG. Where did Aaron fit in and how does that story go?
Any relative lack of notability vs. the others HN has black-barred was because he died so young. Think of all the things he likely would have done over the next 60 years if he slowed down even 50%.
This is a pretty intelligent bunch so I hope there is rationale in discussing it honestly, but do you really think so? What had Aaron done lately? I only raise the question because you say the opposite, and in such situations the absolutely worst thing the community can do is canonize someone, exaggerating their accomplishments and raising their words above actual merit (the front-page is full of his old entries now.…
But I must admit, I never heard of this guy. Not once. I have never used reddit and skip over all the non-technical/startupy articles here on HN.
Any relative lack of notability vs. the others HN has black-barred was because he died so young. Think of all the things he likely would have done over the next 60 years if he slowed down even 50%.
This is a pretty intelligent bunch so I hope there is rationale in discussing it honestly, but do you really think so? What had Aaron done lately? I only raise the question because you say the opposite, and in such situations the absolutely worst thing the community can do is canonize someone, exaggerating their accomplishments and raising their words above actual merit (the front-page is full of his old entries now.…
Yes, that and the impending worry of a 30+year federal prison sentence for carrying out an ideal that most of us respect, even if we disagree on whether the execution was right.