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When MIT makes education widely available you get "open courseware" notes and unstructured videos.

When Stanford makes education widely available you get coursra and udacity.

When MIT is presented with Aaron Swartz you get unfair prosecution.

When Stanford is presented with Aaron Swartz you get PACER.

Hmm.

1. for that workload the result should not really surprise anyone.

2. you are pointing to one pathological workload to make a point that vector performance is always better than lists?

really tptacek? its O(1) ammortized over time, and when N grows it becomes really slow because it involves reallocation and a linear copy of all elements.

TheAmazingIdiot is correct BTW. Its hard to imagine Thomas posting his ridiculous views unless he is a paid shill. Probably on your team.

To all the armchair legal experts of HN, here's a challenge: draft legislation that fixes what you propose and post it here.If you can't do that, you are not qualified to comment on the matter.

The EFF has addressed the technology aspects of this. You have ascended into general purpose prosecutorial reform. The legal profession has a vast number of incredibly intelligent people and the legal process has vast nuances, and to think you are an expert in the subject is downright arrogant.

You solve this problem by momentum and visibility, not tossing out arbitrary criticisms.

In the meanwhile, vote up the comment that urges readers to help get this passed.

Edit: Note to PG and HN mods. With power comes responsibility. You have in the past allowed cynical posts from reaching the top and influencing opinion and thats led to tragic consequences. See the infamous Aaron post from Ed. Its happening again. I encourage you to vote down negative nonsense, even it consists of well constructed sentences and comes from people with high karma scores. Or whatever the kids call it these days.

I think the answer is: not entirely, but its a huge, practical step in that direction. This is one of those things that you celebrate, not dismiss cynically.

Think of an alternate reaction. Why not create a petition on the whitehouse to make this small step a reality instead of cynically dismissing it? Remember, your pessimism can influence a whole audience into inaction. Recent precedent suggests.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/aaron-swartz-fix-draco...

Legislating against what you term "prosecutorial misconduct" is far fetched. Can you imagine how you would word that legislation without hampering law enforcement efforts against the real bad guys? Do you really want that?

Having the law named after Aaron would be more than symbolic, it would be a perpetual reminder that overreach against programmers who in general want to make the world a better place can result in massive civil outcry, and to a large extent address your concerns too.

Edit: ameliorated ending

These "opinions" are shared by his family, read the statement.

_You_ are problematic.

Maybe we were swayed by the comments, maybe not. Call ourselves hackers, get influenced by some prick who sounds like an uppity high school headmaster. Think we're principled, refuse to take a stand for what's right.

At the very least, we can learn. To take a stand in what we believe in. Without getting swayed by the fakers.