stevenjohns

This is pretty cool. Do you have any metrics on how long it takes to arrive at the destination from the time of ordering? I'm curious to know how long it would take to arrive in the USA, South America (i.e Colombia) or Australia.

Why would that list be blocking fully qualified domain names? Seems more like a bug than a feature, but if there is a good reason for it I'd be interested to learn

I'm fairly certain only humans and a handful of whale species suffer from menopause or something like it. All other female animals are able to reproduce even into old age.

If you need support for OCGs (layers) or want to do additional markups or manipulation then you need a real PDF reader.

Consider how architects and engineers would use PDF plans of a high rise building.

Insofar that it works the same as any other third-party password manager on iOS, yes.

Does it have Spotify, Soundcloud etc integration?

Finasteride (and other DHT inhibitors) is an option also worth looking into.

I used Yahoo! Pipes in a somewhat greyhat way. I started pulling in data from Reddit's RSS feeds for certain subreddits and using that to create and post content for fairly spammy Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook pages. I'd parse the titles (for example, change things like "cake day" to "birthday") and adding hashtags at the end.

You could ensure only top content made it by setting a minimum karma limit. It was a way of producing content 24/7.

I only did a couple of trial pages to test out the concept -- I never made any money from it nor had any intention to monetize -- but I'm almost completely certain that it was a method used by dozens of blackhats to make autoblogs for the purposes of ad revenue. You could even fake a comment history or have a "unique" title by selecting the top comments from the Reddit posts. Once you have one recipe down, you can just copy it for other subreddits. And there was an endless amount of hyper-focused niche subreddits that you can instantly plug into.

Fun times.

There's a few outstanding people that make me love the Python ecosystem, Nedbat is definitely in that list.

FunkyBob (Curtis Maloney) is also a staple with Django, he's spent years and years helping people and asking for nothing in return.

Check out Bitwarden. This[0] event sealed the deal for me that I wouldn't use 1Password again, and Bitwarden was a great alternative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20417832

I'm happy to pay for everything insofar that my rights are respected and the prices are fair. Which is what I do now. I pay for Spotify - the family plan - for my entire family. It's extremely well priced and I'm happy to pay for it indefinitely. My Netflix account is shared with a friend in a different state. It costs twice as much as what it was five years ago and the library is a lot worse. But it's acceptable... as it stands.

The reason why we accepted Netflix' DRM model is because they started off with "we encourage you to share your account!" which everyone jumped on. Now that we have all the b/s associated with digital content, they're pulling back. Which is okay... because we can pull back too.

A good example is when HBO decided to partner-up in an exclusive deal with a horrible price-gouging cable media provider, many Australians decided to pirate Game of Thrones instead. I don't know of a single person who paid for it. I know of professional suit-wearing offices that hosted watch parties for episodes that were pirated. And everyone knew... and nobody cared. I think the final numbers were that about 8% of the entire Australian population pirated the show. If only HBO had decided to not screw over an entire country then perhaps they would have made a lot more money.

The issue is that they will never have their fill. They will always be hungry, and if Netflix could charge you 10% of your annual income and get away with it, then they will. And a great example of this is with college textbooks.

I don't think I'm entitled to media, but I don't think the creators are entitled to my dollars either for digital content. I just don't care about content creators in this regard. This might come across as terrible, but I couldn't care less if it leads to their bankruptcy. If they want to produce something at a reasonable price, then great. If they won't, then it won't be paid for. That's the playing field they're choosing to enter. If they don't like it, they are free to exit.

There's no morality in it either way -- paying for content doesn't make a person any more or less immoral than someone who doesn't.

Adblocking is in a similar boat, insofar that if you think that stripping me of any privacy without my consent is okay, then you're going to be quickly disappointed with how well my pi-hole setup works.

I'd encourage you to take a step back and look at it as if you're dealing with software patents, cause that's all copyright law for digital media really is. And choosing to have a patent called "PROVIDING AN INTERNET THIRD PARTY DATA CHANNEL"[0] doesn't mean people are immoral if they don't pay. It also doesn't mean they're moral if they do.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloud...

Perhaps Neflix, HBO and Cable Giants don't realise that in 2019 the internet is super fast, storage is super cheap and piracy is easier than ever.

If they want to take an inch, I'm prepared to revert to hosting a media server for all of my friends and family with all sorts of wonderful cat videos.

I appreciate that. When I wrote "perhaps I don't really understand what makes it so special" I meant that insofar that I might not completely understand, and therefore might miss, the key features of Ring within the alternative solution I proposed.

My experience is the exact opposite. There is a culture of laziness and most offices are carried by a handful of outstanding people and propped up by significant foreign investment.

The difference with Israel, specifically in regards to hacking, is purely the amount of government support and protection independent actors receive for things that might otherwise be considered nefarious in other countries.

Well... yeah. He kind of is. The Syrian government's history of reconciliation is spotless. They intentionally try to make the reconciliation process as clean as possible so they can encourage more of it. They provide full amnesty to non-combatants and in almost every situation so far they incorporate the rebel fighters into the localised defense forces. The YPG had a similar ideology of treating POWs well in order to encourage more people to surrender knowing that they won't die or be mistreated if they do. That's one of the things that encouraged so many people to ally with the YPG and eventually form what is now the SDF.

Even the ones who do not want to reconcile are happy to jump into the green buses[0] and go to Idlib. They were happy because they knew they were safe. There were no extra-judicial murders, no retributions, no nothing.

If Bilal Abdul Kareem from OGN TV was able to leave Aleppo unharmed, why would aid workers be targeted?

This isn't some sort of conspiracy theory - it's just common-sense tactics for the Syrian government. It also doesn't mean that post-war there won't be retributions. I'm sure there will be. But there is no reason to suggest why aid workers would be high in that list when that same list contains some of the most deplorable extremist militia groups too.

Talking about the SDF is important, because the article is about what happens when the PYD leaves and the SyGov enters. And the answer is that nothing much will change, because SDF forces will just be rebranded to being SyArmy forces; they're going to take off SDF patches and wear Syrian ones. As has happened a dozen times before.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/03/syria-gree...

The Atlantic article serves as a great reminder of why alternative media picks up more and more steam, and why "fake news" is a problem that isn't just limited to smaller groups.

Let me present an alternative outcome: when the SyGov enters into joint-control of Northern Syria, nothing will change. And the bulk of the SDF will be incorporated into the Syrian military... exactly as the same as what has happened every single time this has happened in the last 8 years.

There is not a single reason to suspect otherwise, and propagandists like Hassan Hassan and co. will just find a new talking point next week.

It's actually ridiculous that the inner-circle of Twitter MENA propagandists, led by Henry Jackson Society notables like Michael Weiss, are still the go-to "experts" people depend on and still have a platform to spread their poison in 2019.

It sounds like they don't talk to you out of the guilt and embarrassment of not helping. You did nothing wrong.

> Because your average farmer is obviously going to join up with a militia or terrorist group because of some abstract political thing like sanctions which he probably has trouble even measuring in his day to life.

Sanctions starve people to death, literally. There is a blockade on food, medicine and your entire life savings turn to nothing. Your life becomes rations. It has such a significant effect that this even turned the non-religious Arab nationalist socialist Ba'ath party into an extremist Islamist brigade in under a decade[0].

These sanctions are even one the major stated reason of the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda[1] - not that Saudis flying planes into the world trade center somehow represents the suffering of Iraqis.

I'm not even sure why this would be contested, I don't think you understand what sanctions are or what kind of almost-genocidal effects they have[2] but with your comment I'm suddenly understanding the reasoning of the people downvoting me and upvoting others.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_campaign

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq#Effects...

No it's not. These types of comments are extremely inappropriate. Your comment tries to suggest that:

1. Terrorists are people with legitimate grievances

2. Terrorists are representatives of oppressed people

3. Terrorists have genuine reasons for their actions

All of these things are false. People do not turn into international, careless murderers just because they experience travesty. Terrorists exploit this concept to try to give themselves legitimacy, but the reality is that it's highly removed from the actual reality of what's happening.

You know what does create terrorists though?

1. Sanctions and

2. Funding of militias.

These are things that everyone - except for isolationists - stand behind and support.

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Thanks for the 5 downvotes in 10 minutes! Feel free to help me (someone from the region who was directly caught up in not one but two American wars) understand why I should be a terrorist now. I'll also forward the comments to my cousin who was working inside a Red Cross clinic hit by a US airstrike so she also knows what to think. Thanks in advance HN!

> He's discussed his views on pedophilia for a very long time, and this was just the latest on that

Yes, he has.

This is his view as of Friday[0]:

> Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

> Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

Can you help me understand what's wrong with that view?

[0] https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

The entire thing is odd. RMS is questioning the morality of the law and the people opposing him are quite literally, unironically, upset because they use the law to derive their morality[0]. More than that, their criticism is based on an intentional clickbait-tier misreading of what Stallman was saying. And after learning this, people are like "oh well, screw him anyway, he's a weirdo." This includes people like Neil McGovern, GNOME Executive Director, who used the opportunity to threaten that RMS leaves or GNOME leaves the FSF.

Living in a country where the age of consent is 16, the oddest thing I find in all of this is that people can hold a straight face while saying that sleeping with a 17 year old constitutes pedophilia but seem to completely ignore that their country tries 13 year olds as adults[1] when they deem it fitting.

[0] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

[1] https://oklahoman.com/article/5580060/13-year-old-boy-charge...

I didn’t agree to anything unless it was an order. This had the benefit of them requiring to have a senior officer review the request to make sure it’s actually necessary and lawful to order (such as when they requested a buccal swab).

The line-up I mentioned was a photo line-up, where they place one of my mugshots among a group of other photoshopped mugshots.

They arrested me in the first instance, then released me, then arrested me again and charged me after they had performed the photo line-up.

Thank you.

It's not something I'm particularly proud of or something I talk about - outside of my immediate family no one really knows all of the details, and only a handful of people outside of my immediate family know about it. It's the most traumatic experience of my life and had significant consequences on my mental health that still affect me daily.

My blind optimism helped me through it, but it had really hurt my family too.

Happened to me, so I can speak about this first hand.

I fit the description: I was between 5'3" and 5'11" and my skin color can be described as "coffee with a touch of milk."

Video evidence that showed, fifteen minutes before it happened, that I was 13km away at a wedding having dinner wasn't enough since I could have left immediately after the footage was taken and driven down.

I still have video evidence of the senior detective basically instructing the witness to select me out of a lineup. They also whispered to each other throughout which I only managed to hear thanks to some expensive headphones I had.

I made fake Facebook accounts and befriended all of the "witnesses" and victims. Beat the case on a technicality thanks to a post I found on Facebook by a eye witness.

I'd still be in jail right now 9.5 years later.

I'd say it happens extremely frequently, it's just that the people it happens to aren't as lucky as I am.

I would settle for just Skype for Business on Linux. No excuses why it shouldn't be on there... and yet it isn't.

These problems don't exist on doubleshot keycaps, precisely because of the doubleshot injection.

In this case these aren't double shot, they are single shot that is painted/dyed and then has the lettering laser-etched out of the paint/dye.

Not sure if you're accidentally excluding the >1 billion Hindus (and Jains) from your list or if that was an intentional dog whistle towards Indians and other South Asians.

I'll assume it's the former.

The reason why I'll assume it's the former is because we should always assume good faith - it's even a posting guideline on HN[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

One of the major things I missed (and eventually brought me back to MacOS) were things like maximising a window means it becomes its own virtual desktop, and the touchpad gestures that would let you move between them. I tried a lot of hacks to replicate those features effectively but never came close, and it ultimately pushed me back to Macs.

I didn’t realise sieges have different effects depending on which third world country they’re applied to.

Alternatively, instead of starving countries to death[0], maybe Western countries should stop sending their trash to third world countries[1][2].

Perhaps it's not the fault of those poorer countries, but instead the fault of the Enlightened West (those that care about carbon emissions, democratic governance and human rights) illegally dumping their garbage onto other countries[3]?

There's something funny about Western governments illegally dumping thousands of tonnes of trash on the shores of poor countries[4] and then people having the audacity to support sanctions - literally punishing the civilians there by starving them through siege - for not having the ability to properly manage the waste.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq#Effects...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/tired-of-being-trashed-philippines-rea...

[2] http://www.atchuup.com/countries-used-as-dumping-grounds-of-...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-29/malaysia-to-send-tonn...

[4] http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6349/PiP_Report.pdf