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WettowelReactoron SMS traffic pumping fraud

SMS also comes with no deliverability or latency guarantees, and hard to scale globally as rules and regulations are different in every country. Acquiring IDs is slow and you need multiple for backup routes and different use cases.

WettowelReactoron Show HN: Hansei

WettowelReactoron Fast machines, slow machines

Is it really indifference or are employees responding to incentives? Few places reward code performance. Companies are getting exactly what they pay for and missing a deadline to improve efficiency is irrational under current comp strategies.

WettowelReactoron It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states

By this reasoning there is a magical window where a person is old enough to understand the consequences of their actions yet young enough for it not to be abuse. What happens at 18 to say that corporeal punishment is no longer effective and legal? By that reasoning should corpreal punishment be allowed in the workplace?

WettowelReactoron Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?

Perhaps things have changed but the old Steve Yegge post speaks directly to developer friendliness: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

Also: https://killedbygoogle.com/

WettowelReactoron 38% of remote workers work from bed

In my experience typing while walking has not been an issue but using a mouse with moderate to high sensitivity can be challenging. Using a gaming feature such as "sniper" mode to toggle mouse sensitivity when precise clicking is necessary solved the problem.

WettowelReactoron AWS faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it

The line about

> Messages often took a full month to get a response.

Also does not ring true to my experience with AWS unless the author was not paying for any support tier. If they did not have even developer support on the account, then they got exactly what they paid for.

WettowelReactoron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)

  Location: MD  
  Remote: Yes  
  Willing to relocate: Probably not  
  Technologies: AWS, Firebase, TS/JS, Dart, SQL, NoSQL  
  Résumé/CV: https://camilleroussel.com/  
  Email: Camille@RousselFamily.com

Looking for team lead type role that involve wearing other hats (T shaped roles).

WettowelReactoron Comcast tries to censor pro-net neutrality website calling for investigation

WIPO findings and several court cases have clearly sided with defendants for these types of sites.

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000...

WettowelReactoron Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_landing_fall

WettowelReactoron Left GitLab for GitHub after today's crash

Any time you rely on an outside provider you shift your risks around. Thinking that you eliminate risks by hosting yourself is simply not true. Whether using an outside provider increases your risks requires a case by case analysis.

WettowelReactoron Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay

Why couldn't the post office act as a trusted intermediary and verify what was in the package for a small fee.

WettowelReactoron One Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate

Training for long distance running is not a goal most people have. Discussions about endurance training and improving health of "normal" people are not the same discussion.

WettowelReactoron One Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate

One of the largest challenges for regular people is finding 45-90 minutes to exercise in the first place. Research on shortening the length of time required for effective exercises is a worthwhile pursuit.

WettowelReactoron Grooveshark Shuts Down

>> Doesn't it make sense to open source code when you know the product is dying?

That can depend on how much of the code base is their own. If they integrated any licensed components then they may not have the resources necessary to clean it up for release.

WettowelReactoron Why Young Men Go to War

The situation is quite a bit more complicated and nuanced than how you present it here. The whole mess is made up of a plethora of parties with differing ideologies and priorities. Ascribing the formation of ISIS to the US lacks any real thought on the subject.

WettowelReactoron PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

Sony has one that comes close:

https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.sol...

WettowelReactoron CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US

Nigeria was able to contain their outbreak and kept the levels to under 20 infected. This is a disease that needs 3rd world sanitation and medical care to thrive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-outbreak-in-n...

WettowelReactoron Ask HN: How do I set up a HIPAA-compliant server?

This is all great advise. I would just strongly emphasize that HIPAA compliance has significantly more to do with the soft guidelines than meeting technical specifications.

Part of what makes HIPAA compliance challenging from a techies perspective is that there are very few proscriptive rules. A lot of implementation is left up to the provider to provide flexibility but the justification for all those decisions needs to be defensible.

A couple last items I would add: Not only do you need a BAA with any service provider you use you will also need one for any contractor who has access to PHI you are responsible for. As of the latest set of rules this also applies to any subcontractors that your contractors may use.

You will also need named privacy and security officers who are responsible for the overall program and will be the first ones HHS and OCR will ask for should you be audited.

WettowelReactoron Home Depot breach bigger than Target at 56M cards

That's the OP's point. If folks cared about security you would expect a backlash from customers because of the breach directly impacting earnings.

WettowelReactoron $1.43 of every $100 in America goes toward hospital administration

Without the context of total healthcare spend in America focusing on hospital administration costs is like rating charities based on their overhead.

Lower does not equal better, administration and management are necessary parts of such a complex system and reducing admin overhead could increase overall costs. To put it in perspective we spend about 17% of our economy on healthcare so the actual overhead costs for healthcare is closer to 8.5% which seems pretty reasonable.

WettowelReactoron Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

While this technology may not lead to a more fulfilled or meaningful life there is plenty of technology that can achieve that goal. Look at the progress made for artificial limbs for example.

Even this type of technology can make a huge difference depending on circumstance. Several types of disabilities are easier to deal with using an iPad over the crummy alternatives that existed before.

WettowelReactoron I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me

You are right that it in that

>>It is not possible to always defend the rights of people, >>and always collect evidence to prosecute.

but the US system was designed to weight the scales in favor of defending the rights of individuals when these goals come at odds.

"innocent until proven guilty".

WettowelReactoron The big advantage of the Chromebook over Windows, Macs

Surround the quote with asterisks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

WettowelReactoron Opinionated Rundown of JS Frameworks for Single Page Apps

Hiring becomes easier, i.e. do not have to screen for certain framework experience. Know JS? Good, that's all you need!

How is training someone on your custom framework any less arduous than training them on an existing framework?

WettowelReactoron Mistakes You Should Never Make

Agreed. The fact that most business seem to lack basic ethics is not an excuse to do so as well.

WettowelReactoron Open source and the challenge of making money

Non-profits are not about making money but the underlying sustainability of their cayuses still requires a sound financial framework (no mission without margin). This is not really any different form the free software movement.

WettowelReactoron The new sign on French menus

Not necessarily true. The prepackaged food industry has plenty of offerings for foods that are partially prepared cutting out tedious (time consuming) or expensive parts of the prep process while still requiring further processing by a cook for finish. Like most things this is not as black and white as many here are making it out to be.

Even for the foods that are nearly completely ready to server the ingredients, recipes, and flavor profiles may have been created by the actual chef from the restaurant. The packaging process offloads the labor in this case but not the creativity. In that case the argument against prepackaged food seems to be against time/place shifting labor more than anything else.

WettowelReactoron How to colocate your first server at a datacenter

While the article stress the importance of understanding your power requirements on the server side you also need to be very cognizant of the power restrictions in your colo contract. Often times power draws will be your biggest limiting factor and it is very easy to buy a rack and fill it with equipment that surpasses your max allotted power draw. Depending on your host your only solution may be to buy additional racks to spread out your load even though you don't need the physical space.

Another power gotcha comes with the redundant circuits provided. For example if you are allocated 15Amps total that usually means total across both circuits not 15Amps per circuit.

WettowelReactoron Why Microsoft really patched XP

While the monopoly control provided a simplified avenue for distribution the free price tag alone cannot be held to blame. By that analogy any free, open source product can push its way into a new market and kill the paid for competition which is clearly not the case.