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This video depicts a relatively modern Minuteman launch sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWZXinRwCaE

Don't use a CMS or third-party hosting. Use Hugo, or whatever the cool-kid approved static website generator is these days, and throw it on CloudFront/Cloudflare/wherever.

I watched this one recently, and was going to share it here. I'm not in the field, but this looks like a nice demo of the current launch systems UX, unlike the tens that are dated to the early 80s.

The official California ISO page is awesome by itself, as are the mobile apps: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx

Kieslowski's "A Short Film About Killing" is also very powerful.

I've been using Joplin for note taking in the terminal: https://joplinapp.org/terminal/. Joplin is great since it also has mobile apps, and you can sync with multiple backends (Dropbox, OneDrive, S3).

But it's anything but simple though, it brings along 579 dependencies.

All I'm saying is that it's a trivial oversimplification to say you can learn to miss every time.

Oh, I agree it is a tradeoff. But the parent said "you can learn to miss every time". Can anyone point me to a C language project where the developers consistently miss every time?

It probably isn't worth trying.

djb wrote remotely exploitable C for qmail, applications written by the OpenBSD team have had exploitable memory issues, Microsoft still doesn't get it right, neither do Linux kernel devs.

Provider to recommend to your parents or grandparents: Callcentric

Provider for hobbyists who need flexibility: voip.ms

Provider for cheapest termination rates and flexibility: Anveo Direct (not the consumer product)

Bria and Groundwire have good SIP softphones for mobile, but aren't free. Since multitasking on iOS is so limited, these apps can register on their own servers, then send push notifications on calls.

3CX or Asterisk are good choices for connecting to trunks. 3CX is much less flexible, can cost money, but is "easy".

Am I the only one who found it amusing that “Researchers” wasn’t a category here?

Is there any reliable metric to know what reliable means here?

The product offering of a per-hour mobile number to receive SMS is great, I've not seen this elsewhere.

This type of phone number intelligence is essentially free. In a few seconds, for just ten cents, one could use NextCaller (YC14) and get all of this:

https://hackernoon.com/nextcaller-what-does-your-phone-numbe...

Although I think NextCaller no longer has this Twilio integration, there are similar services that provide these details at this price point.

I once asked Siri "What city am I in?", to which she responded "Calling Ian." This was around 5am. I promptly disabled Siri and never looked back.

A post on "SSL Security Issues and Vulnerabilities" on a blog without HTTPS, from "gotowebsecurity"...

The YC funded startup NextCaller (https://nextcaller.com/) provides much of this information too, and it is available from Twilio for $0.10 per lookup.

The extent of the data available from a phone number is a rather frightening. I'm surprised we haven't heard more about services like this from privacy advocates. Here's a sanitized lookup of a friends number (which is actually a Google Voice number):

http://pastebin.com/GUEaTBtD

Couldn't the headline read: "Online CBT as effective as usual GP care for depression"?

As kyledrake so eloquently said before: "The bandwidth is the soda."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270129

AWS and Azure overcharge on bandwidth about 10 to 20 times the prevailing rate. Something to keep in mind for high bandwidth applications.

CAcert isn't accepted in the trust store for devices that most humans use.

Today we have Let's Encrypt.

Google has far more than App Engine today; they basically compete with AWS directly service by service.

Anything to do with the recent OpenSSL patch?

mtgx mentioned this on the earlier thread, and I'm curious to know too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585597):

Have they said what are their long-term plans for the desktop app, now that Google has started deprecating Chrome apps?

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...