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Ask HN: Good alternatives to Twilio for SMS delivery?
My webapp is sending several thousands SMS via Twilio per month and we ran into huge problems with Twilio a couple of weeks ago. Bascially many SMS where marked as "sent" but have not been "delivered" to our users, because one of their upstream providers started to have issues with non-GSM encoded SMS.

Twilio did not proactively inform us about this issue, but instead we found out about it after several users told us that they do not receive SMS from us anymore. Twilio also keeps charging us for these "sent" but not "delivered" SMS, even though we got into contact with their customer service.

I like Twilio but this is unacceptable to me. I actually do not need any phone API but just need to reliably send SMS. So we are looking for a new provider. It is important that this provider can send SMS to the US but also all European countries.

Has anybody else good alternatives to Twilio?
The short answer is that action B may depend on whether or not action A was able to finish successfully, including any cleanup.
Or memory mapped IO. Again no library just direct memory manipulation.
Well MDPV mostly, and he is somewhat professional about it

http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/541627-Hello-and-an-MDPV...
Carol Dweck's "Growth mindset".
This book changed my view of diligence and intelligence.
those are not even the most egregious examples.

think of something like this: you go to a big box store to buy a bunch of home electronics for a new house. you ask the salesperson to throw in some freebies because you're going to be buying a lot. he knocks off the delivery fee, installation fees, and you push further and ask if you can get some other things, say a handheld vacuum cleaner or a stand fan.

he says "Mate this is the best I can give you, I am no longer making commission on this trade". Or if it's the store manager you are speaking to, he says he's not turning a profit with all the discounts already given.

Really pal? You want to repeat that on a recorded line?

Because if this was the credit market, and if your sales guy said you've got a great price because he paid so-and-so for a security he's selling to you and is not getting much in profit, but in reality he actually paid much lower, he can go to jail [1].

But in car sales, home sales, big ticket items like that, you have all these kinds of folks throwing in a white fib here and there, and they don't get locked up.

whatever, I've made my peace with it. there are people who get away with it and people who don't. some people are born rich and some have to work for it.

this hsbc guy is probably going to get into trouble for what he did. the doj is going all out to stamp out this kind of misbehaviour - and not defending it, lying is a scummy move - because the banks themselves could not do it. but while they're at it, maybe start looking at car salesmen and real estate agents too?

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/former-jefferies-trader-jesse-li...
Facebook supports a third gender
If it doesn't happen this year, just wait longer.
So, it does automatic background checks and forces candidate to work for peanuts?

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

I think the name, given the purpose, is a little unfortunate.
EDIT: Oops! My mistake, I misread your comment. I thought you said "perhaps some of them are sane people, perhaps not". Sorry! Forget all the talk of sanity!

Removed rest of comment as it doesn't make any sense to continue this.
Australian here, heard it a bit but not a lot though. Haven't used it in a while.
$5,000,000 profit / $3,500,000,000 transaction volume = $0.0014 profit per dollar transaction volume. 0.0014 dollar are 0.14 cents. Seems correct to me.
Not to say I'm in favour of NIMBYism, but if SF had to have a serious, rustbelt scale economic downturn in the future then lack of overdevelopment would be a positive thing.
Android-Security-Reference
Twitter's problem isn't quite the same as Reddit's. It's because the site is incredibly inconsistent with its moderation.

If you run a community, you need consistency. Members need to know where the boundaries are in regards to how you can act and what is/isn't acceptable.

Twitter doesn't really do this well. If you agree with the staff political stances, you can basically get away with anything. If you're popular enough (or a large company), you can often get away with things that would get a less popular user banned.

For example, contrast what happens when a left wing user breaks the rules and attacks people and what happens when a right wing one does it. It seems like the former will get punished a lot less harshly for the same offence.

Twitter needs to stop this, and enforce the rules for everyone in every situation.
The outcome would be worse if you were Russian or Kyrgyz or Uzbek or Tajik or of whatever 3rd world origin and knew Russian/Kazakh. My father used to buy cars in Europe to sell them in Kyrgyzstan and he says that there is no other country as corrupt as Kazakhstan. Example: On the last checkpoint on the road to Kyrgyzstan cops wanted him to give a bribe. He was out of money (he ran out of them giving them to Kazakh policemen all the road down from Russian border), and the cop asked my dad to give him a first-aid box as a bribe (!). That desperate.
Why they wanted bribe? Just because. Even if you don't break rules, they'll rob you. Because you are not Kazakh (and not from a Western country).

Update: To be fair, I'll add that some cops in Kyrgyzstan like that kind of easy money -- they could harass you until you give them some money. But don't bribe them. It is best to play a total idiot like "you me, me you, me friend to you, you friend to me, yes, I like your country, nature mountains ... " etc. Don't forget to smile :)
Some fault lines seem to accumulate energy, so the longer the waiting period between two earthquakes, the stronger it gets. Is it the same for San Andreas, so that more frequent earthquakes would actually be beneficial as they would be easier to handle structurally?
Way to go, Dontnod! This is an amazing indie-movie-flavored game that you should definitely try out if you want some Heathers-meets-Donnie-Darko awesomeness.
Sartre's "Nausea", which demonstrates the pointless nothingness of life, so one should not get too stressed out at work because Frank doesn't like your indentation style but that's how everyone at university does it ...
In you tinder profile you can see which friends tinder will show as common friends. This is a subset of your Facebook friends and I've always assumed these you Facebook friends who are on tinder.
How to Create Android Apps for Beginners?
Ah, I did in fact misread it, thanks.
An example of a simple chat written in aiohttp – asynchronous web framework
Search for Malaysian MH370 aircraft to be suspended, joint panel confirms
Fortunately it seems that they will always find people for that, because their subreddit revolves around something they like, and they will often do a good job (it seems) because they want to promote that hobby, not that it will directly benefit them financially (example, moderator of askhistorians).

Yup. I'm one of the mods for /r/AskEngineers. I want to promote engineering in general: designing things, fixing things, learning how things work. I'm glad to do this, and to encourage good and useful discussions.

I especially like when we've got questions from engineers who are working outside their own discipline, and just need a little nudge in the right direction. Getting just a paragraph from an expert can save days or weeks of effort.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

All of your working life is built on relationships, even if you code all day.
> Yes, if you're tied to Java 6, you're also tied to Scala 2.11. Why is the former version peg ok but not the latter?

a) Java 6 is forward binary compatible with later versions

b) Google has a reasonable excuse in terms of the Oracle lawsuit. Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about Android being stuck on Java 6, but there are extenuating circumstances.

c) Scala 2.11 has issues that affect me and I want to see fixed. Java 6 doesn't, at least not that I've noticed. (If JVM 8 were necessary to the implementation of a Scala feature I cared about I would understand that, but as far as I can see it's irrelevant to my use cases)
There's a ton of data on the very regularly occurring (hourly) small earthquakes around the world available from USGS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ I'd like to see whether this analysis works on this rich data, not on the very sparse data set of San Andreas earthquakes.
So, we aren't only overdue but a quake seems imminent? The upper bound of time between quakes was very slim.

This is a stupid and selfish question, but what does a quake on the San Andres fault mean for San Francisco? My knowledge of all of this is based on 4th grade science.
Find his personal cell number, add it as a 2FA and then send him your password.
i agree (o)

the safety and threat response reads as spin to me

this is a video of an officer interacting with a person tased unconscious

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3629599/Shocking-das...

you are able to render safety and abate threat and provide care

the person in the video is unconscious lowering threat to zero and increasing officer safety and yet the officer causes harm

another situation where the officers rendered safety and abated threat but ended in the death of Freddie Gray

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ac_1429472111

i think it's offensive both to and of officers to argue safety broadly

as if to say any scenario of providing care creates danger to an officer's safety

(o) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048040
while using jQuery ? nonsense !
This protein designer aims to revolutionize medicines and materials
This is really interesting, and I believe you should be right to share ideas even if you don't really know if they hold water or not.

> Black holes don't exist (time dilation prevents them from forming in a finite time).

This is recalling me of a hypothesis called Cosmological censorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_censorship_hypothesis

Basically, the universe is not allowing black holes to be directly observed, which does not mean they don't exist, but as I understand it: it means that we are not allowed to consider they exist.

Because black holes are kind of an absurdity (well, we accept their existence, but… there is so many mysteries around them.)

> I wish I had the math to flesh these ideas out to see if they hold water.

You should not limit or censor yourself because you don't have the maths knowledge to test it and verify it.
I believe that you can teach you enough maths if you are passioned enough. There are a lot of MOOCs out there, materials, papers, conferences, trainings to learn you more about what you need.
Peter Thiel Endorses Trump at RNC [video]
Did he? I thought the crowd was heading towards boos before he followed up with "proud to be republican" and "proud to be american".

Listen for yourself: https://youtu.be/bywahovIbPg?t=201
And yeah, you're right about Reddit. Problem is, they're in between a rock and a hard place.

On the one hand, users want more freedom than on most traditional community sites. There's a certain expectation that communities nowaday are basically the equivalent to a free speech zone in a local park, where near enough anything goes. And because social networks originally were really hands off about what people posted, that's become the baseline now. You need to claim your site is free speech friendly to get people using it.

On the other hand, true freedom of speech is impossible on communities owned by companies and individuals. You'll get a lot of material that's extremely disturbing. Advertisers won't touch the site with a ten foot bargepole. And to some degree, a lot of normal users will actually be put off when the site draws in the less savoury users that freedom of speech often attracts most.

So Reddit is kind of screwed. They either have to say 'there's no freedom of speech here, here are acceptable standards' (and watch their audience evaporate) or say that there is freedom of speech still (but have their audience gets more and more angry when stuff gets removed anyway).
I second the recommendation. Excellent game.
More details from the event: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/07/21/titan-x-deep-learni...

“This is insane, I’m actually speechless, I didn’t expect something like that,” one of the event’s organizers stammered after the TITAN X was unveiled. “This is one of the craziest product launches ever in the history of technology.”
Practical skills are easily acquired. Personal skills and greater self-awareness are what really fast-track you.

1) Scott Adams 'How to fail at almost everything' for life strategy.

2) Robert Glover's 'No more Mr Nice Guy' for assertiveness and being your authentic self no matter what.

3) As cliche as it is, 'The Power of Now' is a great source to return to in times of personal and professional woes.

Good luck and Godspeed in your career(s).
Good design means that those direct memory manipulation should be encapsulated into a library and not scattered around.

Besides not all processors offer MMIO.
And how about the wind-up watches ? Did they not skew :-)
Question: what happens to land rights after a quake? Since the quake moves land around, stretching in parts and destroying land into cracks in others. Do property lines get redrawn? Who owns any newly created land space? Is it fair game for anyone to claim?
Ask HN: Where can you find cheap front end dev/programming tutors online?
That list might satisfy even the most extreme privacy advocates, at the cost of upsetting everyone else who now has an unusable product.

What the more extremist privacy advocates fail to realise is that if they applied their same principles to a physical shop they'd be demanding that all employees be blindfolded. And then if someone walks through the door drunk and passes out after vomiting on the floor, those employees would have no idea that people were silently walking in off the street before suddenly spinning on their heels and leaving again. Yet who wants vomit-encrusted shopping, in the name of privacy extremism that virtually nobody cares about anyway?
I find this response, and the suggestions, exemplifying why Kazakhstan justice (as expressed in the story, I don't know how it's in general) is superior to American justice.

It's the ability to take the law and regulations lightly, when they're not that serious, and be humane about it.

I mean writing: "YOU CHOSE to violate it", with added emphasis, as if having a visa expiring on the same day you leave a place (and literally while you're on a vehicle leaving it) is some kind of huge crime...
Heard About: How Playdead used a real human skull for Inside's audio
i have never been in fx but this is what I heard:

these kind of clients

1. don't want to pay fees

2. don't want any risk

3. just want a single publicly available price (the WMR fix) to simplify accounting (fx, financial, mgmt, risk and all the disparate ERP systems that a company can be hooked up to)

so the whole market is set up this way.

oh... the e-brokerages like hotspot or whatever would drool buckets at the prospect of global corporates going direct to market rather than through the dealers, but all these companies have decided to cede control to the banks because they don't want to deal with any of the difficulty of fx execution. and so you have this.
Hang on, from all these comments we are saying that nobody ever does dynamic_cast ???
The myth of asynchronous JDBC [2015]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFlMoAasW4A
How to Make Car in Dev C++
I hate two-phase initialization with passion, specially the way it was done in Symbian C++.
If you've been using Rails for 6+ years and aren't at least passingly familiar with the majority of the source code and design decisions, then you aren't a very curious developer
I don't think hiring women or blacks is going to do much to the community.
>makes it sound like they didn't actually care about Reddit

So the inference made by the commenter conflicts with the inference made by you. So what? Maybe they (reddit founders) really didn't care, maybe they did. Cases can be made for both, with varying degrees of conviction.

The whole thing is highly subjective. I don't agree with the conclusion either, but it's not a mindless personal attack. To me it's an opinion, and even the language used to express the opinion was structured in a civil manner.

I am defending the comment because I can see myself making a similar comment in another context without any intent in my mind to offend anybody or poison the discussion.

Honestly, I feel censoring these sort of comments is extremely childish. I am not the moderator, you are. So the final decision rests with you. I hope I have made my case and you will consider my comments in future.
> the most tolerant communities attract people who are difficult to tolerate

This is very insightful line. And it applies not just to internet communities, but any real life communities as well.

> I suspect Twitter is having similar issues dealing with harassment, after letting it happen for so long.

> Don't just tack them on after several years, and don't enforce them inconsistently and arbitrarily as Reddit has done.

Twitter is well on the same path. The inconsistency is what makes many furious. When you ban harassment from one political end, but allow from other, it doesn't paint the company as fighting harassment. It paints a company as fighting one political end.
Voat's issue is that it managed to get users from the most controversial communities... and that's about it. If you're not interested in Donald Trump, GamerGate or something similarly controversial, then Voat is simply a really empty forum that doesn't have enough members or posts to keep people returning.

It's having the issue a lot of 'free speech' centric services have; it appeals to a minority who feel censored, but not the mass market that simply want to discuss less controversial topics.

And until there's enough people able to talk about a variety of subjects, the site is basically pigeonholed as the 'place people banned from Reddit might go'.
So now that we have a pattern lending legitimacy, I guess it would be pretty convenient for the next person that hacks a celebs account to get a lot more milage out of his hack..
Didn't he just put an extra incentive out there for everyone to attempt to hack celebrities even more as an 'amplification' method ?
I am gonna sound like the devil's advocate here, but I'd take the risk:

He didn't intend to do anything malicious. He wasn't on drugs. Wasn't going to kill or rob anyone. He was maybe simply playing a mischievous kid, not a "bloody criminal". Are laws really meant to be taken so rigidly? Has he actually done anything immoral (except for the bribe part, which I also confidently despise of)? Laws are meant to help people live comfortably and save the innocents from criminal. Yes he could have left 24 hours earlier, but maybe he felt it was more comfortable to leave later. He chose his comfort for the cost of absolutely nothing except not following a law, hopefully made to ultimately give comfort to people. He didn't harm anyone.

The fact that such a non-malicious "crime" (read: mischief) did not have to face the brutality given to actual criminals is enough evidence for me to believe that Kazakhstan's law is indeed superior to American law - because boy do I hear so much ill of the American law punishing innocents every other day on the internet.
He could have just stayed at home, much easier for everyone.

Oh wait, no, then he wouldn't have had an adventure and a interesting story to tell, so interesting other people actually enjoy hearing it.

I don't really get this comment at all, he never claimed to be hard done by.

He just told the story as it happened while giving us an insight into other cultures.

Visas are bullshit anyway, people should have the RIGHT to free travel wherever they wish, so BS on the ethics bit.

The only ethical issue is around using names (assuming they are real) and photos of people who helped him.

Other than that I suggest you get out and travel. You obviously don't, else you would know what it's like to get into situations that later seem so obviously could have been avoided. But to travel the world and have fun it's part and parcel of the experience.
Bad news. Whilst building codes may be better than in the past, due to population density the risks of a high number of deaths is significant.
I like this. Take something useful like antirez's tiny editor, decide that it needs to have the ability to customize it, add Lua as a scripting support and off it goes. Two small things working together to make a slightly bigger, but much cooler software package. Very nice work!
Counting Elephants – How to Solve Big Problems with Big Data
The Titan XXX will be a breakthrough in VR.
I understood this to be an attack on basically everything the Republican party stands for. Which seemed far braver than saying he was proud to be gay (which to be clear, was also brave in this context).

But everyone seems to assume that the "fake culture wars" are something the Democrats made up, and the Republicans are just fighting for the natural state of affairs, when it seems pretty clear to me that stirring people up about this stuff (e.g. the southern strategy of driving black people to the democratic party so that racists white people will vote republican, or recasting gay marriage as an attack on traditional marriage) is basically what lead to the modern malaise of the Republican party and Trump. There must be a lot of people who want "republican" style economic ideas that will vote Libertarian or even Democrat this year, just to avoid being associated with hate.

So his comment makes much more sense to me if you replace "but" with "because":

I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform. _Because_ fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline.

That fits in neatly with the bit about stopping fighting expensive wars and focus on the economy. It also fits in with him being a proudly gay Republican (and not directly related to Thiel but the most famous transgender woman in America is also a republican). Yet everyone else is reading this the opposite way to me, so maybe I'm wrong?
UMC Utrecht: geen HIV meer in het bloed na stamceltransplantatie
All this does is provide random and selective justice for those who can pay the bribe.

What about the visum expiring the day before you leave? Two days? The law has to draw a line somewhere. It is the obligation of the person to stay clear of that line. If the visum duration is too short, just make all visa valid for 16 days rather than 15 days, and then enforce that line equally for everybody. Once corruption has taken a hold it tends to encroach on everything.
Anybody who thinks it's "very naive" has never travelled much in such places to see how things work, or went to some kind of boy scouts or the seminary school...
It doest really work like that, it's not like new land is created by pushing out into the sea, but even if it was the property owners boundary is likely the sea, therefore the land is incorporated within their area.
It's also entertaining to get the keywords:

Great community support
Flexible, powerful, simple
Superb api
Easy to learn and powerful to work with

mmk. Just shows how fluffy and not _actually_ useful SaaS descriptions can be - the only real clue here is "api", since one of the options was nginx, that helps a tiny bit.
Just editing something on Stack Overflow is much quicker than git cloning something, figuring out the documentation build that they have, editing, issuing a pull request, watching that pull request linger for ages, get a nit-picking comment, fix it, watch it linger for ages, and then finally merged, but not released, and then waiting for ages for the release. Obviously, sometimes the experience is better than that, and sometimes it's worse, but SO Q&A is much more consistent and immediate, and I imagine SO Docs will be as well.