Hacker News: 127001brewer

New comment by 127001brewer in "How long does Apple support Mac firmware?"

127001brewer — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:36:58 +0000

I'm still using my Mid-2012 MacBook Pro as my main machine - it still runs great.

New comment by 127001brewer in "U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack"

127001brewer — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:52:09 +0000

There are a lot of things to do outdoors around Maryland: there are a lot really good MTB (or just hiking) places, like Rockburn and Patapsco State Park; beaches are within two hours away; ski / snowboarding places within two hours away; and then there's the Chesapeake Bay.

It's not California, but it's nothing either.

Mission Jurassic: Searching for Dinosaur Bones

127001brewer — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:55:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nxVbFidDbs/mission-jurassic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20751310

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 127001brewer in "The WeWork IPO"

127001brewer — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:04:31 +0000

Matt Levin recently wrote about this too: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-19/we-loo...

New comment by 127001brewer in "High-Tech Solution to Disaster Response May Be Too Good to Be True"

127001brewer — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:30:45 +0000

“We really think we can enable a disaster-free future.”

That statement gave me pause since it's quite the unrealistic claim to make.

High-Tech Solution to Disaster Response May Be Too Good to Be True

127001brewer — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:02:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/emergency-response-disaster-technology.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20654981

Points: 51

# Comments: 22

New comment by 127001brewer in "Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?"

127001brewer — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:44:46 +0000

Please update your profile with your contact information.

I.M. Pei, Architect of Some of the World's Most Iconic Structures, Dies at 102

127001brewer — Fri, 17 May 2019 10:36:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/16/375690116/i-m-pei-architect-of-some-of-the-worlds-most-iconic-structures-dies-at-102

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19938174

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 127001brewer in "Twilio to Acquire Leading Email API Platform, SendGrid"

127001brewer — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:40:54 +0000

Thanks, I meant to post this link instead: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/twilio-closes-acquisition-...

Twilio to Acquire Leading Email API Platform, SendGrid

127001brewer — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.twilio.com/blog/twilio-to-acquire-sendgrid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057569

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

‘Age of Tech’ Is Over

127001brewer — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:09:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/is-the-age-of-tech-over/580504/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18921425

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by 127001brewer in "Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud"

127001brewer — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:05:09 +0000

One of the interesting things I there while there was develop a Java app and Python script to semi-automate the loading of tapes. Previously, a person had to load a few tapes into a magazine, place it into a machine, and manually load each tape - they had to sit in a secure room, wait for a tape to be loaded, and press a button to for the machine to load the next tape! Since this tape machine was old, there wasn't a lot of documentation, but I did find enough information to develop a script that loaded each tape, placed the data in the correct directory based on the tape's header information, and then emailed the data team once all the tapes in the magazine were loaded. It freed up that person to do meaningful work while the data tapes were being loaded.

New comment by 127001brewer in "Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud"

127001brewer — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:52:06 +0000

It's been years since I have worked in this space, but, at the time, my group was charged with finding fraud committed by the providers and beneficiaries.

It was interesting work: we had data tapes shipped from CMS to us, we loaded the data into a Sybase database, and then used an analysis tool (which I can't recall the name of) to look for patterns of fraud - again, this was what now seems like a lifetime ago.

Is anyone currently working detecting Medicare and Medicaid fraud?

New comment by 127001brewer in "Ask HN: Starting a career in security at 40?"

127001brewer — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:35:52 +0000

How would you practice this craft? Is practicing on pentesting websites (like https://www.hackthebox.eu/) a good idea?

Or is there a better way to learn the various tools?

Edit: I have also completed some of the challenges on http://cryptopals.com/ a while back to get better with developing Python code.

'The Cleaners' Looks at Who Cleans Up the Internet's Toxic Content

127001brewer — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:10:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/667118322/the-cleaners-looks-at-who-cleans-up-the-internets-toxic-content

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18440130

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 127001brewer in "Forget Wall Street. M.B.A.s Want to Work for Amazon"

127001brewer — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:50:22 +0000

I have a MBA, but I'm also the lead developer (and project manager) of my project. I rather be coding instead of being in front of people and giving presentations, but I do those things to ensure my project is successful (and that it grows). And I think most of business books and ideas are recycled non-sense.

Maybe we'll meet in the future, but not all developers with MBA's are that bad...

New comment by 127001brewer in "Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trademark"

127001brewer — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:50:50 +0000

An article called "The Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry" relates how the meal-kit industry faces the same problem(s) as Groupon:

"The problem Groupon faced was that their initial success validated a model that anyone could copy, and everyone who copied it increased both Groupon’s cost of customer acquisition and its churn rate."

https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-slow-motion-trainwreck-f...

New comment by 127001brewer in "Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?"

127001brewer — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:14:32 +0000

No, because you can't expect to learn and use every new technology - sometimes, it's better to know "proven but boring" than "new but broken"!

I appreciate more the insightful conversations than view a link to the latest JavaScript framework.

New comment by 127001brewer in "Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype"

127001brewer — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:38:38 +0000

Does anyone else remember "Chatbots" on BBSes (of long ago)? Are these modern versions any better?

New comment by 127001brewer in "Disabled, or just desperate? Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up"

127001brewer — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:06:33 +0000

Is disability a form of "basic income"?