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If the internet is to be believed, the Iridium network has a total capacity of 172,000 simultaneous users (if every satellite worldwide is fully utilized).

There are many figures citing 5,000 planes in the air over the United States at any given time. But especially for a tracker, you'd want to leave it on all the time the plane is turned on, so many of the planes on the ground would need to be tracked as well.

My guess is that, particularly for the U.S. and Europe, putting planes on the Iridium network would exceed the total capacity of the system all by themselves, even if there were no other Iridium users.

This is not a trivial problem to solve.
Technology to record the full flight is, of course, easy. Storage is cheap these days.

Except that if you want it to be a useful back box, it needs to survive Events. Like being blown up in midair. Or roasting in a jet fuel fire for half an hour. Or, random example, sitting at the bottom of the ocean for several years.

That multiplies the engineering challenge, which in turn reduces the amount of storage you can put into the thing.
I work at a successful avionics company writing software that goes onto airplanes. We do not have critical issues that warrant 2am calls.

I'm in the camp of "will not work at companies requiring on-call or pager-duty."
Testing the ssh client config workaround:

ssh -v user@localhost 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep -i 'roaming'

returns "debug1: Roaming not allowed by server" when vulnerable, and nothing when not. YMMV, only tested on a few machines, etc.
When Netflix made the whole "Netflix is Available Around the World" post at first I thought they had some incredible IP agreements that allowed them to finally "go global" for relax but really they just mean that they have have some level of service in all of those countries.
Netflix has its own content is increasingly behaving like a member of the MPAA. (Pushing DRM, blocking proxies, etc.)
I imagine it's that, but amplified by NIH syndrome. Something like "oh yeah we could do it with XMPP, but it's all complicated and stuff and if we just built our own protocol we'd be able to do everything we'd ever want exactly how we want it! It'll be the future!"

I've fallen victim to something similar myself many times. "Oh yeah, I could do <this> with <tool x>, but it's ugly and not how <tool x> is meant to be used! I'll just design and implement <tool y> myself to do exactly <this> and it'll be the future!" It's the temptation to make something customized for yourself and it's hard to resist. Particularly when the existing solution has some flaws, which makes the relative cost/effort of rolling your own solution seem lower (even when it inevitably turns out to still be quite high).
They could just only play video when the IP address location and billing country match. You wouldn't catch every proxy user, but it would prevent the widespread usage.
...thus becoming part of the problem that affects streaming services.
If they are not providing you with the service that you have paid them to provide, you should contact customer service and request that the problem be fixed, and that you be refunded for the duration of the failure.

IP addresses do not have a fixed physical location or a fixed purpose. They are packet routing instructions, period.
> it's not everybody, but airline customers

I'm afraid that's just not true. That is certainly the principal, but in reality (in Europe at least) the costs are distributed across the entire consumer-base. The costs are "socialised".
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Dunno, I personally think Linux has a much more organized and common-sense file structure than Windows. The home folder keeps most user data in a nice, organized place, and generally programs installed from the repos are in a consistent place. Sometimes 'installers' put programs in strange places, but that's the price of freedom I guess...
Dell's 5k monitor has been as low as $1440 at amazon:

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Dell-Monitor-UP2715K-27-Inch-LED-...

Not that I would recommend it over the iMac for this project.
>Someone posts a tl;dr about the article and says that the issues caused by creating urban highways are trade-offs that come with a solution to a different problem.

>Someone asks what problem urban highways are meant to solve.

>Someone answers the question, and the answer happens to involve race.

Would you have preferred if the question wasn't answered, so as to avoid a discussion on race? This isn't trolling, and it isn't off-topic. Very rarely do comments on the third level stay 100% relevant to the article being discussed. It sounds like you just don't like talking about race, and I bet it's easy to figure out why.
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Spotify is also based on billing address
My first thought when I started reading was "wow what a waste of time and money to display a stupid picture" but by the time I was near the end of the article, my attitude had turned 180 degrees. This is amazing attention to detail and craftsmanship in the traditional sense. I can only admire the process - really impressed.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that if, for example, airline-related insurance claims increase, the insurance companies will raise their rates for all types of insurance, not just airline-related insurance?
Which earlier writings? The Pali Canon, which is the earliest, is FILLED with theistic notions.

Zen came wayy after, which was more or less predicated on earlier Japanese Buddhism that integrates a great deal of Shinto beliefs.

These are not agnostic.
Looks interesting, wonder if there will be an affordable devkit.
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Having 3d and 360degree models would be a future possibility - team up with Rift etc.
I often switch countries via VPN multiple times a day to access certain shows or movies, and thus had access to a really large library. This fulfilled 99% of my video entertainment needs, and piracy was generally no longer required. I even changed my habits and no longer need to watch everything new ASAP, but now I can wait until it is available somewhere in the world via Netflix.

I'm not sure if that is true but I always felt that by using Netflix, even if it was somewhat fraudulent in the "wrong" country, the content owner did get their few pennies "from me" for my view.
How about use dtrace to root cause the issue?

Look at file io, socket io patterns.
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So you suggest that people in smaller countries should just shut up and accept that they are second class citizens in the modern world? These are people that are very able and very willing to pay for content -- they just have no way to do so.
I've had this happen too. For me, disabling a continuously-fading cursor plugin stopped most of my troubles with high CPU. Still kind of ridiculous that to animate the color on a few dozen pixels constantly took so much CPU in 2015, but I'm guessing it was forcing redraws or something. Note that this was on an rMBP with integrated graphics if that matters.
A brief search also pointed me to a thread where Catholics believe Jesus ordained all 12 apostles. To me it seems like after-the-fact justifications, but you have to learn to live with this kind of non-rigor when studying religion.
This age 69 thing is starting to freak me out.
Indeed. Also, assuming you're installing programs to their default locations, Program Files used to be[0] the single location where you could get an accurate overview of installed applications. Both the Start Menu and Add/Remove Programs lists are way too cluttered by various Windows additions and/or third-party bullshit.

[0] - I don't know how's the situation with Windows 10, but on Windows 8 I've noticed some stuff tends to install to %APPDATA% instad.
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For whatever it's worth: lots of experts have looked at the crypto/tls code in Go.

There's never been a focussed, all-encompassing audit of it. But that's mostly true of all the other TLS stacks as well. OpenSSL got a complete audit last year; the same people that worked on that project have spent significant time working with Go's TLS as well.

I'd caution readers of threads like these not to put too much stock in formal audits for things like complete TLS implementations. It's incredibly difficult to get the kind of coverage you'd expect from an audit in something like a full-featured TLS.

For instance, Microsoft's SCHANNEL has had several contracted audits, presumably by very smart teams, but I would still trust Go's TLS much more: every time a new wide-reaching TLS bug class is discovered, someone is going to check crypto/tls for it. That's not true of a lot of other stacks.
Keep in mind that the cheapest 5K iMac is in the same price range as standalone 5K monitors. So you might as well use the iMac unless you can get a 5K monitor at a pretty steep discount.
Flickr is great for finding Creative Commons-licensed images as well.
"I refuse to assume that my users have an IQ of less than a carrot."

Think of it less as an IQ issue and more of a "cognitive energy" issue. Even a smart person would prefer something easier rather than harder because they've got things to do with their limited cognitive energy budget other than merely navigate your website. Plus energy burned that way is energy they're not burning on your actual content, whatever it may be.

It's like accessibility in general; you make your site work well for impaired vision, you've almost certainly improved it for everybody.
does this require a ssh server running on localhost?
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I think it's a difference in scale. It's one thing for everyone to shrug off lack of a single service, but people aren't going wait 3-5 years for every show heavily marketed to them on the internet.

Blocking things geographically didn't work in socialist times before 1990 and expecting it to work now is rather naive :/
Yeah. I don't want to rail against it top much because it is a free tool, but it crashes regularly, hangs, and regularly lags opening small files.

I love the drag/drop sidebar but If this update doesn't inprove the editor significantly,
i will delete it.
Would it be suffice with an .edu email, or does one need a formal document from university officials? I tried to click through from the sandbox link, but a Yahoo account is required.
I agree. Salary is a motivational factor - at least indirectly. It's a status symbol. It shows the company values you.
I really hope that sysadmins/people are not using the same private key for work and pleasure. And for that matter, the same key at work for DEV/TEST/PROD. But you're probably right that a lot of them are.
NY bill proposes requiring back doors in cell phones
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I like this a lot. codepen is great and I use it a ton, but being able to host it myself is a big plus!
So instead of cable TV I'll only be watching "This service is not available in your country" text on my home set? :P
Maybe you're completely naive.
Yep, that's why the MIT License is dead and never used.
Perhaps roaming makes some kind of man-in-the-middle attack possible?
Pretty much everyone justifies the things that they really want to do.

And if they really want to do illicit or unethical things, they still do it (and justify it) as long as they don't think they will get caught.

This is one reason looting happens during a disaster.
This is why people cheat on their taxes.
I personally think the laffer curve has a maximum closer to Clinton era taxes. I also think maximum tracks well to the fastest long term growth. Will it fix everything no.
> the emotional experience trumps the direct navigability of the site itself

Users don't come to a website for an emotional experience, they come to use the tool to do something. Emotional experience never trumps usability, ever. The only emotional experience sites with bad usability have is user anger at not being able to figure out how the damn thing works.
You have an /etc/ssh, or just an /etc? I have /etc, which is a symlink to /private/etc, but as I said it has no ssh dir.

FWIW I am on 10.10.5 not 10.11. Maybe there's a change in 10.11. (The article the grandparent links is focused on 10.10 so I assumed that was in the scope of this discussion.)

PS are you on homebrew? maybe homebrew adds it.
"How are they going to do this? I mean, anyone could spin up a machine located in the US within a few minutes - how would they know?"

They can't. They can identify commercial proxy providers and the IP blocks they utilize and block them. Maybe they can auto-identify subnets based on their ARIN registration text ... it's still just a wack-a-mole process.

If you own your own IP space in the US that you use for your own purposes, it will presumably work forever.

Or, put another way, if you are truly a peer on the Internet, you can continue to do the things it was meant for. If not, you're just a media consumer.
If that's the only alternative to taking things that don't belong to them, then I consider it the preferable alternative.

I wasn't aware that the unavailability of House of Cards was tantamount to torture, and personally, I don't see it that way at all.
Right. It also depends on the goal for the site. Is the goal to have the user click a signup button? Then maybe a nav bar isn't really important, because you don't want them poking around.
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I love this, but at the same time I have to be wary.

I'm torn between thinking of Hacker News as benevolent or delusional and self-righteous.

I get the benevolent vibes when I see comments like golergka's. I get the delusional, self-righteous vibes when I see founders and VCs comparing themselves to JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller, saying "Hey! Look! I'm just as important as those guys!" "Silicon Valley is important!"

That said, Silicon Valley may very well be an important part of history. But the self-centeredness makes me wary.
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http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/technology/uber-lyft/index.h... -- Uber don't seem to be aware.
I remember debating folks about climate change a while back, from the perspective of managing unknown risks. So much of what could happen or what is projected about the influence of Antarctic glaciers on global sea level rise depends on things like subglacial ice flow dynamics, which we simply have no idea about. And now we have evidence for a 1-km deep canyon directing freshwater flows under the ice. It's amazing.
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/alan-rickman-fell-for-real-in-die-...

His expression of surprise was real in Die Hard as the stunt crew dropped him on the count of one instead of three!
Thanks for the actual number. It seems though that 172 000 refers to simultaneous voice users. I was thinking about their data services - planes could send short bursts of location data (couple hundred bytes at most) every minute or three.

I agree it's not a trivial problem to solve, but it looks solvable.
I don't get why mainstream success must equal "not being a proper musician".

The author sounds a bit like a frustrated punk fan of the old times who hates the establishment for being the majority. It doesn't even matter what you like, as long as nobody else likes it!

Maybe I'm too old to care these days - I, also, detested everything mainstream in youth and early twenties, but now I am able to admit without shame that there's sometimes (but not too often) good songs on a normal radio station - even though what I really like usually is not played on air...
There was a great talk at SXSW last year entitled "The Myth of Reducing Friction in your Product."

Basically, within a given flow (say onboarding or signup), you want to consider having some points of friction interspersed with low friction points. Adding friction in the right places helps to create users who will a)come back and b)will be more active users. The speaker presented some data to back up her assertions.

Getting back to OP's point, the emotional experience is a point of friction that may be worthwhile. Though it may slow down the conversion process or whatever flow the user is supposed to go through, it may result in users who become more attached to the product and ultimately spend more.

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/2015/events/event_IAP35677
It doesn't happen a lot here, and it's absolutely relevant. You may not have a background in urban design / planning (I'm assuming), but racial politics has been a huge force historically.

It's not like people are bringing race into opinions about the primary colors here: this is relevant to the topic.
Stock Options in Startups today. A scam?
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I'm all for a little conspiracy, but Renault themselves have little exposure in the US market to begin with. They have a strong relationship with Nissan - including sharing some (but not all) engine tech - but overall the US would seem to be a minor player here in terms of market exposure.

Additionally, I don't think Nissan sells any diesel-based cars in the US. The linked article doesn't specifically say that the probe at Renault is concentrating on diesels, admittedly, but the article does infer that.

I just can't imagine this helping the US automakers very much.
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You can read up to 90 days of back issues, full-version. If you have a subscription ($30USD/month) it's all-you-can-read unlimited access to everything. If you'd like to purchase a single issue instead of subscribing, you can, but the subscription model gives you full access.

Better yet, visit the PressReader HotSpot Map and you'll see all the places you can get full access to PressReader for free. You just have to access it while you're connected to their WiFi:
http://www.pressreader.com/hotspot/map
This won't solve the problem of having to learn three different technologies, but whatever might mitigate the pain that we call JavaScript (quirks) is welcome.

People who specialize in webdev learn things by heart so perhaps they forget how bad they are.
Could they could get around this by charging a proxy fee?

I don't know because I don't use Netflix. Would any of you who currently pay for Netflix, pay a little more to be able to access it through a proxy?
Also relevant: http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat
It is a probe By FRENCH authorities regarding EUROPEAN emission standards. Read before you comment.
Here is a way to reproduce an issue. Put syntax highlighing on discover.

Open a 1000 line json file. Most of the issues are on syntax highlighting. The editor has a very bad way of inplementing this, based on it always crashing or timing out.

Problem is fixed if sh is plaintext
Thank you for the heads up - I've been using Atom for 6 months and did not know they had these enabled.
When the elevator to the spaceport goes down and the ship is revealed, Rickman's character says "Oh, my God... it's real." It's such a little line but it encapsulates the whole spirit of the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYsg2RFL30
Note: this actually means that everyone should regenerate all their key-pairs after updating.
Super useful. Now I just need to wire it up to S3 to have a self hosted jsfiddle.
The phrase "By Grabthar's Hammer" is actually trending on Twitter right now.
It's interesting because Netflix is a parallel to the US TV networks in the 80s.

I remember when Fox was an up and coming network. They had (at the time) edgy content like 'Married with Children', to get more viewers..and now have corporate drivel like 'American Idol'.

Netflix is doing the same thing. They create their own content with nudity, swearing, and edgy content to get what the regular networks aren't really doing (and to get the youth interested).

When they get enough market share, it will only be a matter of time before they become the thing they tried so hard to replace: a monopoly with fading and corporate-friendly content.

I understand why they are trying to block proxies, but how can they even tell that I'm tunneling through SSH?
Wickipedia for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockex
Blogspam for http://davemart.in/2015/04/22/inside-automattics-remote-hiri..., which was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10834906
The major difference between Program Files and, say, /usr, is that the former is split up according to "which program it belongs to" and the latter according to "what kind of file it is". Each scheme has its merits, and both are quite fuzzy ("is this helper a part of my program, or standalone?" "should this asset go in 'share' or 'lib'?").

Interestingly, the /nix/store directory on NixOS is split according to package, so acts rather like Program Files. However, I try to keep my browsing of /nix/store to a minimum, since it currently contains ~25000 top-level directories. Search (eg. wildcard paths) is still necessary, even with this level of categorisation!
The usability of what? Not a glib question -- if your goal is to give the user a feeling which results in them clicking a signup button or going through another flow you've got laid out, why would you want to muddy that up with a nav bar?

For a lot of sites, "Get started" is the #1 thing you want people to do from the homepage. We've known forever that removing distractions from register/checkout/PPC pages increases completion rates -- if you look at your homepage as another page that needs completions then this makes perfect sense.
> When I sell stuff under certain conditions I'd like my conditions to be honored.

Frankly, if there are conditions, then as far as I'm concerned you're not selling anything. Selling implies a change of ownership. You've done something, but not sold something.

If companies want to attach additional conditions, then they should have to call it something else, and make it clear that the agreement isn't a sale.
Sure, but asking about marital status isn't the 'shocking' behavior I'm thinking of, personally... unfortunately, people who get upset about tiny little 'offenses' often discredit entire (very valid) movements designed to eradicate much more pernicious behavior than that.
Sure, but asking about marital status isn't the 'shocking' behavior I'm thinking of, personally... unfortunately, people who get vocally upset about tiny little 'offenses' often discredit entire (very valid) movements designed to raise awareness about far more pernicious behavior than that.
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As it was automatically upgraded with no charge to the end user from one service pack to another it is a single product in the context of this discussion. For comparison, at the time, Apple charged for each subsequent point release of OS X despite them often being roughly equivalent to a Windows service pack. Upgrading Mac OS X versions before Mavericks still requires payment today.
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The parent post also really doesn't divulge anything about the plot.
As a sysadmin I am thankful I realized this was a mistake a long time ago, but you are right that I see it happen way too often for comfort.
Honestly, I don't think that plot device worked at all in either the book or the movie, and no amount of good acting could make it convincing. Roald-Dahl-style crazy dystopias don't stretch out to longer works very well. (They're not that good in shorter works, either.)
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I think it's worth noting that the reason dotfiles are hidden was originally a bug: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9...
I understand how you can feel that it's important to follow rules, but why is it baffling that people are comfortable taking something that is infinitely copyable (and thus, the theft deprives no one else) when the seller will sell it to their neighbors but not to them?
Sorry, but there's profit to be had.