John McCain was a true American hero, dedicating his life to the United States. I did not always agree with him, but he will truly be missed, especially during the current political climate. May he rest in peace.

The headings are a little misaligned on the readme.

For the first row of data in the readme, A023AF would be the 24-bit ICAO hexadecimal identifier for the aircraft, which using FAA's Registry would point to US tail number N108NY, operating under callsign EJM685. In that example, 7660 is the squawk code that the aircraft's transponder is emitting.

A lot of the decisions made behind software products depend on management's decision as to what is 'good enough' and when to release a first version to iterate upon.

Every day, I encounter parts of the codebase that could be refactored or sections of a page that probably do not make sense to half of the user base, but in the eyes of management, this is not a problem as customers will learn. If I were to spend all day polishing aspects of the site, that would not be as preferable as working on a major feature release.

This is exactly why I put a different security alarm system sign in my yard than the one that's actually installed. Unfortunately, there are probably many homeowners who put SimpliSafe stickers in their windows letting anyone passing by know their home is vulnerable to this attack.

When I was a kid, my dad didn't want to spend money on an alarm system so he just added that magnetic glass breakage tape around all the first floor windows and installed a metal panel with a locking cover plate and a series of blinking LEDS on the front and back doors. It looked really authentic, and it seemed to work - other houses in our neighborhood got burgled once in a while, but ours was the only one with those scary red lights blinking back and forth on all the doors.

It's not like you couldn't just wardrive for this.

It's good that they have the 'Give feedback' button at the bottom of the page in a rather unobtrusive manner. Often times, I go to a website for a large company and before I can even do anything on the site, they ask for feedback in an obtrusive popup.

Thanks! I also hate flashy popups and stuff like that when I'm browsing a website. I hope that giving users a way to quickly send feedback while they're on a page will not only help owners improve the website but also create a sense of participation for visitors. Maybe not on the level of Wikipedia but in a small way you can also contribute.

Their website seems to have some trouble loading right now. Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQPoiC4...

Thanks! We didn't expect this to blow up quite this fast!

I listened to a talk from David Rusenko a few months ago, and they have worked on creating a product that is easy to use from the start. It's amazing to see how far they have progressed as a company and how easy to use their products are. Creating a website is not an easy thing to do for many people, and I appreciate the attention to detail the Weebly team puts into their products to make them as intuitive as possible.

I bought several cheaper Apple products, including an Apple TV, on Amazon because of my Prime membership. While the user experience is not the best for these products (especially the higher end laptops; how often is NEWEST VERSION updated?), it provides a way for Amazon customers to quickly purchase Apple products with a stored CC and take advantage of their Prime two day shipping. I am not going to boycott Amazon because of this, but it does make me question Amazon's leadership and decision-making. Now I think of them as the one stop shop for everything except for Apple products. Adding exceptions for products like this is a slippery slope.

I imagine their bounce rate will be very high if they continue doing this. Other news sites have done similar things such as make you participate in a survey before reading the article. In order for me to open this article before September 22, I would have to copy that link, paste it into an email to myself, open Mail on my phone, and open the link from my own email.

Quora permanently lost me several years ago when they suddenly forced me to select five categories of interest before I could continue to the question I was interested in.

Forcing me to do something I have no interest in and will never make use of is a good way to alienate me.

Quora requires registration to simply read it.

That's at least going to lose them viewers who don't want to bother.

Pinterest is probably the worst offender for that. You get progressively blocked the more you try to read.

i stopped using them because of that, and i even have an account; i just can't be bothered logging in to it everywhere.

Yep, for awhile I didn't even register; I used some trick (I forget what it was) to get around that.

Eventually I did register. And then the above requirement came, and that was the final nail in the coffin.

Adding share=1 to the query string allows unregistered viewing.

Such a strange decision by quora. No wonder they're so irrelevant.

Iirc you can get around this by appending ?share=1

The "Quora Share" add-on for Firefox will automatically add the "?share=1" parameter for you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quora-share/

The "block element" feature of muBlock allows you to block the popup that asks you to register. Just right-click on the popup, use "Block element", highlight the popup, click "Create", and do the same for the opaque background.

In my experience, blocking cookies and/or using incognito mode works to block off their solicitations. Now if only someone would find a solution for Scribd..

Or multiple incognito/private windows :P

Don't bother, on the 22nd, it will probably be one of the top titles on Hacker News: "Remember this article that used to be exclusive on Apple News? Now you can read it!".

probably. always remember, on internet, the product is you.

this is but another social experiment/AB test/growth hacking thing (and I'm giving them already valuable data just by posting here).

Well of note, listening to talk radio one thing I heard is true. The consumer will decide this in the end. However don't expect Madsion Avenue to take it laying down.

they will go the route radio went years ago, they will setup ads like news stories and blog articles and get to the point to where it will be hard to distinguish until you have absorbed a good part of the material.

I guess the real question will be if the reduced pageviews offset the increased ad impressions. As much as I also hate those popups (I often leave the page), I imagine they've done enough split testing to know that it at least helps their bottom line in the short term.

Well, I've seen a bigger website change their layout completely believing it would increase ad impressions, assuming that users scrolled down on their page. It went live, their profit was reduced to less than half, thousands of people lost their job. The new layout stayed.

Why not just use Handover?

Nowhere in the court order does it state that wireless access point operators must monitor their users. Concerns about the legality of effectively shutting down a website aside, the order deals primarily with service providers that enable the services mentioned, not those who would be attempting to access the content. While the phrase "providers of computer and network resources through which video transits" could be interpreted as access point operators, it seems unlikely that any court would interpret it that way.