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The article actually suggests this near the end, and discusses some reasons it doesn't happen currently.

When I worked at TaskRabbit I made an In-N-Out delivery site (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306834). It ran for a week or two before In-N-Out got wise and sent a C&D. We found out at the time that they already had a long history of fighting delivery services.

It starts to bring up questions of personal liberty... can I hire someone (TaskRabbit, DoorDash) to do something on my behalf (buy In-N-Out), and act as my agent? And does In-N-Out have any basis for preventing me from doing that?

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> I'm wondering if there are any recommendations for "Heroku-like" providers with a free tier that stays up 24/7 for super simple Rails and Sinatra apps, perhaps with a DB.

Unless you've got a whole lot of them, paying $7 to Heroku is probably still your best bet. Especially if you're already familiar with the ecosystem.

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Let me tell you, plenty of streets are torn up right now building the new Central T subway the article mentions.

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There's a difference between being approved for general aviation and being approved for commercial air carrier (Part 135) use.

Reception would be even less of an issue for commercial carriers since they are rarely not above all significant precip.

Sure, $20,000 for the shares but what about the taxes you'd owe on the shares? If the value increases 50-fold, does the IRS not see that as 1,000,000 - 20,000 = $980,000 of taxable income?

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A data mining play for their routing engine? Driver recruitment tool?

Wow, I saw this from the air recently and had no idea what it was. I forgot to look it up until it popped up here; thanks!

This is what I love about HN. There are people that actually worked on x system-in-the-news wandering around. Thanks!

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Has anyone else noticed Arq getting more buggy lately? I suspect it's the proliferation of storage options and the compromises required to support them all.

I would be happier with a more bulletproof app that only backed up to one provider.

The format Arq uses is open and documented, so that you can restore without having Arq if necessary:

https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt

And there are tools to help:

http://sreitshamer.github.io/arq_restore/

Same, except I recently added Google's new Glacier competitor (forgot the name) for additional redundancy.

I wonder why they didn't just track down the pilots of that flight and ask if they had an uncommanded increase in thrust on one engine.

GPS satellites somewhat regularly go in and out of service for various reasons. There are more satellites in the constellation than strictly necessary in order to compensate for this.

Information on this is distributed to pilots (in the US) via NOTAMs, and you can use this information to decide whether it's safe to use GPS navigation for your flight.

Practically speaking though, aviation GPSs have a function called RAIM that continuously monitors the integrity of the position information and will inform you on a loss of precision. I believe most GPSs also allow predicting RAIM along your time and route of flight to make sure you'll have integrity from takeoff to landing.

I think the biggest hurdle is lack of precision. 200 feet isn't much error in the horizontal realm but is a big deal vertically.

There are ways to supplement the precision of GPS altitude with ground-based stations (WAAS), and this is indeed used to construct GPS-based instrument approach procedures which are comparable in accuracy to traditional means (ILS). But these require ground-based transmitters; impractical to implement worldwide.

For others who might have been curious, the last word on the subject appears from Capn. Aux (another semi-famous pilot/writer) who talked to him in late 2012. He said he was alive and well and may be back in the future. Sadly that doesn't appear to have happened yet.

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/site_notes/flight_leve...

3 cents per mile seems like a pretty high valuation to me. I usually use 1.5 cpm. You can do better, as you mentioned, but this is a good EV for me.

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In the past, I've worked with companies like Leap Motion, Anki, Rocket Fuel, and TaskRabbit. Before that, I had two startups of my own. In my spare time, I fly airplanes.

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And if the highway ends?

Wow, I didn't realize they had been building in the necessary sensors all along. To just light this up one day for the existing fleet with an OTA update is nothing short of astounding.

Being wired into the entertainment system is what I would be worried about. I'd be pretty surprised if they added a separate fuse for the device.

Personally I don't have any qualms about pulling the fuse being against the terms. I just don't think it will even be a viable option.

The new devices are actually much different than the clunky old ones you're referring too. I wouldn't be surprised if they were exactly a commodity Android tablet.

I know I can obstruct the camera lens, but does anyone know how to effectively block the microphone on a device like this?

Perhaps there is non-destructive way to remove power entirely?

My money is on some kind of trade-in/up program.

I wouldn't be shocked if they did nothing though.