To add some weight to parent comments, there are lots of comments from Googlers using AngularJS here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113530. I recently switched from Backbone to Angular and have no plans on going back. [edit: I'm not a Googler, I just use Angular]
I stumbled into the about section, and in there they mention they're using a fleet of 500 volunteer ADS-B receivers networked to a central server, and they actually just pick up on planes with ADS-B transponders (more common in Europe than the US, it seems) - http://www.flightradar24.com/about - so it looks like they're not aggregating official/moderated data feeds or anything.
FlightRadar24 nevertheless follows the FAA 5-minute rule. In other countries, there is even a delay of 10 or 15 minutes.
In Switzerland, the federal aviation authorities tried to impose a delay as well. After a wave of protest pointing out the absurdity of such security through obscurity – you can see aircraft in the sky after all! -, a delay is no longer necessary and you can check in real time which aircraft is flying over your head at the moment (if equipped with ADS-B).
I'm not sure it follows the 5-minute rule for non-FAA data. I've watched, for example, an Emirates A380 go over my flat (near Heathrow) almost exactly as it's passing on the FlightRadar24 map.
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'unknown people working at famous places'.
At the same time that amendment didn't pass (just to be clear). It was basically a tactic by the anti-SOPA contingent to blur the lines of legality...the pitch was "Why waste taxpayer dollars enforcing pornographic copyright? Vote for this!". I'm don't think it was raised was really a reflection of the lack of desire of the AG to enforce porn copyright...I'd guess not based on the context of it as a defensive, anti-SOPA move.
It's probably just "failure of imagination" in preventing this hack - inertial navigation tech isn't exactly new (was pioneered in WWII and really came to age building ballistic missile navigation systems) so I doubt cost/classified technology would be a factor. It's just sad because having an intertial navigation system and a GPS system working to agree with each other or else some fallback (inertial homeward bound since that's an internal system, your accuracy would be off but it'd get back to friendly territory at least) would have prevented an attack like this (I believe at least - please tell me if I'm wrong).
I'm not sure what hardware in the system is really making the Iranian's mouths water - obviously the stealth tech has to have a great monetary and military value...I wonder how much the internals of this system compare to a predator drone that they already have captured many of as the article stated.
This is the cover of this week's Economist, despite the fact they really only have two other articles in it...one talking about the Skype purchase and another talking about the increased investment of web technology companies in both the US, Europe and China.
I'd guess it's signal/noise ratio issue. I'd assume the number of "I have a startup but no money" people outnumber the "I have money and am looking to invest in a startup" people. By forcing startups to "pitch" and "schmooze" it acts as an filter to keep everyone but the most serious startups from wasting the time of these investors, even if it does take away time from these fledgling companies.
edit: On top of that, in reply to "low key" - I'm reading that as "low net-worth but still willing to spend" - http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html under "Friends/Family" - taking money from non-accredited investors is a burden according to this essay, but I don't know details myself.
Reserved instances (assuming you're going to use it for the full year, which of course is the big caveat) also bring the cost down to $0.007 an hour with an up-front investment of $54, so:
(($0.007 * 24 * 30)*12 + 54)/12 = $9.54 a month assuming you use it for the full year.
Edit: Also, as mentioned by _delirium, Linux instances are also $0.02 an hour. I did the Linux calculation but the same one with Windows goes at $0.012 per hour.
While reading this I was wondering about Godel's constitutional loophole to allow a dictatorship and Google'd upon a hacker news discussion of the same topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447852
Follow to http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com/ to get the PDF of one participant's telling. The first page is a handwritten letter, but the story is typewritten.
