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Re: Listen to the Clouds

#41
post #8

Great idea and lovely implementation. If I could make one nitpick, it would be to add some tags so that it shows up as a Twitter card for when people tweet about it: https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator (FWIW, looks fine on the Facebook linter because of the og:meta tags https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%... )

Thank you, will do! :)

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#42
post #6

Wow, surprised to see this on HN! Creator here, if you have any feedback, please just comment here or ping me on twitter @andersaberg, I'll take airport requests etc there :) Have a good one, A

Slowed down to a halt. Nexus 6p. Firefox took 15s to close.

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#43

Wow.

Why would people downvote this comment? Seriously? I was saying Wow because I was able to listen to conversations through airlines in Paris and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, they were speaking English through traffic control. I think this is quite an amazing tool.

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#45
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not allowed to listen to radio transmissions you aren't the destination of in Germany and apperently in the UK. So listening to policeradio, AirTrafficControl or anything similar is prohibited by law. https://forums.liveatc.net/listener-forum/german-atc/

What an odd law. Anybody aware of the reasoning behind this?

Why is it normal to be allowed to eavesdrop on conversations you're not a party to? Wouldn't it be odd for that to be the default position?

There's a cultural norm embedded here. What you think is odd and what's normal is strongly dependent on your priors.

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#46

Wow.

Why would people downvote this comment? Seriously? I was saying Wow because I was able to listen to conversations through airlines in Paris and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, they were speaking English through traffic control. I think this is quite an amazing tool.

Reading this makes me smile. Thank you

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#47
post #8

Great idea and lovely implementation. If I could make one nitpick, it would be to add some tags so that it shows up as a Twitter card for when people tweet about it: https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator (FWIW, looks fine on the Facebook linter because of the og:meta tags https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%... )

@danso Wouldn't it be cool if it would be a player card? So it would actually broadcast (maybe a recording?) of the music+radio

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#48
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not allowed to listen to radio transmissions you aren't the destination of in Germany and apperently in the UK. So listening to policeradio, AirTrafficControl or anything similar is prohibited by law. https://forums.liveatc.net/listener-forum/german-atc/

What an odd law. Anybody aware of the reasoning behind this?

A friend had mentioned that listening to ambulance broadcasts led to this ban (since ambulances were broadcasting personal information). Instead of fixing the tech, they decided to make listening a felony.

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#49

Wow.

Why would people downvote this comment? Seriously? I was saying Wow because I was able to listen to conversations through airlines in Paris and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, they were speaking English through traffic control. I think this is quite an amazing tool.

Quite simple: The content of a post saying "wow" is of roughly the same value as upvoting, but takes people reading the comments more time to parse, without adding anything useful to the conversation.

I find the "General Conduct" section of SA rules explains that kind of thing simply and clearly and in terms that apply basically across the entire internet. http://www.somethingawful.com/forum-rules/forum-rules/ The HN rules kind of don't explain this kind of thing as they assume you're tech- and internet-savvy already.

Re: Listen to the Clouds

#50

Wow.

Why would people downvote this comment? Seriously? I was saying Wow because I was able to listen to conversations through airlines in Paris and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, they were speaking English through traffic control. I think this is quite an amazing tool.

It's a perfectly respectable response but as I understand it HN wants to keep noise to a minimum, and I guess the downvoters think that since "wow" doesn't actually contribute to discussion in any substantial way it should not be here. Don't take it personally, I think it's just an attempt to keep the thread clean.
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