Note that you can use https://ipmap.ripe.net to lookup any IP address and RIPE Atlas measurements will be scheduled in the background to figure out the the location. So no need to schedule measurements manually (requiring credits).
We're also working on a reverse DNS geolocating backend BTW. We will look into this paper.
Using ping is a really crude way of establishing the 'darkness' of a prefix.
Complete prefixes just block off all ICMP incoming traffic, as do many core internet infra-structural devices (although they may pass them on, they won't answer pings directed to them).
lat,lon doesn't have any precision attached to it. Also, you might be surprised how many times people get them reversed. Hey, even geojson encodes it as lon,lat.
Also easily normalizing (lat,lon)s isn't so straight forward.
And then there's subtleties when people are actually not using the WGS84 but a crs/datum one shifted a few tens of miles.
Sort of surprised that nobody compares this to geohash[0], though.
I hope that Google will be throwing its weight behind it (seems so for now) and proposes a rfc for this so we can stop bikeshedding about geo encoding standards.
> Having “intrinsic motivations”, sometimes a true passion, for what the social service worker does is the best prerequisite to have a satisfactory relation with clients.
This. Doesn't this hold for so many professions or just so many things we do in life?
What an excellent interview and what good to see such a positive insight on (a part) of Italy's economy. In the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008 a lot of Italy bashing (together with basically all Southern European EU countries) has been going on, most of it completely based on stereotypes.
Also makes me wonder if cooperations like these are one of the reasons why (Northern) Italian design is so damn good.
Nice manual. Good to see that they show the raw sockets api and libraries using them side by side. Skimming through it though, it a eems a bit thin on ipv6 details, e.g. recvmsg is not mentioned, but is indispensable for receiving ancillary data from ipv6 icmp packets.
Hmm, I am from the Netherlands too. Not sure which media and lobby against farmers you're exactly referring to. Who would be putting up this lobby and to what ends?
Now I know that there is a big lobby in favour of agriculture in the Netherlands, that is highly successful and had basically a political party in its pocket up until the mid-90s - the CDA, you might want to google Gerrit Braks for example. This lobby was one of the enablers of the rise of the high-tech agri-cultural industry in the Netherlands as we know it today.
Having juat learned that half of my prine tree was emptied out I have I a hard time right now enjoying this article.
O well, I was somewhat consoled by my neighbour how pointed me to 'Les glaneurs et la glaneuse', a documentary by Agnes Varda about people who try to live on waste fruit and vegetables in Paris. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners_and_I
We're also working on a reverse DNS geolocating backend BTW. We will look into this paper.