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NeWS was not actually Adobe's Display PostScript, but it was Sun's independent implementation and specialized dialect of PostScript, supporting light weight processes, overlapping arbitrarily shaped canvases, window management, event distribution, garbage collection, networking, object oriented programming, etc.

The most important ability that NeWS had, but was missing from Display PostScript and its successors (OS/X Core Graphics, PDF, SVG, canvas API, etc), is the ability to download code to create an efficient custom high level application specific protocol between the client and server.

That essential ability is what people call "AJAX" these days, now that PostScript has been supplanted by JavaScript and a whole bunch of different APIs, and now we're even downloading shaders to the GPU! Truly exciting!

James Gosling chose PostScript from the start, for how its network programming ability dovetails with its graphics and data representation, instead of nailing it onto the side of a bunch of different technologies as an afterthought.

To quote the comparison from the wikipedia article:

NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently:

1) used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming.

2) used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML and CSS for rendering.

3) used PostScript data instead of XML and JSON for data representation.
Why wouldn't these be the default in all new construction everywhere? Are there downsides?
Many cheap hosts are adding support for Let's Encrypt. This story is a prime example.
It's almost a year's worth of profit. Do you have reason to believe that their income obtained by fraud is significantly more than the fines they paid? Goldman has plenty of other businesses.
It's also pretty apparent, when you look at female dominated industries, that discrimination based on gender is an accepted practice.

Even our divorce laws were 100% in women's favor until the 70s or 80s. Alimony was paid out for life.

I want true equality for everyone, but instead we have special interest groups that want to dominate and create lopsided laws on their favor.
Agreed. Really looking forward to the stiching code being made available on GitHub. I wish that Google would at least release some kind of an API for their Cardboard Camera (e.g. allowing you to pass in a bunch of photos and get a stitched 360 out), but if Facebook makes good on this, it could be even better.
Postcards. The best way to keep in touch with interesting people is to send them a postcard when you're traveling.

When you contact them with a request, they'll think about the nice postcard they received from you two months ago.

Because people don't send many postcards, the recipient will enjoy getting something in the mail that isn't the bill. They'll pay attention to your message, and they might hang up the card, and see it often.

The best places to buy postcards is from grocery stores, or thrift stores, where they can be purchased for 10-60 cents each. Postcard stamps are cheaper than regular stamps.

Your message should be short, and congenial. It doesn't need to have an ask, but if it does, it should be very easy. Here are a couple examples:

Just to say hi:
> Hey {fname}, I'm in {place}, and {local_delicacy} is very tasty. Your recent post on {medium} about {topic} was very thoughtful because {legitimate reason, 2 sentences}. See you soon, {your_name}

Make an ask:
> こんにちは {fname}!, That's how to say "Howdy" in Japanese. You would love how many vending machines are everywhere! After I get back in town next month, and I'd love to talk to you about the vending machines you've built. Many of your ideas would be a hit in the Japan market. Talk to you soon! {your_name}

Quick update:
> Howdy {fname}, Everyone here in Montana is so gosh dang friendly! I'm taking some R&R after shutting down my last startup, and I love Big Sky Country. When I get back to SF, I'm going to handle operations at my roommates startup, Tigger: it's like Tinder, but for house cats. Talk to you soon! {your_name}
Good point. On their website, they list the specific challenges that they need to address, including a page for "4 Photon Thrusters". Would those be able to counteract the deceleration?

http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Challenges/3
It also doesn't hurt to have a huge injection of DoD dollars. That played a big part in how Silicon Valley got its start.
Maybe a HN slackbot, ask him about a subject, and get few HN post about it
Use a random but user friendly value

#$%&+@ is going to be hard to type or speak, just say their nickname is "the frozen one", same entropy, easier to handle
I thought this thing is funded. That too $3M!!

Are you really applying for YCF? Because I doubt you are eligible.

I personally feel this was inappropriate to promote your app in this thread( if that was your intention)

If you are not "that" cubeit, please excuse me.
Older users are going to be so confused by this.
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Where is the actual evidence that strict historical preservation actually matters? The culturally important buildings tend to stay around whether they are "protected" or not...its really only at the margins where they do anything.

And those margins tend to be pretty ridiculous. Seattle, for example, has upheld historical preservation status on buildings that were completely vacant and had no discernible written history whatsoever. Things like old mechanics garages and derelict wooden apartment buildings that had already rotted through.

Strict historical preservation is nothing more than an anti-development attitude codified into law.
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>Focus on historic preservation. Big real estate development projects are not what's bringing the twenty-somethings here. They're the opposite of the new restaurants and cafes; they subtract personality from the city.

>The empirical evidence suggests you cannot be too strict about historic preservation. The tougher cities are about it, the better they seem to do.

Interesting contrast to the common belief here on HN that historic preservation is just unimportant NIMBYism and should be opposed in the name of bringing down housing costs.
> Why isn't a firm carving out the "niche" of not being assholes

Well here in the UK one was claiming to be - the Co Op Bank. Ethical investing policy, mutual rather than floated on the stockmarket, and so forth. Not even based in London so hopefully free of any city groupthink. Also behind smile, one of the first online banks.

£1.5bn bailout, forced into flotation with no benefit for mutual members, and turns out their ethics policies didn't stop them playing the same games as all the rest. (Bailout stemmed from them trying to takeover another failing bank, but they didn't realise they didn't have the money. Um, OK, a bank that can't add up). That's as well as being left holding tons of bad investments and loans.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/11/co-op-bank-s...

Other mutuals here were just as keen to play the big boy games. Same for share dealing and investment funds.

So where can a customer that gives a damn put his money?

How can that customer have any confidence at all that they'll be honest, ethical, solvent and numerate?

I see no choice at all on any of those measures.
To be fair, that's a game account. I realize some MMOs can have really real-money valuable characters/items, so this argument can break down, but the security should be different from an MMO and a VPS solution or a bank.

All of my security questions are passwords. I once had someone at a bank ask "Wait, your mother's maiden's name has a number in it?"

"Wait, you actually answer security questions that any of your friends can guess honestly?"
Who defaulted to whom here?
Facebook Messenger bots can now help you order flowers and shop for clothes
I was going to say discovering music is easy, maybe it's just me, but like anything, just get stuck in?

a) Find some bands you like, go see them live.

b) Get talking to people at the gigs (this helps if they're smaller venues), they'll recommend all sorts.

c) See the support bands, odds on you'll like some of them, then go and see them, see the other bands they're in, it doesn't take long before this gets out of control :).

d) Make friends, go and see bands they like, it might not always be your thing, but if it's a social thing anyway, it doesn't really matter.

e) Go to festivals, listen to all the bands beforehand - i used to generated spotify playlists of glastonbury etc. Ok, listening to stuff on spotify doesn't make the artist much, but if you like them, go see them when they headline, buy merch, recommend them to friends etc.

f) I used to take photos, it's pretty much a dead industry nowadays but it puts you in touch with bands and helps get you kind of noticed which might lead to opportunites you might not get otherwise.

g) Be eclectic, you're spoilt for choice, if you're lucky enough to be in London or SE England or a decent sized city.

h) Follow bands on facebook, soundcloud... often this leads to other similar bands.

i) Personally i don't bother with large venues or bigger bands that much, i might make the odd exception, but there's serious amounts of really great music and musicians well away from the expensive/aircraft hanger venue/popular stuff and there's the bonus it might actually have some meaning because it's not trying to make money :).
Why not accelerate slower with smaller lasers? What harm in taking 2 days? 2 months? to get to speed.
> Literally anyone can put a streaming app into the major app stores these days and bypass all of this.

Barring circumstances of pure chance, an app needs marketing and promotion to gain any traction, and this costs money. It also usually requires deals with artists of some interest or popularity to get attention, and to ensure the service has enough content.

> Why are the Big 3 still in this chokehold position? Is the market failing, or do they actually provide valuable services that can't be obtained elsewhere?

My theory is that most people actually want to be told what to listen to and don't really care to leave a relatively small comfort zone in terms of music tastes. The current system "works" for consumers so the incentives for anyone to come around to change it are weak. Personally I don't consider this an inherently good or bad thing, just an observed state of affairs.
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Nevermind the issue of how you either (a) transmit back over 4 light years or (b) pull off a return trajectory with just a few grams of equipment. It's easy to poke holes at ambitious projects, so I look forward to seeing what they can come up with, but man - this would be phenomenal compared to Apollo, even given how far we've come.
> Yes, film wasn't sensitive enough for black skin

This was not a constraint of physics or chemistry: Kodak knew it, and they didn't care much for black skin. This was bias because they could fix it, but didn't. Fortunately, Kodak did ended up caring for other brown things: Kathy Connor, an executive at Kodak, told Roth the company didn’t develop a better film for rendering different gradations of brown until economic pressure came from a very different source: Kodak’s professional accounts. Two of their biggest clients were chocolate confectioners, who were dissatisfied with the film’s ability to render the difference between chocolates of different darknesses. “Also,” Connor says, “furniture manufacturers were complaining that stains and wood grains in their advertisement photos were not true to life.”
The best bet as of today is an array of GoPros, same as for most 360 solutions. You can get about 60 degrees out of each lens after accounting for stitching overlap, so six of them are sufficient for a 180 degree stereoscopic picture. I've gotten some good results with this, though of course there's a lot of black space, which a 12+ camera rig would alleviate.
> The goal of the new solar-plus-storage facility, KIUC said, is to "'shave' the amount of conventional power generation needed to meet the evening peak, which lasts from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m."

So, this is exactly what I said solar is good for, balancing out a bit of peak load, with no significant impact on the baseline. Not likely to impact Hawaii's around 88% carbon based energy production. It's one thing to install enough batteries to shift 13 MW of electricity by a few hours. It's another thing entirely to generate and store enough power to completely remove carbon sources. According to that source, Hawaii has a total capacity of 2.3GW. As far as I'm aware, nobody is even considering that as a near-term possibility for stored renewables. Also note that Hawaii is probably one of the better locations for solar, and things get grim the more northerly or overcast your area is. Also, those batteries store 52MWh, the Gigafactory will have an annual output of batteries with total capacity in the tens of GWhs, while Hawaii uses about 10TWh annually, which is over 27 GWh per day average. I can't find a source for how much of that would be used at various times of day, and unsure of the math for how much battery capacity would be needed to take variable sunlight throughout the day and make it last overnight to the next morning, but I expect you're at leas looking at two orders of magnitude larger than the project you linked. And that doesn't give you much of a buffer in case of a storm blocking out the solar power for even a day, which admittedly is less of a problem in Hawaii than elsewhere. You've still got to either provide enough battery power to hold out until generation exceeds consumption again, or you need enough solar panels that you can generate all the power you need even on cloudy days, and simply disable a large portion of them when it is sunny and the batteries are full.

Either way, you'd need every battery the Gigafactory produced for anywhere from a year to a decade, just to maintain reliable power in Hawaii alone. That would be an insane upfront cost without even factoring in solar panels. And those batteries need to be replaced as they lose capacity, so you have to divide that cost over a finite time.

Source: http://energy.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/EnergyFa...
I think Birmingham fits well in that list. We have a very low cost of living and our downtown is undergoing a huge revival these past few years. Great access to nature too.
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I'm blanking on any names right now, but I've seen a few startups recently working on platforms for building bots with integrations to multiple different services. No doubt one or more of these will add Messenger support. There are also open source projects like Lita[0], BotBuilder[1], and Hubot[2] which give a nice abstraction layer.

[0] https://www.lita.io/

[1] https://dev.botframework.com/

[2] https://hubot.github.com/
I really really wish there was a client with decent support for using DNS-based verification, mainly so that I can generate certificates for mail servers (since they don't run a local httpd on the same machine).

Even if it was just spitting out a string that I needed to add/edit in my zone files (self-hosted DNS) every ~90 days, I'd be fine with that.

I haven't had much luck finding clients w/ support for this. I did find one that supported using Route 53, etc., via the APIs, but that didn't help me any.

If anyone is working on something like this, I'd be happy to throw a few dollars their way.
I haven't and don't find Pandora to be good for finding new music. Now that I don't have much time to seek new artists I usually hop on people's playlists on Spotify or try radio stations, something a little more hand picked. When I really had time to find new music there are college radio stations that put out podcasts DJ picked music, there are lots of blogs to guide you and you can always use the charts in various countries. The staggering amount of new music that comes out every week makes it extremely difficult to keep up with especially if you like to listen to the entire album.
Allowable intake levels are different for different isotopes. Potassium has a biological half life of a few hours, Caesium (the isotope in question here), of several weeks.

The FDA apparently doesn't even bother with regulating allowable Potassium-40 levels due to this.
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You can't expect them to admit liability now can you? They offered the customer a year free of their shitty hosting without admitting fault after all.
LEO trash collectors

doesn't the atmosphere do a good enough job? seems that most things in LEO will decay within a few years
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> The US FDA thinks 1000 Bq/kg for Cs-137 is just fine.[1]

"Fine" in the sense of "just below the limit of 1200". Even by FDA standards, 10000 Bq/kg Cs-137 is extremely high.
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You gave an answer that was clearly on the 'too far' side, but you didn't answer the question of where the line was actually at. There are a lot of things in life where it is easy to put something on one side or the other, but where drawing the exact line is hard.

For example, how to tell what species something is. Simple question, right? One only needs to look at a cat, dog, human, or some bird in the sky to easily see they are all different... until you consider the corner cases like ring species. Suddenly the really easy question of how to tell two species apart doesn't always work. Getting the exact answer can be very difficult if not impossible (often because these questions derive from placing human created abstraction onto reality, and often the fit is not perfect no matter how tightly we press down).
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In my last round of my linux firewall comparison I liked opnsense very much:

https://opnsense.org/

not affiliated, I just liked it. However the GUI is made of many php scripts (if they did not change meanwhile) - so it would be great if many more eyes would like to take a look at the code...
In spirit I agree, but can you provide any references? I'd love to be able to make this argument with a source to back me up.
The HEPA filter won me over.
Is there any type of project for which this would not be true?
I'm a current ECE student and I could see it.

AlphaLab accelerator and TechShop are in the area, and there are the Google and Uber campuses by CMU.

A lot of the talent right now is getting pulled by the big name west coast companies, but I could see something growing over the next ten years.

(The weather is awfully dreary, though.)
Well much of it is a zero sum game. You have to get these lousy customers to be stupid to win.
I recognized your reply from /r/pfsense. Dude, you are running unsupported scenario and using your pfSense as NAS. That is a big no no
For the record, the Kubernetes dashboard comes pre-installed on all masters on GKE. So the UI is there, albeit not integrated into the Gcloud console.
Commenting to call out Nashville as the next Austin. Lots of similar characteristics, business friendly environment, and fast internet.
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The Chelyabinsk asteroid that blew up over Russia in 2013 was, by comparison, about 500 kT and massed about 13000 tonnes. It blew up at at 30km altitude.

One of these probes, hitting the upper atmosphere, would be so light as to vapourise almost instantly, turning into a expanding plug of high-speed plasma. This would have very little ability to penetrate the atmosphere. I think all you'd see is a flash in the very high upper atmosphere as the kinetic energy was dissipated as radiation and then it'd be gone.
If there were no objects in the Universe, only free space, would gravity exist?

I don't know what to make of a hypothetical like that. It seems nonsensical, just like a universe without light, or the absence of a universe, the concept of pure emptiness or nothingness. We can't conceive of these scenarios because they preclude our own existence and ability to conceive of anything.

Anyway, I'm not sure what you're driving at...was the comment left unfinished for some sort of meta purpose?
Does anyone see Messenger as a potential Skype for business/Slack/Hipchat competitor? I feel like the technology is on par, but the link to my personal facebook kills it for me.
Bane craft - ah, you think darkness is your ally?
Yes, but yk's note that the friction load is a small fraction of the craft's kinetic energy makes me rethink whether the effect will matter much.
You don't see the difference between this and hanging around with a phone to your ear listening to an audio user-interface synchronously waiting until it's ready for you to input commands with your numpad?
"Adobe had Display PostScript, but that never took off."
Well, except for it's use in NeXTStep. Though I think they threw it out in favor of PDF/Quartz for OS-X.
It sounds like you are thinking of this being a tool for testing deployment configuration, but I could also see using it for internal test environments. The qc person adds the test CA to their browser, if they see "untrusted connection" then something is wrong. Would that model be supported?
What is the gain from the fraud? Note that in the comments section of HN, it's acceptable to compare the settlement to the entirety of a company's revenue. In court, the fine would be compared to actual damages, which requires a causal connection between misrepresentations and losses. You might be able to establish damages in a statistical fashion, but that will still come down to computing some specific fraction of the sales that were fraudulent and the fraction of the value of those sales that were losses.
What is the price?
That's one thing that I worry about, though. The superior product experience is coming from new centralized services such as Slack and Discord. It's not coming from those building something decentralized.
Yes please! I grew up in PDX, and live in Pgh now. There are a surprising number of similarities in the sort of grassroots neighborhood community, and the slower pace of life compared to CA. (And the weather, I guess.) Pittsburgh is way ahead in intellectual foundation -- CMU is world-class -- but Portland has a quality-of-life edge.

Portland already has a small but respectable startup scene, and a few bigger anchors (Intel, etc), but it has huge potential if it were to build more of a tech/CS critical mass.
Did this remind anyone of the Polis' spreading and searching the stars in Diaspora (by Greg Egan)
Question: Does anyone understand how propulsion is achieved here? How does the foil sail catching laser light propel something forward?
So, they've solved a major problem... but not your problem?

Honestly, wildcart certs would make my job a lot easier too, but with automatic renewal I'm more than happy to deal with multiple certs and stop giving the commercial CAs my money.
I've been watching many of his live performances on YouTube. He's a great musician, who happened to ride the pop wave. We shouldn't judge him just on that. It's like judging the Dead just on "Touch of Grey" or Bowie just "Young American".
"The Send/Receive API must not be used to send marketing or promotional messages...advertising...branded content..up selling..cross selling"

Then, "Spring offers a personal shopping assistant on Messenger" https://messengerplatform.fb.com/wp-content/themes/fbmesseng...

Huh?
Perhaps they might. Looking forward to reading the entire project description when I get home this evening.
That doesn't really seem the same at all.