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Intern has a different aura to it, many students find GSoC to be an easier thing to try than an internship (plus, work from home!).

An "open summer of code" funded by Mozilla and other orgs themselves sounds like an interesting idea (one that's being informally bounced around on IRC in more than one place)

But yeah, I like that they're focusing on smaller projects.
Speaking of path tracing, I hope Khronos keeps an eye to the future for Vulkan in regards to supporting path tracing. I don't think we're too many years away from seeing gaming engines or graphics card makers support path tracing in a big way (mainly because I think it's the future of gaming, especially for VR gaming - which is also the future of gaming itself). Vulkan should be optimized for that from the beginning and not tacked-on later.
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How much do init and nspawn have in common?

People keep comparing systemd with sysv, as if they are both "just" inits. But one has grown way beyond being considered just as a init.

To me at least it seems more and more that replacing init has become a sour pill people accept for getting some sugary candy elsewhere within the systemd sphere of influence.
In fact, they should have their own "Summer of Code".
Yep, government regulation and laws. The question is: which government?

Normally one would expect that in the areas were this work is done, the local governments take care of environmental and work safety regulations and laws. But they don't - due to greed, corruption and whatever.

So should, for example, OECD countries forbid export of electric waste to non-OECD countries, to enforce proper disposal of hazardous materials and recycling? I don't have very clear answers to this, because there are obvious reasons both ways (do we want to exclude poor countries from the world markets?). But I think it is a good question.
Plan 9 got refused too, the first time in 10 years,.just my luck now I finally qualify as a student instead of a mentor.
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I looked at the admission form and this looks to me like a modern day commune.
You mean higher, not lower?
I'm not making political assumptions. I am assuming that businesses act to protect their business interests and that assisting a competitor compete in core markets is not in a company's interests.

I'd be happy to see a business case put forward for Google helping Mozzilla develop a mobile operating system to compete with Android.
"If I copy a file to the Dropbox folder in Windows, it will convert it to small caps, even if the file is in Camel Case."

Are you sure this is still the case? How exactly do you reproduce this with Dropbox for Windows?

I tried copying and pasting a file, as well as creating a new file, and the case is preserved.
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Same for me. If you login/register first using the buttons on the left then it works fine.
I haven't checked in a while. Does cross-compiling now support libraries that are implemented in C? As this includes some of the standard library, this seems like a rather large stumbling block.
OSes were better twenty years ago because they were more predictable and stable because they couldn't do as much, especially if there was no multithreading. Limitations ensured stability and reliable performance. Today, it's too easy to overload your system.

Except now I just realized that 20 years ago was Windows 95. Dang, I'm getting old. :(
Not only you can reduce the mass of your aircraft, removing wetware also gives you ability to push it further in terms of speed and maneuverability. Current fighters are constrained by what pilot's body is capable of handling.
Typically ads like this are intended to buttress the companies stock price. You see them for similar companies like ADM or Monsanto that also don't sell to the general public. The intended audience is most likely investors.
A few final comments from me to clarify my position and seek to find common ground...

1) We're on the same side here. I've been through the same exasperating journey as you, being infuriated at suggestions from doctors and armchair experts that I just needed to pull myself together and adopt a more positive attitude to life. I get it, it's horrible and patronising to be told that, and I totally understand you having the reactions your having in this thread.

2) You've inferred from the fact that some people recover from CFS via emotion-based treatments, that they weren't really very sick. This certainly hasn't been the case for me. My illness was very severe and debilitating, and is still not completely healed. My recovery has not been spontaneous or imagined (according to observations from those close to me), but has happened steadily over the 2-3 years I've been doing this very specific (but little-known) subconscious-emotion-based treatment, along with a sensible (not obsessive) diet, a small number of supplements, and gentle exercise. Sure, I would love it if there were just some pill I could take that would rapidly cure me, but as you point out, it doesn't exist, so I'm going with whatever I can find that helps, and what I'm doing now is remarkably effective.

3) But we (and many others) have read the books; tried the techniques; and are right where we started

I get it. I've done the same thing. Nothing worked. Until I discovered NET, then adapted it to be more effective for my own condition. I don't think it's the be-all-and-end-all, by any means. But I know it's promising, and it warrants research - yes, research that conforms to the scientific method - just as much as any pharmaceutical approach.

4) wanting real funding for real research for a real disease

It's not as if there hasn't already been a lot of research put into CFS over a long time. Could there be more? Sure. Would even an unlimited amount of pharmaceutical-focused research yield results? I strongly believe it wouldn't.

5) Physiological treatment will work alone, just like they have for stomach ulcers, and countless other illnesses that were previously attributed to vague, non-scientific explanations.

There's no reason to believe this is true. All the evidence I can see indicates that it fits more into the category of MS, MND, Alzheimer's, autism spectrum disorders and all the other illnesses (including many cancers) that have been extensively researched for years and show no signs of being any closer to being solved.

6) If I, or any other of the many sufferers out there, could heal ourselves through some emotional technique then we would be _over the moon_

If you're serious about this, you should get in touch. I don't expect you to blindly accept any of my claims and undertake the same treatment program as me. But I'm quite serious about getting some proper research done into the treatments that have been effective for me and others I know.

So if you'd like to know more, or contribute in some way, even as a well-meaning naysayer, feel free to drop me a line - tom.howard/gmail.
...which suggests that computing is not too easy at all, as per grandparent comment.

See also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm... :

During my first Microsoft internship, I wrote string libraries to run on the Macintosh... Everything I did was right from K&R -- one thin book about the C programming language.

Today, to work on CityDesk, I need to know Visual Basic, COM, ATL, C++, InnoSetup, Internet Explorer internals, regular expressions, DOM, HTML, CSS, and XML. All high level tools compared to the old K&R stuff, but I still have to know the K&R stuff or I'm toast.
This is obviously an ambitious big goal, and so naturally seems like a low likelihood shot.

It's one of those cases where I would like to hear the founders talk. Long, earnest interviews. Podcasting would be great. WTF are they talking about exactly? Step 1 sounds like a house-share idea, maybe purpose built. The likely market is students and recent grads. Beyond that they are talking about building cities.

If these guys have a chance of succeeding, they probably have interesting ideas.

It's actually a cool question: "How do we build new cities as a startup?"

One interesting idea that (I think) seems like a potential bridge between phase 1 and phase 2, is "student villages" where alumni and staff are encouraged to settle permanently. Residents would already be more intimately involved and invested in the community than they would be anywhere else, have things in common.

If 5-10% of a graduating class stayed long term it would give you a fairly rapid growth rate. The eventual size would be reached at whatever size that 5-10% equals the natural rate of attrition. Say 200 graduates settle per year and 1/10 of residents leave in any given year, they would reach 1,000 residents in 7 years and top out at 2,000 residents within a few decades.

You really can't know in advance, but I suspect that a decent number of graduates (especially of post graduate programs) from top universities could be tempted to buy in to alumni communities if the price was right.

But.. you really need to be a badass team to pull off something at this scale and in this space. The list of Big problems is daunting. Financing, governance and ownership structures would be tricky.
That's one possible explanation, but I think it's equally likely that they thought some smaller project needed the help more than the already big Mozilla Foundation.

Besides, so far I didn't get the impression that Google really sees FF as a competitor (at this point in time). Google is not in the business of making browsers, they make a browser because that happens to be the best way to steer the future of the web. Mozilla seems to have similar views for that future and together they are beating IE into submission.
I'm going through an extremely frustrating experience at the moment in that I have a washing machine that's just died. It's only 3 years old and just out of warranty - other than the bearings that need replacing, it's in perfect health.

Naturally, I order the bearings I need and start taking the machine to bits. Low and behold, the tub, which can traditionally be split and bolted back together again is now sealed so you can't service it.

Now I have the choice of buying a whole new tub assembly (including drum and bearings), at £200, or just buying a whole new machine.

But really, I have little choice in the situation. A new machine won't cost much more but will come with a 3-5 year warranty. As a consumer, I only have one reasonable choice to make - but it's the one that's totally wasteful.
This is brilliant. As a physics student who also loves programming and open source, I'm going to share this everywhere :D
A share house is inevitably commune-like.
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Kind of like the fuzzy areas in between what we call red, dark red, light red, bright red, dull red, and pink (and bright pink and light pink and dark pink and dull pink).

It all becomes very subjective.
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It would accommodate MMORPG - that is couple of times the area of WOW during it peak years.
Never do side work on company time or on their equipment. I've seen someone walked out of the office for this.

Never do work that could be in the slightest view competitive.

This puts you in a fairly good ethical position. Outside this legal seems to be iffy, related to your contract specifically and where you live. I'd have a chat with HR if your willing to take a no, or not ask if your going to ignore if you get a no.
Very cool podcast - thanks for pointing it out!
Better mapping data from OpenStreetMaps can facilitate better data in Google Maps. Maps are still in the data collection phase.The long play is self-driving cars not an app in the app store.

It's hard to see a business case for Google that includes supporting Mozilla. That Google has done it in the past may be more symptomatic of big dumb inertia than anything else.
And a book thoroughly covering this from the beginning, which also provides a physical world example of successful but painful standards creation: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy...
Is this because I now get a free proprietary game engine with every single Kickstarter game sponsoring?

About time we stop the 500 monkeys reinventing 500 wheels in parallel (at least it's concurrent monkeys, they smell nicer).
How is F# for the web (both front and back end)? tx
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And then we discover that Charon is in fact a mass relay...

Yes, I have such dreams too, sometimes.
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Thank you for the howto, I'll give this a try next time. Looks much more approachable than I feared.
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No, Dropbox is not stealing your stuff. Apparently people have never heard of Windows Shell Extensions, the approved non-hacky way to overlay icons over files.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...

The tortoise apps do the same thing to overlay Git/Hg/Svn icons.
Let's just call it the Mün, and the other one Minmus.
I am aware. I read the article.
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When I saw the post on the fp of HN, my first reaction was "hey wait I know that name... ohh..ooohhh".
(Disclaimer: Ghanaian here. Currently an SE in the US )

I think a culture shift in the IT community will definitely make the message loud, but the truth is that this dump comes from businesses who deal primarily with the average consumer, not the tech-savvy minority. And until the majority cares, nothing is going to change unfortunately. Every step in that direction helps though, by all means, we as a community need to be much more vocal about this (well, be concerned first of all)
Fascinating!

I would love to make a startup that boosts science and exploration. Any ideas?
Given the low tech nature, a lot of the 'value' could have already been extracted via any widespread method, and this is the byproduct of already processed recyclables being sold on.

I highly recommend the book Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, who follows the global scrap trade.

Link to his site: http://shanghaiscrap.com/books/junkyard-planet/
Link to the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Planet-Travels-Billion-Dollar...
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I doubt they run any of the GSOC decisions through any sort of business case analysis. $150,000 is tiddlywinks to a corporation that generates billions on a monthly tempo. Hand wavy good feels are plenty enough justification for that level of spending.

(That's a ball park estimate of how much it would cost to fund and administrate several projects)
Oh please. Use some creativity!
Nah, I just picked the most egregious ones as examples, skipping the ones that were lower profile. As I get older, I just see things repeating over and over; the young kids think we are reaching into new bads just because they are seeing it for the first time.

Now get off my lawn.
Kinda sad, but at least Postgres is in.
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There are existig laws to prevent e-waste dumping -- most of the e-waste from the EU in Agbogbloshie was illegally exported.

http://www.euractiv.com/sustainability/new-law-seeks-limit-d...
in one sense it's cool. So congrats on that.
I wonder though - if it's not as good at updating the DOM as other libraries - what is it's real "place" in the ecosystem?

Is it doing more than wrapping over IndexedDB / LocalStorage?

I'd say, a nice wrapper for IndexedDB is a welcome thing (looks like minimongo already does that). And there's a lot of space to grow in that (providing change events, etc).

Maybe I just don't get the value prop?

Maybe the value prop only really shows up when you integrate the data binding? So it's sort of like reactive programming but based on a structured data store, instead of raw JS objects?
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What does is offer significantly more than the browser built-in IndexedDB?
It doesn't help that persistent collections are now popular...but aren't persistent at all.
Well if you wanted to send a message to people in a solar system, you could put something on a moon like this. Once they were advanced enough to find it, they would probably understand it.
"How do you measure programmer productivity?
When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project managers started requiring programmers to submit weekly forms reporting on the number of lines of code they had written. Bill Atkinson thought that was silly. For the week in which he had rewritten QuickDraw’s region calculation routines to be six times faster and 2000 lines shorter, he put “-2000″ on the form. After a few more weeks the managers stopped asking him to fill out the form, and he gladly complied."

And yet, this mentality still exists today.

Would you measure an MBA by the amount of email they've sent?
Or an EE by the number of resisters they've used?
Wait, wasn't it his own government which decided to spy on their own people ? Didn't he force his own country's companies to spy on his own people?

I used to like obama a lot. Used to...
>Each month, cargo containers arrive in Agbogbloshie, often illegally,

Corruption anywhere on the chain is a huge problem. Apparently my country (US) isn't supposed to allow wasted shiped there, but it is anyway. Presumably if this waste wasn't going to be let in at the destination then nobody would try to ship it over (at expense).

Its a good and hard question:

The expense of electronic recycling and disposal is high enough that its worth shipping it to a place that doesn't have the expense. You want countries to be able to compete on waste disposal, but when the definition of disposal is "pollution" its not really a level playing field.

This isn't an easy problem.

The US has the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which for significantly toxic stuff, follows stuff from creation to disposal.
I'll bite.

Yes, in terms of foreign policy, I think that W and especially Obama have been profoundly, historically, difficult-to-believe bad.

I'm not trying to downplay Iran-Contra, Gulf of Tonkin / Vietnam, etc., but the last two administrations have taken what was unduly hostile (and expensive) logistical capability around the world and turned it into Empire.

The needs, wants, representative processes, laws, and sovereignty of other nations have reduced in relevance to the Empire's decision making process to zero.

It's interesting you bring up Roosevelt: don't forget - that was an actual, declared war - by Congress. So in terms of assessing foreign policy that's different for sure.

By comparison, Obama has attacked no less than seven different countries in undeclared wars. I think this is, as you say, "much worse."
Disappointed ReactOS didn't get in this year, but at least Wine did.
Interesting, in the context of this discussion yesterday on lessons for VCs from the industry in the 1980s [1]. Why risk so much looking for the one unicorn in a hundred when we can achieve a 500% roi focusing on cashflow [2].

"The VC community is purposely avoiding risk because we think we can make good returns without taking it. The lesson of the 1980s is that no matter how appealing this fantasy is, it’s still a fantasy."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9129911
[2] Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with that as an investment strategy. As I noted in that other discussion, this is a field where I have limited experience.
Sounds perfect for a fun day at the beach, right? Not so fast … its $12,000 price tag makes it more suitable for more serious endeavors, such as surveying and mining.
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Not just informally; X.org has actually implemented this idea: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/
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If you look at their "vision" page:

Phase 1 is "communities." These are the yuppie boarding houses. 4, 20, 200, then 5000. Looks like they on about 30 now.

Phase 2 is cities.

I like it, personally. It's got that too-ambitious element but they set themselves a proving ground. If they hit 200 "communities," are profitable and are managing scale exponentially, I would definitely be listening to them talk about creating cities.
No, Windows provides a well-documented way to customize folder and file icons inside Windows Explorer (their equivalent of Finder).
The PS4 doesn't even support standard OpenGL, why would they support Vulcan?
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In general, once the usage of the phone becomes primarily for business purposes. For example, if you are requiring an employee to carry the phone at all times and to answer it after hours and deal with clients, it is a business usage and should be paid for by the company. However, that does not mean that the entire service should be reimbursed as many people now have family plans and paying the entire service would unfairly burden the company as well. Additionally, technically if they did reimburse the entire bill, you likely would owe taxes on the non-business reimbursement as it is "income". One other point, if the business is requiring 100% cell phone access, in many states an employee may have a claim to additional pay, even if salaried.

If the company is asking you to provide them your cell number for on-call times only and for notification of an issue when you are already being compensated for on-call time then likely it is more gray and not a "requirement" to reimburse you. However, I have seen most companies still do something in these cases.

Generally in a startup though, you are not there because you are worried about getting the $50-$100 monthly reimbursement because startups are generally focused on results not building up the enterprise systems to track this type of stuff (until they mature more). To my point, you are generally investing your time beyond 8 hrs a day, and are likely not taking a market level salary in lieu of options so it would seem the cell phone is a minor thing in the end. Just my opinion though.
Got the same one, with Windows, after I logged in with an old Blackberry OS7 client. So they don't even check the operation system, the just assume windows users.
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The type of tenant they seem to be targeting, young, mobile and willing to rent a room in a well managed share house exist in high rent, high rent urban areas. If you can rent a furnished townhouse for $750, no one needs this. If the rock bottom rent for a studio is $1,300, some people might prefer to be in one of these boarding houses with a better location instead.
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