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Where can I find side-by-side benchmarks for Chakra, JavaScriptCore and V8?
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Chakra does better than most of its competition on ES6 support: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

(I use v8 and javascriptcore all day but I still appreciate it)
"Design a footbridge across the Thames capable of sustaining a reasonable amount of traffic, using nothing but Tinker Toys and rubber bands. We don't care about the answer -- we just want to see how you think!"
A jet that can take you from New York to London in under 30 minutes
Most open source projects have a CLA, nowadays. I don't see how this would inhibit contributions.
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Paul Cronin: Are you an artist?

Herzog: Never. All I've ever wanted to be is a foot soldier of cinema.
Yup https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
NodeJS has exactly the same restriction.
Pay disparities for remote positions has potential costs:
https://ernie.io/2015/12/05/market-rate-is-for-lobsters/
The day-to-day questions (like you suggest about needing a software product) or really some of the better indicators I've gotten because it will tell you a lot AND the interviewer is generally not at all prepared for that.
+1 vscode is just using Electron Shell, not entire Atom. vscode is a well executed project. During initial testing vscode seemed much more responsive than Atom to me.
Thank you. This is interesting science, but any study backed by someone who has a history of selling pseudo-science is going to be a setback, not a step forward for scientific research.
What's wrong with a CLA? It's incredibly common for projects open sourced by companies.
What are some such insights to be gained from the pirate example? What did we learn? How a set of "rational" computers might play out this scenario? How do we apply that to our decision making? These questions might seem obtuse or questioning the value of game theory, but I'm just having a hard time understanding what to take from it.

The real-life 40% is more a commentary of utility of money as opposed to decision making.

Only real-life humans make decisions though. If there is no implied utility of money then Bob might as well reject all offers. And it does seem that the only important question is "what would real humans do?" We can set up a simulation that strictly adheres to a simple set of rules and watch how it plays out, but what is that telling us?
Well, Chakra is a bit ahead of V8 in ES6 implementation right now.

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
The employer presumably didn't think he was using their computer for arson. Would you be more comfortable letting a stranger into to your premises to use your bathroom or letting them use your internet connection?
I find it so effin poetic. Everything is simply separated and ""ready"" for reuse. I wish people could see it that way too.

I often wonder about the cost of toilets on large scale.
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It's not so much my reaction to that sort of action but rather how the people who affect the market would react that matters. Let's say tomorrow all the govts of the world got together and said X amount of dollars in banks will be null and void of value (no taxes, just removed entirely from the market). Can you imagine the economic contraction that would occur? If you think the Great Depression or earlier panics were a problem this hypothetical situation would practically implode a century's worth of growth.

The reality is that we're stuck in a disaster of our own making. Partly because money has no value (no commodity backing) and partly because since we decoupled value from money we thought we could print more of it to spur growth. But growth doesn't come from the money, it comes from the labor to produce goods and the goods which save time when we labor. You can't shortcut your way to growth. It comes from those sources and nowhere else. The rest is purely speculation driven or illusory in general. And it gets worse you think about the hard reality that people don't want more things. Consumerism doesn't fix the problem either as private debt keeps ballooning people realize their finite resources (wages from their own labor) is dwarfed by credit payments. So, bing bang boom the whole thing falls down.
Generally, anyone can come visit for up to 6 months in a row. To legally be employed, you need a work visa of some sort. For a short term gig, in the old days, a letter from the employer was sufficient. I was on flying back from Canada with a man doing just as recently as ten years ago. I would search for the different types of work visas. On the other side of the cost spectrum, there are entire businesses based around sorting these sorts of things out. You could search for an immigration consultant.
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Yea my first thought was that 24 bits should be able to grow to accommodate more fingerprints, so it would make more sense to have a wildcard. But you could definitely have 24 individual certificates.

I wasn't aware of Let's Encrypt, I'll look into grabbing 24 certs from there and spinning up a demo. Thanks!
That's because your level of mathematics is tooooo low.
Could someone please explain why the limit is 510 bytes and not 448 bytes? Asking because I thought that the last 64 bytes were reserved for the partition table? Any link to where I can get a refresher on this topic?
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Don't most large organisations require something similar with their own open source projects? I know Google and Facebook do.

It's just a way of confirming that you own the rights to your contribution, and that you explicitly give Microsoft permission to use it. (And if you didn't want to grant them permission, you would have no reason to contribute!)
The article touches on it briefly near the end, but those estimates of how many breeding pairs you need are made under the assumption that you want to keep the incidents of genetic disease to roughly the same level we have now in the world at large.

If you are willing to accept higher rates of disease--willing to conceive more children and abort more diseased ones, then you can get away with a much smaller starting population.

Pre-screening the initial population and weeding out as many deadly mutations as possible would also help a lot.

Your new population will of course be more vulnerable to diseases as there will be far less variety in their natural immunities so it is tricky, but if the Earth were reduced to just a small handful of people it's not necessarily curtains for humanity. Indeed in ancient times tiny tribes of highly inbred individuals managed to survive and eventually give birth to modern humans.
They upgraded to a new major version of Sync either this year or last, and it's MUCH better (I recently rented a 2015 Expedition XLT). It's still MUCH WORSE than even Chevy's system, though, so ymmv.
How should schools prepare kids for the future? Maybe, it's the wrong question
Quite right! The most annoying thing about otherwise good C++ libs is that pesky fact. SWIG doesn't quite cut it for me.
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Google's self-drive cars had to be stopped from crashing
I've used it on 4 sites in the last year, with no problems.

It does depend on your target market, but then, so does everything.
They are probably showing how the various browsers' c++ works to render flexbox in order to fit it into 20 videos?
The key in this case was the guy was using a Yahoo account that was designated for work purposes to message his brother.

What the ruling DOESN'T mean is employers cannot say, demand access to your personal gmail account. However they can reprimand you for visiting gmail.com or whatever for periods of time more than what they deem acceptable.
For existing audio hardware there are projects like http://www.rockbox.org that are minimalistic firmware replacements that you can hack on. On the video side I can't think of anything similar to DVD firmware that's open source but that sounds like what you're looking for. I've attempted a few slimmed down Linux distros for the Raspberry Pi and alternative OSes that can play back media. Things to check out would be: RISC OS, OpenElec, PiCore, PiPlay, Minibian...
I've seen that a partial Linux support is on the roadmap, but does anyone know if there is a way to compile it with gcc or clang, or if it's on the roadmap ?
I don't think using a placebo is sufficient in a study like this.

I'd like to see another psychedelic used as a control, not just a placebo. Subjects are going to "know" when they've received psilocybin and then they're going to be likely to "perform" better when evaluated for depression.

At least that would be my hypothesis.
Having more than one engine can mean that there is less of a V8 monoculture. Bugs in V8 don't become "standard" and "things that V8 is really good at" doesn't become "things that Javascript is really good at".
You already did a Show HN somewhat recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186867
24-year-old here. I don't have much expertise in the vast majority of HN topics, so I mostly lurk. Every once in a while, something will pop up that I can somewhat contribute to, (semiconductor manufacture, fitness, dating, etc) but the vast majority of things? Nooope.
> Also, they don't have a monopoly on nearly anything

They didn't have a monopoly on spreedsheets or word processors in the early 90s either..
It is 1.4B. So the profit would be clear. Doing this would also paint a massive target on the winner's back if their identity was made public.
Why port rather than just writing it to be portable from the start? Seems like a lot of work?
The first step is to get the runtime and interpreter running. Next step is to bring the jit up.
Chakra is the hybrid engine where we have the interpreter, simple jit and full jit. The interpreter is the one which does all the profile data collection. Profile data is required to get the quality jit code.

Declaimer: I work for Chakra team.
It's surprisingly good.

* Better ES6 support https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

* Faster performance http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2015/12/chakra-performance...
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In New York, no one has space to keep a bike in their apartment. Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it is an issue. It's certainly an issue for many here in Boston, where Hubway bikes are popular. I ride my own bike to work, but I have a shed I can keep it in.
Temporarily perhaps. Most of the gains look to have happened within the long IE11 to Edge 12 release cycle. Firefox 45 looks like it'll leap ahead again, and they're on a 6 week release cycle...

I'm not disputing MS have made impressive efforts. I've just yet to see anything from them that would make me put long-term stock in their open source commitments.
They may have the right to search your thumb drive if they believe you are downloading company data that may help the competition or cost revenue.
Yes! This isn't an accident. Erik Meijer, who contributed extensively to the Reactive Framework at Microsoft, has been very vocal about his use of category theory for software design. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMP6gI5mLHc) He currently runs Applied Duality which is uses category theory as its guiding design principle (http://www.applied-duality.com/)
It means that the company owns the copyright to everything and can close the source again any time they want.

EDIT

Dear mods. Some pretty measured posts are getting serious heat in this (and other threads relating to MS) maybe you could look into it?
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Why Your Project Doesn’t Need a Contributor Licensing Agreement, Monday 9 June 2014 by Bradley M. Kuhn:

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/09/do-not-need-cla.html
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It doesn't look like it builds yet. See https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap.
I do like the Javascript support, however the browser itself still has some bugs and other performance issues in daily use. Those could be issues with the code being ran on certain sites though.
It will be. It's just crufty and overly specific to us right now and needs some tidying up.
Please do this.
So you have a random chance of noticing what statistics ALREADY tells you. Except that only sometimes do you notice the problem by chance, and statistics can let you always know about it.

This is a net loss.
I would have to ask why you have 120+ projects. That's likely your problem; you're doing far too much within one solution.
Number of bugs per method.
Congrats to the Chakra team!

I know that there was probably a good amount of work that went into making this happen.
Wouldn't it be far easier with MIT than GPL? The BSD license sure did little to keep the open source roots of Mac OS thriving.
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I'm happy to see WebAssembly talked about on there. It talks about standardisation and the polyfil (using asm.js). Any idea on when support will be worked on in the engine?
It also means that the company can sell proprietary versions with extended functionality, and the company is therefore motivated to not allow contributions to the free code which duplicates functionality which they sell.
It saddens me and depresses me greatly regarding the job prospects of working with statistics in modern tech companies when I read articles like this.

I know others will disagree with me, but my feeling after working in a number of jobs in which large systems were built to automate large-scale frequentist hypothesis testing operations is that these methods just wholly fail, and that business politics leads people to read whatever conclusions they'd like to from the results, and give credit back to the statistical framework even if it is not deserved.

I should be careful not to over-state this too much. I understand there is a mathematical framework for these tools and despite being trained in machine learning and Bayesian methods, almost all of my professional experience has been working with frequentist statistics. Sometimes you have enough data that it would probably swamp out whatever prior you might choose; often you don't have (or want to invest in getting) expert priors, and "non-informative priors" and that ilk sort of rope in some of the same problems as what frequentism has. You can get a limited amount of evidence from doing simple frequentist things, but you also open the door for all of the misunderstandings of p-values, ignoring effect sizes, doing model selection by directly comparing t-stats, etc., which just seems to be way, way less of a problem if you use other methods.

Some of the main sources of enlightenment for me on this have been:

[0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/g13/against_nhst/

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/~gjw10/achen04.pdf

[2] http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/articles/Kruschke2012JEPG.p...

The last article, by Kruschke, spends a lot of time on exactly the type of issue from the Twitter article -- something like two-group mean testing.

In general, I cannot understand why people continue to use frequentist methods on policy problems -- that is, problems where you are inherently looking for Pr(Hypothesis | Data), and where, due to all of the many, many pitfalls from the above sources and elsewhere, you can be sure that Pr(Data | Hypothesis) is not at all a suitable proxy for Pr(Hypothesis | Data).

I would view any labor costs associated with figuring out why A/A/B testing is not a useful idea to be pure waste, not because the math is wrong or anything (the math is interesting and good!) but because, from first principles, this just seems like totally and completely the wrong way to approach this kind of applied problem.

And yet, everyone is doing it, and baking it right into their huge production analytics systems -- most notoriously all of the modern fly-by-night marketing tech startups.
Ask HN: Advice for a jack of all trades
I'm a regular HN contributor, but this time I'm looking for advice from the HN community.

I know a little about everything, tried lots of different things (non-technical roles), but I've never managed to find an area to pursue. This is not because of laziness or an inability to focus, thinking that the grass is greener on the other side etc. It is just something that has happened over time.

As such, I've become a jack of all trades and I'm almost entirely self-taught. I can code, design, write, do marketing, research etc. But not enough to be hired into any of those positions, at least on paper.

Although there are advantages to being a jack of all trades, I'm more concerned with not being able to find an area to focus on. I would love to just delve in and become "obsessed" with a subject matter. It has come to a point that when people ask me what I do for a living, I don't know what to say. I don't really have a job title.

Some people have a calling in life, others end up in a profession by luck or coincidence. I've had neither. And this isn't about following your passion and all that stuff.

So what should I do? Just pick an area with good job prospects and become a master of that since I can't seem to find something to focus on?

Would you hire a jack of all trades? If so, why? How come there are no job posts for these kinds of people?
I thought the last bit of the article had some useful advice:

1. Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere.

2. Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. You’re another completely inexperienced young person who doesn’t have all that much to offer yet. You can become special by working really hard for a long time.

3. Ignore everyone else. Other people’s grass seeming greener is no new concept, but in today’s image crafting world, other people’s grass looks like a glorious meadow. The truth is that everyone else is just as indecisive, self-doubting, and frustrated as you are, and if you just do your thing, you’ll never have any reason to envy others.
A few years ago, the trendy naming convention was Kit. Now it's Core, I guess. Will we stop wishing we were Apple one day?
> Also, why would this person be any more of a target than the publicly known shareholders of public companies that have more than a billion?

Because rich people have (sometimes multi-generational) experience at being rich. They have multiple layers of security that include lawyers, armed guards, armored vehicles. Also, they invest most of their assets in not easily transferable ways.

A jackpot winner is just a middle class joe with a big pile of cash and a target on his back. If you were a lion, wich prey would you pick? The tame cow of the wild buffalo?
The comment said "Islam", but you said "Muslims". There's a difference in this case. I think the meta point behind that comment is that cultures, philosophies, and religions need to excise harmful ideologies from themselves for human rights to progress.

Some forms of Christianity need to remove their hatred of gays or other races.

Some forms of American culture need to value non-American life more highly.

Some forms of Islam need to discard their love of theocracy, male superiority, and jihad.

Though you've probably heard plenty of Muslim bashing and "Christians vs. Muslims" idiocy, that's far from what's going on here in this discussion. It needs to be possible for us to separate people and ideas in our minds, so we can elevate people while dismissing the harmful ideas that motivate harmful behavior.
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This is more so that we have something that helps us break the problem into several steps to accomplish the goal. JIT will come after.
And the number of accidents with advanced systems + shit pilots is still lower than that of good pilots + no advanced systems.

That's also worth keeping in mind.
MIT doesn't necessarily protect you against patent claims, just thought you should know that. The Apache license is much better in this regard.
That's largely because Ford Europe was largely autonomous, and also did things like introduce a lot of modular chassis innovations, as well as EU-specific designs like the Mondeo, original Fiesta, and Kuga, not to mention C-Max. They deserve a lot of respect for putting up a good fight against VW on their home turf.
And they don't list any Nvidia hardware at all here, as far as I can tell:

https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html

So I guess their solution is to hoard 2013-vintage hardware for the rest of all time?
It could help Microsoft close source THEIR implementation later down the line, but it doesn't help them "extinguish" it completely, particularly if third parties wish to maintain it.

MIT makes it easy to fork and relatively easy to re-license.
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I think Ohio will be called us-east-2. It's not that far from their Virginia data center. Midwest for me would be more like Chicago or Kansas.
Trust your gut instinct. You will run across all kinds of bozos & imposters in this game.
The intuition undoubtedly is, "I don't understand the fancy math, let's do something I think I understand instead."
"Netflix" suggests that the webinars are on demand. But the example suggests scheduling a future session.

Good luck.
I was wondering this myself. I was wondering why they were focusing so much on AMD when all AMD did was copy Intel's horrible idea.

It seems kind of pointless to continue the Libreboot project if they're not going to work on any modern hardware for the foreseeable future. Their recommended systems are all old and out of production. Fastest recommended laptop seems to be roughly a Core2Duo at 2.0Ghz.
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Chakra's not on there yet, but I'd expect it to be soon after this announcement: https://arewefastyet.com
my cursive (in the rare event that i write it these days) is really a hybrid of standard american cursive and print. I avoid the weird capitals in favor of the print versions that I then just join up with the cursive lowercase letters.
iTunes update notifications? Dude...

Even if you couldn't make the mental leap to just stop worrying about the updates and to rationally understand they aren't literally constant, there are other media players or other operating systems that are far, far less annoying. OS X, iOS, Windows, and Android are literally designed to be annoying, to keep reminding you thry exist, to keep them in your mind, so you expect them to be an ever present part of your experience. Because they are all in service to something other than your needs for an operating system. This is exactly the sort of thing for which the Free Software Foundation exists.

But ultimately, the problem is not the notification, or the media player, or the operating system. They are 100% incapable of causing you any harm on their own. You have to choose to allow it to harm you.

By manage distractions, I mean do whatever it takes to stop harming yourself. To me, the lowest friction way of doing that is letting iTunes update so it will be quiet for another month, and then forgetting about it.
What I understood is that the goal was to reduce the information contained within some search results.

Why would one need anything special to think this through?