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The thing standing out to me is the almost-twice-as-good LLVM performance of the iPad. It might make for a good iOS dev machine, after all. I still don't think it would be pleasant without a touchpad, but I also haven't tried it yet. Also, using it all day would be very hard on the arms/shoulders, I think.
In my opinion, what makes this closer to sexism than bad manners is the fact that the same person seems to have conducted himself with good manners for the rest of the event when talking with the male members of the panel.
"Effect not big enough" implies a judgement about how much matter/antimatter was available to begin with... a tiny effect is entirely sufficient to produce the observable universe if one purports to begin with a truly colossal initial amount of matter/antimatter.
It's still old. There was the 4770, 4790, 6700 and now the 7700 after it. Each version was only a bit better than its predecessor, but 4 times a small bump results in a big bump.

It is not slow, but it is not as fast as a modern machine. Maybe impressive, but not parity.
There are many legitimate reasons for web scraping and I think it’s fair that you set out your desires for scraping in your robots.txt file. You can block other bots while allowing Googlebot. Alternatively, you can also use a WAF that restricts bot access.

But I do have a problem with scraping other sites to detract traffic away from them. Perhaps if it’s for data analysis. Also, I would be very careful as some governments have very strict privacy laws (EU, for example) and you never know what you are scraping.

But one of the other problems is that web scrapers can be used for very nefarious purposes – see this article on web scraping attacks: https://www.incapsula.com/web-application-security/web-scrap...
> “We’re getting tired of reacting to unsubstantiated banalities,” Andrei Krutskikh, a Kremlin adviser on cybersecurity, told the Interfax news agency. “Whatever happens it is hackers. It’s a stale claim and as ever, there is zero evidence, and conclusions are drawn before the incident is even investigated,” he said.
Edit: I watched the video. The moderator goes on and on and the "let her speak please" sounds very polite.

This is a painfully frustrating reminder that women get talked over by men. It's one thing to have one panelist talk over another, but to have the moderator, who is explicitly in charge of facilitating a panel discussion, be the one to drown out a panelist is just unacceptable. Yes, "not all men" do this, but the fact that this continues to happen in such visible and public settings, where presumably people are on "their best behavior", would suggest that it happens even more in more private situations. Research has shown that groups where speaking is more distributed are more successful at solving problems, and explicitly teams with more women are more successful: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/the-sec...

I will take this story as another reminder to be aware of situations where I might be dominating a conversation, and I hope you will too.
>he continued to talk over her and dominate the space for several minutes

>I'm still upset by the incredible sexism that has been demonstrated this afternoon

Now I feel bad for missing out on labeling every instance of a man being rude to me as sexism! /s
They could already do that for random accidents not actually caused by them. Why don't they?

Why not try to claim they made the malaysian air flight disappear?

I'm not sure, but it doesnt seem to be on their agenda.

Terrorist code of conduct. "Thou shall not claim casualties you didn't cause."
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Your analogy doesn't hold up. Your example is clearly theft, and is a criminal matter. Violation of a sites terms is a civil one, and again is a legal grey area. Scraping the site doesn't delete the content from a server...but there is only one copy of the dog.

EDIT - I can't reply to your comment below, but FWIW I agree that scraping sites in this manner is unethical. I am merely describing the logic that most scrapers go through for self justification and legal protection.
You don't think it's a little impressive that a mobile SoC in a tablet (that is constrained by power and physical space) is matching the performance of an i7 in an iMac that has the benefits of sitting on your desk plugged into power all day, isn't constrained by size, and has significant active cooling?
I wrote a single file CMS a couple years ago, similarly out of necessity. It might be a place to start. Build off of it as you need to.

https://github.com/gelform/GelCMS
Can someone please pass that note to Joe Scarborough also? He was interviewed by Colbert, and not once was this raised. Seriously, watch Morning Joe and he just will not let Mika Brzezinski speak, and you can see her suppressing her frustration.

Scarborough doesn't even appear to know he's doing it, and Brzezinski seems to be powerless to stop him.
> Poverty isn't even a constant, it's dynamic. People go in and out of poverty all the time.

There exist lots of diseases known to medicine that can be cured, but people can still get reinfected even after a treatment.
Your comment however leads me to ponder the rhetoric: poverty is indeed not a disease, but like diseases, in modern societies it is contagious. Patterns and behaviours that make poverty deeper and more destructive are spreading from person to person and family to family, in neighbourhoods and communities.

Here I mean things like appreciation of education, work, stability of families, etc.

What could we do to change these patterns? (Apart from the usual recipes like making schools better. FWIW I'm from a country which has one of the most equal distributions of both income and wealth, but even this does leave a lot of people quite unhappy.)
Can you elaborate on why you think it's a flamewar topic?
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Ugh. Is the author basically a professional patent troll?
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Aaaaaand it's flagged. No surprises there. I was refreshing every five minutes to see how long it would take.

[Edit: Thanks to the mods for taking responsibility for allowing this discussion].
Venture investing in the US and Europe are totally different industries
Well for one it shows the progress made in 5 years time. And a lot of desktop PC's nowadays are 5 years old or even older.
I find that equation of terms troubling. If I take that argument to its logical conclusion, we are all killers because we don't get as much children as previous generations. We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.
"Since 2000, legal immigrants to the United States number approximately 1,000,000 per year, of whom about 600,000 are Change of Status who already are in the U.S. Legal immigrants to the United States now are at their highest level ever, at just over 37,000,000 legal immigrants"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_St...
And the "let her speak please" happens just after 1:05: https://youtu.be/Er7qPv8jsZo?t=3928
Start a blog, create a course or two for something like PluralSight or Lynda.

Check out Simple Programmer.

As others have said, this is more an investment than a direct payment... but it will pay off.
If you can see it, you can scrap it. It is important to be nice and do not overload site's systems, but personally I don't see a difference if I view the site myself or some script is doing it for me for later consumption.

Technically, sites can do anything they want to make scraping more difficult. But from the moral (and, I hope, legal — at least in the future) standpoint, scraping should be your right.
Seconded, and can confirm. I came to my current software company at 17 and I've been treated fairly to my skill level since (18 today). There are people out there who will see beyond the age, if you look for them. I also fully agree with investing in open source portfolios, and being able to explain how / why you made the choices you did in projects. If you want to go freelance, I'd also suggest talking to local smaller businesses, since that's where found it easiest to find willing clients. But there, again, having a show-able portfolio of work that's similar to what you'd want to be doing goes a long way.
> you stated the same thing twice in separate comments.

Weirdly when I posted the comment that you replied to HN said "please try again", which made me think the comment hadn't posted. Thus the re-wording.
This is a big deal but a terrible way to point it out. I had that iMac until recently and it rips, that's a big boost for a tablet. That said it's like saying, iPhone has more computing power than NASA...In 1963.
So you're saying the 'smart' bit is the magnets? Because I don't know what keyboards you were using, but the power and data connections were always aligned when I connected up my keyboards.

Unfortunately, the old-fashioned keyboards also worked when they weren't hard up against the screen - thank god we have these new 'smart' keyboards that have to lie flush against the screen to work.
Can we, please, stop calling outsourcing “super simple”?
Empathy doesn't come into play when we make ppl take a drivers test before we allow them to drive. Why? Cause we don't want them hurting other ppl or themselves. Same rule should apply to parenthood imho. As more data roles in like so https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-mother-personality-...
Like you I'm using a quand-core 'Server' Mac Mini from 2012 with a Sandy Bridge processor. What exactly do you make of this? That we are not power users? (Not being sarcastic or anything like that, I've been thinking along these same lines for a while, but I cannot quite put my finger on it.)
> I am starting to believe that the whole capitalism system thrives on slavery of some sort. Cheap labour results in good profit.

It does, though it isn't an inherent part of capitalism - just the obvious outcome if nothing is done to prevent it. The market puts a strong pressure on lowering costs, and it takes only one bad actor to throw away some ethical value to cut costs, and all the other players need to either follow suit or face being priced out of the market. The solution is to make it so that throwing away ethical concerns doesn't reduce costs.

The point I'm making here is that this is not the fault of capitalism per se, much like gasoline is itself not "evil". It's the fault of irresponsible application of capitalism, without covering the spots where it leads to dangerous outcomes. Much like putting gasoline in a properly designed combustion engine leads to a different outcome than pouring it on the floor and lighting a match.

(The solution is further complicated by that, in a globalized economy, it takes one country to refrain from protecting the workers and most of the abuse will quickly shift to that country. See e.g. how clothes are made.)
Am I the only one unable to read anything about spies these days and not draw parallels with the series The Americans?
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I preferred the original post which was flagged off the front page, since it doesn't editorialize this event into a feminist context. I don't think using words like "mansplaining" nonironically is going to increase the sympathy for this problem.

Still, an interesting high-profile event which demonstrates that a lot of people are frustrated with female contributors getting talked over.
I need pre-dotted paper so that the next Reality Winner or the next Edward Snowden can print documents showing unconstitutional government activity without fear that the dots will give them up.

Why wouldn't I want pre-dotted paper?
So, in the near future, we will have more companies that are able to make fast-enough CPUs for consumption other than Intel and AMD.

I think this is a good thing. Traditionally, the technology of CPU seems so complex that few can handle that. But now Apple, Google and some other manufactures will compete in this field.

This will lower the cost of massive computing.
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Exactly my kind of reasoning. To add a point: Since we don't know the exact kind of pathogen(s) leading to poverty, but we know that poverty of parents is a strong predictor of poverty of children, this delivers a way to at least partly quarantine the poverty disease.
For local businesses you can sell a package at $99/mo for creating the site, providing hosting, backups, maint. for a simple 4 page site. You take a little risk forgoing the initial payment for building the site but once they are on board you'll make more over the next few years. For a teenager once you have a few of these on board you won't be as hungry for taking low budget projects. But yeah lots of businesses expect a full site for $375.
Interesting, as it's only in American English that I hear it used in this way.
That is a 90 watt part compared to a 5 or 10 watt part. The performance/watt of A10x is amazing.
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the i7-7700 is around 20-25% faster. An ultra low power chip only 20-25% behind current high power desktop chips is quite impressive.
Here's your problem with this. The moderator, Jim Holt, isn't a physicist or cosmologist, he's a journalist/philosopher.

You're right, it is bad manners, but the fact that it didn't happen with the other men on stage suggests it's more than that. Watch the video and see for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7qPv8jsZo

You'll find that the moderator is much more willing to let the men speak throughout this conversation, whereas Hubeny tries to get a word in, succeeds, and then gets interrupted by Holt.
But the thing is, farmers don't really have that much control over the price.
> The Dark Theme was improved and set as default color theme of Pharo

This is, of course, quite OT, but what is it with the trend towards dark color schemes? I find that it makes text significantly harder to read. Especially if you sit in a not-very-bright-room.

Other than that, the release notes sound cool. It is good to see that the project is making progress. Git integration sounds very interesting. Source code management was one of the things I found rather confusing as a Smalltalk newbie.
>Also, adding to the fact that I am entirely self taught I sometimes wonder maybe I am missing out on a lot of theoretical stuff they teach in a CS degree.

Short answer is very probably not.

Theory helps, and it can help a lot depending on what problems you're solving. But if you know the basics (Why's and How's) of the code that you write, that'll be enough theory to get you where you want to go, especially in the late teens/early 20's (in my experience).

Source: I'm also self-taught, and proudly so. I don't really find that people ask why I don't have a CS degree, as long as I write good code.
I really appreciate this. I hate autoplaying videos on crappy sites. Does anybody here know any browser or extension in windows that disables autoplaying videos by default.
> despite a poor background children can and do still excel

Only occasionally. And that does not justify raising children in a difficult environment!

> What do you want to do, sterilise the poor?

I agree that the parent phrased that post very poorly.

However many countries did a lot of effective work to prevent unplanned parenthood, including education and access to contraceptives and abortion rather than sterilization or punishment.

> even if they don't these children are often the backbone of our industry

This sounds like the world need enough desperate people to accept exploitative jobs or go to war and so on? I hope humanity can do better than that.
My guess is that the best investments are in education and social welfare. Basically try to get people who are down up and keep people who are up from falling down during their worst moments (temporary loss of income, depression due to loss of loved ones, etc.).

Besides this, I guess the next best investment is in refining democracy and its safeguards, as well as the actual government, so that:

a) lobbying by corporations and very rich and powerful individuals doesn't corrupt the system

b) the system is as efficient as possible (there's always going to be inefficiencies but you'd want most of the tax money to actually be used for what they're meant instead of administrative overhead)

More than that, there's not much we can do. After all, at some point we have to rely on free will :)
They know where the farms are that employ the illegal immigrants, so why not arrest the employers? They're clearly breaking the law. I have sympathy for how hard it must be to run a profitable farm, but if it has to be done with illegal labor, then clearly we're not paying the true price of what the produce should cost.

Hire people who can work here legally. Pay them at least minimum wage. If that means apples cost $20 / lb, then the market can decide if we value apples enough to pay that.

Yes, some farms will close, but if they're only able to be kept open by exploiting vulnerable workers who don't have the legal protections that everyone else does, then they probably should close.
One could say the same for being in a high quintile of leisure time, but that doesn't stop all stressed-out rich people from having kids.

Most of humanity was born to parents with no monetary income at all, and volatile access to resources and shelter. Imagine that!
Sounds like he/she wants cold hard cash. But if an investment is on the table then writing some open source is a wonderful way to go. I wrote some and have a few hundred thousand downloads, a few million page views (for the manual) and it is amazing the sort of businesses that like that on a CV. It's opened up a lot of doors for me.
Well, for about 10 minutes or so it takes to run the benchmark. Then it's straight into thermal throttling.

That 90 watt part meanwhile is designed to put out that performance all day long.

(You might think that makes the iPad performance all the more impressive but that kind of throttling is nowadays built into the chip itself, it's not just limited thermal design. They are peddling this as a pro device and I would like my pro device to keep up that performance level for the entire time it takes to build my C++ project or run my deep learning kernel)
Microsoft kinda did that with Continuum for Win10 phones. For the majority of PCs it's more than fast enough. It's a shame it didn't take off.
Evidently Milton Friedman is not an expert on prisons.
I suppose the approach is to create a machine learning dataset that maps hi-res scans of sample documents to the printers that produced them. If the resulting classifier can accurately id the printer, you have probably found a watermark, but it might just be natural variations in the manufacturing.
the same i feel about torrenting. if you do it for your needs im ok with it but if you do it with commercial interest one way or another im not ok with it.
One thing I'd add: be eager to find opportunities that aren't just money-makers but that help you move up, meet people who are better than you at what you do, and can help you grow.
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It all depends on what you want to optimize for. But for me, and I suspect a lot of people, the happiness of society seems like a decent starting point (let's assume for the moment that most Americans / 1st world citizens are at the point where base survival is not in question)

The current rate of inequality is massively inefficient if you're trying to optimize happiness. The bottom 2 quintiles of Americans control so little wealth that keeping food on the table is their primary concern. Meanwhile, an extremely small and shrinking proportion of the population control an outsized amount of wealth, to the point where it's not reasonably usable in an efficient way by those people.

It's like saying that the proper way to divide 100 loaves of bread between 100 people is to give 1 person 95 loaves and every other person a slice of bread. No one is starving, but you're making 1 person very happy at the expense of 99 others.
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For how long? Sustained performance of SOCs in tablets and smartphones is way lower than what measured by benchmarks.

Edit: Furthermore, something looks fishy with the Intel results. Desktop Intel CPUs definitely have a multiprocess score ratios near their physical core counts (increased by 10-30% for HT-capable ones) yet Geekbench only seems to achieve an MP ratio a bit above 2.
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Could you please elaborate on how good programming defeats captchas?
There is an... interesting post by Linus Torvalds about GeekBench:

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curposti...

In other words, Linus claims it's mainly testing the speed of specialised instructions implemented in hardware, and not general-purpose computing. For a similar analogy, compare the speed of a Bitcoin mining ASIC vs. a GPU or even a CPU. At the same clock speed, dedicated hardware will vastly outperform the software implementation.

I think it's somewhat ironic then, that the "RISC" CPU is getting higher scores due to the presence of such CISC-y instructions.
A Youtube comment:

He spends 0:40 asking her the first question. He continues talking when she tries to speak once.

She talks for 0:30

He redirects her from her answer and tries to clarify what he wants to know for 0:55

She talks for 1:00 answering this question

He begins clarifying/providing an example of what she is saying for 0:20, continuing to talk when she tries to speak once. It is during this interruption that "let her speak please" is shouted (1:05:40).

It's clear that he was quite excited about the ideas and some of the ways he wanted to explain them and examples he wanted to give. It's not clear that there was no subconscious bias on his part in the way he went about it.﻿
Were you seriously expecting bots to read your T&C? Or anyone, for that matter? Did you mention that it was okay for Google to scrape your site?
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Well, it performs well against them too.
It's key that monkeys, like humans, object to unfairness--not 'inequality.' Turns out that relative contribution matters a lot to how monkeys/people judge rewards.[1]

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0082
Absolutely. Why not? Having children is a very expensive thing for the family and the society, but people can easily make this decision foolishly and then offload costs onto everyone else.

Having children is a luxury, we only need to start treating it like one.

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(THANKS FOR THE ANTI-SPAM, HN! IT MAKES IT SO MUCH EASIER TO HAVE MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS)

> Why are you focusing only on the financial aspect and ignoring the parents education, general behavior and mental health, and living conditions, safety and so on?

All these qualities (1) heavily correlate to their wealth and (2) much harder to have any objective measure of.
I agree with you. Equality of wealth is symbolic.

When one person has 10 Ferraris in their garage while someone just a few miles away can't afford to feed their children, it's unfair and unsustainable. You don't need to advocate absolute equality to see how that situation could be improved.
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Yes, xargs works on Unixen. I wonder if there is any equivalent on Windows (other than using Unix xargs via Cygwin etc.), or writing your own? This point didn't occur to me before, but it could be useful.
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Intent matters. Ad blockers are not the same as text based browsers.
I would argue that the LLVM test isn't skewed with specialized instructions, and the iPad wins it regardless.
I'd like both actually :)
Indexing content is different from scraping content.