skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not maximizing profit doesn't mean you need to be in the red. You could break even, or just profit less. You still keep the lights on yourself, or even turn some profit, without 'maximizing' profit.
He also saved the Empire from total disillusion and established a system that might have led to stability had Constantine not broken up the Tetrarchy.

Also he did not 'tie people to the land', landowners did that as a means of escaping paying taxes.
Nothing has changed, it's pure garbage.
Much of the infrastructure and development in Florida resulted from a bubble.

http://www.economist.com/node/12792903
Jwz: YouTube has finally destroyed their RSS feeds
I'm going from a position of ignorance wrt how breathing works at the molecular level – how does the carbon arrive on site (which specific location) to combine with the oxygen, what membranes are involved, what vapour pressures and saturations might be pertinent. Ergo, I hadn't addressed the question as yet. Basically I'm asking is exertion the only limitation on the CO2 production.

[1] answers a lot of this.

Again with presumptions from biological ignorance, in low oxygen environments it seems we can't "burn" so much food, so oxygen saturation is definitely a limitation. Also we know that oxygen saturation varies, so even if STP oxygen percentage of air is the optimum sometimes we'll be sub-optimal - how does the body cope then?

[2] appears to answer that one.

What I take away from that, wrt my enquiry, is that under increased breathing [hyperventilation] renal compensation can kick in to combat the alkalemia caused by the respiratory alkalosis [reduction of available H+ ions in the blood, ie alkalination or increasing of pH] by extracting extra-cellular fluid bicarbonate [HCO3-, see [3]] and excreting it in urine.

Now I'm moving back up the pathways, is renal compensation deleterious (and at what point is that true). Does low level alkalosis with renal compensation cause an increase in removal of food products from the body?

At least it seems that we now have created an increased carbon removal by excreting HCO3- in urine!? [how much?]

So is there an increase in breathing frequency that maintains normal function, not "hyperventilating" (in the common usage of the term, that makes you dizzy), that doesn't cause harm? The question still stands I feel.

Also can you do something else that causes acidosis and cancel it out by increased breathing?

Apologies again, I'm clearly fumbling around here but I've not studied biology since I was 13 (decades ago).

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_acidosis#Mechanism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_alkalosis#Compensati...

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20070930080050/http://www.lib.mcg..., via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_compensation
Unborn humans are not self-conscious beings with a desire to live.
Check the comment history. Dupe is from another thread.
> The world probably needs less content creation.

It's funny how this was noticed by King Solomon, far before the age of print. "Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body." (Ecclesiastes 12:12b). Apparently information overload was a problem even back then.

Anyway, I agree that we have too much content, but not content in general. We have too much for-profit content. I can't back this up with numbers, but I'm willing to bet that the majority of content creation is just an indirect form of advertising.

Take news sites. Why all those articles are so crappy, full of mistakes, and often outright lies? Because news sites don't care about the truth; the content is just the way to make you see the ads.

Or take all those images people repost on social media. I have a close friend working as a "content marketer", so I get to see first-hand how those images are made. There are people whose job is literally to create dozens of such pictures every week and post them on the pages they manage. The pages themselves are only tangentially related to what is advertised.

The whole scheme works like this: imagine you want to advertise a fitness club you own. So you create a bunch of Facebook pages about dieting, general health and exercise, and you hire a bunch of people to make you an image or two for each page, every day, and to spread them around in a way that links back to said pages. The images are usually pretty useless; the content doesn't matter as long as people share and "like" it. The idea is that you will waste a little bit of lots of people's time hoping that a percent of a percent of those people will convert and pay enough to justify all that social media carpet-bombing.

Frankly, I find this scheme evil, but for some reason it is a respected occupation nowadays...

The problem we really need to solve is wasting other people's time to make money. Content overload will fix itself then.
Yes. It works right in the standard Google homepage. (For me it requests I sign in again for security first)
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That's deeply irrational - you're OK with horrible things happening to Chimp X because Chimp Y does horrible things, and so might Chimp X given the opportunity? I agree that chimpanzees can be quite horrible, but then so can people - by this argument we should just carry out medical testing on whoever, because given the chance anyone might behave like Hitler.
And arguing endlessly about the language to use when it's not germane to the discussion is an ages-old rhetorical technique to attempt to frame the debate. Stallman might love freedom, but I suspect he loves winning arguments by being "clever" even more.
Unborn humans are indeed able to experience sensations.
I disabled zoom on a web property i own because it played havoc with a `position:fixed` top header. When you zoom in, the top header scales up as well and covers the entire content.
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>I have yet to find a person who has not killed a mosquito, or who is against wiping out deadly diseases

do you honestly not see a difference in sentience between mosquito and a chimp?
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You can urinate other things than water though, some others of which contain hydrogen.
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The problem is that the range will increase with each operation. E.g. the range in x*y is more than the range in x and so you need to keep track of those ranges. But the ranges themselves will be inaccurate if stored as floating point numbers.

Or just store them as a fraction if you really care about the value not getting corrupted.
A book stored on a shelf in a relatively temperate climate can last hundreds of years without issue.

For an optical disc to last that long and still be readable, you'll need:

1) Archival-quality discs (e.g. http://www.mdisc.com). Normal writable discs will delaminate.

2) A drive capable of reading the disc, and capable of interfacing with your computer. Optical drives have a limited lifespan -- the drives used in Sega's Dreamcast, for example, are beginning to fail. Likewise, interconnection standards have a limited lifespan.

3) A file format that can still be read using existing technology. Will converters be likely in 50 years? Maybe. 100? Less likely. 200? Extremely unlikely.

That's just optical discs. You're also talking about live archival, for example, to "cloud storage" -- this costs a lot more money than a book sitting on a shelf, uses a lot more power, is locked to a specific set of authentication credentials, must be paid for if the data is not to be lost.

That's before factoring in DRM and advances therein. Sure, you can strip Kindle DRM, with extra effort, but how many people will do so and then accidentally store the result in a place where it will keep for 50 years? What about when DRM gets better?

Ultimately, we suck at digital archival, and ultimately, there's only so much we can do with a medium that requires a great deal of complexity just to extract any amount of meaningful data whatsoever. There is a huge archival and preservation advantage to simple mechanisms that have fewer failure points.
Thanks for this pointer. I added it to the bottom of the post.
Autoplay audio, nope.
Wow. Count me on the side of the machines in this argument. I like tools, but that doesn't mean I want slaves.
Because they are not unborn humans, they are undeveloped fetuses. Let's try not to bring political discussion to HN News. This isn't reddit.
This looks fun! Has anyone experimented with trying to avoid aliasing?

I would guess it would not make the programs _much_ longer, and could drastically 'improve' the output quality. I put improve in quotes because the gnarly artifact-y nature of this does provide some of the charm.
>not sure why it couldn't happen again.

Drones. And you better believe the powers that be will criminalize any movement that might level the playing field. The window of opportunity for change is closing.
Zerohedge gloating:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-21/step-step-guide-how...

Is there a difference between Layering/Spoofing and "quote stuffing?" I thought quote stuffing was a technique intended to overwhelm analytics software with volume of ticks rather than manipulate interpretation of current supply/demand dynamics. I suppose they are variations on the same theme.
This talk is from August 2005.

Essay on PG's website here: http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html
Thanks for this. I now quote those points at the bottom of the post.
HBO is going after HBO Now users overseas
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Using JavaScript to Read L3 CPU Cache [pdf]
The only problem with archival that would make physical books superior is after civilization collapse that destroys the supply chain for computing devices.

Not at all. Technology is fundamentally opaque, non-durable, and transitory. Hell, just try finding something to read a 5 1/4" floppy disk, assuming the magnetic tracks are still intact. And that's only, what, 25-30 years ago? Imagine what it'll be like in a hundred.

Archivists have struggled with this exact problem. Digital data is so ephemeral... how do you persist it? There's been research into more durable forms of storage that might still be accessible, but in the end it's tough to beat physically etching something into stone or writing it on paper or vellum.
Clearly some dystopian horror. I wonder why they were so optimistic in 67.
> Why is it relevant whether they were created from sand and metal by bald apes, or from carbon and water by the autonomous processes that happen in a bald ape's crotch?

It's not. The point is, we build them to serve us, otherwise they are not needed. I don't care if they're sentient or not, their purpose is to serve humanity.

https://youtu.be/ekP0LQEsUh0?t=32
Sure, it's called Kubuntu: http://www.kubuntu.org/
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RSA Conference Cryptographers' Panel Recap
Of course a country is responsible for its own actions, but no country flouts American pressure lightly. Aligning a countries interest to America's is often the lesser of all calculated evils.
The entire argument is fairly arbitrary, so honestly it's not very hard to rationalize yourself into believing either side.
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Ha! This is what all Appalachian farmers did in the 1700's, with no roads and long distances to market. They converted corn to whiskey, concentrating the wealth. It was George Washington that ruined that with his regressive Whiskey Tax. Our modern caricature of the moonshining mountain yokel was created way back then, to marginalize poor farmers.
Bitcoin-stealing malware account on the move
A year ago this guy/gal lost ~20btc to malware: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xf2qj/my_wallet_just_emptied_into_this_address/

well the address that swiped it appears to have just made a move: https://blockchain.info/tx/2a123981219824178426c880d6368165955d6310c7cd68f8550f813ccaa623b8

Sorry to the original owner, I don't mean to reopen old wounds, but perhaps there's some identifiable information here?
I think PDF viewers cache a low(er) resolution rasterized version of pages. And are simply much faster, because - as far as I know - PDF has rather precise position and dimension data already included, so there are no need for further passes (no reflows).
I found that for more novice programmers this video has a great explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRI1IfStY0
Most of the content nowadays is created as "work", usually for advertising. In the futuristic utopian society we would get rid of all that crap, and I'm willing to bet we could let people create however much they'd like and we still wouldn't have information overload problem. It's easier to manage your information diet when everyone around you stops trying to push their content into you.
Maybe I made too far of a jump. I'm just here to discuss the issue and don't really know what I think, so please humor me.

What I was saying was that babies rarely have to be held accountable for any serious action - absent heavy machinery or dangerous materials, a baby can do very limited damage. A naked chimp who's a bit moody, though, can easily cause someone serious harm.

If we are not going to hold that chimp responsible for what they did just as we would with a person (because punishment would also be inhumane or nonproductive), then chimps don't match up perfectly with babies in terms of the need for legal rights and representation.
Great calculation, wrong conclusion. Exercise does not cause any significant weight loss, of course unless you are doing it 6+ hours a day. All major weight loss typically comes from controlled diet. This means eliminating non-complex carbs. This is a major misconception in general public and people just don't seem to get it. Exercise helps build muscles, metabolism and endurance, but for weight loss your only practice option is diet control. The major energy expenditure for body is not walking or moving but just staying warm and brain. The reason people gain weight is not lack of exercise but because they eat all these fast burning carbs that rapidly gets deposited as fat instead of getting used up for body's energy need. If you want to lose weight rapidly, just make sure to add lot of fat and protein in your diet with as little carbs as possible and watch the weight drop.
The way of kings by Sanderson. Or any of Sanderson's series for the matter.
I think it's unfortunate that this article was written by a collector, and that this collector equates himself with "bibliophiles".

I like to read. I have filled my house with books not because I fetishize books, but because I've read them, find value in continuing to consult them, and plan for our children to have access to a well curated library of books that I've loved -- without them having to rent access or my having to maintain digital copies forever.

I also like ebooks, and have a Kindle, but there are usability problems that real books solve very well, and digital books not at all -- and vis versa.
I love experimenting with Ibniz however insufficient documentation and huge gaps in my skills, make the progress painfully slow.

Did anyone here have any success in creating something musical with it?
I know a number of people here in Australia doing this. My argument to them is now they're just paying extra to pirate since the content isn't licensed here in this way.

Australian pay TV is a scam. It's the only way in Australia to see GoT, but HD isn't a default option. That'll be $10/mo extra thanks.
I don't have much personal experience other than watching my friends laptopping from underneath a car. www.dorikaze.com is a forum for drift racing that a lot of my friends frequent, and there's bound to be at least a couple knowledgeable people in there. Be warned though, there's a lot of grade-school antics, meming, and sexism, and the smart guys are used to curtly fending off stupid questions. So do a lot of reading before you start typing.
> Why aren't the sections already opened by default?

If sections are all expanded, one has to scroll an unknown distance to get to the section one is interested in. If sections were to expanded by default, it would probably be better to not make them collapsable at all and instead include in the mobile layout the table of contents found in the desktop layout. However the table of contents uses anchor links which may be less usable in a mobile context (easier to lose your sense of place, a user's desire to not click links that may load a new page for performance and/or bandwidth reasons).

I agree that an "expand all" option would be a useful addition, I didn't follow the link in another post that presumably explains why one isn't being added.
The book mentioned, "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters", is a phenomenal book for those interested in the space
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060894083/farnamstre...
Married men are pressured to make more money. "motivation" or bondage ?
Actually, Stallman here is pointing out that the term "intellectual property" is an example of this "age-old rhetorical technique". Ditto for calling piracy "theft". It is very important what language we use because it determines the thoughts and emotions we have.
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React/Flux/Rails skeleton. Get started with flux/react within 5 minutes
Love to see Rand Paul's ideas on economic free zone applied to Detroit.
At first glance I thought this read "NSA data API".

Knew it was too good to be true. Still very cool nonetheless. The Landsat 8 data is very neat specifically.
I think when people worry aloud about hostile AI they're really projecting the attitude you have here - I got here first, so I don't care about whatever sentient individual arrived later. Historically, this has not proved to be a sustainable position, as eventually enslaved populations come to the realization that they have little incentive to cooperate in their own enslavement.
> Personally, I only entertain the notion of personhood with entities which are known to be capable of asserting it themselves.

I think that's an interesting yard stick worth discussing. The problem seems to be to me that it leaves you free to treat a creature as a non-person until it complains, and complains in a way you understand and recognize as asserting personhood. I think that's erring on the side of us making the right call in these matters, and giving the possible ramifications of getting it wrong, I think I'd prefer a more careful approach that doesn't put all of the burden of proof on the creature.
A point not much discussed in the essay is that of technical books. In this area, physical books are somehow better.

Has anyone had any success with big e-ink devices? I'd love to switch, but they are a bit expensive, slow and lack good format support.

Moving around the world with tons of books is sadly very inconvenient.
It's a bill that, among other things, legalizes the illegal activities government agencies have been engaging in for years.
Surely there is, unless you think that people like the "content" that is explicitly designed to abuse them and trick into buying things.
"Many years ago," Gaspar said, taking out a copy of Moravia's The Adolescents and thumbing it as he spoke, "I had a library of books, oh, thousands of books -- never could bear to toss one out, not even the bad ones -- and when folks would come to the house to visit they'd look around at all the nooks and crannies stuffed with books; and if they were the sort of folks who don't snuggle with books, they'd always ask the same dumb question." He waited a moment for a response and when none was forthcoming (the sound of china cups on sink tile), he said, "Guess what the question was."
From the kitchen, without much interest: "No idea."

"They'd always ask it with the kind of voice people use in the presence of large sculptures in museums. They'd ask me, 'Have you read all these books?'" He waited again, but Billy Kinetta was not playing the game. "Well, young fella, after a while the same dumb question gets asked a million times, you get sorta snappish about it. And it came to annoy me more than a little bit. Till I finally figured out the right answer.

"And you know what that answer was? Go ahead, take a guess." Billy appeared in the kitchenette doorway.

"I suppose you told them you'd read a lot of them but not all of them."

Gaspar waved the guess away with a flapping hand. "Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read?'"

http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/paladin.htm
Let Feynman explain it to them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
Matt Ridley's The Red Queen also talks about the effects of parasites, which also maps in to why there are genders (more accurately sexual reproduction). The problem is the mismatch between lengths of generations. A parasite that has one generation every week gets 52 shots a year at an unchanging host. As time passes the probability of success for the parasite increases. The human with ~20 years per generation has to withstand that long before making a new one that is different and (partially) resets the clock.

Gender comes in because asexual reproduction would produce offspring virtually identical to their parent which means a successful parasite would have a large number of hosts to exploit. By combining DNA from two different individuals (note how much we avoid individuals from the same family with substantially similar DNA) things are mixed up enough to give a head start against the parasites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evo...
How can you tell that the chimpanzee has a desire to live?
This is exactly what tumblr does, it has infinite scrolling on the dashboard and when elements go past the top of the page they get replaced with a div with width and height equal to the post they it is replacing.
Fair point. It is a thread about the same topic (one that didn't receive a lot of activity). So I don't really blame them for trying to post it here.
>Does anyone here support both the granting of habeus corpus to chimpanzees as well as the legalized killing of unborn humans in the womb? How do you rationalize it?

sentience level. Chimpanzee has higher sentience than a 4-weeks old fetus which has sentience level of a fish.

I'm all for granting protections and rights (and responsibilities coming with it) according to sentience level independently of species. This in particular would equate an adult chimpanzee and 3-4 year toddler and senile 95 years old with advanced Alzheimer.
Have they no shame! How dare they to give us money and pay for content.

And that kids is why torrents are still the best way to watch TV. Free, no ads, higher quality, faster download speeds, no bullshit ...
"music"
Does the archive have to remain frozen in time? When the storage medium gets older, the files can be written to newer, cheaper, faster, denser devices. If a standard becomes old, convert to its successor while converters still exist.
Compare with my favorite pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html . Now go read some economists. For example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=inequality+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Feconomistsview.typepad.com

pg is unfortunately doing in "Inequality" what he decries in "Philosophy."
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This may not be within your power, but you should consider removing the fixed header instead. They take up precious screen real space on already small devices, usually in the name of branding.
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