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The original version of Calculus by Newton used "fluxions". That doesn't correspond to any number system that we use today.

Leibniz's (re?)invention of Calculus used infinitesmals. Infinitesmals as understood by mathematicians then do not correspond to any numbers we use today. (Yes, yes, something else called infinitesmals do show up in nonstandard analysis and the notation deliberately looks the same. But the underlying concepts are more..complicated.)
The huge problem with free domain names is the unfathomable amount of abuse, phishing, scamming, etc., that they are used to perpetrate.
Indeed, the only way for everyone to hire the best would be if every single programmer in the world had exactly the same ability.

In a world with John Cormack, Anders Hejlsberg et al that seems... unlikely.
Ask HN: Do You Think That We All Came from Mars?
Drones Alone Won’t Save Afrika’s Elephants
I would consider living in the small town if the tech industry (since I want to work in tech) thought that the retail industry was less important, but most people that I asked seems to think the industry does not matter.

Regarding the work, the startup seems more interesting but there are cool things to do in retail as well. I got both of the jobs offering because I worked as a consultant for the startup solving a problem for this retail company, so I really think the work will be similar but the startup will be more diverse (different companies and etc...)
Seconded, although the configuration can be a pain, and for the love of god I cannot understand why you cannot copy text in the default, nicer epub display format.
You need to get your trademark into the Trademark Clearinghouse: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse

Then you use a corporate domain name registrar to register it during the sunrise phase.
There is a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4zfmcTC5bM) from the PBS Infinite Series that covered this topic as well, for people that what a visual version of the explanation. I'm still sad that the series/channel was shutdown though, such a great series.

PS: this article/video essentially defines the naturals from the fundamental set theory axioms. This other video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUVdXI2vng) from the same PBS series shows how you can then use the naturals to construct other types of common numbers, up to the reals.
The Accelerator Wall: A New Problem for a Post-Moore’s Law World
And you don't know what downsides fecal transplants may have. There's clear preliminary evidence that gut microbiomes can drive obesity. Imagine giving someone who is not obese / diabetic a fecal transplant to treat depression.

That doesn't work (the treating depression part), but suddenly, this person becomes more susceptible to obesity / develops diabetes.

These things must not be rushed into!
Making more money means more people will be willing to give you the rope to hang yourself with. People aren't as willing to lend money to people who don't have a means to pay it back, but someone can be doing well, take out a decent amount of debt ("buy" a car, "buy" a house, take out loans for education, etc), suffer a health or career setback, long periods of unemployment, and it starts a debt that spirals out of control.

I went through a period of near poverty myself (seriously considered declaring bankruptcy a couple of times), and it seemed like the first year or two of any new job I had was just digging myself out of the hole from last time (only to get laid off right as I was starting to get back to a 'normal' amount of debt, and thus be forced to dig myself back deep into debt while I made the next job work). It can be a vicious cycle. I'm finally free of it, but if I was forced not to work for six months or so due to a health issue I could very easily be back in the midst of it again.
Realistically, how could a project be setup around this?

I mean, how do we get everyday normal people to use it?

Its been attempted before (namecoin etc)...but maybe some advantage could be given to make it more attractive.
Digitale Girocard vs. Apple Pay – FinTech-Rückblick
Math has everything to do with nature.
Reminds me of the SAP software a previous employer used.

One of my reports worked 4 days a week ... so if they took a half day of leave at any point come the end of the year they would typically have 0.499. or 0.999. left to take.
Somewhat related: as I've been interviewing candidates for SWE jobs, I've found that many will talk about their recent machine learning projects. And the way they can talk about that problem has no bearing on how well they do on a simple programming question I give them later. You've gotta view big data/ML/AI expertise with extreme scrutiny given how hot that stuff is. Best to just ignore the candidate's assertions.
In big investigations hundreds of people are suspects. There is nothing wrong with that.

There is nothing wrong with a police being able to collect information of people who were in the scene.

The real issue is what happens to data and how you get it.

1. Police should need to use subpoena to get the data.

2. Police should not be allowed to use the data for any other thing than solving that particular crime.

These kinds of issues should be separated from mass surveillance. The ability to just go there and explore data of citizens or persons who they are interested in but don't suspect from crimes. That's what intelligence agencies do.
That does nothing to show that it's not down to luck. By your logic, anyone who wins the lottery can claim to be "self made" (since so few other ticket holders had anywhere near the same degree of success).
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Hi all, I was hoping to get some feedback on an app I wanted to build. It's a video social network called Avoca. It's supposed to combine short-form style mobile video with urls regarding practically anything.

It's a bit out there but the video content on other platforms doesn't seem to cater towards interests as much as it seems to be a group of people trying to do wacky things to get likes.

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> So I go online to leave a review and warn people off... only to find that the seller "no longer existed". They absolutely did, and were selling their awful snips but had changed their name and paid for a bunch of 5 star reviews again.

I wouldn't be so certain about that. I've found that there are a lot of sellers selling the same things, but they're not the same sellers under different names, they're just getting stuff from the same places. Often, for cheap things, the source is AliExpress (or Alibaba), or potentially cutting out that middleman and just getting them direct from the companies that sell on aliexpress/alibaba.

It's also been my experience that pretty much _anything_ that isn't a big name brand item being sold on Amazon can be found for much much cheaper on Aliexpress. The exact same product, just without the 1000%-2000% markup.
My expectation is that someone who is willing to attach their real name to something isn't willing to jeopardize their reputation and career over doing something malicious to a project.

Identity verification, similar to what Keybase supports, where people add a verification code to their social platforms might work here. Enough to verify to a certain degree whether someone is who they say they are. Maybe add a call to their employer to verify that they hold the role that they say they do also.

To me that would be enough skin in the game.
> If you don't like the consensus view in many cases? Well, I mean, I don't really know what I can tell you?

I can live fine with the consesus. Or leave. My point was that sometimes important or interesting stuff (in my and many others, as proven by our upvotes) posts vanish.

And if that happens not because it broke the rules and not because it was replaced by other more upvoted stories but rather because a small subset of users abused the flag button as a super-downvote that is not what I would call consensus.

If all HNers went on to abuse flags to get rid of everything we either didn't like or found offensive then there would be a much smaller selection of topics here.

Personally I almost never flag any post that has made it past /newest and I personally think that is how it is supposed to be.
Burglary is illegal but you still lock your front door.

Defrauding someone electronically is illegal but you still encrypt your data in transit.
If you buy the domain during trademark holder's period, you pay the normal price, and not the day 1 landrush price. So no, Slack et. al. did not pay $11,500 to secure their name.
There is also the general attitude of Googlers//Facebookers that brag a bit too much about working at Google//Facebook as if it was the dream that everyone was looking for.

There is nothing more annoying than discussing with a Googler that tries to convince you that you should apply and work for Google.
The annual net from the house you live in I guess is arguably the benefit of living in it. Hard to compare that with the dividends produced by an index. The dividends produced by the index can be used to pay rent, for example.
Webassembly and CloudABI – A Match Made in Heaven
While I would agree that the comment you're responding to is probably using the term incorrectly, there is definitely such a thing as insider trading in private equity.

Knowing that a public company is about to be taken private by a friend's PE firm is material non-public information (MNPI).
Knowing that a PE-backed company is about to be bought by a public strategic acquiror is MNPI.
Knowing that sales of a private company's products to a public company are changing rapidly is MNPI (think of knowing the order pipeline for an electronics manufacturer who sells to Apple).

Trading on any of this MNPI would absolutely count as insider trading, and is watched closely by PE/VC firms, who are all regulated by the SEC and FINRA (in the US, at least)

This MOI story seems to come up every few years, but McKinsey has kept everything so private that typically all the articles can say is "MIO seems suspicious, and may be conflicted"

A few past articles:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-investments-werent-dis...
https://www.ft.com/content/7c6700bc-2976-11e6-8b18-91555f2f4...
After they've been officially warned, you may be able to make a good case that it's "intentional"
A couple of interesting examples in this (loose) subject area:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/neural-network-imple...

https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-...
Amazon, New York and the End of Corporate Welfare
This also surprises me. If for no other reason than I would imagine that authors who are not guilty of plagiarism are interested to some degree in verifying that their original works do not contain anything that could look like plagiarism.
Working for me; sounds like a DNS issue on your end.
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I agree that analog computing is probably more efficient, or can be more efficient if predictability is sacrificed.

However, there are societal implications to this. We prefer the processing steps be traceable and dissactable for accountability and managing the distribution of tasks/parts in terms of accountability. We may not accept a higher degree of "rogue machines" to gain average efficiency.

However, I suppose a given country or group could accept the tradeoff to gain a military advantage, which could spell chaos. They may accept a higher degree of rogue battle bots in order to win via average efficiency, or at least be willing to take the gamble that the theory is true. The chance of a high-stakes or borderline suicidal leader/dictator eventually coming on the scene is historically high, leading inadvertently to run-away human-flattening bots. Maybe that's the answer to the Fermi Paradox.
It can likely be ported nearly directly.

Firefox supports a quite faithful port of the `chrome` object the Chrome extension APIs are namespaced under. The four extensions I've written in the past (generally internal-to-co) were all seamlessly supportable in both browsers once Firefox moved away from their old extension interface. There are some differences but Firefox keeps their additions/improvements they make contained to the `browser` namespace, which seem to be spec-driven[1] so maybe those changes will end up in Chrome some day too.

TL;DR: don't let worrying about compatibility prevent you from just trying to install and run the same code in FF to see what happens.

Also, is the source code for this publicly available? I was going to just check this myself, but I don't immediately see a GitHub link in this thread or at the linked page from FF for Android.

[1]: https://browserext.github.io/browserext/
{} is the empty set, which as mentioned is natural 0.
>It is an active choice made by those who want to end their own life

That is your ideology being forced upon persons who desire death. There is no proof that people have free will and every death (suicide or death by cancer) is a natural death if free will doesn't exist.

> would it not be better to choose the 'death' the allows the person to continue to live?

That sounds like a worse fate if I was in the situation.

> It is nihilistic if you, and your coworker, believe that past a certain age threshold (or any other arbitrary measure) a disease/mental condition is untreatable and the best alternative is suicide.

That is just a forceful opinion upon labeling others and who just believe they should have will over their own death when the pain is unbearable. Her case is suffering from puberty and being conditioned throughout her life to be a certain way. She missed her youth, early adulthood and shouldn't be forced to live in today's society where she is constantly reminded of the abuse. She believes the best solution is suicide for herself. I only agree with her and think people should have authority over their own death after long talks with her.
Another example of a side-channel attack is guessing the text being typed on a keyboard by analyzing the sounds emitted from different keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OjzI9m7W10
That's still first come first served.
If you've made it, whatever that means, you probably have a large rolodex of connections and/or clients, an industry-wide reputation, a widely read blog, a large newsletter, a large social media audience, or something else to that effect. In every single case it's about followers in some form or another.
He is ironically quoting the POTUS: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/very-legal-and-very-cool
Amazon hasn’t Paid Federal Income Tax for the Past Two Years
Just wait a week. If it is still available on the 28th it will be $12
Also, I was speaking from a leverage standpoint. If someone is worth less than the value of a house, and finances most of it, then they have effectively put their personal balance sheet book value into negative territory, effectively making an ROE calculation very ugly in the near term. The scenario described above is just the effect of leverage, not the fact that said leverage is applied to real estate.
”an equivalent relation.”

Auto-correct at work, I guess. For those not familiar with the term: if Google says did you mean equivalence relation, Google is right.
Sobering to read that Waymo simply couldn't sell their software stack by itself even though that was their plan A, a la Android. The only reason that allows me to make sense of this is that old-line manufacturers just couldn't bring themselves to believe that software (albeit nets not code) could be quite valuable. Which may mean they're stuck in a very old-fashioned head-space.
Do Premium name stays premium forever? If they don't get registered for 2 - 3 years, would it drop its price?

I mean with these sort of pricing, are Startup suppose to be creative with their name or else they are forced to pay thousands to Google every year.
How does this implicate the merger doctrine? Isn't that for lesser included offenses — which felony murder would not be here? It does appear that the suspects were not charged with felony murder here, but it's not clear why that was.

The CA legislature recently attempted to narrow their felony murder law [1], but I don't think MN has done the same (and even the CA attempt may have failed due to a conflict with the CA Constitution [2]).

Could you explain on how the merger doctrine is involved?

1: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...

2: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/19/felony-murder-law-rep...
I hope she expands on her use of Fiverr writers. I wonder what her workflow is with them if it's like she provides an overall theme and plot, or if the whole thing is just written by a ghostwriter. I can't imagine putting something so core to my work into the hands of an underpaid gig-economy worker.
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What difference do you see between Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings?
I'll let you make my case: Do you make a decision before or after you gather and interpret information?
IMO IMDB has a big problem with recency. #3 in their top movies list is The Dark Knight, which is frankly absurd (it's a great movie, but #3 of all time? Come on)

> Or voting some awful art house movie a 10/10 to signal that they, too, understood the high brow nuances that the groundlings could not.

I think this just speaks to a divide in movie reviews. Those critics are reviewing the movies as art, whereas many user reviews are reviewing movies as a consumer product. Neither approach is incorrect, but they have very different outcomes.
The Biological Basis of Mental Illness
I wrote once software to do the time tracing in reverse. I feed it with projects and how much I thought I was working on each project, and in generated timetables with accuracy needed by company for the whole week that matched the given project percentages. As a bonus, I had a generic list of comments to attach randomly to each slot.

My manager was using those generated data to figure out the project time percentages I was working on. Circle closed. All happy.
Google to Unveil Gaming Project at GDC 2019 in March
I worked for a Fortune 1000. Built a lead generation system that brings in $100M/year. They brought in time-tracking for our team, so I quit, because I hated it. The lead generation system fell apart without me, the Vice President and Project Manager in charge got fired. Nice job guys.
do you have a registrar recommendation? I'm planning on a .dev being my first domain.
> With a decent file manager and an hour or so

An hour? You've made my case. It takes at most a couple of minutes for importing hundreds of books in Calibre. Metadata retrieval is automatic (from the file itself and/or online). Everything happens in a few clicks.
Same. "Cemetery" would be the worse alternative, IMO.
A hearty mmmeeehhhh to the idea that the median household cannot save 10%. Proof by existence: 50% of families live on less than the median. Probably at least 35% live on 10% or more less than the median. At that point it's a matter of priorities.

Not saying life is cushy in this situation by any means. And of course there will be many families that cannot save enough. But it is doable if someone wants to make it a priority.
Wow, allegedly plagiarizing more than one author: http://www.pajiba.com/miscellaneous/romance-author-cristiane...
That model doesn't even make sense to me.

Some of the most productive hours are LOC removed.

Counting keystrokes?

That sounds nightmarish, man.
It is, and it is also hope.
That's quite amazing. It reminds me of a book I read last year, "Kingdom of the Wicked". It presumes an industrial revolution in ancient Rome, around about the time you mention the Aeolipile was invented.

The book is set in the first century CE; the Romans have cars, television, and other trappings of industrial life. It's really well written, if you're a history buff you'll chew right through it.
> I feel like this trope that self-made success is a myth comes almost entirely from people like the author of this article. People who were born with lots of advantages, who still couldn't hack it. They want to justify their own failure to live up to their family's expectations by tearing other people down.

And there we go. That kind of attitude is why this trope was created initially.

The problem people have with "self-made success" trope is that the self-made success story of someone with severe disadvantages is being equated, on an astoundingly regular basis, with the success of people with substantial advantages. That's how Bill Gates and Arnold Schwarzenegger are both dubbed "self-made" successes, despite their rather different histories.

Even worse, it is being used to justify, defend and perpetuate inequality, by convincing everyone that the American Dream is that "anyone can make it". After all, if such-and-such person coming from dirt poor origins could become wildly successful, anyone can. Therefore, we must strive at all costs to avoid removing "incentives" that motivate people to reach for that elusive success.

Naturally, this will generate resistance, and rightfully so. Despite the endless propaganda that permeates the fabric of our society, the self-made success story of Bill Gates is not the same thing as that of John Paul DeJoria.

So yeah, I agree with you in one aspect: the self-made success is not a myth. It's something much worse -- it's propaganda.

It brings to mind that quote by Anatole France: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Would love the RT connection, especially if it has both critics and user scores. IMDB usually tells me nothing but "This sucks, don't watch it" (score of 5.X) but I don't get anything else from their ratings.
> We've previously agreed that capital must have positive returns

No, we have not. It might have positive returns, but then again it might not. There's certainly no reason for society to help it along.

> Propose a different system, please

You're trying to set up a false dichotomy here, between a system in which capital is absolutely unfettered and privileged relative to labor, vs. a welfare society where capital is not allowed to exist. Yet another dishonest freshman-debate tactic. Here in reality, there's a whole range of tax and other legal choices under which capital can still flourish without turning into oligarchy.

> How did it become immoral or unfair that Henry Ford paid all the taxes society required

Are you unaware of how Henry Ford and others like him were helped along by the government? Where did his raw resources come from, and under what property-rights regime were they mined from the commons? On what publicly subsidized transportation systems did those raw materials reach him? Most egregiously, who was paying the goons who broke union leaders' heads to keep labor costs down? The "taxes society required" were a bargain compared to the value received and externalities allowed. As great as Henry Ford might have been, if he had been taxed appropriately in the first place he wouldn't have been nearly as rich. Even more to the point, his offspring who had never had to earn their massive wealth in a meritocratic free market would not have been able to extend that wealth into a true dynasty.

I have no problem at all with people getting just as rich as they want through fair trade. What I do have a problem with is whole dynasties persisting because of corruption, privilege, and ignored externalities. In a real free market billion-dollar fortunes would still be possible, but they'd be rare and temporary.