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They're not adding 20%, they're charging you a flat 20% and then paying for the policy on the back-end.

In that sense, it's like a buyers club for insurance. Lloyd's isn't insuring every Lemonade customer individually, they're insuring the entire Lemonade business, which with enough buy-in becomes a very diversified risk pool.
Good reminder about these persisting blending issues in the linear interpretation of RGB values, which was well explained to non-coders as well here in a quite popular MinutePhysics video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw

As others commented the gamma scaling issues seem even more relevant.

Just please, don't use RGB color space for generating gradients. In fact, it's ill fitted for most operations concerning the perception of colors as is.

chroma.js: https://vis4.net/blog/posts/mastering-multi-hued-color-scale...

D3: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3014589

Interesting excursion: historically the default viewing gammas seem to have lowered, because broadcasting defaulted to dimly lit rooms, while today's ubiquitous displays are usually in brighter environments.

https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB.html
It's kind of sad that the less tweaked options for laptops seem to be asus and acer... neither of which are my top choice, but seem to be much better than what's coming out of HP or Lenovo in the low-mid range.
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Ask HN: Domain Dispute
I have a domain since 2005 with solid plans to use for a venture. But, like most of us, we have day jobs, families, and many ideas; not just one.

Suddenly, one loan shark registered `${name}capital.com` domain, the `${name} Capital` trademark, and, also, the pretty broad term of `${name}` as a trademark as well, and I missed the deadline to appeal the trademark as, obviously, I don't actively monitor the USPTO publishing, nor I pay dearly for trademark monitoring services and the like.

Before applying for the trademark, he asked me if I have the domain for sale, but I did not reply. He later texted me asking if I'd take $200 bucks for it, and I replied that I have plans for the domain.

Today, he's sending threats that he'll file a UDRP against me.

Can you, please, advice?

Edit: The trademark is registered for financial services and I have no plans to use the domain for that.

Edit 2: According to the responses so far, the advice is: Don't buy any domain you're not having a trademark on. And I can't agree with it! We all have many domains we want to use for future ventures.
Yay, so supporting completely non-standard and inevitably more buggy drivers is the correct option?
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It would run Windows though ;-).
HTC Ocean, the first full touch smartphone?
Pushing Intel to provide the drivers or at least documentation would be the best solution - the BIOS lock would become irrelevant.

However, I don't agree with conclusion that Lenovo isn't to blame. They went out of their way to ensure that even power users playing with EFI shell won't be able to switch to AHCI mode.

I don't care about Microsoft here. Lenovo showed its bad side and I probably won't be buying their devices anymore - which is a pity, as I'm writing this on my Yoga 2 Pro, with my company's Yoga 900 (fortunately older, unblocked revision) nearby and I liked those devices.
>No, it wasn't a bullshit statement from a rep - it was a very clear statement from a rep, in black and white, that has not been retracted or clarified by Lenovo in any way. It's always funny when people choose not to believe verbatim statements and explanations put right in front of them.

Literally nothing about this sentence is correct.

Support reps know nothing, and nameless support reps that throw out statements like that with no explanation or link to company policies are even less likely to have a clue what they're talking about. I can't believe I'm having to explain this on Hacker News. It's like people on /r/xboxone that post the dumbest crap from support reps and claim it as Microsoft canon.

And yes, Lenovo has clarified that... as everyone who is paying any attention already knows... no, it's not some bullshit conspiracy, and it is in fact the result of switching to faster storage technology that simply isn't supported by Linux today.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/lenovo-says-linux-is-not-bloc... (this includes the statement from Lenovo)

Plus, you know, you could read Matthew's blog post (the HN link that we're commenting on...) that explains this as well.
A bit long winded, but a good, thoughtful explanation. I honestly didn't know what they were, only how they could be used. Now I know.
This is a bit of a romantic way of viewing the situation.

This non-consumerization of Scandinavia is not optional or voluntary at the individual level. It is imposed forcibly by the government on everyone, whether a particular individual actually wants to be more consumerized or not. Conformity to the top-down bureaucracy's state declaration of what constitutes "virtue" is mandatory.

For example, outsiders often believe that shops close so early in Scandinavia because the locals just love spending time with their families rather than engaging in evil capitalist pursuit of still more money. Some indeed do; other shop owners would rather stay open late or open on Sundays, but they have no choice. They are legally required to close then, and will be heavily fined if they don't.

Another example: extremely high taxes are specifically designed to make "luxury" items (which is just about anything other than basic foodstuffs) punitively expensive. A simple camera charger that costs $5 or 10 in the US costs €70 to 100 in Finland, due to "luxury" taxes.
True. We like to say that Lemonade is the oldest new idea! I think that's what the sharing economy is all about, using technology to revive modes of social interaction that used to be commonplace.
$3bn/day isn't a bad estimate to cure all diseases.
It's funny you chose a hurricane as your scenario where an insurer needs coverage. A lot of insurance companies are issuing their own, more creative, instruments to avoid going through the reinsurance markets - especially 'catastrophe bonds,' which offer higher interest rates than normal bonds, but do not pay out in the event of a catastrophic event such as a hurricane.
I imagine what they're thinking is that Zuckerberg spent the last decade building Facebook while they turned AIDS and Hep-C from death sentences into manageable conditions.
Using extended state (XMM, etc) in a kernel is asking for performance problems. Saving and restoring is quite slow, and manually saving just a couple of, say, XMM regs defeats the "init optimization".
"They are short $23B."

That's where this part comes in:

"The more people believe we can cure
all disease in our children's lifetimes, the more likely the government is to invest in it"
Very true. Empires build by companies with low ethics and that are known for bullying competition and poor integrity.

Some skepticism here would be appropriate. I guess it's still better then them buying more, eh, yachts.

Still, I can't shake the feeling that instead of making a horrible closed product, Facebook, that's basically eating the internet like a cancer, itself -- how about fixing that too?

These people are so powerful they have presidents kissing their ass.
> That's how aging will probably be solved

I read in some article of the Google equivalent version of this, Calico, that even if you cure all of cancer the average life expectancy will probably only increase by ~5 years (off the top of my head, can't find link).
Right but my point is that saving registers that are not actually used is needless waste.

If a "save all registers" calling convention was natively supported by Rust, you would only pay the cost for registers that are actually used.
> The idea that a single customer support representative would know something

When you work at a company you have a funny way of finding things out, and you don't say things on forums or elsewhere that you don't mean to say :-).

When somebody tells me something clearly and directly, and why, I tend to believe them. But I'm just funny like that.
...but it is only visible if you are logged in. That inconsistency is a little weird.
Why not give unclaimed money back to the consumer? Like a mutual insurance company, wouldnt that dissaude more folks from filing fraudulent* claims?
So... what are the supported causes? What is the criteria for a cause to be qualified for support?

There are charities and causes I do support and there are those that I don't. There are charities that oppose each other in their stated goals as well.

I see a section that talks about becoming a supported charity, but nothing about criteria or who is already in.
In cases like this, I wish people would reply with an explanation of why "unsafe" is too harsh a word rather than attempting to bury the post by downvoting it. That conversation could be helpful to others. Not seeing the post doesn't help anyone.
Technically I believe they are an Israeli company could be just an issue with linguistics ;)
And if you step out all the parallelism from your concurrency runtime, you get rid of a big chunk of the overhead. But even with purely cooperative single-threaded multitasking, there's still some overhead vs "ordinary" strictly serial code.
I have no smartphone, I don't use mobile Internet. Fixed Internet is enough of a problem for me.

What I would love is to go back to dial-up times. I mean, paying by the minute/hour, or a limited plan + by the minute/hour after the limit, or a fixed limit in hours or Go per month. Something like this. That would help me a lot.

People might tell me to implement it on my side, but I know it is not going to work for me: there's no way I pay full price to have a 24/24 connection and then limit myself. And as operators are not going to propose such schemes that would lower their income, I am screwed.
Only satellite operators still have such systems.

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I had an ADSL failure that lasted 8 days a few months ago. The first 2 or 3 days were tough (launching compulsorily the web or mail browser, wondering how the hell I am doing to do X or Y, having to remember that there is no point in doing X and to remember the 'old' way of doing Y), but then it was a relief. A breath of fresh air. We (the family) began to talk to each other. We even did things together!

Then the ADSL was fixed and the Internet addicted behaviours started again, same as before..
every single fat person I know is very aware they're fat, but they just don't give enough of a shit to change all their habits.
Personally, I haven't had nearly of a hard time adjusting to off-centered keys/touchpad as I've had trying to move to Apple-esque chiclet keys (or the resultant cheap inferior copy-cats on all of the Windows 8 touch screen ultrabooks).

To each their own, I guess.
Garrett has a history of stonewalling and misdirection on these matters. It was the same with UEFI, Secure Boot and when he and Red Hat tried to casually shoehorn support for PE binaries into the Linux kernel, hoping no one would notice.
Yep, for me too on a 4k HiDPI screen. The reason is that the browser scales the original image, using the naive incorrect algorithm. Amazing full-circle confirmation of the author's point, eh?
I am going to respectfully have to call you out on this one. First off, where is this fact that php devs earn less than RoR engineers? I am sure there was some who earn less and some who earn more. The point though it that if you are aligning yourself on the latest technology, you will absolutely always lose in the long run.

I would say I am in the top 5% of engineers by salary in my area. I never lead out with the language or framework or cool new 'sexy' technology that I think a business should/could/has to use. When looking for employment I never even worry about what the company is currently using. I literally only worry about aligning myself with their business objectives. What are the problems they are facing? How can they decrease costs or, often more importantly, increase revenue? Why do they need me and how can I solve their problems starting immediately?

Now, you might say, well then you won't get hired on everywhere you apply to. Absolutely! And thank goodness. If I walk into an interview and all the current employees can talk about is the finer parts of minutia within the latest build of Rails, I would rather not work with them. If all I can be asked is how many ways you can concatenate a string in .Net and an example of when to use each, again, I will pass on that company. (yes, I have been asked exactly that question, and there are more ways than you think). Why would I pass? Well they sure as hell aren't aligning themselves with the needs of their business, how am I going to?

Trust me, if you would like to stay on the top of the pay curve, align yourself with business objectives, particularly those which align with money. Don't worry about the 'new sexy'.
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Indeed. In fact most of the wealthy people I know are quite charitable, in contrast to the way "the rich" are portrayed in the media and politics. And a high profile commitment like this from a high profile person could encourage that.
Why not? They're always generally the most truthful.
For those whose algebra is rusty:

Let y = ax^n

Then log(y) = log(ax^n) = log(a)+log(x^n) = log(a) + log(x)*n

i.e. and equation for a line when plotting log(y) vs. log(x).
Epigenetics is the word you're looking for here. And probably some healthy dose of metabolomics. Cancer is way more complex than "just" changes in the genetic code.
Interesting - I did not know that.

Looking at the criticism section in the Wikipedia article, your claim is as suspect as ego depletion :-)

It seems the jury is still out.
that's well said!
In order to "own" something you need to be able to control it. That is, you could in theory build a huge wall, have appropriate armaments etc to keep people from stealing your stuff.

Or you can outsource most of that to the government to do things like maintain the ground book, have a police force etc. You don't have to dispute a lot line with your neighbour because you have common resource that records that. Someone can't come and claim you didn't pay for it (or come in and claim they did) because those records are maintained.

They also manage the stuff that's harder, not simply more expensive, to maintain such as that paint factory upstream that wants to dump their waste into the water.

Sure, in theory you could try to do that all on your own but then you'd have no time to read hn.
I will answer you as nobody else will. Hacker News users are interested in this idea, but don't want to divulge their actual address to get a "price quote". Ideally, they'd like to give their zip code and get a round-about dollar figure they can use to compare to their current pricing.
How did we miss this universal cure sitting right under our nose!
Powerful how? I'm struggling with the idea that it is possible to build the kinds of apps I spend most of my web time in using anchors, CSS animations, and iframes. I'm struggling even more with the idea that it might be worthwhile to try.
Not sure it would (it doesn't really for mutuals...)
> A planned future article will break open the black box for more details about the inner workings of these algorithms.

Was this article ever written?
That only works with an Android phone last I checked
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The difference between "yes we can!" re: the atomic bomb and Zuckerberg's post is that the former happened after the fundamental discoveries in physics that made the atomic bomb possible. By the time someone said "yes we can!" a theoretical analysis of how the bomb would work already existed.

That fundamental advancement in biology hasn't happened yet. That's the difference between rational optimism and irrational and mindless optimism.
Telegram has gotten a lot of criticism for their crypto though? Kinda on the fence about using it
> Or, alternatively, they removed a firmware setting that makes their hardware work less well

Why would they remove it? Removing it requires effort, which hardware companies are loath to do. Leave the system in its actual supported state and change the default. Easy.

There's only so many ways you can slip and slide on this Matthew ;-).
> a “non-SJW” fork of Tor

Hahaha, what?
Here's my best prediction for how it's could happen: when the all human immune systems are able to learn from each other, we'll be most of the way there. The immune system is at the center of most human diseases. Cancer? It's the best solution. Infection? Best solution. Autoimmune disease?Fixing the immune system would be the best solution to autoimmune disease. Right now, if you want your body to be immune to something, you're immune system has to learn that particular immunity. If we can form an artificial immune system "culture" then it seems like learning could be much, much faster.
I can't read the full article. Even with all my cookies cleared it takes me to a subscription page. Same with web search. What's up with this?
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The ui looks old.
Because people consume more calories than they need. We know this, we've known this for a very long time.
You could say the same things about schools. We spend massive amounts of money on education, solely to influence your decision-making, and we wouldn't continue to do it if it didn't work.

The problem is that you're comparing technology to junk food and alcohol, when you could be just as well comparing it to human contact, clean air, or exercise: things that are also just as addictive as technology.

Which isn't to say ads are good; I very much despise them. But I don't really have much experience with them, because the technology I use doesn't effectively force me to.
Then obviously Intel providing the drivers is what he'd like to see happening, regardless of what and why Lenovo did here.

With the driver, it doesn't matter if Lenovo did it to lock out older Windows versions, Linux users or just to screw with their customers for fun - because it would work.

However, it's still Lenovo who's playing bad here. Intel provides a mode in their controller that works with everything. It's Lenovo who deliberatelly made it almost impossible to access.
Does the government require this arbitrarily, or because that's the will of the people?

Here in the UK, we have Sunday trading laws which limit how long shops can be open on a Sunday. These are reasonably popular (but not unanimously) because they ensure that shop workers have some guaranteed time with their family.
I'd be really surprised if their entire risk was reinsured; that tends to lead to severe incentive misalignment since they would have every incentive to sell to the riskiest customers they could find.
> Has anyone tried just tossing a big dumb neural network on stock data and investigated whether it can make money?

... yes.
I had a sibling who struggled with CFS for years. Even before this bad study came out the usual reaction from doctors was you're suffering from mental illness/try exercising/you're faking. It sounds almost like this study was constructed for the convenience of doctors so they could point to the publication and keep suggesting what they had already suggested.

It's hard living with a debilitating medical condition that doesn't have good treatments or a clear cause. It's even harder when the doctor says "I think it's all in your head" instead of "sorry, we really don't know how to treat this yet." That sort of consistent dismissal/borderline victim-blaming from real doctors is what I think pushed my mom toward bogus alternative health practices. There appears to be nothing medically valid about chiropractors but at least they don't call you crazy just for telling them about the experiences you've been having.
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Perhaps I should've worded my question better to avoid your snark.

>> This is why we can give unclaimed money back to charity.

Why is charity going to prevent fraudulent claims better than money going directly back to the consumer?
> even Microsoft don't ship a driver that supports it.

.....and why do you suppose that is? Fake RAID drivers and hardware are shit that's why. It's an option that is hardly used, if ever, and I never thought I'd see the day when a system had it as its default.
Dolphins have complex language using sound, and they are very distant cousins. The fact that chimps don't talk is likely to be 50% because of inadequate throat construction, and 50% lack of intelligence. Past extinct lifeforms could have easily had vocal cords and intelligence. We just don't know. That's the point of my post. The possibility exists that language first evolved billions of years ago.
Probably 20% (edit, now that I think of it, maybe up to 50%) of "hot new startups" I see posted to the front page of HN on a weekly basis are an existing business model with a slick web 2.0 front end, CSS/HTML5, etc, a marketing department run by generation Y and some mobile app developers.
I was working on a related anonymity project at the same time, funded by the same grant giving organization. I lurked and participated, I have met RD and NM IRL, and I have been a hidden service operator for many years. That being said, I am only at the far periphery of the project. But, I have been out here for a while and I stand by my original statement.
As I mentioned, I'm open to connecting with anyone. I would definitely have a more positive outlook cause you'll have a future regardless if you want to, you don't really have a choice haha. Feel free to Twitter DM (@_panw) or email me (panw@outlook.com).
> What we mean by it is that we use each group's premiums to pay their claims, with leftover money going back to the group's common cause.

So using pension plans as an analogy, it's more like a pay as you go pension scheme, like Social Security, than a fully funded scheme where the capital is invested and the returns from investment pay expected payouts.

I guess the distinction is that since the leftover money is used to donate to causes, there's no buffer to handle any unusual payments in the scheme itself, and the scheme is insolvent immediately in any month where claims exceed payments. So any buffer has to come from the reinsurance contract, or from any equity capital invested in the entity writing the insurance contracts.

Is this accurate? Really interested if you tell me a little more about how you handle risk here.
Yep, that bit about Photoshop is being mentioned in the description of Figure 8.
"All diseases" is not only ridiculous, it's impossible.
So was the internet.

You never know if we will need that arsenal against asteroids.
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A little over a year ago, yes: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=r397...
>Pharma companies invest in drugs that they can make money with

And they also do a lot of philanthropic work:

http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/16/leadership-philanthropy-cha...

The idea the "Pharma companies" act any one specific way is only something you'd read on HackerNews. This is great of Mr. Zuckerberg, but it doesn't require us to downplay the charitable work of other people, or in this case other industries.
Which brings us to the first rule of whistle-blowing: C.Y.A.

I'm surprised they're talking to the news. If I were them I would be lawyering up right now.
Which is still less than someone who bought dell stock at IPO and held for 9 years.
Risk models will depend heavily on your specific address, especially in NYC where two properties on the same block might have vastly different risk profiles. Your name is likely used for credit score (effectively conscientiousness score) which is also a huge correlate of risk.
You don't need Einstein or relativity theory to build an atomic bomb. Experimentalists discovered fission, and could have built a bomb even if there were no theoretical basis for it.