skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“But ‘how are you going to make money long-term?’ has been a question mark” Bhatt says. Gold has answered that question.” A Gold subscription lets users borrow up to double the money in their account to trade on margin with leverage

Wow, so that's effectively opening up new easy to get credit vehicles for unsophisticated investors. How could that go wrong?

Even if you are a professional trader you'll take a bath on margin over the long run. They are incentivizing what is effectively borrowing for gambling and that is their long term revenue strategy? Might be a great money maker but it certainly is playing with some really big barrels of fire.

"Three things ruin people: drugs, liquor, and leverage - Charlie Munger"

edit: The point here is not that Margin is a new service, yes every brokerage has it, it's that it is irresponsible to use Margin if you are not a sophisticated investor. Its even more irresponsible to push leverage onto unsophisticated investors.

Not everyone is going to understand the risks of leverage and if Robinhood makes it as easy as candy crush to trade on leverage, enough gamified users are "playing" stock market with real money and a margin call happens during a huge downturn, it will be exceptionally nasty.
Jailed: Teenage Hacker Who Developed DDoS Tool Behind 1.7M Cyberattacks
That's not the same thing at all.

The 'P' taint flag exists because upstream kernel maintainers aren't interested in dealing with bug reports where the bug may have been caused by proprietary code loaded by end users, which often can't be examined or copied even for the purpose of discussing the bug. Total waste of time, so the flag makes those cases obvious to anyone reading the bug report. The user can be told upfront to remove the proprietary code and try to reproduce the bug again.

End users can combine proprietary code with GPL code if they want to, because end users aren't bound by the GPL unless and until they distribute something covered by it. You don't even have to accept the terms of the GPL just to run the program[1].

A company distributing a proprietary module for the kernel may or may not be violating the GPL, depending on what it does and who you ask.

In contrast to the module stuff, GRSecurity is a set of patches to very low level parts of the Linux kernel itself. It could never be licensed in a way that prevented the patch set or the resulting patched kernel source/binaries from being covered and distributed under the GPLv2. If that were the case, the kernel would effectively not be covered by the GPL at all.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html#section5
Here in the U.K. at least, banks using legacy systems is usually mentioned when a bank has an outage / ATMs failing.

The canonical example when it comes to UK banking is the RBS outage, which meant that customers could not make payments for three weeks. RBS was hit with a £56m fine for that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/rbs/112...
No, they didn't. It was more of a "non-denial".

> Robinhood also earns money from rebates its gets for directing its order flow to broker dealers, though Bhatt insists “We do not sell data to anyone. We have never sold data to anyone. We just do not do that.” There have been misconceptions that Robinhood sells high-frequency traders its data to help them trade against the startup’s customers. But Bhatt says “The rules around this stuff as so tight. We’re not a social media company. If we even step slightly out of line with anything we all go to jail.”

Basically all they're claiming is that they're following the rules - i.e. if the rules allow selling "data" (or something that we won't call "data" but "order flow" or something) to HTFs or banks' dark pools, they're not saying they don't do it!
Delta partners with on-demand helicopter startup so VIPs can avoid the airport
Turns out those deserts may not be so useless after all I'm afraid, for example dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...

Solar has become more efficient and economic in recent years but remains only a small part of the energy puzzle for various reasons.
Tencent Opens Its First Cloud Data Ceter in the U.S. This Week
I triple boot my i7-4770K+GTX780 with Windows 10, MacOS and Ubuntu. While I alternate between MacOS and Windows 10 every couple of months I rarely jump into Ubuntu unless it is to repair/recover something.

I've tried using it more. I recall using Ubuntu full time for about 2 months a couple of years ago.

But I'm a designer and use various CAD apps which are mostly available in Windows, some in MacOS and none in Ubuntu. I also recall breaking a lot of things when tinkering with Ubuntu.

So while I constantly have this drive to try Linux and open-source workflow I just never manage to make it work. I break things too easily and many trivial tasks are too much of an "hassle" (like getting proper CUDA support to use in Blender) meaning the chances of breaking things while tinkering is higher.
Robinhood will lend people money, so they can invest with that. Buying stocks with money that isn't yours. What could possibly go wrong here?
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> The point of the law is to discourage behaviour that we have agreed as a society should be discouraged.

Are there any studies that demonstrate that people will not engage in undesired behaviors solely because they're illegal as opposed to what they feel is right due to their upbringing and/or education?

For example, I'll wear a seat belt while riding or driving a vehicle regardless of whether there's a law that makes it a requirement.
The BBC article linked above describes a very specific scenario which matches neither of your described options.

"The amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel"

This doesn't describe the relationship between the amount of energy injected by the lasers and the energy emitted by the fusion reaction. Presumably a lot of the energy injected by the lasers is wasted, some of it is absorbed by the fuel and it is this absorbed amount that was exceeded by the energy released.

There is even a clearer statement in the article:

"This is a step short of the lab's stated goal of "ignition", where nuclear fusion generates as much energy as the lasers supply."

It seems to me that the following order of energy levels exists with present technology:

Energy supplied to Lasers > Energy injected into system by lasers > Energy absorbed by fuel > Energy released by fuel > Energy captured to generate electricity from
All the major retail brokers sell their order flow, so you generally eat this cost no matter who you use. In addition, the hidden cost is fractions of a penny on the dollar (so still better than the $5-7 a regular broker charges per trade anyways).
Canonical Shuts Down Support for Ubuntu Phone, Updates Ending in June
Lets say you're unsophisticated. You say "I like my 1080ti, so I'll buy some NVIDIA stock." I'm a tech stock expert, I know NVIDIA is on a downward slope because its over-valued right now. I tell you "Sure kid, here's a promise for 100 shares at today's price of $50 each." I take your $5,000. Everyone is happy. Joe Investor doesn't actually have the stock in his possession just yet.

I buy the stock myself a few days later, but at $40 each for a grand total of $4,000, and I just made $1,000. You get your 100 shares, I make $1,000 plus fees. Now imagine doing this hundreds or thousands of times a day. Or I simply sell my own existing supply conveniently to my own buyer and I dictate the fees, which has value in itself. Sure I'm only making $5 per head per month with these low-end customers, but now I have 100,000 customers instead of 1,000.

A savvy investor wouldn't ask to buy these shares. He'd know that he's better off shorting himself. Unsavvy investors are all over the place and if you can get them to come to you, you can make a lot of money off them with minimal investment or risk.

On top of that you can offer them predatory loans for investing. This app offers loans, no idea on terms, but I can't imagine them being very nice. They put up collateral like their car or home, so you have no risk. They fuck up, or not, it doesn't matter, you're at least getting fees and probably screwing them in other ways. Oh and you're getting interest on that loan as well.

edit: Front Loading absolutely happens, it can be done in a way that's difficult or impossible to detect and has a lot of loopholes as well.
I have to think there are major ecological concerns with blocking sunlight over large areas. They may not be negative impacts, but surely it isn't a no-impact situation.
> Viewed in links, lynx or eww, the old version is a Pareto improvement over the new

Again, if you're qualifying the statement, it's not pareto. On transparency, water is a pareto improvement over Coca Cola. On growability, wood is a pareto improvement over steel.

The old version was an improvement over the new one; the new version is worse. They're not "pareto" or "strict" though, and I'm interested to see what the next steps are, building on this new foundation.
No, because I never had a "breakthrough moment".

It just felt natural on how a computer was working, typing example after example, to a 10 year old version of myself.
You have the luxury of not depending on it coming back in order to earn a living again.

I'm not saying it's a good thing they believe it, I'm saying the conned is still the victim: it's the conartist that should be punished, and the GOP has been conning Appalachia for decades.
I use Robinhood daily and love it. Low level traders could care less if HFT are making a penny off them. Also you can put limit orders.......

No way I could trade the way I do and still make money if I was paying 7$ or more per trade. Crazy the industry can charge that much.
I think they actually do. But very slowly. Last time I checked the amount of known COBOL solutions was already surprisingly small. It's mostly people who don't know anything about COBOL and COBOL fans who still believe that COBOL is that important.
In my experience, steam works just fine under Debian. I previously ran it under Jessie with no problems, and currently run it under the pre-release version of Stretch also with no problems.
If the car you use is giving, say, 15 rides per day, then what you spend for 3 per day only needs to be 20 percent the cost of owning, fueling, and maintaining the car.

If the total cost of ownership is, say, $1000 per month, you might only pay $200, or about $2.20 per ride.
Recognizing Descriptive Wikipedia Categories for Historical Figures
My suggestion for people who find cruise control makes driving boring, disengaging, and thus more dangerous is to instead focus on other aspects of driving - perhaps unobvious ones. It's surprisingly effective.

Personally, I use cruise control very often, and the attention freed up by it I typically put toward maintaining lane position and checking my mirrors more often. It keeps the trips engaging and makes me a safer, more consistent driver.

I'm also convinced that traffic flow would be much better if people used cruise control more often. Speed variability seems to cause excessive lane changes as a driver inadvertently slows down and the cars following attempt to pass so that they don't have to slow down too.
It's interesting that the comments on any article having anything to do with food automatically become a "weight thread." The topic of this article is poor scientific methodology and the failure of the current peer review system to address it, not diet or weight loss. And (based on the studies summarized in the article) the researcher discussed in the article works on psychological and economic factors in eating behavior, not defining what people should eat or promoting diets.
Python, like COBOL and Excel is a good language for people who program as part of their work but are not professional programmers: data analysts, scientists, some finance types, etc.

Compare that to C where buffer overflows are common, Rust where the type system is a high art, Java where thread-based concurrency "just works" so you can get in trouble using it, etc.
Continuous Discussions Podcast, Episode 67: Organizational Design for DevOps
Might be questionable for investors (although trading on margin is extremely common) but gambling seems to make a ton of money for casinos, betting parlors and lottery boards, many of which have been around for "long term." Sounds more like you have moral/personal objection.
Well... This actually reinforces my point. I tried it. Installed, ran it, saw the weird warning from gtk. Then tried to use the ",gd" example shortcut in the terminal. This did not work, then froze my keyboard, and after some frantic desktop switching using the mouse, autokey finally crashed.

I'm describing this experience because it's a common one: it's symptomatic of the "Linux desktop" experience and is the reason why I would much rather use Mac OS. It's not that I can't make things work -- I probably could, but I want to spend my time on other things.
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Margin trading is a pretty standard feature across all brokerages. Dangerous if used ignorantly, but greatly increases you returns if used effectively.
Yes, there have been a lot of unsuccessful defenses based around the camera being your accuser, here's the first one I found.

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-supreme-court/1669146.html
HFTs don't work that way.
True, but all major retail brokers allow investors to trade on margin (and charge you interest on it), so this is nothing new.
Sure. I'm not questioning the need for pointers to be explained.

I'm just surprised that an explanation geared for programmers would need to also explain that variables are stored in local memory, or what RAM is. (Again, there is nothing wrong with explaining that.)
Judging by his website, because of his extraordinary ability to vet tech opportunities. Check out the list on his Posse page - it's staggering.
"Three things ruin people: drugs, liquor, and leverage - Charlie Munger" - ???
http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855145

https://senderscore.org/ per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9156312

http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329371

http://multirbl.valli.org/ per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330382
In other words: nobody ever tried to get it into mainline. Anyone reading this right now could go and get it submitted into mainline in the chunks that Linus would accept. It would take about 6 months, though, assuming you knew what you were doing.
The JVM has the same global heap problem as Node... it's frustrating that with all the development that goes into the JVM this problem remains unaddressed.
> "people are going to run red lights anyway, stop ticketing them"

That's not what the article is saying. The best way to put it is to say that "people are going to run red lights anyway, so make the yellow light longer so that less people will run red lights".
How exactly do you propose to get that electricity from the desert to say Finland?

Furthermore, you need to plaster a vast area in the desert with solar plants, which brings along all sorts of concentrated security risks. The alternative is to have many smaller plants dispersed, which results in a big loss of efficiency.

I'm all for clean energy, but you seem to be handwaving away pretty huge issues as "thought exercise". Our inability to store energy is not just some side concern that will go away any time now. There is a reason carbon fuels are so prevalent - their energy density is far above what we can store in batteries. Without scalable and high density energy storage, unpredictable energy sources like solar or wind are much less useful because often there is no sun or wind at high demand and on the contrary there can be an overproduction during low demand. Germany already causes serious headaches for the European grid when it floods the network with electricity on sunny/windy days. They actually have to pay other countries to take over the extra capacity.

Solar, wind, tidal etc... energy are all awesome and clean (if we disregard the land that they take up), but there are many difficult issues that remain to be solved before they can become a core part of the energy production.
fun times, coldfusion vs netobjects
Is it true that just for knowing the language you are getting compensated much better? How easy is the job market?
The codebase is a bit of a horror, though, of the old "PHP+SQL+HTML mixed in a blender" variety. I went in to make a few mods at one point and it was pretty scary.
Depends what you want to do, I'm about 98% in plain old, boring index-tracking ETFs.

But sometimes I want to take a bit of money to make some stupid bet. Yes, to gamble. And for that purpose, often having the leverage is a good thing.

The way I see it, the bets are much more entertaining than those at casinos and with better odds. Maybe it's just me, but I find casinos incredibly boring, but gambling on the market can be quite interesting.
And regulated - you have to be approved for margin trading by the brokerage.
Completely agree with this, my only concern is that an open-source solution increases the likelihood of spam-ridden senders popping up more frequently and becoming harder to shut-down as they can spin up instances more easily and get going from a new location more quickly.

There is actually some benefit to be had by the process of setting up a mailing service being a little trickier.

From a business perspective, it's also a great decision, as it shows customers who outgrow (or are in fear of outgrowing) your SaaS have a first-party path to scale.

And you could still make money off those customers if you can offer a strong support/hosting solution.

It's a massive win. As an aTech customer with some of their other products in the past, I'm really pleased to see this and I wish them all the best!

Also, proud to support fellow Brit tech companies ;)
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I would be pretty surprised if they introduced short selling. There's no question that a good chunk of Robinhood's user base are novice investors. Those that do not understand short selling may land themselves into a lot of a hot water. There may be measures RH could take to prevent novice users from dangerous short selling plays. I'd be curious to see how they introduce it.
I didn't say I intentionally keep things from previous employers. I return or delete everything that I know about, but that doesn't mean that I don't occasionally come across stuff that I wasn't aware I was still in possession of from time to time. Oftentimes, it's an archived email, but sometimes it's a file. Blurred work/life boundaries contributes to this happening from time to time.
If it was pointers in general I would have expected the article to talk about pointer arithmetic, which from other comments in the thread seem to be not possible in Go.

What is the use case for pointers then? are parameters passed by value instead of by reference by default?
Clinical depression is significantly different from terminal illness. Depression doesn't have to be a death sentence. Yes, it is immense mental, emotional, and intellectual suffering. But that doesn't mean death is the right answer, and someone who is suffering from clinical depression is not in the right frame of mind to make that distinction.

I speak as someone who has been there, is currently taking antidepressants, and has seriously considered the option at multiple times in my life. Depression will tell you there is no other method of relief from the pain, but depression lies.
> BASIC which is pretty much dead

Tell that to the enterprise employees writing Office macros or doing VB.NET applications.
How to not make ridiculously boring emails
Air Canada, for a short period of time in 1986, operated a helicopter shuttle from a helipad near downtown Toronto out to the tarmac at Toronto International Airport. http://gofar.aircanada.com/en/popular/legends-of-flight/ (fifth image down).
There are also other benefits that the Gold service provides, such as after-hours trading. As they become more feature-complete compared to established brokers, those new features will likely be exclusive to Gold members. I also think they are able to invest non-invested money in people's accounts for short-term small percentage gains
> 99% of the PGP-encrypted emails we get to security@golang.org are bogus security reports. Whereas “cleartext” security reports are only about 5-10% bogus.

That seems odd. I wonder why it's like that?
True, but all major retail brokers sell their order flows to HFTs (e.g. Etrade used to sell its order flow to Citadel), so this is nothing new
My experience has been the company lawyer has written the contract in word, then it has to be exported to html and cleaned of all the cruft that gets saved with word docs.
I admit it was a bit harsh but the parent comment sounded a bit too condescending.
Just adding to the other responses, one thing I miss whenever I am not on mac is quicklook/preview.
Finder can preview most files you browse instantly. be it music, images (including photoshop and raw camera files) video, text, pdf, spreadsheets, docs, etc.
Preview is a really amazing and simple app.
I am still not sure why the language creators of Go decided to make pointers explicit (syntactically) instead of making references the default like most other languages. That is you still have pointers but you don't have to put "*" all over the place. I suppose it is because the language designers came from C or maybe they wanted to be that explicit?

I understand the value of having pointers even in a GC but I'am actually more concerned with the resource I'm pointing to and its lifecycle than that is pointers. That is there should be different types of pointers depending on where the data is stored and how it is reclaimed (something Rust does nicely with generics).

I'm not trying to bash Go rather I must be missing something (I don't know the language that well).
Mozilla's planned deprecation of XUL-based add-ons sadly makes the future of vim-like extensions doubtful at best on Firefox: https://www.change.org/p/mozilla-save-mozilla-firefox-s-best....

Additionally, qutebrowser has a number of features that Vimium on Chrome doesn't have and probably can't implement due to the limitations of the WebExtension API.
Thanks, I know it's the risk, but this is why it will always be free and ad-free on GitHub. Like 2048.

On Android + Chrome, a banner will popup to install it as PWA on your phone and you won't see the difference. I believe you are on iOS? I wish Safari iOS was better at following the new web feature (like WebRTC...)

Thanks for your feedback, that's pretty cool!
> I'd say both are important, and before he came around his side wasn't really out there at all, so I'm glad he's around, but it's not surprising we have different opinions on the matter.

I certainly don't always (often?) agree with him, either, but I do expect he's at least familiar with what's going on, especially in regard to game narratives.
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In the London stock market they used to have a game where traders got a stack of pictures of girls, and had to rate each picture based on what they thought the average rating for each picture would be from everyone else. This essentially captures what stock trading is. It's not just about figuring out which company is the "prettiest girl" on the market, you have to be able to predict which girl everyone else is going to think is pretty in the future, because stock prices rise when a lot of people want to buy that stock and few people want to sell.

Order book data is valuable because it helps you figure out who everyone thinks is pretty, and retail investors make these decisions on much different factors than traders (I.e. Brand over financials)