skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was getting ready to buy a bunch of calls this morning via Robinhood. I hit the "submit" button on the trade, and nothing happened. VERY disappointing experience. When it comes to applications like this, downtime is critical. Haven't been able to place a trade all day.
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Uhhhh... doesn't discreteness actually mean that it's not continuous?
If we as a species make it that far, parts of your genetic material will have survived, somewhere.
There are some valid points to keeping comments for posts that have since been deleted, and I don't necessarily disagree with them. For the sake of simplicity, however, I'm assuming that all of the comments on a typical Facebook post aren't going to be relevant if the post itself is deleted. On Hacker News, however, if the URL for this post stopped working, I think it's pretty clear that the discussion below continues to hold merit.

The ideal solution to comment threads would be to replace the usernames of people who simply delete their account with [deleted], but keep the content unless someone explicitly overwrites it. The biggest issue isn't that the content is gone (any given comment), but that nobody knows how many things are missing. It would be much better (with no loss in privacy) to at minimum just replace those comments with null text and a null owner, to at least show that 3 rows used to be here, between these existing rows.
There is a very interesting talk [1] by Chandler Carruth that I stumbled upon last weekend that is very much related to this

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaxk27zwlk&t=4678s
How do you think most brokerages fill orders? I'd rather get filled at the best price possible, which I assume a high frequency firm would be able to do better than some other filling method. Pretty sure most brokerages do this anyway.
I suppose I would italicize "society's receptability" too. Also, if the weak-seeming response of the authorities is actually effective, then one could find that impressive.
Don't recall any other online brokerage suffering an outage like this.

Brokerage firms have outages with surprising regularity. I remember Sharebuilder being particularly bad, but Vanguard was down for a bit last week. A whole day though is pretty spectacular.
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While I understand the sentiment, you are making an assumption here that all messenger is a chat app. It seems excessive ( and it is ), but you don't know what kind of heavy lifting is being done under the hood.

I am not really defending it, but number of code lines alone is not a good way to evaluate code.
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They don’t seem like serious enough professionals to release a postmortem. Did they do so for the “infinite leverage” bug?

I have a couple grand in play money in Robinhood, because hey, zero commissions, but it’s clearly not sustainable for the long term. I’m glad my real investments are all safely parked at Vanguard, where I likely wouldn’t even notice if the brokerage seized up for a day.
Sorry thinking about this more, I guess the actual best price at the stock exchanges would be preferable
When I read the article, my brain passed right over the different domain names; the two are even the exact same number of characters, set in a monospace font, and my brain passes right over the domain of golang imports to the end of the path. That's where the interesting bit is (usually!)

I find this a super confusing and unintuitive choice, but I suppose it's too late for changing it now.

Sincerely,
an othwerwise mostly happy protobuf user
Consider researching different CPU architecture college classes. My friend took one that involved building a CPU with functions like out of order execution etc, while mine did not
As someone with a modern smartphone I'm a huge fan of these lite apps.

Spotify lite, for example, has all the features, a better (!) UI (with material ripples) and everything loads about twice as fast.

Every app should be a lite app. Devs, please start giving a shit about performance.
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This is... not a good analysis. It's directionally correct but not for the reason you say it is.

Virtually all brokers are rebated for routing orders to HFTs. HFTs dominate retail order execution. HFTs pay brokerages for access to their order flow, because that order flow is uninformed and safe to quote narrow spreads for.

Like other brokerages, Robinhood makes money on net interest from cash holdings and stock lending fees (it helps that Robinhood encourages people to buy meme stocks with a lot of short interest). Unlike other brokerages, Robinhood also encourages options trading, which are more lucrative for market makers.

You sort of are the product at Robinhood, but it's not really because Robinhood is doing bog standard order routing that every other broker does too.
In my experience in places where connectivity sucks (barely able to get data handoffs between stations, sticky wifi, etc) messenger kicks ass while the other applications hick-up big time.
I posted in the December thread and was contacted several times over the next 6 weeks. Here is my learning from this:

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* Be patient. I grew impatient and jumped on an opportunity outside of software.

* Be careful what you wish for. The same failings and faults that apply everywhere else in software hiring will happen here too. Always be skeptical of the process, and ask good questions.

* Keep your experience in mind. Mostly what software companies are looking for is experience. Education is a nice to have, but it isn't required to be a developer. Education is never a certification no matter how much you wish it were or how expensive it was. If you have no experience you should expect to start as a junior developer.

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You say that like it's a simple thing.

I don't know the details of his particular situation, but it's entirely possible to grow a small company to the point where you either need to radically change your role, or find someone to do it for you. Acquisition is one way to do the latter, although it's not always going to be appropriate.

Sometimes you can't add a few people and have the same organization.
No, that's incredibly misleading.

> Headlines like Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue in Controversial Bargain With High-Speed Traders are virtually meaningless, as the above discussion of other monetization options should make clear. At scale, once their userbase actually has material cash in their accounts on any given day, they’ll likely make net interest, but pre-scale they may not even have the treasury function to do the work required to earn it safely. It’s a commentary on how low their revenue is (growth-stage startup optimizing for reach over revenue, film at 11), not a commentary on how beholden they are to Wall Street.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
So, I think the bigger difference is that there is no timing required on the release (short of "don't trigger auto-repeat"). Just as we (assumption alert) don't care about the timing of releasing the letter or number keys while typing, they don't worry about the release timing of the "shift/capslock" key when they're typing. To them, it's just like typing 'wow' or anything else with a repeating letter.

I also imagine it makes typing out acroynyms a lot simpler as well. For example, I hold down left shift when I type NASA (left shift since I hit the 'n' with my right hand), and contort my left hand while being sure not to release shift to finish the word.

In any case, it's mostly my own conjecture - day-to-day I can't type very accurately without relying on coming back to home; without using the same fingers for the same letters all the time.
Yes. I only posted once, but did get a few replies.

I will say that more than one of them was by people who were not hiring managers but rank-and-file employees fishing for referral bonuses.

The number of good leads I got was effectively zero.
Johnxie has been posting this for the past 3-4 months. I don't think they're hiring. I think they're only trying to get developers to use your product. If you apply, they'll respond with an email for you to test their app out and never reply anymore. This has been ongoing for the past 3-4 months in other HN Who's hiring threads.
You can combine polenta with something quite fancy, and that's not unheard of in Italy. But it's also something that was a staple for the poor.
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webull and thinkorswim will probably be the two biggest beneficiaries today.
Thanks for the response.

But, my question remains... what evidence is there that this virus is new as opposed to something that has been in the milieu -- causing pneumonia and deaths in the elderly -- for decades?

Put aside the 'confirmed cases' and the like, and focus on sheer symptoms: is there any statistically significant uptick in the number of seriously ill people in the non-Wuhan populations? (I exclude Wuhan because, frankly, neither I now anyone else knows what the hell is going on there.) I keep hearing of one or two 70- or 80-year olds dying here and there... In the same time-frame thousands in this same cohort have died from, presumably, influenza and any other number of respiratory illnesses.

How do we know that the elderly haven't been getting Covid-19 and dying of it at these rates for decades?

I'm genuinely curious.
At this point, the story is being driven by politicians and bureaucracies with incentives to plan for the worst... I don't expect a logical and rational analysis from them. But, I do from HackerNew posters. Surely I'm not the only one looking at these numbers, the dearth of information about the test's false-positive rates, the utterly inconsistent data coming from Wuhan vs. the rest of the world, and scratching my head? Am I?
Internalizers can quote better prices than the exchange NBBO; you don't have to guess: when you're buying, the lower price is the better one.
https://status.robinhood.com/
How would that work? If I’m holding a stock and it tanks while RH is down, why wouldn’t I claim I was planning on selling it?

Now if I had a trade scheduled ahead of time to execute during the down time, that seems like a more justifiable case for compensation.
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SkiFree will show a pop-up saying the program is not responding, and after you close it, show another one...
From the other perspective: I posted a remote job ad in one of those threads once. I was buried under applications from remote employees.

Some advice: If you want to stand out, make your initial contact as easy and as complete as possible. The more the person on the other end needs to work to access your resume, understand who you are, and discover other details, the less likely you are to get a response.
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And bloated. And using web technology. Wonder whether those are related.
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> Why we are building highly sensitive monetary performance based applications under the guise of agile and electron is beyond me.

It's cheaper.

This is not complicated. The entire society is orientated to getting the most for least. Excessive effort in quality is a waste.

Besides, the "serious" people hardly fared better. The notorious TSB failure, for example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tsb-it-fail...
Some of us prefer to own and organize our own music rather than rely on streaming services. Sadly, Catalina Music isn't any less buggy than recent versions of iTunes.
I posted once and someone at a much better company than I’d otherwise get hired at saw the post and decided to refer me on a whim. That put me on an upward career trajectory and I now work at a FANG. I’m grateful for this community and also reminded of how much of a role luck plays in everything.

As for OP my suggestion is that the people who read Who wants to be hired are MUCH more clued in on tech than the average recruiter. If you’ve written blog posts or done anything cool or noteworthy put them in the post. They might make a difference.
If they really went all in on risky options contracts... Burger King.
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iPhoto has much better keyword handling, better support for drag and drop (which for a long time was missing entirely from Photos), and the smart albums in Photos is still not as powerful as they were in iPhoto.
The friend published on an Internet public platform and added metadata to tag ancestor poster.

Where is the reasonable expectation of privacy?

If you share anything at all over Facebook, you should expect it to be in someone's personal dossier of you, forever. It's not always going to be just the people who know you and presumably bear you good will, either.

That's exactly why I don't post photos on Facebook.
I'm late to the show here, but I think the whole argument around filepaths needing to potentially be encoded before being presented to end users is a non-issue / how most languages I've worked in have handled it?

Does rust have some fancy handling? Sure? Is it syntactic sugar? Absolutely.

Maybe I've been working in Web too long, but encoding a value before handing it to the user seems second nature.
Reg NMS prevents HFTs from filling your order outside of the NBBO. if anything you’ll get slightly more favorable prices from a market maker, since they know you’re a retail trader who’s not going to run them over.
Aaaand, there's already a twitter account trying to build a class action lawsuit against Robinhood for allowing an outage to happen. Wonder if this'll go anywhere! https://twitter.com/ClassRobinhood
Right, but the link provided doesn't shed any light on the situation.
>this is an unjust system that devolves into a race to the bottom and inevitable exploitation of workers

Yet this system has increased the real pay of labor many, many fold over the past 100 years, to where even poverty level in the US is above a good portion of the world income, even though those other people also labor quite hard.

It's an odd race to the bottom that has raised wages so significantly for all quintiles.
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The actual claims being cited are:

* Violating §1770(a)(5,7,9) of California's Consumer Legal Remedies Act, which is effectively a false advertising law.

* Public nuisance

* Express warranty violation (again, basically "this product doesn't do what you told me it would do")

* Strict liability claims for environment damage (as far as I can make it out)

* Negligence claims for the above as well.

The first and third claims are really, really hard to substantiate because the plaintiffs are arguing on the basis that the claim of "recyclable" should be interpreted as "actually recycled in practice" as opposed to the definition of "recyclable" that appears in regulation... I can't see a judge buying that. I imagine the last two claims will fail due to lack of direct harm--I'm not intimately familiar with California law here, but they're not citing any particular law or precedent to establish why they have standing to sue on the basis of only general public harm. Public nuisance is the only claim I could see standing, but even then, the rather indirect nature is going to make this difficult to sustain.

In short, this appears to me to be more of a "we're suing them to make a statement" kind of case than a "we're suing them because we actually have a legal claim" kind.
I think it's a reference to the Bad Luck Brian meme.
A "better battery" would have been a larger battery, which makes the phone bulkier. This isn't a good or bad choice, it's a tradeoff between form factor and battery life. This is a good choice for customers that want bulkier phones with longer battery life. But it would be a bad choice for customers that want a slim phone.