skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/02/robinhood-hedge-funds-cit...

Robinhood Made Nearly $700 Million By Selling User Data To Hedge Funds

RobinHood is the Facebook of investing. There’s a reason it doesn’t charge you for trades. It sells information about your trades instead. It’s far more lucrative and explains why it’s willing to stop you from trading since you’re not really a customer-just a user/data point

Robinhood has long branded itself as an accessible platform that provides free financial services for its users. Its mission statement includes a pledge to “democratize finance for all.” But the company makes money by selling its order flow — information about user transactions — to third party clients who actually enact trades with access to user data.

Trades may be commission free for Robinhood users but they are actually sold to “market makers” that often used their position as the middle man to generate profit, according to the Financial Times. Most of these “market makers” are hedge funds or other institutional investors that financially benefit from more trade and market volatility.

It’s big customer, by the way—the one it cares about more than you—that’s Citadel, which pays for Robinhood’s order flow. It also happens to be the biggest investor in the hedge fund that just got bankrupted by the Game Stop short squeeze on RobinHood.

Robinhood was fined $65 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in December for “misleading statements and omissions” regarding its payment for order flow process. The SEC concluded that Robinhood “deprived” users of $34.1 million after providing their order flow to clients that prioritized higher revenue over providing the best price for customers.

Robinhood’s largest clients for order flow are all hedge funds and other institutional investors according to an SEC filing from 2020. More than half of the company’s market orders were purchased by Citadel Securities — an affiliate of the hedge fund Citadel LLC.

According to SEC filings from 2020, other institutional investors that purchased Robinhood’s order flow included hedge funds G1X Execution Services LLC and Two Sigma Securities LLC along with brokerage firms Wolverine Securities LLC and Virtu Americas LLC.

Robinhood’s terms of service notes that certain content “is furnished by third parties” and specifies that neither the company nor third party provides are liable for damages. The company’s user agreement also requires investors using the app to “authorize or allow third parties” to gain access to services including market data and account information.
On the other hand, if you want to password-protect static sites, you can make the path unguessable and use Link Lock to share a password-protected link to the page. All encryption/decryption is done fully in the browser.

https://jstrieb.github.io/link-lock/

(Disclaimer: I made Link Lock)
Brilliant idea and nice, honest business model it seems:

Share the code, offer hosted solution for a reasonable price.

The only thing I can't remember seing covered is data export.

I might very well sign up tonight to test it out a bit to put the money where my mouth is (I have been a long time paying customer/supporter of a couple of other projects with kind of similar business models but it might be time to change now soon.)
There really wasn't much of a difference for them in terms of actual actions aside from more gentry officers actually being in the field. They still could and did have those parties before and after. It would be a matter of being upshown instead of controlled.
A former coworker has been using blockchain for seafood catch reporting in the Pacific. It’s a complicated legal situation (EEZs, treaties, illegal fishing, monitoring for habitat collapse) made more difficult by expensive/slow internet connectivity.
Clearly not everyone thinks that's the state of affairs. Roaring Kitty has clearly done quite a bit of research and thinks GME is undervalued. And if you believe that many of the folks on /r/wallstreetbets are being genuine, then they feel similarly. Time will tell. But there's certainly no guarantee that this is a "once in a lifetime overpriced valuation".
Unfortunately, in the USA, the cause of reuniting families after a kidnapping has been politically subverted to try to connect an emotional issue to conspiracy theories.

Where families are actually separated, one particular party is in control. And to cover for that, they whip up stories about kidnapping rings where the other party is in control.
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>Until I do, from the accused own's mouth, I might add, I'm going to presume innocent until proven guilty.

Rich people don't get that way by following the rules and we're right to be suspicious of them. They don't deserve the benefit of the doubt, because they haven't earned it.
Reverie Labs (YC W18) raises $25M to advance cancer programs with AI
> As long as the salt value remains secret, this is a very effective method against rainbow attacks and other current methods of attack

But salts aren't used to be a secret: they are used to make existing rainbow tables useless, as the salt wasn't used to precompute the rainbow tables.

In the example they use "2@3" pre- and post-appended to the password. Ok, so any rainbow table that haven't used 2@3 is useless. But "password" will always be a lousy password and 6 characters of salt isn't that great.
Rebuilding into a place for gamers to congregate in person rather than shout at anonymous trolls on the internet?

They've got the space, and after 18 months of limited social contact it could be an opportunity
LOL, I used to fuck with people by getting them to type this into the browser. Unfortunately, these days it actually takes you to Dick's Sporting Goods.
Coincidentally, started "Bridgerton" on Netflix just yesterday. Mills and Boon brought to the screen basically so bound to be a ratings winner, a lot of fun but with clever contemporary twists like a completely multi-ethnic aristocracy at which no character turns a hair.
I'd add a small asterisk here, since MS stuff doesn't actually integrate well. It integrates barely sufficiently while making third-party integration near impossible, so you really don't have much of a choice.
The data is that previous directors that made huge gambles and got lucky are now VPs trying to figure out where they want their third vacation house to be and the unlucky ones got moved to new projects to try again.

Google's fundamental theory seems to be "users will always forgive us" or "there are always new users" and neither is true.
I don't think Blockchain provides what an exchange provides.
Virtually no one in the US, rich or poor, is criminally prosecuted for tax evasion. Really the only way to be prosecuted for tax evasion is either to commit a whole bunch of other crimes, and have tax evasion thrown on to the indictment. Or be a public anti-tax activist like Wesley Snipes.

This isn’t an issue of the rich getting special treatment. It’s an issue of IRS enforcement having highly constrained resources, and preferring to recover penalties, rather than spend resources on expensive criminal cases.

Putting people behind bars doesn’t generate revenue, and revenue is literally the IRS’ middle name.
There doesn't need to be a shadowy "they" for this to be true. It can be purely the result of a dynamic in the system that results due to certain feedback loops and hierarchies in the organisation of media institutions. This is essentially the thesis of Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" -- that the only media that gets put in front of you has been selected by a process which is emergent and not controlled by some "cabal" but nevertheless results in a form of, essentially, propaganda which supports the power structures of the system.
In many privacy regulations, any unique identifier is treated as Personally Identifying Information (PII). If the hashed password is used as a lookup key, that makes it a unique identifier, and it's PII. I do work in environments where agencies are not allowed to share user PII with each other, and therefore you can't create single (SSO) identities to login to different services. The principle is that individuals should be able to compartmentalize their business and service relationships and not have their service providers collude or conspire against them for leverage.
I think that poster was being sarcastic
There are years of discussion on error handling topics or you could use a package to simplify your code:
https://itnext.io/golang-error-handling-best-practice-a36f47...
Usually any impact a salesperson has over the product roadmap is too slow to have any impact on the sales opportunity.

Salespeople usually have more influence on the customers than on the roadmap, so they're better of trying to influence the decision making of the customer, than the product.

Salespeople focus on their sales targets, trying to change a product roadmap is not a very effective way to reach short term targets.

Obviously, a product manager should reach out to sales to try and understand their perspective on the product and the customer needs.
They have been raising money with an ATM offering since December (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000119312520...). However, it is not clear when packets of stock were offered, i.e. it could have been already before the high price.
AMC on the other hand did take the opportunity of the high price to do an ATM offer IIRC.
It would be nice to have some sort of viewership stats. You've come at a brilliant time with a solution like this just as my facebook following is growing but so is my fear that they could delete my account anytime for any arbitrary reason. Twitter just isn't conducive to longform content and not everyone is a pro with threads so this is an idea solution, but seeing how many people liked a post, commented on it etc helps with the feedback loop.

I realise you're doing this primarily for people to share personal content, but there's plenty of people out there that want to share personal thoughts to a large part of the world but just don't want to get censored by FB and your solution could work well for them.
Common sense puts it at $20

Optimistic might be $90
I also think technology is over used/relied on at some levels. I really don't think grade school students should be staring at an iPad screen all day.
Thanks. What's the name of the init system ? Any reason not to use Void's runit ? Any reason to switch to systemd ? (I am truly unopinionated on init systems,not trying to start a flame war, juste curious)
If you read the article, you’ll see that he has admitted guilt as a part of the deferred prosecution agreement.

The thing that worries me is that he was able to use money to avoid prison. This is an example of a different law for the rich and everyone else — paying a fine (not a big deal for a billionaire) to avoid prison (a very big deal for a billionaire) substantially reduces incentives to actually pay your taxes.
So in consideration for a fine and cooperation against a bigger fish, he got a deal in connection with a nonviolent offense. Exciting because of all the extra 0's, but sounds like an everyday occurrence in DA offices across the country.
But hey, stuff gets to your house in 2 days rather than 3! That makes everything worth it /s
Community, through competition.
This may be an unpopular opinion online, but I don’t want schools picking educational tools purely on ideological criteria.

Products like Zoom may not fulfill free software criteria, but they get the job done and they’re easy to use. Parents and students shouldn’t be saddled with unfamiliar tools for the sake of ideology. Let them focus on learning and use whatever tool is best for getting out of the way and letting teachers and students do their work.
Fear is powerful motivator. Rich people fear prison much more than they fear fines.
Free miller light beer with opencv
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/text-detection-and-extraction-...
I don't feel like downloading the video and setting everything up to get the link for you but here is basically everything laid out for you.
Hey,
AutoKey is awesome indeed! I've used it myself for a while before developing espanso. In fact, I went through the code-base multiple times to understand how it could be so fast. I learned plenty of things about how the X server works thanks to you :)
How would it?
It takes long, hard work to accumulate the knowledge and experience to be able to consistently say things that matter. It’s impossible to fake, and an astute crowd will always spot it.

The Luke-in-Yoda’s-hut scene pops to mind.
I'm kind of surprised how many nerdy people I know who have never watched this show. It is by far the best (maybe only?) hard sci-fi TV show ever, and almost every episode is better than any hard sci-fi movie ever made.

If AC Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were alive they'd be heaping praise on this show for getting so many of the technical details exactly right.
These people should be in jail but for some reason our system does nothing about it.
> Linux (where do I start)

Not true, there are tons of ways in Linux where you can completely recover from a bad update. Either manual backups (even using tar works), BTRFS or ZFS, or something more fancy like NixOS (that I use).
Planetes is also hard sci-fi and quite good.
An identity for a product or service which sets it apart from the competition.
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This person admitted guilt and entered a non-prosecution agreement in which he agreed to help the government build a case against his former business associate.

There was a WSJ article about him last year which went into detail that he agreed to obfuscate income for this former business associate in return for the funding he initially got to get Vista off the ground.

Additionally, that WSJ article detailed that Robert Smith became aware of an investigation into him through back channels and that's the point when he started making a splash with public giving. I'll see if I dig up that article in case anyone's interested.

"The other side" as you put it is him literally admitting guilt. He could have used his massive fortune to fight it, but he'd probably lose control of the firm + other consequences resulting from that.

Edit: It was a Washington Post article, not WSJ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/09/smith-bro...)
Does it also keep its charge for long enough, like at least a few days?
It doesn't know so the initial orientation is arbitrary. You have to set the "up" direction by touching the ball with a magnet in the right spot (there's a reed switch inside) and rotating it around the Z (vertical) axis until the directions are correct.
I remember that my therapist (highly recommend that too if possible, being in germany health insurance automatically covers it) after seeing me suffer for a long time pressed me to exercise which I had not done in years (I was pretty skinny too). When I started running I hated the first two times. I could not run for more than 2km and I was done afterwards. Third time magically I could run for 3km without feeling like I was dying. Fast forward 3 or 4 months of running every other day I was running 10km and it almost felt like a positive form of addiction and I was even getting runners high from time to time.

I vividly remember one day around that time I was on my way to a therapy session and I started crying in joy while on my bike, literally sobbing because I was so happy about how much my life has improved simply by changing this one variable. I went from "I don't know if I can live like this another year" to "I love my life and I can accept my handicap as an occasional unwanted companion but now I define what my life is and not my anxiety".
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481117 "Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software"
That doesn't make sense. You claim Trump rejected the offer that Amazon secretly made to him?
> the exceedingly strange console that was in Windows 95

That only ever tried to be a terminal emulator when ansi.sys had been loaded. But it's been gone for quite a while now. The Windows console host on the other hand only gained terminal emulator capabilities in somewhat recent Windows 10 versions.
The source README mentiones supporting MinION ($1000) https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion

Nice video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_mER5qmaVk

Found some previous discusion of HW:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16262719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7893158
This article discusses why mRNA vaccine manufacturing cannot be outsourced to third parties, but there are other vaccines that might be be produced in this way (Oxford/AstraZeneca). Not sure if this is authorized in the US, but it is in many other locations experiencing shortage (e.g. the EU).
"Banana republics" are also the poor robbed of their possessions and freedom by the same unjust system on a global level.
Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Shows the Cloud’s Rising Power
> the fact that British society could put a psycho executive in restraint while my country, a supposed enlightened democracy (the US), can not.

That "psycho executive"—George III—reigned during the period of the American War of Independence, which, if you recall, he lost, so it seems both nations managed to restrain his power.
Maybe a lot of people is developing in Python, Ruby, PHP and others traditionally interpreted languages and aren't aware of it.

Using C or C++ for some domains would be painful, but regarding speed, memory usage or energy usage those languages tend to be the best. If only Rust would be less C++ like (I prefer "RISC" like languages)
My understanding is that if a little guy evades taxes, but then cooperates with the IRS when caught, and agrees to pay all taxes and interest and penalties, then they generally don't get thrown in jail and have all their other money and possessions and responsibilities taken away, as this article seems to imply they should do with billionaires.

I don't see how this is evidence of special treatment for billionaires. The guy paid way more in penalties than he saved on taxes and also had to help prosecute his friend, who evaded way more tax than he did. It doesn't seem to me like he came out on top.
The original Deus Ex is excellent, so he’s right
Become a game studio, with live events and community
> It looked like a closed case of justice by algorithm

Or a closed case of a mob wanting to see blood rather than letting the justice and authorities do their work. Which reminds me to the reason why the inquisition was originally invented: to prevent neighbours mobbing or directly killing their other neighbours after falsely accusations of whatever blasphemy, and it was indeed a regulated process which released (originally) most of its accused free and ended up being a protection for minorities and socially disadvantaged people in the middle age societies (still being the jugging topic inmoral for nowadays standards, but still a large improvement for the middle age people and their lack of social security).
Is that Moon base on the surface or in orbit - if its the former then I don't think things would "float away" as it has about a sixth of the gravity that we have on the surface of the Earth?
Haven't heard of it. Will check it out.
App thinning goes a long way if you're supporting multiple architectures, but if your app has a lot of code it can still get very big, very fast. There are many companies that have dedicated teams to trying to handle app size, but we've found that our tooling offers more without the maintenance and eng resource cost of building it internally. To support independent developers and small startups we offer a free Growth plan and have significant discounts available for higher build volumes. We think this is a fair alternative to having a development team or even one engineer focused on this problem.
> The majority of these escape codes start with \x1b[

This is actually the 7-bit version for CSI. A less known variation is the 8-bit CSI which is simply \x9b and is the same as \x1b[ combined. So, for example \x9b33m does the same as \x1b[33m .

Unfortunately, there exist a couple of (8-bit) terminals that don't support this version.
This is incidentally also done on real ships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXC6U0NfJg8
They won't be being made with the latest tech, since consumers aren't too battery life sensitive and changing up the production lines costs.
There is no PC part. It is a standard Bluetooth mouse and works with any computer, tablet or phone with no additional software, as long as it supports the standard protocol.
Internet gambling has the problem that you have to trust the "oracle" deciding the dice rolls. You give all your money to an anonymous address that promises you'll get your money back. You still need trust.
Ive tried to give family members access to private sites, but do you think they remember their login user/pw? Nope. That is the hard problem. Each person should have a publuc/private key so they don't need usernames/pw.
Hedge funds emerge mostly unscathed from Reddit trader drama
In the Supporting Information[1] it says that the graphene acid they used was made from "commercial Fluorinated graphene oxide".

So I imagine that is not a huge issue.

[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202004560 (pdf at the bottom)
> My own guess as to what such a Vaccine Machine involves

In a global pandemic, why are we guessing?
Anyone with hands on experience using NanoPore? I've been thinking about buying one of these to play around with. But anecdotally I've heard that they lack utility or are my concerns just myths?
a) they are designed to handle many batched samples at once rather than many runs of few samples over time. So in practice they don't really last for many individual samples.
b) the computational requirements are high. So while a NanoPore can be plugged into a laptop in the field it would take forever to run the data processing on said computer.
How long did it take you to write C++ vs python?

What if you could write python and generate C++?
Yeah, Simon Grimm from Ionic Academy releases a big course about every 6-8 weeks I think and two or three minis in between
Drawbacks of Developing in Containers
This show started off slow but slowly became an all-time favorite of mine.
Perhaps a corollary to this: instead of trying to match children’s faces, the surveillance state can mine other parts of the image; Open Source intelligence. Language and sound cues in a video. Or, my personal favorite, detecting the age and manufacturing origin of floor tiles and wall trim from a photo.
The guy that's arguably the impetus behind this whole GME thing gives a compelling story in a 5 minute youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alntJzg0Um4

* I don't own GME or have an interest in this whole thing one way or the other, nor do I have an opinion on Roaring Kitty's research. I just find this all very interesting to follow.
What's also great here is that it's not just technically right, but it doesn't ignore the human element: we squabble, fight and make up, and that's a key part of the world they've constructed.
I see often stated as a fact that "a lot of retail investors from WSB bough a lot of GME shares", but I never see any proof about any of this.

What's the proof that any retail investor actually bought GME?

How many retail investors actually bought GME?

How much money did they win or loose?
A Buffett story you might find interesting. He refuses to look at the stock price of any potential investment while he is doing his valuation for it.

His thinking is if he falls in love with the business while reading their financial reports, and he knows the stock is trading at $10, he’s subconsciously influenced to bias his valuation estimate over $10, because he wants to buy it.

So he waits to ensure his valuation is as unbiased as possible, and only when finished checks the price. Kind of like the excitement of opening a present at XMas, not knowing if it’s a lump of goal or new AirPods.