skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have attempted to duplicate this index fund manually by purchasing the top 25 cryptocurrencies (market-cap weighted) over the past year or so. I'll say that it was hardly worth the enormous work involved, and these index funds cannot come soon enough to non-accredited investors. In some cases it's not possible to do perfectly alone: NEO has a minimum unit of 1 coin, and so if you wanted it to not be overweighted, you'd need to have a total portfolio that is an integer multiple of $6700 right now.

However, I would not buy this fund from Coinbase since they are not a neutral player, and the market is not regulated yet. There are still great advantages in owning coins yourself - I expect that, as an average investor, I will certainly be prone to manipulation in some way. Alas, the greatest gains are probably long-since gone. No risk, no reward.
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Your point was vpn collected all data sent and received from a device. You could have just tweeted that as that is always true.

Instead, from what it appears, you were trying to prop up views by calling out a facebook specific vpn and how it collected all data - as in you were expecting that to behave differently.
From what I've gathered of the context I think the original presentation is correct. I read it as a joke criticizing an implied absurdity of tech groups being concerned specifically with what we use to kill people rather than whether we should be killing those people to begin with.
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Actually not true. You have to pay gains from coin to coin transactions. For example, let's say you buy 1 BTC with $10k. Then you turn the 1 BTC into 10 ETH. Then, later you convert 10 ETH into 1.2 BTC after the conversion rate between the two changes. At that point you have to pay capital gain on the dollar amount of 0.2 BTC, even if you don't convert any BTC back into USD.
Exactly, the comparison to hedge funds is not valid. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has an expense ratio of 0.04%.
That's automatically weighted by their market capitalization. Capitalization in USD = price (USD/coin) * capitalization in coins
Good points. Why do regex tests at all if emails could fail in any number of ways?

If you're going to test for at least 3 characters with a @ in the middle, you probably should implement some other simple rules to have a snowball's chance on the internet:

only one @

no spaces

has TLD (guarantee at least one period after @, and something else after, no consecutive periods)

can't begin or end with a period
>"No, if they ask what happened I have no issues telling them."

Here's your mistake: They're not asking you what happened.

They're saying, "Tell us diplomatically why you left your last employer without blaming anyone and coming across as a friendly person we want to work with."
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In future hopefully this index will become more complicated once GDAX supports more cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies have characteristics of other high-risk assets -- diamond mines in war-torn regions, shares in politically unstable countries, bonds of provinces or states with a history of defaulting, venture capital, exotic commodities trading etc etc.

The risk is higher, the volatility is higher, liquidity is lower, the overall market is at an early stage of development.

For such asset classes, paying a fat premium is common.
This looks great. Surprised to see no package manager support for it though. I'd love to see MacPorts or Nix support for this.
You're not their target customer.
Good eye, that is sketchy. The entire industry seems to be floating on FOMO right now though, so it definitely serves that purpose.
Thanks for the reality check.
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot, and hopefully not amend this comment with a paragraph bitching about switching :p
When's the last time Democrats put up much resistance to the war we still haven't declared? My money is on military contracts being reliably lucrative for the foreseeable future regardless of any reasonably possible election outcome in the next few years.
That we continually over-use this old gag is one of my favorite things about the English speaking world. :-)
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A lot as in only 6 of the 50 states?

*http://www.ncsl.org/research/fiscal-policy/state-property-ta...
Don't undermine the power of hate in Crypto. A coin much loved is also much hated. People will do anything to keep it clean from shills.
But what this article makes me think is that even "low" dimensions can't be trusted, as long as it's greater than 3.
He can, he just has to check a box and lie. Maybe he was an accredited yesterday, but today he isn't. Who's to say. And the truth is, nobody checks.
Not a problem, I was wrong and appreciate the feedback.
If I have a really good idea, why would I need YC? Starting an ICO will likely give you 10-1000x more money.
https://blog.anayrat.info/en/2017/11/26/postgresql---jsonb-a... explains this problem in more detail.
One of the big problems with US government institutions aimed at the Native American population like IHS is that the population they serve is small and diffuse so that it has basically zero electoral power and can impose no accountability.
That's a benefit of shopping in a brick and mortar store! I used to always get annoyed and say "no thanks, I'm good" when the employee approached and asked that question, but then a friend told me that I should take their help. If you tell the employee what you are looking for, or that you don't know exactly what you are looking for, they will usually (about 75% in my experience) be very helpful. The employees tend to be very knowledgeable about what they are selling and have good advice about what to buy or what not to buy.
In comparison it becomes laughable. Old rules?
its publication has caused quite a few folks I know around here to renew their effort to buy local

"Buying local" is the kind of thing everyone is in favor of and no one actually does. Well, okay, not "no one," but far fewer than favor it in theory. Like "giving up Facebook," "switching to Linux" and "always using a condom," the number of people who make the claim in order to signal something about themselves is much smaller than the number actually engaging a behavior.

See further Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are ( https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/... ).
Using a linear scale implies that the growth rate is independent of scale.

Using a log scale implies that the growth rate is dependent on scale.

Depending on your opinion of the market, choose whichever you wish
Why was there enormous work involved? Were you rebalancing very often? Note that Coinbase's fund will be made up of only four cryptocurrencies, not 25 like yours.
If solar energy were not viable, Hacker News posts might be written by technologically inclined chemoautotrophs hacking in the basement of their hydrothermal vent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
Have an 'a'. Annoyance reduction at your service.
You're in luck. It just opened up last week! :)

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>Coinbase Index Fund will invest in assets in proportion to their relative market capitalizations and rebalance annually on January 1st.

This thing is rebalanced only once a year. Would take 5 minutes to actually duplicate this fund since it's only 4 coins....
Did you factor in truckers’ short life expectancy?
I'm not sure why you're so dismissive of moral relativism in this context when it's incredibly relevant. Someone who believes that developing and exploring this technology will enable us to save the lives of soldiers and better prepare to encounter the technology in the wild is going to have very different opinions than someone who views it as yet another tool to oppress the third world with. Both people hold ethical beliefs that consider and value humanitarian consequences.

Edit: I was slowed down for posting too fast so I'm adding my reply to IntronExon here:

It's an interesting hypothetical but I'd argue its appeal is mostly in its simplicity with little evidence to support the claim. The instances you've cited happened either due to a failure of accurate intelligence or because intelligence indicated the structure was being used by enemy combatants. It's very possible to arrive at the conclusion that any unnecessary casualties which occurred happened as a result of poor military intelligence which better reconnaissance drones could help with. It's equally possible that someone working on this kind of technology could see its field use against groups like ISIS as evidence that weaponized drones are a useful tool in fighting terrorist organizations. Obviously neither of these will be true in every instance, but without strong evidence it's hard to believe that the matter is as simple as "some people are just unemphatic".
The Patagonia / Carhartt divide in the U.S. is essentially cultural. But when it comes to the environmental impact of their clothing, Patagonia objectively puts in more effort than Carhartt. It's one of the reasons (but not the only one) that Patagonia is more expensive than Carhartt.
The HN community has fairly high net worth on average, I wouldn’t be surprised if a good amount here were accredited.
> If gold and silver aren't treated "like kind", and facebook and google stocks aren't treated "like kind", why would bitcoin and ethereum be treated like kind?

For the same reason that, say, transferring your wealth from an Irish bank account to a German bank account doesn’t trigger a capital-gains event in the US?

I.e., those other things you listed exist “within” the US financial system. Cryptocurrencies exist outside of it, similar to the way assets held in other countries do. If one of these countries had multiple active currencies (say, the GBP and the Euro in the UK), a US citizen telling their UK proxy-holder to start moving money from one into the other has nothing to do with US financial regulation, only UK financial regulation. It just so happens that moving money from one cryptocurrency to another has to do only with the financial regulation of the country known as “the Internet”—which has no capital-gains regulations.

(Of course, things are slightly different if the management company exists as a US corporation—in either case. Ask yourself what a US company offering GBP+Euro management would do in this case. The answer should be obvious.)
Ah yeah, edited to fix, thanks.
That's nice and all... for an agrarian society.
That is a half assed attempt at revisionist history. Did all the conspiracy sites disappear (!) for you to cite google's own sales page!?
I see that, but there is a huge problem with this index that I'm amazed is not illegal. They control the index with the coins the same platform adds.

That is a major incentives no-no. Coinbase can make more money pumping coins into the index than managing the index itself. If I wanted and index'd solution for crypto, I would not use one like this.
For values or “us” which are nuclear powers and their close allies. Of course if “thanks to technology” we end up destroying ourselves with nuclear weapons, climate change, or something as yet unforeseen then really what has come of it? Fixing nitrogen for fertilizer also led to the democratization of high explosives. Nuclear power and weapons are linked.

Look away from your personal circumstances for a minute and consider the trajectory overall, for everyone, and not just you. This Panglossian “optimism” is downright destructive. It feels a lot like being in an airplane which has entered an unpowered, uncontrolled descent, and the guy next to tells you to be happy, it’s a miracle that we’re flying, humans never flew in all of history until recently.
A story related to regulation that I like to tell people is my experience trying to open a UK bank account when I first moved there. As an EU citizen, I expected the process to be done in jiffy – just walk in to any ol’ bank and ask to open an account. Except, my EU passport and an employment contract that said I’d certainly not be poor and national insurance number and what not apparently meant nothing. No, I had to have a UK address. The apartment hotel I stayed at while trying to find an apartment wouldn’t do either – I needed utility bills you see. (For some reason, utility bills in the UK are basically as good for identification as a passport or drivers license...) In order to get a utility bill of course I had to have a place to live, an apartment or house or what have you. Of course, I couldn’t sign a lease without also setting up a standing order (that’s monthly payments, for anyone as unfamiliar with the term as I was) and of course I couldn’t set up a standing order because to do so I had to have a – you guessed it! – bank account. A catch-22 which means to this day I keep a UK bank account, just to avoid the hassle of trying to set one up should I ever need it again.
There’s also a lot of drivetrain and suspension related maintenance, but it’s less than engine maintenance.
From https://am.coinbase.com/:

>* Coinbase Index Fund will invest in assets in proportion to their relative market capitalizations and rebalance annually on January 1st. This strategy will track Coinbase Index (Fixed Supply) - a modified version of Coinbase Index which is adjusted to remove the effect of supply increases, so that it can be tracked by investors. For more information, see Section 6 of the Methodology and Construction.

So if you invest in this, you're basically making a bet that 'the flippening' will not occur because you would lose bigly relative to the market if bitcoin tanked since they don't rebalance for a year (which is forever in crypto).
Zero thus far. Im using a free open sourced logo design from http://logodust.com for my SaaS. Until I get some customers, this is perfect
I'd avoid this. Coinbase knows the time and price of potential crypto entrants, and this fact can be manipulated to make the fund the bag-holder for shitcoin pump-and-dumps.

Like, a fundamental thing about market-cap weighted index funds is that they buy a fixed percentage of a security in the index, regardless of price. If the fund has 1/100k of the market cap of all the coins listed on Coinbase, you can buy 1/100k of any coin and offload it at whatever price you can manipulate it to at the date it enters the index.
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They have web specials on their site, and a 50% off sale at least twice a year. Get on their mailing list and they'll tell you when it happens.

Pretty sure this is the same jacket, in an old color:

http://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-down-sweater-jacket/84...
Twitter's goal with their UX is probably to maximize "engagement" rather than "usefulness".
Don't you? Many people aren't great at record keeping, especially as they get older. It can often be difficult to figure out exactly what accounts and investments exist, let alone how to access them to clean them up.

Trawling through browser histories and correspondence is often the only way to get a reliable picture of what's going on.
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> Do you think its possible that new advances in technology since 1776 might just enable direct democracy to avoid the degeneration you cite?

No. It's the people who are the problem, not the technology. (In particular, think about all those people on Facebook amplifying false information during the last election cycle.)
Since nobody has posted it yet, the composition is:

* Bitcoin 62%

* Ethereum 27%

* Bitcoin Cash 7%

* Litecoin 4%

So don't expect any of the more obscure cryptocurrencies.
300$ USD is ~25% of a entry level workers monthly pay (net) in the US. Housing frequently hits between 50-30%, transportation another ~20%. Which means buy a 300$ anything means not eating that month for a large % of the US. Obviously Patagonia is still running which means there are enough people who can spare that but it's not universal (see the Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Inequality).

ETA: 300$ = 25% => 1200 a month net => 1500 gross (if no state taxes) => 9.38 an hour IF we assume the completely unrealistic 40/week
This "index fund" is made out of four currencies, BTC, ETH, LTC, BTC cash. Just buy a bunch of those and you're "investing" in their "index". Also you don't have to pay their fee for their immense expertise in putting this together.
> The employees tend to be very knowledgeable about what they are selling

That's often true of specialty stores, especially independent local ones. It's often not true of big chains and stores that don't have a narrow focus.

It's also often the case that they will steer you based on their knowledge of their sales incentive structure, which is often much better than their knowledge of product.
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transportation costs add to the cost of literally everything
I think both discussions are worth having. The involvement of private contractors in military affairs seems to have amplified over the last few decades especially as war has become more and more focused on technology.

Then there's I think a unique angle to this specific case. If you're going to work for Lockheed Martin or Blackwater you at least know what you're getting into. Google does not present itself as a military contractor. Did everybody who works at Google really know that their code is used for this? Have they been informed, consulted?

There's something especially weird and shady about the fact that someone writes some tensorflow code for image recognition, goes and gets a smoothy from the office bar while the DoD just hooks itself into the API and bombs the hell out of people at the other end of the world.

That's a lot more opaque and blurs the line between civil and defense work in entirely new ways.
Yes, a comparison with GMP is the first link: https://bellard.org/libbf/benchmark.html
I think this is impossible to implement without a significant fraction of the G-8 or G-20 countries electing technocrats to office.

Right now I'm envisioning Merkel and Macron asking themselves what on earth is happening in the rest of the West, especially in the wake of the election results in Italy over the past couple of days.
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Yeah, this is an index of 4 securities and is rebalanced annually. Coinbase is charging a 2% fee for what amounts to automating a max of 4 transactions a year. I get that people are excited about cryptocurrencies becoming available in more traditional investment vehicles, but this particular index fund seems almost completely unnecessary.
Awesome - thanks for letting me know! Will check it out.
The best surgeon’s knives and scalpel’s are still made with humans manually doing a bit of the precision manufacturing. This is almost all older people, and companies are delighted to get young blood in.
> One of the proclaimed reasons for which Japan invaded Asia in the Second World War was to oppose European nations

Boy, what a false equivalence.

More from Wikipedia:

> The reaction in Latin America to the Monroe Doctrine was generally favorable but in some occasions suspicious. John Crow, author of The Epic of Latin America, states, "Simón Bolívar himself, still in the midst of his last campaign against the Spaniards, Santander in Colombia, Rivadavia in Argentina, Victoria in Mexico—leaders of the emancipation movement everywhere—received Monroe's words with sincerest gratitude".

This is an important point. The Monroe Doctrine wasn't a pretext to invasion and domination, it was actually assistance against those things. The people protected by it welcomed it.

Fast forward to the present day: Vietnam just hosted a US aircraft carrier, in a very symbolic move. It's not looking for China's help to drive the US out. China is in fact upping the ante in territorial disputes with its neighbors. China looks like a lot more like Japan in the 1930s than the US in the 1830s.
Wikipedia has a good overview of their (known) security lapses. Two server breaches, one known to have exfiltrated sensitive information. Several browser plugin vulnerabilities, one of which allowed arbitrary plaintext passwords to be stolen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#2011_security_breac...

LastPass’s history is troubling but they’re also the biggest target out there. IMO, the entire space of “cloud” password managers is inherently untrustworthy.
The potential for this fund to motivation market manipulation is large: Given that the fund rebalances annually, all market manipulators need to do is 'paint the close' on the year, Coinbase is dictated by their terms to go in and buy up a bunch of the coins rebalance on that 'market cap' that had their close painted, and then the painted coins are dumped.

I.e. eating up ask liquidity close to year end forces Coinbase to buy up that removed liquidity at a premium.
The Libertarian in me agrees but then I think of the psychology of how people approach casino gambling vs business investing. For the former, I feel like people know going in that the odds are in favor of the house and they come to terms with that by saying to themselves that its entertainment. In other words, they kind-of expect to get screwed.

In business investing its the opposite. They really do think they stand a chance at making millions even when the odds may actually be worse than gambling in some cases, especially if they fail to do their due diligence.

So maybe instead of regulation we simply need a legal, notarized document signed for every investment that states "I am aware that I stand a very high chance of losing all of my money and relinquish my rights to sue anyone involved unless outright fraud has been established." Probably still wouldn't work, but its worth consideration.
Cool. Maybe now invest some time in fixing your abysmal customer support?
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I noticed just today that Github has a number of counter-measures for absurd git repositories built in when you try to push something. For instance, I imported a huge (3GB, mostly due to large frequently updated files in the history) subversion repository to git and got failures due to individual commits exceeding 100MB. This was quite helpful to bring the size of my repository to a reasonable state. Tools like the https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ are indispensable to do this kind of filtering without headache.
Fair enough. Nothing personal against the people of the USPS. I do think those same "external forces we won't realistically be able to get rid that require the USPS to suck" would also make them suck at banking though.
This post seems to have been downvoted. Why?

Having a knowledge of the OSI model has been beneficial in all sorts of ways since I was first exposed to it decades ago.

I have even used one implementation of it actively and in a commercial environment. What we were able to do with at the time, made all other networking protocols seem very primitive (including the tcp/ip set of protocols and IBM's SNA).

It may have not survived in the long run, but there is no guarantees about any system or product doing so. It is still worth understanding the basics of it though.

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You could also use more bottles. Perhaps a hundred million would do?