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Launch HN: Coinrule (YC S21) – Automated Trading Made Easy
Hi HN Community,

Today's beginner investors are stuck with zero-interest rate accounts and passive investing. That might work for some but if you are interested to explore more active investing opportunities, you will soon find yourself out-traded by funds and bots who control much of the market volume.

We are Gabriele, Zdenek and Oleg, founders of Coinrule https://coinrule.com/. We met back in 2017 when we were building our previous startups and met at Masschallenge, an accelerator program, in London. At that time all three of us were experimenting with cryptocurrencies investing and soon found that unless we used automation, we could not compete in a 24/7 market. That's when we started to think of a solution, now called Coinrule.

Coinrule helps beginner investor build automated rules for trading strategies, currently for cryptocurrencies but later also for other assets - it runs on top of cryptocurrency exchanges and uses an IFTTT-style interface. It's like Zapier for investing.

The Cryptocurrency world came along with a lot of controversies, at the same time it gave many makers a possibility to start deconstructing finance. Also for us, cryptocurrencies are a good place to try and build a more equal way of managing your savings.

We are part of this market and believe in it. Our ultimate goal is to make trading more accessible and to expand Coinrule to equities, FX and later also to DeFi to give beginner investors the opportunity to manage their funds in a market full of speculators.

When we first started investing, we approached it from two beliefs: 1) you are unlikely to grow a portfolio without a small percentage of it allocated to more active investments and 2) tools in the market today are made by traders for advanced traders. Many of our users have learned, grown and improved as traders over the past year of using Coinrule and that's what we think really matters.

Of course we understand that the HN community has a lot of cryptocurrency sceptics and we respect that. The cryptocurrency market is still full of scams and bad actors. Whether you like it or not though, it is now big enough that it is here to stay. Despite the bad reputation, there are also many genuine and hard working people trying to build technology that matters. We believe that it is worthwhile to try make cryptocurrencies an easier place to navigate for these 'normal' people. If one of our users does not have the right mindset or could be vulnerable and should not be trading, we tell them that.

Coinrule today is registered with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, has transacted over $500m and is run by an international and diverse team.

Building a product, as you all know, is hard so we'd appreciate comments and feedback. We'd love to hear anything that helps make Coinrule better, simpler and fairer. Please try us out at https://coinrule.com! Happy to answer any questions and hear your feedback in the comments!
The thing is it doesn't have to be this way. Smartphones could be genuinely useful devices (take
e photos, communicate, GPS, hobby assistant, listen to music and podcasts) without the surveillance and the stripping of privacy and freedom.

Also, re: "class oppression". Like so many things, this is definitely about class. "Surveillance" is only half of "surveillance capitalism" ;)
Sense of entitlement for…privacy? What a world we live in.
> The Well-Tempered Traveler
30 Years in Hong Kong
Screw them, really, these advertisers are super nontransparent, to us, humans, while our very attention is their product. And when we don't like it, they come up with dark patterns that shove it down our throats using pure confusion.

I still cannot imagine that it is more effective to completely get to know me and subsequently serve me Makita ads for weeks because I looked for and bought a cordless drill months ago, then to serve me a context relevant ad. Like an SSD ad next to a benchmark article on SSDs. And that is on them, because they don't communicate. We should all try to make those companies fail. Our collective human attention is not something to be taken lightly. It was about time some company made a move that is pro their own paying users.

Reading this article also makes me feel like FB orchestrated this whole privacy horror, using consultants and lobbyists to convince the world they need tracking for good ads, because tracking is what FB does. But maybe we don't. I really wonder what happens if all these companies tell FB and the trackers: Let's see where this ends up, it may well be proven that they didn't need FB and its inane tracking in the first place. If you sell Mountain Bikes, just pay a website owner that lists MTB trails when you want some ads on their site. Disintermediation, it's what the internet is about. Sure there can and will be third party advertisers, but they could focus on site content rather than site visitors. And who knows, maybe I'll come to your site more often when I don't see that I blocked 79 trackers, downloaded 3 MB for some text and had to dig 3 pages into "options" for disabling tracking cookies finding out that I actually really can't.

You know who is a lookalike? All those other visitors on that site that targets a certain demographic.

“I don’t think anyone truly understands how many businesses in the world are 100% dependent on Facebook,” I think you have more problems when you are one of those companies, what's your plan B? Evidently you are not just dependent on FB, you are also dependent on something that the majority of your users really don't like.
Without the rule of law, you only own what you can defend yourself.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on aquaponics?
They are not "acknowledging the existence of trans people", they are shoehorning it into every unrelated discussion, in a manner that does both causes a disservice.
The code does check your browser locale of "en-US" and sets it to the "wacky" unit (Fahrenheit). Given that it's plain vanilla JS and only some rudimentary XMLHttpRequest, I'm not sure it can do much more?
What? OP was arguing that tracking is necessary...
In Norway they used to put hay on metal wires, tied to high poles, making a fence of hay that dries quickly in the sun. Then the dry hay was stored indoors in hay silos for the winter, usually with formic acid to keep it from rotting. I suspect this was the norm through-out Scandinavia. You only rarely see these long lines of hay today. Instead hay-bales rolled in white plastic are now the norm, sometimes humorously called tractor eggs... Anyway, whenever I see a farm doing it the old way, I make sure to take a photo. I had a lot of fun playing around in the hay when I was a kid, running under those posts and climbing them, and doing all kinds of shenanigans.
There are bad things all over the world, deaths, crashes, collapses, etc.

But what does that have to do with technologists working hard to eliminate freedoms and privacy, not just for themselves but for everyone? Do technologists have the truth, do they really know what is better for everyone else?
> "less than a hundred people give a shit about this"

Those are the best posts and are why I'm here
I'd love to see the digital forensics on this. Is the language appropriate for the meeting and other minutes. What's the provenance of the source. Hell, forget digital just basic chain of custody over the Intel.

I'd love to see corroboration from a source like bellingcat.

Like with Wuhan, I tend to be sceptical of too good to be true. Since I want to believe, I think I better not.
I think the trees are good dude: https://ourworldindata.org/exports/global-co2-concentration-...

Water is also good for you, yet you don't live at the bottom of the atlantic ocean.
ImmuniWeb Releases CLI for the Community Edition
I've spent 5-10 hours per week on https://onebag.travel/

So far I've made about $23.56.

It's more of a passion project because I like backpacks and I think encouraging people to pack less is important.
Purposeful Design in Complex Systems
Cool. How does it work, is it 100% native widgets? Are there any platform specific (x11 etc.) things used?
"I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing..."

No need to further read. After such nonsense the opinion of this person has no credibility left.
If you have to put politics into every f*** thing you express then I pass on anything you have to say.
Android phones are also sold for profit, and they spy on you something fierce (unless you're in the <1% of users who flashes Lineage and Microg). Why is Apple different?
If you live in the U.S. and drive a car and eat meat, you are very unlikely eating illegally-raised Brazilian beef, or consuming illegally-mined Brazilian gold.

Most likely, you eat U.S.-raised beef and burn gasoline from oil that comes from the U.S. or Middle East. Surely you are adding to the global warming, but it has nothing to do with Amazonian forest being illegally cut.

In Brazil, most if not all cars run on ethanol [1]. The U.S. produce massive amounts of ethanol domestically [2] so, most likely, whatever gasoline you might be buying in the US, it's not using Brazilian ethanol, even though the U.S. does import some Brazilian ethanol [4], it's dwarfed by the domestic production [2].

U.S. beef is raised so efficiently that farmers manage to export it to Mexico an China, among other places [3], while receiving virtually no subsidies. You likely need to specifically look for gourmet Brazilian beef if you want to have a chance to taste a cow illegally raised on a pasture which used to be Amazonian forest.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_the_United_Sta...

[3]: https://www.fas.usda.gov/beef-2020-export-highlights

[4]: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epooxe_i...
> If your business success relies on tracking everyone all the time, then you have no fucking business and should go out of business.

You haven't read the whole thing.
The sites are recording the sales, but in order to optimize advertising you would want to know which of the advertising channels (google/fb/etc.) is the most efficient or even which campaign (or creative) on a given channel works best. What facebook tracking did is connect a given marketing campaign that a user saw to the purchase they've made. Without allowing FB to track you on a vendor's site you don't get that information. There are ways to approximate it (see Market Mix Modeling), but those are statistical models that have mostly been the domain of big companies as opposed to SMEs that could afford them (even though now with the proliferation of ML it's getting better).
I think that's a cop-out. There are no objective measures of these things, the meaning of "how long you linger" or where you move your mouse are completely made-up by the coders who wrote the algorithm. They don't have to be a signal of anything, but the companies just go ahead and decide it means something. Then Goodhart's Law finishes the job.
Yes and no :)

Scything for instance is very labor intensive and it used to be payed like 3X hoeing, but we usually did it only once a year (you can cut the grass multiple time to produce a different kind of grass) as opposed to hoeing the corn, and I would prefer scything/hay gathering any time over hoeing :) .

Everybody I know that did scything has very fond memories of it, while no one that did hoeing the corn remembers it fondly.

I guess scything/hay gathering has a leisure aspect to it and you feel more connected to nature.

Also you feel incredible at the end of the day, because after the first 30 minutes of scything, you feel like you're going to die (all the glycogen exhausted from your muscles), you feel like you've hit a wall, but then you break that wall, slow your pace, eat your frustration and enter a flow-like state with your mind completely empty and then BAM the sun has set and you've made it through the day.
That's a good point, unity has the higher numbers but unreal battletest their engine.

I think it shows too in the nature of unity vs unreal. A common criticism of unity has been that too many things are half-baked. Sometimes it's good to suffer your own products :D
People who are downvoting this are selfish tree killers.

Collecting carbon offset money in exchange for planting trees in suboptimal locations is pointless when nature already handles this by itself much faster and more efficiently than all humanity ever could... Also, unlike people, nature does it free of charge... No hidden motives.

Humans are the most wasteful and most arrogant species in existence. Look at any other species in existence, they consume very few natural resources by comparison. Why then do humans exist? Maybe nature needed us to increase CO2 levels to maintain the balance. It's arrogant to see ourselves as the center when in fact nature has always been at the center and will always be. We are mere pawns serving nature's intended purpose of balancing the ecosystem.

First, humans thought they were at the center of the universe and solar system, now they think they're at the center of the planet. Science will force us to keep conceding to how pathetic we are... Most people can't even control themselves, why are they trying to control the planet?
What is worse though is I have bought many products from non-targeted ads because I didn't even know I wanted the item until I randomly ran into.

I loved my grandmother but targeted ads always remind me of the junk my grandma would get me for Christmas. She knew enough to be in the ball park but because she was in the ball park my taste is more picky and ultimately I never liked almost anything she got me.
> Thus, it doesn't scale

you're wrong for two reasons:

- hubs do exist (big and small) and can exchange connectivity information more efficiently (and take fees for that service), so the network isn't growing like a full mesh (that is indeed very hard to maintain connectivity graph of) but rather as a collection of interconnected smaller meshes

- payments can be split up into smaller chunks that follow different paths and are executed atomically (either all or none), and if some chunks fail you can retry them within the same payment context
Now we use the word “study” for it? The text preemptively claims that people will reject it because they are too politically correct. It was never presented as a neutral scientific analysis. From the beginning it was a slanted criticism of Google’s hiring practices.
If you have no energy at the end of the day, the answer is to find time in the morning. Get up earlier, go to bed earlier.

If you find your time in the afternoon isn't productive but you find it fulfilling to be around the people you love and that's enough for you, then you don't need productivity advice and this kind of reading isn't for you.
I think you misread OP. Paragraphs 1 & 3 are OP talking, paragraph 2 is "advertisers" talking.
I can understand why root is not enabled by default. Anybody who had to fix Windows PCs owned by average consumers a decade or so ago probably does too. The situation on Nexus and Pixel devices was about right: it requires the use of the command line (or third-party software), but doesn't try to resist. At least, it didn't until the introduced Safetynet so that apps can resist running on rooted devices.

I think the motivation for things like Safetynet is that general-purpose computers aren't good for business. If the user has full control, they might block ads, pirate content, or use content they legitimately paid for in a way a service provider wants to charge extra for.
Software Engineering Behind iPad's Pencil
A little more detail on the history:

https://twitter.com/mike_seekwell/status/1412777805759365120
Believe it or not, that isn’t the “original” in the sense of the first thing Damore did on the subject. The external world just got to see this one event.
You can have strong borders without a byzantine process. For example: Just stamp any entry application with "nope". Predictable, fair, strong, easy, cheap.
I think there's a difference between a a game with a skill element and a random chance element that are always consistent, and one where the game arbitrarily decides that because someone won 200 tries ago nobody playing now is allowed to win.

I understand that with the claw machine the claw is unreliable, but the same claw is always equally unreliable and each time I play I could actually win, and my skill does affect that chance. With these games most of the time when you play there is a zero chance you could win, no mater how well you play.
“Pharo is a … and immediate feedback.”

The key that we should provide more often.

Bret Victor has been discussing for over a decade. Can’t find them demo that i’m thinking of but here’s an introduction into Bret

https://youtu.be/ef2jpjTEB5U

https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4

His ideas go beyond “immediate feedback” …
That sense of entitlement that you can get stuff for free without having to pay for it in some way. You use facebook for free, it seems to provide you some value, why do you think you are entitled to get this for free?
Putting that in banners is so stupid, the way lynx prompts the user on each cookie was way better and I wish the larger browsers did that.
I think you might be missing cultural differences here.

I can't speak for the UK but here in Germany people usually don't just "buy a house" in their 20s, because of the debt involved (guess we are very opposed to debt). In my experience that would happen only at least 10 years later, when you have saved up a sizable down payment. Also selling a house again is a really big deal, kinda rare. There's not a lot of switching, like I hear from some US friends.

So yes, this has nothing to do with support from your parents or general income/wealth bracket. If you are standing on your own feet, you move out to a cheap apartment, often for the first time with your partner. Also please remember that we have a lot less campus universities, people usually live in a small apartment in the city they are studying in (same with vocational training) and not on campus.

(Please correct me if you don't think that a sizable portion of people in the US buy a house before they are 30, no matter if they are "filthy rich" or just working a normal job)

And now for a completely made up theory: If you're going into debt for your degree maybe you don't care as much to get into more debt if you move into a house when starting a job, because you're already in debt. But if you got through uni without getting into debt, either you don't want to do that, or (more likely) you wouldn't even get a loan from the bank here, if you never worked before.
Anyone interested in the topic of humans living for years without hearts might be interested in Justin Trudeau's autobiography.
True. I've updated my comment...
So in the first case, as I said, it can work with a few giant hubs. In the second case, it just progressively works worse and worse. Doing multiple routes atomically just gives you more reasons a single payment can fail.
Debunking the Unwritten Rules of Startup
It was, the first step to find out bugs in C (and C++) code always starts the same way "...inspired me to grep for memcpy() and memset() in the Netfilter code. This led me to some buggy code.".
I had to work with TypeORM at my last place and hated it. Prior to that I was at a place with a lot of hand written SQL and while that wasn’t perfect it was much easier to work with
And you just doubled your number of subscribers (I'm number two). Now you have to upload something for us! ;)
It's a shame your 'great example' has to deliberately misquote and mischaracterise the interaction.

The author asks "isn’t this a tech/VC blog? How is it that so many of you are so interested in and knowledgeable about agriculture?"

She asked why people were interested and were so knowledgable about a subject she didn't expect to appeal to this crowd. People explain the premise of HN and she then asks for other things this readership might be interested in. She didn't get hammered; she asked a question and got a number of honest, personal responses.

Not every website has to appeal to every person. The people who enjoy things that are presented here enjoy them. The people that don't are welcome to find a community that works for them.

I assume you were referencing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27809279
I would not say "zero effects" since quite a lot of news agency relies on it but that's safe to say that the platform would be replaced by something else in less than a month.
You're assuming that trees can always grow faster than humans can destroy them. That may be true for 8 billion humans at current living standards but if the population grows or the living standards improve humans will figure out a way to destroy those trees very quickly.
exactly, I'd imagine artists spend a good bit of their time schlepping around convincing galleries to display their work.
You probably already know this, but Anki (or other spaced repetition methods) is amazing for retaining what you have learned efficiently.
Electron is an abomination that should die as soon as possible. My solution is to never run Electron apps like I always avoided Flash stuff and don't do JAVA.
This is a long list of rare features that make Pharo interesting:

https://pharo.org/features
In the immortal words of George Carlin, "The Planet is fine, the people are fucked".
I note it was a French team who created this.
Italian hands will be gesturing like propellers at this existentialist threat!
>Transporting the hay was also fun:

now imagine that amount and even more loaded on that
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:T-16_tractors#/m... - the haystack would be up to the sky and the driver - my uncle - wouldn't see the road ahead :)
A claim you have both proof of and a link to the "original" that you will surely provide.
1 - access to source code

2 - grep for string, arrays and memory functions from C

3 - even if you are not a security expert, maybe you will be able to find out some possibilities
That's the theory, but forests won't grow if they've been cut down and the ground is used to grow soy.

There are big re-greening projects going on in China and Africa to try and stop the encroaching of the deserts there though (due to deforestation and agriculture). They HAVE to add forests, else they'll get the same thing that happened in the US early 1900's, the Dust Bowl where a lot of fertile ground just blew away because there was nothing holding it down.
Registrars can’t “auto-sign” domains. Only DNS server operators can do that, if they have the cooperation of the registrar. And the DNS server operators is the only workable definition of “owners of the zones”, so they do own their keys. It can’t work any other way.

In fact, the new CDS and CDNSKEY DNS records allow it to work the other way around; DNS server operators can auto-sign domains, and the registrars need not be involved at all.

> The real figure of merit for DNSSEC adoption is adoption by sites of significance

People said the same about IPv6. Or maybe you do, too?

> People who worked on SNMP talked quite a bit about SNMPv3

I seem to recall you mentioning quite often how WHOIS was dead and would be replaced by RDAP. That didn’t happen either.

> IPSEC people probably really believed there would be Internet-wide IKE

Interestingly, that problem could in theory be solved by DNSSEC. We’ll see what happens.
Bloomberg: The White House Weighs Digital Trade Deal to Counter China in Asia
Please make a very small and simple game (a toy game :-)) first to help people get the clue before the things go complex.
While I agree with the contents of your message - that the titles of the submissions should be more informative - I don't believe it is the job of moderators to do that, but the submitters themselves.

Absolute numbers mean very little BTW. Recently some (but not all!) of the most interesting articles are those that are flagged or mysteriously disappear from the front page.