skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During an interview I had at Discord recently the lead engineer mentioned they had exceeded 130 million users. Though, there was also a recent bump by almost 70 million people that left Skype and joined Discord in the news recently as well. He told me that Skype is the 800 pound gorilla to beat and that they have around 300 million users or something. They're definitely gunning for them, and Microsoft has changed Skype so much that they've alienated much of their user base in addition to having lots of security flaws. Discord touts their security, two factor auth, IP address hiding, plus having all the features of Skype in addition to the concept of slack-like chat rooms. More than just gamers are starting to use it.

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/discord-turns-three-120...

At the moment, Discord is ad-free and other than Nitro subscriptions which let you have animated profile images and use emoticons in any server, which he admitted was an almost unnoticeable revenue stream at the moment, they don't really have a way to monetize the platform. When I asked how they were planning to generate revenue and whether my job would be secure he said they haven't settled on any ideas yet but have a few bouncing around that he wouldn't tell me.

He mentioned that once they reach 600 million users they consider that the break-even point where they've succeeded as a platform and can start considering putting possible plans into action. My guess is that advertising will play a big part, and possibly various other techniques like microtransactions, platform integrations, affiliates, partnership deals, content distribution (movies, music, games), etc. It is probably the break point at which you can afford to anger a percentage of your users in exchange for enough revenue to establish themselves as a self-sufficient organization.
Not sure what they do, but it's entirely possible to build a solution where all image/video content is stored on-blockchain as well.

>If so, how do they solve the problem of people downloading the blockchain being liable for illegal content added by other users?

Divide each file into N shards, make sure every miner has no more than N/2 shards of any file at any point in time. You only 'get' a complete file if you specifically ask for it.
I’ll concede that Trump indeed doesn’t say nice things. But there is little point in understanding what he says because tomorrow he could just as well say the complete opposite. Most of it is just empty posturing anyway so there isn’t a lot to understand.

I think most countries are just trying to shield themselves from his damage until his term ends.
Maybe. But that sort of thing is expensive for a court case, especially when there is sufficient evidence for conviction already.

The driver was convicted of vehicular homicide (max five years), and leaving the scene of an accident. He can't be forced to testify about the location of the car (Fifth Amendment), and I don't know if he was charged with obstruction of justice. His mother was charged with obstruction-type charges, and her case hasn't been tried yet.
Did you mean redundant (not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous) or resilient (able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions)?

:)
Or maybe instead there are a huge number of views somewhere in the middle. Like, maybe a stable society is one that both rewards individual achievement while trying to maintain a level playing field and providing a basic level of support for everybody in society.

I don’t recognise your mischaracterisation and this sort of thinking is why we are presently so completely fucked.
So nobody can submit their own content unless it has a Show HN on it? Come on that’s ridiculous.

Also, “Show HN” is specifically for products we can play with after clicking the link. Please do not pollute Show HN with blogposts; I will flag them and I’m sure others will too.
Having been in the (software side of the) digital marketing business for a few years, I generally agree with you.

On the other hand, there are some complaints you can level at the industry. One is that they're exploiting an information asymmetry between the buyer and the seller; buyers as of yet haven't realized just how cheap and available things are on Aliexpress, and the sellers do their best to hide the source of goods. I think this will resolve itself over time as buyers get more savvy.

There are also some questionable practices. "Free, you just pay [$10+] shipping" seems aimed at some sort of psychological defect in the part of the human brain that calculates value. And digital marketers often are often rather indifferent to IP rights.

I guess my biggest complaint is that there are an awful lot of online marketers that really just don't seem to care all that much about the customer. They're often selling one-time impulse buys which are priced too low to be worth the trouble to return and they don't expect a repeat customer, ever. They've never even seen the products they're selling. I guess I want a little more value-add from my vendors - I've gone back to buying things offline where I can.

(I'm sure the article author is in a very different category of seller, which is heartwarming!)
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I agree with your overall point, although the Subaru Outback is still a station wagon to most people, I think. The Forester is a better example.

Also, both the FJ Cruiser and Xterra have been discontinued, which further emphasizes that "traditional" SUVs hardly exist these days.
Would Blender make money from Youtube Red subscribers if they did not have monetized videos? How does this affect the profitability of Youtube?
Are these GPUs on bare metal or virtualized GPUs on VMs
Facebook ordered to explain deleted profile
Test New Features and Iterate Quickly with Cloudflare Workers
You don't like sacrificing 1% of your SD Card space to Finder?
I haven't used React Native, but I've ready a few posts from people adopting it. They typically test the waters by writing new app views in React Native instead of rewriting everything. But how much cognitive overhead is there in maintaining multiple toolchains (React Native and native and/or web views) and debugging views in different languages in one app?
This is super simple. Use your conscious mind to program your unconscious mind.

Do this by deciding how you want to think and act, and then consciously think those thoughts and do those actions, no matter how awkward it feels or how silly it seems. You are simply intentionally programming your subconscious. The weird incongruent feeling that pops up is what it feels like when your subconscious protests.

Laughter is a great substitution, it is hilarious some of the imagined threats that people come up with.

Your subconscious is only a pattern-matching-and-producing machine. Repeat the correct thoughts and actions often enough, and it will adapt to the new pattern. It may take a few days or weeks to start to notice, and it will only be a subtle shift at first, but it will happen.

Also, stop reading or watching anything that triggers the wrong emotions.
The software for my 'smart' tv. Restarts constantly to free up memory, apps take forever to load, switching between apps is a pain. I've resorted to using my ps4 if I want to watch Netflix.
Yes, original Aseprite contributors sign CLA.
Nick Hague dreamed of the stars as a boy, now he's heading to space
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YouTube has videos on the downward arrow technique [1], not sure if it's the same.

I originally heard/read something similar, of all places, from Dr Phil in the late 90s. IIRC, he spoke of a middle-aged man wanting a red sports car and why he might want that sports car. Let's imagine it's cause he wants to feel young again. Why does he want to feel young again and what are all the other ways he could achieve that? And what if he wanted to feel young again because that's when he felt the most freedom? So, he wants freedom, not to be young, and not the red sports car. What are all the ways he could regain that feeling? And so on, and so forth, until one thinks they've gone down deep enough.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3hMmZQAdhw (9 min)
Somebody should make a reliable sentiment analyser. How hard could that be? ;)
Meditation can help you get meta on the process so that you can watch yourself getting worried and recognize it as something that is of the mind. As you start to see the patterns on how worry develops in your mind, you can start to choose your response. Once you can choose your response, you can decide if you want to take action or if you want to let them go.

Once you are outside of the worry spiral and see it for what it is, you may find that not only do you not have to worry about these hypothetical situations, but that there is nothing at all to worry about in this single iteration that you're taking through the simulation.

EDIT: Highly recommend Transcendental Meditation. Here is some info on their anxiety results: https://www.tm.org/reduced-stress-and-anxiety
Well, I bought Aseprite while it was FOSS, and license was one of the reasons I chosen it instead of PyxelEdit. I wound't say I feel betrayed... more like disappointed.
The wit and wisdom of Dr Johnson is still of benefit to us all
How about making vanilla k8s usable on-premise first...
It says "17 days ago" and if you hover changes to "02 Jun 2018" (at least on desktop)
I see (sorry I skimmed it before). From the looks of it it seems she got a lot of support though because of that.

It’s a little different too since she was actually selling products with her logo on them vs. developing free software, but good point.
Looking at the actual text, according to section 2(a) of GDPR Article 27†, a representative is not required in the cases of small or occasional operations. Basically, If you aren't a large corporation, it doesn't apply to you.

You still have to follow the majority of the Article but a representative is not required.

† http://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/27.htm
Waymo's Self-Driving Technology Test Car Hit by Red-Light Running Vehicle in AZ
Google Play security metadata and offline app distribution
Ask HN: How to get good remote jobs?
Searching for remote work is not that easy. A lot of factors are there. I need to know some good startups which can be considered and why.
Google Podcasts Hands On: It's About Time
Waymo has been transporting around the 400 people that applied for 8 months without any safety driver.
It has 7 million miles under the belt without any casualties and orders of magnitude more of simulated miles.
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Learn to accept life as a bit of a joke and try to face everything that you choose to do with your whole heart
> The people who find Vue appealing (myself included) come from the world of design and html+css markup and jQuery.

This is something I've noticed-- spot on. Vue seems popular to people coming from the direction of "augmenting their HTML", whereas React is appealing to me precisely because it's all JavaScript.
You need a way to get people to tell you what their problems are, but without them knowing you're looking for business ideas. If they know you're asking for business ideas, then they might not give you problems, but what they think are good business ideas.
I see what you mean. With Apple Pay, Apple can slide into retail payment processing but they only have to deal with OEMs and banks, not every mom 'n' pop retail store.
I'm fully aware but in the context of GPS reception on cellular devices--prompting me to ask what I thought was a tangential question. Apologies that this was such a severe faux pas to end up downvoted into the negatives.
This was me several years ago. I did a couple small things that changed my life in a big way. See a psychiatrist to talk through your problems. It may help you identify why you worry so much.

When you feel the worries coming on, make a conscious effort to calm yourself; and be nicer to yourself. You are awesome. You are great at handling any issue. Repeat it over and over and over. Take care of yourself.

Make an effort to be more mindful. Stop and smell the roses every once in a while :)
I know this has been posted before but youtube-dl is a godsend when it comes to archiving content. Considering how quickly youtube is taking down educational channels, it's prudent to create a backup just in case.
There are already mature products in this market, e.g. RunMyJobs: https://rmj.redwood.com/

This started out as a distributed cron over 20 years ago, available as a saas product for a few years already.
> Do you seriously think that the much qualified software engineers and other specialists working on these projects are not thinking through all these points?

You are commenting in a thread about how a team of those "much qualified software engineers and other specialists" failed to do simulation testing. So yes, there is reason to believe that these companies are failing to address many of these potential problems.
I'm curious if you could talk about your unit economics: 14,000 teams are using your bot (including some big brand tech companies), but its translating to what feels small, 25k/mo for a 7 person operation.
The station has been abandoned for my entire lifetime. I sent some pictures from the inside today to my Grandpa who used to take the train from there many times a year to and from Chicago for school in the 50's and into the 60's, and he said he could still recognize some of it even from those days despite all the decay. It's no doubt a large renovation project to get it fixed up, but it's a day many like him were never really sure would happen ever since it shuttered.

It really was quite an event today. Employees and media were able to enter for a look around, some wonderful performances from city students and even Big Sean showed up for a few songs. The company certainly has a long way to go especially in a changing industry, but this is a really cool and bold statement for the company and for the city.
I have to agree. It was really interesting that they highlighted that nearly 2/3rds of their engineers would use React Native again. I also assumed that the last part of the blog series was going to be mostly fluff / product announcements, but their efforts in server side rendered native screens and drastic reductions in build time are legitimate takeaways from devs who are used to development cycles at React-Native speeds.
Video of the Tesla tent line in action
I don't think it's necessarily reasonable to expect everyone to only communicate some consensus view. I understand my opinion here is only a sample-of-one, but I generally need a collection of individual reports before I can aggregate them.
Yet another company discovers what many of us did ages ago with multi-platform frameworks.

Additional layers not supported by platform owners, mean extra debugging efforts tracking down which layer is responsible, catching up with native SDK features, need to be an expert at both layers, lack of integration with native debugging tools...

But business always wants the Ferrari solution at the cost of a Fiat panda.
New human gene tally reignites debate
Yet I get down-voted to oblivion without reason or evidence :P
I don't think anyone has publicly released a definitive answer on that. Tesla doesn't have access to the car or data and I am not aware of any investigation by a trustworthy third party. However the details of the accident are similar enough to both the other accidents and known Autopilot flaws that it seems reasonable to conclude that Autopilot was likely active at the time of the crash.

And I appreciate you correcting that inaccurate mileage reference on Wikipedia.
This is great news for PeerTube! Since Blender as an established community, I hope PeerTube will gain traction from it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075994
Very interesting perspective.

I always assumed people would integrate an external simulator like CarMaker rather than build their own.

I'd be exceedingly interested in hearing about your product when it comes available (although my interest is in simulation for maritime autonomy rather than automotive).
A useful statistic from 2016: US adults on average watch 5 hours of TV per day. Over 90 days (a few months) that's 450 hours.
> Meanwhile the overall crash rate for self-driving cars is lower, correct?

I don't think that's correct in general, and especially not so if you compare the conditions that each are driven under. Said a bit differently, the human error rate is in all conditions (rain / snow / nighttime / unmarked roads / gravel) where most self-driving miles are on well-marked city and highway roads in near ideal conditions.
> Offering to host your videos for free

For free? No. For your valuable data. You think youtube is worth over $100 billion because it's hosting your videos for free?

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/youtube-might-be-worth-o...
What would be interesting is the effect of both together; a sort of Brave New World 2.0. Great fodder for the likes of Black Mirror, at least.
As an average American, why should I care about the "Economy" of the incredibly high earners/highly valuable? Doesn't Apple have like a Trillion dollars sitting in the bank? I feel confident they could whether most things, at least until the bottom falls out and the average American can't afford an iPhone even with Telco monthly pay plans.

Production and value of the American machine has skyrocketed, but nobody I know has seen a proportional increase in income or value. Trickle-down has so MASSIVELY failed. We can't afford to root for the game, because we can't afford to PLAY the game.

When someone who basically swims in money says "But this will hurt the economy", what they really mean is "This will hurt a small section of some budget for me somewhere that you don't even benefit from, and even then, I'll just pass on the costs to you the consumer anyway"

It just feels unfair to the person who actually works for their money, instead of playing gambling games with investments.
"Equality of outcome" is a straw-man. Inequality of outcomes sometimes get presented as evidence of inequality of opportunity, but it is hardly the only evidence.
Don't forget that Trump ran several businesses into the ground as well as 'Trump University' which was 100% a con job. I have a degree in economics and the bullshit coming out of Trump's mouth displays such a lack of understanding that I wouldn't even expect it from a middle-school student.

Before you think of Trump as some kind of economics genius maybe you should think about how much bile the Wall Street Journal had to swallow when they had to endorse Hillary Clinton for the presidency.

Trump is a legitimately great conman but nothing more.
This reply is itself a good example of the flamewar style: low substance, hot topic, irritable rhetoric. I understand the temptation to post this way, but on HN we're trying to eke out a small space not dominated by it.

The idea here is thoughtful conversation. You're welcome to participate in that, but not to turn it into something different, which is what flamebait and flamewars do.
Well, there's nothing stopping other frameworks from being ported to wasm as well. Then they'd be back on a more even playing field.
tl;dr:

> Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making native amazing.
It is inherently expensive to lock people up. It costs food, room, board, building maintenance, and labor (in the form of guards), all of it 24/7. None of this is cheap.

It's also unconstitutional to lock up people inhumanely.
Yes, from encrypted non-system partitions or encrypted external drives to an unencrypted system partition.
I wonder how Uber's fatality rate compares to other high risk groups. For example, I suspect teenagers or new drivers in general have a higher fatality rate. And yet obviously new/young drivers must be allowed to operate vehicles on the open road. Would your opinion change if, for example, Uber's fatality rate was better than $worst_category_of_current_drivers?
> So this seems to have happened because YouTube wants The Blender Foundation to agree to have their videos monetized.

"Don't be evil."
Personal-finance startup  SmartAsset (YC S12) raises $28M
Why would you want your OS to start writing to the SD card just because you browsed around it in Finder?
The person that started this type of videos has the channel "Primitive Technology" at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

It is nice that others are following the lead.
I do doubt though in this video that they filled up the pool with just those two buckets.
Where exactly is this feature leaking the data to if FDE is turned on? To the encrypted /var directory? It could potentially leak from an encrypted external storage device to a non-encrypted /var on the boot drive, but if you use FileVault to encrypt the boot drive the “leak” would be from one encrypted drive to another. An issue to fix, but not a major story.
It's not that the files take up space, it's that they're there.

Have a look of how many repositories on GitHub which include a completely unrelated .DS_Store file: https://github.com/search?q=filename%3A.DS_Store
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Where did that 4th fatality come from? I have only ever seen reports of 3.

Either way, you can't credibly use aggregate totals without at least mentioning the underlying rate statistics. That would be like me saying that over a 100 people die every day from manual driving but only 3 people have ever been killed by self driving Teslas and therefore Teslas are safer. Statistics doesn't work like that. Tesla's have more fatalities than any other semi-autonomous car because they have orders of magnitude more miles driven. It is far to early to tell whether they are either safer or more dangerous.
Yes, it does. If you read through the researcher's post, they have an encrypted volume (VeraCrypt-style) which they mount on an otherwise unencrypted filesystem. Data can leak from inside the encrypted volume, to the cache location outside the encrypted volume.

If you're using Filevault2, the entire hard disk is encrypted, including the cache location.
Early demo but any thoughts on this? good or bad. All suggestions appreciated.
Maybe...if Forks were more popular on Github?
Introducing Windows Server System Insights
How is a private blockchain functionally different from the average database?
An operating system for the cloud
It is indeed, and is quite popular in France for nonprofit or social projects.
My spring in a high school CS classroom
People who think that just because it's in C++ it's harder than the average web app to write, and lack of ability to deploy e.g. on macos without owning a mac or windows without having a windows partition (though there are solutions, but nothing as easy as what electron proposes).

I also noticed that a lot of people tend to choose electron arguing that unlike Qt (which is under LGPL), Electron is under MIT, but it seems that they are not aware that it's only the electron scaffolding part which is MIT, not the whole electron framework which includes chromium, ffmpeg which are also LGPL.

Though overall I'd wager that there's an order magnitude more cross-platform single-toolkit apps built with Qt than with other frameworks.