Looking for a technical cofounder - <AUTHOR>

Hey All,
I've recently come up with what I think is a fun/interesting idea for an iOS/Android app.  Its not something that will make us billionaires - but I think it would be fun to build and would very quickly become profitable.  The app/idea solves a problem for a large and growing market and has a definite built-in audience.  There are already competitors but they aren't very good and don't really capture/display the information in a functional way.  I'm sorry that I'm probably sounding cagey/shifty, but truthfully I think its something that would be really easy to build and a great, marketable product.  With some of the programmers here I have little doubt that we could have it built and live in a month after a couple of hours a week of work.  Enough of the preamble, here's the idea.
On the backend:  We extract location and timing data from schedules or twitter feeds ->  We use locations to "pin" those things on a map.
As for the app:  On startup we check the user's location then display (on the same map) the pins closest to them.
There's a bit more I've worked out as far as design, implementation and extra information that we would want to provide, but essentially thats it.  I'm looking for anyone with great skills/experience and an interest in food (of any type), slight preference might be given to folks in Boston and/or LA but thats only so that we could chat/work in person.  Everything else can be done from wherever and on whatever schedule you'd like.
If you'd like to chat, drop me an email (joshua.snyder(@)gmail.com) or post a comment, I'm looking forward to it.  I think this project could be pretty interesting, a lot of fun and rather quick to complete.
Josh <comment><USER2> You forgot to give any information about you, or what you are bringing to the table. Have you lined up any customers? Do you know how much you will charge?

Did you read the 10 customers post yesterday? <http://blog.asmartbear.com/customer-validation.html> I would do something like this before getting a co-founder to build the app.

You should say:

"I have a dozen costumers lined up willing to pay $x. It cost me $y in marketing (like ad-words) to get these costumers leaving us $x-$y in profit. Estimated market cap is $z"

It isn't too hard to get all this data, and it will get you a much better response.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hey Matt, thanks for the advice. Some of this stuff, I've done, and some I'm still working on. As for me, I'm a former management consultant, my experience was primarily in strategy, operations and sales/marketing. For the last year I've been consulting and advising startups bringing some of things I learned over the last five years to help out. Those projects have ranged from building pricing/marketing strategy, customer segmenting, product differentiation, etc. - basically everything non-technical from UI to customer service.

I have talked to potential customers either friends, friends-of-friends, or random people over the weekend and with an app price of around five bucks, the first 30-40 have been interested. That didn't cost me anything except time at an event I would have went to anyway. That may work for initial sales, launch or testing, but that isn't longterm. For that I've put together a list of vendors and 3rd parties that I can reach out to when we have a better mockup (most of whom I know are already looking for this) about advertising, publicity etc. Long term I think its more about getting in front of the right people and less about ad-word buys or marketing.

I had read that post, and put quite a bit of work into testing the idea to be sure it wasn't just solving a personal itch and you're totally right that work didn't come through in my initial post, thanks.</comment></comment>


Show HN: GetScreenshots.io: Screenshots for continuous integration - <AUTHOR> http://getscreenshots.io/

<comment><USER2> Any plans to open-source this? Looks like a useful service.

<comment><AUTHOR> thanks mazmanr. not yet, maybe we'll opensourcing part of the code.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Just wondering to find a usecase for this

<comment><AUTHOR> XD , ganessh, when I make a deploy of a web app, I needed to know how it looked in different resolutions, save this images and in some cases shared this (maybe to slack.com ). this micro service solve my problem and maybe is useful for other people.</comment></comment>


Parabon Leaks - <AUTHOR> https://encyclopediadramatica.se/PRISM#Parabon_Leaks

<comment><USER2> Any article out there that goes through this and explains it?</comment>


Dropped wrappers and dirty cups: the tricks bosses play at interviews - <AUTHOR> https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2019/jun/05/dropped-wrappers-and-dirty-coffee-cups-the-tricks-bosses-play-at-interviews <comment><USER2> It is a Navy tradition not to wash your coffee cup.

While I was never in the Navy, my coffee cup can be used to make coffee by just adding water.

If the manager dropped the candy wrapper, the manager should pick it up.

Managers who play mind games are the kind of people who think negging is a dating technique. It betokens a superiour attitude. Find work elsewhere.

</comment><comment><USER3> Those mind games are very useful for candidates as well because, after reading that article, I have no desire at all to work for any of these companies.

Now, the 'thank you' email after an interview on the other hand is etiquette and a good way to follow up.</comment>


Google's Privacy Changes You Should Know About - <AUTHOR> https://www.identityguard.com/news-insights/googles-privacy-change-you-should-know-about <comment> duncan-donuts The part that gets me is how _willing_ most people are to provide their data. Even when you are trying to maintain your privacy, almost everyone makes it so hard to do so that it almost isn't worth it.

</comment><comment><USER2> Don't know if my memory is failing me, but it seems like Google re-enabled my search history some time in 2015 without telling me. Maybe around that time, search history got subsumed by this newer "Web & App Activity" setting. You may want to re-check your settings.

</comment><comment><USER3> Am I the only one who things it is weird when a company who wants to sell me something tell me something that would probably make me buy their service?

(And the service isn't telling me stuff.)

<comment><USER4> Am I the only one that read this comment three times and still has no clue what the poster is on about?

<comment><USER5> no

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Ah, so, if Google analytics/Adsense isn't there to fingerprint the visitor, doubleclick will fill that gap now?

</comment><comment><USER7> So is it cool to submit advertisements under the guise of an Article now?</comment>


Google's First Real Threat? Twitter. - <AUTHOR> http://lewmoorman.com/googles-first-real-threat-twit <comment><USER2> Oh please, Twitter couldn't threaten Google if all the founders lives depended on it. The twitter hype is just silly, they haven't even figured out how to make money yet, c'mon.

<comment><USER3> haha, I read the headline and my first thought was "Twitter? Oh please..."

<comment><USER4> " _HA!_ " - Edna Krabappel

That was my initial thought at the headline.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I sincerely doubt that Google fears Twitter, but twitter search can and does provide something very powerful that, at this point, Google does not. That "something" is real time info.

Some examples:

1\. Some Saturday Night around midnight try searching Twitter for SNL. (You don't really have to search, it's usually a trending topic). You will instantly find out who the guest is, if there is anything particularly funny, if the monologue bombed, etc. Go ahead and say "SNL is never funny," but it is just an example of real time feedback. You can do the same thing during awards shows or sporting events.

2\. Since silicon valley has a relatively high density of Twitter users, I will sometimes find myself doing a twitter search for the road I'm about to take if I'm concerned about traffic. Sure, I can see traffic on Google maps on my iPhone but it only covers freeways and is not as fast or granular as people complaining that they aren't moving for whatever reason at a paricular intersection.

3\. Speaking of iPhones, Twitter search was AWESOME for figuring out where lines were long or short. On the days following the 3G launch, doing a search for 'iPhone line' would produce results like "About 200 people in iPhone line at Valley Fair - 10 minutes ago" or "iPhone line was only about 30 minutes in Palo Alto - 1 hour ago." Quickly getting a sense of the crowds before driving all over town is VERY useful.

Google, while definitely not threatened, has no way to provide me that kind of real time info, and until they do, Twitter has an important place in search.

<comment><USER6> Another example:

I checked my DVR for the latest Office 2 weeks ago. Nothing there. Was the problem the DVR or was there no new office?

Twitter search: "the office"

Results: "wtf -- no new office this week" and about 100 other similar messages.

I do things like this a few times a week now. Twitter Search is about as exciting as Web 2.0 companies get, imo.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> The day twitter causes google execs to quake in their boots is the day that cows will fly and hell will freeze over.

Please. Twitter is large, but still a niche. I've played around with it, it's nice but it is also something that I can easily live without.

The twitter crowd (as well as most other social networking sites and their denizens) remind me of locusts, they swarm in untold hordes from one 'hot' new thing to another, initially a few harbingers, then the main crowd until the fascination with the new medium is over and then it goes away again.

Right now twitter is roughly 1% the size of google, and plenty of people have already tried it and have moved on. Google is the #2 website in the world, with above it only yahoo.com, the example given (the new audi) is maybe relevant to the 'buzz' scene (which really is what twitter is all about) but the rest of us may not care that much.

Blogging is only a small fraction of search, you have to do everything well, if not then you're a niche player, and niche players are not a threat.

<comment><USER8> Is it really a whole percent the size? That seems large to me.

<comment><USER7> Roughly, twitter about 0.3% of the internet at large google about 30%.

Even if they're both off by 50% that still makes twitter an impressive achievement.

On a side note, I find it incredible that yahoo still is as big as it is, I never expected them to hold out as long as they did at the top spot. I really wonder what the stickyness there is. Somewhere in mid december or so I think google overtook yahoo as the #1 site.

<comment><USER8> It's because people use Yahoo for a _ton_ of stuff. I still use Yahoo Answers when I have no other place to ask a question. My roommate uses Yahoo sports. Some browsers still default to Yahoo. It's huge: its array of services make Google look minimal.

0.3% is pretty impressive, absolutely. It's still not the revolution people've been calling it, and I'd be willing to bet it never goes truly mainstream. I don't think it can while Facebook maintains its grip on college-age kids.

<comment><USER7> I see twitter as the 'facebook' of the linked-in and xing crowd, not sure if that makes sense that way to others though.

The reason why is that it's the same people that seem to be sending out invites on all those networks, but somehow it is disjoint from facebook which I think pulled a lot of people in the myspace (formerly the same crowd that was on geocities) towards it as well as a whole slew of people that have just 'established' themselves on the web.

It would be very interesting to see how much overlap there is between those sites.

<comment><USER8> Yeah, I'd be curious to see that too. The only problem with that is that Facebook's popular because it's a sort of all-in-one. If you don't care about your online presence, it does everything in one place. Twitter handles a much more limited subset of those things.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> There's no way that Google is "threatened" by Twitter search. Google's search dominance is not maintained by providing the best car reviews or up-to-the- minute news. I'm not going to go to Twitter to search for research papers, or obscure little facts, or tech help on some issue I'm having with my OS. I can't use Twitter search to find all of the news.yc threads regarding Twitter, but Google can: [http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+t...](http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+twitter)

Additionally, for a lot of people, Google's not just a source of information, but a gateway to the Internet. Twitter, I think, can't do that. I think that this whole real-time news & Twitter search thing might prove interesting and fruitful, but it's not a threat to Google.

</comment><comment><USER10> Here's a recent twitter story for me: A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my living room, and I heard a bunch of emergency vehicles. I went to the local live 911 site and saw that there was a large heavy rescue response at the interchange between two major highways; 18 vehicles. My wife was searching local news sites; nothing. I went to twitter search, searched for one of the highways, and immediately found someone who was twittering from the scene, and taking photos. That's pretty powerful stuff, but at present, also probably rare. But as more people start to pulse more immediate information into channels like this, along with metadata (as automatic as possible, like location) this dynamic will become more common. And potentially abused.

<comment><USER11> Agreed. This is the sort of stuff that Twitter is great for and I suspect that someone smart will find a way to use it as the vehicle for citizen news reporting. But it's niche, like a lot of folks are saying and even then, the kinks would be plentiful and I'm not sure that it'd be particularly useful during "dead times" and it'd be hard to sift through what's important except in bigger places or centered around certain niches.

The technology itself is useful, just a question of whether it's something someone would pay for and I'd say no in most cases.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> Here are some searches that are better for me on search.twitter than on google:

1) My name and company name

2) When I'm at a party and I want to find the after party

3) I'm moderating a panel and I want to see what people think

4) When I'm NOT at a conference and I want to read what I'm missing

5) When the building shakes, I search "earthquake" to see if what's going on.

6) When I want to see if others are also having trouble with an iPhone app

7) When I want to see if a company responds to its customer service issues

<comment><USER13> When looking for info on Breaking News

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Sure. Just wait until Twitter becomes worth gaming, and see if its "Human Powered Search" is still good for anything. If a large enough number of people ever start using Twitter to research products, it'll be overrun with spam, and it will be much harder to combat than for Google.

<comment><USER15> One way to mitigate this would be to allow users to limit search to who they following, or some circle around them.

This might even be the basis of a business model, if Twitter gets its micropayments story worked out: let folks who are good at finding good content charge other users to follow them (something small, 10c a month or whatever). People might pay if they felt like they were avoiding spam and getting good, searchable content.

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> That's an interesting angle and I always thought, why is there a search.twitter.com and not just a little input at the top every page on twitter.com.

<comment><USER17> I suspect that that design decision is failwhale repellent. The only problem with a search box on every page is that people would probably use it.

<comment><USER18> IIRC, twitter not too long ago acquired a 3rd party company who offered better searching. It may be an integration issue as well.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> People love to exaggerate. It's an interesting idea but, no, it's not happening.

</comment><comment><USER20> his key point is that "twitter knows which of our blog post was most popular" - ...

So does Google (links coming in, perhaps even twitter links) also they use user click data; Google knows son, Google knows.

<comment><USER7> Naturally, the blogosphere is seeing things through a blogo-spherical lense, and to them it's huge, no point in debating that.

But the world is a lot larger than blogs and I think that's why they miss the point entirely. 99% of all the blogs out there is rubbish anyway, or at a minimum has very limited applicability. A 'rating' system for blogs would actually be a useful thing but I see it very much as a niche application.

And don't forget that the rss stats from the google bought 'feedburner' also tell you a lot about blog popularity without having access to 'twitters goldmine', same goes for analytics. Google has a lot more when it comes to datasources than just the search box.

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> My prediction for 2009 is that Google will buy Twitter.

<comment><USER21> And then they'll nuke it like Dodgeball and Jaiku?

Maybe the article has a point...

<comment><USER18> Or it will thrive like Blogger, which given the players involved is a much more apt comparison.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> Not too long ago I discovered <http://www.twitscoop.com/>, and I realized that there's no better place to go if I ever want to partake in the droning about pop-culture 'now'.

Also, news summaries (i.e. one liners) seem to be better done when they're done by people rather than search engines/newspapers.

</comment><comment><USER23> Bang on. If they can nail natural language search, Twitter will beat Google hands down.

</comment><comment><USER24> I don't agree that Twitter is a threat to Google, but I can see it gaining a foothold as a place for consumers, for example, to get direct user data on a product or company that is not possible through product reviews.

</comment><comment><USER25> Twitter is susceptible to spam now, and may be always, so the idea that it is better because you can get product reviews from real people is a bit silly. Presently there is no way to tell a bot account from a human.

</comment><comment><USER26> That's really funny how the author takes the example of audi q5 and compares it to Google results.

</comment><comment><USER27> Hoover's First Real Threat? Shamwow.

</comment><comment><USER28> Twitter is just a well-designed little brand. It cannot be compared to Google, but it can teach us what google missed. Twitter is a good example how name + usability + simple design works together. Same ideas works for Facebook - design and usability and less ads is why they outperform myspace. It seems like google cannot create entertainment services. They made almost perfect source code hosting, and their mail and reader are simple and usable, unlike stuffed with ads yahoo's mail, or that mess myspace. If you're trying to invite people to some service "just for fun" it must be simple, stupid and usable, with few ads. Like iPhone =)</comment>


Ask HN: Do you track data about your life? Has it helped or led to insights? - <AUTHOR>

Do you track data about your life over time? I'm thinking about things like weight, bodyfat%, sleep hours, food eaten and productivity?<p>What software do you use to do so? Has it led to any interesting results? <comment><USER2> I was recently at a Quantified Self meeting in Amsterdam. I met the most fascinating bunch of people, but the chief insight came from hearing his friends give a tribute to the late Seth Roberts at the end of the seminar. The take-home lesson there is that you don't need to wait for results of complicated and expensive controlled clinical trials, but you can experiment on yourself, observe the results, and adjust accordingly. Myself, I have enjoyed wearing a Nike FuelBand, which did bring home the difference walking around talking to people during a day at the office makes in my general fitness (step count) and well-being (subjective). The Withings WiFi scale has been huge to track the effects of exercise and a Paleo diet. A normal scale would have told me that my weight hasn't changed in the 9 months I've changed those habits. The body impedance read from the Withings scale gives noisy but overall reliable body-fat data, and that shows me I've exchanged 10 lbs of fat for as much muscle. I've also noticed that a few days with less than about 5 hours of sleep will send my body fat creeping back up. Invaluable and extremely reinforcing in a positive way.

</comment><comment><USER3> I use an iOS app called, Reporter ([http://www.reporter- app.com/](http://www.reporter-app.com/)). It prompts you with push notifications to answer a set of custom questions throughout the day- Are you looking at a screen? Who are you with? Where are you? How many cups of coffee have you had?

The reports also capture "background" data using the phones sensors: number of steps, temperature, volume, elevation, phone battery, etc.

Its great for lightweight tracking and all the data can be exported in CSV or JSON formats. Reporter can definitely help you track sleep hours, food eaten, and productivity (weight and body fat % can also be captured).

I wrote an article about the 500 reports I've captured over the last 107 days: [https://medium.com/p/c4454b9d8456](https://medium.com/p/c4454b9d8456)

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks! Definitely gonna check this out.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I've been tracking my time, finances, health etc. for a little while. Wrote a blog post about the benefits of 'personal analytics' earlier this year: [http://www.nilkanth.com/2014/04/11/will-you-take-100-now- or-...](http://www.nilkanth.com/2014/04/11/will-you-take-100-now-or-200-in-a- month/)

</comment><comment><USER5> Not sure if you have seen it, but every once in a while people post a link to this guy's blog where he attempts to track a large number of body/life statistics everyday. The name of the site eludes me though. It was really well made and designed. Maybe someone can help me....

<comment><USER6> [http://feltron.com/](http://feltron.com/)

<comment><USER5> There was another one that was posting their stuff for free, although less detailed. The site was heavily designed.

<comment><USER7> I think you're talking about [http://aprilzero.com/](http://aprilzero.com/)</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Origin Protocol Launches Decentralized Marketplace Beta on Ethereum Mainnet - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/originprotocol/draft-origin-launches-beta-on-mainnet-draft-e3b70161ae86 <comment><USER2> Awesome, congrats to the whole team</comment>


Microsoft suffers stunning EU antitrust defeat  - <AUTHOR> http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/business_microsoft_eu_col

<comment><USER2> I think Microsoft makes a lot of crappy products. I think their key offerings are overpriced. Their FUD tactics do not impress me. I cannot, however, agree with this ruling. This quote really bothered me:

 _Asked how the Commission would assess progress in the Microsoft case, she said: "A market level of much less than 95 percent would be a way of measuring success ... You can't draw a line and say exactly 50 (percent) is correct, but a significant drop in market share is what we would like to see."_

That, to me, seems entirely wrong. They're talking about a market where, for a long time, Microsoft was the _only_ one providing usable services. Instead of encouraging other OS producers to improve their offerings, they're instead trying to level the playing field by levying penalties against Microsoft. This is an utterly counterproductive way to improve diversity and competitiveness. It reminds me of a scene from _Atlas Shrugged_.

<comment><USER3> IBM, Oracle and some other big software house actually charge more than Microsoft (sometime even double). I know this because I've talked to one of the MS product unit manager regarding MS prices.

I don't think there's any company that has offering such as MSDN subscription.

In the sense of their products are crappy.... I'd say that is a statement with no reasonable arguments. Vista Ultimate comes with Windows Media Center which is far more usable and better than Apple Front Row.

I would extend my argument further that there is no software company out there that can provide the services/features as good as MS given its size. Most companies died before they can even reach half of MS features. You can argue that's a feature bloat but I need them rather than a set of dis-integrate software with poor interop.

<comment><USER2> You're right, I didn't really give any solid reasons for what I said, but I didn't intend to. My point was to state that _I, personally,_ do not like Microsoft, but I am still opposed to the decision that was made against them.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> About the only advantage of the lack of democracy in the European Commission is that it's very difficult to buy people who have security of tenure...

I don't know that the term "stunning" is wholly appropriate (yes, I know it was Yahoo's choice) - perhaps "comprehensive" or "thorough" would be better, as I don't think anyone in the EU was particularly surprised at the outcome. I found what happened (or not) in the US much more confounding.</comment>


Intel says Qualcomm tactics forced it out of modem chip market - <AUTHOR> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-ftc-intel-idUSKBN1Y31SU <comment><USER2> Hearing Intel complain about anti-competitive tactics is a good one. Says an intel rep told the court, "[Intel] built innovative world-class products" ... from all I've heard that's straight up perjury, innit?</comment>


Why We Humblebrag About Being Busy - <AUTHOR> http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/why-we-humblebrag-about-being-busy/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

<comment><USER2> Busy ≠ successful.

Busy ≠ important.

Busy ≥ stressed.</comment>


Social Security says system's costs will exceed income this year - <AUTHOR> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-says-costs-will-exceed-income-this-year/ <comment><USER2> We've known this was coming for a long time...as a Millennial, I don't expect to ever see a cent of Social Security benefits.

<comment><USER3> As a millennial, I do. There are just too many easy mitigations here that will extend life several decades:

\- Remove the cap and tax income above $120k, just like medicare and income tax

\- Increased tax rate, possibly just on payroll not income (the employer-paid portion)

\- Limited forms of means-testing (Maybe, attenuated survivor benefits as your estate value clears a certain high mark like $3 million)

\- Eliminate "early" retirement ages and force the "full" age

\- Extending minimum retirement age to 70 and beyond

<comment><USER4> means testing is super unfair to those who sacrificed lifestyle in their youth to save for retirement.

Consider the person that could have, but didnt, live a lavish lifestyle and instead responsibly saved. Then a benefit (which they paid into, and maybe rely upon) is removed after the fact? Bad news.

<comment><USER3> Social Security is not a retirement account. We're paying today for the current generation of retirees so we don't have a class of elderly homeless eating cat food and dying in our streets.

Means testing is consistent with this outcome.

<comment><USER5> Means testing gets you nowhere because there are so few people who would qualify as too rich- it would be less than a drop in the bucket "saved." It would be purely symbolic, and it's another way for those in power to say that we punish the rich and social security is a wealth transfer to the poor, then use that as a reason to abolish it. The idea of means testing is totally counterproductive to your goal.

Also as an aside, there are wealthy elderly people already not cashing their social security checks, you just don't know it because it makes nearly no difference in the scheme of things.

<comment><USER3> Probably true, though separate from the argument that means testing is "unfair".

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> There are two problems with SS, one fixable, one less so. The hard to fix problem is slowing population growth. SS depends on young workers to fund the payments to retirees. But this is really only a problem if aggregate income growth declines with population growth, and it hasn't; the aggregate income of all Americans has quadrupled since 1982, the last time this shortfall occurred. The problem is that the vast majority of the income growth has been captured by a small portion of the population, who don't pay withholding taxes on it. If we had sane progressive tax policy in the US, the SS shortfall would evaporate.

<comment><USER7> > If we had sane progressive tax policy in the US, the SS shortfall would > evaporate.

Our tax policy is among the most progressive in the developed world: [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/us- taxe...](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/us-taxes-really- are-unusually-progressive/252917).

The real problem is that the _average income earner_ doesn't pay enough Social Security taxes to cover what they will receive in benefits: [http://www.politifact.com/truth-o- meter/article/2013/feb/01/...](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o- meter/article/2013/feb/01/medicare-and-social-security-what-you-paid-what-yo). The system is set up so not only do the needy get a public subsidy, but _most people_ do.

Caps on retirement taxes are not specific to the U.S. Germany and France, for example, have similar ceilings. Germany, for example, has a 19.6% payroll tax up to $80,000. The U.S. tax is 12.4% up to $127,000.

<comment><USER8> From your link "...and turning 65 in 2010 would have paid $722,000 into Social Security and Medicare and can be expected to take out $966,000 in benefits."

So basically, employees are giving the government a 45 year loan at zero interest. Even at just a 1.5% rate, the typical employee pays their own way.

<comment><USER9> That's already accounted for in the "paid-in" figure:

> (Remember, the couple didn't literally pay out $600,000; that's the current > value of what they paid out over the years, plus an additional 2 percent > they may have gotten had it been invested.)

Even accounting for inflation and investment, the average worker _still_ is paid out more from Social Security than they paid in.

<comment><USER10> > Even accounting for inflation and investment, the average worker still is > paid out more from Social Security than they paid in.

The source cited combines "Social Security and Medicare", it doesn't (at least in the quoted excerpt) address SS separately. These are different programs supported by different Trust Funds funded by different taxes applicable to different income and with different dynamics driving costs.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> We have the resources. What we lack are necessary priorities and the resolve to fix them.

The latest DoD budget is $700 billion. Russia's DoD budget is approx 10% of that. That's not a typo 10%. China might not be an ally - in the historical European sense - but given our symbiotic economic relationship it would like take quite a bit for a true military conflict to break out between the two countries.

Even if our DoD budget was 2x Russia's, the ~$550+ billion is still a lot of money. Money cant love, nor evidently priorities rooted in the 21st century.

<comment><USER12> that's not wrong but for the sake of argument perhaps its better to look at the DoD budget through the political lens ... its a corrupt jobs program in which the government funnels money to a broad swath of American states and counties, mostly via defense contractors.

Yes its incredible dumb and inefficient but many millions of people earn their livelihood, healthcare and pensions by building useless bombs, so its hard (politically) to say we'll take that away to shore-up Social Security or whatever.

<comment><USER13> If only it's politically feasible to slowly redirect their activities to peacetime activities, like reassign a lot of that personnel to the Army Corps of Engineers, and have them fix America's crumbling infrastructure.

<comment><USER14> It does seem a little insane that we don't adopt the part of the Roman professional military system that was arguably one of the most effective.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> "This year, like last year, Social Security's trustees said the program's two trust funds would be depleted in 2034. ... It should be stressed that the reports don't indicate that benefits disappear in those years. After 2034, Social Security's trustees said tax income would be sufficient to pay about three-quarters of retirees' benefits." [1]

We can argue about how honest this is, but the claim is that it will still be there for Millennials. It seems feasible because by the time Millennials are 67, the bulge of babyboomers will be gone.

[1]: [https://www.marketwatch.com/story/medicares-finances-are- get...](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/medicares-finances-are-getting- worse-as-social-security-taps-into-fund-for-first-time-in-36-years-2018-06-05)

</comment><comment><USER15> Social Security is a insurance program, not a retirement program. Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_\(United_States\))

<comment><USER16> >>Income derived from Social Security is currently estimated to have reduced the poverty rate for Americans age 65 or older from about 40% to below 10%

When 40% (or an extra 30%) of a country ends up in poverty without it kind of does become a retirement program. Or at least an 'old-age' program.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> One interesting side effect of this will be on the interest rate.

Social Security has been investing the surplus, most (or all?) in Treasury bonds. As outflows exceed income, they're going to have to sell bonds. That should drive prices down, and therefore interest rates up - to what degree, I don't know.

</comment><comment><USER18> Why don't we focus on using government bulk and "peace"-time military support to provide some of the services that "social security" (tax the young now to support the retired now) provides; directly, instead of as money or vouchers?

<comment><USER19> That'd be because a lot of US politicians are ideologically opposed to any welfare program.

<comment><USER20> As are the countless people who elect them, even though those same voters as a bloc rely far more on Social Security than those who vote for the other party.

<comment><USER19> If you poll those same voters on individual social welfare programs, particularly Social Security, you'll find they support them.

It's really upsetting.

<comment><USER20> If the voters are so dumb that they're voting directly against their own stated interests, then maybe they shouldn't have those programs.

<comment><USER18> Maybe we should actually have a meaningful test that is based on scientific evidence of understanding things like consequences and the current (at the time) structure of the government.

Failing the test, BTW, doesn't mean an individual can't vote (ever, just until they re-pass "high school"): it means society has failed them and they now qualify for extended schooling to correct their lack of education. Including provided room and board while they are studying as well as medical care to correct for sources of learning defects (such as poor vision, etc).

If someone is too impaired to be able to pass high school in that supporting environment then they should be 'retired' the same way someone with a more obvious disability is.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> Some comments by millenials say that they expect to receive SS benefits, but this is not a secure basis for financial planning. A person's retirement planning should be independent of any expected SS receipts and if you happen to receive SS then it's just a windfall.

<comment><USER22> I'm less than 15 years from retirement age, and I don't expect to get any Social Security.

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> Congress repealed the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, that would cut the cost of Medicare without cutting service much. Thus Medicare costs are higher, thus spending exceeds income. Reinstate this board, as well as some other measures, and it will be back on target.

It is a manufactured problem. Anything benefiting the taxpayer like Social Security or schools is always being cut, while the funds to move the US embassy to Jerusalem or send the Navy to the South China Sea seems to be bottomless.

<comment><USER24> >Congress repealed the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, that would cut the cost of Medicare without cutting service much.

Medicare services are already being rationed covertly via wait lists and via the increasing numbers of physicians who refuse to take Medicare or Medicaid.

The IPAB would most likely decrease access to services by cutting payments even further below market rates which would decrease supply of those services.

<comment><USER25> Market rates are inflated due to lack of price controls in programs like Medicare and Medicaid, plus employer-sponsored insurance plans are not as incentivized to negotiate for lower prices as individual consumers are.

Couple that with the supply side problems where doctors need 7+ years of training before they can perform simple procedures like testing for strep throat or prescribing antibiotics, and the fact that a large fraction of medical spending does very little to prolong life or improve quality of life and you can see that the current health care system is incredibly wasteful.

<comment><USER24> Medicare and Medicaid are the definition of price controls for paying physicians: they pay below market rate such that private insurance is billed higher to offset. There are week price controls for medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and the failure to address overuse of unnecessary equipment costs way more than the savings from price controls.

Testing for strep and prescribing antibiotics represent the smallest fraction of healthcare resources. Why didn't you include brain or spine surgery on your list of things that _shouldn 't_ require 7 years of training? Expensive end of life care isn't the fault of hospitals or clinicians: it's the fault of families who can't say no to excessive and futile end of life care.

If you want to get into getting rid of "wasteful" spending, why aren't you recommending everyone should smoke a pack of cigarettes per day? Most people would work and live a productive life until they die of lung cancer at age 65? Saves 15-25 years of unnecessary "end of life" care.

<comment><USER25> Sorry, you are right about price controls. I think it's still a problem that they incentivize unnecessary care.

I don't think we're actually that far apart on what we think the problems are. I wasn't trying to say that requiring large amounts of school in order to test for strep and antibiotics are the only cause of our high costs of healthcare, but they obviously contribute.

I agree (and I think any thinking person would agree) that you should have training to perform more specialized procedures.

Expensive end of life care is partly the fault of clinicians who get paid to authorize expensive procedures and who don't want to tell their patients and their families that there is very little they can do to prolong their life, so they should just surround themselves with loved ones and prepare to die.

And we can both agree that there is wasteful spending without arguing that people should kill themselves sooner. Just looking at our healthcare expenses relative to other countries shows we pay somewhere between 1.5-2x more for roughly the same level of care. That's obviously a market failure.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


LibreSSL is a FREE version of the SSL/TLS protocol forked from OpenSSL - <AUTHOR> http://www.libressl.org

<comment><USER2> Other (7 hours old) HN discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626072](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626072)

</comment><comment><USER3> A mainstream OpenSSL alternative would be great, but despite the fact that I'm not a web hipster, I just couldn't force myself to read that page.

<comment><USER4> And yet you did. :)

<comment><USER3> Just scanned to the bottom actually...</comment></comment></comment>


Extradite.vim: a git commit browser plugin that extends fugitive.vim - <AUTHOR> http://int3.github.com/vim-extradite/

<comment><USER2> I've held off stuffing fugitive into my vim setup as I'm happy using git from the command line, but this looks like it might be the thing that pushes me in to it.

That said, extradite only looks to get me part way towards answering the question I often find myself trying to answer with git, which is: 'which commits affected this range of lines in this file?' When looking at other people's code I often want to know _why_ the code looks like it does, and the commits made in a region over time give you the commentary (or at least should do if the commit messages are well written). Something like 'git blame', but instead of showing all lines for a single commit I was all commits for a range of lines.

<comment><AUTHOR> I've come across that question a couple of times myself,but don't think there's an elegant way to implement it by wrapping existing git commands. Unless there's some command that I'm not aware of.</comment></comment>


Cloudflare Network Interconnect - <AUTHOR> https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-network-interconnect/ <comment><USER2> So I currently rent data center space which includes 100Mbps (95th%) on a 1Gbit drop in a full rack with 4kW of power for about $500/month. Interconnects within the building (an IX where CloudFlare resides) I think cost maybe $100 a month or in that range.

Since CloudFlare apparently doesn't charge for peering, does that mean I can rent the fiber for $100/mo and get a interconnect into CloudFlare's backbone, and gain access to publically routable unmetered 10GBe with my own IP cloaked behind CloudFlare?

Obviously at some point they have to charge for bandwidth, maybe I'm just wildly misunderstanding the offering, but where does pricing come in?

<comment><USER3> You'll only be able to route traffic to their IP ranges, they're not offering to be a gateway for you.

<comment><USER4> But their hosted / proxy solution effectively makes them a gateway for you (albeit HTTP only)?

<comment><USER3> That solution, yes, but this is specifically peering for origins that are behind their proxy defense product. They won't route traffic that's not destined for their IP ranges. Further, they'll probably only advertise their backend ranges so you won't even be able to get the front of other CF-hosted sites.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> > We have had an open peering policy for years with any network and will > continue to abide by that policy

FTA, didn't know this... explains how they took over the world though

<comment><USER6> Almost any content-heavy network operator will do this, its free bandwidth.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I can see how this can be quite successful. On the one hand, private interconnect from your DC to a nearby Cloudflare PoP can be cheaper per Mbps or Gbps of bandwidth provisioned and hence can help reduce your overall network bandwidth costs. But on the other hand, you have to pay Cloudflare for their services and since they are bundling a lot of complex services they can justify charging a lot more than what a typical ISP's fees per Mbps of Internet would be.

If they succeed in attracting a lot customers to ride on their private network across any geography, over time their network will have the same jitter performance issues like Internet. If they grow too big, then they would have effectively privatized large parts of the Internet. That cannot be good for anyone.

</comment><comment><USER8> I really love this offering and I don't think it gets enough attention. We are an on-prem company and we use CloudFlare. Our users pay for that latency (in time) for us to traverse our IP providers to get to a CF pop. Since all our traffic goes over CF, directly connecting makes a lot more sense. I'm going to investigate further for the latency benefits.

I've also backhauled lots of IP over the years and it can be a real pain. Fiber cuts are common, keeping redundant wave service or dark fiber drives up the cost, and in the end, its often cheaper to hand off to an IP providers meshed network, then to backhaul any distance for latency.

</comment><comment><USER9> > What's the difference between CNI and peering?

I don't understand the answer here, can someone explain for us non-networking folk?

<comment><USER10> Generally, peering is how we connect with network providers like ISPs. CNI is for Cloudflare customers. Technically, they're trying to accomplish the same thing. Logistically, the way they're done could be the same — through a private network interface (a piece of fiber between our network and our peer or customer's) — or could be different (e.g., we'd be more likely to connect to a peer over an Internet Exchange (IX) where we'd be more likely to connect with a customer over a cloud network exchange). We generally hadn't offered peering or any other way to directly connect to Cloudflare's network to anyone but our largest customers in the past. CNI opens up who can take advantage of this faster, more secure, more consistent path much more broadly.

<comment><USER11> It's fantastic that Cloudflare is offering this. You might want to reconsider calling it CNI, or at least clarify that CNI is just an umbrella term for PNI and/or public peering. I'm the person that handles the PNI/IX stuff and after reading the article but before reading your comment I wasn't 100% sure if CNI was something Cloudflare specific (which we wouldn't immediately adopt) or PNI/public peering at an IX (which we would).

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Due to the focus on security, I'm curious about customer isolation here. When you do interconnect with a cloud provider, it's traditionally into a VPC. Does cloudflare have a similar concept in play?

How, for example, am I prevented from setting up a CDN configuration and/or EdgeWorker that talks to someone else's "private" (or non-internet routable) IP addresses? From the article it sounds like edge nodes have routeability to them, so is there some additional layer of packet encapsulation/tagging or something performed by proxy server?

<comment><USER13> Specific isolation mechanisms depend on what products a customer is using. In general, there is additional encapsulation happening as data is ingested and before it's sent onward to customers.

<comment><USER12> Neat! It would be interesting to see some writing about this in the future.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> If I'm understanding this CNI + Magic Transit correctly, it seems that Cloudflare is moving towards becoming a fully-fledged ISP.

<comment><USER15> An ISP is an Internet Service Provider. Cloudflare wants people to use their services and boasts that these are "safe" because you're not "directly exposed" to the Internet. In other words, they're proprietary.

The problem with all of this, regardless of whether Cloudflare is good or evil, is that it's a huge tie-in. Once companies are using some or all of Cloudflare's offerings, they're stuck. Should Cloudflare go down, there's nothing anyone can do but wait.

Also, when companies have deployed proprietary, non-standard solutions, moving will be expensive and arduous, and Cloudflare will jack up prices.

They're not becoming an ISP at all. They're becoming a service provider, sure, but of proprietary stuff intended to lock people in to using them and only them.

<comment><USER7> You are right. They are renting dumb fiber interconnects between their PoPs, their datacenters and to various IXs and then they are asking their customers to rent dumb fiber interconnects from _their_ offices and datacenters to connect with nearest Cloudflare PoPs and then use their proprietary services within that network, usually to reach eyeball networks (the end user ISPs). In this way, they slowly become the largest customer of transit ISPs and become the largest content providers for eyeball-ISPs. Once they get into this dominating position, they can pretty much command those ISPs on price and terms.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> An image on the page has some weird text that seems to say milliseconds- squared: "The variation in delay of received packets (or jitter) decreased from 82.9ms² to 0.3ms²". Maybe they are quoting variance instead of standard deviation?

<comment><USER17> Is that a footnote not a square?

<comment><USER16> Good guess, but I can't find any footnote named "2" on the page.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> Hmm still don't get how and why this is needed or not already there: a network to connect to another network.

<comment><USER19> Would you rather drive from LA to SF by driving straight north? Or would you like to make a pit stop in Dallas first?

Same principle applies. Lower latency if you have a direct connection. It makes sense when you send a lot of traffic between the two locations and don't want a lot of hops.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> How is this different than SD WAN? or is this CF's version of SD WAN?

</comment><comment><USER21> I read it and all I see is "Cloudflare VPN". Am I missing something?

<comment><USER22> It's a similar concept, except for a couple of key things:

1) It's not virtual: it's a physical interconnect between two networks.

2) It doesn't allow for public internet connectivity out. So this is basically a way for customers to connect their networks to Cloudflare's to receive the benefits of our DDoS protection, firewalls, cache pulls, etc.

But it does allow for traffic to flow back from Cloudflare to a connected network over a dedicated link (which can, and often is private).

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> Remember: Cloudflare has been loosing millions of dollars each year they existed.

[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519222176/d735023ds1.htm)

 _" As we continue to invest in our business, we have incurred net losses of $17.3 million, $10.7 million, and $87.2 million for 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2019, our revenue increased from $87.1 million to $129.2 million, an increase of 48%, and we incurred net losses of $32.5 million and $36.8 million, respectively. "_

The fact that they are injecting themselves into more and more basic internet infrastructure is genuinely scary.

<comment><USER24> That's a misunderstanding of how companies at this phase of growth work. They are only "loosing" money because they invest so much in growth. If they slowed down growth, they could be profitable (they have 78% gross margins), but over time, it creates more value to keep investing at this phase of things and become profitable later, when they're more mature and the land-grab phase is over.

<comment><USER25> I'm not sure I understand how that's different than what GP is saying.

Cloudflare is aggressively investing into growth during the 'land-grab' phase of development so that they can become one of, if not the, dominant player in regards to this kind of core Internet infrastructure. They view the 'land' of Internet infrastructure as a limited resource, and they want to own all of it.

I'm seeing a comparison to Amazon, but that doesn't make me feel better. Amazon's aggressive expansion has been a net negative for multiple segments of the market -- particularly e-books and audio books.

What makes Cloudflare's growth strategy less concerning when compared to companies like Amazon and Uber? Aren't they all still basically trying to become indispensable private monopolies within their given niches?

<comment><USER26> They make a profit of 30 million in 6 months before Sales and marketing expenses. So they charge more money than it costs to provide their services.

When you look at Sales/Marketing expenses it changes depending on your perspective (and underlying facts). It could be that they are spending ~60 million a year to get ~100 million NPV worth of customers. In that case, they're not losing money. They're making an investment that will return cash in future years. On the other hand, that 60 million could represent a bunch of discounts and incentives. Then they'd be selling $1 worth of stuff for $0.90 and once they stop doing that their market share evaporates.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Is Google losing it? - <AUTHOR> http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Is-Google-losing-it-1375315.html

<comment><USER2> Losing what? In some sense they are... when you're at the top of a mountain, the only way is down.</comment>


OpenEmu 1.0 Released - <AUTHOR> http://openemu.org

<comment><USER3> I have always wanted an interface like this on Linux. You damn fancy Mac hipsters and your single attractive UI library and your "just works", get offa my lawn! _waves ancient GTK+ shotgun_

<comment><USER4> That's partly why so many folks don't use linux. We love our nice UIs. I tried Elementary OS[1], but even that had really rough corners, and poor application integration. It's a real chicken-and-egg problem.

[1] [http://elementaryos.org/](http://elementaryos.org/)

<comment><USER5> Have you tried it recently? I tried an early beta and it was really rough around the edges. I've been using it in production since beta 2 and it is very very polished.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Congrats on your 1.0 release!

I hate to nitpick, but I assume you want some feedback, right?

On your screenshot, [http://openemu.org/img/controls- prefs.png](http://openemu.org/img/controls-prefs.png) , you appear to be missing an option for the B button. Also, I know this is hugely a personal preference, but the wood grain makes reading the text quite a bit more difficult for me. Now that Jony Ive's been removing skeuomorphism in OS X and iOS, it might help consistency to remove and/or tone that down, possibly?

The scrollbar to see the starter pack games does not work with my browser (Firefox 17.) I can't click it, use arrow keys, or anything of the sort.

Aside from that, it looks really great! I'll try it out when I boot over to OS X again.

Happy to see another project interested in game libraries and auto-mapping gamepads! This will definitely be my top multi-emulator recommendation going forward.

I would like to ask where you're getting your box art from, and what you do when box art isn't available? (eg no way you have box art for Super Mario World + All-Stars, as it never had a box; and you probably don't have any for obscure Japanese titles, I am guessing.) Also, if you support Japanese boxes, how do you handle the orientation differences between US (horizontal) and JP (mostly vertical, some horizontal)?

Lastly, how do you handle multiple identical controllers plugged in at once? It seems that most USB gamepads lack the serial# field, so the only way to uniquely distinguish them is by USB port# + vendor ID + product ID combined. The downside there is if you move a gamepad to another USB port, the mappings need to be updated again.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hey byuu, thanks for the feedback.

> On your screenshot, [http://openemu.org/img/controls- > prefs.png](http://openemu.org/img/controls-prefs.png) , you appear to be > missing an option for the B button

That whole field scrolls down, just doesn't appear so from the screenshot. Seems we can polish up a few things on the website still.

I have to drag the slider for that horizontal scrollbar but I'm using Firefox 26.

We're using a database called OpenVGDB that I've co-created. I'll hop on your forums later as I'd like to talk to you about it more. It handles multi-region and "world" roms of all types and depending on your location (operating system supplied), can deliver you the correct cover and metadata.

For input, we're still sorting out cases especially with odd adapters and hubs. We generally go by the port and vendor/product ID.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> It's open source. You can find the source at their Github: [https://github.com/OpenEmu](https://github.com/OpenEmu)

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks, we have a link to the repo at the top of our webpage header too.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> I'll be sticking to the original emulators used for now. So far I've had several crashes, many games aren't detected, and control configuration has layout errors/doesn't work (keyboard controls don't respond in game). Furthermore many features in the original emulators are not present - <USER2> and fast forward, quick save/quick load keyboard bindings.

I really appreciate the effort but for now the drawbacks far outweigh the advantages (mainly a nice library interface). I've checked in on OpenEmu over the years and hope to use it in the future.

<comment><AUTHOR> OpenEmu is meant to remove a lot of the complexity out of emulation. Some more advanced features we'll expose in the future. I'd be interested in knowing which games aren't being 'detected' and your input issues might be specific to a controller you're using.

> rewind and fast forward, quick save/quick load keyboard bindings.

You need to explore the app a little more. In controller prefs, under "Special Keys" at the bottom we have binds for quick save/load and fast forward.

As for "drawbacks" and any other issues you're having, please submit a detailed report: [https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues](https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues)

HN threads aren't good for bug reports. Luckily this is open source and we can patch and fix things :)

Edit: By the way, having Google Chrome open with their gamepad API enabled is known to break input for some reason. If one has that open, please close and try input in OpenEmu again.

<comment><USER8> Aha - the "special keys" dropdown menu broke the layout and exposed no new options, or overlapped them for me.

<comment><AUTHOR> Can't replicate that here, anyway, bug reports please: [https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues](https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues) :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Awesome! Playing now.

Edit: Dammit, I'm supposed to be doing something productive. Well, it is a holiday week... Umm....

</comment><comment><USER10> For those who use Steam, Ice ([http://scottrice.github.io/Ice/](http://scottrice.github.io/Ice/)) will automatically create "non-Steam game" entries for your ROMs.

</comment><comment><USER11> Plans on porting to other systems?

<comment><AUTHOR> No plans. We're focusing on OS X but there is a great multi-platform emulator called RetroArch: [http://www.libretro.com](http://www.libretro.com)

<comment><USER12> Congratulations on what looks like a really nice effort - I'm looking forward to trying it out. Out of curiosity, what are your main reasons for not making it a joint effort with RetroArch? I'm a modularity and reusability freak, but I know often there can be quite compelling reasons for not doing it.

<comment><AUTHOR> OpenEmu has been in development for a really long time, first around 2009 which is before RetroArch came around. Our focus has always been a native OS X application while theirs has been cross-platform. Also, cross-platform UI's are a pain!

<comment><USER13> So why should we use your app instead of RetroArch? :)

<comment><AUTHOR> That's really personal preference isn't it?

One has a polished cocoa UI, the other is a cross-platform app. There's no animosity between the two projects here in case anyone is curious.

<comment><USER13> Ah, a very diplomatic answer. I'm just teasing you with the cliche "why are you better?" pitch test.

OSS with polished UI's are rare and desperately needed. Nice work.

<comment><USER14> The hard part is that once you go cross-platform, there's no such thing as a "native UI". If you target just one single environment, it'll be so much easier to make something that feels like it belongs there.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> OpenEmu is about to change the world of video game emulation... for mac users.

</comment><comment><USER16> Which database does it scrape game info (covers) from?

</comment><comment><USER17> This looks like an amazingly polished product. is legality no longer an issue in emulation-land? been a while since I checked into that scene

<comment><USER18> From Nintendo's website:

> it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

Source: [http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom](http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom)

<comment><USER19> That's not exactly an unbiased source. For example:

> Are Game Copying Devices Illegal?

> Yes.

I'm pretty sure that's complete crap. There are substantial non-infringing uses for such devices (e.g. playing your own games on your own computers). _Using_ such devices to make and distribute illegal copies would, of course, be illegal, but the devices themselves aren't.

I think they are correct in the part you quoted, but I wouldn't take them at face value in general.

<comment><AUTHOR> Yeah, it's definitely fair use to make backups of your own games on the same medium. Tools like the Retrode are great to use with your carts.

Nintendo is attempting to control the message (no one is going to check them on it and they're deliberately being ambiguous) and scare people away who would normally just be pirating their old games.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> So say I have a bunch of NES games stashed away in my attic in a box. How can I extract the data off of them and play this on my computer?

<comment><USER21> NES dumps have strange origins. There weren't many NES cart dumper devices around, but this thread might have a few.

[http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?22324-NE...](http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?22324-NES- cart-copiers-dumpers)

Doesn't look fun. [http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&th...](http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=57031)

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> Ah yes. Cheers and congrats on this, I've been watching you guys since almost the beginning. Have been enjoying OpenEmu on my Air and advocating to as many people I know who are also on OS X and love emulation.

I _really_ want to contribute, but that will have to wait til next year when I'm a bit more acquainted with Obj-C.

</comment><comment><USER23> Hey,

I've just installed OpenEmu on OSX 10.7.5.

It scanned for my PCE roms and then crashed. When I relaunch I get this prompt: "Restore Windows" and two choices "do" or "don't".

Both don't work. It quits. There's not even a crash report.

</comment><comment><USER24> OpenEmu is a game emulator for Mac. Retroarch [http://themaister.net/retroarch.html](http://themaister.net/retroarch.html) has existed for ages though. What's different about this?

</comment><comment><USER25> I generally like this, but it needs to ditch the weird animated background of the first-startup screen and the wood-grain background of the control settings screen.

</comment><comment><USER26> I Loved this. How can I donate money to this project ?

</comment><comment><USER27> How about adding Apple II games? Atari 2600 and Intellivision would be nice too as well as Commodore 64.

PS yes I am old

<comment><AUTHOR> Grab our 'Experimental' build where we have way more cores including Atari 2600. We'll continue to add more in the future, though not sure how we'll handle the old 8-bit computers just yet.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> I don't even know what this does yet but the website looks awesome! I can't stop scrolling...

</comment><comment><USER29> The landing page looks pretty awful at extremely narrow browser widths like 1280 pixels or 960 pixels.

</comment><comment><USER30> This looks wonderful guys!! I'm looking forward for a Linux/Win version

</comment><comment><USER31> What would it take to port this to other architectures (Linux / Windows).

<comment><AUTHOR> A complete rewrite as this is a native cocoa app. We don't have any plans to do this but I recommend using RetroArch which is a great multi-platform emulator.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> i do see fast forward, but how about adding a rewind special key? awesome interface, great work guys!

</comment><comment><USER33> Uhh, been waiting for this so long!!</comment>