Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript - <AUTHOR> http://gamecenter.grantgalitz.org/index <comment><USER2> On the one hand, this is pretty cool. On the other hand, I'm not sure the best argument for "look how far JavaScript has come" is to use it to do things that native code was doing 13 years ago. On the third hand, this has been around for like a year now. I'm fairly shocked that Nintendo hasn't come down on him yet for hosting commercial ROMs in this thing, they have a history of non- tolerance of these sorts of things.

<comment><USER3> On the other hand, emulating a machine of this complexity was beyond imagination when gameboy came out. On the other hand, Virtualbox can emulate much more complicate machines. On the other hand, this one lives entirely and safely inside your browser.

<comment><USER4> > Virtualbox can emulate much more complicate machines.

Virtualbox does not emulate anything, it uses the CPU's virtualization extensions and the code runs natively on the CPU.

<comment><USER5> What did VMWare do prior to "virtualization extensions" ?

<comment><USER6> Virtualization without extensions is possible, but tricky on x86. VMWare has historically used binary translation to deal with the tricky bits. (I.e. go through the binary before you run it, look for instructions that don't virtualize properly, replace them with sequences that can be virtualized and either do the same thing, or trap into the virtual machine monitor.)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Previous HN discussions:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427963>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266701>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2700020>

</comment><comment><USER8> Since it doesn't seem to be linked from the main page, this appears to be the source code (GPL):

<https://github.com/grantgalitz/GameBoy-Online>

</comment><comment><USER9> please make the keys assignable. On my keyboard layout, z is right to t :/

<comment><USER10> Same here, the keys are in awkward places.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> Yet another play-in your browser thing that gives zero f's about the y/z key switch on German keyboard layouts

<comment><USER12> Just use Y & X on a German keyboard.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Is there a way to integrate local saving of games? It seems crazy to think someone could use this to play the old pokemans and "catch em all"

</comment><comment><USER14> Unfortunately, LSDJ is unusable as you can't press A and the arrow keys at the same time.

<comment><USER15> This is probably an artifact of your keyboard. Most keyboards have sets of keys that can't be read in combination. For example, on the classic Model M, QWAS all pressed at once won't work properly (but asdf does.)

Find out more at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_%28key%29#n-key_rollov...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_%28key%29#n-key_rollover)

<comment><USER14> I can do it in other emulators, so it's not a problem with my physical keyboard. I imagine it's an issue with Chrome.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> on the iphone 4: "Result of Expression 'document.getElementByID("drop down_progress")'[null] is not an object. File: undefined line: undefined.

<comment><USER17> That error is from the page overloading. Secondly, it won't run on mobile safari anyhow (Best will be 1 fps tops with no audio and no keyboard input).

Mobile Safari will never run this right.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> it run extremely slow on my celeron SU2300 @ 1.2GHz, 8gb ram, google chrome @ ubuntu 12.04 not playable

<comment><USER19> It's just you: <http://i.imgur.com/XuQL9.png>

I can run multiple instances in parallel fullspeed on a shitty mac. If you don't have a GPU (or a blacklisted one), expect your browsers to run like shit.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> First time I see this thinking JS has come very far.

</comment><comment><USER21> This seems to get posted every few months. I guess people don't notice the search field at the bottom of the page.

<comment><USER3> OTOH, few months seems to me a good balance to recur on good posts without being too frequent.</comment></comment>


Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo - <AUTHOR> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-November/006642.html <comment><USER2> Penn Jillette is correct: nobody has the "right to not be offended".

I think that it's deeply unfair to compare the BSD daemon logo to a swastika, unless you believe that open source is communism that robs pro-America operating systems like Windows.

The woman at the hotel speaks of abuse from seeing this symbol, but who apologizes for my abuse at the hands of the deeply irrational? It's not my fault that so many people choose to take their spiritual beliefs so far past zealotry that something so inconsequential as a logo would upset them, and yet it's somehow my problem because I'm apparently supposed to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to not offend people who believe in bullshit.

These people would never extend me the same courtesy if I asked them to remove their Christian jewellery. I'd be laughed off if I phoned the front desk of a hotel freaking out that someone put a Gideon bible in my drawer.

I live in a relatively sane place and I consciously avoid going to places where it's socially acceptable to burden rationale behaviour with uncontested religious observance. They can believe what they believe and I'll continue to sleep through Sunday mornings. But the apologists who are smart enough to know better? Those folks should know better than to fall into such an obvious slippery slope.

TL;DR: I'm an atheist and I want a refund because someone put a Christian bible in my hotel room. Why are you laughing?

<comment><USER3> "I'm an atheist and I want a refund because someone put a Christian bible in my hotel room. Why are you laughing?"

Zing. Very good example.

<comment><USER4> Terrible example because no-one actually gives a shit, where it's pretty clear some people - with money to spend - do give a shit about the devil.

<comment><USER5> The devil's in the detail, though..

and (as others stated all over these threads) no christian text says that the devil is a tiny red (arguably) cute comic figure. Even if you're a die-hard believer, it's about as hard to argue that this mascot is representing the devil as it is to argue that Harry Potter is about evil witchcraft or AD&D is about dark rituals and serving strange gods.

<comment><USER6> To be fair Harry Potter _is_ about evil witchcraft, it just doesn't promote it...or rather It's about the power of friendship (and good witchcraft) defeating evil witchcraft.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I think I'm on the side of the general non-sysadmin population here.

I used to get the BSD magazine, and I got a puzzled look or two from the neighbors. I just said "oh that, it's a computer thing". No big deal.

But how would you feel if you ran into your neighbor at the mailboxes and they were getting magazines with swastikas on them? How about if you went to use the hotel network and the sign-in page said "Powered By" and a picture of a guy in a white hood standing under a burning cross? You might feel a little weird about it too.

There is a language of symbolism and iconography that exists in Western cultures. This image of a demon/devil/satan _has_ a relatively coherent meaning. It developed this meaning long, long before some guys in a computer lab chose to use it to represent something completely unrelated, as some kind of visual pun. It's as if they were intentionally trying to be confusing.

So cut it out with all the snickering about "look at all the dumb superstitious people who can't wrap their heads around a daemon process".

This is the kind of antisocial behavior that gives nerds an image problem.

<comment><USER5> I was surprised that you invoked Godwin's Law on a first level post.

Coming from a country that sometimes gets a bad reputation for limiting free speech: I know at least one country part of the 'western culture' where swastikas are (generalizing) illegal. Please list a country where tiny horned figures are illegal.

I don't know about the 'white hood w/ burning cross' reference (I assume KKK?), but I guess those aren't a good example either.

Are you seriously comparing

a) a regime that killed millions of people and started the 2nd world war

b) a far-right, violent, terrorist (acc. to Wikipedia, depending on local legislation?) organization

with

c) a comic style image that might be connected by viewers with a fictional character representing (guessing here, didn't read the novel) all evil?

Everyone is free to have their own belief. But you sure overstate the problem here..

<comment><USER7> _I don't know about the 'white hood w/ burning cross' reference (I assume KKK?),_

Yes, in the US South that is an unambiguous symbol of the KKK and racist violence. It's even recent enough to be in living memory for older people.

 _Are you seriously comparing a) a regime that killed millions of people and started the 2nd world war_

No, I'm not comparing the acts of one party (the actual Nazis) with the acts of another party (programmers at Berkely) or with a mythological motif.

I'm saying that the programmers at Berkley chose a symbol which already had a specific meaning and was thus guaranteed to be confusing.

Nerds have a negative stereotype of being passive aggressive, pointlessly confusing, making inside jokes at others' expense, and generally making others look stupid.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I'm a former fundamentalist Christian who wrestled long and hard over this exact issue a few years ago. Allow me to elaborate:

There is a sizeable group of Christians who practice what is known as 'spiritual warfare.' Basically, this worldview sees the work of Satan in _everything_. Marital problems? "Satan, I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ." Financial woes? "Satan, I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ." Problems at work? "Satan, I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ." 'Binding' the devil apparently dispatches angels who 'subdue' the demons responsible for your problem. Just watch TBN for an hour and you'll see what I'm talking about. For the first few months of my conversion, this is the subculture I was in.

I remember one day visiting the FreeBSD website (this is after refusing to use a computer for 1 month because the Internet was _obviously_ a part of Satan's diabolic ploy to entrap mankind), and closing the tab when I saw Beastie. You see, in that culture, there is a meme that certain objects 'attract' demons. Listening to certain songs invites demonic infestation. Watching horror movies practically guarantees it.

I vowed then that I would never use FreeBSD. Even though benchmarks showed superior stability and SMP performance than Linux, I couldn't knowingly invite demons into my life like that! By Beastie...Tux, here I come.

Thankfully, I deconverted a few months later. But I understand where she is coming from. If she was one the 'warfare' crowd, she'd probably have spent the entire night in fervent prayer, battling the 'forces of darkness.' My mom, for example, would NOT have stayed in that hotel. Wouldn't happen.

Oh man, do I have stories to tell!

For tidbits on my experiences on HN:

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062267> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611122> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2202900>

<comment><USER7> Thanks for that story.

It's probably important to point out that the majority of religious people are not in quite as deep as you were. But they might still be a little bothered by it.

<comment><USER9> Are you really intending to imply that the majority of religious people would support eliminating the BSD daemon logo? Because that's obviously not true.

There are ~300MM in the US. If just 0.1% of them are nutty enough to pitch a fit over a cartoon character, that's still three hundred thousand nuts we have to deal with.

Meanwhile, the _majority_ of US adults self-report as Christian. Most of these people are not nuts about depictions of demons, as evidenced by the fact that they aren't protesting DePaul (the largest Catholic university in the country) for naming their sports team "The Blue Demons".

<comment><USER7> No, I said "be a little bothered by it" not "support eliminating it" or "get nutty and pitch a fit over it".

For some reason I can't really explain, sports teams seem to make an occasional exception.

<comment><USER9> I know you're a reasonable guy. I'm just trying not to have us lump hundreds of millions of Americans into the same bucket as the crazy person who can't stay in the hotel with the BSD daemon logo on it. It's an easy trap to fall into, especially in a place like HN, which suffers grievously from the base rate fallacy on this particular topic.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> There is an insightful comment from Tom Limoncelli later in the thread:

"This is yet another reason why it was brilliant for Linux to have a Penguin as their logo. Up until then all Unix imagery was counter-productive to wide adoption: It was mostly wizards (a reminder that Unix is difficult to use and only understood by few) or devils (which is just plain confusing to the 99.99% of the planet that hasn't taken Operating Systems 101 in college).

This is not a new thing. This story is probably older than a lot of people on this mailing list: <http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/daemon.html>

(and I heard Laura tell the story once in person)

Tom"

<comment><USER11> That link is worth the giggle. Thanks :)

America makes all other rich nation's provincials look like Einsteins!

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> Everything will offend someone. This person probably had a bad day and would have complained about something else (and threatened not to stay) if the BSD logo hadn't distracted her first.

Self-censorship to appease the tiny number of people that are crazy is the worst form of censorship. There is no appeals process and you can't measure whether or not your censorship is effective. All you're left with is a world that consists only of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I don't want to live in that world.

Don't change your personality because one person might not like you. Is it worth making the world a worse place just to get a measly thousand bucks?

<comment><USER13> _Is it worth making the world a worse place just to get a measly thousand bucks?_

Removing the "Powered By" makes the world a worse place?

I am inclined to agree with one of the later emails in the thread; "Powered By <blank>" doesn't really belong on end-user pages in the first place.

<comment><USER12> I think the person who originally designed the page was proud that he was using FreeBSD and he decided that he wanted to share this information with the world. Doing so would make him happy; perhaps he imagined that a FreeBSD user would one day see the logo and enjoy his life a little bit more because he connected, although indirectly, with another in his tribe.

Little decisions like this are what make you human. Don't let your fears and inhibitions turn you into a robot because some interview with Steve Jobs said not to put "powered by..." logos on stuff. Do what feels right in your heart. Enjoy life first and figure out how to make money without compromising your _humanity_.

<comment><USER14> > Don't let your fears and inhibitions turn you into a robot because some > interview with Steve Jobs said not to put "powered by..." logos on stuff.

Steve Jobs appeared happy enough to have "Designed by Apple in California" inscribed on all Apple's products.

<comment><USER15> Steve Jobs had a separate set of rules that applied to Steve Jobs. Like free- for-all parking at work, everyone's equal... unless you're Steve Jobs, then you get a reserved spot.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I thought this comment was rather insightful:

[http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- chat/2011-Novembe...](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- chat/2011-November/006652.html)

        As a former fundie myself (brief stint, I assure you!), I do
        have some sympathy for your hotel guests. Decades ago, in my
        teens, before I was fortunate enough to snap out of it, such
        a situation would have produced an *extreme* amount of
        anxiety.

        I can only feel sorry for anyone who has lived their whole
        life that way.

        There aren't many ways to help them, everything you say or
        do is processed via an elaborate shell script that basically
        amounts to this:

           sed -e 's/outside help/trick of the devel/'

        Poor people, really. If they weren't so dangerous &
        annoying, we ought to have sympathy for them. It really was
        a high-stress lifesytle. I'm thankful to have snapped out of
        it early on, lots of others aren't so lucky. It really is
        like a trap.

Especially the bit about "high-stress lifestyle". Because really, it's not just about being simply offended by imagery that is perceived as antagonistic to their religion, it's about getting _completely worked up_ over a _cartoon_ image of a devil, and truly believing that whoever put that there must be corrupted by Dark Forces.

It's kind of hard to come up with a non-Christian equivalent, maybe something like travelling to Asia, visiting a Hindu temple, and completely freaking out about the swastikas, because obviously this means that all Hindus are in fact Nazis. Or even more direct, refusing to book a hotel owned by Hindus that prominently display some swastika emblem behind the counter (as a good luck/prosperity charm).

Now imagine living with this delusion, you actually believe this, everybody trying to convince you otherwise is either sadly misguided, corrupted, or "one of them" and these swastikas are quite prevalent in Asia. You'd be living in _a constant state of fear of Imaginary Nazis!_

It's one of those things that is both funny and sad and amazing and pitiful, all at the same time.

Maybe another comparison, I know a couple of people that can completely freak out from simply seeing a picture of a spider, as much that if it's large and unexpected enough they will actually jump out of their chair and panic. A big difference is of course that these people are aware that their fear is irrational--that a picture cannot hurt them (well, apart from any physical reactions they bring about their own, of course).

</comment><comment><USER17> Sounds like a business opportunity. The customer might be willing to pay more for Wi-Fi that is not powered by Satan, and more again if it was powered by God. I'd choose Wi-Fi that is 'Powered by Science!' - the best Wi-Fi of them all.

<comment><USER18> All Wi-Fi is powered by science. I'll pay you a million bucks if you can show me a Wi-Fi router powered by Jesus.

<comment><USER19> There's a chasm of difference between a router that's powered by Jesus and one that claims to be powered by Jesus.

Customer's only need to believe it's so, much like the case presented in the internet being powered by the devil.

Anyways, off to brand "Holy Routers" with an image of Buddy Christ as our logo. "Why bother with other routers, ours have the divine connection."

<comment><USER20> That may explain the shockingly spotty wireless in my hotel; I don't want a divine connection, I want sinful ping times.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> the FreeBSD devil is so cutesy I find it hard to believe someone would be that offended. And it's not like "the devil" is some sort of huge taboo in the US, it is often used in relatively benign product's names.

Some example "demonic" products off the top of my head

\- New Jersey Devils (NHL team)

\- Dirt Devil (a vacuum)

\- Devil's food cake (a popular dessert)

<comment><USER4> I think some fundies would have a problem with it specifically because it's cutesy - I remember reading people being anti Harry Potter because it trivialized what they saw as black, satanic magic

<comment><USER22> To be fair, though, they would have an even bigger problem with it if it wasn't cutesy. They have a problem with it because they believe it's satanic, not because it's cutesy.

Take your Harry Potter example. The people who are anti-Harry Potter aren't really against it because it trivializes black magic. That's just a rationalization. These people certainly don't support something like the works of Aleister Crowley, even though they're much more serious about their treatment of the occult. They're against it because it contains -- in their view -- black, satanic magic.

<comment><USER7> I think the fact that it's packaged as childrens' literature has a lot to do with it too.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> I refuse to stay in the same hotel as women who do not have their hair covered!

You are not responsible for their outrage.

'First they came for the hotspots with devil logos on them, and I did not speak up, for I am not a devil logo.'

</comment><comment><USER24> One of the most important business lessons.

"Some customers aren't worth having."

<comment><USER13> Yes, but in this case the hotel is the customer, and the hotel is doing nothing wrong in asking about the issue.

<comment><USER25> Indeed, if the hotels care about those customers, they should probably simply adjust the starting page, which might be a good idea anyway (e.g., putting the hotel logo on the page).

It might be more sensible to ask for simpler customization facilities than to ask a project to change or hide their logo for everyone.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Tempest in a teacup. The mascot of one of the largest Catholic universities in the world, DePaul, is a blue demon. Unlike FreeBSD, the Catholic school teams are actually _called_ The Blue Demons.

There's nothing you can do about stupid people. They're always going to find something to object to.

</comment><comment><USER26> So much bullshit in this thread...

First of all the logo: [http://www.google.com/search?q=devil&tbm=isch](http://www.google.com/search?q=devil&tbm=isch) Clearly an image of the devil. The pitchfork strengthens this meaning: <http://www.symbols.com/old/encyclopedia/05/051.html>

What is the devil?: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil>

So, the thing in FreeBSD logo is clearly considered to represent personalized evil by a lot of people. Denying the significance of this meaning is stupid and counter-productive.

Some of people take the issue of opposing evil very seriously and personally. As we all should (according to our understanding) -- whether it is poverty, poisoning of air and water, unethical business practices, corrupt officials, etc.

Now I believe the main cause that this story made the news is the 1000$ (potential?) loss for the hotel and some other demands from the customer. Other than that I doubt it would be considered important by the many people posting here.

The customer is called "superstitious". It is also noted that the customer and the complaining hotel owner are both women, while the ISP owner and his tech support person are both male. So we see the cliché of superstitious and irrational women against calm and rational men.

So yeah... ignoring the obvious, looking down on people based on their religious beliefs and sex, ignoring them unless the issue involves money...

Get over it. If you want more people to like FreeBSD -- change the logo. If you won't -- don't complain.

<comment><USER7> Some people are on a crusade to rid the world of the devil.

Some people are on a crusade to rid the world of censorship.

Some people are on a crusade to rid the world of closed-source software.

/me makes popcorn.

<comment><USER26> As much as USofA political and religious fundamentalism (on all sides) amuses and entertains me, a couple of things make me take it seriously:

1\. USA has a very strong political power and exports its culture.

2\. I am old enough to have witnessed the effects of state atheism personally and directly in my country. Atheism can be as stupid and evil as any other religion.

P.S. I come from Eastern Europe.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> Someone finally provided a 0% demonic, fundie-friendly logo:

<http://box.jisko.net/i/de9679fd.png>

</comment><comment><USER28> <http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html>

</comment><comment><USER29> I am absolutely flabberghasted that we ("we" as in "we the society") actually have to discuss topics like this.

Seriously? The world does not have any other problems?

<comment><USER30> Its an opportunity for bashing on religious people, and those are always welcome in here.

<comment><USER31> No, it is an opportunity to highlight that there are people in this world who are unreasonably irrational, and who feel they should have a right to force their (borderline crazy) views on others.

<comment><USER30> But if Science tells me to stop eating eggs, its ok, even if 10 years later it will tell me to start eating eggs again... What is the difference?

<comment><USER32> Nobody tries to force something like that on you, they simply point out (un)healthy aspects and leave you to you own decisions.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER33> Here's a similar (and funny) story: <http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html>

</comment><comment><USER34> You'd better not tell these people about the satanic propaganda in firefox then! (about:mozilla)

Some people deserve a firm spanking, nothing more.

<comment><USER7> I actually think it's quite rude of Mozilla to mock people's religious texts like that. I certainly wouldn't do it.

<comment><USER35> Whose religious text is this mocking? Text below:

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9 (10th Edition)

<comment><USER7> It's a parody of the Bible book of Revelation specifically.

<comment><USER35> What makes you say that? Do you have specific verses to cite that reveal the similarity?

<comment><USER7> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla> "apparent quotations hidden in Netscape and Mozilla give this impression by revealing passages in the style of apocalyptic literature, such as the Book of Revelation in the Bible."

[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13...](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13&version=NIV)

Read the two and decide for yourself.

<comment><USER35> "And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.

from The Book of Mozilla, 8:20"

OK I can see how that is similar to Genesis 1:31:

"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good."

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER36> The symbol of christianity is horribly offensive if you think about it (it commemorates someone being tortured to death) but if you want to live in a supposedly "free" society you best learn to not offend and not be easily offended.

</comment><comment><USER37> The abstract demon head at the top of the page?

<comment><USER38> Probably one of the "Powered By" logo's <http://www.freebsd.org/art.html#POWERED-BY>

</comment></comment><comment><USER39> I don't understand what he's asking for at then end:

| Is there artwork that doesn't include horned creatures that might offend the ignorant or superstitious?

as in, I still want to offend her, but also want to change the logo?

<comment><USER40> Misparse; you're reading "artwork that (doesn't include horned creatures) [and] (that might offend)", but it's intended as "artwork that (doesn't include (horned creatures that might offend))".

<comment><USER39> thanks

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER41> I get the whole daemon thing, but isn't the cartoon devil basically the standard, modern Christian image of Satan, plus some cuteness?

Personally, I think the logo has outlived its usefulness. The cartoon devil doesn't mean much to me, and vastly less to normal people, and the horned sphere is just... weird.

</comment><comment><USER42> Swastika is a Hindu sign not Nazi.

<comment><USER16> Yeah no, it's both really.

</comment></comment><comment><USER43> Maybe choose one of these (NSFW!):

<http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/?gallery=Daemonette></comment>


Dell launched sweeping update of its Latitude, Precision business laptop lines - <AUTHOR> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/dell-launched-sweeping-update-of-its-latitude-precision-business-laptop-lines <comment><AUTHOR> Still no AMD options in case anybody was wondering. I've heard several explanations circulating on the internet, some from purported people "in the know", like Intel or OEM employees.

\- OEMs assume Ryzen was a fluke and don't trust that AMD can maintain the position so they'll wait "1-2 more years" \- they've been offering great performance at lower price points for ~4 years now, enough time to make a decision.

\- 2nd gen. Ryzen "failed ISV certifications" so it can't be delivered in workstations lines, even if some of those very lines ended up having i5+iGPU based models - no comment.

\- It's so expensive to design a new model based on AMD that it doesn't make sense for OEMs - no comment.

\- Thunderbolt controller comes for free with Intel chipsets but has to be payed for with AMD - it's an $8 chip presumably on laptops costing thousands.</comment>


I bootstrapped to 7 figures while raising a family - <AUTHOR> https://makermag.com/2019/07/04/bootstrap-business-raising-kids/ <comment><USER2> Reading this it strikes me again that hiring managers (men & women) have to get out of the way of women with children or women that are reentering the workforce. Personally, I always hire women on my teams and I have been doing it before the latest movements. I do it for many reasons but two reasons always seem to play out true.

First, women in general have a different way of thinking about and viewing problems, this different view forces better, more complete thought patterns from the team. This means we will wind up with a more well thought out solution in the end and we will have considered more sides of the problem. Also, women make up a large percentage of the population, so when designing systems it makes sense to pay attention to how they might process a UX differently and take that into consideration.

Second, women bring a stabilizing quality to teams, especially predominately male engineering teams. Their sheer presence and different viewpoints removes some of the ego and bravado from positions and generally the teams find the result faster because we spend less time playing who's the silver back today.

To be fair, I have noticed that today's younger male population IMO is a lot better by not being as ego driven and they do seem to get team play better in many ways than prior generations. Although there are always exceptions, I do think that younger men today are better at being inclusive of women and really anyone that has traditionally been excluded for their views, beliefs, preferences or biology.

Last soap box item from me. One other thing about hiring women who are mothers I have learned. They are masters at organization in general, and they get chaos and how to tame it. I can take a good mother that has no degree and she is generally better at leading a group of people than a recent MBA grad. Of course there are no absolutes, but it is a pretty solid general rule.</comment>


Lynx identity manager is coming out of the garage. Want to take it for a spin? - <AUTHOR> http://lynxid.tech <comment><AUTHOR> We've been working for a few months now on a tool to change the way people sign in online and keep their personal information secure. This is our first step towards a decentralized identity solution, and we'd love to get your feedback. What do you think - does it look like we are on the right track?

<comment><USER2> The first impression: your name choice is bad, because collides with the web browser, especially that your product is web-related, too.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi dozzie, thanks for the feedback. Something we will definitely review once more. Besides the name, what are your first thoughts about the product itself?</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Military to tech jobs - <AUTHOR> I am interested in transferring from military (8+ years) to operations job in the tech industry.<p>What does the tech industry feel when hiring a veteran? <comment><USER2> I can definitely comment here. I was also in the same boat a few years ago. I was a US Army Officer for 5 years, and now I'm a senior research engineer. First, here are my observations after getting "into" the tech industry: 1) I've observed I have a huge amount of leadership experience compared to my peers. This doesn't mean I run in commanding, no..it means I know how to get people to do things that need to be done. I can motivate people, align their viewpoints...which means I can change my view if needed. 2) You're going to be far ahead of your peers on things like organization, work ethic, world view, etc. 3) I've found it useful not to talk about my military experience. I will occasionally, but seems to be what people focus on if you do...and this isn't generally what you want.

As far as operations, you should be golden. I can't count how many times I've used the same skills I'd use to plan an operation to plan projects. They're exactly the same skill sets, just different semantics and new acronyms to learn. You might contact student veterans of america. Even if you're not a student, they usually have "tech" resume workshops that can help you translate for the civilian audience.

<comment><AUTHOR> JC, I really appreciate your comment. Your reasons do resonate with me. I will make sure to attend tech resume workshop to translate my resume for the civilian audience.

Did you face any specific challenges when going from bureaucratic environment to corporate? I am not sure about the US Army. I am in the Canadian Army, where we change our position every 2 years. Therefore it doesnt make me specialist in certain position, but I have lot of experience in a leadership role. Is the US Army the same?

<comment><USER2> The US Army typically rotates positions every 2-3 years, sounds basically the same. The Civilian world is actually catching up to this concept, "externing" is the new buzzword.

If you've learned how to thrive in a bureaucratic environment like the military, you can survive in any medium to large sized company. You can also adapt to small growing companies, you know what level of bureaucracy works and what is stifling.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> Tech industry treats veterans the same as non ex-military. Just insure that you have the technical knowledge and background for the job. If you do not, government contractors will gladly bring you on to teach you, especially if it is something that helps maintain your security clearance. They will normally put you in a journeyman position if you have zero experience in a certain technology sitting right with experts in the technology.

With enough time on the job and at home teaching yourself you will be at the junior level in no time. Once your able to do all your regular tasks along with more advanced projects you may be able to start working in a senior role and be handsomely compensated for it.

Now if you have heavier military only skills government contractors more then likely still have a place for you, I would recommend checking the top government contractor job sites. They can normally place you in something very similar to what you were doing in the military with the added benefit of you learning new tech and some times becoming the expert on that tech, especially if it is very popular in the tech industry.

If you want to use many of the benefits that come with joining the military long term you may want to check out jobs at the intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, NGA, DIA, etc.) or usajobs.gov to see if there is anything there you like. You may also be able to get a higher paying ranked job based on your military experience.

Do not forget to also take a look at the agencies like FDIC, SEC, Patent and Trade office too. They are smaller but pay better and offer more benefits than many of the larger agencies for tech talent.

<comment><AUTHOR> I really appreciate your reply TechJuice (cool name). I was thinking of using my security clearance as an advantage with the government contractors! I will check these agencies!

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I was the same as you, got out with no college, and got a job as a Jr Unix Systems Administrator. That being said, I had a lot of Unix/Linux knowledge already from personal study. I worked my way up to a Sr Systems Admin, but wanted to build things and couldn't do that without teaching myself to code.

I'm now a Software Engineer for one of the larger financial firms in Chicago. I never went to college and am self-taught. Every firm that sees "military" treats it the same as a degree aka:

Requirements: batchelors degree or "equivalent experience".

Work hard, and you'll be fine. Tech has no issues with vets at all from what I can tell. What in specific were you looking to go into?

For reference, here is a very not up to date resume: [http://www.digitalprognosis.com/resume.htm](http://www.digitalprognosis.com/resume.htm)

<comment><AUTHOR> I love your story! and thanks for the resume.

I am basic level coder and I have a degree in biological engineering. I haven't practiced Engineering a long time. My strengths are project management or operations. I would love to work for companies like Tesla or Faraday Future.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Probably better to connect with veterans who've already been down your path.

Jump on Linkedin's advanced search feature. Sort for profiles of local individuals in software/hardware with past military backgrounds. Reach out to them, ask for advice. They'll likely have some solid ideas and thoughts on opportunities.

<comment><AUTHOR> I love this suggestion! I already contacted couple of veterans who are in the tech industry. Thanks Seymour!

<comment><USER5> _Avec plaisir_ \- would be curious to hear how it works out, what kind of feedback you receive. Ping me if I can help.

<comment><AUTHOR> I found out that there are couple of CTO in the tech industry that from the military. They informed that cultural adaptability is very important. I found a mentor who would help me through my journey.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> It depends on the company to be quite honest. You should look up Operation Code ([http://operationcode.org](http://operationcode.org)). Full disclosure: I'm a Founding Board Member. If you have questions my email is in my profile.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for the website. I will PM you!

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I'm in tech, a veteran, and in Los Angeles if you're interested in talking more about opportunities in this area.

<comment><AUTHOR> I would love to hear more about the challenge (if exists) you had when leaving the military. I have to agree that military is a comfortable job, but I want to do cool things with companies like Tesla.

<comment><USER7> Didn't notice this comment, feel free to send me an email if you'd like to discuss further.

For me, leaving the military was an easy and almost required choice. The system for analyzing performance, position, and growth is extremely bureaucratic. I won't go into the many pros/cons with this, but can say that if you're someone with a high growth ceiling than you're going to feel very stifled and inflexible.

Simply put, the military did not allow me to grow into my potential at the speed that I could both add value and succeed for the military and myself. I received many promotions (E5 in 2yrs) and decorations. I went through 3 combat tours in 4 years (way above average).

I was accepted by a university near the end of my 4 years and promptly exited stage left.

<comment><AUTHOR> I am feeling the same with my career right now. Whats your email?

<comment><USER7> Made it visible on my profile.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that many tech companies especially mid- size to large ones may have a special program to recruit veterans like Google's [https://www.google.com/about/careers/veterans/](https://www.google.com/about/careers/veterans/)

Mid-size to large companies tend to also be understanding of reserve duty and may have someone ex-military review your resume and/or interview you to understand your military experience.

<comment><AUTHOR> This is a great news! I will explore more!</comment></comment>


Episode 33: The Asymco Trilogy with Horace Dediu Part 3 – The Asian Cars Edition - <AUTHOR> http://analyse.asia/2015/05/25/episode-33-the-asymco-trilogy-with-horace-dediu-part-3-the-asian-cars-edition/ <comment><AUTHOR> Synopsis: Horace Dediu, current fellow of the Clayton Christensen Institute and founder of Asymco.com joined us for an epic and insightful discussion focusing on few key interesting topics: (a) new market disruption theories, (b) Apple in China and the luxury market and (c) the Japanese automotive industry and how it shapes up against disruption from Tesla, Uber and Apple. In the last and final part of the trilogy, Horace discussed the Japanese automotive industry, and provided interesting insights into how Japanese car culture contrasts against the European and US counterparts. Using the innovator's stopwatch framework, Horace explained the challenges on how Tesla, Google, Uber and Amazon could disrupt the car industry, and provide some thoughts on what approach Apple might take on creating the car if they are doing it.</comment>


Best Way to Learn Coding: CS Degree, Bootcamp, or Self Teach? - <AUTHOR> https://algodaily.com/lessons/best-way-to-learn-coding-cs-degree-bootcamp-or-self-teach <comment><USER2> What one learns in a CS degree is (ought to be?) considerably more and different from just "learning to code" so it's somewhat of a false comparison to put a CS degree alongside bootcamp and self-teaching.

<comment><USER3> The title is asking what is the "Best Way to Learn Coding" out of those options. You may learn other things _as well_ but that's not the question the article asked. On that basis it isn't a false comparison - it's a limited comparison.

<comment><USER2> I think that asking someone with a proper CS degree if they "know how to code" is like asking a master carpenter if they know how to cut and sand wood. Yes, of course, but if all you wanted to learn was cutting and sanding then becoming a master carpenter was a waste of time and effort.</comment></comment></comment>


Show HN: Creating groups of people so everyone always meets someone new - <AUTHOR> https://roshkins.github.io/Partnerings/ <comment><AUTHOR> A writeup of my thought process: [https://github.com/roshkins/Partnerings](https://github.com/roshkins/Partnerings)

I discovered this on my own, I would love to learn about any related math. I can see Combinatorics, possibly Group Theory, and maybe coloring a graph as relevant related topics.

I also learned that this is similar the problem of Gay Dating, although no one generalized it to multiple people.

Would love some thoughts!</comment>


Web Censorship by Country (map) - <AUTHOR> http://yuxiyou.net/open/

<comment><USER2> The graph seems wrong. For example opennet (where they got their data), says there is no censorship in Nigeria, but they mark Nigeria as being censored.

</comment><comment><USER3> Australia is marked as 'under surveillance' (together with Russia and Turkey if I'm reading the map right). I don't know what this is meant to be.

Currently Australia does not have a mandatory filter (and given the political climate is unlikely to get one). Locally hosted sites which host material with high levels of sexual and violent content (which would be illegal under normal publication laws) can be given a takedown notice, but this is a paper tiger as the material can be moved to an overseas host. Australia has the normal range of laws against possession or distribution of material such as child pornography (and normal IP laws).

I don't know of anything currently in law which would materially distinguish Australia from Europe or the US; and in comparison to Europe we have fewer restrictions on, for example, Nazi material.

<comment><USER4> In Russia ISPs are legally required to block access to "extremist" materials from the publicly available list (in Russian: <http://www.minjust.ru/ru/activity/nko/fedspisok/>, most of entries are leaflets or books, but grep for "http" or "www"). The list is known to contain some technically-impossible-to-block entries so most ISPs probably resort to domain-level blocking by filtering DNS entries or filtering access by IP address. Some sort of gray area here.

When ISP reach certain size, they also must set up a special device to allow Federal Security Service to sniff the network traffic (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM#SORM-2>) for law enforcement purposes. I've never seen such hardware, but contrary to anecdotal evidence, it's just a specialized passive packet sniffer, connected to mirrored port.

Also, ISPs are required to keep access logs, and give them out on legal requests, but this is probably common virtually everywhere.

Officially, that's all (unless I forgot something, but hopefully I didn't). I don't know whenever the level of "unofficial cooperation" were ever estimated, but I suspect it to be fairly average, compared to the rest of the world.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Yes, because this petition will change things.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Many comments can be made on the actual state of surveillance in many democratic countries...

These commenters can only comment on their perception. After all, perception is reality.

Many Chinese think life is grand, no idea about the level of examination their lives have.

Let us live our own lives as if everyone knew.

I'm very libertarian (private life should be private). But karma knows no bounds.

</comment><comment><USER6> I tried to vote at the bottom but the button doesn't seem to be working.

<comment><USER7> The button is just a link element with an 'id="yes"', but no href or onClick or anything else.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> there's also this, showing free developed countries that filter child porn. 3 other maps for other types of blocking too.

<http://map.opennet.net/filtering-soc.html>

</comment><comment><USER9> god bless those poor iranian people!!</comment>


Evan Spiegel Reveals Plan to Turn Snapchat into a Real Business - <AUTHOR> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-05-26/evan-spiegel-reveals-plan-to-turn-snapchat-into-a-real-business <comment> k-mcgrady Almost every single comment here is negative. Snapchat is going to die soon. He doesn't know what he's doing. They're just going to use ads and then lose users.

Let's see what you're done.

Snapchat has done well thus far not to alienate users while introducing features that allow brands to get their content in front of users (discover). Particularly difficult considering it's mostly a private network on which you share with friends. They haven't any huge privacy scandals yet either - <USER2> least none that have had an effect on usage.

It may seem like just another dumb app to a lot of people here and honestly I thought the same for a while. My generation took quite a while to start using it but now it's something we use a lot. It's great for sharing pictures you don't need around forever on Facebook. Photos of nights out, as they happen for people who can't be there. Candid snaps on holidays and trips. I don't see it replacing Facebook for anyone but it seems to coexist nicely.

Most of the negativity here is actually quite familiar. It's the same crap people spewed about Facebook for the last 6 years or so. Any none of it has really come true.

Sorry for the rant.

<comment><USER3> I've seen people for which it replaced Facebook. (Not Instagram, Facebook. Instagram is their non-volatile memory, in this case.) For these groups, having a Facebook is "uncool" and "for old people".

I don't know if it'll survive, but I love it to death. I'd be willing to pony up a buck to keep it around.

<comment><USER4> You say that, but the article states that 70% of teens use facebook vs. 40% for snapchat. I'm not sure a service with a billion users can really be labeled uncool by that many people.

<comment><USER3> I really am focusing on the social elite of a small group of kids that I met over the summer. They're from California and I live on the East Coast (where Facebook is the norm). I'll be the first to admit that the plural of anecdote is not data. Which is why I said "some groups of people."

In any case, I think the difference in user population is because of accessibility to technology. Snapchat basically demands a swanky, whiz-bang phone, which not all kids have. I'd be willing to bet that more than 30% of kids (the difference in the statistics) lack a Snapchat-capable phone.

Being rich is cool, so apparently Snapchat is too. And it's cooler than Facebook, making Facebook uncool. I understand that there are a long list of logical fallacies in this section but hey, we're teens.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> > _At worst, they are the next-generation MTV_

Completely delusional.

I don't know what SnapChat will end up "being", but the idea that the _worst- case-scenario_ is, for all intents and purposes, "incredibly successful" is so far off the rails. How people can read things like this without at least contemplating a tech bubble is beyond me.

<comment><USER6> I don't think this is evidence of a tech bubble at large, but it is evidence that tacking on monetization onto a mass-popular app/service/site isn't always a slam dunk

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I'm just a dumb 20 year old with no business experience, but my opinion is that Snapchat is going to die a very miserable death.

For lack of a better analogy, I think that young Americans with smartphones have embraced a sort of unix philosophy with regards to their social networking, which is to say, they want a service that does one thing and does it well.

They have linkedin profiles for humblebragging about their long term professional life. They have facebook for humblebragging about their long term personal aspirations and achievements. They have twitter for sharing unnoteworthy small thoughts. They have instagram for sharing noteworthy moments that aren't necessarily major life events, and they have snapchat for showing what they're doing right now.

They really don't want something that merges these in any way. The reason being, for any given user publishing content on any of these networks, they all are publishing to different audiences. I want my parents to see my linkedin and to see my facebook. I don't want them to see my twitter necessarily. I don't want them to see my snapchat. (FWIW, in reality I don't have facebook, twitter, linkedin, or snapchat, but this is just an example of how 18-24 y/os think.)

Google had a fix for the issue of audience with g+ and circles, but they fell short on implementation, I think. There weren't enough different ways to share content and shape your profile, pretty much just posts. If they had made better ways to publish temporary posts, static info (like resume and work experience), and to organize views of the site by circles rather than merging them all together, I think they'd have succeeded.

The idea that snapchat can pivot to be anything other than an extension on MMS is ridiculous to me. (It doesn't even do that now, by the way. No group snapchats. The stupid filters like speed you're traveling and the current time look absolutely terrible.)

I think users of snapchat like it for what it is, quick pictures shared to a few people that you think might enjoy it. Nothing you want permanently on the web. Maybe it can become something like periscope or meerkat. I think there's also a market for advertising in the 'featured stories' part of the app, and from the article, it sounds like where they're headed.

But their moves like snapcash, and any aspirations that are separate from sharing temporary moments? Completely bewildering to me. I fear they're trying to become something their users don't want snapchat to be.

One thing I will say, Spiegel seems like a really cool guy with a heart in the right place and is probably a genius. I will not be surprised to see him completely prove me wrong.

<comment><USER8> >Spiegel seems like a really cool guy with a heart in the right place and is probably a genius.

What do you base this opinion on?

I guess he might be cool but I don't think the press about him indicates genius or a rightly placed heart.

<comment><USER7> I like his disdain for targeted ads, in spite of the fact that this could probably be profitable for his company.

I think the fact that he's made an internet company out of extending picture messaging is amazing. As much many of us HN readers would like to scoff and say, "I could build that in a weekend," we really couldn't. He's not done anything technically difficult, per se, but the way that he's amassed users is absolutely crazy, and he's doing something right.

I have my doubts about where it can go. I think him not selling was a huge mistake and I think he'll lose a lot of money from it, but I think he's a savvy business man.

<comment><USER5> > _I like his disdain for targeted ads, in spite of the fact that this could > probably be profitable for his company._

I don't agree with the idea that all a company has to do is tack on ads and they'll be wildly profitable. I think that ship has sailed; the _more_ ads we're bombarded with, the less effect each individual ad has on us. There are diminishing returns to ad optimization. We can only buy so much stuff.

There will be some interesting times in the near future surrounding this ad- driven ecosystem.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> This company is worth 15B?

<comment><USER10> Some people with that kind of money seem to think so. It looks a lot like a bubble to me, though (and it might be related, since bubbles give money to the smart ones).

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> TLDR summary:

"Evan views advertising as a product, while most Internet founders view advertising as a necessary evil."

Snapchat may have overestimated the pull it has with advertisers. It started its program by charging about $100 per 1,000 views, or more than $750,000 for a day-long campaign, more than double the rates of YouTube or Hulu. Other companies have balked at ponying up for ads on a service that still lacks some of the basic targeting and measurement tools now standard in digital advertising.

This month the company announced it would start to charge $20 per 1,000 views. The company declined to say where prices started.

</comment><comment><USER12> PG's "What Microsoft is the Altair Basic of?" applies really well to Snapchat.

They aren't going to be "the next generation Viacom", but they are truly going to disrupt the entertainnment industry.

Advertising is something necessary in the capitalist system, advertising won't disappear anytime soon. The aggregate value comes when it's blended to the UX through smoother mechanisms. That's Snapchat's philosophy and a lot of other companies will opt for that philosophy as well.

</comment><comment><USER13> 330 employees? Am I correct in guessing most of them are in sales? I know Twitter has thousands so 330 is relatively few, but that seems like an awful lot of people.

Also, the explanation for why they don't label buttons is "it's something new"? And that engineers are busy making new products? Is this bad editing or reading comprehension, or ?

<comment><USER14> Large venture-backed companies tend not to hesitate in hiring people. You got engineering teams (frontend, backend, mobile, QA, other), design teams, devops teams, marketing, sales, bizdev, support, hr, management, etc.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> > _Evan Spiegel Reveals Plan to Turn Snapchat into a Real Business_

Let me guess: showing ads?

If advertising was banned, 99% of the web would lose its "business model" overnight...

...but the rest would be actual businesses with actual customers paying for their products.

</comment><comment><USER16> Their big revenue concept is vertical video for commercials. That's not too impressive.

There's a life cycle for social networks:

\- New cool thing, but no monetization. \- Big growth. \- Ads and spyware added. \- Growth slows. \- More ads added to boost revenue. \- Growth stops. \- More ads, more tracking. \- Users leave. \- Collapse.

AOL, Geocities, Orkut, and Myspace have already completed their life cycle. Facebook and Twitter are at "More ads added to boost revenue", and entering the "growth stops" phase.

(Focusing on cool can backfire. Coca-Cola has that problem. While frantically advertising and changing their packaging, their product quality has dropped. They once worked hard to get expired product out of stores and checked drink dispensers for over-diluting their product. They don't bother any more, and their products taste like crap about half the time.)

<comment><USER4> if facebook is at a growth stops phase, it's possible it's because they've almost saturated their target market. They have something like 1.5 billion users. That's Billion, with a B. How many of those dead services you mentioned ever had 1.5 billion users?

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Can someone summarize the plan that was revealed in this article? I'm far too impatient to read the entire article. Is it the "we'll serve branded ads" approach that we've heard about already? Not quite a reveal if that's the case, as I'm fairly certain I found the ads on my own in the app already.

Cool app, though. Lots of fun. Snapchat's basically replaced texting for the average-to-cooler kids at my high school. It used to be that the "cool kids" would have unlimited texting, but now they just use Snapchat. I wonder what they'll come up with next.

</comment><comment><USER17> Aside from the article, I love BloombergBusiness's web design here. Bold, yet easy to read. They're doing great work over there.

</comment><comment><USER18> 2B videos per day. Wow.

<comment><USER19> I read it as that for only US users too, insane.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> The title is misleading. He doesn't reveal any secret plans here, he simply "reveals" that he plans to turn it into a real business. Not exactly newsworthy.

tl;dr: Evan Spiegel stole an idea for disappearing photos from a frat brother and hit the viral lottery with it. He now hopes to monetize without alienating his large and fickle userbase, but advertisers are thus far unimpressed with the results.

</comment><comment><USER21> Article is actually just an Evan Spiegel humpathon. There is little to no information about Snapchat becoming a "real" business.

</comment><comment><USER22> Jesus, ads are again apparently the solution to everything... No, snapchat is not going to replace tv ads for example, even though pimple faced teens use it to send belfies.

But come on, are all these "startups" only capable of being yet another ad platform? Whatsapp was revolutionary as they had no ads and actually made money by, _gasp_ , charging the users for an excellent service (at a very reasonable price).

</comment><comment><USER23> "He's also incredibly secretive about his business plans and an unknown (and arguably underestimated) figure in the intersecting gossip circles of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. "

He's not "secretive". He doesn't have one. His plan (or lack of) was to get as many people using the app as possible and then scramble to try to monetize it.

The issue, like every other person with a company like this, is that if there is even a hint of commercialization, the users will jump to the next "cool" thing.

Reddit is having the same problem. The original founders were lucky in that it was bought out and they got their payout.

<comment><USER24> > Reddit is having the same problem. The original founders were lucky in that > it was bought out and they got their payout.

How is it having the same problem? I think it still has a decent shot at monetizing. And, I don't think it's going anywhere soon... it's like Facebook in its class, it's too entrenched, people are not going to move on to the next thing so easily. I don't even know any serious contender to Reddit.

<comment><USER25> with the recent "scandal" with the CEO and her husband, a lot of reddit users are moving to sites like [https://voat.co](https://voat.co)

<comment><USER26> Voat is mostly being promoted by racists who are upset that they're being banned from the default subs for posting hate speech there.

It says a lot when Voat's most vocal supporters on reddit are the populations of /r/coontown, /r/conspiracy, and /r/antipozi (all very, very NSFL). The first is an anti-black sub, the second is an antisemitic sub (yes, antisemitic: everyone should read /r/isrconspiracyracist and /r/topmindsofreddit), and the third is a Neo-Nazi sub.

<comment><USER25> interesting, didn't know voat was just as toxic, based on the many comments i saw on reddit i thought it was really big

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> By the time snapchat makes money Meerkat and Periscope will take a large user base away.

The next thing is already here.

<comment><USER20> Snapchat vs Meerkat/Periscope is an apples and oranges conparison. The latter apps are primarily used for broadcasting to the public, while the former is primarily used for communicating privately between friends. They can co-exist, however based on the app charts, Meerkat is already dead.

<comment><USER28> does snapchat support live video streaming?

<comment><USER29> More like FaceTime, just one to one.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: basic word wrap in vim - <AUTHOR>

I'm getting back in touch with my inner (g)vim due to an unscheduled MacBook mother(board) of a meltdown (my emergency backup Linux box won't run TextMate). All told I'm happy with vim's efficiency and power, but I'm mortified at how hard it is to get the kind of word wrap that even stupid HTML textareas achieve with no apparent effort.
Consider the text

  Etiam ornare mollis tortor. Suspendisse sed neque. Nullam in elit. Cum sociis nullam.
 By default, with an 80-character width vim displays this as

  Etiam ornare mollis tortor. Suspendisse sed neque. Nullam in elit. Cum sociis nu
  llam.
 Of course, you can turn on word wrap, and get this:

  Etiam ornare mollis tortor. Suspendisse sed neque. Nullam in elit. Cum sociis
  nullam.
 The problem is that vim inserts a newline at the linebreak, which I most emphatically do not want. In other words, I want the text to display exactly as vim displays it with word wrap turned on, but without inserting a newline. (This way it can be pasted into HTML textareas and email programs, among other places.)
Web searches have yielded nothing of use, despite diligent effort; I hope Hacker News can succeed where my Google-fu has failed. <comment><USER2> I'm pretty sure these two lines do what you want. It keeps it as one physical line, but wraps at word boundaries instead of at the exact character when doing logical wrapping.

        " Break lines intelligently when wrapping
        set linebreak
        set display+=lastline

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> I posted the same question at StackOverflow, which also yielded some useful advice: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/467739/how-do-you-get- vim...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/467739/how-do-you-get-vim-to- display-wrapped-lines-without-inserting-newlines)

Basically, my terminal app was at fault, not vim. Switching from xterm to gnome-terminal fixed the problem.</comment>


Slack is the new favorite tool of newsrooms - <AUTHOR> http://digiday.com/publishers/many-newsrooms-using-slack/

<comment><USER2> It's great to see a new face on an old technology being adopted like this. Slack brings IRC to a larger nontechnical crowd in a nice slick package.</comment>


S3 Versioning Beta - <AUTHOR> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/ann.jspa?annID=579

<comment><USER2> Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming, Modified: "Any sufficiently complicated system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of a good VCS"

See: MS Word, Dropbox, S3</comment>


Show HN: Blockchaindevjobs - <AUTHOR> https://blockchaindevjobs.com <comment><AUTHOR> Hey, this simple cryptocurrency job aggregation board is in it's very early stages(I have precious little time to work on it).

No fancy front-end tech stack at this stage, only jQuery to speed up development. I plan to replace it with React at a later stage.

I'm posting it to see if some of you would find it useful, and what feedback you might offer before wasting too much time one stupid things.

</comment><comment><USER2> I can definitely see potential for that.

IMO it would be important to think of features that are very unique to blockchain dev jobs to differentiate from job sites where you can simply set a blockchain filtering.</comment>


Review my one-night project: I Made the TSA Feel My Resistance - <AUTHOR> http://imadethetsafeelmyresistance.com/

<comment><USER2> +1 for the principle +1 for the latex glove logo: make the reader feel unconfortable (ok... _most_ readers anyway) -1 for not having much substance past point 3 -1 for selling T-shirts: it's perception, but it sure makes one wonder if this is just a quick way to make a buck taking advantage of an actually serious issue +1 for making a quick buck by taking advantage of a serious issue

ok, you're in the positive.. for now.

</comment><comment><USER3> If you're going for just a meme site it's fairly awesome. Simple, pretty, gets the point across.

If you're trying to actively promote a stand against those machines, more information would be a great addition. An about page that goes over what's happening, and a section that links to other places talking about it. Perhaps adding the ability for people to share their experiences directly on the page instead of just tweeting.

It's cute and pretty, but I think it lacks substance.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks. The main goal is just to keep people from feeling like they're alone when they opt out, and to encourage more opting out.

You're right that it's a little information-deficient. Some of that was on purpose, but I just added an "about" blurb to help clear things up.

<comment><USER4> In that case, you need a counter of the people who opt out -- not a counter of the people who tweet about your site.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Four stars for that latex-gloved logo. =D

</comment><comment><USER6> And who doesn't like a dick joke about the feds? That's the point here, right - it's just a dick joke?</comment>


Why Arch? - <AUTHOR> https://dev.to/mahmoudhossam/why-arch-dlp <comment><USER2> So? Why? What pays for the trouble of running constantly before a steam locomotive (rolling release; stop for a week or two and your system breaks apart on the first update)? Because I'm totally unconvinced that "Pacman runs circles around apt", especially that I know APT quite well.</comment>


Moderna shows positive results on virus vaccine trials - <AUTHOR> https://www.ft.com/content/63ba718d-98e5-4873-aa1d-9f6fd912d8df <comment><AUTHOR> [https://archive.vn/YXqxL](https://archive.vn/YXqxL)</comment>


Ask HN: Is Telegram secure or not? - <AUTHOR> I'm not a crypto expert. The experts clearly prefer Signal to Telegram for secure mobile messaging, but how secure is Telegram? I read the its encryption scheme was broken, but I also read that it's never been broken. And nobody has won the $300,000 award for breaking it. What's the deal? Is it still considered insecure? <comment><USER2> From what I gather, the crypto in Telegram is unorthodox and smacks of self- made, and crypto circles are extremely suspicious of anything non-standard that hasn't been thoroughly vetted. Didn't help that the website boasted of their 5 math PhDs (IIRC). (Of course, the Signal protocol was new and unusual at one time as well, but my understanding is that the basic primitives it uses and the way they're put together is more orthodox).

[https://www.securemessagingapps.com/](https://www.securemessagingapps.com/) gives Telegram "amber" for crypto, and "red" (Don't use) overall.

The only overall greens are Signal, Threema, Wire.</comment>


"You'll never convince me that reusable code isn't mostly a menace"-Knuth, 2008 - <AUTHOR> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 <comment><USER2> I really agree with the quote, especially after spending some time in a huge enterprise codebase (1mil+ files). Writing reusable code usually means writing an abstraction layer. However, if you always write an abstraction layer, you will end up with a ton of abstract code with only one concrete implementation. Abstract code is harder to read and modify, so you do pay a cost when it comes to maintenance. Also depending on the language you may pay a runtime cost also. So if your goal is always to write reusable code from the start, you pay an investment cost that may never show any returns.

This idea pairs well with another Knuth quote regarding premature optimization being being evil [1]. Code reusability is a form of optimization of developer time. Writing reusable code with only one implementation is like optimizing a function that does not impact performance. You think you are doing something good because programmer dogma says its good, but in the end its not.

Here is another related article that does a great job talking about maintainable software, and some of the contradictory advice you will hear about it [2]. But the main point is that code is transient. We tend to write code with the idea that it may run in production undisturbed for decades, but that is not the case. Refactors are common, and most people will do a better job rewriting code from scratch than trying to modify your code. So do them a favor, and make it easily replaceable instead of easily modifiable, mostly because your opinion of what is easy to modify is just as subjective as your opinion of what is good code.

[1] [http://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization](http://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization) [2] [https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write- co...](https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is- easy-to-delete-not-easy-to)

<comment><USER3> I always thought the idiom of 'reusable code' is in deep conflict with 'ruthless refactoring'

I've come down to keep your interfaces and paradigms stable, architecture flat and couplings low.</comment></comment>


With Windows 7 & TV Tuner you can watch & record programs, just like Tivo - <AUTHOR> http://www.pcworld.com/article/173575/turn_your_tv_into_an_entertainment_center.html

<comment><USER2> This is nothing new...I've been doing this since 1998.</comment>


7 days for 7 Mobile apps by 7 University of Waterloo students - <AUTHOR> http://7cubedproject.com/

<comment><USER2> Sweet! We made HN! This is Gareth from 7cubed. In fact we're not restricting ourselves to mobile apps; yesterday we wrote <http://uwchat.ca>, a chat client for classrooms in Waterloo, and its a pure web app.

We're hacking hard on today's app, but if anyone has any questions I'll do my best to answer them.

<comment><USER3> While I love the novelty behind UW chat most professors probably be a little annoyed with it. Still it seems like a pretty fun instant chat room app.

Really looking forward to the the next few apps. QC seems to have a lot of potential.

<comment><USER2> Thanks! Yeah, we didn't really write it to make profs happy, we just felt there was need for a generic medium for in-class anonymous communication.

<comment><USER3> UWDC does a pretty good job of that too.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> I was following the progress on the weekend. Glad you guys made HN. Good stuff.

Does UW Chat automatically handle the difference between "RCH 101" and "RCH101"?

<comment><USER2> Not yet. We've been busy on our latest hack today, but as soon as we can find a spare minute we're going to do some updates to uwchat.ca</comment></comment>


AngelFlow: Follow angel investors on Twitter and AngelList - <AUTHOR> http://angelflow.com <comment><USER2> Very useful to see top angels all in one place and be able to follow them.

</comment><comment><USER3> This is huge. I went on a major follow binge.</comment>