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Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Sorry that you don't like it. Can't please everyone. Lots of people have told me they've had fun meeting new people from around the world. Regarding the hashtag, I put it there because I'm against police brutality and I'm horrified by what the police are doing. Looters should be arrested and prosecuted, for sure. But police have a monopoly on the use of violence and must be held to a higher standard.

I didn't write I don't like it, mostly think being more neutral and removing political statements might be better. As for the Police, that was one guy. What percentage of cops kill innocent people, vs. save you from the bad guys (I was saved by cops twice, for instance). Also looks like the guy is going to be held at a higher standard and will get a harsh punishment. Is looting and burning down stores that in many ca…

I think it is easy to misread the implied context of your statement as

protestors = looters = antifa.

Which is of course not true.

These are three seperate groups of people and the only subset relation that holds true (using a definition of `protestors` as simply participants) is

protestors > looters.

And I guess they constitute only a small percentage.

Additionally: Not everyone who would signify themselves as part of the antifa is a looter and not every looter is part of the antifa.

I would not jump to any conlusion about the ratios `looters/(antifa looters)` and `antifa/(antifa looters)`. (Note: They are not inverse).

Overall, my impression is that the antifa plays only a minor role and was mostly brought up by T. to derail the public discussion.

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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They're in a JSON file in the repo at the moment. I'll open source them later today when I have a spare moment: https://github.com/feross

I just wanted to start by saying thanks so much for your open source contributions. I've been using simple-peer in a few side projects and it's been a breeze. Are you planning on eventually open sourcing Virus Cafe on top of releasing the questions?

You are very welcome. simple-peer has been massively improved by other OSS contributors, and I am not an expert on the video/voice aspects of it as much as the data channel, so it's actually really great that I open sourced it. It enabled me to build Virus Cafe super quickly. The power of open source!

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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tried matching with 3 people, all took one look at my face and peaced lol nice app though! love the small touches with the emojis and sounds!

That's a bummer! I think I'll implement a penalty for leaving in the middle of a chat. Will auto-ban folks who do that too much. Thoughts?

is what it is... chatroulette and co all have similar behavior. too many rules and you lose users.

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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That's a bummer! I think I'll implement a penalty for leaving in the middle of a chat. Will auto-ban folks who do that too much. Thoughts?

is what it is... chatroulette and co all have similar behavior. too many rules and you lose users.

I'm okay with losing users. I only want users who enjoy long discussions about deep questions. That's the target audience of the app. If you have no standards, you devolve into ChatRoulette. More users, but very little value.

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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As this is HN, could you elaborate on the technologies you used to build this platform?

Sure thing. The video and voice chat is powered by WebRTC. The getUserMedia API allows a browser to access the webcam and microphone of the device. I used my own simple-peer ( https://github.com/feross/simple-peer ) library to make WebRTC a bit easier to work with. The server is Node.js. I'm using Next.js for the first time on this project. I usually use a custom Express server for my projects. I'm a fan of several o…

How do you do stun, turn and signalling?

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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I didn't write I don't like it, mostly think being more neutral and removing political statements might be better. As for the Police, that was one guy. What percentage of cops kill innocent people, vs. save you from the bad guys (I was saved by cops twice, for instance). Also looks like the guy is going to be held at a higher standard and will get a harsh punishment. Is looting and burning down stores that in many ca…

I think it is easy to misread the implied context of your statement as protestors = looters = antifa. Which is of course not true. These are three seperate groups of people and the only subset relation that holds true (using a definition of `protestors` as simply participants) is protestors > looters. And I guess they constitute only a small percentage. Additionally: Not everyone who would signify themselves as part…

I hope it's Antifa (a terrorist organization), and not regular kids that go out and beat up old ladies.
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