HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

hiphopyo

199 karma · joined February 7, 2014

submissionscomments
hiphopyo··on SGI screen fonts converted for OS X
There's also the 4Dwm theme for fvwm: http://4dwm.lumpiarze.nstrefa.pl/

Wish there was something similar for Windows 10.

hiphopyo··on Shrine – A new solution for handling file uploads in Ruby
You could do that with https://github.com/jrgifford/delayed_paperclip/ I guess.
hiphopyo··on Ad-blocking: a sign that web publishers don’t care about readers
> Look at New Yorker, for example. The ads are generally interesting and feature great photography.

Wish Google would introduce some sort of minimum design requirements for their AdSense image ads.

I also wish they'd give publishers full control over the appearance of their text ads. Right now, these ads look horrible, and only premium publishers (ie. websites with millions users) are given this sort of control.

hiphopyo··on Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base
Doesn't Android borrow a lot of code from NetBSD and OpenBSD?
hiphopyo··on Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base
Something like http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/... would be nice.
hiphopyo··on PayPal does not know how to detect fraud
Anybody know why they use their own fictional currency rates?
hiphopyo··on Quick and dirty way to have OpenBSD running on Linode
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and have been using it since I was a kid. But, for what it's worth, here's my selling point:

Choose OpenBSD for your Unix needs. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL, and the NTP rewrite OpenNTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.

hiphopyo··on Quick and dirty way to have OpenBSD running on Linode
I've been in talks with the DO owner regarding how at least half of the DO BSD UserVoice votes (https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...) were for OpenBSD. Yet only FreeBSD got supported.

How, for instance, most of the cool stuff in FreeBSD comes from OpenBSD (pf, OpenSSH, OpenSMTPD, OpenNTPD, LibreSSL, http://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62641-crypto-...). How, for instance, one cannot protect oneself properly using FreeBSD's outdated version of pf.

He's expressed his utmost sympathy, and it is my belief that he's slowly but surely realizing OpenBSD's worth.

hiphopyo··on Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents
+1. The blue titles, the unnecessary lines and the fact that he branded it with the whole Clean<bold>Thesis</bold> thing doesn't really sound clean in my book.

I'm currently looking for a thesis template as well, but the more I come across (1) the more I just want to do something like http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/.

(1) http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/326/latex-templates-f...

hiphopyo··on Show HN: Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer in JavaScript
1. Combine with http://git.io/drummer 2. Record to cassette tape 3. Send to major label
hiphopyo··on Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
Isn't that guy sorta missing the point of the first website?
hiphopyo··on Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only
Isn't Firefox OS with their mobile web platform about to flood into India as well?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519336

hiphopyo··on First Firefox OS Smartphones in Africa
Could you possibly add an ETA to the countries where it's not at?
hiphopyo··on Ask HN: How to cope with depression
Have you tried MDMA-assisted therapy?

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/03/health/ecstasy-ptsd-3/

Incase it was never available to you, it should be soon. DEA approves study using MDMA for anxiety in seriously ill patients (Mar 17, 2015):

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/17/clinical-tri...

hiphopyo··on Show HN: Kubist, a little web app to make cubism-like images
Looks quite similar to http://close-pixelate.desandro.com/ -- good job!
hiphopyo··on Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool
Fireworks is more a collection of stock graphics and widgets geared towards people who want to make quick mockups and such. As a design tool it doesn't even come close to Flash.
hiphopyo··on Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool
Flash supports SVGs too (as of late 2014). Not sure about animations though.
hiphopyo··on Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool
Absolutely not. It's sad how all the hate towards the Shockwave Flash format has automatically spilled over on Adobe Flash the design and animation tool.

Adobe's best course forward would probably be to rename Adobe Flash to something like Adobe Vectorshop, discontinue support for .swf and replace it with SVG animations. Adobe already owns Snap.svg (https://github.com/adobe-webplatform/Snap.svg) so there's definitely a lot of potential there.

hiphopyo··on Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool
I think it's important to make the distinction between the Shockwave Flash format and Adobe Flash the design tool.

Adobe Flash the design tool is by far the simplest and most intuitive tool out there for designing web graphics, be it in vectors or pixel-perfect raster graphics. Not to mention its combination of layers and timelines which allows you to do a lot more in less time. The whole animations / ActionScript thing is just an added bonus if you're feeling frisky.

Most people use Photoshop for web graphics but that's wrong -- Photoshop was meant for photos. Others use Illustrator but it is way overkill unless you're doing fine arts or complex illustrations.

hiphopyo··on Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution
An artist impression of how the city will look like in terms of smog in 5, 10 and 20 years from now would also be nice.
hiphopyo··on Chrome introduces Web App install banners
While we wait for Chrome 42, what do you guys think of https://github.com/cubiq/add-to-homescreen with https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie for achieving something similar?
hiphopyo··on Invented by OpenBSD
Can't argue with that, although:

> - FreeBSD Jails and Mac (These are extremely strong security features if implemented correctly. Especially jails are really undervalued/misunderstood IMHO.)

Aren't these are only necessary if you let people you don't trust into your system?

> - PF version runs on multiple cpus (OpenBSD's version is more advanced though)

Personally I dislike running PF on FreeBSD as it requires me to resort to old docs and use old syntaxes.

> - Capsicum (security)

Isn't this being ported as we speak?

hiphopyo··on What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar
There's also the old saying that "anything in excess is poison".
hiphopyo··on MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing
I wonder what would happen if MySpace were to suddenly revert back to the old version.

What would they have to lose? It would make the headlines the world over, and people would be getting back the MySpace they signed up for.

hiphopyo··on Statements about the Mobile Web
My GitHub search skills aren't the best, but here are some of the nicer ones I've found:

Dynamic Physics Interactions for the Mobile Web: https://github.com/luster-io/impulse

Facebook and Path style side menus: https://github.com/jakiestfu/Snap.js/

Smooth scrolling: https://github.com/cubiq/iscroll

Add to home screen call-out for mobile devices: https://github.com/cubiq/add-to-homescreen

Cross-browser usage of the JavaScript Fullscreen API: https://github.com/sindresorhus/screenfull.js/

Anybody know of any more?

hiphopyo··on Statements about the Mobile Web
Most of the time, the people who argue against the mobile web are the same people whose livelihoods depend on Java and native apps.

Ruby on Rails vs Java - Commercial #1 of 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo

Erase the Native vs. HTML5 Development Debate with PhoneGap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uea1kAXlGIY

hiphopyo··on Statements about the Mobile Web
> That's absolutely hard to do, and often not worth the effort.

I'm not sure I agree. The JS libs are out there, you just need to find them.

hiphopyo··on Statements about the Mobile Web
> No person said it with words. Websites said it with their behavior.

No doubt, the majority of mobile websites need their asses kicked.

hiphopyo··on Statements about the Mobile Web
Why would you not be able to use jQuery Mobile alongside jQuery in a fully responsive app?
hiphopyo··on Statements about the Mobile Web
> launching from the home screen

https://github.com/cubiq/add-to-homescreen

← PreviousPage 2 of 8Next →