Hacker News: ecubed

New comment by ecubed in "Goodbye Apple, Hello Purism"

ecubed — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:35:30 +0000

Did I miss something? How is Apple creating a Social Credit Score?

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible"

ecubed — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:30:24 +0000

Needs a guestbook at the bottom of the page

New comment by ecubed in "Gallery of programming UIs"

ecubed — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:52:12 +0000

TGF was definitely what got me started in programming as a kid. Super intuitive to learn and use before I was 'ready' to use a text-based language.

New comment by ecubed in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

ecubed — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 03:52:44 +0000

Exactly! Extremely frustrating that the rest of the quote wasn't included.

"Having made that decision we now need to talk about why it is so dangerous. I’ll be posting something on our blog later today. Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power."

His Gizmodo quotes are somewhat revealing as well:

“We need to have a discussion around this, with clear rules and clear frameworks. My whims and those of Jeff [Bezos] and Larry [Page] and Satya [Nadella] and Mark [Zuckerberg], that shouldn’t be what determines what should be online,” he said. “I think the people who run The Daily Stormer are abhorrent. But again I don’t think my political decisions should determine who should and shouldn’t be on the internet.”

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: Swarmdrop – Frontend for Ethereum Swarm distributed file storage"

ecubed — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 23:45:33 +0000

How does the underlying technology of this differ from Filecoin?

New comment by ecubed in "Ask HN: Any nicer alternatives to Mint for personal budgeting?"

ecubed — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 02:21:38 +0000

+1 for not understanding sync. Was also looking for a way to sync transactions from bank account.

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line"

ecubed — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:49:42 +0000

Its a pretty nifty concept. Wish there was a way to browse comments without leaving the terminal though.

New comment by ecubed in "As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Driverless Trucks”"

ecubed — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 03:51:36 +0000

Otto (http://ot.to) provides a solution for converting existing trucks into semi-self-driving trucks. I'd be very interested to hear a truck drivers take on using a device like this. In my (not a truck driver) opinion, it seems like in the short term it'll be hugely beneficial to the drivers, since the government will still be mandating that drivers be in the vehicles, but in the long term will completely kill the job.

The Far Sound – A Brief History of Telephone Technologies from Bell Labs (1961)

ecubed — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:33:01 +0000

Article URL: http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2015/1/6/AT&T-Archives-The-Far-Sound

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11603933

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecubed in "Cleffy – Try the first Guitar lesson"

ecubed — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:14:32 +0000

Is there a reason for lack of Safari support?

New comment by ecubed in "YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks"

ecubed — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:47:40 +0000

In his reply he mentions '(or other coffee shops) ', I would assume those are the owners he's talking about

Tell HN: If you use Google Web Fonts your site loads much slower in China

ecubed — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:58:41 +0000

We all know that Google is blocked in China, but I think it is known to a lesser extent that fonts.googleapis.com is also blocked. As a result, any site relying on Google to serve fonts will appear to load much slower than it should.

StackOverflow is a prime example of a site that should not need a VPN to access from China, but in its current state requires one due to the reliance on Google to serve fonts.

So if you're looking to include the Chinese or China's expatriate population in your potential customer base, please consider the implications of reliance on Google services.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9868161

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by ecubed in "Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs"

ecubed — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:29:27 +0000

He's using mannequins in the main picture at the top of the article, so I assume one technique would be to use mannequins as placeholders until you needed to do the distinctly human parts of the painting (hands, faces), then you could substitute a person into place and paint that part.

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition"

ecubed — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 04:36:56 +0000

I found it nearly impossible to concentrate on what the video was trying to show me because of the background music.

New comment by ecubed in "House Vote 412 - Rejects Limits on N.S.A. Data Collection"

ecubed — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:12:28 +0000

I'm curious what else was going on in this bill? Was it solely a bill limiting NSA data collection, or was it another one of those where NSA data collection is the headline item, then inside it is alot of other junk.

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: Serial communication using the WebAudio API"

ecubed — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:28:03 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I'll try and implement this once I get the parts in for my new board.

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: Serial communication using the WebAudio API"

ecubed — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:06:04 +0000

I'm in the process of building a more general purpose dev board using the same processor I used for the class, so once I've got that up and running I'll try and post more "How to" related stuff on the github.

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: Serial communication using the WebAudio API"

ecubed — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:04:31 +0000

Correct. The next step on this project will be to try and get two way communication working. I ran out of time before the class ended to get that established. If I remember correctly I ran into some issues with the mobile safari and the microphone input via javascript. I believe PhoneGap provides an API for this though.

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: Serial communication using the WebAudio API"

ecubed — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:58:55 +0000

Possibly. It was an embedded systems class, and I have a background dealing more with webdev and audio systems, so I figured I could combine all three into something novel. It actually worked out really well for the purpose, which was supposed to be a power-saving application. This way required only the addition of a comparator chip between the ATMega168 and the headphone line, which made it a super low power (and computationally light) way to communicate.

New comment by ecubed in "Show HN: Serial communication using the WebAudio API"

ecubed — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:47:25 +0000

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially from more experienced devs. I built this JS class to send serial commands over the headphone port of an iPhone using Javascript and the HTML5 WebAudio API. This enabled me to use an iPhone application to control my embedded systems design senior project.