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Re:An end to buggy web apps on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:37PM (#50369711)
I found his comments and posts much more interesting that your constant anti-AI rants
How easy is it to challenge these claims?
You raise some good points and it’s clear that it’s not a simple problem. However, I disagree with the idea of trusting the state to decide what is “good” or “bad” speech, and censoring it without transparency. This could lead to very bad patterns that can over time kill a democracy. I agree that corporations are not great either, but at least there’s competition there, and more checks and balances.
So the state wanted to block tweets that didn’t align to their ideology And Musk didn’t comply. Doesn’t seem so far from what China has been doing
This could also happen if you have a misconfigured VPN with a DNS leak. Check out this website for clues: https://ipleak.net/
Re:Migrating Away from Google Analytics on Sunday July 12, 2020 @04:18AM (#23809788)
I have been considering giving up Google Analytics for my websites too, but the thing that stops me is that GA integrates really well with Google search engine, providing detailed info about which keywords were used to find your site.

Do other analytics services also provide this feature? If so, I'm curious of how the manage to do it without being integrated with Google.

That's awesome, I'll give it a try. Do the python bindings include the Sparse Data functionality? I can't find it in the docs.
Cool stuff, but I would have found it more useful as a python library, to allow integration with existing tools like Pytorch.
Re:Stripe Chargeback Protection on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:58AM (#20082234)
Completely unrelated, but please add an alternative fee structure more appropriate for microtransactions. Stripe has a vast amount of useful features from which my business could benefit, but its cost is prohibitive as all our transactions are for low amounts (1$ or less), which make your 30cent fee a 30% of the total.

We are forced to use credit cards directly and Paypal, as both offer a much lower fixed fee (sometimes 0) in exchange for higher %.

Re:Show HN: Person Identification by Keyboard Typing on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:20PM (#19889278)
Are you planning to open source the dataset generated?
This is great!! I would really like to see this implemented as a generic library for visualizing data, not limited to ROS. Something like matplotlib on python but with all the output in ASCII.
Re:Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017? on Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:13PM (#16042156)
I would pay for that pocket-to-kindle service
Might I ask what kind of people attend your classes?

I am thinking on volunteering on an institution which helps people with less social resources.

Your idea sounds like a good way to give those people more possibilities, as you can learn to code without paying anything if you have an internet connection and enough motivation.

What I'm afraid of is asking too much from them. Did your 10 engineers start with some background in computer science or math?