Hacker News: pancho111203

New comment by pancho111203 in "Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and Google helped"

pancho111203 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:06:46 +0000

How easy is it to challenge these claims?

New comment by pancho111203 in "X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk's refusal to comply with local laws"

pancho111203 — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 05:06:51 +0000

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.

New comment by pancho111203 in "X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk's refusal to comply with local laws"

pancho111203 — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:58:45 +0000

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

New comment by pancho111203 in "Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN"

pancho111203 — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 11:27:15 +0000

This could also happen if you have a misconfigured VPN with a DNS leak. Check out this website for clues: https://ipleak.net/

New comment by pancho111203 in "Migrating Away from Google Analytics"

pancho111203 — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:18:22 +0000

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.

New comment by pancho111203 in "Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf]"

pancho111203 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:19:06 +0000

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.

New comment by pancho111203 in "Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf]"

pancho111203 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:59:27 +0000

Cool stuff, but I would have found it more useful as a python library, to allow integration with existing tools like Pytorch.

New comment by pancho111203 in "Stripe Chargeback Protection"

pancho111203 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 11:58:55 +0000

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 %.

New comment by pancho111203 in "Show HN: Person Identification by Keyboard Typing"

pancho111203 — Sun, 12 May 2019 00:20:51 +0000

Are you planning to open source the dataset generated?

New comment by pancho111203 in "ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data"

pancho111203 — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:29:06 +0000

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.

New comment by pancho111203 in "Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?"

pancho111203 — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 19:13:42 +0000

I would pay for that pocket-to-kindle service

New comment by pancho111203 in "Ask HN: I'm lonely. Are there any video chat support groups for solo founders?"

pancho111203 — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:02:35 +0000

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?