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stwe | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

I was a happy user of the python autocomplete package with Jedi for some time. Starting in November 2016 they introduced kite-specific code, shipping kite-installer as a dependency and also added tracking of your autocompletion behaviour (I suspect this is where they get their Kite vs. Jedi performance numbers from).

Only in February 2017 I noticed that the whole package had changed right under me because of an error traceback window caused by their metrics collection going wrong. I looked at the package settings and IIRC there was a checkmark set for the "Use Kite" option which I'm pretty sure I did not set myself.

The telemetry collection alone is a deal breaker for me. But I also don't like the sneaky way they practically took over the package without clear notice and consent. The package README still makes no mention of Kite and the package is running under the innocently looking 'autocomplete-python' GitHub org instead of their 'kiteco' org. To me it's a very fishy 'growth hacking' strategy.

stwe | 10 years ago | on: Maze Generator and Solver

GitHub Pages supports HTTPS, so please include your JS/CSS schema-relative (//) or directly with HTTPS. Otherwise people who force HTTPS on that domain get mixed content warnings and nothing loads.

stwe | 11 years ago | on: French civil code now on GitHub

I'm the original creator of that repo. Keeping it up to date is unfortunately a time-consuming manual effort. Doing version control downstream is generally a nightmare because unraveling different law changes/typo fixes is complicated (yes, lot's of typos when humans consolidate laws by hand).

If you're interested, here's a talk about it at Git Merge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qql1Ess7qM

Here are some scrapers/scripts around it: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze-tools

stwe | 12 years ago | on: Janrain will shut down myOpenID.com on 1st Feb 2014

I'm using MyOpenID but with a delegation through my own website. In theory transitioning to another provider should just be about changing meta tags in my homepage. However, some consumers store the delegated OpenID URL instead of the one given by the user, which makes transitioning more painful than it has to be.

stwe | 13 years ago | on: Geek Alarm at Campus Party Berlin - is this us?

These procedures trade my freedom and privacy for security. I always have someone keep an eye on my stuff, but I've also been at similar events (Chaos Communication Camp 2011) where keeping something unattended was not a problem at all.

Treating all you attendees like potential thieves is simply a bad premise for a hacker event.

stwe | 13 years ago | on: Geek Alarm at Campus Party Berlin - is this us?

Indeed. This is a commercial event with too much security - quite the opposite from the usual hacker events in Germany. You need to give lots of info on registration including a passport style photo, your laptop serial number (because equipment is required to be tagged) and apparently bags are searched on entry and exit. It's ridiculous. That's why the usual hacker crowd in Germany totally ignores this event.

stwe | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use?

It's only free as in free beer if it's free as in GPL, otherwise you have to pay for a commercial license. GPL means you have to provide source if you distribute the app. And isn't there also an incompatibility with Apple's App Store terms and the GPL (VLC case)?

stwe | 14 years ago | on: All Node.js servers are vulnerable to DoS

Yes, if they are implemented via hash tables and do not randomize their hash generation somehow. The talk at 28c3 specifically mentions PHP, Java, ASP.net, Python. Ruby is fine, but other variants of Ruby are apparently also vulnerable.

stwe | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful?

There are some great NGOs for hackers that do awesome stuff: e.g. the Sunlight Labs in the US, MySociety and the Open Knowledge Foundation (disclaimer: associated) in the UK. They build apps for government transparency (also international aid transparency) and participation. I believe that these are the hackers who actually make the world a better place.

stwe | 15 years ago | on: Remind HN: Unicode hacks

It used to have funny effects on websites (browser name in title bar spelled backwards), but it doesn't seem to work now. The above comment contains the unicode character three times.
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