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by jdrock 10y ago
The consensus is that U/L's aggressive political campaigning prior to the vote backfired big time. They really screwed up on messaging by not understanding their audience. Had they made it about losing 10,000 jobs, they might ha
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by jdrock 10y ago
The title and content of this article couldn't be farther from the truth. 1. Uber and Lyft's absence has created a huge void that remains to this day. There are crazy long lines at the airport. 2. There are multiple ridesharing c
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Study: Austin May Not Have Enough Rooms for SXSW Visitors in Coming Years(austininno.streetwise.co)
1 points by jdrock 11y ago|0 comments
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Using Data to Find the Right Price for Nutritional Supplements(datafiniti.co)
1 points by jdrock 11y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 11y ago
This isn't particularly difficult anymore. The most interesting challenges in web crawling around turning a diaspora of web content into usable data. E.g., how to get prices from 10 million product listings from 1,000 different e-reta
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The Cost of a Designer Label(datafiniti.co)
1 points by jdrock 11y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 11y ago
Here's how many URLs we crawl every second with 80legs ( http://www.80legs.com ) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44889964/Descartes%20%20... This translates to about 700MM/month. The bump
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by jdrock 11y ago
Trying to triangulate based on where players' eyes are looking rarely works. In many cases, the goalie is looking in a completely different direction than where the ball is. I guess that's why they're getting scored on.
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by jdrock 11y ago
Any word on integration with Graphite?
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by jdrock 11y ago
Datafiniti - Data Engineer and Distributed Systems Engineer, Austin, TX Data Engineer Data engineers form the core of Datafiniti. You’ll be responsible for turning customer needs into usable data in Datafiniti. You’ll also be responsible fo
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Analyzing 400,000+ Online Hotel Reviews Across the US(blog.datafiniti.co)
13 points by jdrock 12y ago|0 comments
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Datafiniti re-architects its web-crawler engine and moves to the cloud(gigaom.com)
2 points by jdrock 12y ago|0 comments
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Building a Web Scraper (with 80legs)(blog.datafiniti.net)
2 points by jdrock 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 12y ago
Let us know if you'd like to integrate this with http://www.80legs.com !
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Typical Use Cases for Web Crawlers(blog.datafiniti.net)
3 points by jdrock 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdrock 12y ago
Our intention is to pay the developer. Of course, there'd be nothing stopping the developer from paying out to users as well. Happy to get more feedback!
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by jdrock 12y ago
We're experimenting with a new way to power our Datafiniti search engine. Essentially you get paid for running a distributed web crawler through any Chrome Extension.
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Show HN: Get paid for crawling the web(github.com)
5 points by jdrock 12y ago|7 comments
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by jdrock 12y ago
Let us know if you're interested: https://www.datafiniti.net/home/careers
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What is Web Crawling?(blog.datafiniti.net)
2 points by jdrock 12y ago|0 comments
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A few charts to show off our web crawling (300 million URLs/month)(blog.datafiniti.net)
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by jdrock 13y ago
Austin, TX - Datafiniti ( https://www.datafiniti.net ) Datafiniti is the world's only search engine for data. We crawl and index close to 1 million websites each month to create structured, searchable data. Right now we hav
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by jdrock 13y ago
Datafiniti - Austin, TX. We're looking for a Sales Engineer and Operations Engineer. Come help us scale the world's first and only search engine for data! Full details here: https://www.datafiniti.net/home/ca
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Using neural networks to classify web pages with 91% accuracy(blog.datafiniti.net)
1 points by jdrock 13y ago|1 comments
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Why we're moving our startup from Houston to Austin(blog.datafiniti.net)
2 points by jdrock 13y ago|7 comments
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by jdrock 13y ago
Datafiniti - Austin, TX At Datafiniti, you'll get to work on an absurdly ambitious problem - building the world's first search engine for data. We solve challenges that push the boundaries of what a search engine can do. Here are a few of
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by jdrock 13y ago
Austin, Texas http://datafiniti1.theresumator.com/ We're building the world's first search engine for data at Datafiniti. Work on fascinating problems that involve working with billions of data points, building intelligent agents, scalin
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by jdrock 14y ago
@jacquesm please send me a list of URLs to crawl (10M+), and I'll set up an 80legs job to do this. shion - at - 80legs - com.
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by jdrock 14y ago
We're working on this problem at Datafiniti ( https://www.datafiniti.net ). Since we index hundreds of sources for a similar service, we can leverage some basic string comparison techniques to normalize records from different sources and f
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by jdrock 14y ago
Happy to discuss any questions the HN community has about our site!

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