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Discord for Remote Work(martintapia.com)
3 points by paps 4y ago|1 comments
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by paps 6y ago
Would you mind explaining why fail2ban is bad?
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by paps 7y ago
We use it in our CI, just before deployment, to compare the DB structure of what's being tested with the DB structure of our staging or production environment. It's a last minute check that prevented a lot of mistakes.
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Demetrification: Removing the numbers of likes and retweets from public view(onezero.medium.com)
55 points by paps 7y ago|39 comments
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by paps 8y ago
Facebook Local?
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AWS Route53 is down(twitter.com)
27 points by paps 8y ago|11 comments
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by paps 8y ago
Well, it's up for debate. We automate websites on behalf of our users (that is, logged in as them). Which means the site knows at all time who's doing what and can take action in case of abuse. Also, we see more and more ruling in
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by paps 8y ago
It's similar in the sense that it's a listing of APIs. But we're providing non-official APIs that work by automating / scraping websites. Our platform runs Headless Chrome instances behind the scenes. As a matter of fact
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Show HN: API store(phantombuster.com)
51 points by paps 8y ago|11 comments
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by paps 9y ago
In France we have Anticafe[1]. They charge 5€ per hour spent there in exchange for unlimited wifi, coffee and pastries. As I understand it they're quite successful. They have opened multiple new cafes in Paris' central neighborhoo
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by paps 9y ago
> I think its also worth pointing out that less than 1000 entities owns 40% of the bitcoins. This is FUD. 1000 wallets own 40% of BTC. See here https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....
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by paps 9y ago
We're developing a library[1] for this use-case. The goal is to have the same simple API for multiple browsers. Right now it supports both Headless Chrome and PhantomJS. We think we'll begin work on Firefox headless soon. PRs welc
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by paps 9y ago
Where I work ( https://phantombuster.com ) we use them for scraping the web. They're a hassle-free way of getting the data. No need to worry about CORS, sessions, cookies, CSRF and other modern web stuff. Just simulate a huma
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Web scraping in 2017: advanced Headless Chrome tips and tricks(blog.phantombuster.com)
8 points by paps 9y ago|0 comments
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by paps 9y ago
Where I work we prefer jQuery to the native DOM API for scraping. It really speeds up the process of extracting data. For example with Puppeteer you can do page.injectFile("jquery-3.2.1.min.js"). I think that would simplify your e
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by paps 9y ago
It's the first time we're talking about Phantombuster here on HN :) Happy to discuss and receive constructive feedback! Hope you like it as much as we liked building it.
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Show HN: Hosted Headless Chrome service (we just added Chromeless)(phantombuster.com)
17 points by paps 9y ago|1 comments
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by paps 10y ago
In a similar vein there's this book that was mentionned in YC's winter reading list: https://www.amazon.com/Pandaemonium-Coming-Machine-Contempor... I haven't received it yet but it seems promising
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by paps 10y ago
Thanks for this. I would use it but you only do HTTP requests, right? It would be great if you could also do a true ICMP ping (like the name suggests!)
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by paps 11y ago
I highly recommend using Alien Tube [0]. It fetches reddit comments for the video, it's really well done. If it finds nothing, it displays the orignal YouTube comments. [0] https://alientube.co/
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Mt. Gox annouces they still have 200k BTC of the 850k reported lost(headlines.yahoo.co.jp)
5 points by paps 13y ago|0 comments
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by paps 13y ago
Fees are there to prevent micro-transaction spam. If there were no fees, anyone could flood the network with very small transactions and it would suck. For big transactions like this one, involving old coins, no fee is needed and miners wil
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by paps 13y ago
No need to pay fees when the coins are old. Fees are there to prevent spam.
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by paps 13y ago
You can add coins to a paper wallet many times. What is considered risky is spending only a fraction of the paper wallet, for the following reasons: - you just used the private key for creating a transaction, so the chances of it being comp
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by paps 13y ago
Mining scrypt coins is proficient. I make $400/month with 2 machines I built 6 months ago.
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Bitcoin heading towards $200, new bubble forming(bitcoinwisdom.com)
71 points by paps 13y ago|110 comments
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by paps 13y ago
It has already happened: Sheep Marketplace, http://sheep5u64fi457aw.onion Most SR vendors are transitionning to this site. Or it's just a big honeypot.
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Geolocated videos of 2011 Japan earthquake & tsunami(maps.google.com)
3 points by paps 14y ago|0 comments
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Sharing resources between Lua and C++(blog.pocsel.com)
2 points by paps 14y ago|0 comments
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by paps 14y ago
> Set up an internal company security word of the day and don’t give any information to anyone who doesn’t know it. I don't think it's a good idea. Imagine a social engineering attack from inside the company, or if somehow the hacker h

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