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by wrath 9y ago
When websites get a ton of traffic the concern is that the algorithm that find fake data will not be accurate and start blocking paying customers. So it's a fine line between blocking paying customers and fake data. What these algorit
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by wrath 9y ago
I can't provide details on any innovations we've done with sites like google, but in general if you want to crawl google you'll want to get "many, many" IP addresses. I've heard of people using services like 2
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by wrath 9y ago
Competitive intelligence. Crawling thousands of website, mashing up the data to analyze competitiveness between them, and selling it back. For example, cost of flights. Different websites provide different prices for the same flight. The t
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by wrath 9y ago
I don't think I'm being hypocritical. I have no issues if people crawl my site, I even identify who they are and give them access to a private API. I do not generate any income from that website though. I provide a service because
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by wrath 9y ago
I've built crawlers that retrieve billions of web pages every month. We had a whole team working modifying the crawlers to resolve website changes, to reverse engineer ajax requests and solve complex problems like captcha solvers. Bot
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by wrath 9y ago
360pi, Ottawa Ontario, Canada Company Overview: 360pi helps top retailers compete and win in an era when shoppers expect and demand complete price transparency. Our customer base of "brick & mortar", e-commerce, and multichann
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by wrath 10y ago
I think it's that's a very good rate of growth for a new service. The scaling challenges alone are not obvious and slowly taking up market share is the safer thing to do. If I was an investor seeing these growth rates, I'd
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by wrath 11y ago
I think @nunobrito covered most of what I wanted to say. Without knowing your product it's hard to give you the best advice, but here are things that worked for me in the past: * Use real data that they can relate to. For example, if y
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by wrath 11y ago
I would politely insist that an email be sent out by the founder about your departure before the end of day. That way you get a chance of talking to your co-workers and explain the situation in your own words. To be clear, always be polit
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by wrath 11y ago
As far as I know, shader.io sells individual proxies. Luminati and Nohodo are exit nodes priced by the amount of bandwidth that you use.
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by wrath 11y ago
Sorry, my bad... it's shader.io
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by wrath 11y ago
If these guys are serious about their business they are using proxies to obfuscate who they are. There are many services now that are claiming to have a ton of IP addresses Luminati, Shadio.io and Nohodo are just a few examples.
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by wrath 11y ago
360pi Full-time onsite in Ottawa, Canada. http://360pi.com 360pi is a company organizing the worlds product data for retailers, brands and consumers. World class dev team, leading edge challenges in cloud, scaling, data and AI.
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by wrath 11y ago
I love and miss RegexBuddy! If only they had a Mac/Linux version :( I've had thoughts about switching back to Windows while developing complex regular expressions.
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by wrath 11y ago
I've built several businesses that either relied in-part to scrapping/indexing websites or solely relied on scrapping/index websites. I We never achieved the success of Google but we did get large enough to be noticed by som
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by wrath 11y ago
I apologize if I offended anyone and/or if I said anything improper; it was not my intention. I wrote this quickly during the March "Who's hiring" thread and copy/pasted it today. The role that was linked last mon
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by wrath 11y ago
360pi, Ottawa Ontario, Canada Company Overview: 360pi helps top retailers compete and win in an era when shoppers expect and demand complete price transparency. Our customer base of "brick & mortar", e-commerce, and multichann
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by wrath 12y ago
360pi, Ottawa Ontario, Canada Company Overview: 360pi helps top retailers compete and win in an era when shoppers expect and demand complete price transparency. Our customer base of "brick & mortar", e-commerce, and multichann
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by wrath 12y ago
1. You can try using bi-grams or even tri-grams to make you word list a little more precise. 2. Create a validation by manually identifying each review as positive or negative. Each time you modify your algorithm run it through your valida
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by wrath 12y ago
Amazon has made it much harder to scrape their site in recent months. They now give captchas to bots that try and access their site to often by the same IP address. Unless you have a very large pool of low cost proxies, crawling millions o
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by wrath 12y ago
http://www.blogcdn.com/travel.aol.co.uk/media/2013/01/323ng1... My understanding is that this image was captured by a camera trigger that was setup National Geographic photographer (Sorry, I'm unsur
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Ask HN: How does your IT group interact with your developers?
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by wrath 13y ago
A company that I started in the early 2000s used cold calling to generate leads. It was very affective to generate solid qualified leads. We were lucky that we go an experience cold caller that trained other younger sales people. Having
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by wrath 13y ago
Good article but I would look at this "failure" from a glass half full perspective. You "won" because you've learned valuable lessons you can take to your next idea. I've had many products that have not gaine
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by wrath 13y ago
This is a phishing attack waiting to happen! I never worked at a bank but I'm assuming (maybe I shouldn't) that there are a few people working there that know a thing or two about security. I doubt that any person who claims to
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by wrath 13y ago
First, when you read "Bachelors in CS or Equivalent!?", the equivalent part usually means "work experience". So if you don't have a CS degree you need the equivalent work experience. I'm a non-college grad and
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by wrath 13y ago
"Warehouse club members tend to be higher income households with kids — the type of shoppers that have huge lifetime value to retailers." Assuming that this is true, I think this is a brilliant, long-tail, idea from Amazon. If th
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by wrath 13y ago
360pi - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Company Overview: 60pi helps top retailers compete and win in an era when shoppers expect and demand complete price transparency. Our customer base of "brick & mortar", e-commerce, and multichan
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by wrath 13y ago
360pi (Ottawa, Canada) For those who are interested in big data, working with the top retailers, crawling the web and the latest technologies. Some of the open positions: - Lead Development Representative - User Experience Designer - Webkit
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by wrath 13y ago
In my experience the bottom line is that you need good people around you in order to succeed. It doesn't matter if that's a co-founder, a CEO, developers, etc.. If you don't have good people around you helping you in your j

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