Jake232

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by Jake232 10y ago
How else would you suggest they verify it? Without you proving you're the account owner; you could close down random peoples message board.
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by Jake232 10y ago
Just curious, but why choose to ask $8k/mo? Seems a random figure.
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by Jake232 10y ago
Well, we essentially just sell the data to affiliates, who then get value out of it. They either copy what their competition is doing, or expand / work on it and use it as a starting point.
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by Jake232 10y ago
We scrape hundreds of thousands of publishers who we know run the popup/redirect ads, with IP's from 100 + countries, spoofing hundreds of different mobile devices / orientations / etc. There's a little more magic t
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by Jake232 10y ago
It's actually super valuable to the affiliates/advertisers purchasing popups. They can look at the competition and get a head start on what works. It's pulling in low 5 figures/month with very little advertising, so ther
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by Jake232 10y ago
I run AdsXposed ( https://adsxposed.com ) on the side. It's a project that scrapes online ads (specifically popups and redirects) and provides intelligence on them. Which publishers they popped on, which countries, to which d
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Snapchat – Introducing Memories(snapchat-blog.com)
4 points by Jake232 10y ago|0 comments
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by Jake232 10y ago
You're correct. However for Rank Tracking these types of queries aren't needed.
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by Jake232 10y ago
Having built a ranktracker before, and still being good friends with people who run one of the biggest rank trackers on the market, using the google API's simply isn't an option. Simply put, the API never returned the results in t
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by Jake232 11y ago
Looks like somebody is using their own proxies for upvoting, 37 points in 7 minutes huh?
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by Jake232 11y ago
Lyft does much more aggressive deals though. When I moved to San Diego ~ 3 months back, they gave me 1month of half price rides. Considering I spend > $1000 per month on rides, that was over $500 of savings.
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by Jake232 11y ago
Can confirm. Launched a project recently with over 500 concurrent PhantomJS workers. Let's just say my hosting bill is significantly more expensive than it was.
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Brute Force Amplification Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC(blog.sucuri.net)
1 points by Jake232 11y ago|0 comments
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by Jake232 11y ago
It often attracts talented engineers; tech companies are always after talented engineers.
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by Jake232 11y ago
A comment dataset was actually already released a while back.
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by Jake232 11y ago
This caught me out too.
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by Jake232 11y ago
No. The form wasn't allowing xxx.yyy@gmail.com
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by Jake232 11y ago
You should allows period (.) in your signup form email field. I know you can just remove the period and the email will still get delivered to my gmail, but plenty of people likely don't know this.
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by Jake232 11y ago
I have scrapers built in Python that do well over a million pages per day, but that's not really a benchmark you can use. It all depends on the amount of computation required to extract the page data among other things. You should be a
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Ask HN: How do certain companies achieve such high visa acceptance?
3 points by Jake232 11y ago|0 comments
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by Jake232 11y ago
I'm not sure that per-request would work; because the resources that a request takes can vary wildly in resources used / time taken. PiCloud (somewhat similar idea) used to charge based on processing time essentially (down to the
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by Jake232 11y ago
Your monthly expenses are likely 3x lower than the location he lives in though.
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by Jake232 11y ago
I'd recommend adding some kind previous work examples (Github maybe?). You also don't state which city/location you're in; that could be useful for potential employers. It may also be worth checking out if there's a
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by Jake232 11y ago
I think your pricing scheme[1] could put a lot of people off. I fall into the category where I'd be fine on the free tier (< 10 private services), and yet I don't want a free service. I know if it's free, then it's
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by Jake232 11y ago
Any kind of API / easy programattic access the results? Ideal Scenario: Can iFrame the form on own webapp (pass an ID iFrame in url), use it to collect data through custom form. Then can access result of this data via an API.
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by Jake232 11y ago
Coming at this from the other perspective, we currently work with a US based designer and 3 Russian python programmers that we found on TopTal, and they have been great. I'm not aware of the financials (I don't deal with that), bu
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by Jake232 11y ago
"I don't have faith that the company will succeed" - I would personally say this answers the question. Don't work somewhere you don't believe in.
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by Jake232 11y ago
One of my scrapers just alerted me to my link being posted here :). Glad to hear you're still finding it useful, I'll probably update it in the near future too; got a list of things I want to add to it.
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by Jake232 11y ago
I am on Sky in the UK, looks like it is an ISP issue then. I'll keep an eye on you guys though, I'm a big fan of being able to just run functions on-demand like this. I used to use PiCloud extensively before it was bought out.
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by Jake232 11y ago
Tried your public demo's, they don't seem to work.

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