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Finding Pareto Optimal Blogs on Hacker News(intoli.com)
4 points by foob 9y ago|0 comments
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Why I still don't use Yarn(intoli.com)
3 points by foob 9y ago|1 comments
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by foob 9y ago
Thanks for reading it and I'm glad that you liked it! Sorry about the pop up... I'm not a huge fan of them as a user myself, but we only show it on the first post that you read and it drives a lot of sign ups for our monthly artic
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by foob 9y ago
As others have mentioned, the most exciting thing about Chrome 59 is that it is the first release with headless support. I wrote a guide a while back on running headless Chrome with Selenium that someone might find interesting if they'
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The tech videos that have most impacted me as a developer(intoli.com)
3 points by foob 9y ago|0 comments
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Predicting Hacker News article success with neural networks and TensorFlow(intoli.com)
87 points by foob 9y ago|30 comments
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by foob 9y ago
> Fronted by Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell, Temple of the Dog was the original rock supergroup. I love Temple of the Dog as much as the next guy but this is patently false. The original rock supergroup was probably Crosby, Stills, &am
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Email Spy: A new open source browser extension for lead generation(intoli.com)
2 points by foob 9y ago|0 comments
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by foob 9y ago
Setting window size via the ChromeDriver API didn't work for me but I was able to set it using a ChromeOptions command-line argument as I do in the guide. Screenshots seem to work fine on Linux but I haven't tried on other platfor
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by foob 9y ago
I recently wrote a guide to using headless Chrome with Selenium and Chrome WebDriver [1]. I thought that some people in this thread might find it useful considering that the submitted article doesn't mention Selenium at all. [1] - htt
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by foob 9y ago
I was initially a little bit confused by Amazon's attempt to disrupt the mirror industry (and it seems like others in this thread are too). After reading through everything, my best guess for the motivation is: > Echo Look helps you
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by foob 9y ago
Do the compiled JSON files have direct compatibility with any JS argument parsing libraries? I read through everything and it wasn't clear to me whether you are on your own once you get the JSON or if there is an automated way to make
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by foob 9y ago
Do you really notice better stability with Manjaro or is it more about the straightforward installation and configuration? I ask because I gave Manjaro a try and I encountered many Manjaro-specific problems over time (notably, a lot of issu
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by foob 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that libfaketime [1] is a more mature alternative with macOS support and more complete coverage of the relevant system calls. Nothing against the current project but that might be a better choice for many people.
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by foob 9y ago
Awesome, I really love meta-analyses too! Our product involves web scraping so it's a natural fit to write articles about scraping and analyzing data in general. A few of our articles so far [1,2,3] would probably be classified as meta
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by foob 9y ago
Thanks, that meshes well with my thoughts on it. We're less concerned with hiring right now than with acquiring more clients, but our customers are generally developers at small to medium sized startups. We fall into that category ours
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by foob 9y ago
What are peoples' thoughts on the marketing effectiveness of quality relative to quantity in blogging? We have recently started publishing what we consider to be very high quality material (the majority of them have front-paged on HN i
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Running Selenium with the new headless Chrome(intoli.com)
1 points by foob 10y ago|0 comments
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by foob 10y ago
Yes, they start sending 429 (Too Many Requests) responses if you don't use appropriate delays. They also provide a public API [0] which I believe is intended for automated requests of this type (as opposed to crawling the Wayback Machi
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Internet Archaeology: Scraping time series data from Archive.org(sangaline.com)
66 points by foob 10y ago|7 comments
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by foob 10y ago
They're included in the arXiv version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01724
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Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more(sangaline.com)
564 points by foob 10y ago|225 comments
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by foob 10y ago
Thanks! That's a good question. I feel like I've seen analyses like that before a few times but I'm having trouble finding one right now. I would guess that submitting around 8 EST is probably best in terms of getting the mos
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by foob 10y ago
To be fair, the ranking code is included in the article :-).
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by foob 10y ago
From the article: I find this to be a particularly interesting question, not because I actually care about the answer, but because it feels like the data should be able to tell us the answer... My main goal was to tease out the ranking alg
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by foob 10y ago
This is the article that was discussed in yesterday's "The stories that Hacker News removes from the front page" [1]. After speaking with @dang, it sounds like what happened with the original submission was that a moderator a
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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm(sangaline.com)
349 points by foob 10y ago|49 comments
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by foob 10y ago
I think that this is a great idea. I imagine that it's very difficult to differentiate between users flagging things that really don't belong on the site and flagging things that they dislike for more personal reasons. Showing a &
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by foob 10y ago
> the post is completely wrong I take a little bit of offense to this statement. The article identifies stories that had sudden extreme drops in position and then speculates that this could be caused by a hidden flagging threshold and&#x
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by foob 10y ago
Sorry if I didn't make this clear enough in the article but all of the stories in "Suppressed Story Trajectories" either drop off by hundreds of positions or disappear completely after their plotted line ends. They all match

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