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by jd20 8y ago
They work pretty well for any scraper that's not using an actual browser with JavaScript engine. It keeps the riff-raff out. A dedicated person will eventually work his way around all available counter-measures, though.
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by jd20 8y ago
What if the site requires you to create an account and login? Can the bot create it's own account, and still claim to not consent?
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by jd20 8y ago
Back when I worked for a very large tech company, building their web crawler, I had good success with Golang. On four servers, with 10 GigE interconnect and SSD, and a very fast pipe to the Internet, I was able to push about 10K pages &#x2F
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by jd20 8y ago
My experience, when it comes to scraping airline websites, the airline's legal department usually doesn't wait to have proof that you were the one that actually scraped them. If you have their data on your website, they send you a
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by jd20 8y ago
I thought the number one anti-bot measure was a cease and desist letter :) seriously though, some of these websites clearly don't want to be scraped, what's stopping them from sending scrapehub a C&D letter and forcing them to
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by jd20 8y ago
I encountered this on one website, that recently rewrote their website to be mobile-responsive. Depending on the width of the browser window, the right selectors would be totally different, talk about confusing!
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by jd20 8y ago
Adobe tools are really popular for doing these kind of vector animations.
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by jd20 8y ago
Very cool, any plans to bring it to desktop as well? Seems like this could be a very useful tool for people getting into deep learning, but may not necessarily be targeting mobile. (From the landing page, it seems mobile-only.)
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by jd20 8y ago
Can't you just turn off auto-updating (for both the OS and apps)? Or maybe just leave on auto-update for Spotify, since they probably don't service very old client versions. Probably turn off iCloud as well, since it will nag you
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by jd20 8y ago
I've found it akin to being able to ask someone to grab the wheel for a moment, while I do some quick task. I'm still able to feel if the car veers, or suddenly decelerates, so I'm able to take control quickly, but I don&#x27
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by jd20 8y ago
The delta encoding will be more efficient with higher frame rate, but also x264 has a tweak which decreases quality factor as frame rate increases. Why? The reasoning was that, since the frame is displayed for less time, you don't have
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by jd20 8y ago
iOS doesn't lack such a setting because of an oversight for the past nine years. To carriers, there is no such thing as "unlimited" internet.
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by jd20 8y ago
Probably because the current solution is much simpler, and works better in the majority of cases. I wouldn't want to worry before going for a long drive, whether all my maps data has been updated or not. Since my car is connected to wi
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by jd20 8y ago
Even on iOS's App Store, you cannot download apps over 150MB using cellular. I thought this was actually mandated by the carriers (who were concerned in early days that app downloads would overly congest their network) and wouldn'
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by jd20 9y ago
Try to avoid stuff that depends on the Internet, Revolv was one example where customers got burned because Google essentially bricked the service after acquiring it. Logitech did a similar thing to their Harmony Link hub, though were more g
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by jd20 9y ago
Maybe a good idea for a future add-on to this product: sell a stand-alone hub (something like a Raspberry Pi) that could replace the need for an iOS or MacOS device. You could still use an iOS (or Android) app to configure the hub. It'
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by jd20 9y ago
I think he meant the "Works With" image (grid of compatible technologies), that one does appear to have the text baked in, and is not searchable.
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by jd20 9y ago
"It’s developing a service code-named “Viper” to parse data from thousands of live camera feeds ... The ultimate goal is to juggle 100,000 feeds simultaneously." Technically, this sounds very ambitious. Assume a 24/7 video fe
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by jd20 9y ago
I think the Zeiss Loxia (mirrorless) and Milvus (SLR) lines are an interesting comparison point, since they're both from the same manufacturer, both manual focus, and should both be comparable quality. The Loxia 21mm/f2.8 is 72 mm
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by jd20 9y ago
Two other major turning points I remember: - Canon was first to market with an affordable DSLR. Nikon may have had the first mainstream pro model (the D1), but Canon was first to the prosumer market with the D30. With everyone soon transiti
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by jd20 9y ago
When digital became a reality, it also took plenty time to displace film. When I bought my first digital camera (a Canon D30), it had many drawbacks compared to the top-of-the-line 35mm film cameras of the time. A measly 3 MP resolution, a
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by jd20 9y ago
Hopefully they also take advantage of the shorter flange distance of mirrorless, to redesign their lenses to be more compact too. Being able to reuse existing glass is great (in fact, that's why Canon / Nikon adapters for Sony&#x2
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by jd20 9y ago
Fair point, I mentioned it because I was thinking they combined the LSA with some form of classifier that got trained as you marked messages as spam (or told it when it misclassified), I'm not sure what Apple's full implementation
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by jd20 9y ago
The times I've visited Apple or Facebook, there's always one if not several security guards watching each person badge in, to ensure you don't tailgate. Facebook's main building even has those optical turnstiles, to make
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by jd20 9y ago
I see, early reports seemed to indicate the shooter was at a party, possibly inside. Really sad when employees in the bay area, which is generally very safe, have to fear for their lives because of something their employer may have done to
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by jd20 9y ago
So if this person was not an employee, it's amazing to me how she got into the building? Usually these large tech campuses are pretty locked down, with at least one badged entrance, and security or front desk staff watching who comes a
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by jd20 9y ago
If you consider machine learning a type of AI.
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by jd20 9y ago
Heck, they've been doing machine learning since at least 2004, when they added Latent Semantic Analysis for junk mail filtering to the Mail app. And does anybody remember iTunes Genius (collaborative filtering on your playlists in the
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by jd20 9y ago
Curious, have you looked at any other embedded platforms besides the Pi? The Tegra might be an interesting comparison point, I wonder what kind of FPS the onboard GPU would buy you.
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by jd20 9y ago
So in your example, sounds like Tesla is still not doing any body work, they're just referring the customer to a local body shop, which sets their own prices. Repair centers can certainly buy brand new official parts from Tesla. When m

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