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by lorey 6y ago
Read this by chance because I usually come to HN for tech articles, but I feel exactly the same and have been recommending this ever since. One of the most thrilling and exciting stories I've read so far.
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by lorey 6y ago
Background information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker#Sp... Speech in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ZAzpk4IbE
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by lorey 6y ago
If you're wondering what this is: > We, representatives of the German Federal Government, business and science communities, are striving to set up a high-performance, competitive, secure and trustworthy data infrastructure for Europ
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by lorey 6y ago
Author here. For many crawling/scraping projects I wanted to extract websites' linked social media profiles, e.g. facebook, twitter, or github profiles, etc. The easiest way for me was to use regular expressions to parse the urls
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Show HN: Regular expressions for social media profiles(github.com)
5 points by lorey 6y ago|2 comments
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by lorey 6y ago
What's the value of this link over the original one? Original: https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/14/ai-startups-raised-6-9-bi...
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by lorey 6y ago
There's a pretty actively-maintained Python wrapper for the internal API: https://github.com/bisguzar/twitter-scraper
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by lorey 6y ago
Sorry, looks like I did not make that clear enough. Was not meant to be an objection, totally understand why they do it.
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by lorey 6y ago
That quote is supposed to be a neutral summary, so yes, that might be the case :)
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by lorey 6y ago
Looks like a decent tool, but I personally would not use it in production. Took a few minutes to look through the code: They basically use the HTML pages instead of the APIs. What puts me off is that the code is missing tests altogether and
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by lorey 7y ago
I'm the former CTO and co-founder of a Venture Capital firm that did algorithm-based sourcing of startups looking for new challenges. I love aggregating, analyzing, and leveraging data for advanced automation use cases. Before, I found
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by lorey 7y ago
Not one comment in here is positive which saddens me. In the end, HN should encourage people to build awesome solutions. But even Dropbox got negative comments when they launched on HN, so maybe this is just how things work. So here's
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by lorey 7y ago
AFAIK Selenium is easily recognizable as it inserts itself in the DOM, so I would guess that they will block you pretty quickly. If you're interested: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33225947/can-a-website
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Closing the pre-seed funding gap – one deal at a time(medium.com)
1 points by lorey 8y ago|0 comments
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by lorey 9y ago
While I believe that it is getting harder to raise pre-seed and seed money, I also see many initiatives to lower the hurdle again. On the one hand, there are announcements like https://www.spearhead.co that aim to empower busine
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by lorey 9y ago
If you have pandas installed, you can also use something like: pd.DataFrame.from_csv(path_csv).to_latex(path_latex) More information at http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas...
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by lorey 9y ago
Pocket was included almost two years before the acquisition: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po... https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/09/mozilla-resp
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by lorey 9y ago
Could someone please give some context on this?
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by lorey 9y ago
While I have not tried the electron version, I feel that my seven slack tabs slow down my firefox noticeably. Especially during startup and after connectivity issues. While the mobile app is at least responsive on Android, I have problems,
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by lorey 9y ago
Okay, cool. Will it update automatically or point to the same version forever?
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Show HN: The most-relevant GitHub repos per region(github.com)
4 points by lorey 9y ago|3 comments
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by lorey 9y ago
Very interesting read, will check this out soon.
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by lorey 11y ago
Same theme, but plain HTML the and not a wordpress theme on both pages.
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by lorey 11y ago
Of course you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I just wanted others to know if they like the design. And maybe they should change the default picture above "following". BTW I think they did quite well. I especially like the
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by lorey 11y ago
It's a template called Porto available for 16$ at themeforest. They also forgot to change some default pictures: http://themeforest.net/item/porto-responsive-html5-template/...