paloalto80

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by paloalto80 17y ago
Care to explain why I'm being downvoted? EDIT: If you're going to downvote, please leave an explanation to teach me what I'm missing. I'd sincerely appreciate that. Thank you.
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by paloalto80 17y ago
Sorely needed. I can imagine pretty amazing mashups that revolved around your local community if Craigslist had an API. I'd imagine there would be a much bigger developer community than Twitter's because of the usefulness of their data and
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by paloalto80 17y ago
Try Photos8 for public domain photos
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by paloalto80 17y ago
"scrape != API" No kidding. He's looking to get "comments for a given thread, score of posts and comments, and user information", which you can use an HTML parser (like Hpricot if you're using Rails) to retrieve any info you need.
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by paloalto80 17y ago
You'll probably need quite a bit of money backing your startup if you're going to be handling enterprise data to let them know you'll be around years from now. Enterprises need that assurance before they'll even deal with you.
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by paloalto80 17y ago
I'm sure Google will get there eventually, as they're doing with all industries that traditionally make information inaccessible. Google just enhanced Google Scholar to be a major competitor to Westlaw, which should make a lot of frugal law
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by paloalto80 17y ago
Can't you do that already with a simple scrape?
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by paloalto80 17y ago
"Why was a Japanese bank willing to risk that much on a bank that made bad choices?" Imagine buying an Xbox for $30. (It was a bargain.)
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by paloalto80 17y ago
The check wasn't meant to be deposited through traditional means. Checks like that give creditors some tangible evidence that the company will not collapse because of the imminent cash infusion.
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by paloalto80 17y ago
I can't imagine what you would need other than HN's RSS feed. What did you have in mind that could extend Hacker News?
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Entrepreneurs: Stop Innovating, Start Minnovating(blogs.harvardbusiness.org)
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