Ask HN: Query on site scrapping/crawling by YC companies
I am curious to know how YC companies, such as Carsabi & Priceonomics, deal with legal issues that might stem from site scrapping/crawling?
dahumpty
Re:Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram
on Saturday April 13, 2013 @11:55PM (#5545828)
Its interesting to note that the the boweb-production servers of "www" don't have read-replicas (asynchronous replication) for read scalability. Anyone know why? Typically, one would use read-replicas to alleviate read workloads on the master.
Re:Ask HN: Where are the hard programming challenges/jobs?
on Saturday March 02, 2013 @11:15AM (#5309894)
Try systems companies (e.g. storage, networking) - you get to build products that leverage core CS concepts - algorithms, distributed systems etc. You also get a chance to use your investigative skills to debug problems like race conditions, memory leaks etc.
Re:Why HN was down
on Monday February 18, 2013 @08:46PM (#5242102)
pg,
Just wondering as to why HN isn't hosted in the cloud? (e.g. on AWS, Rackspace etc.). How do you backup all the data?
Re:Ask HN: Where are all the programming jobs?
on Saturday January 05, 2013 @12:29PM (#5013266)
Most systems companies (e.g., networking, storage) do development in C/C++/Java. Have you checked 'em out?
Re:Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold
on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @10:14AM (#4659898)
On a related note, here's a search tool (though not perfect) I wrote some time ago that helps filter out stories by points, age & #comments:
Re:Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites fro...
on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:54PM (#3910763)
Check out:
Re:Ask HN: review searchyt (faceted search for HN)
on Thursday November 03, 2011 @10:27PM (#3194707)
Hi there,
My email info is in my profile.
Re:Ask HN: review searchyt (faceted search for HN)
on Sunday October 30, 2011 @07:36PM (#3175721)
Thanks! Sure, thats on the TODO list :)
Re:Ask HN: review searchyt (faceted search for HN)
on Sunday October 30, 2011 @02:35PM (#3175024)
Thanks for the feedback!
Ask HN: review searchyt (faceted search for HN)
Hey folks,It would be great if you could let me know about the utility of a side-project I have just launched. Its called searchyt:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3174607http://searchyt.twittrank.info/searchyt helps you filter out HN search results based on age, #comments & #points. I figured it might be worthwhile to run queries such as:- What were the most commented stories last...
Show HN: searchyt - filtered search for HN
searchyt is a ThriftDB-based filtered search app for HN. This is the first iteration. Its a side-project of mine. It is not yet fully ready for prime-time but I figured it would be great to garner some early feedback.http://searchyt.twittrank.info/There are still a bunch of features I'm working on. Stay tuned ...