jamesJones

Re:After New York Attack, Congress Wants TSA to Secure Amtrak, Buses on Monday September 26, 2016 @10:47PM (#12587163)

>Oh, hell no. The last thing we need is more dumbshits, who couldn't hack it at McDonalds, groping people and clogging up the transportation networks

What a shitty and ignorant comment to insult the employees as if they are the ones creating the rules and guidelines they follow. And just because they choose to work at TSA instead of McDonalds somehow makes them dumber is even more stupid.

Ask HN: Does anyone feel Product Hunt drifted away?

Posted by jamesJones on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:50AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Product Hunt used to be a place where you would discover cool startup products/projects. Now it seems so random, like the front page is just a bunch of random software's and sites.Does anyone feel the same? Did their mission change from being startup oriented products/projects to just any type of tech?

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Re:Selling Airbnb host addresses to hotels and landlords on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:47PM (#9543056)

morally? Seriously. Step back a little and look at it from a landlords perspective. Airbnb can facilitate lease violations and that's okay, but helping Landlords identify lease violations is morally wrong?

Re:Selling Airbnb host addresses to hotels and landlords on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:31PM (#9543015)

Every major site has such clause. It's a matter of how careful and aware your scripts are.

Re:Selling Airbnb host addresses to hotels and landlords on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:52PM (#9542909)

oops that's a typo. Am screen scraping some of the Host's basic information and then looking into other sites to find a pattern that identifies them. From there I look up their address.

Selling Airbnb host addresses to hotels and landlords

Posted by jamesJones on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:31PM
from the self-post dept.

Am building a service that harvests Airbnb listings and identifies the address of apartments being rented out by hosts. I then want to package the information in a saas application allowing hotels to see Airbnb rentals around their hotel. This will give them the ability to see how big is the impact surrounding their hotels and an opportunity to act legally against the landlords and hopefully...

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