saturday14
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Are you not breaking their ToS though?
Comment · 6 years ago
Just checked your list of products, very cool!
I've always wondered about building a career with scraping, but never got around to it. One reason is the legality of scraping - big sites like Craigslist have gone after (and shut down) smaller projects. I believe priceonomics (YC company) built a big business with scraping.
Comment · 6 years ago
Very cool. I guess as you grow, you could get more partners and the data will keep getting more and more accurate. I wish big guys like Amazon released aggregated sales data.
How do you get access to Amazon searches, google searches etc? do you have to pay for those?
Comment · 6 years ago
Is this based on Google Trends? Where is the data coming from?
Interesting project, btw
Comment · 6 years ago
Until the government bans masks in public places in the interest of, you know "public safety" once the covid-19 crisis blows over.
It sucks that we even need to think about wearing masks to escape facial recognition.
Comment · 6 years ago
Can't believe official numbers from governments, can't trust journalists to provide accurate accounts (either because of bias or lack of access)...
How did we reach here? This just sucks
Comment · 6 years ago
Tristate area here, I am willing to donate time and skills as well. But this would require more than just tech skills - how are we going to find jobs for potentially a few million people fast, for example?
Comment · 6 years ago
Because the general public doesn't care enough to raise a stink? Back when Snowden story broke, I tried explaining its significance to a handful of my friends - all I got was a yawn. These are not dumb people, they are smart professionals (non-IT). Even then, I failed to get the point across to them.
It would require some serious education before the public wakes up to the dangers of private companies running amok with their data. Sad thing is, it is already too late. It is going to be very difficult to put a lid on this. This is a company that we (now) know about - how many are there silently working in the shadows that we don't know about?
Comment · 6 years ago
Yet we have panic buying of everything
Initially, I got irritated with it too. But there seems to be no hurry from the govt in creating a vaccine, testing kits aren't widely available. When they do become available, it will most likely not be free of charge. There is no clear, coherent messaging from the govt. No clear instructions other than the basic "stay home, don't shake hands". The president is trying to buy the vaccine only for his countrymen from Germany...
How hard can it be to release accurate numbers, have consistent/clear messaging on the status, on what to do and what not to do, set up testing centers for free etc?
If this is the level of response for this, what can we expect in the case of much severe scenarios like the one you describe?
People are panic buying because they don't know what else to do.
Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe one thing OP could do is prominently display the last updated time, instead of saying "updated three times a day". Though he/she does display the time period at the top.
But generally this is good advice - not add to the noise already there on the internet, even though OP's intentions are likely honest and they are just trying to help.
I guess "being a billionaire" in itself is not immoral - how one gets there, and what one does to stay there is what defines how immoral the person is.