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dmn001on We scraped the World Bank's website

I agree, using Selenium seems like an unnecessary waste of time and cpu resources when replicating the GET/POST requests and parsing the html response using a simple Perl or Python script would have sufficed.

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Remote / UK

Hi, I am a freelancer based in UK and have a few years experience doing web scraping. I use Perl and Python and databases MongoDB and MySQL, and cloud services for web crawling such as Amazon EC2.

Email: dmn001 [at] gmail [dot] com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014)

SEEKING WORK - UK or remote.

Web scraping in Perl and Python.

Email: dmn001 {at} gmail [dot] com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)

SEEKING WORK - UK, remote yes.

Hi, I am a freelancer based in UK and a few years experience doing web scraping. I use Perl and Python and databases MongoDB and MySQL, and cloud services for web crawling such as Amazon EC2.

I am currently quite busy, you can contact me by email here: dmn001 [at] gmail [dot] com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)

SEEKING WORK - UK, remote preferred

Hi, I am looking for web scraping projects.

Languages: Perl, Python

Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL

Other Skills: data parsing, regular expressions, multi-threaded scraping, Linux, AWS S3/EC2, Heroku, Git, Rails, parsing html/xml/json, statistics and machine learning.

Email: dmn001 at gmail.com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

SEEKING WORK - UK, remote preferred

Hi, I am looking for any web scraping projects.

Languages: Perl, Python

Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL

Other Skills: data parsing, Selenium, bypassing scrape detection, regular expressions, XPath, multi-threaded scraping, Linux, AWS S3/EC2, Heroku, Git, Rails, parsing html/xml/json, wget, statistics and machine learning.

Email: dmn001 at gmail.com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)

SEEKING WORK - UK, remote preferred

Hi, I am looking for any web scraping projects.

Languages: Perl, Python

Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL

Email: dmn001 at gmail.com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

Sure, I've worked on many freelance projects over the last few years, e.g. scraping business listings, social networks, comparison sites and real-time pricing data.

Recently I've used Python and Selenium to scrape sports results data behind a scraping protection service; parsing html using XPath/regex and merging of html and json data to CSV.

Let me know by email if I can help you with anything or just want to chat/network.

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

SEEKING WORK - UK, remote preferred

Hi, I am looking for any web scraping projects.

Languages: Perl, Python

Databases: MongoDB, SQL

Other Skills: Selenium, bypassing scrape detection, regular expressions, XPath, multi-threaded scraping, Linux, AWS S3/EC2, Heroku, Git, Rails, parsing html, wget, statistics and machine learning.

Email: dmn001 at gmail.com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)

SEEKING WORK - UK, remote

Hi, I am looking for any project related to web scraping, data extraction or processing.

Languages: Perl, Python, iOS, Javascript, Matlab, C/C++, Rails, web.py

Databases: MongoDB, SQL, flat file, unicode CSV.

Other Skills: regular expressions, multithreaded Perl, Linux, AWS S3/EC2, Heroku, Git, Rails, watching breaking bad, html, haml, wget, statistics and machine learning.

Email: dmn001 at gmail.com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

SEEKING WORK: REMOTE.

WEB SCRAPING / DATA EXTRACTION/CRAWLING

I am looking for web scraping projects, also I am interested in any others which involve mathematics, machine learning, general hacking or Perl scripting and website building/testing. I have expertise in Perl and Python, and knowledge of: Git, HTML, Javascript, Matlab, Rails, C, and MongoDB. Currently learning iOS.

email: dmn001[at[gmail.com

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013)

SEEKING WORK: Based in UK (outside London), prefer remote. I am looking for web scraping projects, however I would also consider others which involve mathematics, machine learning, general hacking or Perl scripting and website building or testing. I have expertise in Perl, and basic knowledge of all the others: HTML, Javascript, Python, Matlab, Rails, C, iOS, databases. email: dmn001 ]at] gmail

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)

SEEKING WORK: Based in UK (outside London), prefer remote.

I am looking for web scraping projects, however I would also consider others which involve mathematics, machine learning, general hacking or Perl scripting and website building or testing. I have expertise in Perl, and basic knowledge of all the others: HTML, Javascript, Python, Matlab, Rails, C, iOS, databases.

email: dmn001 ]at] gmail

dmn001on Amazon's homepage was down

I'm fairly certain the OP only added that text after the link so that it would be allowed by the duplicate link filter on HN.

dmn001on Another layer of security for your Dropbox account (two-step verification)

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436253

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2012)

SEEKING WORK - UK, REMOTE

I am looking for web scraping projects, or other mini-projects in the areas of machine learning, databases or AI related, general hacking or Perl scripting, and website building/testing. I have expertise in Perl, Matlab, C and R, have basic knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Python and iOS.

Email: dmn001 {at} gmail.com

dmn001on Introducing Customer Acqusition as a Service: Referly API & Shopping

Other competitors: http://crowdfactory.com http://www.curebit.com http://socialtwist.com

How does this service differentiate from those already established in this space?

dmn001on How I converted a software thief into a customer

There more info here: http://www.keacher.com/1060/how-i-got-to-my-first-sale/

The first result for "blurity serial number" points to https://www.trademarkia.com/blurity-77870929.html

Edit: Entering the serial number does indeed produce the easter egg dialog, with a coupon code that still works. BTW, there is a typo on the buy page 'regsitration'.

dmn001on What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...?

It reminded me of another math 'joke' involving pi:

exp(pi)-pi =~ 20

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/31/ep...

dmn001on Download Coursera videos in batch

I use the downthemall firefox extension and to keep the videos in order I add a number to the renaming mask:

  *num*_*name*.*ext*

I like how jplehmann's tool can rename them using the titles on the page.

dmn001on Fluid windows

Shift + left-click on the taskbar icon also opens a new instance of Excel.

dmn001on Fluid windows

I just tried with the taskbar on the bottom, and I could not drag the mouse cursor below the top edge of the taskbar.

dmn001on Fluid windows

Pressing alt-space, m followed by the arrow keys usually worked when I was using XP.

On Windows 7 this is not an issue as the windows snap to the sides and top, and if you drag towards the bottom of the screen there are several pixels on the titlebar where you can only resize the window and not move it, it is really difficult to lose a window by dragging it as shown on the website.

dmn001on Virtual Machines in Your Browser

I use the iOS app iTap RDP regulary and it works great, with minimal input lag.

dmn001on Space Monkey Dropbox Competitor Wins Launch, Has Already Raised $750K

Given that it's P2P, I'd expect there to be extra bandwidth and storage cost that is reserved for other users. If it is wholly P2P, then I would assume that possibly only 400GB (1/2 + redundancy for network failure) of that 1TB can be used for your data, if they have centralised backup servers then more. For the former this system would only be reliable if the data is used as a backup for files that don't change that often, and that other peers have a fast enough upload rate.

This service does not seem any different from the other handful of P2P backup solutions [1] except for the included hardware. Maybe the difference is as a standalone network drive it would more difficult to restrict upload rate or switch off the program when you don't want to upload data.

Also it is uncertain whether multiple drives are needed for the thing to work in separate locations, e.g. transferring files from office to home.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_ser...

dmn001on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012)

SEEKING WORK - UK/remote

Interested in web scraping or data extraction projects. Have knowledge of languages Perl/Python/Ruby. dmn001 at gmail

dmn001on The uncanny valley of web scraping

I also use Perl for web scraping, never heard of pQuery though, I use HTML::TokeParser or HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath.

dmn001on A neat way to fold a sheet of paper

Here is a video showing it clearly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71HTB8UXVII

And another guide (pdf): http://mars.wnec.edu/~thull/combgeom05/handout7.pdf

Link: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/miura.php

Ted Talk (11m 35s): http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.h...