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Now is a good time to work in this field since data science is hot and companies need web scrapers to provide the data for these models. Atleast that has been my experience in fina…

This approach is known as "wrapper induction"

Darn - I did an MSc at Oxford last year and they didn't offer this course then

I started on Elance and found some awesome clients there. One even told me to double my bid because "they weren't cheap"! The key is to focus on a niche and find clients that value…

I have worked online for ~8 years as a programmer and most of my clients don't know where I'm from. It's just not important if I can do the work and communicate effectively (by ema…

Campaigning for Brexit - learnt that no one is objective, everyone interprets information through their preconceptions. Also finished my Masters and got a remote job at an awesome …

> Being told by cab drivers that I’m the first Black person they’ve ever had a positive encounter with Seems then part of the problem is behaviour of other black people

Why would leaving the EU obviously make the UK "permanently poorer"? Norway and Switzerland are doing fine outside the EU. The majority of UK's exports are with non-EU countries, b…

I campaigned for Brexit over the last month and am excited with the outcome. However very disappointed with reaction in the international media - it was a complex debate with good …

Has anyone created a web interface yet for browsing these emails?

Hostel wifi, if that is slow then cafe wifi, and if still no luck then a local 3G sim card.

I found expat community in Bangkok shady. Whereabouts are you based?

the only people I know who read HN are other devs

Do some small projects on Elance in your spare time. That's how I learn new technologies - gives you more motivation because have deadline and get paid.

crunchbang (#!)

the point of relocating to a cheaper country isn't to earn a local wage

yep, this matches my experience in Melbourne

Got one! I was delayed and didn't login until 7:30. Waited a few minutes for a ticket to be allocated and then needed to open and close payment window a few times before redirected…

lxml.html is great for most cases. I developed this one for my own web scraping: http://docs.webscraping.com/

Python script to generate historic screenshots of a website.