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Would you mind explaining why fail2ban is bad?

We use it in our CI, just before deployment, to compare the DB structure of what's being tested with the DB structure of our staging or production environment. It's a last minute c…

Facebook Local?

Well, it's up for debate. We automate websites on behalf of our users (that is, logged in as them). Which means the site knows at all time who's doing what and can take action in c…

It's similar in the sense that it's a listing of APIs. But we're providing non-official APIs that work by automating / scraping websites. Our platform runs Headless Chrome instance…

In France we have Anticafe[1]. They charge 5€ per hour spent there in exchange for unlimited wifi, coffee and pastries. As I understand it they're quite successful. They have opene…

> I think its also worth pointing out that less than 1000 entities owns 40% of the bitcoins. This is FUD. 1000 wallets own 40% of BTC. See here https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-ri…

We're developing a library[1] for this use-case. The goal is to have the same simple API for multiple browsers. Right now it supports both Headless Chrome and PhantomJS. We think w…

Where I work ( https://phantombuster.com ) we use them for scraping the web. They're a hassle-free way of getting the data. No need to worry about CORS, sessions, cookies, CSRF and…

Where I work we prefer jQuery to the native DOM API for scraping. It really speeds up the process of extracting data. For example with Puppeteer you can do page.injectFile("jquery-…

It's the first time we're talking about Phantombuster here on HN :) Happy to discuss and receive constructive feedback! Hope you like it as much as we liked building it.

In a similar vein there's this book that was mentionned in YC's winter reading list: https://www.amazon.com/Pandaemonium-Coming-Machine-Contempor... I haven't received it yet but i…

Thanks for this. I would use it but you only do HTTP requests, right? It would be great if you could also do a true ICMP ping (like the name suggests!)

I highly recommend using Alien Tube [0]. It fetches reddit comments for the video, it's really well done. If it finds nothing, it displays the orignal YouTube comments. [0] https:/…

Fees are there to prevent micro-transaction spam. If there were no fees, anyone could flood the network with very small transactions and it would suck. For big transactions like th…

No need to pay fees when the coins are old. Fees are there to prevent spam.