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Yes, we've been improving our scraping technology for the past 8 years as we've worked on YipitData (the #1 provider of web data to wall street). Python is the only supported langu…

YipitData, NYC, Fulltime. VISAs welcome. Data Systems Engineer: http://yipitdata.com/jobs/#job-engineer YipitData develops clever ways to learn about businesses from online data. W…

Agreed. We've had success using a very base ubuntu ami and then having the user data install chef and do a chef run. This results in slower startups for new machines, but the flexi…

I'm curious about 2012-08 and 2012-11. Pet feature, hackathon, large release with hotfixes?

Correct. I've gone with his latter solution for now and added a warning about import order. I'm not very happy with this solution through and will be spending some time with ctypes…

Hey Timothy, thanks for the response. You are correct. I'll add a warning to the library and work on a solution. Unfortunately, I think it will need to involve ctypes.

Absolutely. Stashing seemed like the cleaner choice to me, but either would work.

Cool. We had looked at doing it that way, but decided that we wanted to have the flexibility of accessing the entire repo so that we can run things like "./manage.py validate" and …

If you're still interested in NYC startups, check out yipit.com/jobs and email me(steve@yipit.com). We're hiring and have sponsored visas before.

One of my favorite quora answers: http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...

New York, NY - Yipit Just off raising $6 million, we are looking for the 12th member of the team(when we posted this last month, we were looking for our 8th). Come join us on the g…

New York, NY - Yipit Just off raising $6 million, we are looking for our 8th member of the team. Come join us on the ground floor of one of the best startups in New York. Right now…

Yipit is actually in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Originally it was all done manually, but we've been automating more and more. Feel free to send me any feedback. steve@yipit.com

Yipit.com aggregates Groupon, LivingSocial, and hundreds of other daily deal sites(including non-location specific ones like Woot). It will filter the deals based on your location …

As someone who just finished an internship, I can provide some insight into the good and bad. As far as a main project, I would choose something new and independent. Think of that …

I can confirm that the security hole was not limited to only friends. I was able to insert non-friend's IDs for the "viewas" parameter.