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Palantir acquires Kimono

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Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by kumarski »

ddebernardy wrote: post #116
kumarski wrote: post #39

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scrapinghub is pricy, isn't it?

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by scrapehero »

drglitch wrote: post #13

"Why? As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016" In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.…

If you have been burned by free services like this shutting down, give https://scrapehero.com a try - we love our customers and they love us back. We dont plan to abandon them with a 2 week notice.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by ddebernardy »

kumarski wrote: post #131
ddebernardy wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Three more: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia/ (our open source equivalent of Kimonolabs) http://scrapy.org (allows to scrape more complex sites; also OSS) http://scrapinghub.com (for a cloud-based platform and a smart proxy rotator) (Disclaimer: working there.)

scrapinghub is pricy, isn't it?

Pricey as in we've a free plan? :-)

More seriously though, it's basically a bargain. You get:

- Access to the largest team of Scrapy, Portia, and Frontera experts around at your fingertip.

- AWS functionality for actually less than what it would cost you to set things up yourself (think VBR IP over ATM).

- Smart proxy rotating tech at your fingertip with tens of thousands of IP addresses spread across a slew of different IP networks.

- Built-in integrations with a growing list of third parties.

The list could go on and on... It's definitely not pricey. :-)

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by assocguilt »

joering2 wrote: post #84
assocguilt wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious to know what Palantir are doing that you have a such an issue with - surely they aren't committing genocide?

Directly not, but to say the company is adding any benefits to our society would be a long stretch.

That's a rather large downgrade to the previous accusations. From evil company to a company with no benefit to mankind. I think you can say that about a lot of peoples jobs - what's your point?

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by scrapehero »

scrapehero wrote: post #132
drglitch wrote: post #13

"Why? As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016" In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.…

If you have been burned by free services like this shutting down, give https://scrapehero.com a try - we love our customers and they love us back. We dont plan to abandon them with a 2 week notice.

Here are some of our thoughts https://learn.scrapehero.com/demise-of-kimono-labs-and-the-f...

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by ves »

irremediable wrote: post #120
dkarapetyan wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no mystery algorithm. It's just cheap college labor working obscene hours to pump out "data analysis" scripts. The sad thing is that it actually works. The places that hire palantir are so mired in bureaucracy and process that whatever palantir builds seems to be better. Of course, just like SAP and Accenture you're now kinda locked in with support contracts. Modern tools like spark and mesos in theory let y…

Is it cheap college labour? They pay pretty well.

I thought they pay in the 100-110k range for new grads, which is not great by any standard (given how 'selective' they are)

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by asg »

VeilEm wrote: post #77
drglitch wrote: post #13

"Why? As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016" In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.…

> we couldn’t be happier to announce The tone of the announcement is in bad taste given the bad news for their customers.

This is really bad news for us, and the tone of the announcement grated. Two weeks notice is very bad form, I'm having to come back from vacation to fix this.

When we evaluated options a year ago, kimono was the best fit. We'd happily have paid, and did ask. I don't understand what happened... Did they run out of funding?

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by scrapehero »

asg wrote: post #137
VeilEm wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we couldn’t be happier to announce The tone of the announcement is in bad taste given the bad news for their customers.

This is really bad news for us, and the tone of the announcement grated. Two weeks notice is very bad form, I'm having to come back from vacation to fix this. When we evaluated options a year ago, kimono was the best fit. We'd happily have paid, and did ask. I don't understand what happened... Did they run out of funding?

Here is a statement that can give you some insight "Kimono Labs explained that in the two years since launching, it wasn’t able to have the impact that it wanted, and that the acquisition by Palantir will give the team “unmatched support, resources, and the ability to work on things we could not tackle alone as a small startup.”" from http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/15/palantir-acquires-kimono-l...

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by tn13 »

These people should be totally ashamed for the tool they have given. It is just nodejs wrapped inside a desktop app. They could have very well made it open sourced and offered to community.
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