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Am I the only one that feels that this will impede the adoption of NFC-style payments?

I'd recommend:

1. Blocking all the IP addresses you've found. You can also block the entire Amazon IP range. No real users will be coming from there.

2. Contacting Amazon and sending them your logs and evidence.

3. Contact competitor and threaten legal action.

Don't expect much from (2) and (3), but (1) should solve your problem quickly.

Shion from 80legs here. Please try contacting us again and I'll make sure that we adjust our crawl rate file accordingly for your domain(s) or IP(s).

What browser/OS are you using?

Some direct links for more information:

Live Demo: http://www.extractiv.com/demo.html

Documentation: http://wiki.extractiv.com

I encourage anyone to use Extractiv (http://www.extractiv.com) for this challenge. We're rolling out an On-Demand (local document analysis similar to Calais) Semantic Conversion service that could be helpful.

I'm curious to see if this guy will get a letter from Facebook's legal department, like Pete Warden did.

So.. gaming the system equates to studying well and working hard? That's.. not what's usually meant by "gaming"..

My hope in making a code of conduct accepted by legitimate web crawling companies is that it lets customers and users more easily decide which products to use.

It also helps in distancing legitimate companies from illicit ones.

I found our best contractors on HN itself.

Posted an "80legs is hiring" and got a handful of quality applicants that were available on an as-needed basis at good rates, given the quality of their work.

Looks like cool technology, but Swype still is faster and provides a better interface.

My 2 cents:

1. Mint was viral to a degree. The service itself wasn't, but their blog was. They put a lot of effort into building a community around their blog - posting tips and guides on managing your finances, and so on.

2. I wonder if Wesabe ever tried shifting to be a more power-user service. If what he says is true, it sounds like they could made it into a service that caters to people that really do want to actively manage their finances.

Great name, but 0 impact on their success.

Interesting. Your response is enough to make me unsubscribe from your blog.

That's all well and good, but we'd still prefer some more data backing up your claims. The claims made in your article on how people read text were refuted by a paper linked here on HN. That alone makes your future articles and the claims made in them somewhat questionable.

Same for me. It also loads more slowly than going to the web page directly.

I call BS on the test.

Interesting. You state that Casey Jones should divert the train, yet this will cause the death of the person trapped on the railway siding. This seems to be inconsistent with your belief that it is always wrong to cause another person's death. It is somewhat perplexing that you responded this way, since you do not believe that this course of action is necessiated by any general moral requirement to maximise the happiness of the greatest number of people. More of this later. For now, let's see what you make of the scenario below.

Choosing to let 1 person die so that 5 can live does not mean I find that action moral. It's simply the better of two options.

This is pretty awesome... assuming you have the budget for it, and it's a good idea for members of your community to feel exclusive.

EDIT: I'd be interested in reading examples of technology community building, particularly for niche services. These seems like a much harder challenge.

A major point made in the article is that the standard big data stack does not fit all big data needs.

There's a growing assumption that this stack is sort of all that's needed, and that's just not the case.

Ha - fair enough point. Perhaps this will help young burgeoning startups give more thought to their options, though.

A very good comment. It's interesting to think that the Internet lynch mobs of today are not entirely different than the lynch mobs from several decades ago.

Sure, the motivations are different, but both groups consist of people falling prey to mob mentality and trying to enforce extreme levels of "justice".

While Stacey (the author) isn't an engineer, she's probably talked to and gotten the perspectives of many more people in this space than most of us here.

I feel like you're trivializing the barriers to first match basic services provided by ISP giants and then provide competitive differences on top of that. One of the reasons people are clamoring for net neutrality legislation is that the relevant markets don't have significant competition to make neutrality happen naturally.

It's all or mostly technical stuff. I guess he doesn't read Calvin & Hobbes or anything non-work-related?

You can use some of the crawl packages at 80legs to do this. We regularly do crawls of company directory listings like yellowpage sites and provide an ongoing feed for you to collect. http://www.80legs.com/use-crawl-package.html

There are many things fundamentally different between men and women. Sure, some women have traits similar to men and the converse holds as well.

Personally, I don't think there is anything actually stopping women from being successful entrepreneurs beyond their own utility functions. Granted, those utility functions are in part a product of the culture in which they develop, but that does not mean something needs to change in the entrepreneur/investor community.

Hobbies are a good thing. They help exercise your mind and keep you stimulated and motivated.

Put it this way: if your company requires you to be working constantly to be successful, you are probably running things inefficiently.

I find it more impressive they were able to manage a culture full of alpha dogs and make a productive business out of it. I wouldn't consider this type of culture as one to implement in my own company.

Getting a response back from an executive is super-awesome.

I'm a little concerned about how we (80legs) fit into Facebook's permission form, though. We're not using or selling the data ourselves, but we can sell access to an already-setup web crawl - so how does that work? We're like a special case of a special case. Never an enviable spot to be in.

What will happen is that they will send a cease and desist letter to you (like they did to Pete). At that point, you have basically given notice and it becomes much riskier to continue doing what you're doing.

That's not to say their C&D is valid or enforceable. It just enters into another legal bin that's a bit more hairy.

Unfortunately, the legal precedent for all this is murky at best. Past cases have been very specific to the details of those cases. No line has ever been drawn about what is ok and what is not.