Hi guys, I'm the creator of TextTeaser API that was used by Bit of News. :) I first thought that bitofnews is just a bot in Reddit. I'm really surprised that this is now a full blown website/app.
Thanks for Bit of News for using the TextTeaser API.
Hi, congrats on quality results. Will you open source the algorithm and the implementation, as you were mentioning on HN few months ago? What are your startup plans?
Yep. :) Well, like any other summarization algorithms, I consider the title, sentence position, sentence length, and keyword frequency. The difference is that I improved the keyword frequency in which I used a special algorithm for it. I have plans to open source it, you'll see the whole algorithm soon.
I'd love to see a site like this specifically focused on business news. Keeping up with the latest news in business is important, but I've found most business papers are so full of useless fluff stories that it drowns out the ones that are most important.
Hey creator of bitofnews here. I plan on adding different news sections (business, technology) soon. In the mean while, check out Wall Street Breakfast. It gives summary of today's market performance: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1728342-wall-street-breakfas...
And sorry for being late to the thread! I didn't know this was posted here.
It sucks that that first article right now is about that woman who got shot at the capital building. Will this news ultimately matter? Probably not. The other articles seem to be about more impactful things so other wise good job
It's funny that what we see as not eventful is usually seeds for something big. I remember this with egypt both times and syria. I am not saying that this is going to lead to something big but you never know, there could be an uprising over the police moving towards kill at any cost vs kill only if necessary. If you look at the video, at one point there was six cops surrounding the vehicle, one cop had his forehead on the front passenger window yet they could not see a little kid in there, also they could have shot out the tires, someone that has no gun training could have done that as it was at point blank range. In the 80s polics had better judgement and less police injuries, today a guy can have a knife be 10 metres away and a group of cops will go for the kill shot, amazing.
Now trying to get over the horrifying news that someone poured gasoline on themselves and tried to burn themselves to death in self-immolation near the white house. What the heck is going on in DC
This is pretty cool, but does it have some feature to select the sources? or at least what type of news you are interested in? That would make things so much better!
The first story of the woman driver shot to death is the rotten apple in the barrel. The rest of the stories are better, and with broader appeal.
Just so you know, I'll probably never visit this site again because of that godawful story. It didn't enhance my life or my understanding of the world. It did the opposite.
No, it's only economics. Back to my analogy, if I buy a bag of apples from you and I find a few rotten ones inside, I'll never buy from you again. It's simple, really.
Nevertheless, if this site is just collecting general news into a feed, you can't call the story 'rotten' because you don't like it and don't find it edifying. It is news, it did happen, it was relevant to someone. I think your expectation of the purpose that news is supposed to serve might be somewhat skewed.
Fixed that for you. Also I'm not sure why you're so mad over that story. Most news doesn't enhance your life or your understanding of the world, it's just news. You have to put it in context to extract any meaning from it.
Hi guys, I'm the creator of TextTeaser API that was used by Bit of News. :) I first thought that bitofnews is just a bot in Reddit. I'm really surprised that this is now a full blown website/app.
Thanks for Bit of News for using the TextTeaser API.