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Show HN: Pass a URL, get summarized content

126 points by meeper16 11y ago

dang 11y ago
Url changed from http://52.90.112.133/recommend/getSummary.html http://52.90.112.133/recommend/getSummary.html by submitter's request.
hluska 11y ago
This is an exact duplicate (even posted by the same person) of a link submitted 11 hours ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11190008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11190008 Edit - it doesn't work for me either, or maybe it is just very slow?
- meeper16 11y ago
  Yes, it is. I sent it out too late last night and thought more people might want to see this in the morning.
  - gus_massa 11y ago
    I think this it's ok here. From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are reposts ok? > If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. > Please don't delete and repost the same story, though. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges.
- pooper 11y ago
  I tried it and it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=This+is+an+exciting+time+for+ADrive%21+We+have+made+extraordinary+improvements+to+ADrive+Premium+over+the+past+year+and+expanded+its+already+feature-packed+suite+of+services.+ADrive+users+like+you+have+been+taking+notice+%96+we%92ve+seen+a+huge+percentage+of+our+loyal+users+make+the+switch+to+ADrive+Premium%21%0D%0A%0D%0AOur+%93drive%94+has+always+been+to+offer+you+the+best+cloud+storage+solution+possible.+As+we+celebrate+our+9th+year%2C+our+focus+%96+more+than+ever+%96+is+on+expanding+ADrive+Premium+so+our+service+offering+remains+the+best+in+the+industry.+As+we+shift+all+of+our+efforts+to+adding+more+innovative+new+features+to+ADrive+Premium%2C+ADrive+Basic+will+no+longer+be+offered+effective+IMMEDIATELY.+We+will+try+to+keep+our+free+servers+online+as+long+as+possible+in+a+grace+period.%0D%0A%0D%0AAs+a+thank-you+to+our+loyal+customers%2C+we+are+offering+them+a+one-time+exclusive+discount+on+ADrive+Premium.+Upgrade+now+for+25%25+off+1-Year+plans%2C+50%25+off+2-Year+plans%2C+and+58%25+off+3-Year+plans.+Once+you+upgrade%2C+you+can+take+advantage+of+all+the+Premium+features%2C+such+as+the+award-winning+ADrive+Desktop+Application+with+automatic+drive+mapping%2C+automatic+and+manual+backup+scheduling%2C+and+synchronized+folders.%0D%0A%0D%0AOther+exciting+Premium+features+include+ADrive+Mobile%2C+both+iOS+and+Android%2C+SSL+Data+Encryption%2C+FTP%2C+SFTP%2C+and+Rsync+access+to+your+files%2C+and+the+ability+to+upload+16GB+files.+ADrive+Premium+users+are+hosted+from+a+Tier+4+data+center+and+have+experienced+no+downtime+since+our+launch+in+2007.+As+a+Premium+user%2C+you+also+have+access+to+our+world-class+24x7x365+support.%0D%0A%0D%0AWe+value+you+as+a+customer%2C+and+hope+you+choose+to+stay+with+ADrive+as+a+Premium+user.+If+you+have+any+questions+or+issues+please+contact+our+Support+Team+at+support%40adrive.com.&getSummary=getSummary http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=This+is+...
an_ko 11y ago
I'd like more details. How does it work?
xlayn 11y ago
I would risk to say it works based on assigning information weight to words, number of non repeating and the way they are related and then filter top down. I did try it with a link I particularly like http://multivax.com/last_question.html http://multivax.com/last_question.html with the following response. {"1":"nor could anyone for the day had long since passed zee prime knew when any man had any part of the making of a universal ac","2":"zee prime's mentality was guided into the dim sea of galaxies and one in particular enlarged into stars","3":"he gave no further thought to dee sub wun whose body might be waiting on a galaxy a trillion light-years away or on the star next to zee prime's own","4":"the universal ac said man's original star has gone nova","5":"the universal ac interrupted zee prime's wandering thoughts not with words but with guidance"}}
LinkPlug 11y ago
What are some alternatives to this?
- stkbach 11y ago
  http://thegi.st http://thegi.st It's a bit buggy still. To get a sense of it, stick to BBC articles.
- jbeda 11y ago
  Check out https://algorithmia.com/ https://algorithmia.com/. Stuff like this plus a bunch more. Real business model so you can have more confidence in it.
- meeper16 11y ago
  None of them work as well as this one.
- subinsebastien 11y ago
  I have seen http://www.textteaser.com/ http://www.textteaser.com/ by far giving the best results.
peter_l_downs 11y ago
Not summary, just sentence ranking and extraction. Still cool but not anything new. Sweet side project though! For anyone wondering how this was done, I have a similar project up at http://bookshrink.com http://bookshrink.com (source code at https://github.com/peterldowns/bookshrink https://github.com/peterldowns/bookshrink), although I don't fetch article text.
- franciscop 11y ago
  Really nice, I made a similar project for "rich text" where I took into account the html tags such as h1, bold, etc for my Final Year Project. Also mixing few analysis including TF-IDF and others. I'll have a look at the source when I get some time (:
- mck- 11y ago
  I did a similar hack a while back, which summarizes a piece of text in a single sentence. I'm that lazy. https://github.com/mck-/oneliner https://github.com/mck-/oneliner
  - gravypod 11y ago
    I'm writing a book right now. Would you mind if I used your program to make the title and the chapter titles?
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_RPM 11y ago
An array would be a better choice of structure for the sentences instead of hard coding the indexes.."1"...
- brudgers 11y ago
  I see your point and don't disagree. Thinking about why someone might mike the choice to use text, text is more in keeping with *nix philosophy. Not that I'm saying it's better, but grep is pretty light weight and a lot of people use the command line and/or languages other than Javascript. YMMV.
  - _RPM 11y ago
    I'm not sure I understand. JSON is text. JSON provides an array as part of the grammar.
  - jlarocco 11y ago
    I'm not sure I follow you. The JSON response itself is already text. Besides that, nobody processes JSON on the command line without a tool like JQ, and I'd suspect all of those JSON tools support arrays.
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LinkPlug 11y ago
What is it built with? (Stack, Foss etc)
fiatjaf 11y ago
http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F%2Ftomwoods.com%2Fpodcast%2Fep-597-can-the-private-sector-protect-against-crime-this-case-study-will-blow-your-mind%2F&getSummary=getSummary http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%...
microcolonel 11y ago
Good quality summaries, but it seems it caches pages based on their base URL, and throws away the query parameters. Some blogs use query parameters to distinguish between articles, so it makes it kinda useless if you want to do more than one article.
despinozist 11y ago
You should render the output as actual JSONAPI (http://jsonapi.org http://jsonapi.org): { "links": { "self": "...", "prev": "...", "next": "..." }, "data": [], "included": [] } So that we can discover the API beyond the form. Use http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relation... as the starting point for link relations ideas.
- wyldfire 11y ago
  I was pretty quick to knee jerk ask myself "Why is this any better than any other schema?" (I was not convinced that "API discovery" was, by itself, a good enough case). Then I read the very practical first sentence of the jsonapi page: "If you've ever argued with your team about the way your JSON responses should be formatted, JSON API can be your anti-bikeshedding tool." That alone is probably huge. May not mean much for individual projects, but it's good enough for me to bookmark for the future.
  - despinozist 11y ago
    Ya I was like why all teh downvotes y'all? Then I realized I had no actual link ("http://" http://") in my initial post. I tend to assume all have read exactly what I have read. JSONAPI has huge implications for distributed systems architecture.
  - fishnchips 11y ago
    Can't help but think of https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ ;) Not sure if standards like this can prevent bikeshedding. You can always bikeshed about the need to stick to any particular standard. One counterexample to what I'm saying may be one standard Go language formatting with gofmt but that was introduced very early on and became a part of the culture. Too late for that with JSON APIs.
- jamiesonbecker 11y ago
  > You should [...] At least there's no namespacing or DTD's! JSON plus a loose adherence to REST won out over SOAP/XML-RPC/WSDL/etc because of its simplicity. Services discovery seems to be a solution in search of a problem. Even the simple idea of embedded links, with apologies to Dr. Fielding, seem to be a less critical component of REST than was initially believed, since very few modern REST API's actually provide them.
ShinyCyril 11y ago
Hmm didn't have much luck with: https://mikeanthonywild.com/stopping-blocking-threads-in-python-using-gevent-sort-of.html https://mikeanthonywild.com/stopping-blocking-threads-in-pyt... { "1":"betterthreads provides an enhanced replacement for the an enhanced replacement for the python this isn't actually a true thread instead it uses gevent to", "2":"the widely-accepted solution is to set a timeout on our blocking functions so we can periodically check a which we set from the main thread to indicate we want the child thread to stop", "3":"if the thread is still alive the when the *timeout* argument is not present or ``none`` the operation will block until the thread terminates", "4":"`runtimeerror` if an attempt is made to join the current thread as that would cause a deadlock", "5":"`join` a thread before it has been started and attempts to do so raises the same exception" } That said, I think to summarise that particular would require a certain level of domain expertise, something which a general bot couldn't provide.
h1fra 11y ago
Huum, not quiet sure what is was expecting, but the results were not great :( But I could see the use of this kind of service. Also does not work with accentuated char.
orliesaurus 11y ago
Not really working as expected :(
Mark_B 11y ago
Fun with Lorem Ipsum: http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lipsum.com%2Ffeed%2Fhtml&getSummary=getSummary http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%...
- meeper16 11y ago
  It seems to be multi-lingual
ComputerGuru 11y ago
I'm not sure I am seeking the same wow-factor results from the service that everyone else is raving about. I submitted this link [0] which was on the HN homepage a couple of days ago and the results that I got back were more either the least important bits or in some ways implying the opposite of the article, so either the writing was really bad or the algorithm needs some work. Submitting a "simpler" less-ranty article [1] was even less successful, leading to paraphrases of less-important sentences as the results. Then I submitted the BBC article from this morning about Philae [3] and received much, much better results. I think it works best on articles that have single sentences that clearly sum up the gist of the post as a single, hard fact and doesn't work with anything that works towards logical conclusions or tries to build an argument. Which makes sense, because this isn't an AI and can't actually deduce anything. 0: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-uselessness-of-google-search-results/ https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-us... 1: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/when-is-the-2016-retina-macbook-pro-coming-out/ https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/when-is-the-2016-retina-macbo... 3: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35559503 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35559503
- detaro 11y ago
  > I'm not sure I am seeking the same wow-factor results from the service that everyone else is raving about. Um... where is someone raving about the result? Most of the comments seem neutral to negative to me?
  - lpage 11y ago
    > Most of the comments seem neutral to negative to me? Shameless plug, thanks to HackerMoods [1] I can quantify that statement: 0.85 neutral, 0.08 positive, 0.07 negative. The average Show HN is 0.17 positive and 0.04 negative, so your assessment is in line with the numbers. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188633
    - Shamiq 11y ago
      I'm color blind, and the charts you use are unintelligible to me.
gkumartvm 11y ago
Wordpress sites urls are not working !!
exprI 11y ago
>URL's must start with "http://" http://" >example (i.e. the placeholder) starts with "https://" https://" Wouldn't it be nice if we had a word describing these weird letters before the colon and slashes? /s (Not to mention the poor usability.)
Animats 11y ago
Summarization used to be a feature in Microsoft Word through Word 2007, and it did a decent job. That feature was taken out in Word 2010.[1] [1] https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Automatically-summarize-a-document-B43F20AE-EC4B-41CC-B40A-753EED6D7424 https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Automatically-summa...
- skewart 11y ago
  I didn't know that. Any idea why it was taken out?
  - lallysingh 11y ago
    I suspect that office has to garbage collect features once in a while. Otherwise the maintenance cost would be (more?)horrible.
phdsummary 11y ago
The summary of that guy's Phd summary http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html {"1":"for various reasons i also spend a lot of weekends in new york and make more friends with people working on data and journalism","2":"my friend jean-baptiste who reads it asks why my blog is so good but my paper drafts are so bad","3":"at the beginning of this year i start telling people that i wish i had more female friends since i realize that there are many fewer women around me than before","4":"to keep myself from thinking about my uncertain future all the time i start a cybersecurity accelerator cybersecurity factory with my friend frank wang with the goal of helping research-minded people start companies","5":"i am too lazy to make many friends so i spend my free time reading cooking doing yoga and running"}
andreygrehov 11y ago
This is an off-topic, but I'd like to mention it. I absolutely love the fact that the OP did not get a domain name for this demo. This is an interesting "technique" I haven't seen for quite a while. People tend to own and re-new tenths of domain names, which are just sitting there for an "just in case" moment. This is a great example of how things can really be simplified - spin up an instance, make a demo, shut the instance down.
- 8bitben 11y ago
  Could also be a good use for subdomains - people often forget how many variations of whatever.domain.com can be useful
- giancarlostoro 11y ago
  There's always free sub-domains: https://freedns.afraid.org/ https://freedns.afraid.org/
- developer2 11y ago
  Good luck with the link still being usable in a month or a year. There's a reason we use domain names for sharing. Not only because they are friendly to read and remember, but also because IPs are typically far more transient than domain names. The IPs behind my projects have changed dozens of times over the years (new server, changing hosting provider, adding a load balancer, etc.). A simple DNS change allows the same domain name to follow the project. I'm actually surprised HN permits links to IP addresses. While links posted here are not guaranteed to point to the same content in the future anyway, it is more likely that an IP address will change before the project is taken down entirely. Search engine posterity and all.
shloub 11y ago
« URL's must start with "http://" http://" » « https://medium.com/@darrenrovell/all-journalists-need-to-be-data-driven-6dfc73e420d5#.mz8vd1myq https://medium.com/@darrenrovell/all-journalists-need-to-be-... »
jack9 11y ago
http://www.slashdot.org http://www.slashdot.org and https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com {"summarized_text": {}}
tuananh 11y ago
urgh: empty http://54.86.121.4/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F%2Fbongdaso.com%2FThua-Man-City%252c-Klopp-v%25C4%2583ng-t%25E1%25BB%25A5c-lo%25E1%25BA%25A1n-x%25E1%25BA%25A1-_Art_160672.aspx&getSummary=getSummary http://54.86.121.4/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F...
franze 11y ago
if you submit http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html to http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html you get {"summarized_text": {"1":"insert any block of text or single url url's must start with biomimic@gmail.com"}} which is of course completely wrong
mohaps 11y ago
Any details about the backend/implementation? shameless plugs for two similar projects(open sourced both) I did a while back 1) Algorithmic Summarizer: https://github.com/mohaps/tldrzr https://github.com/mohaps/tldrzr 2) Readability Clone / Article Body Extractor with summary, significant image and text : https://github.com/mohaps/xtractor https://github.com/mohaps/xtractor Both are deployed on heroku and the urls are in the github readme files.

126 points by meeper16 11y ago

dang 11y ago

Url changed from http://52.90.112.133/recommend/getSummary.html http://52.90.112.133/recommend/getSummary.html by submitter's request.

hluska 11y ago

This is an exact duplicate (even posted by the same person) of a link submitted 11 hours ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11190008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11190008 Edit - it doesn't work for me either, or maybe it is just very slow?

meeper16 11y ago
Yes, it is. I sent it out too late last night and thought more people might want to see this in the morning.
- gus_massa 11y ago
  I think this it's ok here. From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are reposts ok? > If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. > Please don't delete and repost the same story, though. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges.
pooper 11y ago
I tried it and it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=This+is+an+exciting+time+for+ADrive%21+We+have+made+extraordinary+improvements+to+ADrive+Premium+over+the+past+year+and+expanded+its+already+feature-packed+suite+of+services.+ADrive+users+like+you+have+been+taking+notice+%96+we%92ve+seen+a+huge+percentage+of+our+loyal+users+make+the+switch+to+ADrive+Premium%21%0D%0A%0D%0AOur+%93drive%94+has+always+been+to+offer+you+the+best+cloud+storage+solution+possible.+As+we+celebrate+our+9th+year%2C+our+focus+%96+more+than+ever+%96+is+on+expanding+ADrive+Premium+so+our+service+offering+remains+the+best+in+the+industry.+As+we+shift+all+of+our+efforts+to+adding+more+innovative+new+features+to+ADrive+Premium%2C+ADrive+Basic+will+no+longer+be+offered+effective+IMMEDIATELY.+We+will+try+to+keep+our+free+servers+online+as+long+as+possible+in+a+grace+period.%0D%0A%0D%0AAs+a+thank-you+to+our+loyal+customers%2C+we+are+offering+them+a+one-time+exclusive+discount+on+ADrive+Premium.+Upgrade+now+for+25%25+off+1-Year+plans%2C+50%25+off+2-Year+plans%2C+and+58%25+off+3-Year+plans.+Once+you+upgrade%2C+you+can+take+advantage+of+all+the+Premium+features%2C+such+as+the+award-winning+ADrive+Desktop+Application+with+automatic+drive+mapping%2C+automatic+and+manual+backup+scheduling%2C+and+synchronized+folders.%0D%0A%0D%0AOther+exciting+Premium+features+include+ADrive+Mobile%2C+both+iOS+and+Android%2C+SSL+Data+Encryption%2C+FTP%2C+SFTP%2C+and+Rsync+access+to+your+files%2C+and+the+ability+to+upload+16GB+files.+ADrive+Premium+users+are+hosted+from+a+Tier+4+data+center+and+have+experienced+no+downtime+since+our+launch+in+2007.+As+a+Premium+user%2C+you+also+have+access+to+our+world-class+24x7x365+support.%0D%0A%0D%0AWe+value+you+as+a+customer%2C+and+hope+you+choose+to+stay+with+ADrive+as+a+Premium+user.+If+you+have+any+questions+or+issues+please+contact+our+Support+Team+at+support%40adrive.com.&getSummary=getSummary http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=This+is+...

an_ko 11y ago

I'd like more details. How does it work?

xlayn 11y ago

I would risk to say it works based on assigning information weight to words, number of non repeating and the way they are related and then filter top down. I did try it with a link I particularly like http://multivax.com/last_question.html http://multivax.com/last_question.html with the following response. {"1":"nor could anyone for the day had long since passed zee prime knew when any man had any part of the making of a universal ac","2":"zee prime's mentality was guided into the dim sea of galaxies and one in particular enlarged into stars","3":"he gave no further thought to dee sub wun whose body might be waiting on a galaxy a trillion light-years away or on the star next to zee prime's own","4":"the universal ac said man's original star has gone nova","5":"the universal ac interrupted zee prime's wandering thoughts not with words but with guidance"}}

LinkPlug 11y ago

What are some alternatives to this?

stkbach 11y ago
http://thegi.st http://thegi.st It's a bit buggy still. To get a sense of it, stick to BBC articles.
jbeda 11y ago
Check out https://algorithmia.com/ https://algorithmia.com/. Stuff like this plus a bunch more. Real business model so you can have more confidence in it.
meeper16 11y ago
None of them work as well as this one.
subinsebastien 11y ago
I have seen http://www.textteaser.com/ http://www.textteaser.com/ by far giving the best results.

peter_l_downs 11y ago

Not summary, just sentence ranking and extraction. Still cool but not anything new. Sweet side project though! For anyone wondering how this was done, I have a similar project up at http://bookshrink.com http://bookshrink.com (source code at https://github.com/peterldowns/bookshrink https://github.com/peterldowns/bookshrink), although I don't fetch article text.

franciscop 11y ago
Really nice, I made a similar project for "rich text" where I took into account the html tags such as h1, bold, etc for my Final Year Project. Also mixing few analysis including TF-IDF and others. I'll have a look at the source when I get some time (:
mck- 11y ago
I did a similar hack a while back, which summarizes a piece of text in a single sentence. I'm that lazy. https://github.com/mck-/oneliner https://github.com/mck-/oneliner
- gravypod 11y ago
  I'm writing a book right now. Would you mind if I used your program to make the title and the chapter titles?

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_RPM 11y ago

An array would be a better choice of structure for the sentences instead of hard coding the indexes.."1"...

brudgers 11y ago
I see your point and don't disagree. Thinking about why someone might mike the choice to use text, text is more in keeping with *nix philosophy. Not that I'm saying it's better, but grep is pretty light weight and a lot of people use the command line and/or languages other than Javascript. YMMV.
- _RPM 11y ago
  I'm not sure I understand. JSON is text. JSON provides an array as part of the grammar.
- jlarocco 11y ago
  I'm not sure I follow you. The JSON response itself is already text. Besides that, nobody processes JSON on the command line without a tool like JQ, and I'd suspect all of those JSON tools support arrays.

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LinkPlug 11y ago

What is it built with? (Stack, Foss etc)

fiatjaf 11y ago

http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F%2Ftomwoods.com%2Fpodcast%2Fep-597-can-the-private-sector-protect-against-crime-this-case-study-will-blow-your-mind%2F&getSummary=getSummary http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%...

microcolonel 11y ago

Good quality summaries, but it seems it caches pages based on their base URL, and throws away the query parameters. Some blogs use query parameters to distinguish between articles, so it makes it kinda useless if you want to do more than one article.

despinozist 11y ago

You should render the output as actual JSONAPI (http://jsonapi.org http://jsonapi.org): { "links": { "self": "...", "prev": "...", "next": "..." }, "data": [], "included": [] } So that we can discover the API beyond the form. Use http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relation... as the starting point for link relations ideas.

wyldfire 11y ago
I was pretty quick to knee jerk ask myself "Why is this any better than any other schema?" (I was not convinced that "API discovery" was, by itself, a good enough case). Then I read the very practical first sentence of the jsonapi page: "If you've ever argued with your team about the way your JSON responses should be formatted, JSON API can be your anti-bikeshedding tool." That alone is probably huge. May not mean much for individual projects, but it's good enough for me to bookmark for the future.
- despinozist 11y ago
  Ya I was like why all teh downvotes y'all? Then I realized I had no actual link ("http://" http://") in my initial post. I tend to assume all have read exactly what I have read. JSONAPI has huge implications for distributed systems architecture.
- fishnchips 11y ago
  Can't help but think of https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ ;) Not sure if standards like this can prevent bikeshedding. You can always bikeshed about the need to stick to any particular standard. One counterexample to what I'm saying may be one standard Go language formatting with gofmt but that was introduced very early on and became a part of the culture. Too late for that with JSON APIs.
jamiesonbecker 11y ago
> You should [...] At least there's no namespacing or DTD's! JSON plus a loose adherence to REST won out over SOAP/XML-RPC/WSDL/etc because of its simplicity. Services discovery seems to be a solution in search of a problem. Even the simple idea of embedded links, with apologies to Dr. Fielding, seem to be a less critical component of REST than was initially believed, since very few modern REST API's actually provide them.

ShinyCyril 11y ago

Hmm didn't have much luck with: https://mikeanthonywild.com/stopping-blocking-threads-in-python-using-gevent-sort-of.html https://mikeanthonywild.com/stopping-blocking-threads-in-pyt... { "1":"betterthreads provides an enhanced replacement for the an enhanced replacement for the python this isn't actually a true thread instead it uses gevent to", "2":"the widely-accepted solution is to set a timeout on our blocking functions so we can periodically check a which we set from the main thread to indicate we want the child thread to stop", "3":"if the thread is still alive the when the *timeout* argument is not present or ``none`` the operation will block until the thread terminates", "4":"`runtimeerror` if an attempt is made to join the current thread as that would cause a deadlock", "5":"`join` a thread before it has been started and attempts to do so raises the same exception" } That said, I think to summarise that particular would require a certain level of domain expertise, something which a general bot couldn't provide.

h1fra 11y ago

Huum, not quiet sure what is was expecting, but the results were not great :( But I could see the use of this kind of service. Also does not work with accentuated char.

orliesaurus 11y ago

Not really working as expected :(

Mark_B 11y ago

Fun with Lorem Ipsum: http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lipsum.com%2Ffeed%2Fhtml&getSummary=getSummary http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%...

meeper16 11y ago
It seems to be multi-lingual

ComputerGuru 11y ago

I'm not sure I am seeking the same wow-factor results from the service that everyone else is raving about. I submitted this link [0] which was on the HN homepage a couple of days ago and the results that I got back were more either the least important bits or in some ways implying the opposite of the article, so either the writing was really bad or the algorithm needs some work. Submitting a "simpler" less-ranty article [1] was even less successful, leading to paraphrases of less-important sentences as the results. Then I submitted the BBC article from this morning about Philae [3] and received much, much better results. I think it works best on articles that have single sentences that clearly sum up the gist of the post as a single, hard fact and doesn't work with anything that works towards logical conclusions or tries to build an argument. Which makes sense, because this isn't an AI and can't actually deduce anything. 0: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-uselessness-of-google-search-results/ https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-us... 1: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/when-is-the-2016-retina-macbook-pro-coming-out/ https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/when-is-the-2016-retina-macbo... 3: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35559503 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35559503

detaro 11y ago
> I'm not sure I am seeking the same wow-factor results from the service that everyone else is raving about. Um... where is someone raving about the result? Most of the comments seem neutral to negative to me?
- lpage 11y ago
  > Most of the comments seem neutral to negative to me? Shameless plug, thanks to HackerMoods [1] I can quantify that statement: 0.85 neutral, 0.08 positive, 0.07 negative. The average Show HN is 0.17 positive and 0.04 negative, so your assessment is in line with the numbers. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188633
  - Shamiq 11y ago
    I'm color blind, and the charts you use are unintelligible to me.

gkumartvm 11y ago

Wordpress sites urls are not working !!

exprI 11y ago

>URL's must start with "http://" http://" >example (i.e. the placeholder) starts with "https://" https://" Wouldn't it be nice if we had a word describing these weird letters before the colon and slashes? /s (Not to mention the poor usability.)

Animats 11y ago

Summarization used to be a feature in Microsoft Word through Word 2007, and it did a decent job. That feature was taken out in Word 2010.[1] [1] https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Automatically-summarize-a-document-B43F20AE-EC4B-41CC-B40A-753EED6D7424 https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Automatically-summa...

skewart 11y ago
I didn't know that. Any idea why it was taken out?
- lallysingh 11y ago
  I suspect that office has to garbage collect features once in a while. Otherwise the maintenance cost would be (more?)horrible.

phdsummary 11y ago

The summary of that guy's Phd summary http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html http://jxyzabc.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-phd-abridged.html {"1":"for various reasons i also spend a lot of weekends in new york and make more friends with people working on data and journalism","2":"my friend jean-baptiste who reads it asks why my blog is so good but my paper drafts are so bad","3":"at the beginning of this year i start telling people that i wish i had more female friends since i realize that there are many fewer women around me than before","4":"to keep myself from thinking about my uncertain future all the time i start a cybersecurity accelerator cybersecurity factory with my friend frank wang with the goal of helping research-minded people start companies","5":"i am too lazy to make many friends so i spend my free time reading cooking doing yoga and running"}

andreygrehov 11y ago

This is an off-topic, but I'd like to mention it. I absolutely love the fact that the OP did not get a domain name for this demo. This is an interesting "technique" I haven't seen for quite a while. People tend to own and re-new tenths of domain names, which are just sitting there for an "just in case" moment. This is a great example of how things can really be simplified - spin up an instance, make a demo, shut the instance down.

8bitben 11y ago
Could also be a good use for subdomains - people often forget how many variations of whatever.domain.com can be useful
giancarlostoro 11y ago
There's always free sub-domains: https://freedns.afraid.org/ https://freedns.afraid.org/
developer2 11y ago
Good luck with the link still being usable in a month or a year. There's a reason we use domain names for sharing. Not only because they are friendly to read and remember, but also because IPs are typically far more transient than domain names. The IPs behind my projects have changed dozens of times over the years (new server, changing hosting provider, adding a load balancer, etc.). A simple DNS change allows the same domain name to follow the project. I'm actually surprised HN permits links to IP addresses. While links posted here are not guaranteed to point to the same content in the future anyway, it is more likely that an IP address will change before the project is taken down entirely. Search engine posterity and all.

shloub 11y ago

« URL's must start with "http://" http://" » « https://medium.com/@darrenrovell/all-journalists-need-to-be-data-driven-6dfc73e420d5#.mz8vd1myq https://medium.com/@darrenrovell/all-journalists-need-to-be-... »

jack9 11y ago

http://www.slashdot.org http://www.slashdot.org and https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com {"summarized_text": {}}

tuananh 11y ago

urgh: empty http://54.86.121.4/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F%2Fbongdaso.com%2FThua-Man-City%252c-Klopp-v%25C4%2583ng-t%25E1%25BB%25A5c-lo%25E1%25BA%25A1n-x%25E1%25BA%25A1-_Art_160672.aspx&getSummary=getSummary http://54.86.121.4/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%2F...

franze 11y ago

if you submit http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html to http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html http://54.86.121.4/recommend/getSummary.html you get {"summarized_text": {"1":"insert any block of text or single url url's must start with biomimic@gmail.com"}} which is of course completely wrong

mohaps 11y ago

Any details about the backend/implementation? shameless plugs for two similar projects(open sourced both) I did a while back 1) Algorithmic Summarizer: https://github.com/mohaps/tldrzr https://github.com/mohaps/tldrzr 2) Readability Clone / Article Body Extractor with summary, significant image and text : https://github.com/mohaps/xtractor https://github.com/mohaps/xtractor Both are deployed on heroku and the urls are in the github readme files.