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Ask HN: Feedback on Age Directory based on Yahoo BOSS
- chris11 18y agoYou may want to filter some of the pics you use. The one you are using for Lance Armstrong has him naked.
- ptm 18y agoI'm using Yahoo BOSS search thumbnail service with Safesearch turned on; not sure why it doesn't pick these up. Thanks for the feedback.
- huhtenberg 18y agoDoes it solve a problem that actually exists ? I am having hard time seeing how "estimating an accurate age of a celebrity" could be worthy of a standalone service.
- ptm 18y agoIt doesn't. I just wanted to use Yahoo BOSS to extract some simple semantic data.
- huhtenberg 18y agoOk, cool. I assumed it was the case.
- raju 18y agoShouldn't it be so that dead celebrities don't have an age? John Lennon shows up at 68 (which I believe to be correct) but that's assuming he was still alive, yes?
- ptm 18y agoYes, it is assuming he was alive :). It gets the date of birth via Yahoo BOSS and computes the age accordingly, the date of death (if any) is not accounted for.
- villageidiot 18y agoAre you planning on publicizing it on gossip sites & making money from advertising? Or is this just a toy project?
- ptm 18y agoToy project.
- pt 18y agoSite down?
- ptm 18y agoSorry, EveryDNS took the site down for a while - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529445 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529445