bruce_lipshitz

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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> As an aside, there are a bunch of other really cool Jaccard index fingerprinting methods out there that are asymptotically better even than HyperMinHash. But, they aren't as easy to work with and lack some of the other nice prope
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> articles in your Opinion section are all partisan sources Yes, articles in the Opinion section are partisan. That's why they are in a section labeled "Opinion" all by themselves somewhere at the bottom of the page, se
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> There's some redundancy; topics aren't being combined uniformly. For example, today has the story about Facebook killing 115 accounts in two separate batches Yes, the topic aggregation algorithm is not completely fine tuned
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
The San Jose Mercury News launched its Newshound service in late 1994 and closed it down about 5 years later under the direction of its new owner, Knight-Ridder, who wanted to be a pure print play versus embracing news online. https:&#x2
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
We are aiming to have a diverse set of news sources. Would you like to name some that you feel should be included?
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
That's a very comprehensive review of your experience with Google News. Thanks for taking the time to write it. > One good feature they have is to hide all stories from particular sources - you may think about adding this. Do you
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> * The aggregation system you’re using is pretty good, but it still sometimes misses and groups stories together that are not related.* Yes, I agree. The aggregation system works fast at scale but needs fine-tuning for accuracy. This is
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
Thank you for the feedback! > First were the two images of a list of hyperlinks that look clickable. I tried clicking on the links to no avail thinking they were broken, only to realise I was clicking on an image. The two images in part
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> I like the simple layout, but the topic aggregation algorithm could use some adjustment. Frozen 2 is in both Top Stories and Business, but not in Entertainment. I agree that in this case our algorithm that classifies news stories int
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> You've made all the right decisions Thank you, it means a lot to us to hear that because we've largely gone against the current trends. > eliminating the misfeatures of Google and other news aggregators Just curious, w
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> Not responsive Sorry to hear that the page's responsive design layout did not work out for your device. Would it be possible for you to link to a screenshot so we can fix the bug?
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> Can you tell what you use to source the news articles? Any API or just scraping? We use a mix of approaches but we don't scrape web pages, we're quite scrupulous about that. > May be you want to add personalization base
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
> I like your site. It's not busy with distractions and works flawlessly without JS. Thank you! We've been watching recent website design trends with something approaching horror. (See this excellent discussion last week: ht
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by bruce_lipshitz 8y ago
Hi, Newshound developer here. My friend Freida and I are excited to launch Newshound, a web-based news aggregator. About a year ago, we started talking about creating a news aggregator that would show multiple sides to the same story with n
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Show HN: Newshound – a news aggregator for daily news from around the world(newshound.co)
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