olympusmons

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   by olympusmons 10y ago

   I just used Sygic Travel ( https://travel.sygic.com ) to plan a very last-minute road trip in Iceland. I knew nothing about Iceland to begin with. I spent less than 8 hours planning the whole trip, and ~ 5 of them were in Sygic. I
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   by olympusmons 10y ago

   I like your solution because it doesn't (necessarily) require a backend and would therefore be much simpler to implement. There are several libraries that extract article text reasonably well. I believe browser extensions are written m
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   by olympusmons 10y ago

   Lets brainstorm. Perhaps one mathematical solution to the problem is to score pages based on the average time spent for each article. My hypothesis is that clickbait articles will score very low because the article will attract a lot of cli
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   by olympusmons 10y ago

   Thank you for clarifying. I appreciate the thoughtful response.
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   by olympusmons 10y ago

   The first line of your response very concisely illustrates my growing unease with discussions related to privacy on hacker news. The fact that you're having to "hold back" is sadly indicative of why debates on sensitive topic