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I was thinking there'd be a scary monster that would pop out along the way

Weird. I like how hacker news is all text and read it daily. But I could see my eyes getting bored after a while on tldr. I much prefer this layout http://www.rawsignal.com/ Optimi…

Like this? http://news.rawsignal.com/default.aspx?mode=1 It is done for each category. I wish the up would do it for all categories at once, because I don't always have time

Talking about this http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... There other ways of blocking crawlers other than robots.txt

I wish google would let me crawl blogger pages for my index. I don't think that is fair that google can index the web, but has created a walled garden for the content they host. Ba…

What culture is ads?

Dude. This is pretty cool. The stats on the front page are interesting. 104 playing users already

Reminds me of the drudge report. I made this: http://tech.rawsignal.com Maybe we can share tips on algos?

not sure about the others, but Groupon opened offices in SV . . .

working on it. Need a good domain name though. http://jobs.rawsignal.com

I'd be interested to know which firm, and to see the post mortem about why they went out of business first.

http://www.rawsignal.com is made by one

haha thanks. yeah, we built this product for ourselves and friends. it's kind of a passion product that we're constantly working on. sports was for my brother, but then he wanted c…

wow. that's really insightful. thanks for the post. I guess you're right, there is room for improvement, but . . . I wonder if the failure rate is higher, because those ideas are c…

wow. that's an entire module in the system. we do several things that analyze feeds and decide if it fits a category. Basically, lots of text analysis and analysis of the web. We g…

btw, I'm not sure if it'll amount to anything big. My hope is someone will find it useful. for me personally, it's a lot of fun to work on machine learning and algorithms. i had so…

ok, i put up baseball, basketball, and football: http://football.rawsignal.com/ http://basketball.rawsignal.com/ http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ http://baseball.rawsignal.com/ had …

sure i can work on that next. what initial categories would rock your world? also, should i brand each category as its own site, or is the current model ok?

Yeah, we don't have content ourselves, our value add is the ranking and filter service. Also, allowing you to see the conversation across the web. UGC would be tough, because I'm a…

yeah. the algorithm I built takes a little training per topic/vertical, but after the initial training, it just starts learning. I have a long list of potential topics that the alg…

what are good places to share a link? The main vertical I'm focused on right now is tech: http://tech.rawsignal.com/ although I built other verticals that seem to be working alread…

For kicks and giggles (and honestly to keep my mind sharp), I built a memetracker. It is a good mental vacation from the day job. It leveraged a lot of my technical interests in al…

we're also curious about what marketing techniques you think would be worth our money + what a good message would be to the users. we'd like to figure out one short sentence where …

Thanks il. I'll send you an email about http://www.rawsignal.com We just took the private beta label off, but are flummoxed with how to get users.