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auto-generated? if so, that's pretty impressive. [edit] huh, so that's TextTeaser? https://www.mashape.com/mojojolo/textteaser#!documentation - i had no idea that summaries of that quality were now commodity apis.

Well, why not try the TextTeaser API yourself (http://www.textteaser.com/)?

I'm the creator of the said API and thanks if you think it's impressive. Also thanks for bitofnews for using the API.

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#12
It sucks that that first article right now is about that woman who got shot at the capital building. Will this news ultimately matter? Probably not. The other articles seem to be about more impactful things so other wise good job

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#13
The first story of the woman driver shot to death is the rotten apple in the barrel. The rest of the stories are better, and with broader appeal.

Just so you know, I'll probably never visit this site again because of that godawful story. It didn't enhance my life or my understanding of the world. It did the opposite.

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The first story of the woman driver shot to death is the rotten apple in the barrel. The rest of the stories are better, and with broader appeal. Just so you know, I'll probably never visit this site again because of that godawful story. It didn't enhance my life or my understanding of the world. It did the opposite.

I don't understand why you seem to have to much anger about this story.

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It sucks that that first article right now is about that woman who got shot at the capital building. Will this news ultimately matter? Probably not. The other articles seem to be about more impactful things so other wise good job

It's funny that what we see as not eventful is usually seeds for something big. I remember this with egypt both times and syria. I am not saying that this is going to lead to something big but you never know, there could be an uprising over the police moving towards kill at any cost vs kill only if necessary. If you look at the video, at one point there was six cops surrounding the vehicle, one cop had his forehead on the front passenger window yet they could not see a little kid in there, also they could have shot out the tires, someone that has no gun training could have done that as it was at point blank range. In the 80s polics had better judgement and less police injuries, today a guy can have a knife be 10 metres away and a group of cops will go for the kill shot, amazing.

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Really impressive automatically generated summaries.

Of course, there are some funny parts as well. One of the bullet points for "Russia halts adoptions to Sweden over gay nuptials" is just

    • "It's terrible.
Very frank :D.

I certainly agree, but I imagine a person summarizing the article would not have used this phrasing.

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