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Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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post #49

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I see it as hopelessly yelling at kids to stop walking on your lawn

What is actually happening is that someone tells other people on the lawn that they wish kids wouldn't walk (and poop) on it, and then some of those other people play kiddo advocate and yell at that person. The kids are aren't providing any active resistance at all compared to that.

I guess I don't see the "pooping" part, I just see them shortening a long word they happen to be using.

Also, the headline clearly says cryptocurrency, it seems to be the domain name he is complaining about.

Sorry, I don't agree with adding 8 letters to a url to make a very small segment of people (who are apparently not the target audience) happy.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#72
post #34

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In a world where 'literally' can be defined as 'figuratively', I'm not sure why we bother splitting hairs on terminology... what is accepted is what is accepted.

This isn't the world. This is Hacker News, which is full of people who know what crypto is and know what cryptocurrency is and can expect each other to do better than ambiguity.

The title of this article on hacker news is "a cryptocurrency news scraper"

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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post #34
post #29

This is not crypto news, but cryptocurrency news.

In a world where 'literally' can be defined as 'figuratively', I'm not sure why we bother splitting hairs on terminology... what is accepted is what is accepted.

But it is not accepted. You have people in every cryptocurrency thread reminding people that www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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post #54

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this is called linguistic prescriptivism and its wrong

Calling out linguistic prescriptivism is almost as bad a social faux pas as the linguistic prescriptivism itself.

IMO it's far more misguided. We can push for precise and efficient language, or we can shrug our shoulders and let the lowest common denominator strip out all nuance.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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post #28

This is A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News. Reading the HN title, and looking at the site name listed on HN, I had expected there to be information relating to cryptography, which there is not.

Sorry for the confusion I've gotten used to referring to cryptocurrency as crypto as shorthand

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#78

It would be really great to be able to login 1) save stuff and 2) discuss articles. It doesn't even need to be threaded or have voting at first.

Thanks. I'm working on this now. I've built the authentication system and user models and will be working on comments next

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#79

I'd like to see a sentiment for each article as well. If you add that, then add a green/red indicator on the price chart as well for when the news came out.

Great idea, I actually had this before. I was feeding the articles into google's natural language processing API to get a sentiment index from -1 to 1 (-1 negative, 0 neutral +1 positive). The issue I was having that it wasn't really that accurate. Google NPL has trouble analysing contextual news articles. e.g. if a headline says "Bubble in cryptocurrency markets", it doesn't recognise that bubble is negative in news contexts. I have been looking for some different NPL libraries that might be better including AWS Rekognition. I'm not a data scientist so don't think I'll do very well building my own machine learning algorithm. Any suggestions of good libraries people have used for news sentiment would be greatly appreciated

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#80
post #29

This is not crypto news, but cryptocurrency news.

I'd like to see other terms as well, incl. distributed ledger stuff.

Cool. Ill add that to the list. Please provide suggestions of other topics and I will add it in :D
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