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Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by scarejunba »

ForHackernews wrote: post #2

Wait, Google doesn't support Perl?

Considering they said 'managed services' you can guess that they use Cloud Functions, App Engine or something like that. With Google Cloud Run you could easily do what they wanted, but then you have to have the Docker tooling.

Of course if they were using GCE, GKE, or any other way to deploy compute they'd be fine. In this case, because they're using GAE, they have limited language support without doing lots of (to them) complex stuff.

It's the right decision to port here.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by sol_remmy2 »

lil_tee wrote: post #19
ImprovedSilence wrote: post #10

I would wager they are doing the same thing for HN. Also of note, ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here. I’m not saying they don’t fit the HN mold/interest bucket, but I was just surprised to see so many headlines from them here, on HN, so regularly. I think NYT is playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/soci…

FWIW, nytimes.com accounts for ~4% of all posts that appear on the HN homepage: https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=...

While that is true, NYT posts are more highly upvoted than most other frontpage items

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by dictum »

GCA10 wrote: post #14
lallysingh wrote: post #4

The article's actual title is "To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around New York Times Articles, We Built a Slack Bot." There's some strong editorializing in this post's title.

There's always a shorter way to get key elements into a headline. How about: To Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

My take would be "In the NYT Slack, a Bot to Track Reddit Conversations".

https://twitter.com/NYTPrepositions

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by grahamburger »

lil_tee wrote: post #19
ImprovedSilence wrote: post #10

I would wager they are doing the same thing for HN. Also of note, ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here. I’m not saying they don’t fit the HN mold/interest bucket, but I was just surprised to see so many headlines from them here, on HN, so regularly. I think NYT is playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/soci…

FWIW, nytimes.com accounts for ~4% of all posts that appear on the HN homepage: https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=...

That's quite a lot! One of every 25, so probably at least one on the front page at any time? Are there domains that account for considerably more than 4%? Would be interesting to see a top ten list.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by hombre_fatal »

GCA10 wrote: post #14
lallysingh wrote: post #4

The article's actual title is "To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around New York Times Articles, We Built a Slack Bot." There's some strong editorializing in this post's title.

There's always a shorter way to get key elements into a headline. How about: To Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

At that point, what's the point of the Yoda sentence split-and-reorder?

How about: {We/NYTimes} Built a Slack Bot to Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles

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Post by mfontani »

lallysingh wrote: post #3
ForHackernews wrote: post #2

Wait, Google doesn't support Perl?

Who'd voluntarily do so in 2019?

The NYT, surely - as they helped produce one of the best Perl profilers out there: https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by Raphmedia »

whack wrote: post #8

It's interesting how "NYT tracks Reddit conversations" sounds so much less malevolent when you know exactly what they are doing and why. Ie, posting slack links of public Reddit threads so the article authors can see and participate in the resulting discussion.

You can already simply click a domain on reddit and it shows you all the posts that linked it.

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Post by duxup »

scarejunba wrote: post #17
Causality1 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN punches above its weight class when it comes to influence so it's unsurprising the NYT wants to keep their visibility here high.

About 90% of the time when some group of people claim they have influence they have fuck-all influence. Reminds me of the time some 4chan users tried to have ReCaptcha label things 'penis' because they had this inflated sense of influence. ReCaptcha said that it was trivial to handle the increased traffic and that it was not only auto-filtered out but also a drop in the bucket. Everyone always thinks they're hot shit…

I remember when folks felt stupid spats on slashdot mattered.

It didn't.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by dictum »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #25
GCA10 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's always a shorter way to get key elements into a headline. How about: To Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

At that point, what's the point of the Yoda sentence split-and-reorder? How about: {We/NYTimes} Built a Slack Bot to Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles

I'm not privy to the technical reasoning, but the Yoda split-and-reorder is part of their brand identity, so to speak.

It's an in-joke in journalism that the NYT routinely starts headlines with prepositions (followed by "location/context, noun/subject verb noun...")

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