I'm not sure how to parse the following sentence:
By newscatcherapi.com (this package is fully self-sufficient, you can just use it. No dependency on external services/API)
Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
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#32The demo gif is really long (a few minutes), but it's well worth watching and summarizes the capabilities of the library well. It'd be cool if you could register additional sources via a registration API or some passed in configuration.
This would be very cool - a bit like how youtube-dl handles non YouTube websites.
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#33Self-Plug: https://www.hvper.com (Official Successor of popurls which more or less started the single page aggregator craze.)
That pink bar takes up almost half of my screen on my iphone 11 and makes the website defacto unusable.
Not to be unkind, but you should fix that. Instead of being incentivized to pay you, my only instinct was to close that page asap.
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#34For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
That’s great.
Nothing is never neutral so it’s best to show different sides of issues to make readers figure it out themselves (as easily as possible, but not as opinionated as popular news outlets)
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#35I'm not sure how to parse the following sentence: By newscatcherapi.com (this package is fully self-sufficient, you can just use it. No dependency on external services/API)
I interpret this as
Created by but you do not need anything from us or from anyone else to get the software going, it just works out of the box.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US really needs to change their political system so that it's no longer "the winner takes it all" politics where only two parties can effectively rival. This is so poisonous for everything. No nuances in the discussion. Truth comes under the wheels. Stupid slogans win. No chance for larger green/ecological movements besides the overwhelming topic of economics. Ridiculous gerrymandering. It's just very sad to see.
So something like the super-dysfunctional political systems of Israel or Belgium or Italy or South Africa? Fixing first past the post voting is not some magic cure-all.
We use the MMP system in NZ and it seems to work quite well, though needs a bit of fine tuning as currently you need 5% to get into a coalition and that is slightly too high.
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#37I'm not sure how to parse the following sentence: By newscatcherapi.com (this package is fully self-sufficient, you can just use it. No dependency on external services/API)
We tried to make sure that everyone understands that it does not depend on newscatcherapi.com products/services)
Re: Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
#38I'm not sure how to parse the following sentence: By newscatcherapi.com (this package is fully self-sufficient, you can just use it. No dependency on external services/API)
I interpret this as Created by but you do not need anything from us or from anyone else to get the software going, it just works out of the box.
I am going to put it on a README. Thanks a lot!
Re: Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US really needs to change their political system so that it's no longer "the winner takes it all" politics where only two parties can effectively rival. This is so poisonous for everything. No nuances in the discussion. Truth comes under the wheels. Stupid slogans win. No chance for larger green/ecological movements besides the overwhelming topic of economics. Ridiculous gerrymandering. It's just very sad to see.
So something like the super-dysfunctional political systems of Israel or Belgium or Italy or South Africa? Fixing first past the post voting is not some magic cure-all.
You don't have to select (from your point of view) dysfunctional systems to make a point.
I feel as a world citizen but I am German; I know the system that was built after the bitter lessons of our history. A proportional representation (with an x% threshold to limit the number of governing parties) is really key to preventing two large parties from dominating everything and becoming the only rivals with the resulting polarisation of the political discourse.
(Free higher education would then be the next step.)
Re: Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from almost any website
#40For any news junkies heres, I've built https://maagnit.com which gathers both Left and Right leaning sources for any story and displays them altogether on one page. My approach has been, if we can't get neutral/objective coverage, getting comprehensive, 360 desgree coverage is a good alternative. These days, news bias is not only in the way a story is covered, but also which stories are covered. So, maagnit automatic…
Seems like a terrible idea to me. The two sides are at war, and if the way you sample them is by going 50-50, that encourages them to be more extreme because that will skew the average in their direction. We already see this in the media. You have the host and two people. Lets hear what person A says, lets hear what person B says. Who's right? Impossible to tell, otherwise you must be biased. And no mention that pers…
Educating yourself about every topic out there is absolutely impossible. Thats precisely why news businesses exist in the first place.