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Re: Show HN: Bit of News

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

No, it's only economics. Back to my analogy, if I buy a bag of apples from you and I find a few rotten ones inside, I'll never buy from you again. It's simple, really.

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Re: Show HN: Bit of News

#42
What does this have to do with Ivy League schools? Is that just total fluff or is there any sort of meat behind those words?

Does the author attend an Ivy league school? If so, why does he/she feel that he/she can or should speak for all the other Ivies? What am I missing?

Re: Show HN: Bit of News

#43
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No, it's only economics. Back to my analogy, if I buy a bag of apples from you and I find a few rotten ones inside, I'll never buy from you again. It's simple, really.

Nevertheless, if this site is just collecting general news into a feed, you can't call the story 'rotten' because you don't like it and don't find it edifying. It is news, it did happen, it was relevant to someone. I think your expectation of the purpose that news is supposed to serve might be somewhat skewed.

Re: Show HN: Bit of News

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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.

Hey creator of bitofnews here. Thanks for the compliments. If you liked the summary, please checkout TextTeaser on Mashape, the supporting API.

As of right now, u/bitofnewsbot is banned from r/worldnews :( I'm getting in touch with the mods to see what's up.

Re: Show HN: Bit of News

#47

Awesome! Hi guys, I'm the creator of TextTeaser API that was used by Bit of News. :) I first thought that bitofnews is just a bot in Reddit. I'm really surprised that this is now a full blown website/app. Thanks for Bit of News for using the TextTeaser API.

Hi MojoJolo! Creator of the bot / site here.

Sorry for being late to the thread, I didn't even know someone posted this!

Great API :) There were few hours of outage last night, but overall I'm loving it.

Link to the API: https://www.mashape.com/mojojolo/textteaser

Re: Show HN: Bit of News

#49

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.

Great API, and thank you!

Re: Show HN: Bit of News

#50

I'd love to see a site like this specifically focused on business news. Keeping up with the latest news in business is important, but I've found most business papers are so full of useless fluff stories that it drowns out the ones that are most important.

Hey creator of bitofnews here. I plan on adding different news sections (business, technology) soon. In the mean while, check out Wall Street Breakfast. It gives summary of today's market performance: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1728342-wall-street-breakfas...

And sorry for being late to the thread! I didn't know this was posted here.

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