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Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Also see http://tldr.it (a RailsRumble 2010 entry)

nice :) much better UI. As you can tell, I really suck at HTML/JS coding.

I like your UI. If you change anything, keep this page flow and don't put much else on the page. Check out medium.com for readable font inspiration.

Awesome work!

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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I've got an IOException while trying to summarize http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/04/running-software-team... And a different one for http://googleblog.blogspot.com I guess you should put more effort in your html parser. Try Apache Tika, perhaps.

ah, it won't work directly for webpages (html). the url is expected to be that of a RSS/Atom feed. for the html web pages, copy pasting the text to the textarea works.

Will try to add url content type detection in the next cut and summarizing non-feed url's next up

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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I've got an IOException while trying to summarize http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/04/running-software-team... And a different one for http://googleblog.blogspot.com I guess you should put more effort in your html parser. Try Apache Tika, perhaps.

try this url: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss it works. same feed url pattern will work for google blog too http://googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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Generated 5 Sentence Summary for http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-bought-a-30... Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. According to Summly's own Web site, the technology behind the app was "built" by an organization called "SRI International," not by the startup's employees. And indeed, inside…

I have to say this summary seems to make the whole summly purchase a lot clearer for me, rightly or wrongly, intentional or not.

$30 million to have the entire tech sphere spread the word on how Yahoo are evolving and are going to make peronalised summarized on the go news a core feature seems like a bargain (there certainly is a market for something like that I would say -- or at the very least, if implemented well, it certainly would be nice to have feature -- possibly a habit changer).

They no longer seem to me at the very least, the old who are they again company that they once were.

It's a shame they won't be changing their name anytime soon though. That on it's own puts me off a little. Forgive me for the snark.

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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You should try diffbot. They use a vision based method to extract text from webpages. The tool looks pretty polished and seems to work rather well.

Yeah. I tried it. It's good! The problem is it's not free. Although it's cheap, I still don't have that money/revenue to pay for it. The free tier is not that much. If I have the money, I'll definitely change it to Diffbot. :)

Shoot them an email, they seem nice enough about academic/nonprofit work.

Re: Show HN: TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)

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I really like this. Here's an example of one of PG's essays run through the algorithm: [ http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html ] The most important thing to understand about paths out of the initial idea is the meta-fact that these are hard to see. Empirically, the way to have good startup ideas is to become the sort of person who has them. If you know a lot about programming and you start learning about some other…

I think no algorithm can perform such a summarizing task. If you're looking for summaries of PG's essays see here http://tldr.io/discover/paulgraham.com.
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