mysteryleo

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by mysteryleo 13y ago
I was thinking there'd be a scary monster that would pop out along the way
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by mysteryleo 14y ago
Weird. I like how hacker news is all text and read it daily. But I could see my eyes getting bored after a while on tldr. I much prefer this layout http://www.rawsignal.com/ Optimized for fast consumption or just dicking around.
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by mysteryleo 14y ago
Like this? http://news.rawsignal.com/default.aspx?mode=1 It is done for each category. I wish the up would do it for all categories at once, because I don't always have time
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by mysteryleo 14y ago
Talking about this http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... There other ways of blocking crawlers other than robots.txt
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by mysteryleo 14y ago
I wish google would let me crawl blogger pages for my index. I don't think that is fair that google can index the web, but has created a walled garden for the content they host. Basically, if you start indexing the web, and some sites are h
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by mysteryleo 15y ago
What culture is ads?
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by mysteryleo 15y ago
Dude. This is pretty cool. The stats on the front page are interesting. 104 playing users already
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by mysteryleo 15y ago
Reminds me of the drudge report. I made this: http://tech.rawsignal.com Maybe we can share tips on algos?
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by mysteryleo 15y ago
not sure about the others, but Groupon opened offices in SV . . .
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by mysteryleo 15y ago
working on it. Need a good domain name though. http://jobs.rawsignal.com
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
I'd be interested to know which firm, and to see the post mortem about why they went out of business first.
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
http://www.rawsignal.com is made by one
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
haha thanks. yeah, we built this product for ourselves and friends. it's kind of a passion product that we're constantly working on. sports was for my brother, but then he wanted college football specifically, so we rolled out this for him:
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
wow. that's really insightful. thanks for the post. I guess you're right, there is room for improvement, but . . . I wonder if the failure rate is higher, because those ideas are common, and everyone tries it. Yeah maybe the same number wil
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
wow. that's an entire module in the system. we do several things that analyze feeds and decide if it fits a category. Basically, lots of text analysis and analysis of the web. We get candidates from people submitting feeds.
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
btw, I'm not sure if it'll amount to anything big. My hope is someone will find it useful. for me personally, it's a lot of fun to work on machine learning and algorithms. i had soooo much fun building it. if anyone has any feedback, let me
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Show HN - Raw Signal - My Side Proj To Keep My Skill Sharp(tech.rawsignal.com)
2 points by mysteryleo 16y ago|3 comments
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
ok, i put up baseball, basketball, and football: http://football.rawsignal.com/ http://basketball.rawsignal.com/ http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ http://baseball.rawsignal.com/ had to refungle some code to speed up our analysis, but
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
sure i can work on that next. what initial categories would rock your world? also, should i brand each category as its own site, or is the current model ok?
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
Yeah, we don't have content ourselves, our value add is the ranking and filter service. Also, allowing you to see the conversation across the web. UGC would be tough, because I'm at a chicken and egg state right now as you pointed out. And
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
yeah. the algorithm I built takes a little training per topic/vertical, but after the initial training, it just starts learning. I have a long list of potential topics that the algorithm would be good at. pretty much any sports topic it wou
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
what are good places to share a link? The main vertical I'm focused on right now is tech: http://tech.rawsignal.com/ although I built other verticals that seem to be working already. Not sure where to share it that would interest people w
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Ask HN: What do I do next?
2 points by mysteryleo 16y ago|11 comments
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
we're also curious about what marketing techniques you think would be worth our money + what a good message would be to the users. we'd like to figure out one short sentence where people are like . . . oh i get it.
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by mysteryleo 16y ago
Thanks il. I'll send you an email about http://www.rawsignal.com We just took the private beta label off, but are flummoxed with how to get users.