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photorizedon Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

How quickly a given tweet is getting retweeted and favorited. So - not looking at absolute values but rather the rates at which those are changing. So that was actually quite a challenge, given Twitter's API constraints and rate limiting, and the math involved (we've tested edge cases on accounts with 100,000 'friends', and it still worked).

photorizedon Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

I think we can do that, might include it in out next build.

Another thing I was considering - automatically categorizing tweets by topic and filtering them based on each person pre-sets. For example, I follow a bunch of VCs - and I want to see their comments about Bitcoin while ignoring comments about Secret.

Also - thinking about an ability to mute/ignore a given topic (e.g. Politics), keyword, or author (without unfollowing them). WDYT?

photorizedon Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place

True. This has to do more with knowing and understanding (and being able to control) your traffic and content patterns rather than simply being big. When part of your business is making recommendations to people on what they should watch (listen to) next, content propagation and pre-caching is a no-brainer.

photorizedon Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

I decided there's no such thing as a good NLP library. In my other apps, I usually use several libraries at once, then make them vote. :) Works out better than Stanford NLP.

I do need to add some intelligence to skim.io though.

photorizedon Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

One sentiment analysis, there seems to be a lot of false negatives - at least when parsing Techcrunch. For example, all these were tagged as 'negative':

- Timely Turns Your Calendar Into A Time Tracker

- Audi Tests Self-Driving Cars On Florida’s Roads

- Twitter Acquires Password Security Startup Mitro, Open Sources Its Product

photorizedon Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

pmarca would hate that feature, it would interfere with his tweet storms. :)

In all seriousness, noise is the biggest problem I have with twitter. When you follow more than 100 accounts, the timeline becomes pretty much useless.

Your comment gives me another idea for my app though - we will make it so each of the Top 5 is from a different unique publisher... and if more than one of their comments are trending, we choose the 'fastest'.

photorizedon Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

That's an interesting idea, will check out your docs.

photorizedon Create your own machine-learning-powered RSS reader

I recently launched a Twitter app designed to filter out the noise by measuring the velocity of all tweets from all people I follow. It only shows me 5 things at any given moment that are most likely "interesting".

Check it out, it's free, and it only wants read-only auth permissions via Twitter: http://skim.io/

Still tweaking the algorithm.

photorizedon What do startups use to track leads?

Will give it a try, thank you.

Edit: just installed Streak - it's exactly what I needed!

photorizedon What do startups use to track leads?

Thanks.

photorizedon What do startups use to track leads?

That looks good, will check it out. Thank you.

photorizedon What Does Your Company Blog About?

What Does Your Company Blog About?

Data, insights (about any popular topic), social analytics, and our own new product features. Recently wrote about Bitcoin, #AmazonCart, Google Glass.

http://blog.itrendcorporation.com

Why?

We are a startup, so any additional exposure is nice.

How do you choose topics?

Pretty much at random, but usually has to do with interesting data.

How do you promote your content?

post to Twitter, FB, LinkedIn.

Does blogging work for your business?

Still not clear. We do get meaningful traffic, but I suspect much of it is from techies trying to build analytics in-house.

photorizedon People's happiness at work usually dips mid career

You start to value time more than anything.

photorizedon HN. Let's share Twitter accounts

Mine is https://twitter.com/iTrendTV

mostly updates for my analytics startup, plus interesting patterns extracted from Twitter etc

P.S. blocked by Marc Andreessen https://mobile.twitter.com/iTrendTV/lists/people-blocked-by-...

photorizedon Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner

That's the impression I got. I ended up using the renamed one, after renaming it once again from @tweetcoin1 to @usetweetcoin.

photorizedon Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner

Not yet. I am not even mad etc.

photorizedon Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner

This isn't nearly as exciting as the story of @N, but I just had something strange happen to one of my Twitter accounts, too.

Registered "tweetcoin" handle awhile back for one of the projects I am working on, and posted on Feb 9 (my single tweet) - "Exciting things in the works" was my comment:

https://twitter.com/tweetcoin

Tried logging in today, couldn't log in. Ended up resetting pwd using my email account, and the reset link logged me in as 'tweetcoin1' - that's when I knew that my Twitter handle had changed from 'tweetcoin' to 'tweetcoin1'.

What's even more bizarre - another tweet appeared under that account. It was dated April 2012, and it simply said:

"This isn't your account."

photorizedon WhatsApp’s Founder Goes From Food Stamps to Billionaire

Working (for pay) does work. Teenagers can work, too.

photorizedon WhatsApp’s Founder Goes From Food Stamps to Billionaire

Speaking of different universes, most immigrant families from Ukraine/Belarus/Russia that I know, are working their asses off and are too proud to be on food stamps or any other form of gov't assistance. They view the US as the land of opportunity, and that doesn't mean food stamps.

photorizedon Ask HN: do you use App.net?

No. Looked at it a year ago, didn't feel like signing up.

photorizedon Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07)

Two observations:

1. How's simple (one could say crude) these looked back in the day - yet that didn't prevent people from signing up.

2. How quickly things age online - it only takes a few years for your UI to look ancient.

photorizedon Show HN: compress your Twitter timeline into Top 5

'basic' version is working, 'premium' isn't out yet - collecting feedback and feature requests. Thanks everyone.

photorizedon Happy New Year from Y Combinator

Good collection of links.

photorizedon Show HN: Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE

Congrats! How did you get CNN to work with you?

photorizedon Show HN: see which of your friends' tweets are getting noticed

… there are many apps out there that show you Top X based on absolute values (e.g. most Retweeted) etc.

This one is all about the velocity. It's also interesting to see the dynamics, what keeps a given tweet afloat (e.g. many Favorites aren't as effective as RTs - and the tweet flatlines).

photorizedon Show HN: see which of your friends' tweets are getting noticed

About the app: we wrote this for people who follow a lot of people on Twitter.

It looks at people you follow, what they write, and how quickly their tweets are gaining Retweeted and/or Favorited. Shows you Top 5 tweets only.

Written in PHP, hosted on AWS ElastiCache and EC2 with Autoscaling (we shall see about that).

Would love to get some feedback!

photorizedon Third Tesla Fire in 6 Weeks Could Spark Federal Inquiry

I am seeing Teslas daily in CT. Leaf or Volt - not so much.

photorizedon Rejected from YC? Here is what you're missing out on

Started one in Stamford CT.

photorizedon My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

idea being you let them execute for rev share :)

photorizedon My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

Launch a contest, some folks would probably be willing to solve the monetization problem for a percentage of the revenue. I'd love to work with you on this, that kind of traffic isn't easy to build.

I'd also spin off a separate product for marketers (based on the same engine, but without the global trend noise), make it useful (there are a few ways to do that).