I use to think web scraping was limited to obscure proprietary companies like connotate so I'm glad to see more of these tools becoming available for everyone to utilize and hopefully create something cool.
Oh well, what can you do? It's like how the Kleenex name has become genericized whereby "the popularity of the product has led to the use of its name to refer to any facial tissue, regardless of the brand. Many dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster and Oxford, now include definitions in their publications defining it as such." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleenex
Sounds like a nice idea but isn't Google News already doing a decent job on this? It's going to be hard to beat the speed of Twitter or Google News in my opinion but I'll be curious to see where this goes.
"The most important input for your pricing is quite simple: are enough people buying it at its current price? If not, you might have a pricing problem, but not necessarily. If enough people are buying it, you face the interesting question: can you charge more?"
Wished he'd defined what's "enough" at least for him.
Ugh, so depressing... go to college, rack up enormous amounts of debt, and hope to find a job so that you can start paying off the monthly minimums for the seemingly the rest of your life.
Just tweeted this to the author and thought I cross-post it here as well: Wonderful piece, I just had those same thoughts in the midst of all this facebook IPO frenzy... stay hungry, humble, and healthy! (Hmm, I can call it the three H's :))
Great point on people being terrible predictors of their own happiness. Their own future for that matter. I think it really depends on how much of an optimist or pessimist you are at the time.
If you're being an optimist, you may tend to get inspired and get fuel to make what you've just predicted a reality but should you fail and keep failing (most likely because of the "impact bias" mentioned), you start to lose that motivation after a while.
If you're being pessimistic when predicting your happiness/future, well it's pretty much impossible. It might be easier to predict a pessimistic future like an unemployed person might say something along the lines of "Today, I'm going to stay at home all day since the economy/I suck anyways" and by the end of the day, that plan can easily become the reality you've imagined.
Basically, you have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Come to think of it, I'm quoting another Steve Jobs quote which sums it up quiet nicely:
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
I love this OkCupid-esqe postings although I think Facebook could do a lot better but maybe they're concern about people's reactions to what they know.
Sweet idea. Glad I was able to grab one of the 500 invites, I usually lose out on these kinds of things so thanks!
Although there might be similar ideas such as Dipity and Allofme as mentioned in the link, this has the best UI/UX in my opinion. Love their minimalism and the fact they use Tumblr as their blogging platform (for some reason I love when companies/startups use things I use on a daily bases).
Nice work both of you, going to start using both. Don't know if tablesorter has any pagination capabilities but that would be nice if hnsort included that.
I'll give them credit for how they are communicating and hope for the best to them. I'm sure the developers there gained and learned something in all this. Unfortunately though, if they were to get bought now, they will look like hypocrites.
Is this really blind? A lot of people would probably search for something they are used to searching on say google and can maybe recognize the search engine based on the order of the results.
