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Fair enough. Not endorsing the idea of Cicada but it does open up an interesting conversation about the future of the internet. Can we really say "nope, the internet is good enough." That like saying "nope the horse and buggy works fine. why change it?" Not putting words in your mouth, just making a point about the general trend of trite comments here being hostile to new ideas. I think we should discuss the viability of the internet in the near future.

FWIW- I do agree they overthought everything.

White paper: https://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform/blob/...

I'm putting together a monthly newsletter featuring stories of the trials and triumphs of technological innovation in complex, regulated industries. Why? Because hard problems are not easily solved, but they’re worth doing. The first issue goes out March 31.

Some of the industries covered will be government, healthcare, finance, and defense. Each issue will contain a mix of original and curated articles that focus on quality and substantive insight.

Can you share some insights...what made you guys decide to go into consulting?How did you land your first client? Any lessons learned? Best of luck.

Hey a 1000 active users is great. Well done. Maybe show challenges that have active discussions on the front page to showcase your active user base?

Haven't had a chance to play with it yet but clicked around and it looks interesting. I like the idea of users posting their own coding challenges. The one thing I noticed this suffers from is a lack of a community base. Just clicking through the challenges on the front page I saw no discussions. But with that said I think this could be a neat application for new programmers. I know someone who is going through freecodecamp now. I'll ask them to take a look at this and see what they think.

Neo4j handles read/write seamlessly I have found, but I'm only around 10,000 nodes and 20,000+ edges. I've heard use cases for Neo4j in the range of 50M+ nodes. My position on this is not whether Neo4j can handle it but whether your code and infrastructure can.

Discourse has devolved so much it is going to be tough getting people to debate respectfully around different viewpoints. It might be better to recruit a handful of people who can set the tone for these debates and then eventually open it up for a larger community.

I agree with your sentiment about publications just rehashing the same story. That's a large reason why I started http://emergentdata.co. It's not political focused rather focuses on technological acceleration and large global issues like water scarcity and mass migration. I try to curate content around a few principles: -Try to get to the most original source -Stick to real events, avoid speculation and hearsay -Avoid sensationalist headlines

Good luck to you.

Edit: typo

Alchemy is doing all the NLP. Each article is extracted for concepts and entities (as defined by Alchemy in their documentation). I normalize each term that is extracted in order to prevent duplicates (there are some duplicates that still sneak through so it still requires a little bit of data maintenance). So the way this looks is that their is one node for a term say "Machine Learning." In one article "Machine Learning" is a concept with a negative sentiment and high relevance and another article it is an entity with low relevance but positive sentiment. The relationships house the sentiment and relevance properties: (machine_learning)-[relevance,sentiment]-(article).

The suggested readings sections pulls the most relevant concept of that article and finds connected articles with the same concept at a high relevance. This way suggested articles are more than just key word hits. It's all about relevance. I'm still continuing to tweak this query and there's a lot more that can be done with it such as matching sentiment and emotion. As the dataset grows I'll look to add a feature that pulls a list of articles based on a cluster of highly associated entities.

As for Alchemy, I've tried a number of different NLP APIs and, in my opinion, none of them have come close to matching Alchemy's accuracy. It does make mistakes but at a low enough level that it's easy to manually correct.

Hi HN: I built a curative news feed covering advancements in technology and global issues. I'm utilizing Neo4j and AlchemyAPI, as well as some custom code, to create a knowledge graph in the background. Have a few ideas of additional features for the dataset but would love to hear some feedback.

+1 for Neo4j and the web GUI. I use it on my side project. Cypher is very easy to learn. If your data is highly relational its a good choice.

Thank you!

The Information by James Gleick.

It is a good read on how information has changed humanity and is still doing so.

I Was just thinking of something similar today. I was reading a blog tutorial on a tool I am unfamiliar with but want to learn. The whole time I was wondering if this author knew what he was talking about. It would be nice to have a vetted list of tutorials that could be trusted to be utilizing best practices.

It seems like a lot of people are moving into the space to be the provider for creating structured data. I haven't seen any applications that are building a knowledge graph like Google for other to build applications on top of. Google turned theirs into a "knowledge vault" in order to build their own applications on top of it. It seems like it would be a good space to do what Google is doing but open it up for other to build apps.

Thanks for the response. Very informative.

>Isn't this basic market forces at work? I have a suspicion that even if 50% of these sites bloated with ads and deceptive, click-bait content were to die, society as a whole would actually be much better off, and the efforts of people building these kinds of sites and expecting a return would be better directed elsewhere.

I agree. Most news sites just regurgitate the same articles with their own click bait title which takes you to some adware bloated page. I think there's plenty of money in online ads but the market is too saturated.

Creator here, goal is simple with this: to promote everyone's blogs in the endurance racing community and hopefully encourage more people to write about their adventures. Plan is to keep growing the list each day. Feedback appreciated.

http://teespring.com/alittlemore

Don't have any connection to these people. I don't know who they are and I wasn't interested in promoting their Kickstarter. I thought the idea of hacking a dumpster into a tiny house was a cool idea that's why I submitted the article.

Can you explain what makes your news aggregator better/different than all the other options out there?

Glad you like it. I will keep expanding upon it and keep it updated.

That's what I was going for when I made my GitHub Gist viewer (http://thedata.directory/view/10570653) If you have an HTML gist it'll display it when you put the gist number in the path (as in the link above). It will also give you an embed code so you can collaborate.

If you like the data journalism handbook you might like this list I put together: http://thedata.directory/resources/

>The landing page could focus on the patients and how they benefit. Then doctors (who are much more familiar with the process) will take second place because they naturally see how they fit in the ecosystem.

Yes. I hadn't thought of it like that. The group that naturally fits in the ecosystem takes second place. Thank you.

Just signed up for the invite. FYI you convinced me to sign up 3:30 minutes into the vide demo.

HMO: I just put up a MVP in a beta test. It's a workflow where you can build a data interactive with maps, charts and graphs to embed in your website/blog articles. I put up the workflow and then created a survey at the end to gather the tester's feedback. Would love some feedback.

http://thedata.directory/

HYO: would happily help anyone out with some beta testing/user feedback.

This is a cool idea. This isn't really a pain point for me but I immediately thought of a couple of people in family (aunts) who are very active gift givers in a large family. I would imagine mother's with small children would be a target market for you (they tend to have to keep up with a lot birthdays). But that's just an assumption. With that said, I would suggest making the site for friendly for non-technical users. I think the "bot" terminology would lose them.

With that said, I'll bookmark your site and pass it along to people I think would be your users.

non-mobile link: http://www.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/real-life/i-am-a-n...

At first I thought this was a slimmer version of launchrock but it appears this for use cases where you already have a product to sell... I think?

I've done a lot of volunteer work with the homeless and learned a lot from social workers in that field. There tends to be three categories that the homeless fall in to. 1) Temporary homelessness: those that have experienced a major economic fallout. They tend to be homeless for about three months before stabilizing and finding a home again. 2) Long term homelessness: those in this category tend to be dealing with substance abuse 3) Chronic homelessness: the people in this category almost always have some severe mental disability. Most people in this category have case workers who even help them find housing yet it is still difficult to keep them in that housing.

It's not as simple as more money or more housing. Although the article's suggestion may work for the first two categories it won't work for the third category. The third category needs better medical care.