Here's the biggest thing that seems off to me: these indexes need to be fully populated by the programmer, right? I saw a bunch of "You could search Twitter, think about the Sunlight foundation, here's some firehoses" but then this (and the rest of) the tutorials seem to be all about me feeding it data directly.
If I wanted to search the Twitter firehose, say, I'd have to do all of the scraping and insertion myself, right? I can't just hook it up and head off? That's what makes sense, but some of the marketing seemed to imply otherwise.
First off, thanks! To answer your question: what we'd like to do is have some readily available data sources that you could select from a directory/list (a lot of people have asked for that). Right now you have to write your own listener to connect a source with our api.
I'll take a look at our docs, I want to make sure this is not misleading.
I'm in the same boat as you. I thought there was built in ways of searching things like that so I started to think of some ideas for an entry. Was disappointed when I realized I'd have to sit down and scrape and populate a ton of data. Though I'll still probably wind up doing this.
Because our lawyers say so, I believe it's boilerplate for these contests. I'd be super happy to open it to everyone in the known universe but I don't know the legal implications. Happy to hear your thoughts.
I know that Quebec, for one, is horrible for contests/competitions. Something to do with having to give the province 10% of the value of the contest prizes.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 36.9 ms ] threadIncluding mine about using non-Rails frameworks on Heroku: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013919
http://indextank.com/documentation/tutorial-ruby
I would love to know if it's useful, or what's missing from it.
Here's the biggest thing that seems off to me: these indexes need to be fully populated by the programmer, right? I saw a bunch of "You could search Twitter, think about the Sunlight foundation, here's some firehoses" but then this (and the rest of) the tutorials seem to be all about me feeding it data directly.
If I wanted to search the Twitter firehose, say, I'd have to do all of the scraping and insertion myself, right? I can't just hook it up and head off? That's what makes sense, but some of the marketing seemed to imply otherwise.
I'll take a look at our docs, I want to make sure this is not misleading.
I just tried to look for the copy that made me think this, and I can't find it.
Import the IndexTank client library to the Python interpreter by typing the following command at the Python prompt.
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' irb(main):002:0> require 'indextank'
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/who-will-be-first-decrypt-w...
Why only the US, really?
How about a special mention for non-US contestants.