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KevinMcAlear

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About KevinMcAlear

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    Comment #9594774

    What do you mean?

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    Comment #8601223

    Thanks I'll update the README :)

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    Comment #8599474

    Thanks! I'll fix this ASAP.

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    Comment #8599467

    Oops sorry! Didn't realize that.

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    Comment #8595488

    Whoops! Sorry about that... It is fixed now, thanks for the heads up. :) I just ran your name and it's now working.

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    Comment #8595465

    It just means that you don't have insulting comments that it can find. Hover over titles with asterisks to better understand the context of your score and worst comment when you ge…

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    Comment #8520466

    Great idea! I'll make another option that does exactly this. I think it's potentially a better way to think about it. Since I have to make an individual call for each comment it ge…

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    Comment #8520421

    Hello! I wrote this in on of the other threads about so I figured I would leave it here too. A few things: 1. Thanks for posting my blog post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

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    Comment #8520349

    hahaha. Works for me. https://transfer.sh/6y7eK/riverbashing.png

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    Comment #8519834

    Great point. 1. I wish everything was made from *fairy dust. How awesome would that be? :) 2. "Hate" is definitely hard to quantify. It's in fact quite difficult to map words to th…

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    Comment #8519730

    Yes and yes. :) The problem with the first one is I have to make an individual API call for each comment currently. If you go past 50 comments it starts to get slowwww. For example…

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    Comment #8519635

    Whoops! Fixed! Thanks guys.

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    Comment #8519633

    haha. :)

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    Comment #8519589

    Interesting. I'll check it out, thanks!

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    Comment #8519542

    Great! I'm excited to hear about your findings. I'll try to incorporate them into the app! :)

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    Comment #8519540

    No worries! :)

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    Comment #8519528

    Hmmm... seems to work for me. https://transfer.sh/TclxF/templeos.png Here is the API call too. https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/TempleOS.json Something must have went wro…

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    Comment #8519484

    Thanks! Looking into it! :)

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    Comment #8519397

    A few things: 1. Thanks for posting my blog post @chippy. :) The actual app ( haternews.co ) kept getting booted off HN... 2. There have been a lot of interesting comments on the t…

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    Comment #8519341

    Haha. Awesome! :) I'll fix the site and I'll keep improving the model.

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    Comment #8518612

    scroll down.

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    Comment #8517751

    I think both of you have great points. I am not trying to demean anyone or give extra credit to trolls. I do agree that this app is focused on "haters" though. It was more just a f…

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    Comment #8517602

    Sorry! The site has been getting hammered with people so it keeps crashing. Trying to scale it up now. It has to make a separate API calls for each of your comments (max 50) so it …

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    Comment #8517489

    Should be fixed now! :)