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Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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This is amazing! I got: The Dumbest Idea In The South is 129 Million Years Old Double Fine raises $1m in less than 600 bytes Show HN: Please discuss if it’s 1999 The Student And Quadrupled My Zappos/Twilio hackathon entry into the math Searching for all Who Changed My favorite bookmarked HN users Also How Khan Academy is the Future of Education What it’s like to work for Google I'm pretty sure these are actual titles…

> Double Fine raises $1m in less than 600 bytes

That is amazing. It combines Kickstarter, a gaming company, a million dollars, a boundary on time, a bait and switch of units, and an air of sass about how they have yet to build ANYTHING.

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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This is amazing! I got: The Dumbest Idea In The South is 129 Million Years Old Double Fine raises $1m in less than 600 bytes Show HN: Please discuss if it’s 1999 The Student And Quadrupled My Zappos/Twilio hackathon entry into the math Searching for all Who Changed My favorite bookmarked HN users Also How Khan Academy is the Future of Education What it’s like to work for Google I'm pretty sure these are actual titles…

Nope! The Khan academy one is a splice of

  How Khan Academy is using machine learning to assess student mastery
and

  Yes, The Khan Academy is the Future of Education
The google one is a splice of

  What it’s like to work for Stripe
and

  No, I still don't want to work for Google
I filter out exact matches (or submatches).

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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post #17

Suggestion: filter the titles that are identical to real ones. Or maybe it was part of the plan, demonstrating how they are indistinguishable. My deadly disease was just a website. IBM's "Watson" finally ready for preorder. TileMill — an application for making my daughter cry. "Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Megaupload Video Google finally has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity Syrian Internet Is a Hero…

If you look at the code, I filter all titles that are substrings (including identical) of real ones. Sometimes the Markov chain will simply add a single word to it, though, so it gets through the filter. Any suggestions on how to improve it?

Funny, I'm sure I google'd a few of them and got a perfect match, but now I can't find any more.

Probably my fault, sorry.

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#27

That is literally hilarious. "Nobody’s going to download your bullshit app" , "HN will be retired, transition to Google Wallet Anti-Competitively" , "The best interface is no retirement" , "Amazon's homepage was down for 6 hours to boot Ubuntu" , "PHP Sucks But I Like PHP" , "Programming is a Lie" ,""Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine" , "Ask HN: What colour is your primary ope…

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Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#29
post #17

Suggestion: filter the titles that are identical to real ones. Or maybe it was part of the plan, demonstrating how they are indistinguishable. My deadly disease was just a website. IBM's "Watson" finally ready for preorder. TileMill — an application for making my daughter cry. "Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Megaupload Video Google finally has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity Syrian Internet Is a Hero…

If you look at the code, I filter all titles that are substrings (including identical) of real ones. Sometimes the Markov chain will simply add a single word to it, though, so it gets through the filter. Any suggestions on how to improve it?

The straightforward solution is: For each fake title, compute its Hamming distance to every real title. Filter titles whose distances are very close to real titles.

It's O(N^2), but if you write it in Python and run it with pypy, performance may be acceptable. Maybe.

But I think this is a classic example of a Problem That Doesn't Matter. No need to spend time solving it (unless you're having fun!)

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#30

    Show HN: I will stop providing any service to MPlayer

    Canada Is About to Come Undone?

    Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much Radiation?

    How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to browse pictures on reddit

    Oracle gives up trying to escape police

    Opera moves to restrict Internet freedom

    Our office is too big -- we need a Pirate
:D
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