What licence is the HN content made available under? I'm trying to find some T & C's that I might have agreed to but I haven't them yet. I don't think you can assume that comments made here are free to copy, reuse, manipulate and republish elsewhere
Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments
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#42would be nice if there was something similar for reddit.
Re: Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments
#43Just wanted to start a thread on some project ideas for this data: * Discover geek friendly WordPress themes and plugins by analyzing CSS in stories posted on HN. * My pet EVIL project: Extract self identifying statements from comments and create profile for HN users :). * Find out abandonment rate of veteran users. * Find out undiscovered great stories that didn't got in to frontpage because algorithm deficiency in…
> My pet EVIL project: Extract self identifying statements from comments and create profile for HN users :). I'd bet that you're not the only one who thought of that. And for less money I'd bet that someone has beat you to it.
yup :) Except I've been doing it manually as I see comments/commenters that interest me and adding them to a greasemonkey script that decorates posts with icons identifying users and their affiliations. Does that make me evil?
If I find some free time I might download this and run some extracts as sytelus suggested.