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Re: Hacker News API

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Post by allenhai » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 1:47 AM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #194

christiangenco wrote: post #30

Oh man you guys, patio11 has generated massive amounts of content: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/patio11.json?prin... I count 8,483 submissions. I'm sure there's something interesting to be done with all of this data. A word frequency chart? --- Edit: So apparently there's a ruby gem that lets you feed it a body of text and generates pseudo-random phrases based on that text. I present to you the patio11…

Another frequent contributor, edw519, has published an ebook of his or her comments: http://hn.my/edw519

I'm speechless. Honestly, the content is so expansive and valuable. I love the internet, hackernews, physics, code, knowledge, and the tiny things in between :)

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by airlocksoftware » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:04 AM UTC

kolev wrote: post #225

airlocksoftware wrote: post #35

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof... The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I…

Nice app! Is login broken though?

Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by hmsimha » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:31 AM UTC

na85 wrote: post #227

Please please please no javascript in the next HN iteration.

Do you want to have to reload the page every time you upvote someone?

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by meursault334 » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:35 AM UTC

jamest wrote: post #169

Livven wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well unfortunately there's no Firebase SDK for Windows Phone/C#/WinRT, and the WebSocket API is undocumented. EDIT: After having played with the JS SDK a bit I'd like to add that it is indeed incredibly awesome.

[Firebase founder] There is a Firebase C# SDK on the way. We've had some other things, that we've been working on for the last year, that are shipping in the next few weeks which have taken priority. After that, we'll be shifting focus to new SDKs (they're a little complicated and take a bit of time to build)

I'm really glad to hear this. I have been loving Firebase for the app I'm making but one of the components has to run in C# and talking to Firebase from the C# app was much more painful than the other Firebase portions of the application.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by xtrumanx » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:36 AM UTC

Perhaps keep the old site still running on a different URL so scrapers who can't get their act together in 3 weeks can just change the URL they're scraping from.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by krapp » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:38 AM UTC

na85 wrote: post #227

Please please please no javascript in the next HN iteration.

I hope they redo it all in AngularJS just to hear people's heads explode.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by kolev » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:38 AM UTC

airlocksoftware wrote: post #232

kolev wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice app! Is login broken though?

Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.

Thanks!

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by oldboyFX » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:40 AM UTC

Ummm I have a question.

Why is so much preparation necessary to redesign like 3 simple templates. Shouldn't it take like ~10 hours for one person to do this? I'm talking about the front end.

Why wasn't hacker news optimized for mobile a long time ago?

:|

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by austenallred » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 2:58 AM UTC

mhartl wrote: post #165

tptacek wrote: post #64

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"Impressive" is one word for it, I guess.

LOL. My first thought was, "That's kind of a dick comment." My second thought was, "Oh, it must be tptacek himself." :-)

That was exactly my reaction as well.

I wasn't going to comment, but "mhartl" looked familiar. I just wanted to say "thank you" for your Rails Tutorial; I don't think I would have ever learned to program without it. It literally changed my life.

Re: Hacker News API

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 3:04 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #218

Alex3917 wrote: post #216

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It would be interesting to redo the top karma list by comment karma only. It would also be interesting to look at liberal vs conservative political sentiment over time. I feel like the site has gotten more liberal over the years, especially after all the Chelsea Manning stuff, but not sure if that is accurate.

I actually have the list of top users by comment karma: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws2VK-UB7IQpVUZgPZ9M... I also included the number of thread wins (user made comment with highest number of points in a given submission thread) to see if there was any unusual relationship. There wasn't: correlation is 0.89. I ended up not including it in the article because it's long enough as-is. :P

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