Spot the Ball • Hacker News Board

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by _alastair » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:24 PM UTC

ehmorris wrote: post #10

_alastair wrote: post #2

I'm one of the people that made this interactive - funny to see it on Hacker News! If anyone has any questions about it, let me know.

Very interesting to see the density of others' guesses. It doesn't seem to show every other guess though — how do you choose which ones to show?

Correct, it doesn't render all clicks (I dread to think how browsers would react if I tried) - all the results are put through a k-means cluster analysis at regular intervals to produce approximately 30 visible results. The percentages are calculated relative to all the clicks, though.

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by 8_hours_ago » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:26 PM UTC

John Graham-Cumming wrote an article about trying to hack a contest similar to this. I wonder if a similar technique could be used to find the ball on these images?

http://blog.jgc.org/2008/02/tonight-im-going-to-write-myself...

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by dangrossman » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:28 PM UTC

_alastair wrote: post #2

I'm one of the people that made this interactive - funny to see it on Hacker News! If anyone has any questions about it, let me know.

What am I doing wrong? Clicking and dragging the "drag this" has no effect. Nothing moves or changes in Chrome 43.

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by _alastair » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:30 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #13

_alastair wrote: post #2

I'm one of the people that made this interactive - funny to see it on Hacker News! If anyone has any questions about it, let me know.

What am I doing wrong? Clicking and dragging the "drag this" has no effect. Nothing moves or changes in Chrome 43.

Oh, damn. I think you've found a bug, sorry about that. I think it's expecting a touch event when it shouldn't be. Let me take a look at that.

EDIT: should be fixed now. Apologies again, embarrassing bug caused by a last minute bug fix. The way these things always go...

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:32 PM UTC

_alastair wrote: post #14

dangrossman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I doing wrong? Clicking and dragging the "drag this" has no effect. Nothing moves or changes in Chrome 43.

Oh, damn. I think you've found a bug, sorry about that. I think it's expecting a touch event when it shouldn't be. Let me take a look at that. EDIT: should be fixed now. Apologies again, embarrassing bug caused by a last minute bug fix. The way these things always go...

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Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by smackfu » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:43 PM UTC

Neat idea, but is this something you can actually be skilled at? Even if you know the game, and can figure out what trajectory the ball was on, it seems very hard to figure out exactly where on that trajectory it was when the photo was taken, given the high speed of the ball.

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by Pyrodogg » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:44 PM UTC

_alastair wrote: post #14

dangrossman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I doing wrong? Clicking and dragging the "drag this" has no effect. Nothing moves or changes in Chrome 43.

Oh, damn. I think you've found a bug, sorry about that. I think it's expecting a touch event when it shouldn't be. Let me take a look at that. EDIT: should be fixed now. Apologies again, embarrassing bug caused by a last minute bug fix. The way these things always go...

Yep. Chrome on a Surface Pro 3. Doesn't react to click events, only worked if I actually touched my screen.

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by hackuser » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:48 PM UTC

It's odd to see a casual game, with no other significance or meaning, in the NY Times. It would be great to see them using interactive tools to tell news stories more often.

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by h1fra » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:52 PM UTC

_alastair wrote: post #2

I'm one of the people that made this interactive - funny to see it on Hacker News! If anyone has any questions about it, let me know.

Very cool, even for a non sporty person.

Interactive, fun and not too complicated. Really liked this idea

Re: Spot the Ball

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Post by bhhaskin » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:55 PM UTC

Pyrodogg wrote: post #17

_alastair wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, damn. I think you've found a bug, sorry about that. I think it's expecting a touch event when it shouldn't be. Let me take a look at that. EDIT: should be fixed now. Apologies again, embarrassing bug caused by a last minute bug fix. The way these things always go...

Yep. Chrome on a Surface Pro 3. Doesn't react to click events, only worked if I actually touched my screen.

Same here.