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Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#41

Post by aasasd »

lordnacho wrote: post #38

Currently near the top: > Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers anomaly at Cape Canaveral ----------------- hncynic 1 minute ago The problem is that it was a sign of an unstable airplane, as in the case of the original comets. The only way to protect it is with the helium and oxygen and liquid nitrogen. I don't really care, but I can see no reason to be afraid to do that. hncynic 1 minute ago For the fir…

I've got:

> > hncynic 1 minute ago

> The article didn't say anything. But it just says that the launch failed, and that it did not have a recovery time.

> So to me, this sounds more like an anomaly of some kind to explain it better than a normal anomaly of the event.

> What it means to say that the failure caused is exactly the same thing that happened when the spacecraft started at the right time, except it didn't have a recovery time and was unable to recover.

> How long is an anomaly like this from space-X supposed to take?

This is a comedy generator.

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#42

Post by Twisell »

elamje wrote: post #20

“Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles” yields - A nice little hack and I think it would be better to have a bit more info on the title. It would show a much more comprehensive description and a little more info on the actual title. - I don't know enough about this topic, but it makes me wonder why it's so popular in some other forum. It appears there is a lot of noise in the community, so why not just show up at…

Lot of noise though, we are far from passing the Turing test in most case but still fun:

>Nice idea from a hacker perspective. I'd like to point out the following two issues

- Your results for your comments seem a hell of a lot to me, for example, but not the comments that you linked to.

- Your results for comments in particular appear in the top left of the comments. But the comments appear on the right of the comments.

- You need to be looking at what your titles are up to and what you are actually looking at and how other titles are. I have to click through the comment page to get to the first page.

I just tried it and it works.

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#44

Post by smsm42 »

I tried: "Facebook announces sending man to Mars" and got this:

I'm impressed that they have finally addressed the issues with the mission to Mars. I hope this isn't just a marketing push from FB, but a huge PR push.

then this:

I was wondering how they do it: the man is going to be in a position to land on Mars. Maybe not in Mars, but in the atmosphere of the Moon, this would be the most useful thing I have ever seen. And I guess the question is, can it be done with Mars?

then this:

The headline is a bit misleading. Facebook has no plan to send a man to Mars. The article points out that Facebook are planning to send a woman to Mars.

I couldn't help but laugh aloud. Good work!

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#45

Post by juskrey »

"Musk says SpaceX will start selling tickets to Mars"

- I thought the title was going for Elon's marketing and the fact that one of the people behind this site is probably one of the least technically competent people I've ever met.

- It seems like this is a common tactic in the aerospace world. The first thing I always thought was that spacex was going to go in space like space and the cost wouldn't be a problem.

- He probably won't make it.

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#47

Post by _Nat_ »

Cute idea, but I can't seem to get anything decent out of it.

I tried the following:

> Massive strike at oil rig as radical turtle lovers declare independence from federal regulations against shelled creatures

> 1 + 1 = 2

> 1 + 1 = 3

> Cats rule teh interwebz

> US elects Jon Skeet for President; challenger Chuck Norris too busy counting to infinity infinite times to notice.

> xkcd is funnier than late-night comedy

On the upside, the titles about math did include commentary on math, while the title that references xkcd included a link to one of the comics.

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#48

Post by tempodox »

Twisell wrote: post #42
elamje wrote: post #20

“Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles” yields - A nice little hack and I think it would be better to have a bit more info on the title. It would show a much more comprehensive description and a little more info on the actual title. - I don't know enough about this topic, but it makes me wonder why it's so popular in some other forum. It appears there is a lot of noise in the community, so why not just show up at…

Lot of noise though, we are far from passing the Turing test in most case but still fun: >Nice idea from a hacker perspective. I'd like to point out the following two issues - Your results for your comments seem a hell of a lot to me, for example, but not the comments that you linked to. - Your results for comments in particular appear in the top left of the comments. But the comments appear on the right of the comme…

> we are far from passing the Turing test

I'd propose it's an unproven theory that comment sources other than this software would pass the Turing test.

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#49

Post by jsf01 »

I copied a random title from the front page to test with:

>Show HN: Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript

The results were eerily good:

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hncynic 1 minute ago

I just finished a version of Tetris (http://clj.net/clj.htm) in ClojureScript. It took me about 2 hours before building the full game in Clojure.

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Very cool! Is there a link out there to see how this compares to other Tetris implementations ? I'm a little confused as to why this would be different from the "Teach Yourself JavaScript" or whatever.

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The demo is a bit too slow because the game is in a weird state but it's in a state where it needs to be replayed.

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#50

Post by csomar »

> Ask HN: How to start a consulting practice?

> "I need clients to work with me and help me grow" -> "They don't need me to help me grow". -> "I'm not sure what I do because they are working with me but my experience suggests that I shouldn't do that with me" -> "But in practice I can work with me as my client as long as I stay in touch"

> Just start a side project on github and make sure you are the kind of person who is interested in this kind of thing and don't just make a "Show HN".

> I think a lot of the comments here are focusing on this one question - how about just working on one thing that you don't have any experience on? Do you feel like you are going to go out of your way to do it at all - what have you done at any length to get the experience in the way that you need?

Not bad at all. Some improvements and this can become my goto HN website. (only partly kidding).

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