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- crimsonalucard 6y agoGot a "network error."
- 21stio 6y agoHey sorry for that, you probably ran into a timeout. Please try a username that has fewer submissions. Sorry for that
- non-entity 6y agoI seem to get the same error for this account as well as one with only a handful of posts
- 21stio 6y agoyeah sorry about that, there's quite some traffic right now
- non-entity 6y agoNo worries I ended up getting it to work for me
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI initially got the same thing, came here to say "Same here" and then clicked back into it and I haz data: trimmed from 7855 to 3000 etc. (I'm sure no one cares about the rest) So maybe try again?
- Wronnay 6y agoFunny website. Shows a cookie notice banner but sets no cookies (except if you click on the cookie notice button - then they set a cookie accepted cookie) Also: if you are located in Berlin you should create a Privacy Policy and Imprint. That's more important than a cookie banner ...
- 21stio 6y agocheers for the heads up :)
- tuttobenethx 6y agoit works... 1 reply... 2 if we consider this one
- huhtenberg 6y agoGet stuck after clicking on "Show". Just shows "Loading" and a spinner. Ah, nevermind - finally failed with "Network error".
- sarthakjshetty 6y agoNetwork Error :/
- oefrha 6y agoThanks for showing me how much I’ve been slacking off lately!
- Gatsky 6y agoNice work. I couldn't recognise some old comments (10 yrs ago) as my own. I don't know what this means.
- agustif 6y agoThis happening to me yesterday by reading 5y old mail. I was reading my old emails like what's this shit about, who's this? LOL
- EGreg 6y agoSays Network Error when hitting the button every time
- motohagiography 6y agoVery interesting data set. Appears the average number of people who reply to my comments is 1.03, which suggests a style of writing/thinking can contribute consistent net-growth. Of course I would promote that idea, but really I'd be willing to bet it looks something like a pareto distribution, and it would be interesting to see what puts a user on one side of that curve or the the other. patio11's 1.39 average reply rate would be an outlier, and there are people whose comments have the authority to simply close discussions that would need upvote stats to distinguish them might get lost viewed in that narrow dimension, but for all the time people spend on this site, it would be interesting to get a sense of what that might mean.
- glaugh 6y agoCool idea. Just to explore it further, I think it’d be interesting to create a model that included a couple other major factors, like when the comment was posted relative to the front-paging of the article and where the parent comment fell on the page (this comment is responding to the top comment, which will help it a lot). I guess I’m not aware of an analysis with this goal (who and what types of comments engender more conversation) anywhere else, and actually doing it would probably be pretty fascinating. Again, cool idea.
- montenegrohugo 6y agoNot sure I agree with your conclusions. A high amount of response could just mean a controversial/inflammatory comment or a comment of inquisitive nature that people want to respond to, instead of a high-value comment. I apparently have an avg reply rate of 1.8 and would not say that my comments are somehow better than patios.
- motohagiography 6y agoInteresting what high-value might be though. Popular claptrap might not be valuable. Engagement can be value, and a many-to-many thread is typically good, except when it becomes a 1:1 drill down match. I think a sincere controversy is exceptionally valuable because it frames something essential about the topic, at least when it isn't just the iteration of talking points. A bold provocation can also be useful because the quality of the responses may reveal unexamined assumptions. Better? Meh, but indicative of a certain quality factor, I'd say no doubt.
- flixic 6y agoMetaMate, your logo looks exactly like MimbleWimble logo, just with W flipped to become an M. Not cool.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y agoNetwork error. I will try again later once interest dies down a little.
- audiometry 6y agoNetwork Error
- jamestimmins 6y agoThis looks great! Very cool to see the distribution of what does/doesn't get comments and upvotes. You may want to consider caching the results for the most popular accounts. May address the network issue.
- 21stio 6y agoHey James, it makes sense! Will be added to the backlog, cheers for the heads up
- FillardMillmore 6y agoInitially got the Network Error but after a few tries it worked. This is really cool - thanks for sharing! I noticed you have an avg points indicator for submissions but not for comments - any reason for that decision?
- 21stio 6y agothanks for the kind words! good spot, unfortunately, the points for comments aren't publically available as well as the upvotes of a user
- TheYahiaBakour 6y agoGotta plan for all the traffic you'll get, network error but will try again later. Looks great tho, good job!
- mkchoi212 6y agoGetting a network error. Seems like back end can’t cope with the influx of traffic from HN :o
- jannyfer 6y agoAbout a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days. I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150 comments. I'm calling BS on the 0-2 hours of sleep :)
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoNice job! I am very skeptical of people who claim to not need much sleep. We know there have been some who really needed much less sleep but they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) Most people who claim to sleep only 2 hours a day or whatever are probably being a little dishonest or are miscounting.
- Aperocky 6y ago> they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) I don't buy this. I don't know life of Nikola Tesla, but the recent activity of Elon Musk might be explained by a serious and chronic lack of sleep.
- gbear605 6y agoNikola Tesla was certainly not for not being entirely sane, so that might be evidence there as well.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoShort Sleepers certainly exist, but they're rare. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-search-scientists-find-second-short-sleep-gene https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-searc... But I've usually heard of them needing ~4 hours of sleep, not 2.
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- qubex 6y agoOn a related note: I’ve always been curious on the distributions of submissions, comments, and karma.
- bigmattystyles 6y agoCool site! Heads up, username appears to be case sensitive.
- choma 6y agoNice! for my username it shows a single green dot in the center of the chart, the infamous "introverted person" distribution (also known as "insecure commenter" distribution. EDIT: obviously, this comment broke the "curve". This distribution is known for being unstable.
- tobr 6y agoGenuine question: where does this fall with regards to GDPR? If you aggregate data about a European, don’t you technically need to ask them for permission first?
- coding123 6y agoEven though this is currently being hugged to death, I will bookmark it! :)
- sswaner 6y agoNice work. I tested with user pg and noticed that the Y-axis on submissions starts at 31/12/1969 and the comments starts prior to 04/09/1982, compressing the actual data into the right of the graph. Second, the username on your app is case sensitive, not sure if it is on HN (haven't tested). Other than these, nice work.
- ohadron 6y agoThat's a nice trip down memory lane. Thanks!
- dyeje 6y agoThis is fun, I'd like to see the same visualization on posts as submissions. I think the points are more interesting than the number of replies.
- 21stio 6y agoHey dyeje, > I'd like to see the same visualization on posts and submissions Would you like to see the same visualization for the top-stories feed? If not, could you elaborate on your request?
- dyeje 6y agoHm not sure. Basically, I think Submissions graph is cool because the Y axis is points and it's fun to see your most popular posts. I'd like to see that same visualization applied to the comments graph (so replacing replies with points as the Y axis). Sometimes you can have a really popular comment that doesn't get many replies because people agree with it. Replies feels more like an indicator of controversial-ness, which are posts I'm probably not going to look as fondly back on.
- yorwba 6y agoPoints for comments are not public, so the only way to create that visualization would be to scrape your own comment history.
- jszymborski 6y agoDoes anyone have a screenshot they'd be willing to share of what the results look like in light of the fact that we've bear-hugged this site?
- tedmiston 6y agoIt's working again now. Running results on my username took a few minutes.
- inetknght 6y agoThis looks pretty spiffy. I think it'd be really neat to look at the content and show repeating topics / keywords.
- kohtatsu 6y agoSee also lettergram's https://hnprofile.com/ https://hnprofile.com/ https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?search=user:kohtatsu https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?search=user:kohtatsu Would be cool to see average mood per topic :)
- RickJWagner 6y agoNice. Thanks to the author for providing this.