hn-heatmaps

Hi guys, Author of the medium post here. First I want to apologize to Max for not linking back to his blog, as he said I referenced his work and image multiple times and did not provide his name or blog in my post. I was in no way trying to pass this off as a novel idea as I said multiple times in the write up. As for what was perceived to be critiques of his work I was merely trying to emphasize what I was doing differently in my analysis and project. His project is great, I just used a slightly different approach and wanted to highlight the differences. I definitely did not mean to come off as malicious or mocking, but upon rereading I definitely see how it did come off that way. I stumbled across the code to make the day of week and times here https://github.com/minimaxir/hn-heatmaps/blob/master/hn_heat... after I had started the proje

Clickables: 10+ points chart: http://i.imgur.com/MdUvMB9.png Median chart: http://i.imgur.com/SN5BuAJ.png GitHub Repository: https://github.com/minimaxir/hn-heatmaps

I've recently been seeing many comments on Hacker News complaining that their submissions don't receive any points. As a result, they believe that vote manipulation techniques such as begging friends for votes on social media and using sockpuppet accounts to counteract this injustice are justifiable and that "everyone's doing it". While blatant voting manipulation may be the status quo at a certain other startup-oriented link aggregator, it is never good because it breaks the integrity of the service. However, the lack of upvotes is just how link aggregators work. The goal of many HN posters is to hit the front page. If you've received 10 points, you'll probably have hit the front page. However, depending on time of submission, you have a 10% to 20% chance of hitting 10 points: http://i.imgur.com/MdUvMB9.png That's low, even if your blog