Negativity (Mean, Meanness, Patents) ... did you filter out cases where mean was used in a statistical sense?

That's a really good point! No, I did not, although in hindsight I should have had thought about that. As I had mentioned in the README, the modeling perhaps is not very high quality, but I surely do hope to make it better once I get some free time. Thanks for your suggestion! Means a lot :-)

So, I guess the post has been sort of banned from HN as I cannot see it either on Hacker News trending/new/show pages. It was trending on the front page for quite some time, just sometime ago (so obviously it wasn't downvoted into oblivion). I guess I will have to live with that :(

People, are you seriously this crazy about Paul Graham here? I really don't get it. Hacker News is like some sort of PG echo chamber.

"Background: Paul Graham is probably one of the most influential technology pundit[s] of our times." SERIOUSLY? Small hint: he's not.

Hey! I am sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way. It was definitely not my intention to eulogize Paul Graham unnecessarily. I wrote that out of sincerity, I genuinely feel that his essays have been highly educational for me, and for a lot of my friends as well. Maybe his essays have not had the same effect on you, and a lot of other people. I guess if enough people complain about it, I'd edit that line out of the README, no questions asked.

I'd also like to add that I mentioned, "one of the.." and "pundit[s]" implying that there are many others who'd be in the club, and Paul Graham isn't the only or most influential. Hope that helps!

Don't get me wrong, what you've done is cool, and everybody's free to just love this or that "pundit" (PG is a lot of things, but I wouldn't call him a pundit). It's just that here on HN sometimes PG's writing's treated like the fifth Gospel. Sorry if it came out harsher than I wanted, I had a hard day with a hard client. :)

No worries, I totally understand :-)

Lacking an exact measure that we can all agree on, "influential" is kind of subjective. So I'll contribute with my subjective opinion: Paul Graham's essays are (collectively) among the highest quality content that I have found on the Internet. They are the opposite of click-bait and attention-spam. I don't agree with everything Paul writes, but so far I have never regretted spending the time to read one of his essays. This is rare in today's Internet environment. I can only think of Scott Aaronson and a few others who are comparable. But to repeat myself, this is my subjective opinion.

I totally agree with your view!