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Re:Show HN: Track social sharing and community sentiment on ... by bilalhusain on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @01:12PM (#8258806)
Nice implementation, simple and helpful UI (specially "Need help? try these links.")!

A glitch: I entered http://www.megacz.com/berkeley/coq-in-ghc/ and it says 'This link has not been posted to reddit.'

A suggestion: Can you add a URL route to automatically initialize the lookup. Eg. /?url={url} or #{url}. Its handy for sharing.

A question: Which sentiment analysis library are you using. It seems to be classifying the comments on the mentioned link as negative.

Edit: Alright, looks like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tgallant/blog-checker/mast... is being used to calculate the score.

Re:Show HN: Track social sharing and community sentiment on ... by tgallant on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @01:38PM (#8258974)
Thanks! I'll look into setting up a URL route for easier sharing. Also, here is the code that handles the sentiment analysis https://github.com/tgallant/blog-checker/blob/master/src/blo...
Re:Show HN: Track social sharing and community sentiment on ... by bilalhusain on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @02:05PM (#8259126)
It looks like you are tokenizing scores file too. That way the prefix information will be lost. As an example,

    admir* 3
    amaz* 3
    interest* 2
should add up positive scores to words starting with admir|amaz|interest.
Re:Show HN: Track social sharing and community sentiment on ... by brotoss on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @01:50PM (#8259047)
The link bar says "Enter in you[sic]URL here"

You should have the reddit posts sort so the ones with the most upvotes sit on top rather all the way at the bottom

Re:Show HN: Track social sharing and community sentiment on ... by goldhand on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @04:18PM (#8259898)
Awesome work guys!