how fickle is hackernews? when is it fickle? which variables are important? what interesting things can i find?

to set up, you should probably do the following: get easy_install easy_install virtualenv set up virtualenv move contents of "fickle_hn/src" to your "/src" activate easy_install easy_install beautifulsoup and pygresql

also, set up a postgres database HNDB with table hnposts. a script for adding relevant columns is forthcoming

also, you might set up the relevant crontab