I guess randomwalker, cuz this sort of thing seems to be his specialty. And the writing style seems to match up fairly well.
A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
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Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#82Is it marketer? http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=marketer This is merely a naive guess. He's the only other user on hacker news (according to Google) to use the term "people search engines". He also seems to have been working in the data mining business.
From a quick look at his comments, he seems to match the other heuristics seasoup mentions in that thread: meticulously correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation, use of semicolons, and use of dashes. He also seems to comment heavily on technical issues - programming languages, database technologies, so it might make sense for him to feel heavy non-tech opinions deserve a onetimetoken. Similarly reasoned, the sentim…
To be incredibly picky: Meticulously correct grammar would join "privacy is dead" and "there is only identity management" with a semicolon, dash, or conjunction -- or just split it into two sentences. ;)
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#83It'd be really interesting if we had challenges, both social and technical, posted here on HN on a weekly basis. Some of the solutions and discussions would be pretty brilliant, I think.
I'd like to propose a tag: Challenge HN:
Sounds good. Anyone with a challenge, email me at kyro@kyrobeshay.com with title/text of the submission. I'll post them on a weekly, or even bi-weekly, basis and credit the author.
Edit: The intention behind this was to keep it structured and organized, contest-like, and not for karmic purposes, which I take is the reason for the downvotes.
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#84Is it marketer? http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=marketer This is merely a naive guess. He's the only other user on hacker news (according to Google) to use the term "people search engines". He also seems to have been working in the data mining business.
It's an interesting guess but it's not me :) I am concerned with online privacy, but not to the extent as "onetimetoken" (my FB profile is globally viewable). Also my comments are usually short, and I avoid big generalizations. Looking at the thread in question, though, I'd definitely guess jgrahamc.
Darn. Thanks for letting me know!
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#85It could well be CitizenParker. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=citizenparker
He submitted the Human Flesh story from NYTimes that he mentioned in his comment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1167615
And he's only submitted 2 stories since starting his account 341 days ago. So the story must have meant a lot to him, 1st to submit it, 2nd to mention it in that comment.
Also, (s)he's only made 18 comments in total and his last comment was 104 days ago yet the flesh story was submitted 13 days ago: so he's careful with his comments: probably careful with his identity and privacy too, so much so that CitizenParker has no bio info: and look at the name CitizenParker (sort of like call yourself John Smith on a sample credit card) - so generic naming could be important to CitizenParker: something he's conscious about, and will write about it: whilst also doing that anonymously.
But mainly, his style seems similar, which was what got me thinking.
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=citizenparker
http://searchyc.com/user/citizenparker?only=comments
Does it really matter?
edit: http://citizenparker.com/ Scott Parker: http://citizenparker.com/page/About-Scott-Parker.aspx
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly what I did and failed...
There are some short "googlewhacks" (though they are multiple words) in there: * collective pause to think * pure-ad parked These suggest to me a [highly proficient] non-native speaker too. "pause for thought" and "pure ad-parked" are correct versions. * "intimate patterns" is an unusual turn of phrase in this context, would probably be "personal usage patterns" * "high-end criminals" looks like an unusual hyphenatio…
"high-end criminals" isn't unusual. Certainly not to these British eyes. If you Google for "high end criminals" even without the hyphen, about half of the results use the hyphenated version.
The other things you point out encourage me to share your opinion, however.
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#87So I wrote a bit of code to compare against other HN comments
Do you have a corpus?
Further, and this is an open question, is there an archive/downloadable corpus of HN in part or entirety anywhere? It would be fascinating and I'd love to keep a copy to look back at in years to come.
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are some short "googlewhacks" (though they are multiple words) in there: * collective pause to think * pure-ad parked These suggest to me a [highly proficient] non-native speaker too. "pause for thought" and "pure ad-parked" are correct versions. * "intimate patterns" is an unusual turn of phrase in this context, would probably be "personal usage patterns" * "high-end criminals" looks like an unusual hyphenatio…
"high-end criminals" isn't unusual. Certainly not to these British eyes. If you Google for "high end criminals" even without the hyphen, about half of the results use the hyphenated version. The other things you point out encourage me to share your opinion, however.
Google's regular search doesn't handle hyphenation but Trends appears to: http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22high-end%22%2C%22high+end%.... Google searches give me results which suspect this Trend search is not sound however.
I'm from the UK too.
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to propose a tag: Challenge HN:
Sounds good. Anyone with a challenge, email me at kyro@kyrobeshay.com with title/text of the submission. I'll post them on a weekly, or even bi-weekly, basis and credit the author. Edit: The intention behind this was to keep it structured and organized, contest-like, and not for karmic purposes, which I take is the reason for the downvotes.
How about donating small prices for the winners? Similar to ICFP programming contest bragging rights [1].
[1] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICFP_Programming_Contest#Prizes
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to propose a tag: Challenge HN:
Sounds good. Anyone with a challenge, email me at kyro@kyrobeshay.com with title/text of the submission. I'll post them on a weekly, or even bi-weekly, basis and credit the author. Edit: The intention behind this was to keep it structured and organized, contest-like, and not for karmic purposes, which I take is the reason for the downvotes.
Just make a new username for your contest-organizing activity.