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Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by shawn »

lettergram wrote: post #49
shawn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Till recently, my primary account was a certain prominent account on HN. I was wondering if you'd be willing to email me the name of it. I would be shocked and impressed, and it would serve as a great demo. (I totally believe you. I'm just fascinated.) Basically, I'm volunteering to be a lab rat.

Sent

Wow. Cheers for one of the coolest things I've ever seen on HN.

(The algorithm identified not one, but both of my former alts.)

Edited to tone down the reaction, but that's amazing.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by shawn »

shawn wrote: post #19
lettergram wrote: post #8

Related to this, using: https://hnprofile.com/ You can identify who is an expert related to each tool or any topic in general

The mood detection may as well be RNG. I have an even better way to identify who is an expert on HN. Say "It's silly that X still isn't a thing." If X is a thing, you'll get ten people telling you why you're wrong within ten minutes. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941772 You'll have to trade some karma for the answer though.

Just to raise the visibility of this: lettergram's HNProfile project is awesome. It identified both of my alt accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944348

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by lettergram »

shawn wrote: post #51
lettergram wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sent

Wow. Cheers for one of the coolest things I've ever seen on HN. (The algorithm identified not one, but both of my former alts.) Edited to tone down the reaction, but that's amazing.

lol And now, I'll promptly shut down that system again...

As I said in the previous comment, that IMO is going too far. Even though I'm 100% sure others are using similar systems, I don't feel comfortable in that business -_-

Kinda highlights, although the hnprofile.com demo may have it's current faults - there's a lot you can do. The cool part, is the platform (called Metacortex) is easy to build apps on top of.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by nkantar »

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #43

I find that my problem isn't finding services that match a requirement I have, but picking which one to use. It's totally overwhelming how many services do pretty much exactly the same thing these days. I love that it's like this in the sense that there's healthy competition and they're all pushing each other forward, giving each other ideas to improve, etc... but as a pure consumer of these services, it's incredibly…

I very much feel like this as well (on both counts), especially about CI.

I'd love to hear any strategies folksight have for coping with this and actually making decisions without looking into every single option, if that's a thing.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by yardstick »

lettergram wrote: post #53
shawn wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. Cheers for one of the coolest things I've ever seen on HN. (The algorithm identified not one, but both of my former alts.) Edited to tone down the reaction, but that's amazing.

lol And now, I'll promptly shut down that system again... As I said in the previous comment, that IMO is going too far. Even though I'm 100% sure others are using similar systems, I don't feel comfortable in that business -_- Kinda highlights, although the hnprofile.com demo may have it's current faults - there's a lot you can do. The cool part, is the platform (called Metacortex) is easy to build apps on top of.

Fascinating! Have you considered using the tool to try identify who wrote the recent NY Times anonymous piece? (Assuming you can find enough source material from whitehouse staff)

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by [deleted] »

Waterluvian wrote: post #42
lettergram wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EDIT: Fixed the UI: I'm assuming you were looking at a topic, the "probable mood" used to render as it relates to the topic being searched, not current mood. Highly recommend reading the "how it works" section (I assume you already have): https://hnprofile.com/learn-more That section has a few examples and details. I'll add further details below. The system ONLY looks at comments sent to it . It, kind of looks like:…

Thanks for sharing these details. I'd like to chat more about it if you'll bear with me: Last I checked I was "tense". Is it theoretically possible to explain why your models came to that conclusion? Is there a theoretical data view that could say "here's the comments that contributed to you being considered "tense" (or even better: specific parts of the comments). From my perspective, without a way to concretely bac…

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Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by Fnoord »

protomyth wrote: post #29
lettergram wrote: post #8

Related to this, using: https://hnprofile.com/ You can identify who is an expert related to each tool or any topic in general

Funny, I guess I am an expert in "heck". There is a certain rightness to that given the last couple of weeks. Is there a way to see the comments it deems 'happy'? [edit] I do wonder if the analysis of topics is affected by both the frequency something shows up on HN[1] and not repeating the keyword in a reply post. 1) less examples and more likely to miss a topic a person is expert on

That's because it doesn't blacklist words which are commonly used in English without them being technical terms, nor doesn't it whitelist terms which are topics of interest. There's also no difference being made between referring to Wikipedia and being an expert about Wikipedia. If you regularly reference to Wikipedia (something I do) you then become an expert on the topic "wikipedia". As an example, check the expert topics from user tptacek [1] ("security, argument, fact, hn, thread, software, comment, story, google, sense").

The probable mood was rather... entertaining.

The notion this can be used to find sockpuppets or throwaways does not surprise me. Without sufficient effort you still use certain words, in certain order, consistently. Such can even be used to check out what your native language is. So if you are e.g. a blackhat who wrote ransomware it makes sense to have someone who never wrote on the internet to paraphrase or deal with the communication, or perhaps use tools such as translators.

Also, if you use delay (e.g. delay 10) it is going to appear on HN after you wrote it meaning it could appear in the next hour despite being written in the previous.

Despite the above, I did find this an interesting project; I just very much doubt its accuracy and usefulness.

[1] https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by frading »

nkantar wrote: post #54
ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #43

I find that my problem isn't finding services that match a requirement I have, but picking which one to use. It's totally overwhelming how many services do pretty much exactly the same thing these days. I love that it's like this in the sense that there's healthy competition and they're all pushing each other forward, giving each other ideas to improve, etc... but as a pure consumer of these services, it's incredibly…

I very much feel like this as well (on both counts), especially about CI. I'd love to hear any strategies folksight have for coping with this and actually making decisions without looking into every single option, if that's a thing.

What I like to do sometimes is contact the support of the apps I'm hesitating on. Whichever is most responsive/helpful wins, as it's a good sign they actually care.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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Post by chaboo »

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #43

I find that my problem isn't finding services that match a requirement I have, but picking which one to use. It's totally overwhelming how many services do pretty much exactly the same thing these days. I love that it's like this in the sense that there's healthy competition and they're all pushing each other forward, giving each other ideas to improve, etc... but as a pure consumer of these services, it's incredibly…

We from https://saasmark.com are aiming to solve this exact problem. We are currently in Y Combinator Startup School and are launching our beta in a couple of weeks. In case you are interested to check our service and give us some useful feedback, please let us know.
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