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Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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

The probable mood is very funny. > dang > Probable Mood: Tense The eternal life of an admin I suppose!

Just now it was "Happy". Probably because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944992 contains "grateful".

Sentiment analysis is a finicky thing. (Maybe categories like "polite" or "argumentative" would be easier to detect?)

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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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…

First, this conversation is not going to be comforting and your red-alert alarm should be going off. I know this is building toward the dystopian future. I personally use Signal, put my cell phone in the microwave when I come home, and am writing this through a VPN. That being said, I'm 100% confident that Google, Apple, Amazon, and more know WAY more about you than I do. This system only looks at public data and onl…

> Strangely enough, it can identify users across sites (even without knowing your identity) - say Reddit and Hacker News.

I think a larger demonstration could make for a very meaningful "Show HN" with hopefully a large impact on privacy consciousness.

I'm sure some of us expected this, but to have it demonstrated by a single person in a casual "Oh, it could do this as well, but I don't have it turned on for ethical reasons" manner is quite effective.

Maybe it will raise awareness that "big data" isn't just trying to correlate cat-pictures one posts on their communication medium to cat food advertising, but everything you write anywhere on the Internet, even on different media under different (or no) accounts, into permanent and guarded profiles with no recourse of opting-out of the machine, effectively rendering informal discourse over the Internet dead.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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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.

Fast forward to the future, where I will have to choose and pick the right saas evaluation service to help me pick and choose my saas stack.

I hope somebody is working on something already :^)

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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

I see there's no privacy policy, and no clear guidelines on opting out. Why? Privacy was the focal point of 2018, but you're somehow ignoring that altogether?

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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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…

First, this conversation is not going to be comforting and your red-alert alarm should be going off. I know this is building toward the dystopian future. I personally use Signal, put my cell phone in the microwave when I come home, and am writing this through a VPN. That being said, I'm 100% confident that Google, Apple, Amazon, and more know WAY more about you than I do. This system only looks at public data and onl…

This is very odd. How did it happen that you're the ship-steerer for this highly cutting-edge tech? Where did the research come from? Usually, this kind of stuff doesn't just pop out of the ether, and I've never seen anything quite so promising in this domain before. (Maybe I just haven't been paying attention.)

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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How come all these awesome lists use free form markdown? This is the sort of data that should have some sort of structure, if only just a schema less json file. That would make it easy to run a script from time to time to, for instance, remove 404 entries.

Because writing markup is more fun than writing JSON. If you want to automate something, you just need a regular expression to get whatever you want.

But but but what about XSLT?

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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post #60

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.

If you are really good you should have SaaS product evaluation results in your front page with links to competitors :)

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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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.

yep that is a Massive data-point i use as well.

Re: Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

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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.

Ok I've got to ask - can you PM me any of my old or alternative usernames across the web?
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