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Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by grecy » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:03 PM UTC

spazx wrote: post #106

grecy wrote: post #71

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I agree 100%. I've chosen a life of less work, less stuff and therefore less money. I spend a lot of my time alone on big trips around the world, and out in the wilderness. I'm immensely more happy than I was sitting at a desk watching my life go by without really being alive . I get a lot of this attitude about how I must be "running from something" or I'm "throwing my life away". I think it's a symptom of our moder…

Must be easy to feel that way when you can afford to make that choice. It's something most of us 9-to-5 drones only dream of. edit: lol wow downvoted? smug much? I never even said I disagreed.

I choose to look at it the other way around and say I can't afford NOT to make this choice.

But I don't have a lot of money, in fact my last few years of tax returns I've barely earned more than the tax free threshold. So it's not about having tons of money to escape the 9-to-5, it's about realizing you can find happiness with a lot less.

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by Cook4986 » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:03 PM UTC

jennyyang wrote: post #63

Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010

Full-text transcription of individual notebook pages (annotated images + .json + .txt) generated with a combination of Handprint (https://github.com/caltechlibrary/handprint) and Microsoft's Read API: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hkpqsnk858pzu7f/AADnCzr7tabArQ_xq...

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by modernerd » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:03 PM UTC

alecbcs wrote: post #120

mynegation wrote: post #110

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Mike Hancoski as of 2018 was living in Denver, posted to Instagram and looks different than photos. I think you also missed Maxim2030 who is also in the list by momothereal. And also manhyper

Ahh thank you I had missed Maxim2030. Looks like manhyper updated his fork of screeps on February 11th? Also saw Mike Hancoski's Instagram but it's odd he hasn't posted anything to his LinkedIn since 2014? Maybe worth awkwardly reaching out just in case?

Maybe he just stopped using LinkedIn? I think these are the same Mike:

Work photo (2018): https://thexcitegroup.com/xcite-family/mike-hancoski/mike-h/

Facebook (2019): https://www.facebook.com/mike.hancoski

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by momokoko » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:03 PM UTC

roywiggins wrote: post #39

dheera wrote: post #36

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I'm slightly less concerned about being anonymous from the government and far more concerned about being anonymous from businesses . How is it that every time I move, they still figure out where I live and continue to send me junk mail? I'm extremely concerned about the ease of arbitrary businesses finding out where some person lives. I want this to be unethical to the point that whoever leaked my address without my…

USPS sells change-of-address data. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-p...

Protip: Only do the temporary change. It still lasts like 6 months so it would cover practically everything. You could potentially miss something later but for me it’s a solid trade.

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by pulse7 » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:03 PM UTC

stakkur wrote: post #93

The notebook is fascinating. The guy's hand-writing code in a small notebook.

And he mentions... Java... I hope he will not be downvoted on HN because of this...

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by lixtra » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:04 PM UTC

grawprog wrote: post #109

alecbcs wrote: post #96

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Checking for users who forked the repo in 2017 and haven't been active since 2017 I got. - amidman - eqzus - Mike Hancoski (follows users from NY, wrote PHP code, his personal website domain wasn't renewed and is now available.)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hancoski-b342aa53 This guy looks like a clean shaven version of those pictures. Noses look the same. The eyes. No updates to the account since 2015.

He has an instagram profile with an update nov 2018.

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by pulse7 » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:05 PM UTC

anonAndOn wrote: post #70

jariel wrote: post #34

Young men don't die for 'no reason'. It's odd that they couldn't find some cause of death, I assumed that in 2020 we'd be able to make a rough estimate. If there's no obvious foul play then statistically the obvious one would be suicide, but that should narrow only to a few specific things. How many ways are there for one to 'just die' while lying in a tent.

Foraging in the wild for food or water can have deadly consequences. For example, McCandless ate the wrong kind of berries.[0] Or the time when three campers scooped up more than just water in their coffee pot.[1] And don't underestimate the effects of Giardia.[2] That ubiquitous parasite could easily weaken and lead to the demise of a solo-hiker. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-chris-mccand... [1…

He had foot and $3500 in the tent...

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by lunch » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:07 PM UTC

jennyyang wrote: post #63

Here is a link to his notebook that they found on him: https://www.colliersheriff.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=94010

Many of these pages look to me like he was designing a game.

- p2p, client-server notes

- Class definitions and implementation notes

- Source code doing position calculations

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by robotresearcher » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

uberman wrote: post #43

thomasqbrady wrote: post #5

The Screeps detail seems like something that could be fairly easily pursued... there can't have been that many players of that game to begin with, let alone those that would care so much about it that they would journal their thoughts about it. A quick check of the GitHub repo doesn't show he contributed code, but might he have opened an issue, contributed to docs? Might there be someone who was active in the communi…

This seems like this would be the way to go. Steam shows less than 200 players for March and April of 2017 and if there are logs that far back, the Screeps team can likely provide some data about users who dropped out in March or April of that year as well

I don't want identifying data leaked by my game hosts.

Re: A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

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Post by jack_riminton » Tue, Nov 03, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

grawprog wrote: post #109

alecbcs wrote: post #96

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Checking for users who forked the repo in 2017 and haven't been active since 2017 I got. - amidman - eqzus - Mike Hancoski (follows users from NY, wrote PHP code, his personal website domain wasn't renewed and is now available.)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hancoski-b342aa53 This guy looks like a clean shaven version of those pictures. Noses look the same. The eyes. No updates to the account since 2015.

You might be right

Here they are side by side https://ibb.co/4Zn4qqX