[deleted]
Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
81–90 of 105 posts
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#82I see fallentimes (now deceased, if I remember correctly) is on the list.
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you could have easily assumed any word starting with @ is a twitter profile, especially if it does in fact correspond to an existing twitter profile. Also, I feel left out. :P
Yeah, I've tried a lot of these things. Unfortunately emails get caught up as well. And then you get users like yahoo, gmail, and so on. As it gets out, people who are interested into being listed can just put "twitter: " before their @twitterusername. Not being very thorough also allows people to self-exlude from the listing. Which seems be in the interest of some.
[deleted]
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#84Looks like a rather nice page linking top-karma users to said users' Twitter profiles.
So that's cool, though from the title I was expecting/hoping to learn more about actual people behind (in control of) HN... ie. YCombinator people that actively work and/or moderate and the "About 30 YC alumni" who can "kill stories and edit the titles, and in extreme cases ... ban users."
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting... it seems you must have some other criteria because my (admittedly woefully outdated) profile lists my (admittedly neglected) Twitter account, but I don't see myself on there. ~5000 karma should put me only a couple pages in.
Hi Andy. I am sorry, but not everybody had a clear twitter username on their profile. You are right, the list was complemented with the data from this one: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-b... I've added you to the direct list. Note that the inference algorithm is quite forgiving, so "twitter @Locke1689", or "@Locke1689 on twitter", or even "twitter: Locke1689" would all have worked out. Ab…
[deleted]
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#86I don't like this.
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait until someone gets the bright idea to mine all your past comments for factoids and pieces together your unauthorized biography.
How is actually the comment "ownership" on Hackernews? Do I still hold the rights on my own words or are they already owned by ycombinator or gone down the creative commons?
I'm curious about this as well. I know slashdot's position is that "Comments owned by the poster".
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#88I see fallentimes (now deceased, if I remember correctly) is on the list.
The list is becoming more of a reflect of HNSearch outputs[1][2].
The idea is that there are many cool stuff hacker news members did that we are not generally aware of (but hidden on the user's bios), and we can showcase them.
This is not 1000memories[3], but I find it nice that we can live forever through our creations.
On the other hand, this is a reflect of community, and if it decides it is no longer appropriate to list the members who left us, I'll respect it.
[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&#...
[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.c...
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting... it seems you must have some other criteria because my (admittedly woefully outdated) profile lists my (admittedly neglected) Twitter account, but I don't see myself on there. ~5000 karma should put me only a couple pages in.
Hi Andy. I am sorry, but not everybody had a clear twitter username on their profile. You are right, the list was complemented with the data from this one: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-b... I've added you to the direct list. Note that the inference algorithm is quite forgiving, so "twitter @Locke1689", or "@Locke1689 on twitter", or even "twitter: Locke1689" would all have worked out. Ab…
I'm not on there even though I have a direct link to my twitter account. If I was left out on purpose then that's fine, just letting you know in case it's a bug though.
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait until someone gets the bright idea to mine all your past comments for factoids and pieces together your unauthorized biography.
How is actually the comment "ownership" on Hackernews? Do I still hold the rights on my own words or are they already owned by ycombinator or gone down the creative commons?
I am really glad the community worries about these things.
We had a great discussion[1] about it a few months ago when Ronnie launched the database[1] of all comments/posts of hacker news, as a subproduct of the unnofficial API[3] he created.
Don't think we had reached a conclusion though...
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881543
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881262 (long thread, more than one page)