Earlier quoted context omitted.
The non-bold are dead accounts I think
It isn't due to a mere property of the user, as, for example, cushman is not bold as the #2 result for tptacek but is bold as the #2 result for icambron.
Good point.
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Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#12It's funny that I only match at 0.9999999999999982 with myself while all other username I tried matched with themselves at 1.0 ^^.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#13Oh wow, it's really sure that I'm stavrosk, which I am:
https://stylometry.net/user?username=stavros
The next person is 30% less certain, that's huge! This would basically identify any alt I might have with near certainty.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#14I wonder what's a reasonable threshold for "probably the same person". I've never had an alt on HN, and when I searched myself, it found 3 other users above 0.6, none of whom I've ever heard of before.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#15On the how to avoid section: Isn't running comments through a randomised translator a few times then back considered a countermeasure also?
Also think it's probably poor form to list users as examples without their permission.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#16It would be convenient if the usernames linked to the comment pages on Hacker News (to avoid having to copy/paste and URL hack, which is made even slightly more annoying because for some reason when I tap and hold the usernames to copy them your markup--I haven't looked at why yet--is causing an extra space character to get copied on the left).
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#17Not today.
You fail, I win.
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The non-bold are dead accounts I think
It isn't due to a mere property of the user, as, for example, cushman is not bold as the #2 result for tptacek but is bold as the #2 result for icambron.
FYI, the GP said above that bold usernames are those for which symmetry holds (ie they're both in each other's top ten).
Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#19I wonder what's a reasonable threshold for "probably the same person". I've never had an alt on HN, and when I searched myself, it found 3 other users above 0.6, none of whom I've ever heard of before.
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#20This is creepy.