A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
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A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
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Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#2I bet it's tokenadult. I do not have any other proof than the fact that I immediately thought of that username when I saw onetimetoken. :-)
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Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#4website down :/
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#5Is it marketer?
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=marketer
This is merely a naive guess. He's the only other user on hacker news (according to Google) to use the term "people search engines". He also seems to have been working in the data mining business.
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#6website down :/
I fully agree with the sentiment that inspires your statement.
However, this thread highlights a fundamental property of a networked life: e.g., etc. http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=onetimetoken
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#7Run the following phrases on your thingy and filter by the users who use them:
"The point being,"
", mind you,"
"I fully agree with"
"highlights a fundamental"
":" some text "," some text "."
", etc."
" - e.g."
"entirely dissimilar"
Whatever user has the most instances of these signature phrases is likely your man.
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#8Do you keep a corpus of all HN comments?
I doubt PG would appreciate all of us hammering the HN server to collect the data.
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#9website down :/
Sorry, increased the server process limit to something more reasonable, should be better now.
This site normally gets 10 visitors / day or so...
I posted it on my blog because you can't post HN links on HN!
Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed
#10website down :/
Here's the relevant text:
A typical case of me and my big mouth.
I figured that a basic analysis should reveal who wrote this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197027
Because of the size of the sample. So I wrote a bit of code to compare against other HN comments, and figured that that would turn up the user quickly.
But I was wrong, after two tries (Daniel Markham and John Graham-Cummings) I have to admit that my simple analysis has failed.
So, who will take up the challenge, can you identify this user somehow ?