Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed

jacquesmattheij.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 152 posts

Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed

#52

Post by aresant »

mmelin wrote: post #2

I 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. :-)

The word "token" is used in two completely different contexts, so I don't think that's right.

EG:

"tokenadult" = the included minority adult

"onetimetoken" = account used once, like putting a disposable token into a machine

Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed

#54

Post by gort »

chime fits a few of the patterns: use of etc. mid-sentence, occasional use of hyphens - in this very pattern - and moderate use of slashes when "or" would do. Also American spelling.

Still, it's easy to get into a sort of confirmation bias looking at this stuff manually, and seeing things that fit while missing things that don't.

Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed

#55

Post by yumraj »

I just searched for "google-facebook" and "identity management" and saw a blog by the title "Google-Facebook: Identity Management in a Brave New Internet"

Link: http://blogs.oracle.com/clayton/2008/05/googlefacebook_ident...

But, don't know if Clayton Donley is on HN or not..

His Bio, at Oracle:

Clayton Donley, Sr. Director, Development

Currently run the dev organization for some of Oracle's security and identity management products. Landed here after selling OctetString in 2005. Before that held various roles at IBM, Motorola, and as an independent consultant. Also wrote LDAP Programming in 2001.

Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed

#56

Post by blogimus »

jacquesm wrote: post #22
jackowayed wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the reason he wants to find out is because he wants to know. I think he wants to prove that it's possible to find out. He thought it was long enough that he could pretty trivially have a program compare the writing style to other HN comments and determine who it was, but he failed. So it's a challenge for other hackers--can you write a program that can determine who said something simply based on the wr…

You got it. Sorry for not being more clear, I thought it was an interesting challenge, and since I've used up my 'two guesses' I think it is more appropriate to admit failure rather than to keep on hammering away at it until I hit the right user. PG would have an easy time of it (log files) :)

Well, that's the difference between a black box and a white box.

Re: A challenge, identify this HN user, I tried twice and failed

#60

Post by pbhjpbhj »

jacquesm wrote: post #12
maxklein wrote: post #7

Run 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.

That's exactly what I did and failed...

There are some short "googlewhacks" (though they are multiple words) in there:

* collective pause to think

* pure-ad parked

These suggest to me a [highly proficient] non-native speaker too. "pause for thought" and "pure ad-parked" are correct versions.

* "intimate patterns" is an unusual turn of phrase in this context, would probably be "personal usage patterns"

* "high-end criminals" looks like an unusual hyphenation

This search gives a name - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22identity+management%22+roi....

Post reply on HN