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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by shawn on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:12AM (#17944484)
Till recently, my primary account was a certain prominent account on HN. I was wondering if you'd be willing to email me the name of it.

I would be shocked and impressed, and it would serve as a great demo.

(I totally believe you. I'm just fascinated.)

Basically, I'm volunteering to be a lab rat.

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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by lettergram on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:35AM (#17944529)
Sent
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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by shawn on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:43AM (#17944547)
Wow. Cheers for one of the coolest things I've ever seen on HN.

(The algorithm identified not one, but both of my former alts.)

Edited to tone down the reaction, but that's amazing.

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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by lettergram on Sunday September 09, 2018 @02:01AM (#17944573)
lol And now, I'll promptly shut down that system again...

As I said in the previous comment, that IMO is going too far. Even though I'm 100% sure others are using similar systems, I don't feel comfortable in that business -_-

Kinda highlights, although the hnprofile.com demo may have it's current faults - there's a lot you can do. The cool part, is the platform (called Metacortex) is easy to build apps on top of.

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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by yardstick on Sunday September 09, 2018 @03:01AM (#17944732)
Fascinating! Have you considered using the tool to try identify who wrote the recent NY Times anonymous piece? (Assuming you can find enough source material from whitehouse staff)
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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by toomuchtodo on Sunday September 09, 2018 @11:58PM (#17949289)
I don’t know what for yet, but I’m absolutely certain I will need to pay for your product. Quite the demo!

If you’re ever in the Chicagoland area, happy to buy you a beer!

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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by shawn on Monday September 10, 2018 @06:39PM (#17955782)
Hey, I’m in Chi too! Right by North and Clybourn’s redline stop. If you ever want to reverse engineer this together or figure out how to train a drone to fly itself, drop an email / keybase.
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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by lettergram on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:25AM (#17949783)
If you ever need to work on insider threat detection, let me know
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Re:Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News by wakkaflokka on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:10AM (#17945530)
Ok I've got to ask - can you PM me any of my old or alternative usernames across the web?
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