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by costco 4y ago
> Anything like this for Reddit? No but it would be easily adaptable especially given that Pushshift is archiving every Reddit comment. Based on some of the feedback I'm getting here I don't know if I should open source this e
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by costco 4y ago
HN Firebase API. I just wrote a program in C++ with libcurl to get https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json , https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/2.json , https:/&#x
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by costco 4y ago
It is. The description on the about page is a little simplified but I basically I look at the most common word and character ngrams of size 1,2,3 (200 each), put all the frequencies in an array and then compare to all the other users with
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by costco 4y ago
Yep!
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by costco 4y ago
You are definitely right. Part of the reason I chose the 10,000 character minimum was so that people using throwaways in the true sense would be entirely excluded. I don't plan on keeping this up forever and I too would not feel comf
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by costco 4y ago
Yeah top 20 is a little excessive because in my own tests I found that top 20 is only marginally more accurate than top 10. You can get a more academic explanation [here]( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108
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by costco 4y ago
It would be possible for Reddit because Pushshift.io archives all the comments there and Reddit is still pretty small. I'd probably need to make things a lot faster. Doing it on a specific subreddit would be very feasible. I'll
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by costco 4y ago
Python/floating point rounding error. It doesn't mean anything.
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by costco 4y ago
> I searched myself (that I know that I have no alternate accounts). I recognize a few users that are interested in similar topics, and I discuss/upvote them many times. But I didn't recognize most of the user of the list. It&#
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by costco 4y ago
Nice. Just out of curiosity are you taking any countermeasures or varying your writing style across accounts in any way?
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by costco 4y ago
> On the how to avoid section: Isn't running comments through a randomised translator a few times then back considered a countermeasure also? Yes. > This may be out of line but isn't pg on here with a different username, Lev
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by costco 4y ago
If it's >0.9 is you can almost guarantee it's an alt but I've seen certain matches at 0.6. The problem is writing styles change over time. Another idea I had was converting the scores which are just cosine similarity sco
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by costco 4y ago
Say you see user2 listed in bold on user1's page. That means that user1 is also in user2's top 20 users. In my experience it is often an indicator of a good match (but not always). I should probably explain that on the site.
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Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts(stylometry.net)
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