> It wasn't the second time. Since it was an Ask HN,
> people continued voting for it from what I guess is
> the ask tab on the main page.
Ah - nice to know that happens sometimes. I guess you must have deleted your rather wistful comment lamenting that no one had replied.
> Also, if you look at the posts so far, none of them
> answers the question.
I wonder if there's no one here who uses semantic analysis in automated trading systems. Maybe the semantic analysis people who are here felt excluded by your question.
Who knows. Perhaps there's a better question to ask, or a better way of hooking the people you want into answering.
But I'm pleased you got traction, even if you haven't actually got answers.
Indeed I did delete my comment :). I have been interested in the white spy / black spy aspect of semantic trading for sometime and the trust related issues. However I have no expertise in the area and no one in my network works in the area. Folks doing technology in finance usually document their work much lesser than other fields, perhaps because of the financial incentives to keep secrets. So I thought tapping the wisdom of HN was my best bet to scratch my curiosity scratch.
Who knows. Perhaps there's a better question to ask, or a better way of hooking the people you want into answering.
But I'm pleased you got traction, even if you haven't actually got answers.