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by arafalov 13y ago
If you need people to navigate through the information you provide and it is more than a couple of pages of links, you need search engine. If your stuff is generic text then Google will find it for you. However, if you have categories, unus
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by arafalov 13y ago
And that's supposed to be the hard part. There are no workaround for the hard parts. You need to understand the complex issues involved. However, you may want to read the blog from Found.no, they have a lot of great material: https:&#
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by arafalov 13y ago
I am a Solr specialist (and author www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book ), but usually the comments I see about Elastic Search is that it is _easy_ to get started with. Then, it gets a lot more complex (and so does
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by arafalov 13y ago
Is Silota based on Lucene (or ES or Solr)? Because you don't seem to mention it. And if it is not, there is not enough information to make an informed choice. I don't see any information on tokenization nor does your own site seem
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by arafalov 13y ago
Well, you could use Solr. As with ES, the basic examples run out of the box. But frankly, whichever search engine you use, at some point you will have to read a book or dig hard to understand underlying issues such as tokenization. But star
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by arafalov 13y ago
Help yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4538678 And check out the parent thread. It's dated but there is a lot of great stuff there.
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by arafalov 13y ago
Sounds like too many steps. Why not use ePub directly. It's just a Zip with funny HTML inside. Index that and you may even get page numbers. Contact me if interested in collaborating (it's one of my todo projects).
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by arafalov 13y ago
Yeah, I find it funny given that they published like 10 books on Solr and Elastic Search combined. I guess they don't have time to eat their own dogfood. The problem with breadth publishing approach!
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by arafalov 13y ago
I was not given any options at all, for this or other promotions. No do I know if I will get paid for copies they give away for free. I suspect not. As to getting the book for free, please do. I have something even more interesting in the w
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by arafalov 13y ago
You could try mine: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book . It's quite popular and comes with a GitHub repo for the examples.
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by arafalov 13y ago
My next (sort of) book idea is centered around using GitHub for teaching Solr. The early hints are: https://twitter.com/arafalov/status/428273297126875137 and https://twitter.com/arafalov/sta
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by arafalov 13y ago
I want to search by filename but also limit by repository's stars or similar.
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by arafalov 13y ago
Depends on use case. If you have websites that only publish every couple of weeks (or several times a year), you want some sort of subscription to not miss what they have to say (e.g. new version announcement).
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by arafalov 13y ago
Long time ago, when I was a BEA Senior Tech Support, Java stack traces (thread dumps) were often the only way to troubleshoot the situation. So, I built a tool that took multiple versions of thread dumps (IBM vs Sun vs. JRocket vs different
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by arafalov 13y ago
Lunr.js does provide a way to pre-compile the index on the server side. Check out the discussion and implementation in progress of using the pre-compilation for Jekyll: https://github.com/olivernn/lunr.js/issues/26 .
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by arafalov 14y ago
There is also Dangle ( https://github.com/fullscale/dangle ), which is D3+Angular backed by ElasticSearch. So, if Radian cannot be open sourced, perhaps Dangle can pick up the slack.
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by arafalov 14y ago
Hah, you thought that was hard! Try one of these: http://www.undocs.org/A/Res/66/2 (start from finding the end of the first sentence). Or, you can have a go at a whole corpus of these broken at paragraph level at http://www.uncorpora.org
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by arafalov 14y ago
So, is there a good comparable service? I know there is a bunch of social-media trackers, but Google Alerts (used to) search everything.
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by arafalov 14y ago
And Windows Github client feels really strange, even comparing to Mac's one. Like, I am expected to be, a degree of magnitude dumber or something. Which would be fine, if I did not switch between Windows and Mac every day (Work/home) and go
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by arafalov 14y ago
What can you actually use the credits for? You can't pay for incoming calls/sms or outgoing calls/sms. That leaves IP calls and transcription costs. Is that it? Or am I missing something. And if I do bring my own phone number, what do I sti
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by arafalov 14y ago
For scraping, you may want to look at ScraperWiki ( https://scraperwiki.com/docs/python/python_intro_tutorial/ ). For search, see if you can use Solr or Elastic Search and it will save you a lot of headaches later. Do not reinvent that whee
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by arafalov 14y ago
You desperately need faceted search on that interface. Something like Apache Solr. Otherwise, it is very interesting to look through the projects. I also don't know if all those 'joiners' icons add much, especially since many of them a blan
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by arafalov 14y ago
Actually, I think LinkedIn founder said in the interview that they (LinkedIn) was better off after the feature was turned off. Twitter chose to break the feature, but LinkedIn benefitted. Something about signal vs. noise...
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by arafalov 14y ago
Hi, I am glad you liked my idea, but I am actually quite busy right now working on a different one. Not one of this list. :-) But if that does not work out, I'll get in touch. In a meanwhile, if there is somebody else you can interest in it
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by arafalov 14y ago
Shops within reach Find my a shop (e.g. hardware) by travel distance including public transport, rather than a physical distance. If I am close to a metro/subway, it is often easier to go extra 3 stops on that than walk 300 feet/metres/mete
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by arafalov 14y ago
Making support calls hurt less Introduce man-in-a-middle: phone service (like Google Voice, Conferencing, etc). Used specifically for people calling tech/customer support and provide services to make that experience less painful. Obvious th
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by arafalov 14y ago
Photo-workshop aggregation People like to do photography workshops. But information about workshops is all over the place. TWIP talked about not having photography workshop aggregator website. Build one (for worldwide audience) by using Goo
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by arafalov 14y ago
Airport Kindle store Sell worldwide Kindle Help users to be very quickly setup and configured Buy books by shop issuing gift cards and taking cash in any/local currency Get money from Amazon referrals Provide limited wifi, so people could b
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by arafalov 14y ago
Science Karaoke - for all the math/physics students I remember looking at the math textbook and having no idea how to read those huge formulas. Get field specialists (or grad students) to read aloud complex mathematical formulas. Helps the
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by arafalov 14y ago
Stack Overflow (and other sites) -> WordPress I am happy to contribute to various Stack sites, but my own blog is growing weeds because of it. Would be nice to have an automated summary of all my contributions showing up on the blog. Si

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