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by diego 16y ago
I've been thinking about that a lot. Greplin is supposedly working on that problem but it's impossible to sign up these days.
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by diego 16y ago
Posterous is an interesting one. I'd build a whole-site search function if they had a firehose-like api call, but as far as I know it's only possible to access content for an individual blog.
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by diego 16y ago
No problem. Do you have a REST api? :)
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Ask HN: What would you like to search and can't?
23 points by diego 16y ago|26 comments
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by diego 16y ago
The winner gets a Nexus S. Too bad Instagr.am killed the unofficial api so my entry is now stale :( http://igsearch.heroku.com/
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by diego 16y ago
The main reason their cache was useful back then is that many pages were long gone and the links were 404s. Inktomi marketing always tried to play up our freshness compared to Google. In 1999 they had some pages in their cache that were 3-5
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by diego 16y ago
I was at Inktomi in the late 90s/early 2000s. We were trying to keep up with Google in terms of scale, and we could do everything they could do in terms of link analysis, relevance, etc. Objectively, our results were as good as theirs. They
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IndexTank Holiday Hacks Contest Results(blog.indextank.com)
21 points by diego 16y ago|5 comments
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Wanted: Data Scientists to Turn Information Into Gold(gigaom.com)
5 points by diego 16y ago|0 comments
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by diego 16y ago
The search: sucked => works part is us (IndexTank). Thanks Reddit for the mention!
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by diego 16y ago
I own the 13" version. I spent some time testing both at the Apple Store. I really wanted to get the 11" one, but the upper row of keys is significantly thinner. As someone who uses vim all the time, this means missing the esc key very freq
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by diego 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_share
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by diego 16y ago
All the Python ones other than GAE are in different beta stages. I hope one of them becomes as good as Heroku, Google would be incredibly tempted to buy something like that. GAE seems designed to assimilate apps into Google rather than to s
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by diego 16y ago
By the way, here's another app that I hacked to test the plumbing for the contest, a (very limited) Instagr.am search: http://igsearch.heroku.com The default search is photo caption, but you can search by fields such as username or filter
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by diego 16y ago
It's a good question. The app would be taking up resources so it has some not-insignificant costs to us regardless of the traffic. Having said that, if an app has value and we like it I'be happy to discuss and try to work it out. Awesome ap
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by diego 16y ago
While we are here, let me know if you have any questions about the contest. Happy to help!
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by diego 16y ago
We also noticed that someone put out this gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/tanker
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by diego 16y ago
My app is using 25k docs. What I described in the article is very basic, the app that you can try at http://plixitank.heroku.com keeps a window of the 25k most recent items from Plixi and erases older stuff. That's enough for several hour
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by diego 16y ago
C, I probably still have that source code around. It was very rudimentary: an inverted index with no relevance, only AND queries (intersection of word vectors). I had the index mmap'ed because it was pretty small.
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by diego 16y ago
This is because many people asked us for ideas for the contest. It's a sample app built from the ground up.
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How-to: create a real-time search app with IndexTank and Heroku(blog.indextank.com)
33 points by diego 16y ago|12 comments
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by diego 16y ago
Fixed, thanks :)
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by diego 16y ago
First off, thanks! To answer your question: what we'd like to do is have some readily available data sources that you could select from a directory/list (a lot of people have asked for that). Right now you have to write your own listener to
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by diego 16y ago
Because our lawyers say so, I believe it's boilerplate for these contests. I'd be super happy to open it to everyone in the known universe but I don't know the legal implications. Happy to hear your thoughts.
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by diego 16y ago
You'd have to decrypt the Wikileaks insurance file first. That contest entry would be hard to top, I would be impressed :) http://www.zerohedge.com/article/who-will-be-first-decrypt-w...
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by diego 16y ago
Based on feedback we put together a tutorial for using IndexTank from Ruby: http://indextank.com/documentation/tutorial-ruby I would love to know if it's useful, or what's missing from it.
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Planning to hack over the holidays? Heroku & Indextank Search contest(blog.heroku.com)
44 points by diego 16y ago|16 comments
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by diego 16y ago
I would like to see comments on job postings. I don't consider them ads, to me they are interesting content. Even if they were ads, what's intrinsically wrong about enabling comments in ads? There's already a system in place for dealing wit
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by diego 16y ago
You can do real-time search for anything with a live feed. Maybe not HN, but there are lots of sites that would be happy to see a better search function just to test-drive it.
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Holiday Hacks Contest – Enter to Win a MacBook Air(blog.indextank.com)
34 points by diego 16y ago|15 comments

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