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by karterk 7y ago
Good question, and something that's always on the minds of open core companies these days. In my case, I don't mind, and in fact would welcome it! It would solve my no.1 pain point: discoverability. I'm not planning to build
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by karterk 7y ago
Great, I would love to hear your feedback on Typesense then. It's not meant to be a full-blown ES replacement. Elasticsearch is a beast but most people don't need that (atleast to begin with).
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by karterk 7y ago
Started this as an open source project with the goal of first creating an ecosystem. So far, I have been getting good reviews from people who are using it as a search solution. Eventually, there will be certain premium features that maybe o
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by karterk 7y ago
It depends on the size of the total addressable market. If the size of your target market is big, even if there are bigger established players, there is always a chance for a small, nimble product to carve out a niche. Established players o
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by karterk 7y ago
This is a good point and I was about to write a comment to say the same. Nigella Sativa is also commonly used in many parts of Asia. It also has an anti-inflammatory property. You might be interested to read this: https://www.ncb
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by karterk 7y ago
Read again, that's not what the OP is insinuating. In any case, this is a serious issue that deserves a serious discussion without getting angry.
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by karterk 8y ago
Semantic based search systems are really great at finding the original intent behind queries. Not everybody is good at finding the right keywords to express their ideas or intent. In such a scenario, semantic meaning based querying rewritin
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by karterk 8y ago
I've also been working on a simple, fast, typo-tolerant search engine. Shameless plug: https://github.com/typesense/typesense
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by karterk 8y ago
If you are looking for an easy to run/manage, typo tolerant search engine, I've been working on this: https://github.com/typesense/typesense
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by karterk 8y ago
I have been following Lambda School and I am really happy to see them succeeding in this space. I've a question: how is Lambda School different from the other many other coding bootcamp programs (apart from the unique model of paying t
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by karterk 8y ago
I don't know why Antirez is on the defensive here about being open core. So what? If that's a viable model for keeping Redis sustainable, then that's all that matters. For what it's worth, having closed sourced extension
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by karterk 8y ago
Recently a friend of mine visited the emergency care in a private hospital in downtown SF with heavy stomach pain. It turned out to be a partial bowel obstruction, which thankfully sorted itself out with some conservative treatment. My frie
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by karterk 8y ago
The goal is to be much better than Algolia and Typesense's design is in some ways already so: 1. Sorting order is dynamic, unlike Algolia where you are forced to define a sort order during index creation and you are forced to duplica
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by karterk 8y ago
Working on an open source, fast, fuzzy search engine that's dead simple to set-up and run: https://github.com/typesense/typesense People who want a good search engine (for instant search etc.) today either need to
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by karterk 8y ago
I might not be 100% correct on this, but it seems like even Algolia keeps all records in a single host and uses the other 2 hosts for only high availability. Having said that, exploring a FoundationDB integration is definitely an interestin
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by karterk 8y ago
Shameless plug: if you are looking for a simple, fast, fuzzy search engine that you want to host yourself, take a look at Typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense
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by karterk 8y ago
That's because HN search is hosted by Algolia who encourage searching directly from JS (client side) since it's faster (one less hop to an intermediate HN server).
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by karterk 8y ago
This has been an area of interest for me as part of working on Typesense[1]. If you are looking to implement spelling correction, you cannot but not stumble on this excellent post by Peter Norvig (most of it written on a bored flight journe
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by karterk 8y ago
You can use a combination of open source projects. For example, you can use an OPML parser library like Listparser[0] to get the contents of the pages. Then, you can index them into a search engine of sorts. You can use Elasticsearch[1] for
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by karterk 9y ago
Hi HN, We wanted a simple search engine that was fast, handled typographic errors out-of-the-box and was also simple to run and manage. We could not find one - so we built Typesense and are open sourcing it today. Before you ask: Elasticsea
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Show HN: Typesense – typo tolerant, delightfully simple, open source search(typesense.org)
23 points by karterk 9y ago|2 comments
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by karterk 9y ago
Mind if I reached out to you to chat about your experience in running search at scale? How do I contact you?
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by karterk 9y ago
> Although we were using Elasticsearch in the beginning to power our in-app search, we moved this part of our processing over to Algolia a couple of months ago; How many records are you storing on Algolia?
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by karterk 9y ago
An update from Elon on the pricing[1]: > Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60. Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that. [1]: https://w
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Ask HN: Why does Tesla battery last so long, but not mobile and laptop battery?
1 points by karterk 9y ago|1 comments
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by karterk 10y ago
I'm really happy that the author found a place that he could truly call home. However, his generalisation of India largely based on a single incident comes across as rather shallow and naive. Yeah sure India has many quirks, but I can&
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by karterk 10y ago
I think internally, Google has already seen this coming and are trying to steer the company towards AI-related verticals. Search revenue is going to be always under threat because of the rise in mobile devices and also ad blockers. Interest
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by karterk 10y ago
Not necessarily true. If the task is too easy then you will get bored fairly soon.
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by karterk 10y ago
> I haven't even written a line of code in months. CTOs generally don't write code. But, in a typical startup designations don't matter so much. How different is your current role from the one you were offered during the n
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by karterk 10y ago
Ah, the armchair critic. I'm by no means a Microsoft fanboy, but things have been much better under Satya Nadella.

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