lkozma

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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Cool, I read your Google story, I also started 20 years ago on a ZX Spectrum and like to run. Are you my twin?
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Hi, great questions, I'll try to answer them: 1. Yes, it is critical that we minimize the amount of JavaScript necessary. Most of the libraries you observed are needed for the demo webpage: the horizontal scrollbar, the popup box, etc. The
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Hi, * blogs have a well-defined format, they are relatively easy to crawl and they are wide-spread. Certainly, we can add wiki formats as well. * good idea... the modal window is only for the demo, when the widget will be embedded on a webs
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Interesting, I was not aware of picosearch. Do you have an example link where auto-complete is used with suggestions from website contents? I agree that competition is good in this space, especially since most websites don't have a usable s
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Currently we only index the blog posts and the demo shows the suggestion feature only. We will probably add the option of searching for arbitrary queries. When the widget will be integrated on websites, the result will take you to the given
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Very interesting, Chirag, and thanks for the suggestions. I was following your projects in the past but somehow I missed drop-search until know. I think there is room for more experimentation and new services, as the majority of sites curre
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Thanks, good catch, we fixed it. It was for the page: http://paulgraham.com/lisp.html We will have to watch out for such pages with minimal content.
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   by lkozma 16y ago

   Thanks for the comment. We want to make the search widget customizable and in general unobtrusive, so it should fit well on any site. Initially we target blogs mostly. Behind the scenes we crawl the websites with our own crawler, we filter
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   Tell HN: Starting a search startup, please review our project

   49 points by lkozma 16y ago|35 comments
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    oops, thanks for the correction ..
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    There's one nice story in a novel by Kundera in which in Czechoslovakia (60s ?) the dictator was giving a speech and as it started to snow someone from his entourage lent him his hat. Years later that person fell out of favor and was remove
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    But he was arguing against countries not against cultures. Borders of countries don't always overlap with linguistic, cultural, other borders.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Probably not a popular opinion, but I found BASIC a nice way to learn about programming when I was around 10. Especially line numbering and goto's seemed intuitive and although I wrote lots of spaghetti-code, I'm glad I learned using a mode
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Someone explained the appeal of Picasso's cubist faces in a similar way: it is a hack that triggers higher response from our face detectors than a normal face would.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Here's a reaction to it by Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    meta-question: why does Paras' reply to this appear as link[dead] ?
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    What's with the obsession of spending money on the "best" bed. I find I sleep best on a very thin ~$20 mattress on the floor or on a polyfoam mattress when camping. In general a plain flat and hard surface seems to feel best for the back. T
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Makes sense, but then I don't understand how owners get away with the practices they describe in the article.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    This seems to be due to asymmetric information between seller and buyer. The buyer can not measure exactly the true area, which only the seller knows (buyer doesn't have access to the standards, the criteria that have been used, doesn't und
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    meta-question: why do scrrr's comments appear as [dead] ?
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    Sketching data structures(lkozma.net)

    4 points by lkozma 16y ago|0 comments
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    "They think about products, not technology." How can you be so sure about their thought process? Maybe it is the other way around, they just turn it around when it comes to presenting it to the public.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    SEO seems to be an example of a zero-sum game. If everyone adopts the same strategy that "works", wouldn't it stop working?
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Ok, it is not obvious from the video but it seemed that the chat functionality is built into your system and it seems like some JavaScript-based GUI similar to Meebo. It might be easier to let people copy/paste and send a link to each other
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Personally I don't find these new features as exciting as the first ones. It is very much possible that I miss some use cases so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I think all interface elements could done in plain HTML, a "YouTube for v
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    "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" [2006](schneier.com)

    2 points by lkozma 16y ago|0 comments
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    Maybe the government will go crazy and you will start plotting a revolution, so you want to purchase stuff without being traced. Checks and balances and all that. You are just using the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy. see this, for exampl
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    "Plenty of people think they're at the boundary and pushing but are actually stuck at a (close in) local maxima of crackpottery." That is true in many cases in Academia as well.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    It's also much easier FOR OTHERS to monitor your expenses this way.
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    by lkozma 16y ago

    I posted it as P!=NP originally but the editors changed the title (or are exclamation marks removed by default ?)