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by ntoshev 17y ago
The Noisy Channel is all right, I just meant a direct link to the article would have been a better HN submission.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Why the focus on celebrity and conflict? The cited blog post is better: http://irgupf.com/2009/06/19/semantic-technology-search-pane...
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I lost my 1st gen iPhone a few weeks ago. Waiting for the 3GS has been quite an agony - I didn't realize I use it so much in my daily activities. To me the iPhone is an interface to the collective wisdom of the internet that is always with
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You can check the data for an arbitrary country in Wolfram Alpha: http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=israel+military+spend... The numbers are different because they are estimates, possibly from different years. But is there a way to g
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by ntoshev 17y ago
In VirtualBox I use the official minimal server Ubuntu distribution - JeOS. http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/je... If you don't need GUI it's fine. You only need to allow PAE/NX from VirtualBox settings.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Where is the value? There has always been important real time data like stock market prices, weather, air traffic control etc. None of this changes a bit with the proliferation of internet and web apps, so it is hard to expect any new value
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by ntoshev 17y ago
In its early days ICQ had a mode that allowed you to see what the other user typed before he hit "send" - just like google wave seems to do. I hated it - I like to edit my message and make sure it's right before others see it. I see value i
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Is there a summary what exactly is hard about it? For the text syncing part there is an excellent free library from Google: http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I doubt anyone wants to compare search results as part of their usual workflow: it's a distraction by definition. You can always bookmark the site, although it should remember your preferences in the url or in cookies.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Thanks, that's much better than a plugin.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I'm not in the USA and I can't get any Wikipedia integration ("deals to hawaii" does nothing special either). Your link works though. The quality of normal results (the only ones I can get) is bellow Google.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It's a new medium for communication. If it works, people will use it in new unexpected ways; if it doesn't, people won't use it. But there is a lot of excitement about new forms of real-time communication: twitter, recent friendfeed functio
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Wolfram Alpha's relationship with Mathematica is pretty obvious, would he care to explain its relationship with NKS (he says W|A it's an offspring of both projects)?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
There is more to it than being information-rich or information-poor. A pile of junk is information-rich, but it's not beautiful. It comes down to style and taste. The house looks organic. Like it has been grown instead of built. Gaudi's bui
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by ntoshev 17y ago
William Gibson gives an interesting perspective on this sort of world view in the documentary "No Maps For These Territories": "I think what I'm most aware of is the extent to which people are unaware of the extent to which they've been pen
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It has appeared in the index after somewhere between 12 and 17 hours.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
laying people off in this economy would be horrible long term PR Laying people off in this economy is minimal PR damage compared to laying people off in any other situation.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
12 hours later, still no match.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Google search for this site still returns years old results: http://www.google.bg/search?q=site:http://news.ycombinator.c... (for better results try "800 days ago" with quotes, HN strips them for some reason)
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You're right, I don't know if this is enough (do you get hooks upon loading each resource, etc) but they are definitely working to implement this properly.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Plain Chrome feels faster than FF with AdBlock even on relatively ad-heavy sites.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Yes, AdBlock is more efficient because it doesn't load the ads at all while Chrome/greasemonkey load and hide them. No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I was going to ask you if you are testing the demand for such a thing without building it first - I'm glad this is not the case. I work in natural language processing and couldn't figure out what should I expect from the demo. It is all mar
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You are testing it as a basic lookup engine, which is fine, but it's just a part of the offering. I tried to exercise the inference part. Q: goog trading volume A: works! I get a chart, but the volume is in shares, I want it in dollars but
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Evserver - Lightweight Asynchronous Python WSGI Server(code.google.com)
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by ntoshev 17y ago
The economic and financial data alone will give Wolfram more paying customers than he can support. Just think about Bloomberg.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
What is the tree (trie?) structure and sorting-and-aggregating that you mean? Assuming the corpus is not too big, the solution can be thrown together in Python in a few minutes. import re, collections def words(text): return re.f
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You realize these numbers are not for transactional (ACID) updates, right? They are with write cache enabled, meaning a power failure would cause data reported as written not to be available. I hope it doesn't mean data corruption, if someo
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Note: Mechanical Turk has been originally created as a way for Amazon to provide their machine learning algorithms with labelled data; i.e. to train the AI.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Someone should implement a CAPTCHA system that simply presents the user with random HITS from Mechanical Turk (perhaps not all of them are suitable though) and collects the profit.

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