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by photon_off 15y ago
How do you do #2?
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by photon_off 15y ago
I too have switched to Chrome about 5 months ago -- only because of its lower memory and CPU footprint (in my experience at least), and have found myself used to the Chrome web dev tools' assortment of annoyances. All things being equal, I
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by photon_off 15y ago
That's exactly what I'm looking for. I tend to shop in the exact same manner -- though for items under $100 I still have a process of determining the "best" one from the price I'm willing to pay and the reviews. Thanks for your input.
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by photon_off 15y ago
I dislike pretty much everything about Apple except the MacBook Pro.
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by photon_off 15y ago
I think there's a rather large snowball effect in play here, and during the first hours of a post where the snowball should first form, there's massive randomness in what activity will befall a post. The fact that an article is genuinely in
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by photon_off 15y ago
The quality of monitors nowadays is really quite good, and if you get one with a good NewEgg / Amazon rating it's almost impossible to go wrong. More good news is that it's an extremely competitive market, so you'll be getting pretty good
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by photon_off 15y ago
I have a survey and brainstorm request which I feel you'd be able to answer helpfully and in under 15 minutes: Suppose you're in the market to buy an item of type <x> (eg: blender, TV, energy bar). How do you go about finding the b
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by photon_off 15y ago
I usually say: I help build an online advertising platform. Nope, I don't buy and sell ads. I work on the platform which we license out to people in the business of buying and selling ads. It handles more than 8,000,000,000 requests (20
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by photon_off 15y ago
Why the downvotes? Is it not legitimate to ask how a scarely-known website ended up being acquired in such a short time?
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by photon_off 15y ago
I'd never heard of SparkBuy.com -- how did it get snatched up so quickly by Google? A precursory glance at it's stats shows it as being tagged only a handle of times on Delicious [1] and is ranked 200,000+ on Alexa [2]. [1]: http://www.de
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Ask HN: The Big Trends
5 points by photon_off 15y ago|2 comments
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by photon_off 15y ago
I think there's also an issue of performance -- it's possible, though unlikely, that the sort could take forever to complete.
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Ask HN: What sucks about online shopping?
1 points by photon_off 15y ago|6 comments
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by photon_off 15y ago
Go to the bank and get four $100 bills. Using a xacto knife, cut out all of the serial numbers of the bills. Then, cut off 1/4 of each bill in the follow method: * Cut 1/4 off the left hand side of the first bill. * Cut a rectangle
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by photon_off 15y ago
If it were a condition to hire a well-suited candidate. It's surprisingly difficult to find good programmers in NYC.
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by photon_off 15y ago
Do you mean: http://www.searchyc.com ? Also try: http://www.google.com/#q=test+site:news.ycombinator.com
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by photon_off 15y ago
> we can tell people candidly whether we think it's the investors who are wrong, or the startup. If YC chooses to invest in an applicant, it probably offers great advice to the start-up. If it chooses not to, would you consider that re
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by photon_off 15y ago
I think there's something to be said about knowing when to fold, and not to view these nobody-believed-in-us-but-we-overcame edge cases as motivation to play a losing hand. There will always be false negatives, ideas that are rejected by an
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by photon_off 16y ago
Really cool study, thanks for sharing. I don't think the research proves that social media wouldn't be a worthwhile signal. They really don't look into how bookmarking data could be applied to results, they just look at how bookmarked sit
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by photon_off 16y ago
You're quite right. But pretty much every strategy a search engine uses is susceptible to black hat SEO. I think there's something to be said about having the system use how others are reacting to your comments rather than just what your
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by photon_off 16y ago
Search engines would benefit enormously from using data from social bookmarking sites. If you haven't lately used Delicious to search, I highly recommend it. The breadth of search isn't as far-reaching, but all of the results have essenti
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by photon_off 16y ago
A seemingly endless amount of free lectures: http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/lecturefox.com/Top_10_Sit...
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by photon_off 16y ago
This is far from a definitive answer, but I haven't heard of YCombinator investing in any Series A rounds. Dilution is part of the game, and is generally a good thing. Further investment generally boosts the value of a company making YC an
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by photon_off 16y ago
It's possible that you don't fit into any other segments and that Chrome is the fallback advertisement for blip.tv. Do you happen to have 3rd party cookies disabled?
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by photon_off 16y ago
Could you provide more information about the experiment that you conducted? In real life, users have the option of quitting, and the luxury to do it in private; two things that are very hard to emulate in "experimental" conditions but whic
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by photon_off 16y ago
I posted this when I first launched at the end of July; and I figured it's relevant to share it again to show just how useful Delicious data is. Moreofit.com has an index of about 250,000 websites and their tag weights, courtesy of Delicio
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Similarity search based on kNN search of Delicious tags.(moreofit.com)
1 points by photon_off 16y ago|1 comments
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by photon_off 16y ago
I've taken a quarter of a million of the most popular bookmarks from thousands of tags, and created a similarity search engine with it. Seems to be working pretty well. Thank you, delicious.
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by photon_off 16y ago
Exactly this. I remember there were 5-6 problems they had: Gamblor, Prime Bits, SuperPatterns, a Unicode problem, and perhaps another graph related one. I managed to finish maybe four of them in my spare time at college, and wasn't too ex
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by photon_off 16y ago
They wrote a ton of top X lists about things that are highly relevant to their audience when top X lists were the thing to do. They have excellent SEO, and being an early player and highly linked to gives great Page Rank. They leverage so

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