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by pilooch 14y ago
The paper indicates good performance increase compared to phoenix. Very welcome and useful, thanks!
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by pilooch 14y ago
"Note: if the server gets hammered and goes offline, please send an email to my address (check my Hacker News profile), and I will make sure to include you." OK, this is a joke. Interesting how this one can go to the top of HN that fast...
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by pilooch 14y ago
As much as I hate to say this, DDG is a search engine from the past. It is Google without the intelligence and machine learning on top of it. This is working fine for now, until Google succeeds in crafting the nextgen engine.
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by pilooch 14y ago
I agree, sounds like a crazy thing to do when this could easily be achieved locally on my machine. Or am I missing something ?
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Social micro-donations(25c.com)
1 points by pilooch 14y ago|0 comments
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by pilooch 15y ago
User clicls are used to fit ranking functions. These functions typically depend on a number of signals that make their optimization otherwise intractable. Dedicated machine learning algorithms take into account the click-bias due to the res
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by pilooch 15y ago
We build a meta search open source layer called Seeks. We do naturally get to compare Bing, Google and Blekko on a daily basis. Bing (and thus bot ddg and Blekko that rely on it) lies behind for semi obscur queries. You can test by yourself
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What Freedom in websearch truely means(seeks-project.info)
1 points by pilooch 15y ago|0 comments
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by pilooch 15y ago
You're misinformed. Anomymity is damn easy. Add a single hop to the search engine or any other machine, and you're basically done. Remove some http headers and you're free. Use Tor and you'll be a new man. As for sharing queries and clicks,
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by pilooch 15y ago
why not share your search history ? what is the drama about it exactly ? seriously, since you can remain anonymous easily, I'd be interested in the reasons why you would not want to share queries and clicks.
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by pilooch 15y ago
use a seeks proxy, it will personalize results for you and let hacker news float on top after the first click, and according to clicks on other instances through p2p. http://www.seeks-project.info or seeks.fr.
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by pilooch 15y ago
been using xmonad for a couple of years. config is so minimal that it makes it vey simple to replicate the exact same environment on all my machines (laptops and desktops), with no ties to the underlying linux distribution.
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A startup for collaborative search solutions(seeks.pro)
2 points by pilooch 15y ago|0 comments
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How to setup a collaborative search ring with Seeks(seeks-project.info)
3 points by pilooch 15y ago|0 comments
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by pilooch 15y ago
Use whatever distribution with LTS. Most of my past laptops are now Linux servers we use for various applications around the house (media server, backups, HTTP proxy, development machine). Wifi can be a bummer so plug it in.
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by pilooch 15y ago
How does it compare to libevent evhttp server? Besides being written in C++...
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by pilooch 15y ago
Another missing feature is the automated grouping of similar posts. Having five times the same (tech gossip) news on the first two pages is annoying, even sad, considering the state of the art of computer science these days. HN could defini
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by pilooch 15y ago
HN needs to grow a social graph in the background. Users often fall within the same threads and discussions without even noticing it. The graph should then be used to personalize results, on a group or individual basis. This a call for a fr
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by pilooch 15y ago
Build a seeks node, http://www.seeks-project.info/ , configure it to only use Google search as backend. The both of you can then use the Seeks frontend instead of Google, and you'll get the same results. Additionnally, you guys will benefi
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by pilooch 15y ago
As the maintainer of an open source proxy (Seeks), I'm playing with randomizing the last-modified header, on demand. The randomizing procedure is triggered by a regexp over the requested URL. Does anyone here know if (and where) a useful li
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by pilooch 15y ago
There's a personalization / privacy trade-off that needs to be considered. It is annoying that personalization cannot be achieved locally on the user machines or browser. Filtering / re-ranking results at home offers much privacy. My little
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by pilooch 15y ago
What matters is the interaction between the user and the news system. For this reason, I don't believe the comparison with a shop, tv or a magazine is pertinent. IMO the key element is that the news system should never lock the user up. The
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by pilooch 15y ago
when turning map into hash_map gives you 30.4% increase in performance, you can't call this an 'extensive' tuning effort... The 'extensive' tuning in the paper (structure peeling, ...), accounts for minor improvements (< 10% total).
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by pilooch 15y ago
All engines do save queries. I don't believe there's much hope of seeing any engine renounce to this data opportunity. Users though, could keep better track of their queries and selected results. Saving this data locally on their machine is
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by pilooch 16y ago
One potential solution to spam and personalization of results lies in doing the job on your machine, much like you can get rid of spam in your local mailbox. I'd recommend 'Seeks', ( http://www.seeks-project.info/ ). It requires you run it
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by pilooch 16y ago
you can do it with seeks... http://www.seeks-project.info/ http://www.seeks.fr/ on your local machine and/or remote server... and it's free software. blekko ? try this query, http://blekko.com/ws/?q=debian duh ?