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by user24 15y ago
No. It means that for your comment, google will store each word, each pair of words, each triplet of words and so on up to 6 word long subsets. So if someone searched for 'Google makes no effort' then your comment will come up higher than a
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by user24 15y ago
Confirmed on mine, same setup.
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by user24 15y ago
not yet, to my knowledge. My old IR lecturer (Stephen Clark) used to think highly of Powerset, who look like they've since been acquired by Bing. And while the launch and implementation of cuil was an epic fail, it did seem to have an inter
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by user24 15y ago
> the SERPs show snippets of the content, and users only click on results that match the query I'd love to see a source to back that up. The only data I've seen on this is various eyetracking and/or click tracking studies which suggest
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by user24 15y ago
Yeah semantic search, if solved, would address this problem. That's really what I was getting at. Stripped right down, Google is still just viewing documents as a bag of words[1]. I mean, they have pagerank and they will apply more weight t
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by user24 15y ago
pico/nano
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by user24 15y ago
The problem is that Google actually aren't good enough at search yet. They still rely on this dumb word-based approach to document retrieval. Example, if my page is about how to manage your time, and it's a really fantastic resource about t
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by user24 15y ago
It's not just about more police. This paragraph caught the scale of things for me: During the Games an aircraft carrier will dock on the Thames. Surface-to-air missile systems will scan the skies. Unmanned drones, thankfully without lethal
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by user24 15y ago
That's quite a niche you're going after there.
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by user24 15y ago
massive reduction in entropy.
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by user24 15y ago
It doesn't even have to be random, simply choosing "SimplyChoosing" or "AssumingPeople" is way more secure than "ManchesterUnited" or "HarryPotter", but still people are creatures of habit.
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by user24 15y ago
> For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our technology's detection capability in detail... Yes, because security through obscurity is an effective policy.
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by user24 15y ago
I really agree with the first one, it's something I identified in a post I made about the lessons I've learned after 6 years of blogging: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/six-years-blogging-lesson... I'm not sure that 'cerebral' blogs a
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by user24 15y ago
Ah, ok, so you wouldn't recommend a .co.uk for my UK-focused product then? Interesting. Oh wait, no, the other thing, useless.
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by user24 15y ago
Good idea. The resolutions I support are based on the popular resolutions according to my analytics stats. I'm not sure if multi monitor shows up there. But yeah, that would be a good niche to target, thanks :)
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by user24 15y ago
I built this site last year and have let it sit for ages. I just relaunched it with a new design and I have a load of wallpapers stacked up ready to go. I know it's nothing particularly interesting but I thought some of you might like it. E
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Show HN: Geek Wallpapers.com(geekwallpapers.com)
8 points by user24 15y ago|3 comments
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by user24 15y ago
Nice site. Can I request TLD choice? I'd use com/net/org/co.uk
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by user24 15y ago
> programmable devices will become so cheap that we will embed them in the cardboard boxes into which we put other things for storage or shipping. These passive "computers" will be activated as they pass sensors and will be able to both
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by user24 15y ago
It's more likely he doesn't give a monkeys about degrading the LCD display and the first whiteboard pen he found worked fine.
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by user24 15y ago
It's a nice hack for sure, but I thought the reason it's possible is the redundancy built into the QR code algorithm. By hacking it in this way, aren't you reducing the resiliency of the QR codes and thus making them harder to read?
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by user24 15y ago
If developers were artists, we'd all be getting emails like this: Hi user24, I saw your profile on ArtIn and wanted to see if you might be interested in a commission. The role requires significant experience using paint and canvas, as well
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by user24 15y ago
I wanted to share my favourite part, when the author was talking about custom UI elements, so I copied the text to share it with you: > Customishard,andtomecustomisreallysayingthatyouhavemoretimetothinkaboutthebehaviorofaselectboxthanAp
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The Principles of Good Programming(artima.com)
2 points by user24 15y ago|0 comments
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Technology and Evolution (TED talk) [20 minute video](ted.com)
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by user24 15y ago
I learned this lesson accidentally. I was showing a friend a new card trick I'd made up, fanned the cards and asked him to pick one, remember it and replace it into the deck. As he did that I got confused - I thought I'd gone wrong and, apo
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by user24 15y ago
> You win some and you lose some - evens out in the long run. I believe you that it works, but I'm totally shocked at this... surely everyone just starts rounding up to .75? It will add up! You've literally blown my mind with this; how
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by user24 15y ago
> books that I often recommend to junior developers that are smart but didn't complete a degree and often find their knowledge of basic computer science lacking. I think you may be confusing "Computer Science" with "Software Engineering
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by user24 15y ago
You have to have a lowest common denomination coin. Otherwise when I give $1 to the 99c store, what will they give me in change? Or is the idea that every single business in the entire USA will change their pricing structures to multiples o
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by user24 15y ago
> If anyone did go to the voting page them subsequently not vote, I’d be very interested to know the reasons why- let me know This is why I didn't click: http://imgur.com/6ktsH

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