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by what 16y ago
I don't think there's even a Diaspora search. How do you find people?
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by what 16y ago
No, that was me. I changed something without testing it : / Fixed though, I think.
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by what 16y ago
I know it's a few days late, but I was bored between classes so I slopped this together. Not sure if anyone already did amazon.
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Amazon Joins the Instant Party(amazoninstant.appspot.com)
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by what 16y ago
Feel sorry for the people paying $400/oz, getting ripped off. EDIT: ... don't be mad at me, be mad at your dealer.
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by what 16y ago
Here's the Bing Instant: http://www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch/ It's actually from a year ago. It doesn't automatically search for a predicted query, just uses what you've typed in so far. But you can mouse over the query suggestion
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by what 16y ago
What happens if someone gets access to your email though? For example, a silly person might forget to logout of their email when using a public computer. If I notice this, I can just hijack their Facebook account.
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by what 16y ago
I think most people bought it as an annoying joke gift for their friends. I know I did.
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by what 16y ago
But it's smaller than the proposed data island. <script data> bizcard={ name: 'Hendershot's Coffee Bar', address :{ line :'1560 Oglethorpe Ave', city :'Athens', state :'GA', zipcod
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by what 16y ago
It is slow sometimes, but their query logs would be useful for query suggestions. Query suggestions should be based on what searches are popular. Not sure if you want to go through the effort of making suggestions yourself though.
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by what 16y ago
Barely..."it's gone down hill a bit"
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by what 16y ago
It was slow because he was going through his server to get the query suggestions from Youtube and lots of people were on it. It's been updated to get the suggestions directly from the source and it's significantly faster. Google's servers c
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by what 16y ago
Considering they offered him a job ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680265 ), I don't think they'll block it.
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by what 16y ago
It probably is, feel free to flag it. They created an account just to post that, twice.
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by what 16y ago
Speed it up by not going through your server to get the query suggestions. You can drop the jsonp parameter and just eval the results. Or change the jsonp parameter and include it as a script tag.
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by what 16y ago
Reminded me of this from a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1382456 Talks about peak oil in part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3y7UlHdhAU
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by what 16y ago
lame it skipped my turn.
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by what 16y ago
12.3 Apps that are simply web clippings, content aggregators, or a collection of links, may be rejected Does this mean you can't just wrap your website in a native app and try to charge for it? What about feed readers? A
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by what 16y ago
Their seed data is probably the n-gram dataset that they released (or maybe a more recent one): http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-ar... Microsoft also has an n-gram dataset that you can access through a web service
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by what 16y ago
Their robots.txt allows all bots access to all pages and the ToS says that users retain "full ownership of any and all of his or her User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with said User Con
651.
by what 16y ago
I'm pretty sure everything is just simple addition/subtraction. Watching the video, neutral planets don't have any growth. When you get a planet to -1 you take control and are left with 0 ships there. (In the video green sent a fleet of 50
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by what 16y ago
http://ai-contest.com/problem_description.php
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by what 16y ago
Ugh, this is just a rewrite of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652263 OT: ...can't people come up with something original to say?
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by what 16y ago
Michael Jackson
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by what 16y ago
Again? Third time in two weeks, one of them was yesterday. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636198 <-- has the most comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1662829 Why does every blog have to repost the same thing.
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by what 16y ago
What an odd collection of people serving as advisors : https://www.gpal.net/gp?req=about They're all firearm enthusiasts and members of the NRA, probably how they all met. There's a guy named Ulysses S. Grant. One of them is a hedge fund
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by what 16y ago
There's also a karma threshold for flagging, but I think it's pretty low.
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by what 16y ago
Here's the discussion from the last time this was posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601978
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by what 16y ago
That's true. Maybe you could do something with profiles from FB. Show a small collections of faces one of which is your friend on FB. Then you have to select your friend. For the visually impaired you could read peoples' names. A real perso
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by what 16y ago
I just don't seek out lazy people who haven't read a single thing about startups, startup culture, or how to increase your odds of success, or how YC picks the 'winners'. Oddly, he's (51) had an account here for almost 3 yea

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