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Don't flatter yourself.

The problem Google is having isn't with storing the links, its with the effect of the links on the personalization of your search results. Which is a problem WebMynd isn't facing.

They can't precompute the eigenvectors because it changes every time you visit a web page and calculating it live for each search request when the user has thousands of personal pages can be expensive.

I would have just disabled the effect of the personalization on search of bookmarks not added manually.
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I'm not sure you can pull the Moore's Law card in this case, since I imagine the size of the web has grown at least as fast as processors have improved.
It'd be PG, Techcrunch, and twitter really big and the good stuff small.
I got a question for all you people who follow PG real close. Do you think 23 year old PG would be following someone like 2008 PG this obsessively, or be sick with people who worship someone like this?

Nothing against PG. Just curious.
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1. Some architects are equally engineers.

2. Dubai has shifted most of its income away from oil revenue and delving into more of financial operations, free trade, and tourism.
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The downmodders should really explain why they are modding down a perfectly sensible comment here.
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Obviously, it was a slightly tongue in cheek comment..

However, I would point out that WebMynd IS doing personalised search (totally personalised, in fact). As you point out, updating search indices every time a user visits a page is difficult.
The fact that Google have chosen not to tackle this challenge, and we have, is a symptom of their existing methods and stated goal of organising the world's information: not your's.

As for your last point, I actually agree with the OP and others that Google's soft touch on this matter was commendable; disabling the effect or blocking the extension outright would have been heavy handed and sent a pretty bad message.
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The dataset is available via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218782 and a tag cloud is available via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227932
But learning physics _is_ carping the diem - it's what I would be doing if I wasn't working.
Does that make PS3 the new New Coke?
Development costs of the PS3 must be huge, but I don't think its 'lost' money, the thing still has a shelf life of 5+ years at least.
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Why all the histrionics? Why not just ask, "Ask PG: How do I delete my account?" I'm just so full of questions for someone like randomhack...

"Why delete it? Why not just stop coming here?"
"Why is it that, if a company doesn't have a 'Delete my acct' button, they are evil?"
I'm not really one of the people to whom the question is being posed, but my guess is 23-year-old pg would be too busy working on his startup to care about, let alone get "sick" about, what complete strangers choose to spend their time being interested in.
Shouldn't the title be, "how do you find the best job interview questions?"
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No doubt. I go reddit for the funny pictures section (it's my guilty time waster) but no more will I visit the other parts. And it's mostly b/c I hate the new interface moreso than other high-falutin' reasons. I have enough GreaseMonkey scripts installed to make the UX ok on the old reddit but this new interface is just too much for me.
it's funny how you agree with LPTS's main point but also insulted him.
Now that I can bookmark a whole set of open tabs and store them in a folder, I no longer use the Tab Groups extension.
Maybe Microsoft can use Powerset's search technology to increase the value of FAST Search to third parties? They could also improve Sharepoint's search a lot. It seems like it should be easier to tweak the Powerset algorithms for searching company documents than searching the Web.
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What about a 3rd option: consulting for them. Is that an option? This gives you the best of both worlds if you're able to do it.

Honestly, w/o more info, it's hard to help. Are you full-time w/ your startup yet? Do you have a product already that is bringing in revenue? Did you accept funding?
I don't agree with him -- I have a ton of respect for pg (and I happen to really like this word cloud), but I'm relatively new here and I didn't want to act like I was speaking for people who've been following his work longer and more closely than I have.
A loss at launch is typical for consoles. (The XBox was not profitable when it first launched, either.)

Still, 3bil is damn high.
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I'm not entirely sure disabling the personalization effect would have been the wrong thing to do from a user experience point-of-view. Supposed I let a friend browse on my computer, do I really want my search results to be personalized with stuff that interests him/her? What about pages I mis-clicked on or pages that whose link was misleading?

I think that requiring a deliberate, conscious vote of confidence from the user for a web-page before actually letting it affect my personalized search results is a very good thing.

But from a public relations POV you're probably right, that was the best approach
There's a quota issue with running this full-text search against large blocks of text. I originally used the searchable model instead of db.Model for my Bloog app, but I removed it after getting quota errors when Google hosted. There wasn't a problem with local testing, just when using searchable models in the cloud.
Also, living a little longer may give you a chance to enjoy what these guys are working on (a cure for aging):

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You're right.. think i just scanned the page titles. and someone needs to update that article with '17' finals wins.
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2 hours a day 6 days a week? You're nuts. I work out twice a week (weights), plus a 40 minute run every week or so, and I'm fit enough! 1m83, 75kg, 17.5% body fat.

How about foregoing that cookie (and all the other junk.. crisps, sodas, burgers, chips, etc) and working out an hour 3 times a week?
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LPTS said pg-obession is bad and made the point in terms of what pg himself wouldn't have done. you agreed that pg himself wouldn't have done it. therefore, like it or not, you agree with LPTS.
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Piping up so those like myself might be heard.. I find white on black easier on the eyes. while admiring his dark desktop theme I agree with the enlarging the type comment, however.

As for your post, I will point out that there are save one or two brilliant individuals at the F500 companies here in my midsized city (comparable to the guys (and girls) that frequent here). I've been trying to bring my skillset up to a comfortable level to work with these guys (or someone else at their level) for a while now. It's been slow and steady, and sometimes, I even have my doubts if I can (the maths are not a strong suit of mine).

Anyways, I do think there are some great challenges at Fortune 500 companies having worked at a few myself. Do they carry monetary rewards at the level of work that these individuals work at? I don't think so but the rewards seem to come from hands on experience received in using high-end datacenter hardware and working on large scale projects.
They are really nice colors, though. Wow. The whole thing is. This is the kind of stuff I'd expect to see on a carefully crafted magazine cover, not generated on-the-fly with a script.
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/list has some additional sorting options
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It's packed with NLP tricks to capture your attention and sooooooo long. What is really interesting in this article is this:

The account of perception that’s starting to emerge is what we might call the “brain’s best guess” theory of perception: perception is the brain’s best guess about what is happening in the outside world. The mind integrates scattered, weak, rudimentary signals from a variety of sensory channels, information from past experiences, and hard-wired processes, and produces a sensory experience full of brain-provided color, sound, texture, and meaning. We see a friendly yellow Labrador bounding behind a picket fence not because that is the transmission we receive but because this is the perception our weaver-brain assembles as its best hypothesis of what is out there from the slivers of information we get. Perception is inference.

The theory—and a theory is all it is right now—has begun to make sense of some bewildering phenomena. Among them is an experiment that Ramachandran performed with volunteers who had phantom pain in an amputated arm. They put their surviving arm through a hole in the side of a box with a mirror inside, so that, peering through the open top, they would see their arm and its mirror image, as if they had two arms. Ramachandran then asked them to move both their intact arm and, in their mind, their phantom arm—to pretend that they were conducting an orchestra, say. The patients had the sense that they had two arms again. Even though they knew it was an illusion, it provided immediate relief. People who for years had been unable to unclench their phantom fist suddenly felt their hand open; phantom arms in painfully contorted positions could relax. With daily use of the mirror box over weeks, patients sensed their phantom limbs actually shrink into their stumps and, in several instances, completely vanish. Researchers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center recently published the results of a randomized trial of mirror therapy for soldiers with phantom-limb pain, showing dramatic success.

A lot about this phenomenon remains murky, but here’s what the new theory suggests is going on: when your arm is amputated, nerve transmissions are shut off, and the brain’s best guess often seems to be that the arm is still there, but paralyzed, or clenched, or beginning to cramp up. Things can stay like this for years. The mirror box, however, provides the brain with new visual input—however illusory—suggesting motion in the absent arm. The brain has to incorporate the new information into its sensory map of what’s happening. Therefore, it guesses again, and the pain goes away.
I read Brave New World when I was in college. I didn't find it a particularly good read to be honest but I liked the very direct way Huxley categorizes humans in his alpha to epsilon system and how everyone knew where they stood.

In the real world everyone rates themselves in comparison to other people too, but most of the time the process is not very open. In the workplace people are prevented from saying what they think about other people by office politics, employment law, and HR policies against this and that. Probably the only place it is really transparent is in school (If memory servers correct there is a PG essay about this).

Stranger in a strange land is definitely a great book and Heinlein has to be one of the greats of SF writing. Read 'the moon is a harsh mistress' too if you get the chance.
How do you arrive at that estimate? I am guessing the PS3 technology is already outdated now?
It may be that each search term in a full-text index is held in a separate but hidden table and therefore large chunks of text create a large number of rows. This would explain why inserts would be slower and why quotas are more likely to be encountered.
interesting perspective
You know what they say a billion here two billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I totally believe and agree in taking the money, but if Powerset is really bought by Google, they've just become irrelevant and are definitely not the "next big thing" in search. If the founders get a happy ending with the cash though, it's still an excellent deal.. so congratulations!
Look at the average life expectancy of consoles over the years 5-6 years is about the right number. PS2 is still selling and it was released in 2000 but that is about as old as it gets.
Well, we're reasonably curious, I think... you don't seem to have said anything particularly incriminating in your comments, so what's the point?
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To any brain surgeons out there: The "Stroke of insight" experience can be accurately reproduced, with similar feelings of enlightenment but no brain damage, via the ingestion of psychedelic drugs.
It could. If you are unhappy with something in particular maybe it can be fixed. I just think each and every one here is very valuable and if they must leave, they are also taking away their contribution (submitted links, comments). So if there is something that can be done to avoid it, then why not?

Now on the flip side, if you are firm, then I totally respect your decision and you should be able to delete your account as well as all your links and comments.
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Spelling correction isn't exactly the problem they set out to solve, nor is it one that they will have trouble implementing themselves or solving via a third party tool.
Also, of all the things they could have modelled, I like the fact they went with a TIE fighter.
Like I want to have a toilet splash water on me.

Most stupid idea ever, sorry.
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The page seems deleted. Google's snippet tells me that it used to contain:

Sorry, karma-whores.
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1) what happens on the internet stays on the internet

2) maybe the strong language plus it's removal means it wasn't an official post?
Putting aside the fact that any control mechanism will be broken, I've often thought that this would be handy in weapons.

Imagine the UN providing free quality weapons to poor but legitimate governments, but being able to disable them remotely should the government use them against its own people, or aggressively against a neighbour.
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We often like to think we are morally superior and smarter than our ancestors, yet the success of Philippe Stark (The Caliban, as nicknamed in 2100's History books) is a clear sign of our own moronity - the moronity of our times as we should call it - and will be the subject of mockery from our grand children.

The damage these people did (Starck and the architects in the same school, wich are currently overwhelming) to our cities and landscape would have been more than enough for a guillotine ride two centuries ago.

If you want to figure out what we have escaped from these people, look at this nightmare :

"Until recently, European architects have either connived at the evisceration of our cities or actively promoted it. Relying on the spurious rhetoric of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, they endorsed the totalitarian projects of the political elite, whose goal after the war was not to restore the cities but to clear away the “slums.” By “slums,” they meant the harmonious classical streets of affordable houses, seeded with local industries, corner shops, schools, and places of worship, that had made it possible for real communities to flourish in the center of our towns. High-rise blocks in open parkland, of the kind that Le Corbusier proposed in his plan for the demolition of Paris north of the Seine, would replace them. Meanwhile, all forms of employment and enjoyment would move elsewhere. Public buildings would be expressly modernist, with steel and concrete frames and curtain walls, but with no facades or intelligible apertures, and no perceivable relation to their neighbors. Important monuments from the past would remain, but often set in new and aesthetically annihilating contexts, such as that provided for Saint Paul’s in London."

If you want to learn about a real architect, you should start by Léon Krier : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Krier

He says :

"“Humanity lives by trial and error, sometimes committing errors of a monumental scale. Architectural and urbanist modernism belong—like communism—to a class of errors from which there is little or nothing to learn or gain. . . . Modernism’s fundamental error, however, is to propose itself as a universal (i.e., unavoidable and necessary) phenomenon, legitimately replacing and excluding traditional solutions.”"

The ugliness of US cities all has to do with the "modernist" rational approach to architecture. Unlike the europeans brains, cities were not importable.

What is the point of living, sleeping and working in ugly places ? The damage done in Europe was attenuated because of our patrimoine, aka the things that our ancestors gave us, but we still have to fight against crooks like Starck. They have success, they have recognition, they have money, and they are the prominent icons of what we lack in our days of cultural relativism : taste.

Full article about Krier (a must read) : http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_urb-leon_krier.html
In my opinion they were simply running out of money and have no business model whatsoever.

100 Million is still a lot of money for something that only searches wikipedia.

With 100 million $ you could hire some of the brigthest engineers around the world and build this in less in a year.
I could think of better was to spend a $100M
They were running out of money :-)
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I know they're well-funded, but that seems absurd. Would I accept it if I were working there? With extreme pleasure.
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Almost voted up out of sheer perplexed curiousity.
Can I be the first to say WHOA! I love those. Crashes Firefox 2xx thought on wordle site.

EDIT: I was totally interested until I saw that it's a java applet that you have to enter the words into. Neat - who wants to be the first startup to make this SaaS?
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I don't think Google would be interested...they (Powerset) don't seems to have anything substantial yet.

It seems to me that MSFT is somewhat afraid that they already lost the race with Google in the area of general search. Even if they pour lot of $$$ into development, they don't have the experience and search data Google acquired during the years of their algorithms battling with search engine spammers.

At this point, it is practically impossible to catch up, so MSFT seems to try alternative approaches - the problem is that that is not any easier, and nobody showed anything substantial yet.
That'd be a good one... _whyConf. Free tab of LSD given at the entrance to enhance the experience, probably :-)
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Ignoring the question of whether these individuals are afraid to die is there actually anything wrong with that? Identifying your fears and then working to combat and overcome them is commendable in my opinion.

I suppose you could argue that if you had 1000 years ahead of you the drive to do great things may be weakened. Why start today when the tools available in the next century would make everything so much quicker.

Similarly, I know that, at least in the biological sciences, there is a frequent joke that for an area where a certain theory has held true for a number of years but where new technologies are revealing errors the retirement/death of the incumbent professors is often required before better theories get the consideration they deserve. Knowledge comes at a price and sometimes a fresh start is needed.

These arguments are incredibly weak though.
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