As far as I can tell, author is talking about FM-Index. It compresses the search data into a much smaller index memory footprint. I tried using it few times, but never figured out how to use it as a key-value data store.
If anybody is interested, here is the code: http://pizzachili.di.unipi.it/indexes/FM-indexV2/fmindexV2.t...
I just want to clarify something here, I am not an idea guy or a business guy. I am a hacker but my specialties are systems programming in C/C++ and I am learning web dev on the side when I get time, but haven't gone that much far. The reason for this post was partially to motivate me as well, since its great motivator once you get something going.
Didn't understand how the sentiment analysis works, since results look quite not what I expected. I did a test search on 2012 presidential candidates:
Obama: 44% positive ("barack obama" is 62% though)
Mitt Romney: 67% positive
Michele Bachmann: 50% positive
Herman Cain: 71% positive (?)
Ron Paul: 71% positive
Rick Perry: 81% positive (??)
I am not sure the sentiment calculation is just based on Positive/Negative dictionary comparison or something else. Is there a logical explanation of above percentages? Do results vary for other people?
One particular company I was interested in had few puzzles on their website. I once worked the whole weekend to solve them as good as I can. Spent lot of time writing a custom cover letter, resume and attached the C++ solutions to the puzzles.
Its been several months and I am still waiting for the damn reply!
The site looks great and very user friendly, but as others have pointed out, the paid-tier-only seems too restrictive. Specially given the motto of treehouse is "Millions of people can't afford a quality technical education, or if they can, it's out of date immediately when they graduate. We aim to change that."
How can this compare to MIT (and other) Open Course Work and hundreds if not thousands of good free tutorials on the internet Vs $25/$49 a month?
FWIW, I learned basics of web development/design totally free, just took a bit of searching to find good resources, and once I was confortable with basics, the further education came through just googling-on-demand, videos only helped in the beginning.
The article says that over the next 5 years, about 7 Million laptops will be purchased. The price of windows mentioned in the article is about $110 at current rates, which means $770 million order for MS. That definitely is a big order for MS, considering the full laptop is only expected to cost ~$300.
Not sure if it'll add more credibility to the claim, but interestingly the wikipedia page for Anakam doesn't talk about Founders. And the company's official leadership page is empty!
On a slightly different note, I don't remember top 5 posts on HN all about deaths! I wonder why so many people upvote so many stories related to same subject (i.e. Steve Jobs' death)?
You've done some nice work on the project. Since I follow most showHN posts, I think I am seeing this submission 4-5th time in last 1 and a half month with different titles. I tried to search for previous submissions but seems like they were taken down later.
Please don't get me wrong, I wish best of luck to this startup, but would you really still call it a 'weekend project'? I think not.
When I learned to use vim years ago, one interesting observation was that the biggest thing to learn in vim is efficient navigation.
i.e. if you know how to get to a particular logically defined place in the file, you will always be able to carry out copy-paste-delete to and from that place to where to cursor is.
One would be surprised how easy thing become once you know the basic navigation rules due to marvelous mix-n-match nature of vim operations.
There are tons of interesting books I bought, but I have kept on procrastinating reading, since I know that I can always read them later. That feeling IMHO - that I own something and can process it later - is major cause of procrastination for me.
same way my browser windows are a mess with 70+ tabs open. Most of them are only open because the content is too interesting to close and I am too lazy to read!