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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 …

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 si…

Hi, I've been looking around on flippa etc to see whether any real web app is for sale. My reason for buying is just to experiment with various things related to running a site, do…

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 …

I want to add something from my own experience. One particular company I was interested in had few puzzles on their website. I once worked the whole weekend to solve them as good a…

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…

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 $7…

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 empt…

I was looking at wikimedia's projected spending for current financial year and was quite surprised to see it is $28.3 Million. I have uploaded a screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com…

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' deat…

Hi there, 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 titl…

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 log…

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 a…

This might help... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828161