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Ask HN: Entities vs. Keywords, what's the better way to filter content?

I am extracting entities (names, objects, places) as well as top keywords (based on count) from articles being submitted to my site.Now, I would like the standard feature of listing content by tags. What do you think is a better way to search - by showing the user all entities and letting them search all content by entities or by keywords?

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Ask HN: Why can't we crowdsource the search for the missing MH370 flight?

If the world's govts and private agencies can donate the latest hi-res images of the region where there are now massive search operations of the missing MH370 flight (hope it never crashed and all are well somewhere!), can't we plug the images into a web platform and do a crowdsourced search of the entire area?Some of my questions related to this are:1) How long does it take for military...

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I would too. It is the simplest and single most effective piece of software for performance you can and should put on your web-server.

Ask HN: Is there any advantage of using APC + Varnish + Cloudflare?

I am running a content site (php/mysql/smarty) which already uses APC. I am thinking of installing varnish to cache frequently fetched pages as each pageload hits the DB. Am also thinking of using Cloudflare for speedingup static content and provide a cache if server breaks as it does many times.Am wondering if this setup will offer me a considerable advantage or will I do better just using...

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Rant HN: To hell with Roku for shutting down VideoBuzz channel for YouTube

VideoBuzz was the only best alternative to an official YouTube app which is not available on Roku due to whatever blame games they are doing with Google citing its TV.I woke up yesterday morning to the rude fact that the VideoBuzz channel was no more. There doesn't seem to be any proper explanation by Roku on it except VideoBuzz saying Roku contacted them to "shut down" as they did not own the...

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Re:I saw this Ad by a legal services company on Facebook today on Saturday December 15, 2012 @01:18PM (#4925856)
If only Ads can be Oxymorons
Re:Don't read TechCrunch on Monday December 03, 2012 @07:28AM (#4865068)
Exactly.

A few of my posts on HN on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4852081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3538189 - that was an year ago!

Ask HN: Do you explicitly follow TechCrunch anymore?

For more than a year or so I have stopped following TechCrunch explicitly. I just come to HackerNews. I seldom visit the site and most TechCrunch stories I get are either through what I subscribed of their RSS, FB or Twitter long ago. Even so I discovered I tend to read very less of their stories and largely due to quality of content going down and quantity increasing (some even look like...

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You still called it DDG. Even DDG kinda adds authenticity and some authority.
My non-tech savvy friends think it is some sort of a joke.
Re:Ask HN: Where do you get your news? on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @08:16AM (#4808823)
I run a website http://www.younews.in and I have a personal section where it aggregates from my preferred sites: Hacker News, Reddit /r/science, BBC most shared, NYTimes most shared, The Hindu most read...

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