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I'm not sure. Results I want are usually on the first page though, almost always highlighted in green. The "*.edu" highlight is particularly useful.
Nifty trick! Is there a limit to the number of site: filters?

Look for an extension that highlights the good results. I find that more valuable than filtering the bad results.

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt... for filtering Google. Can't live without it. It would be interesting to have a Github repo with some precompiled filters based on certain business domains.

But for me at least, a couple of rules are enough to solve 99% of the problems.

Re:Bye Bye Bitcoin Bubble on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:45PM (#15875769)
> As I write this, Bitcoin just past $16,000 in value. I would bet any amount of money that on December 7, 2018, the price of Bitcoin will be below that value.

You don't have to "would bet", you can short it on some exchanges and soon you'll be able to short using futures. Bears should put their money where their mouth is. Bulls sure are doing it.

Suggestion : let the user select a confidence level at which FaceID unlocks the phone. This would allow the user to decrease false positives at the cost of false negatives. Not very Apple to expose settings, but in this case it seems like a no Brainerd, much like choosing between 4 or 6 digit pins.
Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:59PM (#15689066)
I tried making the switch from Chrome but ran into three issues :

1) Firefox does not import Chrome logins and passwords. Major pain.

2) Firefox freezes when importing Chrome history and bookmarks. I get a "script is taking too long" message. If I force close and reopen, then try to delete the partially imported content, it freezes as well with the same message. Tried deleting profile and restarting restarting to no avail.

3) (more of a nuisance than a real issue) I need to use the same browser on all devices so that everything is in sync. Google Search in Firefox Android looks like a page from the 90s and is missing Search Tools. Maybe Google isn't playing nice?

Did people migrating from Chrome experience issues 1) and 2)? Tried the initial import on Linux and macOS, same issue.

Re:Crypto Mining Scripts Explained on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:48AM (#15676774)
This guy wrote a short post on mining income : https://medium.com/@MaxenceCornet/coinhive-review-embeddable...
Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:02AM (#15676598)
I cannot use Google without the Google Search Filter extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt...

Having the results you are most interested in highlighted and the bad ones removed seriously upgrades the search experience. Would be nice if Google had this functionality built in. I know they had the remove results thing builtin back in the day, but I find highlighting trusted sites even more important.

Re:Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions on Saturday October 21, 2017 @04:27PM (#15523462)
Alex Gittens also has a nice paper this year showing how Skipgram enables vector additivity. See http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1007
Re:Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions on Saturday October 21, 2017 @04:19PM (#15523418)
https://github.com/kudkudak/word-embeddings-benchmarks has a pretty nice evaluation of existing embedding methods. Notably missing from this article is GloVe ( https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/) and LexVec ( https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec ) both which tend to outperform word2vec in both intrinsic and extrinsic tasks. Also of interest are methods which perform retrofitting, improving already trained embeddings. Morph fitting (ACL 2017) is a good example. Hashimoto et al (2016) sheds some interesting insight on how embeddings methods are performing metric recovery. Lots of exciting stuff in this area.
Pass the "-matrix pmi" flag to factor the PMI matrix as by default it factorizes PPMI.
word2vec yields better representations than PMI-SVD. If you want a better explicit PMI matrix factorization, have a look at https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec and the original paper. Explains why SVD performs poorly.

If you are looking for word embedding for production use, checkout fasttext, lexvec, glove, or word2vec. Don't use the approach described in this article.

Re:Tensorflow sucks on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:25AM (#15432458)
Quick shout out for DyNet! The API is so simple and intuitive even a two year old (a prodigious one) can use it.
Re:Show HN: REST-Like API for Ethereum Smart Contracts on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:52PM (#15023026)
It certainly gets one thing right : what a fantastic name! Props
There's an Android app by the same name that does the same thing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.intelco...

Not available on iOS though...

Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE can improve search

I was prompted to submit this entry to HN after reading this post: http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/12/google-search/I've been doing what I describe below for a while and can't imagine living without it. I think with a bit of collaboration everyone can benefit and make Google suck less.Install this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/eidhkmnbiahhgbgpjpiimdogfidfikgfAnd...

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Re:Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:55PM (#2077672)
I use a Chrome extension called Google Search Filter which solves this exact problem - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/eidhkmnbiahhgbgp...

It lets me sync my config accross multiple machines.

Has nice hacker-ish config. Basically a text file you can share with others. This is my current config:

# Make these domains stand out in results

+en.wikipedia.org

+stackoverflow.com

+github.com

+api.rubyonrails.org

+apple.com

+ruby-doc.org

+codex.wordpress.org

+imdb.com

+alternativeto.net

# SPAM - never show these results

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