HN user

khalstvedt

11 karma
Posts0
Comments11
View on HN
No posts found.
A new Gmail inbox 13 years ago

This (incorrect assumptions leading to frustration) is definitely the most troubling thing to me about automagic solutions. I'm currently working on a project that incorporates this idea of sorting email into contexts (http://solnovus.com, not much info up as of yet), so we've been thinking a lot about this problem specifically.

We are working in user-defined contexts from day one (not all users fit into the 5-context model), but I think incorrect classification is the most important issue to address to minimize user frustration. We are approaching it by treating topic and context membership fuzzily and using graph visualization to aid in traversal of inexact queries.

I couldn't agree with you more: there are serious problems with binary membership and "automatic" filtering.

A new Gmail inbox 13 years ago

I agree, you can construct a pretty flexible search system with the existing Gmail implementation. (disclosure: I work at a small startup trying to address email search and archive organization). How many rules do you have set up to achieve your (arguably very reasonable) workflow?

However, to perform a successful search with specific constraints, you must either:

1) Remember a keyword

2) Have a label for the particular constraint you want to use

Our little startup, SolNovus (http://solnovus.com), has been investigating how to make a couple power-user functions like this more accessible. Our priorities are:

1) Fuzzy topic search: make keywords more forgiving

2) Analysis and visualization of email graph: sift through related threads and see the impact of search constraints, represent scale and organization with more than an inbox counter

Although the point of the article is to identify a snowball effect with distributed solar generation vs. fossil fuel, that angle leaves out a lot.

Obviously utilities companies will (try to find a way to) pivot, and provide services or guarantees that a disconnected setup would not have.

Hell, they may even install panels on your roof when your house is built in exchange for discount/free energy, and sell the excess for profit.

If Anons truly received a flood of testimony after posting on some forums, law enforcement must have pretty much actively avoided hearing testimony.

The photo/video-sharing aspect of this case is particularly interesting; not analyzing available data from the internet (or simply not even knowing photos/video pertaining to the case are being widely distributed) is likely going to be a focal point, but heightened law enforcement use of evidence from the digital domain is probably touchy for many of the same Anons that contributed to this.

I'm glad this has gotten the attention it deserves; I purchased the beta when embarking on my first Django project, and it was a bit over my head at the time. Now, however, 2SoD fills the important role of an up-to-date best practices guide, which I find is often hard to compile in largish community projects with fragmented documentation.

Not that the official docs aren't good, because they are; the 2SoD authors just get to be a little more narrow and opinionated.