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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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shubb wrote: post #516
natch wrote: post #52

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I love this idea, except that the conclusion about something being a moderately bad use of company resources doesn't necessarily follow. The benefits of things like team rapport are hard to quantify, but that doesn't mean they should be dismissed as waste. The same goes for things that certain individuals feel are a waste. Taking jokes, just one subset of such emails, as an example: For you, a particular joke may be…

That is true, but at a very large multinational, I used to recieve over 100 send to all emails a day, and three real ones. Some of the 'send to all' emails were pretty important, so I had to read them, but a lot of them added nothing, and were sent to 400'000 people. I think each inappropriate global send to all cost $1000+, assuming people disgarded it pretty quickly. +Low estimate, assuming it takes 1 second to dis…

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by mrlase »

sparkie wrote: post #549
mrlase wrote: post #279

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I'm really interested in this idea as I suffer from the same problem on my local disk in addition to having years worth of documents across a DropBox account, SkyDrive, and two Google Drive accounts. What are your biggest gripes? What model would you like to see? A tag based filesystem? Arbitrary graph? Would love to talk to people such as yourself who have this problem.

I'd like to see arbitrary graph based systems where there's no restriction on the relationships you can create - although doing so takes more work than dumping things into hierarchies. Tag based systems are useful for making the transition to graphs, but they're really just "patching" graph-like semantics onto trees - as are things like symbolic links in file systems. Relationships are largely arbitrary, and what is…

What's your email?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by hueving »

wingerlang wrote: post #408
hueving wrote: post #271

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That doesn't solve the problem of the comment with the lowest common denominator being the one that gets promoted the most.

I think it could work somewhat. It depends on the type of, in this case, subreddit. With this in mind: > also demoted if their contributions are not good enough. If there is a user that gains karma by karmawhoring with the quick jokes and whatnot he/she would simply be demoted by the rest of the high-users. Or something to that effect.

Oh, would you only be able to vote in your classification and lower? If that's the case, doesn't that make it extremely hard for a crowd to overthrow a close-nit elite that refuses to upvote the plebeians?

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by binarydreams »

hooande wrote: post #72

A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI lay…

I use SessionBuddy to manage this.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by sparkie »

mrlase wrote: post #572
sparkie wrote: post #549

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I'd like to see arbitrary graph based systems where there's no restriction on the relationships you can create - although doing so takes more work than dumping things into hierarchies. Tag based systems are useful for making the transition to graphs, but they're really just "patching" graph-like semantics onto trees - as are things like symbolic links in file systems. Relationships are largely arbitrary, and what is…

What's your email?

my username @live.com

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by anonymousDan »

rdl wrote: post #569
natdempk wrote: post #565

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I guess, but it still seems like no one offers this and its not trivial. Do you know of any research/systems/practical offerings in this area? This has been something that I would be interested in learning a lot more about honestly. I agree that bullet-proof guarantees are basically impossible and that physical security is probably going to be the weak point at the end of the day. Maybe some system could be created t…

SGX is pretty reasonable IFF you believe in the Intel PKI. I have been looking at how to do cheap ($20-50 slow USB connected (essentially smartcard), $500-1000 PCIe) HSMs. If you do shared-computation with a host (with or without SGX/TXT), you can get pretty decent performance with quite modest HSM hardware. Those provide NSA-type protection -- in that attacking a single instance isn't guaranteed, and takes time, so…

The k of n split across multiple locations idea is interesting.

I agree that if you're paranoid about the NSA it probably doesn't make too much sense to have faith in the Intel PKI. When you say pretty decent performance for your HSM, do you mean less than 10 % for real world apps?

I'm currently assuming a threat model where an attacker doesn't have physical access however, and looking more into how to use hardware to bootstrap a minimal TCB that doesn't require OS or application rewrites but still gives good performance. Even if only for specific use cases.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by vijucat »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #560
caw wrote: post #518

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>"Your coworkers spent a total of 36.4 hours reading your message. It cost the company $1458 in employee time. " This in itself could be a nice plugin for your mail. You need 3 values to be able to calculate it: * Number of employees the mail will be sent to (hard with aliases, easier with Outlook PDLs) * Average fully burdened cost of employees (managers should know this, or you can default to something like $120K)…

That's pretty brilliant. Imagine showing an HR department their worthless emails cost the company a million dollars in man hours.

First rule of HR : fire the ones who talk bad about HR. Come to think of it, that's what bad bosses do, too. Oh no, I should add the epiphany that "Enterprises are like Operating Systems in which, by design, the malware has the Highest Priority" to the thread on Epiphanies : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545284 !

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by lawncheer »

cglee wrote: post #548
lixon wrote: post #431

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http://www.taskrabbit.com/

I've used taskrabbit and it's very close to the idea I mentioned, though what I had in mind is more pure physical labor related. The premise of the idea is to remove middlemen like moving companies, landscaping contractors, etc who do nothing more than organize laborers.

Hey, I am putting the finishing touches on lawncheer.com, will be launching in a couple weeks, hope to meet the mowing/landscaping need.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by tripzilch »

ljak wrote: post #534
3rd3 wrote: post #87

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Did anyone experiment yet with a tree-like comment system (just like the one on HN) that completely hides comment points (even in the profile pages and to the users themselves)? To me it seems that, contrary to the intentions to achieve high quality comments, the crowd often optimizes for low effort and high score. Maybe the lack of publicly visible reputations points could reduce that high score mentality. Maybe we…

This is an option that can be enabled on a per-subreddit basis. It's not very popular since people like seeing how popular their posts are.

afaik the scores are just hidden with CSS, so you can see them if you really want, and I believe that RES even has an option to enable this without having to dig into CSS wizardry oneself.
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