michaelhart

Not true if you use a secure/intelligent email client, like Gmail. It will prompt you with a yellow bar above the email before loading any images.

It also implies that they'll open the email, which most average people won't do unless they know the sender or are otherwise expecting an email.

Google Domain Blocker: (userscript/greasemonkey), for those interested.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156

You can also sync them for Firefox across multiple machines using Dropbox, as the preferences are stored in your profile (IIRC, in a javascript file).

You guys never did male beauty pageants for charity? We have them like twice a year here, and they're quite successful and overall a lot of fun (granted, I never dress up... just laugh at my friends a lot).

And if he's actually a cross-dresser, props. He's probably the richest cross-dresser in the world.

I'm working on a project now that will aggregate self-motivated learning online. Watch a lecture on YouTube? (Many universities post them). Get credit for it. Start a discussion with others who also watched it. Ask and answer questions. Find like-minded people and learn with each other, set your own challenges and goals.

That's only half of it, but the core idea is this: We learn online already. Pave the cowpaths. Give people credit for what they already do.

I'm also looking for a co-founder. Anyone interested in this project (suggestions, more info, etc.), I'd love to chat: http://scr.im/michaelhart

Large companies have often used internal memos on purpose for leaking information. On some level, they want the information to be leaked (companies with thousands of staff makes it nearly impossible for it not to be).

The ultimate test? Work with them.

Very well put. Especially B.

Yet you're getting bombarded with spam. Not to mention, Facebook accounts are very easy to create. So I don't see that either.

I doubt it. Most schools block Facebook, whereas most do not block Gmail (many rely on Gmail themselves). Using a Facebook email is just asking for accessibility problems.

Wrong -- your FB email address will likely have the same prefix as your vanity URL. Guess that that means? Spam bots know your email address already.

The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger or something).

All in all, I think nobody will care at the end of the day.

Not probably, it definitely is. Sir Ken Robinson is amazingly brilliant, and his value for creativity is revolutionary. Creativity defines the world we live in. He defines creativity as "the process of coming up with original ideas that have value." Just think about that. Everything in the world that we use and take for granted is the result of some creative person somewhere taking a risk. The importance of creativity is the most undervalued characteristic of people in the world. We focus more on SAT and ACT scores, both of which are only a fraction as important.

Which leads me to think that this just may be a setting stone to future, more important memos. No sense in scaring them unless they wanted to secure the channel for something else.

I solved this a while back and posted my results on Twitter.

[SPOILER: DON'T FOLLOW IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT YOURSELF FIRST]

http://yfrog.com/mto4sp

I'm not sure if this was the expected output, as there was no exact confirmation. But I assumed it was right.

The problem isn't really what questions are being asked, it's that questions are being asked at all. Verify by phone/text, and encourage it's kept up to date (by periodically confirming). It's really convenient/simple and it's more secure than asking a question. Based on the questions you provide, anyone who knows me IRL (friend or not) could easily gain access to my accounts protected by them. This is not true security, it's imagined security. Security just in place to make us feel better.

But when it's actually leaked and posted, it'll most definitely be trimmed.

CPUs today are a lot less based on raw MHz/GHz and more about the technologies in which they achieve them. This can be easily seen with some single-core CPUs out-performing dual core and a few quad core CPUs. Who cares if you have a 3.2 GHz quad core CPU if this other single-core CPU at 2.8 GHz is better? While these situations aren't too common, they're prime examples of how raw speed doesn't matter.

My advice is to do searches of your interested... Find people who talk about what you care about; even more importantly, people who interact with their followers. It all depends on what you care about.

It's getting quite a bit of users, and the average session length is 14 minutes. Quite interesting :) I love it. It's sort of like Gmail, minus the notifications through my phone (which is a good thing, because it would be way too spammy). I can rest assured that when I visit that tab, I see the latest stuff. No refreshing or checking both pages. I have them both, always up to date, and at a glance.

The left side is newest, the right side is news (homepage).

Apache handles dynamic content better than nginx in most cases. Nginx is usually only desirable when memory is a constraint or for serving static content. I've optimized apache, and it's handling the traffic quite well now with average response times of 20-60ms (including generation and network latency), which is quite nice :)

It's all written in php/codeigniter and mysql. It's very fast thanks to codeigniter being very lightweight and due to caching provided by mysql.

I'll try to write a blog post tomorrow... www.michaelhart.me

I just modified the way the queries run; duplicates should be MUCH less common now.

I just significantly improved caching to further reduce the necessity of hitting Hacker News. This should fix a lot of performance issues as well as blank pages.

As for duplicates, I have tried to make that much less likely by putting the status closer to the update query. There are lot of hits per second, which causes that. (Queries take around 0.005s to perform; if 2 hits within that time period, then it could update the cache twice (or more)).

Well, it doesn't update THAT often, so it's not like it's constantly moving :) But that's also the reason why I didn't make realtime conversations... It's too hard to make it not annoying.

Despite how efficient I made it, apache seems to have trouble keeping up. I'm tuning it trying to find a good balance.

I wasn't aware, I fixed it :)

As for the text, I'll lower the opacity to like 5% and see if that helps. Also adding spacing now.

Thanks :D

edit: spacing added; looks much better :) thanks again!

True, but for many people, like me, we're refreshing HN every few minutes anyway. Why not have the 2 most common pages (for me anyway) on 1 screen powered by ajax to load all of the data. I also cache all of the data on my server in a database, so it actually lessens the load on HN's servers. It turns hundreds of requests into a handful. I also have everything tuned for automatic performance scaling, so if HN responds too slowly, I'll request pages less frequently, or if my server starts getting loaded, I'll increase the interval of the ajax requests.