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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour, by Colin ...
on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:04AM (#2122722)
You're so right.
Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Fr...
on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:03AM (#2122716)
Open an English dictionary (the Oxford one if you're serious), and come back. Note my fault if tbl didn't know how to speak English corectly backed then.
Re:TrueCrypt Identification String
on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:02AM (#2122714)
> Well it's not a backdoor.
You have no idea. Your pants.
Re:The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @11:42PM (#2122674)
Thanks for the summary with your level of competence (already a good one ;)).
Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Fr...
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @11:27PM (#2122647)
Pedophilia is illegal in most countries, I'd be happy if ad networks gather data about your interest on young boys and pass it to the feds! Beasts!
Edit: judging by the downvotes, I guess a good bunch of hackers like to live in atrocity!
Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Fr...
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @11:26PM (#2122644)
*referrer
Re:The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @07:33PM (#2121967)
Yeah, and, seriously, a Russian?! Please...
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @07:30PM (#2121955)
That's 0.05 second for a single request: actually pretty good.
Re:The Companies Worth Less Than Facebook
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @07:24PM (#2121940)
They did, in 2001.
Re:Tired of missing calls? With Polo, you're always available.
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @07:22PM (#2121935)
Thanks for this. Is a tweet considered a "referrer"?
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @06:58PM (#2121863)
Errors/exceptions, for one, are implemented using continuations.
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:00PM (#2121261)
You clearly don't understand the problem. Even mod_pagespeed or memcached would be more appropriate here: They are rate-limited by the LISP kernel anyway (we are talking about dynamic content here).
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @03:59PM (#2121257)
Ooops, yes, you are right, sorry. Then I guess it's a pretty decent rate for a Core2 duo.
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:58PM (#2121019)
Well, HN is written in Arc, which is a layer on top of MzScheme. MzScheme handling of sockets is actually already done with the select() syscall, and its "threads" are lightweight non-blocking threads (think Erlang). So it's already async but with "sugar".
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:56PM (#2121013)
1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Robert_Tappan...
2: same acronym as RTFM, but polite.
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:55PM (#2121009)
This could be resolved using consistent hashing or a critbit tree.
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:46PM (#2120977)
Book worm, nerd. Think Comic Book Guy, but healthier and smarter. Totally a bad-ass.
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:45PM (#2120970)
Lisp is definitely not a slow language: you can handle the crazy rate of 20 requests/second on a multi-core server!
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:33PM (#2120921)
> It turns out there is a hack in FreeBSD, invented by Filo, that causes the O/S not to give a new connection to the server until an entire HTTP request has arrived. This might reduce the number of threads a lot, and thus improve performance; I'll give it a try today or tomorrow.
Anyone know if they're referring to "accept filters" here? FreeBSD folks can "man accf_http" if they're curious, which does prevent a request from being handed off to the application until the complete (and valid?) request has been made. Certainly not a "hack" but a feature of the OS itself.
Or they could use a proxy. All this "fuck me I'm famous" attitude is stupid.
Re:Tarsnap critical security bug
on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:38PM (#2118471)
My new online code analyser program, sponsored by AMD, could have prevented this bug.
Re:Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:35PM (#2118464)
Naab it's because of shitty posts like yours than HN is slow! New users should not be able to post. Abusing the system is a problem.
Re:TrueCrypt Identification String
on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @11:52PM (#2095027)
Hello, NSA "backdoor".