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by gwu78 9y ago
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2017/05/google...
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by gwu78 9y ago
I was using the first example with a char in the first column. A 4 B 5 B 8 C 9 A 6 How to solve with only a dict? Regarding the 1gram file at https://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books&#x
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by gwu78 9y ago
"The task is to sum the values for each key and print the key with the largest sum." What is the smart way to do this in kdb+? This is my naive, sloppy 15min approach. Warning: Noob. May offend experienced k programmers. k)`t
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by gwu78 9y ago
Long before amp, Google began prefixing search result urls with "google.tld?url=" and adding Google parameters as suffixes such as "sa=", "ved=", etc. Unless I am mistaken this parasitic cruft only serves Googl
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by gwu78 9y ago
Favorite part is how he mixes the register allocator with a chain of seds. I did something similar with a youtube downloader I wrote, using a long chain of seds. It is not as beautiful as Python but it is smaller and faster. When I shared
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by gwu78 9y ago
This is my "Hacker News Reader". It converts HN to csv. (Only selected fields of interest to me.) From there it can easily be imported into kdb+. I have more reusable generalized lex techniques for other websites but HN is so si
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by gwu78 9y ago
"I suggest compiler writers stop viewing the x86 stack as a twisted version of a traditional 8-register set." What if compiler writers will not fix the problem? Write own register allocator: http://cr.yp.to/qhasm.h
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by gwu78 9y ago
Yes, this sounds right. It has been a while since I looked at it. Is it just one name? I have a faint recollection it tried more than one. Anyway, how is the difference significant? A localhost cache can point at a custom root.zone. The
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by gwu78 9y ago
Notable that he calls the "kill-switch" a "mistake". For example, Chrome does the same thing. When it starts it checks for some presumably non-existant domain name.
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by gwu78 9y ago
Is this a "JSON Feed" from NYTimes? Example below filters out all URLs for a specific section of the paper. test $# = 1 ||exec echo usage: $0 section curl -o 1.json https://static01.nyt.com/services/js
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by gwu78 9y ago
"Lessons learnt by ransomware developers..." If you are suggesting that developers, regardless whether they develop mobile apps or ransomware, will start relying less on DNS, I respectfully disagree. Someone else in this thread co
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by gwu78 9y ago
Here is a spitbol/snobol4 solution. Assumes the number of items in the set is not greater than the alphabet. * routine stolen from gimpel * algorithm from peck and schrack define('p(s)t,n,c,k','p_init&#x27
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by gwu78 9y ago
"... is silly, there are better ways." I see this usage often where it seems like grep pattern1 | grep -v pattern2 can be replaced by sed -n '/pattern1/d;/pattern2/p' or at least se
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by gwu78 9y ago
Example line from the Openshift reload-haproxy script: old_pids=$(ps -A -opid,args | grep haproxy | egrep -v -e 'grep|reload-haproxy' | awk '{print $1}' | tr '\n' ' ') Can we do this without gr
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by gwu78 9y ago
Is it true these packets are HTTP requests full of XML, i.e., SOAP? Do they use HTTPS on ports 16994 and 16995? To avoid a crash, users can mount potentially malicious filesystems in userspace, i.e. users can run kernel drivers like ffs ou
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by gwu78 9y ago
First time I learned about SETL at NYU was when I was learning about Spitbol. Here is a fizzbuzz in Spitbol. Probably not the best way to do it. var a = 0; start +a = a + 1; break +lt(a,101) :f(end); x
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by gwu78 9y ago
The knee-jerk answer upon seeing the title was: "Too many". So many of these instructions I never see anyone use, ever. No doubt there are some folks using them, but as mere mortals, do the rest of us really need all these feature
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by gwu78 9y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/85322416941220... The strange "counterargument" I commonly see on HN to any suggestion that Microsoft closed source software could potentially be unsafe for
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by gwu78 9y ago
https://www.symantec.com/connect/tr/blogs/symantec-ca-propos... Works for me without Javascript.
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by gwu78 9y ago
"UUCP can be setup rather easily with few configuration files and few lines in each of them. But you have to add some encryption and authentication overlay for securing you data transmission." Any projects that attempted to do t
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by gwu78 9y ago
https://github.com/skarnet/execline/raw/master/src/execline/... https://github.com/skarnet/execline/raw/master/src/libexecli... Simple. http:/&#x
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by gwu78 9y ago
Can an "empty" variable have a length greater than zero? In Bourne once scripts I have been testing test ${#var} -gt 0 and test ${#var} -ge 1 In the past I have seen others use test x"" = x$var
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by gwu78 9y ago
Netty was first released in 2016? HAproxy was first released around 2001. Probably irrelevant to the question of speed, but there is a comment in another thread about hype driven development on HN first page right now where a commenter st
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by gwu78 9y ago
Text-only browser shows the IDN, not the phished domain. </sarcasm>I guess I need to "upgrade to a modern browser" for websites to work correctly?</sarcasm> As an aside, I still do not understand how "mo
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by gwu78 9y ago
"Thinking like a computer" would not involve abstraction. That would be thinking like a language author or a young programmer. "Thinking like a computer" means thinking without abstraction. (Aside from symbols and math
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by gwu78 9y ago
The first of their three nameservers is non-responsive for at least some users. There is no round-robin. ns-a.sdf.org 205.166.94.20 This will obviously slow down lookups for those users. If this is intentional, I would be curious why they
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by gwu78 9y ago
I do not have "block ads". I simply do not request them. Users do not intentionally make requests for ads or pixels from tracking servers. Browsers do. Automatically. People writing web pages that aim to cash in on advertising
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by gwu78 9y ago
FYI the browser I use does not download resources automatically. This way I just get the page with the content: the text of the article. That is all I want. To read articles, which are just text, I access the web in VGA textmode with a
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by gwu78 9y ago
"This is a screenshot from an article on NPR discussing the rising use of ad blockers. It is 12 megabytes in size..." Hmmm. When I save this page from my browser it's 116k. "... in a stock web browser." Ah-ha. Pe
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by gwu78 9y ago
OT. Symantec: Why require Javascript? Why not make it optional ? For users who do not use Javascript to read news: https://www.symantec.com/connect/tr/blogs/longhorn-tools-use...

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