debasishg

General Background and Overview

1. Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
2. Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
3. Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
4. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
5. [Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t

XVilka

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

lelandbatey

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

hackaugusto

#!/usr/bin/zsh

setopt ERR_EXIT

# cannot use PIPE_FAIL because we want to ignore mount efivarfs failure
# setopt PIPE_FAIL

msg() {
    printf "==> $1\n" "${@:2}"
}

grugq

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

pnc

Using OTP's observer (appmon replacement) remotely

$ ssh remote-host "epmd -names"
epmd: up and running on port 4369 with data:
name some_node at port 58769

Note the running on port for epmd itself and the port of the node you're interested in debugging. Reconnect to the remote host with these ports forwarded:

$ ssh -L 4369:localhost:4369 -L 58769:localhost:58769 remote-host

cartazio

#! /usr/local/bin/fish
if test  -n "$HOME" ;
    set -xg NIX_LINK "$HOME/.nix-profile"

    # Set the default profile.
    if not test -L "$NIX_LINK" ;
        echo "creating $NIX_LINK" >&2
        set -l _NIX_DEF_LINK /nix/var/nix/profiles/default
        /nix/store/cdybb3hbbxf6k84c165075y7vkv24vm2-coreutils-8.23/bin/ln -s "$_NIX_DEF_LINK" "$NIX_LINK"
    end

killercup

Symbol Pronounciation

[...] each glyph has its own monosyllabic name, designed to be pronounced quickly in combination with another glyph to form a rune name. As languages are often read-aloud, this saves the programmer from having to say "dollar sign, question mark"--"bucwut" is much more compact.

– [Hoon documentation][0]

symbol	pronounciation
|	bar
$	buc

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

tdoris

Does Haskell make promises it can't keep?

or The big problem with wrapping numeric types

When coding financial calculations, it's common to have a variety of numeric values such as Quantity, Price, Amount and so on. In quant finance, these usually refer to the Price observed in the market, a Quantity of shares. A Quantity of shares all traded at a given Price in a given currency will give you an Amount of that currency (the total value of the trade).

It's simple and fun exercise to write the functions you'd need to perform all the correct ways of combining Price, Quantity and Amount. There are a couple of things that don't work as you might expect (e.g., multiplication is ok but you need to think about division semantics.).

Many Haskell tutorials encourage the coder to wrap Double and Int in newtypes like this, so the compiler can help by detecting incorrect combinations of the different types, and so the code documents itself better. e.g.