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FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)

Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

Download videos from egghead

Install the React Developer Tools Chrome Extension.
Go to the egghead website, i.e. Getting Started with Redux
Click View -> Developer -> Javascript Console, then the React tab, then the <NextUpLessonList ...> tag.
Click back to the Console tab, then run:

NLTK API to Stanford NLP Tools compiled on 2015-12-09

Stanford NER

With NLTK version 3.1 and Stanford NER tool 2015-12-09, it is possible to hack the StanfordNERTagger._stanford_jar to include other .jar files that are necessary for the new tagger.

First set up the environment variables as per instructed at https://github.com/nltk/nltk/wiki/Installing-Third-Party-Software

	import csv
	import random

	import numpy as np
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

	import math

	import os
	os.environ["THEANO_FLAGS"] = "mode=FAST_RUN,device=gpu,floatX=float32,allow_gc=False"

	library(XML)

	#Import your list of IPs
	ip.addresses <- read.csv("ip-address.csv")

	#This is my API
	api.url <- "http://freegeoip.net/xml/"

	#Appending API URL before each of the IPs
	api.with.ip <- paste(api.url, ip.addresses$IP.Addresses ,sep="")

	###################################### Scraping Bdjobs.com ##############################################
	# For selecting css elements, I have used the Chrome Extension "SelectorGadget" along
	# with the "rvest" (version: 0.3.2) and "xml2" packages.

	# Machine Info :
	# R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
	# Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
	# Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7600)

	# To check yours type version OR sessionInfo()

	""" Trains an agent with (stochastic) Policy Gradients on Pong. Uses OpenAI Gym. """
	import numpy as np
	import cPickle as pickle
	import gym

	# hyperparameters
	H = 200 # number of hidden layer neurons
	batch_size = 10 # every how many episodes to do a param update?
	learning_rate = 1e-4
	gamma = 0.99 # discount factor for reward