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# install

sudo apt-get install proxychains
sudo apt-get install tor

# then update the files /etc/proxychains.conf and /etc/tor/torrc with the given config

# restart tor server
sudo service restart tor

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s := grpc.NewServer(
        grpc.StreamInterceptor(
            grpc_middleware.ChainStreamServer(
                GetStreamServerInterceptor(),
                grpc_prometheus.StreamServerInterceptor)),
        grpc.UnaryInterceptor(
            grpc_middleware.ChainUnaryServer(
                GetUnaryServerInterceptor(),
                grpc_prometheus.UnaryServerInterceptor)))

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require 'redis'
require 'securerandom'
require 'msgpack'

class RedisRpcClient

  def initialize(redis_url, list_name)
    @client = Redis.connect(url: redis_url)
    @list_name = list_name.to_s
  end

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Bash script to setup headless Selenium (uses Xvfb and Chrome)
# (Tested on Ubuntu 12.04) trying on ubuntu server 14.04

# Add Google Chrome's repo to sources.list
echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

# Install Google's public key used for signing packages (e.g. Chrome)
# (Source: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/)

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A few show tricks to find slow queries in mongodb

Enable profiling

First, you have to enable profiling

> db.setProfilingLevel(1)

Now let it run for a while. It collects the slow queries ( > 100ms) into a capped collections, so queries go in and if it's full, old queries go out, so don't be surprised that it's a moving target...

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Toc

Keyboard shortcuts

The IPython Notebook has two different keyboard input modes. Edit mode allows you to type code/text into a cell and is indicated by a green cell border. Command mode binds the keyboard to notebook level actions and is indicated by a grey cell border.

MacOS modifier keys:

• ⌘ : Command

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ls /dev/tty.usb*
# might require root
cu -l /dev/tty.usbmodemXXXX -s 115200

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import pyproj
from shapely.geometry import shape
from shapely.ops import transform

geom = {'type': 'Polygon',
        'coordinates': [[[-122., 37.], [-125., 37.],
	                     [-125., 38.], [-122., 38.],
                         [-122., 37.]]]}

s = shape(geom)

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Apache Spark installation + ipython notebook integration guide for Mac OS X

Tested with Apache Spark 1.3.1, Python 2.7.9 and Java 1.8.0_45 + workaround for Spark 1.4.x from @enahwe.

Install Java Development Kit

Download and install it from oracle.com

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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application: