woctezuma

This post contains a ranking of Steam games, based on a score intended to favor "hidden gems". A "hidden gem" is defined as a high-quality game (hence the "gem") which only got little attention (hence "hidden"). Therefore, the score of a game is defined as the product of a quality measure (its Wilson score) and a decreasing function of a popularity measure (its players total forever). The quality measure comes from SteamDB and the popularity measure comes from SteamSpy API. Finally, here is a reference to the NeoGAF post explaining the method, and the NeoGAF post explaining the idea behind the optimization of the only free parameter. The Python source code can be found on Github.

Reproducibility

To reproduce the results, use data downloaded betwe

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.

pixeltrix

When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time?

It's a common misconception that [William Shakespeare][1] and [Miguel de Cervantes][2] died on the same day in history - so much so that UNESCO named April 23 as [World Book Day because of this fact][3]. However because England hadn't yet adopted [Gregorian Calendar Reform][4] (and wouldn't until [1752][5]) their deaths are actually 10 days apart. Since Ruby's Time class implements a [proleptic Gregorian calendar][6] and has no concept of calendar reform then there's no way to express this. This is where DateTime steps in:

>> shakespeare = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ENGLAND)
=> Tue, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000
>> cervantes = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ITALY)
=> Sat, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000

alobato

# Ex.: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=469066063208329

video=469066063208329; curl -s $(curl -s https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=$video | grep -o 'https.*thumbnail_src' | sed 's/\\u00253A/:/g' | sed 's/\\u00255C\\u00252F/\//g' | sed 's/\\u002526/\&/g' | sed 's/\\u00253D/=/g' | sed 's/\\u00253F/?/g' | sed 's/\\u002522\\u00252C\\u002522thumbnail_src//g') > $video.mp4

PetrKaleta

# List of environments and their heroku git remotes (id: 'remote_name')
HEROKU_ENVIRONMENTS = {
  staging: 'staging-remote-name',
  production: 'production-remote-name'
}

namespace :deploy do
  # Create rake tasks to deploy on Heroku environments
  #   $ rake -T deploy
  #   rake deploy:production  # Deploy to production

rach

CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION fr ( COPY = french );
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION fr ALTER MAPPING
FOR hword, hword_part, word WITH unaccent, french_stem;

CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION en ( COPY = english );
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION en ALTER MAPPING
FOR hword, hword_part, word WITH unaccent, english_stem;

CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION de ( COPY = german );
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION de ALTER MAPPING

justinweiss

# Call scopes directly from your URL params:
#
#     @products = Product.filter(params.slice(:status, :location, :starts_with))
module Filterable
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  module ClassMethods
    
    # Call the class methods with names based on the keys in <tt>filtering_params</tt>
    # with their associated values. For example, "{ status: 'delayed' }" would call 

thewellington

#!/bin/bash
#
# crashplanFixup.sh for Macintosh OS X 10.9 (and probably earlier versions)
#
# This script will prevent CrashPlan from de-duplicating data on files greater than 1k.
# Based on information from http://networkrockstar.ca/2013/09/speeding-up-crashplan-backups/
#
# NOTE:  Must be run with sudo!  IE: $ sudo sh ./crashplanFixup
#
# v1.1 2014-03-13 by bill@wellingtonnet.net

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

mattetti

package main

import (
	"log"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("public")))
	log.Println("About to start the server on port 8014")