jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

voidfiles

"""
From this paper: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/emnlp/pdf/Mihalcea.pdf 

I used python with nltk, and pygraph to do an implmentation of of textrank.

for questions: http://twitter.com/voidfiles

"""
import nltk
import itertools

jFransham

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Contents:

• Number one optimization tip: don't
• Never optimize blindly
• Don't bother optimizing one-time costs
• Improve your algorithms
• CPU architecture primer
• Keep as much as possible in cache
• Keep as much as possible in registers

schacon

HTTP transfer protocols
=======================

Git supports two HTTP based transfer protocols.  A "dumb" protocol
which requires only a standard HTTP server on the server end of the
connection, and a "smart" protocol which requires a Git aware CGI
(or server module).  This document describes both protocols.

As a design feature smart clients can automatically upgrade "dumb"
protocol URLs to smart URLs.  This permits all users to have the

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

jakeonrails

data:text/html, <style type="text/css">#e{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;}</style><div id="e"></div><script src="http://d1n0x3qji82z53.cloudfront.net/src-min-noconflict/ace.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script><script>var e=ace.edit("e");e.setTheme("ace/theme/monokai");e.getSession().setMode("ace/mode/ruby");</script>

martinchapman

# Visualise a latex document git history

# loop through commits, create a PDF from your main file for each
# translate the pages of that PDF to a single image
# create GIF/mp4 from the folder of images created

# run within your local repository
# prerequisites: ImageMagick and FFmpeg

# create output folder

smarr

Introductory Material

• Add Graal JIT Compilation to Your JVM Language in 5 Steps, A Tutorial http://stefan-marr.de/2015/11/add-graal-jit-compilation-to-your-jvm-language-in-5-easy-steps-step-1/

• The SimpleLanguage, an example of using Truffle with great JavaDocs. It is the officle getting-started project: https://github.com/graalvm/simplelanguage

• Truffle Tutorial, Christan Wimmer, PLDI 2016, 3h recording https://youtu.be/FJY96_6Y3a4 Slides

mlent

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=TITLE OF YOUR POST via @YOUR_USERNAME&url=HTTPS://YOUR_WEBSITE.COM" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'twitter-share', 'width=550,height=235'); return false;">
      Share on Twitter
    </a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=HTTP://YOUR_URL.COM&t=YOUR CONTENT" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'hn-share', 'width=550,height=350'); return false;">
      Share on Hacker News
    </a>

shlomibabluki

# coding=UTF-8
from __future__ import division
import re

# This is a naive text summarization algorithm
# Created by Shlomi Babluki
# April, 2013


class SummaryTool(object):