imurray

36 ms·

331.
by imurray 17y ago
I use vim as my editor but never got on with "vi mode" in bash/readline or zsh/zle. However, when you have a complicated command line you can use vim (or your favorite $EDITOR) on it. In bash type Ctrl-x-e In zsh I press Ctrl-z, which does
332.
by imurray 17y ago
Interesting. It's frustrating when using programs with terrible line editing support because they've rolled their own. Hopefully this will work out well and then be widely adopted by non-free and smaller projects for which readline has been
333.
by imurray 17y ago
Or in ~/.zshrc: bindkey '\e[A' history-beginning-search-backward
334.
by imurray 17y ago
It's a score on some variant of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
335.
by imurray 17y ago
Statistically significant (subject to the usual caveats of being careful about the results from a single study). Little is said about how worthwhile the change is.
336.
by imurray 17y ago
I'm saddened to see someone gloating at having helped to prevent the release of a dataset that I see as beneficial. I'd encourage people that usually skim just the comments to read the post, which was not gloating at locking up the datase
337.
by imurray 17y ago
A relevant toy I threw together once to demonstrate finding a median/mean/centroid by minimizing a cost defined by "springs": http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~murray/04medoid/
338.
by imurray 17y ago
They'd need to sort this out before it can be widely recommended: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/faq.html#xss
339.
by imurray 17y ago
Worth knowing about in general. In this case, it seems unlikely that Texas Instruments will be hosting malware-infested PDFs. From the first link: In its blog on Trojan.Pidief.E, Symantec advices users to consider disabling JavaScript in
340.
by imurray 17y ago
For future reference, do ssh -D 1080 unixhost.yourinstitution.edu then set your browser’s SOCKS proxy to localhost:1080.
341.
by imurray 17y ago
Maybe. But there are probably all sorts of annoying details to deal with. For example, the pagination of the document could change, and so that would lead to further editing to fix it. Then how does line-breaking work during that editing p
342.
by imurray 17y ago
why does almost no word processor implement this algorithm? In TeX the line breaking depends on the whole paragraph. I imagine it could be visually quite distracting if the line-wrapping jumped around in a WYSIWYG word processor as you ad
343.
by imurray 17y ago
Submitting the original pdf link is best for pointing to the real source and giving people the option of how to deal with it. Those that like Google viewer links can always fix that themselves. Details in this sub-thread: http://news.ycomb
344.
by imurray 17y ago
Yes, italic fonts are not just slanted versions of the typeface. However, more simply slanted text doesn't necessarily look bad and has its uses. I prefer slanted Roman for long blocks of special text as I find it more readable. Here is a s
345.
by imurray 17y ago
Depending on your distribution it may not be installed automatically with gcc. The package you need is called libmudflap0-4.4-dev in Ubuntu 9.10.
346.
by imurray 17y ago
Very good advice. I assume my C code does have memory blunders until I have run extensively through valgrind, after which I might begin to believe any other analysis I have done that suggests the code is correct. I also tend to test a build
347.
by imurray 17y ago
This topic was also posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118779 — I’m adapting my comment from there as it is relevant to the issue of the topic disappearing. I’m not why this topic has got so little interest. Maybe because it
348.
by imurray 17y ago
More detail from one of the authors: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip-and-pin-i... I'm not sure why this thread got no interest. EMV chip and pin has been introduced in Canada, and the authors say it is being adopted in
349.
by imurray 17y ago
Maybe he meant: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhg... ? For me that’s the top hit at http://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+extension+pdf The greasemonkey script I linked above behaves a bit differently, but als
350.
by imurray 17y ago
Give the real URL and note that it is a PDF in the title! Agreed. Personally I much prefer Google's viewer to scribd (no flash!) but I’d still rather a link to the original pdf. I can (and do) add my own Google viewer links in with grease
351.
by imurray 17y ago
It’s funny that the article mentions gzip but not bzip2, which is also commonly installed on Unix systems and uses the Burrows–Wheeler block sorting transformation (followed by Huffman coding).
352.
by imurray 17y ago
Or, Google has cached the posted article: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.thechromesource.com...
353.
by imurray 17y ago
This is really dishonest of Facebook. Most people will have a reasonable (but incorrect) expectation that if a user can't see a friend list on their profile page then Facebook will stop that user from accessing that information. Why else wo
354.
by imurray 17y ago
More information: http://www.ioccc.org/1990/westley.hint
355.
by imurray 17y ago
Ouch, it is the first option; if logged into facebook it seems you can see any old friends list (including ones you can't normally see). The "command" is just to go to the URL in the shell command in your authenticated browser (or to faff a
356.
by imurray 17y ago
That will miss many non-US institutions. For example, UK universities use .ac.uk
357.
by imurray 17y ago
Is there...a way to read PS without installing new software? It's not great compared to say Google's viewer for PDFs, but here is a long-standing service that works: http://view.samurajdata.se/
358.
by imurray 17y ago
The broader take home message of the article: "Don't invent security protocols (e.g., involving hashing) as there can be surprising weaknesses. Find a well-designed library routine that already does what you want."
359.
by imurray 17y ago
On my machine playing the same videos in mplayer or vlc is very close to the CPU used playing in the browser using the video tag. I did read the article, which continued from the bit I quoted as: As of this writing, browsers that support t
360.
by imurray 17y ago
"But minority browsers don't use as much CPU while playing HTML5 video tag data." Are you sure about that? Yes. I just tried it again to be doubly sure. In Chrome the YouTube HTML 5 demo uses 2/3 of the CPU used by the Flash-based version

More ›