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bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

July 05 2017 01:58 GMT

#17901

I could be reading this wrong, but I get the impression you want to copy current files to new folders?

If so a script is definitely the way I'd do it with symbolic links, it should be pretty quick.

Manit0u

Poland17554 Posts

July 05 2017 05:08 GMT

#17902

On July 05 2017 10:58 bo1b wrote:
I could be reading this wrong, but I get the impression you want to copy current files to new folders?

If so a script is definitely the way I'd do it with symbolic links, it should be pretty quick.

Exactly. But I can't use symlinks, I needed actual, physical files (needed to test other script that operates on files and how long will it take specific server to upload 50GB to S3).

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

July 05 2017 05:32 GMT

#17903

Ah I see.

Can do it fairly easily in shell script if you know it, if you don't a ruby script will work just as well. I'm guessing you work in some form of backend development? You probably know all this anyway haha.

BrTarolg

United Kingdom3574 Posts

July 05 2017 08:42 GMT

#17904

Ok so i'm still a noob, but maybe a little less nooby than before

i can try to tackle that "find the first non unique letter in a string"

def find_non_unique(y):

target = [x for x in str(y)]

for letter in target:
if target.count(letter) > 1
return letter

return "?"

---

obviously doesn't cover all the edge cases yet (inputs could be numbers etc.) but it's a start!

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

July 05 2017 09:51 GMT

#17905

An excellent opportunity to learn some different algorithms and data structures btw. Try chucking the values into a hash table and seeing what you can learn from it. Also, in regards to determining if the character is a letter or not, ascii tables are definitely the way to go.

Actually a really good simple way to implement data structures the more that I look at it.

Try using some sorting algorithms - radix sort comes to mind.

Manit0u

Poland17554 Posts

July 05 2017 11:29 GMT

#17906

On July 05 2017 17:42 BrTarolg wrote:
Ok so i'm still a noob, but maybe a little less nooby than before

i can try to tackle that "find the first non unique letter in a string"

def find_non_unique(y):

target = [x for x in str(y)]

for letter in target:
if target.count(letter) > 1
return letter

return "?"

---

obviously doesn't cover all the edge cases yet (inputs could be numbers etc.) but it's a start!

All is well. Except the task was to return the first unique letter

Acrofales

Spain18160 Posts

July 05 2017 12:32 GMT

#17907

On July 05 2017 18:51 bo1b wrote:
An excellent opportunity to learn some different algorithms and data structures btw. Try chucking the values into a hash table and seeing what you can learn from it. Also, in regards to determining if the character is a letter or not, ascii tables are definitely the way to go.

Actually a really good simple way to implement data structures the more that I look at it.

Try using some sorting algorithms - radix sort comes to mind.

To be fair, the sample code is python, so just use isalpha()

Not quite sure how isalpha is implemented, but my bet would be that it uses simple comparison (>= a, <= z, same for caps). If it works with unicode it'll be more complicated, though.

E: in Python 3 it works with unicode. So it probably uses unicode metadata.

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

July 05 2017 12:51 GMT

#17908

Certainly, but there's value gained in writing your own functions and loops when starting out I think.

Acrofales

Spain18160 Posts

July 05 2017 13:03 GMT

#17909

Okay, I'm stumped. StackOverflow doesn't seem to know either (0 responses). It's not really programming. More fucky linux stuff that should work but doesn't:

I am trying to configure avahi-daemon on my raspberry pi to broadcast the service I just programmed, which needs to be discoverable automatically. It sorta works, but not quite, and I cannot figure out why not.

If I use:


avahi-publish -s myservice _mqtt._tcp 1883

it works just fine, but that doesn't configure it to start automatically. For that I need to add it to a config, so I did just that. I added myservice.service in /etc/avahi/services with the following content:


<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
 <name replace-wildcards="yes">myservice</name>
  <service>
   <type>_mqtt._tcp</type>
   <port>1883</port>
   </service>
</service-group>

This should work (according to all the documentation I've seen), but doesn't. It also doesn't work if I run


sudo systemctl status avahi-daemon

It doesn't give an error. It just doesn't publish my service (despite the log saying it read my config file).

Now for the really fucky funky bit: if I copy the default ssh.service over from the avahi documentation and then RERUN the systemctl command above, it recognizes a "change" in the service files, reloads and then BOTH ssh and myservice are published correctly. Moreover, if I then remove ssh.service and run systemctl again, it recognizes that ssh.service is gone, and removes that service, but leaves myservice completely functional. However, if I reboot the device, it stops working again.

Moreover, if I leave ssh.service and reboot it also doesn't work...

I don't understand what is wrong.

Manit0u

Poland17554 Posts

July 05 2017 14:17 GMT

#17910

On July 05 2017 22:03 Acrofales wrote:
Okay, I'm stumped. StackOverflow doesn't seem to know either (0 responses). It's not really programming. More fucky linux stuff that should work but doesn't:

I am trying to configure avahi-daemon on my raspberry pi to broadcast the service I just programmed, which needs to be discoverable automatically. It sorta works, but not quite, and I cannot figure out why not.

If I use:


avahi-publish -s myservice _mqtt._tcp 1883


<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
 <name replace-wildcards="yes">myservice</name>
  <service>
   <type>_mqtt._tcp</type>
   <port>1883</port>
   </service>
</service-group>

This should work (according to all the documentation I've seen), but doesn't. It also doesn't work if I run


sudo systemctl status avahi-daemon

Perhaps it has some problems with the socket?

https://superuser.com/a/649970

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

July 05 2017 16:40 GMT

#17911

regarding the "return the first non-unique letter in a string", it's not actual code but what I would do is

1.)use bucketsort on the string, putting their index into the bucket that corresponds to their value
(you'd have to adjust your bucketsort if you want capitalization or whatever)

2.) traverse each bucket that corresponds to a letter(we only care about letters right?). if a bucket contains more than 1 element in it's list immediately move to the next bucket

3.) return the first index from a bucket with only 1 element

I think that this is roughly 1 traversal. Worst case n+however many ascii characters you are counting as letters.

Acrofales

Spain18160 Posts

July 05 2017 17:11 GMT

#17912

On July 06 2017 01:40 travis wrote:
regarding the "return the first non-unique letter in a string", it's not actual code but what I would do is

1.)use bucketsort on the string, putting their index into the bucket that corresponds to their value
(you'd have to adjust your bucketsort if you want capitalization or whatever)

2.) traverse each bucket that corresponds to a letter(we only care about letters right?). if a bucket contains more than 1 element in it's list immediately move to the next bucket

3.) return the first index from a bucket with only 1 element

I think that this is roughly 1 traversal. Worst case n+however many ascii characters you are counting as letters.

Doesn't seem great. You'd also have to find all your buckets with only 1 element, find all of their occurrences, and then pick the minimum. Come on travis, you can do better than that.

As for my own issue: gonna learn about what avahi does with sockets. Doesn't seem too promising, but it's at least something I can muck about with

E: well, still haven't figured out what the hell is wrong, but if I add "systemctl reload avahi-daemon" to my rc.local script, it works. Avahi is still a compete piece of shit, though. This is not the first problem I have had with zeroconf requiring a LOT of conf...

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

July 05 2017 17:47 GMT

#17913

On July 06 2017 02:11 Acrofales wrote:

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Doesn't seem great. You'd also have to find all your buckets with only 1 element, find all of their occurrences, and then pick the minimum. Come on travis, you can do better than that.

ah shit you're right, well I didn't spend more than a couple minutes on it. gimme a little bit i'll redeem myself lol

edit: ok i have homework to do

but basically the best I can come up with in this small amount of time is to use what I already said except for just run through the string a second time, and look up how many of each letter you come across is in a bucket

so worse case ~2n

it's basically the same as just making an array that corresponds to characters and then incrementing them by 1 as you go through the string
then go through the string again and return the first letter that has a count of 1

I actually want to think about this more, lol. it's a fun one
but I gotta study for final

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

July 05 2017 18:47 GMT

#17914

what I quickly hammered into julia to find the first unique letter... (could you guys stop alternating between finding the first unique and finding the first non-unique?^^ it works pretty much the same in either case though)

so looping once over the string is enough.


function find_first_unique(S) #returns '?' if none found
  letters = zeros(26)
  for i = 1:length(S)
    c = Int(S[i])
    (c > 96) && (c < 123) && (c -= 32) # converts lowercase letters to uppercase letters
    if c > 64 && c < 91
      c -= 64
      if letters[c] == 0
        letters[c] = i
      else
        letters[c] = Inf
      end
    end
  end
  result = '?'
  pos = Inf
  for i = 1:26
    p = letters[i]
    if p!=0 && p<pos
      pos = p
      result = Char(i+64)
    end
  end
  return result 
end

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

July 05 2017 19:58 GMT

#17915

poor guy, just came across this lol

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

July 05 2017 20:16 GMT

#17916

Am I missing something? Thought this was really straightforward?
+ Show Spoiler +


char find_first_nonunique_character(string input_string) {
    set<char> characters;

    for (char& c: input_string) {
        if (characters.contains(element)) {
            return element;
        } else {
            characters.insert(element);
        }
    }

    throw IllegalArgumentException("Input only has unique characters");
}


char find_first_unique_character(string input_string) {
    map<char, int> characters_count;

    for (char& c: input_string) {
        if (characters_count.count(c) == 0) {
            characters_count.insert(element, 1);
        } else {
            characters_count[element] += 1;
        }
    }
    
    for (char& c: input_string) {
        if (characters_count.count(c) == 1) {
            return c;
        }
    }

    throw IllegalArgumentException("Input has no unique characters");
}

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

July 05 2017 20:28 GMT

#17917

On July 06 2017 05:16 Blisse wrote:
Am I missing something? Thought this was really straightforward?

+ Show Spoiler +


char find_first_nonunique_character(string input_string) {
    set<char> characters;

    for (char& c: input_string) {
        if (characters.contains(element)) {
            return element;
        } else {
            characters.insert(element);
        }
    }

    throw IllegalArgumentException("Input only has unique characters");
}


char find_first_unique_character(string input_string) {
    map<char, int> characters_count;

    for (char& c: input_string) {
        if (characters_count.count(c) == 0) {
            characters_count.insert(element, 1);
        } else {
            characters_count[element] += 1;
        }
    }
    
    for (char& c: input_string) {
        if (characters_count.count(c) == 1) {
            return c;
        }
    }

    throw IllegalArgumentException("Input has no unique characters");
}

your find unique doesnt work and will always return the first character of the string, given that it surely will have an entry in your map, thus the count(c) will always return 1 on it.

And even if you fix that bug in your code, I think it was never argued that this problem is a challenge to solve, but the question is how to solve it efficiently. And that optimization is the way more tricky part with a lot of probably interesting potential ideas.
Using maps is certainly something I would avoid in that regard!

BrTarolg

United Kingdom3574 Posts

July 05 2017 20:39 GMT

#17918

On July 05 2017 20:29 Manit0u wrote:

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All is well. Except the task was to return the first unique letter

Lmao I can't believe how badly I'm reading this problem hahaha

Oh well == 1 then :p

Its ok I'd rather fails now than in an interview
Mostly tackling stuff on codewars atm, I'm a lowly 5/6kyu but making progress

Edit: tbh from codewars I'm learning I could solve most of these really simply in a few lines but I'm really reliant on the inbuilt python functions and clever use of list comprehension. Not sure how I would do without but the simplest I guess would be to make a count function within the function (returns a count number, very simple) and then use that

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

July 05 2017 21:05 GMT

#17919

this practice final for my algorithms class is nuts...

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/summer2017/cmsc351/fin-prac.pdf

Manit0u

Poland17554 Posts

July 05 2017 21:15 GMT

#17920

On July 06 2017 05:28 mahrgell wrote:

Show nested quote +

Actually, it's an algorithms interview question everyone is asked at my company. Making it optimal isn't important. Making it work is semi-important (good attempts count, even if they fail somehow - my initial solution could enter an infinite loop but I've corrected it when it was pointed out and it was fine). 90% of the candidates can't make it past this test

My pretty shitty solution during the interview:


letter = string.shift

foreach another_letter in string
  if letter == another_letter
    delete all copies of letter from string
    reset

return letter

Obviously, it was a bit more complicated, since I've decided to do it in C for whatever reason. The only optimization was that with each pass it had to go through smaller char arrays (but still, it was quite a bit of work). My mind simply went blank and I went down to absolute basics of programming, without using any existing libraries or built-in functions for it.

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