skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just plain obvious that decoding a gif into a frame buffer is simpler than merely parsing the xml. Not to speak of rendering the vectors and animating them.

For rending each pixel in the frame buffers has to be set at last once, for both. In the case of Gif a simple lookup is performed for each pixel. In the case of SVG quite complex algorithms are required. I also suspect that the gif decoding is much cache friendlier.

My statistic: The SVG animation stutters, the gif sutters less.
Thanks for the links!

I am getting desperate to contribute (too much post-work free time, don't ask). I have been spamming my favorite python libraries on github with feature requests (so I can pick them up myself later ; ) ), but it's _really_ hard for a n00b contributor to get grounded and started.

I'll hijack this thread: would you have Python projects for first-time contributors? Can we turn downthread from here to "Post open-for-beginners python projects"?
just the toy for me, cant wait to kickstart one!!!
Loops in Lisp, part 1: goto
Saying that is the same as saying that there are C++ opportunities on freelance and odesk. I doubt the OP is looking for a reference to a freelance site.
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This is true. There was a scandal here in the Netherlands the other week where ING had literally written a law giving big banks huge tax breaks.

The Finance minister basically rubber stamped it.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/11/dijsselbloem-u...
Where do you get started learning about DSP? Any recommended reading?
Well the bank.. less so now, as the co-op management screwed up so badly
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This is the case where I live. When I asked the guy who runs one of the two food carts in town about why he didn't take his business inside, he told me that rent would eat him alive. All of the downtown commercial real estate is owned by three companies, and they adjust their rents upwards in lockstep.
Colony: Companies for the 21st Century
Police response reflects major shift in year since Ferguson riots
It takes a second or two to use my lockscreen, so with some prioritisation that should mean that the lockscreen can show early giving the system more time to boot but also feeling more responsive.

KDE used to load a session in the background when the login screen showed so that you didn't then have to wait after logging in.

On Android without root the system seems to use a ton of resources on background jobs that aren't needed; I imagine that slows boot too.
This sounds much like the famous "Boy named Sue" song.
A corporation at the end of the day has it's owners interests at heart, with a large bank like Bank of America their owners and their customers are separate groups and their interests may be odds. When the customers AND the owners are the same interests tend to align and you are less likely to be in a situation where you feel your bank does not have your best interest at heart.
I can think of Requests, Httpie, Ansible and OpenStack to contribute. Would love to know more in other comments.
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Best response yet :)

Finaly spoke with the teacher:

Bobby is wrong.

The "value" of the 5 is 500. They are learning number placement right now: 582 = 500 + 80 + 2

So the thing she is supposed to say is that the 5 is in the hundreds place, so it should be equal to 500.

I loathe that they assign the word "value" when the concept is contextual. The value of 5 is axiomatic, as is the value 582. When I explained this, the teacher's only response was to argue that this standard is almost verbatim outlined by the school district. 
 It must be right then! 


This teaching risks proving that 5=500.

Markmcc has an excellent counterpoint to my frustration, and I plan to use it to explain the objective of the question to my daughter.
A current firefox on a somewhat dated X220 Thinkpad with a i5 core.
You forgot the added bonus of being incredibly childish and fun.
Riddles and easter eggs are cool to.
On why this doesn't make sense:

This doesn't make a lot of sense, as sampling post-Enron (not just banks, anyone), should follow a SOX-404 type of methodology (and banks internally, at least in the US, tend to follow this sampling methodology).

On why this does make perfect sense:

What might have really happened is the bank didn't want to push this, as the regulator were holding something else to their head, or might hold something else to their head (which they may also be unaware of) and [the bank] wants to be seen as a cooperative, not uncooperative, institution.

This is extremely likely.

It isn't like a regulatory body can instantly understand a bank's business. They can't come in at a micro-level and try to understand the books (at least, for a larger bank). There's not the organisational understanding level there. So, an uncooperative institution gets hit by fines and warnings against directors.

Small level non-infraction which may blow-up later (related or unrelated), the bank thinks just take the hit and don't fight it. A smaller organisation may really be worried they're not doing something right (but they don't know what) so this gives some time to get things in order. A larger organisation... similar.

This also benefits the regulators (not to push if the bank put up their hands for a minor crime) as it is super easy for a highly complex organisation to obstifucate things later, if they want to, if they see the regulator as somewhat pesky. In this case, the regulator will have to be extremely sure of their case and push things through legal channels often at a country's executive level, and then things also get difficult. For the case of a rural credit cooperative, the regulator may see them as a general social good (as in 'good thing') but needing to be punched on the nose a few times to keep in line. And then there's internal pressure and politics within a regulator of what 'good' actually is.

>a bank or credit union's best bet is to use the power of business intelligence to continually prove that it is lending fairly in the community and climate that it dwells

Completely agree.
After that day we only need a really bad 0-day exploit to make everybody actually update their browser or switch to Chrome.
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SAMSUNG Galaxy S7 RUMORS , NEWS AND RELEASE DATE
The Casper theme for Ghost (the most popular base theme people work from) has a comment at the end of its screen.css that makes me laugh:

/* ==========================================================================
End of file. Animations should be the last thing here. Do not add stuff
below this point, or it will probably fuck everything up.
========================================================================== */
I'm noticing two emerging interesting trends on the web design/development front nowadays where people embracing and exploring international typographic style motifs mixed with minimalism on one hand and on the other hand, people dabbling with a revival of the ill-fated Flash websites in the early 2000s but this time around built solely on web technologies.

Nothing against those two specific trends and going experimental away from the bland and boring corporate and "professional" look dominating today's market but I must say that the Flash and extreme artsy minimalism are a step backwards and not a best fit for this specific medium and use cases.
Reusable Goods: What Starbucks Can Learn from NYC's Hottest Salad Startup
How Docker Turbocharged Uber’s Deployments
Hackedpodcast – Episode 2: Honeypots, Evil Twins, and the Perils of Open WIFI
User behaviour
What Java added has been part of OOP for 30 years, since before ML (well, around the same time) and Haskell were even invented (let alone Erlang). So I'd put "anonymous functions" in the yes column, but not sure about FP yet.
If that's the case, perhaps Debug builds should be full of "offensive material" so that they are less likely to pass review ;)
Write Heavy is when you are mainly using your ES cluster to log data while your searches are minimal in comparison. Logging is a typical example of this (you save a lot of data but only sporadically do you do searches or aggregates on this).

You might find this an interesting page to read:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...
This is fantastic. I wasn't aware of this paper -- thanks for the pointer. This paper needs to get more attention in academia.
You need deep understanding to develop the next set of accurate models and - perhaps - turn them into useful technology.
They completely brought it upon themselves. You can't just release a phone and then essentially abandon your users - the phone is buggy, email client and browser are borderline unusable and they break features in between releases. It also crashes randomly. Recent update completely broke push-USSD feature which my bank uses, there are open bugs, no response.

If you want to enter the phone market now, even if it's possible at all, you need to deliver ROCK SOLID experience, not something that resembles symbian.
where is the "under construction" digging man animation?
CSS and Javascript can be embedded.
Nice, glad you were able to figure it out.
Good reason to buy Blockr.
Do read the first few comments too. They seem to raise legitimate concerns regarding the methodology /misaligned interests in the research. Regardless, I'm skeptical of the skeptics' suggestions.
Adding a source for reading: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2378009/yahoo-bing-n...

This is from last year. A market that is mostly 35+ and women of higher income (aka the spending decision makers)? It's not something that should be dismissed.
1959: The Year That Changed Jazz
The issue could also be with advocacy and protection-minded lobbying groups petitioning for actions that would have ultimately caused more harm in their second-order effects than the good in their primary goal.
Does beer quality affect population growth in some European cities?
> If you really care which programming languages I already know or which applications I have used before, I can only assume that you're overlooking my ability to quickly pick up new technologies and adjust to new ways of thinking. I would encourage you to correct this, as it is a mistake.

I don't know that these questions are necessarily bad. Often, when I look to see what programming languages someone knows, it's to see if they're operating in the same ecosystem. If you've spent your career writing Java, Ruby, Python and Erlang, you're going to be miserable if I hire you to do ASP.Net and Sharepoint development. You'll probably be fine if I hire you for a Scala job.

You're also not going to be as experienced in the quirks and design patterns in that ecosystem / framework. I'm ok with hiring people who are smart enough to figure it out, but if I'm looking for a senior developer I want someone with some domain expertise who's not going to be learning hard lessons on the job. If it's an existing project, I may not have the luxury of picking the best tool for the job, so I may need to hire people who know the tools that we have. That includes not just the ability to pick up the technology, but knowing from experience how it behaves at scale in a full-stack configuration.
How Onshape collects user feedback
Yes there is. Models can be disproved by empiricism without needing another model.

However, even if a model doesn't work all the time, it doesn't mean it is useless for prediction. Newtons laws is still in use, for example.
Zilong Tan's fast-hash contains a generator which
genetically optimizes over a combination of the cheap ops mul, xorshift left, xorshift right and rotate right, and also does genetic mutations over the initial magic states.

https://code.google.com/p/fast-hash/source/browse/trunk/hash...

The fit function is only the avalanche test, but that's easily exchangable.
This is probably more often the case than not. Regulation is drafted to protect entrenched players and establish permanent streams of income. Most organizations really don't like having a dynamic environment that could make them obsolete on short time scales.
That $349 figure is misleading. It is comprised almost 100% of fixed costs, like executive salaries and buildings, which do not vary with the number of accounts.

Banks charge fees because they seek to maximise profits. Those fees don't have to relate closely to costs. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just that it is so.
We're talking about monikers, so it's perhaps critical to point out that the name is "jawngee" and not "jangwee".
> I picked Chrome because it is, as far as I know, the most standards-compliant browser in wide use at the moment

you sure? Firefox is ahead in at least 2 of the 3 categories on caniuse (though I will admit, they are _very_ close).

Look under "Summary" on these pages:

* http://caniuse.com/#cats=JS%20API

* http://caniuse.com/#cats=Other

* http://caniuse.com/#cats=CSS
I'm not so sure it's tongue in cheek anymore. The problem with post-modernist design is that eventually it just becomes codified cool.

Look at the Terry Richardson shots for American Apparel, the works of Banksy, or Miley Cyrus's outfits -- the original intention was to produce camp, but to young people, without context, they just look cool.

The designers get to feel like they're doing something high-art, because there is intended irony behind their work, but the masses are just experiencing it like any other loud obnoxious art -- it still drowns out anything of subtlety.
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government
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Or maybe "did" should be changed to "have", and we'd all be fine...
Keychain: How to delete a certificate without deleting its private key
Could you describe what you mean by an 'immutable app'?

Thanks
As a true open-source zero timer, I can't quite figure out what PR means. My gut was "pull request" but it sounds like you're "committing a fix" at this point, so I suppose "push request" might be the answer, but it's an ambiguous pair of letters.
Great ending. Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there in the same boat. A complete waste of human talent that will hurt us in a decade or so.
Immediately recognized the name from the guy who does the DOOM source code reviews and am assuming that it is likewise a must read http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php
Three Goldman bankers leave for Uber as tech world raids Wall Street talent
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Also, look at the Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshoi_Cosmological_Simulatio...). Simulating the universe with the currently accepted model of dark matter successfully predicted the large scale structure of the universe. As a model for explaining observations, dark matter does hold some merit.
haha, I remember begging my parents to let me make "just one" phone call to one of those
Anyone? I think you're deceiving yourself there. My point was really that the comment was clearly from a privileged perspective - not everyone out of work is just lazy.

Working in a job that's not a perfect fit is a small step down the scale of compromising one's career out of necessity. Next step would probably be working on a different industry. Then there is a lot further to go before your cleaning up other people's mess or faeces, scrubbing abattoir floors, or what-have-you.

Agreed on your second sentence, but that's a valid choice.
Yes, I've thought about it. I doubt do they hire me if I read "The Go programming language book" and say that I have C/C++ experience?
Or it is necessary to spend a lot of time learning Go and contributing to open source projects just to get hired anywhere? Do Go jobs nowtimes actually require just general programming experience assuming that Go could be learned in first days of working?
Free is the new “it didn't work out”
Exactly what I thought, but with "null" instead (or better, an empty version of whatever was there).
XIPH has a great video series about it. http://xiph.org/video/

(well that's video, but close enough)
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Sure, you could run a bank with no branches and no support phone number.
9 Successful entrepreneurs share their best tips for first timers
For those who dismiss immersive shared viewing experiences from couch distance: do you think consumer VR will succeed?
street lighting ?
It's funny that you mention the UK, which used to have a number of mutual bank-like institutions called 'building societies'. Many of these became banks about 20 years ago, and former members (holders of mortgage or deposit accounts) received windfall cash payments in exchange for their shares.

I don't recall what drove the transformation, but It wouldn't be surprising if those who made the decisions had some upside from either their current or future compensation packages.
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Usually you get an electrical engineering degree. I was lucky enough to find a company willing to let me learn on the job.

I can recommend these: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0240825152?psc=1&redirect=tr...

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0262014467?psc=1&redirect=tr...
Is it possible to distribute a database publicly?
As a pastime project, I have decided to work on practical way to verify the authenticity of digital data (derived from https://www.anf.es/pdf/Haber_Stornetta.pdf). I have decided to use git(http://blog.sysbase.org/the-blockchain-question/) as a mean for keeping all records up to date. However, I still have doubts about git's feasibility.

Is there a way to distribute an SQL database--for example--publicly and yet keep all versions up to date(asynchronously), similar to blockchain yet different?

I am aware of the existence of mirroring and replication, but it will require authorization. That wont do it, especially if my goal is to give access to anyone who wants it.
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I don't know if you read the website or want to provide some kind of source for the cost breakdown, but my source suggests it's 50% branches and arms, 20% call centers and payment, 20% security and compliance and 10% product development and sales.

I guess you can call those fixed costs. No mention of executive salaries, maybe product development? If they were just fixed costs, and banks were making money off small accounts, why are they discouraging them so much with minimum balances and fees? I cancelled a small account recently and the bank seemed happy to let me go. Not even a question of why I was leaving.
There is art that revels in loudness, and art that embraces subtlety. They can coexist. A Palahniuk novel does not negate an Ishiguro. The world is too big and audiences too fragmented for any one thing to dominate.
Wireless for houses is, especially in rural areas like where I live. I am in the process of starting a WISP right now to serve my rural area.

The biggest challenge in any area is how crowded the spectrum is. Crowded spectrum will ruin your available bandwidth.
Ubuntu finally dropping Python 2.7 in the default installation of 16.04
Mental health is no joke
Why We Are Especially Hard on Ourselves on Holidays
Banks don't charge outrageous surcharges and fees to be evil.

Yes they do. It's very common for commercial banks to intentionally order transactions which cause an overage such that they result in the highest amount of fees possible, and then charge an extra fee because you couldn't cover the overage fee.

If this were simply banks trying to be profitable, why wouldn't they simply raise overage fees and charge them predictably? Is there a regulation which disallows this?

Sorry, I'll stick with keeping my money with an institution that's not legally bound to engage in an adversarial relationship with me.
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Short description of what this site is from the author:

> Hi folks,

> As we are seeing more and more interesting posts I've decided to take action an centralize it, so posts won't get lost in our busy twitter stream ;)

> Looking forward to getting your feedback and quality RSS urls!
It's pull request, that's git terminoly to merge external code to an existing project.
Look into SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/). It is an SQL database in a single file.

The single file is easy to distribute publicly.

You will, however, have to layer your own method of keeping all copies up to date on top of SQLite. It does not have that capability built in.
This trend seems to be a symptom of growing income inequality that concentrates capital in a few of our most culturally rich cities.
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And "Best viewed in IE6"?
Slackbots: landscape, opportunities and risks
I am in the process of starting a small, rural WISP, and I have absolutely no plans to store this data. As you said, I plan to store as little as possible about my customers.
"A woman with display driver problems who had dualboot has intermittent issues with display"
Had to once more flog systemd as it that is the only fast alternative to systemv...
A lot of sites use some kind of geo IP lookup to only show the Euro cookie prompt to European users, which is probably what you were running into, and why it didn't show to other people.
If safety for noobs is the rationale then why can't they ship iOS with a deep down hidden switch that allows side-loading?

To keep out the noobs they could make it require a command line tool and display an extra scary warning and have it void the warranty.

I don't see why we should all need to suffer because of the majority's ignorance.
It also seems the author glosses over the fact that the App Store is dominated by the "hit" model. For every Candy Crush, there are a dozen very similar games also priced at $0 that went nowhere. Why did one win when the others didn't? Some combination of factors too complex to tease apart.
When human beings are extremely frightened, they may faint，blind or die, even there's no any physically contact. It looks psychological problem can be a physical problem temporarily or permanently.
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That's tied up with how git works, which is a huge mess.

You really do "commit a fix" but you commit it to your own git repository, then you make a "pull request" to the owner of the main repository, asking them to pull in your fix.
I'm in the process of starting a small, rural WISP. My contact details are in my profile... no 'road-map' though. It can be very different depending on your situation. Still, I am interested in collaborating with others!
I'm working (albeit freelance) remotely on a project that is 100% COBOL at the moment. They have offered full time work for me, so I know it's possible.

I know COBOL isn't C, but it's the same concept - systems programming/secure stuff rather than bashing out websites.
Can you expand? It's easier now that ever to switch and compare banks. It's fairly competitive. But my original point was that the banks are losing a lot of money on small accounts, so obviously they're not trying to compete for them and merely offer and service those accounts due to pressure of regulators and to earn public good will.
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So, one thing my company does is that we have git hooks preventing any file containing "DBG" from being committed. Our logging system's debug level is called DBG.

Thus, debug-level logs are only for temporary debugging and can't be committed. Several times, I've written lines of debug logs that consisted of log.DBG("Well, fuck") knowing that they'd never be committed and that we have technical means of making sure of this.
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Today's world is amd64, armv7, and soon aarch64. Everything else is dead, Jim
"almost certainly" means "I've never experienced the joy of this kind of problem"

People see this stuff in the real world. It sucks.
"Series" is a bit generous, as it's two videos...