skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have mentioned there are a range of OpenStreetMaps-based apps--I use maps.me on iOS--that have variously good or bad levels of trail detail. In the UK the digital versions of the Ordinance Survey maps are quite good in my (limited) experience.
I have been playing with toy languages for the guile VM, and you can do quite a lot of things before the VM limits you much.

With some exceptions though: Java VM does not support tail call optimization, which limits how you implement loop constructs.
Unfortunately, all of the people of this world are not always as virtuous and honest as I would hope, especially those people in positions of great power.

Why did we drop 26,000 bombs on Muslim countries last year? Why is Snowden in Russia? Why did no one go to jail when evidence leaked of CIA torture, except the whistle blower? Why do the people of this planet produce a surplus of food and watch as some starve? Why did evidence the Bush admin lied about Iraq WMDs go unpunished?

The point is the leaders that exist dont mind cheating, and they usually get away with it.
The advantage is that if they decide to take it, they can easily do so (and in the meantime it's significant bargaining leverage).
> At first they pay more than German students for the same semester

Citation needed. Never heard of any differences in fees for foreigners.

> Then they hardly get access to the public student dorms

Not in my experience. Dorms are full of foreigh students.

> and are put 3-6 people in old, unclean apartments far away from university (partly without public transport access)

"Are put"? What you describe is a "WG" ("Wohngemeinschaft" roughly "living community") which is simply a co-rental. So nobody "is put" there, you search and rent what you can find.
WGs are generally recommended for foreign students because it allows better socializing and integration.

> EACH of them pays as much as a German would pay for the whole apartment

What you state is that a foreigner typically pays 3x-6x compared to a native, which is false. The price for 1 room in a WG is normally somewhat lower than for a 1-room-appartment.

> Old dudes (teachers, profs, organizers) dating barely legal girls in exchange for favors also is accepted practice.

University typically starts at the age of 21-23. Since you call this "barely legal" this points out that you either not know what you are talking about or intentionally make false claims.

I live and work in Germany since 2001, I've worked as a researcher at a university institution 2001-2004 and knew a lot of foreign students, also as close friends. Your post is not compatible with the reality that I know.
Academia.edu is awful, but it's silly to think that just because academics work at non-profit institutions that all their tools should be provided by non-profits. I've purchased many pieces of software to help with my research and I don't expect the developers to do it out of the kindness of their heart.
On iOS, I've used Pocket Earth for years and really like it. They added topographic maps awhile back, and also have integrations with Wikipedia/Wikivoyage. I have pins and stars of POIs from all my trips saved (and exported) through that app.

https://pocketearth.com/
They do get paid, just more indirectly in the form of grants. It may not be for "profit", but scientists don't work for free or publish purely out of altruism.

As for building for-profit services on top of not-for-profit research, I don't see the issue. Would it be equally immoral to sell or even lease Bibles to churches since churches are financially reliant on donations?

The beauty of Capitalism is it tells you what people are willing to put money/time towards. If enough of the scientific community feels so strongly that academic research should be accessible for free via some sort of charity, they are welcome to start and manage said charity and/or refuse to buy subscriptions to Academia.edu. I honestly wish them luck, a free, open service for such knowledge would be awesome! However, proclaiming that others are morally obligated to provide that charity, simply because they market their service to "charities", sounds rather arrogant to me.
> Air-temperature data from 2000 to 2014 show that parts of the Arctic are now 3 deg C warmer as compared to the 1971-2000 baseline.

29 years constitutes a baseline.
The operative words in the rules of both riddles are "appears first".
"US government/Federal Reserve has significant negotiating ability"

Yeah about that, in public, the only lever we can pull against Germany is stalling. Not exactly a show of strength. If you take away our leverage over you by removing your gold, we'll... um... ah... we'll punish you by doing it really slowly, yeah that'll teach you a lesson. Like trying to cancel your cable TV or a gym membership, the only influence they can exert is to make the transaction as slow and painful as possible. Which has certain implications WRT perceived long term odds of reconciliation.

In private more interesting deals might be going on of course. Just pointing out in public its the opposite of a show of strength LOL.

Against the Swiss we can, and have, and will again, pull the privacy lever so holding their shiny yellow metal is unnecessary to retain leverage over them. You do what we say, because we have your computerized account records, not because we have your gold. I don't think we've powned the German financial system to the level we have the Swiss.
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There is a way to do this without the security/bloat/management issues. Take a look at the approach of GNU Guix. Both versions of a package can coexist in the system. Libraries are dynamically-linked and security updates can be applied fast (without building the world), using the "grafting" system.
Believe it or not, banks often offer a secure money transfer mechanism you can use these days (finally). It only took them over a decade.

Google Wallet also works.
> The US had paid for its imports with pieces of paper on the promise, that these pieces of paper were as good as gold and would be exchanged for gold at a fixed rate upon request. In 1971 Nixon just said screw you, you can keep those papers and we will keep your commodities and the gold. We stayed friends anyway. We had to.

It's a bit more complicated, isn't it? Wasn't it West Germany, in May 1971, that said "screw you" to the US and the Bretton Woods system (the same system that helped them rebuild their economy after the war) and performed a competitive appreciation by floating the currency, contributing to the resulting Gold crisis? The Nixon shock happened in August 1971, when the game was up.
Maybe check https://www.blm.gov/maps/georeferenced-PDFs for coverage.

I expect the BLM maps would be at least as detailed as Google and probably better.
Investigating victimless crimes is safer then trying to find a maniac kidnapper who steals people for fun.

How many violent crimes are occurring while cops investigate some guy who wants to put drugs in his own body in his own house?
You should definitely try steams bitcoin integration before you dismiss the possibility. Grab a bitcoin wallet on your phone, go buy $5 worth of bitcoin, and then use that $5 of bitcoin to buy $5 of steam credit.

It's a considerably smoother user flow than using a credit card, and it's just as fast. I think you'll be surprised and impressed.
Very odd statement to include economical geopolitics here. Do you really believe that German companies lobbied each of the 16 German state-governments to lure in foreign students just so they buy German stuff back at home? Wouldn't it make more sense to influence foreigners directly with this thing called "marketing"?

If you're Adidas, why the hell go through this hassle and conspire with << all the other german companies >> to use the german education system as a proxy for getting a little bit of good PR - not even for your product, just German products in general.

If there's a geopolitical factor involved at all it's inter-cultural relations, which for a country that ruined most of Europe once is a rather good thing.
Thats a bit concern for me, I am actively looking for people who can help me... are you interested ?? :-)
L(ego)S(sorting)ASAS would be very popular with the families I know, a little van that pulls up outside, dump the lot in and get back the bits sorted by kits :)
I have never liked academia.edu. I always found it pointless. If I want to share my academic work I'll put it on my own web site.

I also found it weird that they had a .edu address (apparently they bought it before the rules were put in place and so they are grandfathered in)

Whenever I searched for a paper and google found an academia.edu link my process was, click on the link, oh crap it wants me to log in, what's my password again? fuck it, I'll just go to scihub.
Germany or Europe is no threat to the US dollar dominance; if anything the euro and the usd are "same" currency thru central bank arrangements.

The real threat to the US dollar system comes from China; slowly thru many decades.
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1200 tons of gold is worth $50B; Germany currently owes the US $175B. [1] Could it just be collateral?

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-15748696
Capitalism is exactly why you have nice things. Someone figures out what people want, how much they will pay, and then they go about providing it. Others catch on and compete and everyone benefits.

What is happening here is that too many bench warmers are trying to make excuses for why there are enough subscribers to the site. After all, all these people how can't they get a paltry 25k.

Simple, not that many people really know about their site and of those apparently the bulk just don't care. Maybe the content isn't really that interesting. Call a spade a spade.

then throw in, there is just such a wealth of information out there that it is easy to get lost and any one trying to sell stuff is going to have to work very hard to get noticed and even harder to make the sell.

Greed doesn't require capitalism, it occurs about any place where someone has stuff other people don't and where government leadership plays off the feelings of jealousy, income differences, and racial differences. Greed requires politicians who are more quite capable of telling you someone else has stuff you don't have and it is not fair or that you deserve stuff for free... provided you vote for them
> I'm not sure the marginal cost of an extra student is very high. They take a seat in a classroom and a few hours of teacher time to grade their work

Maybe, but there's also opportunity cost. That's one seat that someone isn't taking, teacher time that isn't going to someone else.

> contribute to the German economy by living there

Yes, but they cost the German economy by being there too. Have you done the math on the tradeoff?

> they'll keep a fond memory for Germany and I'm sure that will somehow have a positive impact

How? I have a fond memory for Germany after being a tourist there. Didn't need to cost the state tens of thousands in tuition dollars to do it.
Indeed. FYI, I'm Dutch, not German, and am just wondering about the whole "the world needs permission" kind of thing.
I think you're correct in your intuition.

I recall watching a recent talk by Andrew Ng who mentioned that reading research papers is a key method in improving as deep learning specialist / data scientist, but that one should temper their expectations of knowledge acquisition. One might spend a Sunday trying to go deep into a paper, but at the end of the weekend that person may barely get much out of it. He even admits that sometimes it takes him a couple reads over a course of several sessions to fully grasp a new concept. Which isn't all that surprising given the information asymmetry between the authors and the reader.
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Pragmatically it is actually a giant pain to use. Its bizarre text substitution semantics are hugely unintuitive compared to modern languages.
Indeed it's not clear America has ever had much of a middle class. As PG says, 20th Century America had a large working class population who enjoyed middle incomes, fuelled by America's huge industrial expansion. That expansion is now over.

In my opinion, what's happened has been quite toxic. People have been given the illusion of social progress whilst true opportunity has been concentrated in a very small population. Those that want their country back have missed the point: it was never theirs in the first place.
Yes, IF you have an actual GPS device. My point is that most people's mapping on their cell phone is running off the cell network, not the actual GPS network, so will fail once you lose signal. Including mine. :)

I primarily use paper maps and a compass, to be honest. It might be old-school, but it still works if my batteries die.

EDIT: OK, I stand corrected! I just am the old guy who hasn't updated my phone in forever. My iphone 4 doesn't cut it apparently... But my paper and compass really does work.
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http://osmand.net/ is excellent plus you can install it from https://f-droid.org/.
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>important things like infinite scroll

No.
Sounds complicated. I can see the logic in separating kids into groups of equivalent aptitude.

I wonder how they arrived at the 5th class being where the categorisation happens.

I appreciate you explaining it, thank you.
> Cisco doesn't use QNX

Other than on their most expensive, powerful routers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_XR
The UK's class system is impossible to summarise precisely, but I think most people would consider Eton and Harrow as upper class. It's where future world leaders, powerful civil servants, royals and aristocrats, significant politicians, and captains of industry go to be educated. (And, not incidentally, to be told how special they are.)

Middle class is more the common professionals - managers, small business owners, doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects, academics, creatives. The marker used to be a degree or some success running a business, but the degree part has been devalued now.

Working class is everyone else. Even if they work in an office.

Put even more crudely the upper class creams off the money, the middle class keeps the money machine running, and the working class does the grunt work.

Income doesn't correlate neatly with these groups. It's possible - not even as an outlier - to be middle class and working in the arts with very little money, or be working class and earning six figures.
Wasn't that movie only? I read book longer before but I never remembered the empty vault thing...
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These systems are used in NYC
If there really is a doubt that the US holds less gold than it claims, surely this would be reflected in the pricing of US-held gold? Yet I've never heard that such a price gap exists. What am I missing?
Smart phones generally have a dedicated GPS receiver (with support for several satellite constellations). A smart phone dependent on the network for positioning would be an exception at this point (they certainly use the network to speed up location acquisition and improve precision, but they are not dependent on it).
Probably not even then. Gaia/Sayshell seem way more fun :)
How I realised “Free Software” is a better term than “Open Source”
How do airplanes work?
The problem is that rights don't have meaning if they don't have real world effects and in the real world you need resources to exercise any freedom making freedom a limited good dependent on "goods that can be property".

i.e. you end up with a clash between the right to own/control property and any other right unless you have a post scarcity society with limitless resources.

I am not arguing that we should all go communist im arguing that Marx have point when he claimed that capitalism will devolve back into something similar to mercantilism* if property is allowed to accumulate in the hands of a few clans/corporations[1].

I know im being a heretic but someone have to as the current naive idea that freedom is not linked with real world resources can only lead to the erosion of any real meaning of the word freedom.

[1]in Smiths day corporations looked a lot like AT&T or Google today and Smith was a critic of the power concentrated within corporations like the British East-india Company(the target of the Boston tea part btw.)
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What user-friendly alternative do you propose to affiliate links? I'd rather have a link that I choose to click than ads and third party analytics loaded. On my handful of pages donate buttons don't convert. Affiliate links are the best way I've found to cover hosting costs while respecting my visitors bandwidth and privacy.
Cities don't have any leverage. I used to live in Baltimore (quite dense east coast city). Comcast has a de facto monopoly there. Verizon has fiber in most of Maryland, and all the surrounding suburbs, and wanted to build in Baltimore. Baltimore demanded full coverage of the city, and the numbers didn't work out so Verizon didn't build. Baltimore begged Google to build fiber but Google categorically doesn't agree to build out requirements.[1]

What is Baltimore going to do? You can regulate all you want but you can't make companies build. The big dense cities best suited for fiber also tend to be broke, so municipal fiber isn't in the card either. There are no restrictions to municipal fiber here in Maryland--parts of Anne Arundel (heavily rural county around Annapolis) that don't have FiOS are getting municipal fiber. But Baltimore, like most larger US cities, is poorly managed and has no money.

[1] Baltimore is in some ways a great candidate for fiber. The 740 miles of conduit under the city is owned by the city itself; utilities and telcos all rent conduit space per linear foot from the city. It's a significant east coast telecom hub. But fully 1/4 of residents are at or below the poverty line. Very few neighborhoods have enough higher income people who could afford to subscribe to $70/month fiber service. Outside of a handful of rich, heavily gentrified places like D.C., NYC, and SF, most of the dense cities (the ones best suited for fiber) in the US are also extremely poor. (That is in stark contrast to London or Paris, where wealthier people tend to live in the city while lower income people live in close suburbs).
> Wasn't Ethereum unusable for a a decent percentage of 2017 so far?

No. Ethereum suffered DoS attacks for a couple of months, but even during the worst of them it had significantly larger tx capacity than Bitcoin.
If the alternative was keeping it under my mattress, and you were known to be a respectable citizen, then I don't see why not. Isn't this basically what a bank does already?
I think that's true of all papers/sites.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

― Michael Crichton
From autobahns that can be convertef to airports.
That reminds me of the history of Spanish gold. In summary: the republican government made an arrangement with Russia to send their gold reserves to not let Franco capture it.

Suddenly the russian military help became quite expensive. Paid in gold of course. All of it.
Well the article hints that there is not as much gold in the store as there should be. Or if the amount is there, it is not as high quality as it should be.

If this was the case and Germans could prove this, it might not be in their interest to call out the Americans for cheating. The article point out that this could destabilize the world economy and that could be very costly for the Germans. Think about local banks collapsing and industrial exports plummeting.
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That's a postgraduate course. I guess free tuition applies only to undergraduates.
Obviously, the threshold is $1 richer than me
Having the ability to send 1 billion people from A to B is useless unless there is actual demand to send 1 billion people from A to B. Similarly, not all stations get anywhere close to the same demand, but you need to build a large network or the peak demand is less. Thus, measuring the network is what's important not the 'best case' subset of a few most heavily used stations.

Further, roads and bridges do get used from 2-4 AM when subway systems are generally not operating, so it's the use over the full day that's important not just peak usage.
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http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/dont-mess-with-switz...

Aircraft caverns :) F18/A Hornets and modern equipments.
Maplets is a really good iOS app for searching and using maps.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/maplets-the-offline-maps-app...
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It could have been just swapped out for gold coated lead bars.

Hard to tell without any transparency.
How do you even transport 300 tons of gold? Load it onto a military ship, maybe in smaller batches, and hope the crew isn't too corrupt?
One argument, not made, is that it may help German students too. Having various nationalities at home expose them to other ways of thinking. And it increases their abilities to deal with them culturally later in life/business.

I do find a parallel, at a completely different scale, with the strategy of Loh, the coach of the US high-school team for the Math Olympiads. An important part of his strategy is to invite his international opponents to train with his team. It is counter intuitive, but he says it makes his team better, and they're less scared of competition. They won twice in a row since.

NYT article: https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/wordplay/2016/07/18/imo-201...
I was about to mention the same book and the same idea out of that book. It's written by Adler and van Doren.
> A month ago I wrote an article called "How I realised “Open Source” is a better term than “Free Software”". Now I change my mind completely and explain why everything I said was actually wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACePi441ds
Title should really leave out all the bits between 'account' and the comma.
And according to that site, the US owes Germany over $400B, so not sure what the point would be.
The average over the full US is kind of meaningless as most areas don't have traffic problems. It's only large city's that actually matter in this assessment.

On page 4, 2006: 80% used a carpool or single occupancy car. 2013: 76% used a carpool or single occupancy car which is counter to their narrative. Further, metro areas are rather large, I commute less than 3 miles on secondary roads in the DC metro area from just outside the beltway to just inside of it and encounter approximately zero traffic.
I wonder if maybe it's intended for use when the filesystem is intentionally wiped out, maybe so you can deny any data exists on a disk at all. (Like anti-forensics?) I don't know, I've never really wanted to do anything like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer_forensics
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Nice! As someone who loves to hike, you should add the National Forest Maps too: https://www.fs.fed.us/visit/maps/