skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blog post implies, without much proof, that it is the US Fed that is causing the gold to be moved slowly, which conforms to the blog posters political opinions.

It could of course also be that the German gold is not moving out of the US Fed quickly because the German central bank has promised it as collateral for something, or it is involved in some other financial deal. The Swiss for instance were able to move about this much gold out of the Fed during the same time period with no problems.
https://www.nomachine.com/enterprise

^ that basically. A number of large servers (ex file servers in this case, so 2x e5-2690v2 and 384 gigs of ram).

Each person uses an AD login to connect to a terminal server. We would get about ~200 to a server, assuming people didn't have too many tabs open.

If you want smooth browsing, then you'll need to limit tabs and adverts. Cgroups will help you in memory allocation per user.
I came to Germany in 2001 to work as a scientist knowing no German at all. It worked out pretty very well for me.
The conversion rate is so low probably because a resume contains only about 5% of the information needed to determine whether a potential candidate is a good fit for the job (not to mention the information the candidate needs to determine whether a job is a good fit for them).

Screening resumes is the easy and quick part of the hiring process. By hand I can go through a week's worth of applicants in an hour. Sure, automation would save me a little time if I trust it to do as well as myself. But that hour to go through a hundred resumes pales in comparison to the fifty hours involved in getting a dozen resume-screened candidates through our interview process.
I am pretty sure parent is "right" from my limited understanding. That being having watched some interviews etc with sushi "masters" I have heard some of them say same thing. If I remember where I will respond again and apply link.
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> Reading in between the lines, it seems as if a good chunk of gold has gone missing and there is an attempt by both sides to save face.

Or more likely: you do not want to cause any confusion in the markets. Ultimately the state of that gold has very little impact on the world as it moves. However any speculation about it, potentially can have impact (and most likely not positive one). When people in Europe started to question the state of that Gold Germany and other countries had to act in some form.

So for as long as the general population does not further dig into the issue (or we have some sort of cataclysmic event) the gold does not matter all that much.
the last VFX I worked for in 2014 was the only company to have no passwords for computer logins (email had passwords...)

When I left, AD, 90 day password rotation, air gaps, RDP internet and no copy and paste.

That made the google debugger rather hard (along with phone home licensing...)
Why are emoji characters like ‍‍‍ treated so strangely in Swift strings?
New Approaches to Network Fast Paths
Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level
Pollution is essentially what I meant apologies for my poor phrasing.

However detection of these devices could become easy considering they probably wouldn't move a lot, meaning you'd have to either (a) move the device frequently and randomly or (b) the antenna that reproduces the signal would need to add a bit of weakness to the signal to adjust and make the user look like he is moving.

(e.g. If the signal strength stays the same constantly then it might be easy to tell the user isn't moving ever and therefore likely not a spot they are at currently, or even if everyone shares a very similar signal strength).

According to the description on GitHub the system only adjusts the sequence numbers.
For a country that talks the talk when it comes to praising your service men and women, it doesn't always walk the walk, especially when those people are brown and/or non-christian.
I think it's actually part of the deal when they give you the job, if not specifically then it is certainly alluded to.
If not stolen, what's the advantage for the USG in keeping it there?
When we build systems, we run tests to see if they actually work the way we think the should. We verify, as independently as possible, because it is important.

What would happen if we went to evidence based banking instead of just taking the word of people with obvious ulterior motives.
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++ to japaric driving embedded Rustlang development. He's built a lot of the low-level tooling, and many of the articles/tutorials are form him as well.

Re: RTL8710... That was me! :) I haven't had much chance to continue hacking on the RTL8710 (we just moved, hobbies are still packed away) but I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get up and running.

Especially considering how little I know about embedded development, I imagine someone with more knowledge would be a lot more productive.
Pretty certain the comment could still apply today. Too dumb to promote to expensive to sack, give them shit no one else wants or make work to keep them out of the way.
Headline could have been written 10,000 years ago. Things like the great lakes wouldnt even be here without the "arctic unraveling".

edit-interesting how the truth looks to becoming unpopular.Included link to pdf so those downvoting can see its true.

http://sashabalcazar.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/6/2/24627865/gla...
Literally the last 7 tweets as of right now (all of which are older than this comment) are the account owner saying she was trolling.
> Switzerland is a small, neutral country without a serious army. They would hardly refuse to hand the gold back on request.

This guy is suggesting that Germany could invade Switzerland if they refuse to give back their gold, so this is a good reason to keep it there. I'm pretty sure such action would be illegal under UN rules, ie: you can't invade a country because they don't give you back your posession.

And Switzerland neutrality is highly debatable given that it's surrounded by NATO and part in a lot of EU mechanisms.

Also, an invasion would make no sense under the writers own assumption, that something is wrong in the gold market. A war in the heart of Europe will tank a lot of markets.
The default download didn't have GUI support on my Mac when I just tried it, and the documentation seems to indicate it's Windows only so far?
I don't know if the NPS pdfs are georeferenced, but Avenza Maps is a nice app for working with pdf maps on phones and tablets.

(It's relatively low hanging fruit to georeference the maps, but they may not update them frequently and so wouldn't have responded to the popularity of smart phones yet)
As someone who has been to the Exumas, you're talking about small, non-volcanic populated Bahamian islands.

I doubt the infrastructure was up to the standards of the club scene, but it's not like there aren't medical facilities, food, or water on Great Exuma.

Even dropping a larger number of festival attenders (on an island with a normal population of 7,000), we're talking "dangerous" conditions in terms of "there's no air conditioned room for me to wait in" and "why hasn't anyone offered me champagne and caviar yet"?

These kids need to learn to appreciate the beauty around them (it's an absolutely gorgeous place) and quit bitching that they don't have everything handed to them on a silver spoon.

Or in other words, try traveling instead of being a tourist.
Back in the day a big mistake from Tk devs was how it just looked like Motif everywhere.

Eventually that got fixed, but we were already busy with other languages.
> Gold is money, which is based on physical ownership, not on trust in the willingness and ability of another party to honor their promises. If you have gold, but you do not have it under your control, it is almost pointless to have gold.

Really digging this one. That's why I proactively not listen to investors/consultants who suggest to buy some gold derivates for savety purposes.

In other regards: What's the point of the author? That's how the "king's peace" works since forever. Having the biggest stick and control over the valuable stuff makes you the king. And as long as you provide a stable leadership live of people is mostly peaceful. That's why people are willing to accept this trade. It's unfair but we actually want it that way. And what should the others do? Say "yeah, we totally accept that he has us by the balls"? No they act like it would be their decision so that they also keep some of their own power.

It seems the author is smart enough to know all this, so seriously: What's he attempting to achieve here?
> E.g. ...

Economic warfare is the non-violent weapon. Win is not guranteed but
still its very effective. You as water-blocker will lose something if not due
to downstream community then others.

I also would guess that its a rare scenario otherwise market would have a solution.

> I don't see why violence is seen as such an important point here.

Because a violent actor is much worse. Ancap is solution to one specific problem
not a path to utopia.
There's a whole range of OpenStreetMap based apps and even programs that will process OpenStreetMap data into the custom formats used by various dedicated GPS units.
Please check out this link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/4yoadk/kerala_senior...
I surely can't get used to american dates. I thought "why do I score 4 out of 30"?
Edit: Ok it's not american, but it's nevertheless confusing to me.
As Russia-Ukraine has shown you can take stuff by force without creating big scale war. And remember how Hitler just went state shopping before there was a war?

The thing about war is that most party's don't really want it. So sometimes it's possible to grab some advantage that theoretically should result in war.
Kotlin looks so similar to swift, it's amazing. They both choose to try to balance power with the right amount of magic, and they both seem to focus on features that adds code quality ( nulls is an example).

I hope swift will start entering the server side development field with even more energy ( the server working group shows barely any activity), because the jvm and java ecosystem gives kotlin a huge advance. And it's no guarantee that we're not going to start writing ios app in kotlin sooner than api backend with swift.

PS : i'm not counting kitura and vapor as true server side platform, because for some reason i consider them as toys, as long as the swift lib doesn't have a real concurrency model for the server, beyond gcd. Maybe i'm wrong...
Posting again in case my other post gets removed:

Please check out this link: (replace [website] with reddit).
https://[website]/r/india/comments/4yoadk/kerala_senior_citi...
Ah that reminds me so much of Game of Thrones were this one dude builds all his power and businesses based on an empty vault and a promise of what is inside.
Because "possession is 9/10ths of the law."
Centuries ago countries, or strongmen anyway, used to formalize allegiances by trading human hostages. We're friends for all eternity because your cousin is a valued "guest" of my court and vice versa. We do that with central banks and gold now a days.

So keeping a relationship of balanced trust, yanking assets from one location will have an equal and opposite reaction probably in a completely different form somewhere else. The manipulated currency exchange rates will wiggle. Imported black forest cuckoo clocks will get a different tariff. The ratio of central bank interest rates will wiggle. Sometimes 3rd parties get roped into the deal so perhaps the GBP-USD ratio will wiggle in some manner. Something is gonna happen to balance it and you can either control what happens, influence what happens, or toss hands in air and hope the free market does the right thing. A lot of people are paid a lot of money to not do the later, so you can generally assume that politician-like or IT consultant-like, the strongly advised reaction by the people is never for their paycheck writing organization to do nothing.

So something of equal and opposite reaction, probably agreed upon ahead of time, is about to happen.

Ideally in some sort of pacifistic utopia it would be illegal for citizens to store movable assets in-country or invest locally. We're rather unlikely to bomb Germany again anytime soon, or unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic, but it is sad to see the old (by my human lifespan standards) relationship on shakier grounds. Oh well.
No, not really. The "nothing is amiss" argument goes like this:

a) Until 1971, gold was regularly moved between central banks. The United States exchanged U.S. Dollars against gold and Germany made use of this. Obviously, it was easiest to just leave the gold where it was bought - in the United States. This was also where a lot of other central banks had (and still have) their gold, so it also made exchanges easier.

b) After 1971, trading gold might have become less frequent, and at the moment the Bundesbank states it does not sell or buy any gold at all. But still: Look at Switzerland who has sold a lot of their gold after they joined the IMF. By selling gold out of the US Fed vault, they could offer delivery at the US Fed, avoiding a lot of logistical hassle. Maybe the Bundesbank just wants to keep this option open, even though they don't use it right now. It would be stupid to ship all the gold to Frankfurt, then decide to sell it in a couple of years from now, and then having to ship it back to the U.S. for the buyer.

c) Until 1989, it made sense to store gold outside of Europe to avoid it falling into the hands of the Soviet Union should they decide to invade (as suggested elsewhere in this discussion).

d) After 1989 and until recently, no one really cared about this topic. So it was easiest to just leave the gold where it was. Moving gold is a complicated business. The Bloomberg article linked above really makes it seem easier than it is. Yes, gold doesn't take up much space, but because it is so valuable you can't just put tons of gold into one plane / ship / truck - no one will sell you insurance for such a huge risk. You need to transport it in smaller batches, organizing secure transport and insurance for them, keeping the transports as secret as possible for security reasons. Also, you need to have sufficient storage available at the location where you want the gold to end up. And - again - you don't want to store all of the stuff in a single space because you won't get insurance for too much gold in one building.

I am not sure which explanation is the right one. I also find it a bit strange that they seemed to go through a lot of effort in melting these bars to make sure no one can inspect the originals. But this doesn't mean that there is no innocent explanation for all of this.
You read the news "Robberies in <your area> have increased by 30%". Would that make you more willing to redirect half your savings to my account? If so, I'm happy to discuss further via email.
...the US will allow central banks to repatriate as much gold from New York as is absolutely necessary to allow them to have half of their gold at home....

What the actual fuck? Why do we need permission from the US to have our own gold?
True, but Mr. Maly has no need to help, or support Academia.edu. I went to some early talks from them, and they make a big deal about how they weren't like the big old evil journals.

If they are just going to turn into something much like the old journals, and lock our data behind a paywall, then what advantage do they provide? In particular, they themselves don't provide open access to the database they are building, so if they ever decide to take their ball and go home, we've lost everything they collected.
But, you still have to pay to buy the article, and usually you can find the article with Google -- so basically I find you are paying for an inferior google.
So you are saying that Germany would begin military action against Switzerland for $50 billion worth of gold (rough value of 1000 tons of gold).

How much damage to the Euro and to the European stock markets would such action cause? Not to mention other costs
academia.edu always smelled weird to me. I guess i was right!
> Most of academic research is not a for-profit enterprise and aims at serving the common good: scientists don't make direct monetary profit from the articles that they write.

It is, usually, however their job and career: they do make indirect monetary profit.
The Food Perception Gap on Instagram and Its Relation to Health [pdf]
Loyalty in Online Communities [pdf]
Post office forwarding was unavailable for address at which I had been living. That is common if you've been living at a boarding house.
Ranking Software Applications by Customer Satisfaction
> do kids get to progress to the next level regardless of performance in an annual exam (like the US "no child left behind" policy), or do they have to have to repeat a year/level if they fail?

Typically in Germany there is/was a three-tiered system after the 4th class: Hauptschule (5th to 9th year), Realschule (5th to 10th year) and Gymnasium (5th to 12th or 13th year). With a degree at a Hauptschule you can only begin an apprenticeship at some jobs, with a degree on a Realschule an apprenticeship in all jobs and with a Gymnasium degree (Abitur) you are allowed to study at a university or Fachhochschule ("Fachhochschule" is often translated with "school of applied science", but I think there is no real translation, since this is a very German concept: You study some applied subject (traditionally engineering) there with little focus on research question, but it is a lot more school-like than universities (few elective subjects, "more like sitting in a classroom").

This basic three-tiered system has now been convoluted (for example often "Hauptschule" and "Realschule" are often combined into a "Sekundarschule" (translating this with "secondary school" is in my opinion a false friend) or there also exist comprehensive schools that encompass all three tiers, but I think you get the basic idea.

To what kind of secondary school you may go is decided on the marks in the 4th class.

Now to your question: If your marks are too bad, you have to repeat a year (which reflects badly in your CV!) or (also not untypical) are "advised" to switch to a "lower tier" school. Details for these rules change all the time, but I would consider it as typical that at most one 5 (second worst mark) is allowed in a primary subject and at most two 5s are allowed in all subjects for passing. Also no 6 (worst mark) is allowed for passing.

Also it is often very typical that at a Gymnasium that you have to have good marks to be allowed to attend the Oberstufe (11th to 12th or 13th year) - otherwise you only get a "Realschulabschluss/erweiterter Sekundarschulabschluss" (two different names for mostly the same concept).
Thanks! I'll burn my sushi to this!
Without a serious army? Are you kidding me?

Yes its not exactly the US military but bloody hell, you would have a very very hard time trying to take over Switzerland - even these days. Road tunnels designed to be blown up, hundreds of thousands of modern trained soldiers with guns at home - fighting on their own terrain, ammunition dumps in individual towns, strong points, bunkers in every apartment block, supplies of modern anti armour weapons, lots of people trained in the use of explosives, etc etc

Good luck getting in there.
Jetbrains has been using Kotlin in house since at least 2011. At my company we started using Kotlin when it turned 1.0 in Feb 2016. It's been a huge success with programmer productivity and happiness. Currently have 18000+ lines of Kotlin in production. Whenever given the chance we refactor large Java classes that are 1500ish lines to 300ish lines of Kotlin.

Compared with switching from Obj-C to Swift, the transition was relatively seamless. No bridging header for interop with Java. Also Android Studio/IntelliJ has very mature language support for Kotlin that should keep most IDE driven developers happy.
Infant literally means someone younger than a year old though. The juvenile justice system that applies to teenagers is completely different, and does not apply to infants. Infants cannot be held liable for their actions at all because their brain isn't developed enough to know right from wrong, or really even what they're doing.
I found my moment of zen the second time I read this.
Nice idea! Just curious, how will you go about creating the community?
The problem is that starting free, promising the world, locking "customers" into your ecosystems, and then forcing them to pay for a service you used to provide for free is bad.

It's really, really bad. Potentially suicidally bad.

In this case the nominal price is reasonable - but the cost in lost trust and goodwill certainly isn't, and may turn out to be more than a.e can afford to pay.
Infrastructure is both less durable as well as less liquid. It also returns diminishingly as you engage projects on your opportunity cost frontier. Also likely to be less secure to military or political threats.
In principle if you are know to be a honest person and there is big enough stick (contract plus state justice system) to threaten you then it could make sense.
If you make the money, i.e., print the paper and convince people to associate it with value, then money has no value in itself to you. But gold is nothing you produce. It's already there and people already associate value to it. Even another country who doesn't like you is willing to listen to your demands if you promise them gold in return. Therefore having as much gold as possible is one of the things that grand you power as a country. Other things are valuabe trade goods like oil, high tech, cars, etc. Again other sources of power are technology&science, knowledge, military, lots of people.
I know this isn't directly an answer, but I live in Utah and find that mapping on a device is not reliable in some of the parks, and definitely not out in the wilderness. The cell network just isn't 100%, and unless your device has a satellite-based GPS, your mapping won't work anyway.

I do agree that better apps are needed. I'm an avid explorer of Utah's western desert, and even with both paper maps and electronic, and prepping by looking at what Google maps thinks is correct and reviewing satellite imagery before I go, the patchwork of old abandoned dirt roads out there is still a maze much of the time.

The point being... when going out into the wilderness, even with a good app, please don't rely on it 100%. Plan well and be safe.
Try to take the gold from someone with a bigger stick. You know how that'll end, right?
I see, answered by downvoting. Insert fingers in ears, close eyes, move right along, nothing to see here.
Depends on if they're using the Bond villian playbook or not. I'm sure there's some convoluted plot you could cook up, given the threat to depress the world gold market.
Just google "site:news.ycombinator.com paypal" and you'll read a lot of stories where people need to discuss with an annoying bank to get their money back.
I do. I.e. my wife's sister helped my then-girlfriend-now-wife to pay for part of her living expenses when she studied. Now we, as a way of paying it forward help out her younger brother at college in similar fashion. And because sometimes I had to send him money across country border, it would look quite similar to "300 bucks with 19 dollar fee".
Apps like that make me think about vanity vs actionable metrics from Lean. What difference does it make if last week you were happy or not? Does it make you change your attitude or take a deeper look on what to do to improve it?
It's not at all the same thing, and not as transparent. But just in case someone reading wanted to do remote serial ports on Linux, there is rfc2217 and virtual serial ports. There's a program called​ ser2net that can bridge them for any program. Also, most serial port oriented software like miniterm, pyserial, etc, has built in support.