skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a minimum security facility there are often no fences. I was at Morgantown and you could get anything you wanted for approximately 4x the retail value. It was so fucking hot there guys would have their families buy a "prison" issue fan on Amazon and send it to someone who's family lived in Morgantown. Then they'd run out and bring it back in the middle of the night. Cigarettes were $2 each or $20 for a pack. Dip is like $12 a can for the Kayak brand with a 99c sticker on it.

There were over 800 of us and around 10 staff on actual security detail at a time. There were maybe 40 searches a week and they were normally targeted on the people that they had suspicions about. It happened to me one time and they guy found my camel crush. Thankfully I had been there less than 3 weeks so he just assumed someone stashed it there since I moved into an empty bunk. After that I never had another issue.

Spice is horrible. We'd have people vomiting regularly. They'd get "stuck" outside when we got called back into the units. It's really gnarly stuff that I would not willingly ingest. The most popular drug was definitely suboxone. The drug tests were not working for subs when I was still there. Supposedly they were just starting to come out with some for it that the BOP used.

Every thing went in a cycle. One guy would run most of the smuggling for the white people. I'm not going to name names here, but his balance sheet showed about $75k in profit over a rolling 6 month period. Another ran it for most of the African Americans. Eventually runners would get caught or the ring leader would get busted with a cell phone. That gives you an immediate upgrade to the next highest level facility. Prices would jump until someone was crazy enough to start it all back up again.

Right before I left the biggest person got caught with a sim card. Prices for cigarettes went up to nearly $15 each. That was if you were remotely lucky enough to find one. A guy came back on probation violation and luckily enough I was his bunk mate. Things went back to regular within a couple of weeks. He made more in Morgantown than he did on the street...

Subs/meth/vape juices could be applied to paper inside of books or letters. Anything liquid and dried usually could come in that way, but in a minimum it's not even worth the hassle.
Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock
Dealt with something similar at my old company. If you have the option to go page by page, this may work for you. The original site was in ColdFusion, and we slowly reimplemented it in AngularJS (around 2014.) We used an NGINX whitelist that had all route permutations that needed to go to the AngularJS site send it to that container, and everything else went to the ColdFusion environment. Over time, the major components of the site was converted to Angular and the users were none the wiser (besides noticing that the average load time had decreased by THIRTEEN SECONDS, no I am not kidding.)

The same pattern at my current role has worked while migrating an AngularJS app to Vue.
I am no means an expert but my take was that many people from grass-roots esports backgrounds balk at the numbers set by ATVI for OWL team licensing (20mil for a team iirc?) and associated player salaries (reaching upwards of 200K in some instances). Certainly in it's current state, team merch/tickets sales are nowhere close to recuperating these expenses from an investment standpoint.

I would argue that these complaints aren't understanding the 'meta' of capital investment in the current climate.
NO, I was going to sue everybody for copyright!
In the article it says that the individual is in the EU. They are a resident of Italy, which is in the EU, so they are within scope of GDPR.

However, I still don't think there's nothing illegal here. AFAIK & IANAL, It's not illegal to process EU resident data in data controllers outside of the EU (in the US).
Maybe also report it to the Italian data protection authority directly: https://www.garanteprivacy.it/
BJP (ruling party) commands over a huge IT Cell and a larger fan base which activates at very slightest triggers. Few years back a popular Muslim actor (Aamir Khan) made a mild comment on increasing radicalism in Indian society and incidents of lynching against Muslims. Within days everything related to him was scorched, the app he models for got millions of 1* rating on Android.

A more recent incident is about an actress showing solidarity with students against violence in JNU, a left leaning university. The next movie ratings were grounded.

Bias of Indian media houses makes Fox feel like champion of truth and journalism.

In a nutshell, nothing to do with Disney, it must be pragmatic decision by Indian subsidiary to play safe.
I really like the creativity of the site, however it was extremely confusing to navigate. It took me a solid minute to realize I needed to use the arrow keys. Maybe make those arrows clickable?
Firefox choosing reasonable defaults that improve security for regular users in practise given the state of the world at this time, seems reasonable to me.

By a similar token, you can opt-out of web pki by specifying all your own root CA's. But i hardly fault firefox for including sensible defaults.
I think this is what you're alluding to, but it is shocking how small some of the NES teams mentioned in this book are! The teams that made Donkey Kong and Mario Brothers were comprised of ~five people and only one or two of them were programmers.
The lux level on this is 315 which I believe is the highest. For me, this hasn't been an issue as it is right beside my bed. At this point, I believe the ocean waves have become a signal to my brain that I need to start getting up. I did have to experiment with how many minutes before the alarm goes off to turn on the ocean waves sound.
This is huge. I no longer have any reason to keep my Windows partition!
I think it's more actionable than it may appear.

For me, in most multiplayer games (Overwatch and such), I became far better (and more useful to the team) when I focused more on staying alive ("not making mistakes") rather than trying to execute fancy plays.
The source code/project page is linked in the Help popup.

https://github.com/1j01/jspaint
I am tempted, I don't like John Oliver's delivery but I am tempted. And I have seen all kinds of criticism of modi, so not that tempted.
Sad. Apu is one of the coolest and most heroic characters on The Simpsons. And for Americans who have never met someone from India, a gentle introduction to the unfamiliar.
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That’s not a fair thing to say. Closing businesses doesn’t guarantee anything about the virus. The halting of economic activity, even temporarily, can devastate people’s lives because it doesn’t always come back and many people already live paycheck to paycheck.
Google pulling out of the EU would probably be disruptive for many Europeans, yes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/europ...
Pay attention to the fact that applications can use the DNSSEC support in the networking framework if they wanted to.

That was all.
In erlang you can serialize anything. I can write a lambda and email it to you and you can put it in your VM and assuming you have the correct dependencies, it will probably work.

Dependencies are also just atom (universal, global, enum) references, so there's no pointers involved.
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I think this makes the most sense. I once looked into getting insurance for a muscle car with a big engine and the quote from one of the insurers was close to $500 per month (much higher than the one I ended up going with). That was many years ago so with inflation and an even faster car like a corvette, someone might easily be paying double that nowadays.
this is great! thanks for making this, brought me back to my childhood and made my day!
The simple suggestion would be that Google needs to ask for your citizenship status and go from there. Not sure else how to solve that. If I am an American living in the EU for a few years does the GDPR apply to me when I live there? I am going to the EU next week for 10 days. When I access my gmail from the EU what law applies?
I never said that. My issue was with shouting uninformed opinions in a thread about a blog post by someone who actually has the experience to have such informed opinions.

Sometimes you gotta stop spouting answers and start asking questions.
Had the exact same experience back in December with an Echo Flex. I saw a good price, knew my roommate wanted one, so I went downstairs to let him know. His price was $10 higher even though he has Prime and I do not. Same address. The only difference I could think of was that he is a heavy user of multiple Echo devices while I own one that's in its box in a closet. He probably spends at least ten times as much annually with Amazon as I do.
There simply should not be an API that allows exfiltrating the URL history of a user and then send it to a remote backend, at least not without making this very, very explicit to the user (which they currently do not).

You don't need to be a "gatekeeper to a walled garden", it's just necessary to have sensible APIs that respect users privacy. I think a browser that puts privacy as its primary feature should be able to do that.
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So, is it legal? I'm happy to amend the article if this is the case, but my understanding (when I initially read that UK citizens were loosing some rights being moved to US) is that moving to Google LLC I will have less privacy rights.

According to their email, they think I'm a UK user:

"because the United Kingdom (UK) is leaving the European Union (EU),
Google LLC will now be the service provider and the data controller responsible for your
information and for complying with applicable privacy laws for UK consumer users"

But I'm not.

I can't say they are doing this intentionally, but it's surely a mistake and there is no way to reach them for a complain.
Thank god. The first thing I do on a new Windows 10 install is disable all that crap.
Like I've always said - Vue is great, but Evan's contributions to it are way too big. If he had to get sick or go MIA, the project would essentially halt.
It's also crazy insecure, so you shouldn't use this sort of stuff unless you really know what you're doing and you have full control over the inputs and outputs, that includes owning your network in depth.

I don't want to discourage you from using erlang and Elixir, because the beam is amazing, plenty of very lucrative companies (like bet365) do, just, be aware of things you might versus might not run in an actual prod situation.
I wouldn’t say it’s “everything free”. If you purchase outside of FOREX hours you pay 2% on top of every tx. People tend to spend more when they have free time, i.e. on weekends, where the 2% fee applies.

My guess is that Revolut is doing just great in terms of revenue.
The Weather app and maybe News were the exceptions where these actually were nice to have. Though sometimes they updated on a significantly delay, and clicking a news item didn't even bring you to that news story. Vista's Gadgets were nicer because you didn't have to open the Start Menu to see the weather.

However, the tiles largely were duplicative of... just having a desktop shortcut (if you don't want a desktop shortcut, just being in the start menu is good enough).

Add the fact that Microsoft never really fully backed off pinning things like Candy Crush to this even for domain account users, and I won't really miss it much.
> Additionally, interactions between sleep disorders & ADHD/ADD mean that aids such as supplementary Melatonin need to be taken at different times and/or e.g. smaller doses.

Do you have more information or links about the interaction between ADHD and sleep phase disorders (specifically non 24-hour sleep-wake disorder), as it relates to melatonin?
Kernighan’s Law
If you've ever looked at Erlang's data model briefly and gone "what the heck is with the immutability and lack of user-defined structures, etc.", have another look at it from this point of view of distribution. It's the secret decoder ring of "why did Erlang do it that way?"

With another ~25 years of collective experience, if somebody took a shot at it today I think we could make some improvements, but it was pretty far ahead of its time, and can still pull some stunts almost nothing else can, or at least not without creating "an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of [Erlang]", to tweak Greenspun a bit.
How about they get rid of the remnants of Win 95 UI which pops up every time you dig into anything administrative or system settings related? Would that be possible?
Nice! This seems like a great status bar solution that is independent of which terminal you use.

For iTerm users, there's a built-in feature that works very well: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-status-bar.html
Not seeing the Windows 9x theme around the window puts this squarely in uncanny valley for me. (Granted, I'm running this in Chrome on Linux -- if one was on Windows, the "double frame" would probably look wrong, too.)

Reminds me of the "Mac OS 8 in DHTML" page from the 90s...
Why would Google pull out? Let's be clear about this: the EU is setting quite tame limitations on how Google uses the data they collect on EU citizens. Google doesn't need the EU in order to exist. But it would be incredibly difficult for them to justify to shareholders why they've given up an enormous market and essentially created an opportunity for a competitor to build scale freely (and then challenge them in their own market). As for getting the EU to 'kick Google out', that's not even a thing. Either Google abides by EU laws and it can operate in the EU or they can refuse in which case the EU can fine them, and seize their assets. If you think Google can operate credibly at scale in the EU with no infrastructure in the EU then I think you vastly underestimate the complexities of running an enormous website, let alone a complex multinational organisation with large engineering and sales centres in the EU.
This is not true, I had a troubled youth and did a short stint in my late teens for trespassing.

There are a lot of ways you can get drugs in to prison without the aid of guards.

- Repeat offenders used to getting arrested (particularly drug dealers) would carry their drugs in what is termed a cock sock, which is as you may guess, a sock worn around the male bits to hold things. They would tie pre-weighed bags of drugs up in balloons, and if it smelled they were going to get arrested they would make an attempt to dig them out and swallow them, and then erm, retreive them later in the jail.

- A more creative way was for spouses/relatives to soak certain types of paper in a liquid solution in which had been dissolved drugs like meth, and then allowed to dry. The paper was then written on like a regular letter, and sprayed with perfume (which is a very normal thing in jail/prison) to mask any trace scent of the drug and the fact that it looked like it had been wet and dried.

- Inmates that were in the lower-security units such as day workers, in which they were taken out during the day to perform community service under supervision, would devise elaborate plans to smuggle things in. There were certain work areas that had things like public restrooms, and they would phone a girlfriend/wife the day before to go drop a bag of drugs in the ceiling of the bathroom and then retrieve it while working there the next day. They would place it you know where to avoid having it found when they were strip-searched when taken back to the unit. This was rare though, and more common was that they would pick up cigarette butts as they worked, empty out any remaining tobacco, and then stash it you know where in some sort of balloon/saran wrap to bring back to the unit to smoke. This was done by popping a socket, which is where you use pencil lead stuck inside of an outlet to spark a piece of paper (typically from a book or newspaper) rolled with aforementioned garbage-tobacco.

IF I HAVE ANYONE'S ATTENTION:

The American criminal justice system is one of the most dehumanizing, corrupt, and inhumane places I have ever seen.

I saw inmates have bones broken by guards for saying things they didn't like. They are not allowed to throw punches or kicks during restraints, so what they do is put 3-4 guards on a man and will repeatedly knee/elbow them, particularly in the head, whilst screaming STOP RESISTING, despite there being zero resistance.

It was a common tactic for them to strip a person to their underwear, and put them in a restraint-chair [0] with a hood over their face so that they cant see or move any limb, and then wheel them off to a back room and accidentally forget about them for 4-8 hours.

[0] https://kutt.it/a8OHDg

I don't have anything else to say besides the fact that I want to raise awareness for any of you who may not know what our justice system is like.
I trust Cloudflare and Google (the other major DoH proponent) not to sell my data, because they have no need to do so. They are subject to law enforcement inquiries just like everyone else, so this does nothing for privacy in that regard (and actually increases the attack surface).

This also does not separate who can see your DNS from who can see your traffic, in fact it consolidates it, and this is why both Google (who controls the browser) and Cloudflare (who serves a large portion of the internet) are proponents of it. It allows them to aggregate DNS information alongside request information in a way they could not previously.

I am aware that they both have policies in place which purport to prevent this behavior. It would certainly not be the first time Google violates their stated policies in the mission of serving advertisements, or the first time Cloudflare aggressively consolidates internet infrastructure to the detriment of the open web.
> I can't even imagine what kind of hell it's going to bring parents if schools shut down for any extended period of time.

It would only be hell because its illegal, not because it's actually a problem.

There is no good reason for why you couldn't leave a healthy school-aged child home alone for the duration of a workday. That is, if you've actually raised them well.

Billions of people around the world have been raised in an environment where this sort of thing was normal - only a few western countries police this.
You're right, baseball has a statistic for everything so it's not always going to be caught. I forgot about that McCullers game. His curve was on another level that day!
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I think they only read the part about the UK? Maybe?

However, the article still kinda vague to me, cause I got the same email, and I'm mos def in the US.

I'm so deeply inside the US that I have no idea how to check where google stores my data, and I don't really care cause the US has some bigger orange fish to fry. And pie to bake. Ajit Pie!!
Windows/Linux are in earlier beta, see the patreon posts for more info on status. There are about 20 full time users for each OS beta. I really should update the site, thanks for reminding me it's confusing.
I dont use my ISP as my DNS provider, I have a custom setup using PiHole and other methods to provide secure DNS Resolution

Firefox should not be forcing this shit on me, time to search for yet another browser that will respect users. Mozilla is clearly more interested in commercial viability via their partnerships with large corporations (like CloudFlare) then in protecting Users
Wait so, an an EU resident, processing my data outside of the EU is illegal under GDPR? I have a right to have it processed within the EU?
Smuggling in and out of the visitation room is only possible at lower security facilities. They constantly monitor via video and after the fact on recorded video.

Once they busted the main supplier at Morgantown people got desperate and started trying the visitor's room. One poor guy in a wheelchair got busted with 2 cell phones, 4 packs of cigarettes, and pills coming out of visitation. Absolutely stupid. You could definitely get in suboxone or a couple of cigarettes. Anything bigger than that it wasn't going to work. When you go back in they pat you down, but randomly you can get a significantly more thorough search.

The only place where the guards are an issue are mediums. A $6 pack of cigarettes becomes $20 at a minimum, $50 at a low, and $100+ at a medium. At low and above you'll often find they're selling little matchstick sized cigarettes that are rolled up from the person responsible for cleaning up after guards. It's usually "used" chewing tobacco.

At the medium level you don't get to talk to visitors face to face normally. That makes even visitation smuggling impossible. It can only filter in from guards or from the satellite minimum security camp.
Man the old stuff gets pretty dark. So good.

[tangent time]
It's also very interesting looking back at Bambi in general. It's a mature story of growth as Bambi grows up to take his place in the world.

But it's the subtly, especially for a children's movie, is what surprises me the most. There isn't a huge callback to the event with his mother later in the film, it happens mostly off-screen, and while it's a catalyst from his period of innocence to being taken under the wing of his father, they handle it with reverence. A more heavy-handed take would have involved Bambi facing a similar situation and showing catharsis from that moment (see Lion King).

But instead Bambi takes a more naturalistic approach. Highly suggest folks go re-watch it with adult eyes if they haven't.
I agree with you on the first point. There are good technical reasons why TCO can't be implemented on some platforms. However, that just punts the issue one level down the stack: These platforms should have built in support for guaranteed TCO.

As for language features like dynamic scoping, I would say that a function call which needs to be followed by some cleanup activity is not in tail position, so TCO would not apply. The cleanup code could be in tail position, however, if implemented as a function call. In Common Lisp most forms of dynamic scoping or unwinding are explicit anyway, so this shouldn't come as a surprise as it might in languages like C++ and Rust where destructors are called implicitly when objects go out of scope.
If google were to pull out of the EU overnight without warning - as in literally shut off all their EU services, block EU connections, and (not overnight I would assume) let go of all their staff - then yes, there would be death.

Millions of mobile phones would stop working, various major systems would find they have a SPOF with google (ie. GCP) and there would be lots and lots of lost email and company documents.

It would be a huge financial problem for the EU.

For most things I think they would "recover" relatively quickly (bar the lost documents). But the effect would be so large they would legislate very very hard against it.

And it wouldn't just be the EU governments that would legislate against it. It would be governments the world over.

It would result in many major corporations being split up. Long lasting movements against centralised communications and ownership.

Google would lose. Hard.

When I think about it, we all have a lot to gain from Google pulling out of a major region overnight.
In Italy, auto insurance contracts are limited by law to one year in length, so that people are encouraged to re-evaluate their position and get new quotes more often, promoting competition.
What do you mean by "source" ?
I haven't "heard" this story somewhere on Internet.
I did receive the email where they say they are going to move my data controller to US.