skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FISA/702 is also used to trace/analyze cyber attacks, it is not just for counter-terrorism.

Example - A report (leaked to The Intercept) regarding Russian spearphishing: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3766950/NSA-Repor...
Is this the United States of America or Nazi Germany circa 1930? Anyone with malicious or criminal intent can simply not carry data that implicates them over the border, so just what is the point of this?
Because calling paid-for representatives has such a strong record of success over the last decade of human rights erosion.

Talking to your representative is roughly as useful in curbing these things, as doing nothing at all. What's the real solution?
Y U NO create a browser addon or something?
Also, TOR installs its own browser and I'm pretty sure I saw another privacy project doing this in the last year.
Installing a whole new browser is too much. I already have 3 or 4 installed. #browserbloat
In addition to the suggestions here, you could write some guest posts on relevant blogs.
I disagree with your assessment of my remark as "uncivil".

If I read you correctly, you seem to have significantly lowered the plank for what you ban people for. What the OP said was a complete factual garbage showing an utter lack of understanding of the subject he is so confidently commenting on. So this was, by any conventional definition of the term, a bullshit. How can this conceivably be a cause for a ban?
Would you please not post ideological rants to HN, regardless of how correct the underlying position? Doing that is against the site guidelines, and we'd appreciate it if you'd read those and take the spirit of this site to heart: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Have there been any court rulings that limit searches at the border at all? Are there any lines at all upon which we can rely on?

Even a tiny exception to the "4th ammendment exception" might allow for crafting safer transit.
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Hi, i am doing a startup of teaching Chinese online, now i want to recruit someone in the bay area who want to learn Chinese, can you recommend some ways to find them. Thanks.
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Err, yeah, the sentence was supposed to be "... there's now ...". Typo :(
Privacy and integrity is important enough for me to hold Lenovo accountable for their multiple failures by not giving them money.
Tab Suspender Doesn't always accurate reload my tab. Another problem is I want may be at least a Jpeg of the Webpage, not a Tab Suspended Web Page notice.

Tree Style Tabs Doesn't work for me, I tried it a number of times, in theory it should, in practice it is a little over complicated. Tab List so far is working great for me. As of writing I have 260 Tabs opened, thanks to CES.
> Talking to your representative is roughly as useful in curbing these things, as doing nothing at all

Have you ever called your representatives?
Install newsfeed eradicator. Best decision I ever made.

The news feed offers nothing.
Absolutely not. Having lived outside the US for two years (so far), I halfway expect to encounter suspicion when I return. I absolutely will not stand for this. I will not cooperate and I will resist as much as possible, short of violence.
Ctrl-c does the same and it is easier to press.
And doing nothing will be so much better.
Ok, so they couldn't increase the battery capacity. But why did they reduce it from 99.5 watt-hours to 76.0 watt-hours rather than just keeping it?
An honest question, how many developers really need a laptop ?

I thought a did but have since some time now a very good desktop (paid around 3k for 16 core machine with 64 GB memory) and a light travel laptop with excellent battery.

This combo works very well.
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The submitted title broke the site guidelines by editorializing. Accounts that do this eventually lose submission privileges on HN, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this.
> This also explains why progressives are unable to come up with a black martyr who was not killed while committing a crime.

That's just braindead. Not that it's necessary to point out the falsehood of a quote so obviously motivated by hate and bereft of truth, but...

Vernon Dahmer offered to pay the $2 poll tax for those who could not afford it. His home was doused in gasoline and set on fire, and he died a few hours later as a result. I guess sleeping in your own house is a crime.

Harry Moore and his wife Harriette were killed by a bomb detonated directly below their bedroom on Christmas. I guess Christmas is illegal.
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That's not crazy - Urs is just saying "don't talk about politics at work" which is a rule Google could apparently use a lot more of, given the things coming out in the Damore lawsuit. His second statement was almost certainly a response to someone saying "but muh coworkers are nazzzzzzis" and rather than argue with this self-evidently stupid statement, he pointed out that if this were true, ignorance would be bliss. But of course he thinks it's not true.
Half in what terms?
I am not too worried about javascript as it runs in a VM where the browser has full control on how code gets executed, and I trust browser vendors will come up with a mitigant.

Otherwise on a personal computer, if malware gets to execute in user mode, being able to access some machine private key is the least of our worries. The sensitive information is the documents stored on the machine, whether it is for them to be leaked or encrypted, if the code can access them in read/write, the party is already over.
www.google.com/search?q=i+contacted+my+representative+site%3Areddit.com

Knock yourself out.

Spoiler alert: almost everyone reports getting a cookie-cutter email or scripted response about why the rep will stay the course. They clearly have an established strategy of how to handle the 'contact your rep' crowd and channel their efforts to /dev/null.
Previously would have been incidentally picked up and retained in a 5 day rolling buffer due to lack of encryption (if your traffic transited one of the tapped backbone links), but now, such queries are encrypted and I believe Google now encrypts transit between their data centers.

Now you would need to be more specifically targeted under FISA, if they felt there was valid reason, and the timeframe for collection on that data would vary.
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Depends on the model. Here's some items from my last build...

Most in the series come with 4Gb of RAM soldered in, so you get another 16Gb stick[1].

Regarding the SSD, typically you get a laptop with one installed, but you can add in the m.2 ssd slot[2].

Then you buy the battery pack [3].

You should be good to go from there. I've seen people replace the screen, trackpad, and keyboard as well, but those are all I typically replace.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Single-PC4-19200-Unbuffered-2...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-960-PRO-Internal-MZ-V6P512BW/...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Battery-0c52862-Factory-Sealed...
He thought the atmosphere would slow it down enough that it wouldn't escape, even though it was initially going at well over escape velocity.

From http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Plumbob.html#Pasca...

> But the assumption that it might have escaped from Earth is implausible (Dr. Brownlee's discretion in making a priority claim is well advised). Leaving aside whether such an extremely hypersonic unaerodynamic object could even survive passage through the lower atmosphere, it appears impossible for it to retain much of its initial velocity while passing through the atmosphere. A ground launched hypersonic projectile has the same problem with maintaining its velocity that an incoming meteor has. According to the American Meteor Society Fireball and Meteor FAQ meteors weighing less than 8 tonnes retain none of their cosmic velocity when passing through the atmosphere, they simply end up as a falling rock. Only objects weighing many times this mass retain a significant fraction of their velocity.

Also, from http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html comes this quote from Brownlee:

> "As usual, the facts never can catch up with the legend, so I am occasionally credited with launching a "man-hole cover" into space, and I am also vilified for being so stupid as not to understand masses and aerodynamics, etc, etc, and border on being a criminal for making such a claim."
I'm not sure why anyone is surprised about the addictive money grabbing nature of tech which is prevalent. This is a core fundament of the capitalist system. Practically everything is geared towards increasing money. How many people do you know who have an employee/customer health and happiness tracker app compared to a stock price tracker app installed on their phone right now?
Even in these PR figures, the SYSMark 2014 SE Responsiveness test results, a benchmark addition which was specifically created to unearth pain-points in typical everyday user activities, gets a serious wallop.
I think for the psychological development of a software developer it is very important to also spend some time in an Enterprise company. After 1-2 years of that you know exactly how such kind of software comes to be.

In my team we are currently developing a software where not even we know what it should do. And in every release cycle we spend incredible amounts man hours just to be able to install it again. And still, in the company internal competition we often lose against teams with better political standings to the top, who haven't even written a single line of code yet for their competing product.

I can see that there is a lot of money in Enterprise, and I can see how it's kept alive by each of these enterprises selling their non-functioning tools to each other. But I really don't know where the influx of money to that system is. Nobody with a brain would pay a million bucks for a software that is proud to be installable, if he could spend the same money on hiring an engineer for 10 years and let him learn how to apply an open source solution that everybody knows does what you want after you installed it.
Hah! I built something similar (but very amateur) as my master thesis project: https://procrastinative.ninja/2015/02/19/sensation-suit/

I always wanted to use TENS and EMS but my professors were a bit cautious. Anyway I've learned a lot and it was a really fun project. I still have the suit and have currently lent it to a fellow student who want's to survey if and how it increases VR immersion. Very happy to see another professional go at this! Good luck guys!
I looked at the wrong rows in the table of capacities. So it's not a reduction by half. I corrected my message.

But it's still a reduction in capacity (from 99.5 watt-hours to 76).
Lenovo has a pretty awful history of security / privacy issues. For me, it feels like giving them money [1], is saying that I'm ok with that behaviour (which I'm not)

[1] I know you said you bought off ebay, but I don't think that distinction matters
The performance hit is (supposedly) much more significant on Haswell and older, which they forgot to include.
The new laptops have many spec advantages over the Airs. Most notably for me, they have displays with double the pixel density.
(fyi to those of us holdouts..)

On the older ones with real keys it does the same thing:

alt+volume => opens sound prefs

alt+brightness => display prefs

alt+mission control => ..

alt+keyboard backlight => keyboard

also, unrelated but occasionally useful.. alt+shift allows you to adjust volume/brightness in fractional increments.
For those who aren't US citizens, the advice in that article is absolutely terrible.

Refuse to cooperate and you'll be on the next flight to whatever CBP deem is your home, and good luck ever getting an ESTA or Visa in future.
chief diversity officers will make a corporation more diverse - that is their job. companies that do PR around their diversity are not doing it right - D&I is an industry competitive advantage. The most diverse organizations in the Fortune 1000 outperform their industry median financial returns by 35%. I agree the 'covert' manner works but the role of chief diversity officers is critical to the macroeconomic impact of globalizing and increasing market representation in our modern workforces.
Great news. I'll be keeping an eye out.
I know it is unfair to compare a laptop with a desktop but this is what I did based on my specific usage pattern. I upgraded from a 13 inch 2014 Macbook Pro with 8G RAM to a 27 inch iMac. I am still keeping the Macbook pro for travel, though I fear the out of warranty costs now that AppleCare is over. I wanted a faster, powerful machine but did not want to move out of macos with all those programs and settings from last 4 years. Also, all the other laptops had some issue or the other be it the low battery life in ultrabooks to the bad display, weak processors, or build quality issues. The 2017 touchbar MacBook Pro is the best built laptop one can buy but it looked too expensive to me for what it offered. I explored building a hackintosh but it seemed maintaining it was too much pain.

I now use a Samsung T5 external SSD over USB-C as my macos boot drive in the iMac, which I can unplug and boot with my Macbook when I travel. While being 40% cheaper than the 15 inch macbook in my country, the iMac gives me a faster processor that does not thermal throttle after 5 minutes of 100% usage, 24 GB of cheaper RAM (and yes easily upgradable to 64GB), a gorgeous 5k display, lots of ports, a somewhat better graphics card for the rare gaming and lots of space to save data files. With some difficulty, you could also replace the drives and processor.
I've just had my keyboard serviced a couple weeks ago because of the sticky keys issue.

So I reluctantly bought a keypad cover. I normally hate covers. But weirdly I like this one; it's very thin, perfectly adjusted and it almost improves the touch. And it's almost invisible. I really like it and it makes me feel way safer.
Please don't post rage rants to HN, regardless of how you feel about someone or how their company did a thing you don't like. You may not owe better to the CEO of Intel, but you owe better to this community if you want to keep commenting here.
For those interested, this is the cover I got: UPPERCASE GhostCover Premium Ultra Thin Keyboard Protector for MacBook Pro with Touch Bar 13" or 15" (2016 and 2017, Apple Model Number A1706, A1707) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MRKLH27?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf
I know you're not meant to kid around on HN (too much) but I couldn't resist copying braindongle's response to me with an added :) because as he pointed out we more or less at the same time posted the same reply to our parent comment and I wanted to acknowledge their pointing out the coincidence humorously. I assure, I have no idea who braindongle is. Great minds think alike and all that!
The 2015 Macbook Pro included an SSD, 2x Thunderbolt 2, 2x USB3, HDMI, and an SD card slot. It had 9 hours of battery life. Are you saying Intel chipsets actually regressed since then? If not, then it seems like Apple is the one who has regressed here.
I don't know if it worries my American chums, but I won't visit the USA. As a foreign tourist bringing money into your economy I feel there is a very real risk to my privacy and increasingly my person. I am beginning to favour goods and services from EU where human rights still mean something.

Perhaps it doesn't matter to you how the US is perceived overseas, perhaps you don't want my money. Perhaps you don't mind being poorer. To me it has become the land of the police-state and the home of the Trump-Chumps.
I'm in the same position, but I suspect it will get much worse than this as it has since the start of The Global War On Terror™.

Time to go long Leidos Holdings, Booz Allen Hamilton, CSRA, SAIC, CACI International, end etc?
In the mobile messenger app (not lite) , click the 'new conversation' button, and top right there's a switch marked with a lock.
You can install macOS on your NUC, it works surprisingly well (i.e. 100%). I have one with i5/16GB and quad-boot Linux Mint/macOS/W7/W10.
Well this is a relief to hear
I totally agree. Lots of people think they are experts (or have understanding) in health care or biology but for this you need to be an expert in health care development which is only partially related. The major difference is that in tech, the question most of the time is whether a product makes sense, not whether the proposed things work. In biology, its pretty much the other way around.
it's not 100% equivalent, for example C-v (select visual block), I, ..., C-c will cancel the block prepend action, whereas esc or C-[ will execute it.

Took me a while to realise that when messing around with visual/block.

I still mostly use C-c from muscle memory though, but do occasionally swear at it.
You've been posting lots of unsubstantive comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not do that? The idea here is as follows: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
> and good luck ever getting an ESTA or Visa in future

Would you want one after this anyway?
I suspect it's the part after this that's more important:

> My workflow and tools are tailored around the mac. It's not that I can't find my way through Linux or even a BSD Laptop running i3. It's that I don't want to.

I've been mostly full-time on the Mac since...2003, I think? I would be fine with Linux or FreeBSD, and I could live with Windows, but I'd just prefer not to. For me, macOS captures nearly everything that I loved about old-school Macs and everything that I love about Unix. There's a lot of little touches that make macOS just "feel better" to me, although I've found in practice those get to be really hard to explain in ways that don't make me sound slightly insane. For instance, drag and drop feels like a first-class UI metaphor on macOS in ways that it never did to me on Windows or any Linux desktop environment; I'm dragging and dropping all the time on the Mac in ways that I didn't--or in more than a few cases, simply couldn't--elsewhere. And when people rail against how difficult macOS is to customize and bend to their will, it's clear they're using very different metrics than I am.

I think other GUIs have certainly narrowed the gap over the years, and not everyone agrees with Apple's design decisions. (Including me, although most of the ones that drive me nuts are hardware decisions, and a continued obstinance in opening iOS up enough to let it become the general-purpose computing platform they seem to be positioning it as.) But as long as macOS keeps doing what I want and Apple doesn't screw the pooch hardware-wise, then I'm in the camp of "yes, I will buy Apple products to keep running macOS."
Link to the doc:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4347486-What-Happene...

It might be worth sharing that when some Googlers made a custom Cards Against Humanity deck, one of the cards just said "Cory Altheide". (Or so I heard.)

Let's just say the man is neither shy nor politically correct. "Worrying pattern of posting topics that are divisive" is understating things because it leaves out the "gleeful" part. I miss his G+ feed.
Why does Google encourage discussions of these policies in the first place? What’s there to gain?

It’s up to the owners of the company to communicate the values they want to promote in the workplace; management to implement specific policies; and employees to suck it up (and talk to HR if they feel their rights are being violated).

To take an example from the other end of the spectrum, I don’t imagine that fundamentalist Christian owned Hobby Lobby has an internal mailing list for discussing their policies. Why should Google feel any more compelled to seek employee approval?
You are right, my apologies. I don't think deleting comments is allowed but I'll keep this in mind in the future
To everybody considering this a good thing (and even to those considering this a bad thing), I suggest reading Neil Postman's excellent cautionary analysis Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985 and subsequent revisions): basically he predicted that a 24-hour news cycle and bombastic personalities with debates framed in terms of fifteen-second sound-bites would result in politics becoming nothing more than a form of entertainment, and that citizens would begin to respond to it as such. That was with few-to-many traditional mass-media; with social media the tendency has become (counterintuitively) if anything even more heightened. It's a horrific state of affairs. Anyway, it’s a book I first read in 1998 and though written in the Regan years struck me as being unbelievably pertinent even to the world when I first read it, let alone now.

I remember that right after the Columbine mass-shooting in 1999 my best friend and I were sitting in his bedroom. We were late teenagers (18), expatriates living in Italy, getting our “international” news from the very first online news sources such as cnn.com and the bbc website. George W. Bush was clearly on track to become the Republican candidate and was equally clearly under the thumb of the NRA. I remember muttering that if the Democrats had any sense they'd deploy against him with a candidate with mass-market appeal... “Oprah Winfrey or Jerry Springer, and sod the consequences”. My friend, wise beyond his years, presciently remarked “Jerry Springer I shan't deign with a response, but Oprah Winfrey and the touchy-feely feel-good stuff of folks like Robin Williams is all that is bad about what is good about America... the day a party will nominate one of those to run as their candidate you'll know it's all over, the experiment of the Founding Fathers will have gone down the drain, it'll be the end of everything because the system will have the means but no incentive to recover”. Those words have haunted me ever since. I reminded him of that grim pronouncement of his just the other day (coincidentally the day Oprah gave that speech was also the exact same day he became a father) and he just looked at me with tired eyes that glasses over with sadness.
they want to for brownie points
I went the same way. Used to have a MBP that lasted for years (from ~2008). When it finally imploded I got a MBA. Amazung battery life for my work pattern (mostly terminals and vim). It would routinely get 12-14hr, although that would drop to 8-9 if I opened a web-browser and watched video or did anything js heavy.

Sadly I had to get rid of the MBA and did not like the look pf this year’s macs, so I got a XPS13. It is a nice machine, but it has issues.

- Network adaptor is shit. Flakey, loses connection, incompatible with our cisco routers, power draw is completely unstable.

- Keyboard is really nice.

- Screen is a bit dim.

- Touchopad registers phantom touches constantly, driver support for elimination doesn’t work.

I’ve still got it running ubuntu 16.04. Everything on it mostly works, but to be a nice machine:

- network adaptor needs a complete replacement.

- get used to disabling the touchpad.
I feel sorry for the bloke whose legitimate password is

thisisjustadecoypasswordthatwillblowupthebombibroughtloljk
Is Apple any better regarding security issues? No doubt they try regarding privacy - but security? Just to leave a reminder: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315
Moments like this is when I wish the Indian government acted a bit more like China : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog_in_Delhi
I switched to a Dell XPS-15 after 2 MBP’s. It’s been pretty decent.

I don’t use the keyboard or trackpad so I can’t comment on that.

There is no real dock for it. The $200 one they sell as a docking station is really more of a port expander; it doesn’t charge your laptop and didn’t work with my monitors so I gave it away.