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To be ironic means to speak in contrast to what you really mean. Usually, people are expected to pick up on it by tone of voice.

Irony is what most people think is called sarcasm. It is a form of intentional wordplay, derived from the behavior of the Eiron, a feature of greek theater. (Sarcasm is irony which is meant to hurt feelings.)

Irony is not what Nelson from The Simpsons would laugh at, and is never unintentional.

If a safety worker botches the installation of a safety device which later gets them killed, that is not irony. When someone leans over the rail and yells "good job keeping people safe," that is irony (and since it's mean, it's also sarcasm.)

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/figures/i/irony.htm
$2B build + $2B in hardware - that we know about. Probably much more going into this project. These data centers are probably true works of art inside and out. From a technical standpoint, the NSA has some of the most advanced technologies available today. Most aren't even available to the commercial market; Intel has been making custom silicon for the NSA for a decade. They are on the cutting edge.
Ignored != dismissed. The NSA has been around since 1952 and has briefly come into the spotlight for collecting data on US persons several times. The vast majority of people of people in the US (AFAICT) don't care. It's not that they don't believe such things happen, it's that they're largely indifferent to it.

This isn't entirely irrational. After all, we both know that the probability of one of us getting blown up by a terrorist is vanishingly small, right? So although we disapprove of terrorism in general, we don't feel all that threatened by it, personally, and think that people ought to have a sense of perspective about the actual probability rather than focusing on how bad it would be if it happened to us. Likewise, the probability of ending up as the innocent victim of government intelligence probe that ruins one's life is negligible for most people. So small, in fact, that it probably cancels out with the risk from terrorism in the mental calculus of the average American.
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It makes him more of a liar through his inconsistency of ethics.
This sounds like the future. A lot of people are still in the "i'm city person" mindset, without ever knowing how it is to live in a less populated area where living costs are lower and your peace of mind is almost guaranteed.
This is a good overview of performance 'idiosyncrasies'.
For profiling, I tend to use valgrind's callgrind which is easier than instrumenting the code by hand.
Revenue figures for 2012; draw your own conclusions on the feasibility of competing with commodity hardware, even for $2B deployments:

Intel: $54B

Seagate: $15B

WD: $12B
Sorry if trying to preserve and fight for democracy disrupts your daily news reading flow. I bet you're the type of person that gets easily upset about people protesting in the streets against the government, too - because it makes you late for the movies or something.

And yes, I realize my comment is against HN's behavior rules, but in times like this, I think it's silly to say something like that. HN also played a big role in stopping SOPA/PIPA before, by keeping those sort of stories popular on the front page. I'd like to believe it can do that again, when there is a lot more at stake than in SOPA's case here.
I have a conspiracy theory that the Republicans fielded such sure-losers as McCain and Romney specifically so that these continuations of policies would legitimized through the lens of bipartisanship.
Actually it does.

Free services means the loyalty is NOT to the users but whoever pays the bills (usually ad merchants).

That's why there are "privacy policies" and not "privacy guarantees".
Glad we could get on the same page, even though we don't agree on some things. I try not to post snark or one-line zingers, in general, but having been through many civil liberties debates on HN sometimes I let frustration get the better of me. Thanks for your kind remarks.
How did an article behind a very invasive, multi-step registration wall (which is just a copy of a time magazine article) wind up on the front page? Seems like a lot of friction for something to legitimately land all of these upvotes. I've been seeing alot of suspect articles on the front page recently.
Right, because clearly the economy is doing great right now. Robust growth across the board, especially in the middle class. I actually don't think we're printing fast enough, rates are still positive afterall. Bernanke could afford to be a bit looser.

Well, you're right, tight monetary policy would kill the economy, very briefly. It would force liquidation of debt. Companies that need to go bankrupt would go bankrupt. And we could finally begin to rebuild on solid footing. As it is we're headed for decades of slowly declining standard of living because we're delaying the necessary reallocation of capital by just flooding the market with money. It's not going to solve anything, it's just prolonging the pain.
How does this effect foreign users of these services? I mean I'm pretty sure that they haven't restricted their data collection to US citizens. Is there international law about this?
It is a great effort. But AFAIK -- actually putting it to use -- would put you in danger of whatever punishment there would be for not complying. I suppose, in the most extreme of cases, death (presumably for "treason"). More likely some form of "aiding and abetting" or "profiting from" (or even "conspiring to commit...").

As Zurich's interest's align more closely with the US than Hong Kong, I think you'd stand a better chance of Hong Kong refusing, than Zurich.

The most likely scenario would be to put pressure on one or several members with access to "put back" the warranty canaries, if at all feasible (or just putting pressure on the only one's that were told of the warrant in the first place, effectively forcing them to lie to their colleagues as well. A national intelligence organisation can be a very scary thing disobey).

I still respect your willingness to have such a canary in place -- but in the event that is truly needed, I doubt it's effectiveness (I would love to be proven wrong, though).
Perhaps something similar to this, but in far far larger scale.

http://blog.backblaze.com/category/storage-pod/
if it doesn't profile users, how is it able to supply you with the demographics of your visitors?
I imagine these people laying in bed at night or having a scotch in the library, saying "...endowed by their Creator my ass."
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We work primarily in the US, but also have an international section (which I help run). For instance, we just had two staffers in Peru fighting TPP, we advised the UN on a key report highlighting the dangers of collecting metadata without due process (topical), and I'm just going to go to Cambodia to help bring local journalists up to speed there on Internet policy and their own digital security (via Tokyo, where I'm trying to persuade the W3C to drop their DRM proposals).

We have to be selective in what we do and we can't be everywhere, but fortunately there are many other digital rights organizations across the world that we help. If you have a local one, please support it. If you don't have one, start one, and then talk to us about helping you!
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I believe an argument could be made, that having and maintaining such a canary in place, could be considered obstruction -- at such a time as the canary comes into effect. I.e. having it there is probably legal, using it as intended, probably isn't. IANAL etc.
Yay conspiracy theories! On a more serious note this isn't really all that new probably as it says even Rockefeller was an early one.

It is more interesting that the world is so easy to dismiss some of the good conspiracies that are like the majority of the money is from a few distinct companies and a few distinct people. I mean you can literally see it's much easier to be insanely rich if you come from old money. Billions breed more billions just look at the Forbes Billionaries list if you want a list of people who have struck it big in the past.

I also don't really care what they discuss there after all it's not a very long period of time. And with some of the more powerful or smart people they will barely have any time to really get all out what they want to address if it's an open dialogue because it's probably too diverse of a group.
I have even scarier thoughts that this. Let's say the CIA, FBI etc had a commong brainstorming session on how to target spying on people.

Here are some ideas they could come up with:
1. Intel is the biggest distributor of computer chips, lets target them
2. Microsoft is the biggest supplier of desktop software, lets target them.
3. If we can pick up signals from distant galaxies can we not make our own special network out of those thousands of desktops running those powerful computer chips today?

Problem: If someone at intel/MS directly works with us, we will be found out.

Solution: Let's target a high level exec, he wont do anything other than allow them to employ a few of our special programmers.

Take the chip plans from Intel. Make some modifications to add another core, which is activated in a special mode and instruction running its own Operating System/wifi etc.

Deployment: Tell the high level exec, tell us when your next upgrade to manufacturing hardware will arrive. Just give us the date and the shipping information.

Intercept the hardware and modify it's software to dynamically change the plans, with a new one.

For MS, hack the build system using something similar to the Ken Thompson hack.

If I was into spying, with a govt agency I would definitely do this. Which is why I always assume my computer is compromised.
Some more facts about Zoho

1)Mangoes every year - The CEO has amassed so much wealth that he has bought a palatial home in US and estates in South India. Produce of those estates will be given to employees on subsidized rates. The better performer you are, the more mangoes you get. The employees just get to drool.

2)Zoho was earlier called AdventNet. To save tax, and also to chuck the original founders out, they have renamed it to Zoho. I guess there isn't any debris available of AdventNet anywhere (except in the package names of the java exceptions their products throw).

3) Free lunch - You will get free lunch everyday at Zoho. It means a lot to the poor school students they recruit. And last year, there was an Iphone/Ipad choice too. You need these freebies to get people glued in and forget the meager salary they get.

4) Criticize Criticize Criticize -
Criticize your degree - Never mind it came from Princeton. That way you charm your fellow employees who then feels that their school leaving certificate is enough. You cite examples of Steve Jobs and Bill Gate and voila.

Criticize your competitor (the original topic here) - Never mind what they innovated. That gives you some press coverage and publicity.

5) Family and Family rules - All of Sridhar's family is in this business, though none of the others have got his charisma. This has lead to the stagnation of other employees reaching the top. This is the secret behind they not advertising themselves. As the orginal founders have been chucked out, they know that this will lead to some conflict of interest.
"Zoho hires school students and give them the ludicrous jobs - Help desk ticket assignment, routine jobs like build management etc"

These jobs have to be done by someone.. I don't see why these jobs should be "below" school leavers. Hell, its a good place to start for them to gain some experience anyway.
Yeah, right now HN is pretty much broken
If you really want to work on machine learning, do a PhD. If you have a bit of experience and if you are good at it, it should be very easy to find a paid position. In academia, especially during your PhD, you are very free to work on your own thing (depending on the professor whose group you join).
I really thought that this Bilderberg stories were conspirationnist nonsense. Now they are trying to get some momentum by going via PR & building on their secretive image. Sad & pointless.
using the analogy of "facebook in a box" is a misnomer, really - but it serves to start the thought process.

The issue is that I dont need to share everything with everyone - What I need is a way to have a set of features and services that act as a life-log (pics and posts mostly) that are organized not only for me - but also for members of my family.

There will always be "facebook" where people can connect with their friends - but there is the need to have a familial or household based digital presence.
Upvote for good joke.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Politics... crime... TV news... probably off-topic. Certainly several dozen copies of the same thing is a little excessive.

(Perhaps if I were American I might feel more strongly on the issue. Being Australian, I clearly can't assess that.)
Wouldn't defying the court order mean you are breaking the law? I wonder what that would mean in terms of fines and possible legal implications for the directors?

I am sure the Government would say that the company is with holding data essential to counter-terrorism. With a bit of Government spin I don't see how the tech company could come off positively from making such a stand.
I'm really glad he did this, took a lot of bravery I'm sure. I almost get the feeling that he's happy to be in the crosshairs of the US government.
This is the only post on the front page today that's not about government spying.. Well done.
Nope, I was using Safari on the latest version of iOS. I'm on my laptop now and it looks normal.
Neat, clean design.
Don't have the time to browse all cards though, and some of the main concepts (AKA "Mobile", yes I know how obvious this may sound) that you would expect being discussed seem to be missing.
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I did need to send them scans of ID documents and I am in the US.
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I completely agree. For a couple of years, I've been living by the rule "If it's supposed to be secret, don't put it anywhere near the Internet". The problem is that a lot of people trust statements like "unbreakable encryption" and "your password cannot be recovered, by any means".

My biggest issue, in a way, is the stupidity of claiming to have end-to-end encryption and then visit https-URIs sent via Skype.
Are you in NJ area? app.com is owned by Asbury Park Press NJ. Then it makes sense for Google to show to location based search higher than contextual search result.
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Hadoop is specifically for clustered computer, it doesn't really make sense otherwise. Like the speaker said, it's really simplified (though you can do a lot of stuff with map/reduce).

In some ways the guy is probably blowing some steam, simply grabbing a bigger computer isn't always the best option, that's why clustered computing was even invented. I do think he has a point that people reach for it sooner than they need to. I've made that mistake before, and I just ended up settling for the pipeline approach.
This is off topic, but... Mozilla should develop Firefox OS to be as secure as possible.
Yes - sort of...

How many pics have you taken from your phone? (I have nearly 10,000 pics from 2007 till now)...

What do you do with them?

Do you have kids? What do you do with the pics and info and data they have created or been the subject of?

How do you keep track of all this, post it, keep it connected into a tree of info that is singularly "you"/"your family"

Right now - there is an internal "project kid" in FB which is a wasteland and no action is taken. FB is a ridiculously simple vertical column. Pretty much all aspects of the system is focused on one thing - feedign the ADHD ego of a singular user.

There is no larger cohesiveness of purpose for something like FB, where a family can use it as a full portal for their online lives.

Host your own life - allow others to subscribe to it - if they want a feed of public info, they can subscribe to what you publish and see it - but in the end - your appliance is yours and the data on it is yours.

This is only a small fraction of what this proposal is about... but at least it gets the thought-ball rolling.
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I'm not making any justification in my post. I'm just saying that an affair/adultery by someone who holds national security information and a clearance is different than Joe Civilian.

There are security interests in monitoring people who hold clearance. I'm not making any statements about unlimited wiretapping and data collection.
You just see some pretty statistics but you don't know (and possibly can't) what happens behind the scenes.
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You seem to have an axe to grind - almost all the points you mention (assuming they are true) can describe a well managed company, if you skip the negative spin.
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The voluntary keyword completely invalidates that as a reference. If the program is not voluntary - and there's no way in hell that it was - then what Microsoft just said doesn't even apply to this discussion.
Again, Calling it "facebook in a box" is limiting the idea completely. Facebook is a very very one dimentional ego-feed.

You cant have child accounts, household calendars, information regarding what you have, own, household rolodex, a self-styled/branded blog, etc...

There is so much lacking in the disjointed "cloud" services that are available to people.

They SEEM "MASSIVE" only because many others use them, they are not massive because of what they offer you.

Gmail is a sliver of functionality, as is facebook and twitter and any other service. And they are all compromised.

The point isnt to duplicate with they offer - its to pull back from their entire offering model.

HAve an appliance for your house and online presence that is YOURS. Features and services which you can pick and choose from - but in the end that you actually control all access to and from.
As a non-American I am surprised no one here has commented specifically on this electric call to arms: "Whistle-blowing is the moral response to immoral activity by those in power. What's important here are government programs and methods, not data about individuals. I understand I am asking for people to engage in illegal and dangerous behavior. Do it carefully and do it safely, but -- and I am talking directly to you, person working on one of these secret and probably illegal programs -- do it.

If you see something, say something. There are many people in the U.S. that will appreciate and admire you. "
No mention of encryption. And you can operate your "cloud data" from anywhere using owncloud or the bittorrent version of cloud with a private key. I'd be much more willing to trust an encrypted version or anything else.

Your basically asking people to buy your own hardware cause it does cloud stuff. It makes no sense. You can run the cloud from your regular own hardware. Why run it from some random box you got to pay extra to have?
I will continue to say: the President has no power. He is a figurehead to placate the citizenry, he takes his marching orders from higher powers (I don't claim to know who that might be).

Call me a conspiracy theorist all you want, but look at the reality.
Provide multiple ways for people to choose to push encrypted blobs to other services...

Dump an encrypted blob to a dropbox account, pay this service for an AWS box to push a blob to.

There are many many ways to devise secure backup - the issue is bandwidth. You'd likely have to have several blobs: pics, files, info. Pics and files are going to be huge.

The service can exist in multiple modes: a physical appliance, a physical appliance which is disaster ready (a true black box), a VM, and a hosted service (obviously the least appealing given the mission of this type of service).
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With regards to government spying, I think the only way which the business models of Facebook and Google matter, are that they are tuned towards gathering (and centralizing)data in the first place.

I think there are big problems with the ad supported business model -- but I don't think it is that central to spying.

Remember Hushmail?
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I think it shows that his ethics are perfectly consistent — with those of the standard-issue American politician: promise whatever will get you elected.

The anger people are feeling comes from their having been duped, yet again, by yet another of these creatures.

The fact that he talked such a good game, was given such a golden opportunity to talk that game, and inspired so much hope — going so far as to make the word a centerpiece of his campaign — just made it that much worse when those hopes were dashed, even flouted, so completely.

Welcome to American politics. You can hate the player, or you can hate the game.
Like everybody else, I'm amused by the direct access phrasing.

Obviously the NSA doesn't have direct access. They don't need it, and wouldn't want it. If they had it, they couldn't have put together these nice convenient PR packets for times like this.

What the NSA most likely has, is signed assurances of data integrity, and unlimited API access.

The most important aspect to lying, is the intent to deceive, it binds all forms of lying together. What matters in the blanket denials being issued by all the companies, is their intent to deceive. Is it a lie when they say they don't give direct access to the NSA? Perhaps not, but their intent is deception, and that's what matters.
the party of Abolition, Civil Rights, Reagan, freedom, etc.

Reagan? You mean the President that secretly sold weapons to a "terrorist" state to buy weapons for another U.S.-sponsored terrorist group, knowing full well it was an impeachable offense? The one that raised payroll taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts for the rich and tanked wages? The guy that deregulated banks and cause the savings and loan crisis? The President that generated huge budget deficits (3x Carter's) to fund Reaganomics? The one that claimed credit for destroying the "Evil Empire" when most analysts were saying the USSR had been in decline since the 1970's.

That Reagan? He's definitely a credit to the Republican Party.
It can be the truth that they believe they are looking out for us, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It's not really a replication, as colout just _USE_ the pygments library. Colout just add the possibility to color code that is located inside a text that should not be colored, which pygmentize cannot do:

colout -a -s Python monokai < code.py # just like pygmentize
colout "^(:*)'(:*)'(:*)$" blue,python,blue < code.py # just the code 'inside quotes', not the rest of the line