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Only did it though?

The evidence is VERY circumstantial to most nuclear engineering professionals I would think. I think you want them taken out, not vandalized.
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It makes a huge difference who your initial investors are. I have seen companies take money and give board seats to investors that know nothing about a start up. They can't give mentorship, and they are dead equity.
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This is one of the problems I have with SQL Azure. They have yet to implement a satisfactory backup option:
http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com/forums/34685-sql-azur...
> The threat is absolutely imaginary. Obviously we have real threats

I'm not following you.

Nor am I saying that I think the TSA is a good thing or an appropriate response to the threats.
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Librato is fantastic.

The only issue is the pricing can be a little unfair if you are aiming for more of a real time system since you can't define retention rate. It would be great to be able to model the same system used in Graphite i.e. real time for last 6 hours, then capture every 5 minutes for 6-24 hours and then every 10 minutes from 24 hours onwards.
I find it does seriously put in question their self appointed authority to be the global nuclear police.
Uhh...

What?

Have you read the NPT? And are you able to point to the sections that Iran is in violation of along with the evidence proving that violation?
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Uhh...

What?

Have you read the NPT? And are you able to point to the sections that the US is in violation of along with the evidence proving that violation?
>> Both of which condemn the US and Israel. Not Iran.

you know, its possible that the US, Israel, AND Iran are all doing bad things. just because Iran is not being condemned by a some media organizations does not mean it has any meaningful high ground.

why are you skeptical that iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons? if they weren't, why would they be developing secret enrichment facilities? why would "The IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution[186] by a vote of 32–2 that expressed "deep and increasing concern" over the possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program" (from wikipedia)?

and more importantly, israel and the us are clearly concerned about iranian nuclear weapons development. it seems as if private intelligence lines up with public intelligence. why are you so confident that everybody else is wrong and you are right?
I'm a 'lefty' and write with a fountain pen using Parker's Quink - a fairly fast drying ink. Works remarkably well.
Alert emails can do a lot, but not everything.

Sometimes you need a way to look at the system and say "Hmm, everything works, but those two queues shouldn't have 20k items waiting in them ..."
Dashboards are necessary but not sufficient. As your company grows, you also need to send periodic report summaries to people who can act on them. While you certainly need instant pings (emails/IMs/Tweets) in case of major issues (server down, $10k+ shipment got delayed etc.), for the most part, you need to let someone spend 15-30 mins a week to analyze the data and make rational decisions based on that. Dashboards can't help with that but creating too many dashboards will take up valuable resources that could have been used to make more effective reports.
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Likely the person(s) who spoke out now feel a burden lifted from their conscience.

If the information is true, it surprises me that it has stayed hidden for so long.
Actually, backups are redundancy.

You just have to structure your redundancy to survive multiple threat models.

In which case, the redundancy offered by RAID alone is grossly insufficient.
As usual, when you trust a piece of code without reading the source, the fail will be strong.

This is like java's GUID that are random but not unique, etc. you can't guess it from the function name or description, you need to know the internal process to know how it's going to explode and when.
All you are saying is here is that you got it wrong in the same way for all parts of the test.

Which may remove the bias (I'm not sure about this) but it doesn't inspire confidence.
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I have to respectively disagree.

Metrics are also about the state of your business. What is your growth rate ? What is your churn ? Are people only clicking on certain features ? Where should you improve performance ? These sort of questions are essential for startups especially in the early stages where you need to be careful where to allocate precious resources.

Yes you can sort of gauge that with Google Analytics but only to a certain granularity. Graphite is incredibly flexible.
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Of course, the "competition" has to include the code to do the decompression. I'm sure the Bentley/McIlroy code is short, but is it short enough?

My Python code and data together come to 597 bytes. I could do a few bytes better, but haven't time just now.

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> I mean, either it's United or it's not.

Why do you think that that's true? I ask because it isn't in other circumstances (particle vs wave).

The world doesn't care whether it's convenient.

There are various connections, but geography is the only common one.
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I was hoping for more science-y details. Any HN folks care to give a better explanation of what's going on here?
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"Are you disagreeing with his assertion that the 0day market creates an incentive for internal code sabotage?"

This hold about as much water as antivirus editors commissioning viruses. Somewhat plausible but worthless without proof.
First, it's actually not true at all that Schneier has "long argued that the process of finding vulnerabilities in software system increases overall security". For a good long chunk of time in the not-so-distant-past, he had exactly the opposite perspective. For instance, when the Code Red worm was released, Schneier blamed the team that found the vulnerability:

We shouldn't lose sight of who is really to blame for this problem.
It's not the system administrators who didn't install the patch in time,
or the firewall and IDS vendors whose products didn't catch the problem.
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security problem.

Note the language: finding the vulnerability.

There's an insidious pattern among security pundits regarding disclosure. Disclosure tends to be A-O.K. when it's done by friends, or friends of friends. So, for instance, no vulnerability blessed by Elias Levy (Bugtraq) was ever going to be criticized, because Elias is the nicest guy and lots of people had met him and liked him. But when the scruffy-haired kids at eEye published advisories, look out! Schneier is far from the only person to turn the disclosure debate into a clique defense mechanism, but it's good to recognize that his ethics in this case are situational.

Second: while I (a) agree with Schneier's take on vulnerability markets and (b) have written about it in many places including here, I'm not sure what the point of harping on it is. There is nothing you can do about vulnerability markets except to compete with them. It is after all very easy for Schneier, who does not do vulnerability research, to suggest that there's something sleazy about taking money in exchange for vulnerabilities. But researchers rightly think there's something sleazy about the demand that they work for free. The researchers will win this argument.

"The whole point of disclosing security vulnerabilities is to put pressure on vendors to release more secure software". No. That's what we want the point to be. But as adults, and, clearly, businesspeople, we should be able to evaluate the world for what it actually is. Vulnerability markets are a problem, but they're a problem created by insecure software, not by researchers. We're not going to solve the problem by moralizing.
I haven't tested Windows 8 yet myself, but I've tested Ubuntu, which I found quite frustrating getting to know it, being a "Windows user" and all. In contrast I found Linux Mint much more natural to use and even more intuitive than Windows 7 in general.

So watching the video below, it made me think that Windows 8 is going to be a lot more frustrating to get to know for Windows users even than Ubuntu, which is a huge problem, and could make Windows 8 a bigger failure than Vista, which at least was somewhat like XP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMuJTrxuhQ

Aside from some pretty colors, and a couple of improved designs (like the Control Panel one), there are a lot of UI inconsistencies and putting things that aren't compatible together ... like a horizontal scrollbar for the tile interface (really?), making a "pop-up window" show up *on top" of the "Shutdown" tile, which makes no sense to me, the charms don't seem very useful, and I bet most "Metro apps" will ruin the homescreen "prettyness" with all sorts of crazy graphics to draw your eye towards their app. Right now it's all preset by Microsoft, so you won't realize that until it's out and you have it.
Actually, in this case, a kill switch would be a bad idea for the original coders. It opens the possibility of the target rendering the attack pointless.

Imagine a tank with a nice big, red button that shuts down the internal systems instantly. Now imagine that button on the outside of the tank. Sure, you could put some kind of password encoded lock on the button but it's a huge START HERE sign on the outside of the protection of the tank.
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Exactly. OSX had very bad security before the first big news on virus's, and it won't have good security before another thousand big news on virus's, trojans and backdoors.
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EDIT: people didn't like my humor. Well, look, the whole thing that you're buying with a raid controller is...redundancy. So if it's not redundant, failing silently, while telling you it's being redundant, how is this different from, say, paying for a house inspection that doesn't get done? If a raid controller is allowed to silently fail, it becomes a post-experience good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_good

Meaning that even while you're using it, you have no idea if it works.

My contention is that it's not a raid array if it can silently stop being redundant without telling you.

At best it's an Possibly Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.

(The below is how my comment first read.)

(sarcastic) Yeah, it's only prudent to grab a drive out from time to time and make a surprise inspection of whether it's actually filled up a full 4/5th of the way (or whatever) with the actual data the volume is supposed to contain! And the remaining fifth had better look a damn sight like parity information!

Seriously though, a controller that fails like this isn't a RAID controller, since what separates it from a paper plate and a cardboard box. On the paper plate you write "RAID controller" and tape it to an already attached hard drive, and you put the remaining members of the redundant array into the cardboard box. No setup or even connection required!

seriously seriously though, what you're suggesting is unacceptable. that's not a raid controller, that's a scam.
The terms "over-engineering" is so ill defined as to be mostly useless.

I have a strong personal opinion of when things become over-engineered, but that means little.

I've worked for smaller companies, which tend to under-engineer due to time restraints.

And I've worked for large corporations with such overkill process that it is amazing anything gets shipped ever. And yet it does, it takes almost forever, and costs far more than it should, but it does eventually ship.

Discussing "over-engineering" may be fine for general interest communities. But I think on HN we should aim higher. I'd love to have a rigorous discussion on how we can identify designs as either over or under engineered.
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There has to be a distinction between technical and non-technical books here. Otherwise (excluding purely academic books), I'd say 'On Lisp' - even though that's probably because I was not ready for it yet. In fact, I've had to read it multiple times. Same goes for SICP.
This blog post misses to me what is the most important difference: If you are not keeping consistent assignment ratios of users into experiment buckets, then you are implicitly making the assumption that no other factors other than your A/B test can affect conversion.

A very common example would be you might have a form that converts higher on the weekends than the weekdays just because of some external factor. You fire up a test with this "multi-arm bandit method" on Friday morning with two variations that are exactly equal. By random chance variation A starts winning by the end of Friday, and then it gets shifted to 90% of impressions. Due to this external factor, that it is now the weekend and that naturally increases conversions, variation A's conversion rate is going to excel past that of variation B, maybe even significantly. However, it in fact isn't better at all.

Now this may be uncommon, but think about this: Your website is changing all the time. If you happen to make a change on your website that affects conversion rates and you do not keep consistent bucket assignment ratios, then any ongoing experiment is going to be tainted.

I appreciate that the "multi-armed bandit" method increases the conversion rates on your site during the test, but to do be honest when I am running a test I'm not worried about increasing the conversion rate during the test. I'm worried about increasing the conversion rates in the much longer future, and the best way to accurately do that is to get accurate and significant results from my test as quickly as possible.

This also bunks one of the advantages in the blog post that says you can add variations at any time. You cannot add variations at anytime, because if you do you are comparing apples to oranges. The conversion rates from time period A-->C cannot be assumed to be the same as B-->C, because there likely have been changes in between A and B that could affect the "base" conversion rates (like website changes, external factors like weekend vs weekday, etc). When you add a new variation, you are creating a new A/B test that must be analyzed independently.
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