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Nidal Malik Hasan killed people randomly. That makes a huge difference. Another difference is motivation: He killed from hate, not for a military purpose.

The whole point of picking a specific target is that you consider them a combatant. (You don't have to shoot a gun to be a combatant, helping the military is enough.) A civilian contractor for the military can be a combatant. So no, the Iranian car bombings would not legally qualify as terrorism under U.S. law - the bombings targeted a combatant.

Intent matters too: Are you are killing a person because of that specific person? (To prevent that person from contributing to the military.) Or are you killing so that other people see the killing and get scared?

You are right that it's a silly argument because your eyes appear to be closed on the matter (although to your credit you argue constructively). So lets turn this around, in your eyes in what scenario would it be assassination and not terrorism?

I don't think there are too many other technological details to be found, so this thread is likely to end up as a huge discussion of the morals of this action.
The actual exploit stuxnet used to get onto Windows PCs didn't require the computer to have autorun turned on. The exploit runs on all newer versions of Windows (XP-7) and it triggers by browsing the device's contents with Explorer. (Specifically, it exploits a method Explorer uses to show icons on .lnk (Windows' sym-links) files.)

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/new-stuxnet-usb-exploit-th...
Sounds like he's talking to his younger self, not commanding a gang of people on the the internet whom he doesn't even know.

This is just another one of the endless lists of N things posts that proliferate on the intarwebs. Take it if it benefits you or leave it if it doesn't.

... oops, was that a command? ;)
You're right to be skeptical, but this isn't a religious claim. It's the best prediction these scientists came up with based on current theories of relativity/cosmology and measurements from Hubble.

This is the best science can do when experimentation is impossible: apply theories to measurements.
There is too much wishful thinking going on around Stuxnet, both on the part of the security industry and the general public who'd rather believe their own country originated it. If you were a world super power, wouldn't it be in your interests to claim responsibility for a first of its kind, extremely high tech attack? I believe any government wouldn't mind this kind of attribution.

I'll wait my 50 years or whatever for the relevant documents to be declassified, in the meantime this is all just drama and guesswork, no matter how many anonymous, totally reliable sources crawl out of the woodwork.
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http://blog.pentesterlab.com/2012/06/cve-2012-2661-exploitat...

since it is already public i'm thinking of adding my own write up
Note that already after 0.8 billion years, on Earth, "Carbon dioxide levels fall to the point at which C4 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plant species die. Free oxygen eventually disappears from the atmosphere.[23] Multicellular life dies out.[25]".

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> Although the galaxies will plow into each other, stars inside each galaxy are so far apart that they will not collide with other stars during the encounter.

Wow, that is just impossible to fathom.
So assassinating any government officials by Iran in order to try to defend from future such assassinations of its scientists would also not be considered terrorism, as long as they claim it is a targeted response and if it happens to induce fear in the large number of government officials and others it is just a secondary effect?
that linkedin profile shows a series of job, each of them lasting less than 1 year. That's a bit of a concern.

Can someone please explain why this is a concern? I've also had a series of jobs lasting usually less than 18 months. Whenever I witness people judging someone as a "job hopper", I wonder why they do it.

The only thing that comes to my mind is the idea of "loyalty", but just looking at dates won't give you any idea of why the I changed jobs as often as I did or whether I made sure before leaving that the rest of the company could pick up my work.

If anyone can share some deeper insight or a different point of view, I would be most interested in reading about it.
Good point, crusso.

It's not about "cool" in terms of having the right sneakers or knowing the best band on the cusp of fame that only a couple hundred people listen to ("I listened to them before they were big, man ..."). That's hipster cool, teenager cool, and it's ephemeral and ultimately has almost nothing real at stake.

Instead, it's "cool" in terms of "cool under fire" - having self-assurance and confidence to know whatever happens, no matter what that is, I'll handle it. Or I'll handle the consequences of not handling it.

That latter kind of cool is what you need to lead men into combat, win an Olympic medal, or start a meaningful and profitable company. It's coolness dedicated to a mission, a purpose.
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Monkey patching is NOT widely accepted in Python, just the opposite. For an example look at gevent, which is actually quite useful and elegant but often panned and avoided in the Python community because it works by monkey patching. The same attitude is not equally present in every dynamic language.

Where you are certainly right is that monkeypatching may occur in a project and this is only one of many ways that Python's being very dynamic makes it extra hard to write static analysis tools.

The rm -rf problem is not as bad if you are previewing (say) a page view, which hopefully is not being developed on a production server and hopefully doesn't contain an rm -rf. But I agree that solving this in the general case is probably intractable without some kind of container.
Actually, it died not because of Sugar (who didn't produce a product that was even considerable), but RM PLC who chucked out a load of cheap, unrelaible pile of shite clone PCs and took the contract away from Acorn basically through lying, cost cutting and cash backhanders.

Mr Weasly Weasel (Sugar) is just an asshat anyway though.
You know what's cooler than a billion dollars? A TRILLION DOLLARS.

In all seriousness though, I 100% agree with you, especially on companies that pivot to something lightyears away from their original purpose. Chasing money isn't always a bad thing, but it is when it's the only thing.
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Reporter's sources need a right to remain anonymous if journalism is to unveil important crimes. While it is not hard evidence, an article by a respected reporter on a respected publication is, normally, to be trusted. He probably has sources, but he can't reveal the in order to protect them. He trusts them enough to bet his reputation on what they say.

It's a sketchy system, but it's the best we can get if we want journalism to remain investigative (though we may already be losing that battle).
> Intent matters too:

I can assure you all killings are done with noble intent. It just matters who you ask and or listen to.
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Certainly not any.

But if a clear causation between removing a certain actor from the game and crippling the scientist assassination program is present, I don't see why not.
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Thank you for making this. I like it and I will give it a try, nonetheless the first impression is good.

As the other comments point out the copy is very bad. I think that you should improve it and that HN commenters should check things out before writing. To be honest I've only tried because of the backslash (I don't like to install extensions from non authoritative sources).

Finally, this is a nice extension... but if a frame is your concept of ambition, you should reread PG's essay.

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This is an extension that replaces google with a sidebar loading immediately the first page that you search. It allows to browse among the search results quickly.
Well for what it's worth, I disagree.
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Decent points, but too simplistic an approach. The forces at play in the IT/tech job market are quite different than the rest of the labor market. And, while it might seem like the answer is to tell the rest of the country to act like techies (which has a million connotations), that is not a legit solution. We can't have a nation of coders all building their own stuff or working in companies to build stuff. Most people are not cut out to work in the industry and the methods, approaches, and mindsets that work in tech are not likely to translated successfully to other markets.

As a society, we need to have a serious conversation about what to do with the millions of undereducated and low/moderately skilled workers who are simply losing jobs to technology, business process improvement, and productivity gains. Becoming techies isn't the answer, but focusing on moving more workers towards a "creation" based style of employment might be a reasonable start. A move toward local agriculture, a rise in trades and craftsmanship instead of overseas production, a re-examination of the wages and requirements for critical service industries like primary education and healthcare...that is where I'd focus energy instead. No, we don't need 190 million coders, but we could use more teachers, more nurses, more good plumbers, more people making high quality goods domestically, and a lot more people growing food that isn't shipped halfway across the planet or covered in a bioengineered chemical soup.
It's a little different when half the goal is to leave no trace of who wrote the software (and everything is obfuscated to hell).
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The first issue I have with your example is that, according to you, "guilty until proven innocent" is acceptable at least in some circumstances - say, when you're really really sure he's done it, you just can't prove it yet.

The second issue is that your example has absolutely nothing to do with the MegaUpload case. If you want to live in a country where the government has the right to seize all your assets and destroy your business without having to justify itself, I won't pretend to understand you, but I'll accept that it's your right. But I refuse to live in a world where that same government has the right to do so to everyone, including people it doesn't actually govern in countries where its laws do not apply.
The underlying cognitive bias in "I don't need backups, I use raid1" seems to be the quite common one of "I don't do anything stupid, so I don't need anti-stupidity devices" (feel free to substitute "careless" or similar for "stupid"), maybe with a side-order of "if I set up systems that protect me from my stupidity then only stupid people will want to work with me". The fact is, most of us do many stupid things every day--some stupid at the time, some stupid in retrospect--and systems that don't let us recover from them are poor systems.
More feedback - I like the site's appearance just fine (I use low contrast colorschemes when programming so that's fine for me). But it's also pretty overwhelming with the sheer word volume on the first page. I don't yet understand why I would use it. I find that it's hard to interpret much of the promotional copy. Suppose I use (just to choose something) Ruby, what sort of projects or reasons should I switch for?

Editing on an AST is a neat idea. I think it is a neat idea for an editor. Coupling tightly to a particular editor is going to hurt the adoption of your language, just like coupling to a particular language hurts the adoption of your editor.

But it seems like you have some neat ideas and I hope you are not too discouraged by the negative feedback.
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The did crash - quite regularly, but it was usually user error :)

They did also have viruses, but they were usually funny and harmless.

However, business wasn't using IBM PCs in the UK at the time. They didn't get a look in - pretty much everyone was Acorn in the UK.

My father was the FIRST major PC clone importer/builder in the UK (waaaay before Dell even got going here) and he nearly died from lack of sales a couple of times as people were either quite happy with their ancient Acorn kit or bought new Archs when they came out. The PCs of the day were a bag of shite, unreliable and unproductive and people knew it. He now sells Dell kit which is a bag of shite, unreliable and unproductive. How times change....

Unfortunately for Acorn, the tables turned as RM PLC got into the government and promoted the PC, businesses hit the Internet, Windows 3.1 came out with Winsock, Netware was usable and interoperability with the US was required regularly (which was PC all over).

Game over. Momentum destroys superiority.

As for popularity outside the UK, NL, DE and NZ had a fair amount.
> If Israel had physically bombed the Iranian plant would that not started another major war in the Middle East?

Who would be the combatants? One of the few actually interesting things that came out of the leaked diplomatic cables was that many of the major Middle East countries want Iran's nuclear program stopped, with Saudi Arabia actually repeatedly urging the US to attack.

In light of that, I'd expect that if Israel attacked it would be publicly condemned by the rest of the Middle East countries, but most would secretly be relieved.
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It is important to know your own preferences, but as you said yourself, then you need to make your choices accordingly : it could be the startup, or aiming for a position in a big company where you have something to say about those choices. Both are interesting.

For the first point, I will not start a discussion about what is a "good" language (a large part of it being in the eye of the beholder and in the requirements of the projects).
Yep, that kind of thing is pretty strongly discouraged anyway and as a Python programmer I definitely have never expected (say) lint tools to understand them. Life goes on, it's just not that important for getting things done.
One glaring flaw in this article is that they're comparing a multi-arm bandit with a 10% exploration rate to a simple random split test with an implicit 50% exploration rate. Of course the split test will converge faster.

In their results when they compare a MAB with a 50% exploration rate to their split test you start to see a comparable amount of time to converge. Also they only show the results of one simulation with a lot of random in it. Given we're all stats nerds it would've been handy to see a box plot for each of the styles of simulation across multiple runs.

Having said all of that, my biggest concern around MAB as it's being sold is the lack of thought around the experiments. In the end it's just data and it doesn't mean anything without human intuition and preconceptions guiding it. Example: day of week, time of year/day, new page people are getting used to still, old one that garners lots of repeat traffic, etc. When running tests there's a lot more to consider besides just "whatever the data says".
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[1] In C++, things like memset((void*)this, val, 1024) are always possible.
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Maybe in the USA and Europe. But in much of the rest of the world
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I preferred Interdictor 2: http://www.apdl.co.uk/riscworld/volume3/issue6/disc/index.ht...
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Swap the names of the countries, and think about how it would have been reported if Iran had done the exact same thing to Israel/US.
Or even more likely, the RAID configuration is lost.
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I would like to have seen more tests vs the MAB-90 algorithm as this appeared the most interesting one to me. Also the article appears to imply that A/B testing is useful in the situation where you want a cleaner statistically significant result which I believe is actually a false argument.
Reading the conclusions it seems that each approach - a/b testing vs multi-armed bandit - has its merits. Maybe Visual Website Optimizer should be method agnostic and offer customers the choice of method?
I don't believe in security through obscurity but I really think the author of that blog post is not doing the world a favor by explaining how to use this bug with URI encoded copy/paste examples for every script kiddie to use, less than 24 hours after it hit.

Anyway, the gist is: if you have an unpatched rails server stop reading this, you need to upgrade RIGHT AWAY.
We ran each simulation 25 times (with 10000 iterations each). And can share exact statistics in case you are interested. And yes, MAB with 50% exploration rate did perform similarly, but it didn't generalize when there were more than two versions.
> A/B testing is useful in the situation where you want a cleaner statistically significant result which I believe is actually a false argument.

Why do you say so? Can you elaborate?
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Not in violation but they did withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

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> I'd prefer a cyberwar over a physical one

As long as we heed the lesson from Star Trek, episode 23, "A Taste of Armageddon" and don't make cyberwars so clean that no one bothers to end them.
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This isn't nearly as terrifying as the Cold War with the USSR. We're not threatened with nuclear war, nor having the near misses that could trigger it (Cuban missile crisis). No one is building bomb shelters in their backyards, because right now the balance of power is very much in the United States' favor.

Could things get there with another nuclear enabled power like China? Maybe, in time. Iran is not an existential threat to the US, not anywhere close to what the Soviets were. The Israelis see things differently I'm sure, but this is far from the situation in 60s - 80s.
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Makes me consider to start always casting URL query parameters as a defensive measure, regardless of this specific vulnerability being patched.
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Or use A/B testing to figure out which testing method customers respond to better....