skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The New York Times reversed its opinion on the review of our Model S and no longer believes that it was an accurate account of what happened."

Contrast with this:

> "The Times have maintained that the article was done in good faith, and that it is an honest account of what happened."

It's hardly accurate to say that the Times "reversed its opinion." Revised, maybe, but the article he's referring to did more side-stepping than anything.

Elon isn't winning points with me by trying to spin the story to sound more favorable.
ELI5: what are the meta implications that amuse you - for someone that just had to google "ELI5" :)

(explain like I'm 5)
The impact varies with the platform and parser being used, and with the extensions installed. I don't know the specifics of ExpatParser (the one used by Django), but in general, the "careless" parsing of unsanitized user-supplied XML might lead to:

- DoS

- Disclosing of sensitive files (in general, the XML has to "validate". In PHP, it's always possible to read any file accessible by the process parsing the XML).

- Making arbitrary network connections (with this an attacker can portscan a network, attack vulnerable services that would be protected by firewall, and/or use the vulnerable server as a restricted kind of proxy).

- Probing LDAP directories.

- Remote code execution.

See, for instance:

http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-12/Briefings/Polyakov/BH_US_...

http://defcon.org.ua/data/2/2_Vorontsov_XXE.pdf

http://www.insinuator.net/2013/01/rails-yaml/

Edit:
As a clarification, I'm not implying that any of the above (apart from the DoS issue) is applicable to Django. I'm just saying what can possibly happen (and often happens for PHP apps).
I can't tell if this is a troll or not, but I'll bite. HTML is not a programming language full-stop. I've heard javascript is pretty decent though
The plaintiff would not be invoking any international law. Individuals working for the Chinese government stole computer secrets from U.S companies, stored in computers on U.S. soil. That's covered by U.S. and state civil and criminal laws. If they prove their case, and a judgement is awarded, China has to pay up. If they don't pay up, then a judge sends a sheriff or a marshal to seize property. Here's a random link about a lawsuit against Iran and Syria http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/16/11733643-family-w....

'Wultz Attorney Robert Tolchin told msnbc.com that with the court judgment in hand his clients can seek Iranian and Syrian assets to collect the award.
Tolchin said he couldn’t be specific, but he would explore “various avenues.”
“There is a lot of litigation by people seeking the turnover of Iranian assets,” Tolchin said. “The Iranians have kept U.S. courts busy.”'
I don't agree with your point or its opposite, but the example you give seems like it is at odds with your observations on brevity and symbol usage.
The NYT article seemed overly dramatic, as do Tela's responses. I don't know what the point of the NYT article was - the range wasn't as stated? It loses charge overnight in cold? And of course it's going to run out of charge if you don't fully charge it.
But then Tesla keeps making statements that are also exaggerated to their benefit. The NYT rebuttal wasn't as one-sided as Elon's post suggests. Hard to find someone to 100% root for in this soap opera.
What doesn't come across in this post is how squirmy the public editor's post is (http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/problems-wi...) .

It is particularly weird that the editor seems to imply that it was somehow unfair of Tesla Motors to turn on the data recorder without telling Broder. If the Times had collected more rigorous data than Tesla and then cornered them on some claim or other without revealing that they had contradictory data, the Times would be patting themselves on the back for their hard-hitting investigative moxie. But I guess it's a different story when the shoe is on the other foot.
The FBI is part of the DoJ but I'm not sure if it is a fact that the FBI was involved with what went down recently. The DoJ has a separate FOIA process, so I am assuming that an FOIA can be made to them for all files related to their prosecution. I'd be shocked if some person or organization has not already started this process..

edit: DoJ FOIA http://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-request.html
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Mangling a quote like that is effectively lying. It's a pretty stupid move to make after succeeding in challenging the negative PR.
I'm confused. The NYT didn't retract anything. If they acknowledged that Tesla was, in fact, 100% correct, they would have done that. Go take a look at their corrections page.

So how does the editor's piece actually support any of what he's saying?
The author confuses bikeshedding for the impending end of civility. At length.
I don't think journalists' accuracy is what he is obsessed with. This was a single PR battle and while Elon is an admirable engineer, he is proving he is an equally good marketer.
Unfortunately, the ones that needs to learn API lessons the most is Twitter, themselves... not us.
> The point that you are missing is that this is not necessarily true.

A body burns more calories for every pound of fat it has to maintain, even if sitting on the couch all day.

> You seem to have made up your mind about a subject you know little about.

Read my other comments here. I've personally witnessed at least a thousand people lose 50-200lbs each over the years due to my involvement with Weight Watchers. I think I have a good idea of what is required for people to lose weight.

What's your experience?
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No, I like how HN works right now.

I'm here. That's like me saying "Hi, I'm jgrahamc, AMA"
This is so much fun in hindsight.
Yes, this is an excellent point to consider. A conspiracy seems sexier, but it comes down to the human potential for error and the bureaucratic fear of torpedoing your own career (or worse, someone else's life) just because of a mistake in a menial task. If you were the redactor and the redactor's supervising manager, if something is a gray area and your lawyers aren't giving this their full attention, why not redact?

Of course, any one who is interested enough to file for documents may already know what he/she wants and will call you out (with a lawsuit) if it seems you've redacted things unnecessarily. But for other situations, it seems unlikely that the requester will either not go through the trouble of suing or not even know if what was redacted is worth suing over.

An example of a high-profile amusing snafu occurred during the Rod Blagojevich trial when someone using Adobe Acrobat forgot to complete the redaction process, allowing redacted text to be copy-pasted into another text editor: http://capitolfax.com/2010/04/22/blagojevich-hurls-allegatio...

Yes, that was a technology-error rather than one of judgment...but technology errors are much easier to double-check for and yet it's not an uncommon error in the digital age of public documents.
AFAIK the XML entity expansion attacks are DoS-only, but the other fixed vulnerability (external entities) may be usable in some cases to gain information about local files (again, presuming Django's XML model deserializer is exposed to untrusted input, which it is not by default and should not be). I'm working on updating the announcement and release notes to characterize that more accurately.
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I thought he made a number of good points all tied together around the suggestion that people aren't taking enough time to read on the web.

Angus, have you read Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death?" I have a feeling you would enjoy it, and would love to hear your comments on it. Keep up the good work.
I seem to own computers for a long time(3-4yrs), so paying a little more for a solid machine is worthwhile to me. I spent the most I have ever to get a MBPr and it..is..the..damn..future. I've not owned a sub $700 laptop for more than a year. They just aren't built for that.
Here's the full quote of the last one: "few conclusions that are unassailable."

>"People will go on contesting these points – and insisting that they know what they prove — and that’s understandable. In the matter of the Tesla Model S and its now infamous test drive, there is still plenty to argue about and few conclusions that are unassailable."

It is disingenuous to misquote to that extent.
It does have hardware acceleration, it is using android hardware drivers
with Ruby 1.9 you don't need the '=>' for hash values:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :first_name, :last_name
validates :first_name, length: { maximum: 30 }
validates :last_name, length: { maximum: 30 }
end
And I still haven't managed to buy any. I thought I'd have a go, solely in the spirit of exploration, but after about six hours the closest I came was finding that sending a load of personal documents to the Japanese website formerly known as Magic The Gathering Online Exchange would perhaps enable me to transfer in some "fiat" money from somewhere.

I understand that acquiring BitCoins might actually be practical for US residents, but it seems pretty difficult here in the UK.
Ooh, I loved this game!
Nice.

After dragging a file to the drop board, I couldn't remove it (FF18 OSX10.7).

It would be nice if I could drag off as loading the wrong file seems to require a page refresh to undo.
I haven't tried redshift before, but coming from a MR/Hadoop/Hive background, this seems to me like quite a sensational claim. I'd be very keen to hear other's thoughts on how widely these kinds of gains would apply for BigData processing.

As Carl Sagan said..

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
If they can't do simple math, yes. In their "debunking" they forgot that a day is not equal to an hour, and most of it is nonsensical.
it may already be coming... It may take another 100 million years to get to us...
>>The editor gave a very coached response that

If by "coached" you mean "squirmy", yes. I mean, she refused to take a stance on the issue and instead tried to play the role of an impartial observer, and failed completely.
good marketer? To me he seems childish and combative.

I understand he had beef with the original scathing review, but his own rebuttal should've been bulletproof. While it made some good points, it was also nitpicky and interpretive. I expect better from the public face of the silicon valley's vehicular prodigy.
By straight out misquoting about what was said? That's not a good marketer.
I just checked out the wikipedia page of Armen Alchian and it appears that he died today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armen_Alchian.
You are probably trolling, but just the same, I don't like it when people get downvoted without explanation. Ergonomically speaking, count the number of characters that need to be input by holding the shift key, and that will tell you which is simpler to type.

edit: Well when I started replying, you were well into the light grey and with no reply.
BugMeNot has a usable login http://www.bugmenot.com/view/scribd.com
I really like this idea but I'm not clear on how this would fit into the current UI. Reddit does threads a little better I feel.
Given the legendary performance issues of Hadoop I am not really surprised.

Hadoop is heavily horizontally scalable, but that's about it.
Subways can be even better, since they leave the surface clean for other things.
I think your estimate of their interest or availability regarding being a regular HN participant for some of these folks is is a bit misguided.
I think we should get a Model S review done by Clarkson. That's the only way to be sure if the car is any good.

But somehow I don't see that happening after Top Gear's handling of the Roadster ... (Tesla made a big fuss when Top Gear had two teslas break down and/or run out of power during a day of testing on their track)

Top Gear's conclusion at the time was the the Tesla is not suitable for the real world [yet]. Tesla of course disagreed ... publicly and loudly.
You might find this post from Stephen MacDonald useful if you're thinking about taking the Two Week Challenge (or the One Week Challenge if you're already familiar with one and want to try the other): http://blog.jupo.org/2011/07/30/rails-quick-start-for-django...
Not a very wise bet. Even if he won, it would hardly matter!
I meant it politely. A terse "HN is not your blog" sounds rude in my opinion. I think manners and social graces are important.

One of the big drawbacks in my opinion is that your post contained no links, because it could not. Because you can't put links in I think it means less research[1] and effort is put into the post. I also think that setting up your blog somewhere else raises the level of investment ever so slightly that it cuts down on some frivolous posts. Finally the domain to your link would appear at the end of the post title. I use the domain (and I think others do to) as an information filter.

[1] See http://wiki.qubes-os.org/trac/wiki
Just because you do not agree does not mean I'm trolling. Don't do that here on HN.
You would think that, but it is the New York Times and this stuff happens all the time in the politics section (blatant lying and lack of fact checking[saying the ND Senator is the SD Senator]) and nothing comes of it.
I don't know if declaring a concession when there wasn't one is good marketing. I can almost guarantee this post is going to blow up in his face. Playing fast and loose with the truth in an argument based on the whether the other party told the truth? Press is going to love this response and tear him to pieces.
Wait, so what happens if I build lots of nuclear plants then let them all melt down? Does that affect neighboring cities that other people are actually playing?
In Germany, if you ask your employer for a job reference, he has to write it in the most positive words or invite a lawsuit. This leads to the bizarre situation where in such a job reference, everything is a testament to the capabilities of the employee. You can only detect the intended statement by comparing various levels of exaltation and looking for key phrases.

How does this relate to Sullivans statement? It's the same situation: you can not openly condemn the work of a colleague or the NYT as a whole. So you write everything in the most conflict-averse way as possible. That is why its such a "coached" response and 1/2 of it is even the quote from a Tesla supporter.

But frankly, everything you need to know about Broder is in the headline:

Problems With Precision and Judgment
It's not a convention, it's part of the language.
"Calculations were done, and the possibility of it happening was shown to be one in a million."

"shown"!? "supposed" you mean right!? Or is there one in a million chance of this happening any time a nuclear bomb is/was tested?
I think it's telling that the blog post fails to link to the NYT article. Ie - if you really need to know what the public editor said, go google it.

This is a painfully obvious PR war in which the truth is the first casualty.
I more or less did this 2 weeks ago while testing the extruder for my 3d printer (and I'm no pioneer here). I used Kliment's (parent of thread) software to cause filament to extrude from my 3d printer's nozzle (the hot end) while I tried to write letters to test it was working ok.

Now someone is trying to claim this "new technology" is patentable.
No, but my brain broke trying to if there is a shred of logic in their posts.
I have more experiences on django. Recently I looked into ruby on rails and I don't want to look back.
* bundle install. In ruby everything is a gem when you deploy to a new machine all you need to do is "bundle install". In django I really don't see a comparable facility. I recall I forgot something until I got an "import module error"
* scaffold. ruby on rails scaffold just makes development usper fast.
* dev/test/production config. Well it is just very convenient.
* db migration. migration make db update/change much easier. Changing db/data schema is so painful in django.
I think they do too. I used to fall-back to vanilla DOM queries sometimes when I started using jQuery, because it didn't feel quite right, and I always worried about the performance hit... but I ended up always using CSS selectors, unless there's a good reason not to.

I think the main difference is that the value proposition of CSS selectors is just better than of the string-function syntax, so its worth it.
This episode started with Tesla claiming fabrication and a breech of journalistic ethics but ended with Tesla misquoting the times and highlighting imprecise record keeping.

If anything happened, the journalist was vindicated.
Flask is basically exactly the same as Sinatra
For all the talk about Broder lying and manipulating the record, I would argue that the follow-up is far worse in terms of intentionally misinterpreting the facts.

"Yesterday, The New York Times reversed its opinion on the review of our Model S and no longer believes that it was an accurate account of what happened."

Could not be further from the truth. NYT stands behind the integrity of Broder. And it's clear based on the cherry-picked quotes in the next few sentences that Musk omitted the inconvenient facts. (quoting “problems with precision and judgment," but omitting where NYT stands by the integrity of Broder's account)

The worst part of this is that Tesla still hasn't answered to the actual issue here: the advice that Tesla gave Broder. And until they actually address the issue at hand, Musk is playing games with a public that seems to worship him and want to take down NYT.
Thanks, I'd forgotten about bourbon/neat.
In most cases no. You do have an idea of what you have to do (as in software), but nothing too exact. Worse when its an European brand that pleases itself in over-engineering everything.
I don't get it: what is the other interpretation, beyond "two people and some onlookers"? Clearly George cannot be "a policeman and several onlookers".

And the added comma, as said in the article, transform "a policeman" in an aside.
Crowdfunding Close to Becoming Center for Initial Funding
WebSocket support for .NET and Node.js apps
Base64 is really annoying to deal with if you're using it for identifiers; you'll inevitably want to drop something's ID in the middle of, say, URLs, or usernames, or email addresses, and then the case-sensitivity and those three extra characters (+ / =) will bite you.

z-base-32[1] is a much human-friendlier alternative (while still being edible in nice discrete machine-word-chunks), although sadly, it's not supported by nearly as many stdlibs.

[1] http://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encodi...
Firefox finally introduces a PDF viewer
Oh god can we please stop the vim circlejerk resurgence?

As someone who's good (but not even vaguely wizard) with vim, the bulk of the content for these posts isn't that interesting. I've been using it a lot less than 11 years and the desire to optimise my tools has led me to dig much deeper than this, as well as to leave out misinformation or to present my assumptions as fact.
I know I am walking upon a mined field here, but I think that, despite his hero status, a certain kind of insecurity is showing these days from him. I mean, if you are sure you have a good product would you argue to death with a journalist or will you answer him then let the public try and judge the product on his own when it comes out?

I mean, I don't think that if someone would have badly criticized the iPhone someone at Apple would have been deeply concerned, because they were certain that thousands of authors and thousands of users would have praised it soon thereafter, and a few bad opinions wouldn't have harmed it much.
How does "ranking" work for a sandbox game? The concept wakes no sense. Simcity doesn't have kill/death ratios or something. You can't have a global leaderboard, because there's no winning. It's not clear that "cheating" is even a problem. If you want to play online with your friends with unlimited money, go ahead! Why the hell not?
Doodle in the air with a 3-D printing pen
Overuse of classification labels is a huge problem. The incentives are skewed as you suggest, so there is no real benefit to spending the time required to make decisions on each and every individual fact or statement. Entire swathes of boring information are classified for no real reason and a large number of things that someone might use as useful data are sequestered in random agencies. The cost of complying with FOIA is not insignificant and over-classification jacks up the cost. I don't know if there is a really effective way to "fix" the situation without somehow changing the incentives.
Slide 2&6, one query every 30 minutes.

It turns out usage based billing can be cheaper if you don't use a resource.
I guess Broder will be looking for a new job shortly. If that's the case, is this guy now finished as a journalist? I mean, he made some pretty big mistakes here (even if not intentional) his actions have been seen as damaging to the Tesla brand (only short-term though).
Musk pretty seriously mischaracterizes the NYT Public Editor's piece, but I don't see any straight-out misquotes. Can you point them out?
But the center of mass energy for a GZK proton colliding with a proton in the air is something like 100 TeV - 1 PeV. So still quite a bit higher than the LHC, but not by a factor of 10^7.
I didn't mean it as an insult. But when you make a statement then provide an example that contradicts it, that's usually a troll move. Ergonomically speaking, the example you provided is easier to type for Django than Rails. Again, didn't mean to offend.
No, you will be diluting your brand. Pick one thing to do and do it well. If you want AMA, head to Reddit. They already do that.
Original Sim City didn't have subways, just railways with very sparse commuter trains.

I tried the all-rail town, too. There was a persistent alert to "build more roads".
If I wake up before the alarm clock, should I avoid going back to sleep until it rings? (suppose this time is around 30 min)
The infinite scroll bothers me (an option to fallback to a text list would be nice) but otherwise this is basically what I've been looking for :)
You're right, but this is a PR battle at this stage, and these are rarely known to be won on nuance and accuracy.
From my experience, coding is something really easy to do as a remote worker. However, if you're more into "product design" or in a position where you have to take lots of decisions and communicate with the teams, I found it harder. Also, nothing beats the coffee machine or the beer after work to brainstorm on new ideas.
The conclusion being: I have no idea what those are and when would use them instead of your phone.
It doesn't clash with anything at all, as it is the default <leader>.