skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk's post does not reflect how a paper, and specifically the NYTimes Public Editor position, works.

The Public Editor's opinion is not the same as the NYTimes' opinion, so it is wrong to say, as Musk does, that "The New York Times reversed its opinion".

It can be an easy mistake to make, if one doesn't read carefully or understand journalistic conventions (such as the difference between signed and unsigned editorials). But the sidebar of the Public Editor's page helps to clarify:

Margaret Sullivan is the fifth public editor appointed by The New York Times. She writes about the Times and its journalism in a frequent blog – the Public Editor’s Journal — and in a twice-monthly print column in the Sunday Review section. The public editor’s office also handles questions and comments from readers and investigates matters of journalistic integrity. The public editor works independently, outside of the reporting and editing structure of the newspaper; her opinions are her own.

That is, the Public Editor is an in-house critic and independent opinion, but not a final arbiter or official mouthpiece.
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You're correct, Backlift isn't set up to let users run their own backend.
What more did you expect from the NY Times? They seem to be quite forthcoming and balanced.
Haha! Glad you enjoyed that experience. It was one of the first big things I did :P
Microsoft sides with Oracle against Google in Java appeal
Musk said that Sullivan said,

'John Broder [...] made “few conclusions that are unassailable.”'

While, yes, the bit in quotation did appear in the piece, it was in the following:

"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."

I would deem that a "misquote", though if you insist it's a serious mischaracterization of the context of a quote or something, I'm not sure I'll argue too strenuously over the semantics.
> by participating in AMAs, they enrich Reddit's community

That's the part I'm skeptical of, at least keeping in mind what community means in the HN sense. They don't really seem to be part of the Reddit community at all; they're more like the "content" that the Reddit community is discussing any given day. What's more interesting about the HN community to me is that some pretty accomplished people are actually part of the community.

Given the quality of questions/answers in a typical AMA, I'm not even sure how it's different from just linking to an offsite TechCrunch interview. Is it just some kind of fuzzy feeling of having participated?
hey he doesn't do tricks and he doesn't get fully eaten by the yeti
I agree completely, but the original sentence used a policeman as a member of the list, not an appositive. As an ardent lover of the Oxford comma, the only solution for this sentence is to move some words around.
This is kinda funny, because your example is full of : which is even more annoying to type than ,

If you have a shit keyboard, treat yourself to a nice one, I bought a mechanical one for 50€ and it is pretty damn good and I plan to keep it forever.
> Ubuntu’s unique side stage places a phone and a tablet app on the same screen at the same time for amazing tablet productivity. True multitasking comes to the tablet.

Actually, that is not unique. Several Android tablets by Samsung have multiwindow functionality and so do Windows 8 (Surface) and RT.

> Use all four edges of the screen to navigate between apps, settings and controls.

Also Windows.

> And with voice control, it’s as if
you had an extra set of hands – a truly personal assistant.

Also in Windows.

So, pretty much, they took Windows 8's interface and copied as many features as they could into free software which they cannibalized, then slapped in some magic that makes it so that their Amazon sponsored links come up every time you search for an application and setting.

Et voila, instant revenue.
A journalist who took better notes?
Confirms that I'm still terrible at this game over 20 years later.
Video that explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTBvPxQIFts
Why would you wait for him to do an AMA, then? Can't we ask questions and get answers without the help of HN—say, via email?
Many of the pages were the same with different redactions, but the FBI withheld 2 claiming privacy, sources and methods, and the danger that physical harm would come to someone if they released them.

- Dan Wright, FireDogLake.com
limit increased to 10.000..
Searching for a good stock device? Don't write it off just for some bad customizations. If you're up to the task, find the best looking/specked phone for your price that has quality, active cyanogenmod support (all the hardware in the device works well w/ cm).

Saying this on hacker news feels a bit sacrilegious, but don't be afraid to get your hands dirty. The well supported phones have good wiki pages and rooting/flashing them isn't all that hard. But you will only have yourself to blame if it goes sideways.
Viewing one's product through almost ridiculously rose-colored glasses seems to be a necessary attitude for a visionary product leader. Steve Jobs certainly had it. Perhaps that level of enthusiasm is required in order to get these products built.

In any case, Broder's review and the subsequent donnybrook don't make me any less likely to buy a Tesla -- not that I have that kind of cash lying around :-) I've owned rechargeable devices for years. I'm well aware of what's involved in maintaining batteries, and it would never even occur to me not to plug in my electric car overnight, if I had one. D'oh! as they say.
The only people who feel this way are the ultra-early adopters. Assuming most sites aren't meant for that audience, I don't think it's actually worth worrying about in the process of getting an early iteration out the door. Sure, as a site/app scales it should think more about branding but early on it's more likely a net benefit to have the kind of UX clarity that Bootstrap provides for most web users.
Nope, not yet. He has five lives because I haven't quite worked out the difficulty of the Yeti yet. Tricks will happen, too, eventually :)
Yes. And if you figure out their idiolect it is the single most informative car show about cars I will likely never be able to afford I have ever seen.
I don't see the point. Hacker News already has lots of interesting comments from technologists, and you can ask them anything (relevant) just by posting a reply.
That is the quotation that stuck out to me, too. I abandoned digg during the mass exodus and quite enjoyed reddit for some time. Now that my interests have become more focused, I find myself hanging out on hackernews and stackoverflow more than any other site. My only hope is that this community can maintain the current level of maturity and focus.
I agree about sensing that feeling too. But I think it stems more from emotional involvement in the product in addition to what is at stake for the company at this make or break stage.
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You can set the more_entropy argument of uniqid to true to get better randomness.

http://www.php.net/uniqid
> Most Django libraries handling authentication stick on default User class, so it's difficult to subclass it if you require custom fields.

This has been fixed in the upcoming Django 1.5. I don't want to argue with you, just point out this tiny detail.
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I have to wonder though, since I have several "issues" (waking up tired, lower back pain, tense in the shoulders, bruxism, procrastination, ...) in moderate intensity, if I should just "man up".
Slashdot Answers are superior to Reddit's AMA.

Slashdot solicits questions, people vote, guest is asked to answer the top 10. Quite rewarding.

Reddit AMAs feel like drive bys. Guests select a few questions to answer. Very casual. Very low signal to noise.

Reddit AMAs are almost as content-free as Presidential debates in the USA.
> One is a Unix, the other a Linux.

That's a little like saying an omelette is an egg. :) Both make heavy use of *nix and OSS components, but they also add their own proprietary ingredients. I don't see anything wrong with that, but I'd prefer that full-stack open-source wasn't limited just to technorati. You're right that the masses define their experience by the UI: both what's delivered directly to users, and indirectly via the UI tools/ecosystem/culture available to developers.
Can the possibility of one-time commitment reduce extended involvement ‘rate’, or otherwise negatively affect community (attract unexpected public, possibly)? Taking into account differences between the audiences of HN and Reddit.
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Jade has template inheritance, mixins, includes and plenty of other cool stuff. If you haven't, you might want to check it out: https://github.com/visionmedia/jade
ah. Qubes is interesting. I'd point[1] to my paper in Usenix ATC 2010 (which is a somewhat longer version of my post) it seems they adopted a bunch of my (though perhaps others had them first, none of the reviewers ever called me on them though) ideas.

[1] see http://static.usenix.org/event/atc10/tech/techAbstracts.html... (also useful if you are having trouble falling asleep).
I had better recycle some electrons to mention a neglected article about the Tesla Model S that is not part of the crossfire between Elon Musk and the New York Times. There was an extensive, and on the whole rather favorable, review of the Model S from The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/12/3969260/going-the-distance...

submitted to HN while most participants were discussing the original New York Times review by John Broder. (Most participants missed the discussion on the article from The Verge.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208154

The author of the report in The Verge takes care to mention, "Tesla hopes for its first quarter of black ink this year after a decade of operation, but make no mistake, it’s still in the throes of startupdom. Much of its working capital has come from nearly half a billion dollars in low-interest rate government loans. It has just a few dozen dealers around the world." Elon Musk seems desperate to stay in spin mode about any article on the Model S that is less than laudatory precisely because he can't brag up his company by referring to market share or sales growth or other issues that most entrepreneurs refer to.

AFTER EDIT: I appreciate the kind reply that mentions that Tesla Motors reports fourth quarter results tomorrow (Wednesday 20 February 2013). That will be interesting reading. Of course I was referring to the kind of general statement that a president of a successful company can make along the lines of "We have a growing, profitable business, and the word of mouth from our customers in cold states speaks for itself." But that's not what I hear from Musk, but rather nit-picking about published reviews.

The comment below prompted me to look up some investor news about Tesla, and I found a Motley Fool blog post

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/this-weeks-5-dumbest-stock...

commenting on the results of Musk's initial response to the New York Times review: "Tesla had to defend itself on this, but drawing more attention to the incident in a way that forces Tesla drivers to be patient through recharging stations, lighter on the accelerator, and focused on the most direct path from one destination to another doesn't sound like potent marketing material for a car that costs at least $60,000."
In technologically-oriented communities, fairly often. In others, not so much.

Had an interesting situation with a legal case a few years back, much of which revolved around email evidence. Using standard Unix tools, cutting through, searching, organizing, and categorizing a large volume (thousands) of emails was fairly straightforward. Working with a legal team who had access only to conventional Windows products was ... maddening. Turns out, of course, that only a very small handful of documents were ultimately relevant to the court presentation, but understanding the context in selecting and presenting those was greatly assisted by being able to effectively process far more.
You can also use it to reference arbitrary remote URIs. Suddenly your XML parser is making outbound connections to anywhere the attacker specifies, looking for more XML to process.

On some Windows systems, you can use a UNC path (\\share) and force the parser to try and connect to a share that the attacker controls, which will cause windows to hand over the user's hash during the handshake.
> what is with the downvotes? If you want to learn a new framework whether you can get employment is something to consider.

Consider maybe, but becoming an X developer is usually not a great idea, for just about any value of X. So, if you want to do Webdev, why not be proficient in both to maximize your chances?
Hogan.js by Twitter is a mustache implementation that supports precompilation, among other things.
I think a more likely outcome is that the next person will think twice about reviewing a Tesla at all.
It can. See the example at https://github.com/visionmedia/jade#a4
Judging by this thread, is appears Elon Musk is losing his innocence.
Integrated comment systems like Disqus offer all of that functionality.

(Yes, if you use the default Wordpress comments, don't, but that's another topic.)
Does the backend which nginx talks to have to speak the Websocket protocol?

If this is the case, and you're running a pure TCP application like IRC, you still need a separate Websocket-to-TCP bridge application running on the server to sit between nginx and your IRC server. How is this an improvement from the status quo? ("IRC" is just an example, you can feel free to replace it with your favorite protocol.)

Granted, this change makes life a little easier for users behind outbound-restricting firewalls, since you can now multiplex both HTTP and IRC on port 80. But IMHO it would be more logical to just have nginx directly proxy the IRC server to the client-side JS over Websocket.

Then again, maybe this patch is as close as it's possible to get without major revisions to the Websocket protocol: With Websocket's non-optional framing "feature," you might need IRC-specific knowledge to translate an IRC stream into frames in a way that won't break anything.

Any Websocket experts are welcome to weigh in!
This could be worse than the Silicon Valley and the housing market bubbles combined.
I wonder if it might be preferable to make it easier to put things on the ballot instead. You could look into the process for that and see if there's a way to humanize it or make it more transparent.

I can't think of a way to business model that, though. Maybe a Kickstarter deal where people vote for inclusion via pledges and you take a cut? That doesn't sound like a great idea. Dunno.
Are You a Connector? Giving Referrals & Recommendations Is Part of Your Work
The traditional meaning of WTF used in that sentence is perfectly fine internet grammar.
US Ready to Strike Back Against China Cyberattacks
At which point China kicks the US company out of China, and said company loses far, far more than any amount that is due to hacking.

Iran and Syria aren't subject to this problem because the amount of business that US companies do in Iran and Syria is trivial.
Well, he can't because Tesla (TSLA) is a public company and releases its Q4 report tomorrow on the 20th. He can't possibly "leak" detailed numbers on market share, sales growth etc.

That said, the Verges review is worth reading (and watching) for the video editing alone.
"I've always been a fan of Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk, but I will never look at him in the same way again."

I felt the same way, and that's why I think it is appropriate to link to the following post:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/31i/have_no_heroes_and_no_villains/

(There are some valid criticisms of LessWrong and EY, but none of the problems really concern the above post, which is simply an excellent piece.)

What we're seeing here is that kind of thing happening.
Have no heroes, and no villains
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> I'm not sure what Musk is trying to accomplish at this point, his "spin" is transparent and it feels condescending.

Musk has apparently decided after Top Gear that negative press is going to be an issue which he will fight to the death. It certainly feels like he's digging his way out of this particular PR hole.
I've found that my impression of CtrlP's speed varies dramatically depending on the project that I'm working on. For projects such as Bochs [0] (~750 files in CtrlP), I get annoyed at the initial .5-sec wait [1], but after that it's extremely fast. I don't have a particularly fast processor, either.

I find CtrlP breaks down with large projects such as the Linux kernel. While it's fast to find the initial list of files (2 seconds or so) it's extremely slow to actually search through said list, about .5-sec per keystroke.

[0] I'm not a maintainer, I just happen to be using its wonderful instrumentation hooks in a research project.

[1] It's about half a second on my laptop, which has an SSD. This time is dramatically larger if you have a rotary drive, more like 10-20 seconds IIRC.
The sooner Google and Mozilla make Click-to-Run the default, the sooner more clueless people will be safer.
Brazilian here. I think it just ain't accepted here yet. There is a strong culture that "if you aren't at your table, you aren't working". (when the employee actually just wants to take a walk to get fresh air and maybe solve the hard problems that need creativity...)
You are assuming that the Reddit crowd wouldn't participate in the HN AMAs.

Many probably would and, possibly worse, they might stick around.
> Sure, and the owner's test involved snowy conditions (Broder's drive had clear weather), which generally increases energy consumption. So what? If they repeated the test, but put the car in a refrigerated warehouse at 10F overnight in Groton, would that satisfy you? Can you propose any test that would satisfy you? I don't say this to be combative. It just seems like the goalposts keep moving.

The goalposts haven't been moving. That was the single most important factor of the entire trip on battery life. Period, end of story. Any attempt to "replicate" the experiment without replicating the actual event that led to failure (leaving the car unplugged overnight in sub-freezing temperatures) is missing the entire point.
Oh, this is confusing -- the preamble makes it sound like you can use this for large datasets and each character you type will fire off a new query on the server (like Google Suggest), but I don't see that implemented.

Anyone know if it's possible to use this without downloading all of the objects to be searched to the client?
Well as I said, "If it were between fixing an unknown issue with said car and fixing some code, then I would say it might be a wash."

If we're comparing an unknown with an unknown, that seems reasonable, but comparing a known (replacing spark-plugs on that particular car) with an unknown seems foolish, no matter how physically difficult that known may be.
Hive is not particularly fast in and of itself; it just has horizontal scaling and a SQL-ish front-end. Looking at AWS RedShift's homepage[1] (emphasis added):

> Amazon Redshift delivers fast query and I/O performance for virtually any size dataset by using columnar storage technology and parallelizing and distributing queries across multiple nodes.

Column stores databases[2] can be screamingly fast for analytics operations compared to RDBMS or other DB types (ala assorted NoSQL). See Kdb[3] or MonetDB[4] for examples of specific implementations. I'd fully expect a competent column store designed for horizontal scaling to obliterate Hive for a wide range of problems.

The usual big-data caveat: you need to pay attention to the fit of your tools against your problem and your data. I don't expect RedShift to be any different. Still, it's pretty exciting to see a new analysis DB tech cropping up like this. And doubly interesting to see this coming from Amazon.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS

[3a] http://kx.com/kdb-plus.php

[3b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_%28programming_language%29#K...

[4] http://www.monetdb.org/Home
Trying to unit test the internet is not a good idea, your life will be easier if you refactor things and simplify a little.

public bool StringIsEvenLength(string somestring )
public string FetchRemoteString( string uri )

public bool RemoteStringIsEvenLength(string uri)
{
fetched = FetchRemoteString( uri );
if( fetched != null ) {
return StringIsEvenLength( fetched );
}
throw new SomeOtherException("Didn't get a string to check the length of.");
}

Now StringIsEvenLength is trivial to test.
When you want to test RemoteStringIsEvenLength

You can mock out FetchRemoteString and don't even have to use a WebClient at all.
Off-topic, but what sort of valid criticisms of lesswrong and ey have you seen? I'm not aware of any discussion about that community other than at that community itself. Just curious if there are any links/summaries.
> he's digging his way out of this particular PR hole

Out of? Or into?

I have to admit I like Musk a lot more when he keeps his mouth shut. With this and his ludicrous Boeing grandstanding, he is sounding less like a mature, visionary CEO with every word he says.
"And while there are many Americans who care deeply about their beloved comma, in the UK (outside of the OUP) it's rarely used."

The British call drunk driving "drink driving", which is nonsensical. Based on this fact alone, the rest of the English-speaking world should disregard their writing patterns when determining correct usage.
I am still new to large data, but isn't a solution like Redshift similar to Google's Big Query in that it only works with data that has a schema? How might one use Redshift with a db thats originally in Mongo?
Comparing a column-oriented RDBMS with parallel query execution versus hadoop is a joke in the first place. Hadoop is extremely slow. That's nothing new. This is not an apples-to-apples comparison whatsoever.

How does it compare against Greenplum or Aster or Vertica and is it more cost-effective? Those are important questions.
A follow up to "A mathematician looks at D"
It's pretty well documented. The supposed firmware fix doesn't fix the issue [1]

This drive came with my x220 (160gb), shipped March 2012. I have a second Intel 320 (120gb) which is older, and hasn't exhibited issue. Lenovo replaced the 160gb 320 under warranty. I opted to go with a 256gb Samsung 840 pro. The 320's are now external drives.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4646/intel-ssd-320-firmware-po...
I don't understand that part of the slides. Redshift isn't billed per-query, it's billed by instance-hour.
I don't think it misrepresents it too much. It's a pretty 'squirmy' retraction.

Basically they are saying what Broder wrote was incorrect, and showed poor judgement, but without faulting Broder in any way. (As ridiculous as that sounds)
Amazon Redshift - Review and First Impressions
The two biggest failings of the Tesla S highlighted by Broder still remain unaddressed. The overnight discharge of the battery and the questionable instruction by Tesla representatives are still question marks that Elon Musk has done nothing to refute.
Impose a schema.
Not really the kind of comment HN generally approves, but I felt compelled to share...

> Just don't use capistrano... :-)

At one of my previous start-ups, we used to call it, "crapistrano". That is all!
I agree, I think the fuzzy feeling sums it up. Celebrity AMA's are some of the most unenlightening things I've ever read. You get some obvious questions about obvious subjects and the answer is usually some variation of 'yeah that was great'. It should be no surprise either - its a conversation started with no premise. If someone consequential to an issue decides to comment on that issue it can be very very interesting. Hackernews still has that to some degree. Even if its gone, can we not resurrect it as this zombie?