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> Facebook goes through your phone book and checks them against other users' phone numbers - you give it permission to do this when you install the app.

> "What Facebook does and what Tinder does is go through your phone book, upload your phone book and does cross-correlation between your numbers and anyone else's number - and suggest people based on that," he explained.

That seems pretty clear. They grab your WHOLE address book, so there is an established link stored in their database(s) between you and every other person stored on your phone. From there, it's just a matter of graph traversal.

This is one of the reasons I decided I would stick with a dumb phone and why the mobile web (or using the web from phone or tablet) is so ripe for abuse.
Cloud9 is worth looking into.

https://github.com/c9
Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?
Any spring to mind?
Aren't most startups except for very very few super start top ones, default dead by definition, maybe until B stage?
The Tesla statement doesn't say that the driver "aimed" at either of the struck persons. Only that they ran into them.

Or have you never, in your own driver history, ever not run into things you didn't intend to?
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From the victim's point of view, that's a distinction without a difference.
As you say we have only been lofting stuff into space for 57 years, and sending out radio waves etc. for a few decades longer than that/ There are still some uncontacted tribes on the earth despite our relatively rapid global population growth...I'm not sure why you think more advanced alien civilizations would be in a rush to get in contact the (cosmic) minute they noticed earth's lights coming on. After 500 or 1000 years, yeah.

It's also possible that more advanced civilizations are paying attention but are waiting for us to get over our kill-it-with-fire stage in response to large-scale visitation :)
The author advocates the Talos Principle change the texture of various interactive elements to integrate better with the environment. Interestingly, on some of the game developer's bonus videos they specifically mention that play testing revealed the had to make these same elements stick out more so that players could actually see them and use them. In other words, had they listened to this advice the levels would have been less enjoyable to play.

I wonder how architects would handle such usability feedback on their structures in real life.
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Ask HN: What development project model do you use and why?
So many people use agile, xp, kanban, etc.
What method did you choose and why?
Strscpy() and the hazards of improved interfaces
The companies that serve the ads have ways of finding out if the ads are being clicked organically. If they see ads on a certain website being clicked a disproportionate amount of times, they will investigate and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Perhaps they are having to dispense this advice more often in their day to day mentoring. I could see how the growth and success of YC could breed magical thinking among its participants.
Hmmm. I might be interested in getting involved. Need to think about it a bit. I already run a couple of businesses and wasn't looking to add to that workload.

I happen to have an aerospace project coming up that will be quite intensive. I won't use your tool for the project but I will think things through as the project progresses in order to gain a better understanding of what your perspective might be.

My first reaction was that I liked the intent. Anything can save time and streamline a process has value. I can't comment on the merits of your approach at this point.

I see your email address is on the site. I'll contact you towards the end of the year if this makes sense for me.
Maybe the feature is not really a beta, but Tesla is trying to get the public and regulators to accept the idea of a beta-feature-OTA-update to a car.
I can do that at work, because all my code is on an EC2 instance, and I use emacs on the remote box as my editor. I've accidentally logged out of my X session and been back up and running in less than a minute before.
This should help -http://www.softwaresmitten.com/blog/2013/01/09/10-successful...
Grow your instagram following from 0 to 10,000 and sell stuff
I hear this from a lot of guys.
Wow, this comment is really shocking to me. Wow, wow, wow. I hope your child turns out okay :/
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To be clear: I, personally, am really happy there are strong challengers in the car market. Also, I am speaking solely for myself.

The quote: "Model S is designed to keep getting better over time" reminds me of kaizen (1). It is a really awesome concept that not only can the car manufacturing process and technology keep getting better, but the cars can improve as well.

That being said: OTA update is REALLY FUCKING SCARY for cars. What if someone puts the wrong update in the queue accidentally? (2)

The historic attitude to modules in cars is also important. Modules run "code", but it is treated as mechanically as possible. Could you imagine changing out a few pistons while driving? Probably not. This is a failure of imagination that is being addressed now!

It is a truism that Big, Old, Large companies are risk-averse. The downside to doing a bad OTA to a car is unlimited!

WRT to Tesla's QA - I don't know of anything that has been published in this regard. I would hope they are "doing it right". I hope they are successful, and I hope everyone is inspired by their leadership and learns from them.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen - Article claims it was introduced by American business people, but Japanese companies continuously improved it =D

2. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/90219/20151001/oops-sorry-...
Seems interesting to me that most of the discussion is sitting vs standing, when the results seem to indicate that the important distinction is moving vs not.
Crap. So what are the immediate countermeasures? Switch to elliptic curves cryptography?
I think Tesla's entire account sounded like the truth washed with as much bias and bullshit as their legal department could get away with. I'm not trying to excuse the actions of the RGJ employees here, they should be prosecuted appropriately for both crimes.

> As the Tesla employee attempted to record the license plate number on the rear bumper, the driver put it in reverse and accelerated into the Tesla employee

I'd suggest it's more likely that reversing out was required to leave and the security officer moved behind primarily to stop them from leaving. Again it's still illegal to drive over human beings but it can also be a nearly simultaneous thing not necessarily a premeditated and psychotic choice on the part of the driver.

> As the RGJ employees fled the scene, their Jeep struck the ATV that carried the two safety managers.

Wait I thought he was on the ground bleeding out from his multiple 2-3" lacerations? Is it also possible that the ATV struck the jeep or drove in front on the jeep and caused the collision because the security wanted to detain them? Perhaps the ATV catching up to a fleeing jeep was not engaging in the safest behavior?

> When one of the safety managers dismounted the ATV and approached the Jeep, the driver of the Jeep accelerated into him, striking him in the waist.

I'm sorry this reminds me too much of dozens of police reports of "driver tried to run over officer, officer forced to use his gun" which is sometimes true but it far too many cases turns out to be complete bullshit.

Again I don't want to apologize for the illegal and dangerous actions of the RGJ employees here but (1) this isn't the whole story and (2) I think it's absolutely ridiculous that Tesla has their secur-- err "safety" staff heading people off at the pass in ATV's and risking their lives over some illegal photos. It's also possible that my skepticism is misplaced and Tesla is not exaggerating here and RGJ employees engaged in exactly the behavior described.
Upvoted. While the guilty party is obviously the one driving over the other, it may be so that the security personel Tesla employs, or at least the particular one here lack the training to handle situations like this without getting hurt. I say "may be so", not "is true", because we don't really know how the encounter played itself, but if indeed the guard was standing directly behind the car it suggests less than best practice. It's not really unexpected - most security guards aren't properly trained to handle actual danger, not in the way police is. This suggests potential area of improvement.

Still, my heart goes to those hurt and I wish them quick recovery and no permanent damage.
I think your comment is characterizing exactly what I say not to do, even if you might be right.

My comment is about staying healthy over the duration of your life. It's also about doing what you can and not sweating the small stuff. Studying hard and sleeping 6 hours will get you better test results than sleeping 9 hours and not studying. Your comment is splitting hairs about a small increase and missing the point....
Attention is a finite resource, and stuff like this sucks it up like a sponge.
They have raised, but they didn't raise until they were profitable -- that is, WELL past "default alive". They are remarkably different in this respect than essentially every YC startup.

Pretty sure Fog Creek has never raised either, while having 50-100 employees.

The overall point is that you don't have to be a one-person business to grow at a slower but "healthy" rate.
Trespassing is tricky. Entering property without permission is illegal, but "permission" is not simple.

A pizza delivery person who goes to the wrong address is not trespassing, even if he walked past all manner of signs. But he certainly cannot jump over barbed wire or pick locks to gain entry. These reporters are not delivery men, but we need lots more facts before we can make any decision about whether or not they were trespassing prior to the confrontation with the security guards.

They were certainly trespassing after they refused to leave. We don't know whether they are being charged for trespass prior to or after the guards got involved. It is probably moot given what happened, but criminal trespass does have all sorts of fine points.
The phenomenon that lead to this odd flux observation is more interesting than hypothetical alien megastructures.

Discovering a previously unknown natural phenomenon would indeed by insanely cool, and I would want to know all about it in as many frequency bands as possible.

But alien megastructures are just about the most interesting thing I can think of short of proof that we live in a hologram, or a simulation, or some new and robust fundamental theory of matter.
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Here's an interesting thought in response: (Keep in mind I know jack about rope rescue, so I'm making assumption as to what it is)

Imagine you had 100 people do a "rope rescue race". Half of them used all the safety mechanisms (they would pass the "whistle test"). The other half didn't use any safety/redundancy (they would fail the "whistle test"), but instead relied on their skill. In the end, it's likely that a few of the high-risk ones would die. But it's also likely that many of the high-risk ones would survive, and also that they would be the winners of the race. The safer, lower risk ones would eventually get there, but far behind the high risk ones.

Startups are the high-risk ones.
Ha ha! (Seriously, nice paper.)
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Thanks for the report. Yea it is not easy to install on linux unless you use the docker version. There are many dependencies and PPAs required in the script because it does everything.

We are working on better linux packing and distribution (see our issue tracker), but it is not easy to do it right, and it will take a while.

PRs very welcome!
And now the creator of pandas -- whom you just replied to -- is here. It's officially now a party :)
So they keep their current fee structure as long as possible to build volume then switch over to something that will make money when there is no way to further raise funds?
A simple disguised mechanical switch would have worked much better. Set it up so you have to push the handle down before pulling it up to disengage the magnet for instance.
>> As the RGJ employees fled the scene, their Jeep struck the ATV that carried the two safety managers.

> Wait I thought he was on the ground bleeding out from his multiple 2-3" lacerations?

How about: one officer down, other inside the ATV which was parked, maybe or maybe not blocking off the jeep?

> I'm sorry this reminds me too much of dozens of police reports of "driver tried to run over officer, officer forced to use his gun".

Except here it's the officers who got hurt. Damage was pretty one-directional.

I guess I trust Tesla on this one so far - they have pretty much a perfect record of being honest-to-God and fair, which is quite unusual as companies go. Definitely not trusting the journalists though. Ultimately, we'll see how this plays out in court.

Also, I wonder what Elon has to say about it. He also has a track record of being honest, so this would be a good data point.
I'm surprised it takes an interview with pg for this question to be raised. I would be asking it in an interview before I ever sign on as a new hire.
On the other hand, Facebook and Google were both founded as "default alive" - the startup part didn't happen until the founders were certain they had something so good they should drop out of school to do it.
Neat! It's always sad to have to disband a well oiled team.
There aren't any new findings here. It's merely a rehash of the Weak DH attack (by the same researchers) that was made public in May of this year: https://weakdh.org/

Still, it's a good reminder that you should not be using 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman.
I was hoping that instead of magnets, it would just be extremely heavy, and be able to activate an internal gyroscopic system to do something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeyDf4ooPdo

It'd be pretty hard to fit all that in a small package though, and probably dangerous.
Important stuff.
I thought GP was speaking about the construction industry in general, not just government work?
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> It's merely a rehash of the Weak DH attack that was made public in May of this year

Just to clarify (because I was confused when I read your comment), the weak DH attack was made public by the same people who wrote this post and the academic paper attached to it. It looks like the post and the paper are part of the same "release".

Conflict of interest disclaimer: I was a grad student of Professor Halderman's several years ago.
Seems like common sense to me. If you give a human driver the slightest opportunity to zone out and stop paying attention, they will take it.

That means that practical self-driving cars are an all-or-nothing affair.
> Nationalized healthcare is a disaster economically

If this is what an economic disaster looks like, where do I sign up?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

> and in patient outcomes

Back when I was taking a health care policy class and actually digging up these stats on a semi-regular basis, I typically saw the US in the middle of the OECD 20 pack. PDF page 46 of this report, for instance:

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/...

Exceptions: we do really well at treating breast cancer and diabetes. But sometimes we're at the bottom of the pack, too. Overall it's a wash.

> patient and physician autonomy

Like the freedom to go to any hospital in the country and know that it will be covered? The freedom to know that calling the ambulance won't cost you $12,000 which is somehow not covered by your plan? Or the freedom to have a claims adjuster who isn't financially incentivized against you? What about the freedom to spend half of the money you are forced to spend on our continued experiment with private health care? There are many kinds of freedom not provided by choosing between megacorp A and suspiciously similar megacorp B.
FYI this is not really new news. The authors of that research had already disclosed their findings at https://weakdh.org about 5 months ago.

Today they simply formally presented their research at ACM CCS.
What if it sends an AJAX request? You can't exactly undo them. The browser JS environment is sufficiently complex that "just undo"ing something seems like it would be... complex.
I'm trying to think of other games where I specifically noticed the architecture. Transistor, Remember Me and possibly Half Life 2.
Dan Grossman is the sole guy behind both Improvely and W3Counter.
The situation has probably played itself very quickly and was full of split-second decisions. The journalists may had no intention to actually run anyone over; maybe they were trying to sneak between that ATV and a guard standing, and they miscalculated the turn. After they hit the first guy this whole thing probably turned into "Oh shit shit shit! What have we done?" situation; people without training tend to lose any rational thinking capabilities in those.
Don't use out-of-the-box Diffie Hellman params, I suppose. See, e.g., [1,2].

[1] https://weakdh.org/

[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/42415/openvpn-dh...
Do you mean a team that works like a well oiled machine? Because a well oiled team, while having its benefits, is something else entirely :O
I wonder what the effort to break a 2048-bit prime would be. I suspect it's heading into "dyson sphere powered ideal computer" territory, but I'd be curious to know what it would actually be.
It's in the upper right hand corner on mobile.
Wasn't there also the problem with other pilot pushing down in panic, rudder being so enclosed that nobody noticed, and the fact that plane averaged the two inputs?
Errr, one of the points of all this is to stand up to bullies, in this case in the tried and true fashion, and stop them before they push you too the breaking point. Helps that the vast majority of them, including the ones I've dealt with, get deterred real quickly when pain is on the menu, and often become somewhat friendly.
I think they might mitigate the need to crawl _every_ page of every web site in that fashion. They must be doing some sort of analysis to "old-school-crawl" pages that don't need javascript interpretation.
More like were forced to pivot that way by government fiat :(
"Tech Package with Autopilot" used to be a $4,250 option including a bunch of small features such as LED cornering lights, fog lights, and a rear trunk that opens remotely. I don't know whether all those differences were actually just access-controlled in software.

For the autopilot features, the difference was only software. Even before the Autopilot option was first available to order in October 2014, cars were being silently shipped with Autopilot-ready hardware for several months. For those cars, it's possible to call up Tesla with a credit card and enable the feature over the phone.
See also Martin Hellman's oral history on trap doors: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107353/oh...
> founding a startup would be limited to folks who were already independently wealthy

Isn't that already mostly true (with a few outlier counter-examples)?
To rehash is to: "To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration".

If I'm not mistaken, they gave a presentation in May and have now published a full technical paper.

Perhaps rehash is too harsh a word to apply to a paper that contains more details than given in the slides.
Sounds analagous to the transparency/traceability Sussman wants from AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388795
No, unfortunately no response on Firefox Dev Edition (43.0a2 on Linux). No errors in Javascript console.

Digging in a bit more, it looks like the input #file-input is display:none. Displaying it and then clicking it produces the desired file select window.
> Driving isn't about getting from A to B, nor is safety the top priority.

Yeah, this is a huge problem with drivers today. 99% of driving is absolutely about getting from A to B in as safe way as possible; anything else is reckless endangering of the lives of others. But people grow up dreaming about fast cars and freedom and adrenaline, then they get their licenses and can't confront the boring reality. That's the very reason we need self-driving cars on public roads. Driving for fun needs to be separated out and put somewhere else.
This doesn't seem all that different than the Mercury program. There were two side to the race. Look closely at either and you will find safety being pushed.

It is also a little disingenuous to characterize the russian effort as "military" and the american effort as not. It wasn't Mr. John Glen first american in orbit. He remained an military officer while at Nasa and was awarded military honors for his flight (DFC). Smack whatever label you want, both programs had heavy military involvement.
> I guess I trust Tesla on this one so far -

Tesla is a party to the incident and has a reason to spin it as far in their favor as possible. Their account also completely omits any mention of the window of the jeep being broken with a rock and the driver's side seat belt being severed so idk why we should just swallow their account on it's face.

How about trusting a source that doesn't have a dog in the race? Here's ars technica's writeup:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/tesla-says-reno-j...

You can read that and see it's a lot more neutral than Tesla's blog post. It reports tesla's side and also info from RGJ's article and supplements that with comments from the sheriff.

> they have pretty much a perfect record of being honest-to-God and fair

The hero worship is real.
This is something I've always thought about Uber- they're just a courier service that happens to deliver people. The reason taxi drivers are unhappy with them has never really made sense to me since the oh-so-expensive taxi medallion gives them the right to pick up people hailing them from the side of the street. All of the problems consumers have with taxis are because they're trying to use them as a car service to schedule rides and go further than just the downtown area of a city.
How about a Mobile Keyboard That Lets You Share Secrets in Any Messenger??
s/kill time/do something useful/, like reading books, working, having fun, sleeping. Time spent driving where a "self-driving" alternative is available is absolutely wasted.
Then just replace "throw laptop on ground" with "delete EC2 instance".
Hilarious!

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
The thing that breaks 2048 bit conventional multiplicative group Diffie Hellman is likely to break conventional multiplicative group Diffie Hellman altogether.
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Does it do more than just web-development? I like doing systems level stuff sometimes.
They published a technical report in May that is almost identical to the paper submitted to the conference.

No criticism of the authors is intended (to the contrary, their findings are amazing and very important). But readers need to know this isn't a new attack before they go off panicking.
It's called image processing.
How often does your Mercedes require you to grab the steering wheel?
Well, suppose I decided to be a communist, albeit one that rejects violence. Living in the United States, this would subject one to all sorts of potential problems when dealing with officialdom, even though there's no Constitutional barrier to it, unless you are using very narrow definitions of communism, and even then one could legally amend the Constitution to get around those problems.

It's not that I feel warm to communism, but that I want the liberty to adhere to an unorthodox idea should I encounter a sufficiently compelling on. If there are socioeconomic penalties for the development (not necessarily the expression of or action upon) such unorthodox beliefs, then we're in an era or soft Orwellian thoughtfcrime.