skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Donate $10,000 for the authentic Cryptome Archive of 100,000 files from June 1996 to 14 October 2015 on 2 USBs (42.0GB)."

1. For $10,000, they can't afford one 64GB USB flash drive?

2. Cryptome refers to USB flash drives as "USBs"?!
That just made me think...could you poison Google's 'did you mean...' feature that we sometimes use as a defacto spellcheck by seeding the web with a consistently misspelled word all over the place?
On the topic of boredom and attention lapses while driving, I wonder if it would actually be made safer by being made more difficult, in contrast to the never-ending search for ease of use. Something that's difficult, mentally stimulating, and requires actual skill like a video game or musical instrument. Would there be more or less mistakes (collisions) if people were forced to be engaged 100% of the time in order to operate the vehicle?

I'm not saying it's a good idea, because only a subset of people would be capable of it, but it's interesting to think about!
So what kind of server is this for? What are the 'exciting' features?
In most of the given examples, humans have little control of the environment. We are, in fact, trying to use autonomous vehicles to explore.

In the case of cars, humans can change the physical environment to meet the needs of the car. Additionally, the car may be able to avoid a situation that it knows it doesn't handle well (e.g. avoid complicated intersections).

In the one case of an environment where we have some controls (air travel), it is more difficult to "pull over" as compared to a car (as other commenters have noted).
Ask HN: Why is Google #1 result for “alphabet” abc.xyz?
It's been that way since the day it was announced.

Google has been promising it doesn't put it's own results first[1]. But this fly's in the face of that, and it feels disrespectful, I'm forced to see a result which deserves no where close to page 1 because google wants to promote it's brand.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/20/ftc-report-google-search-bias/: "While the FTC didn't sue Mountain View for its anti-competitive practices, it got Google to promise to change its ways."
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I would have expected this, although you need a decent enough runway so you can pay you rent, family expenses, etc. It sounds like their employer kicked them out and they wanted to find stable, predictable employment quickly. Also, a team of developers may not possess the required business/sales skills, or not want to move into that area.
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I agree they certainly aren't the wayward pizza guy, but it is still far from simple.

"Private Property" signs are something different than "No Public Admitted". Any mall has a private property sign, that doesn't mean people aren't allowed in.

I'm a unsure about the location of the Jeep. It sounds like they drove into Tesla's parking lot, then proceeded on foot towards the factory. If the lot was open to the public (no gate) then the initial trespass is far from clear. Climbing a fence weights towards trespass, but I want to see more about this fence. If it was the sort of barb-wire fence normally found around factories, how did they do this? Or was it a small sort of fence meant to direct foot traffic around grassy areas.

If they instead parked on the street it gets even more complex. If they walked in on foot and were asked to leave, they appear to have done so. So they were not trespassing after being confronted by guards. And that would place the physical altercation off of tesla property, totally complicating the liability issues. If you seek to detain someone you don't normally allow them to leave the proper, let alone them access their vehicle.
> Say "We're default dead, but we're counting on investors to save us." Maybe as you say that it will set off the same alarms in your head that it does in mine. And if you set off the alarms sufficiently early, you may be able to avoid the fatal pinch.

To make this alarm explicit: if you were that investor, would you save the company? I wouldn't.
Literally no evidence to support that.
PSA: Rather than using underscores, _like this_, at HN you can get emphasized text using asterisks, like this. (I see _emphasis_ almost every day on HN, so IMHO it should support both. But until it does, asterisks are definitely the way to go.)
There still seems to be questions about the lipid hypothesis.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18615352

The context of the SBU finding for low carb was indeed for low carb and Type 2's; when I mentioned that I was still in the context you brought up of Type 2's.

[2] http://www.dietdoctor.com/swedish-expert-committee-low-carb-...

There is a lot of discussion on /r/keto and other keto forums about high cholesterol numbers, and it seems we need to perform more research. Because some (not all) longer-term (longer than a year) keto dieters are finding that their cholesterol numbers went down after staying elevated for awhile; one hypothesis is that the high numbers are from the release of cholesterol from breaking down fat stores.

[3] http://bjjcaveman.com/2013/03/10/the-effect-of-a-ketogenic-d...

Thanks for sharing the links, appreciated.
Pinboard[1] is the most prominent example that comes to my mind, along with tarsnap[2]. These 'startups'[3] have in common some things:

* Both 'entrepreneurs' have strong personality, although they are quite different.

* Both have a simple, traditional pricing model: You pay for the service. End of the story. Tarsnap in particular uses 'picodollars'.

* Both have a very simple web UI.

* Both are pretty stable. You don't see "coming back soon" pages and 404 errors.

[1] https://www.pinboard.in/

[2] https://www.tarsnap.com/

[3] I don't know if these two businesses can be considered startups. To me startup is something defined. Not very specifically, but not very loosely either. The feeling I'm getting reading HN is that any (self-perceived) modern or pseudo-modern tech-company that doesn't have reason to market itself as a structured corporation poses as a startup.
Speed is the main reason. Going bigger doesn't gain you anything; in some cases it may lose you something since slower arithmetic makes it possible to exploit lower-bandwidth side channel attacks.
this is why many people prefer driving a manual.
Being that crypto is 'just math', why would crypto be safe? The only claim that crypto is safe assumes computational power is limited. Is that a safe assumption? Assuming the crypto math is safe, one also has to be certain the entire system which runs the crypto is safe as well.

Analysis and attempts to decode the Voynich manuscript lead me to believe mathematical patterns intended to hide information, languages in particular, are not safe in the least.
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I thought the fact that messages and photos are kept was a feature. As in, I can scroll back a decade in my photo albums and look at pictures from my high school graduation.
> Would there be more or less mistakes (collisions) if people were forced to be engaged 100% of the time in order to operate the vehicle?

I think there would be less mistakes, but the problem is, you can't sustain the required level of engagement for long. 100% concentration for 15 minutes? Sure. 30? Yes. One hour? Maybe. Three hours? Probably not.

Though, come to think of it, one hour would probably be enough to cover like 95% cases of commuting.
While the article doesn't actually use the word "never", neither does it hedge and say "anytime soon".

The central logic seems to be that humanity is starting from scratch building self driving cars, versus all the years of experience decades ago trying to automate spacecraft and submersibles.

Oddly, I reach entirely the opposite conclusion. The article reminds us that even decades ago, with rudimentary computers, engineers developed systems that landed men on the moon and returned them to earth.

This article has made it even easier for me to imagine a car taking a fully autonomous trip to a McDonald's drive through,
given the state of deep/machine learning, low cost computers a million times faster, and big advances in sensors,
Yes there will be a person supervising the car for a while, of course that's true. But it's only a matter of time before our children are surprised that humans were allowed to drive cars, causing millions of deaths.
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Contacts is accessible by "Messenger" on mine, the Facebook app itself doesn't provide contact sync.
Dwolla is an extraordinarily unscrupulous business.

They marketed their service for years as 'free from chargebacks' and then (without notice!) silently deleted transactions which had, in fact, been charged back: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/07/tradehill-sues-suing-dwoll...
Nashorn isn't actually used in Java's WebView (which my project leverages). Nashorn is used elsewhere in the JRE and replaces Rhino from prior releases, but WebView has used something else entirely: JavaScriptCore. Details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30104124/what-javascript-...

But essentially on performance, it's comparable to a desktop browser but still slower than I'd like. Java 9 should support HTTP 2 and async HTTP by default, which might help. And I've been looking into short-cutting some of the in-memory rendering but haven't had any breakthroughs yet.

As far as JavaScriptCore engine specifically, it's the default in WebKit so there should be good performance data out there on it.
In context of this discussion we're evaluating the technical drivelessness, not legal one, so Google cars and the hours they logged qualify.
What he demonstrated is basic cross compilation techniques. There is nothing new or novel about this. You are hardly going to be able to build a full future app with exclusive Swift for the android using that method without a lot of tears, sweat, blood and effort.
i believe i heard that PlentyOfFish was started by a single dev and run that way for some time.
> Theres real threats out there

In 1972 the threat was the Democrats being elected president, so workers on the president's re-election committee burglarized the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate hotel. Then Nixon (on tape!) hashed out a plan to have the FBI cover this up. Without a high-up leaker in the FBI, none of this may have ever come to light. (Actually, Nixon did something similar in 1968 against Humphrey, by convincing the South Vietnamese government to not hold peace talks. He not only betrayed the US but the South Vietnamese he made a deal with, since he pulled US troops out in 1972)

Then of course there is the FBI acting as a political police - disrupting the civil rights movement, bugging Martin Luther King Jr. and leaking information gained to the media, attacking those Democrats who were voting against continuing the Vietnam War etc.

Some of these excesses were pulled back in the 1970's, but in recent years they have begun raising their head again. And the country isn't even in such bad shape economically, militarily etc. I can image what would happen if there were another Depression, sit down strikes etc.

In 1929, the Secretary of State (a Republican!) shut down post-WWI domestic spying saying "gentlemen do not read other gentlemen's mail". Now we have these massive police bureaucracies who apparently don't care about the Fourth Amendment, and who are advising Congress that we shouldn't be allowed to have private communications with one another on our iPhones etc., all should be opened to the ears of Big Brother.

Keep walking down this road, and the "threats" like the mujahideen (funded by the previous generation of your type who explained to us that "Theres real threats out there") will not die down, but multiply, and will increasingly be from citizens within this country.
You're increasing your attack surface area. Do you use both, do you let the server choose, do you let the client choose? What if the client requests the lower-security crypto? What if what the client asked you is different to what you think you were asked from the client (MITM)?
If you haven't read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" yet, do yourself a favor and order it right now!
You on the other hand are making the assumption that developers are capable of making that decision informed and "correctly".
Google's driverless cars have now logged over a million fully automated miles. It is a proven technology.

Not even Google engineers go that far - see this Tech Review article [0] from last years that talks about how Google's driverless cars can't handle snow, heavy rain, or its sensors being blinded by the sun.

Driverless cars may be coming, but it's still along way off.

[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530276/hidden-obstacles...
Pretty sure Plenty Of Fish is a single guy.
Are banks really this bad at maximizing profits?
That is because economists are either academics or work for large blue chip companies and have gold plated health insurance policies. They actually never have to deal with this on a personal level.
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Lol, a self-driving motorcycle isn't anywhere near possible atm. Driving a car is to riding a motorcycle as walking is to ballet. There are all manner of strange physics (Google "countersteering"). Add to this the vast differences in threat profiles, the regular need for evasive maneuvers, serious judgment calls re emergency braking in corners, the weight-shifting of the rider, the potential 'bail out' decision, the lowside v highside decision (laydowns) ... I haven't heard even a passing joke about an autodrive two-wheeler. Even automatic transmissions are near fantasy beyond small 2-gear scooters.

Any sudden, unexpected, movement by an autodrive motorcycle would probably see the drive thrown free, or at least result in a weight shift great enough to down the entire package.
Including me, so I tried to find some statistics to see if a manual was enough to focus on. I didn't find much.

I found one Swedish study that looked at automatic and manual transmissions affect on young and old drivers' ability to turn left across traffic [1]. It found a manual had little impact on the young driver, and older drivers performed worse.

I'm not sure turning left across traffic is a large enough sample of driving for me to be satisfied.

[1] http://acrs.org.au/files/arsrpe/Why%20drive%20manual%20-%20a...
That and you could be attacked by anyone easily. Most ordinary people don't have the NSA as a problem in their treat model compared to the Internet at large.
The standard prime groups have their highest and lowest 64 bits set, and as many as possible of the rest taken from the binary expansion of pi. The group #14 prime for example is

p = 2^2048 - 2^1984 - 1 + 2^64 * { [2^1918 pi] + 124476 }

The value 124476 is the smallest non-negative value which results in p and (p-1)/2 both being prime and 2 being a quadratic residue mod p; this ensures that the subgroup {2^0, 2^1, 2^2, 2^3, ... } is cyclic.

We assume that the binary expansion of Pi is not selected maliciously. ;-)
Technology does not matter
I was hoping he'd just made a really really heavy hammer, and happened to be strong enough to lift it himself.
A lot of sites out there perform actions on GET requests, though. I just don't see it working out.

In any case, once you start delaying things you ruin the original point of getting rid of the click delay - to make things faster!
That assumption is correct, founded deep within the well-tested parts of our current understanding of physics.

When the work required to brute-force a cipher in a sane timeframe doesn't exist (or even couldn't fit) within the bounds of the observable universe, (if the crypto works as intended, which, to be fair, is a big if) brute-forcing is safely axed as an avenue of attack.

Of course, on these scales, if you really want to, you could connive and threaten your way into having a backdoor installed. Or you could spy on the victim and steal their laptop, with the key decrypted and in memory. Or you could beat the key and password out of them. Brute-forcing shouldn't be the most pressing of anyone's cryptographic worries.
What percentage of their transactions are debit transactions, though?
Yes. How are these magically enforced if someone refuses to pay?
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Even if you use nothing but touch events on IOS, the 350ms delayed click can still cause problems.
For example, suppose you want a button to pop open a small form over the top of the page and automatically focus the first input in the form. You can wire up a touch event so you don't have a delay, but then the input gets focused and then un-focused 350ms later, because a delayed click happened somewhere else on the page. Or maybe a different field gets focused because it's now directly above where that button used to be.
> You also disregard nationalism, patriotism, and the ability of the intelligence community to groom targets which they've perfected into an art form.

I'm not saying those things don't exist or that the NSA is incapable of hiring competent people, I'm disputing your claim that the NSA has a 'monopoly' on recruiting the best and brightest. I've seen no significant correlation in my personal experiences between skill in mathematics and patriotism.
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Math works when all of the lemmas are satisfied. In this case, for he sake of efficiency or otherwise, a lot of people made a bad decision and only fulfilled a partial set of the requirements.

When software uses a known set of hard coded primes, it is logarithmically simplified in what it takes to defeat it.

Maybe there are good primes, bad primes, but to "standardize" a prime is to give an anchor to an adversary.
The problem with desperate candidates agreeing with the smile to the law ball offer is that they'll keep looking for a better offer until found.

They'll make sure you see code editor while you're looking and be staring at linkedin profile editing screen while you're not.
Despite this definitely being important for all businesses at some point, where does this come in when evaluating businesses like early Facebook and Google where prior to monetization, wouldn't they appear to be "default dead"?
If you are going to do something active (disable zoom) you could also just modify click to be fast (which was always possible before, and for which there are drop-in solutions). Like, this seems to be a non-issue.
Well the parent refers only to certain situations--those in which the robocar gets vexed and chooses to slow down or stop.

I would expect humans to be able to resolve those types of situations, since we rarely find humans sitting in perfectly working cars on the side of the road just because they are vexed.
Yes, I think this is the key point. We've already seen [0] that even trained pilots have trouble when thrown into the middle of an emergency situation that they don't understand how they got into.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
That would be ironic.
If you have any means of "unlimited computational power", why haven't you already taken over the world through financial speculation.

The trade floors are already opening in Asia, I think. You have got 24 hours. Go!!!
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> Doing some back of the envelope calculations I can't see any scale where they are profitable given their current fee structure.

Here is a more optimistic analysis from Re/Code: http://recode.net/2015/10/14/squares-ipo-filing-its-complica... that looks at the numbers minus the Starbucks deal and concludes that their core business is healthy and has a path to profitability.
I meant it as a little joke, but since you bring it up - no, I actually think that autodrive motorcycle is not only feasible, it's not that harder than a self-driving car. Why?

Because all those "ballet-like" things is basic feedback control issues, the kind of which you learn about on control theory 101 in college. You can pretty much convert the problem of steering the self-driving motorcycle into the problem of self-driving car by adding a module that accepts car-like inputs and translates them to dynamic balance control. We've solved the basics with segways, which are smart-high-schooler level electronics projects.

Also, generally, whatever you can do on your vehicle a machine can do the same using the same control inputs, only better. Manual gear shift included.
I'll take that under advisement so long as everyone on HN promises not to use "driverless" in the context of legal, ethical, or moral debates re google cars. The term is ubiquitous from Google no matter the context. It is their stated goal. Other companies fear any suggestion that they will field driveless cars anytime soon. I smell PR.
Obligatory click-through-Google URL:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Theranos+Has+Struggled+With+...

edit:

I had known about Theranos mostly for being a highly valued startup by a young college dropout involving something in the medical field...I assumed it was more related to the scientific research side...but in the article it says it's been offering tests to the public since 2013 (and that that appears to be the main potential source of revenue)...has anyone's doctor suggested the tests to them? It looks like they have a couple testing centers in Palo Alto but my general physician has never mentioned the option to me.
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For nearly every mistake that human drivers make, a good way to prevent it is to slow down. Not every situation must be navigated at maximum speed. Robocars will be better drivers than humans, but slower will still be safer. I'm not talking about cars parked in the lane indefinitely because they're confused by some dirt obscuring the center line. If that had been a thing the Google cars would already have fixed it.
Well, sure. I'd take a 1% chance of you dying in a terrorist attack every year too. But it's not clear that a terrorist attack would necessarily be so limited in its scope/damage.
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One of Feynman's funniest lines, I thought, was during a talk where someone in the audience asked if we'd ever be able to develop an anti-gravity device. Feynman gestured at their chair and said something along the lines of "we already have, in fact you're sitting on one right now."
From my limited and slightly hopeful understanding they don't try to understand much more than 'something is moving toward our planned path and that is no good'. As long as the car avoid going over the cop or the worker it's ok. Every decision above that is optional.
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You will not find information or content that you have deleted because this is deleted from Facebook servers.

https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254

So if you delete it, it won't be in the download.
They got a lot of links to abc.xyz when they announced the name change. Think of every major news source linking to it. People don't talk about the regular alphabet a lot online, and when they do, what would they link to?

Nothing nefarious here. It's the same reason that [python] shows a whole bunch of links to the programming language and one news story about Monty Python, with no mention of the animal. Or why [jaguar] has 2 links, 3 ads, and a knowledge panel about the car, a bunch of tweets and news stories about the sports team, and only one link about the cat. Google shows you what people talk about, not what's in people's heads.
Can you delete entire Facebook Message conversations?
Isn't it that other brand avoided marketing self-driving to avoid safety issues and high expectations.