Hacker News on 8 December 2011

• What really happened aboard Air France 447
• Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year
• The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars
• Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe
• Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
• 17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle
• What Eric Schmidt actually said
• Announcing Amber.js
• A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier
• Knuth and the Unix Way