skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foxconn already has 20k robots in production roles
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043026/foxconn-to-speed-up-r...

Google is actually not in the lead (yet).
"But you should know that the webview used by phonegap is generally one generation older than the current mobile browser provided with the device."

Is that right? Is web browser used by WebView a different thing that a default Android browser?
No, but I really don't think anything over 10 years really can influence the person's behaviour. It's a 20->30, or 30->40 years jump - not only you took a lot of their life and broke most of their outside connections, but also the natural character change takes place. Holding someone for 20+ years would make them both useless to the society afterwards and unlikely to be able to live on their own.

I'll look later to see if anyone analysed this in real cases, but my intuition is that there's some limit where it doesn't make a difference anymore whether you add more years - only guarantees that the jailed person has no way to go back to any kind of reasonable life afterwards.
The pilots knows the same as the passengers: That if the hijackers take the cockpit, odds are nobody lives, so in a crisis, his best strategy for both personal survival and for saving the most passengers is to get the plane on the ground as soon as possible.

If a hijacker "just" wants to perform an old-school hijack, ie. not use the plane as a 9/11-style missile, his best odds are convincing the captain of that fact without taking the cockpit. The hijacker can verify that the captain is complying using a smartphone with GPS.
I donated just to be in the leaderboard. Gamification is the solution.
/bye
But why do we care? In your specific example (which I do recognize as being proffered as an analogy not an equality), I'd rather the food went to a hungry person than picked at then dumped in the trash. Of course it can't work that way because after all they need to taste your food to evaluate it.

All I'm saying is I wouldn't care if my work ended up in their code base vs an open source code base, and I'd prefer it to just being wiped from the hard drive after I was done. In return I'd get something very valuable - insight into the working conditions, what it is like to work with the senior dev, what the code base looks like, what the build and QA system is like, and so on.
Those are exactly my complaints about Evernote. I'm on OSX most of the time, and I use nvAlt: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

It's blazing fast, moving at the speed of thought. You can also set it up to sync notes as plain text on to Dropbox.

I still use Evernote for its great web clipper and for saving PDFs (though I suppose I could save them in Dropbox instead and search them using Spotlight).
That's true, but it really only takes one missing feature or annoyance to make Jailbreaking a consideration.

Case in point: When I plug my iPhone 5 into my car's USB port, the Music app's display changes to an "Accessory Connected" splash screen. I can only control my music through my car's awful dashboard interface. Jailbreaking allows me to disable that splash screen.

Other things like 5 column springboard/dock, FakeClockUp (reduce or speed up slow animations), and BiteSMS (Messages app replacement that can be used on the lock screen), are just minor interface and functionality tweaks that, together, make my jailbroken iOS6 a far superior UX than iOS7.
Nice and simple. Now who are Kima 15?

Sounds like a Japanese girl band...
HTML5 performance is fine, what we are missing is tools
I'm not anti JB or anything, and used to JB my devices all the time but for the most part iOS has changed a lot since the early days and like others I find I don't need to JB to use it how I want now.

I do wish you could JB the last ATV version that has been out over a year for XBMC goodness. ATV2 is still one of the best XBMC devices out there but only support 720p.
This is more informative:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona/Protocol_Overvie...
It is common practice when hiring a developer to pay them for time spent programming if it's any significant amount. I've never heard of paying for all the time spent in the interview, or for time spent if it's just something small and simple to get a quick feel for skill. But if they're asking for more than an hour or two or if they're asking for new features added to their existing code base, it's completely fair to ask for compensation.
So instead of replying on $WebAppOfTheWeak to lose my password (I'm looking right at you Adobe), I can rely on the two factor auth of my Gmail account for security.

I'm okay with this.
This is a good idea. I probably don't even have to link it to my machine? But wondering what I'd loose out on for ease of updating. Will try this later.
>It's so featureful, it means that its mobile clients are quite heavyweight and thus quite slow to boot.

Heavyweight does not mean much in itself. What would that mean? Evernote has a large binary? A cluttered UI?

For my use, I don't find it slow, FWIW.

>When I open my notes, I want them 5 seconds ago, looking right at the last notes I entered anywhere.

So you don't want detailed notes spanning years -- you want to jot something quickly.

In that case, it's true, that's not what Evernote's for.
"because we can" seems like a pretty good answer. Also, a thing that's interesting to me about campaigns like this one is there are so many iphone users. Even if a small fraction of them actually want to jailbreak their phones - for carrier reasons, to install some goofy skin, whatever - there's a lot of value in getting it done. How much value? I'm not sure - but I don't think $50,000 or even $100,000 would be surprising...
Isn't the web interface any good? I use OneNote desktop ( not metro App ) and not sure why I should switch to Evernote ( everybody recommends ).
These terms are so good that Kima may have put itself in a strange position of looking "too good to be true."

Standoffish arrogance in VCs is unpleasant, but it can signal that the VC is so successful that he or she doesn't need to be nice.

If only the straightforward approach worked!
I think it's an interesting move. I can tell most of HN seems to dislike this idea but I believe it's basically what incubators are offering without the usual smokescreen of "advice + intros"

I know nothing of Kima itself, they could be great or terrible investors - but that seems orthogonal to this idea which could makes sense for both parties in many cases.
I hope they're trained better than that. It would be awfully easy for a small group of terrorists to have one of their group act like a unruly drunk asshole. If an air marshal intervened in that, he'd out himself, allowing any other terrorists on board to jump him from behind at their convenience.
Parasite class lends me to believe you think the finance industry holds no value whatsoever.

If you're ever in the position to run a large corporation and need to raise money publicly, you're free to sidestep the banks and do it yourself. You'll probably get a sense of the value they offer at that point.
I jailbreak for tethering and running wifi-only apps on cellular.
I would, and if it wasn't me my current employer might...
"Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in."
I would assume that Google is aiming to increase the quality of robots, not just the quantity.
> Jailbreaking is also critical to ensuring that the disabled are able to use their mobile devices as easily as possible.

This reason, while good and noble, feels really wonky. From what i understand, iOS's accessibility has much miles better then Android's accessibility options. If their main motives is to give a better mobile experience to people with special needs, maybe focusing on implementing these improvements system wide changes would be time better spend.

You work hard to make these changes then iOS 7.x.y comes out and the user updates by mistake and loses all the changes a jailbreak gives. It is this constant fighting with the system that has made staying with iOS less appealing these days.
Koide formula
Don't be so hard on yourself. Any code that solved a problem is very impressive to an interviewer, showing independent iniative and get-things-done. Even silly seeming things like an AppleScript to copy birthdays from your address book to a text file.
Ask PG: How do you evaluate startups that are not US based?
Specifically -- would you omit startups if it did not have a global reach?
Not entirely related and this could just be coincidence, but.. I've seen a few cases lately where people have linked https://news.ycombinator.com/newest or just asked people to go there to vote their story up and the stories have fallen off the front page sharply despite doing well.

People used to claim getting people to hit /newest was the best way to encourage votes (since votes from direct linking to items were penalized or not counted in some way) but I suspect votes made from direct visits to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest are now also subject to the same fate.
I'm one of the developers on it :).
Nanoengineer: nanotech CAD
> On the other hand, I don't think that means airport security should be drastically scaled back

It absolutely should be drastically scaled back. Or eliminated entirely. The thing you're ignoring is that the current level of airport security kills a lot of people. It does so largely by making flying more expensive and inconvenient so people drive instead of fly and as a result die in auto accidents. The TSA makes us all poorer and causes a great many deaths for no clear benefit whatsoever. The hypothetical attackers who you are postulating might be deterred are a sufficiently weird edge case that it's unlikely they exist at all. Basically, you're imagining somebody who has all the following attributes at once. He or she:

(a) is highly motivated to do evil things that kill lots of people in a high-profile fashion

(b) has the resources to actually implement a plan to do these evil things.

(c) is SMART enough that the attack WOULD succeed were it not for security. If they made a bomb, they were successful at figuring out how to make one that would work well (unlike the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber)

(d) but is DUMB enough that they just can't figure out any way to get around security.

(e) but is SMART enough to REALIZE they can't get around security, so they don't try to do so anyway (explaining the fact that security has never ever caught even a single person trying to do so)

(f) but is DUMB enough that they can't think of any way to use the same resources to carry out some OTHER attack that kills a similar number of people with similar terrorizing effect, like by attacking the security line or a bridge or a tunnel or a shopping mall.

If you can find anybody with all those characteristics at once, THAT is the person who airport security has saved us from.
It basically won't let you be too disorganized without actively trying.

Hahaha. True. It has (almost) replaced all the random .txt all over my drive.
I am a co-founder at a startup that just graduated from 500startups and as part of my fundraising process, I decided to approach Jeremie.

I think what's this post is missing is some context, Jeremie is running one of the most active seed fund in the world (200 investments is no feat) and they have a stellar reputation which is why I approached him - I did some due diligence with other entrepreneurs who provided me great recommendations as well.

Jeremie turned us down for various reasons but did in a timely manner and was being very honest about it (no sugar-coating or stalling the process to keep the door open like most VCs do).

I think if you're looking to take money from an unknown investor (who has made almost no investment), you should be doing your due diligence. However with a network of 200 backed companies - making a due diligence can be fast and take just a few days and I also think you should do that prior applying to Kima15 via Angellist.

Some cite the valuation not being favorable, however there are stages when your company is so immature and early that you shouldn't worry about over-optimizing for valuation and rather take some money at a lower valuation and move fast in order to make great progress that will let you close more money at a significantly higher valuation. If you are looking to build a company which might be the $100M-$1B valuation range then that low valuation will not have any significant impact on your outcome.

It is also very refreshing to see a seed fund publishing a SLA - I am looking at this as a very clever marketing feature - now people will remember Kima as the first seed fund that agreed to commit for a SLA for giving you an answer - one of the biggest pain in raising funds.
I know I wouldn't invest or accept an investment without being able to meet the founders face-to-face. That is part of why Y Combinator has been as successful as it has been, it offers less funding and more networking. The later being what a founder needs just as much OR MORE.
lol, you got the ball rolling. I built a successful site that did this in 2003. I'm not sharing a link because I don't want to out my identity. But nice work on putting up your source and promoting the idea.
>What's necessary about being great? Nothing, but being great is Awesome.

Not really. It's rather pointless, time consuming, and often deleterious to one's work/life balance. Not to mention it can mean that the end result might never ship at all, in an endless pursuit of "greatness".
El Gobierno limitará la comisión anual de los planes de pensiones al 1,5%
I play The Witcher 2, Skyrim and so on with my rMBP on the Windows 7 partition, while I played Batman Arkham City on the OSX one.
Why can't people be patient? Jailbreaks exist for iOS 7. Be patient, and it will be released sometime soon. iH8sn0w gave an ETA of before 2014. They're carefully picking when to release. Don't rush things.
Rogue trader should pay $118 million to Goldman Sachs
A long passphrase can be easy to remember(and type) and hard to crack.
If no one has pulled your branch, just do a force push (use --dry-run to double-check your push).
How Old Is The Shepherd?
Here's a terrifying thought (which I believe to be correct).

I don't think US schools are that bad on fundamentals. They're probably quite good on average. Of course, a large percentage of what makes a school good or bad is the other students, not the teachers or material. I'll get to that...

These indifferent, underachieving students (disproportionately, but not entirely, in poor areas) aren't stupid or bad people. I think they're just rational. They see what society has to offer them even if they do succeed and conclude that it's not worth the effort for them. If middle-class, college-educated people are applying for jobs in fast food, then what should a low-income student, who might be able to scrape together enough scholarships to get through undergrad with merely moderately crippling debt, expect? They see people far ahead of them in the socioeconomic queue ending up miserable and disappointed, and conclude that there's no chance of success for them. Most of them are probably right.

This country has a deep-seated morale problem, expressed at the top through corruption and dishonesty and nepotism, and at the bottom through indifference and underperformance-- which is most measurable and upsetting in the schools because that's before society has formally given up on people. It stems from fundamentals that will take a long time to fix.
The Astounding Investigation: The Manhattan Project's Confrontation with SciFi
Android still lacks a high-quality tablet software ecosystem.
BootStrapped Weekly - First issue will be published on Tuesday
>I'm tired of hearing the old "developer with 10 years of work experience who can't do fizbuzz"

Then we need to solve that problem, not bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. When you post a job ad for a software development position, you should receive absolutely no applications from people incapable of fizzbuzz. Yet we the majority of applications we receive are from such people. That problem won't go away if we just say "well, you had a job before, so that's good enough for me!" and hire them.
> So why on earth would you use that very bad library design

Because when you design a Web API you're not designing a library, you're designing part of a distributed system.

Accessing code on a remote server is not like accessing code in a DLL, and never will be.
Interesting and good idea. I had a couple of accounts in the Adobe breach, though I don't think I got an email from them (maybe it was spamfiltered or I changed my passwords before they sent those mails out), but I wish that there was some sort of long term service for responsible disclosure of breached accounts - eg you sign up, they make you verify your account, then they list and contact you whenever your email appears in some password list. If this one didn't show anyone my email addresses' status, and there was the ability to mark individual hacks as resolved this would fit the bill
I'm with you on this one. I value my ability to develop applications for my Android device free from worry about a future update taking that ability away from me. My applications never need to be on an app store, and I can share them with whomever I like, in any manner I like.

Why would I buy into an ecosystem that then forces me to hope someone far smarter than I is able to break the security of that system for me? Jailbreaks are worrisome because they introduce a potential loss of security on mine, and all users phones.
My Buffer MVP – Idea to Paying Customer In 1 Day Without A Landing Page
Yes -- he would only have to worry about setting up and maintaining a WebDAV server. Plus, he would have to do without integration with tons of his favorites apps in desktop and mobile (like Dropbox has).
"because we can" is obviously a very legitimate reason for something like a jailbreak :) But I am not sure if it answers my question completely, because we are talking about a site which a collects money because it seems like we can't at the moment. There's nothing wrong with that, but it shows that an iPhone jailbreak seems to be a high-priority task for many here and that's something which "because we can" does not fully explain (EDIT:) because nobody collects money for a better integration of android into the mac world so far, right?

Your argument about Mac integration seems valid, I did not think about it as I am no mac user :)
You can even go so far as to write a web server that queries your API and renders static HTML to clients--which is what we did at my last startup.

This sort of thing is referred to as a Service-Oriented-Architecture.

It's a great way to sandbox a lot of stupid--you setup a little Sinatra app to be a fake API server while your buddy builds out the real backend, and one day you flip a switch and everything comes to life correctly.

(j/k that doesnt happen everything is always terrible the first time)
The realpolitik of Thanksgiving
> it is my responsibility to make the article as enticing as possible to read

It's your responsibility as a writer to be honest. Why is it your job to make a post enticing? If being honest with the title of your post isn't enticing then I'm afraid your article isn't interesting and lying about its contents are not the right solution. And your title is not honest. Change everything? Are you kidding me?

> headlines have evolved over the years because writers have figured out what is more effective

You make it sound like you've no responsibility for your actions. Hey it's out of your hands, other writers have figured this out and you must follow. And all you have to show for it is a flagged post and at least in my case a big minus in my opinion for ride joy. You come across as a bit too much self-promoting. Reviews for your book also mention humble-brags, so it's not a stretch. Personally I put integrity above fleeting success, but your milage may vary.
iPhones, ostensibly, integrate much better with iTunes. I still have hundreds of Protected AAC files I bought on iTunes pre-2009 that will not play on Android phones. The only way to get around that is to burn/rip the AAC files or pay Apple to upgrade them to the other format.
Non native speaker meets pedantic distinction.

Replace majority with slice/share/percentage what have you.
It would be interesting indeed to know if it's the case.

In all case, I prefer to have direct feedback from HN community.
We wanted to call it Kima15 so it's 15%. Good answer? ;-)

More seriously. We know the market better than many angels and we are investing in any country of the world. This offer was already been accepted by a lot of awesome founders building big things.
I have tried cocoonJS and phonegap side by side with my app and cocoonJS was much faster, however it was buggy so I went for phonegap. I didn't really notice a different speed between chrome and phonegap, but the lack of address bar at the top made the graphics much nicer with phonegap over viewing it in Chrome.

I can tell the browser used by Phonegap is not as good as Chrome. It doesn't popup the keyboard on text fields and things like that, which the Galaxy S2 don't do either.

I am hoping the bugs in Coocoon get fixed as that has the potential to be the best option.
Agreed. It was a Saturday. And it doesn't say anywhere that the police were called by a school employee. There very well may not have been any school employees on site at the time. Perhaps a neighbor called it in. Perhaps the cop just happened by. The full article that this one links to says he was not arrested on the spot. But days later after it was determined that the school had not given him permission. There is also not even any mention if his kid even went to that school. I know my kids have various sports practices/games at other schools that they do not attend.
You can feed the wget output to https://previous.delicious.com/url/ which returns details about users bookmarking their url including tags.

You'll have to scrape the details though. Their public API https://github.com/avos/delicious-api doesn't include this feature.
This is making me recall memories of doing SLIP via Slirp: http://slirp.sourceforge.net
Isn't the fact that the company is looking for employees an implicit statement that they would find it beneficial to have one? The corollary is that interviews to find employees, being currently The Way Hiring Is Done, must therefore also be of at least some benefit to the company. Whether this benefit outweighs the benefit of having the company's developers in their seats writing code instead of interviewing is at best subject to opinion.
Not sure about Android, but it definitely is on iOS, since you don't have the NITRO javascript engine...
Flying last week I watched a food delivery man in front of me go through security. He rolled an aluminum dolly loaded with boxes of foot up and put all the boxes on the xray conveyor. He was then scanned by the TSA and they rolled the dolly through to the otherside of the checkpoint after looking under it.

Point: the dolly was a hollow tube framerail construction. They didn't xray it as it was too large. They just rolled it through the screaming metal detector. You could have put whatever you wanted inside those framerails. And that's just the victualler. There are myriad ways to get stuff through. Theater at its best.
He knew he was in an interview for sure, however the terms have changes as soon as the lead developer asked him to code in the current application in order to test his skills.

Lets put this way, you are interviewing for a Car Sales position, you get to the my store and I ask you: Hey, today you gonna spend the day selling cars, it will be our test, and then you sell as many cars as you can for free.

Do you still consider this, part of the interview? Keep in mind that you are bringing profit to my store.
Progvember is over... until next year