skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you file for unemployment, an employee from the government contacts you and the employer. The employer can claim you were fired for a reason. Then the claim is automatically denied unless you contest it. When you contest it, you appear before a local judge. It's just you, the judge, and the other party (in this case, my manager). They present their argument and you present yours.

In this case, they really tried to throw tons of things at me (some I had contradicting evidence in non-work email however I had no idea they would make such wild claims). The judge forced them to narrow it down to the top 3-4. For these items, the judge heard one side and then the other. Then we had closing arguments.

Apparently, many people who are denied unemployment do not contest it. But in my experience, it was very straight forward. I did not need a lawyer. I stayed calm and presented my side.

The very next day I received a letter informing me that I had won and by the wording it was clear the judge sided completely with me. Of course, that was just for unemployment however it was a very satisfactory experience.
This is silly. What you think these are "bad" employees and the company is figuring it out in the 14th month?

Or are you stuck in the 1950s era idea of loyalty and these employees are not "loyal"-- yet are you considering whether you're giving them a reason to be loyal?
I didn't say or even imply that.

I pointed out a primary reason we often see these kinds of posts, (freezing accounts), in one paragraph.

Then in the next, I mention the overall view of Paypal is more negative than it used to be, when you could have actually attributed something about that to Musk.
this is the crux of the thing.
The sad part is the author did a better than Microsoft did and half of the programming was in turing incomplete languages.
GIVE IT a TRY
I've made a similar move and have no regrets. Lost the title, but gained valuable experience. Over time, I have noticed that I care less about titles and more about the work I do. No doubt that helping a startup go through a period of hypergrowth (still in the middle of it!) will be tremendously more beneficial to me long-term than overseeing a tiny department year in, year out.
Basic income will become new zero. People are creative and for sure will find themselves ways to earn bread.
Don't know if you'll still see this. Cool. But one thing. It would be easier for me to get a sign-off from management on a one time purchase of $10k than a $4/month recurring. Corporate sales is funny like that.
Ask HN: Free tool to schedule and receive SQL emails?
There is any tool to schedule a SQL query and then receive the results every day?

I need to receive an email every morning telling me if my crawlers did run fine last night. I can do this with a simple SQL query.

I am willing to build this tool (in Node.js) if this tool does not exists just yet.

* No SaaS, please. I'm looking for a self-hosted option. I do not want to give a read-only password of my database for anybody.
That's not the question that was asked. The question was: how likely is it?
Hmm? I run multiple https sites from a single Linode box without any issues. Nginx + letsencrypt.
For all of human history, people have had to deal with a scarcity of resources. Yet in the last few years, that has changed. Our problem is not that we can't make enough stuff for everyone to be happy, it's that we're still acting like that is the case.

The age of inflation is over because producers in nearly every industry (there are a few notable exceptions) can absorb almost infinite demand for their products. The sooner governments and central banks accept this, and the sooner we move past the notion that a "job" is not an end but a means to an end, the sooner we can end poverty, achieve high levels of growth, and overcome our fear of globalization and technology.
I've seen many new Israeli cars shipping with a nav system that is just a stripped-down Android system running Waze.
These are two short articles I wrote that explain how I hacked together simple containers. There are some things about containers that weren't very clear to me so I thought doing something like this would me understand. Part 1 focuses on running processes and part 2 is about networking.
A lot of people said hire a lawyer. I think that's wrong. I would just move on and find another job and forget about this start-up. My guess would be that either you had bad luck and got involved with a bad founding team or that there were performance issues/issues with your working relationships/personality. Either way just moving on is the mature thing to do. I would never hire anyone who mentioned the word "lawyer" over a firing (let alone actually sued a company) that's just too much of a risk for a small company/start-up. Talking to other engineers at the company to "warn them", or better yet, gain an understanding of why you were let go would probably be helpful in your own career development. When I've had to fire a technical person, I've always gone over the matter with their co-workers to make sure there is coverage and not a skills gap with out the person. If you do sue, your name will most likely show up in public court filings. That could end your career with start-ups unless the start-up turns out to be a total publicly visible disaster. The economic damage to your reputation will likely outweigh any awards from the court (if you even win the case)... especially after you pay your legal team.

Were your options really "clawed back" (meaning recouping compensation that has already been given) or did they just not vest? Unless you mean founder equity or RSUs instead of options, I can't see how you would have had them after 51 weeks. Usually, people vest like 25% of their promised equity compensation after 1 year (the "cliff") and then a small percentage each additional month until they fully vest after 4 (or sometimes 5) years.
The free stuff?
There are situations where Kanji get transliterated to katakana - many name input forms will ask for the reading of your kanji name in katakana
Handy destroyed my wood floor and this is what happened next
I had a Helium in my SF office window for 6 months back when you were doing low power wireless :)
Why did you sign something like that???
I like Nate Silver. He broke new ground. But I've grown less enamored this most recent cycle because his predictions seem to be a lot more of the Nostradamus type--pre-analyze outcomes on three possible resolutions, then get credit for being right. Most of his wins come because polls have a tendency to tighten up to the actual numbers the closer they are to the election, as any latent bias gets washed out. He gets graded on more accurate information, not when uncertainty is high. (This isn't inherently a problem, but it does expose why he 100% missed the Trump primary phenomenon...he's trying to address it with "fundamentals" and other alternate models, but this is just more hedging so that at least one story makes sense.)

He's not deceptive about this--I will give him that. It's all in the open. But it seems to amplify a kind of narrative fallacy if these mistakes aren't revisited anew (rather than just saying "as predicted, since outcome C actually happened, it was due to voter bloc X doing it as we said."

But I can't complain about a pundit class not giving actionable data--that's not their job. Silver's job is to add data to the discussion, and to stimulate the discussion. And I give him a "B" for that.

That said, this cycle, I've rediscovered Sam Wang at http://election.princeton.edu/ and think he maybe gives a purer approach to analysis, one not so much driven by clicks. He doesn't seem to hedge as much as Silver.
Yep, this is completely client side :)

You can even host the external language files yourself as described in the readme: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js#local-installation
> Certainly, but cars are also mandated to have a weight sensor in the passenger seat to disable the passenger side airbag when there isn't an adult sitting there (so they don't kill children in car seats).

On a somewhat related note, this graph[1] show that the deaths of children in cars due to heat stroke started increasing after 1998 (which is when passenger side airbags were mandatory equipment in new vehicles).

[1] http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/76289000/gif/_...
London Police Investigate OneCoin Cryptocurrency Scheme
>Then you can get interesting and philosophical about it, where you might even say that emulating intelligence and intelligence are different.

This would be a very surprising result. For example, if I can make a TSP-solver-emulator... I have a TSP solver.
Am I the only one who thought that this article was going to be about the Ukranian (formerly Soviet) rocket named Zenit?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit_(rocket_family)
Just to clarify to the commenters: The reason it is "important" IMO is because it is a liability not an asset. I do not even use Bash myself; still, I am aware that it has this liability^W capability.
I worked at Wells Fargo back in 2003. The emphasis on product bundling predates Stumpf and was attributed to Kovacevich when I worked there, and they were very proud of its effectiveness on the bank's bottom line. The unwanted accounts shenanigans were well in play when I started. I recall having to call branches to report this stuff and have accounts closed(phone bankers had some status back then at least, though I'm sure the branch managers ignored my whistle blowing).

You might think sales doesn't have much to do with customer service(phone bankers) right? Wrong. Every customer contact was considered a sales opportunity. The primary goal of every call was not helping the customer, it was refering a product and getting them on the line with a sales rep for "more information"(cause who doesn't want more information?!). From memory our major KPI's were close rate, referrals, and call time. You pretty much needed to refer a product on most calls to hit your numbers, regardless of whether the customer actually needed/would benefit from it. That covers referral rate, but they tighten the close rate and referral rate screws separately on you.

The goals they set were hard and getting harder at the time, but obtainable without gaming if you had no shame. Oh, gaming. Gaming was manipulating the system in any way. Opening accounts without proper customer consent was gaming. Other forms of gaming did not amount to fraud. Gaming was rife.

My best friend at the time, and still long time friend to this day, worked in the phone bank as customer service for about a year before making it to the sales team down stairs. Sales was a bit better from what I understand; we both had nightmares about customer service. After he graduated from college he was promoted to Sales Manager. He informs me that, depressingly, some of the same managers are there to this day. While he was there a few of the managers including himself were on the lookout for gaming, the rest I hear were actively for whatever was necessary to meet team numbers. I doubt even the highest person at the center gave a shit; whatever it took to appear to be hitting the numbers C-Levels set to get those bonuses.

My friend tells me he probably would have put a bullet in his head if he had not gotten out of there.

P.S. I'm still a Wells Fargo customer and recent events will not change that.
> Ask an unemployment lawyer to get as much from them possible.

I don't recall the source, but I remember overhearing advice about when to sue. The advice I heard was "Before you hire a lawyer, count to 1,000 twice."

> The people here are not paid to worry about your well being...

No, they are not.
>I'm sure everyone reading this is already aware that he's passed

apparently not... http://imgur.com/a/C5vTx
Audi Pulls the Plug on Its Electric R8
The amount of fossil fuels it takes to produce each calorie of food is increasing exponentially over time, so many scientists expect that eventually we'll need to start replacing machines with human labor.

While this will probably happen to some extent, I also suspect that AI will soon make urban permaculture viable. E.g. the main reason why all the trees in our cities aren't edible fruit and nut trees is because they make a huge mess and attract rodents when they fall on the sidewalk. But if you were creating a new city today then it would make sense to heavily incorporate edible landscaping, and in twenty years when it's actually at peak productivity we'll have inexpensive autonomous robots to clean up the mess and periodically check the soil for contaminants or whatever.
I was surprised to learn that Android in 2016 doesn't even natively come with an equivalent of JavascriptCore. You have the pleasure of somehow getting V8 to run and then serialize/deserialize all your native objects manually in order to talk to it if you want javascript outside the browser. Really? From the company that is the most web native around, and even developed the most common browserless JS runtime (V8)?

Google's user faced architecture often just seems like an unmanaged jumbled up bunch of code that they throw at you, good luck have fun.
The OneCoin ponzi scheme is gaining a lot of traction
Can you elaborate how inflation is connected with scarcity of resources?
I'm aware of one similar company that used to fit sixty $20/mo VPS in 1U. They were working on a couple hundred in 2 or 3U when I left (harder than you'd think), but they also have a cheaper tier now because of competitors pushing VPS down. Margins on VPS, even without oversubscribing RAM, are pretty decent once you get past the capital but they are decreasing in a race to the bottom just like shared hosting before it.
I took the "Cosby defense" to refer to Cosby countersuing his accusers ( http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0TX2AG20151214 ). I haven't paid much attention to that trial, so it wouldn't surprise me if he or his legal team had also insulted the accusers.
I'm mostly with you on this one. I like mass transit. It's a fun opportunity to people-watch. What I don't like is riding with smelly and/or loud and/or violent people. I don't care how people dress, though, as long as it's not unhygienic.

I think that the reason why there is so little enforcement of any conduct rules might be more practical than political, though. To effectively enforce conduct rules would probably require there to be an extra government employee on each bus or train. The driver can't really be expected to do it, nor would it be a good idea to try to get them to split their attention in such a way.
PayPal has a terrifying privacy policy.
> They may be successful a while longer but "open" ALWAYS wins in the end.

That only works when there is an "open" that is in competition. iOS is certainly the most closed platform but Android isn't really open enough to be competition. Microsoft is making their platform more like iOS and Android every day. Linux on mobile is a non-starter as usual.

The fact that the past played out a certain way is no guarantee that it will play out the same in the future.

I kind of agree on being a mostly single-stack developer. I dabble in C, C++, C#, etc and I'm perfectly ok with using very different platforms for very different problems. But using very similar platforms to solve very similar problems feels like a huge waste of time and mental effort.
Do you know what RICO stands for? It doesn't fit here.
Free food. Unless you are parasite, in which case, gulag for you.
There is usbpcap which captures all the packets.
> Anti-glare coating on rear view mirrors on American cars makess night-time driving awesome though, I wish the European/Japanese vehicles would copy that

In Europe and Japan (and most of the rest of the world), automotive headlamps conform to the relevant ECE standard which allows for less glare compared to the US standard (defined in FMVSS 108). So, at least in those markets, the anti-glare coating isn't as necessary.
We support globalization to prevent war.
This is brilliantly put.

So whats the solution?
And those little FM transmitter dongles!
It's very difficult to see a scenario where it makes sense to put a nuclear warhead on a hypersonic missile. The fact is, hypersonic missiles are dog slow compared to ICBMs. ICBMs though suffer from the tyranny of the rocket equation (most of the fuel they burn is used to push the rest of the fuel), so the mass of the warhead is a small fraction of the total mass of the rocket (for Trident 2 it's about 7%). The main problem is that ICBM's have to carry their own oxydizer, which is heavy. Cruise missiles get oxygen from the air, and this is a big deal. For a Tomahawk the warhead is 35% of the total mass of the missile. Now when you deliver a nuclear warhead (or a bunch), you don't care that much about the ratio warhead/total mass, since nuclear carries a lot of punch in a small package. And if you plan to start WW3, you might as well do it quick, no reason to use a (relatively) slow delivery vehicle, like a hypersonic one, when you can use an ICBM.

It's when you want to deliver conventional explosives that you care about how big your rocket is. It's one thing for the rocket to be 3 times as big as the warhead (Tomahawk) and another to be 15 times as big (Trident 2). The Tomahawk is really slow though, so the idea of the hypersonic is to be faster, at the cost of having a smaller delivery ratio. The fastest current cruise missile, the Russian-Indian Brahmos has a 12% ratio of warhead to total mass (if launched from an airplane, less if launched from the ground), and a speed of about Mach 3. What would be the ratio for a hypersonic weapon? It shouldn't be less than 7% (otherwise you keep it "simple" and use the Trident 2 design) and it's unlikely it will be higher than the 12% of the Mach3 Brahmos-A missile. It will be somewhere in between, and most likely not that disruptive after all.
Sadly, when I first clicked on this, it had a much better headline. Something like "LA Times poll, how sample sizes make it an outlier".

Maybe clickbait++, or maybe the NY Times felt better about fingering a young black guy than a competing paper.
Dozens of suspicious court cases aim at getting web pages taken down
As much as your response tries to solve GP's particular problem (OCR for PDF-to-text being not the right tool), I 100% agree with the extreme annoyance expressed in it regarding the state of the free OCR.

In principle, text-pdf-to-text is just a matter of parsing PDF (and/or Word) formats and extracting text buried in metadata. (I know it's a lot of work but still).

Even if you forget about what GP said about the source being text PDFs, and when all the sources are png images, as long as those pngs were generated from text documents (Word, PDF, etc) without any scanning or camera involved, it is unacceptable that today's free OCR tools don't get the job done, when in 2016, machine-learning has produced systems that have surpassed human accuracy in much harder tasks like object detection and speech recognition.

I know it's not an unsolved problem. It's just a matter of some knowledgeable machine learning researcher taking a break from working on cutting edge for a few months and putting together a package that gets the image-to-text job done. Once such a base tool is available on github, the community will take over and add features, fix bugs, as needed. (I'm extremely busy with my own degree work ATM, otherwise I would probably do something like that).

EDIT 1: As for tesseract, I hate it with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. It's a kludge, a black-box of traditional-programming karate-chops and overly-complicated bloat that spits out text the way it likes and there is, largely, nothing you can do about it. Compared to machine-learning and modern computer-vision, tesseract belongs to the dark ages. If there is going to be a quality OCR tool, it's has to be written from scratch based on deep-learning from the ground up.
Also in his book of essays, Some Remarks.
Excellent. Thanks for going the extra mile to chase down these compatibility issues. I know from experience how frustrating this stuff can be.
There is a real risk related to goal oriented AI. It does not need to feel or dream. Merely having survival as its goal is sufficient to make it dangerous to other life forms. Worse is that it can happen at any time (it may have happened already). Given the computing power, tools, and availability of knowledge we can assume that it can be done outside of a controlled lab environment by a non-scientist.
Kind of an OT whine relative to the contents, but I'm still extremely frustrated at how hard it is to get other languages working on Android due to the multidex-style issues.

Google should be spending millions being able to get app development up and running in something like Python. Have your app up and working in 2 minutes without having to learn Java. It boggles the mind that this isn't the case, and that the current tooling environment is soooo impossible to wrap ones mind around.
I have little patience for learning the same thing over and over but only slightly different. It's just a big waste of time. There's no enjoyment or happiness down that path.

Learning totally different and interesting stuff, that's a whole different story.
The Apple Watch Is the Most Accurate Wrist Wearable
Yeah, all because people wanted to scream "bias." Sadly the community here seemed apt to agree with it, but I definitely have my opinions on that. Quoted from a previous thread:

>Did the standard for their sources remain relatively constant regardless of the material being discussed? There isn't a clear answer here, but that doesn't make it defacto censorship of one set of particular political opinions. The sources that were discussed aren't credible in any meaningful form. The fact that they happen to be largely conservative seems like a problem conservatives should address instead of calling it censorship.

But ironically, for posting that, I was meant with censorship.

People in aggregate are terrible at curation. You really do need editors for a reason. But Facebook should have been extremely blunt about the situation before. The fact that its curators let through more "liberal" sources than conservative ones, doesn't necessarily mean they're biased. It really could just be that conservative sources are far more likely to not be at a high enough standard to be posted -- which seems to be the case given the examples in the article.
Exactly... attacking people in public has an effect, even when it probably shouldn't. I thought the Cosby situation was a good, extreme example of that. I'm glad that someone got what I was trying to say, however ineptly I've been saying it.
That's kind of handwavy, don't you think? How does an AI, presumably requiring specialized (and expensive) hardware, simply escape? Further, this requires humans to be easily hackable by the AI, which is not obviously going to be the case. Why would human cognition have a built in flaw the AI can exploit to escape? Imagine a superintelligent person in a cage, a person as smart as an AI. No matter how clever he is, he's not going to be able to escape that cage given certain levels of precaution.

If you'd say that the AI will be super-persuasive, persuasive enough to make humans behave irrationally, I say, maybe, but it's possible to simply use already irrationally fearful humans as guards to prevent the AI from escaping.
Serious questions, is bitcoin still worth anything and has it become even remotely easy to obtain and spend? I still like the idea of it but, last I heard any real news about it, it was how people were loosing tons of it to scams and flams.