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Legal OS | Data Engineer, Senior Backend, All-level Frontend or Senior Fullstack | Berlin, DE | ONSITE, VISA | Fulltime

Legal OS is building the world’s first code-based library of legal knowledge. At Legal OS you will work in a small cross-functional delivery team responsible for the theoretical foundation of the legal knowledge library.

Engineering team currently of 2. Venture-funded and scaling up to around 8. You will be working in close proximity of tech strategy, product strategy and business strategy with founders.

Stack currently React.js, Node.js and MongoDB. Experimenting with Clojure, Neo4j and more. Loads of tech decisions still open. Using TypeScript variant of JS.

Looking for

Data Engineer: https://angel.co/company/legal-os-1/jobs/561407-data-enginee....

Senior Backend Engineer: https://angel.co/company/legal-os-1/jobs/562664-senior-backe....

All-level Frontend Engineer: https://angel.co/startups/6965545/job_listings/562669/edit

Senior Fullstack Engineer: Please email

Also feel free to email lilian@legalos.io
this will be a fun thread!
high frequency trading relies on gps disciplined osscilators for the precise timing needed (ntp isn't good enough, ptp isn't even good enough, though White rabbit should be). so hft would cease or go wonky

trucking companies rely on it to enforce rest periods. so more truck accidents?

turn by turn direction on phones would go out. wi fi is enough for nav, unless your phone and the wifi are on different ntp networks maybe I had a phone with broken gps and I didn't really notice.
> In general, the standard is "disparate impact"

That standard is unworkable. What happens when an idealistic charity goes into a homeless shelter in a black neighborhood with a high rate of drug use and helps them all fill out mortgage applications, so that 80% of the lender's white applicants are married with stable middle class jobs and 80% of the black applicants are single, homeless, unemployed and suffering from drug addiction? The institution evaluating the applications may not even be aware of why their applicant population skews that way.
GiveCampus (YC S15) hiring a Product Designer who cares about education
Another relevant option would be to ban targetted advertising, both online and offline.
You have to understand something about a subset of 'elite' Pakistanis. This subset cherishes creating controversies as it generates the most attention in Pakistan and puts them on global platform as 'expert' on Pakistan issues.

Pakistanis are addicted to 'conspiracy' theories and he who can garner most attention in this circle will ultimately get most media limelight within Pakistan and hence most money.

Pakistan is a simpleton Country and Society in many respects and it is quiet easy to herd the masses and profit out of it. And with certain Countries always looking to drag Pakistan's name and reputation into mud, these people's outlandish claims will go unchallenged and will be etched into global media's output.

This is not to say there aren't any problems with Pakistan -- there are some very serious problems and media and authors and journalists do a great job highlighting them. But unfortunately, certain class of 'elite' Pakistanis tend to view themselves as universe revolving around them.

And icing on cake is that these are same Pakistanis who typically hold dual nationalities and foreign visas and on slightest signs of trouble, quickly take next flight out of Pakistan in order to evade authorities in Pakistan. They from outside of Pakistan, they continue to preach against Pakistan.
The idea I've got is that anyone could use the editor/publisher I'm trying to describe after watching a 10 minute YouTube video and pulling down the Electron app. Another goal would be to help people in repressive regimes spread news and information that the government wants suppressed: that's why I was thinking of building this on a git/hg model but with all of the hairy aspects of distributed source control abstracted or made easy so the content creators can focus on creating content instead of learning MIS minutiae.
Dopamine-Fueled Development
Sure, Amazon have all sorts of ml APIs. But a task platform where anyone can complete the tasks using ai, humans or a combination that f both could be substantial impressive.

Say you need to look through 20k images and determine if they contain hipsters. There may not be an off-the-shelf hipster detector. Maybe you could make one, or use humans or a combination by training an NN.. etc.
Out of all the possible solutions, let's go ahead and choose the one that further destroys people's trust in our abilities to make sound decisions!

/s

Ridiculous.
Please no Youtube-style comments here.
Making a Real World Application with SwiftUI, Part One: Data Flow and Redux
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install [all the packages I want]

I'm usually working 100% in the terminal (raspi, VPS, WSL, etc), and the defaults are fine.
> The search business would also be free to auction ad space to other providers.

Doesn't that make them an ad business?
Since the author compares the proposed API to what startpage.com does, I'm guessing he's not talking about "index" as in "raw documents", but basically Search as an API with all the sorting and ranking done.
I completely disagree. For handling recursive data structures, recursion will lead to shorter, simpler code than trying to hack something together with a loop and a custom stack object. While I agree that some of the more dogmatic FP people acting like recursion is the best thing ever might be a bit overstated, I think it's short-sighted to say that "There isn't really a good reason why it needs to be part of a programmer's toolbox".

Not to mention, without using recursion, there's no direct way of dealing with purely immutable data structures. You're going to be stuck creating some kind of mutable reference to serve as a counter to a loop, or to append to a list.
DNA replication machinery captured at atom-level detail
> Why should the police respond when you're being clearly negligent.

The purpose of the police is to maintain order and enforce personal and property rights, not to educate the population on concepts of responsibility.
Why is this advertisement on HN? These types of devices are not new. You can get "Bluetooth Transmitters" etc on eBay that work just fine for $10.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/storm-area...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/us/area-51-raid-memes-trnd/in...

https://deadline.com/2019/07/area-51-storming-may-be-counter...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/07/13/...
(Relatively) Simple Symmetries Underlie Our Expanding Universe
There's a sentence in the article that mentions his chemical castration, trial, and posthumous pardon and links to a more detailed article detailing all this and broaching the topic of suicide.

I bet you want an editorial (and I bet you want one that mirrors your own beliefs and is a bit preachy about it). That's not what this article is for.
I'd argue that the molecular scissors argument is actually adequately descriptive and holds up to a bit of metaphor overextending. You totally can cut and paste gene sequences using CRISPR. That's the whole point of Homology Directed Repair (HDR). And much like actual sets and crafts, it is a lot easier to make crude cuts all over the place than to elegantly glue pieces back together into a useful end product. HDR still suffers from low efficiency and so on. And the riot analogy for alzheimers is great, but it doesn't require you to give up the scissor analogy either. You arent stopping a riot with scissors, while on the other ha d you totally could stop a riot with malware (shut down every messaging service somehow so that there isn't any way to coordinate).
You can turn off automatic updates, but then you have to update all apps manually. You can't just turn it off for a single app.
Ten Questions with Blur's Damon Albarn and the Clash's Paul Simonon
I have often been amused by some of the delusions here on HN about food and farming. This one takes the cake.

Peaches grow on trees. Fruit orchards are not corn fields or thousands of acres of soy. They are perennial tree crops. We also sequester carbon much better than most other Ag states. We have a 8 month growing cycle without a drop of rain(that’s why almost all of processing tomatoes in the USA comes from California) while in the east, south and mid west, it’s not just the short growing season, but there is rain everyday in some parts that some don’t even irrigate.

If anyone thinks Georgia or South Carolina peaches are better than California ones..all I can say is ..Bless their hearts.

The USG doesn’t ‘subsidize’ water in California. California voters subsidize the cheap food the rest consume. California farmers have grandfathered water rights and we vote on it.

CA has contributed more to the GDP in Ag revenue and exports than ANY other state with $45 billion. Iowa lags behind at $22 million. Most of the Ag activities involving commodity crops..you know..those traded on the exchange..enjoy federal subsidies.

We grow fruits, nuts, vineyard crops and alfafa along with lettuce, strawberries and feed most of this country.

One of the federal subsidies doled out to mid west farms that grow gmo soy and corn (only 7% of which is for human consumption) is for Prevent Plant. Those farmers get subsidies if they don’t farm. (Channeling Major Major’s curmudgeon father from Catch-22.)

We do Ag brilliantly. We give much much more than we take. So much more. Our farms fed people during a long drought when we should be flushing our toilets. California voters paid dearly for water so the farmers can irrigate the fields.

But our farmers. Our votes. Our tiffs. It’s a family matter. As far as the rest of the country goes, a simple thanks would do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California

Perhaps this kind of ignorance about what we do and the problems we face is why innovation and tech doesn’t serve CA farmers who grow the food we eat but millions are going into automating farms that grow crops receiving federal subsidies and commodities that are traded on the financial exchange. We are desperate for tech. We are on very thin margins. We get no help. We are not poor little rich princes.
> He has also made some questionable claims about google manipulating search results to favor Hillary Clinton.

Despite it being off topic, can we define why those claims are questionable? Is their data proving those claims wrong? Because with all the Google political controversies over the past few years, and given the political donation history of Google employees, it’s highly plausible that search results are manipulated to favor certain politics over others.

If the “questionable claims” have been disproven or are inaccurate, then it would seem that you’d provide some proof. Essentially, it you are to claim the search engine was not biased towards Clinton, certainly there would be some proof of that? It’s more reasonable to suspect Google manipulating search engines than not, given the political environment at Google.

The real “questionable claim” is that Google is neutral in any way — which is kind of the entire premise of the article. If Google were completely neutral, then why would their monopoly on search need to be broken?
Maybe libui can be of use? As far as I know they wrap native element but I have not looked into it much.
Sounds like a pretty normal device to me in the times of IoT...
It depends... were there any markers already present? In a past life I worked as a surveyor, and if a marker was present(it looks like a silver-dollar on the ground, with a spike holding it in place, these can last 100+ years), we would use that to measure from. If, however, they set up what looked like a tripod with a oval-shaped dish on top, that's a GPS receiver, and could be affected by this outage.

Link: here are some survey markers for sale, linking it so you can see a picture of what they commonly look like: https://www.berntsen.com/Surveying/Survey-Markers/Aluminum-S...
Finding out how to traverse a tree recursively was one of the first great “aha” moments of learning CS.
Bars that don't take card nowadays are often a bit shady. Especially those in busy city/town centres.

Willing to bet not all of that money is declared to Mr Tax Man.
Other reasons are possible, too.

1. When they started, pre-existing frameworks weren’t such popular nor standard.

2. When they started, the functional requirements they had were very different from what the product grew eventually. Many software projects start small and grow.

3. Couple times in my career I worked in projects where management didn’t believe in functional specs, the requirements changed dramatically in the middle of development. With large libraries, some changes in architecture are handled by replacing the library with another one. Quite expensive to do. An in-house library can be more flexible, just because it’s less code.

I’m not saying making in-house libraries was justified in your case. Maybe it wasn’t and that developer did it mostly for fun. Just the trade off is quite complicated, and your reasons are not necessarily that bad.

In many cases, I think it’s technical management’s job to make the decision, i.e. evaluate alternatives, maybe allocate resources to make a prototype.

Also, from the management standpoint, if a developer can write their own frameworks, there’s very high probability they can use existing ones. Maybe it makes them slightly less happy i.e. need to pay them more to compensate, but they’ll do the job. The opposite is not true, there’re people skilled at combining libraries and copy-pasting third-party code who can’t write their own code.
Peter thiel was recently speaking at a conservative whatever in DC spreading nonsense and creating a bogeyman out of Google (but not FB obviously). That they're working on some evil AI. Anyone actually working in the field knows how blown out of proportion and cringy this AI doomsday narrative is but people like thiel don't waste a chance. I'd like someone to tell his Republican audience (pardon the stereotyping) that he is homosexual and recently obtained a New Zealand citizenship just in case. Then watch how his audience reacts.
All of these things you point out about type ratings and maintaining currency etc etc miss the point.

The 737 MAX fleets will be big enough to justify the cost of maintaining a group of pilots that fly the MAX and a group that flies the 737NG. Just as they do now with multiple fleet types. If airlines were trying to just mix 30-40 of these in with the 737NG fleet the economics would break but when you’re talking a fleet of 100+ it starts working out. Of course it will end up making the economics worse than originally planned for but at this point what can you do? The A320NEO order book is filled for years so if you’re an airline CEO you’re stuck with the MAX.

As far as the airlines go none of them seem to be suffering significant financial damage yet. The pace of orders meant they were only going to have about 30-40 of these things by years end so they’re coping. It remains to be seen how it will affect them long term. DAL seems to have struck gold with the whole ordeal. As the only major US airline without the MAX they’ve increased capacity 2-3% more than planned and their recent Q2 shows it’s working out great.
This is an outstanding book, can be a life impacting work for introvert tech types.
Regardless of the name change they are still grounded. Given all the scrutiny, when they finally do fly again they will likely be one of safest planes in the sky.
Programming is fun for 15 minutes out of each hour, the other 45 are pretty frustrating.
What if I told you that you could be hobbled by inconsistent, scattered state in a system not expicitly designed to be distributed. There's no point in jumping to the conclusion that they are using a design you're familiar with.
Heatmap animation based on 8x8 matrices in Python
Are you suggesting that the US government was right to indiscriminantly bomb a small nation halfway around the world for self-determining into a style of governance disliked by the US?

Or are you suggesting the North Vietnamese were a tool of the Chinese or Russians? In which case - like Robert McNamara - you would be told by the former foreign minister of Vietnam that you should read a history book[0], because you have no knowledge of the region's history.

The Vietnam war was a disgrace waged for no valid reasons, accomplishing nothing except ending the lives of millions of Vietnamese people. To defend it in this day, with all the benefit of hindsight, is utterly beyond the pale and should rightfully be compared to supporting other historical atrocities such as the genocide of Native Americans.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdMeHxDg90&t=2m8s
And also, the scissor analogy actually works better with the riot analogy. You arent going to stop a riot with scissors, but you could totally use some form of malware to censor social media/knock out communications/etc to prevent the riot from being able to organize. Malware is a constructive thing, it allows you to hijack systems you take over, which is much much much more powerful than some blunt scissors.
That is not the point. Understand what OP is trying to say.

Photoshop is legitimate for graphic design - right? Should we stop teaching that at school? Or Autocad or its ilk.
Fatigue (Material)
Quality of life is a subjective issue [1], of which material possesion is just one amongst several dimensions. Therefore, it is perfectly possible for a person to improve their quality of life by consuming less: by the very definition of quality of life, it is enough for said person to feel that their quality of life improved as a result of consuming less for it to be true.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life
No, those markers work by listening to the GPS signals for an extended period of time and maybe PPK or perhaps an alternative network that's not satellite based.
https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51/storm-area-51-they-c...
A kink is a thing which is bent; so if you describe majority sexuality as "straight", then anything else is kinked, or kinky, or is a kink.
Whatever your age this is an exceptionally well written description, worth finding a venue for it other than buried as an HN comment.
> I'm referring to the old lady I met in the park while I was walking the dog who insisted that her homeopathic "doctor" had the authority to tell her that "vaccines cause autism".

You've found one person who is wrong about one thing. Is it logical/prudent to then assume all "anti-vaxxers" are wrong, about everything that they believe?

Rather than assuming your ideological opponents are enemies, it might be worthwhile to put some effort into discovering their actual nature, and what their actual arguments are. As far as I can tell, your current perception is quite flawed (based on the reading I have done of conversations within the anti-vaxx community).

>> We do not know that vaccines do not cause autism.

> I get what you're trying to say, but no. In this case yes, we do.

No, we don't. An absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html

Correct, epistemically sound statement: "studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing ASD"

Possibly correct, but epistemically flawed statement: "There is no link between receiving vaccines and developing ASD"

There is a difference between these two statements. Are you able to you see it?

> Pick your goddamned battles wisely friend.

I do. Thanks for your advice though.

> Don't play Russian Roulette with other people's children.

I say the same to you in return. Based on recent news articles, the amount of vaccine cautious people, as a percentage of overall society, seems to be growing. Who is more responsible for this phenomenon - me, who recommends scientific honesty, or you, who opposes scientific honesty?

> One epidemic and the anti-vaxxers will be up against the wall.

I would argue that authoritarian thinking like this does not work in your favor.
> Imagine somebody comes to the site for parts for their bookshelf, searches for "bookshelf," and...

...is presented with two major subcategories: "bookshelves" and "bookshelf parts". Problem solved.
Galileo – Europe's GPS suffers major outage
No. And that’s a good point. But:

1. I don’t think that fits into the category of servitude that the other was talking about.
2. Why would one put in the effort required to go through specialized school and certification processes if there wasn’t a huge payout waiting for them? I think only the most passionate would bother.
Well this old person has had to donate my backup paper maps to people whose phones were out of charge or who had no map at all and wanted to know where they were.

NB When in Scottish mountains I take:

- An iPhone with offline OS maps

- An external battery for my iPhone and cable

- A paper OS map in a waterproof map case

- A printed A4 backup of an OS map in a plastic bag that I can give to others or to use if other maps become unusable (e.g. blown away - which has happened)

80% of the time I just use the iPhone - still have to use OS map and compass occasionally when things are particularly exciting.
On what basis? They're trying to fix a fundamental aerodynamic design failure with a software patch. The entire physical design if the airplane is flawed, and they arent rebuilding the entire fleet, just pushing another software patch.
Page through computer history with the complete scan of NeXT’s 3d qtr 89 catalog
Speaking of cherry picking, I wouldn't use vox as reliable source for bipartisan data.
It also seems to work much better. It finds exactly what I type, and not random things that google thinks might fit...
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There is a reason "fail fast" is a mantra: it's through looking
at our errors we have chances to do better.

I'd agree, though that's not what this discussion was originally about.

It sure is possible to rebrand every failure we make as
success in some thing else. "I failed to win the tennis
match, but I succeeded in hitting the ball into the net!".

I agree, though nobody (at least not in this discussion) is endorsing that sort of cognitive gymnastics. There are no reasonable upsides to hitting the ball into the net, and it is not merely a "different" way of succeeding at the game others call tennis.

Let's go back to the original parent poster, untog's, claim.

When I'm at work, I do the best I can do. Then I get
out of the door at a good time, go home to my family
and have a blast with them. I'm happy, though my 21
year old self might recoil in horror to see it.

To which AndrewKemendo replied,

What I've seen happen is that people find
cognitive-dissonance coping strategies like you describe

Working reasonable hours and enjoying one's family is certainly not the life equivalent of hitting the tennis ball into the net, and it's awfully bleak to think that somebody's engaging in cognitive dissonance because their goals changed and they found happiness in a different way than they originally intended to.
It is nice to get to that place where you have enough.

I'm at the spot in my career, where I don't want any advancement or promotions. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I've got a nice nest egg saved up, so money isn't that big of a motivator.. Really at this point my career is on cruise control, just biding time until I can retire. I'm still learning new technologies, but it is because I want to, not because I have to. Really takes the stress off.
Nothing runs on time in Italy. Someone on this thread is going to say that is racism, but its backed up by a lot of data.
> but it's not some random backwater.

And nobody really thinks that.

My god, what a time to be alive, when you can't make simple jokes anymore, because somebody somewhere always is offended and thinks there must be some racist agenda in place.

Even as a German with a total lack of humour (and an Italian motorcycle with strange quirks in the garage) I found this funny. Funnier than the Holocaust at least.