skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a fundamental difference between your two examples.

The lawyer only needs to learn a novel skill (Python), and then, said skill in hand, they can read through a few cookbook solutions to their problem on e.g. StackOverflow, and come away with an answer that is guaranteed to work—for at least their particular use-case—because they can test and iterate on it until it does work.

The programmer, on the other hand, would need to learn vast swathes of a body of knowledge in order to have the requisite context to understand the "subtext" (i.e. case law) governing any particular "cookbook" solution they find.

Or, to put that another way: as programmers, in the decades we've been practicing the craft so far, we've seemingly held as one of our "guiding principles" that implicit context (e.g. DSL/macro "magic") is generally bad: the more you have to know to start working on a new project, the worse a situation you're in. Programmers actively try to lower the "barrier to contribution", by 1. favoring larger libraries and fat language stdlibs over small atomized libraries, as large libraries can be shared as a lingua-franca/Schelling point; and then 2. avoiding abstractions that aren't built into the language itself, instead choosing a language for its built-in abstractions, as then programmers who "know language X" can be guaranteed to be ready to parse those abstractions.

Law has no such principle. The "law community" has in no way ever sought to make it easier to maintain or update existing legal text, and therefore, has never really developed an equivalent to the concept of "write-only code." They might make it easier to get started writing the write-only code (with templates) or might discourage writing more law than there needs to be (red-tape reduction) but there's nothing disincentivizing any particular legal document from being as impenetrable—and reliant on knowledge "from the environment"—as possible.

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Or, to reformulate in a more productive way: if the whole body of law of a country were maintained in a reified form as some downloadable expert system knowledge-base, then anyone could learn the "pure skill" of legal analysis, which would be the skill of properly querying said knowledge-base (and, only if the answer isn't clear-cut, asking someone who has experience in predicting the way legal battles over such an issue would go.)

That's sort of the way medicine seems to be trending—doctors are more and more becoming people who practice the "pure skill of diagnosis" and less-and-less people who have a particular knowledge-base loaded into their heads. But law hasn't even begun to chart its way down this path.
Yes we were thinking of a legal and localized equivalent of codeacademy for law when we said there's simply not the same level of legal learning resources online as there is for coding.

Coding resources have come on a thousand fold, even in the last 5 - 10 years with top level teaching available for free / freemium via Coursera codeacademy, freecodecamp, udemy, udacity etc. Also all well supported by active user communities alongside stackoverflow and the massive open source community supporting the most popular languages and libraries.

There isn't an equivalent for legal knowledge in that sense, so far as we are aware.

Likewise you can't easily have personal projects with law or medicine - to do so is almost certainly illegal in most jurisdictions.
"social science", "political science" etc are not science. They are liberal arts masquerading as science to claim legitimacy.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-social-s...
This is just my opinion but I think a lot of Republicans don't think that climate change isn't happening at all.

I am guessing from their admission that they acknowledge climate is changing, but refusing to list it as a priory is that where the difference in opinion between Democrats/Republicans lie.

When it comes to the root cause of the climate change, how much humans are accelerating/impacting the change and how we can reduce the impact are all topics where the different political party's opinions differ.
I had a similar idea. I guess face shapes are natural given the vertical symmetry, and since the outcome is a bit random our bias towards seeing faces even in vaguely face-shaped patterns helps.

http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=zmb2p5d9l1f
Make sure you realize this if you start taking law school classes, you need the undergrad engrg or CS degree in the US to sit for that exam and practice before the bar in that specialty.

Patent law is no longer a good career track. There are so many patent agents today (post-recession) that it's very difficult to find non-contract jobs. Patent litigation is still a lucrative career path and doesn't require a US science/engineering degree, but it is significantly harder and more stressful. Patent litigation is also more about the litigation than the patent, so quite often the best patent litigators have no engineering or science background at all!

Engineers make fucking excellent lawyers. Statutes construed alongside caselaw is sort of like data sheets alongside a schematic and code. You'll blow past everyone else in school and research will be a snap.

Did not find that to be true at all. The engineers were the worst law students because they kept expecting black-and-white or determinable outcomes when the law is frequently incapable of any of that sort. The engineers who shed their engineering backgrounds did great though, largely because of their background in studying rather than anything related to being an engineer.

Good engineer attys are efficient and effective and don't hold back the truth. Your clients will come back to you and trust you. You will be a rainmaker on merit. But schmoozing, man, learn it if you don't do it. I can't: It hurt. YMMV if you practice for a large firm and are expected to book 8K billable hours per year.

Good lawyers are efficient and effective and don't hold back the truth. Their pre-lawyer background is generally irrelevant and engineers aren't any better at this than non-engineers. This is also unrelated to being a rainmaker--generally, for that sort of business development, it's about connections and schmoozing, where the truth rarely if ever is relevant.

Also, no firm requires a lawyer to bill 8000 hours a year. That's 22 billable hours/day, 365 days a year. I assume you meant 2000 hours/year, which is the normal standard for BigLaw firms in the US.
If you can't enter a country or a facility, the mail usually can.
A fun thing about this computer is that you see it (for free) every time you're in the Science Center at Harvard. You don't have to go to some special museum.
You are not forced to use the software.

Customers pay for access to a client and limited term access to the service it requires.

It is not fraud because there is no deception.
I've been wondering, but how is Qt Rust integration actually doing at the moment?

I'm no UI designer/programmer, but it seems to me that Qt being apparently very dependant on C++'s object oriented concepts seems to make integration with Rust very difficult, since Rust very much does not follow's C++ concepts of objects and classes.
> What the president says on Twitter affects me or the world

But will be widely reported in every other media channel anyway, so you lose little or nothing by using Twitter directly. In fact, you might gain a little useful filtering, depending on your range of new outlet choices of course, and conversely there is a sort of reverse filter because you are less likely to miss things that are rather quickly deleted.
Noise should be fine tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
FTR the problem is steam and the game doesn’t matter. I wasn’t suggesting individual games needed to be installed and steam alone is enough for this compromise
This isn't really new. You've been able to do this with LVM for years, but it isn't quite as graceful.
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It would certainly alienate the hell out of me, and up here in canada I've never voted for the conservatives.

This whole "you're with us or against us" thing? It's not working for me, and if it keeps happening I'm going to have to not be with you.
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How long can you sit outside a company running Kali Linux and a high gain antenna array before you attract attention? If you ship someone on the DevOps team a WiFi-connected plush toy that listens for webhooks from your CI/CD platform to make happy/sad noises when the build passes/fails -- AND THEY PLUG IT IN AND LEAVE IT ON -- then the ability to have passive access to the network for a long period of time will be less noticed.

The example of the WiFi connected stuffed animal listening for webhooks isn't a made-up example -- I read a blog post about that years ago. Some team had a "build bunny" whose ears perked up and made happy noises when the build passed and the ears drooped and made a sad trombone noise when builds failed. The thing is already RF-active... would anyone break out a spectrum analyzer to notice if the thing was also transmitting/receiving on LTE and not just WiFi?
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Where and how exactly is traditional printing regulated?

Publishers. There are documented cases of writers and genres being blacklisted and suppressed. (Though in fairness, you might find more than a few of them unsavory.)

I can buy a high end typesetting laser printer and print anything I want on it- if it isn't child porn/top secret/libelous I can print anything I want that I've originated.

Sure, but good luck with the promotion and distribution.
> I've stopped thinking of doctors as friends, and instead as salespeople preying on people in their most vulnerable state. That oath is just another ruse in the sales process.

Same, I basically consider a doctor an adversary until they give me reason to believe otherwise. Probably some of the ones who pass that filter are adversaries, still, and are making me pay for crap I shouldn't need to or directing me to providers who are more expensive to get kickbacks or whatever, they're just better at hiding it.

They are, as a profession, failing hard at upholding their oath. The insurance industry may be a uniquely useless part of providing medical care, but they do not deserve all the blame for the massive harm that's being done. Hospitals and doctors are a huge part of it, too.

[EDIT] I guess I think of them like mechanics now, actually, in that I figure any time I follow their advice and it causes me to give them money there's about an even chance I'm their mark, not their customer/patient.
It is not theft to not consent to sell a particular sort of product, and instead to sell another. Software as a service is not theft.
On the executive agency side, it's not uncommon to produce a "redline" version that's kind of like a manual, carefully drafted "Track Changes" version of a document. I produced one for the U.S. Marine Corps for the Temporary Early Retirement Authority.
Someone did a detailed study of UI responsiveness vs year.

Responsiveness peaked in the 80’s, in the dumb terminal + regional mainframe era. :-(
This is direct fallout from the Marvin Gaye Estate/ Robin Thicke "blurred lines" lawsuit mentioned in the article.

Those songs aren't that similar (the jury didn't even hear both songs if I remember correctly), and after the verdict wasn't corrected on appeal the stage was set for more of these. The "easy money" angle of results (5 million to the estate of a singer for a 70s song.... just get lawyers).

It seems likely we are going to see more and more of these lawsuits. Sort of a sad state.
>The "prior art" from 1984 he mentions is radically different in the note pattern used which alone defeats that entire line of argument.

It's not radically different at all. I'm a musician, but even for a lay person, this is as close as it gets without it being 100% the same.

>Similarly, reaching back to classical music to talk about modern synth beats is a red herring.

This doesn't even make sense. It's like saying that referring to a 18th century invention to invalidate a 2019 patent is a red herring. Music is music.

>The final blow is recognition and feel. A huge number of people would recognize Dark Horse exclusively by the playing of that short set of notes much as they could instantly recognize Billie Jean by its opening rift (or any number of other songs). This alone indicates that the notes in question are more than superficial.

No, it only indicates that these persons have a limited repertoire.
IBM have a service to sell. Hence this 'fear'.

Real world attacks using this method?

Show me one.

It is like putting superglue in locks. In theory anyone could invest in $5 of superglue and put a large building out of business for a few hours. It doesn't happen. But if you were an IBM type of company you could offer this as a service to companies wanting to test their contingency plans. Seems that is what is going on here.
You paid for access to a client and limited term access to the services it requires. If that's not acceptable to you then _do not purchase it_.

It's a game. No one is forcing you to play it.
How was Flame able to demonstrate that they heard the song before?

Remember that independent discovery is a valid defense a against a copyright infringement claim. Katy Perry's legal defense was that nobody had ever heard Flame's music. The CBC article doesn't seem to indicate how the jury was convinced that Katy Perry's team knew of the other song, except that "obviously they heard it because it was awarded a Grammy". Huh? Is that all it took?
There are a lot of people who don't care about mass extinctions. For example, you will not get a uniform question to "A 6-year-old kid has a rare cancer, never seen before, that is defying all medical knowledge, but seems to be controlled by an extract of the pituitary gland of a panda bear. Researchers in the field have determined that a one-shot dose from 1,000 pandas has a 90% of permanently curing her, but that's half of the pandas in the world today. Should 1,000 pandas be killed to try to save her?"
It’s not a freakish belief, it’s right there in the preamble to the bill of rights. People are too stupid to read.

So the federal government (the British) can seize the armory? No thanks.

I’ll be happy with gun laws when I can buy a 0.51 caliber, full auto, suppressed, short barrel rifle, anonymously via mail order, and pay with Bitcoin.
Cruising the channels of the Atchafalaya among the cypress trees is a real treat.
I think the main problem is that the artist would have to at least be good.
... eventually Boris Johnson gave up and went home, never to be heard from again.

Neither viewpoint absolutely is true, but "As ever, if it can be abused, it will be abused" is the better heuristic. The people pushing the abusive laws are doing so as their day jobs, while their victims necessarily have other livelihoods that constrain their efforts. They don't simply propose the topic once, see that it has no support, and go home. Whomever they're working for has longstanding goals, and each win they get is a step normalizing a bit more of their desired regime.

This is why even when the Internet community strongly rebukes new Internet censorship laws (SOPA being a recent example), the same bullshit just comes back again - maybe tweaked to be a little less aggressive, maybe just using a better outrage-event as justifications. And every time it passes, it's a tooth in the ratchet - heads they win, tails we play again. Capitulating a round just accelerates the process.
Easy just watch React Native for Windows talk at Microsoft BUILD 2019.

Electron has 700% performance lost over UWP/C++, which is the baseline.

Expect similar results when comparing against Qt.
Interesting. The text to go along with the audio includes a phonetic version.

Good morning. bwenozdiás [Some marks removed.] Buenos días.

http://www.fsi-language-courses.net/languages/Spanish/Basic/..., Unit 1 - Useful phrases.
So if you come to the mainland from Svalbard, do you have to go through an entry process as if you were coming from outside the Schengen area?
There is no rising above politics. Conflict is unavoidable. People disagree about things. If you have political goals you have to do politics.
Qihoo has also employed dark patterns to push deceptive security practices around its own browser [1]:

> When you attempt to install other browsers, the 360 Safe Guards will allow the browser to be installed but will then popup saying not to let it become the default browser.

> When users of 360 Safe Guards run a check of their system, if they don't have the 360 browser installed it will give them a failing grade. If the user chooses another security software to protect their failing grade browser, the Safe Guards say no.

Also interesting is a statement by Opera on the 2016 acquisition [2]:

> The transaction would give Opera access to the extensive internet user base of Kunlun and Qihoo in China as well as the financing and other support of the Consortium that would allow for the full potential of the Company to be realized. At the same time, Kunlun and Qihoo would be able to cross-sell their products and services to the Opera user base, and benefit from Opera’s leading mobile advertising platform.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150723081728/http://www.digita...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/chine... (can't find a direct link)
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>Once the warship locates a Wi-Fi network from the mail room or the recipient’s desk, it listens for wireless data packets it can use to break into the network. The warship listens for a handshake — the process of authorizing a user to log onto the Wi-Fi network — then sends that scrambled data over the cellular network back to the attacker’s servers, which has far more processing power to crack the hash into a readable Wi-Fi password.

Breaking a hash to obtain the Wi-Fi password? Surely this is impossible?
I'm not sure how compelling someone to testify is at all productive. If someone isn't willing to voluntarily testify, then what makes you think their testimony will be reliable and true? If I were sitting on a jury, I would take the testimony of someone unwilling to testify with a large grain of salt.

As for acting on certain kinds of crimes, the job of prosecutors is to gather evidence, and find people willing to testify, to support their case. They already do this, sometimes offering things in exchange for testimony (such as immunity for their part in the crime), to get witnesses to cooperate and offer testimony that can be believed. If they can't get someone to voluntarily testify, however, it seems counterproductive to me to toss them in jail to punish them for not cooperating; from the outside, that to me makes it look like their case isn't very good to begin with.
You can find much of the FSI material at the Live Lingua Project here [1].

The FSI is not the only US government created language program. There's also the Defense Languages Institute (DLI). Much of their material is also on Live Lingua [2].

[1] https://www.livelingua.com/fsi/

[2] https://www.livelingua.com/dli/
> By definition a militia is separate from a country's military.

No, it's not, a militia is a way of providing a military. (The second amendment is grounded in the idea, alluded to but not explicitly stated in its preamble, that it is essential to freedom for a militia mobilized at need to be the exclusive way for providing a military, including armed domestic security services, beyond a minimal peacetime cadre for training and continuity; it isn't to guarantee freedom by providing a competing armed force to professional ones but instead by preventing the government from adopting professional forces in the first place. It, to be sure, has failed entirely in that goal.)
From my understanding, Shazam can differentiate between songs that share samples by doing classification on a windowed section of input. I.e, take 5 seconds of recording, and classify on t=0..2, 1..3, 2..4, 3..5. The idea being that the sample usage won't continue forever, and you will eventually get a new pattern. (You can even use your classifications from t=0..2 as priors for future classifications!).

For an easy intro to how Shazam works, see this: https://www.toptal.com/algorithms/shazam-it-music-processing...
If DDR memory had screws I'm not sure we'd be happier. We'd be bitching all the time about the freaking tiny screws that kept getting lost in the case.

I can't think of another standard made so deliberately difficult to install. A distant second is the 6/8 conductor PCIe power connectors that are a giant pain to use. Why couldn't they just force 8 for everyone and be done with it? Instead we have these crappy split connectors.
Yeah, it's been fixed a couple of times, but future updates would occasionally cause a regression. There was someone who had been paid for multiple vulnerabilities though HackerOne, but was upset that they didn't get paid for this one, so they showed people how to do it.
Congrats to these folks. But I have a serious, genuine question: How many of these click-and-drag, WYSIWYG website creators are we going to see?

I get there's a need for the long-tail of web traffic (small businesses, etc) to create an internet presence. But is it all that profitable, which I imagine is plenty of competition to undercut your prices? I don't know how a Wix, etc. can stand out or have a competitive advantage in this space. There are so many of them it seems.
You could have cut that sentence down to the first three words and I still would have wholeheartedly agreed with you. There is no justification for that design choice, in any circumstance.
I wonder if you could make an AI program to make a bunch (millions)of unique melodies a minute or less and publish them somewhere like YouTube. Then just scan new hit songs and see if they somehow copy what your computer generated..
Academia is neither monolithically leftist, nor is it activist by nature.

You have only to spend 5 minutes in a typical economics class to understand that that field favors neoliberal ideas. If you sit down and have a conversation with an actual leftist (particularly a marxist) professor, you'll hear something that nobody outside of the system seems to discuss. Marxism is very uncommon in most departments.

> Nobody is arguing with basic research.

Are you kidding me?

There are places in the US where powerful organizations and even state legislatures are actively trying to prevent schools from teaching evolution. Look at this development from two years ago: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/316487-new-wave-of-...

At the federal level, we have congresspeople carrying snow into session so they can deny that climate change is occurring. I regularly see arguments online include discussion of how NASA and NOAA are doctoring the evidence. I wonder where they're getting THAT idea from...

So yea. People absolutely ARE arguing with basic research. Large numbers of people. Significant fractions of the population.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affilia#Grievance_Studies_affa...

From your link: Affilia: _"Journal of Women and Social Work is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers social work practice(s) and feminist analysis of gender inequality."_

How is this related to science (much less basic scientific research)? Even if it WERE a scientific journal, an anecdote about being fooled by a hoax doesn't invalidate the scientific research being done today.
https://www.google.com/search?q=git+for+laws

has lots of intersting proposals and attempts
That’s why stuff like bitcoin cash and lightning network exist.

Also walking into a bitcoin bar without having some bitcoin already is like walking without cash into a normal bar that only accepts cash but has an ATM and it’s the only ATM in miles: plenty of things can go wrong.
Someone buy that engineer a beer.