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by law 15y ago
Calling it a "prominent open source project" is an understatement. Granted it's not perfect, it's the de facto standard in FOSS OCR software. When mentioning "tesseract" to just about anyone in the data mining/machine learning/artificial in
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by law 15y ago
Thomas Jefferson's 1788 quote, in a way, portends this: "the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." The dictionary definition of government ("authoritative direction or control") ostensibly extend
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by law 15y ago
@learc83: the difference between professions requiring and not requiring licensure is the foreseeability of the risks. A reasonable person should be able to foresee the risk that a painter might fall from a ladder. A reasonable person might
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by law 15y ago
@SoftwareMaven: I never said "justifies," but I did say it's one factor that contributes to the inherent reasonableness of the fees. My argument is based on the law and professional practice, while your counter-argument is based on a hypoth
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by law 15y ago
What do you mean by associates? Do you mean non-lawyers engaging in document preparation? If so, they might be criminally liable for the unlicensed practice of law. If they're also licensed attorneys, then again, you're paying for the firm'
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by law 15y ago
As an engineer, that's why I went to law school. I thought law could be represented deterministically...but that's a naive assumption. A stochastic model fits much better, which is why I'm now extremely interested in artificial intelligence
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by law 15y ago
Because it results in uncontrollable externalities. Take the electrician example: what happens if an unlicensed electrician kills himself when performing work? Does his family get to collect from your homeowner's insurance? Can they sue you
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by law 15y ago
Read the rules. They're taken very seriously. Your opinion that a Wachtell attorney isn't worth >$1,000/hour is immaterial. As a matter of law, what they're charging is not unreasonable, because you're paying for more than the amount
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by law 15y ago
I don't understand your first point. Nothing precludes a non-lawyer from reporting an attorney's misconduct. However, the fact that they cannot be compelled to by statute irrefutably proves my point: that the practice of law must be (self-)
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by law 15y ago
And, just to be clear, lawyers' fees are reasonable because lawyers have a duty to report fraudulent billing practices. If they don't, they can be disbarred . That duty to report covers all of the rules (excluding Rule 1.6 and information
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by law 15y ago
I appreciate the passion with which you advocate for decreased barriers to legal information. In many respects, I could not agree more; U.S. jurisprudence is synonymous with hyper-technical mutability, and the public is kept in the dark bec
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by law 15y ago
Sorry, my mistake; I misread the comment to which I was replying as a response to my earlier comment. I completely agree with everything you've said.
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by law 15y ago
I respectfully disagree. Tools like Weka, nltk, etc. are okay for exploratory data analysis, but it's risky to use them for problems that scale, problems that differ from the norm, or homegrown solutions for data that does not yet exist. Be
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by law 15y ago
The biggest problem with machine learning occurs when people subscribe to the belief that it's a black-box solution. The truth is that you can't just drag-and-drop your data into a pre-existing solution. The types of algorithms you use de
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by law 15y ago
Because humans, by evolution, are adaptable to their surroundings. We don't enthusiastically embrace the decreased privacy, but learned how to live in that world. This type of forced changed will almost certainly lead to a world where criti
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by law 15y ago
Facebook should start by sharing its secrets with us. That might make us more comfortable in sharing ours with it. At the very least, it'd reduce the hypocrisy inherent in its stance on openness and sharing.
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by law 15y ago
Whenever people suggest that Facebook users are morons for actively using the service, they're empowering Zuckerberg to continue his mission. The problem isn't stupidity or even ignorance, but rather Facebook's data mining crusade that's fu
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by law 15y ago
It baffles me how Zuckerberg can remain disdainful of our very consistent feelings toward privacy, while arrogantly suggesting that he knows better. It doesn't take a privacy law scholar, an Internet security expert, or someone with a 150 I
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by law 15y ago
The part about logging/transmitting personal info is a red herring. The real issue is failing to provide an opportunity for users to assent to the installation of this software on their device. It makes no difference to me whether data is
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by law 15y ago
I'd surprisingly prefer storing all data indefinitely and not allowing users to delete what they submitted if and only if you also eliminate any way to group locations by a device. This data is just too dangerous, even in spite of innoc
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by law 15y ago
This is a wonderful idea, especially since the area covered by cell phones vastly surpasses that of weather stations. Unfortunately, there's a very real privacy concern of which you must remain cognizant: storing a time series of the paired
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Data mining the Internet to predict the future(forbes.com)
7 points by law 15y ago|0 comments
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by law 15y ago
That's an extremely good point that I really should have mentioned, since some of the United States' issues with it pertain to the exclusive economic zone. Although a non-issue when dealing with the contiguous zone, moving a ship/artificial
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by law 15y ago
Also, they're probably hoping that people will have forgotten about the EU's disdain for Facebook's entire profit model[1], which could wreak havoc on their viability in the market. Facebook really needs to step up its game by developing so
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Facebook Targeting IPO for Between April and June (online.wsj.com)
32 points by law 15y ago|16 comments
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by law 15y ago
However, Facebook maintains that users prefer seeing ads that are linked to their interests and lifestyles. Also, the company reminds us that private information stays private, even when data is used to sell ads, because information is col
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by law 15y ago
It's actually within the contiguous zone, which offers even more regulatory abilities by the coastal state. The ship could just sail outside of the contiguous zone, but would still be within the EEZ. In that case, the issue becomes more tri
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by law 15y ago
Blueseed needs to tread carefully here. While 12 miles is generally safe for most activities, there's a 'contiguous zone' beyond 12 nautical miles extending up to 24 nautical miles where a coastal state may "exercise the control necessary t
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by law 15y ago
Excellent primer on higher-level languages and their applicability/appropriateness for enterprise-level development. Of course, it doesn't get to the crux of the argument: when it's more appropriate to use Scala/Erlang/Haskell instead of
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by law 15y ago
Fully grown decision trees are notorious for their risk of overfitting your training set. If you're uncomfortable fully growing the trees, you then have to consider whether you want to grow them out completely and then prune them, stop grow

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