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Well, science certainly builds on itself incrementally, and the further exploration of an existing idea is no less valid a direction of study than a "new" idea. As for the ISEF stuff... well, who knows. Hopefully it gives young folks a bit of a push in the right direction, though.

I wish I had access to the full paper, though - it may be that they referenced the 2009 study but Stanford didn't think it necessary to include that in the press release - which is, after all, a press release.
> and the transition has been traumatic, just like predicted.

What trauma? What transition?

We currently have more oil than we know what to do with. It's piling up in huge storage containers, and the price keeps falling because no one needs any.
This is a great insight, and it reminds me that there are scores of people in management at Wal Mart and Amazon tweaking prices, working out margins, and generally fretting over the prices that we spend microseconds considering. Caveat emptor, always!
I think it's a vile "sharing" widget thingy. Nothing of value lost by blocking it.
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Well i don't assume the opposite i just don't care about the energy rating that much.
The only thing i would care for is for heating/AC because those tend to be on for very very long duration.

I bought a C rated fridge because I've read the testing procedure, it involves quite a bit of stuff like how long it takes it to cool down when the door is opened for 2 minutes, how much power it needs to cool down some volume of water etc, how much does it take to freeze X amount of what ever beef.

And i really don't care about that, I live with my GF, no kids, no one else, the fridge is opened maybe 5 times a day for no longer than 10 seconds. Dinner is cooked daily with "fresh" from the store ingredients or take away/delivery is used.
So the fridge is used to cool fruits/soda/water milk, and and some toppings for snaks.

The freezer will have some emergency ground beef for the shit it's too late to order pasta, some hot dogs when you really get lazy, some bread, and vodka.

If i had 3 kids and would stick a half eaten turkey into the fridge 3 times a week i would probably care more about how much power it yanks to cool it down, but with the use i have i don't need to care because while it's less efficient in cooling it's just as efficient at doing nothing for most of the day because the insulation is still the same.

But the majority of the public doesn't do it, almost no one is doing research before buying something, they might get some reviews of CNET at best but more likely got to Curry's or Fry's or Best Buy and buy something they think is good. And since everyone has been conditioned to see green as good and everyone is conditioned to think of a higher grade is better when you have for the most part a meaningless grading system people will still buy what has huge Grade A+++ green sticker on rather than a orange/red B or C.
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> No nuclear weapon has ever been built that can do that to 460 square miles.

460mi ^2 = 1192km^2

sqrt(1192km^2 / pi) = 19.5km

Tsar Bomba (largest one), from Wikipedia: 'total destruction _radius_ 35km.'

So, yes, such a single weapon surpassing that several times has been built. And it can as well be argued that a MIRVed ICBM is in a way a single weapon.
I still don't really understand why we can't just run any files in cache (from other sites) with the same hash.

If I have the sha-256 of an exe file, I'm perfectly happy to run any exe file with the same sha256 simply because collisions don't happen. Why is this different for JavaScript?

If an attacker can inject HTML script tags into your website haven't you already lost?
Has Amazon ever pretended to not be evil?
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Yup. I'm using git for game source code and I'm often holding off any commits to graphics/music until project is done. Any workaround outside git means you have two systems to manage and it can get really painful.
Have you ever seen the bidding process on contracts? You have to be provided a published quote at some point, it's always less, often vastly, many industries work like this and have for a very long time.
Testing for devices should not be done at the onset only. It should be done over time in the field through an independent study.

The Volkswagen issue would have never happened. It also makes it much harder to game, anything that can be gamed in cutthroat competition will be.

Over time we could also see products that hold up through wear and tear. Consumers should demand this type of testing after the gaming has been exposed.
You have to stop thinking this way. As technology progresses we need fewer and fewer people working. Its not just because people dont want to work-- its because they cant, because we dont need them to work. Crop yield is high. Robots build the expensive things and child slaves build the cheap things. The service jobs are still there, but we're just about to the point where taxi drivers, waiters, and fast food workers are going to be priced out by automation. Get out of your mind that you are hard working and everyone else is lazy. There is enough excess in the system to feed, clothe, educate, and care for every person no matter what they do during the day. And you can still be richer than them. You just cant be grossly-evil-rich to the point where you have to corrupt the financial and political system to make more money.
I'm not, nor do I have any interest in being a VC/Angel etc...but it seems to me that there might be a good strategy in an "Index Fund" approach. Something like putting in 10-100k with little diligence or reporting requirements across 1000 startups.

Whatever works works, whatever doesn't won't but in theory you would hit the growth numbers of the "High Tech Startup" network.
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Well that's a tiny bit annoying, since I just set up our own cluster 3 days ago to centralize all our logging...
For reference:

https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch

And the updated:

https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-...
The relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/277/
You could add your edit and relevant link to the Wikipedia page?
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Actually, the part about mothers working less to spend more time with their children was actually noticed [1] And that was just an experiment, where participants knew it won't last forever. In real life effect might be stronger.

What really is shallow is the understanding of how economy works by proponents of basic income. As I wrote earlier: to make it possible you need either robots or slaves, because most consumer goods don't grow on trees and even the ones that do grow on trees still need some manual labor to be done before they can be bought with your basic income money. Disincentivising work will make them less available and therefore more expensive.

The last large scale implementation of unconditional basic income was in ancient Rome, and see how that ended for them :)

[1]http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ssrgai.htm#Disposable
Number theory deals with numbers, not the representations of them. The properties of numbers dealt with in number theory exist independently of the base chosen in which to represent the numbers; in fact, a result from number theory (the basis representation theorem) is the formalization of what a "base" actually is and how to represent a number in an arbitrary base.
I meant the original article this entire discussion is about, which says

> Amazon’s streaming service, called Prime Video, doesn’t run easily on its rival’s hardware.

So it does run, at least according to the article. But it's either hard to make it run, or it doesn't work well. Both of those seem to contradict your link. Very puzzling, I guess one of those must be wrong?
We try to keep a list of upcoming and previous public presentations and publications of work by lab members in the news section at http://hoffmanlab.org/ .

There is a monthly Toronto Bioinformatics meetup in the academic year <https://torbug.org/>. There are some great speakers this year! Pizza is provided after the talks. I go whenever I can but I am co-instructor of a course that meets at the same time and that sometimes requires my presence.
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Asking around on IRC, it just seems like bitbucket doesn't bring Atlassian a lot of money. It seems that they just see it as marketing for their other offerings, so accordingly bitbucket does not get a lot development.

I wish they improved their Mercurial support. I believe they have only one guy handling all of the Mercurial issues.
The idea behind content-security policy is that it allows scripts to come only from whitelisted domains. You can't inline evil scripts and you can't link them from any domain. So, in the case of XSS, the attacker CAN'T just do whatever they want. They need to make the browser think that the script is being hosted on a whitelisted domain.

Hence, the attack here is making the victim load that keyed script on a different page, then redirecting them to an XSS hole that links to that script as 'hosted' by a whitelisted domain. Since it seems to be on a whitelisted domain and match the original script's hash, it will execute on the page, which is not ordinarily possible on a page which is running CSP.

I hope this encourages you to not immediately assume that large groups of people working on technically complicated problems are stupid in the future.
Can't wait read the EFF article about this.
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"One way to test your hypothesis is to start reducing your exposure to soft plastics and materials that offgas VOCs at high rates. See if that makes any difference."

No, that's a very bad way to test your hypothesis. Assuming your goal is to really get to the root of a problem, you really shouldn't be allowing/asking individuals to test their ideas on themselves.

Have you spoken to doctors about your issues with plastics? It could very well be that your problem is to do with something else, but you're masking it by making premature assumptions based on what you think might be the cause. Perhaps even on faulty causal links that could do with some domain-knowledge, rather than guessing.
I would love to see a Google Piper for git that load files with a virtual filesystem in FUSE as you access them.
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Exactly. To build on your point, take Amazon's kindle app, available for both android and ios. With Apple devices you can't purchase any content within the app, but at least you can read what you've already purchased from Amazon through other means. They could do something similar with Amazon video.
> - Limited consumer benefit.

I think people underestimate the extent to which this matters. In fact, I might even say this is the only thing that matters. There are some of us who are concerned with privacy, ownership, security, etc. But most don't, and never will.

The real nail in the coffin is that we're not solving a real need.
You've got it backwards: The travesty of degrading things with shitty advertisements was early in the News sector.
Building a product is always easy; you're just doing it wrong
This is called Question/Answering (QA). "bedroom", "apparatments" are different entities from "Capitol Hill", "Seattle". You could do as you say, trying to understand the question based on some of the words that appears using statistics. This is a "bag of word" approach.

The general idea of NLP is not different from general computer science ie. 1) narrow the problem 2) solve it 3) try to solve a bigger problem.

The tower of sentence structure in NLP is:

- bag of word

- part of speech + named enties tagging

- dependency tagging/framing

- semantic tagging

The idea is to create templates for most common questions. Then you parse questions recognizing the named entities like "Capitol Hill", "Seattle" and commons "appartement" you can resolve the question. It's not an ordinary dictionary hash lookup since for in given template there is several "key". The value of the dictionary is the correct search method. It makes me think to multiple method dispatch which support dispatch by value.

Also something to take into account is that in the "assistant" example you give, the assistant can ask for confirmation. You don't explicitly state that you are looking to "rent" something. So the system might not recognize the question, but just guess that you talk about renting something because it's the most popular search around Capitol Hill, Seattle. You can implement a "suggest this question" feature that will feedback the "question dispatch" algorithm to later recognize this question.

This is mostly a Dynamic Programming approach. Advanced NLP pipelines use logic, probabilistic programming, graph theory or all of them ;)

The other big problems of NLP are:

- summary generation
- automatic translation

Important to note is that like other systems it must be goal driven. You can start from the goal and go backward infering the previous steps or do it from the initial data and go forward. Again, it's very important to simplify. Factorize by recognizing patterns. It's the main idea regarding the theory of the mind.

Have a look at this SO question [1] I try to fully explain an example QA. Coursera NLP course is a good start.

OpenCog doesn't deal solely with NLP but gives an example of what a modern artificial cognitive assistant can be made of.

Beware that NLP is kind of loop-hole.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32432719/is-there-any-nlp...
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That name may not go over so well in the West. "Lolli" carries connotations of child porn.
No, because the original view was still of something bad (corrupt first world governments). They aren't as bad as something else (corrupt second/third world governments), but they aren't good.

So using jobs, it is like having a job where you have to often pull 60 hours weeks and then having to spend a few days helping a friend pulling 80 hour weeks (with same compensation). Even then, the 60 hour weeks being the norm is a bad thing and saying that someone shouldn't feel bad about it doesn't make sense.

The switch was from bad/worse to good/better.
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Do you think that Google may also have payment arrangements with HBO, Netflix, and others? I can't imagine it's very significant but there might be something there too, especially with the large early adoption of Chromecast v1.0.
IoT is a buzzword. Buzzwords eventually die off because they're nebulous. What was "Web 2.0"? Did it die? Are we in Web 3.0 now? Does it matter one way or the other?

There will be many successful connected device startups. Many others will be started & funded for the wrong reason: because IoT is "hot" right now.

IoT is a particularly maddening buzzword because the name is mis-leading. There's not a separate internet for things, but rather these are just "things connected to the internet". Not as catchy, which I suppose is the point.

As an aside: I worry I may be turning into Andy Rooney :)
Joel on Software has 6 posts over the last 3 years. I'm not sure how long Jira has been winning (whatever that means), but it doesn't seem fair to say that Content Marketing doesn't work when the blog in question isn't actively updated.
Fantastic! Looking forward to trying it out again
I have a completely different condition than psoriasis. Someone else replied that they think their psoriasis is related to plastics. I made a suggestion on how they can explore their own hypothesis about their own condition, if they so choose/desire. I am not asking anyone to test my hypothesis about my condition.
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Which came first: China's huge territorial claim in the South China Sea, or Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan reclaiming islands in the area?
Do you guys do visas? Both H1-B transfers and green cards?
Chromecast's APIs are open. I stream HBOGo to it, ESPN, Netflix...none of them pay any money to Google.

Amazon could add streaming to their players as easily as those companies did.
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