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What did you learn so far about neural nets? I recently looked into machine learning and naively thought I could find at least one practical fun tutorial "Here is a neural network API in C, you have to do that and this to let a simulated robot evade obstacles or learn to play Asteroids". Instead my (extremely superficial) search did find that neural nets are pretty arcane, genetic algorithms trapped in local minima and you are faster and better of coding logic yourself, developing a mathematical model to calculate results, instead searching for patterns in vast sets of data.
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> Steve Jobs made iTunes, iPod, iPad, iPhone.

Steve Jobs told other people to make iTunes, iPod, iPad, iPhone. And, really, did he do anything apart from telling people to make it smaller or shinier?

Woz knew how to make things smaller, simpler, better.

iTunes is a horrific barking dog piece of software. Many people only use it because they are forced to do so by vendor lock in with their mp3 playing device.
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Well as I was writing that post I got to thinking, woman (in my opinion) generally have a better idea of logic. Organisation and planning come second nature to a lot of women I know, where men (in general again) it takes more to get the planning right.

This makes me think that women would be better at programming, as a generalisation.

This obviously cannot be applied to all people but in my opinion and experience women are more logical and organised.
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A Pakistani from Karachi here.

What actually amaze me most of the time that people consider Pakistan similar to Afghanistan and they believe that Pakistan == FATA region. The reality is that Fata is not even 5% of Pakistan and the region is disturbed because of invasion in Afghanistan and closed cultural ties between FATA and Afghans.

Totally agree about Mobile penetration in Pakistan. It is something similar to Africa. The difference that in Pakistan there is no wider acceptance of mobile usage other than sending useless SMS and Spams. There are only 2 companies offer mobile payments and that are also not TRUE mobile payments.

The technology is quite enjoyed by Pakistanis both in rural and urban areas. The biggest obstacle is corruption and politicians itself who don't let people to get educated.
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> For all it's worth, once I started reading John le Carré or Raymond Chandler novels in original English (I'm a native Romanian speaker) I could never go back to reading them in translation, not that the translations were bad, they weren't, but the texts just didn't have the same feeling.

I don't think this argumentation is correct. There are two things that you are assuming -

(1) The authors would not have been capable of expressing their view with similar levels of 'feel' if they were not born to an English Speaking language hence imparting the 'feel' to English and not just to the authors

(2) You are not feeling the 'feel' more intensely because you are not a native English speaker hence the language and wordplay are less obvious to you as those who speak English primarily.

Secondly as beautiful as the description of multiple languages it may be in GP, I fail to see why won't people adapt the one single language to have extensions - words that describe feelings, emotions and expressions not available originally. Any modern language is, in fact, not the same as it was say a 100 years ago. It has been modified to add newly invented objects like for Computers and Televisions, or newly discovered ones like Idli and Dosa. I think that our desire of saving languages is not pragmatic but aesthetic.
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I am thinking about getting a windows phone after years of Android just to try something different, but I am not really interested in a win8 desktop. Those surface tablets are mildly interesting but definitely more wait and see than opening day.
How does this work? I thought neural nets only learned when they got some kind of feedback that let them know whether what their classification was right (back propagation).
I hope that Google look after it a bit better than they've looked after their Usenet archives. Google groups search is a particularly frustrating experience.

I agree that there is some great content on Youtube. Interesting that you mention sewing machines, because that's something I've used and they are particularly helpful. (See also all those other crafting videos; latch-hooking etc.)
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taking in the sights in Rome or even enjoy the culture and scenic surroundings in Venice. What’s not to like about that?
No, it's politicians as well. They tend to work for each other.
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With regards to your other points, I have nothing to add.

Regards Turkey - I'm not disagreeing, but I must point out that Turkey wouldn't have gotten to where it is except for a freak chance in getting Ataturk who specifically modeled the country to be viable to enter Europe; that process is being reversed gradually by the those elected in power today.

Turkey is where it stands precisely because Ataturk decided that they had to join the Euro region, and then had the military on his side who constantly defended his vision and the secular fabric of the nation.

Later, the Euro rejected them, to their current benefit.

Today, the secular institutions built during the earlier reign are slowly being converted and accommodating a new political reality which is a lot more comfortable with its Islamic credentials.

edited for flow and clarity
The colonies were an ocean away during the age of sail. I imagine things would have turned out quite differently if Britain was on our southern border.
Wouldn't the disk be enough? (Asuming it is the right model.)
Ask HN: starting up with VPN or cloud hosting?
Summary: I want to start hosting my product. I'd like to register domains (at some point). I'm a linux beginner. Thinking about scalability and price, I'm thinking am I better off on a VPN to get started or would some form of cloud hosting be better (not being familiar with either).

Full question:
I'm creating a product where people can create their own 3D representations of whatever data / info they have, and (re)organise that data. The product is coming along beautifully on my local environment, but it's about time I start getting some form of hosting ready, and I could really use some advice where / how to get started:

- I'd like people to be able to move/register their own domains on my server.
I could start without this just to demo the product, but it would be the very first on the todo list.
I'd like to automatically copy some files / install databases etc for each domain. I probably want to see if I can let users manage their own subdomains at some points, but for now:

- I'd like start as simple as possible
I've always on a windows machine, so my linux experience is quite basic. I really don't mind getting into it, but I'm thinking it's better to get my product out first of all and see where to go from there. Although...

- I'd like things to be scalable.
If I set up some reseller VPN now which only scales to 100 domains or so, which means I have to set up something else / move again when I pass that level, or which means that I'm in trouble if I suddenly get lots of new customers... hmm.

- Finally, I need to start cheap.
I'm putting all I have into starting this company, and live on very little. So before I have any customers, 50 dollars a month is a fair bit and 100 dollars a month may be too much.

If anyone has some tips to help get me started I'd be really grateful.
Also if this question would fit better elsewhere, please tell me.
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No,i might consider the windows surface and win 8 on PC but for the phone i still want android. i left iOS because it had too many restriction. i do not want to fall in it again with full feets.
This is interesting, but I couldn't find out how it works. Can anyone explain what "opentype ligature" is?
Let's not forget Microsoft and supporting all their products in languages such as Irish and Welsh. P.s Welsh isn't on the map of endangered languages (oops).
Just to be clear they didn't exploit a bug, this was the result of poor design from CCP. They didn't understand the implications of changes they made in their latest expansion and these guys took advantage of it.

This thread outlines the details of what they did https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=1241...
> 1) The authors would not have been capable of expressing their view with similar levels of 'feel' if they were not born to an English Speaking language hence imparting the 'feel' to English and not just to the authors

No, paganel is saying that translating from one language to another results in less 'feel', not that 'feel' depends on English.

> You are not feeling the 'feel' more intensely because you are not a native English speaker hence the language and wordplay are less obvious to you as those who speak English primarily.

The parent comment says that the original English is better, not worse. Thus, there is more 'feel' in the original than in translation.
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Most companies go nowhere.

How is this surprising?
Corruption is everywhere. Pakistan is hardly different. Even in the UK you'll find corrupt politicians or entrepreneurs. Perhaps they are less so (or simply better at it?) but this simply won't stop any time soon.

Education is an issue but only in the long term. Assuming Pakistan managed to overcome several of its other problems, uneducated would become Pakistan's most important resource. Uneducated people are what make industrialisation possible. They make low wages possible and so the country becomes interesting as a manufacturing base (as Thailand has become for example).

With more economic activity will come education and then the country will have to find an alternative economic source.

More education will also affect corruption as educated people tend to be less willing to put up with it.

This is of course overly simple but for a big picture, it does hold some truth.

I believe that focusing prematurely on education, is actually counter-productive as the tissue of companies in need of educated workers simply is not there and makes low wages more difficult.

The West is also a good example of other issues with educated people. Countries full of educated people are more difficult to manage. For example France is badly in need of deep reforms but they will simply never happen because French would go on strike as a result of such reforms.

For what it's worth, in France you'd get a 90 Euros fine for speeding on a standard road. I'm not arguing whether it's good or bad, the answer simply isn't black or white. I do know though that 90 Euros is not sustainable for many a family in France while a 250 Bath (in Thailand) is fairly cheap for car-owners.
Ask HN: How do you cope with a loud office?
I am a programmer and I work in an open plan office with a 100 people. The office as a whole isn't excessively noisy (there are people talking but it's not trading floor level) but I sit next to 4 managers which means constant traffic and impromptu meetings happening next to me all day, every day. I already asked to be moved, unsuccessfully. I have good reasons not to quit. Do you have any advice or ideas on how to deal with it and help me concentrate?
My current, not very imaginative solution is to use headphones and listen to heavy metal music. I use regular, closed back, circumaural headphones. IEMs aren't comfortable enough to use all day, and noise cancelling headphones don't work on office noise. I'm worried I'm getting "addicted" and can no longer concentrate without listening to metal. I'm not even a metal-head, it's just that it provides constant sound that Bach simply cannot (maybe except some of his organ works). When I was younger I wondered why so many coders listened to metal at work. Could this be it?
Interview of Imran Khan, the budding politicians and ex successful cricket Captain, you will learn more and have more authentic view about Pakistan.

Julian Assange interviews Imran Assange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an-AJIqN_r4
You are right about the shift in Turkey's trade to the middle east. Turkey still exports something like 25% - 40% of its total exports to EU countries (not sure about exact % right now). If the EU imposed trade sanctions on Turkey, it would be hard to argue that there would be no effect.

How can you even compare holocaust denial laws to what muslim countries do? You think denying people the right to disagree with the state or condemning them to a life with their rapist or torturing a man AND taking away the right of people to deny a historical fact are the same thing? I don't see why the holocaust denial law is necessary but I don't see it as being oppressive to rights that should be fundamental!

Religious headscarves should be banned for the same reason slavery is. Just because a slave would never complain to law enforcement agencies and does not see the injustice in his life because he has been brainwashed and accepts his fate does not mean the state should not enforce his rights. Have you even seen the plight of women in an orthodox muslim family? Would you consider a muslim women who only does what she is "allowed" as your equal? Banning the hijab was a good move - it is a symbol of oppression.
I (attempted) building a flower box from wood and screws a while back. I spent quite a lot of time watching my dad build things in his workshop while I was little, but never really jumped in and did something myself.

It amazed me how much I knew and was able to do just because of me watching my dad do it.
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>The divisions between Scots and English really do go quite deep

OK, but the divisions are unlikely to lead to open warfare like they have 3 times between Pak and India.
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The singularity is a poorly constructed myth. It is built around the presumption that intelligence is a linear function of CPU power, and that surely as CPU power rises, so shall intelligence; the problem is, that prediction was made in the 1970s, since which CPU power has risen ten decimal orders of magnitude, and we still don't have much better speech recognition than we did back then, let alone anything even approaching simple reasoning.

The ability to detect faces is not a signal that general intelligence is right around the corner.
You're in danger of missing the point too far in the other direction. The system just returns yes/no as to whether an image has a face in it, and if it was hard-coded to respond "no" it would score 64.8%.

Obviously this is extremely impressive work, and given that Google gives away 1e9 core hours a year, I'd like to see how much further they can push this network (which only used 16e3x3x24 ~ 1e6 hours). But this isn't like scoring 80% in a written exam.

I'm also impressed by how readable the paper was. Apart from a few paragraphs of detailed maths this should be accessible to anyone who's read the wikipedia article on neural networks.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-computing-c...
Interesting. A lot of what you said rings true for my country too (South Africa). Thing is, you're both right! These countries are truly multi-faceted. There are rich, educated people with high technology and those without.

Anyway, I'll be interested to see if technology and communications are the panacea to education problems that Schmidt says they are. If so that's good for South Africa, the Internet is growing tremendously here.
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Unsupervised training is not particularly significant, and was the original form of neural network.

"our experimental results reveal"

No, they don't. We had one of these in the 1980s.
But why are humans are very good at that? Could it be because humans have gotten tons of high-resolution, 3D imagery with binaural audio? Whereas this computer got a handful of low-res still images. Is the solution to just throw more horsepower at the problem, or is there really some inherent quality of the brain that's different?

edit: this quote puts things into perspective a bit "It is worth noting that our network is still tiny compared to the human visual cortex, which is 1,000,000 times larger in terms of the number of neurons and synapses."
I'm pretty disappointed to see comments like these around here, and not getting downvoted. This comment adds nothing to the conversation, and criticizes PHP with no factual basis or explanation.
@benologist Thanks for the link!

@mikeevans Haha! Who knows... The Apple vs. Samsung saga is getting crazier by the day.

Dillo2k10, the person whose S3 we're talking about, got a new S3 and some free stuff. Also he doesn't want to speak to press. He could probably have profited way more from this situation. I wonder why he choose not to?

The first S3 has been modded already. I read about the CyangenMod 9 ROM on http://www.samsunggalaxy-s3.co.uk/2012/06/cyangenmod-9-for-g... - interesting stuff!
I face the same problem at my workplace.

Here are some of the things that I do when noise around in the office starts distracting me:

1) Put on headphones and play music that I like.

2) If the work is really demanding, would need absolute concentration and that too for a long time, I prefer leaving office early in the day and come next morning at least 2-3 hours before others start filling in. Or sometimes, I come back to office after dinner.
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About 300,000 people consider themselves to be fluent speakers of Welsh, and it's taught (without option) in Welsh schools, and laws exist to ensure translation of official documents and signs into Welsh and English.
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We are debating between Grails vs Rails vs CakePHP, for our startup, and was wondering how the community here thought of it. Primary considerations are
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"One huge winner could randomly happen ..."

One would think that. The article states that 45% of programs have not had any graduate that raised venture funding. That boggles my mind. But this data helps explain the uneasy feeling I get when I see niche accelerators following a cargo cult mentality.
"It does this for 20,000 different objects categories - this is getting close to matching human visual ability"

No, it isn't. This classifier cannot identify theme variations, unknown rotations, will confuse new objects for objects it already knows, is unable to cope with camera distortion, needs fixed lighting, has no capacity for weather, does not work in the time you need to run away from a tiger, requires hundreds of times more data than a human eye presents, and does a far lower quality job, all while completely losing the ability to give a non-boolean response.

To say this is approaching human abilities is to have no idea what human abilities actually are.

"This is the most powerful AI experiment yet conducted"

No, it isn't. Please stop presenting your guesses as facts. Cyc runs circles around this, as do quite a few things from the Netflix challenge, as well as dozens of other things.

I personally have run far larger unsupervised neural networks than this, and I am not a cutting edge researcher.
Let's not, because it's still wrong on the order of thirty counterexamples.

Let's say we'll stop making broad proclamations about the global best in a field we know very little about.
Please stop propaganda. There's no jail in France for the hidjab (or what this scarf is). It's a 150 euro fine. Not for wearing the hidjab, but for covering the face in public. Real jail time or corporal punishment is a different story, don't you agree?
Let's say I had a few beers and took a leak on the street. Is there a difference between a few hundred bucks fine and having my weapon of crime chopped off?

There's something in his position worth defending. And I guess that the difference is in the age. Islam is younger than Christianity, they're a few hundred years behind. Remember what Christians were doing 600 years ago? Inquisition, Crusades, etc. But this is just my theory.
This looks better than anything else I have seen in graph tools. Shame about the lack of fall-back options, though.

What does it look like, if a browser doesn't support the graphs? Do they just disappear?
The documentation is right and the "engineers" are wrong! And it's also a good example why you should stay away from using undocumented stuff. If the documentation says "float $number" you best better give it a float, dammit! Engineers, my a$$...
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Vice magazine recently went to karachi and made a fascinating documentary. The situation on the ground is pretty bad.

http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-...
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I've sent them an e-mail. I will let you know when i know more :)
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You're correct: it isn't an unlabelled system, and the article author is deeply confused about basic topics in artificial intelligence.

What he's trying to talk about is "this is an unsupervised feature detector in a large dataset which is only categorized, and where no human has provided correct answers up front to verify progress."

The reason this matters (and it doesn't matter very much) is that that means that in cases where it's prohibitive to provide training sets, such as where you don't know the good answer yourself, or where giving a decent range of good answers would be difficult, this sort of approach can still be used.

"isn't that basically equivalent to labeling them?"

Yes. It is. The original poster is confused.

What he meant to say was "there is no training set."
It's extremely open. If you're in the position of running a company, either you find out it's a good idea, or you get an accountant, who will tell you it's a good idea.

Sure, they don't teach you it at school, because most people at school won't start their own companies.
The title reminded me of this: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0368197/ "Read or Die" An anime about the library of congress "special ops" unit..
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Why? He said that the design principle of this method is in line with the rest of PHP, that's a correct and valid observation.
Subtext:

"We've just been acquired and now have GroupOn's lawyers on retainer. Our fish is bigger than your fish".

I love the fact that this minor tea-cup vignette reeks of being less than professional, and GroupOn is involved. "Food stamps for the middle classes", run by con-men. And you don't expect shit to stick together? Such naivety.

For the record, 3 weeks no contact from a business that's handling the cash flow for this poor guy (whose sales are admittedly... tiny, but hey, he appears to be trying in good faith), and you've the balls to phone hustle away the bad PR you caused yourself? Luckily, small startup doesn't know what "breach of contract" is, and you've GroupOn's lawyers now...

Alt text: "In the race to the bottom, we'll take the low hanging fruit".

[edit for clarity] Obviously, @Sean, not the author of the post I replied to.