skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>DNNs can be thought of a stacked Restricted Boltzmann Machines

Agree, as explained in Hinton et al 2006.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/ncfast.pdf

But this is just for pre-training, as I said. If you look at Seides paper, they pre-train treating the MLP as a DBN and then they train it as a classic MLP with BP. Also using layer-wise BP pre-training does bring performance close to DBN pre-training, with no use of DBNs paradigms at all.

>Their structure and training is very different to traditional MLPs

I insist if we are talking of the same DNNs explained in Microsofts paper, this is not true. If we were to be talking about different DNNs please elaborate I would love to hear about that (seriously, no irony here).
I don't understand the connection either. For some people it's a choice. I don't know if any here are Football(Soccer) fans but, one of the top midfielders in the world Xavi who place for Barcelona lives with his parents. Xavi has won everything there is to win in his line of work, Club Trophies, World Cup, Champions League... is he considered a failure?
Somewhere there is another parallel universe where scientists are excited they have found normal matter after digging through all their higgs bosons.
No, if you want to keep it formal - it's not a purchase. It's rental. But since it's presented to people as purchase, people should treat it as purchase. And don't claim that people who buy it are buying any "rights" (i.e. keeping in mind to buy some abstract "rights"). They are buying content.
Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down
Plant patents are just for clones. If you gre it from a seed, it is not covered by a plant patent.
Ugh, I hate the "god particle" name. I wonder if people called the atom that at first also.
Feedly looks cool and all, but how do I add a feed? I spent 2 minutes and still can't figure it out.
Makes total sense. I figured it was due to practical limitations, and wasn't just an oversight.

Thanks for the reply. And for making this. I'm a huge fan.
I don't think it could be that simple when children are involved, there are pretty significant consequences for parents that do a shitty job of caring for them and I assume day care, schools etc have strict regulations.
Isn't Reeder totally dependent on Google reader?
Or contact the parents and live up to the promises made to parents.
$150 isn't enough to make sure the kid gets to their connection or someone calls the parents when something goes wrong?
I'm not a patent lawyer, so maybe I'm wrong and someone can correct me, but all this "how can you patent a seed" whining is bullshit.

The Monsanto patents are for the method of using a particular herbicide in combination with the modified plant seeds. If you innocently get some Monsanto genes into your organic soybean seeds, then you would almost certainly not be infringing the patent any more than I could be infringing DVD patents by using a stack of DVDs to prop up a wobbly table.

Has Monsanto ever sued anyone who was not trying to use the combination of the GMO crops and the herbicide they are tolerant to? I have never heard of such a situation.

I've yet to meet anyone who claims to think it's bad for Monsanto to have a legal monopoly (patent) on this process who doesn't also think that no one should be using it, because it's either screwing with nature to use gene splicing to feed the world, or maybe just because not having our crops ruined by pests makes us soft and unworthy or some crap.

Read Mark Lynas's post explaining "I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment."

http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-c...
I couldn't find that quote in the article, but it's very popular in google http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=p... . I suppose that it appeared in a previous version and it was redacted.

A very important thing is that the Higgs Boson is totally unrelated to the shape and size of the object. It's related only to the mass. (I can even tolerate "weight" with scare quotes in a divulgation article.)
Whoops! Didn't see that :)

To be fair, I didn't see the pricing page at all. I did see the 0.8c on the Buy Number page. I suppose 0.8c is accurate, but you'd probably be better off putting $0.008 instead.
This is more worrying than the typical HN post about having to turn off an electronic gadget on the plane.

I'm not necessarily saying that United did something wrong though. Planes can have mechanical issues and there are a bunch of reasons why the mother may not have been contacted in time. But not knowing where your child is should definitely get more attention than the typical "they told me to turn off my iPhone" kind of complaint.
That [1] is a bad comment but I'm not sure you can generalize about all of HN from it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377591
For a while this is how Chicago banned handguns. It was illegal to own an unregistered handgun. And they provided no means to register one.
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Maybe I won't take action. But talking to my friends about what I can do and what he thinks of me taking a job as a courier is more than I did before. Even going out of the house several days in a row is something I usually don't do. Even if it doesn't work, it's the longest streak of clarity I've ever had.

> What if I work a decent job and earn well, but live with my parents?

Independence is a great trait. That's the only reason I could think of.

1. Fear of rejection. Hard to meet someone if you're home all day.
2. Yes, never did. Alway required social interaction. Some days I was too anxious to even leave the house.
3. Love me for who I am sounds great, but relationships require a certain base
The reason I don't feel particularly bad for United is that this was not a single mistake. It was a series of mistakes, each compounding the last to really create damaging PR. I feel like they earned this one.

1) They didn't notify the parents when the child was first re-routed. While this is a serious mistake, and not something to dismiss when you're considering sending a child with United, I think it falls into that small error rate that might appear when you're serving millions of customers.

2) When the parent contacted customer service they weren't immediately helpful. This, to me, is the point when they start earning the "name and shame" treatment. If a parent calls with an issue related to an unaccompanied minor this should immediately be raised to the level of "take this very seriously" customer support.

3) They only refunded the chaperone costs of the ticket. After making a serious mistake, they didn't issue a mea culpa and do everything in their power to make up for their mistake. After what the child and parents went through, it should be a no-brainer to refund the entire ticket price. If they are making mistakes of this level so often that they can't afford to refund the tickets in situations like this the "small error rate" defense no longer applies.

4) They blocked the account of someone trying to resolve the issue. This looks extremely petty and makes it appear as an "us" vs. "them". In a PR war you never want to be up against a wronged child. Guaranteed outrage.

The combination of these factors make me think its totally appropriate to name and shame. Of course social media reactions should be a concern for every business, but if you don't monumentally and repeatedly make mistakes you have a lot less to worry about.

I guess my point is, don't paralyze yourself by fear of making mistakes. When (not if) you do make a mistake, own it and respond appropriately.
I predict roughly everyone who already believes in god and follows this kind of news (only half-jokingly).

In my experience most people don't form their opinions based on the totality of current knowledge and keep adjusting them in some Bayesian fashion as more info becomes known. Rather they make up their minds based on something (could be their knowledge of currently accepted facts, could be what they were taught growing up, could be just what they think makes sense, etc..) and then simply scan for confirmatory data, or simply don't pay any attention because they already have it 'figured out'.

Thus if you already believe in god and heard that scientists had discovered the 'god particle' you would likely say 'see, I knew it!', if you didn't believe in god and saw the same thing you would say 'I am skeptical, let me read this article', and you would walk away saying 'that is just a name, it has nothing to do with god, who still doesn't exist'. So really I guess both sides win, and we all lose, or maybe I am just too cynical.
Games situation is improving, along the lines of music. More and more DRM free games appear, since more publishers learn some common sense and realize that DRM serves no useful purpose whatsoever.
Yahoo pipes is the bomb. I wish they would have maintained it. Thanks for building this, I can't wait to put it through it's paces!!
We do international SMS and use smsglobal and tropo.
I guess, if I was going to put my CISPA-advocate hat on, which I don't like because it is an ugly hat that I think my cat peed on, I would say this:

It is already possible for service providers to do the things CISPA enables them to do. However, under current regulations, it is legally risky for them to do it. Some of what they do incurs legal risk. Some of the legal risks mean that whole companies in some verticals won't entertain any conversation about information sharing because they're encumbered by specific privacy rules which, while important, were never intended to hamstring network security. As a result, there is much less information sharing now than there could be.

If I was going to put my political analyst hat on, which is ugly but at least doesn't smell like cat piss, I would point out the following:

CISPA came into being less an urgent fix to an immediate problem than as a response to another, more interventionist approach to regulating cybersecurity. That other approach would essentially have the USG "pick winners" in the information assurance market and, down the road, would allow the USG to designate certain private companies as "critical infrastructure" that would require the commercial ministrations of those companies. The winners in that scenario would have been Raytheon, Lockheed, and SAIC. Nobody in private industry wanted that, and it was antithetical to the Republican House, so they came up with an industry-friendly counterproposal.
Breaking: jerk posts something stupid and mean on the Internet.

Maybe he's using a pseudonym, and it's actually this guy: http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-idiot-to-post-comment...
And they link to a specific inventory management system which is expensive and isn't tailored for drop shipping when there are other alternatives, at lower price, in the Shopify app store.
Nope. They're not flying millions of children around every day, where they're paid a premium to ensure their safety and care. I can't feel a thing for them, which is exactly what they felt for that kid and her parents.
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Chuffed to be included here, thanks! Would you mind switching the tag to #PlayerFM as a lot of Twitter clients will treat the "." incorrectly.
I was expecting a feature comparison as well.
Does anyone know where one is available?

There are a lot of overlapping features to consider depending on individual usage.
Features like tagging, cross platform and mobile, social, scaleability, web/self hosted, price will all be a important factors for most trying to make a decision.
Sucks for them, innovation doesn't always come at the right time for a big payday. But their payday can still be fantastic without (to my mind at least) ignoring what kind of activities patents are supposed to protect.

RR crops still boost demand for roundup and clones, competing on brand is a valid and proven strategy, and you can still sell RR(tm) branded seeds that you guarantee are roundup ready at perhaps a lower markup. And you can target your next herbicide immune crop at a patent protected herbicide.
> "how poorly most people implement RSS."

^upvoted! I agree, it's horrible! Not only are the many different versions of RSS & ATOM a problem, but the freedom of putting any kind of data in any of the fields. I've seen "descriptions" in the "title" property, "images" in "links", "links" in "images", "links" as "urls", "UUID" as "ids", and so on and on and on. If it wasn't for Java ROME, I would be spending dozens of hours just making our aggregator compatible to any newsfeed our users come up with.

Stick to the standards, folks!
I know what freelancing means, but I have no idea what steps are there between me and the freelancing job.

Side projects would be great. I thought about apps, no good idea came up. Making money with porn and advertising, doubt there is still a niche.

Already gave up years ago. I feel like I'm staring at the Game Over screen trying to get my character up to the playing field again.
The problem is that the correct place to collect and disseminate these complaints is at the problem point - and the problem entity has the least interest in maintaining the information. This is actually a really big problem.
There is wholesale pricing on Apple devices. How else could a store make money on them? Stores don't buy stock directly from Apple; they buy through an authorized distributor.

P.S. In case it wasn't clear to you, Apple devices cost the same from anywhere. That makes them a good example here.

Here's $329 for a mini at Apple.com: http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad_min...

And here's the same price at Walmart.com: http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad_min...

Walmart makes a profit because they bought the mini at a wholesale price from an Apple distributor.
All the facts so far seem to point to that conclusion.
Reuters Social Editor Indicted Over Anonymous Hack; Internet's Jaw Drops
The "problem" is that these social media users can sometimes achieve parity in expectations. United (and business in general, on the large) expects people to take what they're given for the price they pay. "You pays your money you takes your chances." That "one tweet" or whatever is seen to cause United problems is evidence of how inured we have become to their abuses. Your critique kind of reminds me of police vs. video, "Hey, you're not supposed to have any power here." Why should a business deserve sympathy? They certainly don't have any for us in the profit-margin-improvement meetings.

The entrepreneurial lesson to be learned here is not to sell items you can't provide.
Agreed; ideally a comparison against all of greaders existing features to make it easier so that you could select which greader features you're using and get a list of relevant matching options.
Friscos for Scientists: "Proven" is an anti-Shibboleth for scientists
Don't see any proof of a general HN issue here? One comment is bad?

And currently the comment you didn't like is pretty much down voted to hell.

And since you admit HN is not even a site for you, the issue is.......
Why post it to a blog? I mailed Jeff Smisek directly l about a problem I had at SFO and he responded in two minutes. On a Saturday.
This is what I want too, and that's why I'm gonna take a stab at building my own. I don't really want to share an article about spoon carving, but hot damn do I want to read it.
I don't understand why those people would be using Flickr, Facebook and Twitter instead of, say, OpenPhoto, Diaspora, and StatusNet.
Alright, fixed it!
Why a Profitable Company Might Raise VC
Indeed, this is actually our eventual goal. The idea was to get something out, aggregate the most exhaustive list of RSS readers and then add the comparison details. It takes time!
That is exactly how I live.. it's really not difficult.. you should try it.

And you can add to the list: rentals... Rent movies; hulu is free; pandora; etc.

At the end of the day it is entertainment. You really don't NEED any of it. And the free stuff is good enough.

I can assure you, you will not die if you don't get to play the latest version of Sim City (or any version of it for that matter).
All of the answers to your question seem to be missing the point. He is talking about buying a used or discounted item and trying to sell it on for a little bit more. The point is to experiment with your sales technique to learn what works and what doesn't, and also simply to practice selling.

Why might someone pay you more? It is as simple as presenting the product in a better way; in a way which gives the buyer more confidence or otherwise makes them more likely to buy.
I made a silly mistake, it's (obviously) 355/113.
Lisp is "cognitively" different from, say, c, Java, and python. It's like learning a new language. How long will it take you to be fluent in Arabic? It takes 5 years. But the best part is that after 5 years, you won't forget it.

I've managed to work for 10 years in Lisp. Then, I had to work in Java. After another 10 years of Java, I took up Clojure very easily.
That might be the clearest explanation of the circle I've read.
Wright Brothers: Second in Flight?
All this reminds me of when I used to fly internationally as an "Unaccompanied Minor" in the early 90s.

This clusterfuck would NEVER have happened back then (at least never happened to me..) -- kids travelling alone were treated like royalty.

I'd randomly get bumped up to First Class, be able to use the nice lounges in airports, and got put up in really nice hotels when flights were delayed too long. All this amidst a constant stream of little delights (candy, toys, snacks, compliments from the stewardesses for being well-behaved).

Ah, those were the days!

/end curmudgeonly old fart mode.
Then vs. Now: fascinating photo comparison
Laser-engraved apple pi(e)
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Interesting, I hadn't thought about the fact that there's only an advantage to RR crops if you're actually spraying Roundup and that spraying Roundup on a crop would somewhat imply that you're aware that you're planting a RR crop.

You seem to be aware of plant patents; are those frequent and commonly litigated in the US? I have only heard about the Monsanto stuff and was curious about how patents affect that industry.
How on earth did you get the idea that I'm arguing against the validity of a legitimate, duely legislated and properly instituted legal entity like a plant patent? In point of fact, I argued the exact opposite. I feel quite offended that you attribute the exact opposite of what I wrote to me. I wrote that copying is theft, and I implied that we all owe some money to the heirs of the inventors of agriculture (there were probably at least 5 such inventors) because of the continued use of said inventor's property.

What's your beef with that? Are you a pirate, or one of these anti-Intellectual Property heretics/crazies?
I emailed him directly to after someone sent me his email address a few minutes ago, and their SVP of Customer Experience.
It wasn't too bad, it took a few hours to get the basics up and running, then there was quite a bit of tweaking. The leap sdk is coming together but theres still a lot for developers to do. There are gestures but you still need to roll quite a bit yourself. I'm going to do another post much more in depth about the gestures and how to handle them in the next week or two.
I am not at all aware of plant patents. The only weird thing about me is that I enjoy reading court filings. So I'm definitely not qualified to answer the question. Like I said in my comment above: there could be crazy non-Monsanto people that want to sue gardeners.
> The cutting edge of cyber warfare.

Actually all this stuff is 6+ years old. We haven't even stumbled on to the new stuff yet.
As that page says, that's about copyright, not patents. The analogous concept for patents is "exhaustion doctrine":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_doctrine

According to that page, it only applies to sales that were originally authorized. The way I read it, it means that is Ford licenses a patent for its buyers, the patent holder can't then go after buyers of used Fords, even though Ford may not have explicitly licensed used buyers. It does not, however, protect any Ford buyers, new or used, if Ford failed to license the patent at all.
I'm afraid you may have figured me out.
Except for food supplies and truck maintenance, you would be lucky to get the average food truck operator to spend money on anything else.
If you solve this problem can you please reply to your comment with the solution. Thanks.
This is ghastly.

Bachelorette party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I...

They literally have seven grown women on stage chirping over a calorie counter, eyefucking an actual topless man, making cheesecake jokes, and doing a lush mommy dance number.
Ask HN: What do you think about these redesigned food labels?
http://berkeley.news21.com/foodlabel/ has a link of a constorium which redesigned experimental food labels. I've been thinking of implementing these labels since I work with the USDA Ingredient data set and just was wondering of the opinions of the HN community.
The set with 5 dice is also more insane (you can buy all this stuff from http://www.mathsgear.co.uk/), you can create a circle of dice that beat each other going clockwise. But if you then double up the dice (two red, two blue etc), the order switches to anti-clockwise. There's also a second (star-shaped) loop in case someone works out how the first loop works.
most people are missing the point, it's not the dish washing or the food industry, it's these lessons learned:

1. create some type of order (clean env) in the chaos
2. coach
3. trust those that you hire old saying in chinese, leverage those you trust, dont leverage those you dont trust)
3. motivate/reward/acknowledge

purely management, great!
You are not alone. I'm also insta turned off by any reader replacement that wants access to my google account. Seriously, I'm supposed to give you access to my friggin contacts just to try your service?! I just want to read my feeds and sync across devices.
I have your policy, but for a different reason: I generally don't want the merchant to be charged a fee for the transaction.
I haven't knowingly bought anything Sony since their rootkit fiasco and subsequent PR mess. I'm sure there's probably some media content I've consumed that came through them - but hardware? Absolutely nothing since 2005.
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You mean that Roundup(TM) brand broad-spectrum systemic herbicide is still copyrighted. The chemical glyphosate is no longer under patent protection.

Let's keep our facts straight, and respect other's intellectual property, folks. It's dangerous out there.
Yeah I used to travel from 10yrs-14yrs alone, back/forth EU<->AU 4 times a year return. I had the same treatment. Random bumps up to higher class seats, driven from gate to gate on those electric carts when I needed to do a transfer, accompanied by hostesses every minute I wasn't on the plane, etc etc.

The idea of them ignoring/abandoning a kid would've been met with riots back then.
Submitting a story with a bad title would make for a similar, if weaker, exploit for Hacker News.

A key to this would be to make the title boring rather than offensive so that it doesn't get flagged but rather slips off "new" into oblivion. You can also use a handy chart [1] to pick the worst time to post. As a bonus you'll also get karma from all the people legitimately trying to submit the story.

A pertinent question: can you come up with a sufficiently boring title for any story?

[1] http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...