skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi!

The statement "if the neuron's actual output is close to the desired output, i.e., y=y(x) for all training inputs x, then the cross-entropy will be close to zero"

is not true. The function peaks in the middle (~ 0.7)

Thanks!
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I believe that's also how the PS2 worked. I think it used the PS1 processor as the sound chip as well so they didn't need to emulate the processor.
I haven't but the guy who's account I am posting this from has been.

(kidding!)
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Sure. Our release of 2048 Portable 2.1 has node-webkit 0.9.2 slimmed down from about 59MB to about 23MB. We'd originally tried packing it to maximum using brute since it's so large for the purpose but found that nrv2e worked best with everything. It's not surprising as we usually recommend that for most purposes. It's the best balance of size, speed, and decreased false positives in antivirus apps (LZMA seems to increase false positives).

You can use our PortableApps.com AppCompactor to compress all DLLs and EXEs in a directory and sub-directories with your choice of UPX levels easily without needing to use the command line on them all. As a bonus, it runs UPX with -t after each compression to test it and ensure it works properly. As always, you'll need to double check that it runs properly as some DLLs don't like being UPX compressed. But node-webkit seems to run quite happily. Grab AppCompactor here: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/portableapps.com_appc...

We also experimented a bit with compression level of the .nw file but I can't recall exactly what compression level in 7-Zip we wound up settling on at the moment.
Depending on how accurate it is the 3D mapping it could be huge. Any object on your desktop to 3D CAD for < $1000. The software would be the most critical factor in that and Google is one of the best at software in the world.

Google Glass will be neat around v3 or v4. I want augmented reality, not a portable monitor for notifications only. Some people that require both hands for work and need those critical notifications could really benefit from this though. Sports taking pictures would be useful.

Google Glass isn't for everyone, but it's definitely useful to many people.

You're right that most developers wouldn't go to the barge, but think about the places that the barges would dock. It could potentially draw some of the more wealthy population to come in and see all the interesting stuff their building. They usually have Apple products (because more expensive is better, right?) so getting them to take interest in some of their other products could be profitable.
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> relatively peaceful

[citation needed]

The US has seldom had a decade of peace in its history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_...
But defines "domestic" as something that never touches the internet, and never once does business with or makes a phone call to a foreign national.
I never really understood why the US has quotas intentionally preventing students who are skilled enough from getting education here.
First of all, well done! (khaste nabashid)

I'm wondering along the same path. I can imagine why you wouldn't want to use google as your main source, but any reason you didn't use openstreetmaps apis?
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Maybe the barge in Portland got hit by a Google wave.
Anywhere other than GoDaddy would be my suggestion. There are plenty of people that will suggest registrars that they like. My personal favorite is name.com, great support!
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This is addressed in the marginal note attached to the sentence you quoted.

The essential point is that we're considering classification problems, for which the output is intended to be 0 or 1. I address the more general case of regression problems (where y may take any value) in a later exercise.

Hope that helps!
I'm able to access them. You just need a Coursera account (free).
This is great...I'm teaching a couple of classes next year on data analysis and it's incredibly helpful to have real-world data that is fun...things like Census/NOAA data are great, but too abstract (initially) for the average novice to really ask interesting questions of.

But everyone knows what it's like to eat at a crappy/great restaurant, or where such places might be located, or how people might review as a cluster...and so everyone comes in with testable assumptions and hypotheses that are fun to explore.

This item brought to mind yesterday's front page post on "Seven habits of highly fraudulent users" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8116047)...does Yelp do any extra processing of this academic set (beyond whatever regular cleaning they do of spam accounts)? It'd be interesting to test hypotheses on signals of spammy/fake accounts (OTOH, I imagine Yelp would probably prefer such trends not to be so apparent in bulk data)
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Linus didn't just wake up one day with these ideas. He'd been using source code control systems for a while on a huge project (the kernel) and had been growing dis-satisfied with what they did. He knew, by direct experience, what he wanted to be different, and why.
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Hey guys, a Lifehacker post was written about our company today that came from a Show HN thread that was on the front page last week. Super happy it emerged from the HN community. Thanks!
It was CIA computers accessed by the CIA. :)
This is great. I want this information to be in a form easily accessible and readable for any project maintainer who wants to learn about concrete ways to improve their projects. So, question: what form should that be? A blog post explaining the highlights, with a title with good keywords? A YouTube video with explanations and anecdotes, like a talk without a conference? Where do maintainers learn about this kind of thing (other than occasional news posts on HN with advice), so that we can make this information show up there?

I volunteer for OpenHatch (https://openhatch.org/), a non-profit open source project that aims to help newcomers contribute to projects + help projects make themselves more welcoming. What do you think is the most effective step OpenHatch could take for helping maintainers? It has some efforts already, and I have some ideas, but I'm curious to hear more ideas. (Also if you want to help, OpenHatch is already a loose collection of people who care about this; come join us.)
Part of the problem is related to a change in the bankruptcy laws. This is documented in the 1992 book "America What Went Wrong".

Before 1978, bankruptcy laws were set up so when a business could no longer pay its bills, it declared bankruptcy. The business was dissolved, and its assets sold off and the proceeds given to the creditors.

In 1978, this was fundamentally changed to the idea that a bankrupt company could continue to operate with a judge acting as CEO. It's hard to imagine a person less qualified to run a huge corporation than a judge with absolutely zero expertise in business, finance, or the field the company is in. The result was ineptness, and a general looting of the company's assets by the lawyers.

The process of creative destruction was severely blunted by this, and the economy has suffered the consequences ever since.

(The book is rather hysterical, and its conclusions silly, but it well documents what the change in bankruptcy laws did.)
For any given hue, you can pick a range of colors. There are an infinite number of neutral red/green/blue/yellow colors within sRGB. However, for blue and green especially, these unfortunately happen to be less colorful than you might achieve with paint or see in nature.

(Note, the “hue” measure used in spaces like HSL/HSV is non-uniform, especially in the blue–purple range. So that explains part of the effect you see when you “desaturate” sRGB #0000FF. Your “desaturate” operation is also shifting the hue, if you define hue based on human perception.)
Re "you can ship and version it yourself"... yeah, now that's where this gets onto shaky ground, isn't it... redistributing recompiled versions of .NET code? That's not really inside the licensing rules, is it.
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Off-topic: I posted this yesterday, it didn't get many votes (probably because posting longform articles on autism may not get much readers during the work day)...but suddenly it's (my submission, not someone else's resubmission) is on HN's front page...Despite it being a day old? I think karma-gravity formula may be off...?

note to downvoters: I'm not complaining about not getting upvotes for a day-old submission. I'm confused as to how my day-old submission is suddenly, as of 10 minutes ago, on the front page?
It seems like the implicit target in the document is to achieve a critically damped system with no ringdown on learning. However, if they're trying to go for speed, then it seems like they should accept possible overshoot, and use non-linear control theory for their weights so that they're underdamped during the initial descent, and then transition into critically damped gradient descent as they move into the flat zone. Something like a variable "damper" or weights/springs based on current error. Perhaps that is done elsewhere though, and just not described as a technique here.
That's somewhat inefficient, but it also creates lots of jobs. Arguably, what we are heading towards or perhaps already have now is an economy that's quite efficient but has large structural problems; a significant number of people no longer have meaningful jobs due to automation, Many more are underemployed to facing stagnant wage growth due to a skills gap, and there just aren't enough highly-skilled jobs to significantly increase employment.

Our economic top performers performer better, but any firm displaying merely good performance is regarded as a failure, so revenue flows become increasingly concentrated and markets uncompetitive, as incumbent advantages vastly outweigh competitive pressures. This is problematic in the round.
I didn't, but I do have several former coworkers who came into @walmartlabs -- and which tool named it that -- through acquisitions and have nothing good to say about the company. I wouldn't be surprised if they, or friends, downvoted.

upon further consideration: and let's not forget your employer is a welfare whore -- a report [1] suggests you cost taxpayers $6.2B in public assistance. Your company actively treats employees like shit and makes communities worse. I'm glad you're fine with that but many of us aren't. Amazon aren't angels but afaik their warehouse employees aren't widespread users of social safety nets.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
There are ways to get rid of NIH without losing code quality, testings, responsibility, etc. Nadella in particular is talking about encouraging collaboration between departments.

PS: While the linked article is very relevant here, I'm getting tired of people always linking to Joel's blog -- he's not the definitive software spokesperson; has strong opinions which have been shaped by years at Microsoft - and a lot of his opinions are boxed into those views.
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I know its anecdote vs anecdote, but I personally know 5 renters in NYC with really happy big dogs :)
You know what's CIA's even more reckless breach of trust? Organizing fake vaccination campaigns[0]. Now the efforts with eradicating Polio in some parts of the world meet with resistance of people who don't trust the vaccination campaign isn't a cover for US clandestine operations[1]. Hard to blame them, to be honest.

"The edict by the Islamic militants to ban immunization was in response to the CIA's setting up a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Pakistan."

And now thanks to CIA stunts many dozen (if not hundreds) Polio workers got killed and we risk not being able to eradicate the disease.

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Hah, well I did qualify it with a weasel word, so I didn't think I needed an example.

But I would note that we're likely at least as peaceful as the ancient empires of Greece and Rome, and probably "relatively" more peaceful than either.

Civilian police forces are born out of a commercialization of violence and an overseer to curb abuse. While there are rampant examples of the oversight failing (L.A. in the 90s, Seattle drones, or good old fashioned SWAT team overuse), by and large, I'd argue I'm living a pretty privileged and safe life here in the U.S. right now.
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I appreciate that you took time to write an answer.

> (I don't bother to look up your references, since it certainly won't be from mainstream media or similar.)

Then how can you possibly have an informed opinion if you limit your sources of information to Western mainstream media?

> You are contradicted by Wikipedia.

No, I am not, because I have provided quote about May polls, not February or March ones. February ones were made before overthrow of Yanukovich (Donetsk and Luhansk regions were one of the big electoral bases for Yanukovich), and March before the fight for federalization of Ukrainian State by the people of Donetsk and Luhansk regions was completely ignored by Kiev Government.

And it is very important difference from the sociological point of view, because it was also after the Odessa Massacre and Ukrainian Forces attack on Mariupol. BTW, the author of the quote, sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko is an author of The Guardian newspaper [1]. Is he not mainstream enough for you?

Which means that you've cross-checked one source and now erroneously claim that it is not credible.

> I have spent too much time on this. :-(

I can understand you. What is my point of view is that one should trust no single party or source of information to be credible and do research for oneself. And this is the only way to be free, as in Freedom.

> Any proofs against?

Food for thought:

"Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus
Nerve Agent Attack of August 21, 2013" by Richard Lloyd, Former UN Weapons Inspector [2]

"Congress Members Who Have Seen Classified Evidence About Syria Say It Fails to Prove Anything" (has number of first-party sources). [3]

"UN Investigator Undercuts NYT on Syria" by Robert Parry, former Newsweek and AP reporter [4]:

The lead author of the UN report on the Aug. 21 incident has contradicted the much-touted “vectoring” claims of a New York Times front-page story and Human Rights Watch, which has been pushing for a U.S. military intervention in Syria.

The UN inspectors have voiced uncertainty about who carried out the attack. At the press conference, Sellstrom admitted, “I don’t have information that would stand in court.” He also told Wall Street Journal writer Joe Lauria that both sides in the conflict had the “opportunity” and the “capability” to carry out chemical weapons attacks.

Etc. Wish you good luck!

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/profile/volodymyr-ishchenko

[2] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1006...

[3] http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/classified-intelligen...

[4] http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/23/un-investigator-undercu...
The AMA has limits to protect the income and quality of doctors.
Looks interesting but I trust this site as far as I can throw it.
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If you remove buses from the equation, I believe the US transit system would like considerably worse.
This sounds like a great product idea. :-)
How someone stricken with Ebola virus makes it back to U.S
How about noticing that the article tossed the tepid Ed Norton HULK film (Marvel film #2) down the memory hole altogether?

It does reference The Hulk in the context of the license to Universal. But Marvel regained the film rights in 2006 and Universal was just a distribution partner on Norton-Hulk. It was much more a Marvel Studios film than any sort of Universal-driven successor to Bana-Hulk.

Nor does it ever mention Agents of SHIELD by name. To omit the name after specifically discussing the TV appearance clauses is pretty poor form for a journalist, particularly one who dedicated so much ink to the "Universe" strategy.

But I guess facing Marvel's mis-steps just didn't fit a "Marvel is unstoppable" storyline.
As I understand it, there's a quota of med school spots, and it doesn't increase with the population. Perhaps it's a way of keeping doctor's incomes high (by reducing competition) and maintaining exclusive status?
It's the same experience, for the most part. The livery car services near me now also offer Uber. It's more expensive for the same trip, same driver, and same car with Uber, of course. They like it. For the rest of us with their number saved in our phone, we just keep using it for the same price as before.
Thanks, but that's a wholly separate issue from what I was talking about.

When you have UTF8 data in the IPN, PayPal translates it to win1252 in the IPN. But it verifies the IPN against the original UTF8 data. The only way to fix it is to go into the profile and change the IPN format to use UTF8. There is no programmatic way to set the encoding for IPNs to be sent in and there are no workarounds that I am aware of.

If you never see international names or addresses with accents and diacritics you won't run into the problem.