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Try removing BN from the critic :)

> It is not for lack of trying that all the top papers in visual question answering end up doing this as a classification task. Results are really poor when it is used as RNN generation

I'd be curious to know if you have a reference for this. Given that the answers are one word, a word-level RNN language model output should basically be the same thing as a straight 1000-way softmax.

This is also not quite right. Models whose parameters are too big to fit on one GPU can be trained by splitting them across multiple GPUs, as was done here, for example: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learni...

Cool algorithm! One problem is that its probability density calculation assumes a random ship placement. If the opponent were aware of how the algorithm works (let's say they deduced it from its behavior, which seems plausible) then they could devise a counter-strategy of placing ships on the squares which have the fewest other possible ship placements (e.g. in the beginning of the game, this is along the edges of the board).

According to their "About" page, a one-way ride costs $22. Even if you buy 50 rides at once, the price is still $17.6 per one-way ride. That's comparable to what a typical UberX ride around Palo Alto costs, in my experience.

Patenting it doesn't necessarily mean they won't let other people use it. It could, for example, be for protection against Apple patenting it themselves and not letting anyone use it.

It's not a problem if those connections use self-signed certificates, right? If that's the case, then setting up SSL from CloudFlare to your servers should be pretty easy.

I don't know whether it's possible with ZIP, but there are definitely compression schemes for which this can be done in time proportional to the size of the compressed file.

More likely then not, you'd just get noise.

The article mentions that commercial napkins sold for 4 rupees despite cotton being 1/4000th the cost, but also says farther down that the locally produced ones sell for an average of 2.5 rupees each. That's a 38% discount: significant, but it doesn't seem like a game-changing difference to me. I imagine that if this catches on, the larger manufacturers will likely just cut their margins to compete.

On a more general note, one of the big reasons for the Industrial Revolution's switch to mass-production was that making goods in huge factories is more efficient, and ultimately cheaper, than producing them locally in small quantities. Economies of scale are powerful.

Guessing no, because of the Node.js plugin architecture ("need to call into C or C++?", "full access to the filesystem"). Really only the UI seems to be done in WebKit.

See CGI.

Don't yank the winners' prizes, but re-judge the entire hackathon and award the new winners equal prizes.

USV.com post about this HN post: http://www.usv.com/posts/union-square-ventures-new-website-i...

I organize a 1,000 person hackathon at MIT, and the entire organizing team is super-excited about using this. In hindsight, GoComm seems so simple and obvious that one wonders why nobody built it before, but I guess that's true of all the best products (Dropbox, Stripe, etc.)

1 is configurable – when you configure Watchsend you can pick whether you want to record everything or only record certain screens.

2, 3, 4, and 5 are in the works :)

Cofounder here. We're a service that helps app developers understand their users in order to make their apps better. Like almost any other service that collects and stores data, it's possible to intentionally misuse Watchsend in ways that grossly violate users' privacy.

What we mean by "we take privacy seriously" is that we work really hard to make sure that devs who care about their users' privacy can use Watchsend to make their apps better without infringing on their users' privacy. At the end of the day, if a developer wants to spy on their users, there's very little we (or anyone else) can do about it.

I think Heroku's default Rails app server is WEBRick: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ruby#webserver

Try asking at https://www.facebook.com/events/1374512966106958/ – someone else might be in your situation.

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