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* replaced issue badge with releases downloads badge

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* fix travis badge

* updated GitHub Microsoft URL

* Fix index out-of-range exception generated by BaggingHelper on small datasets.

Prior to this change, the line "score_t threshold = tmp_gradients[top_k - 1];" would generate an exception, since tmp_gradients would be empty when the cnt input value to the function is zero.

* Update goss.hpp

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* Add API method LGBM_BoosterPredictForMats which runs prediction on a data set given as of array of pointers to rows (as opposed to existing method LGBM_BoosterPredictForMat which requires data given as contiguous array)

* Fix incorrect upstream merge

* Add link to LightGBM.NET

* Fix indenting to 2 spaces

* Dummy edit to trigger CI

* Dummy edit to trigger CI

* fixed minor typos in documentation

* fixed typo in gpu_tree_learner.cpp

* Update .gitignore

* updated external repos section in README

* added SHAP

* Added License information in Readme.MD

* Typo fixed

* Dots added

* unified references

* fixed typo

* GPU version is quite stable now

* updated reference for GPU version

* added clang test

* hotfix

* downgrade required AppleCLang version

* fixed CMakeLists

* prevent case when CMake is downgraded by libomp

* fixed Clang test

* moved MSVC version check to the better place

* compile with Clang at Travis on Linux

* clear .travis.yml

* fixed indents

* added support of MPI test at Travis with macOS

* added FAQ entry about OpenMP library error

* updated installation guide

* moved APPLE_OUTPUT_DYLIB to other options

* fix check-docs test: ignore old url from error message

* added example of symlink command in FAQ

* fixed markdown

* capitalized heading

* updated Python installation guide

* changed mode in message command

* added notes about MinGW efficiency problems

* updated R-package installation guide

* use quotes for gcc version

* removed excess 'Note' phrase

* fix bugs

* many fixes

* remove duplicate lines

* test for mingw

* Not nuget in appveyor

* remove mingw build

* Update test.sh

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* Update test.sh

* fixed macOS wheel name

* don't run docs test at VSTS

* made nuget creating script directory independent

* added missed description of plot_example in python_guide folder and fixed consistency for packages naming

* more reliable OS detection

* fixed grammar

* made pylint happy

* actualized pep8 ignored codes and fixed PEP 8 spelling

* actualized PyPI links

* added checks for categorical features > max_int32

* added tests

* fixed pylint

* removed warnings about overridden categorical features

* Revert "removed warnings about overridden categorical features"

This reverts commit 289a426c700ce8934a526cc456a1b1cd5c621db9.

* a little bit more efficient checks

* added notes about max values in categorical features

* Revert "a little bit more efficient checks"

This reverts commit bed88830243da21a2db454873c0e308126e05732.

* Revert "fixed pylint"

This reverts commit a229e1563b0abc1b13de6358577abf90bd529015.

* Revert "added tests"

This reverts commit 299e001b7550111555b80730d673d4f225cf5f74.

* Revert "added checks for categorical features > max_int32"

This reverts commit 2cc7afacde7c6366644f6988ccedc344752b68c7.

* fixed PyPI badge

* Update Parameters.rst

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* Update Parameters.rst

* add winning solutions

* fix link

* change to table

* fixed link in README

* added chivee to maintainers' list

* fixed typos and hotfixes

* converted gcc-tips.Rmd; added ref to gcc-tips

* renamed files

* renamed Advanced-Topics

* renamed README

* renamed Parameters-Tuning

* renamed FAQ

* fixed refs to FAQ

* fixed undecodable source characters

* renamed Features

* renamed Quick-Start

* fixed undecodable source characters in Features

* renamed Python-Intro

* renamed GPU-Tutorial

* renamed GPU-Windows

* fixed markdown

* fixed undecodable source characters in GPU-Windows

* renamed Parameters

* fixed markdown

* removed recommonmark dependence

* hotfixes

* added anchors to links

* fixed 404

* fixed typos

* added more anchors

* removed sphinxcontrib-napoleon dependence

* removed outdated line in Travis config

* fixed max-width of the ReadTheDocs theme

* added horizontal align to images