skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By elimination, only (B) is true.

(A) is false - while water vapour has high radiative forcing, it is not "an important greenhouse gas" in the big picture, unlike what the coal industry reps say. This [1] should explain why. Methane and CFCs are far less important in aggregate (about 1/3 and 1/4 of the effect of CO2 respectively), although they are far more dangerous per unit of volume.

(C) is obviously false - even in the low level layman explanation in [1] you can see that they include a table with the forcings of various combinations (like H2O vapour+CO2); you can also see that the table is from 1978, so scientists have done that since way before you were born.

(D) false

[1] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/04/water-...
> Considering they 50x'd their worst case scenario

Nitpick: they 10x'd their worst case scenario
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The GPUs aren't shared between VMs, each GPU is dedicated to the VM it is allocated to.
The GPU memory gets wiped on initialisation, just like host memory, so there's no leakage between successive VMs allocated the same hardware.

If you do absolutely care about not being multitennanted, you can stipulate exclusive hw allocation when requesting the VM.
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Actually I wasn't that nice to begin with.
Going ahead and linking to the website linked to in this post about web development:

https://www.cycligent.com/

That is all.
The 'Save to Pocket' extension:
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There's nowhere to put the stuff unless we start blasting it out into outer space or develop ways to use it for more energy.

Put it in Antarctica.
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$0.9 per K80 GPU per hour, while expensive, opens up so many opportunities - especially when you can get a properly connected machine.

Just as an example of the change this entails for deep learning, the recent "Exploring the Limits of Language Modeling"[1] paper from Google used 32 K40 GPUs. While the K40 / K80 are not the most recent generation of GPU, they're still powerful beasts, and finding a large number of them set up well is a challenge for most.

In only 2 hours, their model beat previous state of the art results.
Their new best result was achieved after three weeks of compute.

With two assumptions, that a K80 is approximately 2 x K40 and that you could run the model with similar efficiency, that means you can beat previous state of the art for ~$28.8 and could replicate that paper's state of the art for ~$7257.6 - all using a single P2 instance.

While the latter number is extreme, the former isn't. It's expensive but still opens up so many opportunities. Everything from hobbyists competing on Kaggle competitions to that tiny division inside a big company that would never be able to provision GPU access otherwise - and of course the startup inbetween.

* I'm not even going to try to compare the old Amazon GPU instances to the new one as they're not even in the same ballpark. They have far less memory and don't support many of the features required for efficient use of modern deep learning frameworks.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02410
Keep in mind the Nvidia K80 is a 2 years old Kepler GPU. Nvidia launched 2 newer microarchitectures since then: Maxwell, Pascal. I would expect to see some P100 Pascal GPU "soon" on AWS. Maybe 6 months? (Maxwell's severely handicapped double precision performance reduces its utility for many workloads.)
Hmm. I'm only half serious, but if anyone wants to compete with mylan/epi-pen ping me.

They've taken the price from $100 to $500+ over the course of a decade. There's got to be a way to (1) make epi-pens for $25-$50 (which mylan does), (2) sell them for $50-$100, (3) get stupid rich (4m sold per year in the us alone), and (4) do good for the world as well.
You forgot to mention that without them 100% of the world won't be able to "google" anything.
To be honest - if you care about privacy, you should not post any photos[0]. Hell, if you really care about privacy, you should not take any (digital) photos at all[1].

I believe that to be a privacy-conscious person, one has to grasp the range of information one's every action leaves around. Which is way broader than most people seem to imagine.

C.f. Vexs's top-level comment here.

I'm trying to grasp this phenomenon - why would people think that people will see only the one intended thing on the photo, and then get creeped out if someone focuses on something else? It seems to be connected with a common creativity blocker (and stupidity promoter) - thinking that items have inherent purpose and cannot be used beyond it. The kind of thinking that makes people give up on repairing a thing because they don't have the proper screwdriver, even though they have half a dozen knives in the kitchen that could do the work just fine.

What I find similar here is projection of human intent onto the real world. In the repair case, it's projecting the intent of the tool makers (and merchants) onto the tools themselves (screwdriver is for unscrewing screws, vegetable knives is for cutting vegetables) like if they were unbreakable laws of physics. The privacy case seems to be projecting your own intent for the photo onto the photo itself. Like, thinking "this photo is intended to show to my close friends how cool and pretty I am", and then getting offended ("it's creepy!") that someone notices some details of the background.

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[0] - Or at least, for goodness' sake, photoshop the living shit out of them. Like, heavily blur and distort anything that is not your face.

[1] - That's "NSA paranoia"-level privacy, but for some people it can be a realistic threat model.
That's a terrible burden that you've built yourself. You have to enjoy life otherwise you are just vegetating till death. At least that's the sentiment I get from your post.
> What are you talking about? The superdelegates weren't even a factor in nominating Hillary;

Who's talking about Hillary ? I'm just saying they have a mechanism in place to make sure there is no actual democracy going on. I didn't claim they had to use that mechanism in this election.
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Experience suggests that things you didn't anticipate will rain on that plan.

Queues, buffers, locks all have ways of interacting at high volume that defy prediction. And if you think your system has no queues or locks then you just haven't looked deeply enough.
The functional mindset views programming languages almost as families or toolkits: solutions should be written in the language of the domain, and successively interpreted to the language of the machine. Thus you don't change language to adapt to a different domain; rather you write a new domain sublanguage. The challenge is if anything to avoid going too far in the other direction; lisp in particular is notorious for being so flexible that no two people's lisp styles end up compatible.

I think there's a happy medium to be found. As my programming career has progressed I've become more and more in favour of Scala for everything - I think it gets pretty close to striking the right balance between the flexibility to express any given domain and the consistency to allow programmers to collaborate.
Adrian Rosebrock of PyImageSearch explained his rationale for purchasing a pre-configured Nvidia box in [1] and talked about other build considerations in [2] (I'm not affiliated in any way; just a subscriber of his blog who thinks you may find the info there useful).

[1]: http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/06/06/hands-on-with-the-nv...

[2]: http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/06/13/considerations-when-...
There are nonlinear solvers available but they are slower and not guaranteed to converge on a globally optimal solution.
That cap is about right, maybe big tech companies pay more. PhD is not really a general requirement, most ads mention equivalent experience.
h264ify - force youtube to use h264 instead of the VP8/VP9 codecs. Unlike h264, which can benefit from hardware decoding, VP8/VP9 are completely done by the CPU, so they eat battery like crazy on laptops.
Postman and its Http interceptor. fiddle with http requests, manipulate which headers are sent. even intercept Http requests and change values on the flight
That's what they're renaming Google Maps to.

https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion/status/78161631937652736...
I just use two accounts. One for my mail and calendar and one for the google products. Not really a big deal.
> It's actually hard to come up with a statically-typed language that, in practice, is simpler.

Oberon-07

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Repor...
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I don't understand. Why is it that you think these numbers are "really sensitive"? What is the threat? Some numbers are already out there, like the number of downloads.
Nice - thanks for sharing Papier.
Wondering, is there anything similar to RDS Metrics Dashboard
for non-aws users?
I believe it is allowed to use other payment methods when the purchases are not software goods.
We've invented consumer regulations so that you don't have to fear death or injury from a random common item you buy.

Otherwise... are you keeping your smartphone in your pocket? Are you aware that this thing is basically a live grenade, held together by cheap manufacturing and good wishes of engineers who designed the battery controller?
Yes but it's almost impossible to see what's going on.
I thought that too. What a bizarre phrase to apply to a language he clearly loves. Enterprise level type checking normally means supporting pretty much just the concept of "classes" (ala Java) and calling it a day - leaving the developer(s) to take the burden and create all sorts of god awful "design patterns" to work around fundamental flaws in their language of choice.

I know that is not the case with TypeScript. I believe the recent version added support for union types which is going to blow the mind of the naive JavaScript masses, for sure.

Describing any language as "enterprise grade" is rarely a good thing. Wording and phrasing is important.
Georgify - alternate CSS for hacker news.
> The GPU memory gets wiped on initialisation

Well, an attempt is made. As we can see in the case of WebGL, there are a multitude of interesting effects.
Wow, that's pretty bad.
Like any typical customer buying a washing machine will know about this.

Like any shop selling washing machines will actually care.

Like any of us will remember about this six months from now.

Brand image is overrated. A lot of companies know that, and that's why they get away with all the shit they do.
Auto Copy: Automatically copy selected text to the clipboard. Has options for copying as plain text; including the URL in the copied text; etc.

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Tab Snooze: Close unnecessary tabs and make them magically reappear when you need them.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia...
I don't know. I wish that someone like MS would take this and really spend some big dollars on it. Mozilla is doing a great job but better collaboration between the vendors would be extremely beneficial and really increase its development. That's my hope anyway.
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Or connectivity intensive. AWS (and other cloud providers) provide a network that is difficult/impossible to compare to a "PC under a desk somewhere".

They're managing the daily deluge of DDoS attacks and you're paying for less than 0.0001% of that because a million other customers are sharing the burden.
Not at the moment, I only have GA running. Why're you asking? Have you noticed any elements that maybe is not well positioned? Any tool recommendation for this? Thanks.
One thing I discovered recently is that for GPU machines your initial limit on AWS is 0 (meaning you have to ask support before you start one for yourself)

(This might be an issue of my account though - having had only small bills so far)
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Completely new screenshot tool =>

Marker - https://getmarker.io .

This Chrome extension allows you to capture a screenshot, annotate it and create a GitHub issue, a JIRA issue or a Trello Card without leaving your page

It's pretty powerful for bug reporting.

Disclosure: I'm the founder :)
Can't speak to what happens on a Windows box, but across AWS instances it's definitely the case.
Papier looks interesting.

I've been using a blank new-tab:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
Although, I should add that it feels bad giving money to Michael O'Leary when he is an outspoken opponent of safer cycling infrastructure in my home.
I struggle with this. If you are buying billions of dollars of anything, it is incumbent on you to make sure you get a good deal. You can clearly afford good advisors, and you should not be treated like a consumer walking in off the street.

The fact that a while oil rich country had given the nephew of someone the right to buy billions of dollars is the fault of the fucked up dictatorship ruling the country

I can see why the new government wants to sue - but I suspect a new moral hazard should be introduced - when a dictatorship is buying, it should be automatically assumed that subsequent democratic governments can come and ask for the cash back no questions asked

That alone should stop most dictatorships doing anything. Interesting idea?
> Presumably the friction of faster moving water would heat the riverbeds and surroundings more than the waste heat from the data centers does

I would be seriously surprised about that. Do you have some data about heat leaked to the sorroundings by water friction?

I would say the potential energy of water is mostly carried by the water itself to its final destination, by slowly heating up during descent. The surroundings are not appreciably heated, since water is a good coolant.

So let's picture a waterfall: water practically stops at the bottom, so potential energy has dissipated somehow, but surroundings are not heated, water is. The energy remains in the water, which continues its happy descent to the sea.
UTF-8 can also be handled in several ways. There is a lot of middle ground between software that handles bytes, and typesetting software which is fully unicode-aware.
The small unix utilities fall somewhere in there.
For anyone who interested in ML/DL on cloud.

Google Cloud Platform just released Cloud ML beta with different pricing model, see https://cloud.google.com/ml/

Cloud ML costing $0.49/hour to $36.75/hour, compared to AWS $0.900/hour to $14.400/hour

The huge different of $36.75/hour (Google) compared to $14.400/hour (AWS) make me wonder what Cloud ML are using, they mentioned GPU (TPU?) but not exact GPU model.
All my extensions are like a handicapped version of Firefox feature or extension.

Dynamite [1] - right click on anything than Dynamite / Hide element or selection and it removes a DOM element that was under cursor. Sometimes you have to to this several times to remove something. Firefox has Nuke Anything Enhanced [2]. It allows me to:

- get behind obnoxious popups with no visible close button

- get through dumb subscribe-wall

- remove annoying floating navigation bars (really handy if you like to resize browser windows like me)

The Great Suspender [3] - it unloads tabs unused for specified time and allows to reload them on click. I forgot which one I used on Firefox.

FooTab [4] - blocks loading of tabs on startup - it would be great if The Great Suspender would do this (Firefox do this by default).

I use uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere, but that's just baseline.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dynamite/djoedchmh...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/footab/anbodogikfb...
Thanks for the feedback. The idea is show their monthly progress with the growth numbers but also linking to the founders' revenue reports (see "INCOME REPORTS" section on their profiles) . Most of them are already detailing very well "how they are doing" on a monthly basis, so I rather have a monthly update than one time interview. For example, BugMuncher's founder described "how he did it" on his series of (19 so far!) blog posts http://www.transparentstartups.com/startups/bugmuncher (clicking on the link for each month goes to their blog reports). So every month, the founder will be able to add the new revenue figures as well as linking to the new report, keeping Transparent Startups as the place where you can follow the growth of these business month by month.
Interesting read but a bit too positive overall. I think the biggest failure of the launch was not learning from the initial launch zones before launching the other zones.

The launch in Europe was a catastrophe imo (constant crashes and freezes). I don't know how much of this is to blame on the cloud infrastructure but I suspect it's not nothing. I feel they didn't provide nearly enough infrastructure given the data they should have had from Australia/USA.

All that being said I think they smoothed out everything and the system seems to be running very nicely now given the scale. It's certainly a positive engineering tale overall.
Out of interest, why is it 'for Java Developers'? Is it just that it has examples of moving Java apps to Docker, or are there some specifics that need to be considered for Java in Docker vs anything else in Docker?
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Not to mention, they inexplicably named their Siri clone after a camera.
Wonder if it has anything to do with stolen AWS credentials being used for crypto currency mining.
When angular.js first came out, a chrome extension was released which displayed popular hacker quotes like "ship it" " when new tabs were opened. What was the name of that extension? I can't remember that after I sold my Mac mini, but that was my favorite.
I really like 'HN Special'. Been using it for ages and only ever goes weird on death days.

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Maybe the group as a whole is a normal distribution and your small samples made it look bimodal.
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That's going to become deprecated soon since 'Chrome Apps' are.
There's a standalone electron app that's basically the same though.
Streamkeys
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I guess it just depends on who you think ICANN represents and who has the default implied ownership of domains, I would like to think they are a public asset, its like radio space do you think the gov should sell life time ownership of the transmission spectrum?
For some definition of "release". This is something they've had in beta for a while, and its only accessible to people who are already in the "beta" program for cloud ML. Unlike AWS which offers it _now_.
>which is a completely different problem than funding services such as those provided by facebook

It's not a different problem at all. Facebook is not infrastructure. They provide content and communication services that many find useful but not everyone does. It's exactly the same with porn.

> As for the funding of content production: I think we have to have some possibility to pay for that anonymously if we want to keep democracy stable.

Good luck with that. So far it hasn't worked on digital platforms and I fear it never will. There is very little governments pursue as vigorously as cracking down on unexplained money flows. They will stamp out anything that reaches mass appeal with an iron fist.

Also, making people pay for everything puts poor people at a great disadvantage.

>Also, as I have repeatedly said, I don't understand why you seem to be constantly equating advertisement and surveillance.

That's right, I have been doing that. Mainly because the link between advertising and wanting to know as much as possible about potential buyers is very strong indeed. Advertisers will always be highly motivated to find ways around any ban. It's unenforceable.

You may ask why I am so confident that governments are able to enforce a ban on anonymous payments and so pessimistic about them enforcing a ban on ad targeting. It's because there aren't that many payment networks and they are highly regulated in the first place.

Financial sector regulation is extremely deep. You can't regulate millions of service/content providers worldwide in the same way. It would take enormous resources and international treaties that take decades to negotiate. In the end you would have something that doesn't just enforce an ad targeting ban but also provides ideal opportunities for censorship.

If you enforce a ban only for the big US based internet companies, then others will will quickly take over their ad business. If Baidu and Yandex can show us personalized ads but Google and Facebook can't, then ad money is going to Baidu and Yandex and they are going to subsidise mobile phones and other free offerings. It's not going to be long until we're back to square one in terms of privacy.

But I do think it is possible to force the biggest internet companies to not use some particularly privacy hostile practices like real name policies, browser fingerprinting and a couple of others. The goal should be to let them target ads all they want, but allow people to unlink their real identity from that ad targeting profile.
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I was thinking about getting something just like this about an hour ago. Thank you!
One doesn't acquire multiple millions (or more) by buying expensive, high-quality items.

Clearly, this is not the primary driver of wealth accumulation.
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I believe previously is "alpha" release that required signup invitation form. Now "beta" release is open to anyone with Google Account.
At the sort of scale these instances run I'd be surprised if you're sharing any physical hardware at all, my guess is that they provision a single VM on each GPU instance.
I like the Momentum extension.

Each time you open a new tab you see a nice picture.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momentum/laookkfkn...
Princeton doesn't have any professional schools, neither law, medicine nor business.
Yes, this might also be a possibility
Anyone knows if video transcoding on GPUs (with FFMPEG) is viable nowadays? If yes, what are the gains?
I suspect this would be considered bribery in the UK now (following 2010 bribery act)

Whether it would have been illegal in 2008 I'm not sure

http://www.transparency.org.uk/our-work/business-integrity/b...