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Hot weather will cause an AC system to work harder, e.g. San Francisco at 106F on 9/1/17. Humidity will cause an AC system to work harder and people produce a lot of humidity just from respiration and even more from hot showers...and coming back to hot weather, air contains more latent heat at higher temperatures given a constant relative humidity because hotter air holds more water vapor (at constant relative humidity).

It's worth noting that managing humidity is why smaller A/C units (fewer tons) are often more efficient in practice. Residential A/C units are controlled by thermostats and an oversized A/C unit (often preferred by consumers because "I'm no expert, but bigger is better") will short cycle [1].

Or to put it another way, if the air conditioner is running hard the most likely culprits are the air conditioner and the weather. But since this is HN, it could be your server racks in which case give them their own A/C...which reminds me that dividing a building up into many small zones, each with separate control is a good way to design an efficient system and why I am a fan of mini-split systems and room air conditioners. The goal of A/C is to cool people not buildings.

Good luck.

[1]: Short cycling is quickly lowering air temperature to the point the thermostat shuts off cooling before a substantial fraction of the latent heat from water vapor has been removed from the conditioned environment by the system.
Ive been on another IBM run project that started off very similarly for a large energy company. A few thoughts about this.

1) IBM pulled the same types of stunts on this project and also failed spectacularly. Its not in the news though, as private companies are reluctant to admit failure.

2) IBM and other big consulting companies pour large amounts of revenue and time into relationship management and networking. This keeps the "nobody ever got fired for hiring consulting shop x" fallacy alive and kicking.

3) There is never a large implementation that is "out of the box and turn key" If a consulting shop tells you this is possible without great sacrifice and compromise to business process, you should run the other direction.

4) IBM and other big consulting shops regularly oversell their specialty domain knowledge, and often end up farming it out to independent vendor/domain experts after they realize they're in over their head.

5) While I think IBM is a shell of its former self, their behavior here is big consulting industry standard.

6) Most private companies know that a project will largely come in way over budget, and often don't care as long as they can afford it. The overages are usually written off and as long as the operational risk is shifted away from the business then people are usually happy.

As an independent consultant, Im obviously biased, but my opinion comes from experience working along side with Deloitte, IBM, PWC, and some other big consulting shops. I am usually one of a few niche independent contractors that are brought in to handle specialty items.

So why does this keep happening?
Most enterprises/governments do not want to place their faith in boutique consulting shops or independent consultants as this seems too risky even if they would likely be able to implement for half the money in half the time. The arbitrage for big consulting shops comes from this. Most big consulting companies are going to put 1 or 2 senior and expensive(to their own payroll) people on the project and leave the grunt work to cheaper junior onsite or offshore resources. That work is still billed at 150+ per hour and the senior folks 300+ per hour.

Payroll isnt "hard" per se, its just hard to model into a single comprehensive process. Complicating this is the fact that laws and taxes vary by employee type and location. Internal business rules vary everywhere, and even though best practices exist, there is always differences from one place to another. Finally, people get really pissed when their money aint right...

Ive noticed, anecdotally, that IBM in particular has had issues with big projects and variances. I chalk that up to being the relative newbie in the big consulting world, and they're likely underbidding to get a foothold.
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One could argue that everyone has a unique brain due to their subjective experience.
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At a guess we'd be talking 6 months - 2 years - my vague memory/impression is that's roughly the timescale on which mining hardware goes from new to worthless. If you're more vertically integrated in terms of buying datacenters/chip fabs/what-have-you then I'd imagine longer.
It is duplicated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15299087

But why the system let me submit a new story if there exists another with the same url?
> but the pernicious idea that only Japanese are qualified to judge Japanese food is something I find needlessly exclusive and overall false

It's Japanese food for a reason. That's how Japanese see it and that's the taste they value. Once everybody start judging it, it's likely to change to match their tastes. Japanese food made to taste good for non-Japanese wouldn't be Japanese food anymore. Japanese-inspired? Yep.

It's like pizza. Is Hawaii pizza "Italian food"? I wouldn't say so. I know many people who can't stand true Italian pizza, but love all those Italian-pizza-inspired foods.
Every business process that has run for decades is complicated. Think how much bugs have been "fixed" and how many custom little things have been built. Managing users, expectations, deliverable of such things is very complicated.
Perhaps, that was in reference to https://www.kernel.org/.
I didn't suggest that an employer looked at homework. But now that you mention it, I have personally done that when it was made available on github.
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All I got from the OPM hack was a form letter and free credit monitoring that I had no use for. Instead, I had to freeze my credit. Fortunately, I'm not really at risk for blackmail and I'm not worried about my information being out there.

I am, however, worried about the information in my file that is about other people. They contacted and interviewed lots of my friends and family. Those notes, and the associations between these groups of people, are all in the data that was exfiltrated.

You know what my friends and family got? Nothing, not even a form letter. Me? I'll be fine. However, some of them are now associated with others and who knows what other connections can be drawn when you cross-check with other information from the hack?

So, yeah, I'm jaded and skeptical about the idea of having it be a government operation. People keep saying this is the worst hack ever. Man, if they only knew what was in the clearance application. I disclosed all sorts of things that I really don't want to be public information.

And I got a form letter that was barely an apology. Hell, I think my notification was actually on a post card. Yeah, I just double checked. They sent my notification on a post card, not even in a secure envelope.

I may be a bit biased.
You say "this can be fixed", but don't seem to have read the article. Your proposal only speaks to one of a myriad problems a firm like Equifax presents.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's going to close the window available for them to retarget you with ads. I'm talking about the annoying practice of noticing that you searched for headphones on Amazon then you start seeing ads for headphones everywhere you surf.
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As the header of your page denotes, things got significantly improved years ago with the addition of a WAL as the default mode rather than an exclusive write lock.
I'm probably unusual but I actually prefer the elimination of a lot of in-flight food service. The food was a bad joke in economy for as long as I remember (which is a long time), it's disruptive if you're trying to sleep or use the aisle, and it stinks up the cabin. Yes, you get over 7 hours or so and it's necessary but, if eating on a flight is important to you, there are lots of options to bring on sandwiches/snacks.
Hey there. I have been wearing prescription glasses of power -6.50D, and the fat lenses on my glasses always made me think I looked like a dork. It wasn't until very recently I figured that a frame of the right shape and size could significantly reduce the thickness of my glasses. I built this simple tool for myself for whenever I have to get a new frame. If you happen to have the same issue, try it out and please let me know what you think! :)
If a company can take actions for which risks accrue to third parties, without any capacity for the company or its beneficiaries (stockholders, creditors, officers, etc.) to bear the consequences of those risks themselves then what you've created is one giant risk-transfer mechanism.

In the case of information disclosure risks, the parties for whom that information concerns often have little or no say in the actions which have direct bearing on them.

That's they "why not". It's not the company, it's everyone else.
There exists a greater conundrum: If Trump married her, who would you vote for?
Sure, I have `make` installed and I'm using cmder, but some things do not translate well in Windows.

https://cognitivewaves.wordpress.com/makefiles-windows/
I think you should rephrase this as "code that can't be explained to a junior developer". There certainly is legitimate code that is not easy to understand without knowing some background.
The "poverty line" in Germany is defined as "earning less than 60% of the average national income". It does not imply being starved for food.

Everybody in Germany is eligible for social benefits, which includes material things like paying the rent, health insurance and a certain amount of money to get though the month. The food banks make it easier to get through the month if you don't have much money, but they don't imply that people can't get by without them. Often articles about poverty in Germany forget to count in the free health care and free rent, which is worth a couple of hundred EUR at least. I bet many Americans would kill for having that kind of health care, in fact. Unemployed receive the same level of health care are everybody else.

Sometimes there are issues with bureaucracy, for example people are forced to move into a smaller flat even if their current larger flat is cheaper, because of regulations (benefits recipients can only have so much space or whatever). That sucks and needs to be remedied. Those are hiccups in the system, though, not a large scale phenomenon.

Also there are people who don't accept help, like homeless people with mental issues.

Other than that, the issue is really overblown.
It's 100% opt-in. Yes, you can have all of your photos, notes, bookmarks, etc. synced to iCloud in which case Apple can see the data and provide it to 3rd parties either knowingly (law enforcement agencies) or unknowingly (the fappening). However, you can turn all of the syncing off and none of that data ever leaves your phone and it stays encrypted using your device passcode. Other than the lack of automatic syncing to other Apple devices, there's not really any loss in usability if you disable iCloud.
A database? Do you understand what blockchains are for? Why does regulated securities trading need to be censorship resistant rather than just secure?
I'm not sure about exponential growth in public filings (and EDGAR does not track regulation, so it's not relevant). For example, the number of publicly traded companies is down about 70% compared to twenty years ago: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DDOM01USA644NWDB

Could you share a link showing exponential increase in the use of EDGAR?
Most people aren't using wifi near running microwaves, so it's hard to notice. Some microwaves leak more than others, but none of them are required by the fcc not to interfere with 2.4ghz wifi. The FCC says that they can actually leak an unlimited amount of radiation at that frequency [1], although obviously if it's high enough to start cooking people standing nearby other agencies than that the will get involved.

I bet ya an upvote that yours still leaks enough. One thing to try is to put your phone next to the microwave and place your bluetooth headphones or speaker riight at the limit of its range. Turn on the microwave and see what happens!

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=c7be03a4f7b02514ce...
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Similar but with low earth orbit
Man, I'm in the wrong line of business. I should get into hucksterism.
In my mind "the code is self-documenting" doesn't mean that you should have no comments anywhere in the code. It rather says that instead of lazily adding a comment for some complex piece of code, try to refactor the code so it better explains what is happening there.

And then sometimes, you just have some compiler-hack or otherwise complex piece of interaction that you can't refactor into something better, and then it's of course better to add a comment rather than just leaving it there.
That's just the premise.
This book [0] was quite enjoyable to read.

I realize the article is about far beyond the book, but in case anyone has not read it yet, I highly recommend it as some good grade Sci-Fi.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Neal-Stephenson/dp/00623345...
China's response to ROK's THAAD deployment provides obvious proof of complicity, even support, of DPRK's nuclear program, and should be treated as such.
This 2.5hr tutorial maybe? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SzBi3xdEF2Y
Note that this doesn't seem to be an issue with TrustZone itself, but on the operating limits of the regulators for some vendors.
That's not an excuse to prevent every user from doing it IMO.
Why wouldn't they leak RF? They aren't legally required to limit emissions at 2.4ghz.
Advertising tailored to the content it's adjacent to is way better than the advertising that's supposedly tailored to me. The former teaches me about new products, the latter teaches me about shit I already know about and either own or didn't buy for a reason.

At this point, I see more relevant ads on broadcast television than on the internet.
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It depends so much on what you're building. If you're doing _groundbreaking_ research in, say, AI or facial recognition or whatever, you may need people who are technical superstars.

If you're building the average CRUD-plus-workflow application, the last thing you want are superstars who are going to get bored with routine work. Then they'll go off over-engineering some minor feature or spending weeks at a time inventing some algorithm you don't need instead of building the product you do need - just to keep themselves from going stir crazy.

What you really want are people who are technically not outstanding but quite capable and have very strong soft skills. People who can work well as part of a team; people who mentor and learn well; people who follow through on their tasks; people who not only can, but want to understand your product and business so they can make small decisions independently and well as they work; people who are good at prioritizing their own work; people who are good at identifying risk and knowing when it's worth the time to address; people who are good at communicating with both teammates and management.

Although you might argue that people with several or all these qualities are rare enough to be superstars in their own way, they're not superstars in the sense often discussed in forums like HN.
The use of the word 'justification' tells me that you have already judged the actions and are looking for people to explain them. This ties into the last point I was trying to make. From this, it appears (to me) unlikely that our conversation will lead to us being in agreement: we see the world quite differently.

EDIT: Since you brought up the subject of what I could suggest, I'd like to add this: I'd just talk to people and see what they think: not in terms of "explain your actions" but in terms of "help me understand".
So this is like an acqui-hire except that the employees don't see any benefit from it except that they are now Google employees?

Meanwhile, HTC Executives pocket a huge wad of cash? Great.
It's a finer point, but if I have authorized Chase Bank to share data with a credit reporting agency, does that mean I have also authorized the credit reporting agency to retain that data? I don't think it does.

Absent any law that says exactly how they may and may not collect and retain such data, you're probably right that it is exactly what it means. The owners of the data (the banks) authorized them, so they are authorized to have the data.

It does not change the fact that, if true, the law is an ass. I do not grant power-of-attorney to the credit-holders that I do business with. They are not authorized to sign documents in my name. They should not be able to authorize arbitrary agencies to hold my personal data in an irrevocable fashion.

(And if I understand the difference in law between US and Europe, in Europe they would not be able to permanently retain my personal data without any recourse for me to shut it down. But in the US, they may be allowed to do this.)
Indeed? I may try it again. I've also been fairly impressed with kitty (not the MinTTY based kitty, the other one), which also uses the GPU, and is written in Python of all languages.
> I can say for sure that the major American airlines (Delta, United, Southwest) are far more comfortable than European budget airlines (Ryanair, EasyJet, etc.)

That's an unfair comparison.

If you want to compare major airlines, compare Delta, United, Southwest to AirFrance, Lufthansa, Virgin. For budget airlines, compare Ryanair & EasyJet to Spirit.

The differences are much less pronounced.
Judging by the amount of malware that shows up in the Play store and pwns rooted phones, absolutely.
No, the rents are high because Munich has a lot of successful industries, like BMW. People in Munich have good incomes. Also, the region is very attractive to live in.
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That's definitely on my list of things to try! Thanks for the push in that direction
> Besides, code speaks to the compiler/runtime; comments speak to the human.
> - The machine need to know HOW something should happen. That's code.
> - The human needs to understand WHY that thing should happen that way.

While valuable, some people argue that they should be the same (granted, I mostly deal with high-abstraction language). For example most (all?) lisps have homoiconicity which means the computer and you see the code the same.
I wonder what Torvalds' opinion on Clang is. He had harsh words to say about a recent version of gcc, as I remember.
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Huh. That hasn't been my experience. I can't talk about the details due to NDA, but I was surprised at the extent to which fear of regulators produced useful behaviors.
So if we change school, "most people" would have nothing to lose and pillage my property?

You're actually making so little sense with your smart cynicist mask so that I'm giving up on you.
You can't compare European budget airlines with fares way below $50 (Ryanair average fare is 33 euros! [1] to American airlines which you will never find fares below $50 (one-way) even on the shortest flights.

[1] http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-4195350/P...
I love this post so much ... as a fan of Kerbal Space Program, the sentence, "as long as you can deal with hundreds of pages of orbital mechanics" is super interesting :P
From what I know, after a few hours you can post a duplicate.
It's the surge in private debt that's concerning.

http://tsi-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/chinadebt_gdp...
> But there's an interesting angle here, which is integrating the thing running in the terminal emulator (the shell) with the terminal itself

It sure results in exciting and interesting bugs, if you look at upterm's issue tracker.
This. FreeBSD's been building on CLANG for amd64 and i386 since before 10.0 (now on 11).

See, for ex.,
https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49906/why-is-freebs...
"will never be supported" I wonder how many times you have to be asked before you put that in the error message.
It works differently: we just create a new shell session for each command. We create a non-interactive session without reading config files to make it fast and pass it appropriate ENV, which we maintain.
Ah, but if you are doing groundbreaking AI research, you need AI experts. You will also need developers, but those developers may not actually need to be superstars.
That's better than the situation we have now, where Equifax and the credit agencies are only profitable because they stick the general population with the liability and the losses.
The latter. I don't even know if I'd consider it a spoiler at all. Kind of like saying Harry Potter is a wizard.
A socially-conservative Tinder clone that books you both into a church on the first mutual right swipe.
Typescript with TsLint VNext extension and VSCode is amazing. They just added code refactoring support a few weeks ago too.

Make sure you set your linter and typescript compile settings to be really strict. It will remind you a lot of Java/C#
It sounds like the abstraction of capitalistic damage is a feature
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If you factor in resale value, iPhones aren't as expensive as they might appear.
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yeah. I've seen a lot of comments like:

// Sleep for 10 minutes
sleep(15*60)

Unfortunately, the compiler cannot check your comments. Don't put facts that are better looked up in the actual code and that they only risk getting out of sync with the code.
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This is what happens when non-technical bureaucrats want to design a system with full managerial control within the structure of a multi-level bureaucracy (meaning there isn't just one group of non-technical bureaucrats designing the system, there are 10 levels, and all want input, and all must approve of each others' inputs).

And this is why contractors love doing business with the Government of Canada. Bill, baby, bill.

So basically the problem isn't the inherent complexity of payroll systems, it is project management and process.
"Zuckerberg sometimes talks about the promise of brain implants, which he believes will one day convey the entirety of one’s mental state to another human being"

Those who join us need only give up only half of their humanity - the illogical, ill-tempered, and disordered half, commonly thought of as 'right-brain' functioning. In exchange, the 'left-brain' capacities are increased to undreamed potentials. The tendency of Biologicals to cling instead to their individual personalities can only be attributed to archaic evolutionary tendencies.

--Prime Function Aki Zuckerberg-5, "Convergence"
> Racket is interesting, but what turns me off about the language is that they decided they needed OO for some things and they... implemented a single dispatch based system.

yeah, frustratingly they have a great core language and then tack on optional OO, generics or static typing systems that are about 80%-90% baked. then those systems see just enough use they can't be ignored, but not so much that someone steps up to finish the last bit of baking.
I do find his changes suspicious, but he did get married / have a kid which can also bring huge changes