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"Denver teachers strike in bid to dismantle pay-for-performance system"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/02/11/denver-t...

Police Unions: "Why We Fight Against Performance Based Pay"

http://www.mesampa.com/why-we-fight-against-performance-pay/

"Merit Pay for Police Officers Is Overruled by Labor Board"

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/03/nyregion/merit-pay-for-po...

"Why It Can Take Six Years to Fire an Inappropriate or Ineffective Teacher"

https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/why-it-can-take-six-...
The paper straws that have become commonplace in UK cafes are terrible. They get all soft an ruin the taste of drinks.

I understand there is a problem, I just don’t think we’re nowhere near good solutions.
>75+ million downloads

do founders really use these deceptive metrics in order to raise money from investors? most of these downloads (docker, git or even npm) are simply automated a zillion times by a much fewer number of projects
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Had a brief look at it when considering an API gateway frontend for several microservices; as such it solves things like rate limiting, centralised authentication etc. Based on tried and tested tech like nginx, so has maturity as a benefit. If I remember the pro version offers some conveniences, secures the control pane better than the O/S version, and I imagine is supported commercially for those who need it.
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New technology is scary. It should be scary. If you don't find it scary you're probably not looking at it right. It's usually full of risk, which if you are in management (or a remotely responsible employee) needs to be evaluated and if possible contained, and ultimately needs to pay for itself (i.e. Offers a pay-off that more than outweighs the risk).

If we are honest with ourselves, most new tech in this industry totally fails that litmus test.

There are an awful lot of shiny-bauble chasers and snake oil salesmen both inside and outside companies.

I don't know what your precise situation is and obviously it's very much a spectrum rather than black and white, but a healthy aversion to promises made by the authors and salespeople of relatively unproven new things is extremely valuable.
> People who want to write their own implementation should try that right now, and definitely not be scared off by "I spent 10 years working on this".

Certainly, but the problem with implementing languages is the HUGE cliff on complexity after your first "calculator" or lisp.

You can make a simple interpreter in hours, even minutes. Then, suddenly, you get AMBITIOUS.

That is what take years!

P.D: I'm also in the hunt for a relational language (http://tablam.org), and I now in the what, 3 years of it? (Whoa! I search for my old mentions of it and the first I found is from 2013! https://www.clubdelphi.com/foros/showthread.php?t=84835&high...)...
Looks like there's a limit to the number of urls shortened... it's throwing out the old ones. Womp, womp. :P
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> So I told you what this soldier wants, and what the Airforce is doing. Hopefully that's good enough.

In your opinion, does this article accurately reflect the current limitations of the A-10, and list useful enhancements of what a "Warthog 2.0" should have? For example:

> Because CAS missions often take place at very low altitudes and low airspeeds — anywhere from 150 knots to 300 knots — the aircraft must be able to perform a two-G sustained turn at a rate of five degrees per second with a turn radius of no more than 2,000 feet.

> The instantaneous turn rate — that is, how quickly a plane can wheel around in the first few seconds of a maneuver — would have to be better than 20 degrees per second while pulling six Gs. The aircraft must also be able to remain less than one mile from a target between attacks while pulling no more than two Gs — except for the roll-in to the attack and the time it’s leaving the area.

[...]

> The A-10 cannot take off at its maximum weight in places like Afghanistan and must either off-load weapons or fuel. The next-generation aircraft must be able climb out of a runway at maximum gross weight at a rate of the 4,000 feet per minute at a density altitude of 20,000 feet. Further, it must be able to operate out of a 3,000-foot runway at sea-level with a full fuel load and an internal gun. Ideally, it should be able to operate out of austere 1,500-foot runways.

> A cruise speed of at least 360 knots is desirable, the pilots said. Initially, the group believed that it would be best for a next-gen aircraft to cruise at 480 knots with a dash speed of 540 knots. However, with Sprey’s input, the team came to the conclusion that such a requirement would be aerodynamically incompatible with a tight turn radius at low airspeed.

[...]

> The prospective next-generation Warthog replacement needs to have a minimum combat radius of 150 nautical miles with at least four hours on station time with internal fuel, the pilot explains.

* https://warisboring.com/what-will-the-next-a-10-warthog-look...

* https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/mcsallys-case-let...
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I'm still learning, of course, but it's my understanding that Ada is used almost exclusively in systems contexts.
Agreed. I think what this may mean going forward is that the CAAs are going to have to consider demanding that the training specifications be designed around a scenario where some (as-yet-to-be-defined) subset of the smart systems are disabled, and if the airframe behaves differently in that configuration, it demands re-training.

I'm somewhat surprised acceptance criteria weren't already there. You don't plan for the common case when lives are on the line.
> Here's the thing... If the person's phone has a data connection - the web page can just send the geolocation directly back to the emergency services!

No need even for the data connection. Any Android 2.3.7+ or iOS 11.3+ phone will automatically SMS the location when the emergency number is dialled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Mobile_Location
Don't understand the issue with this mandate coming from NATO.
I enjoyed the post. I am not familiar with the website, but from the examples in the post, it seems that only the x-axis is labeled. It can be hard to understand the meaning of a plot when only one axis is labeled.
>Tweakers Express

That has a very, very, different connotation in American English.

It sounds like the name the scrap yard gives to the regular who always shows up towing doubles with a minivan.
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Okay, so the fix is bad. Now, you have to wonder how this "fix" made it through code review, QA, release... You can blame the engineer. Perhaps they were rushed, inexperienced, or both, but this is a failure on all levels.
Most of the council budget goes on other things - source some one I know who was lead for social services for a uk county
Big data biz Palantir scoops US Army contract worth up to $800m
Read on Kindle when really trying to sleep.

Otherwise, watching The Office 100th time.

Or if really not sleepy, then working on my next side project idea. Most likely the excitement of that new idea is keeping me from sleeping.
1 rpm sustained fire is extremely low. That's like a magnitude worse than the other modern alternatives. All others also fire atleast twice as fast and for almost 150% of the distance. Also sense the gun is that bad it creates a self reinforcing effect, why would you want more of it if it's bad?
This is unfair. If done appropriately, making a plane behave the way pilots expect should also make it safer. A "worse aircraft" with a better UI can actually be a safer aircraft.
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I thought of Swatch Internet Time too ... Swatch Internet Time was pretty silly, although I appreciated it for that.

This other thing seems more opportunistic / financially motivated / kinda scummy too.

I also wonder about the Streisand Effect here, never heard of it until now. This almost seems like standards geek / nerd bait...
Mondragon has a bit of a rep amongst other coops
> What would be the career path for a job in chip design and manufacturing?

Very long and very lucky.

I looked into microelectronics when I was a teenager. In 2009, you needed to be at the top of your class just to get an internship with a fab or a fabless.

In general, there are more automation with each year in both design and fab side.

Companies have luxury of employing people with 20 year careers at prices of average software devs in California.
Arguably the pros of just making security the users problem outweigh the cons of trying to protect the foolish from themselves. The desktop ecosystem for all its security problems is rather vivid
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It is also a weird question since the Bible is hardly the only version of a "god" or higher entity.
Sadly law makers aren't technical people, I don't think they have a clue on how to implement such system. Basically only big players can afford the R&D effort.

I think EU should build this as a free online service to which you send a query in some compressed & hashed form and the API would reply whether that piece is protected by copyright or not.
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“Find targets to shoot at.” The man is hardly involved at all. It’s a battle of sensors. It’s a battle over the electromagnetic spectrum and the man in the loop in the aircraft isn’t the critical part. Unless, you lose the battle of the EM spectrum and can’t communicate with a drone. Then a man in the loop could be critical but you’ve probably already lost at that point and would be better off with the “cruise missiles” you deride using ground mapping to find the way to the area and AI for specific target selection. I’m talking more about what aircraft are these days in BVR air-to-air: missile trucks, carrying AAMRAM, which is the real weapon. I’ve flown against F-22s, seen their weaknesses, and wouldn’t base our defense strategy on planes that have become too expensive compared to missiles.
Thank you; I've been following this since the second crash and this is the first time I've seen an explanation for why moving the engines forward made the plane unstable at high angles of attack.
Apparently you can download Morrowind for free, through March 31, to celebrate The Elder Scrolls’ 25th anniversary:

https://bethesda.net/en/article/zTLJdDWzVy0Ak7SMatqNG/celebr...
There's a lot of people getting a lot of money from/via nginx lately...
Interesting, it's the opposite for me. If I'm feeling rotten, unmotivated, unproductive, and guilty about it, I'll tend to stay up later because my "self-discipline for the day" will feel eroded and I'll want to procrastinate the arrival of the next day where I'll be faced with dealing with the thing I put off. I can only usually make myself go to bed early if I feel like I'm already in a "disciplined state" for the day.
You mean Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC)?
Yes, the text explained how I should write this, my surprise is that I can get undefined behavior. And that the text says that this may, but is not guaranteed to, warn.

On Twitter the other day, someone suggested that this is because, when Ada was first made, this kind of analysis was truly to expensive, and so the guarantee was not made, and they're sticking to backwards compatibility, and modern implementation should basically always warn. That seems reasonable, but I have no idea if it's correct. I assume most real-world Ada scenarios treat warnings as errors.
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The A-10 works fine on dirt runways. Putting the launch base close to the target is thus relatively easy.
> Using AI and Machine Learning to Automate the Full API and Service Development Lifecycle, Kong Is Reinventing the Software Industry and Accelerating Global Innovation Cycles

I Literally Have No Idea What This Is, Even After Reading This Word Salad Of A Press Release. But hey, they got $43 million...
Does this mean that the software developers aren't actually the people "responsible" for the behavior of the system?
I never said I was "far ahead of others". The only thing I said is that I keep my skills current with the market, keep my resume up to date, and keep my network warm.

The objective measure that all that is true, is that I can reach out to my network and have multiple job offers in three weeks. It doesn't take a special snowflake to do that if you live in a major metropolitan area and you've done all of the above.

I'm definitely not still doing ASP.Net WebForms and VB.Net in 2019 trying to compete in a market where everyone wants the $cool_kids stack.
While Google & FB gobbled up the juiciest chunks of online media, podcasts have somehow remained one or of the freeiest media, imo working like the open web was supposed to.

Ooh, it's kind of surprising. Discovery is still clunky. Getting from website to subscribed can be clunky. It's not interactive or conversational. Advertising is tricky. Podcasters generally have to negotiate deals separately. There are no clicks and podcasters can't really do the ad targeting that makes most online ads valuable. There isn't a deep analysis of pauses and abandons, like in google.

OTOH, there are no content policies. No "demonetization." No spying on consumers. No clickbait. No seo... and for the most part no rulers.

Even the clunkiness of discovery is half-feature. You ask friends what they listen to, and that mode of slow-and steady distribution makes for better incentives.

Meanwhile, Google and the like look at podcasts and see a piece of unclaimed territory like late stage empires and an island that wasn't worth bothering with 100 years previously.
Is it cheaper than LTL? If not then I don't see the advantage.
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D'oh, of course.

In my defense, I hardly slept last night courtesy of a three-year-old with the chicken pox, and I hadn't had my morning gallon of coffee when I replied.
Its just a matter of time before the injured and dead count starts increasing. Tesla needs to take their responsibility and disable AutoPilot before more people die because of its severe faults and flaws.
Does anyone have a list of patents What3Words has?

Regardless, this service solves a problem that does not exist whatsoever. My guess is they will go out of business in a few years.
> Most software jobs do not involve much engineering in the traditional sense; most of the effort is keeping up with the constant churn of flavor-of-the-week libraries and frameworks[...]

I'm not so sure about that. Yes, keeping up with the latest tech is a lot of effort, but the majority of software development is using those tools to actually solve problems. And the principles used to solve those problems don't change all that much. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture came out almost 20 years ago but is still useful today.
Or a training requirement failure. Or a UX failure. Or a documentation failure. Or an unrelated failure, given that the RCAs haven't been completed on the crashes.

It's amazing the hubris software engineers have in assuming everyone else in an idiot.

I am not an expert on aircraft-scale hardware/software codesign projects, aerospace engineering, high-reliability engineering (to aerospace standards), or complex systems analysis. I strongly suspect you, and most of HN, aren't either.

Boeing has people with all those skillsets. As does Airbus. As do NTSB and the variety of national certification agencies.

So before we toss rocks of certainty around in a comment thread, maybe wait and listen to the experts?
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Unfortunately, it might not. Take a look at this: https://baloogancampaign.com/2015/02/02/10-future-us-close-a...
"looked it up wrongly and did the wrong thing"

"Everything is slow, cumbersome"

You may want to evaluate if this is going on even in other spheres of your life and see where the crux of the problem lies. Unless this is how you always were, these are symptoms of something else. Perhaps you need to figure out what is bothering/troubling/ailing you. It could be inadequate rest or something entirely different. Find someone who can look at things objectively and can help you sort this out - perhaps a therapist, doctor or a trusted friend?
Decaying economies are bad if they don't maintain their equipment and live off what previous generations created. You could see that in East Germany. They created a lot of stuff in the 50s and 60s and then they kept using that equipment until it fell apart. Same for buildings.You can do that for a while but eventually things will fall apart. You could argue that public infrastructure in the US is following the same path to some degree.
Facebook has no obligation to share what you share. No one has that obligation. They may be a "platform" but that doesn't mean it's a free playing field.
Why don't you just make an open alternative is this is so disconcerting to you?
Didn't they do some of this kind of storage crap back on 4.x? And for that matter, isn't this pretty much exactly what Microsoft was doing with Windows Phone?

My annoying use case for those was ebook readers - I have a pretty massive library of epubs (Thanks Baen Webscriptions!) and have tended to just dump a ton of them into a folder in storage on a device. I can then pull those up in CoolReader, Moon+ Reader (position sync!) or FBReader as I desire. On Windows Phone every reader app (not that there were many) had to have its own independent download because god forbid you have shared freaking storage.

Somehow I feel that this is also going to end up hitting things like third-party gallery apps such as ones that allow tagging, along with the multimedia stuff that other folks are concerned with. Oh, and music. The death of MP3s saved locally to a device and used by multiple apps?

So much of what Google has been doing with Android (turning it into a minimal platform for running the massive Google Play where all functionality lives) seems like they're heading down the walled-garden that Apple has always been, but with creepy monitoring and ad-driven revenues layered on top.

I always dismissed iOS as an option because I didn't like how locked-down it was and I really liked swipe-based input, but now that iOS allows keyboards and the locked-down aspect is happening everywhere perhaps it's time to reconsider.

Edit: removed disparagement of Windows Phone apps
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Well, no.

That's like stopping 90% of a flood. The other 10% does more than enough.
Can any other Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) stop in such a case? (Real question, I don't know).

My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
I have a hard time believing that W3W isn't an early April Fools joke. I mean, seriously?

And why three words? You only need two, unless you're coding altitude. And damn, you already have two numbers (angles) with arbitrary precision.

And how does one calculate great-circle distances using their silly words?
Is there even the appetite to try, from a PR perspective?
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"superficially simple solution to a complex problems"
--- Exactly this

While it might initially seem a bit easier to remember words vs numbers, W3W is a non-solution in many ways, many nicely described in the article.

Most critically, the W3W indicators have zero relation to actual geography. Adjacent locations have entirely different quasi-random identifiers -- there is no progressive gradation, and no indication whether two locations are adjacent or on different continents.

It does not scale, and leaves us completely dependent on a data connection and their servers to navigate.

There is also no way to figure it out from known principles. The entire system has many points of failure. With a street address, I can know which way to from seeing a couple of existing addresses; W3W - no way, need a data connection.

With Lat-Long I immediately know what part of the world I'm in, and what direction I need to move to move to get closer to my target. A GPS unit, or a simple compass and map will work great. W3W -- zero clues, and need a data connection to them.

Horrible, non-scalable, non-solution looking for a problem.

Massive marketing attempting to overcome bad technology.
The f-35 is a great example of the practically pathological need for the US military to appear to ne the most technologically advanced military in the world. To be clear, it is, but finally China is making significant improvements. This cold-war hold-over means that instead of making a boring solution for an actual problem, the US made a trillion dollar jack of all trades. The f-35 is worse at each of the individual task than the specialized frames it is supposed to replace. I can't find the link, but I remember an article where f-16 s won every mock dogfight with f-35s.
Sure! I have it on my Dell Venue Pro running Windows Phone 7. There's dozens of us.
This was also my immediate thought. Naming is hard. Globally unique names that actually convey something about what you do, are recognizable, and sound pleasant to speakers of most languages seems even harder.
There is a lot of prior art in the field of PLT, and I did not get a graduate computer science degree, where much of this is taught. In undergrad, the closest classes were very broad overviews of programming paradigms generally.

There's also the difference between being familiar and knowing things in-depth; I was previously aware of the broad strokes of Ada and many of its features, but only at a high level. The point is to deepen this understanding.

(Also, I'm not on the language design team.)
I agree with you that this was ALL about keeping type rating. I wish the government would offer a whistleblower award to anyone inside Boeing who could prove that this was indeed true especially since it seem that that is how the software originally operated. Companies will do whatever it takes to drive sales and revenue and stock price. Employees don't want to raise their hand and get fired as they have families to support. A true whistleblower program with WITSEC level provisions for protection and monetary support would help cut this down. Once it happens once or twice companies are very disincentivized to continue down this road.
The B&0 tax is off the top based on gross revenue generated in Washington state. For my small company, 5% would put me out of business. I don't recall the exact rate we pay but it's nowhere near five.
A strategy to advance the geopolitical stability of America and its Allies is about the opposite of taking a short-term view.
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Currently the amount of injured and dead is falling for both Tesla cars and Tesla cars while on Autopilot.
Right, but why didn't they just lift the aircraft higher off the ground to fit the larger engines.
BBC news is separate division and has a strong leader (like sport).
BBC design is obsessed with making everything look the same, it’s been going bland for years.
BBC3 was another missed opportunity like this one.
The walled gardens have already been built.
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I'm not sure that argument is a complete route of the strong (or at least, stronger) hypothesis. The conscious creation of new words is often done using fusions or appropriations of existing words, per Lakoff's Metaphors. Over time, the meanings shift and expand, but it's not a raw, instantaneous act of creation, that, to your point, would seem to be impossible under Strong Sapir-Whorf.

Now, we can, here and now, 'invent' a 'new' word from what we believe to be whole cloth. But it's hard to prove that that there's not some unconscious process similar to the above going on! That really all we're doing is finding the intersections of existing semantic distributions.

Incidentally, my favorite SIGBOVIK paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/papers/sigbovik2011tom7whatword...