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Is this the case? I know, for example, in law, your employability at desirable firms is directly linked to an aristocratic educational pedigree. Is there a reason this would not be in the case in business? While I'm sure potential HBS attendees could find something more valuable to do with their lives in those 2 years, would they really end up in investment banks and private equity firms?

These seem like employers who are all about credentials, since there's no real way to demonstrate a propensity for gutting companies or engineering IPOs a priori, and since these groups are run on autopilot by corporate drones instead of people with a real sense of ownership or entrepreneurship (and thus, a desire to acquire and retain good talent regardless of its pedigree). In such cases, the hiring seems to become 99% about the value placed on the institution that granted the degree, and 1% about showing up in an adequately expensive suit and car.
There are AsApp variants on UWP, if you claim the JIT permission.
A lengthy discussion, but should answer some of the skepticism that HN put forth when the announcement was made.
I'm not sure that would help much. I think the risks and uncertainties of long-term R&D increase much faster than any tax incentive can compensate for. My favorite story is the (real) history of Silicon Valley. I once thought that was a proof for what private enterprise can accomplish. Turns out that SV is actually based on the unrestrained spending on R&D (of borrowed money, of course) by government during WWII. [0]

Private enterprise wants a level of certainty, long-term or not. Tax incentives don't reduce the uncertainty. I doubt that money is the major constraint. Look at some major corporations basically "swimming" in money, and they also should be able to borrow easily (and cheaply) at this time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
Anecdata: I'm all for social breakfast and dinner. But I prefer to eat lunch by myself, maybe with a good book. In this way lunch is a pause where I can slow down and recenter for the afternoon. And I don't think anything is wrong with that.
Are we so arrogant that we should feel legitimate to tell people what they should aspire to and what model they should adopt ? People tend to confuse economic growth, prosperity, well being and democracy as if none of that existed before, as if before our holy democracy people didn't prosper. Economic growth and technological progress are a function of political stability, which can come in many forms including (but not exclusive to) democracy. Western Countries have the largest number of depressed people and the highest suicide rates in the world.
I'm sure it sucks to be living in NK right now, but if the regime opens up and retains their grip on the nation, well ... who cares if people are thriving.
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no. these shows have been popular for years. pardon the interruption first aired in 2001. around the horn in 2003. first take in 2007. espn isn't flailing around looking for a new business model, it's following the money

espn's problems are overpaying for content (live sports), paying a huge number of employees who barely move the needle in the twitter age (all of their reporters, basically) and the rise of alternatives to cable like netflix, amazon prime, hulu and bamtech
Or it may make people detest your management style even more. I belong to those who cannot stand being coerced into doing some "fun group activity" (whether in office or in a hotel). And when people want to take care of my health in office, why not start with the obvious:

* Don't give me a car - give me a bicycle and tickets for public transport.

* Give me a shower in office or a membership in a gym nearby.

* Invest in good chairs and tables (yes, yes, you all do - until I arrive with my 190cm and suddenly it's .. "we could place some books under the legs of your table!")
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So instead of a potentially interesting thread about this device, what it (supposedly) does, how it compares to tech or practices here, we should have another all-been-said-before-1000-times discussion re-stating the boringly obvious about how grim life is in NK?
It was explained to me once that it wasn't Harvard Business School that was responsible for the decline of capitalism, but Wharton. That the two represented two very different approaches to people. Harvard supposedly taught to value employees and customers as people, and to strive for social good as a primary goal. Wharton supposedly taught to treat employees and customers as renewable resources, dehumanizing them, and to strive for profits and shareholder value as the only goals. The source was biased to old-school ivy league, but someone I trust. I've never attended either school.
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Chinese are worried that messing with what works could stop the economic growth that they desire more than anything else.

If someone can guarantee 100% that ending "Internet censorship, jailing human rights activists, intimidating journalists, etc" wouldn't hurt the economic progress than perhaps they would be on board.
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That depends on how you do business.

If you set up a sole proprietorship, the profits of the business are your personal income.

Set up an LLC, and each of the partners gets their profit split taxed as personal income. However, profits can be reduced by spending more, and many more things are untaxable expenses for a business.

Set up an actual corporation, and you pay corporate taxes on profits, not income taxes. You still pay income taxes on salary.
I think haken is a very common though, for all kinds of office workers. It's full-time employment, but it's not permanent employment.
Does Amazon hire Mobile developer (Android/iOS) ? I have been in a situation where I got into the final interview at a large tech company and did all the test well, but they emailed me after that saying my background (mobile) does not align at this time with any teams.
How did you get a job and meet a girl when you played WoW all night and slept all day?
I agree. Libraries are adapting to the modern times and needs.
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"[A]n effort to implement mercantilist economic strategies of technology transfer."

This is an amazing euphemism.
Ask HN: As a freelancer how concerned are you about how fast you get paid?
Multiple part question for you guys,

1) When you submit your invoices, what are your typical payment terms - net 30, 60, 90 etc

2) Would you be willing to give your client a small discount (e.g. 2-3%) in exchange for the invoice being paid immediately, so you have the money in your account same day.

3) If you have to choose between clients, assuming all else is equal, are you more likely to work with the client who will pay you faster.
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well said. thank you for staying on topic.
Civilians are responsible for their governments. Alas, this is a hard truth that many civilians do not wish to be reminded about.
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From whom do governments gain power?

(Hint: its not banks..)
Do you REALLY understand floating points?
Weirdly, I actually liked the part where you could browse through the data the device tracked. I wish I could do this on normal Android, because I know I am being tracked by Google and other apps but I have no way of knowing what they actually recorded.
Could just as easily be a Chinese company under contract.
This comment thread isn't about any kind of NK tech. It's another all-been-said-before-1000-times discussion re-stating the boringly obvious about how Google is evil.
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The a16z podcast would generate a bunch of ideas irrespective of what your feet are doing.
I wonder how uniform Martian soil is. We have explored only a tiny fraction of the surface with actual robots. On Earth there is a huge variation between different regions. I would expect it to be similar on Mars.
All the different instructions are listed in intel's instruction reference manuals. What is not very wise about this article is that he's using AT&T syntax. It adds one pointless level between the actual assembly and the programmer, and it has these syntax differences compared to reference manuals, which makes it frustrating to use (both read and write).
Do you charge your clients by the hour or another way?

I feel like I could be just as productive with fewer hours but there is somewhat of a financial conflict when being paid by the hour.
Japan is a big country and there are people with diverse views in it. Overwork is widely recognized to be a societal problem here, in the same fashion that e.g. racism is widely recognized to be a problem in the US. You could certainly find people who disagree with either conclusion, but you could also find people who disagree that the earth is round.

There exist government employees whose literal only job is preventing deaths from exhaustion. Japan has at least a few hundred of these a year; the true number of excess overwork-caused death is probably low tens of thousands when you factor in suicides.
"I have to complete stay moveless, and when I stay moveless for awhile that's when my mind will work at its extreme capacity."

Two different types of thinking. Focused thinking where all your memory slots are consciously controlled. Un-focused thinking (diffused mode) where random connections between different ideas are made. [0] The unfocused thinking is where you get the ^aha^ moment. So yes I'd reckon every programmer/hacker/scientist/mathematician is pretty much doing what you describe.

[0] Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE., "Focused and diffuse modes of thinking- a brief on how it functions" ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzjsk5e7srI
Its only a different level because of the amount of control the NSA has over the technological infrastructure, and the degree of force that can be brought to bear - through multiple independent factions of the US military-industrial infrastructure - upon those whom the establishment deem, through surveillance, to be un-savoury.

You probably haven't been paying attention, but the US Gov't make dissidents disappear all the time. They just do it with a velvet glove on, whereas we're more accustomed to complaining about/being distracted by the heavier hand represented by the propaganda against North Korea.

The US gov't is not as innocent as you might think when it comes to handling dissidents. Its just very, very good at maintaining the facade that its all done 'for the greater good of the people of the United States and its possessors'. The USA is, after all, a PR-first nation.
Roads and electricity are paid with taxes, they have nothing to do with being free.

We see how well they are kept in shape in countries where the money doesn't go to them.

I don't want electricity that only runs for a few hours in the day, or roads full with crates created by the weather almost unusable when there is a bit of heavy rain.
As wingerlang said, "I try to make it related to the functionality."

I do this completely. Every. Time. But on the condition that the name is catchy and the domain is available. If I cannot come up with a good name for it or if the domain is not available, I forego the side project.

https://mypost.io

I think I wanted mypost.com originally or post.io but they were taken. After thinking about it, I figured: My Post IO (Input/Output) I spend a few minutes on GoDaddy and usually stop by this website to check domain availability across the board: http://www.domainsbot.com/

I might spend days thinking about the name of it.. if its just not catchy, I really can't continue. Just to name a few that I had come up with that are projects "in the works" and not yet available ... GoMenu, MyBiz, etc.

I used to be afraid to "share the idea" of my side projects with people, or Hacker News, but honestly, I'm pretty sure if you tell two developers to develop the same application.... this application will likely have the same functionality, but the UI and the approach of how it works will almost always be different.

So for example GoMenu is just an idea for restaurants to be able to create menus and put them up online. I brainstormed it and I was thinking, "Menu To Go? Go To Menu? MenuGo? GoMenu?" And I figured: People want a menu on the go and restaurants want to get discovered.. why not? Anyways, this concept is not anything at all out of the ordinary. A search will reveal to you that plenty of these types of websites already exist. So why would I even bother? Because I tend to focus on UI, user-friendliness, and affordability when developing apps.

Got to love that capitalism and competition! At least 3 billion people are currently using the Internet.. if you could get a few thousand to use your web app and pay for it, isn't that enough motivation for you do something? I'm not saying that anyone should build the next Facebook, because you can't. Sure, you actually can, but you cannot become as popular and used as Facebook. And that's totally okay! But you can certainly be the competition! Even if less than 1%.. lets just say, 0.1% of Facebook users decided they did not like Facebook anymore and decided to use your product because it offered something unique, wouldn't that be a win for you to become the competition?

I tend to buy up domain names and most of the time, I do use them, though I have had a bunch that just fell through the cracks, or honestly, I just thought the domain names were not as catchy as I had hoped. So when it comes to my side projects and naming them...

1. the functionality must be in the domain name

2. the domain name must be easy to remember

3. The extension of the domain name must be a fairly common one that is also easily memorable. (while .com is the one I usually try to get, I've been fond of some TLDs like .xyz, .io, .cc, .biz, .blog, .online, etc.)
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The combination of (roundtable discussions|debates|audiobooks) with (walking|cleaning house|washing dishes|other chores) is the most productive procrastination technique I have. It changes mental context, stimulates the brain, and makes the chore enjoyable. I even sometimes do it while writing code. Of course, I can't take it all in, but I still find that it enriches my experience.
VHDL's syntax was borrowed from Ada (and much more closely resembles it than Verilog, which was inspired by C but not adapted from it)

Example Ada: http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~pautet/Ada95/e_c16_p5.ada
The company called Facebook has already implemented features within their services to allow censorship, control, targeted* and mass propaganda efforts, monitoring and surveillance, etc... on targeted* and mass user bases, and is already selling these features to regimes for access to their citizens, and to provide regimes in-depth surveillance access to the social networks. Including, the regime apparatus within the US such as FBI, CIA, etc... Facebook is an "intelligence" product sold both to the US and to other nations. Their company has people who were high executive officers in the "intelligence" and surveillance apparatus in the US (CIA, etc...).

It's not the problem of whether North Korea is implementing these features, as North Korea did not create anything original but rather see's these features already being provided. The problem that Silicon Valley and the US has is that companies (err... countries) like North Korea are implementing (or have implemented) it before their own companies have and that diminishes their capacity to claim IP to related implementations.

* targeted: meaning they can target individuals, and various sizes of groups based on sophisticated and targeted profiling. Trump's campaign used this to divide and conquer the 2016 election.
RedHat Enterprise Linux is targeted at companies that pay for support and trainings.

I bet RedHat gets nothing from home users.
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I feel like this is their own fault though. It sounds to me like they've got obsessed with the gossip model of journalism and turned people off. If you look at the UK, the BBC's Match of the Day is still wildly popular because the beeb doesn't really follow those annoying American trends.
I've handled ~1 TB DBs in Postgres with about 2000 read queries/sec. Technically these were stored function invocations, so wrapped a considerably larger number of queries inside.

This didn't seem to be a problem. It was the simultaneous write operations that created real limits, banging on the disks/disk controller like that.
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>remarkable job at admissions, putting together a group of folks who are likely (by nature or nurture) to go on to have an outsized impact on the world.

Outsized impact has very little or nothing to do with personal abilities.

HBS is the ultimate networking opportunity. HBS is way for rich kids to network. On the side it provides networking opportunities for for others who get in. New blood so to speak.
I totally agree with you! Learning the language of mathematics, specifically spoken in this case, is an important part in learning mathematics. I think it is really important to discuss proofs and ideas with your friends because of this.

Another problem is that most of the literature and the lectures are in English but you often discuss in another language. So you have to both do the translation from written to spoken mathematics and the translation from English to, in my case, Swedish. This easily leads to half translated English words but I try to avoid that as much as possible.
Wharton is old-school Ivy League. You probably know this, but just from the way you worded it, wasn't clear.
But this way, employee can't even open private documents! Which makes transgression impossible. Any document that can be opened is a company document, which can be watched.
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On average MBA's are less likely to start a business than someone from the general population, you are the exception.
> junk-bond-induced takeover mania and resulting scandals of the 1980s; the corporate scandals of the 2000s; the egregious increase in the pay gap between chief executives and ordinary employees; the real estate mortgage bubble and ensuing financial crisis; even the election of Donald Trump

Just leave out the part about President Trump. Plenty of people like him.

> Harvard has obsessively pursued money, sending a disproportionate number of its graduates to consulting firms

I assume the students are the ones pursuing money

> An obsession with stock prices and short-term results was the motive for many of the accounting scandals of the 2000s

Was it ? I thought it was unscrupulous people doing accounting fraud and information asymmetry between shareholders and executives.

> McDonald insists he isn’t “anti-business-school” (he attended Wharton), nor is he “anti-wealth.

But just a few sentences above :

> McDonald notes that in 1992, the C.E.O.s of Fortune 500 firms made an average of $2.7 million a year. By 2000, the average was $14 million.

> It’s a shame that some of them didn’t see the looming disaster and sound an alarm

Some did and made a lot of money from shorting these bonds. Only when it became possible to short these bonds that the bubble finally collapsed and the money went to fund more useful ventures.

> lay a part in helping more people who think about business rediscover a purpose other than profit

A better solution would be to ensure more information symmetry ( even through government action ) and having more ambitious people in regulatory agencies. 'Pitting ambition against ambition' ( to use a Madison quote ) is a system that has historically worked very well to curb these types of predatory behavior
I read the article and the examples reminded me a great deal of R. Granted, I haven't done much in R, just wrote a dashboard in R Shiny that combined IoT data from devices and perform analysis on them with fitting.
The failing New York Times failed to point out the author of the critique, James Stewart, is a Harvard grad himself. Hardly an unbiased article. No conflict-of-interest disclosure. Many half-truths and disingenuous statements in defense of Harvard.

Sad.
Gravitational constant is the same everywhere. The hint is in the name, "constant".
1. Payment is due on receipt of invoice

2. I give a 10% discount for invoices paid on the same day as receipt

3. I will not do repeat work for someone who did not pay on time
By the hour. I know I should bill by the day or week, but I think then clients will expect me to work a full working day, i.e. 8 hours.

This way, I don't feel like I'm ripping my clients off if I'm working only 2 hours today, or diluting my rate too much if I manage to work 12 hours tomorrow. I really enjoy this freedom.
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Thank you very much for the time you have spent analyzing and interpreting this spaghetti code of proposed regulations. I would greatly appreciate any advise you have on giving this a "thumbs up" and so law makers know my voice is being added. Much Thanks!
So how well are *BSD doing in the market in regards to GNU/Linux?

When the only thing standing will be the Linux kernel, don't be surprised by the amount of "freedom" you will get.
Having worked with Cassandra for many years, I have worked on:

* 1000+ node clusters

* Petabyte scale data

* 10s of millions of reads and writes per second

Given my preface, the "how" is scale out on top of Cassandra, of course. Not SQL, and hard to do if you have a highly relational model, but many stories of success at those kinds of scale.
I find the whole proposition absurd mostly for reasons described in the post above. But humans are an absurd species, I guess I think more the way that Neanderthals did.
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I do chores as yoga exercise, never thought of adding podcast to the blend..
1) 30 days.

2) Probably

3) Always, clients who pay on or before time get priority all other things been equal, cashflow trumps pretty much everything else.

If I have more clients than I have time then the clients who get dropped of the list are the ones who pay late, I've done the work I shouldn't have to chase you for the money.

I just took a full time job though as freelancing is way too much not-programming and I 'just' want to be a programmer for as much of the day as possible.
They're likely a test-bed for a prototype surveillance system already being developed and/or deployed by the Silicon Valley of the West for Western regimes and dictatorships.

edit: Even simple surveillance features like file tagging are already deployed within the US, and is how the FBI claims to track stolen documents to Chinese hackers. Although, the system the FBI uses to track document content traversing the internet is likely quite a bit more sophisticated. The prototype system can even be a rootkit spying system used by corporations to spy on their employees and/or their consumers and customers.

The chain of sales is almost certainly from Silicon Valley, to a Chinese front, to North Korea or [ SV and China ] to North Korea. SV, US, and China work closely together in regards to surveillance, the only real difference is their rhetoric and how they sell it to their citizens.
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This is good news. For those who have not seen it, Japan: A Story of Love and Hate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-kNnq7mFM) is an excellent - and often poignant - window into the life of a Japanese temp* worker.

* temp: working 15 hours a day in three jobs.