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The word "Endowment" in the title, combined with the phallic bell tower in the article's graphic, had me thinking this article was about something completely unrelated to finances.
I doubt he doesn't understand the crooked nature of such agreements. So I really have no clue what his intentions are.
Recovering from burnout for me (I've been hit twice - once when I got out of school, once more recently from a truly terrible work environment) takes about half a year of avoiding programming, but I have other issues (anxiety, depression) that come with the burnout. It's easy to tell now that it's happened twice - there's this pretty deep unwillingness to code coupled with a kind of fog that comes with reasoning about your programs that makes your work inferior to your 100%.

If your job is nasty like mine was, I know it's hard to start moving on but you have to switch. The longer you let yourself be burned out, the longer it takes to get back to 100%. I've made a certain set of choices that let me pursue a graduate degree and I feel much better, but you have to be on the lookout for abusive situations. For me, it's about 3 to 6 months of laying off of work. But really, extricating yourself from whatever situation is bothering you is what you want to do.

Avoiding burnout is pretty simple - be in an environment you like, surrounded by people whose company you enjoy, spending your spare time doing healthy things (exercise, going out, meditating, whatever works for you) that aren't related to work. Avoid indulging too much in vices like drinking, smoking, and drugs. Take breaks when you work, stand up, stretch, walk about. Sitting down for too long makes you stiff and feel stagnant. Take your vacation days when you feel worn out. Do what you can to make sure you're healthy and happy. If your employer feels threatened by you taking care of yourself, you find a new job.

Basically, work is a function of your competence, willingness, and emotional state. You do your best when all three of those are at max.
Piracy is theft, but I suspect that most things downloaded would have never been purchased by the person in the first place.

If you take a copy of an item you would have purchased you just took the income.
This is an advertorial for a VPN provider. Can this be removed?

edit: To elaborate, I think this article ads little in terms of technical or other novelty, and is also not newsworthy. It merely describes the history of this one VPN provider who happens to have a mobile client that's been used against censorship in some cases.
Thsi works pretty well:

https://github.com/icholy/ttygif

Convert tty sessions to animated GIFs.
Right, except you don't have the right to do that.

Which means nothing. Whether people have the right to or not, they can do it with absolutely no personal repercussions, so they do. Lecturing and ranting and wishing things were different isn't going to change that.
I'd consider twice that to still be poor by any reasonable definition.

$47,100 is poor? If so, then basically the entire world is poor. The only nations in the world with a median family income (adjusted for cost of living) higher than $47,100 are Luxemborg, Norway and Sweden.

I don't find this definition remotely reasonable.

Anyway, your anecdotal evidence seems to be leading you astray. The actual stats show a) the poor have more free time for exercise or TV watching, b) they prefer TV watching to exercise, c) they don't have a job and d) when they do have a job they don't have a long commute (see table 4-24 in my AHS link).

What evidence, if any, would convince you that your theories about the lifestyle of the poor are wrong?
I'm not sure about reddit, but wikipedia and github are not banned currently. Internet censorship is worrying and might eventually ban an important sites, but not yet.
Solu: A flawed attempt to reinvent the PC
Show HN: Davine – An open-data social analytics site for Vine
What Ebert did for the most part was accurately say whether or not the masses would find a film enjoyable. He was very good at his job.

A film critic should aspire to do more. He should be critical and hopeful educate the audience on some level. Ebert's reviews were more like restaurant reviews.
I use Calibre and the DeDRM plugin to remove the DRM from all the ebooks I buy. Very convenient and only takes a second.
Hey HN. Slowly over the past year, I've built Davine on the Google Cloud infrastructure to allow Vine content creators to see where and how their profile has grown over time. Davine is just a side project I whipped up to get experience with Google Cloud and using Go for a slightly larger project than I typically was. I've learned do's and don'ts for next time, so I'm already happy with it.

The current idea was to be 100% open-data, open source, ad-free, open ops, etc. to build a following who would get use from the service. Then, introduce data analysis offerings and offer to watch detailed posts as well for a small fee to turn some revenue.

Let me know what you think or if there's any potential at making this thing self-sustaining enough to just keep it alive and worthwhile.

Thanks!
I can't help but think how ironic it is that most Americans would say what we have is capitalism, but at the same time there are laws in place prohibiting people from freely sending capital to each other.
Not terribly difficult - IDK the opamp specs off the top of my head but you would have to find one that was happy working at single polarity off of a 5V rail. However, it's worth noting that decreasing the voltage kind of defeats the purpose of this circuit, which is to increase the dynamic range of the music you're listening to.
If I can get one with a 15-20 expected life then yes I'll pay 3-4x more for it. I expect however an ~10 year guarantee and a firm promise that parts will be available for a further 10 years (or if possible the full spec for parts is published and new ones can be made from the spec.)
I have finished God's temple. I am waiting for God to kill people.
There is a derivative of script called ttyrec.

You can use that in conjunction with ttygif (https://github.com/icholy/ttygif) to make an animated gif out of the captured script.
Will the real micro-service please stand up
If every "I'm gay" status registers, they're probably getting a lot of false positives. :D
How exactly would we be technologically poorer in this case? Would Amazon / B&N / Apple / any ebook distributor suddenly lose their impetus to develop ebook-reading tech / devices?
What you choose: a mobile website or a mobile application?
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Containers are useful as an alternative to full VMs. I use LXC on Ubuntu, and I edit software and packages on my containers as I would a normal VM.

Maybe that's not standard with Docker specifically.
In Europe it's just going to get harvested by the GCHQ and the other European nations intelligence organisations.
Hah. We had something similar one day on a team I used to work with in London. The agent had obviously been given the task of poaching a developer from our team but was utterly failing at it.

One by one, all 16 of us got a phone call at our desks, with no more than a few seconds between each call. By the third call we all knew what was going on so we all just laughed and told the guy to sod off.

Such a bungled effort - even if someone had wanted to take up the offer it would have been impossible at that point to say anything other than "LOL, no thanks buddy"
Until a clean alternative can be found that can provide the energy density heavy trucks require.
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This is why I dislike them - I get sent jobs from recruiters and it irks me to not know the cut they are taking (and I can only guess it is above their actual value). If they were completely open about it, maybe it would improve the state of the industry?
The internet in Cuba is so bad that Cubans had to invent their own
>it's simply useful for people to know that this level of private consumption exists.

Why? How can we assume that this water is being wasted? What if the owner has a private hydroponics system, and they sell produce to farmers markets? It's legal, productive, and requires a lot of water.

Starting a witchhunt because a wealthy person uses a lot of water in a water-scarce area misses the point entirely, because we have no idea what the water is being used for. If there's a legitimate use for it, and they're able to pay, I don't see what the problem is.

If you're worried about water being legitimately wasted, work towards getting water usage regulated so we can determine which activities are wasteful, and which are not. Then, customers would be forced to explain water-usage like this, and could be penalized if it were deemed unnecessary.
I had once a recruiter calling me on my workplace's number. He had sent me an email couple of hours before, that I hadn't noticed (it was during work hour), and for some reason he got super carried away about some opportunity and wanted to make sure I would apply through him or something.
There is a broad coalition of groups who are against the TPP, including labor unions who play a role in getting out the vote for the general election.

If there is a TPP vote in early 2016, before the general election, labor groups like the AFL-CIO can organize Nov 2016 election campaigns to punish/unseat members of Congress who vote for the TPP. If the TPP vote is moved to the lame duck period between Nov 2016 and Jan 2017, Congress can be re-elected before going on-record with a TPP vote that is opposed by American workers and possibly a majority of voters.

By moving the TPP vote to a lame duck session in Nov 16, the anti-TPP lobbying/campaigning power of American workers in the general election could be neutralized. Sen. Sherrod Brown from the linchpin electoral swing state of Ohio is not a TPP fan, http://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-to-...

"Access to the text has been inadequate throughout the TPP negotiations. A copy of the agreement was not readily available for Members of Congress until we demanded it. And even after the text was deposited in the secure reading rooms in the House and Senate, Members had to ask USTR for TPP annexes and other related documents to be made available. In addition, despite repeated requests, congressional staff with the necessary security clearance are still prohibited from seeing the text on their own."
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> assuming it's about aggressive recruiting spam on services like linkedin.

... and they were right. That is mentioned, if you read right through.
I'm sooooo sorry for you. Here's a story and some advice.

My grandfather was born in a small village in Poland. He's younger brother died in infancy. His older brother was blown up to pieces during the war. My grandfather worked as a foreman in a steel mill. He also kept bees and animals. And he built his own house.

To this day, I have the shovel he used to dig the foundations himself. The handle got impregnated with his sweat and body oils. It looks as if someone put varnish on it.

Personally, I've been working since being legally able to (16) and only stopped for 1 year of Uni, then found a company I wanted to work with and made anything I was able to to get hired. I haven't had a break longer than 1 week since that day.

Burnout is only in your mind. Burnout means you never pushed yourself hard enough and that you never really wanted anything in your life hard enough.

My advice for you is: stop being sorry for yourself, take a cold shower, drink a coffee and get on with your life. You only get one, achieve something - you can behave burnt out when you're old.
This comment is probably going to be unpopular with this audience, but there is a really good argument to be made for DRM in the e-book space.

When selling a physical book there is a real barrier to propagation of the entire work in the form of a prohibitive cost or effort for the average person to produce unauthorized copies.

In an era where even little kids know how to do a copy and paste this is definitely not the case with e-books. An author who releases his/her e-book without DRM would be, for all practical purposes giving it away to the vast majority of the reading audience.

Maybe the future of both books and music are that recorded and written works will be freely given as promotion for other more lucrative efforts (like concerts, seminars, and so forth) but as long as the publishing industry and authors rely on the sales of books/e-books for the majority of their income, DRM is here to stay.
The profits of few for the profits of many perhaps. Given that its thwarting tech, net profit is definitely not the trade-off though - personal liberty is.
No it's not. Theft is absolutely different type of crime.
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Similar to the book titled "Psychedelic Information theory" (PDF available for free)

>Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason is an analysis of the physical mechanisms of hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. By deconstructing systems of perception and memory, Psychedelic Information Theory quantifies the limits of expanded consciousness and describes the methods by which psychedelics alter consciousness, create new information, and affect human culture.

>By presenting these methods in physical terms, Psychedelic Information Theory offers a rational and objective model for shamanic transformation and therapy in modern clinical practice. Written by James L. Kent.

http://psychedelic-information-theory.com/
As an example of a site that is not good at all on mobile I would cite this very one.

In portrait mode the text is way too small to read and zooming in results in text that goes over the edge. In horizontal mode the experience is a bit better but one still needs good eyes to read the comments. Luckily there are enough applications that mitigate the problem.
As you note, the idea of good/bad is often highly subjective.

If one baker is actually bad across the board, they will eventually go out of business.

But often what happens is segmentation: one restaurant meets the demand for authentic Thai, and one satisfies the demand for Americanized Thai. Which is "better"? It's in the eye of the beholder. Broad rating tools like Yelp end up illustrating the mix of opinions in the population, rather than an objective "good/bad" scale. If half of customers like authentic Thai, and half like Americanized, then both restaurants will have middling ratings given a random mix of customers.

This highlights the real purpose of advertising: to enable market segmentation. An action movie with a terrible plot and characters will emphasize the action in their marketing, to attract people who like action. Critics, who tend to prefer original stories and complex characters, might pan it--who cares? The people who read movie reviews are themselves only a segment of the market.
That's an insane logical fallacy you have there.

I don't agree with the law in other parts of the world, therefor I don't need to respect the law in the part of the world where I live?
The first two studies were done by the same author from the same "McMaster University" and were directly funded by dairy lobbying boards, whereas the third study was funded by the US Dairy Research Institute - not exactly fair and unbiased. Still, none of these data support your earlier claim, "intelligent inclusion of animal products provides better results than a vegan diet". And your anecdotal evidence is not relevant to this discussion anymore than one's anecdotal evidence of a 100-year old, allegedly healthy grandmother eating bacon every morning should lead one to conclude it's okay to eat in that way.

> There is also some data suggesting vegans have slightly lower free testosterone and free IGF-1 than omnivores too, though at the highest levels rampant steroid use probably makes this a moot point.

Again, you are using conjecture over peer reviewed research. Take a look at http://nutritionfacts.org/2013/02/12/less-cancer-in-vegan-me... if you're interested in actually learning the facts.

Finally, the down votes just serve my point. People rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend animal products have some magical effect on human health, especially in athletes, which is a true ode to powerful industry lobbying.
I've thought about getting the amazon kindle a few times. I really can't make myself do it though. It would be nice to have on airplane trips, as I normally only read tech manuals/programming books, but the fact that there is no "used book" market for the kindle is what drove me away. I'd rather pay $5-$10 for a used tech book then buy the E version for $15-$30. Sure I could get online and bootleg an ebook version but that is not really right either.
I'd go in and give them my CV at the interview.
Was looking for this point.
For me I moved over to ebooks because I didn't want more physical books cluttering up my already small living area.
e-books != Amazon.

The vast, vast majority of e-books in the world do not come with DRM nor are related in any way to Amazon. (They also infringe on copyright, but that's another issue.)
And here's an image of Ron Swanson for you http://www.wrestlescoop.com/anonymousjunkyard/wallpaper/uplo...
Now we could say 5 years Go experience.
disgusting text. could not finish reading it.

the author should try appreciating the fact that IT is an industry where one can choose between jobs. many people do not have that luxury and must swallow a lot of shit to earn a living. the author comes across as an entitled brat that has absolutely no empathy or understanding for fellow human beings, all the while dishing out horrible insults at their humanity. disgusting.
I don't know about that scenario. Seems unlikely - the bottom of the ocean is cold; Methane Hydrate is locked in ice nodules under the ocean floor. Warming it slightly will release it as gas - making free natural gas wells.

I guess its a question of, is there oxygen down there, that could cause a fire if released? Thus creating a runaway reaction. Could be. If that were true, I'd suppose there would be no more deposits, as Earth is hit by meteors regularly and they would pierce/heat the deposits. So history/geology seems to say No there's not a problem.

Anyway, the Japanese already have test wells. They're ocean-locked and have no native fuel sources. So they're extremely interested in harvesting fuel from the sea.
How is it over the top? Is any of what they say false? That Amazon are able to remove a book from your reader is exactly the kind of contrast to physical books that the list intended to point out, regardless of their reason for doing so or the fact that they refunded their customers. The effect of these differences is that less power is in the hands of consumers, regardless of what positive effects it might have had otherwise or how they mitigated it.
Meh. I live in Austin, and I have yet to find a shop that makes espresso drinks as well as I do (at least to my taste).

Don't get me wrong, Austin has some great shops. However, I feel like there was such a strong move away from the "burnt Starbucks norm" that all of the good shops feature extremely light roasted coffee that, IMO, doesn't stand up in milk drinks well and is usually way too acidic for me. If you know of a place that serves a great medium-roasted, chocolatey/nutty cappuccino, would like to find it!
> It's the same attitude I have around pirating movies or shows: if a movie company won't let me pay them to let me watch a movie/TV show via Steam, Netflix, or even from their own site, then I'll just watch it on Popcorn Time and it's their loss.

In a civilized society, respect for the law must trump our endless appetite for convenient entertainment. There are causes that merit civil disobedience, but this isn't one of them. If we can't consume some piece of entertainment legally, then we should just pass on it; there's always something else we can enjoy instead.
Since most people don't know Ruby I don't know how you can say this.
> Right, except you don't have the right to do that.

That's true, but since when does that matter? The government doesn't have the right to do a bunch of things they do. So what?

> Suddenly, smaller markets around the world have their industry gutted by piracy, smaller labels have to shut down, bigger labels have to fire hundreds of less successful artists [...]

Similar and worse things happen when you increase the minimum wage. Why should I stop illegally downloading mp3 files by listening to your side's argument if you side usually will stop listening when I make the same arguments about increasing the minimum wage?

That's the beauty of this. By downloading mp3 files I'm actually getting back at everyone that doesn't care to learn economics enough to be against the minimum wage.
Fortunately, the constitutional court has not been very kind to that sort of "language-lawyering", despite being full of lawyers.
YES. Ebooks are a great idea, but definitely not in the way currently implemented. I hate the idea that XYZ Corp., can start streaming ads into my books or have detailed analytics of which lines I read/skipped/copied/researched just because I bought it from them. It's really convenient: they control the format, hence they control the software to (legally) read it, hence that software can behave pretty much any way it likes!

It's even further horrible when you consider a future when books will only be available in one format, that too by XYZ Megacorp ONLY. I don't want the world I inhabit waltzing into that future. Thank GNU that GNU exists.
Recruiters sometimes lie or exaggerate. That's nothing new. Actually, they have to do it, to show their bosses that they're getting warm bodies into interviews.

Did your co-worker actually take this job, without doing the due diligence of reading the contract and the offer letter?
I do most DevOps from a Java perspective. Languages aren't even mentioned here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
What about theft of services or trade secrets? Are those not kinds of theft?
A couple articles I've seen previously on HN on the subject:

Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer -- http://dev-human.io/~pascaldevink/things-i-was-unprepared-fo...

Becoming a Tech Lead – Interview with Pat Kua -- http://blog.fogcreek.com/becoming-a-tech-lead-interview-with...
Haha! Nice! A bit like if you have an infinite number of chimps on an infinite number of typewriters you'll eventualy get the works of Shakespeare - the rest is Perl.
There is very little reason to be scared of refugees coming here under a false identity. If somebody wants to enter Schengen to commit a terrorist act, they'll find ways that are easier and safer than under the guise of an asylum seeker.

Of course, there is little reason to be scared of terrorism by anybody, anyway. The violence that occurs in the context of the refugee situation is, so far, almost exclusively caused by xenophobes -- the fact that this is not denounced as terrorism just shows what a useless label it is, as if we needed proof.

The only reason why Germany wouldn't let people enter is because the Dublin II rules say otherwise, but rational people have known (and been saying) for years that the Dublin rules won't hold up -- rules that make any refugee situation mostly a problem of the relatively less-well-off (though, globally seen, still very rich) south-eastern EU periphery. Those countries have clearly proven to be unable to cope -- being overwhelmed, incompetence and maliciousness were all part of that --, and it would have been inhumanitarian and, frankly, impractical, to proceed with Dublin II.

None of this has anything to do with data retention, of course. Though I suppose it is more consistent to combine a draconian data retention policy with a draconian refugee policy, as, to pick one example, the UK does.