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His intended use of meta is wrong.

So is your description, Meta is an ancient greek preposition that in English roughly means a concept that is an abstraction from another concept (though originally in Greek meant "after").

It is also used commonly to mean something that is knowingly circular or self-referential "That film director doing a movie about film directors was so meta", I don't like this usage but it is common.

In either case your usage is considerably narrower and not at all the standard usage.
I think the problem is the "competition free" part.
I think it depends what his goals are. Not a lot if you want to buy a house, but it's plenty if you want to travel around a bit and occasionally splurge on fine dining.
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Good idea. But it doesn't seem to fetch urls without http in front, and in the Chrome Store you can't download it - says "price not available".

Also, why do all phones have basically the same low resolution in the list? Shouldn't the list show their real resolution or something? (even if the frame itself is phone-size like).
Could have made it even better by considering individual bits separately, and using their positions.
It's not too late to have your "party days". I am 28, I have 2 children, a mortgage and a full time job (as well as freelancing on the side). At the beginning of May I ended my 12 year relationship (manipulative, emotionally abusive ex) and jumped head first into a proper social life for the first time EVER. If I can do this whilst juggling being a lone parent / working 2 jobs / etc you have no excuses. :)

So go out to bars and have fun (who says you have to go with friends?!), date more, travel, take a class, swim in the ocean, jump from a plane, write a bucket list and do it all! Whatever, just make sure you seize life and get on with it.

Oh, but before you do all that, let me know how you manage to make enough to cover your bills in 8 hours so that I can jack in the full time job and spend more time with my kids ;)
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Paedophiles and terrorists, apparently.

From the BBC's coverage of the announcement yesterday: "PM asks if we want paedophiles and extremists to communicate without it being possible to intercept communications".
my kingdom for tree-style tabs with labelable nodes!
Online abuse of children (Yvette Cooper)

Criminals and terrorists (Sir Richard Ottaway)

Pedophiles; radicals; criminals; terrorists; industrial, military and state criminal exploitation of communications networks, espionage organised criminal gangs; the threat from all sorts of criminals whose work is made easier by cyber-technology. (Theresa May) [1]

Basically, everything, because of how broad the act is.

[1] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/c...
It's not, really. The question as to whether something is legal if the EU says it isn't but the UK says it is is not entirely clear even given Factortame.

The law itself contains a signifigant expansion of the powers, in particular imposing legal obligations on non-UK persons and also allowing the Secretary of State to write new regulations and statutory instruments.

http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/2014/07/11/drip-drip-d...
Are you in London? (£1500 p/m for rent and bills sounds like London to me!) There's no shortage of things to do, Meetups, groups, societies, and places to go.

You're young. So young. Don't worry about your friends not wanting to go out so much -- find new ones who do, and who are willing to take you out to bars and clubs to show you the ropes of chatting up strangers, if that's your thing.

That said, were I in your position, I'd be tempted to do the 'freelance around the world' thing. I can put you in touch with someone who's doing exactly that if you like.
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Ask HN: Looking for genuine feedbacks on my startup, SportAround.me
Hi Everyone!
This is my first time writing here, but I'm a daily HN reader. I just launched my own start-up idea and I'd really love to hear some feedbacks from the HN community.

http://www.sportaround.me/

The idea is simple: A "social" platform which will be an interactive and quick way to find sport partners, explore nearby facilities, coaches or gear stores, and join local sport activities.
Users can share their goals and accomplishments,
review partners or coaches, facilities and stores. Additionally they can discover local deals, book a facility or join a class straightly from the platform.
Facilities, gear stores,coaches,associations can advertise themselves through the platform to attract new customers and members.

The platform is mainly coded in PHP and HTML5 and I've been working on it from about 6 months.
I'm planning on launching a slew of new features in the coming months, but I've gotten to a point where I'd really appreciate some feedback for improving. I'm particularly looking for feedback about the sign-up process, the UI and the responsiveness of the platform itself.

As excited as I am about finally getting to create the idea that I've had in mind for about two years, I'm even more excited to see what the HN community thinks about it!

Thanks in advance,
Erik
I find it rather interesting to see that one of the investors thinks the valuation needs to be defended in writing.

Once drivers find out that you don't make the 90k salaries touted by Uber [1] (note: conveniently excluded cost of gas, insurance, tolls, parking, maintenance and repairs, and required more than 40 hour workweeks) driver supply may not match consumer demand. Slashing the prices wasn't exactly beneficial for current drivers either [2]

[1] https://medium.com/@felixsalmon/how-well-uberx-pays-part-2-c...

[2] http://uberdriverdiaries.com/uber-slahes-prices-new-york-cit...
rest of this advice has no basis more reliable than your own meandering.. oh, and wear sunscreen.
Get outside your comfort zone and disconnect yourself from the tech world.

I was in a similar situation, except I did not have that much money at the time. My wife and I sold everything that we have, bought a caravan and a car to tow it. Travel the east cost of Australia. Did jobs like cucumber picking, laboring for house building, fishing at the local beach for our daily meals etc. It was tough going with my wife as we learn about each other that we did not know before (the situation forces it). At the end my wife and I were closer, and we were much more rounder as a person.
The article about the linux graphics stack that he links right at the beginning is also very interesting.
The code is available here:

https://github.com/sheetal57/doppelganger-finder

(mods, this a dupe submission that dang asked me to make)
I would go to school and study for a degree in some other field (perhaps something to do with science). I don't get travel. Waste of money IMHO. You can meet people and have fun doing other stuff as well.
Even if that is the case, it would be bad to allow a law such as this to legitimize such data collecting activity.
Huge cliche but it amazes me how life can flip on a minor event, a chance meeting or conversation.

I think traveling accelerates the possibility of these events happening.
I spent a lot of time hanging out at a salsa dancing club. It was a great way to 1) do something not nerdy 2) meet a lot of women, and 3) get a small sense of what said women are like in short order. You can tell a lot about someone by how they dance and react and behave. I also found it fun. Also, it's enough of an acquired skill that not just anyone can walk in and be good right away, but not so hard that you have to spend years getting any good.
The article does mention the downsides but doesn't really cover how devastating they can be. VaR was the common calculation persuading the banks that everything was nice and safe in 2007 and 2008.

From the article

VaR does not discuss the magnitude of the expected loss beyond the value of VaR, i.e. it will tell us that we are likely to see a loss exceeding a value, but not how much it exceeds it.

It does not take into account extreme events, but only typical market conditions.

Since it uses historical data (it is rearward-looking) it will not take into account future market regime shifts that can change volatilities and correlations of assets.
Hi, I am in a very similar situation, located in A'dam, The Netherlands, but I actually traveled a lot is one of my passions and nowadays still go clubbing.

You are in London, the best place for clubbing and a very nice base for traveling since most of the low cost flights are from and to London.

Check out Hospitality parties from Hospital Records, they come often to A'dam, also parties from RAM Records, Shogun Audio, Jungle Mania, Innovation, and others I am forgetting, this of course if you are into jungle music and drum and bass :-P

Do what you love, be original, don't worry about others trolling and be happy as you seen to be.

BIG UP !!
Yes but GCHQ aren't going to compromise their data set by using to convict 13 years of music piracy
I know :D
I tried it for past 6 months and then gave up on it 2 months back, for the same reason. how ever that search gave rise to a better idea to compress files. Not yet usable but don't have all these issues with it. If you are interested you can read it at https://www.academia.edu/7620004/Advanced_Compression_Techni... It is based on data being represented as a position and not as the values in a computable number series .
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Not too much, just one thing: If we could simulate the universe then of course there would be a simulation in the simulation, etc... And maybe there is a fundamental yet undiscovered 'law of computation' that a sufficiently complex simulation can embed itself only on a slower timescale, so even if everything is deterministic, we even theoretically cannot calculate fast enough to calculate the future.
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I think you are on to something. If you are "savy" internet user, you probably hang a bit longer on the desktop than the average population because you are also a power user. If you are a "casual" internet user, mainly checking some social site status, etc, using a mobile is enough. Or to say otherwise, prosumer vs consumer. And it is more likely that you will use an adblocker if you belong to the first part of the population.
Preach!

(I'm enjoying your blog, by the way.)
Well, yes, the bureaucracy always cares. But I said human beings. :)
...and get enough exercise, which helps with all of the health thngs!
I've been successfully using Asymptote[1] for this purpose. I find I often have to fight a little to get things how I want, but it works quite well. The biggest benefit to me is being able to replace a dataset and have the graphs regenerate themselves. Grap seems worth exploring as an alternative though.

[1] http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/
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I am a Web Analyst and I see a big point here in using google analytics. Are you adding/removing hints based on the through-put rate, average-page-time per each level etc? This would give you bare data on where you need to add/remove hints.
I always laugh when people use VaR for exactly that reason. In reality for most investors the true actual value at risk is however much money isn't in cash.

I know you can say "well what about hyper-inflation!" and you're right; someone in cash would get wiped out in hyper-inflation.

But considering how infrequent hyper-inflations are and how badly VaR led many folks astray really all over the developed world, perhaps re-defining it that way wouldn't be so terrible.
Have there been any court cases that have investigated "successfully funded" to determine the exact meaning in the law [in whatever jurisdiction]. Successfully funded projects could readily be considered to be ones where the funding has enabled project success.

In their terms Kickstarter make statements suggesting it is a funding program but they also say in their "Acceptance of Terms" part that any policy expounded on the site is incorporated by reference. Kickstarter state on their /learn page for example "Kickstarter is a vibrant community of people working together to bring new things to life." making it clear that success on Kickstarter is bringing a making project to fruition. It _doesn't_ say "Kickstarter is a way to acquire funding", so that's not the goal of a Kickstarter project and thus not the measure of success.

To reiterate this point, in the FAQ accountability section it says:

> "On Kickstarter, backers (you!) ultimately decide the validity and worthiness of a project by whether they decide to fund it." //

Again highlighting that projects are not funding, projects are encouraged with funding.

There's little about unsuccessful projects, some details about how they're swept under the rug, but there is this in the FAQs:

> "If the problems are severe enough that the creator can't fulfill their project, creators need to find a resolution. Steps could include offering refunds, detailing exactly how funds were used, and other actions to satisfy backers." //

See that "could", why not "must"? Why not "creators are required by their assent to our contract to find a resolution"? It seems Kickstarter consider a report of how funds used to satisfy their requirements.

There is this, https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/creator-responsibility.p..., which appears to contradict that FAQ.

[PS I'm not sure I've convinced myself but I do think someone could make this case, possibly make it stick. Kickstarter could tighten up their language in a few places but ultimately they are financially primarily motivated to get as many projects funded as possible whether they are successful or not, funded projects earn them money whilst shipped rewards don't. Kickstarters other motivations aside of course.]
well normally farms cannot grow up, skyscraper style. Also, situating the building properly should allow for some of it to also be used for power generation. Then lets go further, make it tall enough that the warm air rising from the bottom could be used to generate power.
Keep cultivating ideas, building contacts, realizing dreams thru company building, building wealth while staying humble. Sounds like you are well on the way to financial independence which is the equivalency of freedom the vast majority will never know. Nothing, absolutely nothing better than being beholden to no one. Anything else is a modern equivalent of slavery.
> you might remember that Xorg was forked from XFree86 a decade ago

Today's xkcd is relevant :( ( http://xkcd.com/1393/ )
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I was using Firefox on OSx at the time I checked. I did another check on Opera and refresh isnt working and displaying same error.
Now I can move between textboxes using tab.
This. Is good advice. Take it from a grey guy.
Much of european hostel scene is full of people wanting to go out and party, most days you'll meet 5-10 new people and have a lot of fun. You can do it for a week to see what's like, I bet you'll be hooked.
* Travel

* Spend your time with quality people

* Build a family

* Be generous, help others

Everything else will work itself out.
Surely the straightforward way to eliminate the child abusers, terrorists, and criminals would be to just arrest the entirety of lords and commons?
It sounds like you already have a good idea of what to do in your second to last paragraph. Go with your gut.

What would I do? Well, I was in your situation 10 years ago, and I basically kept doing lots of coding for fun, learning about all sorts of tech stuff, playing video games, and not generally going out, making friends, or what ordinary people might call 'having fun'. But I'm an introvert who genuinely loves being bookish, indoorsy and living on the Internet rather than in real life, so different strokes and all that ;-) If I could dick around on the Internet for the rest of my life, I'd be a very happy bunny.

Ten years on, I don't regret my decisions and I'm married with kids and doing well, although I know more than enough people who did regret not living it up in their 20s and it sounds like you might be someone who wants/needs to do that in style.. so get on with it :-)
Which Billis this? Is this the Communications Data Bill that has been around for a while? I can't see anything in hansard remotely related to this.
I bought the paper book and was a bit disappointed by it. The material is fairly basic, so that you don't learn much, and the quality of the typesetting is quite poor... :/ (Maybe the first criticism doesn't apply to the "advanced" sequel, though.)
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There's an interesting parallel with Tarkovsky's advice:

"What would you like to tell people?

I don’t know… I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn from childhood how to be spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn’t grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view."

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/13/tarkovsky-...
When I was younger and didn't had models of the world, my fist one was one of a workaholic - 10+ hours per day in the office; working weekdays. Everyone around me was following this model, so naturally, I thought the normal way is this. Thus was a financial audit company.

Then, I entered the other spectrum in a corporate structure company. Most of the people there didn't give much effort and just waited for the time to get to 5pm for then to leave home. The day was full with smoke breaks and coffee breaks.

When we (with friends) started a startup, 7 days a week was the norm. This quickly proved inefficient in the long term as people started resenting, not to mention long term thinking was missing and a lot of honest effort was a complete waste.

We're now into a normal work week model with the occasional up/down depending on the situation. But we got sufficient funding. Before we didn't and sometimes the pressure triggers a short-term mode where you want to grind as much as possible for the money-time-food you have available.

tl;dr - you are your own master and commander. You don't have to follow the "norm" but others may expect you to do so. In the end it's your choice.

@diego and @api summed up the benefits of a normal work time. Smart people value their rest. And, as you are probably aware - the best ideas usually come in the times when you are resting from work.

Free time has allowed me to get good at psychology, philosophy, sociology, marketing, critical thinking, martial arts, game design, have a decent fitness and endurance levels, social contacts with healthy people and so on resources, which I wound't have had of I was focusing only on work. Not to mention I would have probably go haywire.

Actually, without the knowledge of those fields, my overall suitability for business would be severely limited.
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This doesn't explain why they are slowly killing WPF. It's perfect for business applications.
This would be great on PS Vita. I'd buy it.
I read that the EU ruled a similar EU wide law unlawful recently. Can they not do the same here? I always thought that although the UK can make it's own laws it couldn't override EU rulings.
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What would YOU do?

Stop thinking about myself and start thinking about others.

Find someone who needs help. Help them. Repeat.

Before you know it, instances will become classes and you'll have more important things to do than you could have ever imagined.

And a real nice byproduct will be that you will have addressed your original issue far better than you could have by focusing on yourself.
You realize that online marketing for direct acquisition is insanely easy to track, right? Branding is another story, of course.
All that travel advice. Sure, take it. Travel. I didn't travel a lot, 2 times 1 month with my (now) wife (Thailand/Vietnam) and some weeks pasted onto the back of conferences in the US (New Orleans/Boston/parts of California) during my PhD. I live in the Netherlands.

I also want to bring in that many of my friends/colleagues are starting serious relationships later and later in life. Some have children at the age of 38. Some find out they have a lot of trouble having children. They become very unhappy.

I wonder how many more people choose like me: Settle down with a woman you look up to, travel, yes but don't wait to long. Have kids, it is impossible to imagine the joy they bring when you don't have them.

When your kids leave the house, your are mid-fities and a lot more wealthy. I plan to take my kids around the world when they are up to it. In Thailand I met a lot of families with kids in the 6-12 range. They have a great time sitting on elephants and swimming with dolphins for a couple of dollars.

That said, nothing wrong with a bit of travel while you are still young, you might even meet your s/o along the way.

I feel a bit of regret reading all these comments, I might have traveled more knowing what I know now. But I also have to admit I feel quite some anxiety when I feel a taxi driver is going to screw me over. This will happen a lot. You have to be the kind of guy that can stand up for himself. Not too social at certain moments I'd say. Perhaps this is also what you learn when traveling longer.

I feel I should have traveled more. Not because I feel this constantly but after reading all this... But then, thinking of the travel I did, I was always happy to come home again.

Pff, trying to justify life choices because of your post while I should be working.

Better to regret things you did than things you didn't?

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger you'll learn the things you never knew you never knew.
Just for nitpicking, a number is neither pseudorandom or random. It could be randomly generated though.
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I try to do things now that I won't be able to do in the future. If you hope to have a family one day, that's going to tie you to one spot, because you'll want a support network, so you would be wise to travel now.
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introducing yourself using the MIT-definition of hacker is a huge mistake anyways because they'll ask you how you hack computers or something; which will lead to you having to explain the difference between the classic hacker and the MIT hacker - for 99% of people this is the most boring topic ever
Have a real adventure.

http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/

The boats will be back in London in a couple of days. Go along and talk to some people who have literally just finished sailing the entire way around the world. Hear about the incredible things they've seen. The wonderful people they met and the amazing obstacles they had to overcome. Most importantly, hear about how much they feel they've developed personally.

I've spent a lot of my life travelling (which is what most people here are saying you should do). I'd highly recommend it but try to not end up travelling as a tourist (foolishly, I did for years). My top tip would be to not travel too much. Go somewhere, anywhere. Live with a local family. Learn the language. Understand the culture. Your life will forever be richer for it.
I've always had a hard time getting Google Display Network to operate cost efficiently.
It's crazy that something like this is even needed and everyone is perfectly ok with it. DRM is becoming the norm, and nobody is trying to stop it.