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> I see you take the two most fittest as is, maybe this could be useful for picking the second one?

Yep, we take the two most fittest unchanged, and breed the rest randomly along a non-uniform distribution tending towards the top.

> Also, when the Mona Lisa thing was posted on HN, someone suggested marking areas of the target image as "more important", to maybe make facial features etc. more recognizable.

This is a really good idea and would definitely make a difference. In my penguin example, with too few polys, sometimes we reach a local maxima before the eyes (small details) look any good. I combatted this somewhat by encouraging new polys to be (a) small and (b) regular. But I like the idea of a more guided approach.

There's an awesome javascript example you might find helpful: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/

Edit: Your images look amazing. How do you make the vector shapes?
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I'm not sure how I feel about the fact I was just able to look up my bosses salary.
Maybe they will take this to the Federal Cartel Office now: "See, Google has such a large impact on our revenue, they are a monopoly." Of course the "Leistungsschutzrecht" has been ridiculous from the start but it might help them to prove their point to take it further.
Apparently these browser extensions should spoof various user agents, I'm not sure they do that.

They're mostly about comparing prices from different sites.
What do you think about a grid/list view switch in the listing page, by clicking that, you can switch between grid and list view? Thanks.
I haven't seen any tech company beating the number requests from IBM yet. Please post if you do...
This is common knowledge for ages, good to see it properly proven.

However, it seems there's something else at play here when you realize Juncker has just started his term as European Comission president, and the TTIP deals going on. It seems fishy that this only appears now and with such fanfare.
To be more clear, I suggest that Strictly by Rating require a minimum number of user reviews counted, and excludes movies with RT Audience reviews still in a "Want to See" status.
How is the current system transparent in this regard? How do you know where your MP/Congressperson got their information from (since we apparently agree that representatives are often not expert in the subject matter)?
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I think Lima might be what you want: https://meetlima.com/

> If you want to be safe against hard drives and Lima failures, we recommend you to install an extra Lima on your local network or on another location which will replicate your data.

— http://support.meetlima.com/hc/en-us/articles/203013968-Does...

But you'd have to have a separate Lima for each user at the moment:

http://support.meetlima.com/hc/en-us/articles/203341487-Can-...
Being able to use split horizon dns queries on amazon is great. Previously you had to configure your own dns service for this to work
Wait you dumbasses still use flash?
But it's hard to argue, even with a monopoly, that someone whose free service benefits you in the millions has to pay for that privilege.
Exactly. People that have a hard time understanding this, should maybe spend some time helping non-technical users use their computers and carefully pay attention how they interact with it.

Help a friend clean up their adware-infested Win7 laptop. Just show them how to remove unwanted browser extensions, and use PC-decrapifier to mass-uninstall the crapware. Nothing too fancy, because it will take the better part of an afternoon or evening anyway, because 1) these computers will be slow and most importantly 2) you're going to let them do all the clicking and typing (they will learn a lot, even if only more confidence in using their machine).

I don't like doing this because it always takes way more time than I planned, but if you do it right, the speed difference will make them really really happy and thankful for months :)

Anyway the point is, if you pay careful attention, you will first-hand notice all the idiosyncrasies with which non-tech people use their machines. It's fascinating, in a way.
Did they "refund" on your card or just refund your EA wallet when you can only puchase EA stuff?

Also some people said that a videogame can be finished under 7 days with ease, however EA games aren't that kind imo.
Beautiful and affecting article. Thanks for sharing...
For a sci-fi MMO, perhaps.
The biggest problem with Android apps is calibration. There's hundreds of models, each with different microphones, available. Even the hardware used on seemingly the same phone models often varies depending on the batch and country.

I have an app (Sound Meter) which apparently downloads calibration data for a number of popular phone models. This is probably the only realistic solution when you're faced with such a wide variety of hardware. I have no idea how accurate the calibration is though.

It's a byproduct of Apples total ecosystem control that developers have a very good idea of what hardware users have. This has upsides and downsides - with other phone ecosystems you lose accurate sound meters, but you gain a wider variety of devices running the same operating system.
The full-circle feeling is hitting me hard whenever someone makes a simple JS program that shows a rotating cube in the browser and everybody falls off their chairs that this is possible.

The only thing that has really changed is how we consume media (movies, music, news, books and so on) and how software is delivered. For all the rest of it we could be back in 1987 dialing into some video text service but with better graphics. 1200/75 Looks so much faster than 180/20 anyway.

The real net revolution is still waiting somewhere in the wings, when it hits we'll be remembering the days before it on the web as the pre-history and some kind of distraction from making real progress for more than two decades.

Roads have interesting properties, they enable all kinds of activities that were previously impossible because each and every idea started with 'first we have to build these roads'. Pretty soon we'll have multiple megabits upstream from just about every locality for a relatively low cost.

IPv6 will re-establish the peer to peer nature of the net and will (hopefully) get rid of the biggest stumbling block to launch the next level of application: the NAT (the biggest kludge on the net aka a poor mans firewall).
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If you really want to be rational about your company (no personal or business income tax), live cheaply relative to San Francisco, and yet be close to it, start your company in Reno, NV. Rents are 1/2 to 1/3rd of what they are in SF. There is a relatively large and growing tech scene (Gigafactory is being built in Reno, there are several drone startups, SNC does space/military stuff, IGT and Bally Technologies are also headquartered there). San Francisco is a 3.5 hour drive or a 45 minute flight. Even if you flew to San Francisco every week for meetings and rented a 4 bedroom house, you would save money over a 2 bedroom apartment in SF. Las Vegas (where I primarily live) is another great option, although it's further from SF and puts it out of driving range (1.5 hour direct flight to SF).

It seems irrational (and a disservice to investors) to start an Internet company that can be based anywhere in the Bay Area these days, especially if you plan on being successful. Say you personally net $10M on an exit. In Nevada you would only the 20% federal long-term capital gains tax, or $2M. In California, you pay the 20% federal tax plus 13.5% state income tax - your tax bill rises by 67.5%. That same $10M exit costs you $3.35M in taxes (not to mention the negative effects of CA's business income tax, higher payroll taxes, office rents, living expenses for employees, etc. on your valuation). Personally, I'd rather have the extra $1.35M in the bank or spend it on buying a bigger house or a few Ferraris than give it to Jerry Brown (plus I happen to like soda [1]). Mark Zuckerberg alone has paid a multi-billion dollar penalty for the mere privilege of living in California.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/05/361793296/how-di...
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It's interesting how some people react negatively to this.

This is what young people who want to "make it big in the city" have done it for ages all over the planet. Just the city and the industry varies, but the story remains the same. Nothing about it is particular to SF or tech startups.

Sure, you may be able to achieve the same goals from a more comfortable place, but for many people that's missing out on 50% of the adventure. When it all comes down to it, these are the experiences that last, regardless of whatever failure or success follows.
This is amazing. Just thought about this idea a few days ago and boom! It exists! Would love to see support to embed any html (think youtube videos) every text area stored as a file on dropbox, support for right to left...
Those people paying £10 are not necessarily happy with it, especially if they realise they could have been paying less.

It is a terrible idea to have an "enter your coupon code" box during checkout for precisely that reason.

See also the monkey grape experiment.
Can you tell us motivation to build this instead of contorting to and using existing solutions such as Apache Traffic Server, squid, nginx or haproxy?
Glad to hear you found this somewhat useful. Keep me and HN in the loop if/when you're building something, too--looking forward.
Oakland and East Bay are generally cheaper. The peninsula down to Palo Alto and Mountain View is just as expensive as the city.
2) But to some degree it is similar now - people as well can try to bribe others to vote for a particular person. The only difference is it is not as formal as delegating your vote.
But those people are usually seen as deluded fools and we've tried to protect them from the exploitation that they may face when they get to whatever big city.

I think you'd see the same negative reaction if this was a blog post telling would-be actors how to live cheap as waiters in Hollywood.
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Hey, I am a bit late, but I wonder how you generally handle unicode in C++, since the language itself does not have much support for it. That's what always makes me weary of writing any kind of server in C++.
I wonder why those haven't got traction with things like Mozilla though. Presumably -someone- would at least have looked at them if they're that big a win?
I don't know, but at least I know it's them making the decision. I know they're corruptible, and I know their information can be manipulated and can be incomplete. It's transparent because everybody knows this, that's why we can complain about it. In some cases, we can call out lawmakers for it and get things changed. We know which ones tend to decide badly, and we can vote against them. It's an important balance in the system. If I have no control over who votes, and the whole system is made to look objective, that balance and that transparency is lost.
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Why miss it? It's not like it stopped working...
Which Sound Meter? There are many in the play store.
All it takes is you sending a picture postcard using the US Postal Service during your 'crime' to make it a federal thing.

This sort of hack to elevate crimes to federal level has been abused plenty of drugs cases in the past, so that separation of state and federal powers is mostly a matter of decorum, if the feds want to be involved in a case they will be.
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hardly anything on the internet is "new". We're all just rehashing things that existed on the net in the 90s, doing them slightly better.
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You are mixing up two persons: Jean-Claude Juncker is starting his term as the European Comission president. Jean-Claude Trichet was president of the ECB.
Common knowledge that Jean-Claude Juncker has just begun his term as European Commission President.
You might want to put your security system and other infrastructure hardware on a separate VLAN.

Not only does that help prevent stuff like this, it turns out that a lot of embedded hardware isn't that great from a network security perspective.
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A lot of those touting "Free Market" and "True Capitalism" adds as a footnote "as long as it doesn't add more competition for me".
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Bungie released the original binaries and assets for all three games (http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/). You can play these on vintage hardware, Aleph One just lets you play on modern hardware.

While I say "original", these are different from the retail versions of the original games, which required serial numbers. Bungie's Jason Jones removed the serial number check himself, without the original source.

http://forums.bungie.org/story/?noframes;read=59040
Yes of course, that's what I meant. I edited the original post.
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Help! On another, similar article, they have used one of my pictures, with me and my wife in it - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/competition/luxembourg-tax-...

The only reason I think is because it was taken in front of the Amazon office in Luxembourg.

Any suggestion on how to ask for removal, and possibly compensation for damage?
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s/better/differently/

I wouldn't say all of the re-invention has been for the better.
The LOG.debug commands are executed when the singleton is used, but not when it is created. I think it should be the opposite.

The create method called from getInstance should probably be private.

It is called without parameter in getInstance, but has a mandatory String parameter. This seems inconsistant.

The presence of two return instructions is also against many guidelines.

There is an accumulation of too many issues for such a classical pattern.
Fine, there's the worry you typed in something sensitive in the document. But it's far from being the major worry here, if I understood everything correctly...

Basically, if you have all keystrokes with timing info, you've got all the keystroke dynamics required to establish an individual's biometric keystroke fingerprint. And that seems freaking scary to me, for a few reasons.

1) Impersonation

Anyone can grab that fingerprint from any shared file on Google Docs and then feed it to a program so that you can impersonate the author for various purposes... Be it typing a blog comment (harmless), or something more insidious like logging into a secure system using that type of auth system.

Another trivial example could be impersonating someone on a Coursera course, where they use such fingerprints for identification on paid / "signature track" courses, which allow you to get a verified certificate from a known university. They use a photo, but that can also be fed by a tweaked webcam driver. So there you have it, you can hire someone to take lessons and pass exams for you. Or fail you.

2) Anonymity

Anyone with access to a shared google doc can now get your fingerprint, and if they implement a similar record on another website, they can identify who you are. Maybe such fingerprints are not 100% unique, but they surely can be accurate enough to pick you from a crowd of anonymous commenters on a website, for instance.

You could also imagine that a software you already have installed could identify you using a similar approach.

In that case, surfing using a Tails/Tor VM and in the incognito mode of your browser won't help you that much.

I'm sure in a perfect world this could sound awesome: no logins required anywhere, just type in stuff and get automatically ID-ed and credited for what you type and say. In our world, that could be bad for some people.

Plus I can only imagine how bad that would be if companies started to include in their web and desktop apps EULA that you agree to share keystroke dynamics with them and that you auhtorize them to redistribute it to partners. BAM, a global commercial database of uniquely identified users, no matter what account or throwaway email they use. Forget cookies and stuff, that won't need that anymore.

Bit far-fetched of course, as that would require some effort. But it's not that much effort that it wouldn't be interesting enough for someone to do it...
There are actually two different sides to this question.

When people refer to "64-bit" CPUs, generally they're referring to the address space. 64 bits of address space increased the addressable memory by a factor of 2^32 over 32 bit processors. That's a vast increase, and we're nowhere near exhausting it. Even current supercomputers are massively parallel, so individual nodes typically only have a few GB of memory. The largest memory server that I'm aware of uses up to 4 terabytes of memory, so that's a factor of 1024 beyond 32 bit addressing, or 42 bits. That leaves 22 bits of expansion, each one doubling the capacity of the last. I expect that won't be exceeded before 2100 at a minimum.

On the other hand, there's the size of the general-purpose and other registers. That's currently 64 bits also in AMD64 processors (including Intel's). There are, however, specialized vector instructions that currently operate on 256 bits at a time (AVX) and the next generation due in 2015 will operate on 512 bits at a time (AVX-2).

So, on address space the answer is "not anytime soon". On the processing side, the answer is "we're already beyond 128 bits". :-)
Maybe you could get an idea of the accuracy by e.g. feeding white noise to the phone and seeing how flat the spectrum is? And though I've never used them personally, I hear there are some pretty good clip-on microphones for smartphones on the market.
That sounds like a pretty big security hole. Just "type" random letters until you get a warning saying not to enter your password outside of password fields.
If they were it would almost certainly be through a front in such a way that it wasn't publicly known about unless/until a scandal broke stopping that particular incident. As to whether that's likely to be happening... I've absolutely no idea, for all I know it could be extremely likely, or conspiracy theory level.
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EDIT: Interesting that people are downvoting a simple "talk to them, here's how" comment. Before going all litigious and looking up the specifics of fair use for various licenses, what exactly is wrong with asking them nicely?
I think you've got it confused with some implementations of EtherPad. At least I know I've seen it there, but I don't recall seeing it in Google Docs.
> Do private prisons fight relaxing laws to make more money? I'm sure some do, but most don't.

Corrections Corporation of America does, and they account for more than 80,000 of the 133,000 private prison beds in the US. GEO Group does, and they account for about 49,000. Together they thus represents the vast majority of private prisons in the US.

Both of them are part of ALEC - a DC base lobbying group that develops model legislation that it then pushes as a means for state legislators to be "tough on crime".
I like it. Simple and extensible, if you want to.
My mother died many years ago, and at That time I had An Atari st. In the years that followed, macs, amigas, pc's became my computers. But all along the way emulators were the way to go back to the first years of my life when my parents bought my first Sinclair zx81, my Vic 20, my Commodore 64. I feel you.
About 133,000 as of 2013. And two companies (CCA and GEO Group), both of whom are aggressively fighting for tougher laws as a matter of course have about 129,000 bed capacity.
well, the same is true now as well right ? for example, a buggy driver can override a buffer-cache pointer with something else, and then you are hosed. if you are playing in the kernel-land and not careful enough, you are courting disaster...
> Doubtful, and ios7 (and 8) tightened up on pairing

They could still do more. It would be nice to be able to see a editable list of trusted devices. At the moment, on first connection, a "do you trust this computer?" prompt comes up. If you select "trust", to my knowledge there's no way to then revoke that trust. Additionally, there's no "don't ask me again" button, so if you do use your device with an un-trusted computer you have to be careful to never accidentally click the "trust" button every single time you plug it in (e.g. if you want to charge but don't want to sync).
The image you are talking about appears to be: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25012939@N03/4196459317 on that image it says: "Some rights reserved" and when you click through you are taken to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

So, it appears you have the photograph available on the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license. The original story using your picture is attributing it to you. So it appears to me that they've done nothing wrong.

If you want to ask them not to use it then there's a contact page: http://www.euractiv.com/contact
I'm sure the people playing with lasers appreciate the sentiment, but what about the vast majority of people that, given the choice, would not finance the endeavour?

If one of your friends doesn't want to pitch in to support the laser games, would you want him thrown in jail for refusing to go along with the plan, or do you accept that he's got the right to use his hard-earned dollars as he sees fit?

Now apply that same reasoning to all government spending.
At the time my mother died, many years ago, I used to have an Atari mega st. In the years that followed, amigas, macs, pc's became my computers. But all along the way emulators were the way to go back to those firsts years when my parents bought me my first Sinclair zx81, my Vic 20, my Commodore 64. I feel you.
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