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one of the ember-cli maintainers here.

CLI will be following closely with a relevant release. To ensure trying ember 2.0 is as smooth as possible.

my apologies for any lag between the two project releases.

For those interested (or concerned) the CLI is not coupled to the ember versions, it actually enables interested users to switch between versions. Obviously we believe in more curated experience (hence the in-bound CLI release)

We take advantage of this version switching via https://github.com/kategengler/ember-try which enables ember-addons to automatically test against multiple relevant versions of ember.

see ember-meterial-lite travis run as an example https://travis-ci.org/mike-north/ember-material-lite
Yet we are basing this hype around a non-credible article that doesn't really offer much in terms of proof? There have already been a few people including myself who have done HTTPS/HTTP sniffing who haven't found any "keylogging" like evidence other than for Cortana/search related tasks. At this point it's a witch hunt.
It's not at all clear that the Model S has high margins. They are burning cash on operating activities [1] (i.e. not including CapEx).

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATSLA&fstype=ii&ei=j...
I get your point, and think it is valid.

My opinion is consistent with your opinion, at least in terms of what a reasonable next action might be: stopping eating meat would be a good place to start.

Here is another perspective:

> Have no illusions. To achieve our goal of getting
> off fossil fuels, these reductions in demand and
> increases in supply must be big. Don’t be distracted
> by the myth that “every little helps.” If everyone
> does a little, we’ll achieve only a little. We must
> do a lot. What’s required are big changes in demand
> and in supply.

> “But surely, if 60 million people all do a little,
> it’ll add up to a lot?” No. This “if-everyone”
> multiplying machine is just a way of making something
> small sound big. The “if-everyone” multiplying machine
> churns out inspirational statements of the form
> “if everyone did X, then it would provide enough
> energy/water/gas to do Y,” where Y sounds impressive.
> Is it surprising that Y sounds big? Of course not. We
> got Y by multiplying X by the number of people involved

> -- David MacKay [1]

My opinion: Want to seriously reduce CO2? Stop eating meat and have fewer children and limit spend on products to $1k / year and limit spend on services to $2k / year and don't fly on planes and encourage everyone around you to take similarly progressive measures and apply pressure to your local political representatives and rejig our ideas regarding how to run society...

That said, "the best is the enemy of the good". What more can we do than take progressive steps in the right direction, even if we are unable or unwilling to personally change far enough? At least we can influence those around us.

I claim no moral high ground: I am still eating meat as it is easy to do so, and I like doing it, and thinking about the longer term picture causes me distress, even after reading a dozen books about this stuff this year.

[1] http://www.withouthotair.com/c19/page_114.shtml
Finally someone who isn't a hypocrite and speaks the truth. The same people who are complaining about Microsoft data mining are the same people who don't have issues using Google.

It's just so ridiculously stupid and it's as if it's funny.
Yes. I expected to see an article about stock images being overused across lots of publications, and whatever the fix for that is.
That's not what they were asking. They were asking about if TYPED passwords are sent (meaning keylogger style). You're talking about password manager syncing.

To just give one example, if typed passwords are sent them passwords typed into Chrome are sent, if only the password manager is synced then that only impacts IE or Edge users.
They are probably not putting sensitive and confidential patient information into Google searches though.

Windows 10 is harvesting and relaying every-fucking-thing you type on your operating system.
I'd say Microsoft is more pig-on-lipstick, if you see what I mean. Some of the core technology is rather nice. The devotion to platform stability is generally welcome. The problem is that it comes chained to restrictive business practices, and now privacy invasions.
As long as they aren't on the street (like pictures in the article's lead photo), nothing wrong with it. Once they're on the sidewalk, I have a problem, because sidewalks are for pedestrians and fast moving vehicles have no place there.
In comparison to OSX and Windows running on the same hardware, Ubuntu is worse in every meaningful way. Power management is terrible, window management is terrible, the Ubuntu software center is slow as hell and has no selection (amount of useful software is a huge concern, actually). It lacks polish in general, things that people have come to take for granted in their OSs are missing or badly implemented.

I'm sure the argument will come that most home users only need a web browser, so the software selection isn't a problem, but at that point you might as well just use Chrome OS and get something that actually works.
may I ask what phone OS do you use?
1000+ machines and no way to update a file with a few commands/clicks/whatever-your-configuration-management-system-uses? (Ok, at worst, making a batch file and scheduling its launch.)

If so, I suppose you have big issues with your system administration team.
<picture> is available in about half of the shipped browsers (http://caniuse.com/#search=picture) and there's a robust polyfill available: https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill
When you sign an other contract, you also can not argue, you haven't read the terms (even when they are in very small letters).

Sure you can. And if it's a contract of adhesion between a business and a consumer where the terms are unreasonably loaded in favour of the business, you might actually win, too.

(I am not a lawyer, your jurisdiction may vary, etc. I have however worked with real lawyers on real terms and conditions documents, and have been consistently advised that it's preferable to avoid surprising terms and that if any do need to go in then they should be early and prominent to maximise the chance of them standing up if anything ever got to court.)
Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Web: What Retailers Need to Know
We're already doing that but it's hard work keeping up with it all.
I enjoyed this as well... Struggling to find applications off the top of my head but it's a nice implementation.

Some use cases on the site would be a nice addition.
It's actually an industry by now.

No need to downvote...
http://www.globalvolunteers.org/faqs/faq7.asp
> Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan

Mighty good it did them there...

It's disturbing that no matter how much technology police gets, they always seem to want more. I mean, look at the encryption backdoor debate. We're being monitored in all ways imaginable, and apparently it's still not enough.
Worth noting that those "HDR" televisions are still only Rec709 which is limited to about 6 stops of dynamic range. Sure some are approaching rec2020 color gamut, but we're still cramming all that gamma down into 6-9 stops. Even a consumer DSLR can shoot 12.

I work in post and have moved our workflow over to the Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES) which supports up to 27 stops (more than the eye can see which is about 24 best case scenario). ACES allows us to dynamically change our output to rec709, rec2020, P3 etc and while 2020 has better colors, it's definitely still a highly compressed image (in terms of dynamic range).
Yeah, I should have written 5-8 times, but MiniHack has some problem with editing comments.
> And because Windows is personal to you, we give you choices about the personal data we collect and how we use it.

Apart from the data we don't give you a choice about. And the choices we opt to ignore anyway.
For any use in production.
Yes, you are right all that must be considered.
Still not acceptable.
Clipboard Manager for Android. Don't lose anything important
What you're talking about is Desktop OS exclusive though - it doesn't take in to account mobile OSs.
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> Dalvik isn't Java. Dalvik bytecode isn't Java.

... but all apps are "written in Java", in practice, and one could argue that Android would not have obtained such a large ecosystem without this play. This is all but admitted in Google emails from the Sun days. Whether this means Google has to somehow credit Oracle/Sun, it's for the courts to decide, and as of now, the score is 1-1, so not really clear-cut.

> It will be tough sledding for anyone trying to show there is Java IP inside Android.

This has already been considered in the original trial and the appeal. IIRC, a few secondary files were reused or copied verbatim at some point; regardless, Oracle's position is that the API itself is copyrightable, and as such any implementation has to acknowledge the original rights.

(Note: I don't think Oracle should win, I just acknowledge that neither party really has any higher ground, moral or otherwise.)
Angular 1 or Angular 2? What about Backbone? Meteor? There are a LOT more than 3 frameworks. The choice is overwhelming when you are not a specialist in JS and its difficult to know where to begin.

(Though having tested React recently, its the best of the ones I have used).
You can opt-out of services, if you run Windows you can't opt-out of your operating system. That's basically the line I see.

I'm fairly certain things under NDA won't go near Windows 10, even if anonymous the data is still leaked. Just like these things currently stay far away from 3rd-party services.
A mobile network is basically sub-Saharan. 120 KB of JavaScript is far too much to download, decompress and evaluate on a phone.
It's not a big deal but I bought a house in Berkeley 2 years ago and paid pmi for a year until I refid. It was a jumbo loan. So I guess ymmv.
> Do you type passwords and other private information directly into GDocs?

Of course! Why on earth would I trust passwords in some random third-party password locker when I can instead store them in a heavily-secured Drive doc behind the one account I have with a regular password rotation schedule and two-factor authentication?

It's where I keep my bank account numbers and last will and testament too. ;)
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Because it fits the asset allocation you want? Because selling costs you transaction costs without gaining anything? (if its a fair price the stock is worth exactly as much as the same amount in cash)

I assumed that the likelihood and size of possible dividends is already included in your estimate of what the stock is worth.
prism = less than half signal at each end
Yes, I knew a guy who worked in construction at Vail and lived in a tent. It was summer, and I don't know how long he did this.
> This is no different than Yosemite which logs your location and searches that you make with Spotlight and Safari.

No, if this is true it is massively different. This article claims that Microsoft is keylogging everything for keywords; this is not in the same universe as one app sending data for search results. Did you not rtfa?
You can trust Microsoft. Don't worry about it. They'd never do anything to compromise your privacy. Just ask them.

/LOL.
Yes they're factory pressed Windows administrators who are to be honest fucking useless unless it comes to pointing at someone else but that's another story...they're being replaced piecemeal by bits of Ansible and Linux machines.

Realistically we don't want to deploy a host file and AFAIK it doesn't work anyway; we want to control the network itself which we do via firewalls and DNS but it's a compromise between flexibility (our users still need to use the internet) and security.
Windows 10 is not free, it's a free upgrade for customers that already payed for a previous version.
Another thing is that data on mobile sometimes can be expensive.
Windows 10 is not free. The cost is built-in to the hardware you buy. They threw their users a bone to get some goodwill and hopefully entice some of them off old OSes, but the OS is not free, and this canard needs to stop.

Linux is free. Do you mean to imply that Linux is nothing more than an advertising/tracking platform? I pay for cable TV, so I guess I'm not the product there right? Oh wait, even though I pay the real money comes from being able to direct my eyeballs at ads. The world is not that simple, and I keep seeing people parrot this exact line at everything. It is applicable in some cases and not in others, so don't whip it to death.
Rape is a crime defined by its elements, not by whether or not the victim feels they were wronged. With all crimes, if a person commits a certain act with a certain intent/state of mind, they've committed a crime and the victim's feelings on the matter are irrelevant. Now, in a rape case, without the cooperation and testimony of the victim it is very hard to present enough evidence to convict a jury that the government has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime's elements were all present.

If rape was defined just be whether or not the victim felt it was rape, the victim could change their mind after-the-fact and Assange would go from not-rapist to rapist (and possibly to not-rapist again) based on not on their own actions by based on someone's feelings of guilt, anger, intimidation, or forgiveness a month from the act. This only makes any sense if you view crimes as being individual injuries to one person. But that isn't how criminal law works. If I walk up to you in the middle of a hackathon and stab you in the forearm, I have indeed harmed you and you can sue me for damages in civil court. However, I have also harmed society, specifically that part of society where people assume they can go to hackathon a without being stabbed.

A great source to learn about the fundamentals of criminal law and criminal procedure is this page maintained by a former prosecutor who now works as s defense attorney in NYC. http://lawcomic.net/guide/?page_id=5

All of this should also apply on a smaller scale to communities with Codes of Conduct: http://thebias.com/2015/08/12/take-responsibility-for-handli...

EDIT: I am not a lawyer and comments from a random person on the Internet do not establish an a attourney-client relationship. For actual advice about criminal or international law, please contact Nathan Burney, an actual lawyer who also happens to maintain the illustrated educational resource that I've linked to and I think is fantastic.
198 charges against Uber drivers in Toronto
It's a mix of 802.11 directed antenna connections and now fibre linking up large areas with downtown Barcelona where the connection to the outside Internet is located. There are large valleys with poor 802.11 connections to Barcelona, and now many of them are getting fibre.
Volunteers have learnt how to splice fibre and negotiate where to lay fibre :)
That's not the intended use, though. It is intended as an alternative interface to ordinary git repos, not as an alternative way to store ordinary file systems.
It sounds very similar to a 'Saccade' [1]. Something your eyes do all the time when waking whenever they move. From your mind's perspective it seems to cut off the old signal from wherever yours eyes were previously facing/absorbing, wipes the slate clean and starts building up mental imagery and models based on the new input feed.

I think this might be getting at what they mean by 'change of scene', but it's probably not possible to prove exactly what's happening since it's subjective.

As an experiment you can do yourself to highlight this effect, go to you bathroom and look into the mirror with your face almost touching it, staring at the point between your eyes.

Try not to move your eyes at all and relax them, even if it feels like they might be moving off-target. Eventually your whole 'view' should subtly change, maybe blur and come into and out of seeming focus as your brain tries to interpret the noisy input it's getting (since nothing should be changing, the only difference in the input is noise) and may refocus your mental imagery/minds eye at showing you what it thinks you're looking at.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade
Indeed, I know what you've written and I agree with it -- writing it all in the first place would've resulted in a wall of text! I'm still unsure if there's a real benefit in this technology, or if the same result can be obtained by increasing the bit precison in the ADC stage of a "normal" sensor.

Even if there were, I pointed at the Foveon X3 as an example of a very good technology that was regardarded as a breakthrough but didn't really make it commercially. Another "revolutionary" idea that was marketed as something that "would change the way we take photographs" were the Lytro cameras, with their unique focus technology, that works by taking the picture in a different way than a classic camera, wich allows to change the focus of the picture working with the "raw" file. Even though that technology is also very interesting, it has remained in a niche market and only offered by one company -- more novelty than "mainstream" photography.
I'm pretty sure it's also behind a flag and will remain so until the spec is stable enough that it won't change when it becomes standard (likely EcmaScript 2017).
It has been 13 years. When does my gesture interface arrive?

http://youtu.be/M3H9sgyltko

Oh yeah, and thanks for the frog in the boiling water scare. We should certainly have the conversation. This is probably not the best forum. HN just isn't built for it.
I ride my sons skooter when I go to pick him up from school. Some of the teachers joke about my skooter skills, but fuck 'em. Got to keep the skills up, if you want to surf, skate, skooter, kitesurf, stand up paddle or whatever, skating and skooting round are good for the skills.

Left foot forwards, right foot forwards, push with the left, then right. Both beside each other. One handed. Go slow. Go fast. All good skills.
as somebody who never uses apple products and probably never will, i don't find it OK that my device, any device would do such nasty things.

to put it as simply as I can - wrong behavior is wrong, and it's good to not be OK with it. just because other assholes in the block are doing it too doesn't make it any more right.

do you see anything wrong with that statement?
Optimized for accessing secured systems with a military-grade suite of intrusion routines hand-crafted by her creator, yes. ;)
I don't know, how about using a dictionary and doing research?

Otherwise wouldn't every commonly misspelled word show up incorrectly in spellcheck?

There is quite a bit of work in the field of speech recognition, too, and it's entirely possible to create a functional model without recording every user's voice and storing that information on a server. Even if they require speech samples, or samples from different languages, they should at least pay someone for that information.

I was disappointed when I learned that the voice recognition feature in Siri wasn't local to the phone.
Well gifs being palette based does add to the problem more. Well the obvious solution is to use the color values for rescaling and averaging (in a proper colorspace), resize the image then build a new palette from the new colors. Well this palette generation isn't exactly straightforward either.
Ask HN: What Were Some Unforseen Challenges Your Startup Faced?
What were some unforseen challenges you've encountered in your startup, aside from the usual not-enough-money/time/customer acquisition issues? What were your solutions?
Wow. I use Linux and BSD on my own machines, but the rest of the family is on Windows 10. This sort of thing makes me seriously think about trying to get the wife and kids to consider switching :/
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The article points out that there is a salient distinction between Uber the company and the drivers with whom it has a relationship.

Uber may be allowed to act as a broker between riders and drivers, but the drivers themselves still have to comply with the city’s bylaws until such time as the bylaws are overturned in court or repealed.

(A similar thing happened with a Toronto furrier named Paul Magder. He spent years fighting the unpopular laws restricting Sunday Shopping, and accumulated a huge pile of $10,000 fines. The laws were finally repealed, but he was still required to pay for his violations from when the laws were in place.)
The article is moot, Did you also read the article about MH370 getting shot down by an Israeli missile? Clearly not credible, Look at some articles where people have done HTTPS/HTTP snooping and you can find out pretty quick that there are no indications that there is an active key-logger other than Cortana/Search data being sent off.
despite being a propaganda rag, they still have brought to light something that should not be happening, as others in this thread have noted. MS wants to collect massive amounts of information from Windows 10 installs.
Code Transparency isn't for the Weak
For revenue - there are about 20 ISPs who pay for QoS. Their contributions fund free internet for the other users. They get a guaranteed large share of the available outbound b/w.
"Beginning of the end for over-saturated images" ?

Well, then, say goodbye to the Disney channel, the most oversaturated channel out there.
Very good analysis and bonds well with my thinking as well. For me, TSLA doesn't have the fundamentals to be so expensive. In theory, TSLA shareholders are actually losing money right now if you exclude the share price movement by speculation.
An algorithm reading your email to look for words to server better ads is hardly spying imho. I rather see ads of things that interest me than ads for casinos. And I'm hardly a MS lover.
Its pretty clever to call website 'russian propoganda'. Now nobody will believe that Windows 10 phones home.
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They're talking about the pixel brightness values getting saturated (255), not colour saturation.

But I've never heard over-saturation being used to refer to brightness saturation - brightness is either saturated or not.
I heard from a colleague who went on a tour of a CCTV control centre in London that it was being used on surveillance camera live streams at least 15 years ago.
Because individual stocks can be rigged in either direction (for or against your position), but at the level of sector or index funds all of that activity balances out.
Same in Lyon, France; I saw scooters over 100€ in the stores (because adults weigh more and want a smoother ride, I guess), and dozens of adults on scooters during commute hours. It was a big surprise to me because it's very rare to see adults on scooters in the US, except maybe that one uncle who drinks too much.

Maybe my self-preservation instinct is weak, but I'd love to try one of those 'Mountain Trottys'.
One KB or sfc run later and that'll all be turned back on again...
This is a great idea. It would be interesting to see the failure modes though because the phase-unwrapping surely can't handle every situation (e.g. adding a constant value >255 to the whole image).
DANGER: I've tried the waiting tip, and now I have it enabled to always share everything by default

Running Android 5.0.2

/rant nice played Google! I'm so pissed right now

EDIT: It's been a while, and I haven't been able to fix the situation. I'm thinking on wipe the whole system to revert this. This is really sad, technology should work for us, not against us.