skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, I don't know that much about GPU's, but surely they can render fractional pixels directly without downscaling shenanigans. Which actually means that GPU will convert full pixel values to fractional before rendering. Rendering to a larger buffer and then downscaling is actually a form of antialiasing, albeit an inefficient one (if I'm not wrong). Also, rendering without antialias would result in rounded full pixel values. Obviously, bitmaps will be downscaled on the GPU using whatever filters are set for them (just like before, if bitmap is larger than the target size).
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> Am I really the only one to think that the Apple Watch is just ugly?

On the internet you are never the only one. I don't like it either, but it's just subjective opinion. I'm sure a lot of people will like it.
> I thought the sillyness about being addicted to video games and computer was over. Apparently not.

Is it really sillyness?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction
I have conflicting feelings about this.

On the one hand, giving entertainment screens to children has the potential to create all kinds of bad habits.

On the other, I spent hours upon hours teaching myself to program on my Atari ST, plus learning about how computers work from it, and nowadays I've made a pretty good living from my passion for IT.

(That's not to say that I didn't also spend many, many hours gaming, or generally wasting time.)

As with most things in life, I think we can only say that the extreme ends are unlikely to be good, and the answer lies somewhere in the middle.
What if the Apple Watch was round?
I doubt he really meant addiction in the classical sense. I read it more as "Worst of all, becoming one of those assholes who can't put down their device and have a conversation like a normal human being". But I also limit my children's screen time, so I'm biased.
I work for a startup in the commercial video space, and one of the reasons we can compete against such giants is that their software really doesn't work that well... even for people who've paid shedloads for Lync.
Problem is, prisons like all government institutions are controlled by fads and fears and money - Senators don't do anything until votes are at stake or campaigning dollars. So nothing happens for a long time, and then Bang some extreme measure is passed to show that they care or something.

We closed the mental institutions and released folks into the general population, and that didn't work very well. Closing the prisons would be worse, because some of the people in there actually mean to do us harm.
I think people object to this not because they hate U2, but because this is a reminder that you don't really control your device, or even the content on it. Apple controls it, and will add or remove content as they see fit.

It reminds me of the incident where Amazon remotely deleted copies of a certain book about a future technological dystopia from kindles.
Any source on the "Monsanto lobbying against seed-banks"?

Your down votes may be because of that, because your sentence looks a bit like the typical uneducated anti-gmo/monsanto hate.
Alt+D is my favorite shortcut to focus Chrome omnibox :(
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Very cool, thanks to you both!
That's another angle, and it is at least as bad. But when you're in the business of playing middle man to a whole industry I really don't understand why you would play favourites at this level.

The fact that you have no control over your device is something that I wrote about the other day so I'm well aware of that. (And I had not even taken into account the eco system owners, just carriers versus public).
What kind of hack tries to peddle Steve Jobs' memory while explaining his child rearing philosophy based on a single comment in a phone call to someone he didn't know?

A NY Times hack.
I also work in the commercial telecommuting space. Its easy to compete there, because existing solutions are so crusty its laughable. All the voice apps revolve around phone calls and conference calls, things rooted in 1800's ideas about communications.
This.

I don't dislike U2.

I do dislike someone deciding whether or not I may or may not like U2 and adding it to my device/playlists.

I recently canned all of my Apple kit and went back to Windows after a number of issues over the years with controlling my devices[2]. It's the only viable platform for me[1] that is improving its reputation and putting the users first.

[1] I can't use *nix platforms for everything I do otherwise I would be using FreeBSD...

[2] Buying and selling iOS devices is a PITA due to the activation lock and getting data in and out of them is troublesome too.
> "Even the Samsung offering looks better - we can finally do curved displays, and is there a better place to put them than in a wristwatch?"

1. The Samsung offering looks huge on that men's wrist, never mind women's wrist.

2. Why would you put a curved watch on a wrist, if the top part of the wrist is flat?
Facebooks algorithm is spooky. Early on my son labeled his cousin as "Dad's brother's daughter". Later that week it had changed magically to 'cousin'.
Can't agree with this at all. Auto Layout can do some things that are very hard to do with Android layouts but for the common cases I find Android's layouts vastly more logical and maintainable than the typical Auto Layout mess. There are fewer things I dread more than opening up a complex xib file to dig into a complex Auto Layout scheme. Let the hunt & peck party begin!

I can open up an Android layout file and almost instantly understand how it works and what I have to do to change it.
> I experience joy anytime I look at anything that's above the 100 or so ppi of average 1080p monitors.

I experience joy when I can go online and check my emails when I'm in the bus or outside.
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Three million copies! I thought it was well established in court that copying equates lost revenue!

Who's going to pay for this? U2 must have lost billions!

(Unless the music industry have come on this around lately. Surely they haven't?)
Slightly off topic: but why didn't Tim release it by tapping his watch? Or better yet, have Bono reveal he was wearing a watch and do it himself?

Seemed like the biggest slam dunk in history when I was watching it live. Couldn't believe it when they did the finger touch.

Giving people the option to download/claim their U2 album would probably have been a better option though.
I think the vast majority of the users will not even realize this and will think 'oh wow, free music, thanks Apple.'.
I'm dubious of 3D printing. I look at the junk on my desk, and think Which of these things could a 3D printer make? Try it yourself! The answer is always None of Them. Mousepad - sorry, neoprene isn't an available material. Headphones - electronics and soft rubber earpieces - nope. Glassed - transparent coated lenses - nope. Book - nope, nope, nope. CD in case - forget it.
Hey pseudobry, thanks for the hard work first of all. I started using the 2.x branch on a large project and it saved me soooo much time and code over what I was trying to write around localStorage caching and expiration while trying to learn Angular at the same time.

I tried following the advice to upgrade to 3.x when it appeared on the API docs, but it broke my app completely which, after spending 5 minutes reading the 3.x branch's docs made complete sense - you're going for something much larger here.

I haven't personally played with Ember yet, but this seems like it might be inspired by Ember Data? Is that right? From what I hear, that's one of the many thing that Ember has gotten really right.

Thanks again!
If the cars can sense you and stop in time you don't need to remove the cyclists and pedestrians from the road. Having no misbehaving driver would arguably be safer for the cyclists (until a firmware update crushes them all).
I've been using Hootsuite for about two years now and I loved it so much that I decided to do the Hootsuite university course and get certified too. With Hootsuite there are so much more to it than just scheduling posts and getting analytics - you can track keywords, URL's, see tweets in your area, see tweets or conversations in any area actually. You can integrate different apps into Hootsuite like youtube, instagram, tumblr etc so you can literally manage EVERYTHING from ONE dashboard. Is it worth $10 per month? Absolutely! P.s - complete the Hootsuite university course to learn about everything you can do with this great social media tool :)
Most of their users seem to be heavily invested, both financially and emotionally. And if you're not willing to walk away, they can do whatever they want. They have all the leverage.
These "assholes" we see and are concerned about are, I think, mostly adults who did NOT grow up with such devices.

Our kids are taking our screens and gadgets for granted as much as we did TV (or whatever is appropriate for your age). It is a mistake to think that the effect of early exposure is going to be the same as it is for people for whom at some point it has been a fascinating novelty.
And here I thought the killer watch app was telling time!
It's only added to your device if you had "automatically download new purchases" selected.

It's not added to your playlists.

Do you also complain about the socks from your parents for Christmas?
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Like it. But automatic cars is about more than safety - its about getting people places quickly. Cyclists and pedestrians on the road would drive traffic speeds down to nil, especially if safety trumps all.
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I think it's even illegal in some countries. But it all depends on the definition of 'software'.
Thanks, Googling for agriterrorism led me to this:

http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/carlisle/depart...

Incredible.
Typically you get some say in what you purchase.
This advice from usvsth3m might help - http://usvsth3m.com/post/97128521413/how-to-dismantle-an-app...
"Bono, you've sold millions of albums, you should be happy. It's not like you can force your albums into the libraries of people who don't want them."

Bono slowly gets an evil grin, like the Grinch. "Get Tim Cook on the phone!"
But careful not to conclude - TV was OK for me so these gadgets are OK for kids today. That's Pollyanna thinking. Every new gadget ups the ante on frantic messaging and addictive interaction. There's nobody looking for a sensible limit - they make the gadgets and we buy them, and one day off the cliff we will go like the lemmings.
Just like Strawberries...
a) that's a major feature of iTunes' sync capability. Why wouldn't I have that ticked?

b) I shuffle the entire device so yes it is as I only buy and put music I want on it.

c) Hell yes. Sheldon moment: I have 10 pairs of socks exactly the same and and everyone knows I don't want socks for Christmas. Apple should know I don't want smelly U2 socks for Christmas seeing as my entire device is full of electronic and industrial music.
You probably can get addicted to video games. You can also get addicted to about anything. The problem is that I've heard this video game addiction thing over and over and over from random people who know nothing about them.

I've never met or heard of anyone (except in sensationalist and hence untrustworthy news reports) who was addicted to video games. I've however personally heard of the ordeals of many young gamers whose hobby was being prejudiced against because of this silly notion.
Yep. Xcode has also added 3x slots to xcassets files.
I don't see Angry Birds being much different than doing a puzzle on the floor, and my daughter has taught herself to read at a third grade level at age 5 by watching YouTube phonics videos and the like (along with picking up sign language).

"Screen time" on devices is different from screen time on TVs.
> FYI: Bananas are a parents goto fruit when your child is hungry and needs something healthy that is bulky and quick.

And portable with its own wrapper, doesn't stain, easy to wash out of clothes, and perhaps most importantly: it isn't green :)
The US has the same thing the problem is it's not always followed. Many drivers don't view the amber/yellow light as "I should stop now" but rather view it as "I better speed up so I don't get stuck at the red light". There's also been much accusation (though I have no links handy to provide as proof) of townships implementing red-light cameras and then changing, without warning, the duration of the amber light to be shorter. Keeping in mind that the law states that you cannot be inside the intersection when the light is red, if you entered it while the light was green or amber is irrelevant [Edit - It's been correctly pointed out below that this law may vary from state to state].
Apple paid for it. They said so during the iPhone launch presentation.
Excellent article until we get to this:

"[T]he first question any prison abolitionist needs to answer is what we’re supposed to do with violent criminals. An important part of that answer has to be that we must simply put up with an increased level of risk in our daily lives."

Good luck selling that idea. It drifts off-topic in any case, since up until then the article is mainly about prison reform and (for the most part) non-violent offenders themselves becoming victims of violent inmates. But wholesale release of violent offenders back into the community? It won't happen, and no politician who hopes to get elected will touch that message with a 10-foot pole.

Reading on:

"Prison abolitionists should be ready to advocate a massive expansion of the death penalty if that’s what it takes to move the discussion forward"

So now you're determined to alienate people on both the left and the right, on the dubious notion that violent offenders should be released, but the most violent should be executed?
Gamers are giving scientists insights into how people react to a plague
So I would put you with scubadivers and parachuters so you are special case. If I take you and my four co-workers then it will statistically be primarily piece of jewelery. You are writing about yourself. That is why I described vast population of people who cannot wear watches while working as contrast to finding people who need. Besides I shown that a lot of those who were indicated as people who need watches, really don't need those. Like drivers who have dashboard clocks.
> But since then, it looks like there's been great progress on an OCaml multi-core runtime, and also something very similar to type classes (module implicits). We'll have to see how those develop but it's definitely exciting.

Is there any information about these that I could read?
Ok it does happen. I have a young friend, dead now, who spent 6 months playing video games and drinking beer. Nothing else, just those two things. Slept on the couch with the controller dangling from his hand. Died of liver failure. What do you call it, if not addiction?
That remains to be seen :) .
Apple Watch is far from its release and Wear is near its second iteration. I honestly think it is not possible to know where the wearable landscape will be in 6 months or one year. Wear's contextual way of displaying card is hit or miss but I am not necessarily convinced that the zooming crown is the right solution.

I agree that the Moto 360 and the Apple Watch are in a class of their own at the moment (or would be if the Apple Watch was more than an ad at that point). Samsung and LG have delivered gadgets targeted at geeks whereas Motorola and Apple are making jewelry pieces that are also smart-watches.

Also, whatever the quality of product, Apple marketing machine is a juggernaut that will create sales.

My main gripe with all this is that I really, really, don't want two wearable ecosystems that are tied to their parent OSes.
I couldn't find any info, but I guess one will have to wait for adapter so Edison can output to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPD-Link that is connect Edison to most LCD monitors.
It is not a paradox; it is perhaps irony if those same people would prefer non-agri-tech fruit if you ask them (which, totally gut-reaction-based, I suspect is the case).
Thanks to his remarkable knowledge of IT universe, he recommands things he doesn't understand to people who doesn't really care.
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> It's only added to your device if you had "automatically download new purchases" selected.

Except I didnt purchase that music.It isnt a new purchase,it's just stuffing phones with promotional content.

And if you equate Apple forcing promotional content down to users with parents giving christmas gifts you are insulting (at least my) parents.
> I think when the kids of 2150 sit down in history class to study the 20th century, they'll laugh at the idea that every family invested significant money into 1-2 expensive hunks of steel for transportation. We fling these big dirty hunks of steel around at 100mph for perhaps 5% of the day. It can get quite dangerous! Then we waste huge amounts of land by storing them for the other 95% of the day. How bizarre is that?

Considering folks in rural areas will still need personal transportation in 2150 I don't think it would appear bizarre at all. Do you consider it bizarre that people used to keep horses around (which means stables, workers to care for them, feeding them, etc.) just for the occasions where they'd want to go into town? And even with self driving cars does that suddenly mean I'm prohibited from owning my own so I can travel where I want when I want? I really don't understand this love affair people have with the idea that we should let some corporate computer network decide when and if we're allowed to leave our homes.
>Android has proved this can work, and work fantastically.

I've used a couple of Android devices, with latest-ish OS versions and "Fantastically" is not a word I'd use in relation to their "density independent" operation, and GUIs in general.

>You don't need whole multipliers when you work in DIPs instead of PX.

You don't work in PX in iOS either. There have been logical units enforced from even before Android had a hi-DPI device available...

This is more about image (bitmap) assets apps have to use, and how they best adapt.
> Evan Williams, a founder of Blogger, Twitter and Medium, and his wife, Sara Williams, said that in lieu of iPads, their two young boys have hundreds of books (yes, physical ones) that they can pick up and read anytime.

One of the things that pains me a great deal about buying books for the Kindle is that they won't be sitting around the house for my kids to look at one day.

However, given what it costs to order a physical book in English over here in Italy, Kindle books make way more sense economically.
I don't see it on either my MacBook or my iPhone. Both of which do automatic downloads. The album is on my "purchased" list so I can download it if I want to, but it wasn't pushed to my phone/Mac. This seems fine to me.
Sucks to be their kids. Being denied of something other kids take for granted should surely ruin child's esteem.
> you don't really control your device, or even the content on it

You do, you can always remove those songs if you don't want them.
I would not so easily put so much stock or value in the way Steve Jobs did things as a parent or even as a human being. This is the guy who unfortunately refused to pay child support (while being more than able to) as well as refuse to acknowledge the existence of his daughter (ignoring all her contact efforts and so on). And then there's that whole thing with corruption at unholy levels and treating his employees and people in general like crap.
> The dangers he is referring to include exposure to harmful content like pornography

The linked article in the tele doesn't even mention porn. Furthermore since when is it harmful to see people participating in sex acts? What a joke.
I've never understood why Red Delicious were so popular. Now that I've been living down the street from an orchard in upstate NY, I understand even less. Orchards really seem to push Fuji around here- they seem to grow more of them than anything else. I've always really like macs, and my wife got me into macouns which are pretty similar.
"One day, I even found myself asking my girlfriend for a few cents because I had no money to buy bottled water [...] Get ready for a smaller apartment, smaller food portions, or counting your cents, which you never cared about in your life previously." This guy is presenting advice that is very specific to his life experience as though it is universal. Most people in this country do that all the time, and don't consider bottled water a necessity.
It's not so much about the GPU rendering fractional pixels, it's that it makes it much trickier to create neat assets that work at non-integer scale factors. Generally you want to ensure your raster assets have details that lie on integer boundaries at all scale factors, throwing in a non-integer scale factor as a target makes it more difficult to do that.
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What you do then when they remove something instead?
Actually most people I know will say exactly these words to every member of their family "who the fuck put this on my phone? I don't want it".
Well, I hope at least ,with that money he can reopen "the Kitchen" in Dublin,it was a nice place.
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Eh, that's not exactly how it works. You're confusing physical device resolution/size with the logical resolution that developers have to deal with. From a development perspective, with the exception that you have to make 1x, 2x, and (now) 3x bitmaps:

* iPad 2 = iPad Mini = iPad 3 = iPad 4 = iPad Air = iPad Mini Retina

* iPhone 5 = iPhone 5C = iPhone 5S = iPod Touch 5th gen

* iPhone 4S is a "sort of" outlier. If you're using the auto-layout stuff that's available it "just works" on a 5* phone. The exception is apps that aren't widget-based, like games.

* iPhone 6 and 6+ seem to have different logical resolutions, so there's that. But again, auto-layout helps here.

The "different DPI" thing is irrelevant. Get the UI elements to have the same size proportionally and you're set.
Oh, now I understand why this guy thinks he has a superior job.
...in very specific environments, at huge cost.
No, many people definitely hate U2 and would never want it on their device. I am one of them.
We're looking at moving to PDF when we adapt to fit the iPhone 6 Plus and I'd be interested to hear if you guys ran into any snags along the way or if it was all smooth sailing?
Then don't purchase anything, and go hide in a cave, so nobody bothers you.
Well, in effect what you're arguing is that because something was tested in isolation, you feel justified in generalizing it to a situation it was not tested in.
It does show that dialog. Unfortunately, most users click 'Yes'.
Yep, don't care that Apple can do this, but I definitely don't want this bloody album on my devices.
This is great! Unforunately, does not work with iframes. A couple sites I'm stuck with are iframe heavy :/
Can you?

Sadly you cannot totally purge the songs from your iTunes account. You can only hide the songs from the local iTunes account, but they will continue to live for all of eternity on your iCloud.
You might be right, but I usually still don't care about it. Topics like that usually have a higher bar for thoughtful comments, but the ones that manage to get over that bar are still visible and discussed. Astroturfers are annoying, but then again karma is just random Internet points; what matters to me more is if a comment manages to start a discussion involving other HNers posting interesting insights.
I hate those sample music files from windows media player, how dare they include it with every purchase of windows!
Depression? Mental illness? Sorry to hear about your friend though.
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