skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can see in the simulator it's definitely upscaling the 320x568 buffer.

I think the apps will look sharp because of a good scaler, not because it's messing with the UI View hierarchy.

I get the sense the author of the article isn't aware you need new launch images to make the app iPhone 6/6+ 'native' ?
Simple left/right indications are fine for walking, but not for driving. You need explicit lane guidance, or else you'll miss practically all your turns driving a new route.

Even if the GPS is accurate to a few feet, it doesn't know where the back of the line in the left turn lane is!
AFAIK apple varieties don't change over time, because the same genes are used over and over by grafting the trees instead of growing from seed. This is because seedlings produce wildly different characteristics from their parents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Breeding
> Restaurants are "high margin"?

Yes, restaurants are high margin. I didn't say they are high profit.

Restaurants have high fixed costs (rent and staff) and low variable costs (the ingredients and beverages cost 30% to 50% of the price paid by the customer). Because they have high gross margins, they are still better off with an additional customer who pays 20% less than the sticker price of a meal. It's better than an empty table.

To understand the difference, compare this with a high _profit_ but low _margin_ business like UK supermarkets. Tesco makes about 5bn USD per year, but its gross margin is less than 7%. If Tesco gave a 20% discount to entice a customer away from a rival supermarket, Tesco would lose money on the sale.
> ... but slowly the data will correct.

ITYM people's conclusions will slowly adjust to accumulating evidence. The entire process is ultimately steered by experimental evidence.
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You really need to stop the personal attacks and trying to raise a downvote brigade against my comments, just because we disagreed about a law and culture topic.

I wish the site admins would place a clear written policy against these and other personal attacks next to every comment box.
This story is long time ago. China O2O is more crazy than one year ago.
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I haven't had the time to look at the docs but shall I start shipping art assets as foo@3x.png ?
No question ceiling (and other) fans are useful for cooling, also for heating by distributing warm air that otherwise pools overhead, especially in high-ceiling rooms.

A cool water radiant system certainly seems it would save electric power. But I wonder if such use of water is potentially a problem in regions where water is a precious commodity.

Growing up in the desert of Arizona in the era before air conditioning became widespread, there were interesting approaches to dealing with summer heat. Relevant here, the "swamp cooler" was a fixture in most homes.

Sort of a combination of moving air and water methods, the cooler worked by running a squirrel cage fan in a slatted metal box and water dripped through material mounted on the interior box surface. Air flowed through the openings in the box, evaporating water and cooling the stream of air which was piped into the house though metal ducting.

This worked great when the air is dry. The later summer monsoon season was its ruin: high humidity did not favor evaporation, or much cooling at all. It was enough to make people think air conditioning would be a really good thing.
I read something interesting about high GI vs low GI foods that I didn't know [1]. The TL;DR "The GI value of a food is determined when it’s eaten in isolation after an overnight fast. As in, this is how this food will affect your blood sugar when it’s the FIRST and ONLY thing you’re eating after a full night of not eating anything."

So the whole high GI is bad thing taken to the extreme e.g. clean eating, is probably completely blown out of proportion. It's measured in a very isolated ring-fenced setting that most likely doesn't apply to how you eat food anyway. Put bluntly: don't fret too much about eating white rice instead of brown rice (especially if you're counting macros).

http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/brown-rice-vs-white-rice/
Additionally, he says he's worried because the watch is not "the absolute best one you can buy".

Well, I don't think people buying 30,000 euros watches are such a big market that Apple should worry about missing them.

That includes former French President Sarkozy (he wears the same Patek Philippe watch), not really the "man with an okay job who lives in a nice apartment in some metropolitan town".
It still amazes me that you can define the Y combinator in Haskell directly:

y f = f (y f)

And in ML, only slightly less directly:

let rec y f x = f (y f) x
From the link you posted:"Allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for denying access or refusing service to people using service animals. "
They can exclude a dog from a burn unit, because the public is not normally allowed in a burn unit.
I haven't developed on iOS in a while so I'm not sure what the state of layouts is at the moment. Why would they render to a higher resolution than scale down if the UI can work with the new native resolution? It doesn't make sense because the output will be worse and a hit to the battery life.
Yes and no, IMO. For the layman, yes, it seems like a mish-mash of failed conclusions. But, I think there is a solid direction that can be found with some knowledge. We punish those who push the boundaries too quickly. This bias really needs to be thrown out and instead solid and rigorous studies should be done and confirmed. Way too many will conclude for food studies/scientists out there right now. If you are not one, you meet a lot of hostility unless you are big name. Also, don't be too old as you will be labeled as jumping the shark.
I wish Google would take a second to try their own iOS dialer in real-life scenarios:

1) Paste an international number like +34 911 111 111 from the web to Hangouts: it gets pasted as 34911111111, losing the +

2) They don't follow the standard text input element, so it's not possible to go to the beginning of the line and add a +

3) ... now you're stuck with app switching and TYPING NUMBERS IN, NUMBER BY NUMBER

There's that and then there's the horrible Hangouts video chat experience. I can't count how many hours I've wasted trying to explain other people how to join a call or share their screen before giving up and doing a voice call or skype.
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NuGet doesn't quite work just fine on Linux, but it's getting better. Slowly.

http://nuget.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/threed...
Where does this meaning for "sync" come from? Rsync does work this way, but sync is abbreviated from synchronization and that doesn't - to my knowledge - imply any directionality in it, and dictionary definition [1] seems to agree.

1: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synchronize
Will the Verizon Version of the iPhone 6 Support NFC and Apple Pay?
I wouldn't say so. I would kill for a halfway decent Ruby shell. On Windows I'd be going on about the power of .net and on nix I'd be promoting how awesome having the power of gems in my shell is. Powershell really is quite good and blows sh/bash/zsh out of the water. The "everything is an object" model instead of passing around strings really changes how you work.
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Really high end watches are a signalling device, not a practical device. It tries to convey the size of the bankroll of the wearer to others rather than that there is any additional performance somehow related to the price.

A $50 watch keeps time just about as good as a $10K watch.

And you might even get to keep the former when you're being held up on the way to your Ferrari.
Not a fan of iTunes myself and its all-or-nothing sync behavior does ask for more. Fortunately, it has been possible to update the device or download purchased content directly on the device for a couple of years now.
The Cox (Cox's Orange Pippin): sharp and crisp like an autumn morning.
As an ios dev, i know autolayout exists and lets you somehow manage the different resolutions if you manage to change your set of mind ( no more .frame = or .center= to change the location of a view dynamically but update constraints instead), and get away with the ugliest thing in the ios api that are constraint string expressions ( which almost made me throw up the first time i saw them).

But let's face it, that's one less thing we can mock Android devs about. Pixel perfect Wysiwyg ui building in interface builder has one foot in the grave.
Ask HN: What CRM/Single Customer View system do you use?
I'm looking for a CRM system in which we can add product-level data to a customer. (Most of the ones we have seen are only at 'deal' level).

Ideally the CRM would:-
- Have an REST API
- Advanced ways to query our customer data
- Have Automation tasks

So far, SalesForce is the only SaaS which provides the above. Any recommendations?
But many traditional varieties are much nicer than the Red Delicious... I've never eaten one right off a tree, but the R.D.s that make it into stores seem to be pretty bland and "one-dimensional" (purely sweet, no noticeable sourness or other tastes), and often have a sort of nasty bitter tasting skin.

[I notice that Fuji apples are a R.D. cross from the 1930s... But Fuji are vastly tastier (and more attractive!)...]
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I agree that it isn't as big a deal as some people are making out. But at the end of the day you can't disagree that it was a massive flaw from the beginning of the iPhone (and its days before it let people develop apps for it) driven likely by the megalomaniac supposition that if you build a phone you can't reach all parts with from your thumb: "no one's going to buy that."*

*http://goo.gl/pTwfws
Yes, api is there already. Its simple http post based one. Other important factor we are thinking is NOT TRACKING any links.
I saw a fascinating documentary about apples last year. It traces the back the roots of all apple races to Kazachstan, where the film maker finds a botanical garden with ancient races. Unfortunately, nothing is documented there.

It's in dutch, but the images are beautiful, too:
http://www.npo.nl/fresco-s-paradijs-2/20-10-2013/VPWON_11752...
That's not really true. There was the iPods, but also the 1998 iMac which I think was the first computer to come in multiple colors.
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> Rsync does work this way ...

Indeed it does, and that is the true meaning of sync. Consider this example:

$ rsync -a --delete (A) (B)

If (A) is empty, watch (B) become empty too. The point I'm making is that the use of the "--delete" option causes rsync to agree with the true technical meaning of "sync". Without it, the two directory trees (A) and (B) cannot be guaranteed identical at the end of the process (the real meaning of sync).

> ... and that doesn't - to my knowledge - imply any directionality in it ...

Of course it does. How else can you make two directory trees identical if your intention is to delete some files from both trees?

> and dictionary definition [1] seems to agree.

Never rely on a dictionary in a technical discussion. Contrary to popular belief, dictionaries do not list word definitions, they list what people think words mean. This is why "literally" and "figuratively" are listed as synonyms.
When driving in unknown territory (why else would you need a GPS) when the terrain is a bit more rugged a GPS can visually warn you at night of an upcoming curve and this can be a life-saver in countries where the roads are really bad.
> It's better than an empty table.

This only applies to restaurants that have empty tables. Try going to Sunshine Kitchen around lunch or dinner...they aren't going to give us a deal (but there is delivery via online services so...).
I fire up iTunes about once a year or so to make a backup. If you're syncing your mail/addresses/calendar/music (eg Spotify)/photos/etc via other services, there's really not much to sync otherwise. Not to mention that iOS updates over the air now, and does not require a computer to activate.
> getting it out of there is fairly easy if you lack a conscience and have a van

new favorite HN quote
Actually no. The more pixels the screen has the more energy it requires to drive those pixels and so worse battery life. So by having a lower resolution screen and scaling down to fit that screen battery life is improved.
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Samsung releases new set of ads taking jabs at the iPhone 6
What would happen if you tried to draw a fullscreen 1:1 pixel tiled checkerboard pattern?
Samsung still doesn't know how to advertise
I was an Android early adopter T-Mobile G1/G2, then a Windows Phone, then iPhone. It's true though, it is easy to update your own ROM, I have an HP Touchpad I run android on.

I have all the control over my phone I desire to have, it does everything I could never need it to, I don't have to worry about my own ROM, or if updates to the system come, I press the update button when the phone tells me to do so, in short, I have the phone-appliance, a construct I am supremely happy with.

Apple products only have three errors (in order of likelihood):

1) You did it wrong.
2) It doesn't do that.
3) and rarely, It's an honest to god bug.

95% of the problems I've ever had with my phone are fixed by turning it off, and turning it on again - this ease of use led me to buy a Mac, another choice I'm quite happy with, it all more or less just works - and with the Mac I have enough freedom to replace the built in apps that don't work with ones that do - Chrome/Thunderbird/Adium instead of Safari, Mail.app and iMessage.
iOS does work in DIPs (it calls them points) not pixels.

And it does have a density independent UI toolkit. It just only had 2 densities until now, whole multiples of one another. Which made it a lot easier for developers to update a million apps in short order.

Now there's one more. But the "cheat" here of keeping it to a whole multiple from the dev perspective is undoubtably an intentional choice to keep it easy for developers to adopt it. Which is smart when your platform has a lot of apps and you want them all to work perfectly on all devices.

Compare that to six dpi levels for Android. It can theoretically accommodate a greater diversity of devices but developer support for them is scattershot.
It's important to understand that, until a cause-effect relationship is explained instead of being merely measured, it's not science. A more complete explanation is here:

http://arachnoid.com/science_of_mind/
Right, but the evidence is affected by both past evidence and preconceived notions. Because of this, and outliers, it takes time.
This looks really interesting for e.g. tracking devices
The proper response to 'important work emails during family time' is to ignore them.

Unless you're the president of the United States or something to that effect. People have too little family time as it is once you start adapting what you wear in order to accommodate further encroachment on the little that remains soon there'll be nothing left.

Work can usually wait until the next day.

And if you do have to be on call outside of regular work hours make sure you're compensated for each and every minute that you're on call.
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Sometimes the 50 dollar watch performs better than the 10k one - Rolexes keep lousy time. I personally am quite the fan of the Seiko 5, it works, keeps time (when I remember to set it after not wearing it for four days), and at the least it will act as a decent chronometer even if I've not set it, I can tell how much time has elapsed by looking at it twice.

I don't know if I have a use case for the apple watch, I might buy one to try out, see if it works, but I will say -if nothing else, its uniformly a pretty object d'art.
36 and the same. I specifically remember thinking that apples from the harvest out in the country were mana from god and only available on a farm in autumn. Then one day Braeburn showed up in the supermarket, and since then I have never become visually aware a Red Delicious in the same way that none of us here see banner ads.
> Patek Philippe 3940G

That's a 50.000 USD watch?
Dear iPhone 6 users, welcome to 2012
I'd not go that far - look at the Seiko 5, which I find more attractive than most of the Kinetic models anyhow, and gray market in the US, its much much cheaper, several years ago I bought two identical ones for my 30th birthday, should last me my lifetime.
With about 100 years of prior art for configuring the settings on a mechanical watch I don't think that patent should ever have been granted, nor do I think it stands much chance of survival once they try to get money out of Apple.
You still need some natural data, otherwise the network will probably overfit on regularities in your CG engine that don't exist in the real world. It might do that anyway, even with natural data.
Displaying in the native resolution would lead to an even curiouser case where the iPhone 6's 4.7" screen displays more content than the iPhone 6+'s 5.5" screen (assuming integer scaling factors of 2x for the 6 and 3x for the 6+).

I do hope that there is some sort of programmable setting or API for enabling native resolution output so that games built with this option are rendering at 1080p and displaying at 1080p, or 1080p movies aren't needlessly being stretched and then downsampled. For legacy apps and not graphically intensive stuff it mostly makes sense to just display at 3x and scale down for simplicities sake, but if the option isn't otherwise there that seems pretty silly.
Realistically because we have strong negative associations with anything to do with race. If people were changing the hair color of their kids for similar reasons, I doubt anyone would care.

I don't think you can compare possible social benefits of skin color with very real benefits of loosing a major sense. How is denying them treatment functionally different than causing the condition itself?

I remember a long time ago hearing about a cream which would turn your skin dark or even completely black, in the same way that tanning or genetics would do so. I.e. perfect sunblock.

I haven't heard of it since, so it must not have made it to market, but I wonder if it would have drawn controversy.
Yes, this.

You just gave a far better explanation than I did in favor of the appliance-phone device.
The article mentions that fans don't work when air temperature is higher than that of the skin(35C).

This actually is not correct as increased air flow facilitates evaporation (making sweating more effective).
A Rolex is a complete waste of money. For less than a very small fraction of the price of a Rolex you can get a watch that will perform just as good or possibly even better.

The only reason Rolex owners have Rolexes is to show they can afford one. And they can't wait to tell you about it.

Parents that teach their children that successful people buy overpriced trinkets are losing an opportunity to teach their kids the difference between 'good enough' and conspicuous consumption.
> Rust actually has an optional GC.

Last time I checked (0.10 or so) it did not. Gc pointers were the same as Rc pointers with a proper GC to come soon.
I think you're spot on: be it marketing- or management-driven, this announcement was made for the sake of the announcers, not the readers.
> the problem is that the damage caused by imprisoning them is so much larger than the improvement experienced by everyone else.

Is it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the US prison population just 0.00730843528654% of our country's total population? 0.99269156471346% of the US population experiencing lower violent crime is a larger improvement than the crimes suffered in prison. Wouldn't it be more effective if we just decriminalized drug possession and just ended the drug war entirely?
It not that they had a bright moment when going for a normal (power of two) resolution, its just that they have not done so up until now. And nobody except Apple used those technically suboptimal resolutions in mobile phones, with good reason..
...no? 6 and 6+ are both A8. 5s, Ipad air and mini retina are a7. I believe air is clocked slightly higher tha 5s, 1.3ghz vs 1.2.

I think without question the 6+ will have worse per pixel perf than the 6. It would be even more worse if the screen were even more higher res.

That's not enough to make or break anything. But it's got to be another consideration.
This has already happened. A deaf couple used genetic prescreening to select an embryo that that carried the condition.
I wish is a little bit more ubiquitous everywhere else. It's a great language and would have been a far better Javascript!
> As an end user, I'm a fan of Apple's 'scaled resolution' solution. My Apple notebook renders the screen in memory at 3840 x 2160 and then scales that to fit the 2880 x 1800 physical display. The benefit of this approach is that you can smoothly scale the UI to suit your age/eyesight.

That's what Windows 8.1 does when you have two screens with very different DPI (physical). When I connect my Yoga Pro 2 (with "retina"-like resolution) to my external 23" screen, it renders most applications at the high resolution, and then downscales them so they have the same size on both displays. The biggest problem with this approach is that crisp fonts on windows rely heavily on rgb sub-pixel-rendering. If your application doesn't directly paint to individual pixels, it can't control the subpixels, and can only do greyscale antialiasing, which looks very blurred (especially next to my Yoga Pro, where text looks like printed).

You can tell windows "I know what I'm doing, give me the raw pixels", but that comes with a whole lot of other problems, and I've never seen a single app get that right.

(What I'd really like as a developer would be to develop in (real) cm, inches, and em. Have them exactly match the physical sizes, for mobile and desktop screens (projectors would pretend to be a desktop). Have an option to "snap" lines to physical pixels. And on non-hidpi screens, render everything with subpixel-awareness, which triples your horizontal resolution.)
Don't put words into my mouth.

I do not claim that driving is a right, but I do think it is reasonable to say that driving is significantly more important to a country's economic activity, signalled by the amount of investment in road infrastructure in, I would venture, every developed country.

I don't think it is a leap to say that roads are built mainly for motor vehicles and rarely solely for bikes and by extension a bike has less right to a road than a car does.
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If the client passes the server a token which the server can verify against the third-party service providing the login, I don't see a reason not to trust the client. I'm very interested to hear what kind of security problems this could bring - if they can be mitigated, using this library would be very convenient for some projects.