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Start-Up to Crowdfund a 360° EBook Revolution
London, UK: TurlBook® is a brand new eBook format. It is reinventing storytelling with moving interactive illustrations in 360°. You step in, and then you can look around in the story - making the idea of a magic book a reality. You can move as you wish, and expand your imagination as you go. Adults will discover new worlds. Children will fall in love with reading. You can already preview magical working demonstrations and add your pre-campaign support at www.turlbook.com/. With hundreds of early fans, the crowdfunding (Kickstarter/Indiegogo) starts when it has a little more early support (expected early 2017).

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Turl Book is the brainchild of Ishti (Istvan Prem) - an award-winning Hungarian artist living in the UK. For his art degree he experimented with interactive 360° film installations. 360° panoramic video gained in support from major device brands this year, making his interactive eBooks possible. To ride that wave, the 360° animated concept was prepared more than a year ago - without device support. Ishti has been at the forefront of format development. He now has a small group of artists to help.
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Website: http://www.turlbook.com/
Embed video: https://vimeo.com/turlbook/intro
Press Kits, Video, High and Screen Resolution Images: http://www.blog.turlbook.com/press-kits/

Founded 2016, Turl Book Limited is a technology and publishing start-up. TurlBook®, their singular eBook format, has illustrations you click or tap to transform into rich embedded interactive 360° animated scenes.
MawNicker is a (bot?) troll account on HN and Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/user/mawnicker
The article implies they prioritise installation time for manual installs (which sounds sensible to me, since waiting time is the biggest source of frustration for users, and decompression is the bottleneck there, especially on older devices.
Dunno why this is being downvoted. The answer is apparently "they don't".
Just proves smartwatches are nothing new. Seiko made some beautiful hardware, and the ones with the keyboards will continue to be usable - shame about the others that require obsolete software!

A timely article considering the state with Pebble. Shows Seiko was ahead of the game, with information on your wrist as an extension of your computer. Pity I never had anything this cool in my youth.
The art of kissing
Thank you for the comment! Since I'd like to build a platform instead of just a tool. I want to build a platform for people to share their passions. Resume tool is just the begin.
> Too few people will be willing to learn Chinese anyway.

Probably won't matter in the future. English is cannibalizing all the other languages. English is the official language in Hong Kong. Not many Chinese know English yet, but they probably will.
How did this turd of an article wind up on the front page?
Deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this fact plays no part in their existential computations. For pessimists, however, it is axiomatic.

Whether a pessimist urges us to live “heroically” with a knife in our gut or denounces life as not worth living is immaterial. What matters is that he makes no bones about hurt being the Great Problem it is incumbent on philosophy to observe. But this problem can be solved only by establishing an imbalance between hurt and happiness that would enable us in principle to say which is more desirable—existence or nonexistence. While no airtight case has ever been made regarding the undesirability of human life, pessimists still run themselves ragged trying to make one. Optimists have no comparable mission. When they do argue for the desirability of human life it is only in reaction to pessimists arguing the opposite, even though no airtight case has ever been made regarding that desirability. Optimism has always been an undeclared policy of human culture—one that grew out of our animal instincts to survive and reproduce—rather than an articulated body of thought. It is the default condition of our blood and cannot be effectively questioned by our minds or put in grave doubt by our pains. This would explain why at any given time there are more cannibals than philosophical pessimists.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2696709-the-conspiracy...
If HN is serious about its "Political Detox Week" (which included topics like nation and ideology) stories like this can't be allowed. This is literally about on nation competing with another by the means of government support. The sources discuss how China is changing capitalism (ideology), comparing different nations (nation) and the economic policies of China (politics). The comments are just as political.
American and British Spy Agencies Targeted In-Flight Mobile Phone Use
You're underestimating the amount of anti-americanism in europe.
its arguable either way. imo China is less ethnically diverse but more culturally diverse. eg. a large portion of the country speaks in a language unintelligible to the rest.

regional differences are more pronounced in China. I'd be hard pressed to figure out where I am if dropped into a random city in the US, compared to China
What are the advantages of using Circle or other apps over just transferring money? UK bank transfers are free and instant, I can't see what an app could add to that?
> banking app

> Unity game engine

Bruce Schneier just had a heart attack
I haven't had that happen to me in Ubuntu for, IIRC, about a decade. OTOH I have had the equivalent happen in Windows as recently as early 2015.
They deserve serious kudos for managing to finish and ship their product at Google first. (Another commenter here said the project started 3.5 years ago, wow)
This is great advice. Most of the ideas you mentioned are also explained (and expanded upon) in "The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore – which I wholeheartedly recommend OP to read.
Isn't it usually just the compression stage that's very demanding with these algorithms?
1) Don't associate with negative people.

2) Tell them Google and Facebook could be built in a few weeks too. (Mostly accurate!)

3) Consider that you're extremely unlikely to succeed "you against the world" in these circumstances and how you could get some partners on board.
You probably should be more subtle with the sign up. Get people interested and then soft sell the login. That's how I would do it. With people you have to be subtle. And have to give a lot of value up front before they are willing to let you into their e-mail and wallet.
The actual solution would be for HN to introduce a way to add quotes. Just having > in front of regular lines sucks - the many attempts at making quotes stand out more show that this is not just a single opinion. I "overload" monospaced because there is no proper option.
I generally nudge those folks toward the G Suite apps instead of a locally-installed office suite like LibreOffice.
How do you install TurboTax on Linux? None of the software they have, none of the software anyone they know uses will install on their Linux machine.

Very quickly most will get the idea that the computer is broken and you need to come and fix it because you were the one that broke it.
Baidu also attracts lots of people.
I just visited resend.io and got the following message:

Message: TypeError: e.srcElement is undefined
URL: https://resend.io/
Line: 75
Column: 28317
Stack: R</<.value@https://resend.io/:75:28317
I hate the fact that so many of these resume generators only support downloading as PDF.

Maybe (?) that works for the super-elite echelon who don't really have to "job hunt", and who maintain a resume only as a formality. But for the other 95%+ of plebs who have to actively apply or work with recruiters... MS Word is the only game in town, like it or not.

I loved the idea behind JSON Resume (https://jsonresume.org) a year ago (i.e. separate the content from the styling, store the content in source control and track it or branch as needed, and apply the content to whichever template you like). But I didn't like the limited export capability... so I wrote Resume Fodder (https://resumefodder.com) as an open source alternative. I'd love to create more template options when I have time... pull requests welcomed!

The people behind these resume generators know that MS Word is what most people need, but choose not to support it because that would undercut their business model. The business model dream is for you to host your content on their server, so they can mine it and sell access and hopefully cut off a slice of LinkedIn's pie.

So be it, but I just don't think there is a viable business model there. LinkedIn is already LinkedIn... and I suspect that smaller rivals will run into the same wall as Diaspora, Ello, and all the other would-be Facebook replacements. I think that people who check out these resume generators REALLY are looking for... a resume generator! And if it doesn't let you save your resume in the format that most people demand, then it isn't particularly useful in the real world.
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That’s for compression only isn’t it? I think lzma decompression requires a max of ~64Mb.

(Checks manpage) Yup:

Preset DictSize CompCPU CompMem DecMem
-0 256 KiB 0 3 MiB 1 MiB
-1 1 MiB 1 9 MiB 2 MiB
-2 2 MiB 2 17 MiB 3 MiB
-3 4 MiB 3 32 MiB 5 MiB
-4 4 MiB 4 48 MiB 5 MiB
-5 8 MiB 5 94 MiB 9 MiB
-6 8 MiB 6 94 MiB 9 MiB
-7 16 MiB 6 186 MiB 17 MiB
-8 32 MiB 6 370 MiB 33 MiB
-9 64 MiB 6 674 MiB 65 MiB

Default of -6, so 8Mb. Doesn’t seem too unreasonable on a modern device.
Privacy is theft Dave Eggers' big-screen takedown of Google, Facebook emerges
I agree, let them make resume first, then ask them to sign up if they want to save/export.
Show HN: WoofJS, easy to learn graphics library
Which raises the whole problem of mobile device resource hogs and adware.
Git and GitHub in Plain English
What happened to no politics week?
> But it got me thinking - how much bulk does binary code take up in an Android APK?

It's going to depend greatly on the type of packages, and the most problematic (bulky) ones are games, where the vast majority of the package is assets.
Oh hey, Aerons are 15% off until (through?) Monday. Might be worth knowing for others like me who've lusted after one but vacillate on whether and when to pull the trigger.
> strongest propaganda machine the world has ever seen.

I doubt that
No ... but I would only apply to a job that didn't list salary if I had a ballpark range in mind for what it would pay.

I'm MUCH more likely to spend time browsing job postings (and hence applying) that give a salary range though.
Yes you can, on Android at least.
As a computer science teacher, I was struggling to find a graphics framework for my students. Because my students all loved MIT’s Scratch, I heavily leaned on it for inspiration.

The result is an object-oriented graphic framework and IDE with built-in documentation, autocomplete, auto-run, and more!

While it was created with 11-year-olds in mind, I hope WoofJS will be useful to anyone making graphical experiences. You can use it to make games, animations and art.

One of our high school students made a version of Frogger: http://woofjs.com/create.html#Frogger

And another made a fun dodging game with emojis: http://woofjs.com/create#poop-emoji

We’re open source if you wanted to contribute :)

https://github.com/stevekrouse/WoofJS
+1 for LaTeX but the barrier to entry is so high. I use LaTeX for mine but I'm always on the lookout for a 'nicer' markup language.
Honestly I haven't tried Office Apps, it just seemd like it would be tricky and I didn't have time to investigate. I can see how the local web server hack might work, though. Would it work in the browser and on the Mac?
> Do you think spammers are too stupid to strip out the + part themselves?

No, but they are only targeting gullible people anyway so they don't bother:

> Finally, this approach suggests an answer to the question ["Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria"]? Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, not a disadvantage. Since his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
A love letter to my first customers
Or they request you to state your expected salary first, assuming you'll go low due to the pressure.
Ironically, my current side project evolved exactly the opposite way: I tacked on more and more features, and later broke everything apart into plugins once the correct abstraction had emerged.
I've got the Series 2 (first smartwatch I've owned) and it lasts 3 full days.

I'm not wearing it at night and I don't overuse it in the day. I also don't consciously NOT use it, to preserve battery life. Note the double negative. (Maybe I got this wrong; what I meant: I don't make the conscious decision to use my watch very lightly in order to preserve its battery life. If I have to use it, I use it. I don't go out of my way to make the battery last.)

I use Siri a lot, I sometimes take my calls on my Watch (when I am at home or alone), I use it to remote control Apple Music on my iPhone, I receive tons of notifications, I use it to check my work calendar and weather an awful lot, I have lots of apps with background refresh enabled (weather, calendar, emails, etc.), I didn't disable the GPS, it's recording my steps and activity at all time.

Very, very satisfied with the battery life. I thought it would be terrible based on Apple Watch (the old one, not the newer, revised Series 1).
If you want quotes to stand out, italicize them. Again, everyone will know what you mean, and you won't break UX in a way that makes some readers more likely to ignore your comment because it's such a pain to read.
You can milk a cat ? You can milk anything with nipples...
Yeah, that should be grounds for expulsion from the Play Store if you ask me. It's clearly an abuse of the runtime permission system.
Sheesh modal/reg just to try it! You could allow some playing and collect users 1 step later.

I like the idea. Your site looks great - clean and attractive. The animations are enticing.
To characterize "Americans" with such a broad brush is silly
I think you mean a "rogue" train rather than a "rouge" train.
Great point! I'll keep in mind. Thank you.
Yo dog. You got 'boot looted'.
Shame on me for testing on an outdated FF version. Deploying fix now.
I probably wouldn't want to use a REPL like that much in its own right, but it might make a good foundation on which to build something Smalltalk-esque.
@rahrahrah;

The title of the submission is "China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding". The author of the article is using levels of investment to further his/her point about the relative superiority of two countries in AI, while completely ignoring the macroeconomic backdrop that are largely the drivers of these statistics in the first place.

Oh, and I think you're assuming I'm an American, which I'm not.
Unity aside, the Play Store has a standard method for shipping large assets (expansion files) but it's badly designed and I think won't work with this new scheme.

There's maximum file size for APKs, and if you exceed that you have to put extra stuff in one or two (why only two?) expansion files. They recommend that these files be compressed, but they're explicitly Opaque Binary Blobs so the decompress/diff/recompress hack won't work. There is a standard format they recommend -- a disk image -- but it's so buggy on Android as to be unusable. (I finally saw some action on the bug tracker recently, so it might be fixed, or nearly fixed, in the latest version of Android.)
Did you mean to imply there was a logical connection? I'm not sure how 'perceived usage' relates to 'quality'? Surely the two questions are orthogonal? i.e. the less used solution might still be 'better'.
Soldered some random crap (10-axis gyro/magnetometer/ accelerometer combo, a BT Serial module, an ultrasonic sensor and an arduino nano clone to a piece of perfboard and called it a robot :-)

Making the client software was the fun part though :-)
Nice. Thank you! Actually, that's how CakeResume v1 works. But finally I decide to ask for emails. Now the signup conversion is high in Asia. However, I'll keep in mind and maybe someday change this.
The Wrong Thing More Efficiently Is Still the Wrong Thing
I don't think spammers care about the difference between an email they have and an email they have that clicked a link. They're going to spam both anyway.
It's not the pop-up that's ironic per se, it's the phrasing of the "no" button.
I find the idea of using the most advanced VR technology for your olde command line terribly funny. All those 80s cyberpunks imagining people actually traveling through cyber-information highways, using them in combination with feedback gloves to browse and actuate on the information in a myriad ways... And we just want a command line. I'd love to go back in time to tell them that this is a major use of VR and see the abject horror in their faces.
Well with RAM and flash you can either fit everything in on chip memory or you need external memory.

Once you have external memory 64MB is the smallest that you can get and be confident that you can obtain it for the next years. Its also not a big cost factor.

Grisp-Base is a evaluation board to get people easily started with Erlang running directly on hardware so not much use artificially limiting memory here. The board size is also larger than minimal to have all these nice PMOD connectors with enough room for the PMODs around them. Normally one would build some prototypes or smaller applications < 100 boards. When this works its fairly easy and cheap to build a customized board only the parts needed for the actual IoT application.

There are new SoC automotive controllers who will be able to run a Erlang VM without connecting any external memory which we plan to target for the future.

64K flash/16K RAM will never be able to run a Erlang VM so its outside of our scope. IoT trends are to move more calculation towards the edge since the cloud can't grow enough.
About 10 years ago I was told that Detroit MI has/had a similar "tradition" around Halloween.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Night
Uber is watching your smartphone's battery charge
My initial take is that if you're generating synthetic data to train up something then either you'll need to spend some time to make sure that your fake data has the critical properties of the real data or you'll be able to do something really simple and easy to code up.

Either way, it's not really something to outsource. If there's a lot of work necessary to understand the data, you need to do it yourself and not offload it to some remote service (or worse, expose your data/metadata to a third party). If there's not a lot of work necessary, just do it yourself, it'll be faster (there's a reason nobody's putting out things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_1... anymore)
Yahoo Quietly Receives UK Gambling License for Daily Fantasy Sports
Dwolla has other problems. In May The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claimed that Dwolla lied about security (1):

From December 2010 until 2014, Dwolla claimed to protect consumer data from unauthorized access with “safe” and “secure” transactions. On its website and in communications with consumers, Dwolla claimed its data security practices exceeded industry standards and were Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliant. They claimed also that they encrypted all sensitive personal information and that its mobile applications were safe and secure.

But rather than setting “a new precedent for the payments industry” as asserted, Dwolla’s data security practices in fact fell far short of its claims. Such deception about security and security practices is illegal. Specifically, the CFPB found, among other issues, that Dwolla misrepresented its data-security practices by:

Falsely claiming its data security practices “exceed” or “surpass” industry security standards: Contrary to its claims, Dwolla failed to employ reasonable and appropriate measures to protect data obtained from consumers from unauthorized access.

Falsely claiming its “information is securely encrypted and stored”: Dwolla did not encrypt some sensitive consumer personal information, and released applications to the public before testing whether they were secure.

As for the change in business model, they announced (2) on a Friday afternoon after the U.S. election, with less than one month before the switchover. Some people were left in the lurch. (3)

1. http://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-...

2. https://www.dwolla.com/updates/focus/

3. https://discuss.dwolla.com/t/the-changes-this-dec-7th/3209/7
Social media companies to share DB of hashed content to help flag violations
Read the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13121903
The idea is you just need the person's phone number/email to send money as opposed to bank info.
What I and others are saying is that you can't be "intellectually curious" and dismiss large areas of conversation at the same time. It doesn't matter that it's "just a week" since it's not the experiment that we are concerned about, it's the basis of the experiment. You keep using words like "politics", "curiosity" and "thoughtful" in a manner that is biased to include only the things you define.

I'm really trying to be both clear, concise and unconfrontational, yet I feel you are casually dismissing my and others opinions.
In Romania it's well known that we used to burn down our crops and poison the wells before the Turks or Ottomans would come.
If you ignore the external memory the SAMV71 on the Grisp-Base has 384k on chip memory ...

We plan to use this for the inner loop of the Erlang VM since its much faster than external memory. But thats a optimization for later after we can actually ship boards (QI 2017)
Russia's bid for mobile self-sufficiency may be the saviour of Sailfish
Samsung set to remove headphone jack on Galaxy S8
The free-tier, that is the only one available now, allows you to develop all sort of applications already: you can hook up a database through an external provider or through SQLite, you have a few megabytes (128MB) of storage and you can customise your application as you want (using JavaScript and compiled-to-JavaScript languages for now, but more are coming!).

Larger applications require more "benefits", just to name a few: more disk space, a dedicated database, more cpu/ram, a less aggressive cleanup when not used (we put your app to sleep if it has not been used for 5/10 minutes).

Of course additional features are needed. We provide what you see now for free, and we will charge for some of the features that are coming. We expect to cover pretty much any requirement that a developer can have when developing a web application.

This is a big bet, but... well, if it wasn't, it weren't worth to play :)
Relax, Everyone's Code Rots
Yes, you're right. I can't say there was malice, nor was my intention. Just a bad timing, perhaps, or even that retreat just occurred because the book got attention.
Apple gave up on trying to be a complete duplicate of the Windows PC market a long time ago. Yes they want to build a compelling ecosystem that will draw in and retain a broad audience, but they don't want or need to be a complete solution for everybody. So I think they're perfectly fine with leaving the 17" laptop market, and other niche categories, to other manufacturers.
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Data scientist Cathy O’Neil on the cold destructiveness of big data
How to convert Casio fx 82ms calculator into fx 570ms by hack
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Printers are tools for bureaucracy and pointless office slavery. More torment = better.
The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons