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And if they switched their phone’s locale to a non-US country, then the distance would show up with 1-kilometre precision. Nearly 40% more accurate!

Meanwhile Europe is having morning tea and APAC evening news catch up...

This is just Amazon’s first move. They definitely have most of Zapier’s use cases on their roadmap at this point.

In the MONA museum in Tasmania, they have real life versions of the “renders”. It was amazing to see the inoperable bicycles in front of me.

Link: https://ifixit.org/blog/14883/what-finally-killed-airpower/

I like how they’ve compared ML clusters to US cities. Fundamentally, it’s still a continuous distribution between the five variables with four “hot spots”.

>>>Revelle likened the types to the location and population of cities. More people live in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston than anywhere else in the country, but most of the country doesn’t live in any of those cities. And although you can easily lump someone in Newark into New York, a person in Pittsburgh is harder to classify because they are equally close to New York and Chicago.

I've been baking a variant of this recipe for several years now. It's the best bread I've made at home hands down. If you have a dutch oven (even a large cookie tray and upside down stainless steel bowl will do the trick), do try it!

Likely anti money laundering legislation.

The average salary is 73k£. 84k£ is adjusted to the cost of living in SF.

Direct PDF link: https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?I...

There's some serious head scratching going on when you watch the video. If you can, wait a day before watching the explanation. I'm not even sure what's going on after watching that!

I found out they have great Q&A videos on their YouTube channel. They answer here why golf ball dimples are unnecessary for a fin-like shape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXpZy_A7mMk

I've seen a few octopus while scuba diving in tropical waters. They are the most interesting species underwater. You can look at them for five minutes and it's absolutely fascinating. The way their skin changes texture and color is mesmerizing. It really feels like an alien life form because nothing else looks or behaves like that.

That's incorrect. The seconds hand moves 6 times in one second on my 7S26 movement (21,600 bph). On a modern Rolex, it would move 8 times in one second. You can check this with a high speed camera (such as the one in the iPhone 6). Nonetheless, there are vastly superior mechanical drives out there that are continuous (Seiko Spring Drive for example).

The competition between Apple Pay, Facebook payments and Google Wallet will be fierce. Although, I don't see Coin or Plastc wildly succeeding, but they will set the tone for what's to come with mobile payments (flexibility and convenience).

Aren't the machines in use today using the same technology? Instead of showing the full image, they are applying pattern matching and only showing suspect regions to the operators. Supposedly to protect privacy...

I wonder if these kind of initiatives slow the adoption of chip and pin credit cards in the US. If Amazon is willing to lower the fees for swipes, pin entered transactions could be even lower.

I can't believe this is still online. We used to do mini competition amongst friends when this was released. There was also a huge repository of designs made by others you could try out.

There is no detail of how this actually works. They are keeping everything secret. Easy to wonder if this is vaporware. "In order for this to work, however, the data is coded and decoded with the patented technology. [...] The company makes the RLNC technology (Random Linear Network Coding) available to hardware manufacturers and they are in secret negotiations that will bring the improvements to consumers."

Washington Post has a very bad mobile experience. How am I supposed to read this? http://imgur.com/DyePAYJ

This makes it much easier to relate climate for overseas countries. Ocean currents and other effects excluded, the weather in Japan can be similar to California. Another example, Cuba is directly aligned with Western Sahara.