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Photo au sol d'un paysage à 443km

Photo au sol d'un paysage à 443km

Photo du pic Gaspard dans les Alpes, prise depuis le pic de Finestrelles dans les Pyrénées, à 443km. À cette distance, la courbure de la Terre bloque la vision en ligne droite. Il faut compter sur la réfraction de la lumière dans l'atmosphère pour discerner le massif distant.

Wadsworth Constant: the first 30% of videos can be safely skipped

Wadsworth Constant: the first 30% of videos can be safely skipped

The Wadsworth Constant is an axiom which states that the first 30% of any video can be skipped because it contains no worthwhile or interesting information. For EVERY youtube video, I always open the video and then immediately punch the slider bar to about 30 percent. For example, in this

Political correctness in the US has silenced discussions society needs to have (Cato Institute)

Political correctness in the US has silenced discussions society needs to have (Cato Institute)

The Cato 2017 Free Speech and Tolerance Survey, a new national poll of 2,300 U.S. adults, finds that 71% Americans believe that political correctness has silenced important discussions our society needs to have. The consequences are personal—58% of Americans believe the political climate prevents them from sharing

Adidas vend ses nouvelles chaussures sans magasin ni site Web (Les Échos)

Business & Economy

Adidas vend ses nouvelles chaussures sans magasin ni site Web (Les Échos)

Seuls les possesseurs d’un code récupéré auprès d’une communauté d’« influenceurs » pourront se procurer les chaussures de football Glitch, personnalisables selon les besoins. C'est une chaussure de football d'Adidas qui ne sera vendue... dans aucun magasin, ni site Web. Glitch, le nom de ce

Bitcoin roller coaster

Bitcoin roller coaster

[The authors] made a Bitcoin Roller Coaster Mover Prototype using a Raspberry Pi. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/76c8v2/we_made_a_bitcoin_roller_coaster_mover_prototype/

If You Drive Down a Stretch of Route 66, the Road Will Play “America the Beautiful” (Open Culture)

If You Drive Down a Stretch of Route 66, the Road Will Play “America the Beautiful” (Open Culture)

If you find yourself in New Mexico, traveling down a stretch of Route 66, you can drive over a quarter mile-long rumble strip and your car's tires will play "America the Beautiful." That's assuming you're driving at the speed limit, 45 miles

Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music (Hacker Noon)

Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music (Hacker Noon)

(...) Back in the 2000s, Songza kicked off the online music curation scene using manual curation to create playlists for users. “Manual curation” meant that some team of “music experts” or other curators would put together playlists by hand that they thought sounded good, and then listeners would just listen to

The zero-watt CPU may never exist: Landauer's principle

The zero-watt CPU may never exist: Landauer's principle

Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that "any logically irreversible manipulation of information, such as the erasure of a bit or the merging of two computation paths, must be accompanied by a corresponding entropy

How Brendan Eich plans to flip the online ad model and fix the web (Digiday)

Business & Economy

How Brendan Eich plans to flip the online ad model and fix the web (Digiday)

Brendan Eich knows how the web works — and how to fix it. The inventor of JavaScript while at Netscape is now occupied with growing a new browser, Brave, which promises to be far faster than entrenched leaders like Google Chrome. The trick: Brave blocks data-hogging ads and flips the web’

Laputa / Castle in the Sky (Miniature Calendar)

Laputa / Castle in the Sky (Miniature Calendar)

A Japanese artist, Tatsuya Tanaka, creates miniature scenes using small figurines and vegetables. Here, a scene inspired by Miyazaki's movie Laputa, "Castle in the sky". http://miniature-calendar.com/170929/

A spying bug that passively transmits your voice.

A spying bug that passively transmits your voice.

The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to

Tous victimes des pirates de l’attention (Le Monde)

Tous victimes des pirates de l’attention (Le Monde)

Vous « scrollez » sur Internet depuis une heure alors que vous avez du boulot ? La faute aux « pirates de l’attention », dont la mission diabolique est de capter votre temps de cerveau disponible. Cet article a été très compliqué à écrire. Pas seulement à cause des révélations retentissantes qu’il contient,

Sur son lit de mort, personne ne se dit : "J’aurais aimé passer plus de temps sur Facebook" (Usbek et Rica)

Sur son lit de mort, personne ne se dit : "J’aurais aimé passer plus de temps sur Facebook" (Usbek et Rica)

Ex-employé de chez Google, où il a travaillé pendant dix ans sur la définition de la stratégie publicitaire de l'entreprise, James Williams est devenu aujourd'hui le chantre de l'« ethics by design ». D'après lui, l'ensemble des devices et des plateformes technologiques

Les données des élèves français entre les mains des géants du Web (La Croix)

Les données des élèves français entre les mains des géants du Web (La Croix)

L’école s’ouvre aux outils numériques proposés par Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon ou Microsoft (Gafam), malgré des risques quant à l’utilisation des données scolaires des élèves. « Imaginez que vous passiez un entretien d’embauche, et que l’on vous dise : “on sait que vous étiez un mauvais élève

About negative feelings... (Owlturd)

About negative feelings... (Owlturd)

http://owlturd.com/post/164720304404

I can smash anything !! (Owlturd)

I can smash anything !! (Owlturd)

http://owlturd.com/post/163910609709

This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit (Medium)

This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit (Medium)

Every time you open your phone or your computer, your brain is walking onto a battleground. The aggressors are the architects of your digital world, and their weapons are the apps, news feeds, and notifications in your field of view every time you look at a screen. They are all

Patagonia veut rendre le capitalisme « responsable » (La Croix)

Patagonia veut rendre le capitalisme « responsable » (La Croix)

Aux États-Unis apparaissent de nouveaux statuts d’entreprises, associant lucrativité et intérêt général. Patagonia, société californienne spécialisée dans les sports de montagne, a été l’une des premières à adopter le statut de benefit corporation. http://www.la-croix.com/Economie/Economie-et-entreprises/Patagonia-veut-rendre-capitalisme-responsable-2017-07-03-1200859940

Light-based neural network does simple speech recognition (Ars Technica)

Light-based neural network does simple speech recognition (Ars Technica)

While there are lots of things that artificial intelligence can't do yet—science being one of them—neural networks are proving themselves increasingly adept at a huge variety of pattern recognition tasks. These tasks can range anywhere from recognizing specific faces in photos to identifying specific patterns of

The Library of Utility (Kevin Kelly, 2011)

The Library of Utility (Kevin Kelly, 2011)

I imagine a library atop a remote mountain that collects the essential information needed to re-learn practical knowledge essential to civilization. This depot, open to anyone who journeys there, is the cultural equivalent of the Svalbard seed bank, a vault on the Arctic Circle that holds frozen seeds of crop

Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On (The Intercept)

Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On (The Intercept)

Google, a data mining and extraction company that sells personal information to advertisers, has hit upon a neat idea to consolidate its already-dominant business: block competitors from appearing on its platforms. The company announced that it would establish an ad blocker for the Chrome web browser, which has become the

Will Quantum Mechanics Swallow Relativity? (Corey S. Powell)

Will Quantum Mechanics Swallow Relativity? (Corey S. Powell)

The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn. It is the biggest of problems, it is the smallest of problems. At present physicists have two separate rulebooks explaining how nature works. There is general relativity, which beautifully accounts for gravity and all of the things it dominates:

Most new printers print nearly invisible yellow dots for offline tracking

Most new printers print nearly invisible yellow dots for offline tracking

[Yesterday], The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named "Reality Winner" was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. The document posted

A laptop ban would be a disruptive privacy risk

A laptop ban would be a disruptive privacy risk

Computing on the road may be about to get more complicated, expensive, and risky. For this you can thank people who want to blow airplanes out of the sky — and US officials who see genuine danger and/or an opportunity to engage in “just shut up and do as you’

Business & Economy

Why don't more open-source projects monetize? (Ask HN)

Because monetizing your open-source project means you take on a second job. Here are your choices: * Turn your OSS project into a company (Docker). The pro is that you can capture a lot of the value, the con is that you're splitting your project into CE/EE and