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Something like this is already being done for made-to-measure apparel, e.g. https://www.mtailor.com/ for men's clothes and https://www.topologyeyewear.com/ for glasses (also - does…

Just curious - why is looking up yourself an offense?

I wonder how long it will take before somebody figures out how to jailbreak BMW infotainment systems to enable CarPlay. This kind of stuff is not exactly without precedent: https:/…

It's supposed to expire at the end of 2018: https://arb.ca.gov/msprog/carpool/carpool.htm Whether or not it will be extended again is an open question.

Quick note that the article is from 2015, and the MSS result dates back to 2013. There's a blog post by Nikhil here that explains the proof of the discrepancy result that implies K…

I imagine you could encode the problem as a CSP with each of the legal/contractual factors as a constraint. Despite NP-hardness of CSPs in general, CSP solvers are pretty efficient…

This is an awesome tool. Thanks! Only issue I've run into so far is that cross-references to theorem numbers don't seem to always work correctly, e.g. you'll see a lot of "Theorem …

One other interesting example: Mahler's first symphony, third movement ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5A5tFyXQio ) which incorporates a minor-ized version of the classic (major…

...until people start dying and babies start getting born in space.

It's not rocket science by any means, and the 'well behaved' case for matrix multiplication (sufficiently 'squarish' dimensions, i.e. not too similar to a dot product, running on a…

The iPhone does. The iPad does not. Why Apple hasn't made an official weather app for the iPad yet, I have no clue.

What about space artifacts? Out in the vacuum stuff corrodes/degrades much slower - would satellites still be around or would they have had their orbits degraded and burned up in t…

You can block all cookies on the website if you want a paywall bypass that works without needing incognito - an extension like uMatrix [1] does this persistently (click on the plug…

It's fairly standard practice, as long as the aircraft involved are certified for it and flying on autopilot. Given that the planes involved were flying at FL350-60, they probably …

Blocking javascript on that website also works.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520

Non-paywall link: http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/why... (The site will try to prevent you from reading the article if you have an adblocker, but you can b…

In terms of reducing the ability of speedy traders to gain an advantage in a continuous time market, how does IEX's fixed time delay compare to discretizing the timesteps, so all t…

The link seems to be invalid; here is a working one: http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/money-laundering-is-...

For local backups, Apple says [1] that "There is no way to recover your information or turn off Encrypt Backup if you lose or forget the password." so I'm inclined to thinking it's…

If the FBI were to do this, would it be possible for Apple to counter it in the future by splitting the key across multiple entities, some in non-US jurisdictions, in such a manner…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10200249