thefalcon

Yes, I only ever bother to go into Best Buy because I know they will price match Amazon (and their own price.)

I recently realized that even Wal Mart had lower prices for some things online, and now I have to go through the hassle of having them price match their own website when making certain purchases.

Walking with a purpose will get you all kinds of places without well enforced security procedures in place.

There's protecting your brand, and then there's whatever the heck it is Trader Joe's did here, which seems senseless and malevolent.

I simply accept and take advantage of the fact that HN is filled with many people much smarter, much more accomplished, much more driven, much more successful than me. I've never felt overwhelmed by it - that seems like it would take a personal choice to put yourself in competition with the best of HN, which seems a little silly to me (especially if the end result is not something productive).

If you ever find that community, please let me know :-)

Except it sure seems like in this case, yeah, they bungled it. At the very least a total lack of awareness or care towards infosec to help protect sources (regardless of the fact that the lack of awareness extends to the source - I'd want a journalist to be better at this than I am if I were leaking information). [ The article doesn't mention this, but I wouldn't be surprised if these microdots, rather than "a crease" were the smoking gun: https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/871883733032415236 ]

I mean that they would disallow saving photos/videos for privacy reasons, and could stand behind their hardware being secure enough that people don't have to worry if they're still being secretly filmed by hacked iRis's or whatever.

Apple seems like the kind of company that would bother including cameras and then be able to stand behind a decision to lock users out of using them.

For fun[1], you can occasionally trawl through addresses with any private key!

http://directory.io/

[1] For various definitions of "fun."

About $2.32 according to http://www.bitcoinrollercoaster.com/

I find the various communities to be sharply divided, yes, but only some of them are heavily moderated. On the other side, you just get downvoted into oblivion if you disagree - but at least your comment isn't hidden from those who seek it out. I agree that it takes the fun out of things.

I've been looking forward to this one basically since the Lee Sedol matches. Excited it's finally here!

I started the Lee Sedol matches knowing nothing about Go but the commentators really helped me understand what was so special about the game, and to come to appreciate the poetry in the language that's grown around the game. I still don't know how to play Go well, but now I understand the basics enough to appreciate all that has been done to get AI to the point where I no longer expect any human will ever defeat the top AI in this game again. But only time (and matches!) will tell, and that's what tonight finally brings!

I'll be watching live hoping for moments like this: https://youtu.be/l-GsfyVCBu0?t=4692

Looks like Darkstore is offering full 3PL

This is exactly what smaller e-tailers need in order to begin to be able to compete with Amazon -- most of them eventually learn that they have no chance if they try to actually rely on Amazon as their primary platform, but it's so hard to compete with that infrastructure without a service like this.

That's what I do with all my BTC: MTGO cards, Steam games. My initial "investment" was ~$10 worth of Stellar when that was given away for free, and I currently have ~$30 spread between BTC and a couple alt-coins from that initial free $10. So it's all just play money to me.

Mandatory comment: Be sure to Traceroute bad.horse

"Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."[1]

Sounds a lot like Feynman decrying the Brazilian education system in Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman.

[1] http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

Yeah, the document preview pane in Sublime Text is like a live satellite map of my code that gives me the ability to warp wherever I want.

Absolutely! I have paths in my old neighborhood where if I walk them I can recall specific passages from Ready Player One or Steven King's On Writing. If you need to clear a specific associative memory from a place you enjoy visiting, just keep visiting while listening to other audiobooks and you may lose that specific association.

I have visual recall but I often have a tangible sense of spacial memory. Like I'll feel an almost tingling or aura/presence of an important object in a given vector and magnitude.

Maybe related? But I also get the same kind of extra-sensory feeling when I copy data (doubly so if I cut data) -- like my hand is charged with something extra until I "unload it" by pasting the data. This has saved me many times when I get distracted at work mid-task, and before I go copy some new piece of data I can feel that I haven't pasted in the old data and go take care of that first. (I Wonder if anyone has done a study on this, and how many people experience something similar.)

I bet that a number of Brood War AI developers could still learn tricks from the Pros. Here's another Day[9] video about some of the intricacies in Brood War's mechanics, and how they came to be exploited in pro play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvoMrYCQBU

It's good enough for Nintendo: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-do...

They're not a uniquely Chicago thing, for sure.

To be fair, those time limited online games are acknowledged to be biased in favor of AI over human players, so an actual tournament style match like Lee Sedol played would be needed for a more fair comparison. That said, I expect AlphaGo to continue* undefeated (and hope to be proven wrong).

*From this point forward.

Exciting times. It won't be long until my son is asking me why we used to just drop these things in the ocean after first use.

I'm in the Central Valley (CA), and I notice that this is a pattern that seems to be repeated up and down the 99 (Downtown parallels the freeway while the rest of the city exists on a normal grid).

Having sold to CostCo before, I can attest that it forces inefficiencies out of the process very quickly. And they will not accept an inferior product, either. Also they have efficiency built into every aspect of their business, down to the specific layout of the shipping crates to be sent, to minimize worker labor for setup and display of product.

I don't see where the other (bad) edge of the sword is.

My city is grid based, but downtown is rotated 45 degrees from the cardinal directions. This leaves me constantly confused and confounded while downtown, not least because the transition streets from downtown to the rest of the city are all at crazy angles (that is, unlike anything where I grew up).

As you say, this isn't a language feature. For me the concepts of N,E,W,S and the easy visualization matters more than my language. I picture a map, but not the words on the map.

Eh, in my experience spamming performs really poorly.

If they decide to charge the same price as other first-tier games, they're asking to be compared to other first-tier games.