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Ah good spot, I missed that. I just thought this seemed a lot like the usual "anti-hype" posts, and considered it interesting that occasionally the hype is right.

I got downvoted here, so I thought I'd expand. If we replace "South American gold mine" with "the release of the iPhone" or "the creation of Google" perhaps my point is clearer - i.e. the creation of value should have economic impacts. Even in a fiat currency situation, the discovery of a massive South American gold mine would have an economic impact as someone now has access to more valuable resources than they did previously.

Now, if the currency was based on a commodity that has no value, then maybe your argument makes some sense, but precious metals were chosen specifically because they are valued irrespective of their role in currency. Besides, if an enormous amount of gold was discovered, sovereigns and governments still had control of the currency through debasement.

To be fair, there should be economic impacts to the instant creation of valued resources.

Pretty sure you'd realise what's happening. After all, we notice lightning flashes.

Not to detract from your point necessarily, but my anecdotal experience contrasts with this. I had no luck being told how to ride (I guess someone skilled in teaching rather than bike riding may have helped). In the end I was literally left in the driveway with a bike and not allowed back inside until I could ride. I picked it up in an afternoon.

FYI (based on comments in this thread made by you and others), C# is nothing like Java, despite similar C-derived syntax.

Pretty sure CouchSurfing is probably the inspiration for AirBnb.

Tangential, but a good point was made that some people had booked flights and accommodation already. I wonder if they are still deductible if the event is cancelled?

A bit incidental, but would there be any risk of a sealed time capsule delivering viruses/bacteria to the future?

It looks well executed (particularly the new layer feature) but what's new about this device? These digital pens have existed for years.

I hate the OS X broswer (one of the main reasons I've never been able to make the switch) but agree that the ribbon explorer UI is terrible.

The article seems to ask how to define a referential term without using reference (i.e. left/right, up/down, clockwise/anti-clockwise, without reference to a static point). Using the example of radio waves, if I wanted to express a basic kind of reference I would start by using pitch (e.g. low pitches to high).

For direction (left vs right), I would broadcast a "beam", increasing in strength on one side, so hopefully an intelligent enough civilization could measure that from "left" to "right" the beam got stronger, perhaps again using pitch to help guide. The problem then would be conveying whether they should follow the broadcast "left to right" or the received "left to right" (i.e. imagine someone holding up their left hand, do they mean your left hand, as in match them, or your right hand, as in mirror them).

How so? Houses, as a rule, are investments, and like any investments should be considered rationally.

Not sure why this is relevant (also I thought new users were meant to be green?). In any case, if you read the author's github page, touch support is in the works.

Great essay, but like the grandparent I'm confused how it allows for any sort of drive. How can you have goals without identifying with them, or at least their purpose? It seems great and healthy to stop identifying as a failed attempt at reaching certain labels, but I struggle to imagine a singular goal not attached to a label.

I also posted the author's video explanation here the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2867429

Have you used Win7?

Video discussion of this (quite-readable) paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1773169

I'm sure the team is fantastic and will create a great and successful product leaving egg on my face, but aren't they attacking a problem solved by either DropBox or RapidShare et. al.

Iterating over a hashtable (at least in pseudocode if they didn't recall the API functions off-hand) hardly seems a trivia question...

Incidentally, effect check is quite cool. It's a weak suggestion, but I'd look at bringing the "live demo" call to action to a more prominent homepage location. I had to search around a bit to find out what exactly was going on and how it worked, and once I did it was easy to use and kind of cool.

Wait what, after recent articles talking about AppSumo spam, we're getting this in a HN thread now?

I wouldn't be too hard on them - any sentient AI would probably make the same mistake on a first pass given how widespread the confusion is. For instance do a Google Image search on London Bridge.

That's the easy and somewhat circular answer. I'd be curious to know what rationale the service had for not integrating with Google Maps or vice versa. Cost is the only legitimate one that comes to mind - I can't imagine concerns about open data were a massive issue given that third parties have been using and providing a subset of the same data for some time.

How is this only just happening? I live in Adelaide, Australia (1.2 million approx) with some of the worst public transport I've experienced in the developed world and we've had Google Maps with public transport integration for years.

Incidentally, there was a cool iPhone app called TubeMap that made travelling on the tube a breeze when I was there last which included service downtimes which are apparently quite common, worked fine offline and was pretty fully featured in all ways you could want. However, the Tube is only a small part of the public transport for greater London.

NewsBlur (big comment thread above) does this to some degree at least.

Of course you run the risk of being barred for life from the US if they ask questions and you can't prove you have this figure. Although in that case they might let it slide as a mix-up (I thought I could include this virtual currency..).

It sounds like they don't like people staying for 2 months with only $600 liquid funds.

Consider it from the perspective of a loan - if someone you don't know well asked you for a loan, and said it was secured against "cult-booblahs" and that they were meeting with another member who traded in "cult-booblahs" this afternoon to sort it all out, it probably isn't going to go too well. From security's perspective, they are going to be immediately thinking one of: some weird drug lingo/money laundering situation, some weird pyramid scheme, or some cultist or anarchist dealing in imaginary currency. You've just made a simple question far more difficult than it needs to be.

It kind of raises the questions - why would someone with only $600 cash in the world be entering a rather expensive country for two months? From security's point of view, why would someone with only $600 cash have thrice that or more invested in some weird investment scheme? Finally, how does the founder of a bitcoin exchange have so little liquid assets/accessible emergency credit?

As an FYI, the author mentions they're from the UK or Ireland, and we were asked the same questions in both places (ensuring you have enough funds to support yourself) upon entry so this isn't US specific. Bringing enough cash to support yourself is expected (you could have said you are collecting a $10,000 loan rather than bitcoin and you probably would have still been refused - visitors should be able to demonstrate they can support themselves for their trip without relying on some deal going through once they're in the country).

I hope travel insurance covered the cost of the unfortunate trip.

Yeah Melbourne appears quite attractive given currently comparable costs (particularly on rent) and 20-30% higher wages. As you mentioned there's also greater diversity of roles.

Are there more HNers in Adelaide than I suspect?