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I think it is sad that this is probably the correct answer.

I would love to refute it and say "no, you need to monetize it, don't just get users and hope". However, recent history has shown that gaining traction and losing money every month is enough to earn yourself a heavy payout later.
Registered for beta and saw Viagra ads right away. Enough said. It sounded good but it blew it for me.
Just a question, did everyone get a rejection letter if you applied and weren't accepted? I applied as a sole-founder and never got one. I know when I tried submitting my application at first the server had issues or something and I had to try again, but I was fairly certain it went through but never received any e-mail one way or the other.
Web page is dead.

Was this silk road? I've been meaning to scrape prices from there as a pet economics project.
I know people who work at SpaceX. They recruit pretty heavily from CMU (where I am now). From what I have heard, this is why they get things done so quickly: 1) Elon Musk knows about every detail of the rocket's design. 2) They make almost all the parts in house (literally in the same factory). 3) The work ethic/culture at SpaceX is very high. If something needs to get done, Elon will make sure it gets done fast.
They somehow maintain a high rate of progress despite how huge the undertaking is.
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No, the project was called The Farmer's Market. While it operated on Tor, they accepted payments over PayPal which completely breaks the anonymity chain. Silk Road is still operational and uses other security mechanisms (in addition to a decentralized, digital anonymous currency) to further anonymize transactions, running all payments through a tumbler.
You can already upload and share files on Google. It's called "Google Docs".
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The whole lot more is sometimes the problem. Pricenomics does one thing well.

On your site, the main call to action is to post something I've bought. Why would I want to do that? I also couldn't actually figure out how to search for an item (I entered "Macbook Pro" into the filter but didn't find what I was looking for.)
And to profile everyone to optimize those ads. People watch plenty of ads on TV. Google is rich because they have very special data used to price the inventory effectively.
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As a touring (folk!) musician, here's what I'd love to add to the platforms that BandCamp and CD baby already provide;

1. A salesforce for managing fan and venue relationships; I'd love it to be easier to build simple lists of invitations for events by location. Facebook events on their own don't cut it.

It would also be great to have some simple reminders and calendaring with mapping integration to manage booking. When did I last nag that venue? Who from our band is available on that day? What other venues are within 300 km?

2. Digital autographs! Autographs are kinda lame - but people still like them, and it makes a connection. I'd love to be able to write something on a piece of paper, snap a photo of it with my iphone, and have an app extract the message and signature - then put it on top of a promo photo before sending it to someone in a form they can use on their facebook page (ideally with links back to our band page).

3. An online platform for music lessons. Many musicians now make an income from remote instrument lessons via skype - especially in niche music categories. Skype and google chat and so on all optimise audio codecs for speech - not music, so there's one thing that could be different. But how useful would it also be to have a collabedit-like guitar, mandolin, violin, piano .. etc? The teacher could share hints and notes with the student. The teacher might also be able to select from some pre-saved sets of tunes or songs, or chord charts and so on.
My understanding is that the team at Digital Domain (pirates of the caribbean, Jeff Bridges in Tron) modeled the body, and then used mo-cap on an actor who did the "performance".
I once bought a $10 iBook on itunes, thinking it was the movie. There, I've said it.
That way I am the customer, I'm not the product.

There are a lot of companies I do business with that have sold my name to advertisers. Paying a company money doesn't mean they aren't going to make money off of you some other way too.
Mis-alignment of elements is not trivial.

Try look again with a designers perspective
It all depends on the types of web apps you want to build. How about watching some videos to get a feel of the different solid frameworks and pick the closest to your needs?
Quite the rant? Really? Could've sworn I said I'm not sure what technology pud used to create the site, but it'd be interesting to know, and not saying he used rails...just using it as an example.

Regardless, thanks for the builtwith.com tip. I haven't seen that before. It's a little odd though...if I'm reading it right, it says he's running IIS, but using java and cold fusion?
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I didn't have my shit together, so it's perfectly understandable why. No team (just had my 2nd Co-Founder jump ship due to commitment issues, now it's just me again), no prototype.

Now I'm going to ask for financial support from relatives. Pay for hosting, contract work to freelancers.

I need a developer Co-Founder, and a designer Co-Founder. Feel free to contact me if interested. lord_nolan at about.me

And by "Co-Founder", I mean fully-committed for equity. I don't have money, and I do receive some, it won't be very much. Money is for contractors and freelancers. and hosting, legal fees, etc.
Tell that to all those paying AdWords costumers that got kicked without explanation about two years ago. The webmaster forums where full about it.
When Gmail launched, quota was 1GB in numeric counter that was constantly growing even while you viewed the quota on an otherwise static pages. Drive may be similar.

Also, back then it was nearly impossible to fill 1GB with email and restricted attachments. 1GB was mostly a gimmick. Now people can fill 5GB throttle only for a day or two by their network uplink speed.
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A while back someone posted a "digital busking" project he made for his father, a musician. Maybe give fans a way to throw a few coins into their favorite artist's digital guitar case? You sell the coins, artists can then use them to buy promoted listings and such on your site.

(if anyone can find a link to the Show HN post I'm referring to, I'd appreciate it... something about mp3busking I think)
I am currently solo with an idea.

lord_nolan at about dot me

Let's talk.
Focus on engagement. Sign ups are almost meaningless if the users bounce and never return. The reason Facebook is so amazing is not just that they have a billion users, it's that they have 80% of them checking the site 5x per week (or whatever).

See how many users you can get into the habit of coming back to your site on a regular basis. That's the number that ultimately will drive everything: revenue, long term network effects, etc.

BTW, there's no reason in hell it should cost you $2500/mo already. Obviously you can afford it to some extent but that's just a waste of money. You should be able to run it for < $500/mo easily.
Did you read the article? It relates the increase of people renouncing citizenship with the increased enforcement of IRS and legislation targeting foreign income.

This has been a topic of discussion in Canada for some time now where there are many dual citizens. I think that it is insane that even if you have not earned any income in the USA for many years you still need to file a return or face insane penalties.
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Billion dollar valuation. Thats how heard it works I heard.
It seems that a lot of applicants didn't have their demo sites looked at. This together with what I've seen on PG's Office Hour videos leads me to believe that YC is somewhat idea-centric: if we like your idea, we'll look at your potential for execution. Else, you're out. Needless to say, there is nothing wrong with that. If that method works for YC in terms of success rate vs. time and effort spent, then that's how they should be doing it. Still, it might be worth considering the following example. Suppose that 25 years ago, someone would have come to you with this idea: I'll start a furniture store chain. But instead of shipping the furniture to people's homes, I'll give them a cardboard box with the pieces, a couple of nuts and bolts, and a wrench inside. There can be little doubt as to how that idea would have been rated: ludicrous. But if you had visited a model store and looked at all the neat furniture, not to mention the fancy bedspreads and tableware and what not, then took home a chair in pieces, assembled it, sat in it... You may not have predicted that there were going to be newspaper headlines like "IKEA will continue to hire off-duty Sheriff's deputies to help with traffic control for several more weeks." But you may well have predicted some measure of success for this offbeat idea.
If you really like the site & community you have built and are in it for the long term, here's an idea: build a stock market for buying a share of an individual musician's or song's future revenue.

With crowdfunding legislation passed, you could wait the 9 months for the SEC to determine the regulations for crowdfunding brokers and become one of the first brokers, with a focus on building a marketplace for investing in undiscovered musical talent. You could also, in the same platform, provide a secondary marketplace for reselling those shares so there is liquidity for early investors.

If musicians are better equipped than most to recognize the talent in other musicians, your site provides the perfect community in which to build this marketplace. The high school kid who can really jam on the guitar today might be tomorrow's superstar, and perhaps a community of musicians could recognize that, invest in him, and eventually earn a return on their investment. With the crowdfunding model, the minimum investment could be quite small and within reach for many on the site.

Your business model could be as a traditional broker - taking a fee for the stock purchase, or as a flat monthly fee for active traders. Or you could have your fee be in equity in every musician that sells their shares on the market, but that seems like it could generate conflicts of interest.

If the $2500/month burn is an immediate issue or might force a shutdown, ask your users to donate and try to get enough to cover 18 months of expenses ("personal appeal from jimmy wales"-inspired banner might work), giving the the time needed to wait for the SEC and build the marketplace.
Thanks for pointing this out - of course I didn't mean that #2 guy will do the shit work exclusively. If that was the case, all the good people would leave - everybody has their breaking point.

It's a manager's responsibility to balance this out - but my point was SOMETIMES there's shit work - it's just unavoidable, and someone has to do it. And at that stage, there are people who do it, and people who don't ...
Yuck. You're right. I'll ping the author and see if he's going to release it after some edits.
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I have not got anything yet be it rejection or acceptance for interview. Checked all my mailboxs (spam & inbox).

Is it all over and out? Any one who haven't got anything yet?
I hope you are not the tech person on your team.
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What world were you living in where the economy was notably better in 2008/9/10 than it was in 2011?

I'll agree that 1800 is a number so small (three orders of magnitude smaller than the number establishing citizenship/permanent residency) that it's hardly worth a glance.
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We haven't heard yet and were a late applicant too.

Not sure if we'll get a reply in time to make it over to the states (from Australia), but the FAQ suggests that they will respond at some point:

"You can submit a late application up till the start of the summer 2012 YC cycle in June, but we can promise nothing about how carefully we'll read it or when we'll respond to you."
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This could be very cool. I'm quite a good musician myself (varsity educated and all that), but lately I've really been wanting to learn some more solo production techniques (basically I want to make music that sounds like purity ring: http://soundcloud.com/purity-ring) as, despite all my education and experience, I don't really know squat about how to produce a good dance track. I would be really interested in somewhere where I could post a lesson request like "I want to make a beat that sounds like the one from Belispeak" and tag it with say "Ableton, production, purity ring, EDM" and someone answer it. Wouldn't even need to be paid - though perhaps you could do like a reward system: if the person who responds is awesome, you could tip them?

Sorry, typing/thinking out loud here.
I hear you regarding user engagement.

However when I first built the site, I envisioned more of a LinkedIn-type thing where engagement is relatively low but the value is in the database.

In other words, I don't use LinkedIn very often. But when I need to, it's a godsend (or at least, better than anything else that does what it does.)

Interesting.
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I experience this first-hand myself. I am a dual citizen of US and Australian citizenship, living in Melbourne, Australia.

Under the tax treaty between Australia and the US, I can declare tax paid to Australia (where I work) and I receive an exemption from paying that amount of tax to the US. With Australia's income tax almost universally higher, this means that I will probably never need to actually pay tax to the US.

However, I still have to file tax in both countries every year. This is made more difficult by the fact that the tax year in Australia runs from July to June, with the US running 6 months offset. This makes the paperwork time consuming and difficult to perform, and there are very few accountants in Australia versed in US tax practices, so I can't even go out and hire a professional who can manage both my Australian and US tax lodging.

Although I was born and raised in the US and in many ways still think of the US as my homeland, I am on the verge of giving up my US citizenship for exactly this reason.
I agree, writing Java without powerful refactoring tools is a bore--that's why it's great to use Eclipse's "Generate Getters and Setters based on Fields" refactoring tool.

Interestingly, I've never really felt the pain of not having a good REPL for java, although I often use it in other languages. Although Java isn't interpreted, unlike the other languages you mentioned, Scala is both interpreted and compiled, so it's not a great argument for why it doesn't have a good REPL. I think eclipse's very strong autocomplete somewhat obviates the need for it, because I know that I mostly depend upon bpython/ipython for the easy access to docstrings and information about arguments.

I wonder if part of the reason why I've never felt the need for a REPL in Java is simply because there isn't one built in, so it isn't a tool that I ever reach for. REPLs are great for prototyping, and for learning, but I've found that the more I learn about a language, the less I tend toward using the REPL, so perhaps it's simply that I got used to being able to edit my code instead of having to type it all in again.
I was the tax lawyer interviewed for this article. I have helped dozens of people terminate their citizenship or green cards. Ask me anything.
I didn't know that Microsoft made phone software... Does anyone use it?
Thanks that's a good idea, I'll be sure to do that.
He wrote a post about his backend in August, I think it relates to this project. (He uses ColdFusion)

http://pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back...
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The 'low points' of the economy were in 08-09. The bottom of the market was hit around Feb 09. I use quotes because I personally believe it is still really bad.

On another note, does anyone on here have multiple passports? I do and consider it my last resort in case the US becomes a full blown police state.
I'm sorry but this is BS. You don't deserve food/shelter/healthcare/education etc. You only deserve what you go out of your cave, kill, and bring back home.

Food, shelter, healthcare, and education are all things that require someone else to do something to provide. Why should I have to go to work to pay for your X that you think is a right so that you can sit on your couch or plant trees and be happy. That's absurd. That bread you find at Kroger, somebody had to work to make it appear in your cart.
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Thanks. I had seen this encoder before, it has one problem

>> The encoder expects a „CanvasPixelArray“ (as returned by the „getImageData“ method of a canvas).

I'd like to use raw binary data simply read from the local file system, and run it through an encoder.
I also find the tone of that post aggressive and a majority of the criticism unfounded.

I agree with the criticism about lack of visual hierarchy. Feel as if the whole page doesn't really take the user's goals into account as much as it should. I'll try to send a detailed e-mail about my thoughts as soon as I get a free minute.
Very cool that this article interviewed a hn member.

My understanding is that you still have to pay taxes for 10 years after terminating citizenship, is this true?
Really appreciate that, dashN9ne. Looking forward to reading it as we fix things up.
For those that do terminate their citizenship, what is the most common country they choose to live in afterwards? In other words, where is the grass perceived to be greener?
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The danger of getting my account shut down is the sole reason I pay $50/year for a Premium Apps account. The ability to call and talk to someone should something go wrong is worth it considering my entire life is in the account.
Well here's an idea. Imagine a company where you get hired with a probation period, and if you manage to automate a significant aspect of your job during that period, you get to keep it. That is, if you make yourself obsolete, you get to keep the pay. If you then do the same for another task, you get to keep the pay for the higher-paying of the two AND you get to give the lower-paying one to a person of your choice.

This gives you both incentive to take crappy, menial jobs as a technology expert (a robot could do that crap - no human should be so punished) and the most valuable thing of all - free time without worrying about income. And if you like automating human-degrading jobs, you can move up while giving people you care about the same thing.

Just an idea I'm throwing out there, it's my best answer so far for how to deal with the problem.
I know of a service which kind of does this (w/o the social network part tho):

www.wearelistening.org
His sidebar suggests NewsFeedy:

http://www.newsfeedy.com/
Nope. That was the old system. That went away in 2008. The new system is that you are treated as if all your tax chickens come home to roost at once. All your IRAs etc are treated as distributing. You are treated as selling everything you own. It is a giant mark-to-market event in your life.

This applies to "rich" people. This means $2 million net worth and up, or you paid an average of $151k of Fed tax over the previous five years. Under these limits? You are out with paperwork, no tax.
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Yes, that does seem to imply that eventually we might get a response.

Thanks for pointing that out :)
Most of my clients end up in high tax countries. Europe. Canada. NZ or Australia.

Makes you question the knee-jerk bias, doesn't it?
Both are standards for IC to IC interconnects. DSI is just what it sounds like, a standard for connecting a display via a serial connection. The simpler parallel connections you would see in other embedded products are too large to use in a cell phone. "MIPI Camera Connector" probably means its using the CSI standard, again a serial link for connecting a camera to the SoC. MIPI is actually the standards body and is just a loose consortium of companies that define inter-operable standards for use in cell phones: http://www.mipi.org/
The good news is when you get a site with traffic numbers like this, investors (angel and otherwise) come out of the woodwork. So you'd have nothing to worry about.

In other words, I chose to self-fund. But if that's an option for you, you'd be okay either way.
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There's a proposed bill that says that if you owe more than 50K the government won't let you leave the country.

Won't this effectively trap people? Is there any legal recourse -- including renouncing citizenship -- for somebody stuck inside the country?
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Generally if a payment is made to a corporation or total payments are less than $600 for the year you don't have to issue a 1099.

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A few months ago I did a post[1] where I promoted a page I made for my dad Nick Dooley[2] which was basically to test whether a simple "online busking" model has legs.

The results were that about 4000 people downloaded the 1st track, about half that the second and roughly 350 each for the last two (I didn't do enough analysis to know if those last 350 or so people were the same ones or not).

Out of those, about 20 people gaves some "bucks" and 9 people subscribed to the mailing list.

I would say your best bet is to allow people to pay artists on the site via a "virtual guitar case" and take a small percentage of each transaction.

If you have 404,772 users and promote one per day and drive 4000 people to that page per day, and your average musician drives $40 worth of revenue per day, you know. You make some money. Then you just increase the traffic and away you go.

[1] http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/Thanks_Louis_now_here...

[2] http://www.nickdooley.com/