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adf.ly focuses on publisher-side monetization. We're focused on individuals monetizing the content they share through their social networks. While the traffic a user generates through a social network is less than a publisher, we hypothesize that it is still significantly undervalued, especially to the user.

Problem: Advertising is a big industry. Billions of dollars are spent to bolster brand awareness and drive sales. Increasingly, advertising is digital as consumers spend more time on phones, computers and tablets. Social platforms like Facebook exploit user data for enormous profit, while all the user gets is a “free” product. There is an opportunity for users to reclaim a significant amount of this value, and in doing so realize a greater sense of worth.

Mission: To measure and honor the value of every individual.

Vision: Corporations and Individuals providing value directly for each other.

Product: A URL shortening service for individuals to monetize the content they share. Monetization occurs via an ad featured between the platform sharing the short url (e.g. Facebook) and the site the short url takes the user to (the content being shared).

A Bitcoin transaction between two parties is itself pretty obscure. As others have said, "mixing" techniques like CoinJoin [0] allow for much greater obscurity. The big misunderstanding is with services that use Bitcoin; for example, the agreement to send $50k in Bitcoin was probably in a message log in a Silk Road database.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoinJoin

As a developer of a URL shortening service, this is incredibly useful. Social platforms scrape the contents of all shared URLs to offer a preview in a feed. With this service I can incorporate the logo of a site's destination URL into the scraped content.

Our product is a URL shortening service for individuals to monetize the content they share. Monetization occurs via an interstitial ad between the source of the short url (e.g. Facebook) and the destination of the short url (the content being shared).

The team right now is investing itself in areas such product, marketing, and architecture. We want to launch a product so we can begin testing our hypotheses, but we also want to go to battle sufficiently prepared. The latter requires significant effort in team building, which would detract from a product launch. What should we do?

To take this suggestion a step further, it would be great if this new nation was run as a Futarchy [1]. The basic idea is we use prediction markets to determine if certain policies would raise GDP, and those that do become law. Projects like Augur [2] are trying to make ubiquitous prediction markets possible by relying on Blockchain-like decentralization.

[1] http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html [2] http://www.augur.net/

Previously, payouts were based on "qualified borrows," which is a binary measure of each user-book pair: a user either borrowed a book or didn't. Now payouts are based on pages read.

The intended effect is that books with more pages will receive more payout (assuming they're actually being read).

This has been submitted to HN a few times before (search: lmax.html)

There was a pretty good discussion on this particular thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3173993

WebGL has pretty good browser support - most recently Safari on iOS 8. http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl

Interesting that they're using FLAC as the encoder... Seems like it would be very memory intensive.

Interesting seeing eBay separate itself from these entities. First PayPal, now this. Are there others I'm missing?

The article itself was shallow. I found it interesting that the featured startup, Abra, is a company that relies on Bitcoin Blockchain technology yet the article makes no mention of Bitcoin or the Blockchain -- and neither does their site.

"Entrepreneurship is war."

This is one way of functioning. There is, however, another approach. It's called the Blue Ocean Strategy. Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia page [1]:

Unlike the “Red Ocean Strategy”, the conventional approach to business of beating competition derived from the military organization, the “Blue Ocean Strategy” tries to align innovation with utility, price and cost positions.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy

Eek... "[setImmediate] is not expected to become standard, and is only implemented by recent builds of Internet Explorer and Node.js 0.10+. It meets resistance both from Gecko (Firefox) and Webkit (Google/Apple)."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/setI...

There are many different paths by which user can access the contents of your web app. For high performance apps, you'll want to optimize this process. Here are two suggestions:

- Use a CDN to serve static content without the need to serve the content out of the origin server every request.

- Create instances of your application in multiple regions. The shortest path to your web app varies based on where the user is in the world. Multiple regions can minimize the latency introduced via the hops s/he must make.

The main takeaway for me was lesson #4:

"setTimeout and browser timing are deceptive and shouldn’t be wholly trusted"... and as a result, use the setImmediate API.

"The economics of U.S. healthcare are also at play. To address the root causes of anxiety takes more time, patience, dedication and, yes, money."

Big Pharma companies drive drug development in the first place, so obstructing the benzo revenue without a suitable alternative may lead to better drugs taking longer to develop. I'm assuming the non-benzos (SSRIs like Lexapro) aren't functionally equivalent to the benzos in how they "help" patients, by some measure that is unknown to me.

GitHub Repo featuring Elements so far (Bitcoin fork): https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements

GitHub Page with a write-up of the actual Sidechain Elements: http://elementsproject.org/

A similar model applies to analyzing Bitcoin blocks. The "event" in this case is a block that is at its maximum capacity: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38zww2/tom_harding...

On the flip side, by not bringing charges against the NSA, there is a clear double standard:

"...the agency had breached its own privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since 2008."

"Mr. Snowden committed very serious crimes... that he should face."