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I love this tradition; and for the first time would like to make a similar offer: Anyone who got rejected from YC S13 forward your rejection email to freewine@undergroundcellar.com…

Not sure what your use case is; but rather than identifying the PERSON is unique, you can identify that their PHONE NUMBER is unique. Require a text message code be entered on scre…

IDology has a service for what you're looking for I believe. It's called KYC or "Know Your Customer". I use it on my site to verify identities before opening bank accounts in their…

Thanks Benferhat for the links. However, zip-tax is SaaS-only and charges monthly fee. And zip2tax sells the database for $660. Seeing as how this is not proprietary data and that …

To further clarify, only need data on USA zip codes. Thanks in advance.

Have any of you guys experienced a similar headache as what I'm dealing with today...? I'm trying to put together a database such that I can calculate sales/use tax rates for custo…

I'm going to show up for an interview anyways.

In marketing analytics there is a saying... "Don't waste time testing things that don't give you actionable metrics". Meaning... 1 view, 5 views, 100 views... what will you do diff…

I'd be very interested in following this project if you go ahead with it. The value would be to identify how Tweets from major corporate and political figures affect related stock …

Very interesting to hear the attitudes towards TV during the early adoption phase of the technology. You can hear the excitement in the announcer's voice as he describes a TV broad…

Keiferski that link you referenced is relating to the interview stage. I think the purpose of the application demo is to provide a visualization of what you wrote in the YC applica…

There was no confirmation email sent out. You can check to see if your application was submitted properly by going to http://news.ycombinator.com/apply and if you get the message "…

I recently had video content I created licensed for use in a motion picture. My compensation included a small % of profitability of the film, payable as long as certain milestones …

Paul Brigner, who was until last month a senior vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America says: "The more I became educated on the realities of these issues, the …

Thank you Jonny you bring up some valid clarifications. Still is interesting to see that times are-a changin' and it appears that the courts are now starting to realize that.

The judge protects copyright infringers and gives reasoning: "Unfortunately, it would appear that the technology that enables copyright infringement has outpaced technology that pr…