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Elite··on Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain
What you call a bug, with protein's being defective 2-3% of the time, is the most important feature of the biological program.

It's more elegant thank you think.

Elite··on Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich
Is Oprah the only self-made Billionaire in the US/Europe?

I know that there are several female billionaires but all the fortunes I can think of now are inherited

Elite··on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay
Caveat, I'm not a finance guy, but my understanding is that on a short time scale you can predict the price direction of stocks under certain conditions.

For example, if I notice that there are several large orders buying a stock, I can assume that a large institution is trying to purchase a position. If you reach this conclusion quickly enough, you can buy up enough stock, temporarily hiking the price, and selling the stock back to the large institution as they are trying to fulfill their purchase order. Do this enough times, and for large enough orders, and you can make money.

Elite··on Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator
What are doing in Africa? I'd love to talk to you about it sometime. I'm doing some work there as well construction/water&waste mgmt. We'll soon make some very early stage efforts to enter the energy industry as well. See my profile for contact info.
Elite··on Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
Anybody else clicked this thinking it would be an artificial intelligence module that exhibited musical creativity?
Elite··on Reality: Old Spice sales are actually up 107% in the last month
The data from the story saying their sales were down was for the 52 weeks ending in April or May.

And even those numbers were suspect, as there was another retail data source that said the opposite -- that sales were slightly up..

I never believed for a second that the latest campaign ended up as a LOSS.

Elite··on Navigenics, 23andMe slammed in government report
They don't have much of a choice but to defer. Political officials are notoriously vindictive. If 23andMe released a scathing response, it would be taken personally by some power hungry politico would make it his personal agenda to destroy the company.

The only industry I can think of that basically told government "Go fuck yourselves" was wall street. Even Big Oil panders.

Elite··on Ask HN: My web app is going viral. Now what?
I should be able to read interesting posts without having to sign up. Many people lurk before getting engaged in a site, if they ever do so at all.

I'm sure many people read FMylife for the schadenfraude -- there will people who may just wnat to read, without contributing directly

Elite··on Reality: Old Spice sales are down since ad campaign began
This makes more sense to me. It would be very surprising if what I think one of the most engaging ad campaigns in recent memory had a NEGATIVE impact on sales.
Elite··on Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract
"had just been disciplined for ignoring privacy issues I considered important"

Details?

Elite··on Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34239119/Ceglia-v-Zuckerberg-compl...

2003 Contract starts on page 11

Elite··on Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract
Thanks for clearing that up on the name.
Elite··on Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract
According to the above Bloomberg Article: Ceglia claims his alleged contract, which refers to "The Face Book" was signed about nine months before Facebook was founded, the company said in court papers.

According to the NYT from 2007:http://nyti.ms/cC0HwJ "An e-mail message, circulated widely by Mr. Greenspan to Harvard students on Sept. 19, 2003, describes the newest feature of houseSYSTEM, as "The Face Book" an online system for quickly locating other students. The date was four months before Mr. Zuckerberg started his own site"

My question: did these two parties independently come up with an idea for "The Face Book" for Harvard and both pitched it to Zuckerberg? Seems odd at the very least on the face of things. Greenspan, if you can comment on this -- were you affiliated with Ceglia at all?

Elite··on The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)
As absurd as these visualizations are, it does raise the bigger point that it is very difficult for our brains to understand large numbers.

It is difficult for most people to really grasp how much 184 million gallons is, or to tell the difference between $1 Trillion in bailout vs $2 trillion in bailout money. After some point, we just give up and call it "a lot". I think this has very real public policy consequences.

But I'd bet, we'd very much understand if your boss said he was cutting your $100k salary to $50k.

Elite··on Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?
How do you guys make money? Sorry, didn't have time to explore the entire site
Elite··on Portland startup Think Brilliant sues The Office's Rainn Wilson
>The company says that...the company or Wilson "surreptitiously hacked into plaintiff’s database with an unauthorized 'administrator' password, extracted confidential materials" and gained access to Think Brilliant's confidential materials.

Sounds like something Mr. Shrute would do. GUILTY!

Elite··on Could a for-profit business be built through crowdsourcing?
I used crowd sourcing for lack of a better term. Anyone doing work on the project would be an employee under a pre-specified profit sharing plan. Profit distribution may be regularly adjusted based on contribution to product development or sales.

The reason I didn't use "open-source" is because the product would be proprietary. The product code would not be open, but be property of the company, which the employees collectively own.

Elite··on Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?
I'm pretty sure Nassim Nicholas Taleb wasn't the source, but I first heard the term from him.
Elite··on This was a triumph.
I'm sure Kevin's a great guy, but his site is not him. I was regular there for a few months and there was a marked decline in link and comment quality. Eventually, I gave up and left. Many people on reddit share the same experience.

But nonetheless, I have never 'hated' on digg. The site has changed and I realize it's not for me anymore. I'm sure there are many users that love it the way it is, just not me.

Elite··on App Inventor for Android
The barrier to entry to creating basic applications shouldn't be programming syntax knowledge, so I applaud this move by Google. There are millions of people who think logically and systematically and could write down on paper the architecture for a great program but they just don't know how to program.

I haven't checked this out entirely yet, but if it does what it's suppsed to do well then this will ultimately be a good thing for quality applications from a wider domain space.

Elite··on What would do you need to see before joining an early stage startup?
With a 40-50% equity stake, what's a reasonable salary range for an experienced programmer? What's the minimum?

I would raise initial salary from my own pocket for the lead CTO, so I'm curious if I'd have enough. $90k+ is not feasible.

Elite··on What would do you need to see before joining an early stage startup?
Great advice! I'm currently making plans to exit a mild-moderate profitable company and I can attest to the fact that a startup is like family! We share the struggles, triumphs and everything in between.
Elite··on Elon Musk: “Why Owen Thomas Is Silicon Valley’s Jayson Blair”
Elon, it's lonely at the top but it's jam-packed at the bottom. I would recommend that now that you've set the record straight, you no longer publicly respond to this individual, even if his continued insults and biased reporting negatively impact you or your company. Your performance speaks for itself.

This individual thrives on your energy and your attention. Let him rot. I'm sure he wasn't the first and he won't be the last.

Elite··on How telling people the facts may not cause them to change what they believe
When I engage in difficult or critical conversations, I try to avoid the word "you" as much as possible. This immediately tends to put people in defensive mode and their response can become combative as they perceive this as an attack on who they are.
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