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Please explain what guideline this comment violates. I was serious. Quitting the NY Times is the only way they will realize that they made some huge mistakes in the elections coverage.

NY Times was made to look like a fool by this election. Their arrogance will be their downfall. And keep in mind I'm a hardcore liberal, and always valued sources like NY Times. Now I think they are a joke with how they didn't take Trump seriously.

This post is irrelevant to 99.9% of founders as that's the % of people who could raise $2M without doing anything first.

Reverse sticker shock as clickbait, there's a new one.

How to make it to top of HN: Tack on harvard/Mit/Stanford/in crowd institution's name to something that contrasts with a pop culture norm. Wait for lemmings to duke out the implications. It's as predictable as Trump getting elected.

Incentive is less to rebel if he lost. It wouldn't have seemed more piling on rather than principled move. In same hypothetical I kinda feel like most people would have waited.

What about R?

The air is going out in the airbed. Seriously I know this audience will rationalize it (like they did with Hilary) but getting punched in world-leading cities like NYC and SF is only going to make adoption harder elsewhere. If I had any skin in the game with Airbnb I would be looking for the exit. I sincerely don't think its going to end well. It may take five years but the trajectory is troubling.

Nice analysis but Excel default color schemes are unbearable. I wonder how many people their hideousness turns away before even contemplating the data.

Mark Twain or Shakespeare I'm sure has some quote about the inversely proportional relationship between self-proclaimed worth vs. externally validated worth, but I've noticed an increase in the amount of YC promotion as the value of the YC brand begins to ebb (airbnb trolling by NYC, zenefits and whatnot).

Slack = Dropbox. They don't own the stack. Their chat app is worthless to all the real companies, i.e., non-SV funny money (which btw is 99.9% of the world's purchasing power), who are living in msft or google products and don't want to click into some incompatible app they won't be able to rally others around because it's not recommended by IT.

I would short Slack. Shark jumping moment.

And there goes FB's business model. Nobody is going to post anything once people realize their money is at stake. This seems like a good opportunity for a new friends and family social network.

Ahh ye old biologist doing ye old refuctionist science.

Good luck on ye old calcium drug preventing more Alzheimer's then it does causing ye old bad something else.

I always find it interesting to figure out why work like this gets attention compared to the 87,000 other approaches for important disease X. This work seems particularly preliminary.

Silly humans distracting each other. It's like we are the Washington Generals and Disease is the Harlem Globetrotters.

Yep. Biologist here lol.

It would be interesting to know how much biology this dude truly explored before plunking down his $100M on some other dude promising him to revolutionize the brain.

This company's self driving cars are gonna have serious problems because their business roadmap is all over the place. This is not just wordplay, I'm serious.

I'm all for it but Trump isn't the guy to lead the change. He has no record of success and treats all humans terribly.

If Somebody with a similar mindset on the business matters minus the catastrophic interpersonal issues runs in the future I'll happily elect them.

Monoculture is reinforced by the Internet. The internet is a meme machine. In yesteryear, not knowing what other people are doing was the norm. Not knowing is good for independent thought.

Makes me think of Twitter, YC, and so many areas of life. Thanks for the link.

Reid Hoffman makes clear like I suspected that SV power players are skeptical about Sam Altman. YC is becoming Jack of all trades master of none. Jury is still out on YC under Sam's leadership. By 2020 I think we'll start to see the wheels fall off.

Fair enough. Though to prove that their tech is better is definitely a data access issue. I obviously wish them luck but some ex-Twitter employees doesn't sound like a very leveraged team to be better at health data acquisition or data science. Unlike Twitter or Facebook, being good at science requires acquired knowledge. So even starting a bio PhD as one of the guy's did, the strength of their competitors and the carcasses of people before wouldn't give me any confidence to throw any amount of money let alone $45M at this thing.

Yep. Academic molecular biolgist here. 100% agree. For as much as this community knows about software it knows shockingly little about the rules of health care.

Hate to break it to everyone breathless over yet another press clipping, but this startup is dead in the water. Another $45M down the tubes.

Tl;dr ....(nothing)

Why was it a non-starter for Intel and what made Apple use it? I'm curious because I don't know about computer architecture.

Lol b/c other YCers say don't waste time getting press.

Please give an example of a finance guy adding value to the system.

Exactly. He sucks up airtime for quieter, likely superior approaches in other or the same areas. It's anger not envy. What's the point of Wired interviewing Elon Musk for the 10,000th time? There are so many people doing so much good stuff out there. Finding them isn't hard. They are on the internet too.

> I don't know why you were downvoted, perhaps for the "lol"

Thank you for adding the link. Yes, personality doesn't add to the conversation according to the mods. Sigh. One needs a safe zone from even the mildest trolling.

Lol what is KVM thanks for the no link on the readme.

Dear Internet, can we stop using acronyms without defining them first? Thanks.

You missed my point. If he is smart and yet not right as you say, doesn't that make him dumb?