igorsyl's comments

On: A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it

[igorsyl]

I wonder what it sounds like in units of noise cancelling headphones.

On: Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding

[igorsyl]

Support and hosting?

On: Whole Exome Sequencing for $999

[igorsyl]

What does 80X coverage mean?

On: Teen solves Newton’s 300-year-old riddle

[igorsyl]

Has anyone found the publication? All I have read is hype about this but I can't find the original source.

On: “I’m just like a little kid. I get bored easily and computers excite me..."

[igorsyl]

“I don’t really like putting a price-tag on the stuff I do. That’s just like not the point,”

Eight years later he is finally putting a price-tag on it.

[dschmidt11 → igorsyl]

it'll be interesting to see if other big co.'s follow GM's move

On: Every time an engineer joins Facebook, a startup dies

[igorsyl]

People may create more value at a large company but most of the compensation will go to the founders and investors.

[overgryphon → igorsyl]

Most of the compensation goes to the founders and investers in startups as well.

[michael_fine → igorsyl]

But this isn't really a problem then. If the issue with people being hired away from startups is that startups create more value for society, then that's an externality, and we should care. But if it's a question of potentially higher compensation, then we can expect people to act selfishly, and so it's not really a problem.

On: Ask HN: How do you deal with missing out on the Facebook money train?

[igorsyl]

Should we expect an Occupy Facebook gathering later this week?

On: Ask HN: YC Work At a Startup advice?

[igorsyl]

I'm surprised this post has received no comments or advice from Silicon Valley founders. I believe the competition for talent is fierce and most companies would love to have more developers readily available to join their companies.

On: Ask HN: Where are all the iOS meetups in San Francisco

[igorsyl]

Meetup is an NYC-based company so it may be the case that SF prefers a locally-built solution instead.

On: My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie

[igorsyl]

The medical industry is in need of disruption. Has anyone played with the idea of "seeing" a doctor located in a different country using a video app? I imagine the experience would be better than what most people deal with in the states. US doctors have too much power and they take advantage of it. A remote doctor would be under more competition and be willing to provide better service.

[mahyarm → igorsyl]

That doctor will not be able to authorize you to purchase restricted medications they recommend, or authorize your insurance to pay for various expensive procedures and test.