I'm sort of surprised to see you're getting downvoted by all the greedy wanna-be zillionaire founders. If they had any brains, they'd be the ones developing this compression code and getting the million-dollar bonuses.
FYI - Indians who have emigrated to the Americas are known as Indian-Americans, while Native Americans (who were here before any of us) assume the title of American Indians.
Do you really disagree with brokenmachine's premise that poor English makes communication impossible?
Or is it, rather, that Sam and YC {and venture capital in general}, by proxy through you, are annoyed at decreasing access to low-wage workers from a developing country notorious for unintelligible accents?
But, how are posters on HN supposed to get upvotes if they don't say something alarming/negative? Positive comments are explicitly discouraged in the "community guidelines." Perhaps we should consider whether sama or pg had a greater influence on that.
Yep. This article seems like yet another of MIT's attempts to aggrandize its "scientific reputation" in every field, even when the 'insights' gained are obvious or non-novel.