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I'm not a troll.

I don't think the law should have anything to do with this. He didn't do anything hard. He was only able to get away with what he did because Harvard was to lazy to verify his documents. Harvard charges $33k/semester, at that price they can afford to take the time to verify _every_ applicant's information.
Summary: they didn't really solve it, but they re-affirmed it's stability under certain conditions, and proved some interesting mathematical properties
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Find some advisors and mentors, then.

Honestly, set yourself up to make some mistakes and learn from them. Advice is rarely that useful.

If you don't need venture capital, don't raise. It sets certain expectations and puts you on a specific path.
Slightly offtopic, but I have to say I like the HN folks a lot. I find that at reddit, vim and ruby related threads and posts get down-voted rather senselessly. The same post on HN gets upvoted and thanked.

The "formatting with par" cast was nice too. Nice pleasant voice, too.
I don't believe NYT covers this because a lot of normal people, like your parents, are concerned. In fact I think the reverse is true, people read these FUD stories that media outlets are picking up and get overly concerned.
A mathematician has written a nice comment (or: a rough overview) over at Reddit in regard to what the UPenn mathematicians have accomplished:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/c3s6h/mathematician...
Did you try the other searches? I'm literally astounded to see what people write on Facebook. I would never write those things on a public place.
So far I'm surprised that a) nobody has really asked about exits or returns b) people that have asked questions about their own situations have been incredibly vague c) no questions about background or current work or d) no questions about delicious's creation, founding, and later sale.
Why are you an angel investor? Since thats super-broad, here are some options (feel free to add more):

1. You think you can make decent returns.

2. You like helping people.

3. You find it a great way to avoid getting bored.
After a few test searches I couldn't really find anything interesting. It's actually kind of amazing to see so many people saying basically the exact same things Strength in numbers? I learned some people I don't know are going to strip clubs. I learned some people I don't know are watching TV shows and movies. I also learned that people I don't know are eating various things and they are yummy. Is this something to be concerned about? People who have friends & family on Facebook, so the vast majority of the users, are already self censoring.
I'm in a similar situation as when you started. I'm coming from a background in web programming and have been wanting to extend my understanding of computers in general and broaden my programming skill-set.

Are there any resources you can recommend in terms of "Theory of Computation"?

Greatly appreciated.
I really enjoyed your Reddit AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azgs6/iama_guy_who_sol...
Obviously.

You are trying to make money. I am asking - when will you make the money and how much? If I put 25k in a business in 2008, when will I see a return and how much would that return be?

Or are you just doing it to be associated with these companies?
Thanks for reminding me to emphasize that I'm speaking for myself, not my employer here. I write code for a living, I don't do PR.
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Interesting. I built a webapp with jqtouch, which does something similar: http://jqtouch.com/
Certainly in the lead (at 37%), but unfortunately still not in the majority. 62% of Android devices are still running 1.5/1.6.
Will you ever lead rounds/negotiate terms? How many more deals do you think you'll do before you reach that point?
Ha. Not me, you can tell by the top section. He claims to be happy.
I don't do PR.

Clearly not.

That said, HN isn't a place for trolling. I don't think anybody appreciates the way you're distorting people's concerns so that you can mock them.

You're smart enough to understand that the problem is not that 'public information is public', but rather that FB's habit of changing and hiding settings makes it hard to tell what is public. As such, your entire rant was not just off-topic, it was an insult to everyone with a valid concern, and every single member of the HN community who would be interested in a legitimate conversation.

So please... troll elsewhere. We don't need your kind here. This is supposed to be a place of discussion, not a place where angry FaceBook engineers insult FaceBook users with a barrage of irrelevant bullshit.
Thank you for doing this.
Dunno.

I don't invest enough dollars to have that right. I don't have enough purse to increase the dollars I invest.

More importantly, I do not have enough stroke within the community to do this kind of thing.

I also am probably not ready to be a fulltime investor any time soon.
You seem to be taking a very blunt position in the nature vs. nurture debate, which I find a little unsettling.

That said, I don't think the problem with common education today is that it's one of an one-size-fits-all orientation, I think it's rather that the culture at large doesn't value education and reasoning as much as it should. Kids today are so distracted with gadgets these days that it's very hard for them to truly try and develop their intuition with things like mechanical objects (my niece likes to stare at the coffeemaker, and see how it stops, when it stops, etc. It's absolutely fascinating to see her figure it out).
I'm surprised no one has brought up mental illness. There are very few of us who will make it through life without some kind of depressive episode. Some of use internalize it, some of us lash out and destroy the things around us.

I think the author knows very well the character of her husband. She realized that these feelings and changes in him were out of character, and that other things in his life might be causing him serious distress. She was patient, and gave him the chance to leave if he really thought he needed to, and the time to get his head straightened out. What she didn't do was respond to his lashing out, making the situation worse.

As I see it, she stuck by her husband as he was having a hell of a time in his life. She knew the kind of man he is, and that he'd be back.
1 and 3, definitely.

I also like being near interesting projects.
Life-changing, thank you :)
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I don't know. I expect it will take 5-10 years to get a return in many cases.

I think this pays vast dividends outside of dollars: I get connections, notoriety, experience, exposure, and so on. I know about a lot of what's going on in the valley right now, for example.

I expect it will be better than investing in venture funds, but not by much. (I do this too.)
Ask HN: Mental health clinic near Seattle?
I might be suffering from depression and would like to consult a doctor. Nothing serious, no suicide attempts yet but I'd like to be on the safe side.

Anyone can give recommendations for a clinic near Seattle area?
The sound studio we use to record dialog for our games has started using iPads both for occasional music stands, and (more importantly) for sharing the live running script and notations across everyone working to record. They seem to love it. It's definitely not being used for pure content creation, but you're right that as an accessory it has many applications.
Awesome stunt, this is even better than the donut operation!
oops sorry. I did see your comment on that thread and didn't check the username of the OP. There are quite a few similarities between that guy's story and you, so I made an unverified assumption.
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I think the woman was right. He didn't want to leave his family but just go through all his life he has lived so far. If confronted, he probably would have had to leave.

When a man needs to sort out his life, a wise woman gives him the space and doesn't freak out. Freaking out and scooping him for the answer would just drive him further away.

Such a life-reset is the result of ignoring your own life for decades and you need to take the time, either in small doses over the years or mentally going away once in ten years for a longer time.

When you're going through one, you can't take anything for granted, not your job, not your wife, not your family. You can't reset your idea of who you are now if you do it conditionally: if you don't dare to keep your options open, you can never see which of them you can safely close again.
You weren't the only one. I think I wrote him to ask if he had any rich guy tips. I don't think I got any good ones.
That's a little harsh. If facebook engineers won't come here to say stuff like this how are they going to get a different opinion. I say let them come and tell them what you think, but don't repay in kind.
You can prevent that information from being public with a simple setting. I don't know why so many people are whining and bashing Facebook. It's a SOCIAL NETWORK. The entire point of it is to share information with people you know. Don't share what you don't want people to know, and lock down your settings (that they make quite easily available) to filter out the rest.

I can't stand this FB bashing. Zucks gang recklessly opening up whatever they see fit? It's a FREE SERVICE!
Also bank transfers, direct debits (Paying bills automatically) etc, online banking, are all free and work really pretty well. Typically a bank transfer will be in the recipients account within a few hours if it's to a different bank, or within less than that if it's the same bank.
Yes! This is something it took me a long time to internalize but is something I absolutely love about Objective-C. Regardless of any technical differences between message passing and method calling, there was a real shift in how I thought about the process. When I started thinking about object interaction as message passing, it made me write better encapsulated code. I'm not sure exactly what it is, I think that part of it is that to me a “message” sounds more lightweight than a method call, or that it more strongly stresses the concept that objects are communicating, but it a different way of seeing the problem.
I get you.

I'm sitting at home at 3 PM on a Tuesday writing patches to the OSS project that spun out of the day job that spun out of the weeklong project which was supposed to, someday, buy me a video game. We never know what the future holds, right?
On topic. I _really_ want to do this.[1] Whats your opinion? Sent a proposal to kickstarter yesterday, waiting for reply.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351584
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Is this you?

http://www.keyboardmods.com/2010/04/wireless-split-kinesis-c...

If not, since you take the arms of your office chairs, I'm going to hazard a guess that you have wider shoulders than most keyboards are designed for. If that's the case, you might wish your Contour had either a bigger split or an adjustable split. I would be more interested in getting a Contour if I could have a bigger gap between the left and right sides.
That's taking it a bit too literally don't you think?
> At this age and time arguing most users don't know how to do this or were somehow duped is appalling.

Why? Most users really don't understand the consequences of the default settings, let alone which checkbox has which effect.

Just the other day I was browsing CNN and to great surprise a section on the site named a HN user as recommending that I should go and check out some link. Turned out it was powered by facebook and I had made the mistake of not logging out.

That's something that won't be happening again, but I'm not sure I could have predicted that sort of thing would happen.

And I'm definitely not comfortable with it.

For me, facebook has changed from a place where I share some stuff about me with my friends to a shingle for people to get in contact with me through other means.

I will not delete my account because that is a useful function, but my facebook days as an active user are mostly over (not that anybody cares or should care).
> Line of sight networking was obsoleted by WiFi and Bluetooth. What problem does this solve?

It is easier to prevent signal leakage with light.
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Let me spell out my argument more explicitly:

The evidence being offered here (people writing public status updates with mildly titillating strings in them) has nothing to do with the claim that Facebook users don't understand Facebook privacy. In contexts where we all agree that the users understand the privacy model (twitter, plain ol' html), the same experiment produces the same results: people over-sharing.

If you wish to demonstrate the claim that Facebook users don't know what they're doing, this does nothing to convince those who do not already agree with you.
Wouldn't your GP be the right person to ask? Or the psychiatry department of a hospital?

The chances that someone on HN has this information are relatively small. It may work though, who knows!
I don't mind the speculative aspect of it so much - there's legitimate economic reasons for that to exist, and fills an important market function - but I do have misgivings about trades being filled algorithmically rather than by decision of a human agent.

On the other hand I'm not sure how you police it, because some home-investor with a trading program that kicks in and saves him from losing several thousand while he's in the bathroom is engaging in algorithmic trading too, and I wouldn't deny an individual investor such safety mechanisms.
Are you sure? I mean, from what I understand, a linked-list is an 'immutable structure' (in the sense that once a pointer is set, it can never be changed, but it CAN go from empty to something).

But, I don't think any old linked list can be safely read and modified from a multithreaded environment without threading issues...
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heh, I just browsed Fortune's Formula and read about Kelly math. Excellent -- it's just like playing blackjack -- gotta control your bank.

upshot: if he does well, in a couple years his typical investment size will be $20-$50K. Investment size is a proportion of bank.
Seems she was only willing to let him do these things once she thought she may lose him. Why couldn't he do these things at any time if that's what he really wanted.
Sort of on a): Are non-exit returns ever something you think about? E.g. the possibility of buying into the next craigslist and getting x% cut of some large revenue stream, but never getting an IPO or buyout? Or is that just too uncommon, and/or people with those intentions never cross your radar because they don't seek funding rounds?
Register a domain for them. That way when I get the renewal bill I am reminded to go and do something about it.

A pretty good sign that it was a bad idea is when I don't remember on the renewal date a year later what I registered the domain for ;)
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I'll guess that these startups Kyle is talking about were good enough to make it anyway - without loosing time on writing worthless papers.

Disclaimer: I'm not involved in any startups. But when I first came into contact with business plan concept. I couldn't see any real value in it and it seemed kinda cargo cultish to me.
Best of luck then, I don't think anyone's not rooting for you here.
"DocVerse may be in fact Google's most strategic acquisition in its office productivity software battle with Microsoft."

I don't see how this is a battle. One side is fighting, while the other is constantly shifting the terms of engagement.
I heard you built one website a month, hunting for the right idea, until delicious clicked.

Would you ever fund a person you believed in for that kind of exploratory work?
Are you serious? The idea that speculation is bad dates back to old and embarrassing ant-Semitic rhetoric.

Speculation is an inevitable property of markets and is indistinguishable from more "concrete" behaviors such as hedging. Suppose a farmer buys rain insurance but not hail insurance. He's hedging one and gambling on the other. Yet he bought no contract for the latter.

Such transactions do help build productive enterprises, as they help with price discovery of the shares and add liquidity (which makes the investment more sound for everyone).
Sounds like an interesting idea.

A revolution in education is imminent. Better measurement, statistics, and analytics in the real world, better connectivity in the offline world.
1) If you look at the total public monies paid in vs. out, illegal immigrants are definitely (on net) tax recipients. You need look no further than California's budget crisis. Please do drill down if you wish, but a back of the envelope estimate (no income tax, only sales tax, and generally under $40k income) makes the situation pretty clear IMO.

2) Moreover, illegal immigrants are disproportionately Hispanic. Their children are automatic US citizens by birthright citizenship and thus qualify for affirmative action. This is another nontrivial preference when you look at empirical differentials in objectively measurable quantities -- like SAT scores, which have their flaws, but are no doubt among the things this Harvard senior falsified.

Now...

3) Just to consider the other side of the coin, someone below said "If all that matters is that I 'came to work,' then what's the point of any rules and regulations.".

Yet many of us here at Hacker News know that the rules and regulations are often simply set up to favor the incumbents, and that many influential web phenomena (e.g. Youtube, Bit Torrent, Napster, Google, Facebook, etc.) were built on just being ballsy enough to play a game of brinkmanship with the law.

Sure, those are laws that many of us have disrespect for -- in large part because the guys that we're "stealing" from are the MPAA and RIAA, who have deep pockets.

Similarly many who "don't care" about illegal immigration aren't big fans of the USA. They argue that "the border crossed Mexico", after all, and ancestors of (some of) today's Americans killed ancestors of (some of) today's Mexicans and took their territory, so revanchist sentiment is justified.

But doesn't Harvard have deep pockets? Aren't its privileged graduates going to be wealthy and successful even if there is a fake or two among their ranks? Hasn't it been the training ground for most of the capitalist and political oppressor class?

Why then the outrage over devaluing and diluting the Harvard credential? Perhaps because many of us (including myself) have paid good money for one of these Ivy degrees, and so now it is our ox getting gored rather than some remote abstraction.

Let's be clear that widespread 'undocumented' immigration is not a problem for the Harvard-educated software engineers working at Facebook. But the widespread presence of undocumented Harvard graduates? That's another story altogether.
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One of the major differences, from a programming point of view (as opposed to implementation) is that with message passing, you can pass any message to an object, even if that object doesn't know how to handle it.

Cocoa makes extensive use of delegates (not sure if these are similar to .net delegates) for handling unrecognised messages, which makes adding custom behaviour to classes possible without subclassing.

Rails is (in)famous for making use of Ruby's method_missing to implement all sorts of funky stuff.
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http://mises.org/daily/320 a history of speculation and a rebuttal of many of its disparagements
I tried to build something interesting every year. I originally set out to be some sort of expert in social software (I think I succeeded, more or less) way back. In the past I built memepool and geourl and a bunch of other things you've never heard of.

However, I never really had the idea of building businesses, just interesting things. I wanted to get attention (I got myself invited to Foo Camp before I did delicious, for example) from folks outside my industry, as I worked at an investment bank.

I still build some small things here and there. I find it much more difficult to program now, though.
Say you have an idea for a web startup, you're working on a prototype in your spare time. How should one make the jump from side project to getting funded? How did you do it with delicious?
I think that is a fair reason for the current state of Mac applications, as theirs is a cultured built over many years between a relatively small number of people. But the iPhone has brought a hoard of developers who are new to the platform, so I find it hard to believe that a real, distinct culture has formed yet when compared to Android developers.
That does come from mises.org, though, and sort of says what you'd expect the Mises Institute to say about speculation. Which doesn't make it wrong, but does mean you're getting one particular side of a long-running debate in economics (roughly, the Austrian-School side). There are a lot more perspectives in the literature: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22role+of+spe...
We're always creating the preconditions of our own future. At some times more deliberately than others.

What video game?
It's been an issue for me for over 18 months.

This is just a fad and, annoyingly, it will pass ( like the google hate we had a couple of months back).

I'd love to be wrong. But I doubt it.

Those launching sites like this are just jumping on the bandwagon and will jump off just as easily without actually doing anything.

Edit: by the way. Everyone non-techy that I try and talk about this with just shrugs and says "yeh I checked them, it's cool". Same as they have for the last 18 months. This hasn't raised it's profile - yet (still hopeful)
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I don't know specifics about craigslist, but I haven't heard of anyone who is an investor of a company that pays significant dividends. Not saying it doesn't happen, though.

I suspect that folks who have large revenue streams imminent would go to some effort not to dilute themselves.
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Can you elaborate on "constantly shifting the terms of engagement"?
I've read 11 books so far on my iPad. So, as a reading device, I'm very satisfied with it.
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I think delicious picked up more users in a day when I left than in its whole first year of existence. So it took some time to figure out if it clicked... however, I know that I spent a lot of time making Muxway (delicious's predecessor) work right for me and had a good sense for what would work for other people.