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This is exactly what I said a few weeks ago about Google pulling out. They are the Yahoo of China. Nobody gives a crap about them. People in the US are so ignorant of other countries that they believe whatever narrow-minded nonsense the media tells them. When I went to China 10 years ago, all I heard before going was how tightly censored the web was. Instead, I was able to go to CNN, WashingtonPost, and all my other normal news sites. Facebook is supposed to be banned in China, and yet somehow I'm able to communicate with my Facebook friends in China regularly. And I've never, ever been blocked from them.

It's good to hear your completely unjustified opinions about why this is the case.

Good thing for Warren that he got to learn under Graham directly. Getting rejected from med school isn't quite the same as getting rejected from college.

I wish dinosaurs were still around. I miss those guys.

LOL BYU?? Is that a joke? Or are you just clueless?

You have to understand that there is a difference between real Facebook users and older users who just made accounts so they could feel that they were participating in social networking. Real Facebook users have tons of personal information on their accounts. They are more reluctant to use Connect to login to other websites for the same reason that people don't use their real names when making user names. Older Facebook users don't have the type of network to actual get much use out of Facebook. They actually think Facebook is a place to meet people, a notion a real user would consider completely ridiculous. Older users don't view Facebook as an online portrait of their offline lives and are more likely to use Connect.

He should just take it and give it to his mom.

How on Earth is that trolling? I completely refuted your argument, and you can't respond so you call it trolling. None of those people were 30-year-old career software engineers who had achieved nothing and dreamed of entrepreneurship. They were all already successful.

And I know Hacker News is mostly that type of person, but you people need a reality check. You can downvote all you want, but it won't change anything. I bet you really wish it could because forums like this are probably all you have left. You're going to wake up tomorrow and do what you're doing. I'm going to wake up tomorrow and do what you dream of doing.

Why don't you actually read my comment? I said that old people with no achievements aren't going to suddenly become great entrepreneurs.

Jimmy Wales - extremely successful options and futures trader

Steve Jobs - I forget what company he was involved with before NeXT, but I think it was pretty big

Jeff Bezos - one of the top people at D.E. Shaw, right under Shaw himself

John McCarthy - programming languages don't really count as entrepreneurship, but I'm sure you could find many examples of old people creating languages

Marc Benioff - youngest VP in Oracle history

David Winer - I really have no idea what UserLand is

Larry Ellison - ok, fine. I guess if you're trying to make Oracle, it's ok to be old. I don't mean that as a slight to Oracle, but I don't think Oracle's story applies to web startups.

PG - I didn't say anything about old people not being able to become investors

Most users are old people, but most users are also sheep. The shepherds are not old people. Name some great tech companies created by unaccomplished old people who just decided to flip on the entrepreneurial switch.

Great story and a perfect illustration of why old people shouldn't shoot for the stars. Old people do not understand tech trends. They try to, but it is beyond their ability. Friendster was a site created by old people, run by people, and filled with old people users. Anything that starts from the old will never migrate to the young. Old people are not leaders. They do not determine the trends. Facebook got it right from the start by restricting it to colleges. I'm sure people wanted to open it up sooner, but the talented young leaders of Facebook knew that the next big thing would be determined by how young people choose to adopt it. Old people would follow like cattle later on, which they did. Facebook even made sure to hire young talent at the start because any bad hire would hurt the company when it was small. If you haven't made something of yourself by 30, don't think you're gonna quit your job as a career software engineer and come up with the next big thing. If you wanna do a start-up, you're only chance is to create a lifestyle business or maybe have a mild exit, which is still pretty good.

Well then I did answer it correctly for me, so the question is bad. I thought there was just some way to change it that I was aware of.

8/10. I thought the last question was a trick, but the top bar IS orange so whatever.

There's no image search.

Sorry, but that's a really bad example. Of course a complete beginner is going to be worse than someone with experience. They don't know what to look for in the game.

He has never asked for anything like that, and his decision not to accept the Fields was made long before the controversy with Yau. He is a purist who doesn't see the value in that type of recognition. The work is reward in and of itself. His choice to quit mathematics, however, was based on his complaints about its politics and lack of integrity, but even this was not directed at his work on the Poincare. Since this is so far off the mark, I thought that that article you cited must be really bad. It isn't. Why don't you try reading it again?

Those are on-campus jobs, which are often part of federal work-study program. They are meant to pay less than regular jobs.

This is what one of those nerdy, but not actually smart, kids in class went on to do. The others seem to be on HN. If you can't figure out why saying two collections of points "look alike" doesn't mean anything, then it's no surprise you think Outliers makes a compelling argument.

He didn't actually have any offers. The WePay people just made that up to make it seem like they snatched someone from Google or Facebook for no pay. Pretty pathetic.

This is pretty much how consulting firms get their contracts. The ex-employees aren't actually your customers directly. That would imply that they are giving up their own money of your services (something any reasonable ex-consultant would never do). What they do instead is convince the companies they work for now to hire your firm. They are tricking the new company into becoming a customer and shelling out cash for a service that probably offers very little value to them.

There are plenty of programmers right out of college making low six figures. Of course, there are plenty of programmers in SF and SV; these are just the good ones.

That's a pretty worthless article. But of course, anything bashing Microsoft will do well with the HN crowd.

Why would 'super talented entrepreneurs' need this to find co-founders?

No, you can't say x0 is the additive identity because 0 is the only additive identity. That would be equivalent to x0=0. Your way is fine if you just use what archgoon wrote to complete it.

China has been the world's top economic power for the VAST majority of the past two thousand years. People need to accept that they are just assuming their rightful place atop the world order. Chinese people come over here and dominate Americans academically. Their top students now beat our top students (including Chinese immigrants) in every major academic contest. Theirs is a society that values intelligence. Ours is a society that praises ignorance.

0 is additive identity. 0+y=y for all integers y. 0 is an integer, so 0+0=0. 0+0 is closed under addition, so (0+0) is an integer, so x(0+0) = x0 for all integers x. By distributive law, x0 + x0 = x0. By closure under multiplication, x0 is an integer. By additive inverses, there exists an integer (-x0), such that x0 + (-x0) = 0. Because (-x0) is an integer, x0 + x0 + (-x0) = x0+(-x0). By associative property of addition and the transitive property of equality, x0 + 0 = 0. By the additive identity, x*0 = 0.

Are you serious? This is one of the dumbest things I've read on here. Writing a novel is execution. There are hundreds of these books with similar story lines that never got anywhere because of inferior writing. There are thousands of fantasy books that never became Harry Potter.

Gosquare is better.

This is horrible. Now what's a talentless, middle-aged career software engineer with hopeless dreams of entrepreneurship going to do with his time?

I think/hope he's talking about the latter, in which case I completely agree. It's especially annoying to hear those people who get rejected say that they'll apply again in the winter. They're basically saying that they intend to make no meaningful progress on their start up in the next six months. YC is a very early stage investor. It should be a one-shot deal for any serious start-up. By the time the next cycle comes around, your start-up should be beyond the stage where doing YC makes sense. If your start-up folds, OK, apply again with something new, but these people actually planning on applying again.