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August 5, 2012 (13y ago)
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Current: Quantitative finance, NYC

Previously:

- UAV/Drone startup funded by ONR/DOD/DARPA. Semper Fi.

- kernel development at "big tech company".

- CS from "top school".

- Immigrant from the Middle East; former refugee. Proud American.

  1. Ask HN: How do I get into angel investing?

    I have a bit of spare cash (few 100k). I want to start investing in startups. How does one go about doing that? I live in NY so don’t have a big tech network (mostly finance). How should someone like me go about…

    6 points 3
  2. Article about www.facemash.com by Mark Zuckerberg (2003) (thecrimson.com)
    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: Foursquare Alternative?

    I like swarm / foursquare for logging locations I visit. What I used to like is that I could subscribe to the foursquare iCal feed and see my checkins on my calendar. Foursquare has stopped supporting this feature. I…

    4 points 1
  4. Girlboss pivots to provide a LinkedIn for professional women (techcrunch.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Amazon: A drone program taking flight (blog.aboutamazon.com)
    1 points 0
  6. Allegations of overpriced repair charges at Apple Store [video] (youtube.com)
    82 points 1
  7. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 catches fire in woman's purse (khaleejtimes.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Facebook employees’ group criticises its ‘political monoculture’ (amp.ft.com)
    1 points 1
  9. How a Cashless Society Could Embolden Big Brother (theatlantic.com)
    3 points 0
  10. Study links depression to low blood levels of acetyl-L-carnitine (med.stanford.edu)
    3 points 0
  11. Thoughts on generative C++ [video] (youtube.com)
    55 points 23
  12. Google hired a diversity VP as it struggles with a sexist memo from employee (recode.net)
    8 points 6
  13. Why Does Deep Learning Not Have a Local Minimum? (kdnuggets.com)
    4 points 0
  14. DRAMMER: FLIP FENG SHUI GOES MOBILE (vusec.net)
    3 points 0
  15. Hunger for tech startups helps Japan's Line price IPO at top of range (cnbc.com)
    1 points 0
  16. Viaweb (old.ycombinator.com)
    3 points 0
  17. Galactic Algorithms (2010) (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
    1 points 0
  18. Ask PG: An essay on how to evaluate startups for prospective employees

    I made an Ask HN post here about a year and a half ago titled "How should I evaluate a startup as I job hunt?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340196 PG expressed interest in writing an essay on how potential…

    16 points 2
  19. Helicopter completes autonomous landing (uasvision.com)
    4 points 0
  20. 'Invisible Rain' headlights (news.cnet.com)
    4 points 0
  21. MemSQL (YC W11) Named 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate (reuters.com)
    2 points 0
  22. Many of the top CS schools are located in "Gates" buildings (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  23. Artificial intelligence expert Robert Wilensky dies at 61 (newscenter.berkeley.edu)
    66 points 5
  24. Interview with Git Maintainer Junio C Hamano (2011) (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
    1 points 0
  25. Can Obama's immigration reform stop Silicon Valley's brain drain? (theverge.com)
    2 points 0