Hacker News on 2 November 2007

• Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler
• Google is learning too well from the master
• Fields medalist: Continually aim just beyond your current range
• Going west, as a young man
• How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess
• Scott Adams: Giving Stuff Away on the Internet
• MIT replacing Scheme with Python for Intro CS class
• Open Social API docs are online
• What is it like to work at Google?
• Equity