His father's saying may have been: "There are three honest ways to make a living".

The fourth option is where scams and fraud live.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368059

There’s basically no content in that one

At least this one has reasonable content

She'd heard that if you made a video game and sold it, you would make a lot of money, so she'd decided to take her life savings, $200k, and hire someone to make a game. She didn't know what kind of game or anything, just "make a game".

I was really worried about her and spent two hours on the phone with her trying to educate her and help her protect herself and her savings.

At the end, she just got sort of mad at me and I could tell she was just going to get someone else to do it.

Was so sad. Wish I could have helped her more.

From searching the text, it seems it hasn't been published on the WSJ.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html