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Radiolab recently featured (http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-media-busted...) some content from another podcast series called "Busted: America’s Poverty Myths", that examines various myths about the poor - and by extension, the rich - in the US. It was fascinating. One thing that was discussed is the degree of upward economic mobility in the USA. IIRC, they measure this by the likelihood that someone who is born into a family that is in the bottom 20% of earners enters the top 20% of earners in their lifetime.

In other words, what is the statistical basis for the belief that in America, anyone can go from "rags to riches"?

It turns out that in the US, the percentage of people who achieve this feat is, on average, about 7%. In Canada, it's about 13.5%. Another myth busted.

Conclusion: if you want to get rich in the Americas - or at least, well-off in the Americas - come immigrate to Canada. Especially if you're reading this comment, since you likely have the kind of education and experience that makes immigrating here a breeze. Sure, it's cold here in the winter, but you'll make enough cash that you can spend a chunk of the winter in Mexico!
Becoming rich may have to do with intelligence, education, timing, location, relationships, effort etc. Many of these factors can be hacked. To become a billionaire, luck plays a disproportionate role.
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From the article: Few engineers, nurses or pharmacists make it to the top 1%, which is dominated by bankers and other financiers.

Do you think the statement in the article is wrong? Based on what?

Do you think a college degree is irrelevant to become a banker or other financier?
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Direct link to the handbook: https://skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf
It's an old article but at the time 39% of Americans thought they either were or one day will be among the top 1% [1].

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-hop...
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Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs
Hello HN,

I am simply writing this post because I can't take this situation anymore and this is a cry from the heart.

I've been applying to a million jobs, I always seem to get the same old automated denial and I am just so sick of it. I am incredibly hardworking, disciplined, passionate about what I do and good at it, I've been doing web dev & design since highschool, I learn fast, I sweat the details, I am willing to learn anything it takes to solve my problems, I've launched a startup, single-handedly sketched, designed, and developed two mobile apps from scratch, (both live on iOS and Android at the time, and one of which went on to get over 8000 users the first month, be top 10 of its category, get featured in top women's publications online) , created APIs, have experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL), marketing, writing copy, web scraping, product design, interface design, I am Franco-american, bilingual in French and English, speak Node.js, Python, Django, Meteor.js, Hapi.js, and whatever I learn next.

I've been "selling" myself as a Product Designer but I truly can't fit in such a narrow box; I love the entire process, I love coding: for me HTML/CSS and code have never been anything more than tools to get whatever was on my mind into the real world. I love clicking a button and seeing it do something. That to me is magic.

But I am so frustrated right now, I don't understand why everything takes so long, this process is unbearable. It's already an inhumane effort for me to apply for a regular job, but I am willing to do anything (in tech) as long as it's paid at this point. I just want to come back to New York (I moved there when I was 20, knowing no-one) and work.
I really feel like I can be incredibly useful to whoever hires me and it kills me that no one is even giving me a chance.

This is my website: http://o23.io

Help.
The article isn't saying that wealth is unattainable, just that the wealth of the 1% is unattainable. A reasonable amount of wealth (middle/upper-middle class) is attainable. As other people have commented, most people don't care even to be in the 1%.
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>> There's just no way to develop a GUI application (especially a cross-platform one) without shipping something large.

It can be done, for eg. Rebol/View, a cross-platform GUI circa 1mb in size.

NB. Rebol/View used the AGG library to achieve this - http://antigrain.com/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Grain_Geometry
I know America is a continent and all that, but more often than not people refer America to USA.
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Ironically it's not the only United States in America (but it is the only one with America in the name I believe)

Mexico is the United States of Mexico, there also were United States of Colombia, United States of Venezuela (now renamed to simply Venezuela), etc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico (Wikipedia doesn't show the official name in the title)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Colombia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Venezuela
> I'd love to have my own welding/machining workshop.

Given your username that's redundant :)

Being a billionaire also has downsides, it will be much harder to tell people that genuinely like you from people that are just trying to get into your good graces because they are after your money.
That's one of my concerns too.

We're currently in Phase 1 of the project. Which is all about collecting, in the wild, instances of this trending writing style.

Now if it get traction and grows out of a gimmick, and if Falsehoods articles become a new literary form in its own right, then maybe we'll have enough resources in the community to start Phase 2. Which might see more curation happens, as well as writing guidelines and add more structure.
Hard work is only option.

"having rich parents" is a personal condition... you cannot choose condition, universe does not work like that - and every second we discuss income inequality is a wasted second. Thus we end up with hard work option
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I don't think it will be a quick transition in "just a few years". There will be a lot of kicking and screaming. Look at what is happening to quadcopters: Lots of regulation, mandatory registrations, no-fly-zones in firmware.

It will eventually be similar for 3d printers and nano-assemblers.

Knowledgeable people will know how to bypass these restrictions, just as it is today. The main difference will be that it will probably get easier.

Regarding privacy, I disagree with your conclusion. I think as people become more aware of the importance of their dwindling privacy they will pay more attention to it and protect it. Perhaps I'm just overly optimistic.
Getting a product out of the door is more a human problem than a technical one. Sure there's the cliche image of the older, embittered dev who is set in there ways and refuses to change but it's just a caricature spread by by young people with no experience and an infinite capacity for working for free. Older devs who can ship are worth their weight in gold.
Only in the U.S./English.

If you refer to "America" in Spanish it's assumed you're referring to the continent, the state is commonly referred to as the United States or the United States of America.

We actually call ourselves Americans here in Uruguay.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uso_de_la_palabra_americano

"En el uso tradicional a los naturales de América como continente.

En un segundo término, a los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos de América, uso derivado de la influencia lingüística inglesa."
People reading this on HN are probably already in the top 20% of earners, or close enough. As such, they are likely better off in the US.

Edit: actually, based off a quick Google search, it seems that if you earn 150k, you are in fact in the top 5%
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I was specifically doing 3D stuff in WPF. That end of things didn't get much love after the initial release (or if it did, it came too late for me).
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Why not? It is basically a public domain license, it just uses more colorful language. IANAL, but I see no problem using such code in corporate environment. What are the risks?
Thanks for pointing that out. So insightful. Also definitely thanks for clarifying the total confusion about what is meant by "in America". I thought to myself, "Now wait just a minute. Do they mean the USA? Because all those other countries must feel offended if so."

Also, I thought, "it's so true that the American economy is orders of magnitude stronger than other nations. Clearly this is because of an empire of oppression built upon the same small-minded chauvinism which leads Americans to refer to themselves as Americans."
Get rich != become a banker. The article would be accurate if it said "how to become a banker"
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It's probably going to take a little while for people, if they haven't seen it before, to digest the information in the link I provided. If you aren't aware of how skewed wealth distribution in the US is, when you do realize, it always comes as a shock.
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I checked the page source, and it turns out the entire article is written in English.
>>"Between 1999 and 2004, just 2% of Princetonians came from the families in the lowest 20% of earnings, while 3.2% came from families in the top 0.1%"

These kinds of statistics are appalling to me. I wonder if they continue along the income percentiles (e.g. top 5% has a greater chance than lower 30%, or so). My parents are as middle-class as it comes, one is a nurse and the other is a probation officer. Their combined income is about $150,000. The top 0.1% make > $1.5 million per year. How can your parent's income have such a dramatic effect on your access to college? Is it not enough applicants? Is it lower performance on AP exams? Is it the inability to pay tuition?

I may be a bit bitter as I'm set to graduate med school with $250,000 in debt. It's hard for me to fathom having parents who could pay my tuition four times over every year.
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The sad thing is Super hot could have been the game to beat on VR, but they partnered with Oculus and released as an Oculus exclusive. This split the market right down the middle with many Vive owners now refusing to buy the game at all even when it does come to the Vive.

The worst part? The Oculus version of the game works perfectly on the Vive through ReVive so it's not like they had to do much extra work to get the game working.
> "having rich parents" is a personal condition... you cannot choose condition, universe does not work like that - and every second we discuss income inequality is a wasted second. Thus we end up with hard work option

Non-sequitor.

Having rich parents can't be chosen: true.

Having rich parents (almost) be the only factor for success can be chosen, through economic policy.

There is absolutely no reason to ignore income inequality. Other than if you're one of the (extremely) few benefiting from it.
Thanks for additional context. I don't agree with this statement though.

"Credit is not a zero-sum game."

History sadly says differently. It seems many discoveries are made concurrently, yet only one becomes synonymous with the discovery. And wouldn't you know it, as I went to Google a few examples (evolution and DNA were on my mind), I found Stigler's Law of Eponymy[0]. The derivation makes sense for our context here:

"Historical acclaim for discoveries is often assigned to persons of note who bring attention to an idea that is not yet widely known, whether or not that person was its original inventor."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy
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(EDIT: Sorry, I just figured out the control-group - it's the extant body of knowledge around what describes normal head size - remarks about careful interpretation of results still stand)

Found you all the way down at the bottom here and I decided to have a quick look at the abstract to see if I could find something to put your mind at ease. I couldn't.

In fact the language "prospective neuroimaging study" suggests it's more like a pilot study than anything conclusive.

The sample population "of 106 infants at high familial risk of ASD and 42 low-risk infants" is used, and while it seems like the 42 is a control-group I think that's misleading. Surely a "control group" would be one where the infants didn't exhibit this brain enlargement?

There's reference to a "A deep-learning algorithm" rather than any well-understood approach for determining correlation e.g. a simple T-test.

Finally the language "Brain volume overgrowth was linked to the emergence and severity of autistic social deficits" suggests an actual causal link is suggested, which doesn't seem to be the case. Just that a correlation has been discovered.

There could be more to it but it costs £22 to look at the actual paper.

But it does seem to me as though this is another case of incomplete science being presented as fait accompli. It doesn't contradict any scientific consensus so extraordinary evidence not required, but the BBC's interpretation of this as "Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear" does seem like a bit of a leap ...
It's far from the 80/20 rule. The richest 1% has 40% of the wealth. The poorest 80% has 7 percent of wealth.
I'm afraid I don't have them to hand, but I've read studies that suggest this isn't true. A certain amount of mathematical/analytical competency is required, and it looks like this develops at a relatively early age.
I would be hard pressed to find any democratic government that passed retro-active laws.

It's a pillar of modern democracies that the effects of some law, can only be applied to future events not to past ones.

What ETH did, was create new laws and then proceed to apply them to previous actions. Very untrustworthy indeed.
That was quite enlightening, thanks. I was vaguely aware it's not good, but this video put it into perspective.
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Your target audience ( recruiters ) may not like the style of your website.

Although I have no doubt that your are unique, you might consider it styling it a bit more close to the norm.
Which I wouldn't consider rich. Moderately wealthy, but not enough to even buy a 2br in SF or Manhattan.
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Marketers also have the 99% / 1% rule. They aren't coming up with new marketing slogans all day long. They come up with 1 good idea per quarter and then go through the painstaking process of fleshing it out, testing it with groups, presenting it to management, getting design teams to execute, managing a project/budget/schedule, etc...

This is a general human rule that most people spend WAY too much time criticizing the effort of those of us who are working.
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But this just assumes that everyone is striving to get into 0.1% equally, where it might make more sense assuming that someone who goes to Wall Street wants to get rich more than a nurse.

It's like saying it's a lot "easier" being in top physical shape if you exercise at top sport facilities in the country, and/or already come from a family of athletes.

Both of which are already signals you might be trying very hard in the first place.

Coming from rich families might also mean being rich and making money is more socially valued. And rich families don't posses only money and connections which makes it easier, they probably also have good knowledge of how to make money and where money can be made compared to working class families.

So before jumping to any conclusions on how easy it is and why it is easier exactly, stuff like that needs to be thought through a bit.
Yes, but the relation between the cost of living and monthly income is not directly proportional, especially in the software industry where remote work is possible. You would be making less, but if you're making one third of your SV income, the cost of living can be much lower than one third of SV.

I'm from Romania, having worked remotely for EU and US companies and I never left because here I can have a much better lifestyle, I have freedom of movement when needed and recruiters coming with proposals which include relocation are simply not competitive.

Seriously, Silicon Valley is extremely overpriced and IMO quite toxic as an environment to live and raise children. That's because it is a bubble of really smart and well paying engineers, scientists and business people that have created a highly competitive environment.

And if you suffer because of the bubble, the answer is not to fight your way to the top, because that doesn't solve the problem. No, if you don't like the bubble, the answer is to get out of it.
Thank you so much for this. I actually couldn't find it the first time through so I documented the whole flow with screenshots here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart...
If your family income is $150,000 that puts you well above the average - you're probably in the top, what, 5%?
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Being a billionaire usually means that you will fear kidnappings and other crime against your family for the rest of your rich life.
Earning more than 200k per year will not make you any happier (see http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/14/money-can-buy-happiness-but-o... ).
From Pakistan earning $1600 per month :(

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If you have any contacts there, please do pass on https://find.techin.scot/companies/add :-)
Not sure I really buy this. I have at least one project[1] that lots of people use despite the WTFPL. I don't use the WTFPL any more though.

There's also SQLite, which is probably one of the most widely use libraries in existence. It's in the public domain.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml
And that's what I did, but I would gladly have paid a few bucks or give a % of my monthly Netflix subscription to spare me the slow conversion from DVD to MP4 (because I only have an AppleTV and yes converting owned content is legal in my country)
Well he didn't say "shut up and work to make a billion" =) whatsapp and instagram are .. cute, not major groundbreaking "innovations"
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This "chess master who can see 5 moves ahead" definition of scheming is fiction. Every software developer knows: The more complex the more fragile.

Great schemes are simple. It means looking for opportunities where you cannot lose. More generally, either you win or your opponent loses or both. You can try to influence things to produce such situations, but in general you need some luck and/or time. You can actively search for opportunities of disruption or work on some hard stuff for decades.
During the past holidays, at my parent’s, I set up some infrastructure to allow remote management of some network equipment and computers. I used to employ OpenVPN for this, but I decided to give IPsec a try. Since I have been learning CentOS, initially I went with RedHat’s suggested option: Libreswan.

I tried and tried, yet couldn’t get it to work. Documentation surely was lacking for Libreswan. But then I found Strongswan, and after a few more attempts I managed to set a tunnel as I wanted it. The documentation is much more complete, and the examples were specially helpful.

I am baffled by the choice made by RedHat, to use Libreswan as their official IPsec implementation. It gave me a “beta” feel, while Strongswan seems more solid. Plus the difference regarding documentation is like night and day.
It's not unfortunately - Certs are held in the Computer partition of the Windows Credential Store, which you need elevated rights to update. It sucks, but that's how it's designed. You also need to re-associate the renewed cert (once its in the credential store) with the IIS binding as well, and then you can stop/start the website instance. Again also needing elevated rights.
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we've seen it, not much to digest. why do you think it's so shocking?
A lot of folk seems to miss this, writing code which runs in series instead of parallel.
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Richer than 95% of people in your country is not rich?
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True. But before the days of Structured Programming widespread understanding of algorithms was hoped to lead to a professional Software Engineering field.

The idea of "Software Engineering" was born with the Software Crisis report in the 1960's.

Later on practicing SE's would study things like Design Patterns so things evolved over time.

EDIT: Software Engineers probably should know some relevant basics, but programmers could never come up with a "body of knowledge" like real engineers have.

It all depends what you work on and what new developments keep coming out...
This reminds me of my first job (in ECAD/EDA) where microemacs was part of the design process. We had microemacs "programs" (like macros) which post-processed the output from other CAD tools. Microemacs had an internal C-like (interpreted) language, and combined with the fact that it ran on DOS and Windows 3.1 made it sort of suitable for this. However I really hope those have been replaced now.
If you can, do a "Show HN". I'm always curious about people that bootstrapped their own projects. I've tried twice, without much success so far..
Those areas cover probably max 0.1% of total land area in the USA.

Since these are some of the most sought after real estate areas, it seems these areas would be the preserve of the top 0.1%, or 1%. Back of the napkin maths here I'll admit.

The good news is there's still a huge chunk of the country where you would be considered wealthy by land value prices.
That would make a pretty cool mod, randomised roadworks.
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You are right but why is that something to strive for though? Most people here say they want to become 'rich' to achieve freedom. Why would your artificially make achieving that freedom harder by wanting to buy a 2br in Manhattan or SF? In many other, cheaper places, you have the freedom and thus achieved 'rich'. I am incredibly puzzled by the need to live in the most expensive places on earth; how does that benefit your quality of life? This is my lack of imagination maybe, I am not trying to judge here.
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Which I wouldn't consider rich

Perhaps this is a sign of the severity of income and wealth inequality: that even having more income than 95% of the country isn't enough to be considered 'rich'.