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You could spend 50 times that and not reach the claimed outcome.

Helping someone perpetually exist is not the same as teaching them how to thrive.

Not to mention the biggest problem the poorest on earth have, is not a lack of money, but a lack of right to their own lives and property (via protection by a functional judicial & police system). The poorest on earth have in common a near complete lack of basic freedoms. Rivers of money won't save them from that, it's a fairy tale in the sense that the money would never reach them and or stay with them.
I think focusing on these 100 individuals is counterproductive, as is saying that their money can magically fix poverty.

If we focus on the demonstrable, then we can say this: (1) income inequality is increasing, and (2) excessive income inequality lowers the quality of life of everyone, even the rich ( http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Level-Equality-Societies-Strong... ). So, purely out of shared self-interest we shoud all be figuring out how to reduce the inequality, by whatever mechanism.

The solutions needed to structurally change inequality have to do with trade policies, laws, political coalitions, borders, cultural interaction, and many other things which have very little to do with these 100 people and how much money they have. If we could solve the underlying causes of inequality, then we wouldn't need to figure out income redistribution schemes that compensate for a broken socio-economical system.
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>Religion and ignorance go a long way. You can't throw money to the problem

Those places have been far more tolerant before they had colonial overlords and post-colonial interventions. Islam in particular was nowhere as strict and even more progressive that the feudal European populations of the time (and developed math, poetry, etc).

(And it's not like the Bible Belt for example is a paradigm in the case of "religion and ignorance").

>Now try teaching people about safe sex and AIDS. Try teaching people about the importance of an education.

You cannot teach them in abstract. You have to build the foundations to teach them. And all the foundations that we took for granted in the western world have been either destroyed or not developed in the past in those countries.

Note also that when people say "try teaching people about the importance of an education", they mostly mean: try teaching people about WESTERN style education and western work ethic / values, etc.

So a tribe in Africa that lived perfectly fine in a relative balance, Amish style, for millennia, has the modern world (in the form of the colonial and post-colonial powers) invade in it's culture, their farmland or hunting places destroyed etc, and they are left to adapt to this new context or die. So they have to be "educated" to get some mind-numbing soul-crushing job as a factory worker, reject their culture, etc.

The same thing happens in Latin American tribes.

We adapted to the modern world by choice and by developing it (and over centuries at that). They are FORCED to "adapt to it or die, pronto". It's not at all the same.
yes, what we forget is that poor people are just as self-centered and greedy and profit-motivated and 'evil' as every rich guy out there. What do the people in nation A need money for? I'd guess the main focus has to be in infrastructure development: 1. electricity generation and distribution 2. transportation 3. telecommunications.

What can we do to make these three things as "cheap" as possible? The answer won't just help the developing countries. It will help everyone.
Here is an interesting question: What would be the cheapest rocket or combination of rocket/ balloon/ place that you could buy essentially off the shelf today that would boost something into orbit?
This: http://karaokewebstandard.org/ (from the video) is actually pretty funny.
It's worth noting that Rails enables HSTS for the whole domain when you use the following in one of your config files (usually production.rb):

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Many people would be able to afford different things, like phones, solar lights to replace kerosene, smokeless stoves, etc.
"Nobody made huge tons of money without other people's blood under it. And especially not the top 1%."

Overly dramatic sensationalism - ripped straight from a first year college pamphlet on how to be angry at the man - at its best.

And all it warrants is a simple: prove it. Such an extraordinary claim, you should do it the justice of demonstrating it as fact.
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They have a report, linked from the article, with references. Care to pick specific facts to argue about?
I remember reading an article years back claiming that companies were frustrated with the new crop of software developers being schooled in java during their education rather than C and C++ since they were becoming used to development being the wiring together of already existing objects and components, and not really having a feeling of how the computer works. Well, turns out C and in particular C++ development is going the way of the dodo and the ability to wire objects and components together in a well designed even beautiful way is a pretty important skill when it comes to developing large systems.
Of course there are developers out their who are basically the sw developer equivalent of a script kiddie, but a good modern developer today is far from that even though he might use a lot of frameworks and apis.
Isn't Brainfuck, pretty directly, a Turing machine? It just has the added complexity of incrementing/decrementing states rather than setting them outright.
Seems most people have a trouble with the number and the report because it is from Oxfam? The UN came out with a similar number years ago (http://www.fao.org/Newsroom/en/news/2008/1000853/index.html) $30 billion to end world hunger. Other NGO:s (which I'm to lazy to google) have come out with other figures in the same ballpark over the years.

I.e if you yourself are not an expert on the global poverty problem then it takes more than "they are wrong" to refute their conclusions. The report is downloadable so just check the numbers yourself.

The references makes it clear that the original figure is $175 billion spread out over two years and is produced by economist Jeff Sachs. His book "The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time" probably contains details on how it was calculated.
I sense a hint of bitterness in this article, which is unfortunate because the central point is very valid: the growth of open-source frameworks requires today's programmer to be fluent in picking up new libraries and frameworks at the drop of a hat.

It's true that the new breed doesn't understand the lower levels as well as the old, but that is simply because 30 years ago there wasn't anything except the lower levels to understand. Getting anything done with programming back then was much harder, but on the other hand, the choices were more straightforward. Whereas there was a higher bar of raw intelligence and tenacity just to dip your feet in programming, today there is a higher bar to what true masters can do (the Obama campaign machine comes to mind).

The essence of software development does not change though. Just because you don't understand all the layers today as readily as a 1980 programmers would, doesn't absolve you of the responsibility of being ready and able to dive through the (increasing numbers of) layers to find bugs and leaky abstractions. Equally importantly, you need to develop a sense of where your time is best spent, both in terms of immediate productivity and in terms of long-term ability. This was as true 10, 20, 30 years ago as it is today.

It's intellectually dishonest to pretend that knowledge acquired by programmers of yesteryear was innately better and more detail oriented. Of course there are more mediocre programmers now because there are orders of magnitude more programming jobs, but there are more great programmers too, and it would very foolish to write off someone's talents simply because they do not share the same arcane but relatively useless knowledge that an old-timer posesses.
Totally agree. He just makes money from other people's work. And manipulate public mind by acting like martyr (for freedom). He is basically a swindler.
I am surprised that his concept totally sucks. Both the font work and the logo. They are so utterly bad, that even I, being just an amateur designer, clearly see how it is bad and where it is bad, and even I could probably make something much better. Apparently, this is the reason why he was hired, as Microsoft is firmly set on the course of sucking.

(By the way, a note for the straightforward thinking folks: the fact that this particular design sucks does not mean the guy is not talented or promising, especially given his young age.)
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The only thing that matters is outcomes.

If simplified frameworks let people make things, that's awesome in my opinion. More of that!

Low level technical stuff has its place too; but the use cases are far far fewer. Its really much more important as a developer that you can produce something and show it to people, than that you have a detailed knowledge of the platform.
It prevents anyone controlling the DNS resolvers of your clients to redirect to faked HTTP website (of course, only for those of your clients who already visited your real website).

Imagine you're using my WiFi connection. Without HSTS, I could redirect you to a fake http://www.facebook.com to steal your login credentials if you do not notice the login page is not served over HTTPS (and let's be realistic: most non-technical people won't notice something that's supposed to be there, but is not).
Oxfam is a variable charity at best. Oxfam India, for example was found to spend 70% of what it received in donations on fundraising[1]. In the UK it spends a significant volume of money on fundraising, paying a company called Tag Campaigns to raise money in the streets, not without controversy[2][3].

Oxfam GB also acts as a lobbyist in the UK, receives large amounts of funding from the government and has particularly close ties to the Labour party[4].

I realise that this is easy to construe an attack on Oxfam rather than the crux of the post, but my point here is that Oxfam have a vested interest in highlighting such things, regardless of whether or not there's anything tangible that can be done in order to raise funds. I would encourage anyone looking to donate to charity to do some basic due diligence on their charity of choice, and to preferably donate to a smaller local charity first.

[1] - http://capitalmind.in/2011/06/oxfam-india-spends-70-of-donat...

[2] - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandcon...

[3] - http://www.charitywatch.org/articles/street_solicitations.ht...

[4] - http://fakecharities.org/2011/02/charity-202918/
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The Fed is the only thing that allows the US to continue to spend outside its means for now (including the biggest spendthrift of all, the US Government), and more specifically the dollar global reserve currency (or FRN).

The Chinese aren't buying any meaningful amount of our new debt these days. Mostly they just cycle existing debt, from long to short etc as it makes sense. Ditto the Japanese, who hold almost as much junk US debt as the Chinese.
FWIW this is called "SSL stripping".
if ( msg.total_length > MAX_ALLOWED_SIZE ) { reset_parser(); }?

Should take care of any resource depletion issues, and do it way faster than eating data waiting for an end of field marker would.
Holy straw man argument!

In the linked report, Oxfam suggests even more radical things, like closing tax havens and taxing the capital gains. [sarcasm]Sadly, they do not want to arrest or kill all those rich people.[/sarcasm]
That swallowed up over an hour of my time, absolutely fascinating
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You suck!

And so does your family!

Yes, this is not a useful post. Neither is yours.
I think somewhere around 50k/yr puts you in the global top 1%.
The problem with PPI is that it creates perverse incentives that are taken advantage of by malicious people[1], in the process creating a large underground economy.

I'm surprised that YC would get involved in something as shady as this. Even if the company has good intentions, if it takes off then it's main customers are less likely to in the long run.

[1] - http://www.technologyreview.com/news/424241/most-malware-tie...
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It just makes my skin crawl :/
The word "gypsy" is denigrating and they call themselves Roma. You don't call black people niggers, do you? It's kind of telling that you spent two days on an aid project for them without getting that.

The discrimination against minorities like Roma and Jews in Hungary is severe. So it's not fair to blame all the problems on themselves.
Yes, some kids did do this, but to pick a nit projects like those are usually to "near-space" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon

See also:
- Lego Shuttle to Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bluQ4eOeBwo
- How To Send a Weather Balloon into Space: http://blog.hartleybrody.com/in-space/ and http://blog.hartleybrody.com/found-balloon/
- Spanish Soccer Jersey in Space: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/07/spanish-soccer-soaring...

Your point is fair though. There are a lot of different angles to approach the problem, but it is a very hard ahem space to play in.
Interesting!

I had a run in with FPGA's in school in a course where we were tasked with building "a digital device". Initially we planned to make a CPU which ran brainfuck, but in the end we made one which ran Redcode and fulfilled the corewars 88 standard [1].

I'm by no means a hardware fantast, but it was still extremely fun to build. We made a microprogrammed processor with accompanied assembler. An exercise I recommend to everyone.

[1]: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/corewars/koth/doc/ICWS...
The underlying assumption of the above headline is that the same amount of goods will be produced, even if you take the rich'es revenues away from them.
Well, false. Without proper incentives innovation will decline, and the average purchase power will decrease.

Marxism has been tried and failed.

Perhaps the rich should be taxed differently, but the simplistic assertion (ending poverty four times over) is obviously false.
It's much more complex, but if everyone has 18% more money, probably the phones, lights and stoves will be 18% more expensive.
I think he is mixing 'valuable/marketable skill' and 'programming' with his 90s comparison; it wasn't hard to learn programming in the 90s. It wasn't even hard in (most of) the 80s. There were BBSs which contained a wealth of information, there were tons of (disk based) magazines and there were free tools.

Most likely you wouldn't be learning something marketable perse, however you would learn programming in the same time as you do now. Actually I think maybe even more efficient as there weren't the HN post distractions :) Your computer would most likely not be connected (all the time) and multitasking wasn't very nicely implemented or even possible, so your computer meant either running games/software made by others or full focus on tinkering with Basic, assembly or some of the other languages out there at the time.
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Without getting to meta, but couldn't the same critique/argument be applied to this gentlemans approach by a developer from the generation before him. And the same before that.
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In hindsight, I can see that I had really been expecting too much from the retreat, but I don't consider the whole experience negative. I would rather call it an "early failure".

As for dhamma matters: So far this year, I've been able to keep up with daily meditation practice, so not all is lost.
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Ah, I am certainly no expert on the subject. Just trying to make the point that even these rich that generally are holding onto their wealth for themselves would be actively attempting to destroy wealth and it has to be stored somewhere doing something.
Thirding "Nothing to Envy," it's an incredible read.
It's sad that you wrote this comment less than a day after writing this:

"When I was a Junior Developer I though I was a genius and knew everything about programming itself, I was not even interested in improving my coding skills, because I thought they were perfect"
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That only works until something goes wrong, which it does regularly because the overall quality of the components that are usually used is mediocre.

I would hesitate to build anything without a technical expert on hand.
"So a tribe in Africa that lived perfectly fine in a relative balance, Amish style...The same thing happens in Latin American tribes."

Shaka Zulu? Mali Empire? The Aztecs? The Inca? ? Not really much like the Amish.
> Didn't some canadian kids send a digital camera into space, using a weather balloon?

No, they didn't. Weather balloons need an atmosphere to float in, and would've still experienced almost as much gravity as the ground (the force of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects). Such balloons are typically launched between altitudes of 18 and 37km. In 2002 a balloon did reach 53km but this isn't sufficient to be considered space and is still in the stratosphere.

The start of space is defined by the Kármán line[1] at 100km (62 miles) above sea level, although this is still technically within the thermosphere. The International Space Station orbits at 370km, in space but also in the thermosphere.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=5086557&whence=item...
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Isn't the OP describing the world as the older generation wanted it to be? If you had asked some programming luminaries in the early 80s what they expected from programming 30 years later, they would have said "it will be more abstract, higher-level, with less direct knowledge of the underlying hardware required. Software should be write-once run-anywhere and shouldn't require arcane knowledge of the lower levels of the stack, and this will be a good thing." Well, guess what, here we are. I'm afraid I can't remember the source of the quote, but this is analogous to the belief that "the advancement of a civilization can be measured in the number of things a person can make happen without needing to understand how".

Web development is, for the most part, write-once run-anywhere, from an x86-on-steroids desktop PC to a pocket-sized RISC device (even for people with very small pockets). Frameworks abstract away a lot of complexity and a modern developer is more of a builder than a wizard, and this is a good thing. If you had told those 80s programmers that programming in the future would have been less like electronic brain surgery and more like building with Lego, they would have, I think, been quite pleased at the notion. Thirty years of software engineering research and practise have gone into making it this easy to build stuff. I wonder if perhaps the fact that development now looks pretty similar to development 30 years ago causes people to overlook just how much has changed; it's also true that despite things getting easier, there are still plenty of frustrations in modern development that a programmer from the 80s would recognise.
It would be great to see the Atlantic covering the Fishman affidavit, Karin Spaink and xs4all against Scientology in one of their upcoming articles.

The world needs a periodic reminder of what Scientology really is and I think the Atlantic is now morally obliged to be the vehicle for that reminder.

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The author of this probably grew up in an environment simular to mine in the 1990s. Among my peers and teachers, everything revolved around Microsoft. C$650 for Visual Basic Pro, Windows NT was the special platform that business used, 'real' databases cost a lot of money.

I really wish I could go back to those times and give the open source world more thought and attention. Free compilers, free databases and looking back at it, PERL would have been a lot more useful than Visual Basic.

I spent years developing OpenGL applications on WindowsNT. I wasn't very good at what I did and the market for my skills wasn't very broad.

Had I built a basic web app using HTML, Postgres and PERL I could have avoided a lot of time spent in jobs I did not enjoy very much.

In the summer of 2002 I was trying to focus on building my skills in C++ and OpenGL to a commercial-ready level. As a fun side project I built a mock airline ticket booking system in PHP. The side project got my a job in Germany and the rest is history.

Some languages and tools are more marketable than others.
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> You mean "Historically (Except China)"... That's like excluding the US when talking about Democracy.

I think you should do some background reading. The history of the standard of living in China is especially well documented.
Yes, so what? When I was a Junior Developer and knew almost nothing, even back then I could determine that some code is bad because it was unstructured, with bad naming, poor algorithms, etc., because the code was bad objectively, given metrics that do not depend on someone's particular opinion or mentality. I would call the very same code bad today, with all the experience and knowledge.
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People are often overzealous in labelling things logical fallacies.

"My argument is proved because person x thinks so" is a fallacious appeal to authority.

but there is nothing wrong with arguing "The fact that person x thinks this increases the probability that the argument is correct." as long as you correctly weight this factor amongst others.

Not all arguments need to follow the rules of deductive logic. There is such a thing as heuristics.
No, communism (& socialism) actually means something (planned economy, state owns everything). It's just some right wing politicians (esp. in the USA) who have overused the term to mean free health care and not being mean to the gays that have ruined the term.
Unless they aren't paying their staff. "Go be an actor in this computer room or we'll lock you & your family up". Things get very cheap when you have lots of slaves....
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