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Ask HN: Book Recommendations for Teenagers
Hello All! What books would you recommend for a teenager who is trying to discover their passion for computer science and form a foundation of core mental models about life? Also books that help them learn computer science foundations would be helpful. Some examples I was thinking were

- Principles By Ray Dalio
- Seeking Wisdom by Charlie Munger

Thanks!
The HQ state for RazorPay (the company located in India), is Karnataka.
Because a single person can't be an expert at everything, and at some point, individuals must delegate trust to a third party.

I'm not an expert on climate change, but it's an issue that I may care about. So what do I do? Drop everything and spend the next 10 years becoming an expert?
Not nurses, not Doctors of Physical Therapy, not ocupational therapists.

Physicians, Pharmacists, pharma companies, hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmacies are the corrupt ones. Source:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

These groups are lobbying the government to establish monoplies.

The previously mentioned practices are not paid anywhere similar to the ones lobbying/bribing.
Younger Americans are better at telling factual news statements from opinions
What do you do when the engineers turn up and know nothing about the prices, contracts, or anything else like that?
You’re All Doing Entity Framework Wrong
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I read a similar one:

A man goes to get advice from a master who is sitting on the beach. He asks the master: How can I get enlightened?

The master draws a word in the sand with his finger:

meditation

The man asks: Can you explain it in more detail?

The monk draws:

Meditation

The man gets agitated and again asks: Can you give me more guidance about it?

The monk draws in larger letters in the sand:

MEDITATION
Really? Wow. That's awesome. Of course, that's kind of unfortunate for games that don't work with Proton right now.

Does that remove the Windows purchase too? That could be seen as 2 purchases for the same game.
I disagree.
Of course there are many people with great jobs, that then developed a drug dependency that cost them.
However, I'd counter that initial poverty (financial, parental, societal, educational - take your pick) is something that provides a fertile group to grow addiction.
UBI would help remedy this.
And quite frankly if somebody wishes to use their UBI to pay towards a crack addiction, then it works out cheaper for society than cleaning up their mess.
That's actually a valid question - never thought of it this way. It's probably what an investor would ask.

Thank you ezekg.
Instagram Stories – “Can It Be Done in React Native?”
It is possible for a person to be bisexual.
I qualify these calls as an attack. The economic toll of decreased phone system reliability cannot be allowed to continue.

The parties responsible must be destroyed... economically if possible, physically if necessary.
(Also a Red Hatter)

So...not completely true. There was that one memo-list thread last year where someone complained loudly that they were not allowed to work on an intentionally competing solution and repo, even if it was on their own time.
I strongly doubt that this is some kind of active modification and not an error.
Looks like he’s written it. It’s surprisingly positive!

https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/
Better yet I wish Events were integrated into messenger, but part of me thinks Facebook knows it that a substantial portion of users would probably stick to messenger and never visit the news feed ever again because that's the only thing many of us care about.
I don't get it. On the one hand you say you just wanted to make clear the distinction between the two terms, on the other you claim when facebook and Amazon are avoiding taxes that's the same as when ordinary people try to save for retirement.

If you didn't want to be quoted on that you shouldn't have put that comparison in.
The sad truth is lefties are mostly irrelevant these days, shifting the overton window far to the right. When have you last heard significant people someone talking nationalizing industries?

A few hippies or blue-haired university students are no threat to any ones lives. (Near-)fascists taking over countries is. As usual, people take action not because of some principle, but because a problem got so bad it cannot be ignored anymore. And as usual, it might already be too late...
I'd be surprised if Azure Stack sees big adoption any time soon; they aren't just letting you run some Azure services on existing hardware... the way they're doing it is to really take the "cloud in my datacenter" concept to the extreme:

* Subscription pricing like a cloud service, even though it's on-premise.

* Only runs on certified hardware appliances... You're looking at an investment of at least $300,000 for a base configuration.

So, OK, I get it, you're getting a private cloud and you're not supposed to worry about hardware anymore, but it's probably too big a mental shift for most traditional enterprises. And people with that kind of budget are already locked into a VMWare infrastructure for the next couple of years.
Companies aren't repatriating profits to Ireland or Bermuda because they're developing the product there...
So he’s suing the government of Ecuador because of “new rules, which require him to pay for medical bills, phone calls and clean up after his pet cat”. I don’t know, those rules sound pretty reasonable to me. Why wasn’t he cleaning up after his pet cat in the first place?

And that’s the evidence that they are trying to kick him out? Suing to challenge these rules certainly won’t help with the government’s good will.
For a single adult with no children EIC goes away at $15,000; that is a full time job at less than $6/hr. The 'working' class shouldn't need be dependent on welfare and assistance programs.
a mass protest could cause enough distraction, but that would take a lot of organizing, and we all know how good the left is at organizing.
A level playing field makes sense, and domestic companies are at a disadvantage if their local profits are taxed while foreign companies' "local profits" are taxed offshore at a lower rate.

That said, this doesn't level the playing field, it tips it towards local companies. The tax on business revenues should apply to domestic companies as well, and it should apply to businesses of all sizes. If it has to be netted against taxes on earnings ("tax is the larger of...") to make it not punish local businesses then they should do that.

Anything else harms the consumer by distorting the market.
> Total bill: $48,329, including $848 for the time Winston spent with her doctor.
> Winston's health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, paid Stanford a negotiated rate of $11,376.47.
> Stanford billed Winston $3,103.73 as her 20 percent share of the negotiated rate.
> ...
> Winston ultimately paid $1,561.86 out of pocket.

48329.00	nominal bill

14480.20	R == ~30% of nominal bill

11376.47	~80% of R - negotiated rate Anthem paid

3103.73	~20% of R - billed to patient

1561.86	patient paid, negotiated

So, the patient paid 3.23% - or about 50% of 20% of 30%.

Imagine if other businesses charged like this.

Imagine going into a restaurant, or a furniture store, or an auto mechanic,
and being told "It's not expensive" without a specific price,
and then finding out that the bill is supposedly 30x your typical
expected monthly cost. Whoops, no, 10x. Oh, really 2x. Okay, 1x.

If a billing process like this happened to a character in a
movie viewers would describe it as farcical or unrealistic.
But many people in the US accept it as normal.

How did we get here? More importantly, how to we get to something better?
It's getting much harder since you have to register tax evasion schemes now... But probably yes.

In the other hand I can't believe it is expected to raise so little.
Does every machine running a worker have to be a full node with Django? Workers in a complex CI setup can often be e.g. raspberry pi machines, iOS emulators, Windows machines without admin access deep inside a firewall that make outgoing connections but not incoming, etc.

So, you might consider a protocol for builders to report their results (e.g. over SSH) without being a full node, if that doesn't exist. Looks good!
Of all the complaints I have about email, encoding handling is not really one of them. Everybody decided long ago to ignore binarybody, and just send everything base64 encoded. I really think the result is much simpler than HTTP.
Sounds like a dream
Pray and Spray with the ‘Special Case’ Briefcase Gun
Published 12:18 PM ET Wed, 5 Sept 2018 Updated 2:45 PM ET Tue, 11 Sept 2018

This story is almost two months old. And I believe it's been on HN before.
Doctors and Nurses I understand are not directly involved, but they reap the rewards and are close enough to be complicit.

If Doctors guild's wanted this changed, they could. They have immense power.

The problem might be that nobody knows what the answer should be: it may not be socialized medicine.

But some basic things like price transparency, 'one price for all' (i.e. have to charge everyone the same price), requiring people to be informed ahead of time of the costs etc. might help.
a) I don't know!

b) All of the ones you've mentioned, at least. I deliberately didn't define it because I think it's difficult.
For the developing countries I know about (SE Asia in particular) it’s definitely still very much in the positive range - it’s adding real value. The downside has yet to hit I think.
I cannot really tell what your supposedly "simple solution" actually is. But it seems just a restatement of OPs, but filtered through a Brexiteer's compulsion to add a bit us-vs-them to the mix.

In that case it suffers from the same failures as OP: Starbucks would seize to exist because coffee still makes up 50%+ of their cost of doing business. And it adds an extra layer of "but why?" with an artificial distinction between domestic and foreign-produced goods.
True, but what if being creative, or the act of creation, even if not consumed, leads to more happiness and self-fulfillment?

Edit : as an example, the explosion of lines of code accessible on the internet is a new form of expression for some people. They are not paid to do it, yet they do it anyway, because they enjoy it. Not all that code is consumed, however.
What percentage of the world's technologists and designers live in SV? I don't know what it is but I bet it's overwhelmingly more everywhere else combined. Through that lens you can see how Basecamp ended up with 30 or so who don't live in SV.

(Disclosure: I work at Basecamp and don't live in SV.)
I don't think we actually disagree on any of those points. You can definitely build businesses anywhere in the world but people move to scenes to increase their chances of an outsize success. Plenty great bands come from small towns and regional scenes but a disproportionate amount of famous, world-touring bands are based out of Brooklyn or LA and the musicians you might meet there are aiming for that lifestyle.

If you define success differently, it's all up for grabs. If you want to build the next Uber, you are giving yourself a bigger shot (and tough competition) by moving to SF. Of course, companies like Mailchimp are massively successful outside of the bubble but there just isn't the same pressure and rising tide in a city like Atlanta than there is in SF.

I suspect many people end up in the Bay Area not to risk it all, disrupt their lives and start a company but simply because they got an awesome job at a growing company. Further down the line the scene makes them consider 'maybe I could do this too'.

FWIW, I got advice when starting my business to move out of the Bay Area and somewhere way cheaper to extend my runway. I'm glad I didn't because even with smaller monthly expenses I'd lose out on the small network I have and the luck afforded to me simply by being here.
Could you give some more details? The first Doom, as well as Doom II and Quake (except for WinQuake) were DOS games? Or am I missing something.
Ask HN: Google Discover shows YouTube Ads (despite paid ad-free user)
Recently Google updated what used to be known as Google Now / Google Feed, (now called Google Discover) on Android. For some things like recaps of sports teams I follow, it has now started playing YouTube videos in-line, instead of opening the app. I've noticed it's also started serving 6s ads from here, even though I'm a paying customer of Google Music / YouTube Red, and there doesn't appear to be a way to stop this behavior.

Anyone else seeing this? It's pretty annoying/unfriendly behavior considering I've been paying for years to avoid this kind of thing, and really inexcusable, since the Discover app is part of Google Search and has access to my account info.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or just Google being Google.
Plus, the parents apparently paid at least $250k in college tuition for her. So she has world class education, zero debt from it, and then this stipend on top of that. The stipend wouldn't go anywhere near as far if she were saddled with crushing student loans.

I come from a more privileged background than I realized and that included better educational opportunities. I was in gifted programs as early as second grade and had several college-equivalent math classes through my high school by the time I graduated high school. I took more math in high school for free than a lot of people with (non STEM) bachelor's degrees take.

As a homemaker in my twenties, I kept running tallies in my head for every single item that went into my shopping cart. I never bothered to carry a calculator. I could run the numbers in my head faster than other people could punch it into a calculator.

So much knowledge and training makes sparse material resources stretch a lot further than people stumbling their way forward with limited finances and less education, fewer solid mental models to inform their decisions, etc.

I mean, I appreciate that she wrote the article and she's not wrong, but I think the issue runs so much deeper than she's indicating. Just because I had smart parents who knew a lot, I had a leg up before I ever started school at age five. And the gulf between me and most of my age mates only grew the older I got.
I log on via desktop browser once every six months and always post essentially the same update: "I am still alive". Then I delete older updates and log out. When my update stops getting likes, I know I can finally leave Facebook forever.
There is a mod that fixes it. Dark Souls was the best game I played in the last 5 years, it's worth the hassle.
The demo in the repo only shows inpainting of anime-style geometry. In the 4chan thread linked by nathansmith, someone tried to apply it to a mosaicked penis, but it disappeared (NSFW, probably: https://i.4cdn.org/g/1540580868203.png). When they used the mosaic decensoring mode instead, it worked slightly better (NSFW, definitely: https://imgur.com/a/PwAunbc/). Other people complained about missing genitals as well.

So I'm guessing that this model doesn't have any specific training for filling in only genitals. I think there are category-aware inpainting algorithms that could be used, but they'd need tagged data, as you say.
Here is a neat question to think about. In the real world, whennare you not consuming curated information?

It wasnt like people didn't have the ability to think for themselves before the onset of an unfiltered internet.
Fidelity, Bakkt and Coinbase Are the New Era of Institutional Wars
Small sample size, but I happen to know multiple people in their thirties and forties whose parents continue to fund their 'creative' lives. I can assure you they are not as happy as you think free money might make you.
Ecuador May Have Just Blown Robert Mueller’s Russia Probe Wide Open
No, you mostly aim at center of mass. Hitting someone with a gun is not easy even at short distances (stress, movement), so generally (and what is taught in shooting schools) is aiming at center of mass.
And yet no one really knows what they do. How many regular people have had their life improved in any way by IBM? Compare to Apple's strong stance on user privacy and easy-to-use technology, Google's wealth of free high quality services like Maps, Gmail, Youtube, and good affordable notebooks, and streaming companies like Netflix providing high-quality media content for much lower prices than cable, with little to no ads. IBM can't go bankrupt soon enough. They're a waste of engineering talent and have contributed nothing to the world.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18330228, where the article is more accessible and perhaps closer to being an original source.
2018.44 Diwali Approaching – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
>> Is a post-Facebook world better?

Only when the alternative follows some of the principles you stated.

Edit: Oh, also, if it means we see less zombie-scrolling.
UK Should Reject Extraditing Julian Assange to US
Those are probably issues that are mostly irrelevant to both the parent poster and the discussion at hand.

It seems doubtful this family man would move to the US and immediately become a homeless, mentally ill victim of police violence.

Everyone agrees the US has plenty of issues (and there's plenty of homeless in Europe too), but you're replying to someone mentioning his personal reasons and telling him a laundry list of other issues that America has.
It seems like there are two approaches to trying to increase the healthspan of individuals. One is wait for the body to fail and try to correct it. This is 99.9% of all research funding. The other is trying to coerce the body into failing more slowly and less often(.1% of funding).

It seems weird to criticize the second approach because the first approach has made so much more progress extending lifespan than healthspan.
Would you mind entertaining a naive question? What makes redhat worth it? What would make a company choose redhat over Ubuntu (or any flavor of Debian) in 2018?
I remember seeing OpenCat originally, and this is pretty interesting to me. I'd probably want to know what sort of software they will be able to include out of the box. I probably don't have time (or spare money) to get yet another experimental robotics platform... but it'd be pretty fun to have a robotic cat.

Sadly, I'm allergic to the real ones.
> Invoke change - speak up, not just about the problems, but with solutions to improve the organization.

This doesn't work in my experience. You're the new guy and no-one wants to give up whatever political power they've accumulated through things being such a clusterfuck. By doing this, you will step on someone's toes even if you have the best of intentions and didn't mean to; this will upset people who have more power than you do, and will do you in.

1) and 3) are valid options, but I wouldn't advise 2).
I didn't say they were committing an illegal act, although most are. I just said that "illegal alien" is the only correct term under our law.

The vast majority are not undocumented. They have fraudulent documentation. Identity theft is not a victimless crime.

Overstaying a visa isn't a crime, but getting a visa with the intent to overstay it is a crime. Jumping the border is obviously a crime. Those two methods of entry cover the vast majority. There aren't a lot of people who intended to leave and then just... forgot the visa expiration date or something.
This obviously worked as a fundraising stunt, but the technology is not new. I recall seeing other people doing this on TV and a few weeks ago some rapper did it on an Instagram live stream.
It is a relevant metric since it reduces notifications being sent to you and reduces the information Facebook can gather (no tracking of what else is going on on the hone etc.)

It also tells them that the App apparently dosn't give value to users and something has to change on their side (whatever "something" might be, might be reputation or features or overall experience or ...)
No, because it's not relevant. Thanks.
There is no reason DNS should be centralized. DoH and DoT create concentrators that can break the privacy of many people (that's one of the reasons people don't use them: why should I care if my ISP can read my queries when the alternative is making those queries on my ISP servers?)

(That said, DoH solves a very important, but different problem that is: I want to provide a service with authenticity assurances, but DNSSEC is broken for the users, what can I do? Not many people seem interested on providing that kind of service.)
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The "creative" part of that sentence is purely from her (super biased) viewpoint. The idea is letting people pursue /a career of their choosing/ rather than being stuck at a low-paying job with no opportunity to change that. She wants people to choose arts, but many would choose a real-world job that interests them. (Ex. a housekeeper has a passion for political issues and wants to work in the government, but has no time/energy/money to pursue it).
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This is unfortunately the way I stand right now, I do a lot of everything but nothing particularly well. I too do ecommerce development but I delegate outsource / project manage things as much as possible. Things I don't entirely delegate is research,frontend design, data loading, and anything that would be too complicated to explain in a few sentences. I have a large range of specialists that I work with to carry out things like automation scripts, plugins, templating, databases, backend development, etc. But I have to spec out everything, so I myself have to know how to do mostly everything as well. Including the business side of things.

I'd rather be building things but the truth is I primarily manage. I've had my fair shares of poor hires. One was overly obsessed with tooling and couldn't deliver in a timely manner. Another I was too naiive and circumvented upwork to appease him.

It sucks when you have to figure everything out yourself. I am constantly analyzing how little work I need to do to make things run smoothly. Because there are so many battles you can fight, and so many actions you can do it one day. Delegating development tasks just makes more sense in the long run.

As a result, my CV is not really appealing to most companies. What I do instead is spend my freetime developing a personal project I have. And do technical talks / live development at my local meetups.
OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-Oriented Design [video]