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Ask HN: Inferring book genre from its description
Given description of a book find its genre. For example:

Book: Python Cookbook

Description (taken from Amazon): If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket. Packed with practical recipes written and tested with Python 3.3, this unique cookbook is for experienced Python programmers who want to focus on modern tools and idioms.
Inside, you’ll find complete recipes for more than a dozen topics, covering the core Python language as well as tasks common to a wide variety of application domains. Each recipe contains code samples you can use in your projects right away, along with a discussion about how and why the solution works.

Output: [Python]
This article is so right! I went to Borough of Manhattan Community College, but I'm lucky to be 28 now and be able to live at my parents, I'd be homeless otherwise. : )

(P.S. i then got a Bachelor of Engineering from a 4 year college, interned at Stanford University, was a GSoC fellow, got a lead iOS developer job at a startup in NYC making ALMOST 6 figures, got kicked out of the country for not getting selected at the H1B, worked at a startup in Paris, quit the startup in Paris because it was boring, and spent the last 6 months burning through my saving while living in Paris to build a startup without business model. I am now nearly homeless, but working freelance while nearly ready to launch my startup. Almost homeless, though!)

Did you know lipstick causes breast cancer, given that nearly 80% of people who get breast cancer wear lipstick?

I might be crazy, my mum didn't get me tested.
I understand, we use AI in one form or another in our daily lives. But for very specific and specialized narrow cases. As you mentioned, its that scale that matters which our brain does seamlessly and us as the generation with AI builders around, we are no where anything to perform in scale with an AI except very specialized tasks. It naturally will improve over time, but AI attaining AGI status and maybe taking control over socio-economic or socio-cultural changes would be a long shot unless we humans don't destroy ourselves by destroying life on earth.
I am similarly outraged that I haven't had any cheques from Nominet come through the post recently and as a UK tax paying citizen I am outraged at this oversight.

I want my £10!
I was having udev starting a separate ripping script as a background process, and it worked on pre-systemd udev systems.

systemd kills the entire udev process tree (all children) including the ripping script after 30 seconds.
> I just imagined a dream future of fully autonomous, nuclear-powered container ships.

You might want to read about these then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn_(ship)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutsu_(nuclear_ship)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput
yeah, I think POF may take the honors. Not sure about the guy that started Minecraft - he was also making a ton of money but not sure if he was solo.
Haha, the $2 minimum was too much, huh? :P
I can't think of too many instances in which I would use this personally, but seems very useful for things like saving web game state.
That must be based on a very limited experience. In the U.S. it was common up until maybe 5 years ago for carriers to charge 10c per sent and received SMS. And that's still true unless you have a plan that explicitly makes them unlimited and free (which is admittedly most of them).

If your carrier is e.g. AT&T you have to sign up for an international service plan or you simply do not receive text messages. The typical thing my friends do is pay $10/day for the international day pass. Crazy. It's why I bought an phone without carrier lock, and when I get to a country just buy a SIM (UICC) with pre-paid texting and data, I don't even car about voice. Since my U.S. number is google voice, the texts come in as data, and local texts are cheap or free in that country.
Considering there are a grand total of 2500 people in the BIOT, all of whom are British or American military personnel, it might not be a great idea to route a good chunk of the world's tech traffic through them. The disparity between how important the .io TLD is for the Internet and how few resources must go to running it is pretty appalling.
Someone said to me about me "Sounds like you have a thing..." I rebutted that by saying, no, I have a long history of close relationships. Forty five minutes is not a big flipping deal.

And now there are down votes and all kinds of assumptions about me and what I intended. I don't know why that is. Given the context of my remark, it should be obvious that my only intent was to rebut someone basically talking trash about me.

It isn't manipulative to spend 45 minutes talking to someone because you are lonely or you are genuinely interested in them or they happened to say "hi" and you happen to be a chatty sort. But the world would be a vastly better place if this were not routinely mistaken for being more than it is. People routinely act like "It engendered feelings in me, so this must be True Love (or you must be my new BFF)!" And that tends to go bad places because neither person knows the other well enough for it to actually be the basis for a serious relationship. Then folks get married or pregnant or start imposing expectations on the other party that the other party did not expect and does not want and the result is usually some kind of drama.

Healthy relationships take some time to feel out. Jumping into things tends to go bad places.

Pick up artists know that many people are not that socially and emotionally savvy and they take advantage of it. I know that many people are not that socially and emotionally savvy and I try to educate people in hopes of seeing a down tick of general drama in the world at large.
Pardon me, but this seems pretty different from the use cases of DEP. Perhaps you'd like to expound further on this.

Imagine a standard webapp deployed via CI. Each time any feature is shipped the entire layout is randomized and then deployed. While a redundant system will have multiple copies with an identical layout, that layout will rotate. If required, a CI process could rebuild the system into N parallel groups with N different layouts (your degree of paranoia is the salt to taste here).

Given that these systems are frequently rebuilt with each deploy it seems nearly identical to me in practice to a relink-on-run.
I would define selfishness as a car per person.

Where I live, every time I go south, roughly 8-9 am, with opposing traffic, I see a >5 mile train of engines waiting in line. And I call it a train because in the exact same direction there is an actual train, this time with only one engine, transporting hundreds of people at a time.

Public transportation could be better, if public administrators really wanted.

Before we get to the time autonomous personal vehicles have 0 emissions and are maximal efficient, being so cheap anyone can afford one, every other solution than rationalizing transportation and city planning will fall short of it, imo.
One difference with auto repair: I expect the garage to call me before they do any work that exceeds the estimate. And I may very well decide not to do it. They may tell me that I need a $1000 timing belt replacement when I ask for a $200 water pump replacement, and I may decide not to do it. I can even ask them to put everything back together and tow the car somewhere else for repairs. If they tell me I need a $3000 engine replacement, I may decide to just scrap the car.

The same is not true with healthcare - you may go in for a $20K stent, but have a serious complication that needs $200K open heart surgery -- you don't really have the option to say "put everything back together and I'll live with it".
How much of that would be easier if detailed specs were available? Could someone throw a pin-for-pin compatible implementation of that hypothetical 555 (to continue your example) out of a small FPGA?

Also, the most annoying to replace and most complicated parts are usually the ones that run software, which creates another problem. I bet half of the people at my local hackerspace could build a replacement board for their washing machine or fridge from just doing a visual inspection of the original, but it doesn't solve anything if you don't know what code the original was running. Having to hack the original into giving you its firmware blob raises the difficulty of replacement significantly, and you'll probably be breaking some laws too if you try it.

I wish we would be able to force companies into revealing both schematics and all code running on a device when they sunset it. But I know it won't happen, because the companies will immediately say that some of that old software is still being used on new devices, and therefore it is an Important Trade Secret.
I'm a bit evangelical about low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets nowadays, especially keto. Personally, I'm not at the fitness level where I could conceivably run a marathon. Maybe a 5K or a half. But the article mentions him hitting walls as he hit certain mile markers, and having his wife help him reach the finish.

This guy: https://youtu.be/96VZFklUM_Q runs ultra marathons, using fat for fuel. He leaves his fellow competitors in his dust because he doesn't have to carry glucose packets to keep his body fed. Instead, he finishes his race with an avocado and bison jerky.
I actually subscribed to the print version last year. They're very high quality magazines, if a bit infrequent (every two months).
Scalability of CFEngine vs. Puppet (2012)
Return to abort() – Using code introspection to prevent stack-smashing
Hollywood Should Pay Attention to Christopher Nolan's 'Dunkirk'
The same issues also happen on Android, which is why Android has separate threads for layouting and interactions, rendering, and business logic in every app, and why all complicated rendering ends up on separate GPU layers.
How about picking a company that does something you'd love to be involved in -- building rockets, brewing artisan beer, raising cattle on the western prairie, etc. -- and go become their one-man IT department. I guarantee there's a lot of great small companies out there that need help but can't find it. The work may be a mix of the menial and the interesting, everything from fixing printers to analyzing data in the ERP, but/and you get to be a part of something that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning. Whatever that may be.
Could have been an Onion article just a few years ago :).
Organic Water: A New Marketing Wave
> way beyond that

I agree, it sounds like once he realized his actions were blowing up in his face his behavior got ugly. That is certainly an indication of immaturity.

Surely Teo would have been concerned by the lawsuit even if he was convinced it had been a one-time issue. He'd hitched his wagon to Caldbeck's and so was made vulnerable by Caldbeck's behavior.

Teo's duty to LPs and Founders is to preserve the stability of the fund. He may have decided not to continue working with Caldbeck after the evidence surfaced, but taking immediate action would have been highly destabilizing. It's hard to imagine that he'd have felt some personal loyalty to Caldbeck that would have dominated the very simple risk-avoidance calculus for a situation like this and no evidence that any existed.

Think of how easily Teo could have become a hero just by bailing from the fund when the first accusations surfaced. He'd have screwed over the founders and LPs but would seem like the pinnacle of moral judgment.

This is why it's troublesome to adopt an overly moralistic view when analyzing these sorts of situations. The strategic behavior changes and rewards personal grandstanding at the expense of the rest of the parties involved.

Ultimately, Caldbeck's behavior was immature, inappropriate, and disgusting, but it was likely not illegal. Would you really argue that someone in Teo's position should jeopardize his firm just to send a strong message about some accusations?

In my opinion the right thing to do is take clear action to prevent it from happening again but to stay focused on the business.
Surprise! Pricing is "transparent", although massively complicated.

There are several systems, but let's take a look at Outpatient procedure pricing...

A good outpatient pricing guide is here: https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning...

And coupled with the OPPS dataset here: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Paymen... as well as a couple others, along with a quick read of the federal register, you can kinda figure it out on your own (/s).

Every bill you get must also have the codes and modifiers on it by law. Its interesting to download the dataset and look them up.

--EDIT-- I incorrectly linked to the COBOL PC Pricer code above for OPPS! Here is the pricing data: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Paymen...
Obviously so.

I can think of three distinct dimensions; technical, planning and political/coaching. Maybe it's four but I think the last two are sides of the same coin.

You need all of them to some extent.
Not many CC students finish in two years, in another comment I made, Texas found only 1 in 7 complete within 2 years. Given that span of time and the other factors happening in their lives, they could be homeless beforehand, or become 'homeless" (plenty of discussion here on what that qualifies as) during the course of their time as a student.
Nice. I wrote something similar to this a while ago, except aimed primarily at mobile users. https://davewm.github.io/phonsole-client/
I'm curious, let's say these guys sucseed, and they partially, or fully commoditize wine via synthetics.

What happens then? will it really replace most wine production ? or is wine one of those things that people will just pay a lot more for "authenticity" ?
Are the original inhabitants of these islands still alive?
That will most likely cause widespread havoc without solving anything and even slow down the actual resolution of the problem.

Strategy is important.
How rich do you have to be? Why is it not available for the rest of us?
Hi author here. I agree wholeheartedly. I wasn't thinking in absolutes, but I absolutely can understand how it could read that way. I could have titled the post "Unikernels are resonably secure", but then nobody would have read it.

I was doubtful about mentioning the lack of shell. Technically it doesn't really do much in terms of security, but it does make a compromise harder. And currently, where we stand, a lot of the security comes from things being really, really hard to compromise. Guessing adresses, not having a shell, potentially no filesystem, etc.
Health insurance amakes an apples-to-apples comparison difficult.
I think there are two big aspects that need to be kept distinct.

First, is large-scale ATOs. This is, IMO, the real reason why major services implement 2FA. To the best of my knowledge, despite the insecurity of SMS, there's no evidence that an attacker can massively take over accounts of a set of users with 2FA enabled.

Then, there's attacking a single target user. I don't think there will ever be a solution for that, unless the user is really careful. 2FA offers a 2nd factor, but you still need a strong 1st factor to reduce the attacker power.

For example, storing a strong password in a pwd manager is useless when you loose your phone (assuming an attacker can unlock the screen), as both factors are on the same device, making the 2FA de-factor a single factor auth.

Currently, again IMO, the only way to achieve a secure two-factor auth, is to have a strong password that you remember, and a second factor that proves you have a device.
I think some candidates don't know what is IP for their current company and don't want to get in trouble discussing that. The other one sounded like he didn't fully understand it.

If you circle back and say something like, please bore me with the details it sounds interesting and they refuse that would be a deal breaker for me. It is in my mind a huge red flag.
This service is for pinning files on IPFS. Say, for example, that someone wants to publish a paper that they want to always be available (even if a government tries to take it down). IPFS helps by making distribution p2p, as anyone who accesses the file can also redistribute it until it expires from their cache.

Pinning removes this expiration, and serves the file forever. Eternum provides that service, making sure the file will always be on at least one node, and thus always accessible.

It's not really comparable to Dropbox or S3 at all.

Our marketing currently assumes you're familiar with IPFS, as I don't think the service will be too useful directly if you aren't. Maybe we should change that, though.

Another avenue for this is, for example, what IPFessay (http://ipfessay.stavros.io) does: it publishes a file on IPFS and then invites you to click a link to Eternum to pin it, even without knowing how IPFS or Eternum work.
Having a secure way to log in to your phone is supposed to be the second factor.
> for some of us it's articles like this on HN which give an opportunity to talk about systemd without being off topic.

I would argue it is off topic because it's barely relevant to the submitted link. Just post "Tell HN: systemd sucks" and you can talk systemd all day long.

You could even include some actually real and concrete concerns, like trying to bloat the kernel with some linux-on-teh-desktopz IPC which will probably be replaced by the next big thing by 2025, bundling some weird syslog replacement, bundling a half-assed DNS cache (it was originally vulnerable to spoofed answers right off the bat, besides the recent remote code execution oopsie), polluting dmesg with systemd log messages, asking the kernel to workaround systemd crashing when the kernel is booted with debug output, Poettering's dismissal of the UEFI bricking fiasco, the recent failure to drop privileges on usernames starting with 0, ...

You guys behave as if some overblown pretext were needed to flame systemd :p
Apple has DEV-fused devices which use separate development certificates and keys.

The bootloaders and kernels for production devices still retain the code for the "special" functionality, that is how researchers are aware of it, but it simply will not work without an actual dev-fused device.
The only problem I've had recently is that I can't seem to split up different ports on the same card (optical home theatre/soundbar for music, desktop stereo for everything else), but that's not something I was able to do with ALSA anyway.

Something to do with opening the card in different profiles I think.
”Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning to program”

Sure, and so did thousands of others. Bill Gates clearly didn’t become a modern Croesus because he was a better programmer, this is just trying to shoehorn Microsoft into the at once self-evident and ludicrous 10000 hour idea.
> The difference is I can shun a company making unfair profit and choose a competitor

You could but most of the times the companies become so huge they finance laws that turn the state part of their profit, a huge part of it coming from taxes (or lack of) too.
so tired of these nauseo.us articles

Maximum entropy is a uniform diffuse gas. The universe obviously has more structure than that , so it's not like this is a philosophical matter of subjectivity.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733364 and marked it off-topic.
William Sylem from Russian River. Golden Eye from Anderson Valley. I think they both stack up very well though I will admit they are a bit less earthy than a typical Burgundy.
I dunno, I'm leaning toward "Pair of feet with deformed right toe with gout inflammation", which seems more family friendly, for when my kids play golf on my phone.
You are probably right but this invites and rewards unethical behavior. If you pay the bill you are a sucker. You have to be a deadbeat.
This article is very old. Bitcoin reward is 12.5 bitcoins per block and BTC Guild is long time gone. Nonetheless, very interesting and helpful to understand the mechanics.
How does talent have almost no influence? There are many genetic factors that would impact how strong a runner is.

You mention football and basketball, which are essentially a series of short sprints. Sprints are _much_ healthier for people than 100-mile marathons that will essentially bathe your body in cortisol.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-evidence-continues-to-mou...
The carbon majors database
Well, researchgate likes to tell me I'm not elite enough to join their services despite having preprints and journal papers waiting for peer-review...

"Sorry, we were unable to approve your account request. We've sent you an email to ask you to provide some information about your research so we can reprocess your request. Please click on the link in the email to do so."

Oh yeah, and they never actually sent me an email.
Hi could you guys please fix the white flashing bug chrome has for almost 10 years? I think it might me the longest open unsolved bug I know in any IT project.

https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0Rmd8IyUjG...
I was wondering this too, and would love to hear the parent's reasoning.

One difference I can think of is that Canada has Universal Healthcare. Maybe the compensation system differs because Canadian companies can pay <Salary> and US Companies have to pay <Salary + benefits>?

(I mostly see people here on HN throwing salary numbers around, not total compensation. Also, I wonder if having the government handle benefits would make it easier to pay more (since companies don't have to pay benefits) or less (since companies just pay the government to do the benefits). )
But then they wouldn't be able to bill $1350 for a 15 minute visit.
"I just work on the theory of prime numbers. No way will they ever find a military use for that!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)#Operation
The question you should ask is would Feynman have agreed to it?

Because that's the person who will have to put up with it. You can only ask such a question if you're willing to give the future recipient of the gift the option to back out and be sent back to your present state. And if that new individual isn't 'you' in a legal sense you might find that contract nul and void anyway.

> Where it gets really strange is if you think of your wife or husband making a backup of their brain, then running a simulator on that backup.

There is a Black Mirror episode around that called 'Be right back'.
The one reason that occurs to me is the different expectations for social safety nets, which most people I think ignore when they are youthful and/or healthful. In Canada, losing one's job (sometimes following a bad health diagnosis) will not likely condemn the person to bankruptcy and worse. It was stunning to me how different Canadian society is compared to the US when one digs just below the surface. In some sense, the analogy that occurs to me is riding a motorbike (US) to riding a Camry (Canada) - the former is thrilling, full of freedom, and 'bad', until you get in an accident.

I agree that Canadian employers can totally up their hiring game by upping the miserly salaries but they could emphasize the social differences between Canada and the US to attract risk-averse/future-focused candidates.
>He leaves his fellow competitors in his dust because he doesn't have to carry glucose packets to keep his body fed.

How do you know that is why he leaves others in the dust, vs him just being more talented, or training more, or training smarter, or just setting higher goals than the last generation of endurance runners?

Also you should keep in mind that while there is at least a plausible story you can tell about > 5 hour endurance efforts benefiting from some kind of fat burning approach, from 5k to marathon, you absolutely want to be burning glucose if you want to go as fast as you can go. This is unambiguous.