skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a reason there’s little agreement on standards for treatment or licensure. The only thing we have solid evidence helps in therapy/counselling/psychotherapy is a strong client therapist relationship, the therapeutic alliance. Up until recently the literature suggested cognitive behavioural therapy worked better than other schools but the case for that isn’t looking great lately either.

Therapy is hard and it only works if the client works at it. They can even work at it on their own, but they must work at it. Bibliotherapy, using a CBT workbook, works as well as a therapist if you actually do it but a therapist is an expensive means of ensuring you follow a programme.

> Is Professional Training Worth the Bother? A Review of the Impact of Psychotherapy Training on Client Outcome

> Abstract
This article reviews the research literature on the effectiveness of paraprofessional counsellors and the impact of psychotherapy training on client outcome. Methodological and conceptual difficulties that have hampered previous research in this area are noted, and several well‐designed individual studies are highlighted. The existing evidence supports the efficacy of paraprofessional counsellors, although professional training may lead to better outcome in specific areas, such as greater client retention, briefer therapy, and better overall wellbeing for clients. However, methodological limitations of the research prohibit definitive conclusions. Guidelines for future research are offered.
Apple is shuttering its photo printing service
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/12/apple-is-shuttering-its-photo-printing-service

Buried among all of this morning’s MacBook news was word that Apple will be pulling the plug on its Photo Print Products services. That tidbit was first noted by the folks at 9to5Mac, courtesy of an app pop-up noting that the service will sunset at the end of September.

The service has been around for a while, dating back to 2002, in those dark days when Photos was still iPhoto. The project was designed to give users a more permanent/tactile take on all of the shots they captured on their iPhones. It was a pretty charming artifact from the company that included a number of different print out formats, like photo books and calendar.

Apple has no doubt seen the writing on the wall for a while now. Thanks in large part to the iPhone and photography apps, the photo book just doesn’t carry the cache it once did. It’s honestly a bit surprisingly the whole thing stuck around for as long as it did — though granted, it probably required little in the way of heavy-lifting from the company to keep it around.

For more visit: www.industry-era.com and go to news section
I wish others who know more about this human morphology would comment. It's very interesting and could upset our current understanding about how we all got to where we are.

They posit we did not sprout from a single region of Africa, but rather ancestors of our species interbred across regions at varying rates and all that eventually resulted in homo sapiens.

All the interbreeding happened all thought 500k to 40k ya --which is pretty close to when people began spreading to other continents already.

Pretty wild.
Any chance this will defeat Electron apps and save my RAMs
Their point was not that one is less valid than the other as a target for treatment but that we have a slightly better grasp of depression’s etiology than schizophrenia’s.
not directly answering your question -- how does HexNoteG9 compare with existing alternative music notations?

do any of those alternatives have standards for machine-readable notation?

edit:

one way to get started would be to put together your own first draft of the specification, with examples, on a place where others can easily read it and suggest improvements (e.g. it could start off being a file in a git repo hosted on github.com, say ).

answering my own question:

some random alternatives might include:

MIDI -- https://www.midi.org/specifications

LilyPond -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond#Overview_of_input_syn...

GUIDO -- https://github.com/grame-cncm/guidolib/blob/dev/doc/GUIDO-Mu...

MusicXML -- http://w3c.github.io/musicxml/

RTTTL (RingTone Text Transfer Language) -- http://www.panuworld.net/nuukiaworld/download/nokix/rtttl.ht...
Costco sheets, especially sateen cotton, are cheap and amazing.
Try plato: https://www.platohq.com/
This does not work because amazon commingles inventory. So anyone who ships that item into your warehouse could end up providing the actual good your are sold even if the “Seller” is amazon.
Maybe that makes sense for the app you are writing that is only consumed by others at your company, but if I'm installing your app from a package manager I absolutely do not want to have to read the config loading source code to figure out what all the parameters do. And even if the docs are nicely described in a man page and not in config file comments, I absolutely want to be able to comment on particular parameter changes ("# had to up foo to 18 because bar was frobbing baz at to high a rate").

Even if you use configuration management it's still nice to be able to comment things in config files since they show up both in the source and in the output files, which is very helpful when debugging.
> When was the last time the US was attacked by another country on our home soil?

The peak of the most recent foreign military offensive against the US was in 2016; the operation was quite successful in achieving the war aims, is the single most successful military operation ever conducted against the US, and is now in the exploitation phase.
> Is it not obvious that 'environmental protection' costs money and may prevent some company from making more money?

I cannot tell from your tone and the jab at “technical geniuses” if you’re saying this is a bad thing.

Yes, environmental protection costs money. This money should be paid by the companies who are directly or potentially placing the environment at risk. This burden should not be externalized onto the public so private entities can make more money.
I happen to have some knowledge and experience with something called "Neuro-Linguistic Programming". It's a rigorous but unscientific body of ideas and techniques that roughly amounts to an "operating system" for the human mind.

(From the POV of a computer programmer it is interesting to note that the origin of NLP involved the analysis of videos of therapy sessions of a few highly effective therapists[1], done with the aid of Chomsky's Transformational Grammar, which of course is related to the Chomsky hierarchy of grammars...)

I've always been disappointed that whenever people "do science to" NLP it seems to fall flat. I have to assume the studies are flawed somehow because I personally know damn well the techniques work. Yet the wikipedia entry is all about how it's a pseudoscience. It's a very frustrating situation.

[1] Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and Milton Erickson, I believe were the main ones.
Not a bad idea. I wonder how this compares to ubuntu's snaps. Seems like a good idea to me but I've not really seen it used much yet.

On OS-X apps have been distributed in a .app form for ages. It's very uncommon for OS X apps to have installers or a more complicated installation (and uninstallation) than drag and drop.

So, good idea and it kind of fixes a big issue where most linux distributions seem to insist on dll hell with just about anything littering the file system with cruft and just about every interpreter out there reinventing ways to create virtual environments.
> virtue-signalling

You're begging the question. By labeling it virtue signaling, you've already dismissed it as false, as not a genuinely held moral position.

What if someone honestly believed that giving up meat was the moral thing to do, given the current conditions of the world?

Remember that nearly all of the things we now hold as self-evident (racial equality, gender equality, sexual orientation equality, etc) were once radical / crazy positions. Were the people who were ahead of the morality curve virtue signaling?
Probably because it's more difficult to build infrastructure for. As an example, the Ledger Nano hardware wallet still isn't compatible with Monero but is with ZCash, despite XMR being older and having a much larger market cap than ZEC.

Also Gemini, another leading US exchange, added ZEC recently and Coinbase wanted to catch up.
I read through a chunk of Lamport’s book and the first 7 or so sections of his online course (the rest weren’t posted yet).

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html

https://learntla.com/introduction/

Is also a good introduction. That was enough to make me dangerous. Since work didn’t have an interest in training me, and I had other obligations, that’s all I’ve done so far.
I know the games industry has a reputation for "crunch time" and that bugs may creep in when the deadlines come, but this seems too sloppy to believe, despite the notoriety of ACM's development under Gearbox's aegis. The game's AI must have been worked on by several dedicated programmers who at some stage signed off on it being functional. When people -- ideally, the QA team, but also the public after the game was rushed to publish -- started complaining en masse about clearly broken AI, did no one on the dev team have a clue that the AI had likely regressed due to a bug, and make an effort to root it out?
I bought a used Galaxy S3 Mini a few years back after my two years without any phone at all. Had to replace the screen once but even that was a used part.

I think people should put their phone into sleeves more often, I see them walking on the street carrying the phone unused and unprotected in their hands and accidents happen too often.
I like the idea, but the privacy implications scare me away. My Amazon activity and data says everything personal about me, including medical conditions.
I'd be a complete fraud if I said I could answer that :)
Not to get existential here, but the analogy to human neural networks is compelling. The algorithm efficiently redesigns itself to fit the data, just like neural synapses reconnect one another as knowledge is learned, to optimize the storage and retrieval of the information.
Hmmm, the RCAF silk maps we inherited are much more useful. They’re topographic maps of a few dozen square kilometers. They’re basically hiking maps you’re expected to eat if captured.

Granted my grandfather was stationed in London, so maybe the maps of England and other friendly territory were more zoomed in since any citizens you might meet were friendlies.
For database CRUD mappings to Web APIs, are the there any solutions ?
I've been sort of meta-learning for the past couple of weeks, reading about study methods and note taking and memory techniques, etc. and one prevailing theme regardless of the method is that repetition and rephrasing are key to internalise the information.

E.g. you learn and retain the information far more efficiently if you take the route of read -> write note -> create flashcards from the note. As opposed to autogenerating the flashcards from the source material, for example.

The process of formulating the note first and then formulating the flashcards means you have to actually think about the material in two stages instead of just performing data entry.

In my experience it doesn't take all that much time, and if you're really interested in learning a topic is it unreasonable to expect that you have to spend say 10% longer with any given book or article to perform this review process? If you spend a bit of time up front creating a structured approach and stick to it, it'll become very quick. Here's an interesting article as a reference: https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/
Yep. And they're not the only ones.

Nagra sell a system that does it to ISPs around the world and have done for at least 10 years. I'd been hoping we'd see more of that in the UK, but there has been virtually zero movement probably largely because of our patchy broadband service. I'm assuming the Sky Q boxes are heading in that direction eventually.
for all we know they exacerbated their patients symptoms
Anyone tried this Borges' audiobook? https://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Collected-Fictions-Audio...
I would guess that they are dense enough that their volumetric cost is weight constrained rather than volume constrained, so this may be less of a factor than you think.
Cleaning up Detroit – Illegal dumpers caught on camera
There are so many links to Alzheimer's lately that I'm not sure there's a reasonable prevention strategy.
After building apps in Martini and Revel, I’ve moved to using a smattering of decent (IMHO) packages good at 1 thing:

Let me render templates in a layout file with `yield` - https://github.com/unrolled/render

Let me quickly route with param support - https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter

Sessions, flash messages, and secure cookies - http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions

POST parameter-to-structure binding (this is optional and easy enough to do by hand) - https://github.com/mholt/binding

I write my own middlewares for logging, auth, etc. Use viper for configuration, gorm for an ORM, and for anything more complicated, accept that you’re about to learn a whole lot about it because you’re gonna be writing it yourself.
One thing the NSA is very good at is getting access to virtually every type of networking card. If they achieve access to a target, it's likely they control a path to it.

If the target is a wifi device, the custom protocol becomes doubly effective: Exfiltration is a matter of having a receiver anywhere in the vicinity. And that receiver can amplify the signal to blast it a few miles. There are tools to sweep the EM spectrum looking for anomalies like this, but they seem to be rare, for the moment.
So then… not actually comments at all?

A nice config parser will error out or at least warn loudly when encountering an unknown parameter. This helps prevent typos.
Is that really the case? I’ve returned things to amazon for other reasons...
> They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves

It sounds to me like all they're really talking about is feudalism. So if they are convinced that this is the future, then all they need do is look to examples from the past on how to be lord of a fiefdom. It will probably involve building a castle and employing an army.
Rights group questions DEA's exploitation of encrypted drug traffickers' phones
OH! And json-to-go people, use json-to-go. Thank me (well, mholt really) later!
If you want pure technical crunchy hits of great goodness (no pol no fluff no bs) the best heuristic I've developed is to look for the things that reach front page with 30~40 pts but have almost no comments. These usually tend to be PDFs of research papers describing some awesome but highly advanced or technical cool thing, right on the edge of comprehensibility.

My theory is, we're all crouched around like proto-humans before the Monolith, upvoting and hoping someone bold and clever will touch it, or better yet, that one of the aliens who put it there will show up and tell us what it is. ;-P
Life on the slippery Earth
I did the same with a $700 TV a few days ago. No issues. They carried it from my car.

If they'd refused to take the return, I would've had AmEx refund my money, so I was safe either way.
To each their own, but I personally prefer the lego-building block-approach instead of the kitchen-sink approach of bigger frameworks. In Go at least, this scales quite nicely with your code IMO.

I use a couple of thin layers over net/http:

Gorilla mux: https://github.com/gorilla/mux

... Gets me easy route params and HTTP method filtering.

Negroni for middleware: https://github.com/urfave/negroni

... Super easy to roll your own, plus there's a bunch of random off-the-shelf middlewares that people have put together (see their README).

For talking with my DB, I just use sqlx (and sqlmock in my unit tests).

https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx
https://github.com/DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock
Many years ago I collected short stories I enjoyed in an Evernote list. Here it is if you want some inspiration. :)

Asimov, Isaac - "Nightfall"

Asimov, Isaac - "The Last Question"

Barthelme, Donald - "Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby"

Beckett, Samuel - "That Time"

Bisson, Terry - They're Made Out of Meat

Boyle, T. C. - The Hit Man

Carver, Raymond - Little Things

Chekhov, Anton - "The Bet"

Dick, Philip K - "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"
Gibson, William - Dogfight ("...he had nobody to tell it to. Nobody at
all.")

Hemingway, Ernest - The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Hemingway, Ernest - Hills Like White Elephants

Makkai, Rebecca - "The Briefcase"

Bradbury, Ray - "The Veldt"

Saroyan, William - "Seventy Thousand Assyrians"
Oh good. Someone told him that “gypsy” is considered a slur by a lot of Romani.
Would denoting if a seller under FBA is using the commingling service help solve this issue, or would that negatively effect the benefits Amazon reaps from this type of inventory model?
How do you this testing? Any public service?
Surprised why XRP (Ripple) is not here given that XLM (Stellar), an _almost_ similar protocol and functionality, is being considered.
As a full time kid and an ex minecraft player, I think that's a way to get into books. The only way I got into books was by trying hard at first to read on my phone (it was hard and boring for a month I was reading during boring classes at school). But now a year later I've never read any paper books, all the books I've read are ebooks.
"If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226775
“Practically created the modern world” is a vast exaggeration and sad you actually believe that.. European countries especially Britain and France developed many of the things that enabled modernisation of the world.
Question:

Why are these things blown up (imploded) instead of dismantled? Is it really that much easier to just collect debris vs systematically tearing a thing down?
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> They absolutely would not win any fans imposing moral absolutism on the eating habits of the majority of people.

I don't think they're imposing anything, it seems like they're just saying they're no longer going to pay for it. From what I can tell, clients, employees and tenants would be free to eat their own meat-containing meals by simply paying for them.
> first snippet has quadratic performance

Not if primes is a set.
It definitely is distinct. Personally I find it refreshing after all the 500-1200pg fantasy I read. There's something poetic about compressing so much into so little words. I find that it flows nicely. It's more poetic than dramatic.
The 2016 keyboard feels, IMO, way better to type of. In comparison the old MBP feels like a much sloppier machine.

It’s size was also the only thing putting me off a personal purchase. Reliability issues aside (I haven’t been affected but I assume it’s a matter of time) it is a nicer machine.
Sure, I think that's more a literal meaning, rather than the metaphorical sense the article was going for. As a metaphor, it's more common and way longer associated with king cotton.
Venus in the 8th House – Forbidden Love and Hidden Feelings – Astroligion.com
I’d argue that A. and B. aren’t necessarily problems. After all, if it’s hard to quantify and empirically measure, wouldn’t the hypothetical standards be arbitrary?

I’ll speak from personal experience: the most effective psychotherapy treatment I’ve received is very “unconventional,” with emphases on philosophy, meditation, and physical activity in nature. Those experiences have hugely impacted me in positive ways.

When an entity doesn’t know how to standardize or effectively certify, but does so anyway, we get quack systems as a result.
this is pretty fun. Seems like it's in the same vein as the libraries that let you convert video to ascii to play in terminal. No real-world use but they're a nice display of skill and definitely make you smile.
> it’s also banning meat (but not fish) from all corporate events on the grounds
Security vulnerability articles are often good. You get an in depth look at a piece of technology and problem solving related to it.

Announcements of company shutdowns can be interesting. The posts themselves tend not to be informative, but the comments can be quite insightful. There are almost always customers who chime in.

I'd fully ignore hype of the moment topics like cryptocurrencies or AI. Good articles on these subjects exist, but they are drowned out by noise.
In R&D scenarios, NoSQL wins hands down because devs are jamming schema changes hourly. That level of frequency in a relational model is a massive drag on time and it’s wasted.

If it’s a redevelopment of a well-known domain, depending on reporting requirements, I’d slightly side with relational.

But AWS DynamoDB can be a huge cost savings, so as any good architect will say, “It depends.”
Is partition intolerance the only piece of the three that disproves it? I'm curious to know more about how partition intolerance is handled.
> quite probably not this century.

That's extremely optimistic.

We might not need it during this administration, but surely we'll need it in less than fifty years.
Applies to journalism, not only HN comments.
>Vikas Jain, Micromax’s cofounder, was not concerned when I brought this up to him. “Our target customers are Indians who are buying their first smartphone, or people who are upgrading to their first smartphone from a feature phone,” he told me in a phone interview. “These people aren’t really bothered about how fast the processor is, or how clear and rich the display is. Their needs are a lot more...basic, and as long as they get decent battery life, a decent camera, and a basic internet surfing experience, they are satisfied.”

A market ripe for disruption.
Just past experience. In the end, the low data retention time was the real reason Kinesis didn't fit our needs, but the difference in write performance between the two was pretty stark. Read performance was fine for what we needed.
This bit me the other day, ordered a Ubiquiti UAP-AC-HD and got the Pro model instead. Returned it and ordered off eBay for a bit over $100, figure if I'm going to deal with fakes, might as well snag a deal.
Same, I often feel that therapy is filling in a gap that really should be filled by friends and communities. Therapists at least have the training to not tell depressed people to cheer up, though.
That's my big problem with the whole "free" repair. If I send in my computer, what do I get back? Will it have some fix that prevents future problems or will I be SOL in a couple of weeks when one of the keys fails again?

> In my case, they are sending out to have the top case replaced. Can’t speak for others, but they’re not just kicking the can down the road.

They built the thing so they have no real option other the replacing the whole top case. The in store repair is blowing air into the keyboard and hoping it fixes it.