skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is a critique of a therapy repeatedly proven empirically superior in it's efficacy to other non-pharmacological approaches."

Well, that's the question isn't it? Has it really been proven to be superior, or is it just scientistic, reductionist hype that is championed by insurers, governments, and societies that values cheap, quick, superficial bandaids instead of potentially more expensive approaches that might actually require a long, hard look at the depths of your own self.

"I say this as a huge advocate, and student of, Jung, Freud, Adler and the rest."

I really wonder about that, considering your later mischaracterization of Jungian therapy.

"But come on, if something helps people who can't leave the house, hold a job, or drive a car function again, without 10 years of 5 session a week therapy, how can you ethically justify attacking it this way."

But does it help them? That is the key question. You clearly seem to think so. Not everyone agrees.

"CBT attempts to change negative thoughts and maladaptive behavior by addressing thoughts and behavior. Jungian therapy attempts to help people integrate elements of their psyche carried over from previous lives, an inherited collective psyche (yes Jung was a Nazi)."

First, it's not like Jungian psychology does not "address thoughts and behavior". It does. It just has a different understanding of what the causes of these thoughts and behaviors are, what they mean, and how and when to change them.

Second, to say that "Jungian therapy attempts to help people integrate elements of their psyche carried over from previous lives" makes it sound like Jungian therapy is based on a belief in reincarnation. This is false.

"an inherited collective psyche"

This is more accurate. Humans inherit certain instincts, such as the sucking instinct a baby exhibits when presented with a nipple. Human brain structure is partially an inherited characteristic. Jungians argue that there are psychological instincts that are also inherited.

For instance, an image of a breast might trigger certain feelings and behavior in an infant. The image of an infant might trigger certain feelings and behavior in a mother.

The actual theory of such "archetypes" the "collective unconscious" is actually much more complex. Entire books, in fact many, many books have been written on these subjects. So the above should not be taken as even an adequate summary, much less an exhaustive account of what they're about.

"Jung was a Nazi"

This is troubling and problematic, but not really relevant to the question of whether Jungian therapy works. It's even less relevant to the question of whether CBT works.
> Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever.

Really?

Both are publicly traded companies whose role is to make money for shareholders. I don't see how it's possible to transcend this.
You know there's a Tech Bubble
... data analysts now use a fancier title -- data scientists
The Dark Side of C++

http://www.fefe.de/c++/c%2b%2b-talk.pdf
Roald Dahl was a genius of grotesque.

What makes this chapter so brilliant is the language. It's a marvel of charm and wit, without a word to spare. If it weren't playful it would just be horrid, but playfully horrid is another thing altogether.

"We’ve got to use one or two schoolmasters occasionally or it wouldn’t work."
This is something I've thought about in the last year or two as well. We have a culture of "buy", not "fix". In part, this is because we've had a very rich 60 years. In part, this is because things are cheap. In part, because factories design things that are not designed for repair by customers.

The reality is, we can't fix a busted capacitor, a scratched CD, or a damaged microchip. Nor do we have the equipment and spare materials ready to hand to weld cracked plastic. Super Glue is it, and not a very good it.

Whereas, we can fix wood, and with some work, manage metal. Earth can be munged around.

Cars are designed to be maintained, unlike computer hardware (especially our Macs :-( ).

So in a culture where by the nature of the things we use, we can not trivially repair them - we leave off the ideas of repair, and prefer the idea of replace.

This is a problem, because we are more than consumers, more than robots being pipe-fed from the wells of other people's industry.

H.G. Wells' conception of the time traveller always hangs around in my head when this sort of discussion arises.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine
Eclipse has an emacs mode built in.
4 sessions a week is always excessive. It's not that people don't need the help -- it's just that you need more time to process information.
There's an easier way to do this on Twitter - I just have a private "friends" list on that has everyone I actually care about following on a day-to-day basis. I can follow tons of people, but I only regularly read tweets on that list.
This was true 10 years ago but a lot has changed and it's fairly damning evidence of just how much the US has stood still on Internet access in the last decade.

Consider iiNet, Australia's third largest ISP:

http://www.iinet.net.au/broadband/plans.html

200GB/month ADSL2+ for $50/month (+$30/month "phone tax"). In NY I have Time Warner Cable 50Mbps but it's basically capped at 250GB and I think I pay $80/month for it.

But there are three important advantages Australia has in this regard:

1. The caps are known and advertised. In the US they are far more surreptitious;

2. You get what you pay for. If you pay for 200GB, you get 200GB. There is no hiding behind "fair use" or nebulous definitions of "unlimited". This also means that a low traffic user can pay as little as $30/month for their ADSL2+ connection. Nor do you get labelled a bandwidth hogged and get transferred to some incredibly oversubscribed network if you dare to download (common practice in the UK); and

3. If you wish, you can pay for and get 1TB+/month. Where I am, my only choices are TWC and crappy ADSL1 providers. If I wanted >250GB/month I couldn't get it.

And all this is the current system. Australia is in the early stages of rolling out FTTH (fibre to the home) for ~95% of the population with structural separation between providing wholesale and retail services.

So I wouldn't be too quick to crow about Internet advantages in the US over Australia (or anywhere really).
I'd say the possibility of recreating smallpox from custom oligos hinges on this: Is RNA polymerase one of the proteins that smallpox requires from its own genes, or would someone be able to use stock bacterial polymerases to recreate its full suite of proteins?
Easy Website Builder for Beginners.
4x8 grid of bits in 10+ square centimeters?

They should go to the Philippines and find the ~60 year old women who would have been girls in the late '60s to show them how to thread core memory densely!
I wonder how solid the 3% rent appreciation is on average. Every place I've rented the rent has either stayed the same or, in one instance, decreased. Never stayed anywhere longer than 4 years, so I'm sure I get a dose as a new tenant, I just wonder how bad it is.
One way is to commit to using emacs for everything, now, and then slowly 'dig your way out'.
It's not very heavily moderated, but it does have moderators that can be summoned with the report buttons.

One of the first things you learn on SA is to "grow a thicker skin", because there aren't enough moderators with sufficient time to stop users from ganging up on some people and giving them a hard time. And as a result, moderators also allow a harsher tone.

The moderators are vital, but I wouldn't say that they are moderating heavily.

It does show the relevance of communities like SA versus random gatherings of visitors that most comment systems on websites constitute.
I was happy to help. Very sorry I couldn't do more when you asked. :) (And it means a great deal more that (it seems) you registered an account just to say this!)
Think about how many great discussions there are here, or in the best threads on Slashdot, Reddit, and plenty of other places. So it seems to me there are plenty of great comments that help people think, learn, grow, etc. True, there are plenty of comments that aren't so great ... so one way to look at "reinventing comments" is to how to magnify what's good and minimize the "get you angry" factor and other downsides.
Good question. Presumably, a corporation cannot pick and choose to act as a single entity in one regard and as multiple independent companies in another. But I'm not sure either how it really works. Would be interesting to hear from an accountant or tax lawyer.

[Edit] There's an article in the WSJ by John Chambers of Cisco and Safra Catz of Oracle on the issue:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870446900457553...
Getting rid of a key in my pocket would be a big win. Once the lock can be controlled via the Internet, it would enable things like location sensing (so my door would unlock for me, or whatever)

I would love this to replace my Volvo key. It's as big as the iPhone (kidding - but, it is big)
Self-Doubt: The Unspoken Truth of Founding a Startup
I agree with you. MS and SAP would be a pretty formidable force.

Having said that, MS continue to make very good strides in the business market but they still need to play in the consumer market.
He sure has a lot of confidence on how successful Google would be with Skype but that doesn't really jive with reality.

Google's only successful home grown products are Search and Gmail. Android and Youtube are the most successful acquisitions. Voice, Double-Click, and Analytics are doing ok, and then there are about three dozen failures. It is ok to fail but people shouldn't pretend everything Google touches turns to gold. Skype probably has just as much chance as succeeding with Microsoft as it does with Google.
When I try to call land lines in New Zealand, I consistently get an extremely poor connection.

You get that talk delay which can totally ruin conversation flow.

The internet in NZ pretty bad but it surely can't be that bad. It's kinda made me think about putting on tin foil hat and think there's some kind of Telecom [monopoly telecoms company in nz] shady service degradation going on.
Oh! This is great!! Will do a post. Tried it and BAM! Great.

EDIT: One suggestion. Possible to separate into search for print (Amazon) and search for eBook (Kindle Store)? I mostly search for Kindle editions, as does most of my audience.

EDIT 2: Post up: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/new-amazon-search-...
It's a great point that there aren't any obvious examples in the US of large heterogenous groups with good comments. That said I also am not aware of any attempt to do even Slashdot-like crowdsourced voting (including explanation of reasons for voting, meta-moderation) at scale, or to take the next step and provide a richer user experience to make it easy for users to be able to filter out what they don't want do see.
I posted this link yesterday - it is a well-written expose on a massive engineering product, that I didn't know anything about.
Lanyrd solves a real-world problem and Twitter is a great choice of enabling platform. Why the short-sighted critique? I'm appalled at the response that Simon and Nat have received on this site, given that they've taken the time to involve themselves in this community.
I'm not so sure. I agree that weasel words can destroy a piece of writing, but a complete lack of them can come off badly too. The main effect of killing the qualifiers in your writing is increasing the confidence in the tone of the piece. Obviously, we all have different levels of confidence in our many different opinions, and if you stop using qualifiers all together, you lose the ability to distinguish between different points on the confidence continuum.

If I write with the same confidence about two opinions I have, one I am vey sure of and one I am doubtful about, then I have failed to communicate well. Furthermore, writing in a way that expresses complete confidence in your opinions can change the tone of the conversation that it sparks. When you qualify your opinions, you signal that you are more willing to discuss that point. Speaking with complete surety can shut down a comment thread or turn it more antagonistic.
Compiler speed/memory use are generally entirely irrelevant with embedded stuff. If you're natively building on your tiny target instead of cross compiling from your beefy workstation, you're doing it wrong.

No, for the very real issues with C++ in small installations, you will have to look at the language itself.
GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP
It's probably important to remember that money is not the only way to pay people --- I work at a job with low pay, but completely flexible hours, and for me, that benefit is worth twice the salary.
I know it's a no-content comment, but: Thank You. I didn't know I had been waiting for this. But oh, I had :)
Are you saying that you can do better type analysis in C# than in Haskell?
Ask HN: Web Security as a Service-Are you using, or working on it?
Developing or working on this seems like this should be an engineer's dream- Handling large amount of traffic,huge logs for statistical analysis,working and knowing core web fundamentals,solving a real world pain point,and a no-brainer subscription based revenue model.Why hasn't this become mainstream yet?Is it just because no one has made big bucks in this alley?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2135132

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134634

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1435946
Eclipse has a set of Emacs key bindings, but it's hard for me to use because I have muscle memory of features that don't exist in Eclipse (prefix arguments, buffer manipulation, and so on). The Emacs+ plugin is better, but I honestly prefer to use the normal bindings rather then get tripped up repeatedly by fake Emacs.
Really? You could make life expectancy go up in much of the world with nothing more than clean water. But is that healthcare?
Thanks!

I'll definitely add that feature.

EDIT: Feature added.
The main reason that American times in memory events has improved over the past few years (besides more people spending more time and effort) is that we have started using the more advanced techniques of the Europeans. We have gone from one two-digit image per location to the 3 two-digit numbers per location PAO method of Dominic O'Brien to the 4 two-digits per location of Ben Pridmore.
It's a shame that anthrax gets so much press, simply because of the (small) potential for weaponization. In spite of the fact that it doesn't easily spread between people. I've heard it's almost impossible to get approved to work with it, and when you do, every move you make is scrutinized.
Key point: The Mississippi would rather not go through New Orleans anymore, it only does so because the Corp of Engineers forces it to. That apparatus is about to get a severe test.
I don't know about that. It's not like people aren't "processing information" either during or after the therapy sessions.

And is 4 sessions a week really "excessive"?

Remember that most therapy sessions are only 1 hour long (sometimes as little as 45 minutes, or even 30 minutes long).

It can feel very rushed to have to cram a description of and then a discussion of everything significant that's happened to you in the course of a full week in to just 1 hour of therapy, especially if you are going through a very rough time where there's a lot going on (both external and internal).

That's why many therapists prefer "intensive therapy" (ie. more frequent or perhaps longer sessions) for people going through a crisis, and then advise less frequent sessions as their lives stabilize.

That said, I think 1 hour per week is the norm in most types of therapy. 4 hours per week is relatively unusual.
why didnt HN engine recognized this?
Ask HN: Who are working on young open-source projects? (or know such?)
I mean projects that just started recently and are not so popular.

I am working on a flexible discussion platform for open-source projects. If you are interested, could you please drop me a few lines at vladimir@tagmask.com
I think it's interesting to compare Greenspun's attitude to Mike Rowe's recent Senate testimony about the lack of skilled workers in the trades in the US. Greenspun thinks that going to Home Depot and pulling weeds clutters the mind and prevents us from writing novels and building empires. Mike Rowe wishes that we weren't a nation of people who just left a check on the counter for the plumber.

I rented for years, and not being able to fix stuff when it broke (without losing the investment when we moved) drove me crazy. I feel a strong desire to maintain my own home, even though I know I'd do better financially hiring cheap labor to do the work while I go make money faster building an empire.
You could go the Google Chrome Web Store route.
This looks amazing! Going to test it right now!
What's alarming about this is that it's suggestive of attacks that will work in many PaaS environments and allow an attacker who's hired service for one deployment to escape to the hypervisor and take control of systems deployed by other customers. A compromised hypervisor is Decartes evil genius. Except without the interest in deluding you about your own existence.
Best of luck Ben, I know you'll make it. You're awesome bud.
For a good discussion on this subject check out roythunder's AMA over at reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gt0l1/i_have_a_cs_degr...

He runs one of the slickest sites tube sites out there.
Hibari (http://hibariapp.com/) is another native OS X client with muting (and, in my opinion, a nicer interface than YoruFukurou.)
Do what you love, but don't be a bum
MFTL: My favorite toy language
Super cool, this is the kind of neat stuff that happens when programmers have hobbies apart from programming. Love it.
Young people? Probably not many anymore. Elderly, or people who've got a decade+ invested in a large company? Tons will stay put for 10-15 years or longer... (hah, self fulfilling prophecy - if you CANT sell, you'll stay longer too).
From a publisher's point of view, it has a lot to do with anonymity. Ever try to block a determined troll?
Will Paul Graham run for President of the USA?
Not for the upcoming election, but how about in ten years? I'm actually somewhat serious with this speculation. He seems to fit all the requirements and more. Good speaker and writer, charismatic, financially very successful and he even went to the same school as the current president.

This might be a short spring, but right now it seems like he is helping to innovate a new age economy and together with his Essays and the HN Community he is an idol for a whole new generation of aspiring people. Some of those people might someday be very rich and influential.

The success of YC seems exponential right now. So when will someone suggest this to PG and how will he decide?
What happens when those companies downsize or outsource their jobs? They can't move and they don't want to learn new skills. If anyone thinks that because they've had the same job for 10 years they're going to have it for the next 10, I'd say they're crazy. (Having been through layoffs a couple times in the last decade.)
First international flight for solar powered airplane
Burson-Marsteller Caught Deleting Facebook Criticism
Thanks for clarifying! I used Steam when it came out but didn't know about this feature.
Hahahahahahahaha. I don't know why but the idea tickles me. Can you imagine an actual tech entrepreneur in charge. Flying cars and logic.

Probably best to have more effect by doing great work instead of managing a country.
More good videos and stories can be found here: http://www.solarimpulse.com/blog/
Humorous how the article recommends the US can take the suggested 5% repatriating tax revenue and use it to give a tax break. So the net repatriating tax revenue to the US government would be 0%? Ah, WSJ.

On the other hand dropping the tax would encourage even more overseas shenanigans, which I guess is burning Microsoft (and presumably Oracle and Cisco) for not thinking ahead, forcing them to pass on valuable domestic investments and overpay for less valuable overseas investments.
Sure there are benefits. The keys are backed up remotely and you have access off-premises. If anything goes wrong, presumably you can call up tech support and they can access the system without your opening ports on your router or messing with a firewall. It could make administration (and reliability) much better.

They may not be benefits that you want, but they're the benefits that Lockitron are stressing.

(Personally, I'm happy with a key and, FWIW, my parents don't run their own control panel on their Vodafone local cell-network box - they call up the service people and they access the box remotely. So I can happily agree with your comparison too, if you like.)
There's like.. hundreds starting each minute. You might wish to be a tiny bit more specific.
How is that not possible today?
that's exactly right and correct. any language can be screwed up without descipline, and understanding of the solution trying to be implemented. me for example, put comments in code that what direction of design, execution path is taken to correct less efficient idioms. so, at a later time, new code can be added with some direction. this prevents the urge to copy and paste by the new guy.

coding guidelines are also to include programming idioms, primitives, to use and build the solution around it.

for c++, c and others i wrote many of guidelines, and seeing the benefit later i can say the above.
you missed out the steps: ??? and Profit!
Thanks for sneaking a grok in there. HN just wouldn't be the same without hipster buzzwords!
mojuba, I have to thank you for that link. I confess that I had never read that document prior to today. The thing that I like most about it is that he leaves it open ended.

He doesn't pretend to have all of the answers but rather invites the reader to embark on a thought exercise. Ignoring the question of comparing languages, that is an excellent example of how to write concerning this type of topic.

On comparing languages, I have to say that comparing languages based on power does make sense - with power defined as programmer productivity. From this perspective, I can understand your view on Java.

But is it the language itself that is to blame or the spaghetti code that all too often results from inexperienced users? I recall that the JRuby team has done some interesting things within the limitations of the Java language.

Note: To those who down-voted the original comment, I did not think that the down-voting is the most optimum solution for when you have a different perspective on an issue. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to chime into the discussion and increase everyone's knowledge with your perspective on the issue? This type of thing is why I have to ignore votes and just try to learn.