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What you're talking about is called suicidal ideation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_ideation. (Google those keywords to learn more.)

I have dealt with this issue for 20 years. The first 10 years, I thought I was going to die. But I've learned to lower my suicidal ideation levels tremendously by trial and error.

It was reassuring for me to learn from a psychologist friend that (A) suicidal ideation is the "lowest rung on the ladder of risk", so to speak, in terms of the risk of actually killing yourself. The next rungs on the ladder are: (B) deciding to kill yourself, (C) deciding when to kill yourself, and (D) deciding how to kill yourself. With that said, if you go up a rung, you're in trouble and need to escalate your remedies.

In my experience, if you are sure you are not capable of committing suicide and/or do not want to, it's possible to live a long time with suicidal ideation, although it sucks.

Here are some tips:

* Stop drinking if you lose control of yourself while drunk, especially if you're a sad drunk. Or at least limit the number of drinks you consume.

* Suicidal ideation is a symptom of depression, which is an mechanism that evolved to tell us that our body/mind is thinking: "I don't like something about your life and you need to change it." Focus on changing those somethings.

* You are allowed to have "bad thoughts" like "I am so depressed". However, you cannot allow yourself to have "bad thoughts about bad thoughts" or what I call "meta thoughts". In other words, you can't think "I am so depressed that I'm still depressed." Meta thoughts lead to bad thought spirals which increases suicidal ideation.

* Exercise does not ameliorate this condition for me, but it may for you, try it?

* Reduce the amount of stress in your life. This definitely contributes to depression. But really, you need to figure out why your body/mind is rebelling against you. If you're trapped in a bad job/relationship, you need to fix that.

* Watch this video to learn about the three levels of happiness: http://blog.sokanu.com/building-a-happiness-framework-in-you...

* Like me, you probably have a very low positive affect (don't smile a lot naturally, aren't bubbly/happy). Focus on spending as much time in Flow (the second level) as possible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs

Good luck!
Workspaces are such an obviously great idea that it astounds me that Windows and Mac OS X still don't have them (I guess Mac OS X has a functional equivalent as of Leopard or Snow Leopard, if you squint right, but I find it less intuitive and I use it less even after months of having it available on my hackintosh). Given that they've been a part of X Windows window managers for a couple of decades, it's just astonishing that they've never made an appearance as a standard feature of other windowing systems.

This, of course, isn't a new feature in GNOME 3, and so I guess it's not really relevant, but I just felt like ranting about the one thing that I think the Linux desktop has always had such a clear lead on, and that until you've used it you don't even know how much it sucks to not have it.
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Please put an e-mail in your profile. If you don't want to be identified use something like hushmail.

I'm certain there are many people here that can relate to your problems, but most of them might not want to speak up in a public forum about these issues and may prefer to contact you privately.

There was a somewhat similar post a few months back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937430) where the submitter was urged to set up an e-mail for private conversations. I think it might have helped him/her to talk to othe HN'ers in private.
Which is fine, but if you have to do that for all the traffic analysis firms you add lots of JavaScript beacons to your page, slowing it down a lot.

They need to start working with companies like Google to use Analytics as a clearing house.

Then you get issues with what and how people are instrumenting. For example, if you instrument a carrousel you'll get a lot of page "loads" which don't necessarily correspond to page loads or ad impressions.
I think Beaker has been the Python standard for a while now (at least in non Django land). I would also recommend checking out Werkzeug in general, although its scope is a bit different than Beaker.
Exercise helps, the more intense the better.
I tried it a few weeks ago, and I must say it is pretty impressive, hard to use (but not harder than Matlab the first time you use its signal processing system). Give it a try and test the examples!
Interestingly enough, 10 point "employees" can and do have trouble differentiating themselves. MIT Ph.D. admission, for instance, is rather selective. There is much research available demonstrating that there is a huge qualitative difference between consummate achievers and great minds. Unfortunately, most businesses and schools have far too many applications for employment and need some easy metric to reduce the set to something approachable. I'm not suggesting a blind hire of the top guy. I'm trying to provide a more relevant metric than current exists. Any other system I've seen in play is easy to game -- or hard to game, but in gaming it, you're becoming the opposite of what the company/school is seeking.

Further, "what's in it for the employee" doesn't enter into it. I could easily say: famousactress is rated as 8.34 for her dramatic performances but only at 5.21 in comedic roles. That has nothing to do with your willing participation. I agree that it's depressing to be considered sub-par. But, there are so many people trying desperately to stand out that they're losing their way.

Google can't hire the right sort of people because every metric they have attempted to date has resulted in honest, dependable, clean-cut, recently-shaven, knowledgeable CS graduates from top universities. Sadly, they're trying to expand a business built (like so many other startups) by the ideas of college drop-outs (or similar), who were too busy doing something interesting to go to class and get good grades. Those interesting things aren't bragging rights (level 80 character in each class and each faction on WoW appears on very few resumes).

If I attach my HN information, you might disagree with my positions and opinions. I'd miss out on the job based upon personal bias -- maybe I should. But, you'll notice my karma here is _very_ low. I suppose that seems justified since you're not on board with this concept. But, is it? Reddit is commonly gamed. If I had an outrageous karma score, would you think highly of me or consider me a karma whore?

Well, you might say, you'd simply read my posts. Great! Now, consider you have a highly coveted position and 10,000 applicants. You can only read the posts of about 20 applicants. Do you take the top 20 highest scores? What if the 21st highest was actually the best fit? Well, then you blame your metric. The reason you blame your metric is because people will game their karma scores to reduce their competition to only 20 other people who were busily whoring karma and not building necessary job skills. At the same time, you can't deal with 10,000 resumes. You need a metric that's not easily gamed and that's as representative as possible of an individual's skills.

Just like I can tag you in a photo on Facebook without your consent, this site would allow me to rate your skills as an actress and as a programmer. My opinion of your acting skill is pretty much worthless (whether it's good or bad); my opinion of your programming skill is more significant -- but I'm not going to single-handedly make you or break you.
I think the way Apple handled the antenna issue was dumb, but I think that Schumer's open letter is even more dumb. That being said, there is the (admittedly very slim) possibility that he is perhaps representing his constituents, rather than acting selfishly.

There are still about a bazillion more important things to get senatorial over though.
Don't be alone- suck up your pride and your pain and make sure you're never alone. And don't be afraid to call a bunch of people you've never talked to in a while: it's just laziness and the disconnectedness of modern life, they're still your friends.

Don't stay up late by yourself, sleep immediately or go somewhere where you /aren't alone/.
I second everyone else's advice to find support with a professional. It's definitely the "best" solution, but I've not had great experiences with that and maybe you're in the same boat.

If there is someone, a family member or significant other that you trust, be sure to tell them how you are feeling. When you are in a dark place, it's easy to get tunnel vision. They may not be able to "fix it" the way a professional can, but they may be able to help you along and give you the perspective you need.

There is a book "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" which has been great for me and my husband. Basically, you find out which profile fits you, and then it gives you specific advice for how to improve yourself. When I was reading my own profile, and that of my husbands, I was like yes, yes that's it! It was like it was describing us personally. And we had already learned through self-study some of the benefits that helped us. But once we saw them reinforced, we know to do them more consciously.
It does get better. I went through the same thing about two years ago, and I'm about to do it again this coming January, so I guess I didn't learn my lesson.

It's totally worth it, though. :)
You should read the article. They considered that.

The correlation is about 67%, and the chance that it might have come about at random is less than one in 10,000. But correlation is not causation, so Mr Eppig and his colleagues tried to eliminate other possible explanations. Previous work has offered income, education, low levels of agricultural labour (which is replaced by more mentally stimulating jobs), climate (the challenge of surviving cold weather might provoke the evolution of intelligence) and even distance from humanity’s African homeland (novel environments could encourage greater intelligence) as explanations for national differences in IQ. However, all of these, except perhaps the last, are also likely to be linked to disease and, by careful statistical analysis, Mr Eppig and his colleagues show that all of them either disappear or are reduced to a small effect when the consequences of disease are taken into account.

There is, moreover, direct evidence that infections and parasites affect cognition. Intestinal worms have been shown to do so on many occasions. Malaria, too, is bad for the brain. A study of children in Kenya who survived the cerebral version of the disease suggests that an eighth of them suffer long-term cognitive damage. In the view of Mr Eppig and his colleagues, however, it is the various bugs that cause diarrhoea which are the biggest threat. Diarrhoea strikes children hard. It accounts for a sixth of infant deaths, and even in those it does not kill it prevents the absorption of food at a time when the brain is growing and developing rapidly.
You've picked the longer road. It's up to you to make it worth it.

There are a number of reasons people circumvent university: Opportunity strikes before graduation, job offers, great ideas that need to get to market first. Whatever motivated you to drop out isn't really as important as what you do next. Meaning this: DON'T WASTE TIME.

If you're serious about being an entrepreneur or hacker, you need to start shipping stuff NOW. By the time your peers graduate in a year or two or three, they will have several summer internships behind them, interesting senior projects and perhaps a few things they built on the side. You need to make sure that you're building not only a portfolio but a strong base of learning in different environments.

You have a couple of logistical problems that many students, don't however:

• Cash flow... Many students have loans or financial aid. You're going to have to figure out how to generate revenue while still building and shipping.

• No systemic support... Many students have access to things like internship placement, job placement, job fairs, etc.. You're going to have to generate your own infrastructure. A few ways you can do this: Network, go to meetups, attend hackathons, etc.

Some things you can do to stay abreast or even move ahead of your peers:

• Get a job (duh) -- harder than it sounds

• Get an internship

• Volunteer for a cool project

• Get involved with an opensource project and start getting commits in

Depending on what you want or think you want to do with your life, location is going to be important. Provo is nice enough but it's not exactly a hub of innovation. I would shy away from living with your parents -- it's only going to make you frustrated and slow you down -- but you have to make that CBA yourself.

Anyway, I wish you luck. You're taking what is likely a harder road, but can be just as or more rewarding than a conventional one.
Excellent rant. I have noticed the exact same problems with PSGI middleware. People end up with apps that depend on middleware that then depend on the app. This serves two purposes: making for a nice blog post about how generic you are (just implement these eight functions inside your app!), and adding bugs.

Just treat web programming like normal programming, and everything becomes simple!
Might be a cultural thing then [1]. I do agree that there are far more women in fashion design and production than men. But I can off the top of my head think of several "fashion startups" with (one or more as far as I know straight) male founders or head designers [2]. Something I can't say about women in technology startups.

[1] Sweden is the home of H&M and also supposedly one of the more gender equal countries in the world.

[2] Acne, WeSC, Odd Molly, J.Lindeberg, Cheap Monday/Weekday, Our Legacy, Peak Performance, Whyred etc.
New parentage and development are a rough combination. I'm on #3 and while the routine is more familiar, the workload increases almost exponentially with each new one, especially when they're spaced close (<18 months apart) together. It will improve, but the OP's ruthless time management tips will serve him and any new parent well.
I had an extremely close friend kill himself just before christmas this year. I found out later that he'd been planning it for quite some time (I'm 24, he was 21).

He seemed fine. He hid his feelings well, and expected people to ask how he was doing. When people did ask him how he was doing, he'd say he was fine, again, expecting people to dig deeper.

He's gone. Forever. I think about him nearly every day and I wish he was here.

You really do have an effect on people, even if you don't think so. You do. If you're gone, people will miss you. They won't just miss you, but they'll be so stricken with grief they might not recover for a long, long time.

Fuck that. Not worth it. Not worth it for yourself or for the people you love and the people who love you.
Even though the simplicity was gnome's mantra, I think xfce did a better job of it ironically.
A VC has a portfolio to balance that risk over. I don't. Asking me to take opportunity risk is fair, but asking me to pony up my savings is a bit much I think.

Not that I wouldn't do it necessarily do it, but I sure as hell wouldn't respect a VC that told me to do it instead of giving me money.
That's completely NOT what he said.

What he said is he is moving out of stocks and into certain startups. He made absolutely no generalizations about startups, and in general they are NOT "safer" than stocks (whatever that even means). Obviously certain startups are far safer than stocks, and vice versa. It's not even a point that makes sense to argue.

The point Lindzon was making was primarily about his feelings that the stock market is rigged based on the performance of the big banks.
Virgin Plans iPad-Only Magazine for Entrepreneurs
Would love to have more insight from you on this.

"Downer" and "demotivational" seem to indicate that you're approaching this from the perspective of an employee. The site does not operate according to the willingness of employees to be evaluated. I am happy to rate my coworkers who are good or bad (in my opinion). I'm happy to be rated by them, my employers, and my peers. Not everyone feels the same way. That's fine. And, yes, there _is_ a cold start problem.

While I'm well aware of the issues with building a useful site (and have many ideas to circumvent them) -- I'm more interested in the perception of the utility of the site were it to exist and have a reasonably large data set.
Thanks! This is what's on my mind when I think I have to play along and don't want to feel bad because of it. It seems like the only way to do it.
The Aeropress is fantastic: it's cheap, easy to use and clean, and portable. It makes fantastic coffee. I'm not an espresso expert, but I think you would have to spend hundreds more to get an espresso machine which can make as good Americano coffee.

Spend a few bucks on a burr grinder, however. I bought a Saeco Titan from Costco some time ago for $70 and have been very happy with it.
This seems like the right sort of site to sell on http://flippa.com/ (it was a site selling board on SitePoint before they spun it off - people have a lot of success there and there are many interested buyers sniffing around)
It's a good idea and I'm listed there but there's not enough people from my country using it (forgot to say I'm from a small country). But I do recommend it mainly to buyers because of the huge selection available!
You're in Adelaide?

I went to an Angles in SA meeting a couple of months back and found them generally clueful.

I do think Renai has some reasonable points, but I think the argument is nuanced that he is stating.

I think Atlassian is a world-class software company, and is looking at the world as a market, not the Australian market. I think than ambition means they needed world class VC.

An Australian IPO remains possible, too. If it could get the $500M+ returns they need then there are advantages to an ASX float.
Yes, well I'm an engineer first and an entrepreneur second. I would love to see the whole world use great technology so everything works better and is easier to extend.

Forgive me for not thinking of my golden parachute first.

P.S., As a Clojure programmer I am actually in demand. I've had the luxury of turning down job offers. I also made a lot of money working on Erlang, and I could still get a job doing that. There is no shortage of these jobs.
Another common misconception is that Wikipedia is a good place to get reliable facts.

A serious question: Do you ever verify citations? Or do you just assume that since there is one, the article is probably correct?
You need to see a therapist that you trust.

Failing that, please please talk to your friends or even just acquaintances!

Finally, http://www.reddit.com/r/suicidewatch is a good resource for you... that's a very caring and useful community.
Benjamin Button tried for something, but is definately not worth watching.
Calexico release live album under creative commons
Calexico: Free stream and download of a 2009 concert from Nuremberg.
Therapy bud. Therapy.
Ah, but the reason three months passes is because it goes by so quickly. It's weird. When you're dealing with a screaming, projectile crapping baby at 3 weeks old, it feels like time is going by at a snail's pace. When you look back in a few months' time, it'll seem like yesterday.

Anyway, if you're able to "separate" from most of the responsibilities, things will be a lot easier. I'm a bit of a sucker for not being seen to be doing my equal share so I kept getting sucked in to menial work, but if you can work away from the home or in a dedicated place and separate your work life from home life, it'd probably be a lot easier than it was for me.
If you quantify, your raw pv numbers are free to you and to everyone else. I believe, but am not sure, that the privacy controls are granular enough to allow you to display eg visitors but not pageviews to the world at large.

visit, eg, http://quantcast.com/gawker.com . Click the dropdown under "Daily Traffic" and select people.
The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation
It's pretty fun though. You get a lot more time when you're forced to just think. Which means when you do get a spare moment to work, you're pretty efficient because you've already worked everything out in your head...

That was my experience anyway :)
ITA's product backing the Orbitz system used Lisp heavily. They were just bought by google for a large sum of money. This isn't cherry picking, this is one of many real world examples you've never bothered to research.

Just because you don't pay attention to something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Definitely. Ultimately the consumer pays less because of this.
Trent Reznor with Atticus Ross are working on the score.
Martin Fowler: Why Agile Works
That's great -- assuming your applicant pool is small. Some employers throw out any application that's not printed on resume paper with the watermark oriented appropriately and an attractive font/style, et cetera.

Are these metrics truly indicative of an individual's skills? No. In fact, many applicants might print their application on hot pink A4 hoping to get noticed (and hoping that attention is positive).

Even with this tool, I'm merely reducing your applicant pool -- not selecting employees for you. My previous company used a few personality profile tests that were very effective in identifying people who'd work well at the company and with one another. That's not really the point, though. The point is determining who is a good Java developer and who isn't. Most recruiters I've dealt with know only buzz words and can't differentiate between well-qualified candidates and those who "used Oracle 10g to port BSD to J2EE over XSLT."

If your preference for UI engineers leans one way or another, the system would make appropriate corrections to the recommendations. Rather than getting a UI engineer who needs to work closely with a back-end developer and visual designer -- one who can pretty much only manage CSS and Flash work -- you can get results that include people who are more comfortable with the MVC framework, can handle templating in various languages, hates action script, can sling javascript in their sleep, and has a keen eye for visual design.

I'm not offering a one-stop, all-inclusive solution. I'm merely suggesting a method by which to intelligently and functionally reduce applicant pools to something the HR department can handle.
There are still many more brilliant and powerful ideas from Common Lisp that have not been adopted, despite being demonstrably superior. Hopefully everyone else can catch up so your pronouncement of Lisp's death can be made true.

Want an example? Condition handlers and restarts; no one else does this as well as Common Lisp did in the early 90's.
Google vs. World: 79 Places Google is Being Sued or Blocked (Map)
to anyone who's phone I tried to run www.tweetplugs.com on and said it didn't work - apologies. There was a breaking change in the new google caja lib which bust it. Its back working so if you want to play noughts and crosses on twitter, go for it!
Thanks for setting me straight on this.
Chess has pawn promotions; Super Mario has coins, points, and extra lives. Both have "winning." All of these are displayed to your friends in the room.
P.S. If you do see a psychologist, go to a psychologist who uses "positive psychology": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman#Positive_psycho....

Freudian/Yungian take a "mental illness model" approach that doesn't work for people like us, I believe. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other approaches are much more effective, in my opinion.

You should also read Martin Seligman's books (Learned Optimism and What You Can Change and What You Can't) as well, and Dan Gilbert's new book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumbling_on_Happiness