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I'm thankful someone wrote this. I've been seeing a lot of people talking about how depressed and/or suicidal and inadequate they feel quite frequently around here lately. Hell, even I've done some of that talking as I've been there recently too.

The part at the end where he says they will listen is huge. Never underestimate how much someone simply listening can really help. Also, talking to a sympathetic stranger is often more helpful or even easier than talking to someone you know.

I always wondered why so many people around here get to feeling this way and I've narrowed it down to a few things. First, startups are hard, they're often lonely, and burnout can creep up on you without you noticing. Burnout can really make you feel worthless. Then there are those who feel inadequate because they're reading all these stories about successful and smart people solving hard problems and making it big while they feel small, stupid, and inconsequential. There's a strong success bias in the submissions here and other places people like us peruse which can lead to strong feelings of worthlessness and self doubt.

I've been there and I understand so well all of these things. I often wish I had a clone that just repeated what I tell myself whenever my negative voice starts nagging: Baby steps, you can't know it all or be it all and you certainly can't conquer the world in a week. No matter what anyone else is saying or doing out there, in the end we're all human, we're all going through the same things and we all feel the same way at one point or another. It gets better.

Thanks for writing this and extra thanks for including those toll free lines.
It is probably this: http://www.chron.com/news/article/APNewsBreak-Facebook-aims-...

(I work at Facebook, but am not involved in this feature.)
Those of you who are simply enjoying the bleeps and bloops should drop by a music store and buy yourselves a Monotron (or two!) for Christmas. $60 each and you can download the circuit diagrams from Korg, who has designed them to be hackable.

http://www.korg.com/monotron
OK. I'm able to log in after using the reset password feature which is a bit weird since the signup failed.
No, I'm comparing working at a place where your rights are secured by law to a place where they aren't or it's not clear what rights you have, hence the nanny example.

"There is no way Blueseed is going to make money on this by using commodity labor."

I think this is exactly what they have in mind, otherwise why not just build/buy someplace near SF. Or if it's the ship idea that attracts the "best and the brightest" why not just park it somewhere on the shore near the city, why does it have to in international waters. The only explanation I can come up is that they will use cheap Asian and Indian labor. If you have an alternate explanation, I would like to read it.
Looks really good, how are you going to handle the different prices for other tlds? Will you be adding .co.uk?
May I quote you?
I understand where you're coming from, but we sometimes seem to forget that pretty much everything these guys say on stage is made-up material.

Of course, some might be based on fact, but let's not assume whatever he says happened to him did happen to him, or even happen at all!

Did you watch that interview about his "everything is amazing and nobody's happy" bit? He said that the bitchy guy "sitting next to him" in the plane was actually him!
Nice looking site. FYI, I had some trouble with the search box and backspace not working on my older iPhone (iOS 3.1.3).
How much are you offering? I know an experienced ruby dev in New Orleans who'd be reluctant to relocate, but everybody has a price.
We've used SpyFu before. How is this different/better?
Exactly. It's a website that costs less than $5 to use, and its an immensely useful website.
How do you know these (other people, radio, etc) aren't as distracting? Is there any research?
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If I was willing to use vim (or emacs, nyellin) for my daily editing needs I wouldn't be comparing TextMate to Sublime and listing missing features in the latter :-)

Besides, I knew about the vi trick you referenced, but it often screws up something with the terminal, causing all sorts of issues. Admittedly I didn't try it again since moving to iTerm (I'm suspecting a terminal.app issue), mainly because I have a working solution (TextMate).

It's just that weren't it not for this sudo-feature, I would really prefer sublime (I bought both, by the way, in order to support their respective authors)
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Cave Story+ is an updated-engine version of what is probably the most famous indie game of all time that basically started the modern indie games movement. It would not be unreasonable to say it's one of the best action/platformer games ever made -- a completely indie Metroidvania game that's better than most similar games from major publishers despite being made entirely by one person in his spare time.

Jamestown is a completely awesome arcade-style danmaku shooter inspired by CAVE games and Touhou -- but unlike some recent poor attempts to emulate these styles (e.g. Deathsmiles), it adds loads of creativity of its own, like its so-absurd-it's-hilarious storyline and setting. It was worth every cent on launch, and now you can get it for way less with a half dozen other games included.

This might be the best Humble Bundle yet just because of these two.
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Don't use your responsibilities as a reason to hang in there. There are better reasons to stay. You have your whole life ahead of you. I know that sometimes in all the craziness of life you can forget why you're still here but the reason is simply to live. I read a post here a few weeks ago about a guy who saved up a few dollars, got out of his home and just travelled the world for a few months. He worked on some projects while he was away but his main goal was simply to get out there and see the world. I thought it was beautiful and a reminder as to why we're really here.

Get a change of scenery. Do something you've never done before or have always wanted to. Remind yourself why you're alive. I promise there's more than a few excellent reasons to stay here (as in alive). You just lost sight of them, that's all.

Edit: I'd like to add that divorce is very close to the top of the most stressful events a person can ever experience and I think it even trumps a death in the family if I remember right. It's normal for you to feel so defeated because of this but always remember that this bad state is not permanent.
It definitely seems to be more complete over the others. One thing I love about it is the fact that it's pretty open to use newer API calls, it'll just let them pass through, so you don't have to wait for the Gem to be updated to use the new functionality.
What a sweet deal for Comedy Central! They've convinced everybody that somehow there's no money to pay them, they'll just have to do it for free. That sounds suspiciously convenient.
Great, simple UI. I like the domain searching, as well as the X, checkmark and + symbols/table. DNS updated quickly. WHOIS made private by default :-)

"APP" installation is a neat automation.
Given HN's growth, I wouldn't be surprised if new members did vastly outnumber older members. Power laws and all that.
I very much doubt they want to stop people using GPS, although I might be wrong. The key word here is 'portable'; if you have your phone installed in a holder such that it's in the same place for quick glances, then those glances are no more of a safety risk than the quick glances you take at the speedometer or other dashboard controls.

I think they're less worried about electronic devices as such, than by people futzing with them while they're supposed to be driving. If you set your destination at the beginning of the journey and merely look at the GPS screen occasionally, there's very little cognitive overhead. It's when you have to interact with the device and divide your attention between the different tasks of operating the device UI and operating the vehicle that you become highly distractable.
I think you might like this:

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/WhatIs/Infinity/9999.shtml
no cross platform support = no interest. If you only ever use a mac, textmate is awesome. However, having to use a different editor in every OS is just ridiculous. Thankfully Sublime Text 2 is around.
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Key : 61803398874
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No, not unless you say you're about to kill yourself.
Apple's founding document fetches $1.35 million at Sotheby's [brief text; video]
I think the key issue is that there's something about computer programmers that makes them think they already understand economics. I'm not sure what. Maybe that it seems like it should be self evident because "it's just numbers" or something.

And yet, some of the facile comments you read and hear and I will cut the fingers off the next person who tells me we should go back to the gold standard, because at least gold has a value...
Sure, the VCs know how to take care of themselves, but what about the risk of putting your employees underwater?
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Always remember that by suicide you are not only really killing yourself but also the awesome being that is inside you (Yes the voice in your head).LISTEN TO IT.DONT KILL IT.IT KNOWS THE ANSWERS ALREADY

Dont look outward for satisfaction and happiness.TRUE AND FULFILLING HAPPINESS ALWAYS COMES FROM THE INSIDE.

Also there is this awesome plant called Marijuana to help you talk to your inner being if you guys are not friends anymore!
Just to add a more optimistic note here: I had a severe suicidal depression a couple of years ago, and managed to completely recover from it by learning something new, which is one of the things that always lifts my spirits: web development. I am now in the process of starting my first startup and feel very happy about my life.

(I took antidepressants btw, don't be scared to take pills - they very often help and am convinced they made a difference for me)

So, if you are feeling depressed and learning new things tends to get you excited, consider dropping everything that is bringing you down (I started ignoring my job pretty much and got fired eventually, but it saved my life so I have no regrets), consider learning something new!
We use campfire to do 90% of our conversation even with our team all in house. It helps kick off conversations, save them for later and keep everyone in the team on the same page. I think before you start hiring remote talent you need to build in that communication strategy to your core team.

Very much agree that in-person bonding, whether working side by side or having a beer, are important. If you do have a remote team- try to build in time for the whole team to be in a single office every other month at least.
instead they'd better mandate the ultrasound radar in front of the vehicle, similar to parking sensor in the rear, yet with additional chip that would take the speed (and direction of the turn if any) into account to calculate the distance for sound&visual warning to the driver. A cheap solution to so many traffic accidents i see regularly on my commute on 101.
Cannot easily uninstall an "APP", but have to delete all records manually (perhaps at least group them?). Side bar doesn't update immediately once DNS entries removed and "APP" uninstalled (chrome).
> Yet iTunes has been a huge success because people either do not realize this or because the few extra steps is not worth the effort.

Please be careful attributing the success of iTunes to DRM.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay:

- Steve Jobs said that Apple didn't want to use DRM but was forced to by the music labels, who wouldn't provide the music w/o DRM.

- Apple announced in Jan 2009 iTunes was moving to DRM-free music.
> Do you have a link?

http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/scala-ejb-2-feedback.html?showC...

I don't question the intent of the Scala community. There's no mystic group of evildoers there trying to degrade newcomers. But the mailing list is very intimidating. It doesn't feel like a place where newbies can come in and ask "How do I do a 'foreach' loop?".
I was glad to upvote the thoughtful and helpful blog post submitted here and many of the thoughtful comments that other HN participants have posted here to help one another. I'm looking up Web links about what season of the year is the peak season for suicide

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/do-suicides-really-peak-duri...

because of the mention of the Christmas and New Year holiday season in the post. Any time of year is the wrong time to kill yourself, but according to medical textbooks I have read, the peak danger of completed suicide for most people who live in temperate zones in the Northern Hemisphere is actually May rather than the turn of the Gregorian Calendar year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/may/12/mentalhealth.s...

The risk factor that peaks in May appears to be related to daylight variation with different seasons. Data from the Southern Hemisphere temperate zones and from the tropics support the hypothesis that sunlight variation is one influence on risk of completed suicide.

But anyway it's good any time of the year to remind people how to get help when they think about harming themselves. Other resources I just turned up during my Web search include

http://www.nmha.org/go/suicide

http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/suicide/prevention.htm...

http://www.who.int/features/qa/24/en/index.html

Stay healthy and enjoy the holidays and many years afterward.
Look at it this way: colleges can't control a student's internal motivation. But they can control how they structure class time, and how they intervene with troubled students. So they're focusing on what they can control instead of what they can't.

Although, I think that well-timed intervention can help students with motivation problems. Students tend to lose motivation when they're struggling and don't know how to improve.
In a world where everyone has a tablet or phone, everyone will have a device with a browser.

The web is too big and too valuable for it to ever make sense to create a device that can't use it.
IIRC (I read the git mailing list) there was a lot of arguing about whether generation numbers should be in the commit headers or stored in separate cache, and then a different fix went in to speed up "tag --contains" and the discussion was pretty much abandoned.
Can you explain who exactly are these "highly paid workers who can get a tourist visa but not a work visa for the US"? If by "highly paid" you mean on the same level of typical US software engineer in CA, say $90K-$100K (and that's not highly paid in the valley) they I don't see how Blueseed can make money.

My question is: what is the value proposition of having a ship in international waters (you only consider the cost of buying the ship, but operating and maintaining it as well as insurance and health concerns would be huge expenses) other than having cheap (or, if you want, cheap-er) labor?

You are also assuming the workers can go to the Valley on a whim on tourist visas. For most internationals, e.g. Chinese and Indian, with single entry visas this is not possible.
OK, on the face of it, this a people problem. But "distracted operator" issues have been known about for decades; how do other industries solve them?

How can we apply technology to at least alleviate the problem? Some phones have a speech-to-text mode where you can have texts read to you or you can speak and have it turned into SMS.

What happens when the phone is more integrated with the car? It limits the driver's interaction with it and gives the "system" an opportunity to control when the phone rings (perhaps don't allow it to ring when the car detects it's in stop & go traffic).

Rather than bitching about how "idiots" use their cell phones perhaps we can be more productive in thinking about other solutions to the problem .
We need laws that focus on drivers, not the devices. There are plenty of ways to be distracted while driving. There are also reasonable ways to manage some of these distractions if you understand the risks. Saying "you can't do that" to specific items isn't going to fix the problem, because most people just don't get it. Driver education is severely lacking in the US. Now there's a space where we could use some innovative start ups.
Actually he said, "...And I've got the money back already. I broke even — and then some."

So not only did he break even, he has earned some additional money. And his initial statement ""I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special," says that doing comedy specials the 'regular' way earned him nothing.

Now I expect it is a bit more nuanced than that, in that he was no doubt paid an appearance fee for being in a comedy special, and he didn't put up the money to produce those specials So his "net" was the fee and opportunity cost of the time he didn't spend producing the special.

Contrast that with the one he put up on the web, he paid all the costs (although I assume the 'audience' in the special also paid to attend). The and it took some time no doubt to do the post production work and to put it up for streaming, etc. Which went up on the 10th of December and here 3 days later has broken even "plus a bit more."

Over the course of the year, more people will watch it, and while the volume goes down, the tail stretches out for literally years. He's got this material that has paid for itself and he can license it to Netflix for their streaming service, picking up a bit of change when people watch it there. He can put it up on iTunes or Amazon's video service and pick up some cash when it rolls there. And the killer?

Is he makes another 'special', and now that folks are coming to the web page he puts up for the first one, he can list them both.

Eventually (sooner rather than later) he's got a catalog of comedy bits, several distribution channels and a stready revenue stream and there isn't a 'media company' (like a Viacom or Sony) anywhere in sight.

Now someone else says "Hey man, that rocks how can I do that?" and they convert over. And two, maybe five, years from now "suddenly" everyone seems to be their own production/distribution company and a new ecosystem sprouts that helps those companies get their content to market and Netflix/Amazon/Apple are cutting deals with them directly and you and I win because we get better quality stuff and not so much of the hassles and the media companies lose.

Can't wait.
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That sounds awfully like something someone would say if they were trolling. I'm going to assume you weren't.

There are many things I've found I like in TextMate that Vim can't do - character-by-character undo, for example.
I don’t know if it is helpful with suicidal thoughts, but Learned Optimism has helped me with a more generalized despondency and helplessness:

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-05-...

My won feelings about helplessness learning to play Go parallel feelings if helplessness in my life trying other things where it felt like I had no idea what I was doing and no control over the outcome:

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-10-...

Again, I don’t know if any of this is helpful when someone is at the point of contemplating ending their own life.
This addresses Google's content network. You still need SpyFu to target the search network.
iTunes music hasn't been DRMed in about two and a half years now, I think. And honestly, things have moved quickly. When iTunes music was still DRMed, I think we were still in the process of transitioning away from CDs as a playback medium.

That said, I think the biggest reason iTunes has succeeded is because it's easier to buy the damn song than it is to go hunt it down. I suppose if someone emailed you the song file directly that'd be easier, but only marginally. When it's equally easy/easier to do “the right thing”, I think most people tends toward doing “the right thing”. The problem with DRM is it usually actually makes it harder to do “the right thing”. Oops.
I've been a huge fan of Konigi pads for a couple years now: http://konigi.com/tools/graph-paper
> Distribute smart cards and readers to sellers

Jeebus, this makes too much sense.

If Blizzard can hand out OTP generators for it's users, surely Amazon or retailers can do the same for it's sellers.

Hell, look to Google and their Authenticator app or SMS-based 2-step login (out of band auth channel would be better).
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Looking particularly for feedback on ease of use, UX and UI inputs. We opened up the site to everyone yesterday and would love the HN view of how to make it better.

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I only smoke weed. But yes, outside of fairly niche markets, the largest corporations are dominating (Amazon AWS, Google Docs). It IS a lot more likely that any of these alternatives (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-great-alternatives-to-google-...) will disappear with all your data than that Google Docs will. I'm not saying it's some awesome thing that big businesses can out price the little guys and I'm not saying that the profitable SAAS does not exist (Harvest, Github (most of Github's users don't pay a dime)). The simple reality is that most people get a fair amount of utility from free web services.
I know him from high school. A great talent and a really nice guy, lost far too young.
If you google it you'll find some more lists I'm not sure if the one I linked is the most comprehensive one.
Louis CK is a pretty interesting dude. I was quite surprised when in his Reddit AMA he revealed he did the video editing on the comedy special. Pretty awesome.
Oh, to be clear, I'm not a professional either. I've just known a few people with bad depression and that was something they struggled with — the feeling that getting help was a bad thing.
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I know many counterexamples of people in various states who have received health insurance coverage even after seeking treatment for depression. The problem of denial of coverage for "preexisting conditions" is much broader than that, anyway. Insurance companies have been playing that game for so long with so many different disease conditions that regulation is increasingly denying the companies the scope to write their contracts in that manner.
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haha I'd totally come toke with you guys and talk about life,love and all that stuff LOL!
i recommend talking to a doctor, and making sure you don't drive while sleep deprived. keeping a log of any kind of it may help, but again, i'm not a doctor! :P anyway, bust of luck to you, and for me at least, the "getting away" with something because i was "good" got to be old, and i realized i wasn't getting away with anything or something, i dunno... i guess my point is I felt that way too, and my perspective on it has changed some. best of luck!!!!!
The limiting factor is reading habits, not browser size. Just because you can design in a landscape orientation doesn't mean you should and wider isn't necessarily better. It's not like magazines are 3 feet across because paper's cheap, right?