skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you say is accurate, the only other thing I would try is reaching out to one or more of their investors / board members. It might not help, but as a paying customer, I'm sure they'd want to know (and can make a call and get your grievance bumped to the top of the line).

Since your representing that your business is in jeopardy, do what you need to do. It's great that you are sensitive to the plight of startups and don't want to do anything that might hurt their chances of success. However, they also have to live up to their end of the deal. If they aren't communicating with you, that's a huge problem.
Can you easily install Ghost in sub directory like domain.tld/blog/?
is that Laravel?
That UI is so nice and so useless at the same time :(
Incredible. For anyone watching, make sure you at least go past 2:20 - that's when they pull out the magnetic rail.
Full disclosure: my mother and my sister both work in fundraising. I've also done some freelancing for university fundraising departments.

80% is pretty good in the fundraising industry. Usually it's closer to 90%. Don't ever do one of those "text 12345 to donate to hurricane victims in the tropics" sort of thing, the returns on those are abysmal. But really, what do you expect? People doing work have to get paid. Most of the fuel in a rocket is for getting the rest of the fuel in the rocket off the ground.

One of the ways that fundraising departments try to keep the costs down is to use volunteer work (i.e., a form of donation of time) and internships to do the grunt work of calling people on the phone. Nobody expects those college kids to stay in those internships for their entire careers. Usually, they're only there for the "busy season", the end of the year where people rush to get donations in to count towards their tax writeoffs. For many of the kids, it's either that or a completely unpaid internship in advertising.

And government is actually a lot worse. In the US, only about 55% of your tax dollar goes towards social services. Then you have to take the admin percentage off the top of that. To beat an 80% number like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, they'd have to keep overhead down to less than 64%. That's so absurdly low that I can't imagine it is possible.

My comment in my original post refers to the fact that every charity in the US is required to spend a certain percentage of their endowment every year. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a HUGE endowment. They have to spend so much that they can't find enough outlets for it. They have to fund projects that aren't necessarily part of their core goals because they can't fund their core goals anymore.

And the snarky comment about Al Qaeda is a commentary on the nature of Al Qaeda, they are not a single organization that operates above the board, they are themselves more of a foundation and loose conglomeration of various groups for mutual benefit. But the way our government casts it, if you help any organization that has any ties to Al Qaeda, then you are helping The Al Qaeda Man Who Is A Single Person Who 9/11 9/11 9/11.

So, when you have more money then you literally know what to do with, just tossing it around makes it very easy to hit Al Qaeda.
> Remember Zune? Remember Live? Remember the Kin??

We should be very careful about criticizing others for their failed products. The side-effect of experimentation and innovation is that some of the experiments will result in failure to find market fit. Market fit failure isn't a good thing for a company, but it's much worse to not experiment at all.
> Smaller, difficult to read and use interfaces that require more attention are better for operating heavy machinery.

The center console display is not "for operating machinery". That's what the dashboard is for. If your eyes are on the center console, they're nowhere near the road.

And touchscreen are a horrible way to operate heavy machinery as they can't be operated by touch alone, the split second where you have to look at the screen (where good[0] physical controls would have been stored in muscle memory a long time ago) can lead to lots of damage. In fact, the article also points out to issues with this as the Tesla's touchscreen is apparently necessary to toggle fog lamps buried behind multiple screens, a completely inane proposition.

[0] not all physical controls are good, e.g. I've seen decks where all controls are small identical buttons, completely unusable and genuinely dangerous
>Ghost and Ospari is by no wary comparable to Wordpress.

Regarding Ghost, it depends who you ask[1]. What the grand parent comment is probably referring to is the same thing Rob Conery refers to in that Ghost (in his estimation) was architected the way you would architect a large, modular PHP application.

[1]http://www.wekeroad.com/2013/11/19/hello-minty/
The only feature marked as new is "something with SocialAPI"... bleh
Impressive. This guy goes to the extent of linking to the transcript of a talk perfectly irrelevant to the point. But he cannot link to the paper he is criticizing.

So here it is:

Shin et al. How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine? http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7087
Awesome, I definitely like this concept a lot and the other commenter's reply about a mailing list would go very well with this concept.
Redesigning Outlook.com
Words of new CEO of Microsoft "I marvel every day at how people can excel..." taken out of context are hilarious when I think about all stupid stuff people do with Excel.
My wife is a Pharmacist dual licensed in Mass and NH and in love with this idea. She's going to get in touch but if someone from PillPack is on here let me know. You'll get a career startup software developer as an addon ;).

Really cool stuff.
Interesting concept, but I wonder about the economics.

A telephone pole has a volume of about 3 million cubic centimetres. Tungsten's density is ~20 g/cm^3, so we're talking about 60 000 kilograms of tungsten. At around $40/kg, that's ~2.5 million dollars per rod just in raw materials.

But that's ignoring the cost of bringing a 60 metric ton rod into orbit, of course. You'd need a Falcon Heavy launch per rod, ignoring the problematic dimensions (let's assume you can cold weld a few pieces together in space). That's at least another $60 million per rod for the launch costs.
My hypothetical for solving this problem was some huge contraption that would electronically spit out the right pills when required. Pill Pack is so much more elegant. Can't wait to see them succeed!
Shoplifting can be a bit of an art. I agree with you that the “hacking” thing is overused, but I think it makes sense to call something like booster bags a “hack”, for example. There are lots of “hacks” for shoplifting.
Yes, but you'll need bigger radiators.

You can even make several layers of that, with thermal machines between the layers. As the number of layers increase, the efficiency of each one reduces, but the total work goes always approaching a constant assintote.
Maybe you are right. We would move at least some of our code to Github to a public repo soon.
> With position I am talking about politcal position, witch is what it is all about.

I was originally responding to adventured, who said "The free market has absolutely no position on collusion, except that force may not enter into economic transactions." I dispute both this statement as I understand it, with the argument I have already laid out, and also your current claim that the "free market political view" has no position on collusion.

On that, I don't think you can just claim to speak for everyone who considers themselves a proponent of free markets, and furthermore a lot of people who do so are very clear about the need for controls on those markets, mostly (it seems to me) with the aim of bringing them closer to the theoretical ideal.

> "one should not" who is "one"?

One here refers to anyone who is trying to engage in free market transactions, as opposed to someone who wants to distort a free market for their own ends. I apologise for my lack of clarity.

> My point was to say that, its propaganda to say that free market people dont belive in market failure, nothing else.

I understand that, however you are responding to a straw man - I didn't say that free market proponents don't believe in market failure, I said that they, meaning the most ardent supporters, believe that market failures are best resolved by the market - that regulators can't do better. You may wish to dispute this.

> ... Also just because the make these assumition and the need to be true in there model does not mean that it is the same for the real world. ...
> ... You need to bring in transaction costs, theory of the firm, information economics, you need to bring in instiutional economics, there needs to be a explaition market ajustment and so on. Also you need to model politcal economy ...

I agree wholeheartedly with what you are saying here - it is indeed very difficult to model the economy, and the assumptions on which the models of principle lie most assuredly do not hold in the real world. I also share your understanding that most economists would not claim otherwise - they have much more pragmatic views of the economy.

Overall, I'm not sure I understand what your point is. Mine was originally that basic market theory gives a reason why collusion is bad, and has now been extended to include the notion that simply waving your hands and saying "I don't think regulation works" isn't an argument, for example:

> So if the goverment task of managing cartels would not exists then there might be less cartels overall.

Is a statement that is possibly true, and possibly false, it is not, however, a basis for decision making.
It is backlit. and its big, but I didn't find it distracting.

My mom has a Tesla. The UI works as my Mom has no problems navigating it (although tech savy she's a little older). A lot the controls are on the screen (radio/temp). It splits too. Being big probably helps as its faster to look at.

This integrated computer approach has been around for a while. I still like some physical controls.
> I'm not quite sure how Google could do better while still making money.

Maybe they can’t. This does not mean they are absolved from responsibility.
And then you clone the uploaded conciousness 10^6 times, with each clone having continuity of experience back to your earliest memory. Still you?

(And before you can answer, the clones all respond "yes").
If they had 120 allegations, imagine how many never got filed.

Go to the front desk at a police station and try to file a complaint, just make sure you have bail money on hand.
Major browser updates used to be fun. Nowadays they just merge security updates and bump the numbers. Most won't even notice and just complain about the mandatory restart.
Camera and sound deserve some respect for walking backwards that whole time. Sure, they're pros, but that was a long and winding walk.
| the only other thing I would try is reaching out to one or more of their investors / board members

I think that's what he is doing right now :)
Common misconceptions.

At most established nonprofits relatively little money actually goes to management. There have been a very few cases that have gotten a lot of publicity, but it's relatively a small (and dangerously over-stated) issue.

See Charity Navigator to see the 'management' costs, which are often quite small.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/

That said, 'administrative expenses' are a notoriously poor way to measure nonprofits. The group GiveWell is known for attempting to rate charities based on impact.
http://givewell.org/

Basically,
A) The average charity doesn't spend that much on management.
B) Even if the 'average' did, there are plenty that don't.
C) Even so, try using 'impact' rather than 'administrative costs'
D) There are many great causes to give to, and that's really all that matters here.

That said, I would typically expect large companies to have large biases to help local causes rather than the best things for the world.
(Now that I'm not so sleepy, I'll try to answer this better.)

It's much more probable that males and females experience fundamentally different kinds of pushback against learning programming. It seems naive to say that females experience a simple superset of what males experience. In which case, it stands to reason that they probably don't necessarily have a harder time getting into it, just a different set of social obstacles.

But I'm no professor of sociology. I don't know these things for a fact. I'm just saying that I approach this topic with a bit of skepticism when someone else (who also is not a professor of sociology) comes out claiming that females have more social obstacles to getting into computer programming than males do.
I was thinking northern European as well. Scandinavian, even.
That's the point made by the course instructors, focus on semantics/interpretation/compilation rather. Another point I'd like to see is that with a small syntactic surface it may be easier to compare linguistic traits. Instead of having 219 languages we'd have one core and libs (with their macro sugar) giving the desired features. But maybe that would only move the problem further.
What happens if your eye sees pure 400nm light? There is some stimulation of the "red" receptor and more stimulation of the "blue" receptor. I think the fact that we DO see violet in the spectrum is more interesting than the fact that we DON'T see magenta.

See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)

Wavelength: 380–450 nm

Hex triplet: #8F00FF
I watched that video a few days ago - very enlightening.
haven't tried it, but a quick search shows that ghost doesn't support it natively but they are working on it. But is that a reason to do a complete rewrite?

[edit: 0.4.0 does have complete subdir support: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/wiki/Release-Notes:-0.4.0#...]
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Perhaps some of the frustration could stem from "...holding my phone in one hand while steering and shifting gears with my other. I'm also late..."?

Seems unbelievably reckless and dangerous to me, certainly here in the UK he'd be looking at 3 points at a minimum and worst case a prosecution for careless or dangerous driving.
Microsoft is often being thumbed as being thickheaded and stubborn as well as unable to be flexible and quick enough to change with the market. "Short attention span" is definitely something new.
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I don't know the valley very well so it's hard for me to navigate it. I did ask a family member who's in the startup world for advice (he suggested I post here) and he tried reaching out to a few of his contacts but I don't believe it went anywhere. The most frustrating thing for me has been the CEO's attitude. From my very first interaction with him he seemed uninterested in helping resolve this. If I were the CEO of a startup, I would be paying super close attention to my userbase and their concerns. I just can't understand why he hasn't jumped at the chance to make things right with me and the other doctors who have had similar problems.
Good point - there were several problems with Microsoft's tablet approach, and you're certainly right that application software is one of them. The main thing I wanted to say is that "short attention span" and "abandonment" don't accurately describe what went wrong.
I personally don't like how big the screen is in the Tesla sedan. I feel like it should be a given that drivers' eyes be on the road when driving, and when I can't feel out music controls because they've been replaced with a touchscreen or the data I need is hidden across 17" of display, that requires me to look away from the road. Far from "fear of change", that just seems like common road safety.
Ah, but cancer is always the same thing, body cells going amok. The reasons are manifold and a lot of research is going on there, but the result is, broadly speaking, the same. (Of course you get different kinds of tumors..) It's hard to see how it can ever be eradicated for good since it's kind of part of the system and does not neccessarily have external causes (though in most cases is does).

And then there are other diseases we have no cure for yet, which are not cancer, such as Alzheimers and aids. We can eradicate those, I believe.
I'm ok with that, but I'm not sure I'd be doing you a favor. I might keep a few rocks for myself to test the theory, though.
Speaking as a physician, and with the caveat that I assume Dr. Bedi wouldn't waste his time if this story wasn't mostly accurate, I want to express my frustration - this is why we can't have nice things!

Medical bureaucracies are very reticent to chose software from companies that don't have a long track record. Examples like this are why we have to suffer through 1980s era software to get our work done.
> to turn on the fog lights, the driver must tap through several levels

I'm sorry but that alone requires no further research, basic machinery operation should never have to go through a sight-requiring touchscreen, let alone multiple levels of touchscreen menu.
I have several friends and family who live off of that minuscule amount...

You can rent basically any movie on Amazon, or buy DRM free music from a variety of sources. If you choose not to and torrent, you're not performing some sort of noble protest in the name of the artists. I can assure that they don't see it that way.

Note: I'm not saying that people in creative capacities think that torrenting is evil, and yes, they know they are part of a broken system. I just think it's disingenuous when people justify torrenting using this argument. You're torrenting because you think the market price of whatever content you're downloading is too / you don't feel like paying. Simple as that.
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I don't think so. It's easy now to look at the headline and think "Oh, just another Firefox release, it happens what? once a month?". That's a good thing. Users are upgrading, the process is smooth; Mozilla's having a relatively easy time iterating. Remember when Firefox 3, 4, and 5 came out? Each time, it was a big deal. Many complained and groaned. The upgrade process was problematic for many users. Some users would still have problems upgrading for many releases after that. It's been a great year if they can push out numerous high-quality releases, and have the process be so smooth that when users hear of a new version, they think "meh".
It's really not a problem for places with decent public transportation. There are parts of the world where it makes sense to have a monthly or annual pass. I've no idea what it is like in the area where this occurred though.
I understand you posted this here. If this business (yes, a startup is a business) doens't feel it should respond to client's questions and even a freaking legal letter (even though there are clear contracts in place) well, then "getting the word out" could just push them in your direction. No sane developer/designer would want to work for this specific business. I don't even know them, but based upon your post my mind is thinking they'll probably go out of business soon. I bet we'll see a statement from them at this very spot soon. It'd better not be a bs statement.
So they should get none instead?
Paints and light mix differently. One is subtractive, the other additive.

With paint, you start with white (full reflectivity) and add pigment to block out reflected light.

With light, you start with black (darkness) and add photons of different wavelengths. When you have an even mix of all wavelengths, you have white light.
Why? Fog lights aren't an essential part of car operation, may cars simply don't have them at all.
What all backends are considered in the book? LLVM? native code? Any mention of developing debuggers for the language? I suppose if one wants to write an interpreter, that would follow automatically from the learning about how to write compilers.
JavaScript + Functions = Fun
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Only JOINs across actors are sacrificed. Most problem sets fit quite well into the actor model and you can keep JOINs where it matters most (inside an actor).
Not only is it touch-only, but it's at the very bottom of the screen ensuring maximum time with eyes off the road to do anything important.

edit: http://www.teslamotors.com/models/features#/interior shows a video of screen operation (scroll down a bit). I really don't feel this thing is a good idea.
Not every location in this world has pervasive electricity. For example, many towns in the Amazon have to ship in propane to run generators that run just for a couple hours of power each day. Locations that do have constant power also have a serious infrastructure to create that power, which burns non-renewable resources in quantities that would surprise most people.

Electricity is awesome, but until we truly have renewable power in all areas of the world, devices like this are good things.
I honestly can't even guess why someone downvoted that.

Morals/beliefs are a fundamental part of human thinking. Whether it's named, whether it comes from a religion or just a person's own experience in life, it always exists in the brain. That's kind of a fact. So, pretty confused about the downvote right about now...
That was exactly my thought when I saw Tesla for the first time! I love how this car looks and that it's a technological marvel, but big touchscreen requiring you to look somewhere else instead of focusing on the road is a really bad thing. Recently I've started to think why won't car manufacturers create a good multimedia interaface displayed on the windshield. It could sense when you drive faster than some really low threshold and limit amount of UI elements and distractions. When it comes to controlling infotainment systems there IMHO are two reasonable options: first are buttons on the steering wheel, and the second is employing thing like MYO, assuming it works well.
>> "Dying of cancer is a good thing- it means you didn't die in childbirth or from malaria or diabetes. That may change but living long enough to die from cancer is, sadly, the grand prize in life."

I kind of see your point but you seem to be forgetting about the children who die from cancer. Not to mention the types of cancer that are more common in younger people (e.g. testicular cancer). In the past living long enough to bear children may have been considered a good thing - you didn't die from an infection we had no cure for. The people who die from the disease probably don't see it the same way and I doubt you would either. Even though I understand your premise if I got cancer even in my 90's I wouldn't be thinking: "Wow, look how long I lived", I'd be thinking, "Shit, I have cancer".
The new CEO actually asked Gates for help, so I guess it would be cooperation more than anything.
I agree that the word is overused. Just like "hacker" is. For instance I don't think half the articles linked here on Hacker News have anything to do with hacking (I'm not saying this is bad), and a lot of them pretend to be by having "hacker" in the title (and this, I think, is bad: no, it's not because you coded that in Ruby or Node.js instead of PHP that your blogging platform is for hackers…).

But clearly "hacking" can be used for things other than computer related stuff, and I feel like calling a clever trick "hacking" is less harmful (well, it's even harmless IMHO). Getting back to your comment, I feel that here it is a valid usage of the word. Take something similar for instance: calling Steal This Book [1] a kind of society hacking cookbook (it is mostly outdated though) feels completely right to me.

Defending the meaning of the word may be important, but wanting to restrain its usage all the time is useless and counterproductive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book