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>"Apparently, the $5k minimum order was too small for them to care (at least that's what my side says)."

I find this to be pretty typical behavior when representing Government to vendors.

It doesn't impress me as being dismissive so much as indirect sales pressure.

A vendor knows that the typical Government agency can and does regularly piss away 10-100x that amount on systems that never see the light of day.

They're betting that if the initiative has any real support someone will find the funding to make it happen.

Problem is, this is probably worst possible tactic to take with someone in your position who is trying to enact change without substantial/any budget to command.

The people on your end are happy to walk away, they've already done it twice and they were surely just looking for a reason to do it a third time.

Word to salespeople working with Government:

When you're dealing with a lone "champion" inside some organization you should be thinking in terms of cheaply seeding for the future and having friendly eyes and ears inside - not booking a sale this quarter.

Also, as the OP points out, you're going to be dealing with entirely segregated procurement departments who are likely out of their comfort zone to be handling the task at all - not the sort you should be at all impatient, demanding or upselling with.

Now, to be fair I should point out that I think there are some valid reasons for vendors to avoid small deals.

The main thing is perception. The naysayers are going to attack any new installation the moment it hits the floor. If a minimal install isn't defensible against a hostile environment like that seeing it fail will kill any potential future business for the vendor.

A simple way to mitigate this is sign an agency up and leave them fully-featured and uncapped - no friction to grow the product internally. Then, this is important, resist the urge to demand a huge true-up once things have taken root, just ramp up gradually and understand that the social proof of your having your product fully-established in one such agency will open the door to sales elsewhere.
Makes sense. I'd expect the bitcoin owning population to have many more ABP users than the general population though.

Re: adding a black box.

It looks like just not using "mc_embed_signup" and "mc-embedded-subscribe-form" as the form's id and class would solve the problem. Elements with those classes and ids are display:none'd by ABP.

(You can verify this yourself by enabling adblock plus, then inspecting the element)
In the past, yes POS card processing relied on a telephone connection to the processor, but this is less and less common. Regardless POS intranet was always isolated from the internet, for PCI compliance and security.

Only these new entrants have become reliant on an internet connection -- but most seem to be marketing the novelty of mobile technology, rather than creating an offline-first db-synced app built on proven internet technologies.
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Only the very stupid are fine with Google recording everything they do.
Yup, I got a good look at it on my way to work in Paris. It was one of those days where there is enough cloud that you can look at the sun without it hurting, but the sun is still visible through the clouds. I've been looking for sunspots on these occasions for about 10 years now, but thanks to a particularly quiet sun over that period, I haven't had any luck. So imagine my delight to look up and see the sunspot pretty much instantly. I mean this sucker was big.
I naturally upvoted, but just wanted to add thanks for the links.
We hear this conversation quite a bit. Kubernetes is not a competitor to Deis. Kubernetes is a container cluster manager; a scheduler, if you will. You give it a container and some desired state and it will schedule it out to a cluster of nodes. Deis utilizes schedulers to deploy apps. We currently support Fleet at the moment but we have attended a few mesos hackathons to get a PoC working with Deis as well as kubernetes. If you have a use case, we'd be happy to hear it in the mailing list or in a github issue as a proposal :)
What are the main differences between Deis and Flynn?
Minimum RAM requirements to be more precise. In fact, I think they made the latest versions of Windows take less RAM.
"If there’s interest in a full featured production quality version, I may implement that."

That would be great.
Former barkeeper here: usually the limes and lemons are bought as-is-available, which usually means mass-produced stuff laced with pesticides. Organic fruits are, due to their higher price, normally only available in hipster places.

The rind is not considered edible in any way, and the pesticides don't migrate through the rind. Which is, btw, a good reason to rinse any fruit or vegetable (prior to USE, not directly after you get home from shopping!!!) and also wash your hands afterwards so you don't ingest the toxins via your skin.
I'm really complaining more generally than about what you said. I don't think you're asking anything unreasonable, really.
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There will be no Gnome for Groupon (updated)
This is so critical, and I'm so happy to see it on HN.

When I was a PhD student, I TA'd an HCI class my advisor taught, where he gave a project a week. The very first project was to design a text interface - the subsequent weeks then ramped up to designing applications for 1024x768 mouse driven computers, then touch screens, then 80" screens viewed from 50 feet away, etc. I think any good UI design class should proceed in this manner.

Now that I've left academia, when I need to assess an interactive designer's skills, the first thing I do is ask them to design a text interface because all of the core principles exposed in the posted piece are foundations of any good interactive design - regardless of whether it's in a terminal, in a GUI, or for a gesture driven application (conversely, UI designers who dismiss textual interfaces as irrelevant to UI design are probably mediocre designers).

Most of the fundamentals of interaction design are present in good textual interfaces, and there's no fluff to hide behind if you are a mediocre interaction designer. I commonly see UIs with lush graphics, beautiful animations, the perfect quirky copy - and yet it all falls flat because one of the rules listed in the posted book aren't respected, but when you try to tell the designers that they just point at all these things as signs of how great their interface is.

The truth is that all this crap doesn't matter if your interaction model is shitty. Just like a great artist should be able to make beautiful pieces using just a piece of charcoal regardless of their Photoshop skills, a great interaction designer should know how to design effective text interfaces - and if they can't, no amount of CSS skills or blog posts on "skeuomorphic vs flat" they've read will matter.
> Sure would be fucking nice if they (democrats and republicans) could not have to take opposing sides on fucking everything

There is a selection bias in the issues you speak of. Non-polarizing topics are handled swiftly, without much attention from the public spotlight. There is no point in discussing what's already agreed upon, and that's one of the more reasonable justifications of political polarization.

That said, the polarization is greater than would be optimal, so I do agree - it would be nice.
Assuming you are still using a von Neumann architecture. You are arguing past chongli, not with.
Avengers did that :).
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590335
Either way Groupon made the right decision here imo
This just seems to be a variation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes?
If Spotify can provide the revenue that matches traditional means then I don't think Swift is likely to leave. Make the model more viable than the existing model and you won't have people leave it.

If people are going to pirate anyways then she'll be back, but it seems like she made a pretty smart move to me. Maybe it won't work for everyone, but I don't think she was telling everyone to leave Spotify.
Out of curiosity, what are the cheaper ways to short Bitcoin? The only ways that I'm familiar with involve borrowing bitcoins in some way, for example, Bitfinex offers what they call "swaps" to facilitate margin trading.

It's pretty clear that the reason for borrowing bitcoins is to allow shorting, in which case most of the time margin calls can cover the default risk.

To answer your earlier question, "... are there ways to invest your loan such that you could beat that rate? Consistently? The default rate is going to be sky high". I think the answer is that at scale, probably not; most people will lose money while doing heavy margin trading. But most of the time you won't lose the entire thing, you'll cash out your position at a loss and pay off the accrued interest. The only time you lose the entire amount is if you approach margin limits, in which case you'll be automatically liquidated by the exchange and the fees will be removed. The even more rare case is that the exchange is not able to liquidate your position because of an exceptionally large move in the BTC price, in which case the default coverage by the site becomes applicable.

This isn't to say that TradeMore is a legitimate site that won't steal your money, I'm just addressing the feasibility of the technique. The fact that they are a UK based company, with officers published on the site, is some comfort, though.
Great tip, thank you very much for this.
typo in Readme.md:

"Instead of writing $\displaymath \int_i^\infty$, just write d\int_i^\infty$"

should be d$, right?
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Never mind pesticides; rinds are great places for bacteria to grow. Peel all fruits and vegetables.
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Is there a distributed, ZFS-like filesystem usable
in clustered production environments today?

I'm intrigued by the idea of Git-like filesystems, but
am not aware of any great clustered filesystems at all.
Gaining a better understanding of how a bacteria works? They are kind of alive yet much simpler than brain.
Yet I do not see Groupon apologising for their behaviour, which was evil.
I wrote txtjs. Free to ask away.
If I remember, I was blanking on the exact Python lambda syntax, so I Google'd "python lambda". I bet it had something to do with other searches I'd done in that session as well though, and I don't remember what they are.
It's not always about simple existence. I suspect they thought they could get away with doing something that's totally different -- but the reaction they saw way that their users wouldn't see it that way.

They knew it existed, but they didn't know how much of a backlash they would be. Hindsight is 20/20.
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New trademark under consideration... KDE :)
I would hope they would have some level of quality control written into their contracts, if they are not doing the conversion themselves. (And, given the multiple bit depths and whatnot, I have to wonder whether they are not doing the conversions.)

Worst case, they should ping the owners and request a corrected copy. Although... such production companies probably die back, technically, after the products (DVD, BluRay, stream, etc.) ship (as a wild guess).

P.S. In another case, I actually managed to communicate the problem directly to the content's original author. Still waiting to see whether that produces a fix (video and audio out of sync, sometimes over a second so).
lesson learned: don't pour your heart into something you don't have equity in.
It's pretty common to solve these problems with multiple votes per person.

E.g. 2 founders + 1 investor is very common for Series A stage startups right now. Those with one founder tend to have two votes for the founder and one vote for the investor.
True. Also most islands are younger then life on Earth, so the island could just appear under the first guide.
@dweller I understood the leverage aspect as requiring the borrower to deposit a margin of fiat currency in order to be entitled to borrow 2.5x that value in BTC, repayable with a >10% APR in BTC, which appears to be confirmed by sdouglas.[1] If it were the other way round and TradeMore were giving borrowers access to additional funds on top of lenders', then presumably the owners of those funds would also expect a return...

@sdouglas As I understand it most other BTC borrowing is done at a fixed rather than floating interest rate, in which case I can't imagine why anyone would borrow from you except in those rare cases where liquidity dries up and they desperately need to borrow? Or why you'd want to lend only during low liquidity situations (or to incompetent borrowers) and only to borrowers whose trading position is exposed by that lack of liquidity?

[1]As a footnote, if I were running a business with that model I'd be happiest if the BTC ecosystem crashed, in which case my BTC liabilities and all the defaulting BTC loans might be worth less than the nice juicy chunks of fiat. It would be like holding subprime mortgages if house prices massively and unexpectedly soared!
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Why should I use this instead of Cloud Foundry?

Not trying to bash, just curious.
What is the point of trademarking anything if this (backlash) is the outcome of it?
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In the words of Winston Churchill, more or less:

Groupon will always do the right thing... but only after everything else fails.
It is actually locked to instances above m3.large, so I have to redeploy to xlarge or the like.

Can't say much about an enterprise environment. The UI is superior IMO.
"There is some recent confusion" is such a wonderful euphemism.
For me after HN Reddit, also have a good community over Twitter
As the parent of an autistic child, I'm rapidly growing weary of the use of "autistically" to describe socially awkward things. Sure, one might say we should be concerned with the intention and not the word, but clearly the author's intention was to be insulting.

Well, it is.
"Freedom from whom, and to do what?"
There's a similar comercial holiday in Korea called Pepero Day. And it's also based on the 1's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepero#Pepero_Day
Give me a break, quite frankly. You see a guy with thick framed glasses and all of a sudden you know that he's a culture vulture? I don't buy it.
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Groupon lies. However the end result is good either way for GNOME and open source. Now the only question is why was the fastest up voted post in HN history which was Gnome vs Groupon in favor of Gnome moderated to the second page while this Groupon post is at the top of the front page with almost no votes!

Does someone at HN have stock in groupon or something? Either way it's time for a transparent Blockchain based HN/reddit. This moderator bias crap is bs.
I plan to try this, but have to say up front that the name is great, messaging on the site is spot on, and the pricing seems quite reasonable.
Speakers include:

Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass)
- Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language)
- David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails)
- Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell)
- Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks)
- Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS)
- Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django)
- Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led development for many Adobe products)
- Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification)
- Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co-created Agile, author of 9 books)
- Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co-author of Design Patterns)
- Bram Cohen (inventor of Bittorrent)
- Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author)
- Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark)
- Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering)
- Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow)
- Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books)
- Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator)
- Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy)
- Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight)
- Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ)
- Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us)
- Orion Henry (founder of Heroku)
- Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert)
- Scott Chacon (CIO, Github)
- Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well-known programming educator and blogger)
- Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan)
- Hadi Partovi (founder of Code.org, was in charge of Internet Explorer, advisor to Dropbox and Facebook)
- Qi Lu (EVP, Microsoft)
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From the outside, not much. Both model the Heroku-style workflow with application deployment.

Asides from Deis being production-ready and tacking on a few extra features like `deis pull` and Dockerfile deployment workflows, we take a different approach to our components. We use the best-of-breed components from other OSS projects and focus entirely on the application deployment workflow. Flynn is focused on building the platform from the ground up. They provide the network equipment and messaging primitives (layer 0, as they call it) as well as the platform itself (layer 1) completely from scratch. Deis uses common OSS tools such as nginx and ceph to provide our layer 0 and part of our layer 1 for us and focus entirely on using those components to serve our needs.
How is this going to help you? Would you be happy with a job you're not good enough to do properly?
It's like squatting on someones reserved parking and then trying to strike up a conversation on alternative parking options with them. The only reasonable answer is get the fuck off.
Our use case was web2print and mobile support was a big issue. SVG is great but it has mixed mobile support and performance varies. With <canvas> we are able to control rendering fine grained so when the app is not interacted, it is imagelike in performance.

Most of the features in txtjs can easily be ported to SVG as the primary renderer required is SVGPath. FontLoader/Fonts would require zero change but new controls would need to subclass SVG elements. I am very interested in seeing better text in SVG as well as on <canvas> for creative use.
From the article:

Does this update contain any additional security-related changes to functionality?

Yes. In addition to the changes that are listed in the Vulnerability Information section of this bulletin, this update includes changes to available TLS cipher suites. This update includes new TLS cipher suites that offer more robust encryption to protect customer information. These new cipher suites all operate in Galois/counter mode (GCM), and two of them offer perfect forward secrecy (PFS) by using DHE key exchange together with RSA authentication.
You retain control by coding it into your corporate bylaws. For example, you might have two board seats elected by common (the founders + employees), one board seat elected by preferred (the investors), and the ceo hired/fired by a majority vote of the board. That way two founders can always outvote investors, but investor + founder could outvote the other founder (sometimes necessary).

The way you lose control is to do something like one seat to the ceo, one to preferred, and one "independent". The investor recommends his highly qualified friend as the independent member, then sometime down the road you run into trouble and the investors + independent fire you (the ceo), and then you've lost all control.
If you wanted to you could check:

https://history.google.com/history

Also, it is possible that the url once you actually enter is different and that may be sufficient to get in.

Thanks!
This is a very good question. There's a growing sentiment in the Hadoop ecosystem that MapReduce is in someway passe and I think it's somewhat unfair. A lot of the confusion comes from the fact that people don't distinguish between Hadoop's implementation of MapReduce and MapReduce the paradigm. As a paradigm MapReduce is actually very general. A good example of this is stream processing. Hadoop has completely separate implementations for stream processing in Storm. However there's no inherent reason MapReduce can't operate on streams. In fact, in pfs where the file system can be thought of as a stream of commits that's the only thing that it does operate on.

So tl;dr we think that a better implementation of MapReduce can be a much more general tool than Hadoop's MapReduce is.
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Can somebody explain what the use-case for this is? The site says it is a "PaaS that makes it easy to deploy and manage applications on your own servers".

Most apps I've been making follow a similar recipe: run single ubuntu instance on digitalocean, use nginx for http to serve static content for single page app (ex. angular project), and nginx proxy to gunicorn to serve a python flask API that stores and retrieves data to/from mongodb.

Where in that picture would something like Deis fit in? Or is this not for me?
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don't go back and watch it. trust me. Look upon the memories fondly instead ;)
It's not surprising that people were confused:

> ...said Eric Lefkofsky, CEO. "When it's complete, Gnome will serve as an operating system for merchants to run their entire operation and enable them to create real-time promotions that bring customers into their business when they need them the most."

I can understand GNOME being upset that a product described by its CEO as "an operating system" would pick their already well established name.
Most people have a wrong conception of what math means. Math encompasses large parts of pretty much any engineering discipline including programming. At the end of the day the foundations of programming are boolean logic, turing machines, lambda calculus, etc. Those are all technically math so when you say you're horrid at math and that's why you code that doesn't really make any sense.

More generally, using any kind of analytical approach to solve problems is math.
I don't know of one and I did a decent amount of looking while developing pfs. Hopefully we can eventually meet your needs!
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Fascinating. I had known for some time that oak trees will commingle their roots, forming an oak internet. In good times, this helps smaller trees become better established through resource-sharing with mature trees. Unfortunately, the network doesn't just pass beneficial resources; it also passes the oak wilt pathogen, so if one oak tree gets the wilt, it's a pretty good bet that all the others in the immediate vicinity will get it too.
Fine. Let him take the credit. It's probably going to take the power of the Oval Office to make sure it sticks.

The Internet has become too important to allow corporations to hijack it.
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If we are talking about the current site, they only accept bitcoins as payment from advertisers.

How big market do you think there is of advertisers that are willing to pay with bitcoins in order for advertisement space on a bittorent site?
Yes of course. Fixed, thanks!
Let me preface this by saying that I'm a huge fan of Deis and the team. I went through the process of setting up a cluster a few months ago and they were incredibly helpful and responsive in IRC. Highly suggest, would love to work with the project again.

That being said, I'm a little confused as to how Deis can be considered production ready when the underlying infrastructure (Etcd and Fleet from CoreOS) aren't. Both are making great progress, and I wouldn't worry too much about using them directly, but "production ready" abstractions on top of something maybe-not-so-production-ready makes me cringe a tiny bit.

https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/pro...