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One of our customers serves north of 1 mio overall provisioned subscribers on two servers with this software, so it's quite scaleable vertically already. It's easier when UDP is used though, because with TLS things add up quite quickly.

To go big, we've horizontal scaling mechanisms using subscriber partitioning by load-balancing SIP and provisioning requests over multiple pairs of such servers (usually placed in blade-center servers).

The key here is to keep as much CPU heavy things like media relaying end-to-end where possible, because the signaling part is pretty light-weight in SIP. To scale out and keep reliability up while keeping complexity low, we have a shared-nothing approach wherever possible. Works well for us.
Are the "winning players" that you refer to at every level, or do you just count those at the very top as winners?

Is poker zero-sum, or do things like spectator events or sponsorship change that?

Also, can you comment on the "creativity" aspect that the blog post suggests. I would have thought very little strategy or tactics are thought up on the spot, but take many weeks of practice beforehand. Perhaps that is only at the top levels though?
Wtf HN? How in the hell does this article make the frontpage when it's written (albeit with good intentions) by a complete poker newbie and the points he make are incredibly shallow?
There are so many much better blogposts about online poker, please don't upvote this.
(fwiw I played up to 25/50 for a little while, and quit a huge winner, so I know what I'm talking about)
Short term people shine in a field with low accountability, use and recommend only the honest recruiters.
There is no 'blogroll' on this very blog. All I got was a popup asking me to subscribe to something.
Why netbooks are not dead yet
You wrote functionality that tracks people and now you're whinging when people are given their privacy back? Forget it - I have no sympathy.

This is the bit of your comment I take most issue with. I have done nothing of the sort - and neither have the majority of companies's sites - and yet everyone is being punished for what boils down to abuse by online advertisers.

How can abusers get away with this? By relocating elsewhere. So the problem's not solved in the slightest. Meanwhile, the good guys are the ones left dancing around.
Sorry, but that's not a bullshit scenario. There are reasons someone might take a low-level job while they're working on other things.

For one thing, a physically taxing job that's not mentally taxing gives you exercise but doesn't rob you of your will to think. When I come home from my programming job, I often want to do just about anything else. When I used to come home from stocking shelves, programming was something I did avidly.

I'm sure that's not even the only reason, either.
http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-html-semantics-front-end-a...

Sorta interesting argument against this sort of grid system.
It's a shame they publish such an obfuscated status update.

A "hardware failure in our primary encryption hardware device"? "corrupted encryption keys"? Not exactly reassuring!

Did a hard drive fail? If so, why aren't they using RAID? And if changes automatically cascade to backups, then they're not backups. If changes cascade it's called redundancy.

From the rest of the status update it looks like they're now restoring CC data from an older set of backups. But are they? No way to tell.

It's surprising how many technical terms the status update uses and how little it actually tells about what's going on.

I'm sure that they'll come up with a more complete story of what happened in a couple of days, after they've got everything under control. Given how critical Recurly is to their customers, I think they should worded everything a little more carefully. Explain what happened in normal language. Explain what percentage of accounts is affected. Explain what they're doing now. Explain what measures they're going to put into place to prevent similar things from happening in the future. Emphasize with the customers (who completely depend on Recurly for their business). This shouldn't be rocket science.
In general, lobotomy victims did not choose to have the procedure and have no recourse but to live with the results. This title is rude both to the developers (who we can assume are good intentioned) and to lobotomy victims (who likely had nothing to do with this security issue).
Exercise too.

As somebody who doesn't sleep well or much, how do you define 'serious'?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockbandit/5731991626/lightbox/

What's your excuse, just a natural progression here too? If you can't tell Samsung copied tons of Apple's stuff, you're just lost in your own world and not worth arguing with. I don't care if you're a fan of Samsung, or a hater of Apple. It doesn't change the fact that Samsung just copies whatever they want.

Samsung is McDowell's. " Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds."
$100 per title that you need greenlight without the normal channels.

I think if you already have a good-selling game on Steam, the second game would be a lot easier to get through normal channels.
The web has gone too commercial. People cares more about the Ad revenue than offering valuable content. Most sites don't freely share information withouth being filled with Ads/analytics, and most of the time that content is just a repost from elsewhere. From that perspective, linking things outside it's not a good thing to do, they're a way to "leak customers".
This failure corrupted encryption keys used to access stored credit cards to process recurring transactions.

That sounds like a hilarious failure mode for a dedicated encryption appliance.

Hopefully recurly will call names so we can avoid this vendor.
Quite a few countries are currently pegged to the US Dollar (e.g. Cayman Islands dollar), so it is not a new process for a country. Pegging to the UK pound would work better right now than going for the euro.

On a currency side note, I do wish someone would not divide their main currency into 100's (decimal) so pennies wouldn't exist. How about being a nice non-decimal 12?
Interesting website.

Tried: "Luke, I am your Father" and got "Luke, mi ah your fadda".

I've never been to Jamaica so don't know how close this is, though it was interesting enough to try a few phrases.

That said, some ui feedback:
1. Because of the giant ad right beneath the text box, it took me visiting the site twice to see that there was actually content below the fold.

2. The lack of the submit button gave me a pause until I hit enter. For a great deal of my friends this will be a killer issue as they generally don't browse through the use of the enter/return key.

3. Give the number of followers you have on twitter, you should put a "tweet this" button next to the results with a link back to your website or at least cc:ing your twitter account.

4. The ad though big and re-loaded everytime the page is used, could probably be better used if it was to the right or the left. As you are using bootstrap, maybe span7 for the main content and span5 for the ad? That way I don't have to scroll, and the translated phrases don't get lost?

5. As a final thing, it would be great to see what other phrases people had tried to translate. I tried a few funny movie quotes to see what the came back with and thought to myself that it would be funny to see what other things people were putting into the translator.

6. If you really wanted to go really far and funny, try incorporating something like quickmeme.com into it. Not only can I translate the funny sayings, it'll also be in "Jamaican"

Great job getting something up and out and good luck!
Well... http://i.imgur.com/Rxh63.png
Oh, I don't deny that. I was just addressing the typical argument that if people acted in their own interest, they'd screw over everyone else. I don't think that's the case, even without all the other reasons not to screw people over.
Creators build on top of what has come before. It's always been this way and always will be. Nobody starts from square one. Just because Apple moves the needle more than most companies in regards to design, that doesn't give them the right to stifle others from moving forward. Evil.
>>1000x the resources
If you look at the scientist working on it was about that. They had Heisenberg. And about that money wise (don't have the exact numbers.)

The Abomb is a really bad example of not needing government. It was almost entirely an example of what can happen with total government support.. unfortunately that usually comes during a war.
The shoemaker's children always go barefoot.
Les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés.
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This article isn't about how we can't sleep, it's the author telling us why he can't sleep.
Trigger warning: This blog has a popup that appears after several seconds, hiding the content.
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This exact thing made me crack up in embarrassment for them. The irony that this post alone has, is ridiculous.
Interesting forum for someone who wants to learn something about poker bots: http://pokerai.org/pf3/index.php
Quality mass streaming to the US might be difficult without using US infrastructure. And presumably if people start doing it by cloud based streaming nodes, Amazon could be forced to block instances.
That isn't very useful if you are not sysop of the site the old content links to.
I think a lot of is down to user-generated content powering large swathes of the web (the part people still visit). People still link to stuff all the time, but they do it in the context of larger websites / webapps, such as social media or news aggregators.
I once complained to a blogger that he did not use a single link in his article about a new site. His response was that if I wouldn't manage to find the site via Google, I'm too dumb to be using it anyway. So much for links.
For me and many others, exercising before sleep will just keep us up for a few more hours.

I prefer to get my exercise in the late morning or early afternoon. Unless it's a very hot day, then I like to exercise in the morning while the day is heating up.
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The irony in this post kills me. As 'parktheredcar' mentioned, there is no 'blogroll' (or 'link love', as he calls it) on the site, and the first thing that happened to me when I went to the site was an annoying subscribe pop-up. That alone is the exact answer to why this problem exists. As others have mentioned, people are far too greedy and want all the traffic to themselves. You are never going to get back to a linking web when, at the end of the day, you are just losing "customers".
There is a difference between etags and cookies: I know how to delete cookies and I don't know how to delete etags.

I think this is an important distinction and is one of the reasons I was disgusted with Kissmetrics using etags to identify users
You refer to Facebook, Google, Amazon as the real culprits, and not yourself -- but right above that you admit to embedding those same services on your site.

Whether you wrote it or use it makes no difference, your users privacy is compromised when they visit your site.
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The real trick is to validate the feasibility of said product via market testing upfront. It certainly depends on the time it will take to develop the product, but early validation is very important (and every step of the way).
Whoa! As someone who compulsively clicks on text to select it while reading, I can't believe I've never realized this.
I agree the law is bad. I actually stated that the legislation is not very good. However, suing people is probably the best approach bar forcing Firefox, Chrome and IE to ship Ghostery (then what are you going to do?) I mean you're obviously annoyed, aware and scared of the consequences.

However, the fact that you plug oddles of stuff into your web site that intentionally tracks people and hide under the banner of "we merely use" is the sort of attitude we don't want and the sort that should get you sued.

Ignorance and laziness is not an excuse.

I don't want to be tracked by Google Analytics and for my usage to be profiled and tracked across different sites (this almost certainly does happen as GA is capable of reading enough info from the browser to identify a user or at least build a persistent profile). Google do not have to operate under EU privacy laws as they aren't EU based.

Disqus, Twitter, Facebook all track users through these buttons just by them simply being there. None of these have to operate under EU privacy laws as they aren't EU based.

Your buttons and analytics MUST be disabled until someone agrees because you operate under EU privacy laws. That's your problem.

Either put the banner up or get rid of all the junk that you've plugged into your web site.

Regarding analytics, it sounds like analytics has grown to encompass too much of your business model. Have you thought that perhaps you are possibly not entited to the information that you gather?

As for advertising - if your revenue is derived from that, good luck. You're going to die miserably. Find a better model. Build something you can sell rather than something you can scatter with crap to pay your bills.

Sorry don't I don't buy your argument. It seems naive and arrogant.

Users first, or to hell with the WWW.
The problems with hyperlinks are not a bad way to explain dynamic linking, static linking, and app bundles to a non or beginning programmer. Particularly when you throw in the example of a linked website replacing the image you're linking to with another image.

[edit] style sheets are the easiest since they can be internal to page, linked to same site, linked to external site.
You're right, it is a whack-a-mole situation, which is why I'd move more towards a browser and user level solution. The OP made a fine suggestion that bridges responsibility between user, website owner and browser

> The gist would be using a rel element like so:
<a href='privacy.html' rel='privacypolicy'>Privacy</a>
and then using that as a means of consistently linking to a privacy policy. As a result, policies would have consistent language for users ('look for the "Privacy" link') but could also be detected automatically by browsers or testing tools.
That way you could actually test your site is properly linking to a policy, and users could have browser preferences like "disable cookies until I've seen a policy" or whatever.

[edited for clarity]
But but... My phone is my alarm clock too. And my music player. And bedside flashlight. And the PC is the HTPC for my TV...which I watch when falling asleep.
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No, not really, and pace the "we will all want to sit in single pod cars, talking to no-one" approach, I do think rail as we know it is over. Welcome to the car-train.

The subsidies for rail travel are vast, and when there really is a viable alternative an order of magnitude cheaper, the rail industry will go the same way as the dockers did after 1957 (first use of container freight)

That will be a horrible wrench across the world, and will need to be managed well - preferably starting now.

On the plus side, there will be quite a lot of suddenly cheap land for sale throughout western cities - that will play havoc with house prices in 2030.
first pull request merged. look forward to many more :)
"The overwhelming success of Apple’s iPhone 4S has finally hit a lull" - about 2 weeks before it's due to be replaced as the flagship iPhone. The iPhone purchasing cycle is very cyclical - huge sales after the new model is introduced, gradually declining up to the next model (which repeats the cycle). It would surprise me if the S3 hadn't taken the lead over the summer.
RFIDs have a range of, what... 2 feet?
So unless this is some new super-high-tech kind of RFID, it's a key, not a tracker. It's used to access the school, you swipe it when you go to class. There is nothing that makes this technology capable of tracking you out in the street. This is stupid.
I still have lots of external links on my personal website, and I still put up external links almost any time I comment on Hacker News. I write FAQ documents on a few dozen subjects that are set up with links that work by copy-and-paste into emails or on most forums that aren't programmed to actively suppress active links. (Thus those FAQ documents work fine here on Hacker News.)

Links do sometimes break, and the most recent time I submitted a link here on Hacker News that had been changed by the site owner (grrr), another Hacker News user quickly discovered the changed link, and let me know about it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467428

Of course, now I have fixed that in my offline FAQ document. My all-time favorite link to share in a Hacker News comment, the article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, has been alive and well for years with the same URL since I first discovered it. You could safely include it on your website without much fear that it would ever go dead before your own site did.

I link out to other quality websites because linking out to other quality websites is a reliable way to share more information with more of my friends than typing it all out myself. I can't count on everyone actually following and reading the links I put in comments here (which means that some people replying to me here have missed more of my point and the evidence for my point, especially on controversial issues, than is good for informed discussion on HN), but links still help curious readers learn more, and informed readers make for better interaction with your site and almost any site.

There are means to prevent link rot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot

http://validator.w3.org/checklink

and it's worthwhile to use them. It's more worthwhile to provide external links that to your best knowledge and belief still work than to avoid external links entirely.

EDIT AFTER FIRST KIND REPLY RECEIVED HERE:

Peter Norvig is definitely good about linking to other pages on his own site from each page he puts there, at least by putting a home page link unobtrusively at the bottom, as in the link I submitted, but he does link out to other good stuff by other authors (as he especially does in the link I first put in this comment, my favorite online article of his). As an example of the Peter Norvig article with the most INBOUND links from other sites, his most-read page, I should also post here the link to his "The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation,"

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

which is laugh-out-loud funny for anyone who has ever had to sit through a PowerPoint presentation by someone who uses too many of the default settings on PowerPoint.
I had a tremendous amount of fun with 10000000. It worked as a fun little joke about upgrading EVERYTHING, it's got a zippy little feeling to play, and not a pixel onscreen in wasted.

And... even though once I beat it I wished there was another level, I found it refreshing that it simply ended and I got to watch the credits like an old NES game.

I knew nothing about the guy's story, so this was kind of heartwarming.
I am a darkroom fanatic, ever since VT320, can't work otherwise. Emacs darkroom mode on Windows was a PITA to setup correctly. Since I switched to Sublime I'm almost fully satisfied. I'm glad to see vim gets darkroom love too, but this apparently works on OSX only.
Given that the iPhone 5 will be announced next week, a lull in 4S sales isn't so strange.
Don't give him ideas for his next "blogfomerical" :p
Ditto, and this is basically their answer to (Susy)[http://susy.oddbird.net].

Susy's pretty awesome, and Eric Meyer and the Compass community have been working on it for a good year or more. This line sums it up best, "We don't design your site or dictate your markup, we just do the math and get out of your way."

Neat's solution is almost identical in every way, just newer and less tested.
"Right now hacker news and reddit are top notch. But they too will die eventually." Scary thought but aren't these two built on top of what's dyeing. Which are links, "as in nobody links to other websites anymore". You are right no one links to interesting content in their blog posts anymore which is quite sad. But so long as HN and reddit users keep posting links that they find interesting the future is all good.
I have done nothing of the sort either. Our corporate site and web applications have had to have some re-engineering done to not issue cookie straight away. That's the price of operating in the UK and I have no problem with that.

Just remember, the good guys stay good.

The bad guys are easy to pick off now at the browser or the IWF firewall.
The Problem with Animation
Your advice is pretty much spot on however I believe the downvotes are attributed to the fact that reasonable budgetting doesn't prevent obsession. It may help prevent you from overspending initially but using moderation to prevent an addiction is a bit of an oxymoron.
Am I the only one who smirked while reading the title of the blog after clicking through, only to see a site-overlay popup?

'Subscribe to our newsletter'
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Isn't Apple looking to ban the S3 in the US? The new iPhone (based on rumour sites) is looking like just a taller version of the current.
I hope they are able to sort this out wth a reasonable outcome and protect against these failures in the future, but I cant be the only one who thinks this post should have been a little more personal. When a company makes a mistake like this, they need to accept responsibility, say how they will prevent it from happening again, and apologize. It is too early for them to say how they will prevent it, but simply adding something like "Hey guys, we messed up, we are sorry and we are working around the clock to get all of you back to normal" to the end of the post would go a long way
If I'm not mistaken the last example could be more simple using just res.send(rows); stringify, content-type and end are all taken care of. Could have saved yourself a few hours :)
That depends on their tax policies. Spending plans less English handouts leaves a huge gap to fill. Of course they'll try to support fledgling businesses but if the large wealthy businesses (and people) leave then ...

I know plenty of businesses eyeing up moves across the border.
We've had article after article on a secret copyright treaty and Megaupload. Perhaps, this event will prompt the government to reconsider its copyright policy. More likely, they will just get mad a youtube and not the policies and environment they create.
You're right of course, but as the only solution would be for:

(a) Us to remove said services
(b) Our competitors to not
(c) Us to suffer unjustly, while they prosper

Then no. The obligation should be on the provider of those services, or the law should be enforced equally. It's not enforced at all.

We clearly explain what those services do in our privacy policy and we include in that an explanation of why we see there being no meaningful privacy implication for users. What's the worst Facebook/Google could do with your information - know you looked at our website? It's hardly porn.
Flagged for the really obnoxious "subscribe to our newsletter" pop-up (that apparently is more important than the content on the page, since it hides the content as you get a few sentences in), and, as others pointed out, for committing the same crime it's ranting about.

This really smells like spam, and either way, isn't HN quality.
Thank you! Wow, looks like it has 2.5k+ members.