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> Why has this become so popular?

It settles the age old question of "Hey, did you get my message?". Many people like this functionality.
Oh neat, bubble.is is apparently a WYSIWYG no-code thing that the "developer" of this site says is going to replace software engineers.

Yeah, that worked out great for FrontPage didn't it?
The first few comments posted here didn't even describe the article, so I thought I should at least do that. You can, of course, read the whole article yourself to form your own opinion. The article is organized as a pro-con debate (with the "con" side first) on whether the broad classes of medicines prescribed for psychiatric conditions (mostly mood disorders and schizophrenia) are helpful or not.

The writer who says that the drugs' "benefits would need to be colossal to justify [patient deaths associated with their use], but they are minimal" is Peter C Gøtzsche, a professor at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen. I would ordinarily expect someone with an affiliation with the Cochrane centers to have an evidence-based perspective on evaluating treatments for human disease, and I think he makes some good criticisms of study designs about drug effectiveness for treating psychiatric disorders.

The writers who say that "Psychiatric drugs are as beneficial as other treatments used for common, complex medical conditions. Leucht and colleagues reviewed the efficacy of psychiatric and general medicine drugs by analysing meta-analyses: they found that psychiatric drugs were generally as efficacious as other drugs" are Allan H Young, professor of mood disorders at King’s College London and John Crace, psychiatric patient and a writer for The Guardian. They in turn make several thoughtful criticisms of the studies Gøtzsche relies on to infer harm. My personal impression is that they have the better of the argument, because the conditions treated with the drugs mentioned in this article are themselves fatal, and if left untreated greatly increase patient mortality.

I think everyone who follows this research closely (as I do, as part of my journal club participation with researchers on human behavior genetics) has settled on the conclusion that patients are genetically diverse even if they have the same diagnosis, and therefore a drug that works for one patient may not work for another. But a drug that works for an immediate family member of the patient probably will work for the patient, and "talk therapy" of a kind proven to be safe and effective is an important both-and to add to treatment of major psychiatric disorders. Patients with major psychiatric disorders ARE living longer and enjoying better day-by-day functioning than ever before in my lifetime, so the statistics trump the anecdotes in showing that something about current treatment is working to help patients.
People who are commenting and saying that this doesn't make any sense are missing the real use case here: fast prototyping and iterations.

What product manager wouldn't like to be able to quickly test and iterate on concepts without bothering the developers?

I feel like if bubble.is can nail this, in a year 90% of "Show HN" product launches and new ideas on Product Hunt will be built with this tool.

It's the new and better launchrock as it's actually a reflection of the product.
At least in the United States, Personality rights are only for commercial use. You do not need someone's consent to take their photo or to publish said photo as long as you do not attempt to profit from it.

This for example allows you to take a photo on the street and publish it even if the photo contains some strangers. The concern that does come up is whether the subject of the photo has a reasonable expectation of privacy; if they are in public, they do not.
(note: not a lawyer, but I have taken many photos of strangers)
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Maybe you didn't fit in because you referred to your colleagues as kids? Our Data Scientist must be pushing 70 and he fits in just fine with our young startup crowd. He is probably the most liked guy at the company and has more extracurricular activities going on than the rest of us.
This is indeed where the article goes, but I suggest risk is overstated as a factor here.

Everyone knows they should be tested, so an incentive to actually go and do it doesn't need to be large or meaningful. This also acts as a genuine acknowledgement by the state that this is important and that it's without taboo.

Testing reduces everyone's chance of being infected - so it ought to reduce risk-takers' chances proportionately more, lottery or not.
The growth of messaging apps like WhatsApp and WeChat, which reflects a preference for communicating with smaller groups of contacts more frequently, in contrast with the one-to-many mode of communication popularized by social networks like Facebook and Twitter
Here's a little more info on the nanomotor which Bill McLellan built to win one of Feynman's prizes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3785509.stm

Amazingly he was able to build the motor by hand using tools such as a sharpened toothpick.
> I was surprised that with the emphasis on debt and credit in the article, David Graeber's Debt: The first 5,000 years wasn't mentioned.

This is minor, but the article probably didn't mention that book because it wasn't published until about 98 years later.

Thanks for the book recommendation, though. It sounds interesting, as do the ideas about energy backing and "demand rights".
And FreeBSD apparently started in 2001: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2004-June/012487.html

While it did advance the state of the art in many things, Linux really clings to reinventing the wheel in obvious cases. NIH FTW.
Worse than that, that app claims to be "FEATURED BY APPLE AS AN INVALUABLE UTILITY 2014"
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Wow very interesting project. I am wondering does it required to write control code or if it comes with built in autopilot which control software do you use?
I was always in the New York office (before and after the move from Times Square to Chelsea), on the Rich Content Team sub-team of Indexing. My username is the same as my old Google username.

I was working on the lightweight high-performance JavaScript interpretation system that sandboxed pretty much just a JS engine and a DOM implementation that we could run on every web page on the index. Most of my work was trying to improve the fidelity of the system. My code analyzed every web page in the index.

Towards the end of my time there, there was someone in Mountain View working on a heavier, higher-fidelity system that sandboxed much more of a browser, and they were trying to improve performance so they could use it on a higher percentage of the index.
Very soon you might realize, that Twitter is good not bcoz of frontend but the major tech expertise is in the backend systems to handle super high traffic and dispatching messages quickly.
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial..."

That varies from state to state. In my state, the District Attorney just has to get you to trial within a year of your arrest.

Not showing up to work for a year because you couldn't afford bail can have a negative impact on one's finances, to say the least.
The 97% loss in value of the dollar is brought up again and again as if it's some shocking fact. But that drop happened over a century, and fiat money is not expected to be s long term store of value. So really, that "shocking"drop is a non-issue unless your retirement savings account was a bed mattress.
I think lots of people on HN are programmers, so probably a good place to post it, no? Good to get the people that will be 'replaced' in 20 years or whatever to start thinking about other ways to use their knowledge or at least thinking about how the industry could evolve in the future!
At least Taco Bell was the exclusive way to get your Taco Bell fix. Myntra is just an e-tailer, and many of their products you can get elsewhere. So it makes even _less_ sense than Taco Bell's move.

Interestingly, you can still access Myntra's non-frontpage: http://www.myntra.com/women
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I think this serves as a good example of minimising one's attack surface.

The exploit is in the floppy disk controller, of a virtual machine, in an era when almost no physical machine includes a floppy disk drive, and those entering the field might never have seen a floppy disk other than the "File -> Save" icon; plus the exploit can be triggered even when the FDC is disabled.

Certainly a sobering thought for those using large, feature-filled applications 'just in case' some feature might be needed in the future.
Relevant IBM Video: A Boy and his Atom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
Silent Text is $10/month or so that's why there is no mass adoption.
There's a difference between being charged and convicted. If the text is correct, they can't rob you until you've been convicted of a crime in a court of law. So that means while you rot in jail under a fake charge you at least still have your stuff.

Which you will then start to sell off so you can afford the legal defense required to fight the false charges. A person can be found innocent of all charges but still be wiped out financially from defending themselves. That's called "justice".
when government agencies can bypass courts and assign fines, not offer jury trials, what safety does the common man have?

Civil forfeiture is a major problem but the abuse of using administrative law judges (ALJs) is becoming a big one as well.
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Isn't WhatsApp more secure than telegram now that it implements the textsecure protocol? I guess the biggest hurdle with whatsapp now is what to do when the public key for a user changes...
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Happiness is found by peace in your own reflection. Be happy where you are, with what you have, with who you are. It's not attained by anything further than this. Arousal feels good, but that's not happiness. Thrill feels good, but it's not happiness. These things are distractions, like drugs, hobbies, work. Happiness is contentment within the moment and delight in what the moment brings.
I'm not insisting anything. I'm just saying that lack of immediate and full disclosure is essentially crony capitalism where there are the Big Important Companies That Must Be Protected and then there is everybody else, including small startups and private individuals.

It is fundamentally unfair, and sets up a non-level playing field.

(inb4 "critical infrastructure")
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That must have been horrible. I had a similar experience, but what I got out of it is that I relearned what "friend" actually stands for and that not many exist in my life. "Close aquaintances" are more common, but friends are rare.
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I've deleted this comment based on replies, I may have had wrong information : )
Text messaging is cross platform
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Tell the entire market the information you have and let them do with it as they will, versus telling your friends first and letting everyone else go to hell.
I never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. The rise of RSS in the mid 2000's gave way to all sorts of plugins to inject ads into your RSS feeds as a way to cope with the lost web traffic
This is one of my biggest rants as a VMWare admin. Every VM I build, I have to boot to BIOS and disable the drive there. Why is it even enabled? Do VM manufacturers have a large number of government or corporate customers for whom a floppy interface is necessary? I haven't had to use them in almost 10 years; even RAID drivers are downloadable for easy use with any CD or USB drive, and even slipstreamed into the OS install.

Unfortunately I'm always working with established systems, so I can't push this feedback during the sales process.
I am really happy to see Telegram growing. I am one of those people who deleted Whatsapp (and lost touch with 30-40 people and several groups) when Facebook bought it.

So far I have been happy with it, even though only like 5 of my friends use it. Yeah, it may (or may not) have security flaws like many on HN complain, but I would take it anyday over FB owned give-us-all-your-data product.
When security is important, users are far better off not using anything than they are using something that they have misunderstood to be secure.

So the share with server by default, brag about security approach is really bad, especially in the instances where the need for security is very clear.

It also seems to be the case that Telegram is not making users aware enough of the importance of verifying the keys used to establish the secret chats (see the link here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9538879 , users are sharing channel keys over the channel they are trying to establish). So there is a second level of traps that a user has to avoid to even have a chance of using Telegram securely.
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>"What are you down for?" //

Unless you understand that particular vernacular this is a question as to why someone is upset/depressed. "Down" carries a lot of negative weight as a word; I'd consider a rename/rebrand. Of course it's perhaps trendy enough in a particular region/segment to overpower the negative association?

I don't see any differentiators in the page from a Facebook event listing; the "See who's down" could probably use some more info?

FWIW on app store page: s/show/shout, s/Beta/beta.
If you're doing number crunching, then it will definitely be worth it.

Depends on the kind of number crunching. If you are doing expensive matrix computations, a high-end GTX CPU or a Tesla stream processor may buy you much more for the same price.

Also, if the choice is between cache size and architecture, a new architecture may bring more. E.g. my Core i7 MacBook royally beats some of our Xeon machines with 25MB cache, by virtue of having AVX with 256 bit wide registers for SIMD.

Of course, if you can have it all, take it all :).
Do they allow multiple SIM cards for the same person?
Deus Ex wasn't noted as a good-looking game at release.
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If the resulting sites can't handle a traffic spike, it's not that great a tool, is it? No one wants a hammer that shatters if you swing it too hard...

Being optimistic, it might just be a hosting problem.
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So... Facebook events?
any one wanna bet they will re-enable the website access after a while ?
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I've been using Zoho Creator for years (http://creator.zoho.com) as a tech-savvy non-developer. Anyone had any experience with both Creator and Bubble and can compare the two?
I honestly don't think I will ever use something like this because you have to stick to the resources provided. Also they might have released it too soon. I tried signing up and this is the message I get "Sorry, we ran into a temporary bug and can't complete your request. We'll fix it as soon as we can; please try again in a bit!"
LICM is indeed very simple to do, I wrote it for a JIT emulator I was working on a while ago. It turns out that it's not always fast. There's a bunch of weird cases that happen that can destroy your performance.

LICM is highly dependent on the quality of your trace recording or method inlining.

Not disagreeing with what you wrote at all, just wanted to provide an anecdote.
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Don't forget that Heartbleed was in a new feature of TLS... legacy or not doesn't matter. If anything I'd say that older code tends to mature and stabilise over time as bug fixes are applied - it's the "rip everything out and rewrite it" mentality that leads to more bugs.
Oh man, really? Did it trigger you?
You seem to have twisted my "tell everyone and let the fittest survive and thrive" into some weird Harrison Bergeron thing which is the exact opposite of my point.
> Unless you live in an area where "taxation" means armed men come to your house and demand all your cash on April 15th.

They don't bother with armed men. If I refuse to pay long enough, they just take it straight out of my paycheck (wage garnishment). No need to intimidate someone when you own their bank.
If the directors can't put a value on the work, you need to work with them in order to do so. If they don't know the value of a project, they'll never be able to figure out if it should be funded or not. If you can help them at this stage, your value to them will go up, and your opinion will be respected more than that of a "mere technician". You don't want to be the guy who wrote the switching algorithm. You want to be "the guy who saved the firm six million dollars." The latter looks much better on a consultant's resume. Also, the directors can pass your analysis along to their managers to show how well they manage their affairs.

Charging by value isn't simply about setting prices. It's about figuring out how to include items that might not cost you much money but provides extreme value to your customer. As an example, I worked for an organization where I bundled a specific type of graph into their software. Time for me to build: a few hours. Value to the customer: saved thousands of man-hours per year. That's a BIG savings that I could charge a lot for.

The key aspect of value pricing is that you will charge different amounts to different people for the exact same work. Why? The value a given piece of software will create will depend upon who is using it. Want to sell me a system to manage huge amounts of data? I wouldn't even pay a penny for it. Want to sell it to Google? They might spend a hundred million without a second thought.

I think that Sean Wes has a good worksheet for interviewing clients: http://seanwes.com/value-based-pricing/

As a shameless plug, I also wrote a book on how to price software http://TapRun.com/pricing
> They propose to put their companies capital assets into the homes of consumers and then extract value from those assets in a manner adversarial to the consumers interests. End users/attackers can do everything from blackhole the network traffic of the device to modify the firmware to target the hashing power to a new mining pool. Virtually any weakness in the engineering has the potential to be exploited at vast scale. This should terrify them.

Mark my words. If this or similar idea ever takes hold and begins to spread, I am going to start an open source project to hack those devices and redirect their hashing power where consumers want in as easy and streamlined way as possible so that everyone could do it.

I'm tired of companies extracting value from customers in adversarial manner, literally telling their users "fuck you" in their faces.
I use Zurmo community edition for myself. It's php based, pretty easy to install. Zurmo people were snatched up by a company but the community edition is open source and it seems will have a future there.
@lpsz can you support these statements? "For one, "RAM cleaning" does nothing helpful and theoretically can make your Mac less performant. Bonus: the app calls home to push the developer's other apps."
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They could still just as easily take the existing digital master and dial down the amplitude a bit to work with vinyl. This would be especially easy considering how few vinyl records they sell vs digital. But, many people are paying a premium for vinyl and expecting better sound.
> Sure, their job is to deal with shitty people with a smile

There is so much projection here I'm not even sure where to start.

Lets say I'm working with retail worker who has been trained to be as difficult as possible to stop my RMA attempt for something I bought that was broken. I can see things from her point of view and understand her paycheck comes from her financial masters who want her to deny my RMA, but that infringes on my return rights. Now I express this as clearly as I can. Guess what, now I'm an "asshole" because $big_co wants to be able to casually rip people off.

I pretty much got into a yelling match about a serious engine fault on my wife's warrantied car a few years ago. Its only after I was particularly nasty did they relent and do the work. Why does the guy making $12 an hour behind the counter want to deny me my entitled service? Because Jeep told him to limit this kind of very expensive work.

This is so much more complex than you make it. Niceness and kindness do not resolve the fundamental conflict we are having. If anything, it allows the kind person to be taken advantage of. If I wasn't at the dealer with my wife they would have steamrolled her the same way other mechanics have steamrolled her.

The world is a nasty place and how we handle it is situation dependent. Want me to be nice to you? Treat me with some goddamn respect and don't try to rip me off. Because if you don't, you'll deal with a lot of "assholes." "Assholes" who are just working schmucks trying to get through the day without being ripped off.

I think the "kind" people of HN need to stop calling everyone who disagrees with them or have different motivators "assholes." Disagreement, argument, and negotiation are fundamentals in life. Retail staff need to learn to handle that. Its a huge entitlement to be this snotty retail person who hates all his customers. The lady who wants to return the broken food processor isn't a "bitch" because she got you off your freemium game for a minute and she's not a "mindless breeder" because she fed her crying baby on your counter. Or "stuck up" because she had to answer the pediatricians call on her iphone while you were processing the return.
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It's like Kickstarter, without the accountability of even the comments section!
To answer your question directly, it is bad because it gives them a massive unfair advantage over their smaller competitors. It favors incumbents versus favoring efficiency.
The whole thing is built using bubble.is

If any of the site's devs are browsing the comments, you might want to address this problem I found while navigating the site: http://imgur.com/h0iUIVw
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Not encrypted by default? Really?
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>The article says that even if you turned off the option, Xen and QEMU have a bug which doesn't actually do that.

Incompetence on top of incompetence doesn't invalidate my argument. Minimizing your attack surface should be the norm, unfortunately here on HN it just leads to downvotes.
They used to run this beautifully integrated ad on speedtest.net, where the robot character was rendered in the same neon green motif. It looked like it was just part of the site. That meant that Ookla must have had an incredibly close working relationship with the ad people at MacKeeper. Feels so dirty.
I could think of a pretty much harmless blade design that MIGHT work (soft blades), but they'd be woefully inefficient AND they would only work for those super-ultra-light micro/nano drones.

Anything else is not harmless. Even a tiny quadcopter can easily cut your skin, because the plastic is hard and sharp. Think of it as one of those plastic picnic knives, except not that sharp --- BUT rotating very, very fast.
The basic problem is, as people have pointed out, euphemistic political language and moral relativism.

Asset forfeiture is theft.
Taxation is theft.
Imprisonment is kidnapping.
War is killing.
And so on.

They are not necessarily evil. It would not be evil for me to steal my neighbours' rifle if I knew he had nefarious plans. It is not evil to take money from a billionaire if he willingly allows the poor to starve otherwise.

But it is still theft.

Somehow people seem unwilling to use the basic, concrete, obvious terms and prefer intelligent-sounding euphemisms.