skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top professional cyclists can maintain a power output of around 400-450 Watts for short durations of a few minutes (5 minutes). 300 Watt levels can be maintained for time periods of a couple of hours (approximately).

It appears this type of bicycle motor can maintain 250 Watts for around 30 minutes.

Bottom line - it can make a massive difference to a cyclist performance.
For some reason, http://meshbird.com isn't being destroyed in my chrome browser like https://
> For group chat, the best option seems to be a TLS only server and an agreement with all parties to avoid publishing logs on sensitive channels. Whatever technical measures or protocols are in place, you always rely on your correspondents' cooperation (no logging, no bots, only use secure terminals, etc).

Exactly, at the end of the day you're still depending on people not to leak these things anyway.
LOL, $50 for a HTML editor.
StartSSL do wildcards for $30/yr (minimum 2 years).
How stay focused (while working on your laptop)
It probably isn't that easy to find competent people to do that.
I really wish IRC and other open protocols had a chance against Slack and the entire walled-garden ecosystem. Personally I'm highly willing to do some extra-setup in order to at least own the history of all my messages (not to mention the ridiculousness of separate Slack groups requiring separate logins) - of course this is a developers take, which excludes all the other employees..

Ultimately the Out-of-the-box some setup required has in as much doomed IRC as desktop Linux. The obvious problem being that the people that are interested in working on these things for free are nerds who are okay with the setup -- which just perpetuates a closed-cycle.
It's pretty simple in its current form, but if one were to add user authentication then it would be possible to do anything implemented in the Github API.

For example, this project is using issues in the purpose of posting/commenting, but theoretically you could use them as a general purpose database.
The CIA has no jurisdiction outside of the USA. Do you not understand that?
No. The main issue here is cookie control, or, to be exact, the complete lack of one.

You can't tell user-agents "the cookie I set must be valid for example.org and websocket.example.org but no others" (the example is crude and non-scalable, real-world semantics of this must be different), which leads to all sort of problems. Heavier static media requests, mixed cookie state if you use staging.example.org for pre-production environment, inability to provide third parties subdomains for their UGC, etc etc. All can be solved but not really convenient.

Would there be a way to have good control over cookie scoping, a lot of hacks would be gone and www/non-www distinction would be purely cosmetic for most cases. Granted, not all, SRV records are still a good idea.
Not sure where you got that 64bit thing from. I wrote an app using Swift and it runs fine on my 32bit iPhone 5.
Opensource Slack like emoji picker with Apple, Twitter, Google, Emojione support
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If the CIA wanted to grab him, they could, regardless of where he is

In Russia? Spetsnaz would eat them alive. Maybe Mossad could pull it off but no way the CIA.
Why not re-write EVERYTHING in Rust?

Because we all know new languages are silver bullets, right?
$50 is nothing for such a tool for a one time payment! Even at that price it is very difficult for the tool to make a profitable full time business model. I want to also add that the 50% discount is not a helpful message either.

I always ask my team, how is that as developers we always want free software but yet want a salary hike every year as a software programmer!
Definitely the implementation of a (simplified) Scheme interpreter in Scheme we were doing years ago in a functional programming course on university. It made me fall in love with functional programming.
I don't see what's wrong with that. Girls are often worried by the changes that they go through during puberty (especially when they are the first among their friends to go through them), I suppose that doll could help.

The post calls that doll "perverted", but I would rather apply that adjective to the people that think the doll is perverted...
I think the benefit is as a source of inspiration. Finding data can require a lot of domain knowledge which students especially tend to lack. The problem is that the lists are always incomplete and other data may be more appropriate for a particular use case.

Also, quality is more complex than just stars or activity. You need to know what the advantages or limitations are and how that applies to your project.
When you consider the fact that you experience the

the effect even across multiple lines, then this

explanation really doesn't sound as likely. Or, what

you're saying is correct, just applied one layer up.
Yes, and the (regular) watch I bought 8 years ago is still as good as new, while an iPhone 1 today would be considered barely usable.
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Well, to be honest, it might be. I myself would never pay so much for software because I have better things to pay, like electricity, water, internet, etc. I'm not saying you should not pay for software, but poor people, even more poor under-18 developers, don't really have the conditions to pay for such things.
Yep, a very good book.
Also, it shows that being a spy is mostly drudge work. For example, he would observe a place for days/weeks before he was convinced it would be a safe pick up point.
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Yeah because shills don't prep in advance, right? Lmfao.
src: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Am-1-Februar-ist-Aend...
Writing across

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Alternative yes, but in my personal experience far from good. This applies also to the previous version 3.
Am I the only one who wants a dumber smart watch? I'll be carrying my phone at (almost) all times, so I don't need the watch itself to have a power sucking processor and the battery to go with it.

I'd be happy if it just used some low-power communication to relay information from my phone. It doesn't need a big touchscreen either. Imagine a "smartwatch communication standard" that let normal good-looking watches with months or years (or perpetual) battery time display info from all smartphone platforms would be fantastic. That way I could get an expensive watch and not have to worry about whether it's going to be an expensive paperweight in a few years. I'm happy to buy a $1000 smartphone, but a $1000 watch I want to use for a decade, even if its smart features don't work any more.
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Most children are creative. I taught in a school for a year and there was only one child who had zero creativity (the exercise was to write a film plot and he basically reproduced the "Cool Runnings" story).
But the school system has had to prepare kids for adult life and repetitive boring jobs. That may change as the machines take over, so like Baudelaire we can truly become lovers of clouds.
How much would you charge - if you made it?
This is the thing that's gets me about encryption on public communication platforms. On the one hand, I do want my authentication to be secured, but as much as we might discuss securing chat, it's all posted in the public anyway. It's like standing on a street corner and shouting your personal details and hoping that's every stranger adheres to the implied NDA.

At the end of the day, as long as your authentication is secured, then that keeps your password safe. The fact that your communication to the server is also secured is a bonus as it means that any eavesdroppers can't tell which user your are not even which channels you hang out on. But anything more than that is just pointless given you can't trust all clients to be secure.

I'm not entirely sure this is a problem that can be solved in any way either. If the text can be read, then it can be ripped and logged. Much like the Snapchat problem and how ineffective DRM is at stopping piracy. (OK, not exactly the same, but definitely some overlap)
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I was certain that when I clicked through I'd see the repeated "the". Then I pressed the back button having experienced a revelation.
you must have missed the part of that advertisment which reads "No longer must valuable engineering personnel ... spend priceless creative time at routine figuring"

They're not obsolete at all, they're just doing better things with their time.
I'm not sure I understood you right - are you saying 7% Canadians are illiterate?
It's actually unreasonable for parents these days to expect that kids will achieve their own level of success, because the distribution of rewards in society now fall so much more disproportionally to the handful at the very top of any field than they did in their parent's generation, and the generation before that.

"Nobel prize or the gutter" is merely a logical conclusion in a world where only the very best at anything are valued.
I'm sorry about my tone, but my point is that even our sprawling app was converted almost automatically. The breaking changes are very few, and even fewer of them require any action on the part of the developer (the only exception I can think of is error handling). It can't possibly take a week to migrate Yo, unless you spent months writing it.
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Generally speaking, Xcode can usually automatically migrate your code, and the places where it can't are pretty easily done manually.

Swift doesn't require 64-bit iOS, and never has as far as I recall.
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I just don't use Flexbox. Not in production.
I get this almost everyday when a parent brings their kids laptop in for repair. "Kids these days! They are brilliant with these things" ... So why are you bringing it to me to fix?
Why do you think I don't accept other people. By all means, be and do what your heart desires.

I just think it's unwise to throw $600+ on a piece of experimental tech which is cumbersome to use and makes you look like a "me too" teenager.

That, when more than half the people on Earth earn less than that in a year ...
Kotlin looks somewhat like Swift (or Swift like Kotlin, depending on your perspective) and you get all the tools and libraries that have been built up over the years for server side programming on the JVM.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11003876
Actually, I was surprised you were surprised :) I always wear my watch while sleeping, never seen a problem in that.

But then I realized in other comments that you were not alone in that. My bet: people who remove their watch for sleeping are the ones who tend to wear it tight, while people keeping it wear it loose.
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This a good read, but keep in my a lot of things are pure propaganda. Soviets wanted someone to write how scary they are. After all he didn't end up like Litvinenko.
What else should GitHub do? The only thing they have to match commits to users is the author information in the commits. And at least in the timeline it AFAIK shows up that someone else pushed them.
I find the existence of this kind tool to be strange, but that may just be because of my preferred way of working. Despite the fact that i'm not hugely keen on Bootstrap, I recognise that people find it useful. But do people really love it so much that they build an ecosystem and actual paid apps around it? It just seems like such a weird thing to focus your energy on.
The article reminds me of this:

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's
longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to
make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bow from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrow may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable." * - "The Prophet" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951) p.17-18.

Most parents that enforce their own ideals and values on their children are narcissistic. They either do not love their children or have so poor an understanding of love itself that they cannot love properly.
My uni makes this extra fun with different sites on http and https.
Probably the most used encryption on top of IRC is mircryption [1] and its compatibles [2]. This was popular on EFnet 15 years ago already.

[1] http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/mircryption/

[2] There are lots of plugins that add mircryption compatibile encryption to IRC clients on all platforms, e.g. for modern mIRC there's FiSH 10 https://github.com/flakes/mirc_fish_10
NMAP. I'm sure you can find a gui-like program for it. Just scan your routers subnet.
Agreed, and also: the insane long version is just str-<Complete> and a couple arrow taps and it auto-completes.

So it's just as short, from a typing perspective. With a lot of free bonus clarity.

I lived through the bad years when Apple's dev tools were half-baked and made you almost pine for the first dot-com bubble when you were writing Java (but in IDEA IntelliJ, which made it almost worth it).

But today Xcode is state-of-the-art, at least in terms of autocomplete, and it makes a big difference.
Did some baby steps in Modula-2 out of curiosity about 20 years back. The IDE and compiler were horrible compared to Turbo Pascal, so I went right back to that.
We are providing an option to bring together walled gardens with matrix.org: an open standard for federated distributed and persistent communications. It does give you the option to run your own server and bridge to other services like IRC (and Slack actually).
We're also building Vector.im as a glossy client on top of Matrix to precisely address the fact that non techy users need something easy to use.
So all this might answer your concern :)
It's unfair of me, but I'm always turned off when I see a desktop app that works on multiple platforms. That irrationally soured my first impression, because I think it otherwise looks like a great tool.
There are plans for hypothetical scenarios, and then there is the enacting of the initial stages of the plan by stationing a plane and team and securing the cooperation of a host country.
Switzerland will vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month
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A comment thread where they translate some of the comics -

http://mysticwicks.com/archive/index.php/t-102222.html
Are there any widely used WYSIWYG web editors left that this could be a plugin for? I can't remember seeing one of those in ages.
Trial is crucial before buying.
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We have a clear vocabulary problem especially in the UI layer, where we never really know what to call things. I've been working on a test tool that involves assigning a natural language name to each rendered entity, so you can then tell the tool to "Look at the sidebar. Click the compose button. Now look at the profile pane. See a message composition view." The hope is to get both a test suite and an encouragement to think of the UI entities in a more "ubiquitous language" type way. It's still an early experiment but it's turning out quite nicely and I hope to release it as open source within a couple of weeks.
Regarding your uncreative kid: Talent borrows..
I used to use Emacs and SQL&*Plus, but after trying SQL Developer have stuck with that.
There's a WIP spec for batched messages, which will be useful to group netsplit-related join/part messages, and for history playback: http://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/batch/chathistory-3.3.html

IRCCloud will be happy to support this as a client in due course. We also run our own custom IRCd for teams, which gives us a nice testing ground for implementing new bits of the server spec.
Does anyone else get an icky feeling from looking at cartoons from a late-1940s German newspaper? Entertainment for people of a country that only 5 years ago at the time was ushering millions into forced labor and gas chambers.
Just as popular JavaScript libraries spawn many superfluous forks and microframeworks, the landing of Flexbox has resulted in dozens of these CSS 'frameworks' and grid systems:

1. http://basegui.de

2. https://github.com/ButaneCSS/butanecss

3. http://juicedcss.com

4. http://bowlingx.github.io/flexcss

5. http://codepen.io/geoffyuen/pen/ogrPbZ

6. https://github.com/meerita/flexsasscandy

7. http://getmdl.io/components/index.html#layout-section/grid

8. https://kevinpy.com/Projects/Flexo

9. http://philippkuehn.github.io/gridilydidily

10. http://stylusgrid.com

11. https://github.com/IonicaBizau/gridly

12. https://github.com/colourgarden/avalanche

13. https://milligram.github.io/

14. https://github.com/ButaneCSS/butanecss

15. http://bulma.io/documentation/grid/

16. http://gridlex.devlint.fr/

17. http://crabcss.com

and that's but a fraction of the full list.

I haven't bothered to sit down and actually assess whether these flexbox grids actually differ from each other (my gut says that it's not possible for them to differ too much). My gut also tells me that there has to be an apex, an optimal Flex-based grid from which there can be no improvement.

I think a big part of the problem of why websites all look a bit similar is because they're all developed using Bootstrap, Bourbon or Foundation, and apparently on the rare occasion where a front-end framework is not used, an offshoot or "heavily-inspired by" alternative is used instead.

Nobody is thinking about what /could/ be, but rather what can be done in the least time to produce the best approximation of a contemporary website. Nobody wants to push the boundaries. Maybe we've reached an optimal paradigm for the design and layout of websites. I don't think so.

I always implement my own CSS, mainly because I really don't like carrying frameworks around. If I need all of a framework's features, I'll consider using it. Since I never need all of a framework's freatures, that never happens. If I ever do need a full front-end framework's worth of features, here's a framework that seems flexible, modular and solid to me:
http://www.basscss.com/

and if you want a great grid, look at this:
http://peterramsing.github.io/lost/

and if you want to wait for a more powerful future grid tool, investigate the CSS Grid Spec:

http://gridbyexample.com/

http://gridbyexample.com/examples/page-layout/

http://abookapart.com/products/get-ready-for-css-grid-layout

https://24ways.org/2015/grid-flexbox-box-alignment-our-new-s...
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2015/11/03/three-years-w...
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2015/04/14/grid-layout-a...
Sure, I think the OP was talking about people who earn the price of this tool in an hour or two, not people who aren't even working.

Software pricing is a very strange beast. It seems to vary so widely, with not always a very obvious price/quality connection. And over time, it doesn't seem to follow any reasonable expectation; I paid £65 for a game 25 years ago, which would be over £90 in today's money.
While reading the article, another possibility for reducing the cost of housing crossed my mind: Ways to make small living spaces more livable. Most of the cost of housing is land, and living in cheaper places is not that desirable - young people especially prefer to live in cities.

So I'm not sure what exactly is the best way for making small living spaces more livable. Maybe convenient+cheap laundry services to eliminate the bulk of washing machine & dryer?
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What? How on earth multiplatform support could be a bad thing?
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$25 for a pretty superb WYSIWYG editor with CSS and JavaScript support, in-app responsive design tool, selectable themes, etc. I enjoy it. I'm not at all into coding front-end design, which is always a project-stopper for me. Something like this makes the GUI part easy, even though it's "just bootstrap".
Previous (quite lengthy) discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499409
I didn't talk about growth, i was specifically thinking about a comment that called our number system logarithmic and it stands to reason, if you wan't to find x in 10^x=y, unless you do calculus in your head at the age of five, you may as well look at a grap of the exponential progression. now that's two incoherent arguments, but the latter should point out that it doesn't really matter which way, and the first alludes that there is something more basic to the logarithm, something easier to capture. If I look at the grid pattern in logarithmic plots, it's not a runaway progression but a nice repetition where the zeros in the end of the numbers at each 10^n interval behave like the unary number system, which is the basic positional system and arguably easier even then binary.
Hmm... generally, I would say that is irrational. Unless you're assuming something like a 1990's Java Swing app, or a GTK app, that achieves cross-platform support at the expense of looking like crap on all platforms.

However, based on the fact that this app has an "in-Chrome browser" demo mode available... I'm assuming that it's REALLY a web application, packaged up for desktop use (like the Atom text editor).

Personally, I think that the Atom route of "HTML/JavaScript on the desktop" is a poor choice in most cases (a Bootstrap designer tool might be the rare exception). Regardless, there are multiple cross-platform frameworks out there today that look and work just great. Being turned off by cross-plat support is really an outdated bias, I think.
Like... any watch? :). Lots of people (myself included) sleep with their watches on; there's a big parallel comment subthread about it here :).
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You said: ". My rules may suck, but they have the advantage of being reality."

Hence "reality sucks". I don't see that I misread that.

I agree you didn't say anywhere that you shouldn't try to change the status quo, but to be fair, there's often a lot of confusion between "that's how things are" and "that's how things should be".

I don't have the patience for a lengthy discussion on this now- apologies.
This looks incredibly brittle. What if one of those dependencies releases a new major version on its master branch that breaks compatibility?

You are not supposed to do this in Go. If you make changes that are API-incompatible, you need to create a new import path. From the Go FAQ:

Packages intended for public use should try to maintain backwards compatibility as they evolve. The Go 1 compatibility guidelines are a good reference here: don't remove exported names, encourage tagged composite literals, and so on. If different functionality is required, add a new name instead of changing an old one. If a complete break is required, create a new package with a new import path.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#get_version

Whether this is a good approach is the question, but pushing API compatibilities to an existing import path is considered to be bad.

(Since creating a new repository for each API-breaking version is annoying, there are sites such as http://gopkg.in/ that allow you to expose version branches as a different import paths.)