triplepoint217's comments

Yes, I would be more likely to play in Python, though I guess I do need to bite the bullet and learn javascript at some point.

If you can integrate haste or fay and let people play in Haskell that would be indeed be epic, and I would definitely use it (as haskell is my learning project at the moment)

You might also think about putting it on the arXiv (arxiv.org). I think they take articles that haven't been submitted to journals, and it is a bit of a recognized source of articles (there are citation guidelines for arxiv articles for example).

Awesome!. As a, alibet very small, mailgun customer, I am happy to see them pushing a big chunk of their code open source.

Amusing anecdote: I was at a pg talk last week, and afterwards someone in the audience came up and asked if SR being gone meant there was a market niche for a new startup.

pg's answer was that it was in no way worth the risk, there are lots of other things you can try without the large risk of ending up in jail.

I don't buy books to look good for my peers. I buy books because I like reading them, lending them, etc. The social signalling is just a side benefit.

Plus, walking into someone's house and seeing a bookshelf full of awesome books is a good way to know that I am probably going to like said person.

A less centralized version of that would just be to make it really frictionless to resell things. So when I need the drill for once in a year, I pop uberlocalbuy, buy a drill from someone near me and either pick it up or pay for delivery. After I am done with it, there is an easy way to immediately relist the drill (possibly with an automatically computed depreciation of its value), and then the next person buys it from me.

Wow, I didn't realize they went that high. Then yes, with the current output of a battery pack, I can see why people are worried.

Does anyone know what the actual voltages are?

Just because it is high relative to the usual 12V of cars does not mean it is terrifically fatal.

An anecdote to give you a picture of things: Electric arc welders operate at around 60V with a very large amount of current. However the electricity is not particularly the dangerous thing about them, it is the 9000F arc you are making and the molten steel. So to demonstrate that we shouldn't freak out about the electric danger and worry more about the heat, my instructor had someone touch the business end with one hand and the ground electrode with the other. Bit of a tingle but certainly didn't stop their heart or anything. Welders are kept at low voltage for this reason.

I assume that it must be somewhat dangerous because of the responder guides warning, but I would want to know the actual voltage before drawing conclusions. If the voltage is 112 or less (or even 220 or less), it should be possible to be pretty safe with some fairly manageable precautions.

Maybe one of the big oil companies that wants to show they are forward looking could build it? The already have expertise building tubes from pipelines.

If Texas were to do that, I might even consider moving there.

If I remember correctly, they carry more fuel than they need in the first stage as a safety reserve, and the plan is to use that reserve fuel to land the stage. So they actually don't pay an extra weight cost, they simply make use of margin they were including anyway. If they end up having to use their safety margin, then the rocket can't land, but in the majority of flights where things run smoothly, they get to land it.

I sent a request to their feedback email seeing if they would be open to something of that sort. Copy pasting formatting to Markdown/ReST wouldn't be too bad, but it seems to me polite to ask permission.

tldr; it works just fine.

It is a tiny bit fiddly getting the card in the right place in the adapter (basically just a little piece of plastic), but then it slots in and just works. As long as you are not dexterity challenged, it shouldn't be a problem at all. The adapter is also just a very simple bit of plastic, so buy one from amazon or ebay for a buck.

The SIM I got from a Heathrow vending machines supported all the phones by giving you a nano and then adapters up to bigger sizes.

I agree that trying to sign up elderly listeners would be an excellent idea. You will probably need a pretty strong technical support crew for them, because they in general won't have our comfort level with computers.

My father has been working to keep some older relatives able to use computers, but there are lots of challenges. A couple of points I can offer from his experience: - Tablets are probably easier use, especially if you spent some effort making a specific app. - Reliable always on internet is not necessarily a given. - Even if they have good internet, they may not have a wireless network

I think it is a slightly larger risk than that because a joker could plant say an arduino with a bluetooth shield, or an old throwaway android phone somewhere and script a program of actions, or maybe use a bluetooth antena (do those exist?)

Also, is this a specifically short range bluetooth? Because my old junky bluetooth headset still gets enough range to reach my phone in my room from the bathroom nearby.

I agree with you that the short range makes the threat much smaller, but it doesn't completely eliminate it.

I agree it is a cute hack, but it is also kind of horrifying. You are depending on an undocumented behavior that happens to be shared across the ecosystem. Now what happens if that file hits a parser which takes the first instance, or a functional one that errors out when it sees multiple assignments?

+1 re YAML

I just called.

A feature that would be really nice: A way for me to give them my email address and zip code and then get an email when vote results are posted with how my Representative voted.

The bigger problem I encountered trying it out yesterday was that it (at the moment) is fairly happy to generate an empty page and not give any compiler errors.

I assume that will change, but it made it pretty hard for me to get started with the language.

That said, I hope it changes, because Elm looks really neat!

Maybe it is possible to write a haskell mode for ipython? I watched Fernando and one of the Julia guys hack up communication between ipython and a Julia interpreter in an afternoon. Depending on how ghci is implemented it might not be much harder.

Have you considered parsing the Diabetes guidelines so that you could add an entry for people needing to follow that diet.