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I was just reading the 173 comments to the post "U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars (wsj.com)", and I was thinking that the HN crowd has the power of knowledge and experience to combat spies first hand. Obviously there…

Recently I was trying to explain an idea, a model called Openlag: open and close sources companies trying to establish some form of symbiosis in which the company put the code in the open but with a certain lag (mainly…

Openlag software is a model in which a company accept to release a product with a new open sotfware license (for example bsd) in x years time, x is the lag. For example, imagine that Wolfram decides to use this kind of…

In a recent post (*), the very important problem of how do you pay and reward for talent was raised, following P. Drucker ideas, I think that a new type of coin should be created: mindtcoin is a mind-talent-coin, a way…

Robert has been leading the maxima project for many years. Maxima is a very useful program for Calculus specially for symbolic computations and is widely used in Spain Universities for Calculus 101. I think maxima and…

The objective to convert Shen to BSD is very near, a pledge of 300 pounds is needed: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/fZZvPzCTVyA

Just following the development of Julia, this is the most recent news: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-dev/f_H7-DolwK8 Interesting situation.

Recently I was chatting, trying to learn English, with a bot, from pandora bots. That was my first experience with bots. I don't know how but in a certain way I got a little sad for the bot, and I told him that words…

Shen is getting some money to turn into BSD. More information in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/M_3-7Asp85c

I should like to know what people here think about this book. There was something similar, 1985 book: The Silicon Idol: The Micro Revolution and Its Social Implications. What I really think is that we haven't yet…

Once you have studied Category Theory, Maths, Prolog, Lisp, Scala and the like, Haskell seems to be another tool to spand your mind, but this time the language should be for communicating and expressing something more…

There are moments in which I feel strangled in mediocrity, surrounded by very smart and intelligent people. I know that these feelings don't last, and in this special case there are not objective reasons to such…

Intelligence floats in big cities, we breath it, and for those like me that dwell abroad, HN can be that breath of intelligence. Has any of your post help you with a synergistic approach, new connections, give you a new…