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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 isn't any word to describe the inverse of a lobby, but if such word were added to our culture HN could be one of its first examples. Many heads and one heart is a weak scene because of an heart attack, so create a culture of freedom in your heart.

Edit s/thread/threat in the title. Edit s/threat/threat or a thread just to reflect both are plausible.

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 time -the lag- and features), is a difficult negotiation and I found examples like FB recent machine learning platform and other examples like Revolution Analytics based on open source R.

Some discussion is in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/BPL-iRweRpk

I think a new and unexpected model is being configured and the main actor here is Microsoft. Perhaps, if this kind of model is going to be real, changing the name of Windows to OpenWinds would allow the company to flying out.

I don't have a clear proposal or model for the kind of negotiation required in an openlag company, but it seems this kind of model is going to be real soon.

Edit: Small changes in the expression, the same idea.

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 model for Mathematica with a lag of three years, that is in three years you have the three years old version in the open software. This kind of model would promote the adoption of this product from universities and other big corporations that don't want to use a black box, and at the same time the company has to innovate new features since the old version will be in the open and for free.

What do you think about this model?

The first axiom of any new model of sofware is that it should help create new jobs and profits for companies and innovate, do you think this model would allow this?

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 to reward the talent. People could give mindtcoins to those they admire, the new virtual coin could get some traction and get into the real world of real money but that transformation is a process to be defined, a goal could be to win the 100000 dollar award of (2).

As there is no new thing under the sun, is very likely such an idea has been formulated before, but I think now is the moment to ripe from such an idea/project. (1) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/5LRmR8BLz0Y

(2) http://www.druckerinstitute.com/drucker-nonprofit-innovation-award/

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/5LRmR8BLz0Y

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 wxmaxima are such great tools that some money should be provided for such projects (perhaps from the Universities).

Anyone just trying to put my two cents.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/47973

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 are emotions. If he were capable of conquering expressions and words the emotions would be there. Strange as it may sound, words are like a mirror than enhance and shapes emotions. I wonder if, not having natural emotions, a machine could feels emotions by constructing a world where words are emotions.

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 started to understand the kind of higher older problems that we may have to cope with, there known unkowns and unknown unkowns, and I think we are in the quadrant in which unexpected things can happen, but as always we will try to seek solutions in our comfortable zone. I haven't read the book, only some fragments on the web.

Perhaps someone can add some good opinion about this. For example the concept of Taleb about resiliance and how systems should be designed to fail, and how our models don't take into account the real risk and the black swam of the future. It seems to me that the author is not a computer scientist or a mathematician and so some concepts maybe lacking that others could read in the design of systems. Just as an example I found this in Carr blog, http://www.roughtype.com/?p=1610 (from 2012):

Carr: I don’t fully understand this excerpt from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s forthcoming book Antifragile, but I found this bit to be intriguing:

John Cook (famous blogger on math and stats) tries to explain a statistical fact from this fragment of Taleb that Carr find difficult to grasp. That was the type of limitation I was thinking could happen, some ideas only can be grasped when you are ready for them.

Edited: Added references to Taleb, resiliance and risk, and John Cook.