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According to the website, FindBugs was partially funded by a couple of NSF grants. So US taxpayers did indirectly pay for his services.

> But if the startup gods aren’t smiling, and you can’t either figure out the cause and/or figure out how to correct it, it’s time to start working on a Plan B for the business. Pl…

Is there a free/open-source download for RiakTS? Or can anyone recommend something lighter-weight than full-blown Kafka etc.?

> But something tells me that our society and economy derives zero benefit from nanosecond resolution trading vs. trading with say 1 minute resolution. Not only does nanosecond res…

Otherwise a broker would just route mom n' pop's orders to the exchange that pays the biggest bribe to the broker (and screw mom n' pop).

A point of controversy is whether or not the 43 students were incinerated. The indedentent experts (GIEI) report insist that it was impossible: > Dr. José Luis Torero, an internati…

Specifying a solution is easy; that's a purely technical exercise. The hard problem is figuring out how we get from where we are now (A) to where we want to go (B); that's a politi…

The screenshot in the article is one I posted 9 months ago, and is being used without attribution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8593050

The other day, I ran across this in a Yudkowsky article[1]: > Suppose that earthquakes and burglars can both set off burglar alarms. If the burglar alarm in your house goes off, it…

> In a hypothetical cyber-utopia or something, this could all just be a simple protocol (say, um, combining aspects of Direct Connect, BitTorrent, NNTP, Gopher, Bitcoin, GPG) The a…

Javascript package managers like npm tend to work much more seamlessly than the old unix ones. Wouldnt mind scrapping them all for https://node-os.com/ Also, the reason package man…

Microsoft's first customer was IBM because an IBM VP sat on the board of Seattle National Bank with Bill Gates's mother (the bank was founded by Bill's grandfather).

> Can we entirely rule out the possibility of AI researchers making advancements over time, and then eventually some research lab building one that's super intelligent compared to …

In the comments of a recent mathematics-without-apologies blog post[1], there was a back-and-forth between Jacob Lurie and Urs Schreiber (the author of the OP article on nLab). I'v…

I, for one, welcome our new corporate data center overlords.

Speaking of smalltalk, was project Oberon inspired by Alan Kay's STEPS project to implement a full OS + apps in under 20k LoC? http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf

https://github.com/ejgallego/jscoq

Quoting from a comment on the linked article: > I’d only add that the corrupt elites were not only overspending, but they were involved in vendor finance scams. Hundreds of million…

> You can't deny the fact that in the last decade, greeks have become accustomed to a certain life style that can no longer be maintained. The point of the article is that the 'mor…

This is just begs the question of what the tax policy should be. If mainly income is taxed, then the rich get (proportionally) more votes. If mainly consumption is taxed, then ever…

> EDIT: disabled zoom? Hah, the OP article does disable zoom. Disabled zoom is one of the frustrating things lately about iOS apps. Every time I try to show someone older than me s…

Your reference [1] confused me because most of the books I saw were about code and design patterns, or books by Tufte. I also didn't realize what DoET meant, on first glance.

Thanks. These innocuous seeming algorithms may be even more influential than advertisements.

The Poisson process equation is actually in Satoshi's whitepaper. The 6-block confirmation rule-of-thumb comes from it.

> That mammalian brains are motivated by optimization of energy expenditure. Like anything in biologically evolved systems, energy efficiency is key, since food is often scarce. Th…