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> I guess I don't see the appeal.

It's novel.
You're completely misunderstanding the motivation for many homeschoolers like myself. I am an atheist and an engineer. My local homeschooling groups have literally hundreds of families like mine, in which one or both parents have advanced degrees.

We see the writing on the wall.

The public schools -- even the "good" ones -- are hopelessly stuck training children for an economic model that is already dead. Sending your kids to the typical school is actively harming their economic future.

Everything about school is built around the factory model. It is precisely the opposite of how to train someone for success in the 21st century, where the only way to win is to do things for which there are no simple instructions.

I'm going to give my kid a better scientific education than the public schools have ever provided. In fact, I dispute that they have ever really done so. They teach facts that were discovered by science, but they don't actually teach science. If they did, they would soon collapse under the weight of their own contradictions:

"why are we studying this?"
"because it will help you later."
"show me the evidence."
"go to the principal's office."

Science is deeply anti-authoritarian. It doesn't matter who you are, it matters whether you have better evidence and better arguments. School actively opposes that kind of thinking.
And I think it's pretty clear that you libertarians believe you own your children. We're coming at this from extremely different perspectives, but realize that the thought that parents own their children is as disgusting to me as the thought of the state owning children is to you.

To (some of) us, children are people. They are not owned. They have rights. The state is the only available instrument to protect the rights of the weak against the strong.
So pot has been scientifically proven to have no medicinal value?

I remember them telling me this in science class, so apparently science is full of BS too.
Nobody is abdicating their humanity and the only "dehumanizing" thing I see is the implication that some people are.

Let's say you live above a popular bar. On Friday and Saturday nights it gets loud as folks line up to get in and then again as last call approaches. The first dozen times you go down and ask folks to quiet down because it's late and you're trying to slew. Some comply, some don't, and others are happy to comply if you buy them a drink.

Eventually, this becomes tiring and you see it's a poor use of your time even if most people are happy to comply.. You enlist the bar to help and they implement a "no tolerance" policy. If the bouncer can hear you talk you're out of the line and won't be getting in that night.

You are on a first date with someone and go to this bar. You talk too loudly and are told to leave. You're embarrassed and upset that this bar would embarrass you in front of your date. You try to appeal by explaining the situation. "Hey man, cut me a break. This is our first date, I didn't know the rules, and in any case we were barely whispering."

"Look, man, I don't know you. I get lines like that all te time and you're making my job harder than it needs to be right now. Come back tomorrow of you want, but neither you not your date are getting in. I need to be checking IDs right now, not debating you."

I'm sure you can and will nitpick the analogy, but here's my claim: even if you feel outraged at your treatment, even if it ruined your night and your date, nobody in the above scenario "abdicated their humanity," as you put it.
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Pandoc does something pretty similar.

But that doesn't mean there isn't room in the world for both projects. Pandoc strives to be a universal converter, and that means there are certain things it couldn't / shouldn't do. For example, you could add special kinds of slide effects or transitions to Cleaver's markdown dialect that wouldn't be appropriate for Pandoc.
JavaScript is one of the freeist languages in common usage. On any page on the Internet, I can hit Alt+Shift+I and literally modify the source code of the page in real time. Yeah, sometimes the names are minified (which is presumably what this campaign is about), but it's a stretch of credibility for the FSF to put a proprietary OS and a minified web site in the same category.

More to the point, the sites that are big enough for this to even be an issue (such as the cited Google Docs) have a business interest in keeping that code proprietary. If you drew a Venn diagram of sites complex enough that minification prevents tinkering and sites with any likelihood of GPLing that code, you'd have two independent circles.
> most machine-learning algorithms do worse than the naive solution ("throw a Bayes net at it") in most applications

This is an extremely misleading statement. There is nothing naive about probabilistic graphical models. It's a massive topic with a huge number of different model variations, training methods, and techniques to avoid overfitting or do feature selection.

More many probably you probably only want a linear classifier, and a discriminative one at that. But if your data is not linearly separable, or has structure, then you'll want something else again.
> Fuck start-ups and capitalism.

Did you perchance take a wrong turn on the interweb tubes, and arrive at this website by mistake?

You are right, though; nothing proprietary and costly is ever going to 'change the world' of something so basic as reading and writing...
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Yes, that'd be called a bill of attainder, I believe -- those are expressly forbidden by the constitution. Of course, if powerful groups wanted such bills, we'd see lots of articles explaining how 'attainder' meant something else, something more specific. Maybe it does! A written constitution only helps so much.
The FSF has gone full derp.
I support homeschoolers like you. I know several kids who are homeschooled under similar philosophies, and they're the smartest people I've ever met. They take AP and college classes early, sometimes even as young teens, and are encouraged to do independent reading and think for themselves.

The article in question, though, is about parents who kept their children out of school over religious objections to the curriculum. That, I oppose vehemently.
Probably both, yes.
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Ah, by the way, you shouldn't need to serve the front-end app from the same server as the API. By default, Fortune gives you CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing), so that clients from any domain can consume it.

Also, Fortune should work out the box with Ember Data and my JSON API adapter: https://github.com/daliwali/ember-json-api . Not to say that you should ditch Angular, but it will probably need quite a bit of modifications to its data layer to get it working with the JSON API spec.

I will be working on a full, non-trivial example of what an Ember.js + Fortune.js application can be in the coming week(s). There is a current implementation that's in production at my company, but its unfortunately closed-source.
Amateur radio is about as decentralized as it gets.
That doesn't mean that all the horses run at the same speed - it just means that an individual horse doesn't speed up or slow down while running - if its average speed is 17.2 MPH, it runs at 17.2 MPH for the whole course.
I actually think we are learning from our mistakes (Iraq).

I don't see the general public supporting engagement. True, Kerry gets top headlines in the papers, but there is usually a very critical article right below (case on point, the WSJ this week talking about the rebels in very negative light with links to Al Qaeda).

EDIT: And every time Kerry talks, he has to preface his statements with "this isn't going to be like Iraq". We're all thinking otherwise.
This is not a food or a drug.
I would like to point out this was a theoretical operation done by this professor. It looks to me there are a few errors in his conclusions ( specifically about the risk associated with what he was pretending to do, and the nature of market making ). Also he didn't actually make an algorithm to do the trading and back test it, he just assumed that "with a good algorithm" you could do this.

Also the fact that this is represented as a broad threat to the market is just false. This only effects day traders and other HFT's. Yes the long term investor might also be hit by this to the tune of 0.01% per transaction, but the liquidity provided by HFT's almost makes up for that.

Make the system better, but do it so that the market functions more efficiently not so that people who aren't you will make less money.
People even say that about driving, even though cars are a de-facto requirement for obtaining a job in huge parts of the country.
But it says something that back then they at minimum felt they had to pay lip service to socialism and workers, despite e.g. their oppression of actual members of a socialist party.

And for quite some time into WWII they tried to deliver both guns and butter, one of the many reasons they failed was a delay in gearing up for total war.
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I remember them telling me this in health class, which was pretty obviously full of shit. Even by the guidelines handed out in English class for evaluating sources, it wasn't the slightest bit credible. We found the teacher on CCAP pleading out to THC possession 15 years ago.

My chemistry teacher, introducing organic chemistry, told us about an O-Chem final in college and how "no amount of mind-altering substances in the world could make that okay. Believe me, I tried." We discussed alcohol literacy - understanding "proof" in chemical terms. We also did the equations for freebasing cocaine, and talked (in broad strokes) about making meth.
Then point them at a real CAS on a regular computer. As long as we're trying to teach them real-life math skills (we're talking about STEM people here, right?), a CAS is closer to what they'll need.
The economist's preferred trade stoppages don't eliminate the advantage of trading fast, they only reduce it somewhat. If the stoppages are a little out of phase globally, they may actually increase it.

When buying and selling stocks on timescales of weeks to years, HFT doesn't effect my strategies nor outcomes in any meaningful way (except to provide exact pricing at the moment I send in a trade).
Is this man's feelings of women in the software industry common? (Twitter)
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The only JavaScript code we have right now is the piwik
statistics ...

I guess proprietary javascript spyware is only evil when other sites do it.
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Good job for the work. But seriously, I don't think you even have a MVP yet. If the purpose of this site is to correct people's accent, having a generate voice(huge electronic accent) is not acceptable at all.
I think they're talking more about the license under which the code is released and less about whether or not it's minified or obfuscated.
Indeed. Personally I'm surprised there aren't more comparisons to travel restrictions placed on black people during the Jim Crow era. Restricting someone's mode of travel even domestically, in such a way that they are at a significant economic disadvantage to their (comparatively) unrestricted fellow citizens is a true punishment; without due process it's just a weapon.

Potentially even worse, since it's so insidious, is that the fear of getting put on "the list" can have a chilling effect on the perfectly legitimate activities of loyal, law-abiding citizens.

Suppose you're a person of color or muslim, who happens to be interested in learning about the enemy (e.g. Al Qaeda). One obvious way would be to look at their forums online. But wouldn't you be at least a little bit afraid that someone's watching for people browsing to those sites, discovering your ethnicity and background, and slapping you onto the list?

From the other side, why wouldn't the watcher put you on the list, just in case? There are no negative consequences for the individual doing so (because no oversight/warrant procedure), and what if he/she "missed the next terrorist" (i.e. maybe you, as far as they know)? It's a no-brainer and could even be rationalized by otherwise well-meaning people as being patriotic. Imagine the poster on their cubicle wall of the burning WTC towers, with "NEVER AGAIN" underneath.

This warrantless, unsupervised paroxysm of fear has got to stop. We are Americans. We do not live in fear. We do not sacrifice our freedoms for security. We are willing to accept that some of us may have to die because we exercise those freedoms, and we know that the answer to "What if there's another 9/11?" is "Then we will survive and triumph through that, too."
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The bar owner is absolutely in the wrong for having set up shop below where people have to sleep without adequate soundproofing for their business. This is an abdication of their humanity. In order to remain in business without the cost of fixing that problem, they have abdicated their humanity a second time by treating their customers like shit.
Reminds of me Centralia, Pennsylvania [1] -- which is purported to be an inspiration for Silent Hill.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
Yeah - maybe title posts via mouse hover? I think that's a good idea.

The right-click twice is a bug that could be considered a feature ;^) -There's no other way to make the backside of a card stay flipped up... There's probably more states than can be represented with a single left or right click. As soon as I can make it flip back, that feature will go away. I agree, the default expected right click behavior should be a toggle. Thanks for taking a look and commenting!
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Especially since what was referred to was "packs of shitty ramen."
Piwik isn't proprietary; it's under the GPLv3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piwik
To win, the opposing side must lose its capability to wage war.

One way to accomplish that is to kill the opposing army, but that's not the only way. Other ways include destroying warfighting equipment (say, aircraft that are still on the ground), decimating the manufacturing base (thereby denying the opposing army the ability to rebuild lost capability), denying the opposing side critical resources such as fuel (why do you think the US has such a large "strategic oil reserve"?), or destroying the morale of opposing forces.

Granted, all of those methods generally involve killing people on the other side... but the implications are different than your assertion, wherein winning wars requires the slaughter of opposing forces. A careful study of modern warfare would show that the majority of wars were not won because the opposing army was mostly dead, but because of equipment and materiel and logistics and morale.
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I'll buy brainwashing in subjective areas like history, current events, economics, and literary analysis but not in science.

Wow. I think the most important thing to teach children is to be open to ideas. The universe may be billions of years old or a couple of seconds old with initial conditions that indicate a different history. Humans may be intelligent actors in a computer simulation equivalent in some other universe that we have no way of perceiving. We may all just exist in the imagination of some being we could never understand. Science is just a tool to make sense of what we can but it is not the be all and end all.

If anyone is going to brainwash my kids, I would hope that it is me and not some government with their own objectives and emergent quirks.

An accurate as possible representation of history, current events, philosophy and economics is just as important as a solid introduction to the state of scientific discoveries/methods/theories is to a young mind.
"Hendershott walked away with almost $377,000 in theoretical profits by picking off quotes on various exchanges that were fractions of a second out of date."

LOL, classic. If I just _pretend_ I get filled on every order, I make a hojillion dollars, see?
Fair point. So we have a situation similar to any other kind of software.

I just want to point out though, that optimized & minified code isn't really that different from say -- a blob of JVM code. JVM can be de-compiled, and sort-of be brought into a human readable form. This is a tab bit harder with x86 - but we're forgetting obfuscators here. Anyone who really don't want you to peek into their code will use an obfuscator.

Ultimately though -- I think the defining aspect of whether X code is open or closed, is the a measure of the ease with which I can take that code and modify it (perhaps make some enhancements to it). This is either difficult or sometimes practically impossible with x86, obfuscated JVM, obfuscated and/or minified JS, etc.
Really, provided the article is well founded, comments that support it are doing a service to the readers and those that don't are doing a disservice (if they are giving people the sense they are typical). People respond to stories.

The problem, of course, is that anecdotes will exist on both sides of just about any issue, so they should be viewed with skepticism when trying to convince in the first place...
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Yeah, I thought of that - but do people look at average speed when timing a race? I was reading the whole sentence in "... you don't have a stopwatch and all horses run at a constant pace." :-)
If they found the password, they would have all the drive. Not just part of it. Right?
Why not have it lock-stepped - every n time units the trades on the table are performed?
I also like the story of Oak Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island
> The Door to Hell is (...) burning continuously since it was lit by Soviet petrochemical scientists in 1971 (...)

Alright folks, we found the culprits for the global warming.
I want to see alternatives that allow people to be able to get paid from their creations. I don't care if its free or closed or even government enforced or constrained insofar that it allows for greater freedom in the long run. I'm waiting for the day that Jaron Lanier and Richard Stallman have a public discussion/debate.
Hah, that's great. I shouldn't have been surprised that it exists. My question is: did you register that or is there a bot out there registering domains that appear in comments?
But if you're going to give instructions on reading a pie chart, the pie chart that you give as an example should at least make some sense in that format. Time-series data represented in a pie chart is abnormal.
I went to both private and public schools growing up, and I realized that they have different goals. One taught me new and challenging subjects, taught me to ask questions and think for myself. The other taught me how to deal with bureaucracy, how to be in the right part of the building at the right time and how to discern new information from reams of repetition. Public schools won't get better, but they will go away. The internet has created a place where you can go to learn whatever you want. Eventually the high cost of homes and the subsequent high taxes will cause schools to be closed to reduce the tax burden when all of the unnecessary programs have already been cut. We'll all be homeschooling then. We'll have no choice.
That's regulation ensuring products are safe when used as intended, not regulation ensuring products can't be used unsafely. It's a key difference. The government should ensure bottled water is free from E. coli. It shouldn't ensure you can't drown in it.
Hm. Fair enough.
You don't seem to know what "open source" means. Also, you don't seem to know that the FSF's goal is not "open source" (by either your definition or the real one). Also, the FSF doesn't "force" anyone to do anything.
Maps are a biggy, at least for me.
The idea that different people learn in different ways isn't one I just came up with. See the brief survey on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles

I find the idea that my preference for listening over reading textbooks implies I don't know how to read them is somewhat bemusing.
That's great, definitely bookmarked.

An in-browser, collaborative version would be a serious killer app.
This has already been discussed today, the other entry is still on the HN home page right now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301050
Arguably, the 10th amendment means you don't need to find freedom of movement explicitly listed in the constitution in order for it to be a protected right. But I am totally not a lawyer.
It costs me x dollars to place a trade, how are they getting around a trading fee? Or do not all people have to pay trading fees?
This is actually how it was done. A few times a day large orders would be matched and executed. We moved away from it, and I am not sure if its still used at any of the exchanges anywhere.
The FSF's goal isn't to allow you to view and tinker with code. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

You seem to be arguing that because X is worse than Y, we shouldn't worry about Y. Or that because Y is hard to change, we should ignore its problems. The FSF will never agree with that, though.
Whoa, the Beast has a number, and now he's got map coordinates. All he needs is a crocodile handbag and matching luggage to complete the ensemble.
Intervals of a few milliseconds? You could peg prices every few seconds, minutes, or hours. A trading interval of one trading session per hour would be fine. Put in all your offers to buy or sell, trading closes at 10:00:00 and then all the received trades are matched up and executed. Once per hour, once per minute, any interval works fine for the USEFUL purpose of the stock market (allocate capital). It just happens to kill off the non-useful purpose, gambling.

While you're at it, tax all stock purchases.

All HFT is front-running the market and should be banned.
My girlfriend works in Broadway. I wish she knew enough about the recent foreign accents thing to find this as funny as I do. Well done.
As I understand it if you never have your trades "cleared" you never incur any cost.

When you trade the price to have the trade cleared through a clearing house is built in. When big firms trade they only need to go to the clearing house to square up their books.
Though I can't speak from personal experience, I do get the impression that many past Lisps suffered from too much flexibility, in the sense that no one could agree what object system to use, what libraries to use, etc. It seems that Clojure is doing much better that regard, which could partially explain its success.
We aren't destroying chemical stockpiles, because it might release toxins and also it might make them available to looters. We're launching missiles at some military targets as a punitive measure for using chemical weapons.
They don't "expect" every site to be. They are hoping to make marginal change towards more free software. This is entirely in line with their other work.
> Napoleon demonstrated how frighteningly effective it was to win a battle and immediately chase down and kill the opposition.

What a gruesome, ruthless and inhumane methodology. Killing every petty soldier just coz he happened to be in the army (for whatever reason).

Do you really think enemy soldiers (who are also human beings after all) deserve to all die even after you've won? Seriously? That sounds more like it'd be Adolf Hitler's or the Japanese Imperial Army's idea -- not that of some civilization that has even a bare bit of humanity in it.