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Governments didn't make this device. They hired a contractor and/or purchased from a vendor (which likely specifically set up its business to profit from government contracts for voting machines). The vendor is almost exclusively interested in getting paid money from the contract, not with actually delivering a highly secure device that a democracy can depend on.

Commercial viability of a solution is a non-issue. A device is either highly secure or it isn't.
I thought I was the jaded dev until I started reading these comments! There's a lot of stuff I hate about Android but, in my opinion, the tools, first and third party libraries, testing support, and design have made really great progress this year alone. Android Studio and the Gradle plugin are really, really coming along (and I'm on Linux!), the Support libraries are filling in a lot more holes than they ever did before (and I have to support Gingerbread!), Robolectric is at 3.0 RC3 and you can finally run it in Android Studio, and Material Design is getting more well defined and seeing more and more saturation into other tech (Polymer hit 1.0!).
Actually, those requirements are par of the course when designing mains-powered devices . You'd be surprised the kind of transient voltage spikes AC motors generate when starting, and I'd assume all devices sold in the US satisfy the same or similar standards.

Having engineers design and test electronics with such kind of safety standards is good practice. You don't want a failed USB power supply to fail in a way that sends mains voltage to the USB for example.
Everything you need to figure it out is on the login page.

Consider how hackernews works, there is the login page but that is not the only means to authenticating. You don't after all have to type your user/pass out for every page request.
It'd be kinda cool to hack the (fairly stupid) rule with titles like '…' or 'An interesting result.'
So basically the response to my last sentence:

> Not sure if there's some fundamental contradiction between secrecy in voting and voter-auditability.

Is, "yes, there is"? By "voter-auditability" I mean the ability for any single person to verify that their ballot was cast the same way they intended.
I..., uh, this is embarrassing. :)
A lot of these things were originally developed at Google then spread to other companies (when employees moved etc.). So Google is contributing probably more, but not directly.
It's sad to see a company go out of business, but I applaud the owners of Manuals Plus [1] for making such a large donation to the Internet Archive.

To provide some more context about what the actual contents of the archive includes, a description is on their about page [2]:

"Manuals Plus buys and sells Electronic Test & Measurement Equipment Manuals. We stock over 400,000 manuals at our Westminster, Maryland location. Our inventory consists of Operator, Service, Calibration, and Programming manuals."

[1] http://www.manualsplus.com/

[2] http://www.manualsplus.com/About.php
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I started playing when v4 was just moving into "wide beta", and honestly it was a pretty solid experience for what I was doing - mostly drafting and sealed. I had a few games lost to server issues, but they always refunded the entry fees whenever that happened and they let you keep any prizes you won, too. The stability has improved quite a bit over the past couple of years, too, to the point where now the only problem I ever really have is wireless blips causing needless disconnects (do some retries on a timeout, folks!).

There was one day where v4 was down, so I got v3 to try to keep playing. For all the people saying v4 is a step down, I want a hit of whatever it is you are on. v3 seemed worse than apprentice, which I am pretty sure I played on windows 95 when it first came out. I think the commentary on features/UI is almost completely dominated by people who are curmudgeonly and view any change as bad. I can't really speak too much to previous version stability, but right now things are good.
Diablo 3 was mediocre because the entire genre has been trumped by MMOs.

Diablo, x-craft, WoW and HS were all landmarks in their time and good examples of what grandparent is talking about. HotS was beaten to the punch by LOL and Overwatch who knows.
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Heroes of the Storm is nowhere near the popularity of Dota or Dota 2 yet, let alone the leading game in the genre (League of Legends). And it's still too early to say anything about Overwatch.

I wholeheartedly agree that Blizzard has not made one bad game yet. On the other hand, we don't need to hype up their success: several of their recent games have been kind of a ... flop, notably Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2. Both had really good sales on release (not necessary great on Blizzard scale), but the longevity is definitely nowhere near the long time plan they originally have. Starcraft 2 was supposed to become the king of Esport, yet LOL took the charge and firmly stay on top with a significant gap. Diablo 3 Real-money Auction house has to be shut down, and even the mighty WOW lost more than 3 millions subscribers in the last 2 quarters. Hearthstone, however is indeed an amazing success.

World of Warcraft is especially an interesting case, seeing that all the 2nd most popular MMO has never came anywhere near the popularity of WoW, it's questionable whether MMO is an actually viable genre in the long run. Note that most other MMO in 2nd place come and go in waves, never lasting more than a few months to a year. The one with the most consistent number of subscribers (and growing) is Eve online, which is firmly in a niche and does not even have 10% of wow players.
If anyone is wondering how we're capable of testing these under 150 GPa, read up on Diamond Anvil Cells (they're palm-sized):
https://str.llnl.gov/str/pdfs/03_96.2.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell
> Coming from multiple sources, I'd say that's pretty damning to HR.

I'd say that a thread full of people griping about HR is not very damning at all. People like to gripe. People who have normal interactions with HR generally don't have much to say in this kind of thread. People who have had a bad experience with HR are happy to vent. If multiple sources complaining is damning, then just about every mid to large-size company must be terrible, because just about every company of size has at least a handful of people (consumers or employees, really) who are delighted to tell you about how horrible their experience with the company was.

I agree that HR is not your friend, and their job is to protect the company. That's logically pretty reasonable since they are employed by the company. Likewise, the sales team is there for the company. And so is the customer service team. And so is the executive team. And so is everyone else, because that's who pays them. That doesn't make them evil or rotten, though. Nor are they evil or rotten just because a few bad people are employed there. Some devs are petty assholes, too.
Storing the timestamps is a design decision which can be intentionally omitted.

There is also no law of computing which states that the ordinal of the voting record is determined by the chronology of the votes. That is to say that you don't have to keep things ordered by time - or at all; it's not like an 8AM vote should be treated different than a 5PM one.
The big application for superconductors is wire, and it's much harder to compress a wire to a million atm than it is to cool it to -70 C. However, this result is important (if independently replicated) because it demonstrates that the established theory of low temperature superconductivity [1] has predictive power all the way up to these high temperatures and likely to room temperature, providing new motivation for theoretical chemists to dream up new materials that the theory predicts would superconduct under more accessible conditions. Practical room temperature superconductors would, in my opinion, change the world as much as the development of semiconductors.

[1] a modified version of BCS Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS_theory
Yes Loglan can be the official language of our libertarian Seastead Utopia where your status is determined by the aggregate of your HN and reddit karma.
The real reason Diablo 3 was mediocre was because of the balancing around the Real Money Auction House and the perverse incentives that resulted.

Since it was removed, and now that they've been adding good content for free, the game has improved significantly.
Much has been written on the topic. Here's a fairly decent book.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savag...
Amazon released the Alexa Voice Service recently: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo.... It takes advantage of the cloud functionality that powers Alexa but can be used on any device.
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Wow...this is really cool. Does this work with the newer version 4 signing keys?
So instead, authors of the article can target any audience with snappy, BuzzFeed-like headings, and the HN poster can either copy it or rewrite it, and they'll get complaints either way...
So I entered HipChat, and it told me HipChat, Atlassian, Jira and Bitbucket were our competitors...
Stanford PGM course website got hacked it seems
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This is really interesting and welcome contribution in an important space. Three features that would make it compelling:

1. Offline. Making the local datastore as "invisible" as the memory cache and the cloud - keeping everything in sync under the hood.
2. Push. Notifying clients when changes occur.
3. Diff. Efficiently handling changes in larger values.

I realise none of these are central to the challenge they faced, and congratulate them on an elegant solution for their situation.
Some of the companies building these horribly insecure voting machines are originally ATM companies, so I do not think we have any reason to think that ATMs are secure. There have also been incidents where ATMs have been hacked.

ATMs are also an easier problem since they do not care about anonymity, part of the cryptography is done on the card, and they do not have to work without a netowrk connection.
Unfortunately, HN only allows the original title, which results in crappy titles that weren't designed for the context of a social news site so often leaves readers clueless.
Good suggestion! Added a section to the post about this (and gave you credit for the suggestion at the bottom of the article).
Unless you want to consider the alpha of any pack animal a "king", I think we can easily agree that "gods and kings" came out of human civilization. Rule by force is much older, though.
Here is a simple solution.

Want more minorities, women, men who are either unskilled, unemployed and want to work, get back into work?

Have companies work with the colleges, universities and have the right teachers training the skills companies want in people to hire.

Then cancel, yes cancel all the H1Bs and ask them nicely to leave. Make it a offense for companies to hire undocumented workers. Put that CEO/Business owner in jail.

Then lower taxes.

You'll see a net benefit of those out of work whoever they are (black, white, latino, asian - all US citizen). Either go back to school, get into employment or start a business.

You'll see companies start hiring actual American people to get back to work.

Tax receipts will go up.
The welfare state will actually go down, drastically.
Less social programs and the deficit may actually go down.
Students may actually start to pay back Student loans, by being in work.

The flow of money will stop being sent abroad, will actually go back into the towns, cities where it belongs.

Remember. Companies employ local people. Those local people need services. Those services pay for cleaners, cab drivers, waiters/waitresses, all these types of jobs. Taxes also go to the city and pay for lots of other jobs.

It's like an eco-system. Look at when JKF lowered taxes.

I remember reading somewhere, CEO's were getting tax breaks because jobs were going off-shore. This is crazy. They should get bonuses for having American Employees. They should be in prison for going off-shore. How many towns/cities in the US have been destroyed by CEOs for profit?
I've been thinking of something like this for models especially. Where I have made my own models and worked with Flask, but now need to integrate the Django framework. Just a vague idea though. Haven't formed a clear picture of how I'll do it at all
I find it odd that you have so many bad experiences with HR at so many different companies, largely because I don't see why you're interacting so much with HR. I've rarely interacted with HR except when I've needed something from them. Why are you, as a dev, crossing paths with HR so often? A bad interaction with HR for me would be someone being rude, or unhelpful, or at worst incompetent. I don't understand why your interactions with HR seem to involve risk to your job. e.g. Why was an HR person even talking to you on your break?

I fall into the bucket that hasn't had bad experiences with HR. They've been helpful when I've needed stuff, which has been minimal. They've been irrelevant the rest of the time. This has been the case at every company I've worked for.
Safety procedure when working around sour gas wells (natural gas with H2S) is that, if you see somebody drop in front of you, you do not touch him, approach him, or anything else. You just get the hell outta there. If he's been dropped by H2S, trying to move him is just going to cause you to go down too. Besides being bloody lethal, H2S is notorious for being corrosive. H2S forms metal sulfides with any exposed metal it can access, and the hydrogen byproduct often diffuses through the metal and forms expanding holidays in positions of stress, potentially to the point that the metal will crack.

I've worked around high power free-space infrared lasers where a single stray reflection could instantly blind you permanently (and you can't see infrared light scattering off of stuff like you can with visible lasers). I'd rather spend years working with those than spend one afternoon in a lab with a sample of H2S at 140 GPa. I don't care if it's inside a diamond anvil cell inside a cryostat. High pressure H2S has got to be a freakin' nightmare to work with. I'm sure H2S has lots of funky properties nobody knows about because practically nobody wants to work with the stuff. Kudos to the PI who convinced a bunch of grad student peons to put their lives on the line... I suppose.
The only manual classification used was separating dresses into "like" and "dislike" categories. The rest is just pixel data.
True. I am working on adding a slight border color as well as making the box shadow more prominent.
For fun: just add a 'd' to get "Logland". Or become a citizen of Liberland and propose an official language.

1. https://liberland.org/en/about/

2. HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400443

3. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-making-of-a-p...
Mind blowing, obvious once you see/use it.

Gotty + Pagekite (or ngrok) = remote happiness.
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did you get any after that? All I got were my view everyday :P
My wife did not want to see a marriage counselor at first either. Our marriage did not improve until we got counseling at our church. Also, I started to exercise and got on a weight loss program to improve my appearance; and upgraded my clothing, which is important to her. The marriage is a work in progress...
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Were you participating at unihack too?
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Keep in mind this is really "How does Google (and other big companies) do it", not "what does it take", because what it actually takes is much simpler than custom hardware and custom software. This was all pretty accessible 15 years ago using available software; the trick was putting it together right.

In general, the maxim of "cache everything, everywhere" is the cheapest way to gain both speed and availability. Of course you need to have results already to cache them, which is where all that big data processing comes into play, but there's still way more optimization going on here than is necessary to get results like this. You could make a tradeoff and give people newly-processed results more slowly and still give them mostly what they want, and not have to maintain so much custom software+hardware infrastructure.

Sometimes I feel like Batty from Blade Runner when I think about how well old crappy software used to work. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched mod_perl apps serve 50 thousand dynamic requests per second with nothing but Apache and MySQL. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain..."
Back at Flipboard, for our RSS typography processing, we used a rule of thumb that all-capped words 3 letters or longer would get small-caps treatment. It worked pretty well.
An alternative to ngrok is pakegite [0].

[0] http://pagekite.net/
PCA implicitly uses a quadratic form on a vector space. When done the usual way, this is just the identity matrix. But for image data, I think you would get better results using a quadratic form based on a kernel, so that Q_ijkl where (i,j) and (k,l) are pixel coordinates, is given by Q_ijkl = t((i-k)^2 + (j,l)^2) for some kernel function t.
I used to consult for a company that made WiMax base station equipment in India. Typically, the way government would work, is that they'd send out request for information to multiple vendors. Then, they'd take the list of parameters that they got from each vendor, create a master list of parameters, and pick the "best" under each parameter as a requirement. Then, they'd send out a request for quotes to all vendors with a list of requirements that would be impossible to meet simultaneously.
I don't understand this race to the iPad ... the LAUSD (Los Angeles School District) had this bizarre iPad for every student program (http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/04/24/51241/lausd-developing-n...).

I say it's bizarre because I know you can get tablets in bulk for $30-$35 each while the lowest price iPad is $400.

After getting past "why does every student need a tablet computer" we get to "why from a single vendor with prices that are 1,333% higher than the cheapest competition?"

I'm not saying the Apple product isn't nice - it's just I don't see why so many tax dollars should be spent when there's other options.

Going back to the voting machine ... we'd not really care about some wonderful durability of the cheap tablet because the owner would only be using it a few days a year at the most; in ideal conditions, without moving it; the thing will survive fine.
Don't bail out. Take the driver's seat and force them to meet your terms. Ask for a personal meeting with Jeff to pitch you and the company and respond personally to the article. Get multiple offers and see if they are really unable to give you a competitive offer. After you've done a thorough evaluation you can decide whether to move ahead; and they can't be upset if you pass given the publicity. But your opponent is on the ropes right now and it's truly the best time to try to score a sweetened offer.
> in a lab with a sample of H2S at 140 GPa. High pressure H2S has got to be a freakin' nightmare to work with.

They probably have absolutely tiny quantities of the stuff under pressure. Not enough to hurt anyone even if it escaped.
Um, what exactly are you looking for? Businesses that import eBay stores into Facebook...?
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1. I am thinking of making it on hover. I just need to work out the UX on mobile devices.

2. Interesting. I'll make the latest one go top.

Thanks for the feedback though, I really appreciate it.
http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/01/11/the-alpha-wolfe-is-an-ou...
Because her Tappy app got like 100+ downloads on Google Play Store, and seems like no one use it at all (I tried it and there was like 1 inactive chat room for the whole Ho Chi Minh city area).

If someone pay 7 figure for an app no one use, the whole app developer community are all millionaires by now.
Amazon guy says: "The hardest problems in technology, bar none, are solved at Amazon."

That's a pretty arrogant statement. I think just about any technological problem that Amazon solves is pretty simple when compared to building a rover and sending it to Mars.
He's getting great service from Uline, the packaging material supplier. 4-hour delivery on pallet loads of boxes.
You're making the extremely poor assumption that the only people who want containers are people running Linux. What are the options on Linux to run a Windows container?

Instead of spewing the "MS IS BAD BECAUSE MS" crap, perhaps you should applaud them for trying to embrace what we're all hoping becomes a standard. They could've very easily just written their own completely incompatible containers, but instead chose to try to continue down the open path.

Let's be real - docker isn't doing anything new, or anything particularly unique, their entire value proposition is standardizing features that have existed for literally decades.
Claiming you're a shareholder or "know people" is weak man. You wouldn't be talking to the customer service drone if you had other avenues, and they know this. If anything it'll make them want to spite you even more.
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> Normal citizens do not have the ability to perform data-fusion like Google or a Government Agency. Services like Sunroof give just a tiny window into what they know about you. Hardly anything could be more asymmetric.

If you're a normal citizen who has technical skills, yes, you can do exactly the same data extrapolation with publicly available datasources.
I play MtG a few of my MtG friends have recently started playing Hearthstone. From what I've gathered talking to them key differences are:

No trading - cards are bound to the account if I have card A and my friend has card B we can't swap cards with each other.

RNG - apparently Hearthstone is more RNG influenced then MtG the argument being this makes Hearthstone less skill and more luck based then MtG.

The thing I find most objectionable about Magic Online is having to duplicate your paper collection - which essentially means paying for the same cards twice, which is not something I'm all that keen to do. Not an issue for sealed tournaments like drafting but I'm not keen to invest in an electronic constructed format.
The Queen of Canada must provide royal assent for legislation to pass.

The Governor General of Canada is her appointed representative who acts on her behalf.

The Queen of Canada also happens to be the Queen of the United Kingdom.

Canada could, if they wanted to, pass a new Succession to the Throne Act which could change who inherits the crown.

If Canadian laws surrounding the order of succession were different to the UK, the monarchs of the two countries could diverge. Canada's Canada Act 1982 prevents the UK parliament legislating for Canada, which since then means if the UK changes succession to the throne laws, Canada has to mirror it in their legislation, or they will potentially have different monarch. Canada had to do this a couple of years back when the UK changed the how the crown was inherited (made the oldest child of the monarch inherit it, regardless of sex ... I think)
that sounds like the right direction for this project. I have already started coding hopefully will have a beta version soon. Have you signed up yet?
Depends on how many sweaters you have.
Both the 1st and 2nd gen MotoX are on 5.1.
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> But like I said, we're all very different.

Actually, I am indistinguishable from everybody else.