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Although I don't think the current implementation of electronic voting is needed, some kind of electronic voting may be needed to facilitate novel developments in representation.

For example, why do we select our representatives based on where we live, and then have them represent us on every possible issue? This leads to issue voting, where a voter may choose a representative based solely on their stance on a single issue (for example, abortion), even if that representatives does not reflect their stances on all other topics.

An issue-based representative system where you select several representatives, with each assigned a particular topic or subtopic of voter-selected granularity, would allow you to rank your interests and allow your overall political views to be better reflected by your elected representative(s).

For example, you might rank privacy very highly as one of your topics, and elect someone from the EFF to represent you on privacy-related issues (but nothing else, as the EFF knows nothing about these other topics). As a secondary priority, you also care about low taxes, so you choose a fiscal conservative to represent you on most economic and spending issues. However, you also want to ensure that your local community is represented, so you finally elect a local politician to represent you on all other issues.

For additional information on what such a system might look like, you may want to read this article. [0]

However, as such a system has many scalability problems (logistically) if based on paper-based voting, it is only possible to implement practically using an electronic/digital system. However, the transparency and fairness of such an electronic system are no less important in this case than they are under our existing political structure, and possible more so.

Hopefully this has illustrated some potential long-term benefits of electronic voting systems, even if it doesn't address the short-term problems generated by the closed-source, unaudited systems being deployed now.

[0]: https://bford.github.io/2014/11/16/deleg.html
Brunch is so 2011 bro /s
> It still hasn't happened.

No, not in general, but have you seen the comments on this story? I wouldn't call them stellar and well thought.
I can see the headlines now... "Bitcoin running out of steam?"
I graduated with an MS in Applied Mathematics and ended up working as a data scientist for 4 years until moving on to more interesting stuff.
Thee are numerous drivable grass products specifically made for driving/parking on grass.
Of course that's true but ships need water not buildings, I think we our civilization is old enough to know about flooding, we just don't care to address it until sometime happens. Can we not just transport the goods just a bit farther and start moving away from the flooded areas without having to waste money and manpower on sponges? Lol
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How would I do a "put if absent" in this database? Is it efficient?
I tx no where near the opportunity cost of a double spend on bitcoin.

I take your point, but it honestly seems a little much to assume that multiple players will act as one because they live in the same country. I haven't seen any evidence that the chinese govt controls what blocks are minted. A great counter example would be slower conf times from tx going to anti communist party groups. Does Ai weiwei have a bitcoin address?
When you make a bitcoin transaction, it gets put into a "mempool". Basically you send your TX to a node, that shares it with other nodes on the network, and they all hold it in memory. Once a block is found, the miner that found the block will pull as many transactions as possible from the mempool and put them into that block and sign it on the blockchain forever.

Since TX fees go to miners, they are incentivized to pick the transactions with the largest "fee per size" to include first to maximize their profit (though they aren't required to do so).

So basically you can envision all transactions as a stack, with the highest fees at the top. Once a block is found, it takes the top ~1MB worth of transactions, and the cycle repeats. [0] is a good visual representation of this.

Unfortunately this means there isn't an easy way to determine what fee will absolutely get you included in a block before it's mined, since if thousands of transactions show up with higher fees than yours after you (but before a block is mined) yours might not make it in the next block (even if your fee was the highest when you made the transaction).

It's a tough problem to solve, but there are some solutions being worked on to help solve this problem for the vast majority of bitcoin transactions.

[0]https://core.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h
biking, reading, playing guitar/music, take a class, get involved in community groups/initiatives, coffee shops, beer w/ friends, potlucks, dog walking, writing letters, learning a language, making cartoons, birding, coding, sailing, volunteering, read the news, get involved politically... literally anything that you feel would be more meaningful and less of a waste of life than cyber fake book etc.
Too expensive. Classic counting means counting by hand, which means a small army of people (or, for a federal election, a large army of people, literally the size of some armies).

That said I believe that, absent major changes to regulations around voting machines, the labor cost is worth the security, transparency, and accountability benefits.

Automating the counting process must be done in a way that preserves the ability to manually verify the count - voting machines that do not produce a paper audit trail that can be verified by humans are fundamentally insecure.
Great video. I'm impressed you guys built the checker tool, that isn't an easy task - we built something similar called PANIC (https://github.com/gundb/panic-server) that lets us simulate failure cases and then run the test across a distributed system to see if it passes.

I had a question, in the video at a certain point you say that you must modify the code to disallow concurrent debits. This makes sense in theory, but wouldn't it fail in practice? If two machines in different regions are running this code, they would not know that there is a concurrent debit. How si that addressed?
I wonder if this might partially be a function of company size - I know that some indie developers are relatively well-known, and have a relatively guaranteed audience for whatever their next game might be, even if that next game is in a different franchise or genre.
Gambling.
Nobody expects humans to be accurate, and that's why there are checks and balances in place to make sure the counts are accurate and unbiased. It would take a huge conspiracy to swing an election.

Computers represent a single point of failure, one piece of malicious software could affect an election and nobody would even know. This problem is made even worse by the closed source machines in use right now.
Well it "can" be returned after 14 days, but a "malicious" node can also just rebroadcast it to prevent that from happening.
The manual mistakes will average out with scale. Software mistakes get multiplied.
yes i am sure those salaries are possible for certain specialties in high demand, but in this case we are talking about Senior Web Developers. I think for pure devs without a lead or other management role, it's hard to get more than 75k EUR or 90k USD, and in BCN i have the feeling it is at least 10k less.
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Situation is far more complex than you presented. He probably fall under that category under federal law.
Check carefully https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_Unite...
Anyway, it is up to court to make legal decision on that matter. BTW, even ONE case with that 14 old teen if proven to be true would be sufficient and give him long term to serve in prison. Well, you probably also expect better moral standards from judge, isn't it?
Right, that is really the other side of what I didn't say. I don't expect Steam to be holding onto bitcoin for very long but if even for the short amount of time they're holding it the price is fluctuating and doesn't offer an equivalent price in USD from the time the user presses pay to the time the transaction is processed, on top of what can amount to a 20% fee it's simply not currency. They'd be better off allowing people to pay them in stocks sold on the NYSE and NASDAQ.
Can you please not break the HN guidelines even when there isn't the full text? Angrily entitled comments are definitely not in the spirit of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just apply to some entry level jobs. I've worked with many Linux admins who didn't have a degree, or e.g. had a degree in something unrelated like film.

Given lack of formal experience, maybe start with companies where you know someone already? Or e.g. you've met these admins, talk to them and see if they can help you out.
Or the malware on your phone could... idk order 200 gallons of laundry through the amazon app on your phone? Seems a lot easier, I don't think the app requires authentication for purchases.

Or malware could just say "Hey Alexa [insert other name here]" and order detergent (This has happened accidentally in commercials).
> I gave up since the card they had on file was expired anyway

An expired credit card is not the same thing as one locked for fraud/lost card/etc.

It is possible to charge an expired credit card, many banks will just roll the charges onto the new card instead.
Debt has a statute of limitations?
Now that I have 20/20 hindsight, you're right :)
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Some good stuff in the comments too. Here’s the talk:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15857633
There's a finite number of bitcoins, fewer and fewer bitcoins are being produced over time by design. There can only be 21 million bitcoins, and the majority have already been mined. So the reward just for completing a block (not including the transaction fees) has been steadily decreasing, and that's not even taking into account that more and more miners means it's harder to get that reward. Thus the trend is going to be towards increased transaction fees.
Yes, but at the same time Visa requires you to hand over your payment information to each and every merchant you transact with, and they are able to pull as much money from your card as they want, and they are able to charge you multiple times at any point in the future.

But there are some really cool solutions being worked on right now for this problem in bitcoin that can make it scale to a similar way to Visa. But they aren't here yet (and some might turn out to be nonviable). Lightning network would allow Visa levels of transactions per second, at basically zero or next to zero fees per transaction for the majority of them.
s/pedophile/sex offender/g. You are technically correct on that one point, the best kind of correct.

He is also not accused of relations with a 22 year old. He is accused of assault. Difference being someone taking you out on a date, vs someone grabbing your junk and forcing themselves on/in you without your consent.
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The ToS covers all bases now, so that when i start adding more features it does not need to be updated.

I'm hoping to take a small bite of the landing page market by making it crazy easy for people (real estate for now) to make sites. I could never hope to compete with Instapage or Unbounce, not yet anyways ;)
> With paper, that's a laborious process, requiring physically adding up millions of pieces of information.

I'd argue that this isn't a huge deal since the amount of labor available scales essentially linearly with the amount of votes cast.
When did robocalls get shut down? Was it recent?
So I'm not allowed to disagree with something just because it happened a while ago? I was against it then because of exactly this kind of thing happening. My opinion hasn't changed. But, I guess it should because you say so right?

I see this kind of attitude a lot when it comes to technology
"Oh it's already happened just accept it"
Or
"It's the way everything is so just go along with it"

I'm getting fairly sick of being told I shouldn't disagree with or be against something because"that's the way it is"

Since when has technology ever been about accepting things the way they are? The whole reason we even have an internet is because people decided the way things were weren't good enough.
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I wanted a database that would receive "events" asynchronously and stored that, but at the same time would process these events (from some piece of previously written code) to generate a queryable schema.

If I wanted to change the schema later, the database would let me just rewrite the code and it would reprocess all the received events since the beggining.

My use case is not anything high-performance or with thousands of writes -- it's the opposite.
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> Because that trusted entity kinda sucks at these things. Also it'll mollify the people who don't wanna cede all control to the government

In your top level comment you said:

top> If we required that all debt be digitally signed in a central ledger, either nationally or by state, and then all payment transactions were also recorded there, it'd be a lot harder to fake this stuff

If we make it required, we've already ceded control to the government, since it is the government that would control enforcement of the requirement. Even if the government decides to use a block chain, they still have control because they get to pick which block chain is used, and they can change that choice at any time.

Also, who signs this digitally signed debt? If you mean that the debtor signs it, then I don't see why you even need a public record of the debt as far as validating debt collection attempts goes. All that needs to be public is the alleged debtor's public key.

> Some central database controlled by the government doesn't solve the issue that all databases have, which is that you need to have absolute trust in the people who admin that db, the beauty of blockchains is that trust is no longer needed, as long as the there are a reasonably diverse number of entities involved no single person can make unilateral changes.

That doesn't require a block chain. All it requires is that more than one entity keeps a copy of the database.
Some electronic voting systems would allow the voter to confirm their vote was counted and correct after the fact. Imagine if a webpage posted all the votes (crypto secured of course) such that any voter could verify their vote. IMO this would help end the corruption. If a statistically significant enough people stand up after a vote and say "I didnt vote that!" the we can be made aware of corruption.
> How are these transaction fee amounts even determined?

The number of transactions that can fit into a block (ie. "clear") is roughly fixed. The rate at which new blocks are added (ie. "clearing rate") is roughly fixed. Traders effectively bid for clearing via the transaction fee, and the highest bidding transactions are accepted.

In order words: supply of transactions is effectively fixed, and demand for transactions determines the fee.

There is work going on to enable external clearinghouses called the lightning network that will fix this problem, but that work isn't ready yet.
The person who creates the transaction (ie. the buyer or customer).
Epic. Tripadvisor is terrible for vetting places, so are google reviews, and facebook reviews. Tripadvisor is big in the UK, more reliable review sites like yelp don't have the adoption yet. Hopefully articles like this start to change that
Solution: become a debt collector, and buy your own debt!
My livelihood no longer depends on said practice. I have mixed feelings about it, but this is Hacker News so I have some expectation that if we're going to be discussing stuff like this, we're at least going to start with the right facts.
They're also stolen (borrowed?) from https://unbounce.com/terms-of-service/

Compare to https://enviar.io/terms-of-service.html
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Citations are always a researcher's best friend. The video has a URL researchers, http://printedwifi.cs.washington.edu/. That page has a paper PDF, with the following line:

> We note that prior electronic-based designs use both Wi-Fi signal variations (RSSI) as well as channel state information (CSI) variations [Kellogg et al.2014] to extract backscatter data. The backscattered signal from our 3D printed objects can be extracted using either of these procedures. Our implementation uses the MAX2829 802.11a/b/g transceiver that gives us access to the received 802.11g baseband signal.

Based on my time in grad school, I'm guessing they custom built a microcontroller for the task, and used that chip. There's a wealth of papers online dealing with backscatter, including the Kellogg paper cited above. Among their proposed setups is this fairly passive one:

> Finally, we check the feasibility of using only the periodic beacon messages from the AP. We use an Intel Wi-Fi Link 5300 card configured as the AP and an Intel Wi-Fi Link 5300 card as a Wi-Fi reader. The reader does not generate any traffic on the network and passively listens to the beacon messages periodically transmitted by the access point. No other device is associated with the access point, but it operates on channel 6, which is the same frequency as our organization’s Wi-Fi network.

Your other questions may be similar answered by following citations =)
US tax code is a strange animal. While in general you take home more if you earn more, the curve is not always smooth. There are several spot you suddenly lose the ability to claim certain benefit as income increase. In a situation like that you could take home slightly less as your income increase. If your income is high enough, those doesn't apply to you. All you need to worry about it the different tax bracket.
Serious question: even if a currency is only good for exchanging for other currencies, doesn't that still make it a currency?

In other words, even if you can't go buy clothing or games or hosting with BTC, doesn't the fact that you can exchange it for $LOCAL_CURRENCY (which can be used to buy those things) give it value?

Basically, a meta-currency or currency of currencies, if you will.

Edit: I realize we are saying the problem is a delay and pinning down the real value at a given time, but it sounds like that doesn't matter so much as the volatility itself, which should eventually settle. If delay were really a problem, then I would think stocks wouldn't be a thing.
Yes definitely. First we're building a physical board game for fun (and simulator is just so we can get the rules right) but.. if people like it we plan to make an online version and give it a bot interface so people can write their own.

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It's true. At one point a friend of mine was in 30 cryptocurrencies. Bull run? Didn't matter since the allocation diluted everything so gains weren't really significant. I understand the excitement to BUY BUY BUY but the fate of so many alt coins are also TBD.
> disconnect between "doing math" as perceived by someone who studied e.g. CS versus someone who studied math

In what sense? There are folks studying theory in CS departments who are by all intents and purposes 'pure' mathematicians.
Thanks, we've changed the URL to that from http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364....
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Bingo! Find and Replace :')
> For that $2 a transaction is forever recorded on thousands of nodes in a worldwide consensus network, secured by a huge number of miners. Blockchains are not going to scale to visa level numbers of transactions without huge blocks and de facto centralization.

Bingo. Short of it is that consumers don't care. They just want to be able to buy something and have the transaction complete immediately. Whether it's a central payment network, a distributed consensus of 1000s of nodes, or a single "ring" from an in person cash register it's all the same.
Then you are running it yourself for latency reasons, not (just) the cost reasons in the GP's scenario.
Freeriders can still create value. See J. K. Rowling for a billionaire example who leveraged social welfare into wealth. I am not saying Welfare is justified, just that is not a major issue.

US has a 18.57 trillion GDP, if you dedicate 10% of that into ~1,500$/month free riders that's ~1/3 of society. As long as most people want more than a subsistence level income it's simply not going to become a big deal. Sure, you in theory lose the economic output of the lazy not just the old or the infirm, but that output is simply not that significant in the first place.

Granted, we spend vastly more than that on many people. But, higher costs are a question of poor implementation not inherent costs.
> Why? Search is a service provided by a company trying to make money, just as a retailer.

I don't have any horses in this race, so I am not trying to take anybody's side, but since you ask, here is my opinion:

A retailer is by default selecting what items to sell.

A search engine is by default crawling everything.

So one is kind of opt-in and the other opt-out.
As landfills pile up with wifi-reflecting garbage we will truly be realizing the dream of the IoS (Internet of Shit).
If the transactions were quick and Bitcoin were usable, I'd argue that the price wouldn't be fluctuating
Most white collar professionals don't have obvious things they could invest money in that would quickly improve their bottom line. Farmers have that option constantly, so their situation is qualitatively different in a way that the white collar professionals in this thread clearly have trouble understanding.
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Here are your numbers for spot instance pricing[1].

Machine learning stuff will typically happen in batches, openai even went through the effort to publish a k8s library for the task[2] of autoscaling clusters to minimize cost and manage it.

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/instance-advisor/
[2]https://github.com/openai/kubernetes-ec2-autoscaler
That problem isn't a whole lot different than what happens today when you lose control of your SSN. I'm not advocating for your private key to become your ID, in fact it'd be best if each time you took out a loan you used a new key. How is a private key any harder to manage than a all the myriad of personal and private info we are required to manage today. At least this way you're the only person responsible for managing it, not every single FI and bank.
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also in spanish!! That's where it comes form.
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Doesn't change the fact that those non-core features are actually essential in practice.

The core feature of a car is to go places fast, but it's also crucial it doesn't kill its occupants. Similarly, the essential aspects of a voting system are things like perception of fairness (otherwise we're back to killing each other for the seat at the table) and protecting individuals from being bribed or coerced into voting in a particular way. Electronic voting systems fail to provide those features in a reliable way.
Well, so much for buying a GM Vehicle any time in the future.

Unless this significantly drops the price of their cars vs. their competition (it won't) I'm not sure how this benefits drivers / consumers. For that reason alone I imagine this is not a good idea.
>Being poor sucks. Don't be poor. If you find yourself being poor, stop as fast as you can.

Damn, if someone had just told the poor people this sooner, they wouldn't be poor! /s