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Thanks for the information sgrove, I appreciate the info, I'll probably give Zenbox a try. Good luck!
How do you count a smudge instead of a complete filling-in of the oval? You have humans go over them, and people hate that.

Just because you never see this issue doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's just that the ambiguous ballots don't matter in the vast majority of elections so no one cares.

I'm not saying computers are better than paper. They each have trade-offs.
>Outside of each location will be people holding signs of all candidates

isn't it illegal to campaign within a certain radius of a polling place?
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If Canada and the US merged, would it be twice as hard to vote? Of course not. Voting is the most trivial govt activity to scale up! It is the equivalent of an embarrassingly parallel pb.

The "300M citizens" excuse is even less valid in the context of presidential elections, because each state plans it independently from the others. So it is more like 52 tiny countries voting together!
Vote manipulation? Yes.

Just what we need? Definitely.

I cannot think of a scenario where having more people in a representative sample would be worse than having less.
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Ask HN: Online intro to programming classes for recruiters?
I head up technical recruiting at TrialPay in Palo Alto. Our current operation consists of 2 people, and both of us have coded to varying degrees. Before coming to TrialPay, I worked as an engineer for about 5 years. My colleague is a former high school math teacher and has taken Harvard’s CS50 and regularly plays around on Codecademy. We’re both currently taking MIT’s 6.00x for fun.

Our familiarity with eng/coding has been indispensable in the technical recruiting industry, and I’d like new members of our team to at least have some basic idea and appreciation of what it is that engineers do every day. As such, I’m thinking that taking an introductory programming class should be part of any new recruiter’s ramp-up period. I’ve heard good things about Udacity’s CS101 (http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101/CourseRev/apr2012), for instance, and the syllabus looks pretty good. What classes would you guys recommend? The goal isn’t necessarily to get very hardcore or theoretical but rather to get an idea of what programming entails and hopefully to impart that sense of wonder you get when you make a machine do your bidding and build something from nothing for the first time.
There's a typo: the code you pointed to says Highcarts.com, it should read Highc_h_arts.com
Good points. A solution would be to give everyone a receipt for their vote, with an anonymous copy that can be put into an exit poll bin. And something equivalent for mail-in voters.
It's not so much about making each vote count for something (although people pay a huge amount of attention to NH's early primaries), it's about making sure the larger states don't steamroll the smaller ones.

The USA experimented with decentralized banks (each state printed its own currency for a while) and it was a mess, so centralized banking is more of a practical solution than an ideal one. Other issues including who gets married etc, are idiosyncratic to particular cultural and even subcultural groups, and seems best handled by responsive, representative legislation than blanket national policy.
An example: In Texas, a student ID is not good enough to count as a voter ID -- but an NRA member card is. I kid you not. The Simpsons could not have come up with something more absurd.

Minorities in the US are way less likely to carry photo ID. I could go on and on. In short, the situation is different than in Slovenia.
nvidia-settings provides a gui to adjust settings like this (and far more). The display configuration app should also work, I'm surprised it doesn't (the nvidia drivers finally play nice with xrandr -- it might be that the app assumes the driver doesn't play nice).
> Because having groups of random, untrained people squinting at dangling chads is less error-prone?

What on earth? I marked the candidate I wanted to vote for with an X in a circle on a paper ballot. Marking circles for more than one candidate is a spoiled ballot you can replace instead of depositing if you wish. This isn't rocket science.
It's the same here. Well, similar, you're not legally required to carry it with you; most people do so anyway for convenience. But some countries don't have a national id, including but not limited to the US.

The UK briefly introduced and then scrapped a national ID system, bowing to public pressure. Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006 -- a key phrase being "Many of the concerns focused on the databases underlying the identity cards rather than the cards themselves."

It's not something you can easily compare across borders and it's extremely loaded with all sorts of issues in the US, as far as I understand.
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Thanks for reading! I guess what makes startup life hard is that because there's so much uncertainty, it's tough to get a read on what is and what isn't useful. But I think most Lean Startup types already know that. My argument is that the problem is compounded by the fact that if you've screwed up in the past, your selection away from hard work can be almost Pavlovian in nature.
This system kind of does what you're asking:

http://www.wombat-voting.com
In a lot of countries, ID is not mandatory, and government-endorsed photo IDs are expensive and time-consuming to acquire. As such, people with a high income will be more likely to have them.

That applies doubly so for a passport or driving license -- people with more money are more likely to have a car or travel overseas, so more likely to have those types of ID.
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Which is trivially easy with the availability of camera-phones (just include your ID in the shot).

I know it's not foolproof as you could request a new ballot, but I'm guessing those buying votes aren't the smartest folk. Plus you'd be crazy to not accept the money upfront, as there's no way they're actually going to pay out after the fact and it's not like you can take someone to court for not upholding their end of an illegal bargain.
Bubbles seem stupid to me. It's a lot easier and less subjective on review to fill in an arrow than it is to fill in a bubble.
Here's an example ballot of what I'm talking about:
http://www.town.oregon.wi.us/uploads/ckfiles/images/nov_06_s...
This is really great. Kudos, sir.
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I want to have something I can call my own while learning along the way, akin to passage to adulthood. Maybe we should call it the passage to entrepreneur-hood!
iVotronic has had problems like this for a long time. For instance see http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/letter_to_secr....

If they made the machine, it is probably incompetence. iVontronic looks like it is owned by Printelect, which is owned by Owen Andrews, who seems to be affiliated with the Democrats.
Because if you can prove to a third-party how you voted, you can sell your vote, or coerce someone else to vote a certain way.

It's one of the biggest challenges in crypto-voting systems. And there are some solutions. But we need to hammer down on the "silly people, why not just print a receipt" idea really hard.
Actually AmVess, that was my point, that most people didn't read the article, they just jumped right to the miscalibration explanation that was already eliminated by the guy making the video.

It's pretty clear that you didn't read (or understand) my comment. Don't comment, you're bad at it. Dumbass!
When the iPad was first released, all the Windows/Microsoft apologists went on and on about how this was nothing new; that Microsoft had pioneered tablets for decades.

Now when MS releases a subpar tablet, they want to claim that it's new, and fragile, and shouldn't be compared to the competition; compare it to a two year old iPad instead!

Get real. This is the same MS that we've all known for decades. The hardware isn't too bad, but as usual, the OS is a kludge that makes poor design decisions, is poorly optimized, and performs terribly in comparison to its competitors.
>You can sideload store apps in Windows 8 relatively easy.

OK.

>What you need is the .appx file for the app and powershell

what
CourseTalk. CourseTalk! http://coursetalk.org .. You are right kind of :) But I've made a decision to start reaching out generally so I can attract cool people to work with on whatever projects I may be interested in in the future.
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The arrow-thing is also confusing to people. I guarantee you that election officials have had to make a judgment call about them.

EDIT: Out of 1000 people, how many will get confused by this design? http://www.umsl.edu/~kimballd/polk.pdf

SECOND EDIT: misaligned arrows were also a problem in Florida in the 2000 election
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I think all the electronic machines should print a recepit, deposit the receipt on a box, and at the end of the day, count all physical votes. If they don't match the electronic machine, then audit them.
Agree. It needs a deft touch. From a social engineering standpoint you have to build sponsorship with X and have him suggest who else to meet.
Virginia does this as well. I think it's a great system. No need for costly machines, just optical scanners which can be spot checked by pulling a percentage to verify. Plus you can scale it very easily, just add more people for ID checking and more spaces to sit and fill in the boxes.

Virginia has both right now and a lot of people prefer to wait for the machine. I would love for them to switch completely to the paper marked ballots.
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A few months ago I had a Google Voice number that they also assigned to another person, while I was actively using it. Happened to a friend too.
If this is the reason, there is a bigger problem in America then simple voter fraud...
The printing part is a problem that will resolve by itself when the technology evolve. But yeah, right now it's the main point of friction. Even if you can display the marker on your screen and look at it through your tablet. Or display it on your tablet and look at it through your phone.
I love MIPS. I think it's an absolutely beautiful architecture. I used write MIPS code on my Play Station 2 with Linux dev kit for fun.

If you want to know more about the MIPS architecture I highly recommend "See MIPS Run" by Dominic Sweetman:

http://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Kaufmann-Computer-Architecture-...
There is much more than "end user" open source software. While it is true that brands need to be protected, open source software gets mostly popular because it is good, not because they have shiny numbers. Protecting the brand is ok. Marketing is a different beast.

You wrote you have the impression LibreOffice is "doing better". What does that mean? Have you observed what OpenOffice is doing? What is your metric? If you have not looked into both projects and if you have not tried both products you simply cannot say that. You are a victim of marketing, probably. "Doing better" is too broad to say. Even when you say "i like LO more" you can't say "doing better" in general, because both project are not really merge-able codewise and cannot be compared. You just can give your own impression, like when you say "Windows" is doing better than "OS X".

You also miss one important point before you choose for which organization you are working. The license. Apache licensed code can be used in commercial products. GPL licensed (as with LO) cannot be used without becoming Open Source itself. This is important, because OpenOffice is the one you would take when you are working on a product which needs to include for example spreadsheet features.

That all said, Open Source has different point of views, but for many of us unpaid developers it is not about marketing. It is about fun of coding. Exploring new things. Make big things happen. I even agree when you say: collaborating on code, releasing and getting users is cool to have. But: nobody needs marketing for that. I have worked on many open source projects without a "marketing division".

What you said about GNU: they do not have a no-modification copyright license.

However in this blog post I outlined that wrong marketing is doing harm to a project. Flames against projects is doing that too. Having media with an opinion when they should make up news in a mostly objective way is bad too.

Still i don't get why there is dicussion. A group of people want to do project A, a group of people want to do project B. Nobody is forced to stick with a project. Everybody can switch project like he wants. I don't get why people are so emotional with these two projects. Again: calm down, let people have their fun.
Virginia is similar, with optional machine voting.
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Wow, gotta love the 37 signals guys and Jason Fried. This is a killer job posting.

Salary, location are clear.

Job skills required are clear.

Boss/employee relationship is clear.

Vision/motivation is clear.

Ok, well it might not be perfect but it's a lot better than a stale typical job posting.
Miscalibration is supported by the video. We have to take the person's' word on the other buttons, which they for some reason didn't bother to take a video of.

Miscalibrations can also happen in these sorts of resistive touch screens that fit the described behaviour.
What about this system covered a while back on TED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I
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You can also ask users to vote on your own questions about your own products and services.
What is this "representative sample" that you're talking about?

It is well-known that the subset of the population that goes to the polls is NOT representative of the country as a whole. That is why pollsters are so careful to get polls of "likely voters". Because Republicans tend to be more motivated to vote than Democrats, so if they just took a poll of everyone they called, the results would always be strongly skewed Democrat.

(Getting this right is very tricky, and different methodologies around it is one reason that different pollsters often have a consistent difference in the polls that they produce.)
Solution is probably not quite right, but it certainly seems like at least an insurance policy.
No. Every business has a risk element, but what makes this gambling is that there is no good or service being produced. It's a game of trying to outguess the other players, with one trader's gain being another trader's loss (relative to market returns).

Because there's a commission on trades, and because you pay taxes on net gains but your minimum tax is zero, high frequency trading by its very nature must a loss for most players.
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Tactical stupidity is knowing the truth but being unable or unwilling to admit it. In an extreme case, you might call wilful ignorance (including depriving yourself of information) to be an extension of this.

Depriving others (particularly your own children) of factual information starts sliding into the "true belief" side, so far as I'm concerned.

It may be messed up, but it's also fundamental human nature. As Heinlein observed: man not a rational animal, he's a rationalizing animal.
"Old Man Yells At Cloud" would have been an equally compelling headline.
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For the sake of clarity, I meant:

>If a lottery has a total of ten $1 tickets for sale and each ticket has an equal chance of winning, there is an obvious difference between the prize being $11 and $9, but buying a ticket at either price is just as much "gambling" in the common parlance.
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If you live in a place that requires you to carry identification papers at all times, I can understand your shock.

The US does not have national ID, and doesn't even require you to show identification to the police when asked.
> The result of this isn't a utopia of good government and sound policy, it's an orgy of hyper-localism.

Any chance someone could make this statement more concrete? It's terribly important to his argument, but it's taken as an article of faith.
If what you want is a "None of the above" option, then advocate for a none of the above option! http://nota.org/

Don't vote for an arbitrary non-incumbent who may well be a worse politician.
'Theoretically', no. Its hard to be optimistic about these two ideas because while the chess example is a good story, its not analogous for many reasons, ranging from disparity in available information to players to a difference of several magnitudes in saturation. Not to mention HFT just isn't chess.

HF traders are just as much hackers as anyone on HN (and there are plenty of HF traders on HN). So 'theoretically', they've already done what is being suggested here. If someone comes along and develops a winning strategy, it really shouldn't be considered as having anything to do with 'professional strategy vs novice strategies'. It would just be about one person either getting really lucky or coming up with something that is genius in its own right.

--

If there are 'professionals' and then other 'professionals' whose strategy depends on information about how other 'professionals' trade (and there is), you end up with strategies at all valid points in the sample space of possible strategies and counter strategies. Theoretically, there should be no other possible strategies. Inevitably someone will come up with one though, and the 'sample space' will grow. But its extremely unlikely that additional unique strategies are successful just because they 'counter' the strategies in the sample space. But then again, this is real life and these things aren't impossible.
> It is not as nasty as voter suppression, but it is no less a form of vote manipulation.

"As" nasty? Nice wording. There isn't a shred of nastiness in it at all.
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I think it's hilarious and absolutely correct english. If you happen to find a sexual euphemism in it, what does that have to do it?
Yes, my county in California does this as well. A voter verifiable paper trail should be a requirement for voting systems - either as an optically read input, or a voter verifiable paper output placed into a ballot box as an audit check against the electronic results.
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If all you had is a reference document on the instruction set, are you saying the hard part is already done? Or that the hard part would be figuring out how to implement that?
MSNBC confirmed the machine was defective in the article.
I basically just brute forced it. I came up with a cost function which would measure the difference between a possible curve and each data point. I think you're supposed to do the squared difference but I can't remember if I did that. With a cost function in place it's just a matter of zooming in on variables that minimize the cost function.
Normal(paper) vote with one reviewer per political party.
Joining the party as a member costs 25 pounds a year.

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That would be a state-by-state law. There is no such law in Maryland as far as I know.
There's also the possibility that other countries have more robust voting systems so there is less to complain about. Do you think voters wait in line for five hours in Germany, or get turned away from booths in Scotland? Voter turn out is slightly larger in both countries compared to the US, so apathy probably won't explain fewer complaints. It's more likely that the lack of a US national standard system permits more screw-ups and maybe occasional outright abuse.

*(Scotland 64%, Germany 68%, US 55%)
That possible explanation has been put out repeatedly.

Given how successful exit polling was until 2000 in the USA, and given how successful it is in elections around the world, I do not believe that this is a plausible explanation of recent discrepancies.

But, as is common in this sort of situation, I have no way to prove it.
The discussion has ended up here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749574
You can also ask users to vote on your own questions about your own products and services.
The largest discussion has ended up here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749574
To be honest I'd given up and moved on to other stuff well before I actually shut down the program.
Ask HN - Examples side projects that became big in uncommon industries?
We've seen plenty of projects like time tracking, social media, productivity, games etc that became big. Anyone knows of projects that became successful in not-so-common industries (by not common I mean, those industries which a normal software person wouldn't immediately think of developing software for)?
Unfortunately current US elections are unauditable because voting machines DO NOT produce any kind of verifiable voting trail

Please stop.

The machine in the video (at least when deployed in NC) absolutely has a paper receipt that gets printed every time a button is pressed.
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In case you're interested, the discussion has ended up here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749574
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If you use their library/SDK/Framework.... how do you actually trade, do you still need a brokerage? Sorry a bit new to this field.
Ask HN: Where are you watching the election results?
I'm looking for a website that is immersive, intuitive, and analytics based. Something that I can get lost in while each successive state is announced. Something that only a hacker could create.
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I could say something witty about women being treated as sexual objects more frequently than men, or reference the studies pointing out that sexualized environments encourage sexual harassment and discrimination to take place (something biased against women more than men), talk about how sexual innuendo is commonly a way for men to bond over their shared attraction to women, or any number of complaints pointed out repeatedly over the years by women in this industry.

But...

I don't think Upverter was trying to discriminate, nor do I think anyone should take real offense at their title. I just think that little jokes like this often recurring does have a negative impact on our ability to attract women to (and have them thrive in) technical roles.
The FOSS movement is far stronger in software than third parties are in American politics.
Unlikely that you'll see this submission first, but in case you do, the discussion has ended up here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749574
By the way, no offense meant by the advertising thing. I enjoyed the article. Although, as a technical person, would've enjoyed more details on the code and algorithms.