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Many people agree that there are many problems with first past the post voting. IMO, that's an artefact of voting districts. With modern technology, it's possible to make our representative democracy truly representative.

During an election, you give your proxy to anybody who is willing to be a representative. Each representative votes in Congress with a vote weighted by the number of proxies they received. The top 500 or so representatives get to sit in Congress. Those who didn't reach the threshold must pass their proxy on to another.

Nobody is no longer "represented" by somebody they didn't vote for. You can be represented by somebody who much more closely matches your interest. "Districts" will still be represented because many people will choose a local candidate, but everybody is free to choose someone who will represent them better if no local candidate does.

This won't eliminate political parties, but it will significantly weaken them as strong representatives will no longer be as dependent on the party machinery.
Actually I believe when I switched from T4 to TT it was C++ I was using.
That's not against women, it's just a bit crass (aka, against people who think sex should stay out of business).

Both men and women get laid.
News flash: every candidate in every election attempts to manipulate the way people vote. It's kinda basic to the entire process.

However:

Increasing voter access is NOT ANTI-DEMOCRATIC.

Restricting voter access IS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC.

Which one are you accusing the Democrats of pursuing? Thus is the crux of this entire thread.
The Surface does have quirks, but as a v1 device from a company that has NEVER designed a commercial PC

Not true. In the 1980s Microsoft attempted to standardize the 8-bit home computer market, and developed the MSX architecture, exemplars of which were built and sold by a few Japanese companies. The MSX did not see much traction in the United States but was popular in Japan and Russia.
DAE think that the whole "BGP is broken!" argument is a bit overblown?

If you're going to have a bunch of autonomous systems/networks operating together, with no central authority, it necessarily comes down to trust and relationships.

Shit will occasionally happen. It's important to look at outages, figure out the cause, and work to prevent it. Perhaps, though, this is a best practices issue, and not some fundamental flaw in BGP.
Source? I have never heard this.
yes. and yes.
Because you're only beholden to the people who live in your ward, you only really have the interests of those specific 10-50 thousand people (less in smaller cities, more in larger ones) in mind.

This, it turns out, really harms the capacity for governments to make decisions that make everyone better off on average but might make any given small region of people unhappy (say, by building a powerplant or a garbage dump).

Of course, there are benefits to this kind of representation, and some kind of mix is always desirable - but the gist of it is people are more willing to make regionally-disinterested decisions if their interests are aligned across ideological rather than geographical lines.
The Surface is "Bad" because you're comparing it with the iPad 4, the Kindle Fire HD, the Asus Transformer (3rd or 4th gen), etc.

Well, those are its competitors.
oh right.. well in the very beginning it was.
This is an example where technological ignorance is dangerous because it leads to the wrong conclusions.

Multi-touch screens as used in smart phones use capacitive touch sensing technology, they do not require calibration.

Cheaper, older touch screen systems (such as those used with ATMs or voting machines) use resistive touch technology, they absolutely require calibration.
But still, even if that's the maximum you can get charged if you have a small backup, it's too much.
Why are you like so many others attempting to make electronic voting work? What's the benefit? Electronic voting is a slight improvement in speed-to-count and a mega step down in reliability, opportunity for fraud, undetectable errors, software glitches, screen glitches. Not the mention the need for electricity.

Paper ballots work great. Why change?
If you'd like, here is some information on common complaints by women about this topic:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment
Then you should post these links, and point out these things. Don't just wave your hands and posit this sort of thing is against women without evidence for that point. Convert people to this cause if it's true, or silence your allusions if it's not.
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Just in case you have not completely killed your productivity already.

But seriously, it looks awesome!
Problem is that with first past the post voting, you end up giving your vote to the 2nd of the two primary parties.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Unless you have an absentee ballot (e.g., everyone in WA state). You give your filled out (or empty!) ballot to the mafia to drop at the polling station, with the signed outer envelope (declaring under penalty of perjury that this is your vote), and collect your reward.

I dropped off my wife's ballot. It is totally normal for one person to drop off multiple ballots at the box. It would even be hard for you to notice multiple ballots being dropped. I did our two with one gesture.

The vote buying cow has already left the barn.

So it's far more important to let citizens verify that their vote was counted accurately, with some sort of anonymizing hash.
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Chill out, I'm half-trolling. It's election day. I knew I'd get a downvote-kicking.

I've been on here for 3 years, I'm a hugely valuable but underrated member of this community.
NBC Confirms: Machine turns vote for Obama into one for Romney
While I emotionally agree with you, I think overcharging is a bane on the existence of the legal system.
There are people who give you one free meal per day which is dinner at 7 PM. Does that count?
That's just disturbing. The last time I went to vote I walked to a local school, waited politely in a queue, went and filled in my paper ballot and went home. A couple of people there were monitoring but nobody tried to influence or interrupt or anything. It was very British.
It could help I guess...
The point here is that there's now a million websites that just take the bootstrap L&F verbatim. And I'm not talking someone's weekend projects; these are in productions and trolling for revenue. While there's a clear benefit in using bootstrap (LESS, sane semantics, little boilerplate, etc.), there's no excuse for punting on your own design message.
sounds like a fox news argument
This is a useless performance comparison. Among other glaringly obvious issues (such as "How come the result is suddenly so much better? Unfortunately I don't know enough about the technical details to say for sure"... right...) you have this gem:

There is another important aspect of the result: our WebGL renderer is designed to be more efficient than our old C++ DirectX 9 engine from Construct Classic.

Ok, so you are comparing a highly optimized version to one which you specifically state is inefficient. I don't even know what to say to that...
Helping my son with his PhD project. If it works then we have something to help the world.....what more motivation does one need :-)
Bringing up the Coleman/Franken election reminds me of my particular pet peeve. When the margin of victory is less than the margin of error, it's impossible to know the will of the people. One hundredth of one percent is not within any reasonable margin of error.
I once worked for a software shop, and part of my job was writing trading code in a proprietary language for customers, who ranged from low end day traders to 8 figure annual revenue hedge funds. I had access to all kinds of tools, and saw many a varied strategy. There's quite a lot of money to be made selling solutions. I won't day trade.
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This is a great idea. Obviously it would have to be implemented properly and would be subject to the some of the same problems exit polls already have (i.e., voters not wanting to participate), but it solves a lot of the other problems neatly.
From what I can tell it looks like it's using the Chromium Embedded Framework

http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/wiki/GeneralUsage
In my experience the campaigners are instructed by the officials running the voting site what that radius is and stay outside of it.
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Oh, how sad the vigilante cannot film the pesky RAM-inhabiting daemon, that summate counting and distributes electronic votes according to the AdSense spending of every candidate. Even the iPhone is not capable of doing that surveillance.
The major discussion ended up here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749574

Confirmed by NBC:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4750364

Other submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748903

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748736
1) Being connected to friends who taught me a scalping style of day trading
2) Being really good at designing algorithms.
3) I only wish I could have started automated trading back in 2001
I do a rotation of hard drives in my house. I think it would be useful for the "my house burns down" scenario. In other words, I will probably never need the restore, but if I do, cost really isn't an issue.
The problem is the idea that a single elected official can somehow represent the entire United States. Can one person understand and represent 300 million people?

Impossible.

At least, impossible on a deep level. Such understanding is possible only in a very general level, for issues that are very broad.

Therefore, government should be as small, localized, and focused as possible. As much power as possible should be invested at the local level.

A lot of Europeans don't get this. European countries are already small and homogeneous (apologies for a huge generalization). They already have a fairly local government. The USA needs to work differently because it's the third most populous country in the world and because it's so enormously diverse. Government should be as close to the people as possible. Then if you don't like your municipality or state, you can move a few miles away to get a different municipal / state government.

I'm much more concerned about electing people whom I've met personally and had the chance to interact with at a town hall. Grass roots movements are much more effective at understanding people in a deep way. From a conservative perspective (my perspective), the Tea Party is a movement that has had great success enforcing accountability and toppling incumbents. There are similar movements in other political camps as well.

Here's the point: localized government increases freedom and choice. It puts local government in a position where it has to compete with other governments (municipal or state). That kind of competition can potentially squeeze out corruption and increase accountability.
My district in California was exactly like this, sans the people out front. This being the downtown of the capitol city, too.
Here's one FROM Romney to Obama

'DOZENS' OF COLORADO ROMNEY VOTERS CLAIM MACHINES CHANGED VOTES TO OBAMA

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/03/Dozens-of...
a) You have to be on the same machine, and it is probably most effective if you are on the same core, since it is a cache-based probe. If the attacker does not share the same cache as the victim, this attack will not work.

b) If there are more that just the attacker and the victim on the same machine (core), it is very likely to add a lot of noise to the side channel (attack) signal since it will be busy "dirtying" the cache that the side channel attack is being carried out on. Very likely this will prevent the attack from being successful.
If they went this route, they might have "Valve approved" hardware that would have properly maintained drivers.
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An electronic voting machine doesn't have to be Turing-complete, surely? It would require especially-fabricated non-Turing-complete chips / ICBs, and some very simple interface like an LED bank and good old-fashioned physical buttons (as a touch-screen LCD unit alone is probably turing-complete), but I'm pretty sure it'd be possible to devise a specialised electronic voting system that couldn't have its behaviour altered without physical modification.

[edit PS] Of course, this is purely academic. You might as well fantasise about a voting system made of Babbage-esque clockwork.
There are all sorts of laws that protect us from various government abuses, such as requiring search warrants, trial by jury, freedom of speech, etc. Voter secrecy is a prudent safeguard along those same lines.
Votes changing From Romney to Obama in Colorado

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/03/Dozens-of...
> I typed faster than the keys were registered and he said it was because my stance was tense and I needed to relax.

If this happened while you were typing in Word, they may not have installed the update that fixed this issue (was reported in the comments of a surface article on here somewhere).
That's a pretty interesting idea. Is there any precedent for anything remotely resembling this having been done before?
This is confirming the story submitted here to HN many, many times recently. The major discussion ended up here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749574

Other submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748903

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748736
It uses node-webkit as the host, which combines Chromium and node.js: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
It's hardly manipulative when it gives the opposition just as equal an opportunity to garner votes they wouldn't have otherwise attained as well.
Take a look at these for inspiration: http://hellohappy.org/css3-buttons/

The basics: choose a color, lighten it 5-10% for the top, darken it 10% for bottom, add a little saturation to the darker color. Dark (but not black) text with a `0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.75)` shadow.
My automated program was much less stressful than trading manually. The best was going to Hawaii, waking up, and having the entire day done. I was making like 6k every day on that vacation. The best!! :)
It's incomprehensible to me as an American how so many citizens of the country I live in are so fundamentally ignorant, but that doesn't change anything. I voted, but I honestly doubt my vote even gets counted. I wouldn't even be surprised if eventually it becomes public knowledge that the entire election process has been a complete sham and the totals mostly made up for the past few decades at least.

In any case, what am I supposed to do besides vote (at the polls - I'm all but convinced this is pointless), spend my money wisely (this is the best method I've come up with to enact some kind of change, but it's hardly effective since I'm not a billionaire), and write my "representatives" (who invariably respond with some boilerplate bullshit and go on doing whatever the folks paying for them (global business) want)?
WRT #1, a much simpler attack is to either become an employee or subvert an employee of the VM hosting company, pause the victim VM, and read the keys out of RAM.

http://xkcd.com/538/
Yeah, we aren't willing to admit it, but every voting system has a margin of error. Even 1 in a thousand voters will have problems with completely unambiguous questions.
Easy. Write really interesting words so people want to read more.

...what, you thought it was going to be magic? Like positioning a Clear Call To Action! on the top right side? Running a banner ad through the middle? Running contests with prizes worth half your marketing budget?

Note that the first subhead:

Click-through-rate on content positively correlates with open rate

is about as amazing as the discovery that caffeine is an aphrodisiac. You see, people are more likely to have sex while awake.
#1 - We have two political parties in the USA because of our winner takes all form of elections. No matter how big the pie, two sides will each attempt to form the smallest winning coalition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvergers_law

#2 - Anything that weakens the political parties strengthens the monied interests. The American experiment has always been wealth vs democracy. Bad as our parties are, plutocracy is worse.

This may change with the rise of issues-based political organizations.

#3 - In the USA, we vote on everything, and we are not homogeneous. My local Republicans would be considered Democrats else where.

#4 - Don't be distracted by the party politics. Reforms which would most improve our democracy, in order, are:

a) Fair redistricting, meaning maximal competitiveness, minimal incumbency protection.

b) Universal voter registration, just like every other western democracy.

c) Public financing of campaigns.

d) Restore the fairness doctrine.

That's pretty much it. A good start. Everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

(I've got a separate list for election integrity reform.)
yup, good point but i'm not sure sergey would be encouraging google employees to quit google and take up an open source project as readily as he's calling politicians to do so. my comment is a little trolly, just find it peculiar that a person who heads up a massive organization encourages other folks not to be part of other massive organizations. I agree with him, partisan politics is bad, just as bad as corporate droning (which i'm not sure he would agree with).
This is a concept I've been pondering in excess for the past several days. It has spontaneously appeared twice on HN. Why has this idea so recently risen within our collective subconsciousness?
I know that this will remain at the bottom of this thread, because it doesn't have enough conspiracy theory in it, but does anyone really think that this is actual vote tampering?

I mean, why on earth would you tamper with a voting machine so that it stuffs the ballot, but have it update the UI so that the user can see and report the error? This should fall to the way side of failing basic logic, but it doesn't because people want a sensationalist article to argue over. Changing votes would be much easier to do on the back end, and would have the additional benefit of never being detected by the user
The 13" Macbook Pro with retina display is proof enough that Apple will waste no time switching to ARM for Macs. They simply care about other laptop qualities a lot more than about total horsepower. If it's just "good enough" or even slightly underwhelming in terms of performance, it doesn't mean they will not do it.
Electronic voting machines ar much better than paper because they cost MORE!
Might've been what it was a couple of years ago but this post, dated today, is the perfect advertisement for the author's current business.

Well done!

PS: no sarcasm intended, it truly is an excellent advert.
"without an apartment
almost without money,
totally without medical care" nobody has to endure these things in Germany's social market economy. I guess you are taking the route you are on because you feel like it's the right thing to do (to not live off the social system provided). But actually asking for money/charity/investment online is basically the same thing.
Nate Silver wrote a great article in 2010 about why the notion of exit polling itself has a lot of fundamental problems[1]-- among them, the fact that it is extraordinarily difficult to get an truly random sample.

[1]http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/ten-reasons-why-you-s...
They probably all are, since it's really a hardware side channel. Anything that lets two processes run on the same cache.
http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb (Ubuntu 12.04, supposedly is only supposed to work for people in the beta)
How old are you? Within my lifetime there have been at least six presidential elections that were absolutely not reported as "virtual ties", including the last one.
The machine in question does produce a paper trail (at least when deployed in my state).

Computer systems are trying to bring forward all the hidden problems that aren't found until we have to fight about the result and put them right in front of the user. By design, they are going to show more errors, instead of hiding them from the voter.

(I shouldn't need to say this, but I'm not saying computer voting systems are better. I tend to prefer pure paper. But each system has trade-offs.)
Here's what our ballots look like: http://www.leinfelden-echterdingen.de/servlet/PB/show/141628...

There's never been any real discussion about it being complicated, confusing or needing any other kind of design change. (Which isn't to say that you couldn't make arguments in that vein.)
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The issue is that we have several voting machines that DO work.

They're just not what certain states bought. Were these bought for nefarious reasons? Perhaps. Are they bad even if they were just purchased due to incompetence/graft? Yes.
Are there problems ("bugs")? Sure. Are there problems similar in magnitude to the 'shenanigans' in the United States of America being discussed by morsch? Quite possibly not.
I can. If you can't be bothered to vote your vote isn't needed. You have no clue what you are voting for and you can not, in any conceivable way, make a reasonable judgment of who to vote. I cannot think of a scenario where having more people, who have no clue about why or who they are voting on (and this is sadly the vast majority of people), will be better than having less.

It looks good if have there are a lot of people participating but you have not gained anything if those that voted did not have the slightest of interest in it.
why no mechanism to give?
Interesting idea.

I prefer approval voting, which is very easy to administrate.
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NY also has a paper trail. I voted this morning. I filled out a form, using a pen to fill in the circles for my votes, much like standardized tests. I then fed that form into a machine. The polling station kept the form, which is the paper trail for the electronic record.
The iPhone's 28 grams lighter is a huge percentage difference for such a light device.

Can't make the same comparison for 20 grams (~30% less of a difference) on a much larger device.
> Same time schematic & PCB editing... for the first time ever

What exactly does this mean? How does this differ from Eagle where schematic changes are immediately reflected in the rat's nest?

It'll be interesting to see what kind of computational constraints they put on the inevitable autorouter.
Do you have anything more than that? I can't accept an unsourced story from that site at face value given its past editorial failures.
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