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> Why do I need to pick someone who poorly represents my views and will probably vote against my interests

This. I'M not in the US, so copyright laws are less of an issue here, but even without that number of times I find myself thinking that this system sucks is over the threshold. I mean all politicians act like they voters agree with everything they do because you voted for them even if what they're doing is the exact opposite of what you thought they'd be doing.
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I know it is only in beta but all this "how can I get it to work" talk makes me think it is not user friendly yet.

Windows and Mac it is simple as download and go.
But with Linux there seems to be issues and work arounds.

Still not for the average user.

Look at all the comments.
Thank you, the 'steam steam://open/store/ &' part fixed some issues i was having with running it in a Virtualbox.
Is there such a thing in a system where your every click is logged and backed up somewhere?
I think you are correct. Many people seem to not be bothering what he wrote. That being said, I don't really understand this post at all. He recognizes and dislikes the game mechanics involved in political brinkmanship, and then thinks somehow there is any competitive human endeavor that does not involve one? Why not use mathematics to find a better mechanic more suitable to a goal? For example, absolute or adaptive term limits.

Simply renouncing party affiliation leads to Bloomberg style manipulation of the electorate's party affiliations. Some people (most) prefer that the actions and abuses of one elected official will most likely reflect on the entire party in the next cycle. Complicated.
By luck and skill you found a temporary systematic bias that other players missed. It was even luckier that you found it without a lot of upfront losses. But you could have made many attempts and not found any bias and overall lost money and gave up. If lots of people are losing small sums to find these biases, then it may be that the expected return of trying to find biases is zero or negative.

At best HFT is a near zero sum game. It isn't creating value for customers. It isn't making the world a better place.

It is an unfortunate flaw of our economic system that so many smart people put so much effort into playing zero sum games with each other.
Give the 13" Air a shot. It's easily the best machine I've ever owned.
Yeah. It's not like your congress ever voted on something that's bad for your country, right?
It's a CLOSED beta. Not intended for the average user yet. It'll be easy once they've worked out the bugs.
I run it and it strongly recommends that I install a new nVidia driver that is marked as "experimental".

I know that it's not fair to dump on a beta but the interface is really unresponsive even compared to the Windows version and half the time I can't even drag windows around.

Looks like this still has some way to go.
Or your overpowered iPad. But yes it's basically it. Except that you have more information by doing this since it gives you the size of the object (useful for la Joconde and Apple I for exemple). And you can compare several objects together. Two things that you don't easily have with an embedded 3d browser.
Hey while we're making ridiculous claims that will never happen let me call on all billionaires like Sergey Brin to give away 99.999% of their money to charity immediately, not wait until they're 60 and realizing their only legacy is being an asshole.
Can I suggest creating a new party? There must be enough Republicans sick of being associated with the Tea party, and enough Democrats who would quite like to be able to pass a law, any law, that a centrist counter balance would be quite feasible, and play the part of kingmaker.
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No, I dowloaded a .deb which installed steam, witch then downloaded the full program without any issue.
"get laid" is not correct English.
The system in Oregon works quite well. In the mail, you get a voter's pamphlet, a ballot to fill out, and two envelopes. You put your name, address, and signature on the outer envelope, put the ballot in the unmarked inner "secrecy" envelope, and put the secrecy envelope in the identifying envelope. The people counting the ballots use the outer envelope to check identity against the list of registered voters (and the list of people who have voted already), then aggregate the secrecy envelopes for validated votes; the latter get counted separately. After election day, you can check an online service to confirm that you voted, just not how you voted.

And to partly answer your question: Oregon makes it a felony to sign someone else's name to the identifying envelope.
And nothing of value was created.

Just kidding. It was a fascinating article. Thanks for sharing.
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>They don't "always" favor the republican. That's just hyperbole.

I've yet to see a credible instance of vote machine "malfunction" favoring Democrats covered by a reputable source, but if you have any links I'd be interested as it's certainly possible.

>Voter fraud is far more common than alleged insidious voting machine malfunctions.

Due to the nature of electric voting without a paper trail, there's no way to make this assertion as contemporary electronic voting can't be audited.

>Those machines are checked by reps of both parties and under heavy, continual scrutiny.

Not quite.

See: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/06/experimental-software-discr...

Electronic voting in its current form is a remarkably bad idea. It invites corruption as a scale that requires much more resources than traditional analog voting fraud.
Idealistic != Naive
Learn the difference.

Also the posts also shows how little the writer understands what Sergey wrote. Read the G+ post.
I'm happy with mine, as well. The battery life, especially, is impressive in day-to-day use.
First, patents are tradeable, NDAs are not. Second, trade secrets are only as secret as the people knowing them, which is not very secure. Third, if you have a patent, you can discuss the technology without NDAs, which helps both in getting the technology accepted as well as in early-stage business negotiations.
Article is about voter preference for electronic voting machines vs paper. Where OP voted, there was no line for paper, a small queue for electronic.

When I served as a poll inspector, our poll site had one touchscreen. Voters would use it if it was open.

Aside: touchscreen advocates claim voting electronically is faster. Not true. I timed many voters casting ballots both electronically and using paper. Close enough to make no difference. But god help you if there's a hiccup with the touchscreens.
The bigger story in VA is this one, I think:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/fairfax-democrats-sue-over-polling-place-observers/2012/11/01/2fb64b20-2451-11e2-9313-3c7f59038d93_story.html

There was also a NYT article suggesting that fairfax co. could end up being this election's Florida. We'll see.
What happened to this court case? Why isn't there a huge outcry about this?
Here's a polling place, which happens to be in a luxury hotel, that offers free valet parking and continental breakfast to anyone voting:

http://blog.luxehotels.com/2012/10/30/luxe-sunset-boulevard-...

Did I mention you need to be voting in Bel-Air to take advantage of this offer?

Yep, it's all pretty much the same everywhere. Let's drop that class-warfare nonsense.
From the source, And so electronic voting machines fell from favor. Just 25 percent of the country will use paperless systems this year—down from 40 percent in 2006.

I read that as a quarter of the country will be using paperless systems in this election. If that is wrong, please explain the correction.

Grabbing another source, http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233058/Election_watc... lists specific states where paperless systems are likely to be a big issue. Two of them, Virginia and Pennsylvania, are significant swing states that currently lean towards Obama in polls. If both have an unexpected swing to Romney, his chances of legitimately winning enough other states to carry the election are significantly increased. (According to what I see on http://www.electoral-vote.com/ he'd need to carry North Carolina and Florida - both of which he's at least tied in, and then any other swing state.)

Hopefully unaccountable election machines won't prove to be the margin of victory in this election. However anyone who thinks it is impossible is either uninformed, or unwilling to consider the evidence.
as someone who has kept track of their skittles color distribution over the course of a year, I can attest that there can be wide fluctuations in distribution percentages.

I wish I had kept all the numbers, but IIRC, the "typical" bag would have roughly 55-60 skittles, so the "average" color would have 11 skittles. It was common to see a single color with only 9 skittles. I can't recall ever having a bag have one color with less than 7 of any one color, but I would have on occasional see one color get as many as 18 of one color.

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Read the link in tokenadult's post about Minnesota. Paper is hardly easy to count when you get to the dolts who don't know how to mark a ballot. What does it mean when the guy marks a vote for every question but also writes "LIZARD PEOPLE" in every write-in ballot spot?

Lots of people really don't like the fact that the senator is chosen based on how 3 people sit down and decide what that means, or whether this chad was punched out "enough."

Computer touch-screen voting systems, like all other voting, have flaws, but one thing they don't have is any ambiguity how you count each ballot.

(There are, of course, other ways to handle this. For example, you could fill out a paper ballot and have it read by a test machine that is very conservative in what it accepts, and alerts you to errors. I'm sure this has trade-offs, too.)
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Where did he equate survival with playtime? Condescending much?
Gosh. Ever dealt with a union election? That's exactly the problem with non secret ballots. You vote for unionization and libertarians show up at your house. Libertarians are among the most violent people around.
Consider some scenarios:

Jim is not a nice man and is very demanding and abusive and goes to vote. He wants his wife to vote for X, but he suspects that she will vote for Y. Today, she can vote for X or Y and tell her husband that she voted for Y. He has no way to prove her wrong. With receipts, he can tell her, on no uncertain terms, that she is to show him her receipt afterwards. If she doesn't produce a receipt showing she votes for X, he'll beat her. With receipts she does not have a free vote, without receipts she has a free vote.

I want to buy your vote, and will pay you €10 to vote for X. Today, you can vote for who ever you want, and tell me you voted for X and demand payment. I have no way to prove you wrong. Hence vote buying is hard to do, because you can't know if you're actually buying votes. With receipts, I can ask to see your receipt, and only pay out if you vote for X. With receipts, vote buying now becomes an actual thing that I can do.
Personally, this is fine with me. I don't tend to trust commercials where people "use the thing", e.g. Apple's Siri commercial.

It is just too easy to show off a few "happy path" scenarios in 30 seconds.
> You don't see lines like this in other developed countries. It's not that they're not reported on because "no one cares", they're not reported on because there aren't any lines.

Well, that's not strictly true. I recall waiting about half an hour on the election day for one of the elections I voted in in Ontario.

Several hours' wait during early voting seems a little bush league though.
It is parallel, but not all jobs are run on the same hardware/software and you can't re-run jobs which error out. In fact, some jobs don't error out but should be invalid and if discovered as such might cast doubt on the authenticity of other jobs, etc. etc. So it's really not as trivial as you make it out to be, and neither is anything else which involves coordinating 100M+ people doing a particular task.
Augh. Some really craptastic distro-specific code in there. The wrapper script tries to detect missing dependencies on its own (gee... aren't package dependencies already handled by something, maybe the package manager?) and install them via "gksudo apt-get ...". Sigh...

Valve: come on guys, get it right. Look at how Chrome or Dropbox do this for a clean example. Basically, you define your own repository and your "install now" link simply adds it (and its key) and pulls your package via apt/yum/zypper/whatever.
He probably can't afford one.

If someone in the mental health community could just step up...
One too add: My vote for a third party would be wasted. Why it sucks: Every vote for a third party looks to the two big parties like an act of absolute pants-shitting desperation. If a significant number of votes go to ANY third party candidates, even if spread across a bunch of candidates, they will get VERY scared. NOTHING is more important to them than maintaining an absolute lock on the artificial environment they have constructed to make it look like there is a choice on significant matters when this is not the case. A threat to that is a threat they are willing to work to avoid. It will count.
The article doesn't even hint that this might be done on purpose.

Cause it won't be spun like that at all.
That's exactly my experience voting in the US. I suspect these stories are the exception but no less disturbing.
Arq uses its own format. However, the developer of Arq has provided an open source restore tool on github:

http://sreitshamer.github.com/arq_restore/

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/04/open-source-arq...

Edit: the files on Github have not been updated in 3 months. So this most likely can't restore Glacier backups.
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How many Americans do you know?
Screenshot, courtesy Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RISCOS_4_scr.png
I often vote for LIZARD PEOPLE as a write-in if there's one race where I don't know anything about the people in it, because of that guy. (I didn't know he had come forward until I searched for that story today.)
I think the choppiness of scrolling The Verge was overstated. It's noticeable if you're looking for it, but it doesn't affect the use of the site. And 99%+ of sites scroll smoothly, even when multiple monitors are attached.
"It doesn't protect you from someone just looking at your blueprint and implementing it."

I don't think this is true. You are creating a derived work, after all.

Googling for blueprint and copyright shows that copyright disallows unauthorized implementation at least in the case of buildings.
Not to mention security bugs too.
I'd recommend the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The screen is 14" but in the same size as a 13" ultrabook, it has the TrackPoint (although the trackpad is very good too), and it has great Linux compatibility. And then there's the ThinkPad build quality.
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Why not mandatory govt service then? Similar to how mandatory jury duty helps accomplish the aims of the judiciary and actual or the threat of mandatory military service used to make the citizenry keenly aware of foreign policy of administrations, wouldn't mandatory service in the executive branch make the public keenly aware of the actions of the legislative?
Congratulations, that is a corker of a service and one that I will definitely be making use of.

Many thanks to you, my friend.
Problem is that with first past the post voting, you end up giving your vote to the 2nd of the two primary parties.

This is not an invariant property of the United States electoral system. Minnesota

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

and Maine

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

have both elected governors not endorsed by either of the two largest political parties in recent years, and there are members of the United States Senate

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

who were elected in statewide elections without major party endorsement.
Office 97 dates back to 1996.
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My guess is the people who fund both the Democrats and Republicans like the idea of being able to rig elections and therefore there's mainstream silence about it. Otherwise, I find it hard to explain.
If I were tampering with voting, I would do it on the front end, not the back end. That's because if the code is ever discovered on the back end, it is damning. A misaligned or badly proportioned mapping from touch coordinates to ballot options is much easier to explain away as an error or incompetence.

Doing it at the front end won't flip as many votes because many people will see the incorrect registration and stab at the touch screen a few more times until they find the right spot. But some will not notice, and in a close race that could be good enough.
> The Asus transformer was the next big step, I think. Again, keyboard and touchscreen, but this time a 19 hour battery. If it allowed dual booting it would be perfect.

I'm a fan of the Asus transformer too. One benefit from the keyboard having a battery that I didn't notice till I had been using it this way for a while is that I never charge the tablet directly. When it is low, I attach the keyboard and let that charge the tablet. Then when the keyboard is low I pull that off and charge it. So the tablet itself is never tied to a wall. Psychologically, the tablet feels a hair's breadth away from being a device I don't have to charge at all. The battery state is never in the way of me using it.
well, you're right but in the case of Eiffel tower, i'd rather prefer to show it to my kids in big size than in a 3D browser... i think it make sense for artwork as well.
Ah, hey, no sweat. Didn't mean any offense--I'm just a bit skeptical of the methodology.

Yeah, it's cool that the performance is comparable at all. :)

If you'd be interested in chatting about engine dev, hit me up through my profile. Always happy to talk shop.
It's not about the money. It's about performance. Speaking for myself, scroll-jitter is completely unacceptable at any price.
Yeah, trying to make changes to the circuit via the PCB is annoying in Eagle. It hasn't been a big issue for me, as the times when I've wanted to do it, I've wanted to do so much of it that it was worth doing that part of the layout using scripts (imagine a 4 signal layer PCB with the same functional unit duplicated 24 times, that wants to be as small as possible. adjust dimensions, autoplace, autoroute, evaluate, repeat). But I can see that kind of feature being quite handy when you have just a few copies to make.

Eh? Don't know why you'd ever not worry about DRC. If the PCB fab is that good, make your features smaller :P. You also want to always make sure that you're not violating your electrically-significant constraints.

And yeah, footprints are quite annoying (especially when starting out) and one of the things that I think a widely-shared online approach like Upverter will actually succeed in fixing for the common cases.
Actually, for HiDPI applications, font rendering is perfect at every resolution. Only bitmaps get scaled.
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Working perfect on Archlinux i368 with XFCE. Way more responsive than in Windows for me.
That's much clearer than some of the Scanatron bubble types.
He seems to be looking for the mythical developer/designer hybrid. Is $100,000 a decent salary for someone with that skill set?
When the election is decided by under 2%, a targeted denial that is enough to swing the election is small enough that very few states would lose any representation at all in Congress.

Besides, it is hard to convince a government to apply section 2 if the party in power is the one that was doing the disenfranchising.
I read my iPad2 in bed pretty frequently, it's just heavy enough that resting the weight of the device on a single edge on your chest will become unpleasant rather quickly.
Oh my god.

Your story made me so angry, that I stood up from bed were I was reading some Hacker News before sleeping and went straight to the PC to write this comment...

1) None and by saying it I mean NONE has to live somewhere illegally in Germany. Especially if you are a German citizen, which I imply by your name.

2) In Germany there is something called social security. You get basic healthcare services, an accommodation and enough money for food. Go to the "Arge"

3) Letting someone pay for a hotel in which you can work on your own project? What is wrong with you?! WHAT?!

I mean begging for money just because you are too lazy, too anti-capitalism or too selfish is total bullshit. Just bullshit.

fyi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept
Thanks, I'll try and get you beta access as soon as possible.
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Do you have screenshots of this, or a link to screenshots?
Redtape: Simple nested form objects in Rails.
Do you have Go installed? If so, just clone the repo into your $GOPATH/src directory and 'go install pgen/mawud'. Then, you can generate a password using 'mawud gmail'--you'll be prompted for your password. You can use flags to set parameters:

-l 10 : sets length to 10 characters

-a ans : sets allowed characters to alphabetic, numeric, and symbolic

-f : shows your master password as you type it in

-p : shows the generated password as well as copying it to your clipboard

The length and allowed-char parameters are saved in the file ~/.pwlist in the gob format, and will be used each time you generate a password for a specific service. For example, you could generate a numeric, 6-character password for "bankpin" with 'mawud bankpin -a n -l 6' and, in the future, just type 'mawud bankpin' to generate the same password.

The local version is something I built for my own use, so it's pretty rough at the moment. For example, the copy-to-clipboard function only works on OS X. Plus, having to install Go is a hassle for most people. I'm planning on writing a Python script using the same generation algorithm and fixing some of the rough edges this weekend.
Thank you. You are right - I should clarify things by saying my program had no directional bias. It was a 50/50 split of longs/shorts. Are there other stats I'm missing?
What if the problem with The Verge is due to The Verge, and nothing else? Is The Verge doing retina upgrades for their graphics properly? Is their JavaScript doing stupid stuff like loading the double-resolution graphics every time the cursor moves instead of just the first time the page loads?

Why is The Verge choppy on a Retina display Mac?

As for handling 2 30" monitors, the graphics chip is more than capable of handling text, terminals and swathes of PDF documentation on that much real estate: it's non-taxing.

The moment you start doing crazy JavaScript (such as some sites which count how many characters you have left in a text area about a dozen times a second), things go downhill: this is a CPU load problem not a graphics display problem.

So again, I have to wonder what's causing the choppy scrolling on The Verge?
Since you're obviously experienced in this area, can you point me to a tool or article that describes this 'scrubbing'?

Is this something that people should be using on their old files/backups?
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While physical media formats and hardware interfaces become obsolete all the time, it's something of a myth that file formats do the same. Even proprietary formats can usually be read by digging up a copy of the software that created them (in theory this software may be lost, but typically it is not). The one major exception is DRM'd files where the keys have been lost.
It just seems more natural to fill in a line than to fill in a circle. Your wrist is more stable and less shaky to make a couple straight lines with a marker.