skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the perspective of an American, the primary concern is authenticity, and there's a high probability of that when you have to show up in person or request an absentee ballot. Not that I support more government programs to identify citizens, but I'd think should be some sort of PIN number or password issuance process during the issuance of things like driver's licenses, state IDs, passport numbers, Social Security cards, IRS filings, etc.

Government cannot run a program that elects a new government behind the walls of a datacenter. It's a major conflict of interest. The way things work now, the government really only handles the voter registration process, which is exposed enough so you know they're not messing with it. County employees and poll workers on-site are far enough removed from the people in power that there's little concern of major corruption. When recounts happen, staff from both campaigns are physically present to look at each ballot. When we get ballot counting machines from companies like Diebold, there's concern that a big corporation could be influencing a vote or that the system wouldn't be secure.

But I look at some of the things happening with health insurance marketplaces and health data exchanges as proof that government can tackle big tech problems in cool ways. The State of New York is building a health information network (Google: NYeC SHIN-NY) where all medical providers in the state have their electronic health records connected in a statewide network. It's not the government itself running the program, but a collaborative of government and healthcare people. The service doesn't store or transmit private health information, it just handles the secure handshakes, authorization, and authenticity. That is, a patient can grant/deny access to medical records from their phone -- or in an emergency situation, an EMT can bypass that and get the records directly. I think this is genius.

If we looked at something like this on a local or state level, a collaborative of sorts could include the Secretary of State, various government and non-profit representatives, and open source and security folks. I think that would be the first step toward moving to an online voting system: setup an entity that people can trust.

Obviously, it'd have to be optional. There were a lot of elderly folks at my polling place last November, proudly wearing their 'I Voted' sticker. No way they'd go online, even if it did support IE 5.5.
Maybe the dad stays home, or it's a gay couple, so it's modern single earner.

Unless I have been grossly mislead, if singer-earner salaries had appreciated like CEO salaries from the 1950's to now one parent could afford to stay home or just work part time. I don't know why it should be necessary for both persons of a marriage to work full-time on average.
What irritates me the most is that voting system source code is maintained by "security through obscurity". It makes more sense to me if we require voting systems to be open source and have some government body or 3rd party that's an expert in security approve systems as "secure". People seem to trust LEED certified buildings, so why don't we have the same accountability for voting systems?

I bet people would be happy if the NSA used tax dollars to do that kind of public good.

Wow, what a crackpot post....
here is it from China:
xiaomi is a pure e-commerce phone manufactor,it put a very cheap phone to market with highest chips from qualcomm.

how it succeed?
it has a miui os, it is 10% owned by qualcomm,made them get cheapest and newest chip, and it's pure sales is online,
which made it a huge treat to other mobile phone maufactor.
For me it's the sausage sizzles and I know I'm not alone : http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/

Nothing says democracy like a snag on some white bread with tommy sauce.
You're forgetting that a dog "alert" on a vehicle provides probable cause. If an officer suspects someone in a car has cash, here's the algorithm to get probable cause every time.

- Pull car over for x (x=illegal lane change, minor speeding, tinted windows)
- "Smell" oder of marijuana and notice driver acting suspicious
- Call for K9 unit
- Coax the dog into "alerting" on some portion of the car, usually the front where the cameras don't see.

Once the K9 alerts, you have probable cause to search the vehicle even if the owner does not consent to the search. Cash you find, you can take, even if there are no drugs found. The owner of the cash must be able to legitimately explain why they have $10k in cash and burden is on the owner to prove that it is legit cash. That's very hard to do, even for a legitimate business or someone who deals in a lot of cash like a dancer. This is a civil, not a criminal matter and the burden of proof is actually on the defendant.

Even with the above algorithm, if a judge declares a stop to be illegal, the cash is still kept as it's not a criminal manner but a civil one.

|Edited to be less flippant
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I know of various proposals that offer a theoretical solution. The problem is getting it implemented, fully vetting the implementation, and getting everybody to use it.

There were lots of ways we could have made touchscreen voting machines highly secure. Instead we gave Diebold millions of dollars.

I have no reason to believe that sound security principles will be followed by any large organization, including governments, in my lifetime.
A truly secure online voting system for national elections would be one of the most significant inventions of all time. It could change the political landscape on a massive scale, giving power to those who can't make it to the polls for a variety of reasons (physical handicaps; lack of time or energy; fear of intimidation in some politically unstable countries).

I've been following the Caltech / MIT Voting Technology project for a while now because they've put out some interesting papers about the potential impacts of e-voting:
http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
I wonder if there's some way to be transparent in an electronic / online voting system. Maybe the government sends a UUID or hash to your email after you vote, and later releases a dataset of which UUIDs voted for which candidates. This way, you can verify that your vote was counted and that all votes sum correctly.
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Yes and No are my only choices? It would depend on how it was implemented. Surely almost no one here would use it if it appeared to be insecure.
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It's fixed in 10.9 and iOS7, so I imagine they'll backport a patch at some point.

Though it's only a matter of time before somebody posts it here as a comment.
The history of Wal-Mart during Sam Walton's life is decades removed from the company's business practices today.
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You want to know how I manage to do that, right? With a video tool referred to by people as a Mac Blu-ray Ripper software, I even can watch high definition Blu-ray movies on my Galaxy Note. That video tool comes from DVDFab, and its name is Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. It can rip Blu-rays on your Mac HDD into Galaxy Note ready videos in a very efficient way.
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you just ruined a childhood dream...
I voted yes but then realized: there would be no more privacy in elections.
Just tried it, and the performance is awesome! I do miss seeing the obnoxious "donate" banner on the top right though. Thanks for the tip.
But it's still racism :)

you are thinking of hate-crime.
Linkedin sucks.
Yeah, I immediately thought of LOST as well.

Without spoiling too much:

There's already a javascript version of the computer here: http://www.enterthehatch.com/ . But since it's a 108 minute countdown (instead of 10 seconds), it's quite easy to keep it going. Still, the record of keeping it up for more than a thousand days is quite impressive.
USA! Calls should be charged at both ends, internet should be charged at both ends, and if a company like Youtube is making too much money Comcast should be allowed to fine it for not sharing the profits it gained on the bandwidth it already bought.
Oh, the odour of marijuana is another thing to avoid. That's borderline probable cause right there.

Really, if you're transporting thousands of dollars in cash you should adopt a security-oriented mindset. You need to be air-tight and leave nothing to chance.
In this case, I think the personal details are relevant. The premise of this article raises the question, "Why him? Why resign? Why now?", which, if you're operating completely from the business/professional mindset, leads you to wonder if something is wrong in the Android shop.

But if he left because of an uncomfortable personal situation, then that is highly relevant to onlookers, because it removes unwarranted questions about the state of Android at Google.
> which seems to be increasingly accompanied by

I learned to program from a 'learn X in 24 hours' book over 10 years ago.
It could be a long talk for just an introduction. However, I guess financial market could be a decent analogy. If you have some idea of how financial market really works. Speculators manipulates the market. You can see highs and lows. But in the end, everything will return to what it is supposed to be. Back to China's current situation, I believe it is at the peak of its valuation. Please note, valuation and true value are mostly different. So business people basically talks about money and when they talk about China, they mean the price/valuation. Granted, the current situation could be really good, but always be cautious at the peak. When someone really into product itself which more related to the true value talks about China, price/valuation is way less relevant. In this case, what you see in terms of the product itself is what you can judge yourself. No one can hide anything.

Hope my limited English skills delivered a more macro perspective for you.
Only if it was audited to hell and back.
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Did you read the grandparent post before replying? It's negative toward Rust.
I do not offer to buy things often from stuff posted on HN.

PLEASE WRITE A BOOK. I would most definitely buy your anecdotes, and even more for anecdotes that motivated this advice to pass of to people.

Also, how did you get into the line of work you are in?
I remember back in the day when you could send &#770; to people on AIM and crash their AIM clients.
All self-report data is inherently flawed, which is why you can't rely on one kind of data while trying to learn something about personality.
Will something like this work?

1. Voter (physically) visits a station, presents his ID and picks an auth token out of a hat (or some other physical, non-traceable method) -- say a paper scratch card with only a randomly generated number.

2. Voter goes home and uses the token to anonymously authenticate himself as a voting citizen and participates in one or more rounds of voting

CONS:

1. Voter misplaces his card and has to come back to the station to identify himself and revoke & re-issue.

2. In some neighborhoods, voter has to beat back thugs trying to steal his card on his way out of the issuing station.

Or...

1. Voters have regular online accounts with their credentials attached.

2. Source code dealing with vote counting and anonymizing is made open source and publicly readable at the hosted directory itself (if such thing is even possible)

CONS:

1. Hackers study the source code and exploits vulnerabilities.

2. Server serves the good copy when source code is requested, but executes a different copy that collects voter identities.

Note: not an expert, just asking.
Is 10.9 usable?
That's $63m to just the top 6 executives. Total executive compensation would be far far greater. And for comparison, Costco paid its top 6 only $19m, which I think is the GP's point: http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensati... .
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Maybe some airlines still must tear off the main part of the pass and give you back the stub then.

I've only had them scan the boarding pass and give the whole thing back to me in its entirety.
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Hi,

I have engineering & MBA degrees. I am planning to do a Masters in Law (LLM) in Quebec, Canada. Tuition is affordable but I won't become a lawyer after obtaining the degree.

There's several factors in my decision but I would like insights on these specialities, especially employment demand for non-lawyers who know about these specialties:
tax law
private law (civil legal system)
labour law
international law
> I wonder why blame shifting seems so central to american way of thinking.

FWIW, the story the OP told took place in the UK.
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It's not noticeably unusable.
Including the Chinese workers who assemble Apple's products?
Pretty interesting discovery.

Direct link: (WARNING THIS CAN KILL WEBKIT) https://zhovner.com/tmp/killwebkit.html
It could be perfectly secure. Simply snail-mail a 128 bit one-time key pad to every voter.

After the vote, the Government releases the results as a mapping of [one-time-pad -> vote] for everyone to verify their vote.

Anyway for further reading, this is a good piece on the issue: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/11/3479170/why-cant-you-vote...

Edit: When you voted you would need to post your ssn also for verification that you are the one using your one-time key-pad, etc.
Seems like a bit of a non-issue, I'd rather know right away that someone I'm trying to contact isn't available. The snarkiness is a little misplaced too.
Another argument for decoupling apps from OS. Would be great if this could be an update to a Safari app in the App Store...
I'm in a similar position, wrapping up with a BBA in Entrepreneurship and BS in Economics in December, but only about 3 months into learning to hack. Do you have any tips? Links to the stuff you've built?
But that's not innovation or an inventive step, that's just hard labor, sweat of the brow.

"Except, of course, patents aren't about the sweat of your brow and how much work you put into something." - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130415/16444322713/suprem...
As an observer of mobile market, I don't think this is normal price cut. Galaxy Nexus was more reasonably priced, $399 initially, then $349, see http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3120987/galaxy-nexus-hspa-.... There is no chance for Google to make any profit on Nexus 4 at $199, if warranty and customer service cost is factored in. If the product is good, price cut to $249/$299 would be reasonable. There is obviously serious issue to justify such aggressive price cut. NOTE: Microsoft wrote off $900M after Surface price cut.

Regarding Nexus product quality, it is well known problematic. I never saw any Nexus phone with good camera, battery life, wireless reception. The customer service is problematic at best. These problems existed ever since Nexus One.
There's also Dan Johns Mass Made Simple

http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Made-Simple-ebook/dp/B006HXPR66

Both books are really good.
And a similar tweet: (WARNING / CRASH) https://twitter.com/daken_/status/303784082599456768
One thing that nobody ever seems to point out in these discussions: Should we legally mandate that every job in the world must pay enough money to support a family of 4 as a single earner of the household? What about high school/college students, retirees, spouses of high earners, and other people who want a relatively low-skill job that doesn't pay that much? Should the kind of job they want be illegal because, someday, somebody who does have a family will take that job and then complain that it doesn't pay enough to raise their family?
Good points. Both thrift and protobuf (and Avro) seemed heavy weight due to their requirements. We wanted something lightweight, thus BSON and MsgPack.

In terms of rewriting a bunch of code, msgpack and bson both easily marshall/unmarshall in just a few lines of code so not a lot of rewriting. Libraries exist for all types of languages.

Maybe I need to update my criteria. Thx for the comment tho.
Wow! Tig, as in Tig the lesbian police officer Sarah Silverman tries to seduce in an episode of the Sarah Silverman Show? She even used her own name, which I thought was something fictional. I had no idea she was an accomplished comedian, as this is the only time I have seen her in television, and she was purposely not so funny in that episode (maybe two or three).

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0138294/

Very interesting to rediscover actors and actresses who succeed in anti-typecasting themselves. I would never have suspected she was a standup comedian, as she was the only character I had never seen before in that show.

Thank you for pouring me a piping hot cup of Tig! (Reference to the episode, see the link.)
> there's a 68% chance that the person you're about to hire is a schizophrenic kleptomaniac

Sorry, I don't believe "psychometric tests" can do that either. At least not at the level that we're talking about: distinguishing an otherwise qualified person from someone who's got some sort of psychopathology.
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This is cool. The funny thing is that the URL generated:
http://h4x4.me/YAobs/stat

Is longer than my original URL:
http://gitignore.io

I also wrote a URL shortner for a 3 hour coding challenge and here is the source: https://github.com/joeblau/jjbshort. You can just throw it up on GAE and you're off.
A good point, could there be a color background which the thermal printer prints on top of? Even if that's not possible from the full examples it looks like most of the color is branding related so could be converted to black and white.
I can't believe that there are so many people in a scientific, technical, industry like the software industry that believe in something as facially superstitious and handwavy as "natural rights."

As a first pass at a definition, anything you could do in the absence of any other people stopping you from doing it could be considered a "natural right."

That's not superstitious or handwavy, and I didn't have to belittle my audience to express it.
User's hating the captcha has been my biggest fear with this. I will definitely look into the hidden email field as well. That seems more user friendly. Do you hide the element with css or some other way?
> So they'd rather have something show up to show that "the system is working".

Haha, that's such a ridiculously poor argument. Why not just email yourself something or ask a friend to email something? How bewildered by the internet are the people you imagine? "Oh good, 'embolden my penis'. It's still working. I was worried for a second there when I closed all the internets on my screen."
After I wrote that blog post, I also added the ability to tunnel traffic through Beacon when its checking in several times each second. Recently, I added the ability for it to download a large file, a piece at a time, with each checkin. The size of the piece depends on the data channel (DNS vs. HTTP). It's all encrypted too.

- http://blog.strategiccyber.com/2013/06/20/thatll-never-work-...

- http://blog.strategiccyber.com/2013/07/09/hacking-through-a-...

Cobalt Strike is a commercial tool, so it better include the bells and whistles. The OP does a good job of showing code that anyone can play with, right now.

Dan Kaminsky's BlackHat presentations on OzymanDNS are excellent as well.
The problem with that entity is what form of authenticity they request. They may ask for finger prints or a special voter id similar to the DoD's. I prefer that IT proctors each confirm authenticity with 30 or so voters holding up a piece of paper and an issued hash on a 32" screen.
more interestingly, would you vote on more issues if you could do it online?
You basically rephrased exactly what OP said. He's arguing that the % spread isn't as strong an incentive to be conservative in the funding amount.
No.

I know that most major points have already been covered. But here're my 2 cents in a nutshell:

1. An online actions can never be as secret/anonymous as a physical actions. This much we've definitely learned from all the recent surveillance news. Obviously ballot secrecy is critical to fair elections.

2. Online ballots would be much more suspectible to manipulation than physical ballots would ever be. If a private contractor were hired to do this (i.e., how current election software are already commissioned), detection of manipulation would be difficult, and accountability difficult to ensure.

3. There would be the problem of authentication, as others have pointed out. This would make the recount process even more contentious and uncertain than it is now.
They do promote. Many people browse the site, receive emails, etc. Kickstarter makes a point to put in the creator's dashboard a pie chart that shows how much their promotion has brought in vs. other means. In my experience their slice is between 25-50% (skewing smaller as projects are more popular).
Also, people with children to support should refrain from being laid off and having to find lower paying jobs.
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if it was just replaced regular votes, not much.

However, if you perfected the system, presumably people could vote on more issues. Declaring war for example.
Especially when dealing with such a waste of paper as the Australian Senate ballot paper... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-22/size-matters3a-voters-...
schainks linked to a video you should watch. Finding theoretically secure systems is not the problem. Properly implementing them, vetting the implementation, and gathering the political will to mandate the properly vetted implementation is the problem.

As always, the weakest link in security is the human factor.
I can't believe I missed this post! This project is amazing.
Aaaaand I'm a dick.
I've heard similar stories of soviet soldiers in Afghanistan in the 80's draining the hydraulic fluid from their armored vehicles because it was ethanol, and drinking it...
> 1000 x 1024 x 1440

I think you accidentally included a "1000 x".
I think Kickstarter technically started first, but IndieGoGo actually saw it's first hit of popularity first. It was close enough that the two weren't really influencing each other.

As most inventions, it was separate individuals recognizing the semi-obvious.
Using A/B testing to strip away bad requirements?
There are plenty of existing "hourly" climate data products (http://www.erh.noaa.gov/pbz/hourlyclimate.htm and http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds093.1/ are two examples.) Calling this one "real-time" is needlessly confusing, because "real-time" sounds like it should somehow be better than "hourly," but it's not.
No: there is no way to guarantee anonymous, non-corruptible and traceable way to vote. Unless you trust the government ... which has been proven to be untrustworthy.
What the hell did you think would happen? Get on Firefox and edit your comment while you still can please.
This is not exactly the same as go's concurrency insomuch as Go allows its concurrency to be across multiple threads/processors and as far as I know node runs on a single thread.
I recommend Stephen Baxter's "Saddlepoint: Roughneck", a novella in three parts, titled "Moon Rain", "Dreams of Rock and Stillness", "The Tunnel Into the Moon".

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?81868

Summary: Frank Paulis drills a large shaft into the center of the Moon in search of water and succeeds.

http://www.sfsite.com/vault/dave36.htm
Kind of a gossipy story, but also fascinating.
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There was a lot of content, but the premise of the article - that it would explain why Walmart paid less than Costco, was missing.

From that I wondered if the article itself was just some form of PR or politically motivated rather than unbiased journalism.
> Anyway for further reading, this is a good piece on the issue: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/11/3479170/why-cant-you-vote...

I immediately felt compelled to text-search for "Estonia" and was pleased to see it was covered.