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What device/browser are you on where it's hopping around? I've been manually testing across devices so that the "typing text animation" stays stable. 174px actually creates a bit m…

That is an option! You can choose between the "Grid" ballot type which simulates what's used on real-world paper ballots. There's also "Drag and Drop" which works particularly well…

I found The Politics Industry by Katherine Gehl super enlightening and well-researched on this very idea ( https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Industry-Political-Innovatio... ). The ba…

Thanks for the nudge! Great to have fresh eyes on these things and love your thinking. I added an "automatically" to step 3. More importantly, I changed "Voters rank." to "Voters r…

It allows you to ask the "ranking question" BUT it doesn't do the ranked-choice calculation with the results. So, in theory, you can use it to collect the votes, but you'll need to…

Early on, I saw these relatively big spikes of traffic every week day in the early afternoon. Turns out it was a school that was voting on what game to play at recess. Similar idea…

Hehe...a bunch of Nate Cohn's in your friend group? :-) In the event multiple choices have the same number of votes and those choices are the lowest vote getters in the round, Rank…

On #1 -- It could be, but trying to stay narrowly focused. There are some great services out there like OpaVote that do a wide array of voting options and calculation methods. On #…

Thanks for the kind words! And, you're exactly right. The online world of people specifically interested in tools for ranked-choice voting is quite small. The question I'm trying t…

Thanks! And I hadn't come across Poller before. Pretty cool. FYI - RankedVote actually uses a type of Borda Count as its tiebreaking mechanism. Not quite what you're saying, but is…

Thanks! And both approval and RCV are steps in the right direction. For whatever reason, RCV has been implemented more broadly (but still just a tiny fraction of the US). I've been…

Hi HN! I’ve been running RankedVote as a solo founder for over a year and have had great success (and luck) with it being used to educate voters in New York City and Alaska. Bill d…

RankedVote is a web app that allows you to run online contests and make decisions using ranked-choice voting (RCV). RCV is an electoral system used in Maine, Alaska, New York City …

Simple...because it's being used in a significant (and growing) number of places. Approval and STAR are great methods as well. But they're not what's in use in Maine. Or NYC. Or wi…

New York City is the one driving the news cycle right now (and rightfully so as 8 million people have the potential to use RCV for the first time). And people view NYC as pretty li…

Thanks! The idea is to use software to promote this reform (as well as Final-Five Voting...which is Open Primaries + RCV) As for advanced tactics, if you're really into it, Rob Ric…

Great to see this on Hacker News! I'm a former YC Founder who's been working with NYC on voter education for this year's elections through RankedVote ( https://www.rankedvote.co ).…

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Very true. No definition is perfect and is going to handle every edge case. But, it's the BLS's attempt to group different job types and provide the data around it.

In this research, it's looking at Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Web Developer definition there is http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/w... . Software Deve…

So excited for this! We use Webflow to power our web site over at http://www.payable.com . None of our devs have touched it. That's a huge time savings. Excited to now apply it to …