The UI on this app is spectacular actually . I want to sit down with the team that wrote it and just ask questions for days.
There's a decent chance some of them are reading this thread; what would you want to ask them?
Google Trends Electionland
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#132So far all of these just look like population maps of the US, skewed by time zone. Basically if it's a heavily populated area that is awake, then the dots are big. Maybe as the day goes on it will level out to more interesting insights?
Almost, but my very densely populated state of Massachusetts has barely any trending searches for "provisional ballot", and none in Boston; whereas the swingier state of Ohio awash with trending "Provisional Ballot" searches.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might consider including the BSD licenses those projects were published under in your minified JavaScript file. Is this project's source code published anywhere?
As someone who is not a developer and doesn't know that much about open source licenses, is this something you have to do? If I built something using React, I have to publish their license with my code? If I build something with Javascript, do I have to publish their license as well? Do I have to tell everyone what technologies I've used to built my software, or...? That seems weird to me, but again I'm not a develop…
Attribution is the common requirement among most open source licenses [0]. Developers occasionally reference or link to the license, but the proper thing to do is to include the license in its entirety with the source code.
> I've never released a license with my Bash scripts.
You reserve all rights to your published works without stating otherwise. Developers would be wise to avoid redistributing unlicensed works without the written consent of the copyright holder(s).
[0] https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/open-source-101-licensin...
Re: Google Trends Electionland
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it is not possible for your vote to be "wiped out." If you cast a ballot it will be counted. It's frankly a bit dangerous to imply otherwise. As it says in the bit of article you quoted, states can use these systems to find people who are " eligible to be purged from the rolls." This is bad. Especially when it disproportionately affects certain populations of people. But if you show up on election day and you've…
I could see a system that would prevent you from getting a ballot in multiple locations. Since the vote is supposedly anonymous, I'm not sure how they'd purge a cast ballot.
You can't prevent anyone from casting a provisional ballot.
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I wonder if blockchain technology could some how be used to improve the voting system?
Not really (or at least you would lose privacy part), one reason why voting is anonymous is to prevent 1) intimidation 2) paying people to vote in favor of specific issues. If block chain would be used it would be easy for someone buying votes to verify that the people who got paid voted in certain way.
I only mentioned it because I saw a post on HN the other day that mentioned zcash which is suppose to add anonymity to what bitcoin does.
We get a lot of people claiming the machine switched their vote etc. Over the years, there have been stories of people forging paper ballots etc.
I just wanted to raise the issue for discussion, why all the down votes?
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Merely last name and DOB brings up a fairly unique value. This is what Walgreens, and others, now use instead of SSN. There was an earlier HN item about how DOB, gender, and Zip identifies 87% of the US population uniquely. No SSN needed in either case. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967
I would argue that 87% is an unacceptable margin of error given that we are talking about the presidential election.
That margin of error is across the whole country. Vote checking would run over a much smaller area.
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React + d3 + Canvas + More. Disclaimer: I helped build it.
You might consider including the BSD licenses those projects were published under in your minified JavaScript file. Is this project's source code published anywhere?
Thanks for the heads up. Our deploy process was stripping out all the attributions :(. This has been fixed and they are back in now. Regrettably the project's source is not currently available.
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#139Sortof OT: I was also interested in election trends. While Google is focusing on real-time search trends regarding voting, I looked at meme trends leading up to the election. There are interesting trends in the amount of attention different candidate memes received over time. It will be interesting to see whether the attention received by candidates is translated into votes, today. Here's the working paper: http://ia…
They missed out on not including Reddit in the social networks. Reddit seemed like meme-central this election for Sanders and Trump.
Too many CTR shills on reddit
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might consider including the BSD licenses those projects were published under in your minified JavaScript file. Is this project's source code published anywhere?
Thanks for the heads up. Our deploy process was stripping out all the attributions :(. This has been fixed and they are back in now. Regrettably the project's source is not currently available.
Awesome! Thanks for working on this project.