tadmilbourn

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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 more height than I desire on mobile
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 on mobile touch devices. Peop
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 basic premise is that the current "market
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 rank once" in the headline of t
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 do the calculations by hand. I actually
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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.
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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, RankedVote calculates a Borda Score for each of those candi
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 #2 -- That's a great point. And one that hopefully peopl
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 to answer is what use cases does ranked-choice voti
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 better than picking a name out of a hat! You brin
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 very encouraged by the results in Alaska after the spe
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by tadmilbourn 4y ago
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 de Blasio even ate a piece of pepperoni pizza as the result o
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Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting(rankedvote.co)
220 points by tadmilbourn 4y ago|319 comments
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by tadmilbourn 5y ago
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 will be in use in Alaska. So, in the spirit of
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by tadmilbourn 5y ago
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 liberal. But a great thing about RCV is that it's not inh
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by tadmilbourn 5y ago
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 Richie, the CEO of FairVote (leading national advocacy org
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by tadmilbourn 5y ago
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 ). You can get a sense for what it&#x
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by tadmilbourn 10y ago
We've expanded our contractor payment platform to now take care of the necessary tax forms that your company has to deal with in the U.S. You can now get a signed W-9 upfront when you invite a contractor. And, at the end of the year, w
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Show HN: 1099 Tax Form Filing and Delivery for Your Contract Workers(payable.com)
8 points by tadmilbourn 10y ago|1 comments
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
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.
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
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 Developer is http://ww
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Best Cities for Freelance Web and Software Developers(payable.com)
3 points by tadmilbourn 11y ago|4 comments
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
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 our blog and much more in the future!
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Payable (YC S14) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers to Power the Future of Work(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by tadmilbourn 11y ago
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Payable (YC S14) Raises $2.1M to Build Out a Payment Platform for Contractors(techcrunch.com)
2 points by tadmilbourn 11y ago|0 comments
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
"Now here’s a great paradox for you: If a silver bullet did exist, it would probably take the form of the realization that silver bullets don’t exist." -- Mind blown for the day :-)
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
Thanks bbcbasic! You nailed it. I debated using the term "awesomer" prior to posting. Mainly because it's not a real word :-). But, the whole point of the post is to knock people out of their current mindset. "Awesomer&q
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
I had a personal connection to most, but did a couple out of cold outreach. Be bold, reach out, if you don't get a response, you're still in the same position you were before...and no worse.
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
Wow...that's comprehensive. Great find!
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by tadmilbourn 11y ago
It's very advisable to get feedback from other YC companies. Regardless of whether they could be a customer. Almost all the applications I reviewed would fall into that bucket.

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