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I believe one of the intentions would be that having a senator currently in political asylum and wanted by the US would create a major diplomatic headache for Australia and force their hand at actually addressing the issue of Assange. Until now they've been able to sit back and ignore him because he's locked away in the middle of London as a citizen. If he were to be a senator, that would make things significantly more awkward. I found this [1] interesting analysis of the situation.

As for how voting works:

For the House of Representatives [2], each person is voted in preferential order. Each candidate must be allocated a preference or else your vote is informal and not counted.

For the Senate [3], you may either vote 'above the line' or 'below the line'. Voting above the line involves voting for a party. That party then takes your vote and distributes it amongst the preferences they decide. You cannot indicate preferences above the line - you must vote for a single party and the party then does that for you.

Voting 'below the line' involves marking each candidate from each party. They are still grouped in parties but you may number them in any order, so long as you number them all.

I am not sure what being a party vs. being independent. Independents can be elected to both houses, so I do not quite know what being in a part achieves. The AEC website doesn't obviously offer any information detailing it, at a casual glance.

[1]: http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/cru/2013/04/senator_assange.html

[2]: http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_vote/Voting_HOR.htm

[3]: http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_vote/Voting_Senate.htm
The missile itself is not in chapter thirteen, but the chastening aftermath of its successful delivery.
This is why when you are summoned for jury duty, go.
Not true. You can be really honest to your beliefs and have a miserable life specifically because of that.

I have deleted by FB account twice and then I was spending lots of time explaining why, getting weird looks from people and being left out of comments (e.g. people would post something to FB and be laughing about it later but never explain about what.. really impolite of them but what can I do? engage in more arguments).

So yeah, be honest to your beliefs, just don't expect that will translate to happiness (unless you really work on telling yourself none of that unpleasant situations are really bad). We are human beings, how we interact with others matter (even if I didn't want any of that).
Personally, I'd be thrilled to have such a precedent.

Seriously. It's a sidewalk. When not covered in chalk, it's just a boring surface.

Protests, political slogans, landscapes, ponies, shrines to $deity of your choice, ads for the competing coffee shop on the next street, I'll take it all.
This is where most cookie schemes wind up -- sending and retrieving HMACs.

I wrote my honours dissertation on an opt-in scheme that used cookies, HTTPS and javascript to track users visiting multiple websites.

What you have here is what I called "Protocol 1": the first elaboration of the naive protocol. An additional elaboration (Protocols 2 and 3) is to remove user identification from cookies entirely. Each cookie is regenerated on each HTTP request with a new ID and HMAC. This means that if a cookie is successfully harvested, its useful lifetime is limited.

There are more attacks after this. I got as far as Protocol 10; it transpires that Protocol 10 is broken anyhow. Depending on the sophistication of your attacker, there's no safe way to do what I was trying to do.
At the federal election, people vote for a candidate in the lower house and party or candidate for the upper house. The party with the majority of seats in the lower house forms government.

The upper house (or senate) seats are allocated to parties based on proportion of total votes by state. My understanding is that wikileaks is hoping for a seat in the upper house as do most minor parties is Australia. So the government needs to negotiate with the minor parties for legislation to pass the upper house.
This is an impressive bit of work. I have had, though, an interesting thing happen, in that it's apparently trying to pull every single item from explore and from suggested items in, to the extent that I get a message saying I have 13 million items, and still going strong -- it pulled about 5 or 6 gig of data down .

Is there some way to avoid all the years of explore and suggested items with reader archive? I tried limiting the maximum number of items to 10.000 but it was still running and growing after 12 hours. Interesting though, what it was able to accomplish in that time.
I agree, partly with that, yet I'd add more factors onto the equation. Let's say that 2003's Iraq was evident from an economic standpoint. On the contrary, the Vietnam war did not seem to net much profits from the get go. However, when you factor in the world affairs at the time, then it started to make sense.
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I've no objections if people protest with inoffensive chalk messages on a regular basis. OTOH I do find yelling and sign waving pretty annoying.
Random engineers, even awesome ones like Renfro, don't have anything useful to say about what the SVP of Product is going to decide about how facebook.com will behave.
I was deleted my account only to recreated it months later due to social pressure (yeah, I'm weak). When I logged back in, FB was suggesting I add all my old friends... I was immediately angry because it seemed FB hadn't really deleted my account so they still had all that data. Then it downed on me that they didn't have to keep my data... all my other friends were sharing so much information about me that I didn't even have to do it. FB knew my college friends, girlfriend, parents, etc..

It is really hard to go off the grid. Does anyone know if I job change, city change plus a name change would help? :)
> Just goes to show how big a billion dollars is...

As a boy, my grandfather once wanted to impress upon me the astronomical nature (or so it seemed at such a young age) of large numbers (especially in reference to government budgets).

At first, I couldn't believe it when he told me that if I spent $1/second, I'd blow through $1M in just under 12 days (11.5 to be more precise, with rounding).

But it was when he told me that spending through $1B at the same rate would take me nearly 32 years that I realized that was a ridiculously large sum of money.

I've never forgotten that lesson. I also walked away deviously thinking the best goal I could shoot for in life was to figure out how to earn $1/second.
Buy all songs individually for ~7, or buy them together as an album for ~10...
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The nexus is not available outside the US initially. Anyway from the read I understand its with apps too.
Can I get invited to lobste.rs?
I'd like an invite to Lobste.rs, the HN alternative

It's invite only just to prevent spam, but I'm definitely not a spammer, as you can see from stalking me all over the internet.

My email is in my profile.

Anyone with a https://lobste.rs account can invite me, I'd much appreciate it!

Thanks!
"the government needs to negotiate with the minor parties for legislation to pass the upper house"

Unless I think, in the case when the elected party have the majority, which is a possibility after the next election.
If you used the same computer, Facebook knows that people from your IP tend to communicate with those friends.
Ask HN: Can I get invited to lobste.rs?
I'd like an invite to Lobste.rs, the HN alternative

It's invite only just to prevent spam, but I'm definitely not a spammer, as you can see from stalking me all over the internet.

My email is in my profile.

Anyone with a https://lobste.rs account can invite me, I'd much appreciate it!

Thanks!
Good to hear ! How did you manage A :)
Wow. Here are some highlights (these are from Mark, the moderator/Moto employee:

>I take privacy quite seriously. You notice that we use HTTPS on the site because we feel your privacy is important.

>Lastly, I'm saddened by the fact that you didn't abide by the Motorola Feedback Network Non Disclosure agreement you agreed to upon joining the Motorola Feedback Network. Discussing MFN activities outside designated areas is strictly prohibited. Provided this thread excludes MFN related activities here on out it will remain open. Further violation of the NDA will result in closure of this thread. If you(cythrawl) would like to discuss MFN activities further please email me at supportforums@motorola.com.

What! You revealed that we spy on you? That's under NDA!
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> IIRC, ExxonMobil did the same when acquiring XTO. Exxon didn't want XTO's share price to skyrocket on rumors of an acquisition as it could've made the deal unprofitable.

That doesn't make sense. If shares rose on the merger rumor, Exxon could still offer a low price, since everyone knew XTO's price would collapse if the merge fell through.
> ... surely he deserved some reasonable punishment for doing this 13 times.

Write the following, in chalk, 13 times in front of Bank of America:

I will not write in front of your premises in chalk.
Jim Alchin (former head of the windows division at MS) has made a few albums after he left Microsoft. http://www.jimallchin.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
I'm not in the US so I'm not saying your wrong, but I used to get overtime for working a 35 hour week sometimes in my previous job. And I left it, partially because of the hours. Radiographer, 35 hour week, shifts and on call. 35 hours per week (excluding call). So I would get rostered 35 hours in one week, and 35 in the next, back to back, then 4 days off. Most hours were at night. A night rate then applied. If I didn't get 2 days a week off, I'd easily end up doing a 35 hour week all paid at overtime. I still have the pay sheets I think.
It all depends how you spin it, yes, I did 35 hour weeks whilst getting paid overtime. The flip side was 10 consecutive evening/night shifts, with on call in a stressful environment. Even if I wasn't called my sleep was poor. I now take any claim that a job is overpaid/underworked with a pinch of salt as its not always what it seems.
>Dailydot, extremetech, pcmag, geek, macobserver, betabeat, itworld, bostinno etc have

I prefer to say "could" instead of "have" unless you have definite evidence.
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Anybody watch the little gif in the corner? Just kind of stared at it for a while, it never seems to end.

edit: Oh, the whole thing isn't a GIF. It just has a looping programmer gif and then puts some text around it. Maybe it will go on forever then :p

edit2: https://oauth.io/js/stubborn.js
So definitely does go on forever :p
If I'm reading this right, doesn't that mean a "basket" at a time, or 10k BTC increments?
I don't understand. It seems Khalid was arrested (for having the same name as an al Qaeda trainer) while in Macedonia, then tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan. From the Wikipedia article, it seems Germany was not involved in the abduction.
The business with the reset count tracking isn't necessarily as creepy as the shovelware/adware apks in the default image, or the serious information leak in activesync in the other Motorola thread.

I'm guessing the firmware update downloader sends some sort of hardware identifier, plus a firmware flash counter, to the update server. This would be the obvious way to prevent re-updating a device that reset itself or was manually reset after a firmware update hosed the system, which would trap the user in a loop. A (device id,firmware revision,reset count) table somewhere in the motosphere isn't exactly PRISM.

Outside a tiny number of hardcore custom ROM tweakers, 21 resets almost certainly indicates some sort of problem.
Yodlee, the worldwide banking network, happily stores millions of people's BANK ACCOUNT passwords, with no interest in using a secure Auth API, and nearly no one cares.

Why should Blur care about keeping your FB credentials private?
Please join us in NYC: https://www.facebook.com/events/378073495627134/
http://restorethefourthnyc.org/

We're expecting a much larger crowd than the FB page would indicate; we've been doing a lot of offline outreach in the community, and obviously not everyone's comfortable signing up on FB nowadays :)
By that logic I'm effectively banned from Africa, as I don't plan on going there. He said they "evoked my passport, leaving my stateless" not that he was effectively stateless due to his own decisions.
Do you have definite proof of who operate the account?
The core problem with Reservoir sampling is the huge number of calls to the random number generator. That quickly drains the entropy from PRNGs.

Also, for some sampling applications, the calls to the PRNG are the slowest part of the algorithm. So, you should prefer an algorithm that makes the fewest possible number of calls.

Lastly, you should take care in how the algorithm is implemented. For example, if the PRNG yields consecutive 32-bit values, computing randbits modulo n leads to small selection biases whenever n doesn't evenly divide 2^32. There are a lot of ways around this problem, but naive implementations won't give equi-distributed results.

For the most part, you should choose some other sampling algorithm unless you have exotic needs: not knowing the population size until you loop over it, AND not caring about the huge number of calls to the PRNG, AND having a limitless supply of entropy for your PRNG, AND having an easy means of getting equidistributed values in range of 0 to n-1, OR the quality of your results isn't important.
Why is prison an appropriate sentence for non-violent crime?
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What do the clocks use for a frequency standard? I think the caesium standards are not radioactive but the rubidium standards are slightly radioactive.
>But administrators usually have no incentive whatsoever to stop it

Of course not. They're often the ones running the gig in the first place.
Your comment betrays a lack of knowledge of politics of the time, where 'the time' is mid-19th C, 1930s, or 2000s. And of the current time - how the hell did Iraq call for that kind of military intervention?

Whining about Europe 'not intervening' in the 1860s completely misses the massive changes going on in Europe at the time - it's not like Europe was sitting around peacefully not doing anything in particular like the US was at the start of each World War. Only a few years after the US civil war finished, Germany came into existence and successfully invaded Paris, for example.

Even the rest of Europe abandoned Austria and Czechoslovakia to the Germans before Poland fell

Nice. In one breath you chide Europe for always being at war, in the next you chide them for not going to war enough.

Did Europe intervene ... in any of the multitude of conflicts in the Americas, East Asia, or Africa over the past 200 years

Yes, Europe did - the death of colonialism happend after WWII, considerably nearer to us than 200 years ago. The UK fought an open war against a South American nation only 30 years ago. The French still regularly intervene in Africa. The French fought in Vietnam up until Dien Bien Phu Falls in 1954, only 20 years before the US bugged out of there.

Hell, the UK fought against the Japanese in WWII, which again is much closer to our time than 200 years ago.

And the Russians - still a European country - intervened all over the place. Afghanistan throughout the 80s, for example. Immense amounts of material aid to North Vietnam. So on and so forth.

Good old American Exceptionalism. No-one else ever does anything, it's always up to the 'world cop' (who happens to be very selective about what he's policing). You've got a really simplistic view of European political history - I encourage you to read up a lot more on it (if nothing else, it's really quite interesting).
Sp what if they do? It's chalk. It wears off if you walk on it.
My issue with the appeal of the this is that it targets people who are smart in one domain. So they are above average in say programming (everyone is above average, of course, right? ... ;-) ). So it makes them think, ah yes, I am smart, I do algorithms, I should be good at this.

You see, the real market is not the stock market (which I assume is already exploited at small and large scale for all conceivable regularities by now), the real market is in creating novel trading platform.

Kind of like the money is not attending a "how to get rich seminar" but in inventing, promoting and running "get rich seminars".

> So, you don't have to take part in it, you don't have to learn about it, but can we PLEASE have a better response than

In other areas perhaps that is the right approach, but I personally think when it comes to the stock market the position that there are profitably exploitable regularities by your average (or even slightly above average) individuals should be questioned.

Another anecdotal example, this is like the gold rush. Except at the tail end. When all the large chunks of gold has been mined but people are still coming. The best thing is to start selling food and tools to those people.
It's correct Australian's vote in candidates, which in these circumstances would be great (not only for Assange's case) but more importantly to see greater diversity in our Senate, because the majority right now are Labor/Liberals.

Imagine in 100 years time, they become the major political party, forming government. It could possibly be something entirely different.
As a non-native English speaker, I have quite some trouble writing an email with proper etiquette. I'm not quite sure HOW to write a one-liner email question (shouldn't I introduce myself, provide context, isn't it rude to ask in a one-liner etc). Do you mind giving a specific example on how such an email should be?
Writing with chalk on a public sidewalk is "graffiti and vandalism"? I see quite a few businesses write messages on the public sidewalks leading to and in front of their storefronts. They're never brought up on charges of graffiti and vandalism.

This was not a case of graffiti and vandalism of public property, but of a private corporation not appreciating the chalker's sharing of constitutionally protected speech.

Perhaps we can at least agree on the principle, if not the terms, that this was gross abuse of, not by, the justice system.

Everyone deserves First Amendment rights. Whether one understands the limits of those rights is a separate matter entirely.

I find much less to find fault with in the chalker than, say, a hate group protesting funerals. But even they deserve First Amendment rights.
There are four statements:
1. Initialization
2. Read next character or bytecode
3. Conditional, first leg is parsing and second intepretation.
4. Return

When parsing, the function will call itself recursively as chicken(linenumber, 0). When interpreting, it calls itself as chicken(undefined, undefined). With the second parameter 0 or undefined, the initialization code will not run again. With the first parameter undefined, it will run the interpreter instead of the parser. (It is important that the line number is non-zero.)

This is where the implementation gets a bit ugly. There's no way of preventing the interpreter from running. That means the error message must form valid bytecode. It does this by setting the stack pointer to -1 and returning an array of length two. The interpretation starts at index 2, which will be read as undefined and thus interpreted as the axe instruction (halting the program). sp will have been increased to 0 by the initialization and thus points to the error message at index 0 in the array, which will be returned as the result. (The second value in the array is unused, and was only inserted to avoid using a parenthesis.)

That should hopefully clear up the big picture. Some small notes:

Comparing input and code during initialization should always be false. When negated, it produces the value 0.

The value after && that follows the comparison with "n" is always true. It was just a way to avoid a parenthesis.

CHICKEN ++- CHICKEN produces -1. The side effect isn't used.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," Schmidt.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/
Anybody who could or would actually harm you with the knowledge can easily acquire it is the GP's point, I think. A Facebook account, ipso facto, adds no additional risk.
Yes, 22 CFR 51.72 says they can revoke for any of the same reasons they'd deny, including an outstanding federal arrest warrant. Seems pretty cut and dried to me.

As for how it interacts with asylum, well, it doesn't. If states had an obligation not to pursue or interfere with the travel of a fugitive seeking asylum, then take a guess what a lot of fugitives would do.

Generally if you're going to seek asylum, it's not the country you're fleeing FROM that facilitates your emigration, it's the country you're traveling TO.

Well, that's exactly what Snowden did, and got a travel document from the Ecuadorian embassy. But the surprising other half of the story here is that Ecuador revoked that travel document while he was in Moscow. THAT is arguably the main reason why he's in a bind right now, not that he or his advisors expected his US passport to remain valid, which is clearly revokable under the law in these circumstances.
How is no one here understanding that it's a joke?
And additionally, RTGs are commonly used as power sources, though the GLONASS design does use solar panels.
Indeed, you might need to try a different tact.
This comment is actually a great example of a one-line email question. Just do this and you'll likely get good response.
Too bad we don't actually have a popularly elected Evil Corporation of the Month against whom all citizens would chalk political messages on the sidewalks of the nation.

The sidewalks would become so much more interesting and fun.
>Then there was never a reason to involve the 'justice' system in surveillance measures at all, was there?

"...But Obama’s Justice Department, like Bush’s, has not been above an opportunistic (and occasionally downright Procrustean) reading of particular statutes to permit whatever it is that the White House wants to do."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961518
Only when you are using the motoblur versions of those packages. Setting up a Google Account through the initial setup won't send the info to moto, setting up any account in your stock-homescreen for widgets will send your information to moto.
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I too take irony in utilizing Facebook to organize this sort of protest. Regardless, the Austin Facebook page is here:

https://www.facebook.com/RestoreThe4thAustin

Hope to see any fellow Austinites there. Starts at 11AM at the capital building, which has seen plenty of protest in the past few days given Governor Rick Infinite-Special-Sessions Perry's latest call to special session on a controversial abortion bill. Judging by the Austin subreddit, it seems many are in support and plan on being there for Restore the Fourth since it's in the morning and won't interfere with evening celebration plans with family and friends.
Or you could see historic landmarks during the day and explore restaurants and bars local residents actually enjoy in the evenings. Restaurants that cater to tourists do so because you can profit off of their unfamiliarity with the area without having to provide a competitive dining experience in a municipality that broadly offers many excellent dining options. Wanting to find a plethora of interesting experiences when you travel and avoid being taken advantage of doesn't make you a hipster. And even if you are a hipster, who cares?

PS - this comment was written by someone who you probably would consider a hipster. Full disclosure just in case that colors your view
Yep, very true. You certainly don't need to sign up on the FB page to attend.