skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes I would report that as a positive: i.e. that I had found material. Depending on the grading of the images the CPS would then decide what to prosecute him with (i.e. all level 1's would probably get you a talking too and advice on places to get help if required, a decent number of level 5's would prompt prosecution).

I'd also look at how he organised them. For example if it was a few 100 MB's of borderline images (even if we know they are illegal) and they were spread randomly in his porn collection then I would possibly consider it a negative. If then I found google searches for "download lolita" etc. and evidence of hanging out on 12chan et al then I might revise that view.

Each case varies considerably :) as I am sure you can imagine.

Currently possession of the material in large quantities is a crime.

What legal reason could there be for holding that quantity on disk? (bearing in mind the checks and paperwork we have to go through to hold the material per the requirments of our contracts).

That amount of data (10GB is a lot) would prompt me to look very closely at the sources and other activity as it would suggest distribution too (indeed I would be surprised if there were no distribution at that scale).

1 image wont get you jail time. 100 would depend on the context & the grading. 1000+ is, I hope, fairly obvious :)
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agreed, this is one of the things making CouchDB something to consider
If a group of us set up a Hacker block in Detroit, I'm sure it would hit the New York Times as well.
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I'm actually working on a magazine that's very startup like. Everybody does everything, nobody really gets paid yet. It's entertaining.

We haven't actually launched yet, but it'll be really fun once this project takes off.
I saw this over at the demo.com website and it seems like a pretty easy and cool solution for video streaming.

http://www.vuezone.com/

I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
That's the way to do it! Good luck - whats the magazine? What genre?
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A few thoughts through the SUN product line: (Anyone else got ideas that I missed?)

SPARC - likely gone.. IBM will probably stick with Power.

JAVA - might be good for it.. IBM are big supporters of java, with Eclipse, IBM JRE's, etc

MySQL - interesting dilemma - IBM have DB2 CE or whatever it's called as a free DB engine - mysql is not at DB2 level (yet) by any stretch - but if it's good enough - then is it a revenue threat

Solaris - IBM have an awesome NIX variant in AIX. Of course - that's why they now push Linux so much.. :P Not sure what would happen to solaris here...

DTrace - obviously kept - maybe linux/aix porting? (we can hope)

ZFS - again - you'd assume they would keep it.

Disk Storage - The thumper, etc seem like pretty good products.. IBM have some storage kit developed internally (DS8000 etc) - and some I believe is OEM.. I think that some gear like the Thumper might be able to replace the OEM gear... (Would also be quite nice behind an SVC)

StorageTek (Tape Drives) - These will need some consolidation (although again - some of IBM's kit is OEM) - but at the top end - I would have said that the SL8500 (Sun's) trumps the TS3500 (IBM's) at the high end - so that could be dramatic..

Intel/AMD based servers - I'd guess they'll keep them seperate for as long as they can - eventually standardising down to one of the two lines? (Or perhaps spinning some/all out to Lenovo or someone like that?)

OpenOffice - since IBM are pushing it (or a badged variant of it) as Lotus Symphony - you'd assume it would be sticking around...

HPC - I can't see IBM dropped BlueGene - but I've got no clue what Sun are really doing in the space... (from wiki: In 2006, Sun built the TSUBAME supercomputer, which was until June 2008 the fastest supercomputer in Asia. .... Ranger has a peak performance of over 500 TFLOPS, and is currently the 6th most powerful supercomputer on the TOP500 list (November 2008).)

And Wikipedia has a nice listing of all the goodness of sun hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sun_Microsystems_hardw...
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The 'trick' is not automation, the niche, good copy, a good affiliate system or a kick ass site design. It's traffic, and the 'trick' to traffic is incoming links. All these sites for sale rely on a webmaster who can understand and temporarily exploit Google's ranking algorithm. Without that you'll have a great site that no one goes to (and makes almost no money as a result)
They're doing a good job laying the groundwork for "The $100 Newspaper" ..
Covering a salary for yourself is no mean feat, particularly for selling games.

In general, when folks with no business experience tell me they want to start selling games, I tell them "It is a black hole of time and talent". There are exceptions towards the top end (and $100k+ of sales is, if not stratospheric, probably still in the top 1% of indie developers), but more typical games either are never completed or end up profiting less than $1k per man month invested (i.e. not covering reasonable imputed salaries of founders).

You can see a whole bunch of case studies here:

http://www.gameproducer.net/category/sales-statistics/
IBM should turn Sun into a cloud division. With Java/J2EE, MySQL and their storage/data center expertise it seems like a good match?

A full featured J2EE cloud solution could get a lot of traction with all the many corporates heavily invested in Java and looking to reduce costs (IMHO).
"But I did say tough-minded optimism. High hopes that are dashed by the first failure are precisely what we don't need."

As an extremely analytical person who wants to work on many hobbies (learning Spanish, salsa dancing, conversational dynamics, singing, etc. - pretty much everything that I'd like to be above average at and struggle at and continually shuffle among hobbies like the famous Chinese acrobat with spinning plates), this really touched me.

If I want to become better at something, I must accept poor results, especially in the beginning. I've managed to go from the awkward running out of moves/stepping on feet to actually enjoying dancing but that took a couple of years.

With Spanish, right now, I'm definitely handicapping myself as I simply am terrified to practice it outside of my understanding tutor who speaks slow-ly. I know that is holding me back (not attempting to make conversation) but I admit to myself that the now once-weekly tutoring session is an attempt to keep the 'learn Spanish' hobby on life support.

Ok I'm rambling but I had one of those maybe-a-deep personal insight this morning - I go to certain places/do certain things and more importantly avoid certain things - to preserve a day by day individual stat us quo. I'll probably consider deleting this comment once I read this again in a few hours.
I think I am confused. Did he work on the game for one year, and thus the game is judged based on paying back one year's salary? He says his other games have done better and worse, not having looked at the game catalog his company offers, it seems to me that this game has probably more than covered the part of his salary he spent working on it. Am I confused?
The fuselage isn't exposed from the cabin, but what about the cargo compartment? If enough mercury paste leaked out of your suitcase, the plane could be in trouble. I'm thinking if you had enough mercury to damage the plane it would show up on the X-Ray though.
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Reminds me of the day Compaq announced they bought DEC...

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Thank you for saying so :) I dislike getting "sympathy" or "understanding" for my job (not that you've done that). I chose it :D I do my bit and that is it's own reward.

I've quite enjoyed chatting about it on here though (I do feel a bit of a cheat that it's earned me nearly 100 Karma in total). You guys have asked much more interesting questions than anyone else does :D
I guess the first thing I should take issue with is that the article isn't accurate: the iPhone is smaller than the Pre, not the other way around. Maybe the author just looked at length and width and forgot that the Pre is significantly thicker leading it to be over one cubic inch larger in volume (while having less usable space for the screen).

Also, customers might have a love/hate relationship with AT&T, but AT&T posts the strongest net adds of any carrier - far outpacing even Verizon. Sprint doesn't add customers, they loose them. I'm a Sprint customer myself and don't quite understand why everyone hates Sprint, but they certainly do. At the end of 2007, Sprint had 40.8M post-paid customers. At the end of 2008, they had only 36.7M post-paid customers. When one compares that to AT&T who added 7M customers (vs. losing 4.1M customers) over that same period, it's quite clear that one shouldn't be comparing them as both inspiring a similar feeling in customers.

I'm really looking forward to the Pre as a Sprint customer who won't leave for another carrier, but this article is trying to paint a much closer picture than is realistic. The Pre is coming 2 years late with no applications (and only the widget-like HTML/JS that the iPhone 1.0 came with), a larger phone, on the worst performing network (in terms of customer adds). What's the selling point for the Pre? You hate Apple and want an iPhone? You have a Sprint plan you can't leave because they've given you such a cheap deal (the situation I'm in)?

It's a wonderful looking device, but what's its superior position. Other than the keyboard, I can't see it. It's on a network people don't like as much, it doesn't have the ecosystem of add-ons (accessories and apps) that the iPhone has, and it's untested in the way that any first-gen thing is. And all signs point that it will be just as expensive.

It may be war, but it looks like the Pre will be fighting with slingshots.

EDIT: I just want to be clear that I've had no problem with my Sprint service and am happy with it. However, it's important to understand that objectively Sprint is not well liked by consumers and it's numbers are the worst of all the national carriers.
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Think of it this way: the game cost his company 120K to build, and his company has pretty much made that back, so his company has broken even(1). While developing the game he paid himself a decent salary, so he personally has done well (and that's the part that actually matters).

(1) Leaving out the time value of money, etc
I would rather do non-web games (I've released a couple of small roguelikes) - think diablo on a smaller scale, with simple 2d graphics but more complex and interesting game play.

My older games were all several man-weeks of effort (1 week off from work to develop each + a couple of months of bug fixes and polish in my free time) and were received reasonably well.

If I do it full time and bust my ass I think I can produce fairly viable small games for about 6 months man work each.

I have enough money saved up for surviving ~1 year of zero income.
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I said aerial, not space. Of course there's satellite imagery, e.g. our site http://kosmosnimki.ru has it.
Owning VirtualBox virtualization software is a great reason for IBM to buy Sun. IBM is trying to be a major player in the cloud computing space, but it relies on Xen and VMWare for x86 virtualization technology. IBM doesn't have much influence on Xen and its open source development community. Obviously IBM has even less influence over VMWare. So buying a solid x86 virtualization stack like VirtualBox would make IBM a serious contender for cloud computing deployments built from commodity x86 boxes.
It also takes good direction. I appreciated that fact a lot more after Shaun of the Dead.

That said, it's hard to sort out the good stuff from the crap when you've seen nothing.
Two things worry me about the whole 'data as evidence' thing. The first is, the easiest way for a criminal to distance themself it must surely be to snoop some collegues password and log in on their computer after hours.

Secondly, in the old days, the KGB was the master of the 'honey trap': get some clerical worker in a compromising position and then blackmail them into spying. Given that there are many more ordinary people than pedophiles, I would have thought that installing illegal data by virus and then blackmailing would be a lucrative sideline for these Russian 'businessmen' who originate it. I'm a little surprised that you don't get many such viruses. The question is, have they not thought of it yet, does it not work for some reason, or are the viruses too clever at concealing themselves?
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b. A regular at OpenCoffee Cambridge: http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/profile/nabeelo
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the source for HN censor links to certain websites?
Okay, I'm sorry. I overgeneralized.

The minute you standardize something and use it as a method of competition - be it GPA or SAT score or pretty much anything else where you accept people into something based on a number - you make that number meaningless. The presence of numbers means that people are suddenly able to hack the system, and that means that the numbers don't mean a thing at all. They are no longer indicative of good performance.
The only thing I was thinking was if I were going to do something clearly illegal, and had technical ability, surely I wouldn't store my stash in plain site. E.g. hack someones machine, store the data on their computer. How do you prove 'intent'?

I have known a few shady types throughout life, and none of them were stupid enough to store their stolen goods at their home, regardless of how poor their educational abilities :)
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Pass along being the key phrase. You don't use Twitter because it lets you post messages. You use it because the site is a giant infrastructure that is designed to pass the things you write along to other people, both through following and through replying. The actual system of posting messages is comparatively irrelevant: there were microblogging sites before Twitter, but they didn't focus on following other people, so they were forgotten.
Nice set of articles,

But I'm really not digging your UI. This is a set of links, needing a flash overlay is overkill.
Can I get some wisdom from the HN crowd - how is random screening / occasional screening of Packets logically or legally different to this?

Bad analogy: a) internet packages are not suitcases but words spoken across the border, b) you think only sites hosted outside Australia will be censored? Ha ha.
It's different though. Youtube makes possible what wasn't already possible - sharing video.

Sharing documents online has been solved for quite a long time now. It's easy (If slimy) to create a walled garden and coerce people into using it, but it'd be nicer to just show them how to share documents online.

Seems like the issue with Scribd is that it enhances the user experience for average user, but for techies/early adopters, it makes for a far worse experience than the alternative.
Ah yeh I see what you mean there.

Well everything leaves traces - you juust have ot hunt it out and figureout where they hide things ;)

That said your assuming technical ability: which these consumers dont really have. The mid level (i.e. community) distributors probably dont have it either. Top level distributors? Pfft try catching them :) barely happens.

At the end of the day it is all about the trail. You tie together their chat, web activity, downloads, and where images are stored. Factor in things like times (can be useful to confirm who used the PC) and extraneous usage (eg: download images, followed by checking email followed by more downloads is pretty incriminating :D).

You build up a picture of what happened and it quickly shows the intent.

If you get someone googling for normal porn and downloading a couple of borderline CP zips it is fairly obvious compared to somone searching limewire for "lolita" and setting 100 related torrents off to download :)

EDIT: example, that I am allowed to mention, try the case of a school computer teacher coming into class in the morning and setting Limewire off to download CP before teaching a class. He took steps to hide what he did (encrypted containers etc.) but in the end it was easy enough to prove via log files, thumbnails and internet usage etc. That is the most technical ability I have seen in a consumer.
Congrats to Scribd and all, but this is just further proof about how clueless Random House is. They seem to have latched on to this idea of embedding without having taken the time to realize why users embed things.

People embed things with the hope that other people will look at them. Videos count. Music counts. Book reading requires a particular effort that is best served by providing a link to a large site that can handle the look better, versus embedding a small box with small text.

When I published my novel, I originally embedded it on my web site using Scribd. There were very few embed clicks. Providing the link gave me far more hits, since Scribd's web site gave a better-sized default viewer. If Scribd would let me link to the full-screen version, I'm sure I'd get even more readers.

Random House straddles the line between knowing they should be doing something offline, and not knowing what to do. They're by far the most liberal of the seven big publishers (though they've got nothing on Kensington/Rebel Book Press), but even that isn't helping them with online sales. Publishing is in need of a vast change, and Random House wants to keep their current conservative model while adding a few little feelers at the end of their system. It's the equivalent of bands adding a MySpace profile: you might entice some new people, but just having a place to show off a few songs isn't enough, unless you're so small you're not signed on anywhere, which is when you can take advantage of word-of-mouth. If Random House is publishing you and advertising your book, putting parts of that book on Scribd will give you nothing new.

The solution to this "put text online" system isn't to deal with something that simulates a PDF viewer. That's inevitably going to have issues. Scribd doesn't let me two-finger scroll, or two-finger zoom, and even if it did, PDF reading is a pain. The solution that I think is most apparent is to display the writing as HTML, using SIFR to process the text and get it to look the same on every computer. That way you have a graceful degradation, and the focus isn't on display (past a very minimal point): it's on text. This model works for everything but ergodic literature, which requires a system of its own for display (and even then, the goal ought to be to figure out how to display the page as native HTML: introducing a PDF-like system is indicative of a failure if your goal is to have a good reading experience rather than to just get hits).

It frustrates me how many sites focusing on the display of text never think about how ugly the text they're displaying is. That's a mindset that needs changing first and foremost. The fact that it's been around for so long is a condemnation of those designers as-is.
Does Detroit have a decent music scene? The city has a very vibrant music scene whether it be rap,rock, blues or jazz with national artists showing up at local clubs for impromptu jam sessions.
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the average computer lifespan will be close to 10 years

Is anyone here using a computer they purchased in 1999?

Come on.
That's a classic paper, and well worth reading for those who haven't come across it before.
I am confused about how foreign banks got stung, what with all their superior regulation and all.

Foreign banks bought "insurance" from AIG to get around legal regulations in their own countries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2008/09...
So the balloon descended because it popped.

If they put a pressure release valve on it (one designed to work by relative pressure differences, not absolute, and I think most are anyway), how high could you get?

I'm guessing to the point where the difference in mass between the helium inside the balloon and the air outside is not enough to loft the camera. But with a light camera that has to be just about outer space, no?

Edit: And despite the risk, I think they should use hydrogen. If I'm not mistaken, it's 1/4th the mass of helium. I don't know how much higher that will take them though, but it has to make some difference.
Solaris also has zones, which has been tremendously powerful for our customers.
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There are rumours on IBM aquiring Sun Microsystem for $6.5B. Is it going to change things around for people? I have some predictions..what are yours ?
startups only have to deal with 1-2 big competitors, a web only newspaper will have to deal with every single newspaper on the web and with news.Google
One of my favourite "teachers" in this industry that I learned a lot from had a great email I will give you in full.

"""A lot of them will use the defence it was a Virus. Which is the default "you got me but I want to squirm" defence of last resort. It does have merit and you should ALWAYS check for it. But at the end of the day it's a pretty amazing virus if it can search the internet, download 100 images, burn them to CD, write "mucky pics" on it and hide the thing behind the radiator"""

His point is simple: there is always a piece of evidence that will prove or disprove intent. SOmething that requires active, knowing, user input. We look at everything we possibly can do and build the picture as a whole.

In your specific example we carefully check the times stuff occurs. If, for example, there was one download incident at an odd time (compared to normal PC usage) it would trigger alarm bells in our heads. Im not saying it is impossible to frame people in these ways - but I would be

I've yet to see a virus that downloads CP in a form that can be viewed by the normal user. I have found a couple of isolated virus' that were part of a botnet used to distribute material. But the images were carefully hidden and it was obvious where they originated.

Certainly I dont know anyu virii that open IE and google for CP :D
ok yeah I agree it is not pretty quite yet just wondering if those features would be meaningful. They are there, but only are visible after login etc. Do you see value in those features I guess is what I am getting at?
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Not a bit. Spitzer's whole reputation was built on grandstanding, rather than real substance. It's only fitting for him to be hoist on his own petard.
And what's your point? You don't see the difference between a free and private owned and operated website restricting access and a countries government making it totally illegal?
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