skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice, subtle way of fucking with someone: spoofing messages that trip these pedo-sensors won't result in an obvious mistaken raid, because the police will want something more solid to go on (like the case in the OP) -- the victim will just show up as 'pedophile, we just can't prove it yet' in a bunch of police databases/background checks/opposition research, and won't know why the random searches randomly choose them every time.
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Seattle voters brought this upon themselves, ultimately. Although, I voted against the tunnel and am still pissed about it.

http://ballotpedia.org/Seattle_Viaduct_Tunnel_Replacement_Qu...
What we decide is not worth while to add, the user can provide for himself. He can just as easily provide his own alternative to a feature if he does not like the way it works in the standard system.

Written before the PC police insisted upon alternating He/She pronouns, awkward constructions such as "He or she", or flatly incorrect usage, i.e. "their" as a singular.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is right nor that someone should do it.
Yes, if Google knew about it they should do something. But Google shouldn't have known.
When you use Google (Gmail) you signup to their terms of service. It states that incoming and outgoing emails are analysed by automated software. The article makes it seems like staff at Google are reading peoples emails or spying on its customers. They don't!
I would hope the standard for possession is higher than "WTF is this? [delete]"

Well, according to the linked article, the guy was sending the picture, not receiving it.
For those of you having trouble:

So if you want to do a related music video seat like pandora:

Type in one or more bands or band members (make sure to actually select them from the drop down menu

If you want to search for something custom then press shift enter

If you don't search for music you can get regular videos about anything you want!

You can customize the sorting function by typing special keywords and pressing shift enter like:

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Not sure why you are being down voted.

Laws vary by country (Even if they are democratic for 50 year and more) and laws in some developing country appear stupid to any one in a developed country.

US has Freedom of Speech. India has exact opposite. You can get into trouble because no matter what you do, you will offend someone.
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Google is reportedly separating its photos service from Google+
Correct -- Telehash provides a basic communications layer, and is not an application, nor does it directly provide anonymity. The intention is to solve one specific problem, and solve it well. All sorts of applications could be built on top of Telehash to provide things like messaging or anonymity.
Is Google legally liable if it's discovered that they're hosting emails with child porn attached? If so, then does that suggest that Google owns the email hosted on their servers, and has the right to examine them if they want?
Only lawyers though - no google chefs or similar support staff getting anything.

The corrupting nature of share classes with differing level of votes is a separate issue
Introversion doesn't mean you don't like parties or socializing.
Any chance we could add a single character flag/prefix to titles on the front and search pages to indicate post titles which have been changed?
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932869 was the request for a sanitized DB for folks wanting to develop MDN itself. We could identify most of the handful of IPs that downloaded the file during the time period where it was unsanitized to individuals (i.e. IPs inside Mozilla offices, etc.). However because some IPs were unknown, or public, or potential NAT addresses Mozilla decided it was best to disclose the issue.
Sure, the only conclusion you've drawn from my comment is LispWorks is perfect and we're to blame because we were a bunch of uneducated undergraduates. Great attitude.

Perhaps language is not the barrier here?

> probably not having called a single time the support I have praised earlier etc.

A great support does not change the fact that software was faulty.

> his opinion is uninformed

Because he doesn't agree with you?
Your question doesn't seem to be "What if they're mistaken?"; it seems you are more asking "will they stop at child porn?". Anyway, I'd agree with jfoutz, in saying that society has dealt with these problems before, and has managed to create a fairly good line as to where something must be reported, and where a person's privacy becomes more important. That's not to say they will manage to create that line again, but it's also not to say they won't. Regardless, I don't think it's an unavoidable slippery slope.

As for "What if they're mistaken?", well I highly doubt anyone will be convicted off the basis of an automated image recognition tool alone. If they are mistaken from time to time, then the person will probably have a warrant (ha) issued for their email, and any investigation would follow normally. If they're mistaken very often (i.e. the PhotoDNA implementation turns out to be shit), then the police (or whoever is receiving these reports) will probably stop caring, and nothing will have changed.
Brands system doesn't prevent double-spends, it merely detects them and identifies the culprit. In a traditional bank system your bank will then debit your account a second time, and they have the contractual authority to charge you for an overdraft, and ultimately take you to court or send in the debt collectors if you don't pay off your debt. To do this in an online context you'll need to establish some sort of reputation system to ensure cheaters can't move between banks.

Ultimately, it needs to be backed by system with a monetary policy, since whatever fraction of double-spending you cannot prevent effectively causes inflation of the money supply.
What is a Security Engineer?
And what happens if someone (who wish you bad) anonymously send you such images as if he was your longtime buddy? Do they also report you?
You mean like the football coach in Minnesota that had some videos of his kids playing after a bath in his cellphone and got arrested for child porn?

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-minnesota-state-mankato-coach-retur...

I'm not sure if there is a ton of oversight for what Google does, but I agree with your point there needs to some kind of vetting to determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

In the case here, the man had quite a history of previous behavior that would make it a pretty clear choice as to what Google needed to do. In the case of the football coach who only had the innocent video of his kids playing, there was some obvious signs that were ignored in the process of steamrolling a mans career, his reputation and his standing in the community where he's lived his whole life.
This is not 4chan; "autistic" is not an appropriate description for anything other than the actual psychological disorder.
I'm leading an effort for a pretty large refactor and cleanup of all of the existing telehash work (look at the commit history), honing in our mission and simplifying it's usability.

We're trying to make it easy for any developer to add/use end-to-end networking that has strong encryption and connectivity built in.
>I'm a bit surprised by this. Most mathematicians know Newton's method.

The mathematician was probably talking about this procedure that does not require convergence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roo...

This is the method I also learned (at one time and then forgot). Apparently, this procedure was part of a typical math curriculum many decades ago. Like Latin and cursive handwriting, it's been deleted as a mandatory skill.
So. Do they only offer this 19$/month subscription? That's all? Can you even make it an annual payment to save a bit or something?
Perhaps this may change if a certain list of 535 people in DC are added to this list.
These are interesting problems, and we've certainly had a few debates at the Telehash meetups about the meaning of "identity" and such. Hashnames aren't expected to be human-friendly. Ultimately, I think it's a problem to be solved at a higher layer than Telehash.

Telehash is an online protocol, in much the same way that IP is an online protocol, so message store-and-forward isn't in scope. However, such a system could be built on top of Telehash. In fact, developing the design for just such a system has been on my mind quite a bit lately. ;)
Chip-based credit cards are a decade old; why doesn’t the US rely on them yet?
This is only talking about people who own their homes. A lot of gentrification is happening in areas where historically the residents were suppressed from owning real estate. My own knowledge is mostly around the Portland, Oregon area, but there is a documented history of minorities being unable to purchase property, get loans, and lots of other institutional things that stop people from actually owning the land.

For them, gentrification is definitely a bad thing.

Edit: Reference here on page 25: http://aaablogs.uoregon.edu/visualculturesymposium/files/201...
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Glenn may succeed in throwing a few proverbial cats amongst a field full of pigeons, but I seriously doubt much more is going to happen.

If anything, it has become apparent that the German public is impotent to effect any serious change regardless of what depths their privacy has been invaded.

If the privacy minded German public can be pushed around like this then countries like the UK have no chance of engaging changes to the system.

I feel pessimistic about our collective future.
Anyone know of a similar technology (generating a hash from an image that is resistant to alterations) that is open source?
Radiant Player for OS X solves most of those problems, and it's free. Works well for me.

(I have have no connection with them.)
First, I suspect this is a concern troll named WubTheCaptain (http://wubthecaptain.eu/), or a copycat of the concern trolling he originally did, that has hung around the tox threads because he craves attention and replies. But I'll reply to some of these even though I'm not a tox dev.

1. The logo was made, over many threads, by members of 4chan's /gd/ board for Project Tox to Do Whatever The Fuck You Want(tm)

7. A developer quit the project because she was harassed into quitting by another notorious troll, SaveTheInternet (the creator of an australian imageboard 4chon) and friends in the 4chon IRC. Basically, the arranagement at the time seemed to be quit and I take your dox down.

As you can see, we have many problems with trolls, they're quite interesting creatures to harass a FOSS project like this for months on end but I suppose they redeem themselves in the entertainment value of how they bend over backwards for replies.
You could have said something relevant to the issue instead of raging about "incoherent nonsense." It would be nice to find you advocating for the robust application of computer crime laws in this case.
I think Google's only liable if they know about it and didn't report.

According to paragraph (f) of the 18 U.S. Code § 2258A,

Protection of Privacy.— Nothing in this section shall be construed to require an electronic communication service provider or a remote computing service provider to—

(1) monitor any user, subscriber, or customer of that provider;

(2) monitor the content of any communication of any person described in paragraph (1); or

(3) affirmatively seek facts or circumstances described in sections (a) and (b).

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A?quicktabs_8=...
I also think you guys may have already broke it!
I'm working on it but thank you for trying it out.
It was a proof of concept I plan on taking in a different
direction!
As a Canadian, I've always wondered about this when I've visited the States. The transition from swipe cards to chip cards was fairly painless, from the consumer's point of view, up here.

I think what helped make it work is the prevalence of Interac. Before chip cards, you'd swipe your card, verify the amount, select an account, and enter your PIN. The only thing that changed with the chip was that you inserted your card instead of swiped.

When credit cards started getting chips, people were already familiar with the process and just needed to be issued a PIN by the credit card issuer.
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I'm not proud of this product by any means, but it is good for experimentation and A/B testing.

One thing that I should point out is that even if I don't write any code, I'm still thinking about how to improve it and looking at the analytics, so having a passive income is not totally free.
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Right - mathematical insight is what tells you which factors to measure in order to make a prediction, and which factors to ignore. A great example I've seen recently was in the context of the solar road concept, where there was a discussion around how much pressure is exerted by a vehicle on the road surface, in the context of determining if solar panels could realistically be manufactured to stand that pressure. Someone argued that the pressure would be roughly equal to the tire pressure of the vehicles passing over; eminently sensible people then tried to make mathematical arguments that that was nonsense, because the weight of a vehicle had to have some bearing on it - it stands to reason trucks must exert more pressure than cars or bikes, right? So the assumption is that the formula for road pressure must depend in some way on the vehicle weight.

Well, yes it does - but so does the tire pressure. If you add weight to a car, the tire pressure increases. So does the pressure it exerts on the road. Noticing that vehicle weight is a common scaling factor in two places tells you there's probably a simple relationship between the tire pressure and the road pressure. And it leads you to the counterintuitive conclusion that yes, if you increase the pressure in a tire, and keep vehicle weight constant, it increases the pressure the tire exerts on the road. Pressure's tricky and counterintuitive like that.

For sure, the road pressure and tire pressure aren't necessarily equal - not all of the weight of a vehicle is borne by the column of air between the contact patch and the wheel hub, some is transferred through the sidewalls, some through the tire rim to the air above the hub, and so on, and if you are a tire manufacturer or a formula one race engineer you will want to take those things into account. But for arguing about what the pressure on the surface of the solar panels in a road surface would be, tire pressures are -a- right answer.
Good APIs are like good code. You don't want to get creative. Instead, you want the API to be usable by being immediately familiar. Follow the lead of popular, well-designed APIs (Parse and Twilio come to mind). You should follow a predictable pattern, which minimizes the amount of time required to learn your API. For example, if your endpoints are in the "/[noun]/[verb].json" scheme, then you should stick to that all the way through.

I suggest starting out by strictly adhering to REST standards, and then choose areas where you want to be flexible to increase usability (allowing POST calls to be overridden and interpreted as PUT calls, for example).

Check out this checklist: https://mathieu.fenniak.net/the-api-checklist/

I can also enthusiastically recommend Apiary (https://apiary.io) for designing and mocking up your API. It's absolutely fantastic.
> It's time we stopped hiding behind semi-autistic semantics.

Semi-autistic is pretty fucking offensive.

> Google engineers went through people's private photos. Period. What tools they used to do it is utterly irrelevant.

Ignoring for a moment the fact that the whole point of Google is to inspect your traffic in order to serve you ads (and that's been used by competitors in their own adverts before; see Microsoft) there's a big difference between taking[1] image hashes to then compare to hashes of data passing through your network and some person sat at a desk looking at the images.

[1] Probably being given image hashes by law enforcement. A much more interesting question is how fast they can do this? Imagine a set of say 500,000 hashes of the worst images. And global Google traffic. That's a lot of hashing and comparing going on. And are they doing simplistic hash checking, or is it more complicated so that people can't just change a few pixels to evade the hashes?
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I have used Ruby (and Sinatra, Rails, Merb in the old days, etc.) for many years, and I found my own transition to developing in Haskell to be refreshing.

I find Haskell development to be fun and interactive in the spirit of Lisp and Ruby. I have professionally programmed in various Lisp dialects since 1981, and I find that Ruby, Lisp, and Haskell feel like the same party.
I completely disagree. If you offered a decentralized alternative to, say, Facebook that gave the user command of their data and could compete on user experience I think you would have a mega-hit. The bugaboo is "compete on user experience." Most average users might not care, but enough do to swing the market center of gravity if other things are equal. Problem is other things are not equal.

For users of very low power devices and low bandwidth mobile that could not run the software, you could have any number of independent hosting providers that would host a web based instance either for free as a community service or for a few bucks.

My impression is that Diaspora tried valiantly. If execution had been better and the team hadn't collapsed and if they could have really solved the technical problems I think they would have made it to a pretty decent size.
In the world of the hippo, you ask the chief designer or the marketing director to pick a blue and that's the solution. In the world of data you can run experiments to find the right answer.

"Hippo" is an acronym for "highest paid person's opinion". Clever, but are we to believe that this dichotomy represents the whole spectrum of decision-making processes?

The Achilles' heel of data-driven approaches is that setting up the experiments can constrain the possible solutions too early. When you test 50 shades of blue, the answer you get will always be a shade of blue. A design-driven process could give you solutions that go beyond tweaking one value in CSS -- but that research won't be something that you can stick into an Excel spreadsheet.
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This is a difficult choice. On one hand I believe that Wikipedia should be FREE in all senses of the word. On the other hand making one exception will create more exceptions. Why not make facebook and Gmail free to access so that people can communicate? I want this exception for Wikipedia. But I am worried.
Germany didn't need a minimum wage because of the strong unions. Now that they lost much power minimum wage is needed.
This is also why there's no big push for minimum wage for instance in Denmark or Sweden, because the unions still work there.
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Surprised that CIT (Cranfield University) wasn't already doing this - I wonder what the course entry requirements are like.
he also found that a lot of renters actually stay — especially if new parks, safer streets and better schools are paired with a job opportunity right down the block.

That squares with the recent study[1] by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

"We're finding that the financial health of original residents in gentrifying neighborhoods seems to be increasing, as compared to original residents in nongentrifying, low-priced neighborhoods," says Daniel Hartley, a research economist with the bank.

He looked at the credit scores of original residents and found that they went up — regardless of whether they rented or owned — compared with residents who stayed in nongentrifying neighborhoods.

From the OP.

[1] http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/trends/2013/1113/01rege...
> As for "What if they're mistaken?", well I highly doubt anyone will be convicted off the basis of an automated image recognition tool alone.

"Convicted" isn't the fear, post-9/11. The fear is getting put on a secret government watch list and being harassed for the rest of your life with no chance to ever clear your name, or even to be told why you're being screwed.
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That seems like pretty clear-cut survivor bias.
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Usually they don't. [1]

[1] http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
If you don't mind php, I wrote this ages ago specifically to catch image spam on forums... the project is more or less dead now because i'm not technically capable of improving it, but it does work (albeit with false positives in some instances): https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher

You may find the actual algorithm used more interesting (http://phash.org/)
Wait wait wait, so it's acceptable now that government/LEO give a list of forbidden hashes to service providers with the expectation that they filter their networks and report anybody who's a match? Because that sounds bat shit insane.

Who's to say protest-plans.ppt won't be the next thing on the list? Or justin-bieber.mp3? Or cia-torture-prisons.txt? With a hash, the ISP doesn't even know what the file is about before they detect a match, and having them look closer at matches and decide whether the government needs to know is just as insane.
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The software is in alpha, so I imagine screen reader accessibility is lower on their priority list. Once it becomes late stage beta, then accessibility complaints are more reasonable. Until then, core features should take precedence.
who told how it was so very right and proper for Aaron Swartz to be punished through a federal prosecution

They said no such thing.

This is not useful HN comment.