skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After you follow the suggestions for using PhotoDNA.

I would also announce to uploaders that you will be processing their images through the service. Including their ip address, etc.

That might help with just the volume of bad images.

But I do have some questions:

1) considering the headache - maybe shut down site for maintenance while implementing service.

2) process all images currently

3) consider that some images will inevitably be not in the database but be CP.

... therefore, at what point do you decide to just shut down the service.

It would suck to have to spend a lot on a lawyer to stay out of jail.

Its nice to pretend that the FBI would understand that you are an innocent victim - but what happens when those images end up on your machine (browser cache) and a fed prosecutor sees things differently?
People who commit crimes like this are some of the worst in the world and I am truly sorry that happened to you. As I stated, I personally think that reporting it is an absolute necessity and something that should be written into your sites policy and prominently displayed. Just to reiterate though, the issue isn't whether child porn is wrong it is how to properly identify it. If you are going to accuse someone of being a paedophile and give their information to the FBI it is important you are correct.
This is a bit complicated: what if you had some sort of capcha that required users to classify images as nsfw/sfw/illegal?

If the user normally encounters photos on the site by requesting them (e.g., by entering a search query or browsing a friend's album) rather than having random photos thrown in their face (like HotOrNot.com), I would think you could run into some very upset users (and possibly legal problems) if you are throwing random photos that might contain disturbing images in their faces. I mean, if you go to a website intending to browse photos your friend took of his boat and the site throws up some random child porn on your screen, you'd be pretty annoyed, right?
not to me. ominous would be "we'll delete it once we've colected our evidence."
This NYT report is as much detached from reality and propagandist as reporting on support for the 2003 Iraq war. Is Victoria, the popular Reddit employee fired, in support of whom all this affair happened, a male?

Attempting such a propaganda in this connected day and age is supremely stupid.
ML is very difficult for porn. You end up with so many false positives it almost becomes useless compared to human moderation. "Porn" is also a very context sensitive term. What is porn vs. nude art? Is it still porn if the people in it aren't "pink"? What about cultural differences? What is considered inappropriate in the US may not be inappropriate in Europe, etc. How much skin has to be shown for it to be porn? There are so many questions. I'm sure detecting porn accurately will be one of the hardest problems we'll overcome in computer vision, as outrageous as that sounds - because of the level of context that is required.

See also: SFW porn - where other images are super imposed on top of real porn. It's hilarious, but is it really SFW? You decide. http://www.reddit.com/r/sfwporn
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I hadn't seen todomvc but it doesn't quite address my issues. It still feels too disconnected from where I am.

Also, I do write JS in separate JS files - but my understanding is that when you want a response to be in JS, don't you have to use a corresponding `...js.erb` file to handle the action/response?

How else would you update the DOM after the action has been completed?
> A i3 + 750 TI based system can match the performance of this setup

Are you sure about that?
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This was not at all my experience with OnLive. I played Just Cause 2, and even having a relatively terrible connection through Time Warner Cable, it worked well enough that I was able to play the entire game without any noticeable input latency. The only exception being at times that TWC was having severe network issues, but that was both rare and understandable. The OnLive service itself worked pretty flawlessly for me.
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Maybe mechanical Turk?
one of the craziest things about all the racism is that much of it is trolling from non-racist or not normally racist people looking to get a rise out of people. I see the same thing on YouTube and Reddit all of these troll parody accounts created by ant-social 20-somethings in an attempt to get a reaction or "shock" people.

Reddit can be a great place. Subs like /r/webdev and many, many others are very informative and a great way to meet people. I don't think I've ever seen any kind of racism / hate on the subs I frequent because none of them are main line.
Sure that is a problem, now. But there is a lot of investment in energy storage solutions e.g. electric cars, molten sands, large scale batteries, smart grids.

People are very aware of the problems with wind/solar but that doesn't mean that we should continue to use fossil fuels or blindly pursue unpopular, problematic technologies like nuclear. The status quo is simply not an option.
It's been understood since at least WWII that the best way to get information from an interrogation is focussed conversation and active listening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff

The corollary is that if prisoners are being tortured, the aim is not to get information from them.
Interesting and fun article to read. I'm with Disqus commenter, Michael Hanlon, in finding it strange that the two don't co-exist to some degree. We should've found evidence of it already given all the tools we use on stuff we analyze. I doubt it exists for now. As I told him, the biological mechanisms we see in use might be as fundamental as the reasons that most objects in the universe are stars burning hydrogen. Might just be a constraint in how things are formed given universe's rules. Or not and we discover a shadow biosphere if we're lucky. :)

Far as a different code, I remember reading an article somewhere on an inventor that created a bulk genetic engineering process. It iterates whole sets of modified organisms with tons of different mods until the desired effect (eg production of a chemical) is detected. Then it tries to isolate the modification that achieved that and test its reliability for future, precision work. In response to safety concerns, the article reported that they were thinking about creating an artificial DNA-alternative for their process to keep it from producing out of control creations. I had doubts on their ability to do that or its ability to work lol.

Anyone remember that article or know where that tech went? Closest thing to shadow biosphere concept I've seen in my news feed albeit artificial.
Great. Now the Koch brothers will be bragging about how they saved us all from freezing to death.
I am not crusading to uphold CP on the internet. It is interesting that you probably think my above comment was distasteful. But then you say:

> if someone is uploading an image of their 16-year-old girlfriend

That isn't a grey area, that is wrong unless you have consent[0]. My point is that it is hard to tell what is and isn't child porn(hence this thread in general) and that an 18 y/o could look younger. What I think is possible is that someone could upload photos of THEMSELVES when they are either in the US or even in a country where that is legal and it is non-obvious what the age is.

Child Porn is fucking disgusting, I am not here to defend it. I am just pointing out how hard it is to identify it and that some people upload their own photos online. If you had a database that magically let you know if an image was illegal then of course I would say take it down.

edit: [0]I meant this generally, not that it would be OK to do this if she was 16, but if your gf was of legal age and you posted pictures of her or the two of you together.
I think he just deleted that one post. The rest were deleted by Reddit, as was the entire conversation for a while, before being restored.
Interesting. I had not known about that service and it's cool that it's free (though I'm not sure if it's always free; it says to qualified applicants).

I am curious how one goes about developing a service like this without having to see child porn itself. Is there a database somewhere with known hashes? I'm assuming there would have to be along with a way to generate hashes yourself so you could test as I couldn't imagine running automated unit testing with real child porn.
I wrote a tool a while ago (4 years? my, time flies) that does exactly what's requested there (bisects across merge commits): https://github.com/ayust/misc/blob/master/bisect-merges
>This seems very ominous.

It does. Likewise with the casual questioning of guilt and suggestion that his/her answers will simply be taken at face value.
> even mentioning [negativity]... So when possible, it is good to avoid those kinds of unproductive remarks unless there's a good tie-in

So then why are you shaming people with snarky remarks about Orwell? You say you aren't a hypocrite, yet you're doing exactly the thing you say shouldn't be done?

Anyway, I'm tired and bored, and couldn't be bothered reading more of your efforts to somehow argue that a widespread shrill grassroots online hate campaign over 'media ethics'; a female target; based on faulty, incomplete data; in the internet political culture specific to the current time... should put absolutely no-one in mind of gamergate ahead of any other particular event. The two events apparently share no commonalities. You're using me as a sort of playing field for the academic parlour-game of seeing if you can spin-doctor the way out, and frankly, I couldn't be fucked continuing.
On an eight hour trip that gives you time to eat.
In all likelihood the photos are just stuff people copied from around the internet and not from the original abusers.
> The fact is that it's socially unacceptable to be unemployed for more than a few months, and so people who can't find jobs are then told to go back to school.

But is the majority of the growth in college-goers due to non-traditional students (those not starting a BS program right after high school)? My impression is that it's mostly due to an increasing number of high school graduates going to college. I would guess they're much more likely to get government loans as well.
Actually if you read the settlement itself, it does explicitly say $100k per year for 10 years.
thats pretty much exactly how it works though
If you think it is CP you should report it, period. It's law enforcement's job to determine whether it is for sure, not you. Better to raise a false alarm or two than to let a child predator get away.
I didn't mean to take a position on the misogyny part. I just meant leaving that question aside completely, the point was woefully incomplete.

You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of why FPH was banned - it wasn't because of offensive/hateful content like /r/coontown; it was because of active off-site harassment & brigading that the mods couldn't control.
Yep. I was willing to pay for good games, but they had nothing new for years.
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My (implied) point was that for every engine / machine that runs on gas / coal, there's an electric alternative. If the goal is to adopt 100% clean / renewable energy, we should count the electricity needs as the current electricity consumption + the electricity we need to run the replacement engines / machines. And that number is going to be significantly higher than wind can deliver.
As an employer, I would have concerns about your job hopping, and it would certainly be discussed in an interview. I would want to know why you job-hop. sometimes, life gets in the way of your plans, so it wouldn't be a determining factor in deciding to interview you. In your case, after your explanation, we'd discuss internally to see if we could offer you enough of a challenge and keep things interesting for you.
There's sociopathy, but there isn't even a DSM definition for "psychopath". That is a slang term (like sociopathy). Not that the DSM is even meant to be taken entirely literally, but having models for diagnosis and treatment for common classes of mental disorders can be useful.

People are themselves extremely varied, however, and a lot of the best methods for treatment and diagnosis take into account that. eg, Ericksonian therapy. (Which, sadly, most people will only hear of from some severely bastardized version, if at all.)

I think, a lot of what they mean is "psychopathy", often covered for the other slang term "sociopathy" which has more value for analysis. There has been a lot of pop psychology on the later, and while I do definitely believe it is an useful term one has to note there are "enlightened sociopaths" and ... not. The vast majority are not as people think, and surely not criminals.

A good list came out not long ago which pointed out that on an "empath" to "sociopath" scale, cops and surgeons score high on the sociopath side, while grade school teachers and social workers score high on the other side.

The article is very right in pointing out how anti-social personal disorder is very different from the model of the sociopath. Night and day different.

Behavior involved in severe criminal behavior is often very unique, unique in formation, and unique to the person, even if many commonalities or classes of definitions may be applied to some. The remaining question of any value is: do these labels actually help you help any of them to change?

In terms of comp sec, putting on that kind of label on people won't help you control them nor predict their behavior. You might do so from noting their past behavior, if you know enough about it. But that is based on observation of that particular individual, and would only give deceptive evidence in regards to the actual usefulness of the label. Which is a label, which is a way to shortcut thinking; and a way to shortcut dealing with individuals as individuals in creative ways taking into account their complexity. A pain to do, perhaps, definitely does not fit into tidy lists and written down procedures. But it is what is required.
HYPS do not rely upon undergraduate tuition as a major source of funding. It's nice to have, sure but they could stop charging tuition fees altogether and the hit would be quite bearable. They all have massive endowments and the primary way they get money from students is through donations and endowments.

Elite colleges sell affiliation to a prestigious brand, and making it obvious that mere vulgar money will get you in dilutes that brand. There are a lot of intellectuals, pseudos and wannabes who hold cash and those who seek it in contempt. If getting the most tuition out of undergrads makes it slightly more likely that the future Nobelist goes to CalTech or MIT instead of Harvard it isn't worth it. Future hedge fund managers and Secretaries of State would still go to Harvard if affordable because they understand what these colleges offer that others don't.

Colleges with large endowments and prestige make more off of student donations than fees. It would be counter-productive to maximise for tuition fees.
Exactly. Beyond my own liability, the other question I would want answered is whether I could potentially be compelled to cooperate in some long-term investigation. If so, then what could that mean in terms of time and expense, and is it worth it?
Because assuming you'll go back to the former state means that you've decided you're unable to learn.

If you live your life a certain way and it ends up with you being homeless or poor, sure, living life that same way will end up with you being homeless or poor again.

Now if you learn (that blob of grey matter in your head is great at this by the way) from your past mistakes, there's a chance you can avoid that.

Let's say I'm a homeless guy who ended up being homeless because I lived far far above my means and gambled away my savings.

I suddenly get a $10000 from a lottery ticket I found in the street.

I could immediately buy a suit, rent a car and go stay in a hotel and live the high life for all of 2 weeks. I could go to a casino and get that glorious rush I remembered so fondly for a few hours.

And then I'm back on the street.

Or I could learn from my mistakes and go buy a nice cheap business casual outfit ($100), pay upfront for a room with housemates/students for a few months (6 months - $300/month in a cheap area = $1800), buy a cheap prepaid phone ($80), car ($2000) and couple of weeks gas ($100) then put together a resume and start looking at jobs. If I'm not an appealing worker, I can potentially go to community college for a few months and get qualified doing something useful while also getting federal aid. I'll have around $5920 left over so I'll allocate $920 for a few sets of clothes and general things that a human being needs and put the other $5000 either in the bank or into education.
An interesting concept I found while looking up the Desert Varnish, which already has better explanations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_dark_matter
Unless your assertion is that all of her wins were kept secret, and the public record shouldn't be trusted, they are very few.

Some hires and the chilling effects thing are maybe the biggest unambiguous positive developments. The subreddit banning and the salary negotiations thing were received with mixed opinion, but even if you agree with what was banned, the handling of it was questionable and seemed very rushed.

And then there was last week, which derailed the site over a weekend and made national news outlets for the whole week. A lot of details about internal dealings came to light, and none of them particularly painted reddit in a good light. There is no plausible way the amount of good shes done in the last 10-12 months outweighed the massive damage that was inflicted.

It is also worth noting that the people who do have access to a lot of internal information about the inner workings of reddit 'mutually' agreed that she shouldn't be the CEO. Undoubtedly the backlash -- some of it misguided -- played into this, but frankly a large part of being the CEO of a community-based site is PR.
This article reminded me of an interesting structural problem in eastern Germany, right next door to Denmark. The many wind farms there give a net surplus of power, but there's no easy way to route it to western Germany, where most of the demand is. Maybe a fellow commenter will remember the details better than I do.
Meanwhile in Australia, "Coal is the future!" - Tony Abbott
> I find this logic itself unreliable, because it presumes that all opportunities are created equal.

Good for you, but I'm with SEJeff on this one. Like him, we invest 6 to 8 months of training to get an employee productive, and job hoppers cost a lot of money, and contribute little. The ROI is typically not very good.

We make no assumptions on the part of other hiring managers, and are interested to hear why you job-hopped, but it would be an issue to consider carefully for us.
Reddit doesn't allow users to upload images. Just links. And they ban problematic domains.
Neat! Thanks for the insight. I've actually brought this up for the improvement process where I work so hopefully we can see some of the benefits soon as well.
Does anyone know how many days are required to cover the energy required to produce one turbine?
People behind internet coffers are quite nasty, even cruel at times. I guess that's what human nature is. Power corrupts anyone and everyone.
Apparently you're wrong and we haven't even gotten to other sources such as hydro and solar.
Here is a 11000x11000 = 121 million pixel 'full disk' image [1] (lower resolution at [2]) captured at 0340 UTC on 7 July 2015 by the Himawari-8 satellite, which I found on a blog post [3]. Real-time images from the weather satellite can be found here [4].

[1]: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015...

Mirror of [1]: http://d-h.st/cgHl

Warning: the JPEG file[1] is ~ 70MB in size.

[2]: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015...

[3]: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/18804

[4]: http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/data/himawari/sat_img.php?ar...
Interesting choice, I don't recall many malware C&C servers hosted in Lithuania
I do too; I was a lead on Ford SYNC, GM's Cadillac CUE, and a slew of other OEM ECU modules. First let me say that the book is dated. Example, there is now CAN-FD but they only talk about CAN and Extended CAN in the book.

The attacks in the book are low grade attacks just about anyone with just a basic curiosity could probably pull off - like making up a cable. Ford SYNC, for example, required signed payloads.

Infotainment systems, generally speaking, are not even on the same CAN bus as the engine control unit.

The book spends an inordinate amount of its pages talking about stuff you can easily google and get much more detailed and more accurate information like LIN, ODB2, etc...

Why not talk about CAN arbitration? The book fails to mention a simple attack vector everyone in automotive knows about. ArbID on CAN is not only unique to CAN frame but also used to win arbitration. You can flood a CAN bus with CAN frames using an ArbID of 0x01 or 0x00 to kick off a sort of denial of service attack.

The UDS hacks they talk about are not really hacks at all. They are part of what is known as right to service. Automotive manufacturers are not allowed to lock out small mom & pop service shops or 3rd party tools. The really sensitive stuff typically requires what is known as a VIN unlocker. For example, you can't easily change the ODO (odometer) value. With Ford ECUs, you get a DLL from Ford Motor and a key. You then take CAN data off the bus, pass it through the provided DLL and along with the key, get back a value that you send back out to "unlock" the ECU to program it. Why not talk about reverse engineering this?

They talk about CANiBUS which is a nice tool but a better one is Vehicle Spy which does the same thing and more. Chip tuners use this to reverse engineer the CAN signals.

In the industry, all these CAN bus signals can be decoded if you have what is called a DBC file. DBC file is file format used to lookup values to translate into human readable descriptions. The format is owned by Vector which is another company that makes, over priced, CAN diagnostic and simulation tools that everyone uses.

The Ethernet metasploit looks like pie in the sky talk. Every Ethernet system in a car today is basically infotainment system and benign data like album art, Mirrorlink, and simple data sharing between say a center stack and a cluster. There's nothing there... On top of this, every automotive ethernet is Broad-R-Reach which is Broadcom's 2-Wire Ethernet and to tap into it requires expensive demo boards from Broadcom. It's not like you can simply take a 2-wire Ethernet and put into a Linksys switch to see the packets. More misinformation.

The Keypad for the passive entry looks like good material but it, too, looks very dated.

sorry to be such a downer but felt after reading through the material they should be called out.. buyer beware.
Google tells me that Reddit gold revenue remains small relative to ad revenue.
It's worth noting that we sell wind energy a lot cheaper than the non-renewable we buy back to cover the times where we don't produce surplus.
So they hijacked an entire C block because they hard coded IP addresses into their wares. Wonderful.
> blindly pursue unpopular, problematic technologies like nuclear.

Why is it blind problematic pursuit? Because it's unpopular?
I'm not not. Something has to change to break the positive feedback loop for loans on limited-supply assets, to restore the concept of ownership.

Destroying 'collateral would be quite drastic. I'm pointing out that it is equivalent to making student loans non-secured, regardless that one arises out of contracts and the other from more recent lobbying.

Simpler would be to eliminate banks conjuring money from thin air, or perhaps to just raise interest rates to the point that essentially interest-only loans once again become untenable.