skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ML is very limited. It tagged African-American people as Gorillas for example. White people it tagged as dogs or goats. The African-american people were more outraged because being called a gorilla is racist. Even if the ML doesn't know what race is. Facial recognition is also hard, the ML confuses some people for others who have similar faces but are different people. ML just isn't at the level where it is reliable enough to do what we ask of it yet.
Dunno. When I was a teenager I was shipping large bug-free apps. In things I was good at. This dude doesn't know how to fork, create a script OR use environment variables yet here he is on the front page of HN. That's litter.
But, should he/she contact legal counsel prior to contacting the FBI or anyone else? Personally, I think I would want to understand my potential culpability and other factors here.
Everything I can find on economic mobility suggests that it has been stable for quite a while... up to half a century.
http://davidwalsh.name/nudejs
http://popscan.blogspot.nl/2012/08/skin-detection-in-digital...
https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2014/08/18/skin-detection-step...
etc etc
http://web.archive.org/web/20150611050725/https://www.reddit...

http://web.archive.org/web/20150611112054/http://www.reddit....
No. I looked into this a lot for a dating app I ran and no algorithms came close to human moderation, even for images you'd consider are obviously pornographic, which can get expensive.

A funny idea I had was to reverse the whole system - feed UGC content of a site that's supposed to be SFW into a porn site which is definitely NSFW, one that has lots of thumbnails. The ones that don't get any clicks to enlarge probably aren't porn and can pass the test :)
This is just an idea, since I never built such filter, but you could automate a large part of filtering NSFW images. A quick search on google lead to this paper : http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2005/HabisKrsmanovic-ExplicitI...
Once you have that in place, I guess it's better to make it agressive and report false positive as NSFW.

Google "safe image search" has the additional help of searching the content of the page the image is used. You might be able to do the same, up to some limit, by checking the http referer header field to know where requests are coming from. You could scan the referer's page for some keywords. This might give you a better idea of the context where the image is used. Note that this might be tricky, since you probably don't want traffic coming out of your server to some child porn site.

That said, those are just some ideas. Youtube has a good community that flags videos, but also an army of reviewer that look at the flagged content.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19screen.htm...

Another way to look at it would be to try to manually select some images as "front page worthy", instead of trying to filter the bad stuff.
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The point is that torture:

1. Is not helpful or useful even if, by chance, accurate information is given [1,2].

2. Hurts our national security [2].

3. Is unnecessary. Given that torture is one of the most harmful options to pick from, it's likely there are other, less harmful options available, and if so, the logical and ethical action is to pursue those instead.

On that third point I challenge you to prove me wrong. You won't be able to, however, because we have no meaningful oversight of these practices.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9867266 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9868400
Do you know any other software like this that is open-source? I posted a thread a few days ago about image comparing software like google reverse image search. Similar to OP, I wanted to index a few popular image boards and make sure that no one had tried to post unauthorized photos on them.

edit: I should clarify not child porn, but personal photos such as instagram and facebook which are private/semi-private and then are posted to public forums.
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I'm disgusted replying to you. A bridge too far?

Anyway, here's your API https://developer-westus.microsoftmoderator.com/docs/service...

Guess you can be trendy AND help child rape victims.
> If a shadow biosphere were ever found...

...it would automatically become part of the biosphere. Note that an entire kingdom of life, the Archaea, was only identified in 1977[1]. That was a "shadow biosphere" if you like: an entire separate version of life, unidentified as such until we could sequence RNA. But at least some species of Archaea were known long before, just inadequately classified.

N.B. "Desert Varnish" is not at all the mystery the article suggests[2] and the idea that it represents some kind of biology seems extremely improbable: "Microscopic and microchemical observations, however, show that a major part of varnish is clay, which could only arrive by wind.[5] Clay, then, acts as a substrate to catch additional substances that chemically react together when the rock reaches high temperatures in the desert sun. Wetting by dew is also important in the process.[3]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea
Because there's no object to their jokes. It's just exaggerated humor not at the expense of anyone.
Obligatory:
https://xkcd.com/1172/
You should definitely consult legal counsel before and during talking to the authorities (which you should also do). The laws surrounding CP in particular are outdated and do not fit well into the digital world. For example, simply looking at CP can be a crime, which can make it difficult to report unless you know the right words to say. Always consult counsel in these cases.
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The House of Representatives controls the purse strings, and is aggressive in their wielding of that power.
It's also using low-quality jpegs as source and destination output so a good chunk of what you're seeing is the robot dreaming about jpeg artifacts.
> piss off the majority of the community

I suspect she pissed off a very small, but very vocal minority. Most people (myself included) don't really know or care about Pao one way or the other.
This is nothing unusual. Ballmer and many other male CEO's have been treated abusively. People only notice it more because she's a woman.
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/twitters-new-ai-recognizes-porn...
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Yes, I'm aware of this, but it pretty much means the pinned tab behaves like "any other tab". If I closed those 40 tabs, the pinned tab should move elsewhere or persist. Otherwise, I'll have to manually re-pin it all the time.
Does anybody know why there are "flashes" of images? For instance, dogs appear in pulsating patterns, is there a reason for that?
True flash FPGAs do exist -- they're used when startup time is important. Microsemi has quite a few.
Other posters are correct; you are obligated under US law to report child porn to the NCMEC CyberTipline.

The fine for not complying started off fairly low, but has been increased in subsequent legislation. In my experience though, NCMEC is mostly just interested in getting regular reports uploaded to their system. I met with them once, and they have a rough sense for how many reports should be sent over for a site of a certain activity/traffic level, and if the number of repots is zero... then they know you're not in compliance.

Their reporting interface is beyond awful though. Maybe they've improved it in recent years; when I last saw it, everything had to be uploaded and reported manually.
I think you may be making unwarranted assumptions about the OP's reasons for not wanting to automatically, algorithmically contact police.
https://www.reddit.com/user/spez

Did you think I would be tricked by your lie?
The Feds have tight legislate controls re: what money can be spent on. Even if they have a billion dollars available, it must be authorized for a specific purpose.

"Security" funding may not involve rewriting some employee database. The contractors running the system won't look at the system for flaws that need correction, they only operate.
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Sam has to say this or else risk Ellen suing him too. I wouldn't read into anything he says more than that.
All she managed to do was give these "Type 3" subs the benefit of the Streisand effect. It should have been obvious that the backlash to any perceived censorship would be far greater than the effect of the censorship itself.
While the number is slick, it does not account for the energy needed for cars. (see below for the explanation of this terse statement)
Just to provide a counterpoint, many people (myself included) believe free speech and privacy are fundamental in society, extending to the internet. Also, having a very US centric view of the world can make you forget that age of consent is arbitrary depending on where you are in the world with many european countries allowing for different laws. Also, it is quite difficult to ascertain the exact age of a subject given simply a photo. So while you are "disgusted" it is important to realize that this is a difficult problem both in identifying content and identifying perpetrators.

That being said, if it is obvious that the image is CP and you have the IP address of someone who uploaded it, I couldn't imagine not passing on that information. Also, I would put a public disclaimer on the site indicating your policy.

edit: before people start flaming me as a rape apologist I want to clarify that notifying the FBI and giving away your users public information is a strong action. It is warranted in the case of CP (one of the few things I personally think) but that, as this thread is indicative of, it is difficult to identify IRL.
point taken. i would love to see the videos of those talks.
the title is pretty specific about 'electricity' as opposed to 'energy'
I feel like "if an AEAD mode isn't available, use CTR with HMAC with the following caveats..." is a bit like saying "if you drive without a seatbelt, make sure to drive extra carefully".

Really, if your car doesn't have seatbelts, find an aftermket kit or buy a new car. Likewise, there are BSD-licensed libraries that provide GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305. These are your aftermarket seatbelt kits for your deathtrap-car of a crypto library.

That being said....

If I were to drive without a seatbelt... CTS instead of CBC mode prevents padding oracle attacks. If you have a flaw that causes IV reuse, CTS and CBC leak less information than CTR mode.

For those driving without seatbelts... CBC and CTR modes do most definitely allow random-access decryption. Seek to block N and decrypt it, then seek to block N-1, read and XOR with the plaintext from your previous decryption. (It's a bit more complicated for the last two blocks of CTS mode, but only a bit.) CBC and CTS do not, however, allow random-access modification, since a single changed bit will on average flip half of the bits in every following block, to the end of the message.
If you know anything about the drama surrounding her, you know she's at least an accessory to some extremely shady business dealings. Any defense of her character falls into the same defense strategies as for W Bush. Either she is of (very) questionable moral character, or she is a somewhat decent, but hopelessly ill-fortuned dupe. In either case, hardly good qualifications for being a CEO.
That's irrelevant to my comment. However, I don't think you have any evidence to support your assumption.

As I expected: downvoted for pointing out the truth. HN is terrible.
Producers and consumers of CP are not prosecuted for their thoughts, they are prosecuted for their actions. The subjects of these images suffer real and lasting psychological and physical damage.
I don't feel Nest would be a gamble since Apple is also aiming to automate homes. At the very least, they keep good talent away from Google and have a mature platform to build on like what happened with NeXT and OSX.
If you need a backend, starting with a SPA has one strong point, decoupling, you can leave your backend unmodified and start writing that native iOS, Android client or desktop client when needed it.
I don't think "buy everyone who's good at X to keep the competition from being able to do X" is a realistic strategy generally.

For Apple buying Nest you also have to consider how does Tony Fadell, who has a Jobs type role at Nest, fit into Apple especially given that there are reports that he used to feud with Ive and that may have partly led to his departure.

http://www.cultofmac.com/262334/feud-jony-ive-keep-tony-fade...
This doesn't appear to have anything to do with how long free updates are provided; rather the issue is how revenue is recognized from sales of Windows 10 which are actually bought. The source presentation doesn't appear to apply to the free upgrades at all -- only new revenue -- so both Forbes and CW are reading too far between the lines here.

The majority of consumer Windows licenses are OEM bundled with a a new PC (which cannot be transferred to different hardware).

Given the new update model, that Windows purchase is now closer to a "subscription" purchase of indeterminate length, instead of a one-off purchase, so deferred revenue recognition over the expected length of the "subscription" period makes sense. As licenses are tied to the hardware, that "subscription" length is the expected device lifetime, which varies by device type.

There's no information there one way or another as to whether Microsoft plans to continue to extract revenue from devices which last longer than expected, or if they will clamp down on transferring non-OEM licenses to new hardware.
Where's the principled opposition to the “WhatsApp ban”?
> This is something akin to the "railroad switch" question. Do you pull the level and divert a railroad car killing one person, but saving five or do you let the runaway care run its course and kill the 5.

In the railway scenario, you know you'll save 5. In this case, they were just experimenting to see if a certain attack was possible. Avoiding the experiment would not have resulted in any deaths.
Definitely talk to legal counsel, but I can already tell you what the FBI told me when I asked them about this exact situation in a hypothetical:

"You didn't ask for it or seek it out did you? Someone else uploaded it to your server and you don't want it? Report it to us, then delete it once we've collected our evidence."

That's probably representative of the average agent's disposition, but make sure your ass is covered first.
Very similar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Data is hard to find!

The best I could find gives nitrogen-dioxyde a half life of about 30 hours at the atmosphere, and sulfur-dioxyde about 5 hours.

I'd expect it to vary widely with local humidity (something the oceans have a lot), and I'd also expect the corresponding acids to fall down at the first rain (another thing the oceans have a lot), although the acids are already reasonably non-toxic.

Also, I'd expect those gases to not disperse in upper atmosphere, because of their molecular weight. But it thrown with any speed (like in a volcano eruption), they'd have the very low humidity, very low pressure that increases their life to a maximum.

Anyway, all that expectation is from theory. References are hard to find.
Actually the few cases (out of a population of a couple hundred thousands) of any symptoms would be well within the tolerance of a drug trial today.

First stage clinical trials have a much higher risk for the subjects, arguably stage two and three also. Even Aspirin has a higher fatality rate.
That doesn't make a lot of sense if the photos are records of real crimes.
Not to detract from the contents of the story, but note that it is from last year. (I thought this was a new story at first.)
That's why it says electricity. Also, when you can produce this much electricity (already), it makes it possible to fill electric cars' batteries with 100% renewable energy.
>So long as they insist that Snowden is a narcissistic criminal and possible traitor, they have no choice but to admit that the NSA collected and stored intimate photos, emails, and chats belonging to totally innocent Americans and safeguarded them so poorly that a ne'er-do-well could copy them onto thumb drives.

Pretty tight logic. Obvious now, but somehow never occurred to me that the more strenuously they argue against Snowden's motives and character, the more they acknowledge their own dysfunction.
Seems like a good use for MechanicalTurk (mturk.com), at least until a free/open-source API becomes available that can replicate the abilities of a human.

I'd recommend sending new photos to a queue, and only letting them get indexed after someone from mturk has marked them as acceptable.

If the workers find something illegal, seek counsel and do as the counsel advises.
I'm pretty sure that such a trial would come out within years. The wikileaks and Snowden affairs have shown that it is virtually impossible for a reasonably democratic state to keep such secrets for long.
> This is going to make the Internet a worse place in general for all of us.

How?

Wouldn't that make it a better place, because you won't even know that they exist. Unless you looked, anyway.
The so-called misogynists (I'm of the opinion that much of the brutal words written about her were a large part tongue-in-cheek, deliberate over the top absurdity, not that that excuses it) are a part of reddit. You can't just say "I shouldn't have to deal with this".

Besides, these people have always been there and haven't caused any large scale problems, and they didn't when Ellen was appointed (which is when they should have started protesting, assuming you buy the misogyny charge). It was when some quite heavy handed restrictions started to be laid down with regards to freedom of speech that the uprising began to grow.

Personally, I'm glad she's gone, I much prefer reddit to be an extremely politically incorrect place. Take fatpeoplehate for instance - is it hurtful to fat people? Sure. But that subreddit can be easily blocked from your feed. Should someone have to do that? I think yes, they should, because if the new policy is to not hurt anyone's feelings, a whole bunch of content has to disappear.

Now that's just my opinion of how I want reddit to be - it is up to the owners of reddit to decide how they want it to be.

Was turning the front page of /r/all into a cesspool of hate the right way to protest her decisions? Maybe not, but honestly, what alternative is there that would have actually had any effect?
First time ever posting on a throw away account, but this shit is too personal.

As the victim of child molestation; this absolutely needs to be reported. Saying anything else is sympathy for the lowest filth in existence.
That was my first thought. This is a "gentleman's" anti-poaching agreement...
> Report it to us, then delete it once we've collected our evidence.

This seems very ominous.
Well they mentioned 40 minutes from Bozeman (for me that is a 'haul' just to get groceries.) but if it is that close to Livingston there used to be an awesome steak house in town.
This is interesting ...
Definitely not!!! Asking people to look at child porn for you is a terrible idea, and may be illegal in many places.
> Are there any good sci-fi books where this is explored?

Marshall Brain's Manna[0]. It goes into the recursive effects of "anytime anyone accesses information, that access is publicly logged" as well.

Though in my view the story hasn't held up very well over the past 12 years, compared to great scifi with similar tropes, such as Egan's Permutation City[1] or older Stephenson. In some ways that's due to a less intense writing style; in other ways it's due to parts that have essentially come true, making them seem retrospectively like "bad scifi".

Egan's description of mind-merging in Closer[2] might also be of some interest, as it explores the conceptual overlap between intimacy and real-time mutual information access.

[0] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City

[2] http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer&pagetitle=Closer&section=fi...
Once again, these images don't contain meta-data stating the persons age, ages of consent are different around the world, someone can accidentally click something they didn't mean to or reasonably expected was not CP as almost the entire internet avidly sanitizes these images. I wouldn't go as far as to say it is "thought crime", but it can be non-obvious what is illegal. I am assuming the GP meant this and not that since these images already exist it is acceptable as the fantasy is in one's head, as that is not a reasonable excuse.
Even the NSA isn't perfect though. Don't forget that Snowden managed to steal hundreds of thousands of documents, and the NSA doesn't even know exactly WHAT he got or not...
I didn't see any racism, unless you consider characterizing her as communist dictator Mao Zedong to be racism?
As a father this horrifies me. If this were my site, hobby or not I would spend a great deal of time implementing a system to report to the authorities. Just imagine if you did manage to help/save just one kid how good that would feel.

The PhotoDNA API looks absolutely brilliant. That is one reason why I love Bill Gates he always (or a lot of the time) gets involved with projects that truly help people.

Don't think of it as a problem, it is an opportunity to help a child or a parent that may not know a relative, teacher, or stranger is hurting their child.

Many times these crimes are committed by loved ones and the children are not abducted, they are lured / tricked by people near and dear to them.
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Just updated the post to make sure those comments aren't meant to be taken too seriously. Sorry that did not come across in the original post!
It's a combination of the fact that the source video takes place in a club with some flashes/strobe effects going on, and the fact that the algorithm looks at things frame by frame (more or less.) When it flashes it sees more/different details than when it is presented with a dark frame, and it interprets those as a dog.
Government guaranteed loans driving a bubble?!

Good God, this man may be on to something.
This is partly the problem with renewable power. You get large swings in generation where some days it's your entire demand and you may even have to pay to export the excess power and other days it's 0 and you need to fire up the gas plants in order to avoid brownouts. Building two power plants (wind and gas) results in double the cost and less reliable grid overall. It's surprising how much people seem to discount the reliability of wind and solar when discussing them as true alternatives to fossil fuels.
Yahoo, as well as Tumblr, uses an internal service that is synced with PhotoDNA. Content is also filtered by outsourced help as well. There is some company that employs people in some Southeast Asia country which provide this service to many Internet companies (including Yahoo). (I work at Yahoo and discussed this with the team here).
That argument doesn't apply here though. If someone is manually uploading an image of a child being raped to an image hosting website, there's no accident about it. Reporting someone who uploaded that image (i.e. someone who is distributing child pornography) is the only ethical and sensible option.

Now, if someone is uploading an image of their 16-year-old girlfriend taking a nude picture of themselves, that's still illegal but more of an ethical gray area, in which case I could understand hesitation at reporting to authorities. But based on OP's description, it's the real bad stuff, so reporting seems to be a no-brainer.