skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a democratically elected face for programmers would be a good thing.

Right now there are major problems surrounding IT, while we are forced to work on marginalized things. Meanwhile foreign private contractors get the govt deal since they are the "cheapest". Remember healthcare.gov, how does a country with the best programmers make such blunders ??

It will be expensive to increase training, provide certifications for security and create a open industry around security. But cyber security is as much or more important than other forms of defence. The reason for myopia is because its not as cool. Imagine if some spy infiltrated and stole physical copy of all the records of Govt personnel ??

Can a price be put on it ?
I believe NEON was introduced with ARMv7, not ARMv6 as claimed in the article. Though some Intel ARMv5 CPUs (when they were still making them) did support a SIMD extension called WMMX, which was based on MMX and/or SSE.
> On the other hand, no one forces you to take a loan. If it doesn't make financial sense, don't do it.

Most people don't have a grounding in basic finance - like even making a budget - once they graduate high school.

Further, we've had a couple generations of educators, parents, and government officials work to convince people that going to college is the only way they could amount to anything. Blue collar jobs were looked down upon and supporting programs were gutted or outright eliminated.

Combine both of those trends and it's surprising when someone doesn't choose to go to college.
I didn't realise they were lacking in weather data. Seeing tangentially related projects like their supercomputer Earth Simulator Project [1] led me to (falsely it seems) believe they were likely also sufficient in that area.

Beginners question - does their inclination (prohibitively) affect the efficiency of lower orbit weather sats?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator
Okay, and how many wins did Pao have? In your "wins and fuckups" columns that you surely made prior to the post, "fuckups" includes the Victoria thing and whatever else. What is in your "wins" column (internal company initiatives, key hires, process changes, etc.) that were appropriately weighed in order to come to your rational opinion that she has overall failed as a CEO?
Just that groups of different people with different thinking styles are able to come up with solutions to problems faster than a team of people who think alike or are beaten into group think by a strong central authority.

It really follows the pattern of biological diversity in ecosystems: a diverse ecosystem is able to thrive and overcome troubles more than a non-diverse one, which is actually quite fragile.
Why not report their ip address to the police? Hopefully people will learn that by posting cp on your site they will get flagged.
This was actually a direct question and the entire motivation for Andrew's talk, which was to introduce the answer. The skew favors not just Googlers but the Go team at Google, and the answer is that despite asking people to discuss changes on the list we never actually explained what goes into a proposal and into a design doc. The new process is meant, first and foremost, to help teach that, which we hope will help the proposals be more complete and therefore more likely to be accepted.

We haven't completed the details yet. The most recent thinking is at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/4GOiSBCX568/HgyDT....
Getting an education isn't often a matter of what makes financial sense, and it shouldn't be. Not that those taking out these loans have the resources to know what makes financial sense: you'd need an education and maturity to understand that.
Supposing I was ok with directly alerting the authorities, which for some reason seems to be perhaps a bridge too far, how would I even go about that? Where's the "report pedophiles" REST API?
At least with reddit, there's community moderation (read free employees) which enforces the contents of each section.

is there any incentive to participate in your community?

With moderators you feed the "power tripper".

With karma you feed people obsessed with points.

This is a bit complicated: what if you had some sort of capcha that required users to classify images as nsfw/sfw/illegal?
So wait a minute. Why couldn't this have been the NSA? I'm sure the NSA has no automatic right to at least some of that data. And if they're investigating someone (or everyone), breaking in would be their style, right?

Wouldn't it be really valuable to them to zip together what they already have, and what's in the OPM data, to create more links and associations?
The context isn't just VR. It's the internet. Probably the best ping you can expect to get from an aws data center (for most people) is around 30ms or 40ms. You probably only get 20ms if you're lucky. According to John Carmack, the maximum acceptable latency for a VR system is 20ms.
If there isn't already, maybe there should be some kind of public perceptual hash database (http://www.phash.org/) for this kind of stuff.
Not sure how useful this would be, but the first thing that came to mind is CrowdFlower[0].

[0] https://www.crowdflower.com/type-content-moderation
For CP if you're US based, log it, take it down, and use one of many report GOV/NGO systems available.
Do you have APD? There is virtually no way to get a clinical diagnosis on APD and obviously impossible for a psychopath as it isn't an accepted condition.
Sourcegraph's live blog is fantastic, but they do miss some nuance. Robert prefaced this by saying twice that you really really should not read too much into this observation about America vs Europe. He just found it interesting that the two lines branching off of Algol-60 do seem to have come back together in an interesting way in Go.
I'm not sure this is the right question. Even if torture worked 100% of the time, and by "worked" I mean:

* provided the intelligence quickly

* was 100% accurate

* and significant

Even then, it's not fucking worth it. There's simply no possible intelligence that can outweigh the disadvantages. We stop some roadside IED maybe... and what do we pay for that? We lose the moral high ground, we teach our enemies (not even sure that word is right) that they have nothing to lose by being suicidal in their attacks, that there's nothing to lose in torturing Americans that they themselves capture, and we create 10 more "terrorists" in all his cousins and brothers that arguably have an excuse for what they do.

That's not a sustainable model of terrorism reduction.

And that's supposing that the intelligence is good. So there's no point in asking whether it works or not.
Why would you only be able to do this if your dealings are private?
A "flag content" link should be good enough. Sounds like you're US based; you're not required to manually check all user-contributed content. Set up a DMCA section and link to it at the bottom. If LEA contact you, make sure you react fast, and maybe you want to offer them an automated way of takedown if this really happens that often.

For the future: Asking legal questions without stating your jurisdiction is... not helpful. :)

Yes, big sites employ a lot of people to clean content. I remember reading an article about poor people in $third_world_country that do this all day long.
It still goes the entire article without naming the chemicals, which is really annoying.

And a picture of the three pairs wouldn't hurt.
If you're in the United States you should call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children[1]. They already work with internet service providers to help identify unencrypted images depicting abuse transported over their network. They do this, I think, at an automated level. They should have the information you need. You should probably also call the FBI.

http://www.missingkids.com/Contact
> Even the DoD, which gets billions of dollars for cyber defense, often doesn't do things right.

They're paying Microsoft millions to support XP right now.

They had some warning long ago about XP's EOL. I mean, really.
Why we are different?
If supply and demand were a significant factor here, wouldn't tuition be much higher at all the top private schools, such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and so on?

All of these schools (1) turn away a large number of qualified applicants who would have attended if offered admission, (2) provide generous non-loan aid to allow many from lower income families to attend.

They could drop the non-loan aid and raise tuition considerably and still fill every available slot with qualified students.
Can I ask why those make you uncomfortable?
> Slapping some half-baked shit onto Github isn't open source. It's littering.

What a negative attitude...

Every programmer has written plenty of shitty code.

I know that I wrote lots of garbage code when I was a teenager just learning how to code. Unfortunately that was long before Github (or even Git) was a thing, and most of that code is either lost forever, or inaccessible on old floppy disks, etc. But today I would love it if my shitty Basic A text based games, and C code full of memory leaks still existed somewhere like Github, where I could look back at it and see how far I've come.

Projects like this one aren't intended to be open source masterpieces. They are fun learning projects by people who enjoy building stuff. If you don't like it then don't pay it any attention and build your own that is better. At least this guy put something together and documented the experience so someone else could follow up and improve on it if they wish.
Honestly, I am not sure what you can do about this, other than request users report it when noticed.
I know there is something out there that allows you to report. I have not had experience with it so I cant really be more helpful in this direction.

If you aren't comfortable reporting it, what is your banning process like currently?
I'm not sure why it never caught on with my users.

I do support Twitter login which is fairly common, and have had a few hundred users sign up (out of like >10mil uniques), but I wouldn't say that they've exhibited overly engaged behavior after doing so. They're basically the same from a stats perspective from what I've observed.

I'm afraid to make user logins compulsory, especially considering the kinds of knuckleheads that are on my site.

How do I get from "eh, have fun as a guest" to "everyone's got an id" without destroying my stats?
Until there is a Machine Learning algorithm that can detect CP, you'll have to have human beings flag it and then other human beings view it and remove it.

Someone brought it to my attention that Bing's cache is full of CP, after the offending websites are taken down, Bing keeps the images for a long time. The Rapidshare sites are also full of it and they password protect RAR files so admins cannot peak into it. It is a major problem that has no solution for it yet. People run Wordpress blogs and spambots leave comments that link to CP sites.

This has become a hot topic issue because that Jared guy from Subway had a manager of his foundation that was found with CP, and they raided Jared's computers and found more evidence.

My ethics and morals won't allow me to look at porn, but it is a big industry. There are all kinds of porn out there. The CP is the worst of it, and a lot of children are trafficked as sex slaves for it. They grow up with a criminal record and sex offender record, and by the time they expunge the record they are in their 40s and can't find work. I was contacted by a woman who was in that situation on Github during the Opal CoC debates. She is trying to get out of her situation by programming and cannot find work because of it.

This CP stuff ruins the lives of the children who suffer abuses for it. Once they grow up they have a hard time in life trying to make ends meet. Some have serious psychological problems that are hard to treat and deal with.

I remember that in some cases the website is found responsible for the content that users post on their websites. Laws in your nation may vary on that. If you find illegal content you should remove it, least you be found liable for it. Make sure to report the IP address of the poster to the government or a non government agency that handles it.
>That's laughable.

How is it laughable to expect you to practice what you preach? Particularly given your very next sentence in which you state privacy only rewards liers and cheaters, and generally unreliable people. You leave no room there for the possibility that privacy is anything but an immoral act.

So which is it? are you a liar, a cheater, and generally unreliable, or do you simply, rationally not want people to empty out your bank account?

Explain your hypocrisy and maybe people will take you more seriously. If it's simply a fact that there is no system of absolute transparency in place and, currently, privacy has practical value then that would seem to contradict the absolute terms in which you frame your own narrative. Would it not be better to recognize that there are situations for which personal privacy can have benefits to society and not look forward to throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

There is a big difference between a world in which privacy is difficult and one in which it's impossible by mandate. Advocating the latter as being not only good, but inevitable, sounds fascistic, because it would have to be forced onto people, and maintained by violence. I will never voluntarily choose to live in such a world, so someone will have to make it illegal to put locks on my doors and passwords on my personal accounts. They will have to force me to live in a world where the choice to do otherwise is impossible, because that kind of a system isn't necessarily an inevitable outgrowth of technological progress.
You should look into automatic classification of the images. Ianal, but I imagine you probably need some kind of permit if you diy.
I think that what's driving "the tuition explosion" is the declining demand for labor due to technological unemployment as it meets the social demand that people participate in paid work. It's not going to go away. Basic income would improve the situation, but we're still a generation away from attitudes changing.

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. This would be basically OK (with me, at any rate; but I have a stronger-than-average work ethic) except for the fact that, for some of them, it's on their fucking dime that they don't fucking have.

The price of social acceptability and the difference between having a chance at a career versus being written off as a loser forever is going to be very high, and will increase without bounds if the availability of credit increases in tandem.

A major part of the problem is that universities are no longer non-profit in any meaningful way. They have top administrators making high-six and seven-figure incomes, they evaluate professors based on their fundraising ability rather than their teaching or their contribution to the community, and the cling to the prestige of their non-profit status in order to keep for-profit education a ghetto because if it weren't that way, the likeness of movements on stage would embarrass them.

I don't know how to solve this. The demand for labor is so low in this world (or, perhaps, the supply is too high because society mandates that people work to have an income, being averse even in most liberal countries-- and not for bad reasons-- to redistribution) that people are now expected to do years of preparatory labor at negative pay.
> So the vast majority in those cultures found some way to "turn off" or become desensitized to feelings of remorse.

Not correct. If we accept that most felt nothing for those outside of their groups(which is a leap) this has precedent as humans were tribal and social. They worked together in small bands and communities while clashing with other bands and communities.

However, I would suspect that if their family member died they would feel remorse. Your example seems to be more about sociological conditioning than biologically being unable to feel empathy for another person.
You would contact the FBI and give them the relevant information, perhaps in a spreadsheet with date/time information.
Why is it a bridge too far? I'd argue it's a civic duty. I'm sure the fbi has a tip line / email.

Also, post on your site that you report child porno. That should scare people off.
Microsoft made an automated system (PhotoDNA) for detecting known child pornography images available to the public a few years ago and it's probably a good starting point:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/

Hopefully this can help you.

(Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on PhotoDNA.)
It's one thing to not want to report IPs that access the image, as it could be a complete accident. But why wouldn't you want to report someone who is actively trying to share such content?
While I admire and am grateful for your sentiment on this, if torture did yield "absolutely vital information", the party that uses it would vanquish those who didn't.

The fact that we still wonder about this question may indeed prove that it's wrong from a utilitarian point of view.
Maybe she left after disagreeing with the board about how to respond to the backlash. Reddit could have easily nuked every account that disrespected and/or threatened Ms. Pao. But that would have been a different Reddit.
This is who many large (top 20) websites report to:

http://www.missingkids.com/

Reporting to them is the same as reporting it to the FBI.

They have various APIs you can use, but you probably need to contact them to make sure you meet the requirements.
If you can locate the article, I'd love to give it a read.

I'd rather keep my money inside US borders, but it ain't cheap, and staring at the sickening contents of the internet's collective wet dream ain't exactly a high-profile career path for young folks.
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Such databases exist, but I don't think there's any that is publicly available. https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Indecent_image_identif... lists some, there's more.
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If you give people a way to send passworded links to cash subscribers, then none of his subscribers will rat him out.
If you make all images open to view, you can then appeal to people to flag items for removal, or just autoremove them with - say - 2 or 3 flags, and trust to your nicer clients to police the site.
If your clients all sign up with throw-aways, then load a huge block of images, all with their own password, then they can sit far away and sell passwords all day and never emerge to be caught. If they want to add more images = a new thow-away account every day if you like.
Full accounatbility is the answer so all images can be tracked back to a real address and name. sadly, only good people deal with this, but it might be a way to thin the crowd. A secret untrackable photo site will also soon attract the police as they hunt for child porn sellers, so they will sooner or later come knocking on your door.

One way it to make contact with the police and get permission to list the names of the police agencies that are allowed to inspect the site via backdoor etc. Of course this might enrage some?? So some sort of middle ground might be to quietly approach the police for advice
Are there any good ML algorithms for detecting porn at all? I tried to implement the standard "pink detector" with mixed results.
Excellent answer. Thank you.
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Pathogens are not fought by attacking their DNA. It's not going to make any difference, except that it's harder to breed it with anything else.
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Here's one: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

"Hemanshu Nigam, the former chief security officer of MySpace who now runs online safety consultancy SSP Blue, estimates that the number of content moderators scrubbing the world’s social media sites, mobile apps, and cloud storage services runs to “well over 100,000”—that is, about twice the total head count of Google and nearly 14 times that of Facebook."
Psychopathy, in the current context, is a clinical term for a condition. Its not a state.
It would be interesting to see if this kind of content is amenable to classification. Maybe it would be worth looking into something like Caffe [1], it may even help you with managing the site in general. I can't search right now, however I think that a quick search in Google Scholar could yield a few different approaches in this direction.

[1] http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/
You may be interested in this article:

The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
He hasn't used the product in nine years. Wouldn't you say it's possible they've changed the formatting in those nine years?
The list of desktop application I used every day
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There is a government ran database of all known child exploitation images. For obvious reasons you need to show a reasonable need for access. Contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
>These persons life aren't at risk because they can't express opinions, isn't that what is meant by FoS ?

No
It's exactly the same moral hazard as with home loans. There, the bank repossesses and sells the underlying asset so the only time they can ever lose is if housing prices crash.

... are you arguing against secured loans?
Are you based in the US? There's a good chance you are required by law to report images of apparent child pornography. You should talk to a lawyer.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informat...
I run a bunch of websites which store bcrypted hashes of users' passwords. If you had my SQL login, you'd just find bcrypted hashes. It would absolutely prevent you from discovering their actual passwords in a meaningful amount of time.
No I'm positing that this one particular characteristic not only hasn't been completely eradicated yet, but I don't think they're even trying to eradicate it (although they are trying to mitigate it).

Fundamentally Apple is still a company run by designers and Google is still a company run by engineering and yes companies can change what they are fundamentally about but no I don't see either of these two have done this. If anything, I see it being reinforced, with this being personified with moves like Jony Ive taking over Forstall's duties and Melissa Mayer needing to leave Google.

I don't like the term you've chosen here, "taint" because Google's culture and hiring preferences have certainly paid off for them in other ways.
Because making pictures -- however contrary to present sensibilities -- illegal is a bit too close to thoughtcrime?
Why are stats so important? Do big numbers mean more than doing the morally and legally correct thing?

I also question the assumption that taking steps toward accountability and community will hurt the numbers. Maybe in the short term, but if your site becomes a cesspool it will eventually drive your real users away anyway. If you figure out how to sustainably handle the filth, it may be possible to attract a much larger audience who would otherwise have been repulsed. Yik Yak is an example of that strategy.