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Show HN: Live Dangerously – 1-for-1 anonymous photo sharing via SMS
- kozak 10y agoMaybe that's because I'm not a native speaker of English, but I don't get why it is named so. Could you please explain?
- mikermcneil 10y agoWell I mean I guess because you never know what you're going to get
- mikermcneil 10y agoSo far, batting way better than chat roulette :p
- kenseals 10y agoKind of like a box of chocolates
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYou're accepting a random photo from a random Internet stranger which means there is a good chance it is a dick pic, a shock site picture, gore, child porn, or contains misc other unsavory content.
- idealboy 10y agoWell, that's the worst way it could go and I'll do my best to filter it out. Although the system is anonymous to users, I have info on everyone (including the person you received a photo from), and I have no problem using that info if necessary. I think the danger element more refers to just putting yourself out there and sending a photo to a stranger and not knowing when or what you will receive back. It could be beautiful artwork, nature, cute animals, or something more strange or challenging. That's the danger part. Anything that crosses the line will be immediately removed and appropriate action taken.
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- nycmattw 10y agoThat first picture is definitely not vegetation or a flower.
- egjerlow 10y agoWth is that? A baby wrapped in plastic?
- jacquesm 10y agohttp://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/enfant-ado/un-bebe-nait-dans-sa-poche-amniotique_1587557.html http://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/enfant-ado/un-bebe-nait-dan... A baby born without amniotic sac.
- FreeFull 10y agoNot born without amniotic sac, but rather born with the amniotic sac intact.
- jacquesm 10y agoAh, yes, I read 'sans' rather than 'dans'. Thanks!
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThis is called an en-caul birth and there is a lot of very old superstitions about people born en-caul, mostly that it was good luck.
- jloughry 10y agoA baby "born under a caul". A rare occurrence, it was taken as a sign of extremely good luck in many cultures a long time ago.
- martinko 10y agoSurprising lack of penis pics, given my experience with chat roulette.
- jacquesm 10y agoGive it a while.
- daveguy 10y agoMaybe the categorization algorithm is used to de-penis the results?
- idealboy 10y agoYou got it! The categorization algorithm can detect pornographic submissions. Users can also report images they receive. However, instead of simply blocking dick pics, I'll re-route them to other dick pic senders.
- timecube 10y agoWhat sort of algorithm are you using for image classification?
- idealboy 10y agoI'm using the Watson Visual Recognition API: http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition.html http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition....
- jbpetersen 10y agoAre the other more benign categories also rerouted in the same way? Being able to for example, send a picture of a book knowing I'd get one back would be pretty nifty. Food would be a popular topic for swapping pics judging by the main page.
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- nommm-nommm 10y agoAannddd..... I just got a dick pic as my first photo.
- idealboy 10y agoD'oh! Sorry about that and thanks for reporting it - that keeps it off the site. For what it's worth, you received the very first!
- CameronBanga 10y agoI somehow don't really believe this.
- dbg31415 10y agoDon't apologize. He just said he got a dick pic, not that he found it unpleasant. I've never gotten a dick pick... I feel left out! Ha.
- idealboy 10y agoHa! Good point.
- cannonpr 10y agothe tag small has an interesting half naked, half wasp, drawing...
- mgcross 10y agoHmm, seems I can't rate anymore, keep getting the following (disclosure, I earlier tried to rate a photo 3.5, may only accept INTs?) You already rated the last photo you received. Send another photo and wait for the response before submitting another rating.
- idealboy 10y agoSounds like it already recorded a rating for your last photo? Try sending another photo, then waiting for your response photo before rating. Also, it's only looking for INTs so your 3.5 may have confused it. I'll make note - thanks for the heads up!
- matmann2001 10y agoThe name gives an implication that the photos being sent would be risque in nature. But clearly none of the photos shown are. Is anyone else confused by this?
- idealboy 10y agoThanks for your feedback. The name was inspired by a Goethe quote: "Live dangerously and you live right." It's less about being risque as it is about being willing to put yourself out there and try something new - even if you don't know what the result will be.
- eternalban 10y agoInteresting quote, considering that Beethoven chided Goethe for acting so deferentially to aristocrats.
- tombrossman 10y agoAre you scrubbing Exif metadata on all these? I spot-checked a few and there didn't seem to be any embedded. A surprising number of people have no idea that their mobile phone may embed GPS coordinates in images they take with it. I think most social media sites do this by default but I wish they were more selective about it. Okay to scrub GPS location if present but copyright/photographer/exposure details, etc, are all helpful and should be kept if at all possible.
- Kiro 10y agoAm I the only one who doesn't understand what this is?
- eternalban 10y agoTurns out one can recover background sounds from even still images: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/ http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/
- emddudley 10y agoVideo, not single stills.
- eternalban 10y agoWatch the video. He demonstrates extracting background noise from an image.
- jamesmiller5 10y agoCurious, I wonder what the odds were of seeing a picture from my hometown of ~30,000 (Valparaiso, IN) in the stream :) . http://valparaisoevents.com/summer-outdoor-movies-recap/ http://valparaisoevents.com/summer-outdoor-movies-recap/ Interesting service, I initially thought of it as a pen pal for the modern day where I'm linked to another account 1to1 instead of just receiving images from a stream. The rating aspect is unclear if 1 or 5 is better, I'm assuming 5 is better? Kinda fun but I'd be worried about receiving too many low quality pictures and I'd ignore posting again.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoI think I like it ... Negativity follows! Not sure what it's for? Seems like it's trying to get a corpus for training image recognition - but then I can't rate the tagging of images or highlight when they've failed (like one of the "car" images is an aeroplane interior). I can't link to a tag page. The images loading are shifting about and re-ordering which I find quite discombobulating and distracting. Some images -- someone's takeaway of indiscernable type -- that are loading for the front-page are quite large, 800+kB to show me a thumbnail. I hope you're not paying by the byte! When you say anonymous, what's the scope of that? I see your are using Twilio - does that mean you can tell Twilio to drop all logs of the sender details of the images? If I have a group of people send large images can I DDoS the site?
- idealboy 10y agoThanks for your feedback! It's only an experiment right now, so it's not built for anything specific at this point. There are some interesting ways to take it, but I wanted to see how it was used first. As you suggest, the ability to a further curate through the website would be great. One idea is some kind of stock photography site with users receiving a cut? The frontend definitely needs polish and some architecture upgrades, as you pointed out. I wanted to see if anyone actually used it before putting more time in, but the feedback today has been encouraging. As for anonymity, it's anonymous between users, but some basic Twilio data (phone number, city, state) is stored with your user account on my end. As for attacks, Twilio provides some high level security, but beyond that I'm sure I could easily be hosed if someone were inclined. It's a hobby project, so the resources would fail pretty quickly under a sustained attack, and what fun is that? Thanks for taking a look and the time to provide your thoughts.