Personally, I find these persons behind the doxing campaign much more corrupt and deceptive.

This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some?

Let me try: Not just technologies, even religions have used sex to sell themselves. Take the kind of things that are sold (in terms of unsubstantiated guarantees of carnal pleasures in heaven after death if you follow the code of conduct proscribed by God(s) via his appointed messengers) you will see that a very large part of this promise is some kind of abundant sex (akin to unlimited download/upload). See for example this sales pitch. [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzusekB8cg

What I meant (and I think the parent of my post was talking about, though I could be wrong) is the old chestnut that the sex/adult industry innovated or popularized all kinds of technologies.

Edit: I can't see the main being that this "is about sex" but rather that this is about privacy and privacy is things people do that for a variety of reasons they don't want some people to know about. Certain sexual behaviors are included here but it seems far from funny or far from "bringing things down to earth", given that what happening is a variety of women suffering in a socially repressive nation.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

There's a "liquid remix" video of the quote on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw_5OfFycU

There's a white-people "jazz" song named after it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEORdH7RzYw

Josh Woodward has done another rock/pop song probably referencing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYptvK41Bi4&list=PLDZvNEf3nY...

I am still amazed at how it is possible to match people in the way this app purports to do. Does anyone know of more accessible (to english speakers) code that can do roughly the same?

- Not open source, but it has a demo of face searching (http://www.faceplusplus.com/demo-search/), and an api.

Having a DNN that maps images of faces into a point on a hypersphere seems eminently practical. I'm a bit surprised that it works, but having something like that is awesome.

I am though, in the same boat as you in this domain...not even a novice.

From what I can tell from that link though, it is exactly as I suspected, and openface 0.2 significantly outperforms openbr for the LFW test set. (whereas openfaces 0.1 was largely equivalent). Moreover, I think that there is clearly room for drastic improvement with the openface architecture, either by tweaking the layout of the NN's, or simply throwing more data at it. It is not clear to me how openbr could be improved.

> "“In theory,” Tsvetkov told RuNet Echo, "this service could be used by a serial killer or a collector trying to hunt down a debtor.”

If anything, this technology will make serial killers easier to catch, right?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11578240

I wonder how long until you can be arrested for having a mask on in public.