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Comment by raganwald | Hacker News Reader

I know, it's hard to draw a nice objective line in the sand. A general-purpose browser with a new UI, for example, ought to be allowed without requiring permission from anyone.

On the other hand, what if I write an iOS app just for getting answers from Wolfram|Alpha that displays the content using Webkit? I could certainly understand Wolfram arguing this kind of thing requires permission.

I'm curious about DuckDuckGo's use of Wolfram|Alpha content. There's an example of framing content and deep linking together. I assume they have permission or an army of lawyers?

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We have permission. They seem very reasonable once you get in touch with them.

There's a censored comment in response here from the original author of the post. Turn on showdead.

Resurrecting:

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2 points by agiletortoise 1 hour ago | link [dead]

I expect they are. In retrospect, I should have asked first.

It something like going to a dinner party and having the host throw you out for placing your fork to the left of the plate, because they put them on the right at their house. Runs contrary to expectations.

--agiletortoise

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This doesn't look offensive to me, so I presume it's a glitch. It would be ironic if it was killed because of the signature at the end in violation of local norms. :)

I see many comments like that and I'm always left wondering.

Does this happen when a user deletes their own comment? Or is it only for flagged comments?

FYI, in this case, HN hung on me and it ended up double-posted, so I deleted the duplicate.

Is there any way to see the justification for killing a comment?

I trust HN's moderators, but it makes me uneasy to realize that there is a whole collection of censored comments that I didn't see until now, because I had showdead disabled.

Nope, they're just dead.

I'm curious about some threads that get killed, too--afaik it can happen due to mod intervention or when the community hits "flag" enough times, but I always wonder which one it was.

How do you turn on showdead? Does this require more karma than I have?

There should be a setting in your profile.

I'm not sure if it requires karma.

Sorry, I should have looked a bit harder its right bloody there!

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