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linksbro··on Oculus’ New $99 Samsung Gear VR Makes Serious Virtual Reality Affordable
Perhaps not the actual CS:GO binary - but one built on Metal could certainly come close to CS:GO on lower settings.
linksbro··on DMCA notice against oh-my-fish
It depends on what happened to the license when the merge happened. Did the author of wahoo transfer the license to the authors of oh-my-fish? If so, then the code at the time of the merge is not subject to this DMCA notice. However, as I brought up, if after they had this tussle and split up, and oh-my-fish kept pulling new code from wahoo, then that code would be under wahoo's license and would need to be attributed as such (and I don't think it was attributed, hence this takedown request).

My point is that if they agreed to merge projects and wahoo didn't keep their license on it, then that code at the time of agreement is no longer under the exclusive copyright of the wahoo author.

linksbro··on DMCA notice against oh-my-fish
This is an interesting take. I think if they continued to any new wahoo code after the disagreement and breaking up, then that new code is infringing. However, the agreed upon merge code might not be subject to the DMCA.
linksbro··on DMCA notice against oh-my-fish
You are correct. If oh-my-fish properly included the copyright and permission notice of the MIT license, then they are within the bounds of the license. It doesn't matter what the author's requests are, they can use it if they attribute properly. Of course, the author can henceforth change the license for any future code, preventing any unauthorized forks, which would be against then open-source spirit of the MIT license.
linksbro··on DMCA notice against oh-my-fish
They did, under the condition that "above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

If oh-my-fish didn't include the copyright notice and permission notice for wahoo's code they were using, then this is a valid use of the DMCA.

MIT doesn't mean you're free to use with abandon. You still have to credit and provide the license.

linksbro··on DMCA notice against oh-my-fish
If oh-my-fish didn't include the copyright and reproduction notice outlined in the MIT license, then yes, this is how the DMCA works.

However, the author cannot enforce that they don't use the 'wahoo' repo. If oh-my-fish attributes correctly, and includes wahoo's license, then they can use it.

linksbro··on 'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules
technically its not in the public domain, it's an orphan work, since the ruling says warner had no grounds to claim ownership of the copyright on the famous arrangement. someone can still come forward and present the evidence that secures them the copyright until the end of its term

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works

linksbro··on Subresource Integrity
I think another subtle exploit is you can potentially track if a user has visited a website. E.g., site1 uses SRI on their unique resource, site2 uploads the same resource and SRI on theirs. so now site2 knows if a user has been to site1.
linksbro··on Subresource Integrity
This is great, but only if your CDN is not also serving your HTML files! (static sites)
linksbro··on Yasp – a web-based assembler development environment
Oh the hours this might have saved in undergrad assembly... This seriously looks awesome! I wonder if the grammar can be modified to simulate other architectures, like SPARC.
linksbro··on OS X El Capitan GM Candidate available
GMs have gone up to at most 3, I believe.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/09/third-yosemite-golden-ma...

linksbro··on Show HN: Adblock Fast
It's clear they haven't made a "better, faster" adblock, just one they can pass off as "faster" with misleading benchmarks all for the goal of not fighting on behalf of the user, but for advertising their app firm.
linksbro··on Show HN: Adblock Fast
Sorry, I'm not using an extension built for marketing your company, even if it is GPL licensed.

Also, I get that regex is how you do it on iOS9 and it's fast on there because of Apple's specific regex implementation, but you're misleading people that your 7 humongous regex are going to be faster than flagship blockers (uBlock Origin) on the desktop.

linksbro··on Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web
"paste" is not enabled for non-trusted scripts on FF 41+. A extensions' scripts can use "paste" since they are trusted scripts; but a webpage's script cannot.

I believe that footnote is a doc error, since copy/cut are enabled w/o user.js override on FF 41+.

I don't know if there is any current plans to make "paste" available for all scripts - I don't think there would be because of the obvious concerns.

linksbro··on Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web
>Access your clipboard

There is no API for reading from the clipboard, just writing to it.

The benefits of having a flashless copy/cut function greatly outweigh the off chance some random site will copy something stupid to your clipboard if you interact with it.

linksbro··on HTTP/2 technology demo
6.41s HTTP/1.1 vs 2.51s HTTP/2 on FF42. Very nice! (Although when HTTP2 is going the FPS drops quite a bit.)

Can someone explain what exactly HTTP2 is doing differently to achieve such an improvement?

linksbro··on Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
> "keep writing your calculations in JavaScript"

None of the Math.x functions work, e.g. Math.floor(2.5). Defining functions also doesn't work.

Looks promising though, I would use it for scratching project euler problems.

linksbro··on Show HN: Nuggets – Remember everything you read or learn
IANAL (but work around a lot of them)

Even if it was just an interpretation, chances are FB would have a strong case in court. Pretty much every artistic and expressive UI/UX element from the original site has been copied and placed on the nuggets site. There's not really anything being creatively added or remixed by the nuggets creator.

If insane shit like patents on rounded app icons and the iTunes "music note" logo gets regularly brought to court and settled[1], then copying the entire L&F of a site is definitely infringing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

linksbro··on Show HN: Nuggets – Remember everything you read or learn
Because it's illegal.

Copying licensed code, like this: (left rooms.me, right nuggetsapp) https://www.diffchecker.com/gmudwop7

is I L L E G A L, and I M M O R A L. Letting it slide is not okay!

linksbro··on Show HN: Nuggets – Remember everything you read or learn
Any relation to https://www.rooms.me/ or are you just lifting their design without credit?

You forget to take out links to their site. (bottom right)

Pretty dumb move, considering rooms.me is by FB, and there's bound to a be FB people looking on HN.

linksbro··on Ask HN: What are the laws around using thumbnail photos from major news sources?
When you aggregate resources from content producers, you tread a very thin line.

For example, CNN's Terms of Service reads:

"You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. You may download copyrighted material for your personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of CNN and the copyright owner."

The other sites you liked have similar clauses.

You may only use the images and article excepts if your usage is Fair Use, which you can learn more about here. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/

I suspect your "news aggregator app" is however, NOT FAIR USE, which means you cannot pull their content without their consent.

IANAL, but work around a bunch of them.

linksbro··on The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library
Walt made movies using public domain works that were 40-50 years old.

Today, the copyright term is pushing 110+ years, in part thanks to Disney.

That means the next Walt Disney has to pull from increasingly culturally irrelevant works that are 3, 4 generations old rather than one.

linksbro··on The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library
This article outlines 50 movies inspired/pulled from public domain works. After the list, it also outlines Disney's involvement in the extension of the copyright term. http://www.forbes.com/sites/derekkhanna/2014/02/03/50-disney...

For more details, see the CTEA (aka "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

linksbro··on Ask HN: Advice for 14-year-old who wants to learn to code?
What is his favorite video game? Chances are there will be opportunities to mod the game / gameserver, which will really get his motivation up.
linksbro··on Over 80 Percent of Dark-Web Visits Relate to Pedophilia, Study Finds
Here's the torproject's response to this article. I think they bring up valid points about not drawing decisive conclusions based on this study.

"Tor hidden service traffic, which Dr. Gareth Owen discussed in his talk this afternooon, is only 1.5% of all Tor traffic. Tor gets about 2 million users per day total.

The researcher ran a set of Tor relays for a six month period, and recorded how many times somebody attempted to look up a hidden service (this lookup is one of the steps in visiting a hidden service). Then at the end of that period, he scanned the hidden services he'd learned about, to find out what sort of content was on them.

Dr. Owen's data shows that there's a lot of churn in hidden services, so nearly all of the sites were gone by the time he did these scans. His graphs only show data about the sites that were still up many months later: so his data could either show a lot of people visiting abuse-related hidden services, or it could simply show that abuse-related hidden services are more long-lived than others. We can't tell from the data.

Without knowing how many sites disappeared before he got around to looking at them, it's impossible to know what percentage of fetches went to abuse sites.

There are important uses for hidden services, such as when human rights activists use them to access Facebook or to blog anonymously. These uses for hidden services are new and have great potential.

PS: Law enforcement agencies use Tor to stay anonymous while they catch bad guys. Law enforcement agencies use and run hidden services, too." https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-80-percent-percent-1-2-...

linksbro··on Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor
Their exits seem to be gone, too: https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=LizardNSA&filter...
linksbro··on Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor
Seems like it's coming to an end? https://twitter.com/CthulhuSec/status/548612570102640640
linksbro··on Oliver Heaviside
Just went over the Heaviside step function at University before break. It's a strong contender for the most kick-ass name in Maths academia.
linksbro··on Intercal: The Worst Programming Language Ever [video]
"Sorry

Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here."

linksbro··on New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play
Just talked to a few other people and they said -those who preorder get a guaranteed life-time price of $10/month, regardless of whether we raise the price for everyone else.

After the beta: we haven't decided on a final pricing system. We're shooting around ideas of doing a tier system.

And about running your own learntomod server:

At this stage we aren't letting people run their own learntomod server, the only exception being 3rd party hosting companies that want to make it available to their users.

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