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Not quite clear why this was flagged to death, but I vouched for it as it seemed a reasonable response to the request.


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> It’s a blatant copyright violation.

That's debatable. As a matter of public interest and safety I say it's fair use to post the news article here.


Fair use is never an entire news article. If the poster took one or two sentences that would be fair use. But that’s not what this is.


Fair use is more complicated than that. I see no hard line rule from the courts saying that a whole article couldn't be shared under fair use.

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

But also, it's a Facebook post. The author's not selling subscriptions to this content. He's not charging per download. He put it in the public square himself, and in the comments he even positively comments about it being shared more widely. I would be very surprised if the author felt as strongly about this as you do.


Not really, it's technically a copyright violation just like SciHub is.

Whether the rightsholder would consider this a problem or not is another question.


Honestly hadn't considered that angle. I assumed the writing was intended for public consumption, but you're right, I should have checked.

I'm attempting to contact Bruce, though it seems I'm past the edit window on the original comment.


Don’t worry. You’ve done nothing wrong. You just copied a public Facebook posting in a comment for a HN posting for said article. At no moment you violated any copyright or license.


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It’s not Facebook I care about, it’s whoever wrote the post. I’m a photographer. When I find people pirating my work from social media sites I send them takedown notices. If not wanting people distributing my work makes me a corporate stooge, then so be it.


There's a difference between art and a statement of facts. What we're talking about here is mostly a statement of facts, written with the objective of informing the public instead of profit (the fire department doesn't rely on online "exposure" to fund itself).


What does the person who wrote the post lose by having a small subset of people ordinarily unable to view their original public post get to see the contents nonetheless?


Then I have 2 reasons to upvote this post. Not giving FB my traffic and not caring about copyright.


I read this piece ages ago but stupidly forgot to save it. Every once in a while I'd try to find it again but I could never remember enough specific details, so thank you for posting this so I can finally read it again and save it!


Recommend reading this piece: http://hintjens.com/blog:115 for some context, and because it's excellent.

Glad to see another update from Pieter, I hope he finds his way out of limbo, preferably healthy.


Can anyone recommend some specific books to look at? This seems like a great treasure trove but as a beginner to art appreciation I don't have much of an idea of where to start.


Just pick something that sounds interesting to you and start reading. There's no bad way to do it.

I wander at random through art history stuff, and I never regret it.


If you search masterpiece, there are several masterpiece collection books, I think they are good places to start.


I just added a list. Hopefully it will get you going!


Twitter of person/group claiming the hack: https://twitter.com/OfficialNEA


The main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone knows of one that does I would love to know.


foobar2000, Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Add/select appropriate entry and check "Global hotkey".

I have Ctrl-Pause bound to Play/Pause, Ctrl-PgUp to Previous and Ctrl-PgDn to Next.


NB if you have a media keyboard with the play/pause buttons etc then this is no necessary.


TheSOB88, you are dead, my friend. Another casualty of a poor policy.


AHK (http://www.autohotkey.com/) -- Global keybindings for any app you want.


Out of curiosity: I use AHK to do basic testing automation for a windows application that I have literally zero ability to control programatically (to achieve actually good automated testing). Anyone have a better option for this kind of use case?


I've used AHK for the same things - it's about the best free/open source thing I've found, besides just adding a scripting language to your program.


AutoIt is a popular choice:

http://www.autoitscript.com/


AHK is based on AutoIt v2.


Wow I'd forgotten about AHK. Thanks for reminding me!


I wrote some software (http://www.mute.fm/) that controls playback for you automatically when you watch a video (it will pause/mute it and resume it afterward.) It also lets you set up global hotkeys.


try foobar


I had the same thing happen with Hebrew, 3 free wins with the same clip.


No I feel the same way at age 21. It's quite hard to follow the quick-cutting nature of most videos. The ones I tend to like the most are comedy videos that have really quick setups and punchlines.


I can't recommend Hotline Miami enough. Excellent game. Fast-paced action, interesting story, and it feels like you're playing through a fever dream.


The soundtrack is incredible, but sadly it looks as though it's not included.


Argh. I thought the way this work is you got soundtracks for all the games. Anyway, it's worth it just to play the game and hear the damn music. I linked the full soundtrack, though not in the best format.


Absolutely, the soundtrack alone is worth the playthrough. Here's a link to the studio's soundcloud which has the soundtrack up at what I think is a better quality than youtube is offering. https://soundcloud.com/devolverdigital/sets/hotline-miami-of... (be warned it autoplays at quite a high volume)


It's definitely better quality than the youtube link. The volume is the same as the youtube clip if anyone is switching.


Its included in the game directory itself.


Hmm... wouldn't it be good to display an album icon for it on the bundle page then?


I'm assuming he means that you can go to the game's assets and listen to it yourself, and not that the game has a separate "official soundtrack" built-in.


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