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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by radhakrsna on Sunday July 28, 2019 @07:13AM (#20546928)
Ah right, thank you for the detailed explanation. Currently, we are processing the text using a Python backend. In order to process it on the user's side, I guess we'll have to use Javascript. I will try to fix that in the next version. Thank you very much.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by nkozyra on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:48AM (#20547821)
You don't need to move anything to the client side, what you're doing is covered under fair use doctrine.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by rrwright on Sunday July 28, 2019 @03:14PM (#20549303)
Maybe. Almost nothing is straightforward about fair use.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by nkozyra on Sunday July 28, 2019 @11:12PM (#20551248)
Agreed, but this is about as close as you can get to safe enough
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by CodiePetersen on Sunday July 28, 2019 @08:52PM (#20550690)
Being that it's the internet you should think more outside whatever country law you are referring to. For example Spain blocked google news because of aggregating the news as is with little to no transformation.

Plus moving it to the client side would free up whatever resources they are currently using to feed summary info to us.

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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by tutfbhuf on Sunday July 28, 2019 @07:58AM (#20547064)
yup, switching to js would fix this issue.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by air7 on Sunday July 28, 2019 @08:25AM (#20547172)
That's such a ridiculous consequence of our field/times.

Edit: How about the backend just returns pointers to the text (word #x till word #y) and the js just (re)assembles it?

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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by jadedtuna on Sunday July 28, 2019 @09:15AM (#20547362)
If I understand correctly, that would still require information to be transmitted to the server, ergo copyright infringement.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by feanaro on Sunday July 28, 2019 @09:44AM (#20547489)
Which information? The server is then not reproducing/transmitting/redistributing the content, only indices into the content. I don't see why this would be copyright infringement.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by rnicholus on Sunday July 28, 2019 @09:52AM (#20547529)
Hacker news is not a good place to get legal advice. Best to ignore anyone offering it. Talk to a lawyer for legal advice.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by feanaro on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:36AM (#20552874)
Sure, it's not, so do not take it as advice, especially not ultimate advice. However, I find the inevitable intellectual shutdown when discussing matters like this even more repugnant and unwarranted.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by nothrabannosir on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:19PM (#20548270)
This comment is so poignant it should be part of the site guidelines.
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Re:Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpag... by radhakrsna on Sunday July 28, 2019 @08:41AM (#20547218)
Right, thanks a lot.
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