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by yohui 11y ago
It's a real product: http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/wd-pidrive-314gb/
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by yohui 11y ago
Which is 31.4% off the $45.81 retail price.
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by yohui 11y ago
I thought it was interesting that someone in a previous thread pointed out the parallels between encryption and firearm regulation. They presented it as a point in favor of gun ownership, but it made me take a step back and look at it the o
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by yohui 11y ago
But Thunderbolt 3 already exists, and both Intel and Nvidia support it. Intel does not have any discrete GPUs of their own, of course, but they did open up Thunderbolt 3 to external GPUs. Nvidia drivers have already been updated to support
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by yohui 11y ago
Oculus has exclusives because they partner with developers, offering money and support. Vive has exclusives because there's stuff you can do with the Vive's native VR controllers that you simply can't with the Rift's Xbo
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by yohui 11y ago
> It is interesting that a lot of the food at TJs is not organic. They do often offer organic choices, too. Such as regular bananas for 19 cents and organic bananas for 29 cents. Personally, I appreciate the non-organic option.
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by yohui 11y ago
Only if you've already used Inbox, correct? It's just a reminder to existing Inbox users. The reverse is not necessary since anyone using Inbox is already familiar with Gmail and using Inbox on purpose.
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by yohui 11y ago
Chrome Canary has Flash. Do you mean Chromium?
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by yohui 11y ago
It seems clear to me that Lego's introduction of underside tubes that allowed for much greater connectivity was the crucial innovation. Also, this is only an example of copying relatively primitive designs, not expensive R&D.
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by yohui 11y ago
Jide appears to be a Chinese company founded by former Google employees: http://www.jide.com/about > 北京技德科技有限公司 If the stuff above is in their EULA, it's probably Chinese legal boilerplate. More heavy handed than
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by yohui 11y ago
Not northern Michigan, but there is the University of Michigan's "Mcity" near Detroit: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/23020-u-m-opens-mc...
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by yohui 11y ago
The title doesn't say "new"? It just says "Welcome to the CHIP Operating System" at this time, which to me just says this is going to examine what CHIP uses for its OS.
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by yohui 11y ago
Misleading? So new Linux distros aren't operating systems to you?
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by yohui 11y ago
F-Droid wants to drop Firefox because Google Play is now required to build it (though not to run it). Same reason why Chromium isn't being considered: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/chromium/page/2
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by yohui 11y ago
Jide replied that the kernel is untouched, so if you want the kernel source for Remix OS just grab AOSP: https://forum.jide.com/index.php?p=/discussion/563/source-co...
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by yohui 11y ago
Are there any other good sources for open source Android apps? I love F-Droid, but they plan to drop Firefox, and Chromium will never make it on there.
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by yohui 11y ago
> Here's a very recent example of this system at work: Chromium sneaks a binary blob which secretly listens to your microphone and sends data to Google: https://lwn.net/Articles/648392/ Downloading a bi
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by yohui 11y ago
Heads you're a copyright thief, tails you're a bandwidth thief... The larger image preview is still moderately sized (it loads the original image but in a smaller frame), so most users probably click through to the original page (
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by yohui 11y ago
> Then there's google images, which shows the images on the google site itself (a vast copyright infringement, unlike the search engine result pages these are copies of the images at quite high resolution). Well, image search woul
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by yohui 11y ago
For desktop, perhaps the Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I? Specs: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5157 Price: https://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-wireless-network-card... It's b
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by yohui 11y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I've used Stylish on both desktop Firefox and Chrome before. Would you say Stylebot is better? Unfortunately, mobile Chrome doesn't support extensions, but maybe this would be a good excuse to use mobile
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by yohui 11y ago
I wish there was an option to disable the downvote arrow on comments, or only show the downvote arrow if I click the direct link for a comment (like with flagging comments). I'd rather not create a new HN account just to read and reply
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by yohui 11y ago
I agree good UI design offers utility, but often those "forced to come up with their own designs" are simply forced to kludge together a workaround rather than do what would come naturally. This hardship may sometimes spark innova
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by yohui 11y ago
> stuff like kids getting severely injured A baby lost an eye: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-349367...
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by yohui 11y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, it looks like the comparison table says Knowledge Graph has an order of magnitude more data than Freebase did? What's the issue with Wikidata's license? Both Freebase and Wikidata seem to be Creat
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by yohui 11y ago
According to that Wikipedia article, Freebase moved their original data over to Wikidata before closing: https://plus.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVq...
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by yohui 11y ago
Yes, and also similar to Firefox bookmark keywords. e.g. a Chrome search engine or Firefox bookmark with URL " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s" and keyword "wp" will return the
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by yohui 11y ago
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright...
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by yohui 11y ago
And not just logged in. The user also has to have browser sync for passwords enabled.
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by yohui 11y ago
At least on the consumer end, I'd say Dell's "core activity" is hardware, not software. This is more like Intel selling software that can screw up your computer: https://www.mcafee.com/

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