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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 Xbox One controller.

When Oculus releases its Touch controllers (hopefully before the end of the year?) you might see Vive titles ported over to Rift. Movement in the other direction depends on what terms and conditions are in the contracts studios agreed to sign.

> 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.

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.

Chrome Canary has Flash. Do you mean Chromium?

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.

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 the boilerplate we're used to, perhaps.

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...

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.

Misleading? So new Linux distros aren't operating systems to you?

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/#post-16388

F-Droid has (temporarily?) taken down their Fennec fork, seemingly due to difficulties with development: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/please-do-not-drop-firefox-...

This is presumably why Firefox's removal has been continuously postponed. Reliability is one of the reasons why I would prefer first-party Firefox over a third-party fork.

Though there are good reasons why F-Droid doesn't include Chromium and seeks to remove Firefox, the absence of many open source Android apps from F-Droid's catalog has a direct impact on utility. It's also not uncommon for apps on F-Droid to lag behind the version on Google Play or the latest release direct from the developer. (Again, there are good reasons why they screen apps, but it does impose a delay.)

I appreciate F-Droid's screening process, and I wouldn't want it to go away, but it'd be nice to have an alternative open source Android app catalog that's a little more liberal.

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...

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.

> 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 binary blob in the first place was the real issue. However, the voice recognition module wasn't actually used unless you opted into the "Ok Google" hotword feature.

Getting back on topic, Android handles similar problems in a different way, via the permission system (esp. the improvements in Android 6.0+).

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 (since most users aren't savvy enough to right-click and go to the image directly, or mouse over to the "view image" button).

> 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 would be a lot less useful if it didn't show images. And Google's image thumbnails are very modest resolution copies. The larger image previews displayed when clicking a specific image result are actually hotlinked from the original source, and hence not copyright violations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking#Copyright_law_i...

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 basically an Intel 7260 Wireless-AC/Bluetooth chip plus a PCIe adapter.

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 Firefox more.

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 on mobile without the risk of accidentally hitting a downvote button while scrolling or trying to upvote a comment.

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 innovation, true, but in other cases the effort and frustration might have been better spent pushing the envelope elsewhere.

And if the "invention" is obvious, developers (and users) really shouldn't have to pay the cost to license it.

> stuff like kids getting severely injured

A baby lost an eye: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-349367...

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 Creative Commons licensed. Is there a catch?

As for progress, if there's anything slowing the migration of Freebase data into Wikidata, I would guess it's Wikidata's different citation standards.

Given that the original Freebase data is still available, would it be correct to say the issue is Google isn't releasing their new data for free?

According to that Wikipedia article, Freebase moved their original data over to Wikidata before closing: https://plus.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVq...

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 Wikipedia page for Hacker News if you search "wp Hacker News".

Also works for stuff other than searches, e.g. "https://www.reddit.com/r/%s" with keyword "rr" to quickly navigate to the Hacker News subreddit with "rr hackernews".

Chrome automatically adds search engines, while Firefox requires a bit more manual work: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-search-from-address-bar

And not just logged in. The user also has to have browser sync for passwords enabled.

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/

All computers sold via the Microsoft Store are "Signature Edition" devices, sort of like the old "Google Play Edition" program: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Signatu...

For example, the XPS 15: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Dell-XP...

And prior HN discussion about that reddit discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614837

For reference, the most popular screen dimming/warming apps for Android:

- Lux (free/$3.80): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux

- Twilight (free/$2.99): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...

Dragooning Google into the fight to defend fair-use may be a smart tactical move for the EFF, but that should not impinge on the objective question of whether the Google Books settlement was legal. The privacy and censorship concerns they raised seem orthogonal to the settlement itself, as the concerns would remain whether the settlement was accepted or (as was the case) rejected (e.g. Amazon removing Kindle books from users' libraries).

Why wouldn't the Authors' Guild be willing to offer others the same terms? How would it benefit them to depend on Google? The agreement would have granted a new sort of status to Google, but there is no reason that status would have to remain unique.

Regarding the anti-trust angle, the wiki article cites an MIT paper that concludes the settlement would not violate anti-trust and would in fact generate a consumer surplus. [1]

Forcing Google to fight for fair-use may have been a sound Machiavellian strategy for the EFF (as it resulted in today's ruling), but it's ironic then that the main reason why the settlement was rejected seems to be because it was not strong enough on copyright, as expressed by individual authors' concerns over loss of control, and freeing of orphan works.

[1]: http://www.criterioneconomics.com/Google%20and%20the%20Prope...