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I also wouldn't mind slightly thicker phones, but not necessarily for modularity. I just want to see phones that can be dropped flat on their faces on a concrete sidewalk and still remain in usable condition (i.e. no shattered screen).

Making the screen completely modular would be one way to achieve this, since you can just replace the screen with a new one if the old one breaks in a drop. But it can be achieved much more easily and cheaply by simply slightly recessing the screen (or by slightly raising everything around the screen) so the glass never has to make direct contact with concrete in the event of a drop.

This is how bumper cases work, and my $3 bumper case has saved my $400 phone enough times that I'd never use a new phone without one. That said, I really wish this kind of resilience was built into the phone itself, so I'd never have to have to cover up the nice design and great feeling materials on my phone with a cheap, bulky, hideous case.
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The timing re the iPhone 7, which is coming out in a few days, is terrible for Samsung. I imagine customers will have to return their Note, and then many will strongly consider the new iPhone. If this happened even a month ago, that would be far less of an issue.
But they have committed the ultimate sin for androids with that, it uses a non-standart power connector.
My nVidia cards have always "worked" totally fine with OpenBSD. There isn't any 3D acceleration or anything like that, but running X has always worked fine for me with the open-source nv driver. Obviously it's not ideal, but I wouldn't call it a showstopper except for a small handful of potential use cases.
You chose rather dense European countries for your example. Sweden has 21 people/km^2, Norway and Finland has 16 people/km^2. Both have working public transport. Which should show that the average population density of the country as a whole is mostly irrelevant.
> What happens when you're on a Skype call on the TV and want to move to another room? I

I imagine the same thing that happens when you get a call on your Desktop and want to move to another room. "Hey, let me call you back."
I stand corrected.

After reading "The Korean Herald" [1], it does appear you're right about them considering a global recall.

"Thus far, explosions have been reported on the phones using the ITM battery pack." [1]

"Amid growing concerns among consumers, Samsung is considering recalling all the Note phones and exchanging the battery free of charge." [1]

I'm really surprised, seems like the suppliers of the batteries have some lacking quality control. This isn't something I would expect from a major competitor to Apple, usually there is ridiculously over-the-top quality control from these companies.

[1] http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160901000855
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Does this strike anyone else as a bit of a circle jerk?

"Hey, this guy in a popular science magazine wrote about how math is so important, so I'm going to write a blog post about how math is slightly less important than he said it was."
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> "..Sure, there is money to be made here, but it isn't free and you need to manage the extra risk and liability that comes with it."

What's behind the EXRTRA risk? Couldn't he just simply pass over the liability to Stripe who's the actually payment processor?
It would help much if you could comment on compensation, salary range.
AFAICS it just uses USB type C, which a bunch of phones are using now instead of microUSB type B. That's hardly "non-standard."
> ...and swallowing an uncomfortably large number of gel caps filled with the stuff one Friday evening...

Perhaps you and your friends are a "stupefying" group of humans in the proper sense of the word, and this group of humans should avoid misuse of any mind-altering substance if they have important things to think about over a few days?
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Most of our tables have a uuid, a jsonb entity along with relationships stored as uuid columns with a _fk suffix. We then index the FK's.
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Average population density is irrelevant when the population isn't evenly distributed.
It wasn't "You are asking me to do to much, so I'm going to follow the rules you instilled in me about what tasks are vehicle critical and what tasks can be dropped.", but "You are asking me to do to much, so I'm going to reboot". It also overcompensated throttle lag due to old documentation.

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How much modularity do you need for the Fairphone 2 to be called modular? iFixit thinks it is quite modular[0] with it's 10/10 score.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+2+Teardown/52523
John Carmack has a tendency to pop up and actually comment whenever he or Doom are mentioned somewhere. Another example:

http://kotaku.com/thanks-a-few-comments-in-some-ways-i-still...
Good thing that, using a phone while driving sounds risky
Indeed, all it does is break up the rocket. Depending on when it happens during the launch we might still end up with a fireball near the ground (unlikely to be near anything inhabited, though, as there's a lot of free space around launch sites) or with a quickly disintegrating rocket because it's already at high speeds.

There will still be debris, of course, but I guess the reasoning is that it's preferable to have relatively small debris, than one large piece of exploding debris.
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This is the only advice in this threads that actually solves the issue.

Doesn't have to be SELinux, any of the frameworks will do. Or run it in a new network namespace.
> There's a reason that, except for a few early suitcase-sized ones, we never saw laptops with ISA/PCI/PCMCIA slots succeed in the market, and laptops had the advantage to start out as desktops, which had slots.

Huh? PCMCIA/CardBus/ExpressCard was a standard feature in more or less all laptop until just a few years ago.
Except, as the parent mentioned, a lot less of those millions of transistors are still under your (the user's) control, compared to the PC era. The technological advances are indeed breathtaking, the amount of participation you have in those technological advances (except in a small number carefully pre-approved ways) is less so.

Also, I'm not sure we can make the "simply not economical" statement this early whitout having gotten a more detailed reasoning of the descision. After all, already many other comments in this thread point out ways in which modules could be useful that don't clash with architecture requirements. (e.g. exchangeable case). Also, as far as I know, Project ARA had a non-google "open source" predecessor. The people initiating that obviously found the idea realistic enough to explore.

Finally, if it were just technical constraits, we should see a golden era of modularisation in smart cars, as both available space and power are comparable to PCs. Yet, we see the same kinds of lockdown - or even more extreme forms - over there.
> Trying and failing is one thing. Trying, announcing, telling everyone it's the next big thing and then failing is quite another.

Isn't this the modus operandi of startups though? Most of them fail too, but they hardly ever get their feet held to the fire like Google projects.
> 86% of the users open

How did you measure this if there's literally no email clients left out there that load remote content by default?
Trains are like a monolithic architecture while cars/roads are like micro services. A failure in part of the system can't affect other parts as easily.

There are many good reasons why cars have won over all in the US.

Whether people should need a car is not(and shouldn't be) determined by your arbitrary moral judgment. It depends on their actual circumstances.
This project was longed to die. It should have died 3 years back. I wonder why the project team didn't understand or realize the dynamics of smartphone market. The equation is simple, there is no market for phone with interchangeable components. period. Chinese companies are manufacturing dead cheap smartphones. Indian market is flooded with cheap phone options. An average life cycle of android phone is now less than 2 years. People throw their old phone and buy a new one because new phones are cheap and easy to buy plus they get an overall upgrade. Maybe they didn't realize because the project was carried out in US where there is not much competition from phone manufacturers and Apple takes away major share of the market.

This interchangeable components idea is much like Assembled computers back in early 2000s. Most people went for assembled computers because it was easy to upgrade single components/pieces. They should have realized that people don't do that with computers these days either. Only may be few enthusiasts and geeks, but definitely not by a common man.

One more project dies at Google...
You get internal speakers and much more io: scart, aerial in etc, all good for connecting just about anything
Really? That's one of the main reasons I chose 1Password... Here's to hoping they keep both ways to sync!
Damn, I just double-checked and it looks that I was mistaken[1]. I'll send an email to opensuse-project@opensuse.org to see if there's a reason we can't produce ISOs like that. Since both SLE and openSUSE use OBS (the Open Build Service), it should be possible to publish those images without much issue.

[1]: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/iso/
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As someone who has watched a colleague make some similar unplanned decisions (who is now doing absolutely fine with his career) I will say that your on the bell curve of life. You worked your way up to the top and now your down the bottom on the other side, like all trends you can only go one way and that is up.
Is it really that difficult to upgrade all passwords with something like bcrypt(original md5)?
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It's worth pointing out that in this particular case, some people will have created their Last.fm accounts more or less solely for use with Audioscrobbler, a protocol which allows them to track music listens through various third-party music players.

The important bit about that is that the Last.fm/Audioscrobbler account credentials get typed directly into the third-party players - usually there's no browser involved in authentication, and in some cases the players will also be on a mobile device.

There's a definite incentive for passwords to be simple (if you're going to type them in on a mobile keyboard) and weak (because it's just music metadata).

So, a 'magic link' style of logging in might work here, but it would have to be complemented by an easy way of generating auth tokens for player apps - for instance, short one-time-use codes that expire quickly.
The problem with this is that it makes it very difficult to do network/isp level caching, this is especially problematic in areas where internet connectivity is slow, expensive, and limited.
It could use an explanation of what it's trying to accomplish and what its conclusions are based on. As it stands this is the equivalent of a blurry infographic that your grandma shared on Facebook.
well obviously you aren't crazy at all, who wants tiny metal bristles falling off and potentially getting in their food? Even without this specific case, that sounds awful and dangerous.
> I'd argue that OpenBSD has a more usable base system (including things like X11, doas, and tmux).

Not to mention an actually pleasant /bin/sh (a modified version of pdksh; compare to FreeBSD's extremely minimal version of ash which is (sometimes) useful for running scripts and not much else).
Yes, snoopers can only see the domain you visit (not the full url). (although they can make good educated guesses based on file sizes)
> but your average citizen has no clue how to replace a DIMM stick and doesn't want to care.

Sure, but it'll still be far cheaper to pay someone to replace the DIMM stick than to buy a new phone/computer/whatever. Plus there's the environmental aspect, too.
> There are many good reasons why cars have won over all in the US.

Given how trains have won over in Europe, its got more to do with city planning.
Redirect to another website, push malware, show shock material, exploit a vulnerability in your browser.
... Until the openid provider is breached, like LinkedIn was. Then you get access to everything for everyone.

Decentralized schemes are safer overall. Ideally you want something like what LastPass does: local credentials replicated on the network in encrypted form. This way you take away responsibility for safe storage from unreliable websites, but you don't place the whole burden on the user (as the data is replicated and locked by a single password).
Spy on our country's citizens with deep packet inspection and put anyone on a list that reads anything related to Tor. With HTTPS, the visit of this website would seem 'innocent'.
You have an eye socket no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d8AKoa4Oo
Ok, looks like you have no idea about what are you talking about.

First of all, no one cares about "a lot more land becomes arable", because even existing arable land is not fully used - there's already a lot of it, which allowed after transition to market economy after collapse of Soviet Union to increase agricultural production significantly and there are still unused thousands of square kilometers on Far East.

60% of Russian territory is a permafrost zone. Global warming dramatically changes the geology of this area, which has a lot of complications for construction and may severely damage existing infrastructure (including oil and gas pipes). This is well-known and recognized danger here.

Then, immigration. There's already water crisis in Middle Asia, which with population growth and rising Islamism in countries like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan is a huge problem for Russian security. Remember, we have open borders and visa-free travel with them. Plus millions of Chinese guest workers on Far East (and that's even bigger security issue, because on Chinese side of the border situation with ecology is much worse). Immigration is a real concern for Russia itself and any global factors that affect everything are not really useful.
cosmicweenie.com redirects to cosmicweenie.com/blog, which gives a 404 error.

The whois entry uses a privacy service.

Who wrote this? What are these "findings" based on? What does it mean to "lean" in the context of this document? Why is it on the front page of Hacker News?
How does this handle turning off Intel ME or the AMD equivalent ? Having a always on PC on my motherboard not under my control does bother me ...
There are a lot of great rebuttals out there to this attitude. I think Snowden voiced a great one about privacy - "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say,". I hope you can figure out how that can be applied to this too...

But to point out the obvious it's not just about what you do/say while you are driving but also where you go, when, and with who to name a few things.
This must be a regional thing, in the UK (possibly the rest of Europe) they do.

I normally connect my laptop like this.
Even worse is that javascript is default enabled, making the security as strong as the Firefox sandbox.
there's a "web" link at the top of this page, it google searches the title, which will get you what you want.
Motorola did exactly what you're asking for. It's called Moto Mods and if it isn't abandoned as a failure within 3 years I'll eat my hat. https://www.motorola.com/us/moto-mods
That's one possibility -- to misinform or give incorrect instructions. This may be more of a risk with this type of content than your run-of-the-mill personal blog.

A more frequent one is injection of ads or tracking scripts, or 'web accelerators' that recompress images. Certain ISPs have been known to do these.
You should make a habit of sharing your knowledge
Bought it, dont recommend. Most things dont work like they should
I would love to know this too ...
Gmail loads pictures by default these days.
If you're including your own payment processor, work with Gocardless for UK/EU support too!
Trying, announcing, pursuing the project for 3 years and suddenly announcing that the project shows that random ideas are being chased without proper vision & leadership.
GMail does. It bounces the images via a server to strip out IP info but it opens them.

AFAIK all webmail providers do too, otherwise there wouldn't be so much of a market regarding email marketing with open rates and remote updating content (eg https://movableink.com/gallery/autotrader)
Can't imagine that would be legal. The flame liquids are either toxic and mustn't be swallowed, or they're very high strength alcohol.

Also, you have a significant fire risk with blowing fire - a friend once set a pub counter ablaze...
That much effort? It's just "vagrant up" for a lot of people.
I believe in the UK the old ink that came off on your hands was made from soot and old engine oil. That's why you see people in PG Wodehouse and Downton Abbey getting their newspapers ironed - so it doesn't rub off on your hands.
Most of us at Google are not working on on moonshot projects, and still have a happy life. Still, most non-moonshot projects that people are working on are growing nicely, have a long term view, and making lots of impact. Also having free good quality, healthy food with big variety all day long makes a huge impact in life quality.
Maybe I am related, because I am also from Slovenia... ;-) Becuase we are a small nation (just 2 millions) I am very proud of him...
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> I wonder how they'll handle software and retaining data through a cross-platform upgrade - a build for Android for the msm8xxx series won't run on a Mediatek SoC.

At worst, ask people to reflash to another Android ROM when switching. User software and data is on another partition anyway, and you can force Android to recompile all user applications by clearing your cache partition.
Shouldn't the manufacturer of these brushes be held responsible for such issues?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectric...

I believe this number only includes dams with reverse pumping. The global production capacity for all hydroelectric power is much larger, but it's not a widely used number, since you typically don't empty a reservoir due to the lower water having less potential energy.

So this capacity number is a bit theoretical, since you wouldn't use it that way in practice. But then again, so is the capacity number for batteries, since you really want to avoid doing a full discharge.

Annual global hydroelectric production is a more useful number, and is a little more than 4 000 TWh.
There is a very good visual explanation of the difference bettween quantum annealer and univeral quantum computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfkXjzzYOo
> that won't be hidden by https anyway

The only thing that's not hidden are the domain names in the certificate that the server presents.

The rest of the URL is encrypted, along with all data and headers.
It is important, because you will not find any Go-developers on the market, so if you are serious about using it then think twice ;)
What is Quantum Annealing?
Hacker News is not the place to discuss politics. Take it to Reddit.
Regarding onboarding I think one thing you can do is be smarter about the trial period. I will often signup for things and not get around to properly trailing before the trial period runs out.

No doubt if I email you you will give extra trial period, this could be done automatically though with an accompanying follow up email to reengage. As you would be tracking usage metrics anyway there would be plenty of data to decide if I have properly trialed the full capability of the software or not.