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The sub-sections underneath the "Phone" menu are Accessories, Materials, Colors, Screen, Camera, Specifications, Order. OS doesn't seem like something they want to discuss much. (They are all about this whizzy 360º camera though!)
Can of worms doesn't even begin to describe these half-baked, feel-good, shortsighted, "shore up a few voting blocks" measures. Parents who petition the city council for soft playground surfaces have done humanity a great disservice. Just be grateful there is a playground and work to make sure others get playgrounds before you turn your child into someone who can't produce something of value without first making sure everyone else is following "the rules".
The Barcelona van attack that just happened an hour ago is an example of a vehicular terrorist attack:

https://www.reddit.com/live/zgbfbqqsl4h4
I heard the USA has the English of Shakespeare age. That England changed the spelling of some words as well as how they pronounced them. The Queen's English vs Traditional English. Is that correct?
The idea that life gets better over time is very new, as it coincides with the Industrial Revolution.

Before then, people thought in terms of food fuel and muscular mechanics. Same principle applied for slaves, livestock, and so on.

After industrialization, people began to think in terms of (typically) chemical fuels and technical mechanics. Problems that would be solved by the introduction of slaves or domesticated animals were instead solved by the use of machines.

Nowadays, in the Information Age, problems are not solved by throwing money or machines at it, but by utilizing the right information.

The tools we make, make us.
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Foreign keys can improve performance, in some cases:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/8154375/533120
This is kinda distressing. I'm mostly all for free trade, but the impression I have is that Chinese competitors undercut Ericcson by not paying for patents. If that is the case, would it make sense to sanction those Chinese companies that do it, and thus take their products off the market in the developed countries? (Please correct me if my assumptions are wrong)
MS in CS from UW-Madison here. Also taught CS240B to masters students at Stanford.

Stanford masters seemed almost entirely like a money mill.

Wisconsin masters was a much better education in my opinion. Worked you harder, it was actually worth the time I put in.
Since FI is GSM won't it work in any GSM phone? I think it just defaults to tmobile so you won't get any fi features like switching to sprint dynamically or wifi calling/texting. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Premium materials and true craftsmanship shouldn’t just be for the few, but for everyone (who has $700+ to spend on a phone).
I do.
Why would I replace a phone for an increasingly more expensive one if it's not broken?
It's kind of funny what they follow that up with:

> Essential Phone will get guaranteed Android OS updates for 2 years and will get monthly security updates for 3 years, so your phone will always be secure and have the latest features.

I do not think the word "always" means what they think it means :)
I don't (unless I break or lose phone). I try to keep using the same computer/phone/gadget for 3-4 years to get my money worth these days.

I just feel like it's a rip off to ask me to shell out £500 every two years for new iPhone, £600 for new iPad and £2000 for new MacBook Pro (prices are my best guess, I think new iPhones actually go for as much as £700 with better specs). So I try to go using my current tech longer.

It's also environment friendly. Bad for companies if more customers start thinking like this because they depend on selling the same device over and over again with minor tweaks.
Ok. I've used Elixir and read Thomas' Programming Elixir, and from the little exposure I got I knew it was normal to use it as a kv store but still use something like postgres for a traditional db. I did a double take when I saw Mongo in the table.
The "schedule your own time" model doesn't work any better for that scenario. If 75% of the company wants to go to the eclipse, you're either going to close up shop for the week (like European companies frequently do for vacation) or tell some folks no.
Freedom from everything except needing a Google account to turn the damn thing on.
Bootstrap templates are Show HN material now?
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Is it just me, or does the selfie camera ruin the display? It comes so close to being bezel-less and ruins it with a feature I'll never use.
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Hmm, a new untested phone with a fifth less battery than my current one and it isn't even waterproof.

Why should I care about this?
Your 5th amendment right not to incriminate yourself of course. But that doesn't mean the TSA have to let you fly. They would just turn you away for not cooperating. Just like they would turn you away if you said they couldn't search your bag because of your 4th amendment right to not be searched without probable cause.
That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Many people would keep phones for several years if they weren't designed to be replaced after 2.

Thanks to non-replaceable batteries, most phones will barely last half a day after 2 years. That was the only reason I upgraded.
Did you see the "Mars" series (National Geographic) ? Definitely touches the psychological implications of such a trip.
Protection. Meteorites not burnt in the sparse atmosphere. Thermal stability. Radiation.
The nature of the challenges means you'll always know when you've solved them.
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I think the entire blog post is meant to address that question. It is trying to differentiate from the cheap Android phones. For me this is the most interesting point:

> Devices shouldn’t become outdated every year. They should evolve with you.

Also the design looks much nicer than average cheap Android phones.
I recall it "working" on other phones, but it's stuck on T-Mobile or Sprint (depending on your phone's hardware), and you lose out on some functionality since it uses specific bands[0]. Plus you still need an approved phone to activate it.

0. http://arkienet.com/2016/03/fi-on-a-non-nexus-phone-is-like-...
As someone who worked in a large OEM company releasing tons of smartphones, I'm actually impressed it only took 100 people to getting this out. I presume there was an incredible amount of sleepless nights, as this is no easy task.

To be fair though, Sprint is one of the easier carriers to work with after T-Mobile. I can't imagine them releasing a phone on AT&T or Verizon, as their process is grueling. I guess since they're selling an unlockcked version of their phone, it doesn't really matter to power users. However, most sales for smartphones are from contracts sold directly from carriers so it'll be interesting to see how they'll do in the market with their current strategy (similar to One Plus One).

Props to them though. It's not just about carrier certification. Releasing a smartphone is a long complex process. Some engineers at Sprint were briefly talking about how great the phone was, so I have high hopes.
According to many experts, this would be an easy way to shield humans from the radiation. A glass dome could also work but would be more expensive and could be fragile.

On the other hands, tunnels do not provide any sunlight but I don't know if humans can actually use the sunlight on Mars (so a dome might be necessary as an addition or completely irrelevant anyways).
This is quite common. The publisher's terms and conditions or site license contract probably includes language asserting a right to cut off access for "excessive" (however they define that) or software-mediated downloading. They may require the school to identify and block the offending user before restoring access.
That is exactly what we are doing, but it has to be done client-side of course, so it's not as simple as having a download link.
Yes.

https://twitter.com/essential/status/870381000852996099

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6eppuc/the_essenti...
The article mentions that communicating Mars houses with tunnels might be the best way to deal with the loss of breathable air.
"app XYZ seems to be using a lot of resources. Do you want to stop it ? Yes/No", with a "don't ask me again" checkbox.
I am seeking a dual SIM variant that supports all bands of AT&T and Sprint. This does not currently exist.
Now we'll know exactly how many Andy Rubin fanboys there are in the world. Why would anyone else buy a $700+ phone from a startup which might not even be there next year? My prediction: a few tens of thousand units will be sold mostly in the US, darn near zero anywhere else.
>However, work on artificial intelligence, especially general intelligence, will be improved by a clearer idea of what intelligence is. One way is to give a purely behavioural or black-box definition. In this case we have to say that a machine is intelligent if it solves certain classes of problems requiring intelligence in humans, or survives in an intellectually demanding environment.

What if my expectation is that it be able to decide if an algorithm, given some inputs, will halt? Or being able to decide if a proposition is true within an axiomatic system? Maybe the better question is why Turing himself was optimistic about intelligent machines.
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> Your phone is your personal property. It’s a public expression of who you are and what you stand for.

No, it's really not. It's literally just a tool I use for communication.
It's amazing for me to see that Apple, once lightyears ahead with the original iPhone, is now being overtaken by small companies with features such as bezel less displays, wireless charging, high bandwidth data coupling etc.

Of course we'll have to see if Essential can actually deliver on their promise...
No 3.5mm jack, no thanks.
I was of the understanding top loaders don't require it because the axis of spin is oriented such that, so long as the load is sufficiently balanced, it doesn't matter how fast it spins.

Front loaders have a harder time balancing the load due to the orientation of the drum, so require greater inertial mass to stabilise them.
I am never in fear of starvation. Western civilization was built on the bedrock of contributing to society through labor. It's how the system works. That whole system will have to change if that axiom disappears. It is very naive to think that wont have a massive effect on mate selection, how people spend their time, morals, etc.

This isnt purely about economics. There are other deeper issues at play when you say people no longer need to work.
Nothing about computers back then was social.
There was no social component. Programs done by yourself, at a keypunch. Output read by yourself. Hard to study in groups. You can't really have a debate about the sign bit.

Pre-wed majors were social.. Comp sci was not
one of the hard things about game dev and testing is that there are all sorts of bits of code that don't really have strong "success criteria". A lot of it comes down to "did that feel good" or "does that look better" which is very hard to quantify in unit tests.

However I think there's also a huge swath of code in games that can be unit tested. Scorekeeping systems, ai evaluation trees, etc. The industry as a whole has much more of an integration or manual testing bent focus than a unit testing one.

I will say that coming from a no tester all dev unit / integration test world to no automated test, 30-120 high skill manual tester world (30 gameplay testers, every other employee using new builds 2x daily), there is definitely something to having lots of really good manual testers with very short feedback loops. People noticed bugs that were hard to test for within 10-15 minutes of checkin on a regular basis.

Really if I did a studio I'd have both but then I'd likely be spending too much money and go out of business.
Its scary that this is impressive for Android, while still 2+ years less than ios. (iPhone 5s will get ios 11)
But this post compares against GNOME 2.x, which was equally awful about wasting space. It doesn't compare against Windows or OS X, which are much better with screen real estate and let you easily hide the taskbar or dock to recover more.
Why would you even reply? This is so out of context, and its a petty attempt at being snarky. I think its funny that /pol/ is better at engaging soberly in a political debate than a forum such as Y-combinator. At least add something more, an argument or you know just an actual REPLY.
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"Feels flimsy" doesn't mean they can't last.

I paid usd$350 for our new Kenmore washer in 1995. I have had it apart three times in that period, all for repairs that cost less than $50 in parts and at most two hours time.

Contrast this with our 2012 $950 Bosch dishwasher, which broke three times in its second year of service (1-year warranty), and cost collectively $850 to fix because nothing was user serviceable. We threw it out when it broke the fourth time.

My experience with home appliances has been mostly that the cheaper ones last _longer_ than the expensive ones.
Her key point is about her advanced math teacher. "My trig teacher was a legend among the college-bound kids in my school. He’d been there forever. He was generous and big-hearted [...] The other thing he liked to tell us, though, was that girls shouldn’t bother taking math, because we were just going to be housewives anyway. It wasn’t just every once in a while, either; he said it at the beginning of the year, he tossed it into lectures occasionally, he said it when he handed back failed tests."

I've heard this from a number of other women: an influential, well respected person promoted a divisive opinion among teens for a long time. The effect was subtle and perhaps unintentional, but pervasive; young women decided they were not smart enough or strong enough to work in the field they wanted.

This illustrates to me how important it is to send the right message to kids. Subtle divisiveness is dangerous among kids and teens.
Since you didn't actually write anything substantive in your quite witty comment, I'll have to put words in your mouth. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

You see Wednesday as a sign of an emboldened neo-Nazi movement, an indication of a growing threat, a sign that a formerly dormant group has begun taking direct action.

I see it as a new national awareness of a group of people who have been here all along, a desperately sad act of murder by a damaged man, and a discredited and clumsy president managing to align himself publicly with an evil ideology decried by everyone except those same neo Nazis.

And you're advocating for, well, I'm not actually sure, but some sort of legislative change to tackle the threat you perceive because you believe it will make us safer. I'm pushing for the opposite, because I believe that your way will drive dangerous people further into the shadows while undermining those defenses we talked about above.

Probably there is a middle way, maybe involving using existing laws such as those used to combat gangs to break apart specific groups of neo Nazis, or quietly increasing the funding of those parts of the FBI which are responsible for domestic extremism.

Probably I am wrong and you are right. I do not think I can convince you, but perhaps you can convince me.
BYTE had some great cover illustrations too, and IIRC, even some of the articles had great diagrams or drawings. IIRC there was an artist called (Robert?) Tinney who did many of the best looking and most famous covers, including maybe for the Smalltalk issue - which I think had a multicolored balloon on the cover - just searched and this is it:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/597/1*9qr-I3aJLr0IrM256g...
Becoming managers to sooth their self-esteem issues.

I don't mean this as a cynical joke at all. In my experience too few managers see the job as a job, and instead they see it as a power and status boost --- a way to be "winning" in the game of life.

It should be a calling. It should be the thing you were put on this earth to do.

Of dozens of managers I've encountered, I've only met 1 or 2 where it seemed to be their calling.
Bear in mind that there is a big different between $16,000 of debt payable over 20 years at 4.5% interest and say, a car loan for $16,000 payable over 4 years at 10.9% interest.
Can you guys shut up already?
The current release wouldn't turn into a pumpkin, even if Ericsson stopped supporting it tomorrow. Even the older releases continue to work. :)
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There are patents for this from 1989.
That we need to figure out. But I suspect, your worst fear is true - we have already lost.
Uhh, he is bashing Apple...I guess because he assumes iCloud backup is the only way to backup an iPhone?

You can back up an iPhone locally with iTunes. Unless you are afraid they will go through your laptop to find your phone backup.
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Hey, this happened to me. The reason was that one of my older phone numbers was available to Google somehow, and it made that number a backup number to Fi. So when I dropped a call, it made a call to that old number, which is now owned by someone else (A nice lady who even helped my wife debug what was going on.).
Me too I just think with this we also need to be able to travel faster than light to expand our access to resources
There is an important difference in this case from other cases like this. The police argue that they already know what's on the hard drive:

>Forensic examination also disclosed that Doe [Rawls] had downloaded thousands of files known by their "hash" values to be child pornography. The files, however, were not on the Mac Pro, but instead had been stored on the encrypted external hard drives.

Combine this with the witness statement (defendant's sister said he showed her CP) and this becomes a little bit more unique than just not procuring a password.
I can see (though don't entirely agree) why companies feel some pain, when the customer paid for the phone, but the public's expectation is free updates for "life" (however you define that). I wonder if having a subscription where they reduce the cost of the phone for the general population, and let others sign up for a paid subscription model for updates, backed up by some kind of SLA type agreement would work. I definitely would prefer a model where instead of finding other ways to screw you (selling data) they get paid by me and serve my needs.
agreed, and unfortunately, having lived, worked, and hired in Thailand for many years, I'm not so certain that western style democracy is the way to go in the country. I'm not saying that the situation outlined in the article is "OK", just that there are many geo-political differences that many westerners are not aware of. An analogy I like to use is that Democracy is like giving money to someone in need. Some will use it wisely, some will not.
You're not alone. Just go to any thread and search for camera. For example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6e6f48/exclusive_t...
Ok. I went to college because I wanted a brighter future than my parents (read: I wanted to make more money than them). So from that perspective college has not been very valuable at all.

I don't think I'm in the minority in that way at all.
It's a key escrow system. The admins hold a copy of the user's key, and promoting a new admin involves giving access to this key.
The refrain 'not everyone lives in SF' has become so overused I suspect you forgot to append /s
Bootstrap templates require a non-trivial amount of work. Why should they not be?
Not just these days... Not long ago breast milk was considered distasteful/inferior to formula and newborns were forced on their stomachs so they didn't choke to death on their own tongues/vomit.

The latter by the way led to a dramatic increase in incidents of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome causing us to roll out the "back to sleep" movement.

Many still disapprove of sleeping next to your baby despite it being as safe - safer in some instances - than sleeping in a crib and providing a protective effect against SIDS via the parents breathing/heartbeat as rhythm keeping and carbon dioxide that triggers regular breathing.

You basically have to take all parenting advice (even from a doctor) with a grain of salt and at the end of the day do what you as the child's guardian feel is best, especially because no one style or technique will work for all children.
> The problem is, it would cost almost as much as a real mars mission.

I understand that's what the estimates say, but how is that reasonable? The mars mission would include a biosphere of some kind, right?

Is the Biosphere 3 estimate far too high? Or is the Mars mission estimate far too low?
Does it have a floppydrive?
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Not if fully toped?
I think that the term "Anorak" came from the idea that before home computers were available the boy would probably have been a trainspotter. Looking at trains is done outside so they would all wear waterproof coats.
If we go one level up the abstraction, always doesn't mean always either. The universe's life is finite. :)
I would really like to have a phone longer than 2 years. Given the maturity of the hardware market, a 3-5 year lifespan seems reasonable.

That probably means:

- waterproof and dustproof

- shock resistant for drops from waist height to a hard surface

- replaceable battery

- stronger (heavier) frame

- a bezel around the screen that comes out a millimeter or two to protect it

- a back not made of glass

That sounds like a phone worth paying $700 for.
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> Left-wing academics across the country face this kind of speech suppression, yet they do not benefit from a strong, uniform legal response.

Well, there's hardly any other kind: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/liberal-profe...

But I'm sure if you explain that conservatives are less interested in academia, and that's the cause of the disparity, not discrimination, everything will work out splendidly.
That's a good question.

I believe that a lot of people see not having a degree as an impediment to getting a job "in tech", and therefore never set out down that path. In my experience, the reality of that is much different: I don't have a degree and I know many others in my situation. What I do have is professional experience. I don't think my lack of a degree has held back my career or limited my earning potential.
Batteries don't last that long still, last I heard you get about 1000 charges before you need to do serious maintenance to a phone, in which case you'll probably want the latest and greatest anyhow.
The difference is time.

What you are in effect saying is that Muslims, Christians and Jews, whose scriptures all support some incredibly discriminatory things, are just as bad as neo-Nazis.

Let's be realistic here. Muslims today are not Muslims because they want genocide. What reason does a neo-Nazi have for supporting Nazism if they don't support genocide and racial prejudice? It is the only reason why somebody would support Nazism other than, say, conquest to further commit genocide!

Xenophobia is not a defining characteristic of modern Islam. Xenophobia IS the defining characteristic of Nazism.
Do you have the sand at home? If no, hoards of customers would have to fetch it one by one from some supply, actually causing more environmental damage in sum
I really wonder if this is as long as Qualcomm guarantee's they update their binary blobs for compatibility with future Android updates.
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