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If the market was just waiting for capacitive touchscreens to become available, why did it take all the others years to come up with anything competitive after the iPhone launched?

Why didn't they all have capacitive iPhone look-alikes ready in the lab then?

Isn't it more reasonable to assume that the mobile market would have stayed roughly as it had the previous 10 years, with incremental improvements in screens, displays etc?

Apple isn't credited with the first capacitive touchscreen phone, but I think they should be credited with making the first usable, mass market touchscreen smartphone.
http://roundabout.io is also quite good, albeit focused on jobs in the London area. Created by another HNer, IIRC
Yeah, that's a good point, but he also says this: "So that's who I said it was. When Aldrin came back, he told me no, first thing Armstrong did was pass the camera back to me."

It's still hard for me to believe they were passing the camera back and forth. That, with all the other inaccuracies, lead me to believe it's fake. Why someone would purposefully fake that I don't know...
There's also http://emacsrocks.com/ for Emacs videos.

That's where I learned about ace-jump-mode and undo-tree-mode, both of which I cannot live without anymore :)
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Not saying that Apple invented that feature for all phones, but if you were coming from Windows Phone, it was a giant godsend.
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wow, the list of the companies using vanilla.js is impressive. if those put their trust in this framework, it surely must be good.
I have also terrible experiences with Mozilla. As an add-on developer it was extremely time consuming to update addons for each new version of Firefox, even in the case of minor updates. You can take a look for example at the source of tab mix plus (if I remember well) and see a lot of "if" conditions to work along other extensions. Also, the docs and the examples were few and old.

On the Thunderbird side the support was horrible too. There were bugs on Thunderbird that the maintainers closed without further research. This "opportunity" made our blog post about migrating from Thunderbird to Outlook a daily success.
> "that's apple haters for you"

Comments like this do not add to the discussion.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If this was an open-source project, it might be interesting. As it is, users have no idea what the core code is doing, or what it might do in the future.

There has never been a more eloquent argument in favor of open-source than a closed-source project like this one, that tries to portray itself as a harmless, useful library for everyman.
That is not what "syndrome" means. Syndrome refers to the fact that there are multiple symptoms pointing to the disorder.
Except that the major parts- like a touch oriented UI- don't exist until Apple develops them.

And having seen them, other companies can't replicate them well at all because they don't do the research.

Calling them a lego assembler ignores all the real innovation they do.
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The fact that Samsung copies Apple is as obvious as the fact that the sky is blue. I am not sure whether it is a real problem, because Samsung is not able to even do a clone properly. The problem is that the US patent system is more than absurd, it is retarded. Will somebody in the United States ever do something with it?
Why would it be? Grad school is great for learning to be a better researcher, to understand problems better, and to write a bunch of crappy code that nobody else will ever use that you yourself want to never touch again after your paper gets submitted.

In other words, grad school will help a good scientist become a great scientist, but it will not help a good programmer become a great programmer. In other fields the same is true -- it will help a good architect become a great architect, but it will not help a good bricklayer become a great bricklayer.
I think what you're trying to say is not just a direct "stuff in vaccines triggers autism" but more to the point that if the lack of exposure to germs/diseases/pathogens can lead to an immune system response that can cause autism, then vaccines contribute to creating that "too clean" environment, by eliminating those diseases.

That's not how vaccines work, though. They create immunity through controlled exposure to the virus. If they were contributing to the "super clean" environment, then they would be preventing exposure.
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What's the difference? Either way, you're not giving them money.
Thanks for trivializing an entire profession, and the healthy helping of weasel words - I was running low.

"Church of Photojournalism", "journalistic rule lawyering"?

Has it ever occurred to you that the journalistic standards surrounding photo manipulation may have actually been arrived at after a century of experience, rather than a bunch of tightasses obsessing over haughty principles, as you've so conveniently insinuated?

This is something that bothers me about HN regularly - we have such a strong tendency here to trivialize other people's jobs, to the point where anything that isn't immediate obvious to the layman must be idiocy of some sort.

> "To someone who isn't part of the Church of Photojournalism, it honestly seems very simple."

So the fact that tens of thousands of photojournalists over the course of an entire century have arrived at, and agreed upon, this set of rules for reportage means nothing. Clearly you, a lay person who has never been deeply exposed to photojournalism, you know better. It seems simple.
Find some good-quality open-source project and get involved in it.

This has two benefits, and the primary one is that it gets you _reading_ good code. The second benefit is that, if the project is any quality, it forces you to write good code, both because of the project's standards and because the software is well-designed enough that the easiest thing to do is to make new features match that good design.
You're confusing utility and design patents. They are different things and have different purposes and requirements.

Really, you're not the only one, but it is shameful that at this point in time so many people still don't know what patents are, yet comment on HN.
Awesome "3D" projection software, emulate multiple screens on rectangular boxes
Greg Cochrane mentions that here, http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/paternal-age/ , in the context of the influence of paternal age on mutation rates, and excessive numbers of mutations having negative influences on fitness and health.
Yep. Reading the article I was a little put off by how banal the hypothesis really is. Inflammation, including neuroinflammation, is involved in many pathologies. Whether it is a cause or a symptom is unclear, partially because it is unclear what is going on in neurons exposed to stressors that causes their dendrites to recede. If inflammation is the main cause and best treatment vector for autism, autism is in the same boat as Alzheimer's and other difficult-to-treat inflammation-related neurological conditions.
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Jury foreman owns a patent he can now sue Apple for, seriously.

This whole trial was a complete mockery, regardless which side you believed was right.
Fast and lightweight, yes. But vanilla-js is certainly not cross platform ;) You see, that's actually one of the biggest problems with JS and one of the main reasons why people use things like jQuery (apart from the pretty API..).

That cross platform bit is the weakest link sigh.
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Recently, I was interviewing a front-end developer candidate and I gave them a simple JavaScript problem. The sad thing was, they didn't recognize `document.getElementById()` and didn't know any of the parameters to `addEventListener()`.

We finished the exercise assuming the example used jQuery instead.
"You should have an open mind, but not so open all your brains run out."

In fact, the "hygiene hypothesis" is almost the diametric opposite; vaccines, by challenging our immune systems, would reduce the risk of autism. Not that it does that either, studies have repeatedly found no correlation between vaccination and autism.
"Please, guys, before you conclude that probabilistic computers are the future, think about what it would be like debugging a program running on one."

Most of today's software is already probabilistic. Most bugs occur because the software is run on the wrong hardware. Therefore, once we have probabilistic hardware, most existing software can easily be ported, and most bugs will instantly disappear.
What's the alternative? I think it comes down to renting or buying. In the long run I'd say that owning leads to more happiness, since rent can be a lot more expensive in the long run (excluding buying during occasional housing bubbles).
> There is no evidence for the hygiene hypothesis.

On the contrary, there is copious evidence for the hygiene hypothesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis#Supporting_e...

PubMed: Epidemiological and immunological evidence for the hygiene hypothesis:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17544829

A quote: "...several epidemiological studies were conducted supporting this concept and generating novel ideas for the underlying mechanisms that were then followed up by use of well-defined animal models and human studies."

Your statement is, simply put, absolutely false.
Maybe it's just me, but watching Peepcode screencasts puts me to sleep, even at 1.5x speed.
The iPhone also used the same 320x480 screen resolution of some PDAs.
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/iphone-vs-...
these sites are getting really old
The problem is that it didn't work as a 'smartphone' at all. It couldn't connect to blackberry's e-mail server, it couldn't connect to exchange, it couldn't send an MMS, it couldn't multitask or run background apps, it couldn't copy-paste. The iPhone was completely incapable of replacing existing smartphones for quite some time. It took blackberry's monopoly on 'push' e-mail dying and several updates to iOS before it could actually compete in the existing smartphone market.

What original iPhone is, was the first 'smartphone' like device that every consumer wanted.
To quote you back "But that's not mathematics, that's arithmetic".

I can see your point of view, but arithmetic is one of oldest fundamentals of mathematics. This is the way I was thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic

Its like the old saying "Its not what you say, but how you say it". In this day and age, people generally get the perception that mathematics is all about counting.
There's a free announcement list you can join (below the purchase button). Sign up and I'll keep sending you reasons you should buy the book until you do :-)
Thanks for finding that. The result seemed odd.

So 337 gigawatts for jet fuel instead of megawatts. That will dwarf google, we'll need to compare to something bigger.

Lets convert to annual kilowatt hours, 337GW24h365= 2950 billion kWh.

In 2007 it was estimated that the total power consumption of the internet was 868 billion kWh. [1]

So now we have three times the energy in jet air transport as in powering the internet. I have to say this feels better.

EOM

[1] http://uclue.com/index.php?xq=724
So many JS frameworks, so little time...
cue in the obnoxious conspiracy theorists...
In those three months, Samsung was able to copy Apple's 4-year investment in the iPhone, without taking any of the risks—because they were copying the world's most successful product ... No one is trying to stop them from selling smartphones, all we're saying is: make your own. Make your own designs, make your own phones, and compete on your own innovations.

If its not obvious, why could they do it in 3 months without access to the great contributions to the art of computer science Apple's patent provide?
I subscribe to "get it done" programming. I've never had the troubles you seem to speak of going back to fix the shortcuts though. Interfaces are, for all intents and purposes, black boxes, so your improvements can always be dropped right in with relatively little effort.

I guess if the codebase is a mess of spaghetti, that is another matter. I do always try to get the interfaces right from the beginning.
My first computer with a GUI was 8MHz. I used a touchscreen with a light-pen in 1979. There have been countless groups of graduate students brainstorming since then.

I think you'll find nothing is obvious until after it's been done. If you directly present someone with the problem, you are already leading them to the solution. The real difficulty is finding just the right problem to fix, there are millions of possible "problems" or things to change in a phone.
All the others rely on this one, so it wouldn't be a very fair chart.
Thank you for this. Trying to pin Autism down to a simple cause is foolish. Not only is autism often (thusfar not 100%) caused by a malfunction in the genes it is implicated in thousands of different genes and not even necessarily inherited (in large part being due to denovo mutations). Nonetheless the brain is a wide surface area of attack, there are many ways to assault it that could result in impaired intelligence.

Worth noting is that the connection between inflammation, intelligence and health could be more related to the heritable trait of how stable or robust your phenotype is to noise (mutations and stochastic alike).

What I also find interesting is that the fear for a disease being genetic will likely flip in the next 2 decades. Genetic diseases will be more easily corrected than diseases that will evolve a slip right under your nose.
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Really, I must insist: a syndrome is a set of clinical symptoms. "Austism" describes a set of symptoms. "Autism" does not describe an illness with a well-defines root cause. Hence, my comment: autism is a syndrome, and there could be several distinct illnesses (several root causes) that lead to autism.
But surely Apple deserves to be compensated for all the development work they did. Who's going to develop the next iPhone caliber innovation if the only reward they'll receive is to become the wealthiest company in history? Oh wait...
Hm, interesting. I’ve thought about making Iron Money open-source, but I’ve never thought of a really compelling argument. Other than the transparency of what’s going on behind the scenes, what makes for an eloquent argument for making it open-source?
Ant behavior has also served as the model for solving traditionally "hard" optimization problems....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorit...
Pretty darn cool, I must say. 3D video projection, just like raycasting in video games, with a real-world application.
As a Firefox add-on developer, I am generally happy with the way Mozilla treats the community. Mozilla developers nearly always respond to my bug reports within hours, and big decisions are (usually) open to public debate.

Firefox add-on development can be frustrating because the exposed APIs are subject to continuous change, but I believe the Firefox developers when they say that the only alternative to this churn is to limit APIs (a la add-ons in all other browsers and Firefox's own Add-on SDK).
There is inadequate evidence of a link between the hygiene hypothesis and autism, which is what the article was about. I agree that there seems some fairly good support for the hygiene hypothesis and immunological problems, like allergies and asthma.

EDIT: replaced "no evidence" with "inadequate evidence", as lutusp noted, the article is claiming a correlation, which is at least weak evidence.
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Aww, you mean a CEO can't stay rich by giving away other people's creations for free? What a tragedy.
You’re not even wrong, there were quite a few PDA+mobile phones many years before the iPhone.
Sony Ericsson’s p800 & p900 series was even referred to as PDA Phones.
Actually, a obscure one did. Picsel browser, available on certain sony clie (palm OS) pdas had a very decent rendering engine for its time, tap to zoom and very smart gestures for zooming in and out (tap tap-drag). Miles ahead of the competition (ie, blazer and such...)
Show HN: dbinbox.com - an inbox for your Dropbox (weekend project)
http://dbinbox.com/

Ever needed to send yourself a file, but didn't feel comfortable logging in to your email or dropbox account? Ever tried to talk your parents through emailing you a file as an attachment? Yeah, me too (and apparently also a lot of other people [1]), so I hacked this small sinatra app together over a few weekends [2].

Suggestions, critiques, and pull requests are welcome!

1. "anonymous upload?": https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=3525

2. Source code: https://github.com/christiangenco/dbinbox
Jobs was running NeXT during the development of the Newton. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in late 1985 and became interim CEO in September 1997. He discontinued the Newton project in March 1998 to refocus the company toward profitability again.
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Because if you think it has enough value for you to watch it, but refuse to pay for it, you're not really protesting anything. You're just being a jerk. It isn't taking a principled stand to do something which helps your own wallet at the expense of the people making the content you watch.

For clarification, since I seem to have worded that unclearly: if your protest is indistinguishable from simply being greedy, don't be surprised if your message gets lost. If you think it's worth protesting, go all the way. Otherwise how am I supposed to tell that you really think your reason to protest them outweighs—even to you—your reason to watch the stuff they create?
>> couldn't connect to blackberry's e-mail server

>> it couldn't connect to exchange

>> it couldn't send an MMS

Didn't realize those were "must-haves" for a smartphone (an enterprise smartphone, maybe), because I never did that with any of my Windows Phones prior to getting an iPhone. I used my Windows Phone for my consulting work, by the way.

>> it couldn't multitask or run background apps

That's a double edged sword. That's one thing I hated on my Windows Phone. If you accidentally left the camera running in Windows Phone and sent it to the background, kiss your remaining battery life for the day goodbye.

>> it couldn't copy-paste

On my list of things to have on a smartphone, that's near the bottom. Yes, it was a pain, but far from being at the top of my list of "smartphone criteria"

>> The iPhone was completely incapable of replacing existing smartphones for quite some time

Well, I don't know about other people, but it replaced my Windows phone with no issue.

--edit--

To be clear, my primary business use of a smartphone is to manage my contacts, calendar and e-mail.
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The Treo 180g was a cell phone and a PDA with a touch screen and no physical keyboard. In 2002.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=372&pg=...
I love pure JavaScript. jQuery is overrated and most libraries are only good for one thing or the other, nothing can replace the joy and performance of Vanilla JS!
That's nonsense. Ericsson released a combined PDA/phone in 2000, and PalmOS based PDA/phones date back to at least 2002.
>If it's genetic, as you assert, then what hope is there?

Recognizing what their specific problems actually are, there is significant variation in the strength of the particular difficulties individual autistics face.

Teaching autistics to work around their disabilities; there has been significant progress on this approach for recognizing and dealing with other peoples emotions, for example.

Getting them the support they need for problems they cannot work around.
and people act like all Samsung did was copy. You realize they wouldn't be the most successful Android OEM if they didn't do their own innovation as well. And no, people aren't rushing out the buy Samsung phones because they look like iPhones (I mean they don't even have an Apple on the back, should be pretty obvious to anyone that it isn't an iPhone), they are buying them because they are cheaper and can do 90% of what an iPhone can do. Changing that to 88% (removing the two behavior patents) isn't going to make a dent in Samsungs ability to sell to the masses.
> "This is the kind of drivel that was shared around the internet at the time of the iPhone's release : http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone*

Consider the following headlines:

"Love your kids? Prove it by beating them."* http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=beat

"Green Peace blows, pave the rain forests!" http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=green_peace

"When is the last time a whale did anything for you?"
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=whales_suck

"My neighbor's kids were pissing me off, so I ate them." http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i_ate_my_nei...

"I hope SOPA passes" http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=pass_sopa

He also has an entire website devoted to making fun of childrens' drawings.

Point being, Maddox should never, ever, ever, be taken even remotely seriously. Why criticize his "full keyboard" line and not his "I ate the neighbor's kids" article?