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And, for example, as at Wikipedia, recently in Finland the number of children per woman is 1.5. Most of the OECD countries are killing themselves off. Finland beat back Sweden, Russia, and Germany but is losing to the feminists.

Just what is it about the importance ot being mommies those women don't get?

Whatever, the situation is self-correcting: Women who don't REALLY want to be mommies won't be and, thus, will have their genes removed from the gene pool. What will be left are women who DO want to be mommies. With the current situation, that change might take only 100 years. We are likely in the biggest change in the human gene pool going back at least to 40,000 years or so ago when the lines for Europe and the Far East split.

In another 100 years, the population should be smaller but growing more rapidly.
Ask HN: Best marketing/branding books?
Hi -- my partner and I have a recently funded startup and one of the "money guys" is very bottom line focused, challenging nearly every expense. We are trying to build the case that its worth it in the long run to have nice marketing materials, to have good design that taps into the 'cool' zetigeist and develop something that people will want to be a part of. Does anyone know of some good books on the subject that we can read and then use to bolster our case in the board room?
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Is this confirmed to be the screen for the final version, or is this just something the devs quickly put in the dev build?
It looks weird at first, but it's great when used like so:

return x unless err
return y if condition
...
return z

Keeping all of your "return"s at the start of the line makes it much easier to see, at a glance, what the possible return values of your function are. (And, of course, when you see a "return" in the middle of your function, you know there must be a condition attached.)
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I also think Google should've developed their own IDE.
They should control things like this.

I think that would have been pointless, a total time waste and money down the drain.

Eclipse may be bloated, but it is available right now and on all platforms too. It means that I don't have to buy a Mac to develop for Android, which in turn means that the barrier to entry is lower for me. It was also available from the get-go. Apple has spent years on improving XCode. Google just had to release a plugin. Apple spent years building a community of people around XCode. Google just inherited it.

Btw, there are benefits to creating a Java-compatible ecosystem, one of them being that if you don't like Eclipse, you can always switch to IntelliJ IDEA.
Wonder how long that took to discover. MTTBSOD?
I really do like this idea, not because it does anything new (as other's have mentioned it's easy to do this on plenty of existing venues like youtube), it's more to do with the community you could build around this. If you could find a simple way to match users with coding sessions that are relevant to them, you'll have no problem building a community. You absolutely must allow videos to be stored (not just watched live), indexed, commented on, rated, tagged, etc if you want to make this useful, imho.

If I could go to site, search for "best way to write a y combinator in c++" or something similar and get videos showing people doing just that but sorted by user rating, I would be a happy boy! I love when other users do the hard work of telling me what's good and what isn't. :)
There was interesting post about speeding up Eclipse recently: http://www.beyondlinux.com/blog/2011/06/25/speed-up-your-ecl...
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It seems that it's very minimal, just a form. More of a clean namespaced form generator than a full blown admin like ActiveAdmin.
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Seems similar to http://webputty.net , though WebPutty has CSS hosting, better integration with existing sites, and compatibility with SCSS.

That aside, what problem do you see this as solving? As in, why would somebody learning CSS by "playing around" (as you say on your About page) want to use LabCSS instead of Firebug or the Chrome debugger?
I have the same experience (no complaints or problems) using it at home on my Ubuntu machine, also with the OpenJDK. When I tried it recently on my Windows 7 machine at work the autosuggest will regularly lock everything up for about 10 seconds and everything's noticeably slower. Not sure if that's the Windows version or the computer - but Visual Studio 2010 runs just fine.
I tried a kneeling chair a while back. The pressure on my shins was unbearable to the point of being painful. I really wanted to like it but couldn't use it for more than a few minutes at a time.
Ask HN: Functioning effectively with less sleep
How do you deal with extended periods of time when you get less sleep than usual? Any tips that help you stay alert?
btw, the work is not always less interesting. Think of it this way, this industry has ambitious people from pure science PhDs, mathematicians, statisticians, programmers, MBAs, idiot nephews of rich uncles...everyone is competing.

If you are successful, you can justify building a huge Hadoop cluster, experimenting with hardware TCP/IP processing, buying (or storing) petabytes of data for statistical analysis. Pretty interesting stuff for a geek.

Obviously, not every one in the industry gets these chances and all this not necessary. I know of people who earn their living doing automated trading in ... visual basic (not VB .NET) :)
It's best done at Google or at your email client. Anything elsewhere (e.g., at a browser) will suffer the same fate as FireGPG. I don't see Google ever doing it for Gmail -- normal people don't care about encrypting their emails, and Google will not want to risk losing the ability to show context-sensitive ads.
I'm not sure this will be welcomed on hacker news, but its almost laughable to me when people try to dismiss eclipse. Not just to the author, but some of the other comments here. Eclipse is probably one of the most sophisticated software development platforms out there.

Have you used the debugger (emulator or physical device)? How about the integration of DDMS into eclipse? FindBugs? HotSwaping? One IDE for python, php, java ... etc? Code profiling? The list is basically endless.

It is second nature to me, but its confusing how someone coming from xcode could rail against eclipse. Sure, I like using vim sometimes, but compare adding a plugin to eclipse to adding a plugin to vim. Compare the debug capabilities of eclipse to nearly every other debugger I've ever worked with. You can do instruction step by step debugging on a physical device! It integrates with your scm and you project management.

I really think Eclipse gets a bad rap from people who haven't used it since 2004 and base their entire analysis on what their experience was then. But to come to a modern version of Eclipse and compare it to XCode and find eclipse lacking ... i find that suspicious.

Edit: Full disclosure ... Java coder for 6 years, android for 1.5 but have used Xcode enough :)
What this tells me is that the perfect work environment is a Catholic Mass.
I'm always adjusting it so that might be beneficial after all :)
What about the university using research funds to defend the patent?

If you have a patent you have to defend it and prosecute to make money from it. That costs lawyers. At one point do you decide it would be cheaper to just allow the world to benefit from the invention rather than spend your entire budget on a legal case?

Are we going to have universities forming patent groups to fight other universities?
why is this a story?

1. provocative anti-apple app gets into store

2. publicizes itself

3. gets pulled for being a provocative anti-apple app

4. surprise?
It does exist, it is open-source and it is awesome.

It also comes with Android project-types. What is missing when compared to Eclipse is the visual interface builder, but IMHO people can do without that bloat, especially since it is totally unusable IMHO.

Just do your interfaces as you would do HTML-stuff. IDEA does give you code completion for tags and tag attributes. Works fine.
Perfect. And the password will be shared over Google talk, I bet.
For some reason I've never seen ShowMeDo but what a great site. Thanks for sharing this. As the "business" guy I keep learning about new technologies and taught myself to program using various books and sites.
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> Save yourself the headache and make a <script> tag with an id

That's not always efficient. Suppose you want the same lengthy template to be available across several pages which share the same JavaScript. Then it makes a lot more sense to put the template in the JS and serve it once than to put it in the DOM and serve it repeatedly. Also, with the DOM approach, you have to insert data into the template using regex rather than simple str1 + data + str2.

If syntax highlighting is really your major concern, write a simple script that compiles your .html to .coffee (sandwiched with """). Best of both worlds.
Thanks for the pointer! As soon as I have some time, I'll dig into this more.
I don't get it: the actual study (which they even link to) appears to draw the exact opposite conclusion:

http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/Pub/HFlabReports/EHARep0904.pd...

See page 29 especially, and the graphs starting on page 19.
Core Eclipse is (imo) much better than many here seem to believe, but the Android Developer Tools bring back the experience of running Eclipse circa 2003. They're slow, memory hungry, and seemingly hang randomly doing nothing for a very long time, which for standard Java dev doesn't really happen these days.
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I do a similar thing. I also have a variety of objects under my desk at different heights so I can rest my feet in different positions and do whatever feels comfortable.

My desk isn't adjustable (atm) and one of the biggest (but unexpected) benefits of standing at my desk is that it tires me. After two hours or so I am forced to go have a sit down _away_ from my computer. This helps my productivity more than trying to take regular breaks when sitting as I find it harder to waste the time browsing the internet or simply skip a break.
I have a tablet too, but it's just a toy for consuming media and web content. I do my real work on a PC, and will continue to do so until it becomes possible to install web servers, database servers, interpreters and IDEs on a 10" tablet, regardless of what Steve Jobs or this hack for Ars tells me.

> My essential software tools include a fully functional Web browser, an IM client for communicating with writers and other editors, some way to access IRC (the "office" part of our virtual office lives), an e-mail client, a Twitter client, an RSS reader, and a simple writing app that an export clean HTML.

See above, some of us have more demanding requirements from our computers.
I used Eclipse daily for the last year and regularly for five or so before that. I've switched to Netbeans in the past (and back because of concerns at work--our build process hates Netbeans) and have been using IntelliJ for the last three months. Since switching to IntelliJ, I've never been happier when working in Java (would still prefer Visual Studio to any of this, though).

IMO, anyway, Eclipse's problem is that it doesn't feel like an IDE. It feels like a framework for making IDEs, and Java's sort of bolted in. The user experience is not good, and worse when using non-Java language. A lot of this can be chalked up to Eclipse being a very early example of this sort of IDE framework design, but there are a lot of warts that have just never been fixed.

It's just not a comfortable environment. Honestly it feels like the developers of the Java ecosystem atop Eclipse went "eh, close enough" at one point and it's stayed there for half a decade. It doesn't feel like anyone spent time looking at how users actually write code, but rather went off how they wrote code and extrapolated it to their userbase.
I suppose you're right. That's why it's probably best to just look at the future, and create tools for HTML5/Dart/Native Client for Android, since those are lacking now anyway.
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Are you supposed to write that down so you can search for it when the machine is done rebooting?
Buy an Espresso machine. Put it on your desk. Drink a double shot every hour or so. This is how I deal with it at least.
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I have always used IDE's. I was a big fan of Visual Studio when coding on Windows and I love Xcode on the Mac. For me Eclipse tries to do too much. I agree that it is very powerful but that might be the cause of the problem. Just looking the preferences there are hundreds of settings. It is also very slow a buggy for me.

The code completion is incredible though. This is my favourite feature of Eclipse. I particularly like how if I forget to include something it will warn me and do it for me with one click.
Release notes

https://www.vmware.com/support/fusion4/doc/releasenotes_fusi...

It runs Windows 8.

http://twitter.com/#!/VMwareFusion/status/113988639339450368
I (transparently) love HN, but very much do not love HN on pricing. A blog post is sitting in my drafts folder about this. One of these days, one of these days...

There are numerous Ask HNs about our demographics. Take a look at them. Compare with your domain expertise about people who run non-profits. The differences are fairly dramatic.

You'll never win an argument about pricing with someone who is not in the market for your product anyhow. Their opinions are not relevant. Getting $0 from HN readers will not compromise the success of your business, since there is no pricing strategy which will result in you getting more than $0 from HN readers.

I also think that 9.5% is less than 6% + 3.5% when considered from the perspective of the people whose opinions matter to you making your rent next month. For that matter, I think 10% would also also likely be perceived as less than 6% + 3.5%. In any event, you'll likely be additive on their existing revenue (or the customers will think you are), and 90% of free money is better than 100% of no money every day of the week.
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No luck for me with the 64-bit build in VMware Fusion 3.1.3. I hear it runs on VMware Fusion 4 though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996520
I actually fixed it correctly on the website then typed it incorrectly in my reply to you.
It's not clear to me that the financial system as an enabler of liquidity/commerce/trades/etc. would be significantly worse if the granularity were slightly reduced, though. Say, run exchanges in a discrete-time world of 100ms timesteps. Are there real-world use cases where this would make the finance system unable to facilitate the economy?

If there are ways to make profit by trading at sub-100ms resolution, but a 1ms-resolution exchange is not any better at facilitating the outside-finance economy than a 100ms-resolution one would be, then it seems like HFT is solving problems of the exchange's own creation. It could even genuinely be solving those problems, but if they're problems that only arise in the context of extremely-high-granularity exchanges, and there is no practical benefit to such high time resolution, then why not just axe the problems?
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Show HN: I created a window manager for Mac that isn't insanely over priced
As far as I know, market makers still have this obligation.

I believe Taleb has argued that HFT liquidity disappears when it is most needed, like seat-belts which work all the time, except during accidents (his metaphor may have been different)

Paul Wilmott argued that this much liquidity is actually not necessary. If someone will have trouble getting out of a stock, maybe they will think twice about getting into it.

Of course, an HFT practitioner doesn't need to prove to anyone why their activity is beneficial to society. The burden of proof is on the critics to show why this activity is harmful.
Thanks! I'm on HN from China and facebook is completely blocked (There are vpn/proxy options, but not worth setting up for a short stay).
I love coffee way too much, but i am increasingly finding that this is a bad idea. The more coffee i drink throughout the day the worse i feel in the morning, even when i get a reasonable amount of sleep.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/22/coffee/
> "lacking the resources to meet the basic needs for healthy living"
> "This in turn is based on the CPI"

Neither of these are objective, static measures.

The CPI measures the cost of a "basket of goods" that includes "rent of primary residence". The above census data clearly shows that the characteristics of one's "primary residence" have changed significantly since 1970. "Basic needs for healthy living" in 1970 and "basic needs for healthy living" in 2011 are significantly different; it is inappropriate to treat them as equivalent.

Earlier this year, I helped a friend move out of a place that lacked complete plumbing as well as complete kitchen facilities (as detailed in AHS table 2.4). There are still people who live in those conditions -- just not as many of them. Which is really the point: the thread was touched off by the claim that more people are living "in poverty" today than in the past, but that's a misleading claim because what "poverty" means right now is different from what "poverty" meant then.
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Stimulants are the classic answer here (caffein b vitamins). But i don't think that there is anything that acts a a proper substitute for sleep. your best bet is to restructure your schedule so you can get more sleep rather than looking for an alternative.
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Whoa, how does this submission have 0 points? I thought 1 was the minimum.
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Same problem: Google search from CID (Iowa) to Columbus OH turned up - no flights! Really?

Your search - same problem. Am I doing something wrong?
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Standing in not accepted risk factor for carotid atherosclerosis. There is no shortage of research about the dangers of sitting including obesity which is a risk factor of symptomatic carotid atherosclerosis. Varicose veins wile not very attractive are not considered a serious health problem and are treatable I would invite the author to quantify the desks with peer reviewed research. The only link was to a 32 person self survey. Not exactly the most reliable form of research.

I would also like to note this is not a peer reviewed article ones does the man have a medical degree and is not qualified to give medical advice. Not staying in one position sitting or standing and increasing your activity level is sound advice. I find the claims that standing is dangerous are surprising and are against everything I learned or read about accepted medical recommendations.
bug, noted, cheers.
Sounds more like a case of PC malware rather than an Android one. Of course if your PC gets compromised and they get access to your accounts, that will give them access to a lot of other things.
Ah nice, thanks for the tip!
Former WSO2 ESB and Apache Synapse ESB Architect Ruwan Linton Joins AdroitLogic
Ruwan is back again with Asankha Perera who was the lead contributor of the Apache Synapse ESB and the original architect of the WSO2 ESB. Asankha later founded AdroitLogic, which builds the high performance and easy to use Enterprise Service Bus UltraESB
Excited to see what companies come out of this challenge!
I don't typically mind too much, but this post is misleading. The headline specifically made this sound like it was a working project, not just a photoshopped screenshot.

Bait-and-switch is just as bad a form of linkbait as any other.
I like his last comment: "dance". I'm glad I work from home, because if I'm standing at work and a great dance tune comes through my mix (currently Basie doing Shiny Stockings) I can't stand still.
I wanted to share juicy anecdotes about a company I know that does this, but that would be counterproductive. Let's just say asking for tax discounts and credits because you do R&D (or you classify your software dev as R&D) is very usual in France. A key phrase to research if you want to know more is "JEI - jeune entreprise innovante".
Probably not. That data is from 2009, so it's full of holes.
Interesting exchange on there between a commentor and the Ars staffer, check the response: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/doable-or-not-my-e...
> $400/yr

That's VeriSign for you. Thawed sells the very same certificates for $200, and Comodo runs a coupon deal for Tucows members that gets you the cert for $99 (though the actual process is a bit too contrived compared to Thawte's).
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Cool, I think I'll be in! Are there any limitations regarding teams compositions? Is it [1...Inf]?
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I didn't know there were any that were insanely priced. Your headline might better be "I'm selling an app at a foolishly low price, take advantage of me while you can!"
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Less so for b2b, but during product development a third way is to reduce the length of the runway itself by making sure developer resources get applied to their core problem: development.

For us, that meant things like paying a relatively small monthly amount for services that would otherwise have to be administered by our development team: things like repo/wiki hosting (github) and website administration (rackspace). If you consider that every hour of developer time costs the company $25-$50+, these services make a lot of purely economical sense as well.
Hardware patents are not a huge part of the madness. Design, business process and software patents, however, usually are.
VMWare Fusion 3 customers, no need to fret. Unless you purchased after July 20th, you get to pay full price just like everyone else. ( I'd be happy to be wrong, but at this point, I feel a tad betrayed. To the point that I am considering dumping Fusion )
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The problem is patent trolls are immune to this kind of defense.
I'll look into changing it. I just put something up quick last night after I wrote the post
I'm not a developer, but after reading this article, it seems to me that Google would be well served by offering a version of the SDK with Eclipse and ADT baked in and auto-configured (and maybe even offer the option to update it same way Chrome does).
If it was common on other sites I would be a little annoyed but I think HN is the perfect place for a technique like this since most readers are happy to discuss projects in the idea phase. I for one like having the opportunity to throw in my thoughts at an early stage.
Really awesome. I'm using the same libraries right now in my own app and struggling hugely with Backbone. Would love to see some of the posts someone referenced a few posts up to explain how you fit it all together.
As nano-tech advances and replicators become more commonplace, hardware will face the same issues with patents and the seeming absurdity of patenting an 'obvious idea'.
Geekdesk FTW. I stand almost all day now, it's great.
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