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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, since you're correct. I guess it's because you didn't provide any supporting information. Here it is:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-26/greenlight-s-ein...

> Greenlight Capital Inc. President David Einhorn called for Microsoft Corp.’s board to replace Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, saying the software maker suffers from “Charlie Brown management."

Einhorn is the president of Greenlight capital, a hedge fund.

> Greenlight, a New York-based hedge fund, added 1.39 million Microsoft shares last quarter, for a total of 9.07 million, according to a filing. The stake is worth $230.2 million. Microsoft’s shares have underperformed the S&P 500 in four of the past five quarters.

Also from this article:

> Ballmer is the company’s second-biggest shareholder -- with more than 333 million shares, or almost 4 percent. Co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates owns more than 561 million shares, or a 6.7 percent stake, according to Bloomberg data.

So Bill Gates + Steve Ballmer don't own 33%, as has been stated elsewhere, but "only" 6.7 percent of this $200bn company.
A creative visionary who has technical breadth. Being a generalist enables them to know what pieces are needed and how to fit them together.
I'd be more interested to see what happens when said exchange files for bankruptcy.
"With a hammer"
ToolTwist - "allows non-technical people to create the world's fastest websites"
> Some quick math says that Ballmer and Gates own about a third of Microsoft combined.

Incorrect. They own about 6.7%. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2587008
Mostly, I know that Italians think carpet is illogical and disgusting. It dropped heavily in fashion in the mid-nineties in Ireland, and now parquet and tile are close to God. Now I think of it, the last couple of German hotels I stayed in had some type of carpet; very industrial looking.

We Irish have for a long time tended to avoid carpet in bathrooms, but maybe we just don't piss as straight.
I think a better analogy is "Twiddling fonts is to programming what choosing a helmet is to car racing". An ill-fitting helmet will probably do the job just as well as a good fitting helmet, but why be uncomfortable?
That said, I agree that there's a limit to how much effort you should put into font selection -- find one that you like and that works for your purposes and leave it at that.
Even if there were reviews, it's impossible to discern astroturfing from legit information. National and international hotel chains do not have this problem.
I searched through this whole thread looking for 'alias' to see if anyone else also can't stand anti-aliased fonts for coding, and I see that there are a few of us. I also always end up back with Monaco, but 10pt black on white. Perfectly readable and easy on the eyes.
Quando la cyberwar incontra la cybersecurity
La notizia è di quelle grosse davvero (grazie dalybab per la segnalazione ;-)) ), il sito ufficiale della US Air Force ha annunciato che il Dipartimento della Difesa inizierà a condividere le proprie informazioni, capacità e competenze con l'Homeland Security Department.

Ebbene si, militari e civili americani hanno avviato...
[Minimum Age Limits]Stop blaming Facebook and Twitter for our failures
MC Hammer also promotes crap products, like 49ers WR Michael Crabtree.
Some blurbs taken verbatim from their website:

"Its unique concept allows Marketing people to design and build sophisticated websites using widgets created by the Technical programmers."

"By allowing this widget to be programmed and then assembled by non-technical marketing folks, your time to market for a change or a new page is substantially reduced."
http://www.tooltwist.com/ttsvr/whatis.html

"ToolTwist ensures that the websites you create using our technology are fast – pages are loaded swiftly using ToolTwist proprietary technology."
http://www.tooltwist.com/ttsvr/whatis.html

"So who should design your website? Inward focused technical guys? (or) Your customer-focused marketing department?"
http://www.tooltwist.com/ttsvr/overview2.html
I think this is a great idea, but this is another startup (like yelp, to name another) with a globally good idea only applied to select few US cities. I get that they want to take it slow and get traction, but with all their traction they never get to small places that are in need of such services.

I really hate stealing other people's ides (god knows I can't even act on a 10% of my own), but as Groupon buying Israeli copy-cat "Grouper" showed, maybe opening a local carbon copy will make the original startup step in (especially if you gain traction).
I should hope to be such a failure. He served as the development manager for the original MS Windows, one of the greatest business franchises of all times. During his tenure as CEO he's taken what was already a mega-cap company and more than doubled their net income and tripled revenue.
Not only did he miss the wave of the future - we all do, sometimes. The problem here is that he missed the wave of the future - twice! (iPhone, then iPad) - while the entire rest of the world rightly recognized them as game-changers.

This guy is completely out of touch with consumer reality.

I'm not sure what kind of logic would cause a CEO to look at throngs of millions of people, lined up to buy the most hyped, most-published consumer electronics device ever produced. Then completely dismiss it altogether.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Maybe leave Ballmer in place for the enterprise products, but they need to give everything consumer-related to Allard and give him carte blanche and the entire MS fortune to do what he wants. There's a man who has a pulse on consumer products. He might be the closest thing to Jony Ive or Steve Jobs that MS has ever seen.
'Spaces' aren't new

They aren't new but they've been fairly common in Linux desktop environments since the 90's while OS X didn't introduce them until 2007. I'm not sure where they first appeared but at the very least they've certainly become a common idea because of Linux.
FWIW, there's a pretty extensive discussion of the fast transaction problem here: http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=3441.0
I agree that html freedom has done a lot to user interfaces and ux. But that works best in a web setting.

In an intranet setting (the kinda place where IE6 may still linger for 2-3 years) using standardized RIA frameworks like ExtJS help speedup the development cycle by offloading 80% of the design work from the 1000+ developers, which probably already have a handful trying to figure out in which order a certain financial transaction needs to be called on the Mainframe CICS-DB2.
I just found about this page yesterday while doing a google search for various compiler books and posted it to reddit in /r/compilers, looks like it's now spreading. I'm really interested if anyone has read this book yet. I've just started and am currently reading Chapter 3.

It seems as if nobody seems to recommend this book, perhaps it just wasn't noticed before? Thanks for posting to hn.
Vision and stamina to keep pushing till it done.
The whole piece seems to be based on a false premise, namely that MapReduce is supposed to replace databases. That's not the case at all, it's a way to analyze and transform data in parallel. Afterwards, you can load it into a relational (or other) database if you want database features.

Also, at least Hadoop offers a natural way of dealing with skew, partitioning: http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/module5.html#part....
This is not exactly shocking. The quality of education has to be a factor as well. I am sure for most people an hour of one on one tuition, is more effective than a number of hours in a large class. Even more so if the rest in the large class are not interested in learning.
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I think this is a good idea. I'd even go further and say some startups catering to specific geographic areas could franchise - you take some of the risk, put in some of your own money maybe, they get cut of profits and give you their tech / secret sauce.
So if I list my place on Airbnb, is there a chance Ashton will come crash on my couch? Because that would be a great marketing gimmick.
"Ballmer has proven that he handles the enterprise products just fine"

He can milk the Office cash cow, but has he really driven innovation in the enterprise? Amazon is considered a pioneer of enterprise cloud computing, yet they started as an online retailer, not a platform/infrastructure provider.
If you are what you do then you aren't what you've done.
Pretty sure it will only delete if it setup to manage your library.
That was uncalled for. Please be civil.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nothing is innovating.
Windows, Mac and Linux are just adding colours to Panel, Dock and Taskbar. Thats it!
The 80s. Originally out of PARC.

Also, while Project Looking Glass (Sun) may have borrowed some stuff from Quartz, Apple borrowed a lot of UI stuff from Project Looking Glass
Nice article. Other than open source, one more affordable option available today is SAAS BI. Especially for small and medium companies who may not want to allocate precious IT resources for installing and maintaining the open source solutions in-house. I work for Zoho and we have one such SAAS BI solution, Zoho Reports (http://reports.zoho.com). Do have a look.
But Android is still converting those gestures to something that's basically a key which can be exposed to a brute force attack.

Android uses a nine cell unlock pattern which gives you roughly 16 bits. A four digit numeric key gives you between 13 and 14.

So while it's better it's not moving it into the realms where a brute force attack of this nature is off the table, it just goes from about 40 minutes to about 4 hours.

Given that in most instances where this sort of attack is being used the attacker will have stolen the phone and therefore there's no practical time limit, that's not a useful improvement.
This was super-interesting; watching PG do his thing lets one get familiar with his way of thinking.

What every entrepreneur should do should be to build a "virtual PG" in their head (the way writers pretend to write to one person they actually know, and not in general).

Also, there is great potential for a fascinating reality TV show.

Instead of watching people eating bugs in Guatemala, how captivating would it be to follow a few startups going from nothing to world domination, their doubts, failures and successes, etc., and see how they're coached and what they learn along the way?

I would pay to watch such a show.
Absolutely correct. The savvy candidate has always known, you need to somehow do an end-run around HR and get the attention of people who will be your cow-orkers or your manager. Get them to submit your CV via internal channels, and chase it up, acting as your sponsor from within. Industry events, participating in an online/offline community, "networking" are the way to do this.
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Pedal powered farms and factories
Looks more lightweight now, but still it's 12k LOC vs 1k LOC in Backbone. Need to look through, what do those 11k offer :)

Pure JS and drop-in integration is good too, we are a Java shop and lots of developers working on Windows, so introducing a Ruby-dependent JS framework would be hard in my case.

Previously we also considered SC as a 'heavy' JS solution - like Cappuccino, ExtJS or GWT(we used GWT for complex backends - it allowed us to share UI&server code), but now we'll have another look at it as an alternative to Backbone for frontends/mobile.
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I think you guys are being unnecessarily hard on Kutcher. It is a flawed assumption that being a celebrity (sportsman, musician) means you have no additional value.

There are medical doctors than when on to play football (the real one); Nigeria has a Cornell Physics PhD candidate that does rap. etc.

Why do you guys (critics) believe you can add better value to AirBnB than Aston.

I believe celebrities need to do a little bit extra to show they are more than what is seen on TV.

So take a moment to stop beefing and say

Congrats AirBnB for a nice coup.
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seriously?

What do you think Android is - and its not just the kernel. I have a working userspace on my phone. In fact, when I have spotty connectivity, the first thing I do is fire up the terminal and do a ping/traceroute.

Gnome != Linux.
Ask HN: How to learn to give clear, descriptive names to class, methods etc
Its one thing I wish I did better when writing code. The names are either obscure or turn into sentences before I can fully express what they try to do.

There probably isn't a surefire way to get better at this and something that must be worked on and cultivated. But any advise pointing the way is appreciated.
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looks like the site hasn't been updated for a while.
So, you are scraping Twitter (likely violating their ToS) to get users' Tweets (likely violating their copyright) and now posting about it on HN? When Twitter is selling chunks of its stream, e.g. via InfoChimps?

I don't want to be mean, but this doesn't strike me as a very good idea.
It's unfortunate that KDE doesn't get the attention it deserves. It has been long rebuked as a Windows clone.

But, KDE's Plasma Desktop is highly innovative (through a wide range of interesting plasmoids). The fact that it can be easily scripted in JavaScript makes it even more awesome.
Come on, do a little work, e.g. looking at http://searchyc.com/recurring.
The solution is simple: Don't buy virtual gold. And Blizzard should be way more vigilant in shutting down accounts which do so.

Virtual Gold has become cheaper and cheaper over time (you can't fail to notice this, if you're standing around in a city you see all communication channels spammed with offers, which mention current pricing). If we assume the Law of Supply and Demand works for the virtual gold economy too, we could conclude that supply is rising, and vice-versa that Blizzard is not doing enough to stop the suppliers and gold farmers.
If theres a crowdfunding platform to invest small cash into startups, would you?
You did argue the issue, claiming that some fonts do have style and some don’t. I didn’t start.

It’s at least nice to see that you agree that your argument is rubbish ;-)
Pope Urban VIII's beef with Cassini wasn't over his assertion that Copernicus was right, but rather because Cassini was asserting that which he could not prove.

...

So, in this case, the church was on the side of the scientific method.

I find it hard to believe that the Catholic Church then was a proponent of scientific method and would have accepted Galileo's theories if only he'd had evidence.

Even now the Catholic Church (and other religions) do not follow empirical experimentalism. They ignore what the scientific method tells them if it disagrees with their beliefs and dogma. Creationism is a common example amount protestant churches, but the Catholic Church still maintains that a healthy sexuality is unhealthy, that homosexual sexual activity is unhealthy, and that condoms don't work in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

To a scientists, "proof" means 'an experiment that I can repeat that confirms this data', to the catholic church (and many other religions), "proof" can include things you read in your holy book. How could Galileo "proof" his theories to their satisfaction?
I think it's because he has no expertise on technology, can give you zero advice, will actually probably give you the wrong advice, cannot help you with your scaling or implementation issues, cannot refer you to the right technical people when you need it. The one thing that silicon valley has that none of us in the rest of the world have is a vibrant network of like minded, able and willing to help people. It's perfectly ok to invest, but I guess that doesn't make you part of the silicon valley. Plus it's the old nerds/jocks war.
There's one man to lead this company, there always has been. Bill needs to stop curing the world and get back to pushing the boundaries of technology.
You're telling this as if the rules for knowledge and deduction had already been worked out -- you're telling it in a way where we are invited to take our current understanding of how science works and drop it willy-nilly into a time many hundreds of years ago. It doesn't work like that. To them, holy writ was another form of valid observational data. The struggle religion is having is an internal one -- how literally to take the holy words. Offenses to science are just collateral damage in that larger debate. There was also a personal thing going on between Galileo and the Pope.

I don't say that as an apologist. I really feel like there is nothing to defend here. Mankind's belief system impeded and advanced the acquisition of scientific knowledge in various ways. For instance, I'd argue that the reformation was the biggest thing to happen to science, encouraging individuals to see and prove things for themselves.

I was just taking issue with not having enough context. Yes, the big picture is Galileo had a hard time of it. But all the little details -- the personality issues, the issues of evidence, the way his work was constructed, the way knowledge was generally gathered and advancements made at the time, etc. -- to me those are the juiciest parts of the story. Gives it a wonderful 3-D feel. To tell it like a comic book from the 21st century where the church is evil and Galileo was some kind of uber-hero is to commit a crime against the joy of history, in my opinion. It's a much more enjoyable story than that, and I'm not sure the listener of the comic book version really understands what was going on from this version of the telling. To be more blunt, and speaking as an agnostic and non-religious person, it sounds a bit more like anti-church propaganda instead of an honest look at how people lived. Listening to the apologist doesn't put me on the church's side by any means, but it sure makes the whole thing into a hell of a better story.
Convofy - another social-network thingy
Similar to Yammer, there is Convofy - desktop+web based app allows users to post updates, share documents via drag-drop and posting links - but I don't think Yammer, Convofy and their ilk can leverage the corporate world w/o integration with Sharepoint and other CRM and issue tracking tools
Maybe we can find Atlantis now.
Thanks. I normally use Firefox but I might end up using Chrome just for HN.
I have been thinking about adding/selling a starter kit as it will definitely help me raise the price of the ebook and I also have a pretty good idea of the type of people to target but how to target them is the big challenge.
You get high marks for boastful overconfidence, but frankly, I think anyone who claims to know with certainty what will happen with bitcoin, including you, is grossly overestimating their predictive talents.

The truth is, we have not seen a currency with exactly these properties ever before. The discussion on Quora highlights for me just how little consensus there is about what will happen. Bitcoin is interesting precisely because we have no idea how important it will turn out to be.
Accoriding to coinmill.com, 1Bn Nigerian Naira is worth 6,343,298 USD.

So, you could call Mr. Goodluck Jonathan the 'Nigerian Six Million Dollar Man' ;-)
>asking a question that could have been answered by reading the article.

Except I read the article and watched the video and neither answered the question ... so if any of these people had read it they would have known the article didn't answer the point. So it's just pettiness?

IMO part of the benefit of social media such as this site is that others are willing to digest news and information to enable one to get a quick overview of a topic.
MinuteBox goes social to help users buy-and-sell expertise
Corruption is the scourge of the developing world, there is a significant drive in India to try to stamp out the practice but they have a long way to go. Organizers of the Indian Commonwealth games are embroiled in corruption scandals that have greatly embarrassed the country.
Ashton who?
> Business Solidarity, an organisation that works to protect small businessmen, estimates that one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in jail, and that one in three prisoners in Russia is a businessman.

How on Earth did they come up with that estimate?
Even if it would be beneficial to the whole internet, but if google did that that would be like giving an advantage to all the google competitors : they wouldn't need to solve the crawling problem. It may not be algorithmically gorgeous but it's still one problem less.
Would be fun though, we could buy a tarball of the whole internet ;)
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Looks like "enterprise company selling expensive black box trying to direct attention to their product" to me.
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Does that mean that Russia has twice as much enterpreneurs as prisoners?

It's interesting how this article seem to already raise much more interest on news.yc that the recent russian IT IPO with 8B valuation.

I'd take it with a grain of salt if I were you. My mother owns a small cloth store in a town near Moscow and I'm positive that:
- She's not afraid
- She doesn't "share her profits with the police and people from the tax authorities"
- Still she blames the amount of paper she have to submit (taxes, pension funds etc) and how careless then they interpret those papers.
British understatement: "Doing business in Russia is notoriously difficult".

It will be interesting to see Russia's progress over the next couple of decades and see whether the problems with corruption get worse before they get better.
Unless a billion buys immortality, Bill G is still mortal so whether he's six feet under or off curing the world doesn't change the fact that Microsoft, for the moment, is completely rudderless. If there is only one man to lead a company that means it is dead meat because tomorrow is not a guarantee and the investors know this. This is why Apple is working to codify what makes Apple, Apple.
YC-funded http://adioso.com already does something like this. Don't know how successful they are.
Honest question: as someone who dropped Linux in favour of OSX largely to get a nicer user experience, what is in the new generation of Linux desktops to tempt me back?

The videos linked from the article show a Spaces'esk virtual desktop and a more interactive Growl'esk notification box. Both very slickly done but not really anything mind blowing. The features in the other videos on the Gnome 3 site seem equally derivative; clones of the Window snapping from Win7, the icon view from Lion etc.

Am I missing something? Should I be looking somewhere else? KDE?
The Transparency International reports on corruption are an interesting insight into how widespread these issues are. A lot of corruption grows on the 'everybody does it' mentality.

http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/...
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Hi...good point. Some people may require a little more information before deciding whether this business is for them. Since you've brought up the question, I can tell you that the business is basically about delivering/selling a certain type of balloon to a certain type of business on wholesale. It does require driving within a 5 mile radius of your neighborhood.

Thanks
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