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Summary:

•	Over 12 years of professional experience in Financial Industry

•	Executive Director experience at major Investment Banks

•	Hardcore skills developing low latency, high frequency systems

•	Expertise in

o	C++, C++11, Perl, Java

o	Linux

o	Product development

o	Multithreaded concurrent systems

o	Distributed systems and IPC

o	TCP/IP, UDP, Multicast

o	Messaging middleware (29 West LBM, Tibco, Solace)

o	Template meta-programming

o	Database programming (Oracle, Sybase, Postgress)

o	Version Control, Release and deployment management

o	Market Data, Order entry protocols, Exchange connectivity, Colo centers, Equity dark pools

•	Experience managing teams, interfacing with traders, business and sales, system admins, network admins, and outside vendors

•	Experience designing and managing co-lo centers

•	Experience designing, developing, and managing state of the art critical systems with P&L in hundreds of millions of $s

•	MS in Mathematics and Computer Science from reputed University

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Rob Sayove, the Gnash lead, was at the GNU 30th, and he's said he's basically done with Gnash. There's going to be an upcoming release, and then it's done. He was a bit concerned about the state of Flash, but Shumway gave him some hopes for the future.

(I am also a Shumway contributor)
Show HN: automated unit test generation
Awesome! It really sounds like they are making a decent effort. I did some more searches and they even support things like join elimination[1].

[1]: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/what-is-table-elimination/
That wouldn't explain the store credit they gave to the people who paid the original price.
John McAfee wants to NSA-proof the Internet with a device called Decentral
Interesting tidbit: The Chinese phrase for smart, "聪明" quite literally means "clear hearing".
If you weren't aware, Asymco is very pro-Apple. I would be shocked to see any hating from him.
That's the exact reason why a bunch of Apple stuff is more expensive that it should be and/or not free. People tend to perceive free stuff as cheap/bad and expensive stuff as high quality/good.

Being in the FOSS world, I can only shake my head at that...
First of all, good old backwards compatibility. There's large codebases still written in Flash, or perhaps things that are in Flash that will never get updated ever again (browser games being a big one), and people would like them to work even after Adobe's dropped out.

It also turns out that reimplementing Flash in HTML5 gives you a great idea of what's missing if you want to tell developers to just use HTML5. There has been quite a lot missing from the web standards that Shumway helped pushed through.
sorting by assets is a weird way to look at things. Given that banks manage people's money, you would expect them to dominate in assets.

market value, profits, number of employees all sound like better metrics to get the "size" of a company. if by "size" you mean the influence it has over the world.
Why don’t we have fusion yet?
Maybe a bad thread for this....

if I wanted to diversify my skill set beyond C#, what would you recommend? I've played with Java, python, clojure, ruby, and objective-C but i've been writing C#, and C++ for the past i think 7 years now.. that I never really seem to gravitate to far away from it, and i find myself wanting to use these languages like i use C#.
Indeed. I was very surprised when I read Gates owns about 4.5 percent of the $277 billion company and is its largest individual shareholder. I thought he still had most of his personal fortune in MSFT. It probably helps him that he didn't.

If he has other agendas and interests, it could be time to move on. Then again, wouldn't it help to have him buy in to any big strategic moves?
Just a small thing: The contrast on the Pricing Table makes it very hard to read. #ccc on #fff = eyestrain.
Despise it.
AFAIK the encryption key is stored in plaintext unless you also set a passcode (many people don't), and even if you set a passcode, most of the time it's just a short number that would be trivial to brute-force in an offline attack.

Of course it's also possible to use eCryptFS with a four-digit passcode, but it's strongly recommended against. The main difference between FBI-proof encryption and pickpocket-proof encryption is not in the algorithms used, but in the typical use case of each.
The Hacks Are Coming From Inside The Building
Ask HN: Will you buy a super easy billing WebApp?
Is there a space for a comprehensive invoicing, billing and subscription and pricing plan solution for your upcoming/existing Web Application?

Will you USE it? Drop your valuable comments below.

Upvote to state your interest.
New programming language directs DNA to build custom-designed molecules
Physical laws are postulated to exist, and we make models that are proven and disproven by theory.

Newtownian physics was replaced by relativity, which is being muddled by quantum physics.

Physics is not cut and dried, so why should economics be?

To use your own example, the market is made up of the actions of individual actors, who are each governed by underlying mental models/laws (such as a probability field around making a trade, etc.). The OP is trying to discover what those models/laws ARE.
You can usually tell where he will be because they have to establish security beforehand, such as using TFRs in the US to restrict flights in the area, and of course they announce it a lot. That being said, only the higher ups know his itinerary for certain and know how he will arrive, etc. Just like GWB "disappeared" and then arrived in Iraq, they move around quite secretly. For good reasons, people really do want to kill the US President. So I would think this is data recorded after he has arrived.

What would be more impactful would be "What Gen. Alexander has for breakfast". Not that would get their attention.
Ask HN: What's the best marketing effort for $1000?
Let's say you have $1000 to spend on marketing in the US for an iPhone/iPad puzzle game. What would you spend it on?
They're doing all kinds of awesome and the greater community is starting to see this, which is evident with Archlinux* for example whom has dropped MySQL in favour of MariaDB.

Slowly but surely MySQL will fall to the waysides, which I can't help but think is what Oracle wants.

* https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-rep...
AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation
Well, that'd be Win+↑ for maximize and Win+↓ for restore/minimize on Windows (contrary to what your parent writes, there is no built-in shortcut of making a window take up the top half of a screen).
There may not be any conceptual difference, but there is a very significant difference in how these things you describe are used. Flash, when used badly, becomes a self-contained sandbox for the entire experience of a website. Besides security concerns, this approach is damaging to the overall experience of that site, since developers end up needing to re-implement native controls and functionality (scrollbars, form elements and keyboard navigation to name a few) in order to provide users with affordances they would otherwise take for granted. More often than not, the developer doesn't re-implement these features and so users are left with a sub-optimal experience (even if it is more ‘on brand’, or replete with gratuitous effects and animations). This is to say nothing for the accessibility implications.

Since the advent of smartphones and tablets that can't display Flash content, sites that do this have started to die out in favour of a combination of native applications and true HTML implementations. If the experience they're going for calls for a video or canvas element (3D or otherwise) then great, go for it. But the scope of that part of the experience is implicitly reduced, and so it doesn't result in a sub-par experience across the board (I might not be able to see your fancy WebGL 3D canvas effects, but the links to your ‘contact us’ page still work).

What I'm worried about is that by providing a compatibility path, Flash's imminent demise will be put on hold, and the sub-optimal experiences I described above see a resurgence. And that's not a good thing.
No it's not . Mongo sucks. MYSQL is a great tool.
Ask HN: Where can I work a 30 hour week as a Software Engineer?
As I get more experienced, productive and earn more money the marginal utility of more income decreases but the utility of free time remains the same. Instead of chasing an ever higher salary, can I instead work less? My preference would be to 30 hour work week spread over 3 consecutive 10 hour days. I understand that the pay-cut to current schemes would be more than 25% due to benefit costs and other constant per-employee costs. Some of that pay-cut will however be offset with commutes from farther cheaper locales.

Why aren’t employers offering such work schemes for professionals? And if they are, who are these companies?
> "In my eyes, MySQL has done great harm to SQL because many of the problems people associate with SQL are in fact just MySQL problems"

That's a very strong and subjective statement. If any, resources heavy databases like Oracle or PostgreSQL, had brought more users to NoSQL than MySQL. That's doesn't there is something wrong with those databases, only that they weren't the right tool for the job is some cases.

Also "MySQL problems" are most of the time due to poor usage, not to the database system itself, actually when used properly MySQL/MyISAM is a great tool
Before the iPhone, "most people" had regular flip or candybar phones that had very basic games at best and very little internet capabilities.

Now it seems like "most people" have a smartphone of one type or another. That's a huge change.
> WebGL has the advantage of delivering very lightweight and efficient graphic effects, whereas even native Flash was horribly inefficient at doing what it did.

Fundamentally incorrect. Flash is actually an incredibly efficient file format for rich media, especially at vector animation. Look it up, you can fit amazing animations into just a few kb. Nothing can beat it on the web today for that purpose, and the Flash IDE environment is unsurpassed as a toolchain for the creation of that sort of content. Of course you can abuse it, like any other tech, and pump too many large images, videos, sounds or whatever into a SWF.
This isn't GPL, so I'm assuming work will go on.
and a really ugly design with horrible keypad!
The title purports to be about how Twitter acquired 1000 users.

The article is more about how to spam-favourite your way to 1000 followers on Twitter.
Ask HN: Validating my subscription idea
I need help validating an idea. I know many of you want to build a web-based subscription website and I want to put together a series of screencasts to go from zero to a live website with backend and subscription plans and all.

You will receive access to all the videos and the final source code.

Would you pay for something like this and if so, how much?

PS: i don't know if HN is the right place to ask this question, but if not, can you suggest another forum/group.
Hi from Italy, nice job!

To be a little nitpicky: why did you start with obscure high-dimensional visualizations such as alluvial plots, dendrograms, sphere packings? I believe there is much value in the classics: bar charts, histograms, scatter plots; one should only move to more complex visualizations if there is absolutely no way to use a simple one.
Sounds like a know-it-all. I think next you should try teaching him how to better interact with others, his age or not.
How did Mozilla get around Adobe's oppressive EULA that forbids reverse engineering? This is a major obstacle of the Gnash project. They developers cannot install Flash, because to do so would make their work illegal.
I have yet to find a single Metro app that's both superior (or even equal to) to an equivalent desktop app, and that justifies having to deal with the start screen and it's dismal multitasking.
If you're creating Name and Email Address fields then please follow the W3C naming guide. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

I, for example only have one name.

Thanks :)
Tech-savvy users prefer Chrome
Twitter is still a somewhat divisive tool among those in the profession you'd think would automatically love it: journalists. It's almost a badge of honor, like still reading the Sunday paper, in print, to eschew Twitter.

However, I think it's more of an existential judgment than one of actual merit...I think many/most reporters, when the Internet was new, were used to thinking that everyone in town read or watched or listened to them. Pre-Internet media was very one way, so the only knowledge you had about your audience was through personal letters (which could be surprisingly frequent) and through circulation/Nielsen ratings (having a circulation of 300,000 does not mean 300K people actually read your story). Even as a non-senior reporter, random people would recognize my byline when I worked in Sacramento (a medium sized paper) and if you were on TV news, everyone in town knew you.

But it's much different on Twitter. Unless you're already a celebrity, you're going to find in the first day, first week, first months of tweeting, very, very few people will seem to acknowledge you. And even if you get to a respectable sum of followers...between 1,000 to 10,000, you'll always be magnitudes less popular, via Twitter's follower metric, than the latest teen pop star or reality TV freak.

That's pretty crushing to the ego, and that's the vibe I get from many friends (journalists or not) who've poo-poohed Twitter. And it's not because they despise the triviality of online interaction...they are on Facebook and update it frequently, but on FB, your network more closely mimics your real life friendships/following, and there's less "follower envy"...in that it's respectable to weed out your Facebook network. But there's not much benefit to having a small Twitter network.
comeon, downvoters, don't you have a sense of humor? ... man...
In my opinion the following paper is a good and accesible primer on econophysics:
JP Bouchaud - The (unfortunate) complexity of the economy
http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0805
Hey, at least you supported the author!
Paypal has rebuilt Netflix’s cloud-management system for OpenStack
Ask HN: Honest reviews needed on a revamp
UPDATE: here is the test user you all can check with...

Username: test@test.com Password: test

The first user who logs in will have a slightly different experience then the second one...but I guess that should be fine.

Thank you :)
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Dear HN Community,
Need your help in making this right.

We recently revamped joognu.com for a client. It was a complete overhaul.

"Joognu.com is a parent-focused web-based platform that allows users to store, organize, and share their children’s experiences and memories."

We completely redesigned the member area where parents can upload / view memories, create a timeline using weaver, invite family and friends, share and do lot of other stuff.

Joognu.com is almost 2 years old now. We launched this new version on July 10th and measured the performance till now.

Visually there is no doubt that this product is much better than the previous one. But looking at the data after the launch, it seems the usage is decreasing.

Obviously we have done something wrong.

Unfortunately I can't give you access to old version for comparison but if you can give your feedback on the current version, it would be a great help.

I just want to know that if you are the user (mostly parents) of Joognu.com, what all things need improvement?

From the parent perspective, what is difficult to understand? What would be easier to understand?

Sorry, you will have to sign up to use and check out the member area. This is not a marketing gimmick to make more new users to Joognu.com but I seriously need to improve it as a product owner.

Looking forward to hear from you all.

PS: If you wish, I will delete your account once the feedback is given.
What if you don't know JS at all?
It's easy to manage schema with SQL Server Data Tools and diagnosing a poorly performing query is straightforward with graphical execution plans.

I wouldn't put too much stock in the graphical execution plans. Outside of the problem that it simply fails for complex queries, it lies about costings (costings are always based upon estimates, which means that when you have super-fast storage, as many new installs do, the query analyzer becomes a giant bag of lies), it can't "see into" table-defined functions (they sit there innocuously with negligible cost when often they sit in front of a curse of poor performance).

SQL Server is a great database, but it is very far from perfect. I mentioned above about the graphical execution plans lying about storage costs, and the same goes for the query planner -- it will choose horrific query plans under the assumption that you have one spinning disc of rust, falling apart when you're really on some FusionIO SLC. This can manifest in queries that run excellently one day falling completely to shit the next because it passed a threshold and has decided to switch join patterns. One would think that it would actively actually monitor storage/memory and CPU to make all of these weights, but it doesn't whatsoever.

The other major issue being lock escalation that can destroy SQL Server databases under heavy contention.
As stated in the article, your Twitter profile serves as a sort of pre-landing page to get people to click through. You should be able to watch the interaction from Twitter flow through to your landing page in real-time.

(The title is supposed to be about how to acquire the first 1,000 users for your startup via Twitter. Sorry about the confusion.)
As with most market cycles, if you get enough people following a common philosophy, the market will conform to the philosophy... for a while.

In the past 100 or so years economics has completely failed to define itself as a science. You're using the wrong tense.

Anyway, we're drifting off-topic - I was bitching mainly about the title and a little about the misuse of Zipf's law. If the article was written in reverse, finishing with "this closely matches a power curve from which we can estimate x" then I would only have had a problem with the title "econophysicists".
6 Mobile Checkout Usability Considerations
They are not mutually exclusive, but the problem is this:

If you start with academic experience you your frame of reference is already established and its much harder to break out of that.

Sure you can get a job, but you are not more likely to be influential in your field just because you have an education.
He's being downvoted because it sounds like pseudoscience and he didn't provide any sources to back up the claims.
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Lego CALENDAR
Start Something: The Power of Side Projects
It's a way to let content editors enter the content in a nice interface. Than the programmer can write code that uses their api to get that content the editors uploaded.

Yes, there are content management systems that you can install in your own server and manage it. But this system removes that hassle from you.
> And don't take me wrong, I'll take MySQL instead of PostgreSQL for simple and medium projects.

Why? I can't see one feature that MySQL delivers better than Pgsql...
You're ruining the circlejerk.
They dropped that a long time ago with the OpenScreenProject licensing.
So is nurture, people go to school in different years from their siblings (and parents) etc. and so on.

So it would be a lot stronger case for genetics (assuming it's supposed to be one, and not just a tangential anecdote) if they'd said "No one ever spoke to us but all 7 of my brothers and sisters became top engineers, just like our parents, uncles and cousins (that we'd never met)".

As it stands it seems to recommending having some kind of fortitude (which isn't taught via nurture, or inherited via genetics) as the key element.
Hi guys, recently finished my side project MVP and looking for feedback and suggestions.
I created this after realizing how difficult it is to get visibility as an indie software developer and author. I was hoping other indies felt the same and could help each other out.

Let me know what you think! :)
Ask HN: In 2016, will Rails & Django be competitive against newer technologies?
Do you think Rails and Django (and the like) will evolve to remain competitive with newer technologies like Node.js, Meteor, Play, etc (not to mention, whatever's next)? Or will they largely be legacy technologies, i.e. still in wide-use but not frequently selected for the best new projects?

Edit: Please note that the question is not whether or not Rails and Django developers will still be in demand in 2016. I'm confident they will be. The question is will the best new projects in 2016 consider using Rails and Django.
Possibly give Typescript a go, or javascript, but you have to accept that you'll be going through the 5 stages after knowing and loving C#, I recommend "Secrets of the Javascript ninja" has a very good pace and it shows you a lot of the good of javascript, and how some of the bad can be used for good ;)
Because Adobe has long been profiting greatly from their proprietary Flash player and other related software. Had the Flash format been a free standard and Flash player had no restriction on reverse engineering we would have had free Flash players for a long time.
I think this applies to more than just (Mac) apps. Coupon codes, flash sales, and other deep discounts have a tendency to trigger buyers remorse at checkout.

I was fine paying $ X until I found out that I could have paid 50% less last week.
Now, if I buy your product, I feel like the only idiot that paid full price - a price I was happy to pay 5 minutes ago.

If you aren't able to sell at your current price point, you should evaluate why and either fix the issue or lower your price (permanently) to match what users are willing to pay for it.
Most people use the default storage engine, without really thinking about it, but almost every project I've worked with recommends innodb - not sure why.
Why is it that when it comes to databases no one is unbiased?

I cannot find any reliable articles on the web concerning database engines that I look at and trust the author. It's even more difficult considering I am far from a pro with databases but quite simply I won't use any MS products and so I've used MySQL for smaller projects. I've started using MongoDB a lot more lately and regardless of what people (mostly people who've never used it I would imagine) say about it I love it.
I'd love to go that way, but I've never managed to get backbone.js pushstate to work. And yes, I have noticed that Google doesn't like hash URLs. It's annoying.

But, that said, Google search traffic isn't a likely source of users, so I've not spent much time figuring out a solution yet. There are much bigger problems to solve before that. Like how to stop posting on HN when I should be working. :)
Good idea, but ideally it should use machine learning to try to show as interesting stuff as possible to each user, based on results of earlier answers. I.e., if I choose the non-kitten, show me something (statistically) related to that.

(Not sure what goes on behind the scenes, but it did feel very random and not very adaptive to my previous decisions)
I think tiling would greatly improve the usability. If windows had tiling and something like dmenu I would be much happier. The start screen sucks, especially if you have a lot of applications that you commonly use. It's impractical to look for a application in the tiles. I know that you can go to the start screen and start typing in the name of the program (sort of like dmenu), but why should you have to go to a pointless screen to do so.
That sounds extremely likely if you look at the way they are going. I completely agree that I have never looked back since I started using Linux instead. If I truly need a Windows machine I will spin up a virtual machine.