mrmaddog
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Comment · 10 years ago
Arista Networks | San Francisco, Vancouver | Full-time, onsite
We're building a modern network monitoring system and are looking for motivated, creative engineers. Let's chat if you - are an experienced Javascript developer (bonus points for experience with the React ecosystem) with an eye for great data visualizations - or, love streaming data processing and you'd be excited to work with HBase, Kafka, and Golang.
http://arista.com | [email protected]
Comment · 10 years ago
If you don't have a Wall Street Journal subscription, a Google redirect link might help [1]. Alternatively, here are a few choice quotes from this biting WSJ editorial:
Is anyone in charge at the Justice Department, or are
junior prosecutors running the joint?
Such assertions were as false in Brooklyn as in San
Bernardino. Two hours and a half before a deadline on Friday
night, the government withdrew the case after “an individual
provided the passcode to the iPhone,” according to legal
filings. This second immaculate conception in as many months
further undermines the FBI’s credibility about its
technological capabilities. Judges ought to exercise far
more scrutiny in future decryption cases even as Mr. Comey
continues to pose as helpless.
Yet forgive us if this “conversation” now seems more like a
Jim Comey monologue. The debate might start to be productive
if the FBI Director would stop trying to use the courts as
an ad hoc policy tool and promised not to bring any more
cases like the one in Brooklyn.
Meanwhile, the White House has taken the profile-in-courage
stand of refusing to endorse or oppose any encryption bill
that Congress may propose. If the Obama team won’t start
adjusting to the technological realities of strong and legal
encryption, they could at least exercise some adult
supervision at Main Justice.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'd disagree with point 4. Their Instagram feed has all of the stunning beauty that National Geographic originally became famous for: https://instagram.com/natgeo/, and commands a 35.4 million person following. I'm not sure how you parlay this into a "selling relationship", but it is a great way to outreach to a younger generation.
Comment · 11 years ago
Nope—just flip the upper left coin (000000), as that has no effect on any of the parities. Flip the bottom right hand corner if you need to switch all the bits.
Comment · 12 years ago
I know Show HN's are usually reserved for small, personal projects, but I'm pretty excited to finally make EOS SDK public. Essentially this gives you Python and C++ bindings to write apps that hook directly into Arista's networking stack. Also, since EOS is Linux (Fedora), you can use your standard environment and debugging routine during development, then test on an EOS VM (called vEOS), all of which keeps the barrier to getting started a lot lower.
We're still expanding the number of modules that are available, but already we've seen agents ranging from simple event-driven monitoring, to full-blown controller-driven custom routing protocols. It's pretty awesome to see what people can do when you give them a proper interface to the networking stack!
Comment · 12 years ago
I really like the idea of unobtrusive anomaly detection as a product, but I wonder how much benefit I could actually derive from this.
Perhaps it is nice to have a log of whenever the front door opens, but that feature certainly won't sell me on its own.
It is cool that they can tell when a window breaks, but... how much good does that notification do for me? How confident can I be that this is not a false positive and immediately call the police? Or do I rely on the "soft alarm" to hopefully scare away the would-be intruders?
I don't see what the "light up" option affords. If I'm there, I'll know that loud music is playing. And I don't get the sense that this is meant to replace my smoke alarm/carbon monoxide alarm, so at best the light is an early warning system that I should open a window to vent out some smoke from my cooking before the real alarm sets off.
Overall, this seems like a really cool concept that has a lot of marginal benefits and zero killer features. Hopefully that sell-story will be embellished upon in the real kickstarter!
Comment · 12 years ago
I've used Hitch regularly over the past few months, and it works well for short trips. Half the time I don't carpool (and I still pay half price), and the other half of the time adds just a couple extra minutes (haven't gone more than 5 minutes out of my way). My one issue with Hitch so far is that occasionally it takes a while to get me a ride. Uber has a leg up here, as it has a huge scale advantage. When I open my app, I can see 5 ubers in a 3 block radius - which is pretty astounding reach.
Comment · 12 years ago
Arista Networks - Software and Hardware Engineers
[Santa Clara, with satellite offices in San Francisco, Vancouver, Bangalore]
Tags: Networking, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, SDN
We're shaking up the world of datacenter networking (think switches and routers), led by an incredibly smart and pragmatic engineering team. If you're on the software side, work on a modern software stack (amusingly, that's a rarity in the networking world), and hack on incredibly distributed systems approaching ridiculous scaling requirements, mostly in C++/Python. The hardware side builds some of the meanest and most efficient boxes out there—the things that they churn out of their workshop never ceases to amaze me.
In any case, we're constantly shipping code, genuinely working to improve the state-of-the-art, changing the entire networking industry, and making money while doing it (See: $ANET). It's a pretty fun time - come check us out at http://www.arista.com/en/careers/engineering
Feel free to ask me any questions, too (contact info in my profile).
Comment · 12 years ago
I fail to understand your insinuation here - in the future an articulated reply would be preferable. In each of the comments, I read rayiner's argument as "Your metadata isn't your data, and thus cannot be considered your papers and effects." My personal emails stored on GMail's servers seem to be squarely in domain of "papers and effects," according to the pages rayiner refers to, but does not offer any insight on whether the metadata (who I emailed) should be in this domain.
I believe rayiner refers to exactly this issue in the above comment when calling out the Third Party Doctrine.