mrmaddog

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]

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.

[1]: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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).

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.

Sorry for the deleted comment - after circulating this article internally, I learned Arista already has better solutions for this particular problem than writing handlers to interface statuses. Decided to retract my comment (while you were replying, incidentally) as there are a number of solutions you can implement on a switch involving BGP knobs, fast-server failover, ECMP and consistent hashing.

I've been pleasantly surprised by some of Buzzfeed's journalism. This article [1], a rich narrative following one of the few female boxing judges, has original reporting and is well written. Funnily enough, I discovered this article via a link from New York Times' wonderful new NYT Now app.

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/the-woman-who-kod-manny...

Seems like I'm not the only one that can't get access on-demand. For the curious, here is what the site looks like: http://cl.ly/image/0a3V1d2W1c3J (Each group of three lines in the top bar graph represents one day.) It also lets you know if your tweet attains an unusually high "reach" is: http://cl.ly/image/1p2X3b0x2X1S - which corresponds to the number of feeds your tweet showed up on via retweets.

My personal account has had this for a few months, but my friendly twitter bot (@8ball_) still does not have access. Is there some sort of gatekeeping mechanism? The help page refers to twitter card analytics, but that is not helpful. It would be nice to roll my own statistics off of that CSV instead of relying on hodge podges of services like Wildfire (https://monitor.wildfireapp.com/count_reports/display?twitte...)

In any case, I'd love to see this roll out to more accounts: I think the information on engagement, follow:unfollow ratios and mentions over time are incredibly useful for creating more meaningful content (for businesses and automated services), though I am not convinced such behavior is good for individuals, and am curious whether access to a dashboard increases or decreases engagement.

I thought this was going to be vaporware, but man, I'm impressed. If it can really do half of what the introduction video shows, I'm can't wait to play with it!

One thing I think is particularly interesting is that the onboarding process lets you use natural language to figure out what WolframCode to write. Slick!

Somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn, I had to resort to

   $(".essay").each(function(i){console.log($(this).text())});

to read the fun little text snippets. I like how it got fairly philosophical—everything eventually turns to philosophy if you are stranded out in space. Thanks for putting this together; it was a nice take on the perspective of our universe.

Great story! One thing that stuck out to me—if you had an infinitely powerful computer, the "coding" aspect of it should take no time at all. All you have to do is come up with a description language to say what you want•, and b) seed rules for a genetic programming language, and then throw it at your infinitely powerful computer. You'll get a working program instantly.

• This might still be significantly difficult. If only you had a simulated version of yourself that you could use as a control subject so the computer could test whether or not the generated program met your expectations...

Some interesting questions and answers:

   [Q] Dear Mr. Metcalfe, First, thank you for all your brilliant work over the
   years. My question is how do you feel about the NSA collecting everything?"

   [Metcalfe] America needs an NSA, because we have dangerous enemies. Perhaps
   they've been over-doing it lately. I am worried that the current administration
   will destroy NSA in the current scandal.

It is always interesting to hear a different point of view from a person in tech. Also love his sense of humor:

   [Metcalfe] Ethernet cables should be yellow. And that's that.