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by kiyoto 12y ago
If Square has to publish a blog post to clarify what they do/who their customers are, it means their marketing needs to step up its game.
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Ask HN: Hacker News like websites in other languages?
6 points by kiyoto 12y ago|4 comments
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by kiyoto 12y ago
Also notably, 1. Mirzakhani is the first Iranian 2. Bhargava is the first Canadian 3. Hairer is the first Austrian 4. Avila is the first Brazilian
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by kiyoto 12y ago
On second read, I realized that OP didn't even prove Fisher-Yates. I blogged about this several weeks back, and here is an excerpt from it. Some of you might find it useful. "This is easy to verify for N = 2: You are just flipping
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by kiyoto 12y ago
If you are using Excel, you might find my blog entry useful: http://kiyototamura.tumblr.com/post/91613880102/generating-a...
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All Data Are Belong to AWS: Streaming upload via Fluentd(aws.amazon.com)
6 points by kiyoto 12y ago|0 comments
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by kiyoto 12y ago
The optimal number of bins has a rich statistics literature. The Freedman-Diaconis Rule is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman%E2%80%93Diaconis_rule That said, the challenge with online (stream
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by kiyoto 12y ago
REMOTE or On-Site in Mountain View, CA Treasure Data is hiring a software engineer/developer advocate for Fluentd, the open source data collector to unify log management. Description: http://www.treasuredata.com/en&#x2F
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by kiyoto 12y ago
I agree that it is not the most intellectually interesting. But HN, for better and worse, has evolved to be one of the front pages of the Internet (at least for certain demographics), and some people do come here for transient, immediate in
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by kiyoto 12y ago
When I submitted http://www.facebook.com , it redirected me back to the previous outage link because the URL is the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905 I added a random URL string to have HN recogn
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Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)(facebook.com)
131 points by kiyoto 12y ago|90 comments
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by kiyoto 12y ago
This rings so true. Last April, I had a chance to chat with an engineer at an (explosively growing) early stage B2C startup. He gave a talk about "data science", so I walked up to him afterwards and asked him if he considered hims
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by kiyoto 12y ago
Sorry that my point wasn't clear: it's not so much that I experience issues with in_tail. in_tail is actually solid at detecting log rotation, etc. My point was this is not a trivial problem, and a lot of the code inside in_tail.r
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by kiyoto 12y ago
I see what you are getting at, but my experience as one of the "mailing list" people for Fluentd (an open source log collector) has been a bit different, especially when a lot of data is written to a file rapidly: For example, whe
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Streaming logs into Amazon Kinesis(github.com)
2 points by kiyoto 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Looking for Excel-based side project ideas
5 points by kiyoto 12y ago|0 comments
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Generating a Random Permutation in Excel(kiyototamura.tumblr.com)
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by kiyoto 12y ago
I used to think the same. But after meeting with some of its engineers and designer (yes, one), my perspective has changed quite a bit. Yes, many things they do range from insane to socially unacceptable, but they've got the brains. Al
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by kiyoto 12y ago
Enough people use it to have the company valued above a billion dollars, have their first MongoDB World ( http://world.mongodb.com ) and have a HN darling like Stripe as a power user. Sure, MongoDB has its shortcomings, but so doe
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Show HN: Open source log collector Fluentd(fluentd.org)
1 points by kiyoto 12y ago|0 comments
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by kiyoto 12y ago
>A common pattern for people using Samza is actually to accumulate a large window of data and then rank using a complex brute force algorithm that may take 5 mins or so to produce results. I think the argument eventually comes down to wh
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by kiyoto 12y ago
As someone who has one foot in marketing and one foot in development (I am a developer evangelist), here is what's happening. 1. Google's infrastructure is evolving atop MapReduce (FlumeJava/MillWheel). 2. Google's PR de
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by kiyoto 12y ago
> I've seen some videos of real Vim pros at work Yeah, I know one of these people too. I know one for Emacs, Eclipse, Excel and of course SublimeText. Honestly, I don't see why some folks obsess over text editors/IDEs. Fam
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by kiyoto 12y ago
>We were able to reach the speed we needed by writing our own Go client to ship off the logs to our cluster That's a fair argument: when written intelligently, Go has great performance. The other reason is performance v. flexibility
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by kiyoto 12y ago
Fluentd maintainer here. A lot of folks indeed use Fluentd for application log collection. Perhaps because we embrace JSON as the core data structure, MongoDB is a common data destination (Second most popular plugin) http://www.f
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Docker Hub by the Numbers(kiyototamura.tumblr.com)
1 points by kiyoto 12y ago|0 comments
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by kiyoto 12y ago
It might be a case of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Either way, I am willing to concede that I misused the term (perhaps I am the one being an idiot here). I am still surprised that the blog post got published on Uber's blog though.
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by kiyoto 12y ago
Thanks for a great summary. >For logs, you can either use a shared directory with the host or use a remote log collection service like logstash or papertrail. I would not put Logstash (software) and Papertrail (SaaS) in the same bucket t
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by kiyoto 12y ago
I agree. Not knowing anything does not make anyone an idiot. Not realizing that you do not know something, however, kind of does.
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by kiyoto 12y ago
The author probably has no background in experimental design, so I would spare him of statistical scrutiny. This includes the author's furtive attempt to sneak in causation into a simple regression. Or, if I were to give the author of

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