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sylvinuson ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis

I'll remind him about the post ;)

sylvinuson ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis

ClickHouse is incredible. It has also replaced a large, expensive and slow Elasticsearch cluster at Contentsquare. We are actually starting an internal team to improve it and upstream patches, email me if interested!

sylvinuson Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

I second Buildkite, one of the best choices we made at my previous company.

sylvinuson Amazon suspends all deliveries in France

From what I understood it's both :)

sylvinuson My FOSS Story

Burntsushi, as part of the mostly silent crowd I also want to share, for once, how much I learned from reading some of your code, mostly in the rust regex crate. Amazing work, truly inspiring.

sylvinuson Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit

To be fair, you have to consider that the size of the web has continued to increase exponentially during the past 7 years, plus all the SEO tactics that are getting complex as the stakes are raised. Not an excuse to have a degraded service, but the challenge of just maintaining quality is huge.

sylvinuson Ask HN: What are the biggest obstacles to vertical farms?

FYI https://en.agricool.co/ are growing strawberries at scale in shipping containers but it took them a couple years of R&D.

sylvinuson GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

That's going to hurt people like Buildkite (which we love).

sylvinuson Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo

Maybe they expect better from a company like Google, but people need to be reminded that HR protects the company, not its employees. While still risky, it's often safer to complain about someone's behaviour to their manager instead of HR.

sylvinuson Flightradar24 – how it works

Relevant talk on getting data live from the sky with Node: https://www.dotconferences.com/2017/12/thomas-watson-getting...

sylvinuson How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage

> the worse civil unrest ever seen in France

It's major, but quite far from the worst we've ever had.

sylvinuson Introducing Workers KV

If you're interested in his work, you might want to check out another project of JGC: http://plan28.org/

sylvinuson Bump-Canceling Bunk Beds Promise Smooth Bus Rides

To skip security and rides to airports!

sylvinuson Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

As expected, French House mixes very well ;-)

Daft Punk + Justice: https://rave.dj/Lpr1oWauUIIeaA

sylvinuson Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

This is rather surprising coming from JSConf.eu, which is widely respected and run by people who really care about their community. I'd like to hear their side before making any judgement.

sylvinuson Tesla Model 3 teardown points to $28k in potential material and production cost

They mention parts cost $18k in the article, not $28k.

sylvinuson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

We're a young SaaS company that helps retailers optimize their pricing based on their competition. We are hiring data engineers to help grow our developer team, add more features and refine our data pipeline (from web scraping, to machine learning for analysis, to beautiful d3.js charts for customers)

Our stack is open source friendly and modern: Python, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS, Vue.js ; We are also maintaining a couple relatively popular Python modules on GitHub.

We are looking for generalist Python developers that want to dive deep into data and join a fast-growing startup. French-speaking candidates will be preferred.

Apply here: https://www.pricingassistant.com/jobs/fr/developpeur-python-... + jobs [at] pricingassistant [dot] com

sylvinuson Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it

I understand people are focusing on the video because that's all we have at the moment, but it entirely misses the point: this is primarily a LIDAR failure. This should have been prevented even with the cameras off.

sylvinuson Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, but You Don’t Have to Be at Google to Use It

For those interested by the idea but who need open source, we've been using https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy for a while with great results.

sylvinuson Spotify’s Fatal Flaw Exposed: My Closed-Door Meeting Ended in a Shouting Match

> Meanwhile, Spotify pockets 30% of all the revenue they collect––and they don’t make anything

I think this demonstrates that the author has a very narrow understanding of what it takes to build a music app with 140M+ active users.

Sure, they could pay artists more and it's legitimate to have that talk, but taking it to such extremes makes no sense.

sylvinuson A Letter from the Publisher of Nautilus

Some may not need it short-term as much as others?

sylvinuson Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

https://dotai.io (Paris, May 31st) stands out because it is primarily targeted to developers building apps, not researchers or framework authors.

Disclaimer: I'm the organizer, but don't take my word for it, watch the videos from last year: https://www.dotconferences.com/conference/dotai

sylvinuson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Our stack is open source friendly and modern: Python, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS, Vue.js ; We are also maintaining a couple relatively popular Python modules on GitHub.

We are looking for generalist Python developers that want to dive deep into data and join a fast-growing startup. French-speaking candidates will be preferred.

Apply here: https://www.pricingassistant.com/jobs/fr/developpeur-python-... + jobs [at] pricingassistant [dot] com

sylvinuson Soylent can no longer ship to Canada

You can still use services like http://shipito.com to forward it to you in Canada. I'm using this to get Soylent to Europe and it works really well (it adds ~$3 per bottle for air freight, but we don't have any good replacement here yet).

sylvinuson How Bodega typifies Silicon Valley’s cultural ignorance

> If you're online in any way whatsoever, you likely know I'm talking about Bodega.

I'm online in many ways, and no, I didn't know that.

When writing an article on cultural ignorance, try to be mindful of your own echo chamber as well!

sylvinuson I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon

Slightly off-topic, but for a good bit of fun on the USPIS, you should watch the TV Show "The Detour" ;-)

sylvinuson Exa, a modern replacement for ls

I feel your way too. Colours can add valuable information when done right.

Don't feel too let down by the comments on HN. Awesome work!

sylvinuson A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France

Others have replied on the salary ranges, but don't forget to factor in free healthcare, excellent public schools, ...

sylvinuson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

Pricing Assistant is a pricing optimization tool for online retailers. We are a VC-funded, profitable startup of 20 people, half of them developers.

We are running a large-scale crawling infrastructure based on Python, Docker and AWS. We are currently looking for a lead DevOps to make it scale even further.

See job posting in French here: http://www.pricingassistant.com/jobs/fr/lead-infra-devops-cd...

sylvinuson My Priorities for the Next Four Years

To be fair, Bruce has been worried (and very publicly so) about those things for a long time. I think what the post transpires is just a new sense of urgency.