DanFeldman

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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Software, Sr. Software, Internships, All Robotics Positions, ML | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're so
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=38068 I use something exactly like this product (an old one from monoprice actually I believe). Simply plugs into the back of a 2.1 speaker set I have. Guests at my place love it, they
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Software, Sr. Software, Internships, All Robotics Positions, ML | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're so
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Very useful! I ran into the issue Early Decision might solve when I was interviewing for the YC Fellowship program. Our interviews were 2-3 days before my fall semester was to start. I had, at best, a 24 hour turn-around time between gettin
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
He and his team created Stackoverflow, a site used by every developer every day. He's a prolific writer around software engineering & managing software engineering. He's got an incredibly blunt writing style w/o any fluff
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
FWIW, Brex also offers this. I use my corporate card and immediately get a text reminding me to snap a picture of the transaction. However, it almost never correctly identifies the transaction on the card and pings me immediately with anoth
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Yes, it was a pain for everyone when we had no tests in the early days (REALLY early). My main point to the OP is that you still get benefits with CI/CD for compiled projects if you only build during integration. We now have a very hea
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
I disagree. My own company in the very early days had an immense boost of productivity without tests, just by building the damn thing and failing loudly. Once we got everything wired up and errant semi-colons were blocking merges, testing w
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
We've found good luck w/ PyPika as well.
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Software, Sr. Software, Internships, All Robotics Positions, ML | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're so
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Which plugin do you use to go docstring->docs? I found it difficult out of the box to determine w/ Sphinx how to get everything to play nice.
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
It's easy to not take enough vacation at companies w/ unlimited vacation. Anecdotally, most of my peers at companies w/ unlimited vacation take less vacation than traditionally counted vacation days. I work at a place w/
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Software, Sr. Software, Internships, All Robotics Positions, ML | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're so
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
It was a bit hacky, but we've basically implemented some of the stuff in [1] to achieve incremental builds. If a pr changes projects a,b,c and not x,y,z then it will only build a,b,c. But it's not truly incremental right now, as i
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
My team just switched to a monorepo. It's been only a few weeks, so I can't claim any results yet, but we've lived w/ the pain of poly-repo for long enough that we were ready to invest in a single repo. We've spent
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Or, if you had any shame, its growth would be up and to the right!
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Software, Sr. Software, Internships, All Robotics Positions, ML | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're so
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Some previous discussion 2 weeks back on our unmanned test on a closed road at 55: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20177593 . There we were testing our emergency procedures, safety operations, hardware checklists, and r
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Starsky Robotics Tests Unmanned Truck on Florida Highway(forbes.com)
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
> it can be surprisingly hard to get a job at BigCorp with CEO on your resume Why do you think that is? It's so common to hear advice that bigco's will always want to hire people w/ Startup experience, but does that not ex
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Got to this question late. We had this happen [1] during our first unmanned run completely unintentionally. We were testing our 1st gen emergency and diagnostics systems, and the truck ground to a halt a few minutes into the test. Our teleo
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
This is REALLY hard stuff, but fascinating from a UI/Human-machine interaction perspective. Shameless plug - we're actively hiring for software engineers and product management around the Teleoperation system. We need more people
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
> Do you see the move towards autonomous driving being regulated to the point where they are required to adhere to posted limits. Yes. Starsky early on made a choice that we will operate in an explicitly legal manner, and avoid the grey
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Well, legally...
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Not sure how we're thinking about this now internally. If there was such a technologically adept actor targeting us I'd be more worried personally about safety than the cargo itself.
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
There are updated videos of our UI floating around the internet. This one is pretty recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HtOhbMSv5c&amp Excuse the mood lighting, we're experimenting with eye-strain on the remot
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Great question. We're now public[1] with the news that we're operating a trucking company, and by headcount a significant amount of starsky employees are truck drivers. Part of how we're approaching the trucking business is t
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Well if your father in law is looking for a different pace of driving have him check https://www.drivestarsky.com/ . With regards to fueling, there are a good amount of fuel stops around the country that will do "concie
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
> I'm curious as to the ways that the self driving problems in trucks might be different to the problems of self driving cars. For example, with heavy trucks, your braking distance must be a lot larger than a normal car. So things l
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by DanFeldman 7y ago
Starsky engineer here. We spent a few days getting all of our emergency procedures in place and testing all fail-safe aspects of our system on the road in preparation of the run. We've done unmanned runs before (also in Florida), but a

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