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by jayjay71 10y ago
I think YC's criterion for getting admitted into the core program is still fitting - do they believe it can become a (ten) billion dollar company? They recently created the Fellowship program to fund more companies at an earlier stage
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If you're starting a company, be prepared to lose a lot of sleep moving forward :] Shoot me an email [redacted] and I'll help you with your application if you want.
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The mentors provide excellent feedback on what you should focus on at any given time, and are great at troubleshooting problems. In addition to that, they have a great network (the YC alumni which includes some self-driving car companies a
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by jayjay71 10y ago
DARPA does a great job when they design competitions especially. Look at what they did for self-driving cars (they held all their competitions before Google or any company was putting any effort into it). A couple years later and suddenly
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by jayjay71 10y ago
This is a misunderstanding of fundraising. If you give up 50% of your company, no investor will touch you unless you're already profitable or growing like Uber. So unless you believe you can go from zero to unicorn with $500k, giving
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He also was the main technical guy at Google for self-driving cars, and in fact his company 510 Systems was bought by Google because he was the one who actually built the hardware that went on the cars. Uber has, by a huge margin, the best
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Why do you assume most self-driving cars use Canny edge detection? And even if they did, you can simply have the algorithm choose the higher threshold (with some other sanity checks, suck as are the lines the expected distance apart) and i
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AirBnB
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"fare share" I assume this was an accident, but it's actually better.
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That sounds neat. Can you link me to a paper?
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Otto was designed to be sold to Uber before it was created, there's a reason it was self-funded despite having nearly 100 employees by the time it was acquired. Anthony Levandowski met Travis Kalanick years ago and had been planning s
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That isn't sound logic. GM has a track record of making terrible managerial decisions, so assuming they know best is ignoring history. The people making the decisions haven't worked on self-driving cars and are not the best peop
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This is a little simplistic. Computers can do things they aren't heuristically programmed to do - that's the basic idea behind machine learning. I've seen some incredibly impressive robots that ran entirely on neural nets a
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This is false, and one of the reasons Tesla got a lot of deserved criticism over the death that occurred from using their autopilot system. So far, all of the data (which is limited, so it's far from conclusive) points towards self-dr
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by jayjay71 10y ago
GM had the Cadillac/CMU technology, but due to...I'll call it managerial oversight, they lost their initial IP to Google in 2009 (basically everybody had left and took their knowledge with them) and then again to Delphi in 2015
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Automating food is harder than you think. I agree though - that would be amazing.
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I wish more people built stuff as well, but I think you're confusing passion and profit. There are fewer people with those skills because the markets are changing - there's just less demand than there used to be.
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Why do you say the space was dead in 2006? That was just before the Urban Challenge in 2007. 2008 was the dead year before Google started working on it.
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Care to share some of the offers you got?
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This is a particularly interesting anecdote about someone faking his way into Google, and then later starting a company almost as famous. https://www.wired.com/2013/04/fakeit/
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Just curious as the name is familiar - do you go to Georgia Tech?
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As much as I love writing clever software to work around hardware limitations (I believe it's what makes videogame programming of the 80's and 90's fascinating and led to better creativity and better games), I once had the jo
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I never did, but I don't know too much about what they did after I left. We did most of our testing on a construction site near a defunct steel mill. Otherwise we sometimes drove around the city, usually Southside as it was nearby an
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I can't tell from the picture, but their test track looks like where we used to test self-driving cars when I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon. Except when I was doing it, it was basically dirt (most of it not even roads) in
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They hired some faculty as well, although the vast majority were senior personnel at NREC.
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The L in HSL stands for lightness, and is similar to the L in Lab which also stands for lightness. Lab is meant to better represent how humans perceive color, but it's not inherently better for removing ambient lighting compared to HS
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No raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood.
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I think The Stanley Parable is a much better example of an artistic experience. The creator made another game called The Beginner's Guide which I thought was just as good. Limbo, Papers Please, I Am Bread, Please Don't Touch Anyt
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Companies that shut down aren't included in this list.
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There have been YC companies in the past that spent most of their time away from San Francisco, including some companies that actually spent most of their time in Europe. AirBnB famously flew to and from New York every week. You don'

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