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by joshdickson 10y ago
I do not work at Tesla or for Tesla, just have experience with the radar systems.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
I had not seen some of that Volvo tech, thanks for the link. Ultimately the radar portion is going to be more three dimensional tech still in the bumper. It's a struggle financially to get a single one of these sensors on a commodity v
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by joshdickson 10y ago
I worked on the radar systems personally and we tested them with the Lidar hardware that Google uses. When the systems are raised they become more difficult to engineer (Caterpillar uses similar sensors on its large trucks, which are raised
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by joshdickson 10y ago
> :o) Tesla is not using radars?! I am driving an '14 Audi A6 and I can tell you, the radars + software on it are the most advanced I ever saw. TIL everyone on Hacker News drives a much nicer car than I do. The crash avoidance measu
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by joshdickson 10y ago
> The other big Tesla problem is a pure technical design error - the bumper-mounted radar is blind at windshield height. This is the immediate cause of the fatal accident involving under-running the semitrailer. It's also the cause
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by joshdickson 10y ago
> The system does ping and then yell at you if you don't have your hand on the wheel. There's no way to prevent someone from keeping a hand on the wheel and watching a movie while driving. Daimler actually shipped something int
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by joshdickson 10y ago
As of July 2016, the autonomous driving system in the Model S (& X, presumably) is not using radar, only cameras. The vehicles do have radar which is used for other things (various crash avoidance programs), but not this, and these th
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by joshdickson 10y ago
I used to work on the radar systems in these vehicles. It's a problem that the feature is called "autopilot," yes, but the larger issue is that the car does not enforce what the company often says in press releases, which i
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by joshdickson 10y ago
You have to provide both, but you can focus on non-GAAP. For instance, earlier this year Facebook and Amazon moved to report on a GAAP basis, having previously focused on non-GAAP.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
The number that they like to emphasize is their non-GAAP income (which is positive), though they report both non-GAAP and GAAP. Many tech companies report non-GAAP financials - that's not unusual. The thing with LinkedIn is that they h
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Well yes, of course, you don't buy something for $30B that you expect to lose money in perpetuity. But in terms of where the business is right now , they want to see LinkedIn reduce costs while continuing to work toward profitability.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
It's a rare situation in the first place with so many founder-led companies these days. I would dare put David Sacks' name in the ring for what he's doing at Zenefits. Yes, his grade is certainly I for Incomplete at this poin
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Well, a key aspect of this, and part of why LinkedIn wanted to sell itself to Microsoft, was that Nadella/Microsoft will allow LinkedIn to operate independently within Microsoft under Jeff Weiner. Microsoft didn't pay "too mu
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by joshdickson 10y ago
This needs to be deleted. Abhorrent.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Newly listed IPO stocks do not have options for a while.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
It's weird to dismiss this as marketing is somehow not a valid reason to do something! The entire IPO process is heavily about marketing yourself - to bankers, to asset management companies, to other investors, to future employees, to
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Well, I mean the whole point of confidentially leaking is to get something out there without having to put your name on it. This is a great advert for them no matter who leaked it, make no mistake about that.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
If anyone reads this comment, FYI it is not remotely accurate. They have 23 just in engineering and 6 designers, with 2 in ops. We have AWS and these guys have incredibly run of the mill needs, why on earth would you need 1 ops person for e
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by joshdickson 10y ago
CEO and board have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. If Apple showed up with enough cash ($5-6B?) it would be hard for the board to say no. That kind of money might be an overpayment, but with the amount of cash that Apple has
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by joshdickson 10y ago
I would assume it's too late for Twilio, but the next time this happens, there are many companies now that arrange secondary sales where employees can sell some shares so they can use the money to buy a house, car, fund a college educa
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Not quite - Walgreens believes that the CMS punishment, which is expected in the next two weeks, will be sufficiently harsh enough that it will win a case against Theranos. If they lost the case, they could have potentially been on the hook
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by joshdickson 10y ago
They said CI build on commodity hardware. Yes folks like Circle have CI for iOS and OS X apps, but (1) it's on Apple hardware and (2) as a result, way more expensive.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
> You have had the advantage of seeing the trend those cash flows have taken the past 3 years... And what exactly are those trends? Dell has been private for three years, how the company is doing is not and has not been public since the
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by joshdickson 10y ago
I am not offering an opinion on the matter, so I don't know what you mean by me not taking into account risk. You were inferring things from the judge's verdict that were not correct and I was merely pointing them out. I don'
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by joshdickson 10y ago
I am surprised at the amount of misinformation in this thread (have people actually even read the post? It answers most of these questions!). > This means the more disturbing part is that the judge has had 3 years of hindsight where part
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by joshdickson 10y ago
My above comment is incomplete when it comes to this point; that implication is not actually the case here. Normally this is in fact not the case, because the acquirer has some sort of strategic reason behind their purchase that they beli
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by joshdickson 10y ago
Actually, the judge did it pretty much entirely opposite what you're saying. The judge chose the final number largely because he ruled that Silverlake, the private equity portion of the deal, would need to make 20-30% to justify the pr
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by joshdickson 10y ago
You're getting a few things mixed up. > '...but to rule that you should offer more than the market was valuing it?' Acquisitions in general are almost always for a premium based on the current market value of the company.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
If you Google 'DF Sponsorship' you can get all the info (&rates). I believe a weekly sponsorship is about $13k and he does $15k-20k per podcast across 3-4 ad reads.
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by joshdickson 10y ago
The way that Daring Fireball does ads is a product of the entire way that Gruber runs the site - you can't only talk about ads. Not to mention the point that Gruber can do whatever he wants with his site and does not need to maximize r

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