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DanFeldman

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YCF 1 - Vehicle2Hobbyist Currently at Applied Intuition. Previously at Starsky Robotics, building self driving trucks.
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DanFeldman··on Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time
You make a good point that Blue Apron only teaches you how to assemble ingredients, but not to shop for them. They are two separate skills. But most people who don't know how to cook are bad at both, and Blue Apron gets rid of one of the highest friction parts and lets people dive right into the actual cooking part of, well, cooking.

Getting people unafraid of assembling ingredients and heating food and cleaning after is a good first step. If you didn't grow up cooking and shopping and cleaning, there's a lot to mentally unpack before you make a meal. If you have no basis for how to plan anything ("Would you like to add extra meat for $5") extra options quickly get confusing.

DanFeldman··on Uber exec in March: “we shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”
> Miller also suggested that Uber might want to drastically scale back its testing program. "I suspect an 85% reduction in fleet size wouldn’t slow development," he wrote.

The vehicles create a firehose of data for the engineers/devs to deal with when there's large fleets. Things are ignored, and you have to dedicate more and more time to create good tools to filter through anomalies, incidents, and disengagements. With a smaller fleet, they'd see less problems come up but perhaps be able to diagnose and act on more of them.

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Infra Engineer, Controls Engineer, Behavior Planning Engineer| San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time

Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're solving hard problems across the board and need help. We have positions open for all sides of the robotics stack, and are specifically looking for more Software eng. maturity for the platform and infrastructure teams. I personally work on the platform/infra side and am looking for extra hands on our data eng and testing infrastructure.

Blurb:

We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply online, every application is read: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/ or email me (daniel + @<company_name>.com) with any questions.

DanFeldman··on How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
https://firstround.com/review/give-away-your-legos-and-other...

I found this post to be in a similar vein, and helped lessen the scare of growing (or not growing) with my current startup, Starsky Robotics. What it made me realize is I loved the ability to switch direction, to "give away my legos", and I needed to focus more on making that an easy transition if I wanted to do it successfully. Learning to onboard a new employee or a new team onto your "complex tower of legos" is high impact and extremely important as teams scale.

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Please do not email me your application, only questions I may be able to answer. If you send me a resume or cover letter I will simply tell you to apply online! Thanks.
DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Infra Engineer, Controls Engineer, Behavior Planning Engineer| San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time

Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're solving hard problems across the board and need help. We have positions open for all sides of the robotics stack, and are specifically looking for more Software eng. maturity for the platform and infrastructure teams. I personally work on the platform/infra side and am looking for extra hands on our data eng and testing infrastructure.

Blurb:

We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply online, every application is read: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/ or email me (daniel + @<company_name>.com) with any questions.

DanFeldman··on GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz
I've got a Toyota Camry 2006. It's such a functional car. mid-early 2000s was such a beautiful time for car user interfaces. No crazy screens, no touch UI to control radio volume with millions of menus, no painfully slow third party navigation systems that became deprecated by the time cell phones came out.

The only modification it has is a bluetooth receiver instead of the CD part of the radio. It's so wonderfully low-tech that the key fob doesn't even work anymore, only manual keys for me.

I bought it when I could have purchased a new vehicle for a similar price using a GM employee discount. Never regretted the decision, and now seeing all this coming out, I feel even better about my camry. I'll drive it until it dies and then hopefully never own another vehicle.

DanFeldman··on GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool
Wow, this could be really useful for my team. We've built a ton of customized workflows on top of github. We use a modified git-flow process, and have bespoke solutions for automatically tagging branches when branches w/ name "hotfix" get into master, when long-living releases get merged, tons of logic for getting commits on a "release-*" branch into dev and other branches.

We ended up building a custom github worker that listens to all of this, but it's opaque and our Bus factor is 1 for that tool. Putting it on Github where anyone can change the rules and see them cleanly is fantastic!

DanFeldman··on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
I found plenty of reports of similar issues on google groups and reddit/r/android. Phone Calling functionality would stop working, screen would glitch out, and then force a restart. At some point it just didn't wake up. Poor guy.
DanFeldman··on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
I'm on my third Nexus 5x. The first Boot-looped thanksgiving 6 months after I bought it, the 2nd boot-looped during christmas the next year. The third has stayed steady, I've just avoided all holidays.

I bought a pixel (2nd hand, dumb mistake) and then it bricked itself within 3 months. Went back to my repaired Nexus 5x.

Google's hardware is awful and their support is an opaque cloud of pretty UIs and unhelpful people.

Should have gotten a 1+

DanFeldman··on Writing system software: code comments
It's either code that is purposefully built to turn into nice documents (using something akin to Sphinx or Doxygen, potentially hosted on readthedocs.org) or a tongue-in-cheek excuse for not writing documentation.
DanFeldman··on Writing system software: code comments
I've seen those types of comments everywhere, but only with "junior" devs, or more likely, from people without a CS background. Often these folks haven't had much exposure to clean production code or dug through open source libraries. They're trying to be helpful and document but don't really have the mental models of what needs to be commented or not. This is easy to train away though, through showing examples of what I think needs commenting, or straight up deleting comments during code reviews and by adding Docstrings instead of inline comments.

To be clear, I agree with you about how comments should be used.

DanFeldman··on Poke at system files with Shortcuts
Ahhh yes, getting around blocks on computer usage in middle school was the best.

I got to learn about DNS when I found out that all the blocked game pages were easy to circumvent by typing some weird string of numbers called an IP.

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Did reading HN bring anything valuable into your life?
Totally. I read HN and often get routed to interesting articles, technical discussions, and arguments I normally wouldn't see from my other sources of content (work conversation, FB, reddit). I like the highly technical nature of the posts here. I distinctly remember reading some article about B-Tree implementation in Rust that went mostly over my head, but gave me a great understanding of what developing a standard library looks like. I've never used rust nor have I built a standard library, but I got something out of that article & discussion.

I also make heavy use of the job threads, my company gets great candidates out of the WhoisHiring monthly post.

Also, HN introduced me to YCombinator. I eventually applied and got into the fellowship, which definitely brought something of value to my life... I found out about HN through a link someone sent me early on to a discussion.

DanFeldman··on Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit
And then slowly after years of being managed by an experienced operator, a company loses its ability to innovate until the manager is removed. See Microsoft with Ballmer -> Nadella
DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Note: we can and do provide visas for fulltime work.
DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Controls Engineer, Behavior Planning Engineer| San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time

Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're solving hard problems across the board and need help. We have positions open for all sides of the robotics stack, and are specifically looking for more Software eng. maturity for the platform and infrastructure teams. I personally work on the platform/infra side and am looking for extra hands on our data eng and testing infrastructure.

Blurb:

We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/ or email me (daniel + @<company_name>.com) with any questions.

DanFeldman··on No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data
https://xkcd.com/2006/ Relevant XKCD, to an extreme.
DanFeldman··on PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
I don't know off hand, and we never compared w/ Electron, it was just floated as an idea. When we eventually fully refactor our GUI code to be agnostic of ROS we'll profile more completely.
DanFeldman··on PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
All of our end users are internal, so the main bloat-related problems wouldn't really be an issue at all. Why should we be worried about electron in the future?
DanFeldman··on PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
We use Qt heavily at Starsky Robotics. We initially used it because it has tight integration with ROS via RQT [1], but I'm pretty impressed with the framework in general. Lots of great tools out of the box, QtCreator is awesome and once you get the right signal/slot model in your head everything is a breeze. Plus getting to prototyping in python is always fast!

For our use case, relative speed of the GUI isn't a factor. We've considered moving to electron just for ease of development, but python is winning out.

[1] http://wiki.ros.org/rqt

DanFeldman··on Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap
Local-cloud or onprem-cloud!
DanFeldman··on Google is discontinuing Inbox
Damnit, I love inbox and I use it everyday. Much preferred to the GMAIL ui, seemed less cluttered to me and the swiping features to archive/snooze/pin were great. Yikes. It worked really well out of the box for bundling and didn't need much configuration. RIP inbox.
DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Controls Engineer, Behavior Planning Engineer| San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. Looking for:

- Senior & Junior Gen software engineering (Platform team) - C++ expertise

- Controls Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception Engineer

- Data Engineer - Own and improve our entire data pipeline and reporting workloads. Support a 2TB/week pipeline, and a growing collection of data needs.

- Behavior Planning Engineer (Machine Learning & Data Science combo)

- "Full Stack" Truck Tech Engineer: Help scale our trucking operations in any way possible. In charge of product discovery, development, deployment, and design for our trucking business.

- Internship (SW or EE): On a limited basis, we are open to extremely talented internship candidates. In addition to a resume, attach anything that will show us that you’re exceptional (non-school projects, side-businesses, etc).

- Commercial Truck Drivers

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/ or email me (daniel + company email) with any questions.

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Controls Engineer, Behavior Planning Engineer| San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. Looking for:

- Senior & Junior Gen software engineering (Platform team) - C++ expertise

- Controls Engineer, Behavior Planning Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception Engineer

- Data Engineer

- Behavior Planning Engineer (Machine Learning & Data Science combo)

- "Full Stack" Truck Tech Engineer: Help scale our trucking operations in any way possible. In charge of product discovery, development, deployment, and design for our trucking business.

- Internship (SW or EE): On a limited basis, we are open to extremely talented internship candidates. In addition to a resume, attach anything that will show us that you’re exceptional (non-school projects, side-businesses, etc).

- Office Manager (part time)

- Commercial Truck Drivers

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Electrical Engineer, Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Test Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. Looking for:

- Gen software engineering (Platform team) - C++ expertise

- Controls Engineer

- Behavior Planning Engineer (Machine Learning & Data Science combo)

- Perception Engineeer, Machine Learning Engineer

- SW Engineer - Test (SF): Testing Infrastructure & Automation

- Field Test Engineer Florida: 50% software 50% hardware, Miami/Fort Lauderdale area

- "Full Stack" Truck Tech Engineer: Help scale our trucking operations in any way possible. In charge of product discovery, development, deployment, and design for our trucking business.

- Internship (SW or EE): On a limited basis, we are open to extremely talented internship candidates. In addition to a resume, attach anything that will show us that you’re exceptional (non-school projects, side-businesses, etc).

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Ah yes we should update that. Fort Lauderdale/Miami area! Please apply through our jobs site!
DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2018)
SEEKING FREELANCE | San Francisco | In person preferred, remote accepted

Starsky Robotics is a self driving trucking company looking for a contractor experienced in real time video streaming. Our goal is to achieve low-latency peer to peer video streaming over a network connection with variable bandwidth, variable latency, and variable packet loss.

Starsky self driving trucks run autonomously on the highway and are teleoperated for the first and last mile. We currently have a stable, working version of teleoperation but are looking to improve the video quality and reliability.

We use C++ and Python internally, but we are language-agnostic for this project. This project's deliverable could be an integration with an enterprise solution or a custom built streaming pipeline using open source frameworks.

Email kartik@starskyrobotics.com

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Electrical Engineer, Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Test Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time

We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. Looking for:

- Gen software engineering (Platform team)

- Controls Engineer

- Perception Engineeer, Machine Learning Engineer

- Test Engineer SF: Testing Infrastructure & Automation

- Test Engineer Florida: 50% software 50% hardware

- "Full Stack" Truck Tech Engineer: Help scale our trucking operations in any way possible

- Internship (SW or EE): On a limited basis, we are open to extremely talented internship candidates. In addition to a resume, attach anything that will show us that you’re exceptional (non-school projects, side-businesses, etc).

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/

DanFeldman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Devops, Electrical Engineer, Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Test Engineer, Hardware Test Engineer, EE | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. Looking for:

- Devops & Infrastructure Eng, Gen software engineering

- Controls Engineer, Electrical Engineer

- Perception Engineeer, Machine Learning Engineer

- Test Engineer (SF and Florida)

- Hardware Test Engineer

- Internship (SW or EE): On a limited basis, we are open to extremely talented internship candidates. In addition to a resume, attach anything that will show us that you’re exceptional (non-school projects, side-businesses, etc).

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/

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