adrianmacneil

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by adrianmacneil 8y ago
It's hard to Paint this as a bad thing.
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by adrianmacneil 8y ago
If you're in or near SF I recommend looking up optometrist Dr. David Stamper, he specializes in keratoconus and similar issues.
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by adrianmacneil 8y ago
Exactly. Thus far, all we can say for sure is that we have not yet been carelessly crushed to make room for some intergalactic freeway we do not understand. That doesn't mean there isn't one right in front of our eyes though.
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by adrianmacneil 8y ago
An ant cannot "see" not comprehend the purpose of a freeway, no matter how hard we might try to explain it. It would walk right over it and not think it were any different than your average rock.
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by adrianmacneil 8y ago
The answer to this is very obvious: For the same reason that humans have not "made contact" with ants. Why do you assume a higher intelligence would even be capable of making contact with us on a level we understand? The discussio
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by adrianmacneil 8y ago
Cruise Automation | Senior Software Engineer (Backend and/or Frontend), SRE | San Francisco | ONSITE Interested in working on tools at the intersection of robotics and machine learning? Our engineering productivity team is responsible
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by adrianmacneil 8y ago
Cruise Automation | Senior/Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE Cruise is building the world’s best autonomous vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We&
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Source? Also, even if they verify you meet some minimum bar of being able to support yourself (which I was not asked about in my interview, other than turning up looking generally presentable), this is still a far cry from a more rigorous p
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Not entirely true. For the diversity visa (green card lottery), there are (extensive) medical and background checks, but the US consulate does not consider skills and resources beyond verifying that you meet the minimum requirements (high s
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
P3 instances have Volta (V100) GPUs.
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
With ECS and EKS you get a managed master, then you set up your own autoscaling groups etc to deploy nodes (which you manage) into the cluster. With Fargate, you get access to AWS-managed multi-tenant nodes. So, Fargate connects to either y
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My ride in GM's self-driving car offers a taste of what's possible(cnbc.com)
2 points by adrianmacneil 9y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Agreed. I got about half way through the article before realizing the author does not understand how an exchange works.
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Ultimately, because large traders care more about short term liquidity than long term solvency.
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Completely unfounded nonsense. Their profit margin is much higher than the fraud rate (as others pointed out, if fraud was as high as you say, banks would have shut down the relationship years ago).
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Cruise Automation | Senior DevOps/SRE, Data Infrastructure | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building self driving cars, and we're testing in the most difficult urban environments. We have a world class software team, plus a par
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Different car.
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Not damage control, just providing an alternate opinion. Yes, it's entirely possible that the commenter is (or was) an employee in a department other than engineering. We all report to CEO eventually though, so I don't think that
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Cruise employee here. I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. In my experience, Cruise is one of the most exciting companies to be working for today, and Kyle is easily the most intelligent, hard working, and reasonable CEO I have worked
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Yes! I think we're kicking off 2018 intern hiring in the next few weeks. Keep an eye on the website :)
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Hi HN, engineer at Cruise here. I just wanted to point out that most people are surprised when I tell them we're hiring a ton of backend/full stack/android engineering positions (mostly go/node/react), and you don&#
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Our drivers always keep their hands on the steering wheel, even while in autonomous mode. There isn't really any way you could tell externally whether the car is engaged or not, other than some of the nuances of our driving behavior. S
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Cruise Automation | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building the world's most reliable self driving car technology, and we have the right backing + partnerships in place for manufacturing at scale. We're hiring for a large numbe
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The Tor of Money(medium.com)
1 points by adrianmacneil 9y ago|0 comments
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
You could, but it's simply not necessary. I have not verified the numbers, but I think this answer gives a better idea of the scale we are talking about: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3205
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Bitcoin addresses are basically a public key, so you can generate them offline the same way you can generate pgp keys, openssl keys, SSH keys you use to access GitHub etc. The chances of a collision are so astronomically low that our sun wi
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
$1MM is nothing. At current prices that is ~500 BTC. Looking at just the Bitfinex order book[1], you could sell this in one trade with <5% slippage. If you split it out in say 10 trades over 24 hours you would probably not move the mar
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Side note: speaking from experience, you need to be very careful about tying your public identity to any statements about holding this amount of cryptocurrency. I've seen extremely well targeted (successful) spear phishing and identity
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by adrianmacneil 9y ago
Cruise Automation | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building the world's largest fleet of self driving cars, and we're testing in 3 cities across the US. We focus our testing on solving the hardest challenges first (e.g. city dr

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