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CEO & co-founder @instamotor. Formerly @nest, @stanford.
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_sy_··on Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team
Probably the end of Nest as we know it.
_sy_··on A Reply to François Chollet on Intelligence Explosion
A good, recent, and comprehensive primer on intelligence explosion and its theoretical implication: "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by MIT physicist Max Tegmark.
_sy_··on AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
Ubuntu 17.10. Also running a Nvidia 1080 Ti. Everything is liquid cooled. Works like a charm
_sy_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Instamotor | San Francisco, CA | Front-End / Full-Stack Engineer, Swift Engineer, Kotlin Engineer, Elixir/Ruby Backend Engineer | Full-time, ONSITE | www.instamotor.com

We are a car marketplace that combines vehicles and financial services all in one place. We are backed by great investors and have a small & dynamic team. Our frontend stack is react/redux/node, our iOS app is written using Swift and react-native, our Android app is written in Kotlin, and our backend is ruby+Elixir for micro services.

Email jobs@instamotor.com

_sy_··on AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
same. TR 1950X over here.
_sy_··on Most sushi fish isn't fresh
I can confirm that it tastes best when you wait. I occasionally go Ahi fishing off the shore of Kauai with friends, and they usually ice it right away and wait a couple of days before cutting it for sashimi.
_sy_··on Ask HN: Success stories of co-founders that met online?
Instamotor. met right here :)
_sy_··on Android now supports Kotlin
The Instamotor Android app is entirely built using Kotlin.
_sy_··on Ask HN: What distributed storage technology are you using?
At Instamotor we use Elastic Search, Redis, and S3 for files/photos. In my previous job (Nest), we looked at a decent number of options and ended up going with Cassandra.
_sy_··on Promising Startups
happy to! email me at sy@instamotor.com
_sy_··on Promising Startups
Instamotor (marketplace + fintech, San Francisco) is on there and we're hiring engineers :) jobs@instamotor.com
_sy_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
Instamotor | Fullstack Engineer & Frontend Engineer & PR-lead & Content-Writers | San Francisco | Full-Time

Instamotor is building the world's largest marketplace for cars and the financial services around it. Our team is composed of senior/exec level people previously at Amazon, Google, LendingClub, Nest...etc. We’re thinkers, relentless doers, and are backed by over $8M in funding from top investors who successfully funded companies like Airbnb, Square, Uber, Zappos, ProductHunt...etc. Think of us as the combination of a fintech company and a marketplace.

Stack: - frontend: React / redux / node - backend: Ruby / Elixir - mobile: Kotlin / Swift - datastore: postgres / redis / elastic search

Apply: jobs@instamotor.com

_sy_··on Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot
Thanks for restoring sanity :)
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot
Got a good chatbot api/library to recommend?

PS: your kickstarter project rocks. We are donating!

_sy_··on Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot
Yeah we did that too, but we wanted to find a way to distribute it so making it an app was easier.
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaRoom SF – Automated Shared-Room Finding
I'll venture to guess they're running off of AWS. CL blocks ec2 us-east ip's. So it probably wouldn't work.
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaRoom SF – Automated Shared-Room Finding
I ran it for about 2 weeks. No issues. The frequency is low too.
_sy_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
Instamotor -- San Francisco, CA -- H-1B/F-1 OK

Instamotor.com aims to be the world's first completely decentralized and distributed car dealership. Since our launch on Hacker News, we have been struggling to keep up with demand. Having raised a seed round, we are now actively looking for help.

Skillsets we're hiring for:

-full-stack angularjs/ruby

-operation person to lead/manage our on the ground operations

-sales development representative

email us: info@instamotor.com

_sy_··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
Instamotor -- San Francisco, CA && Remote -- H-1B/F-1 OK

Instamotor.com aims to be the world's first completely decentralized and distributed car dealership. Since our launch on Hacker News, we have been struggling to keep up with demand. Having raised a seed round, we are now actively looking for help.

Skillsets we're hiring for:

-full-stack angularjs/ruby

-android dev

-devops to push code fast

email us: info@instamotor.com

_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
Bay Area only for now. We'd love to expand later on.
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
Hi Darren -- I agree with you. I will go ahead and fix it. We are still on the fence as to what is the right amount to charge for our service, but less than 5% is the goal.
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
we got a lot of comment on how confusing this section is. We'll do another pass at it soon. Thanks for feedback!

ps: was everything ok and clear enough?

_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
hey Peter, sy here from Instamotor. I think Trucar is kind of supposed to do that. Not sure if we'll ever jump into that particular segment.
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
Oups! I'm really short on sleep and I accidentally copy-pasted the wrong URL earlier.

Thank you for all your help!!

_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
Thanks for the heads up! I'm on it and will be pushing an update to in a few minutes. Mind if I ping you then?

edit: I updated the header but still no update on Facebook. I'm assuming it must be cached. I will try to create a Facebook page to see if that clears it.

_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
Actuall, that was one of the best episode of This American Life.
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
I spent a lot of time in Vancouver, BC; Canada is a wonderful place and I can't wait until we expand there. We'll try to tackle the San Francisco Bay Area first :)
_sy_··on Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
Thanks a lot Matt! And let us know when you're selling it. We'll give you the friends and family discount :)