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fallingmeat

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Into hardware and flying things, or jumping out of them. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenatefisher/
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fallingmeat··on Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
What about Elevate? Seems non-core but couldn't have been cheap.
fallingmeat··on Zoox, Self-Driving Car Startup Valued at $2.7B, Is for Sale
Good riddance. Get those half-baked unproven ego-driven prototype death-traps off the public road. Get back to us about using public roads AFTER you've proven it works.
fallingmeat··on Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust
can we get one written in Ada too?
fallingmeat··on A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
Of course, I read the original comment as relying on the entire Arduino Uno board, which is both expensive and restrictive to your supply chain. Individual components, such as MCUs could more easily be selected to avoid those two issues.
fallingmeat··on A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
Happy to help on EE side. PCB, firmware, verification, etc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenatefisher/
fallingmeat··on A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production
Is a less-complicated (and more easily verified) PCB too difficult to design? Arduino may be easy to use for proto, but not going to be simple to verify. Plus, you are now slave to their supply chain, for a need that may be much simpler than what the Arduino board offers.
fallingmeat··on Comments on the MISRA C coding guidelines (2011)
RTCA/DO-178 is not a coding standard, but does mandate one be used, such as MISRA
fallingmeat··on Is it still ok to have kids in face of climate change?
if it's the reason you are citing for not having kids, you are probably not ready to have kids
fallingmeat··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
Kitty Hawk: Project Cora | Flight Software Engineers for Certification of World's First Commercial Air Taxi Vehicle | Atlanta | ONSITE, Full Time | http://cora.aero

We are Kitty Hawk, an innovative aerospace company backed and led by proven visionaries. Our mission is to design and build vehicles for everyday flight, reducing the world's traffic congestion. Although an audacious challenge, we have been at work on a self-flying air taxi since 2010, tackling some of the biggest challenges in aviation. Our world-class team contributes decades of expertise in commercial aviation, aerospace, automotive engineering, advanced manufacturing, flight test, industrial design, customer experience, and regulatory compliance.

With the addition of a new Atlanta location, we invite talented and ambitious engineers who share our passion for flight, to join our team. Specifically, we are now hiring for software engineers to assist in the development, analysis, review and verification of flight software which runs on-board our Cora aircraft. Preferred experience includes: embedded systems engineering, firmware engineering, experience with RTOS development, RTCA DO-178C or DO-178B, SAE ARP 4751A, software test coverage analysis. Please apply via the following link:

Flight Software Verification Engineer - Atlanta, GA https://jobs.lever.co/kittyhawk.aero/5fe8399b-82ab-44bd-9c35...

fallingmeat··on Announcing Drone Cloud, a Free Continuous Integration Service for X86 and Arm
Finally an automated ARM-target testing cloud service!
fallingmeat··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Kitty Hawk: Project Cora (http://cora.aero) | Flight Software Verification Engineers, Embedded, Firmware, DO-178C | Atlanta, GA | Full-time | ONSITE

We are Kitty Hawk, an innovative aerospace company backed and led by proven visionaries. Our mission is to design and build vehicles for everyday flight, reducing the world's traffic congestion. Although an audacious challenge, we have been at work on a self-flying air taxi since 2010, tackling some of the biggest challenges in aviation. Our world-class team contributes decades of expertise in commercial aviation, aerospace, automotive engineering, advanced manufacturing, flight test, industrial design, customer experience, and regulatory compliance.

With the addition of a new Atlanta location, we invite talented and ambitious engineers who share our passion for flight, to join our team. Specifically, we are now hiring for software engineers to assist in the development, analysis, review and verification of flight software which runs onboard our Cora aircraft. Please apply via the following link:

https://jobs.lever.co/kittyhawk.aero/5fe8399b-82ab-44bd-9c35...

fallingmeat··on Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
Webvan. I could have ordered groceries to my door!
fallingmeat··on Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
CueCat. Coupon clipping was going to be rocked!
fallingmeat··on Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s11/sh/136ff1bb-957d-48b7-a99...
fallingmeat··on Smlr – Make your stdin smaller (a simple abbr...tion util)
This exists for use cases that require fixed-length strings from various CLI utilities. Hopefully a package manager picks it up and installation will be easier. Until then, have fun and be dangerous.
fallingmeat··on Project to Run RTL-SDR Dongle with Microcontroller Host
I started this project a while back and am just now releasing the results piecemeal. If anyone has experience running SDR DSP operations on an MCU, I'd be very interested to hear about it! So far, this seems very feasible for at least small-ish bandwidth applications (ie ~100 KHz) and simple modulation schemes. Looking forward to pushing the limits of ~450DMIPS processor...
fallingmeat··on Successfully Testing Satellite-Based ADS-B Tracking
...or circuit breakers to be pulled, or any humans in the loop at all...
fallingmeat··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
Airbus A³ | Avionics Engineers (Electrical and Real-time Software) | Onsite Full-time in San Jose, CA | http://airbus-sv.com/

A³ is the Silicon Valley outpost of Airbus Group SE, the parent company of Airbus. As an embedded software or electrical engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, test and support of safety-critical electronic systems. Prior experience developing products with certification objectives or functional safety requirements, is a plus. Please see job posts for more information regarding open positions and application process.

fallingmeat··on Iris Automation (YC S16) gives drones situational awareness to fly autonomously
The technologies in the OP are also attempting to provide a solution for air traffic collision avoidance. What is the specific use case Iris will solve better than any other existing technology?
fallingmeat··on Iris Automation (YC S16) gives drones situational awareness to fly autonomously
Seems this didn't get any love, so I'll clarify. There is a tradeoff in exposure area and distance, for a given data rate out of the sensor. Because there are already many projects related to obstacle avoidance in the near field, I am curious if Iris chooses to address traditional air traffic targets (as depicted on the website image). If this is the case, what types of aircraft and at what distances. Put yet another way, does Iris intend to compliment traditional TCAS-like systems (albeit for non-cooperative targets)?
fallingmeat··on Iris Automation (YC S16) gives drones situational awareness to fly autonomously
Alex, what is the maximum detection distance you expect is required for Iris to successfully negotiate an avoidance maneuver in its concept of operation. Further, what are the typical targets/obstacles that Iris would intend to detect and avoid?
fallingmeat··on China demonstrates new anti-riot robot
Note to self, don't stand directly in front of leg grabber
fallingmeat··on IBM Design
ok agreed. hope it works!
fallingmeat··on IBM Design
Hey IBM, instead of just telling us you care, how about actually creating a delightful experience for ClearCase, ClearQuest or DOORS.

I guess it's easier to simply say "Design" 37 times on a static site, maybe add some bright colors, people of 'diverse' background and a hoodie for effect. Nailed it!

fallingmeat··on The Internet of Way Too Many Things
"...wifi-enabled microcontroller for _$3_..." have been available (in volume) for, at least, a few years now. I'm not sure why, all of a sudden, this is such a promising solution on the most trivial of problems.

As an engineer in this industry, these companies often seem like carpetbaggers, attempting to enter niche markets they know little of, with a solution who's only merit is it's hype.

fallingmeat··on Ants are as Effective as Pesticides
Ants are also annoying. Come to Oakland and experience the 'pesticides' for yourself!
fallingmeat··on Recreating Megaman 2 Using JavaScript and WebGL
needs some music!!! Crashman, possibly the catchiest song..
fallingmeat··on Engineering ethics
I can only hope so...it would finally validate my investment!!! :)
fallingmeat··on Imagining an America Without Sports
i'm for it
fallingmeat··on Angara-5 to become Russia's biggest rocket
Yeah look, I get all the criticism. Point is, can this mutherfucker hover and land ass-down? That's all we want to see.
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