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by crubier 8y ago
> thousands of people Animals*. Not people, FTFY. Joke aside though, I think this is an artifact of old school web development, which was a mess. People didn’t mind these kinds of hacks. But the number of people willing to accept such in
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by crubier 8y ago
> Who cares? Me. As a CTO I am not confortable having significant amounts of code embedded in strings inside html attributes. Also we use Flow / Typescript. React is typesafe and sound. No templates, no strings, just functions. This
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by crubier 8y ago
Many of those are shortcuts that look appealing on a simple project in the beginning, but have the potential to massively backfire later on when your project grows. It is like shooting your future self in the foot. On the other hand react m
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by crubier 8y ago
I disagree with everything in this article, except maybe about saving a few kb in bundle size, and the better CSS experience. Everything else is biased and mostly wrong. In terms of performance, recent versions of react with Fiber can achie
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by crubier 8y ago
Hi I’d like to talk to you about LIDAR processing with CUDA. I am Vincent Lecrubier on LinkedIn, or Crubier I’m Github. :-)
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by crubier 8y ago
Ops: I moved to Kubernetes from Docker swarm+compose, and I like the momentum that k8s is getting these days. Dev: Continued working on our full stack JS (Node, React, React native, Flowtype, Jest). I am planning on moving to Typescript bec
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by crubier 8y ago
It makes a lot of sense for high level mission planning (more agile than other languages + it runs everywhere) and interacting with web apps.
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by crubier 8y ago
Agree with your point, this is the vision we are developing at Sterblue !
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by crubier 8y ago
Aha, every drone company has its own set of funny/sad moments as you call it! We had a few ourselves in our beginnings, when we were still making drones. However we never had a crash when inspecting power lines! Here is a video of powe
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by crubier 8y ago
Many customers don’t have precise 3D models of their infrastructure. We deal with that, and other real-world constraints such as wind turbine stopping position, wind turbine blades bending under their own weight, power line slacking low whe
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by crubier 8y ago
You are right, a ombination of Hi-res cameras + Accurate GPS + Collision avoidance on basic off-the-helf drones means that Software such as Sterblue can now perform jobs that previously needed custom drones with custom sensors. There are lo
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by crubier 8y ago
Thanks! - Factory plant inspections is on our roadmap. We have technical proof of concept on this, especially on generating flight plans for arbitrary complex 3D structures, and detecting defects on images. It will be more of a commercial e
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by crubier 8y ago
You are right, this is a concern for some of our customers. We had talks about self-hosted solutions, but so far no customers required it. There a several reasons for this: - We host data on AWS on data centers in appropriate regions for ea
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by crubier 8y ago
Hi and thanks ! There are multiple answers to this particular problem: - We tune the algorithms to give very high recall (up to 98%), at the cost of lower precision (down to 70% in certain cases). This means that we miss very few defects, b
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by crubier 8y ago
Hi, yes we have a working demo but it is invite only so far. We received your application and will give you access to the demo shortly!
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by crubier 8y ago
True. The helicopter inspection process is very productive, but also costly and dangerous. Also their process is all about spotting defects from the helicopter while flying, and only taking pictures of defects. This is pretty epic, but not
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by crubier 8y ago
Thanks a lot! Our software is really modular so yes we do have a few plans for new verticals :-) At this point it’s more a matter of commercial effort than technical development
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by crubier 8y ago
Our ML pipeline is deployed on AWS, using a mix of AWS Lambdas and Kubernetes containers on the brand new EKS. We also did some amount of training on our own GPU machines on premises. But we recently started to work with our YC batchmates o
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by crubier 8y ago
Inspecting off-shore wind turbine was actually the first application we wanted to address. It was a bit difficult as a first step, so we came back to on-shore inspections. But we are now able to perform off shore wind turbine inspections
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by crubier 8y ago
Sorry, we have been in a rush recently, with YC going on and so on. We are going to overhaul our Jobs section soon, but in the meantime we are starting to open jobs on https://www.workatastartup.com . Feel free to apply!
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by crubier 8y ago
We are in a middle ground: we do more than pure GPS navigation around 3D models using DJI inputs, there is some amount of computer vision going on, but we do not do real time online SLAM either. Some of our customers provide us with LIDAR
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by crubier 8y ago
I see you have experience in the field, we noticed exactly the same pain points as you did! But we noticed that utilities are now getting more and more challenged on different fronts, so many of them are opening to new technologies as a way
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Launch HN: Sterblue (YC S18) – Software for drones to inspect power lines
84 points by crubier 8y ago|45 comments
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by crubier 8y ago
Having worked several years on critical embedded systems in aerospace, I would tend to agree with you. But on the other hand, has any Tesla car ever had an accident because of this? At some point, "heavily tested and validated end to e
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by crubier 8y ago
>>> Test driven development [...] is absolutely not necessary to writing a good product. ... But it is absolutely necessary to maintain a good product in the context of a team . Trust me on that one.
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by crubier 8y ago
I love Prisma and use it daily for the backend of our apps
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by crubier 9y ago
Sterblue: http://www.sterblue.com/ - We automate inspections of industrial infrastructure (Power grid, Wind turbines, solar panels and so on) using drones and AI. One integrated automatic solution for data collection and da
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Show HN: Infinite recursion in JavaScript with infinistack(github.com)
1 points by crubier 9y ago|0 comments
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by crubier 9y ago
As a Graphcool user, I very much see how Graphcool is NOT threatened by Appsync, but is merely complimentary. Appsync sure does perform the lower level part of what Graphcool does. But the added value of Graphcool was never this to me. The
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by crubier 9y ago
I wonder what is the difference with ngrok, if any?

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