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namewithhe1don Steam Frame: Valve's standalone SteamOS VR headset ($1,059)

What a killer on the cost. I wish they gave a discount for a Steam Machine user

namewithhe1don Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

OP, DM me and I'll get you a persistent key for this data. Not from MarineTraffic

namewithhe1don Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

https://ibb.co/BrYQhQJ

Looks like normal operations after departing container berth. Concerning is the speed ramping up.

namewithhe1don Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)

FreightFlows, Inc | Infrastructure Engineer | Remote, Boston MA USA

*Company* FreightFlows is a fully remote, well-funded data and analytics startup based in Boston, MA. We track and predict ship movements and cargo flows for the 30,000 largest shipping vessels in the world, a $300bn industry. The world of global shipping is immense, unwieldy, and is in the early stages of undergoing a digital overhaul.

*Role* FreightFlows is growing fast and we're looking for an infrastructure engineer to grow with us. This is a high impact position. You'll be responsible for building the infrastructure that powers our data science platform, and ensuring a seamless process for developers and data scientists.

Our stack includes AWS, Airflow, Spark, and Docker on ECS. We've just started exploring Terraform/CloudFormation, Kafka and possible Kubernetes for future projects a well.

*Requirements* - Strong overall programming skills: able to write modular, maintainable code, preferably in Python - Expertise building code-driven infrastructure on public cloud platforms (preferably AWS with Terraform or CloudFormation) - Expertise building CI/CD pipelines - Experience with Docker and Linux - Experience with SQL - Experience configuring and maintaining relational databases

*Apply* via Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2834330196

via email with resume: hackernews@freightflows.com subject: Infrastructure-Engineer

namewithhe1don Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

# FreightFlows | Data Scientist / Sr Data Analyst / Data Engineer | Boston, MA USA | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full-time #

_What we do_

Maritime transportation accounts for nearly 4% of all global climate change emissions. 77% of tonnage moved on the water happens in bulk ships (ie tankers) and not container ships. These ships operate like taxis, and their idle time, and empty voyages reveal a very inefficient transportation system.

FreightFlows tracks every boat on the water in real-time and predicts what they'll do next. We leverage unique access to hundreds of millions of live data points/day to analyze and optimize seaborne bulk trade (such as oil, gas, chemicals, aggregates, ore and coal).

We're helping shippers and vessel operators to forecast freight partners, helping to secure favorable market pricing and reducing idle time and empty legs for ships.

Our goal is to significantly reduce the impact of climate change emissions in the maritime transportation industry by driving down the cost of trade and maximizing utilization.

_What we need_

We're a small but experienced team, with experience in maritime tech, commodity analytics and machine learning.

We are looking to add a colleague to our Analytics team, who will develop models and build the associated data pipelines to put them into production. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who wants to focus on data science or a data scientist who wants to focus more on software development. The team is small and you will have responsibility to create, test, and implement improvements from a roadmap you will help author.

You will learn the nuances of our AWS backend and will work on modeling -across structured historical vessel & port data, geospatial data, and scraped industry data- using primarily python and some SQL. You will be responsible for implementing client-facing databases and visualizations, and will need to stay up to date with various modeling research, as it pertains to our problem set. We are creating a unique solution in our industry, and we value creativity, dedication, and honest skepticism in our development teams. Our market is global and we welcome applicants from anywhere in the world; you will work remotely but must be available for some meetings in US Eastern time.

You are among the first hires after the founding team, so you need to be comfortable with an uncertain future, fast paced development, risk taking, and the excitement that comes with seeing real world problems fixed with what you do every day. Diverse applicants very welcome - if you think you can help, then please get in contact!

https://apply.workable.com/freightflows/j/651C857D85/

namewithhe1don Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)

# FreightFlows (Currently MassChallenge 2020 cohort) | Sr. Data Engineer, Jr. Software Engineer | Boston, MA USA | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full-time #

_What we do_

Maritime transportation accounts for nearly 4% of all global climate change emissions. 77% of tonnage moved on the water happens in bulk ships (ie tankers) and not container ships. These ships operate like taxis, and their idle time, and empty voyages reveal a very inefficient transportation system.

FreightFlows tracks every boat on the water in real-time and predicts what they'll do next. We leverage unique access to hundreds of millions of live data points/day to analyze and optimize seaborne bulk trade (such as oil, gas, chemicals, aggregates, ore and coal).

We're helping shippers and vessel operators to forecast freight partners, helping to secure favorable market pricing and reducing idle time and empty legs for ships.

Our goal is to significantly reduce the impact of climate change emissions in the maritime transportation industry by driving down the cost of trade and maximizing utilization.

_What we need_

We're a small but experienced team, with experience in maritime tech, commodity analytics and machine learning.

Data Engineer: We need you to be a leader in developing the data processing and analytics pipeline. You need to have knowledge of python, experience with cloud architecture, big data, data structures, core data science algorithms and distributed systems. Ideally, you'll advise and steer the backend data development toward high availability, optimized processing and data delivery.

Software Engineer: front-end software development, React, Django.

You are among the first hires after the founding team, so you need to be comfortable with an uncertain future, fast paced development, risk taking, and the excitement that comes with seeing real world problems fixed with what you do every day. Diverse applicants very welcome - if you think you can help, then please get in contact!

hello@freightflows.com Subject: Hacker News

namewithhe1don Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station

Essentially, all vessels over a certain tonnage are required to broadcast identification data (AIS) for safety regulation so other vessels can identify them. Many companies now exist that listen in on those public vessel broadcasts and aggregate the date. Messages are sent by the vessels constantly, and terrestrial antenna are installed by companies, or assisted by volunteer hosts to help collect the messages along coastlines. Satellite companies can aggregate as well, but are usually hindered by how often the pass over a certain area (10 minutes of visibility every 90 minutes, depending on the constellation, and the company).

All in, the larger AIS data aggregators collect about 500 million messages a day from around 150,000 vessels through terrestrial and satellite sources. Access to the full feed, with no delay, is sold for up to $500k/year, though typical deal sizes are around $75k/year. Access to online map-based products usually cost around $10k/year.

<== Used to work for one of the large AIS companies

namewithhe1don Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station

I agree.. doubtful, though these are the only vessels passing through the polygon based on AIS

namewithhe1don Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station

vesseltracker.com paid service

namewithhe1don Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station

I see a couple candidates that passed through on Aug 20

Map of vessels passing through from Aug 18 - Aug 21 https://imgur.com/a/yLedgc6

Left track passed through Aug 18, right two tracks passed through Aug 20.

Vessel Hex Callsign DJ3767 MMSI 211191450 Vessel SY Malika Callsign DK7486 MMSI 211634590

namewithhe1don Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

FreightFlows | Data/backend Engineer. Also Sales/Marketing and Product roles | Boston, MA USA | ONSITE or REMOTE

We're a new startup from Boston focused on the $20 Trillion dollar global seaborne trade market.

FreightFlows provides aggregated, predictive analytics for global trade. While maritime data continues to grow in volume and complexity, actionable insights continue to be elusive. The industry instead deals with inaccurate, stale and biased data from many fragmented sources. The complexity of bringing together trusted, timely information means companies have had to rely on dubious, incomplete market insight and therefore make decisions on anecdotal evidence. FreightFlows uses proprietary data science algorithms to synthesize data into trade truth, predictive analytics and actionable intelligence for traders, shippers, owners and brokers.

Ask me anything.. Matt Morgan, Founder hello@freightflows.com

namewithhe1don Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

FreightFlows | Data Engineer, Devops Engineer. Also Sales/Marketing and Product roles | Boston, MA USA | ONSITE or REMOTE

We're a new startup from Boston (< 6 months old) focused on the $20 Trillion dollar global seaborne trade market.

FreightFlows provides aggregated, predictive analytics for global trade. While maritime data continues to grow in volume and complexity, actionable insights continue to be elusive. The industry instead deals with inaccurate, stale and biased data from many fragmented sources. The complexity of bringing together trusted, timely information means companies have had to rely on dubious, incomplete market insight and therefore make decisions on anecdotal evidence. FreightFlows uses proprietary data science algorithms to synthesize data into trade truth, predictive analytics and actionable intelligence for traders, shippers, owners and brokers.

Ask me anything.. Matt Morgan, Founder hello@freightflows.com

namewithhe1don The Simpsons by the Data

How about taking a look at the voice talent to understand why the characters are largely male dominated? Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer account for the largest majority of characters on the show. They have incredible flexibility and range. Nancy Cartwright voices Bart (not accounted for in the male/female numbers) and several other male characters, and thus expands the male repertoire. Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Julie Kavner (Marge) have pretty distinct voices, and while incredibly talented, don't contribute many more characters to the show outside of "soundalikes" like Marge's sisters, etc.

namewithhe1don [dead]

This guy is the worst. How is this newsworthy, or on HN?

namewithhe1don ‘Stay Far, Far Away’ and Other Things Gleaned from Yelp Health Reviews

It's true in the short run, though it will also place a much higher value on those doctors that are good at what they do, and run a good business. And those are the offices that will benefit the best in the long run.

/endrant

namewithhe1don National Raisin Reserve

It's such an incredibly outdated way of conducting business. The podcast was really terrific in showing the underworkings of an industry that I would never even think twice about. Very interesting

namewithhe1don ‘Stay Far, Far Away’ and Other Things Gleaned from Yelp Health Reviews

True, but Dr. Offices are a business. And in smaller offices, the Dr. is the Owner/Manager. Frankly, for the vast majority of Dr. visits, you're there for routine or minor care, and a badly run business will simply keep me away.

I don't care how good a chef at a restaurant is, if it takes me 2 hours to order and wait for food, the silverware is dirty, and the surroundings are miserable, I'm never coming back.

namewithhe1don Pure CSS Pokedex

Pretty cool. How about keeping theme music throughout (toggleable) and overlay spoken stats when visiting each page?

namewithhe1don Keybase.io

Just tweeted to you. Interested!

namewithhe1don ZFS Gotchas

Ok, say you implemented Dedep accidentally and now your table is huge. I'm sure it is a slog to go back, but HOW DO YOU DO IT. I've tried the method here: https://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/forum/#!topic/zfs... and didn't get it fixed. Any more thoughts? Please don't recommend I make a new pool and send all data over, I don't have the space at 70% capacity.