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WeaselNo7··on Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer
Strange to see a lock-free ring buffer without seeing mention of LMAX/Martin Thompson's Java Disruptor (https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/disruptor)
WeaselNo7··on Ultra-low-latency, batching and concurrent queue for IPC in Java
Weird to see this here! I've used CoralBlocks in the low-latency trading domain previously. Highly recommend. The API is kind, they're very responsive, and the latency is exceptional (and comes with all the basics like thread pinning built-in for convenience)
WeaselNo7··on $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating
The Dacia Sandero unfortunately gets a 2 star Euro NCAP rating (which is typical for Dacia cars). Not something I personally would feel safe putting my family into!
WeaselNo7··on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
A year or so ago, my son needed a tool for making really simple minecraft plans. All the drawing tools out there he could find were overly complex or weren't 'quite right' for him, so I took the opportunity to learn some web and javascript stuff and made this: https://draw.pixelweasel.com/

One outstanding 'todo' was textures!

Then I wanted to make ASCII art automatically from any picture, so I played around and made this: http://ascii.pixelweasel.com/ (again, playing with javascript)

WeaselNo7··on Show HN: I made crowdwave – imagine Twitter/Reddit but every post is a voicemail
Super cool. Love the interface, was not expecting to be thrown back a few decades!

On mobile, I tried recording to /c/PepTalk, but after recording my voice, none of the buttons ('save', 'play' or 'stop') did anything. So I wasn't sure if it had actually uploaded.

Then when I went back to the /c/PepTalk channel to check I had a popup saying something like 'failed to fetch waves' (sorry, I don't recall the exact error message!).

I'll keep an eye on this ongoing though, as I adore the concept.

WeaselNo7··on Ask HN: What Roles/Skills Do You Struggle to Hire For?
Same boat here. Do we need a hiring market specifically for generalists?
WeaselNo7··on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms
That's a big part of it. But their scale and presence also means they get to do things that have been invaluable for us, like being able to book meeting rooms in and have access to other WeWork premises with low effort.
WeaselNo7··on I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
Spreadsheets are phenomenally flexible, but they obviously don't scale well or behave nicely with source control.

I work at Anaplan, and the most common way that our biggest customers discover us is when they've been bitten by spreadsheets as they've scaled, and now they have users emailing spreadsheets around and someone with a full time job collating them.

We've modelled the product around the flexibility, but rigor and scale on top of it.

WeaselNo7··on A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
Wonderful, thank you!
WeaselNo7··on A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
Wonderful answer, very intuitive, thank you so much!
WeaselNo7··on A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
Much appreciated!
WeaselNo7··on A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
Very kind, thank you for the explanation!
WeaselNo7··on A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using
I don't speak fluent maths, but i'm extremely interested. Is anyone in a position to explain what the initial equation for U(x) means? I'll be in your debt forever!
WeaselNo7··on Bruce Lee and the Art of Scientific Street Fighting
It's interesting that the article doesn't delve into non-Asian martial arts like Krav Maga, which, in my limited experience, offers an extremely reductionist 'does it work' mentality.

Interesting also that the gold standard of the article is 'in the ring'. I would have thought messy 'real world' combat is gold standard (but obviously less reproducible, from the science perspective). Additionally, multiple opponents.

WeaselNo7··on Mikhail Gorbachev: 'It All Looks as If the World Is Preparing for War'
This is a similar tale told by friends from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
WeaselNo7··on Multilabel time series classification with LSTM
Not OP, but for reader convenience, the paper linked to by the github repo is entitled "Learning to Diagnose with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks"

And the abstract is: "Clinical medical data, especially in the intensive care unit (ICU), consist of multivariate time series of observations. For each patient visit (or episode), sensor data and lab test results are recorded in the patient's Electronic Health Record (EHR). While potentially containing a wealth of insights, the data is difficult to mine effectively, owing to varying length, irregular sampling and missing data. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), particularly those using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) hidden units, are powerful and increasingly popular models for learning from sequence data. They effectively model varying length sequences and capture long range dependencies. We present the first study to empirically evaluate the ability of LSTMs to recognize patterns in multivariate time series of clinical measurements. Specifically, we consider multilabel classification of diagnoses, training a model to classify 128 diagnoses given 13 frequently but irregularly sampled clinical measurements. First, we establish the effectiveness of a simple LSTM network for modeling clinical data. Then we demonstrate a straightforward and effective training strategy in which we replicate targets at each sequence step. Trained only on raw time series, our models outperform several strong baselines, including a multilayer perceptron trained on hand-engineered features."

WeaselNo7··on Compelling Science Fiction Issue 4
Same! Top notch content, a real treat. A higher frequency of issues would be great, but then again I'm just greedy!
WeaselNo7··on Show HN: Infinity School – Learning through making and discovery
Typo on the 'home education' page: "accross"

I think you REALLY don't want typos on a site about education! :D

WeaselNo7··on Baidu File System – A distributed file system for real-time applications
I thought Raft was always-single-leader? Followers can happily become leaders through elections?
WeaselNo7··on De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo
Your username... inspired by the epic Reddit story adventure, or are you the author?
WeaselNo7··on Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project
It could hire human agents to inspect and confirm. I guess you could treat the DAO as an exceptional manager who has no domain knowledge at all, but knows to delegate to people with domain knowledge.
WeaselNo7··on ADHD is vastly overdiagnosed and many children are just immature, say scientists
Out of curiosity, how did you find your symptoms affected your relationship with your family? If it's too personal, ignore this!
WeaselNo7··on There are now 229 unicorn startups, with $175B in funding and $1.3T valuation
Higher resolution images on that page would be nice. So we can actually see who the unicorns are!
WeaselNo7··on Battlecode 2016
Are there any ongoing tournaments for this or similar? I'd love to get involved, but I feel like I wouldn't get the most benefit from this by starting from scratch so late in the game.
WeaselNo7··on OpenPrescribing: England's medication prescription data
I read that as 'the patient expiring', which I believe would also have an effect on drug use.
WeaselNo7··on Estonia's and Latvia’s National Game
Interesting... Didn't make it to Lithuania?
WeaselNo7··on C# 6.0: An Introduction
There seems to be a bug at the end of the first page ('an introduction'), where the link to the subsequent page loops back to the introduction page!
WeaselNo7··on If PHP Were British
As an Englishman, I'm horribly offended by this.

There's no mention of tea whatsoever! seethe

WeaselNo7··on Java for Mobile – iOS, Android, Windows
J2ME has been around forever, but I don't think it's targetted towards app dev/GUI shenanigans. (I could be wrong, it's been > 10 years since I last looked)
WeaselNo7··on Willing (YC S15) Makes Estate and Funeral Planning Easier
Sob, no non-US support! I was just getting excited, but then I realised that there was no combobox for choosing 'United Kingdom' anywhere.