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vbaron Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (October 2011)

SEEKING WORK - EU or remote

Application programmer - C++ ( https://github.com/vbar/ ), Perl ( http://search.cpan.org/~vbar/ ), Python ( https://scraperwiki.com/profiles/vbar/ ), C#, Java. Full CV at http://www.mangrove.cz/ .

vbaron Anonymous Correctly Predict The De-listing $1B Company

It's still being done - see e.g. http://www.muddywatersresearch.com - and there's no reason an outfit like that couldn't publish a report as Anonymous...

vbaron Google’s Official Profanity API

It's repetitive - when you're checking e.g. for (ph|f)u(c|k|ck|q), there's no need to check cyb[e3]r(ph|f)u(c|k|ck|q) as well...

vbaron My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV

But why mess with the selectors by hand? http://search.cpan.org/~vbar/HTML-ListScraper-0.05/ can discover the structure automatically (well, sometimes :-) - some pages just aren't regular enough, but it does work on HN, for example)...

vbaron The Rise of the Data Scientist

Hosting R is already implemented - see http://predict.i2pi.com/

vbaron Ask HN: Which one is better for writing a SQL parser?

A few people (including me :-) ) wrote SQL parsers in ANTLR. I'm quite satisfied with the result and never heard anyone to complain ANTLR wasn't suitable for the task...