skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I think "string handling" in a Perl-vs-Python sense, I think "regex syntax". There are 3 distinct tiers: Perl and Ruby's built-in syntax, PHP's preg_* functions, and finally the Python (and perhaps Java?) Extreme OO style. (In descending order by my preference.)

Python's approach also eliminates the pattern of `if (preg_match(...)) { use captured groups; }` since the match object comes back as a return value instead of either a reference or magic variables, and assignment of that value is illegal inside the if's condition. Very Pythonic, but adds an extra line of code to assign the match separately from testing the result.

(Edited a bunch because I fail at non-markdown.)
37signals Is Selling Sortfolio. What Happened
Please don't add vaguely-insulting editorial spin to the headline. (Or did TC originally say "LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner doesn't get it"? Because right now it says the more accurate and respectful "BranchOut Raises $18M For Facebook-Focused Professional Network".)
I believe it is typical of engineering R&D firms that you can't talk about the details of what you do, or the products that are coming out.

Some of what can be produced is patents (describing the mechanisms), papers at conferences, and white papers.

Essentially, any special technology - anything providing competitive advantage - is kept under lock and key.

At least this is what I understand from talking and reading. Please feel to correct me with facts if I am wrong. :-)
Clickable link: http://askforadeal.com/
Fusion goes forward from the fringe
If req/s is your main problem, have you considered things like data: URIs? It's probably not enough, but...
This is a good article, but I must take issue with "Static typing allows you to generate the optimum bytecode/binary", simply because whilst you generally get faster binaries, you can't know that it's optimum.

Just a nitpick, though.
Seems like a cool app. For such a nice looking UI the company logos on the bottom look awful.
Thats is not programming, that's just a non-exhaustive programmer's chore list.
Design could definitely use some work before I'd use it. But I really dig the concept. Might be more effective with a more focused selection to help get traction... such as - this (week/day/month) most users wanted a deal from X - and that's all the site focuses on. Where the same company can't be chosen more than once every few months.
Gilt Groupe gets $138mil in funding, $1Bn valuation
You weren't paying attention.

The ratings were issued by companies that had been given a monopoly by govt. Securitized mortgages were a creation of govt.

The idea that you're missing is regulatory capture combined with govt encouraging transactions that didn't make economic sense otherwise. (One of the underappreciated consequences of RC is that it amplifies "private" bad behavior and shuts out good behavior.)
I don't think its a good idea. If you have enough people asking for a deal, it probably means the offering from that merchant is already in demand, thus no incentive for them to offer a significant discount on their services or product.
Google: No 'Secret Sauce' in Recipe for Data Center Efficiency
Guys hate to shop, could this be you in the video?
Thanks for the follow-ups -- a few more answers for you...

First, appreciated the feedback, even if you're overseas! If you know any eng folks in the SF area, please feel free to put them in touch.

As far as MVP/launching --> we are very much focused on getting a prototype into users' hands (whether in Beta or publicly) as soon as possible. We've done a hefty dose of market research and have put a lot of time into sizing & outlining our go-to-market strategy (these things are in line with our strengths and skill sets.)

The fail-early approach is the best one in my eyes as well, and when I reference optimization it's really about stripping functionality to make sure we are offering a clean UI/UX & suite of features, and are not over-zealous. A lot of apps just try to do too much, and that's a trap we won't fall into.

Scale will come after our prototyping and launch, that's for sure...so you're point is well taken.

Stay tuned!
Interested to see what the HN community thinks of this piece.
I'd like to say this should not be legislated, and people should choose who to do business with on their own. If they offer the government a bond to cover losses, then people might go to that business instead of some startup. OTOH, perhaps I don't care when all I'm investing in my "Silicon Valley Facespacecash" bank is $20.

Another reason to use alternative currencies...
I'm a dad with two kids, one went to nursery 3 days a week from the age of one while mum worked, one didn't (the income/childcare cost maths on 2 kids didn't work out) and I doubt you'd see any difference in their demeanour. Nursery is not some kind of punishment for your kids, in fact it's probably the opposite, especially if the alternative is being looked after by a stressed mum who's trying to do two incredibly taxing jobs at the same time!

From your post it sounds like the issue is your nursery, if you're not happy with it try looking around for a different one didn't. Speak to friends & acquaintances, do the legwork and visit some in the day and find one your comfortable with. I've seen quite a few people give up on nursery because the first one they tried didn't fit, don't let an implementation put you off the whole concept.

Working from home is hard with kids, I do it 2 days a week and I find it challenging to concentrate even though I'm not looking after them (headphones are your friend!) May be worth talking to your present employer and seeing if you can reduce your hours or become more flexible, say go down to 3 days a week with 1 work from home. In that situation your probably not going to make that day up while your kid is awake, but spreading a couple of hours a day in the evening or while your partner plays mom across the remaining days is doable.

Your kids most pressing need is some happy supportive parents (or parent) so don't beat yourself up about your decisions if your kids are smiling and happy. Parenting is a minefield these days, mostly because the natural parent emotions (panic, worry, paranoia) have been turned into multi-billion dollar industries. Trust your judgement and remember, it gets easier(ish) when they're a bit older ;)
Some good comments on this topic can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2535006
I work from home and have a 6 month old daughter. My wife looks after her full time though. I had to convert our garage so that I could lock myself away and actually do some work.

If you're planning on working and looking after your child it won't happen. The only way it works for me is that my wife is there to support the family.

However, if you can move back home then it's amazing to get 20 minute breaks and pop in to see your child. Breaks up the day nicely :)
> Regulation is bad for businesses individually, but it's good for society in aggregate. Progress may be slowed, but it's still happening and happening with fewer horror stories along the way.

This is not necessarily the case. Often times, regulation is put in place to address some high-profile case, but ignores the consequences of the regulation.

Currently, infants less than two years of age can fly in an airplane without a separate ticket. Years ago, after some instances where such children were injured/killed in accidents, there was talk of forcing parents to buy separate tickets for infants and require them to use an approved child seat. However, had this regulation gone into effect, the extra cost of flying would have forced many families to drive instead of fly, resulting in a greater amount of injuries/deaths.
Interesting idea. Great name. Okay logo. Decent site design (I'd strip all the unnecessary stuff though.)

The first thing I asked myself when visiting the site was: do these companies notice? My gut reaction is: probably not.

You will want to positively answer that question with some testimonials, or an overview of "granted deals", etc. Currently it just feels like a site with a bunch of people asking for free stuff.

Also, you could go even more Groupon-like by having people join in on an "Ask For A Deal" so it's not just one person asking, but a group of people. This will be a lot more interesting for companies as well and incentivizes users to spread the word about the deal they are asking for.

A company could respond: if you get 100 people to enter the deal I'll make it happen. Essentially you would be creating a self-service version of Groupon where the users are in control of what deals will be up there. Groupon meets Digg?

Marc Köhlbrugge
I don't think that that extra security is what we're seeing priced in the exchange, though. The traditional causes of volatility in commodities like gold and silver are increases in supply (new mines being discovered, new techniques developed, etc.) and people hedging en masse as they lose faith in the value of fiat currencies. (There are also speculative bubbles on occasion, as with anything else.)

With bitcoins, we know where the supply will peak (21 million bitcoins) and the rate the supply will grow. Since the supply is predictable, it shouldn't lead to the volatility we can see in the market. The other cause for rapid deflation in commodities - people hedging because of a weak dollar (or whatever currency) - doesn't seem to be in play right now, either.

The increase in security might account for an increase in value, but not 50%+ in one day. That sort of rapid deflation tells you that this is a bubble. We don't know what the stable value of a bitcoin is right now. It may be $100, it may be $1. But since nearly everyone using bitcoins right now are using them as investment instruments, we aren't seeing anything like a real price. Merchant and consumer adoption don't matter right now. All that matters is the market of other speculators. Watching the way the price shot up and down and up and down over the past 24 hours makes me think that a few people are manipulating the market and making a killing, and a lot of other people are getting scammed.
I did. And the way I played it was to work through the night so my wife could have a full night's sleep every night (in preparation for a full day!) That way I could work all night in peace (mostly) and deal with the baby when necessary.

Now that my daughter's solidly into toddler territory, though, my wife was keen for me to be awake at "more normal" hours so I've rented an office ;-) There's just no way I could be in the same house with a demanding wife and child.. not necessarily because of their active demands, but because I kept getting lured into playing or doing stuff with them.
People should have full information.. I should know if the building I move into is made from plaster of paris. However, if I still want to move into it... I shouldn't be passing on my genes.
Characteristics of the Best Startup Plans
I used to work in a factory. We had a big sign that said: "n days without an accident." There would be parties and bonuses if there were long stretches without major accidents, injuries and fuck-ups.

We're programmers and hackers--why, exactly, can't we implement something like this in an afternoon, but for computer safety?
http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/

Oh yeah, we're all Professionals, not tradesmen. It's a mentality thing. "Production" work isn't as highly regarded.
Its a pointless comment that is not even specific to the question. You could throw that comment into just about any thread and it will work:

"Just got my hunter to 85, what class should I roll as an alt?"
You seem to be a successful Hunter, the rest is incremental. Not trying to be a dick, but ... how is your life finance-wise, relationships-wise, health-wise, fun-wise, hobby-wise? Perhaps now is the time to pursue some of those things.

"just got a raise as a video technician, should i get my car fixed?"...
Finnish and Hungarian belong to the Ural family, with a lot of similarities to Turkish and some other languages, so much so that people have put forward a super family, Ural-Altaic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-Altaic_languages) to combine them. This is controversial, though. I bet someone speaking Finnish can pick up Turkish pretty quickly. Google "finnish turkish similarity" and you get many interesting (and some funny) results.
A woman on my team works at home with her 2 very young kids. She has a sitter come in every morning and stay most of the day. I think this is the only way to make it work if you have a job that requires any sort of time commitments.

The upsides end up being the same as most work at home jobs. You save time not commuting and you can see your kids at lunch. She's also there if an emergency arises.

Another friend of mine works at home and she does something similar. It's funny to hear hear 5 year olds say that they can't bother mommy when she's in her office because that means she's working.
We did the legwork before we chose the nursery - dismissed several other options (including childminders) picking the one we liked the most.

The problem is, my judgement is telling me to get her out. Hence the post!
every feature ... leaves another possible angle of attack for hackers

Hm, I think the point is that some features are worse than others (larger attack surface, more bugs exposed), and WebGL is particularly bad.
Where is iFlow Reader for Android if everyone's being pushed to Google?
You received another interesting answer. My native language is General American English, and I grew up in what was essentially a monolingual immediate family and neighborhood of English speakers, although both of my parents had had some instruction in other languages. All of my grandparents were born in the United States, but three of the four spoke languages other than English at home, and my two maternal grandparents had all of their schooling in German.

German as a second language was mandatory for all elementary pupils in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade in my childhood school district, very unusual for the United States. I had more German in junior high and senior high (in two different states) and then Russian in senior high. I entered university as a Russian major and immediately began taking Chinese, switching my major to Chinese as I grew in delight for that language. I have had formal instruction as an adult in Modern Standard Chinese (a.k.a. Mandarin), Cantonese, Biblical Hebrew, Literary Chinese, Attic Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Japanese (first in the medium of Chinese, then in English), Taiwanese, and Hakka, and various courses in linguistics (also in the mediums of both English and Chinese). I have engaged in self-study of Biblical Aramaic, Mongolian, Spanish, French, Latin, Hungarian, Malay-Indonesian, Esperanto, Interlingua, etc., etc., etc.

I have to respectfully disagree with the strong version of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Within each language grouping, people differ far more in their personal thinking along the dimension of visual thinker or not, or auditory thinker or not, than people differ from one another in thought patterns based on language background. But it is useful to learn another language and to live in another culture for exposure to new basic assumptions, and the same applies to learning computer language paradigms. Besides the book mentioned in another reply, I like the books

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Pragmatics-Third-...

http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Programming-Languages-Danie...

too as overviews of various programming languages.
I visited in Opera, which is not supported. But I was very pleased that the site didn't just block me for not being an approved browser, but actually tested for the existence of a feature. Bravo!
I see, so you prefer a designer who is also a programmer. Why not get one of your programmers to do the front end programming rather than a designer?
Though it's less guaranteed. From about 7 I was out all day on my bike with my friends or in my room playing computer games! :-) My 18 month old can go a good hour or so playing by herself but you'll pay for it later!
Reflections from Google IO
It's their platform, they can do what they want with it. Nobody's telling Microsoft they're "anti-competitive" because they have a lock on the Xbox marketplace, nor Sony and their exclusive relationship with PSN.

It's anti-competitive when you're talking about an essential service. The case against Microsoft was about Windows since at the time 95% of all computers used some form of Windows and they had a virtual lock on the market. Generally you need to be in a monopoly position to be considered anti-competitive. See also: Standard Oil, IBM, AT&T.
But it does appear that he has a legitimate question (whether it is different from his original question or not)
That is basically Google's mission statement as laid out in their IPO docs : to organize all the world's information. We wrongly thought that was just a fancy phrase for webcrawling.
Agree this makes the most sense. However, I would argue there is some social value for each company each time a person says they are interesting in spending XX at a certain company.

Ultimately, they should place some value on that (perhaps, not a 25% discount though)
I rather like the idea of a "n days without a fuckup" sign, though I suspect if I were to make it for the office visiting clients might not always see the funny side..
Microsoft’s quest to open up government data
Staff is for executive level folks that make $3 million +

Maybe in the US but it's pretty common amongst middle class British families, especially as there are various (and frequently substantial) tax breaks available to people who need to hire people for child care duties.
I agree it's a nice comment, i.e. it's not pointless in that context. The context is the case of a person who knows N related things focused in one areas and asking how/if he should pick up a few more for hobby. Think of the question: "I speak 4 languages fluently, what is the next language I should learn". A similar comment is then applicable.
There is a previous post on HN, which talked about how rich kids have already won the career game. There are quite a few similar points raised in that article, and even a few answers to questions raised in this article. Reading both will definitely add to the perspective.

"How Rich Kids Have Already Won The Career Game" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2296550
Ask HN: Fastest IMAP implementation?
I set up Google Apps for my start-up and IMAP is painfully slow (in Outlook at least and I've seen it on the Mac as well). Based on research, I'm not the only one experiencing this. So, is there an email provider where IMAP is blazingly fast or do I just have to live with this?
First Look at Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
Microsoft has released the second beta of Internet Explorer after a very long time and it has features newer, better, faster and smarter than the previous one. Beta 2 has private browsing
One way we know is by seeing how they do afterward. A company that would have been great if we funded them is probably going to do at least ok if we don't.
I think the author conflates fairness with equality and inequality with self interest.

You can be fair but unequal and unfair but equal. Also, just because you might be getting the smaller share of an unequal deal does not mean you aren't still serving your self interest.
No, Apple is saying that if you want to make money off our platform then we want to make a cut. Boo fricking hoo.
OT:

"Parenting is not black and white, you don’t NEED the material shit or thousands of pounds to make it work. Save your money for when your sproglet reaches 17 months old and discovers how to throw a tantrum, you can invest in an alcohol habit to get you through it. Ahem."

Amen.

I think we're birds of a feather, apart from the pets (I'm not in to caging animals, zoos make me so sad).
http://www.aestheticapparatus.com/detail.php?uid=C7A668&...

Signs can be switched...
Thanks for clarifying - if taking her out of nursery is what you feel you should do then do it, your the only one that knows what's best for your own child.
Then as long as you don't transfer money in California, you're fine. If you do, you need a license. Note the part of the law that refers to the travel costs incurred to get an inspector to whatever part of the country you domicile the business-end of your business in.
Google has the Gizmo7 technology. If Microsoft starts making Skype really suck, Google is in a good position to jump in with the solution. The problem is, if Microsoft does things right.
Or more often than not written by yourself last week :)
Exactly. I'm far from a cave-dwelling nerd (sometimes I wish I was more of one) and am very interested in different languages and how they can help me view problems in new ways.
which I think would also be illegal, since the data is encrypted and then you're at odds with the DMCA (IANAL btw -- the DMCA grants a safe harbor for reverse engineering, but that hasn't worked out so well for DRM)

I believe the DMCA outlaws circumvention of copyright enforcement mechanisms, not encryption. I don't see why the Skype protocol would have any such mechanism.
I can't help but feel that n would, far too often, have to be reset to 0 every time we forgot to make the switch before somebody arrives.
This sounds like the history of a company out of a Stephenson or Gibson book. I want to believe...
Why not leave your job and join a start-up?
Boyd's Law of Iteration
Baseline Grid patterns for Photoshop and CSS
lisp was pretty successful in the time before many HNers were born. it wasn't a smashing success, but it was in much better shape than now.
Exactly. Compilers manipulate symbols, so functional languages with pattern matching are a better match than C.
I don't know what it's like on the LDLR you mentioned, but I regularly ride the (very) human dependent 'L' in Chicago, and that's not a smooth ride either. So I'm not sure how much it has to do with the computer drivers.
Does Chan have his own PR company? This article couldn't have done a better job promoting this "brilliant product manager" (articles words).
That's not fair. The major ratings agencies were unregulated, all were founded privately, and were only designated NRSRO's after they had captured the market. Meanwhile, companies can apply to be designated NRSRO's, and many companies have been so designated.

The government didn't corrupt Moody's. Commerce did. The government supplied no oversight, and Moody's sold its ratings to the highest bidder.
Thanks, must have missed that. Sorry for the repost.
The problem with the market judging is a bank is worth your money or not is that by the time everybody decides that bank X is going under it's probably too late to get your money out (e.g. a run on the bank). This is why we have the FDIC.
Q1 Online Retail Spending Up 12 Percent To $38 Billion
The idea is simple, but the execution is tricky, and more words were required to elucidate it. I would not have found it nearly as helpful if he just stopped with "don't be wishy washy."
Why require bonds for anything? Bonds aren't going to keep construction companies from committing fraud. They won't keep movers from making off with people's goods, or folding up shop when they get in traffic accidents. For that matter, why require millions of dollars of insurance coverage to work on infrastructure projects? It won't keep me from committing fraud, if that's my real goal.
Go to the forums at GameDev.net. There's just OBSCENE amounts of information curated there over the 10+ years of it's existence.

http://gamedev.net/index