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"Free for open source" means that they are offering their product for free (eg, without cost) to projects that are open source.

They are not publishing their own source.

If you're running a small, open source project, this seems like an easy way to manage deployments. Kudos to them for a free plan.

This also detects the file encoding & delimiters.

Chartio actually will accept TSV files because it will detect most of these settings. It'll detect the delimiter, the presence of a header line, file encoding, and newline character(s).

I agree TSV is a lot nicer, and has the bonus that Excel will open a TSV file with an .xls extension without any problems (great for sharing!).

Once your CSV (or TSV) files start having quoted fields, they become very tricky to parse using standard multi-purpose tools like sort, awk, & uniq.

It's hard enough when you have delimiters in quoted fields, but dealing with quoted newlines starts to become unreasonable, especially for line-based tools.

CSV files, as you say, are absolutely wonderful to create. Problems come up when you try to parse files other people write. Not everyone follows RFC 4180.

Doesn't the library just have to perform a simple search-and-replace on the entire page's HTML for the blacklisted characters to remove them?

Normally blacklisting is bad, but we're only targeting the few text-direction-changing characters that exist.

It seems like a reasonable assumption for a user to know the two-letter abbreviation of the state they live in.

If you suggest otherwise, how do we know that they can spell their street correctly?

I noticed that Google+ allowed something similar when sending bug reports. Do they use a similar method?

The title is a bit misleading at first glance: each company is setting records against previous quarters of the company itself, not compared to every other company in the US.

Honestly, this doesn't seem like big news: each company is undergoing growth and it makes sense that they're spending more on a lot of things: including lobbying.

On paper, universities disallow helping others cheat. In reality, it doesn't seem to be enforced.

If the helper student has already passed the class, the professor can't take disciplinary action against them without making a major case about it. It's easy to simply fail the cheating student or give them a zero on the assignment without making a record.

Additionally, if it is brought to a committee, it'd be much harder to prove.

So although it's officially not allowed, there's not much universities are doing to combat the providers.

His current implementation runs out of memory on a board less than half that size.

Good luck ;-P

Fox News is owned by News Corp.

I had issues with their domain management & DNS settings. Godaddy's was actually better.

This implementation claims to take SUM(argv) ticks, whereas the original sleepsort took MAX(argv) seconds.

Is this an error, or is something done fundamentally different?

There's no active consensus, but a defacto standard emerges.

If I want to talk about Google+, I'm more likely to use a hashtag, such as #googleplus, I've seen before. I could be a rebel and use #gplus, but it makes more sense to use already-established tags.

If we just experimented with hashtags on HN for a day or two, I'm sure they'd be hard to drop. (Although currently, I believe # is not allowed in titles)