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Well, that seals the deal. Bummer.

I really hoped Armin would come around, and I committed to Werkzeug for a new project with eyes on 3. This was a direct result of the PEP 3333 acceptance, and I apparently backed the wrong horse.

The worst part of this whole thing is that it is getting harder to explain working in Python to my other-language friends. Well there's 3, and yeah it's at 3.2, but don't use it. Nobody uses 3. Maybe distribute. Maybe setuptools. I'm not sure.

As a non-participating, quiet consumer of Python, I am very confused about the future of my chosen language. I think it is intermediate, perhaps career-minded (internal) users of Python like myself that are confused the most.

Edit: On reflection, I was encouraged to see what I perceived to be frustration on the part of GvR (in the acceptance thread for 3333 on Web-SIG), so here's hoping this will be a good year.
Integration with JIRA is a built-in feature (not community contributed), along with Zendesk, Bugzilla, Lighthouse, and Get Satisfaction integration. More are coming, but these tend to be the mostly costly to support.

And the idea with these integrations is that your team can do focused collaboration (with Tracker) on some subset of issues/bugs that are stored in a larger, more widely used tracking system at your company (eg JIRA).
Sounds like they don't think they have much chance of getting switchers from iOS.
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They took control of the Youtube content network. They serve the ads for most of the world's biggest websites, and they have a solid foothold in mobile. I don't think Google is in any trouble.

They really just need to make a compelling social product that appeals to the masses, not just tech geeks.

I suspect Schmidt dropped the ball on buying Twitter at some point, and Buzz, Wave, etc. were all duds. He's great at selling ads, so they've put him in charge of that while the cofounders work on future product development.
Looks cool - looking forward to your release.
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It's like not you're sharing needles with a heroin addict by using C. :)
Some people think that they can secure their sites against XSS by regexing all the "bad JavaScript" out. If the "security software" sees "document.cookie", then it stops the script from executing. (Or it just replaces it with the empty string, etc.)

Problem is, there are a lot of ways to say document.cookie, and a blacklist is going to miss one of them.

Moral of the story: if people can execute scripts on your page, you're 0wned. Everyone competent knows this, but sometimes the less competent are slow to realize this.

So, the script that the article describes is for their benefit. Good luck writing a regex to stop this one...

(There are also even simpler "exploits", if you regex document.cookie to the empty string, then "document.document.cookiecookie" regexes to "document.cookie". Ooops.)
Are you seriously claiming that the ideal search engine when given "Philly events" should guess which event in Philly you actually want tickets for and send you to that event's webpage?
There's no security on the client side often even when you connect that client to a server.

Think of a world in which, instead of shipping binary executable code to users, we shipped them full source code. They'd be able to go in and selectively edit out the "licensing" stuff, remove the lines where the app dials home, etc.

This is actually the world we live in, but we call this source code "executable code". Now we pretend that executable code is "obfuscated" or "cryptic" or "difficult to understand" but that's just so we can keep our sanity. Executable code is transparently open, well documented, and perfectly editable on any major OS, including Win and *nix, regardless of what sort of checksums or digital signing you do to ensure local files haven't been changed, all the security experts in the world can't put Humpty Dumpty back together on the client side, or keep him from shattering to a million pieces in the first place.
Actually it's more than 99%.
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I wonder if you could use this in an interview...
Thanks Karl, the feedback is much appreciated. I'll get cracking as you've made some great suggestions.
I thought about using LinkedIn, was afraid to rely on LinkedIn for such a huge part of business, but I may rethink this now.
I loved Reader for a while, but have since moved away from it in favor of twitter: Reader is like a dam that keeps backing up... every time you log in you see this unread count and the implication is that you need to "catch up" and skim everything. On the other hand, twitter is a flowing river and if I miss a day, it's gone without guilt. Reader is still great for those sources you just never want to miss though.

RSS isn't "dying", though RSS readers are probably "languishing".
Nor did I, and I'm never crazy about political stuff making it's way to HN. :(
You can currently add 1 image to a project, but allowing more images/video is right at the top of todo list.
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Aren't there alternatives that share the learned rules?

And if not... maybe someone should make one.

The obvious downside is that someone could poison the well. I don't know how to go about fixing that off the top of my head, but I've been drinking. :)
Very naive indeed. I guess I was overwhelmed by the lack of wow :-) Thanks for the context.
It might help if you explain how a document on the Working poor, relates to someone allegedly preferring leisure to working.

It also might help if you explain how a news release on the leisure metrics of employed persons and their families relates to the alleged leisure activities of these straw poor people.

There are very hardworking poor people and very lazy rich people, and not just the outliers.
This is cool, and I wanted to sign up, but the page tells me "Field must be between 6 and 120 characters long." even though the password I'm trying to use is 9 chars.
greylisting can also help.

I run greylisting -> dspam (toe) -> tmda for anything dspam flags and have had 1 missed spam this week. Looking through the tmda queue, I see no false positives. I have had false positives in the past, but, once they reply (similar to spamarrest), it lets them through. I do run a few DNSBLs, but, really haven't see much need to increase it. I'd say 80% of the spam I used to receive was eliminated with greylisting. Probably 60% of it now as spammers are starting to hack actual servers that will retry rather than sending mail from botnets.
Thanks frossie these guys look interesting
Checkins at Japanese love hotels are often fully automated. For obvious reasons.
I am on my iPad and now that I clicked on that link and could not browse back because of the redirect I dislike toshiba even more. An on the ugly page is a ugly message.

Trying to get Apple users to like Toshiba products : fail
View all your unread items and sort by "Magic" -- you'll get better stuff at the top and it will feel just like Twitter/Tumblr.
Ask HN: Competitor research for customer support software
andymorris and I are mid-way through development of a product for customer support departments, and we're searching for competitors. The following is a summary of our product; do you know of anything similar?

Chorus analyzes the sentiment of emails customers send your company. It gives you a dashboard with the results so you can track sentiment over time, and get insights into what makes people angry, and the evolving message from your customers over time.

The problem is that existing email support solutions only monitor response time, which is important for email support department management, but it doesn't tell managers and 'higher-ups' much about how people feel and why.
Hate it when they don't tell you who the authors are or the title of the paper. http://www.psy.utexas.edu/
The speculation here is certainly understandable. The reality, though, is that Pivotal's consulting business is growing stronger than ever - we're over 100 great Rails developers now, with offices in SF, NYC, Boulder, and Singapore, and we are completely booked. All of our business comes from word of mouth - mostly existing and past clients. Check out some of them here: http://pivotallabs.com/clients.

Many clients do come back to us, but we actually try hard so that they don't ever "have" to - by leaving them with a maintainable, tested codebase, and effective engineering practices like TDD/BDD, pairing, aggressive refactoring, etc. We even help hire and train their own developers.

We kept Tracker free for almost three years, and over 180,000 people have signed up for it so far. We use it on all our projects, and the widespread adoption has been a great calling card for our consulting business. The decision to begin charging for it was not an easy one, but the reason is simple - we want to make Tracker better, faster, and establishing a revenue model for Tracker will allow us to devote more resources to it, including a larger dev team, support staff, and operational/hardware capacity.

Our goals are not to transition from a consulting company to a product one, but to do both equally well, and it's hard to do that when one side of the business has to fund/support the other.
Came here to say the same thing - wrote a validator in Pascal at least 15 years ago - why this isn't more automated these days is ridiculous.
Ben, this is really interesting. I was under the impression that Playtomic was a one man operation, but the idea that you're managing 300 million requests a day boggles my mind. (at my office we've got a team to handle that).

I'll have to go through your article with a fine toothed comb - but that's really quite a feat.
More specifically "Why variation among rich parents' behavior doesn't matter"... because rich parents' genetics are shown to be extremely important: it's just that essentially all rich parents seem to do enough for their kids to see diminishing returns on doing more/different things.
I'm cynical enough to think we may not see widespread ipv6 (or any alternative to ipv4) for a long time. Why not?

A) The entrenched power players "have theirs"
B) It will cost a lot of money for the big players to upgrade.
C) Instead of spending money, the big players can make money by charging for something that is a scarce resource.

This will be looked at as pure 'market forces' by many and there will be no major push for a long time.

It also requires a heck of a lot of coordination, or so it seems, between major players. Why do so few (none?) retail stores carry ipv6-capable routers? Maybe because so few ISPs support ipv6? Why don't the ISPs support it? Cause no consumers have the hardware for it? Extreme chicken and egg, and the only real downside for the next few years is some orgs are in control of resources that are becoming potentially more valuable by the day. What real incentive do they have to upgrade to ipv6 ASAP?
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It is and it isn't a one man operation - I'm the only one actually programming / managing the servers / creating it all etc, but in the background is my friend Antonio who helps finance the development and has for a long time now, and very recently joined is my friend and over the years sometimes boss Brian.

It's not really fair to say 'I' anymore as we ramp things up on the business side of it and formalize everything.
Just because they cannot find jobs, does not mean they prefer not having jobs.
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If you want to stay legal and use OS/X you'll have to forego that part.

I'm not sure it's wise to let EULAs dictate what you do for fun.
This would be pretty interesting to see, but I'm not sure how much I trust Schmidt. He has said some pretty creepy things in the past; him as director of an intelligence agency would be, er, potentially very scary.
E-mail headers can be fun too. For example, Facebook e-mails up to this day contain:

X-Mailer: ZuckMail [version 1.00]

The X-Mailer header traditionally indicates the mail client that was used to send the e-mail.

Want to check if your friend who has "Sent from my iPhone" was really using an iPhone? Just look for "X-Mailer: iPhone Mail" (Of course, these headers can be arbitrarily set by a client, so this is not meant to be a definitive check.)
I suspect a lot of it is environmental. If you get treated like shit during the day, you are likely to be irritable and angry with your family in the evening.
Ask HN: Overwhelmed between day job and side projects; what would you do?
I'm reaching a point where I am feeling pretty overwhelmed out between my day job, and a few side projects I've got going. I founded Forrst last January, and it's now me plus two full time guys, with a third on the way. We're raising some money and doing pretty well in terms of growth. Starting to look at the business side a bit, but only casually; the community is still pretty new and wouldn't benefit from us trying to turn the revenue knob up to 11 quite yet. I also built Streak.ly and Facto.me as experiments, in September 2010 and January 2011 respectively. The former has something like 4k users, with about 500 using it regularly, and the latter somehow managed to grow to 5,600 users, 30k facts, and 500k pageviews in 19 days. Both were intended to be fun distractions from Forrst, and both ended up getting a tiny bit of traction (Facto even ended up in some CNN article). Finally, I have youshouldworkwith.me going on the side, which has been pretty fun thus far, and a nice bit of extra income; it's pretty low impact (I'll do a few hours a week). Anyhow, fundraising is intense, and I'm generally feeling pretty overwhelmed with the side projects, specifically support and wasted potential. I didn't really plan for either Streak.ly or Facto to actually go anywhere, but now I'm sitting on a ton of support requests and feel guilty as hell for not putting any time into either, as I think both could be successful in one way or another. I thought about trying to sell both side projects, and would be open to offers there, but moreover am just looking for some insight (or a good kick in the ass) about what could be done about it all, aside from the perhaps obvious "don't start any more side projects" bit. I figured this situation is likely nothing new to the HN community, and would be glad to hear anything you've got.
...or "Poverty Destroys Intelligence"
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Cool article, but it's from 2005 and sadly many of those sites have dropped their funny headers. (At least most of the ones I tried myself.)
Thank you Matt. I am following up with Posterous and the other sites involved on Monday. We reported one of the content farms on blogger last year too.
Ask HN: Work 15 hours/month Earn 100K USD/Year...now what?
DEAR HACKER NEWS:

5 years ago, I was lucky enough to start a non-public SAAS for a large global company. Before I showed up, they were doing things manually, spending > hundreds of man hours per month and outsourcing totaling 200K USD/year.

After working like crazy the first two years, pulling all-nighters and automating everything as much as possible, I've shrunk their entire workforce down to 1 person (myself) and after a lot of optimizations now I only work ~15 hours a month earning 100K USD/year.

What they get is better quality than before, 10 times faster turnaround, and their budget slashed in half. Not to mention all their internal staff and facilities are free to work on other things.

I tried approaching potential clients in their same niche market. But it seems like the other players don't specialize in this area as much as the biggest player.

So I've concluded this is a deadend road for me, this task is at 100% optimization, effiency, and quality. But I find no use for this core technology in any other area except for this one company.

So I'm sitting on my ass and earning a good yearly pay while doing nearly basically nothing. What worries me is what should I be doing now?

P.S. No vacations to pat myself on the back, cuz basically it's a vacation at home for me everyday... and it's been like this for quite a while so I'm getting bored. I'm eager to work like the first two years and getting excited again... it's a rush for me to encounter a complex problem but to find a simple elegant solution. I find the process of writing code and learning new technologies enjoyable also. Especially when you're not sure and testing things out and suddenly IT WORKS!

Sincerely,
DOING NOTHING AT HOME (for now)
A little off topic, but now I'm very interested: How does Google docs make money? I don't recall ever being targeted for an ad by the content, and obviously regular users don't pay.
Well, people are conditioned to expect it now, so taking it out could potentially have adverse effects. Might make an interesting A/B test.
Matt - I have a posterous site (which uses a subdomain of my main site) that I mostly use to index some of my favorite articles - same purpose as delicious but I can rest assured that the content will always be there. Since most of the site has dupe content, it may lose the PR (which I dont care for) but will that affect my primary site ranking.

I am not sure if Posterous offers the ability to add a robots.txt file with which I can tell search engines to exclude it, but would that prevent my primary site ranking from being affected?
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I don't see what's surprising about this. Olbermann's 30% below Greta Van Susteren yet he's reported to make $7 million a year. It's a divided country so it doesn't seem crazy that MSNBC's most popular show should be able to match Fox's least. If it's not I put the blame on the host.

At the same time O'Donnell makes a lot less and is pulling in almost as many viewers in a time slot when fewer people are watching tv.

To me it seems like a no-brainer.
Glad to see someone's doing something like this on top of the Microsoft stack. I was expecting the usual Linux+Ruby+Hadoop+Redis+etc thing. Pretty cool.
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Ahh...I see.

Well, if you don't mind, can I give you some feedback (assuming that you are the founder).

On the landing page, talk about benefits - not technology. No matter how much I read and searched the site, I couldn't figure out what it does and who it does it for. It's not because I am stupid either, well...could be but I doubt it.

I would choose one niche, and communicate that in the copy on the main page.

Also, pricing is an important value communicator. Honestly, I think your pricing is too cheap. Perhaps you should figure out another way to charge more. $9.99 is WAYY too cheap, and it worries me that you might not be around - especially for my backup purposes.

I don't want to be worried that you are going to disappear.

Hope that helps!
Very true. Thank you for the response!
I smell sarcasm in your comment. But the point is that yes, I expect Google/Gmail to understand that when I'm marking an email as "Spam" or "Not Spam" by clicking the buttons they put there, similar emails should be flagged (or not) accordingly next time one comes in. If clicking these buttons doesn't do anything, they should just get rid of them.

Sure, I could use epochwolf's suggestion with filters, but filters are for granular sorting and personal preferences: adding labels, skipping inbox, forwarding, etc. that would be pretty much impossible to guess for a "machine". As far as I'm concerned, clicking "Not Spam" should be very similar to creating a filter that says "every email that look like this (same address, same kind of content, etc.), do NOT mark it as spam". If this is not what's happening, these buttons are just useless.
Incredibly stupid. "Hey, I've got an idea! When any one of a group of over ten million wealthy, technologically-inclined consumers visits our site, let's insult them!"
"How much do the decisions of parents matter? [...] the home environment pales in comparison to the power of genes and peer groups."

Parents often get to decide who's in the peer group, though. Especially in the early years and especially for parents with money.
Unless they have a really competitive price point, it seems like they're going to be slaughtered by the Xoom.
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I'm what many might call an Android fanboy, but I have a hard time understanding these sorts of decisions made by companies. What iOS device owner is going to see that message and think "OMG I WANT A TOSH-TAB"?
I must say I have a great deal of respect for Armin and thought he represents a good viewpoint. The convergence of some of Python's web frameworks is great and the fact that WSGI has become such a central specification is great.

In relation to Werkzeug and Python 3 you'd have to ask Armin himself but I think he said merely that a direct port of Werkzeug isn't likely possible as opposed to Werkzeug will never be ported to Python 3. Werkzeug is lower level and likely can't be ported directly due to a number of the differences between Python 2 and 3.

As he points out higher level libraries like Flask stand a far greater chance of surviving direct ports from Python 2 to 3.
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If a company wants to sell their data, where would they go?
Say I have some valuable data that may be an interest to advertisers that would like to buy this info. How would I go about finding them?
This is a bad submission: it's trivial to get this info. Flagging. Sorry I'm also posting this comment. Top hit for "credit card number format" has all this info. http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm
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You obviously have plenty of time available - so why not find ways to simplify what you have done and make it less targeted and thus being of broader appeal to other similar companies. Other options would be find other types of niches that you would give you that same excitement - your time is available so you wouldn't be losing out at all by experimenting with cool new projects.