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New Myspace: Facebook meets Windows 8
You are right about the u"" syntax. Thankfully, Python 3.3 supports it again.

The "except .. as" clause was backported to Python 2.6, which was released almost 4 years ago. If you don't need to support Python 2.5 then you can migrate to except..as right now. Python 2.6 added "from __future__ import print_function", and so on.

The goal was and is to make Python 2.7 a migration to a 3.x. People have and do write code which is usable, and unchanged, in both major version, which seems to contradict your statement that doing so isn't possible. And people continue to work to make that easier, while also advancing Python as a language.

Your proposal, to be able to "mix and match new and old code", does not work. At least, not without a lot more development effort behind it. The object models are different enough to make it not work. Remember, Python 2 has both old-style and new-style classes, while Python 3 does not. There's Python 2 code which probably still depends on Python 2 old-style classes, and will break. Which means you're left only being able to support the subset that the Python core developers, and those who wish to become core developers want to support. Which is what we have now.
Man arrested in Greece for mocking monk's prophecies in a Pastafarian FB page.
It's what liyan new best, so figured it would be a reasonable place to start and would be a good template for other PHP frameworks
This can go badly of course, taunting crooks is never the safe policy no matter how tempting it can be. The thing is, they are crooks, so they have already decided that they are willing to break the rules, what you don't know is how many they are willing to break.
This is where someone typically parrots:
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." -- Eric Schmidt; Executive Chairman, Google, Inc.

To which I reply: I'm sorry, but my personal matters are personal _expressly because_ I've found people to be ignorant, bigoted, biased, or otherwise untrustworthy when it comes to matters of my identity.

The fact that I could lose my job because of my thoughts on cannabis prohibition? Or that I could be disowned because of my political and [lack of] religious tendencies? These things are private not because they're wrong, Mr. Schmidt. They're private because _someone_ thinks they're wrong; and _someone_ is making decisions that could impact _my future_ by judging what's publicly available.

I can no longer trust Facebook to be a secure messaging platform, which is basically all I used it for. I'm going to take charge of my web presence to whatever degree I can. I'm done letting large corporations abuse my data for their own gain, only to have shit like this happen.
That doesn't seem likely. This person didn't reveal any personally identifiable information to the public. Have there been other (IMO, frivolous) lawsuits going after people who have identified holes in banking software?
Someone must have a copy of an email notification that they can tie to one of these posts...
The arrest was pushed in parliament by far right political party Golden Dawn. Facebook has taken down the page.
They aren't confirming anything. People are looking at wallposts and thinking/remembering they are private messages, but everyone that has tried to verify using email notifications has found only wallposts. Until someone shows that a verifiable private message showed up publicly, than there's no reason to continue spreading this. If it's a problem, it can easily be confirmed. Even Techcrunch, who criticised Facebook's response have now backpedaled.
No, people are making the same mistake the TC reporters made.

Look through the "private messages" of your friends. The dead giveaway is that a huge number of them are happy birthday posts. People post those on walls.
"Update: Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On Timeline. They’re Old Wall Posts."
That's what Edge Code is. Edge is their collection of developer-focused tool and services. Basically, they're trying to shake the stigma of Dreamweaver.

Also, because it's implied otherwise, it should be stated that Brackets is an Adobe-created/-owned project. The two are still quite tied together, as Brackets improvements are pushed into Edge Code releases.
And in case it is true flat out deny it ever happened.
The trouble is that the Long Tail of Social Services is there for a reason. Yea, maybe you are happy having your users share on Facebook and Twitter, but Jane's Buck Hunter Haven wants to have a RateVenison share link on her blog posts.

Closer to home, how many posts on Hacker News have an actual "share on Hacker News" link on them. Quite a few. How are you going to know which buttons go on which sites?
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Seeing this made me really realize that Google is huge. Huger than I could imagine.

I remember vividly when I first saw Google.com. I think it was at the end of the millennia. They got bigger in small increments, but now they are enormous.
I hope so! More competition means more awesome free fonts for me. I hope they compete bad. Some web fonts render terribly across platforms. Windows still has terrible awful horrible handling of fonts so anything these companies can do to improve that in web fonts would be much appreciated.
From the linked page:

"The fonts are served by Typekit, so you can be sure of high performance and stability."
Most scientific research on this topic agrees with the self-determination framework. That says that in order to enjoy doing an activity for a long time, you have to have:

1. Autonomy. The feeling of freedom and control over your work.

2. Mastery. The feeling that you're good at what you do and getting better.

3. Relatedness. The feeling that you're working with people you like.

When you're doing something on the side, you almost always have all of the above. When you start a job doing something, you almost always lose all of the above.

The real question is how to gain Autonomy, Mastery, and Relatedness at a job. It's not impossible by any means. But it does frame the question differently, since those 3 traits are often more critical to enjoying your day-to-day life than exactly which field you work in.

For a very good book that goes into much more detail, see So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport.

(I went through a very similar experience with losing interest in a field I loved because I "had to" do it. Working on gaining control over my career completely rekindled my love for the subject, stronger than ever).
Back in the day they did fight Fontshop in court to make it possible to embed fonts (in PDF-files). Today there are still fontdesigners that charge an extra fee if you use theirfonts in things like Flash. Or just forbid it. Yeah, I'm looking atyou HouseIndustries...
You wrote "Did appcelerator steal your blankie?", which is quite literally treating him like he's a three-year-old and you claim you didn't mean to sound patronizing? What else could have you possibly meant with that as an opening sentence?

Also, you aggressively miss the point. He's not upset about being contacted. He's upset about having them threaten to take down his app.
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Oh its false and not real, did that even occur to you or is your hate of facebook so intense that this possibility that users could be mistaken is just not possible. You know the very same people who gladly give up a ton of personal information on line to any one in the first place and stupidly trust corporations with personal information. I mean really is it impossible that these very same users could be mistaken with regards to old wall to wall posts?
I'm not so sure that cutting off access to play has as much to do with the popularity as much as vendors "abandoning" their devices.

The only way I can run a "modern" version of Android on my Viewsonic Gtablet is by using CM, and I don't care that I don't have access to google play on it. The Amazon marketplace is free to download and install and the apps work great.
Not sure, but I think jury nullification may apply only in criminal cases, essentially because of guarantee that defendant can't be tried more than once for same crime. With obvious misapplication of law by jury in a civil case I don't believe there's anything to prevent correction of the error.
Post a screen shot, lets see it.
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This sounds hauntingly familiar to something that happened to me on United's site: http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/132969897

United, in spite of all their other faults, handled it fairly well at least and responded quickly.
"Same here, my wife just called me crying because a large number of very private conversations she had with friends in the past are now visible on her timeline."

Sounds pretty clear to me, I figure that the lady knows which conversation were private and which weren't, if only by their content.
Seems that BofA's Internet proxy blocks access to this site linked.

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tl;dr: This is confirmed untrue at the bottom of the article.
And yet not one person has posted any evidence. Not one screen shoot. Which has been asked by a few people already. Show me the screen shots. Show me the screen shots.
Hilarious. But it sucks that the author draws this conclusion:

"If people in the U.S. aren’t suspicious of free money, PayPal payments that look fake, [...], or just Nigerians in general, then they deserve to have their money taken from them."

I feel like we need a tumblr to post blatantly obvious scams like these. Maybe that would help the common folk be better at identifying them.
That sounds incredible!
Already deleted all of them, and don't have access to that e-mail account anymore (never updated from my old school acct).
Video, whether it's tutorials or product demos, are useless to the deaf, heard-of-hearing, and blind. Transcripts or captioning go a long way, but they are very rare.

You may think this is a small market, but more and more people are becoming hearing-impaired, and at increasingly younger ages.

As a hearing-impaired person (since birth), if all you have are uncaptioned videos with little text (and often NO text), I'll just be moving right along, your website is useless (to me).

Update: Just to be clear: For tutoring videos, I spend my money based on what's captioned. There are plenty of online video training sites: codeschool.com, treehouse.com, lynda.com, etc. I pay for the ones that are captioned, and look longingly at the ones that are not, as some of them look quite good otherwise. Ditto for streaming video - Amazon doesn't support captioning, Netflix (finally!) does.
> I think you're right though: MongoDB should not be used without _lots_ of research into its limitations.

That's true about any database, not just MongoDB; nothing new here.

> then you're very much at odds with (my perception of) the 10gen marketing message.

10Gen is fairly straightforward about the original issue, having blogged openly several times about their decisions - but at the end of the day, any engineer should do research beyond the simple marketer's pitch.

I won't doubt that there are people who make snap judgements about fundamental architecture based on marketing pitches[1], but that's very unfortunate, and the marketers really can't be blamed, especially when they make no effort to conceal the truth or deceive you!

[1]http://www.pinaldave.com/bimg/dilbert5.jpg
Regardless of what the actual situation is, if these posts are being brought to people's attention by friends because they seem sensitive and are now more prominent than they once were, isn't that a concern in and of itself?
Really? Its far from unheard of.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/super-bad-first-sta...
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Hasn't that generally been the case? That is, Python 2.6.1 "is the first bugfix release of Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added." So there's nothing new about 2.7.1 being only a bugfix release.
Don't the scammers often use the victimized sellers as drop shippers?

Say, Alice lists a laptop on eBay or Craigslist. The scammer has also listed a similar model for sale, and Bob has purchased it in what he believes to be a legitimate transaction.

Scammer "buys" it from Alice, with either fraudulent funds from a stolen card (that would get charged back eventually) or just delivering a forged paypal mail. Or the famous "P-p-p-p-p-owerbook"[1] scam involved a fake escrow service. The scammer has Alice ship the laptop to Bob.

Alice is out a laptop, Bob gets a laptop, scammer gets Bob's money.

[1] http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=101...
I too thought I found private messages on my timeline. But it turns out they were indeed wallposts. It shows how much facebook has changed from a friends-only environment where you used the wall of people for semi-private chats, to a place where you have to be carefull and try to present yourself in a decent manner. Noone would ever use the wall in the same way it was used back then.
You do know that PDF is an open format, right?
Yes, droithomme (GP), please do not share your thoughts on a project which was listed here specifically for you to do so.

On second thought, thanks for bringing up your concerns. It certainly seems that in order for this tool to become a success for users like you it will have to deal with these types of issues carefully.

Edit to add: I want to stress the near infinite value that the HN crowd brings to the table whatever they say about any new site. Considering the vast majority of passers by even on HN will not comment at all, anything discouraging anyone from doing so seems to be more damaging than any negative comment.
You want a screenshot of his private message?
This DOES seem to be anecdotally confirmed, but we're yet to see any screenshots of this. Pics or it didn't happen, folks.
Can anybody shed light on how Modulus is different from Heroku? Just curious because I saw them at the Brandery in Cincinnati and it was explained to me as a "Heroku for Node," even though it is my understanding that Heroku supports Node.
3 edtech startups came out of Startup Weekend that I know of; there may have been more:

+ ClassDojo - from Startup Weekend UK

+ Demo Lesson (now Tioki) - from Startup Weekend EDU SF

+ Edcanvas - from Startup Weekend EDU Seattle
They obviously considered the bladder option when designing the craft, which means that:
- either air and He separate fast and well enough to make it unnecessary;
- or there are big problems which make the bladder impractical. I have no idea what these problems might be.

Anyway you're right: a scientifically literate journalist would probably have explained the rationales behind this non-obvious choice.
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yup due to a friend that puts way to much value in posters opinions here vs using logic and his own mind. People are jumping the bandwaggon of facebook hate on something that isn't verified based on reports that make a lot more sense that its old wall to wall posts and not personal messages. The lack of any real evidence including from those posting here that can confirm yet cant show screen shots of this is just more cause of concern this is just bandwaggon hopping. I have no love for facebook. None at all. But I am not going to go nuts over something that isn't proven in the slightest.
Ahh consider the Chinese method, pass so many laws that someone is always guilty of something, selectively enforce those laws when and if some individual does something to piss you off and they need to be put in their place.
Sad that they don't support international characters (or at least not the full character set of the language we use here).

Fonts provided by Google are better in character range coverage. Anyway, thanks Adobe.
I'm not at liberty to post his jpg but a friend has posted a screen capture that's certainly got stuff that never would have made it to his wall.
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Neat, but I don't understand why Adobe would do this. I already use Adobe Typekit, and $50/year gives me access to a huge library of fonts at an unlimited number of websites. For my purposes, I'm tempted to stop paying even that totally reasonable, meager amount and just use this free offering instead.

After following most of the links on the page, I can't find any mention of limits on pageviews or traffic. On the surface of it, that makes their free offering a little bit better than their paid offering.
I'd be curious to know as well.
Well its public now isn't it. Isn't that the problem. What harm would a screen shot do. Can black out anything that is sensitive.
You guys think that is expensive? You don't know Brazil...
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Would love to have a Java library!
It happened to me and all of my French friends. It's a top story on all major French news site http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565739
This looks really cool...

I'd like to add that I've used various parts of the ServiceStack suite of products before and I've always found them to be very easy to use, and reliable. Also, the maintainer was always good about responding to bug requests and following up about them.

Glad to see it's still moving forward.
More records of people baiting Nigerian scammers: http://419eater.com/html/letters.htm. People on http://www.419eater.com/ lead these “4-1-9” scammers on wild goose chases deliberately to waste their time, in the hopes of distracting them from attacking other people and also just having fun.
Incidentally, those laptops are pretty good: I got one years ago when Dell was offering Ubuntu, and we still use it for my daughter. The battery is pretty much toast, but otherwise (fingers crossed) it's still going strong.
I just found some of my 'messages' on a friends public wall post from 2008. Not cool.
I've messed around with golf for about a year or two before getting serious this summer. Lessons made the biggest improvement. After I had a rough idea from the lessons, reading really made me understand the hows and whys.

This should help you on your way:
If there are any golf courses around you, check their clubhouses for a local pro. There's usually someone around giving lessons.

This is where you need to spend the most money. Buy 5 or 10 lessons. Learn the fundamentals first, dont worry about distance, worry about contact.

Do this instead of a "craigslist deal". You'll be sure to get sound advice from someone who really understands the game.

For clubs, buy used or secondhand. These will last you until you either fall in love with the game or give it up and something else.

Suggested reading would include:

Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf — Ben Hogan
Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf — Harvey Penick
Golf My Way: The Instructional Classic — Jack Nicklaus
Good point. Mass hysteria being used as a carrier for sudden bursts of clarity would be an interesting phenomenon in itself. Thousands of people suddenly realizing "Oh god, what have I been doing?"

Edit: The more I read about this, the more it seems to me that this is what is going on. I think this has interesting implications for the "Privacy is dead" attitude. It suggests to me that, contrary to popular belief in some circles, people are not ok with their diminished privacy.. they just haven't been thinking about it.
This article is a continuation of many the site has posted. In previous articles they have gone on in detail about how the foreman ignored jury instructions. He invalidated prior art because the code wouldn't run on the iPhone processor, for example, and he said they calculated damages to send a message to Samsung and the industry as a whole. These things are both directly counter to the jury instructions, which do not require prior art to be binary compatible and state damages should only basically fix the amount of money lost by the other company, not be extreme to make a point. Here's one of the articles:
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120828225612...

If the guy had that previous experience, but he followed the instructions, I don't think people would have complained. But instead he ignored instructions and took things into his own hands based on his incorrect perceptions of patent law he formed from his past experiences.
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Think about what you're asking for here. You are essentially asking to compound the error facebook made by making a screenshot of their private communications and posting it on yet another open forum.

That's like asking a rape victim to show her bruises publicly or you won't believe it. Pics or it didn't happen applies to lots of stuff but when there are a lot of people with pretty good reputations making the exact same claims then you might want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Facebook is not above making mistakes and the number of people right here that make these claims is too large to simply be ignored or waved away. Clearly something has changed for some people, now the question is how many people are affected and what can be done about it.
No, the correct way is to use the global function isNaN(x);
Yeah, but it is in Adobe's interest to have you download a pdf that happens to use a pointless feature that only exists in the version of acrobat the came out three weeks ago and no other pdf viewer supports.
Look at his edit, she isn't entirely sure they were private.

Amazing how many people have "confirmed" it but nobody has posted anything verifiable. Just a screenshot of the private message inbox/email + the post on the timeline. Redact as much as you want.

I've gone through the messages on my timeline, and truth be told I don't remember the context of a lot of the messages, so it wouldn't surprise me if people don't remember if something was private.
> Well its public now isn't it.

That strikes me as a very 'Facebook-eque' attitude towards the privacy of others. I am sure that if he were comfortable posting a screenshot of it, he would have done so without needing prompting.
Very (probably unintentionally) similar to: http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
I recommend and use Droid Sans Mono for your IDE of choice. I used to jump back and forth between fonts, but settled on it about a year ago.

http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono
It's no coincidence that people that have tried to verify this by comparing to email notifications have posted as much, and people that have "confirmed" based on memory have yet to do so and post the result of their verification.

Do not trust your memory. Do not trust your assumptions. Just because this is plausible and everyone is claiming to be affected by it is not proof that it is in any way true. Check your notifications and find real evidence.

No one in here has even claimed to have confirmed this with email, let alone posted any evidence.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566617
A "free market" concept in it's pure-bred form does not and cannot exist. You either have some form of government control, or you get a monopoly/duopoly/plutocracy situation that skews things around. This is exactly what's happening now with telcos in the US.

Time to crack the whip and restore sanity in these markets. The telcos have become a law unto themselves.
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