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Malthe Borch: Security questions as 2FA violate GDPR

Link: https://maltheborch.com/2018/05/security-questions-as-2fa-violate-gdpr.html


I have an on-going discussion with Kucoin, a cryptocurrency exchange, on the issue of whether I can remember security questions that I alledgedly have entered into their system such
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxiv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/05/cxxiv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-05-05 17:33:24 GMTpython generators garbage collection - [23/2]Del
Nikola: Upgrading to Nikola v8

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/upgrading-to-nikola-v8.html

Nikola v8 is a huge release with lots of new features and fixed bugs. However,
a few manual changes are required to upgrade.

Contents

How to upgrade
Upgrading post metadata
Changes to themes and tem
Nikola: Nikola v7.8.15 and v8.0.0b1 are out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v7815-and-v800b1-are-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v7.8.15 and v8.0.0b1.
Nikola v7.8.15 is the last v7 maintenance release with a few more bug fixes.
Nikola v8
Roberto Alsina: Playing With Picolisp (Part 1)

Link: https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/playing-with-picolisp-part-1.html

I want to learn new languages. But new as in "new to me", not new as in
"created last week". So I decided to play with the grandaddy of all cool
languages, LISP. Created in 1958, it's even older than
Techiediaries - Django: Angular 6|5 Tutorial (with RESTful Django Back-End)

Link: https://www.techiediaries.com/angular-tutorial/

Throughout this Angular 6 tutorial, we'll learn to build a web application with Angular 6, the latest version of Angular--the most popular framework/platform for building mobile and desktop client sid
Pete Hunt: Hello world!

Link: http://www.petehunt.net/hello-world/

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Anwesha Das: Indian Government's new attempt to regulate "online content"

Link: http://anweshadas.in/indian-governments-new-attempt-to-regulate-online-content/

“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not w
Patrick Kennedy: Testing a Flask Application using pytest

Link: http://www.patricksoftwareblog.com/testing-a-flask-application-using-pytest/

Introduction
I recently started using pytest and it is an incredible test framework for python! After reading Brian Okken’s book titled “Python Testing with pytest“, I was convinced that I wanted to
Peter Bengtsson: Fastest Python datetime parser

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/fastest-python-datetime-parser

tl;dr; It's ciso8601.
I have this Python app that I'm working on. It has a cron job that downloads a listing of every single file listed in an S3 bucket. AWS S3 publishes a manifest of .csv.gz files.
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python at Microsoft: Meet us at Build and PyCon US!

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/05/02/python-at-microsoft-meet-us-at-build-and-pycon-us/

Next week are the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, WA on May 7-9, and the PyCon conference in Cleveland, OH on May 9-17, and we (the Microsoft Python team) will be at both conferences looking fo
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2018 Release

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/05/02/python-in-visual-studio-code-april-2018-release/

We are pleased to announce that the April 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace and the gallery. You can download the Python extension from
Python Insider: Python 3.7.0b4, final 3.7 beta, now available for testing

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/vo7OgsISIdQ/python-370b4-final-37-beta-now.html

Python 3.7.0b4 is the final beta preview of Python 3.7, the next feature release of Python. Beta releases are intended to give you the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare you
Damián Avila: Some thoughts about the 2017 ACM Software System Award for Project Jupyter

Link: http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/some-thoughts-about-the-2017-acm-software-system-award-for-project-jupyter.html





I am very happy to inform you that Project Jupyter has been awarded the 2017 ACM Software System Award!
As part of the Jupyter Steering Council, I am one of the official recipients of the award, b
PyCon.DE & PyData Karlsruhe: Fin Aid

Link: http://de.pycon.org/blog/fin-aid/

As part of our commitment to the Python community, we are pleased to announce that we offer special grants for people in need of a financial aid to attend PyCon.DE. Please follow the instructions belo
Mike Driscoll: Exporting Data from PDFs with Python

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/03/exporting-data-from-pdfs-with-python/

There are many times where you will want to extract data from a PDF and export it in a different format using Python. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of Python packages that do the extraction part v
Wallaroo Labs: Wallaroo: We’ve heard your feedback, here’s what’s coming

Link: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/05/wallaroo-weve-heard-your-feedback-heres-whats-coming/

Its been over a year since I wrote the first blog post introducing Wallaroo to the world. We’ve covered a lot of ground since then; from introducing the Python API that is our primary product, to rele