Issue #194: Black Friday

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News

Security releases issued: 1.9rc2, 1.8.7, 1.7.11
Its that time again to upgrade your Django versions, security issues have been released for Django 1.9, 1.8 and 1.7 versions.
djangoproject.com
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Introducing the DSF's Director of Advancement
The Django Software foundation has announced a Director of Advancement, Adrienne Lowe to lead the charge on fundraising for the DSF.
djangoproject.com
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Python 3.5.1rc1 Released
The first release candidate for Python 3.5.1 is out now, click through for more info.
python.org
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Python 2.7.11rc1 released
The first release candidate for Python 2.7.11 has been released! Check out the full changelog here.
python.org
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Discussion

Why is Python used a lot for Statistics?
reddit.com
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Dear sysadmins: what is your job and how do you use python to make it easier?
reddit.com
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Jobs

Software Architect, Full Stack(Django) (Long Beach)
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Full Stack Python Engineer (Austin, TX)
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Projects

skflow
This is a simplified interface for TensorFlow, to get people started on predictive analytics and data mining.
github.com
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dcgan_code
Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

ImageColorTheme
Extracts a colour theme from a given image.
github.com
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Flask-Blogging
A flask extension for adding blogging support to your site with Markdown.
github.com
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cachebrowser
If you are a researcher or developer, this may be of interest. A proxy-less censorship resistance tool.
github.com
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htmlPy
A wrapper for PySide's QtWebKit library. Create GUIS for python applications with HTML, CSS and Javascript.
github.com
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PyLaTeX
A Python library for creating and compiling LaTeX files or snippets. Version 1.0 was just released so check it out!
github.com
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statirator
Multilingual static site and blog generator.
github.com
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version.py
Automatic versioning for git-based python projects. This library stops you from having to hardcode version numbers in your projects.
github.com
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biopandas
A toolset for working with Molecular structures in pandas DataFrames.
github.com
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Articles

Creating a PySide toolchain for PyCharm
As the title says!
github.io
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Django Under The Hood, Amsterdam
The videos for Django Under The Hood, Amsterdam are out. Check them out!
opbeat.com
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Should I use PYTHONOPTIMIZE ?
Some thoughts on using PYTHONOPTIMIZE (-O or -OO flags) and its relation to using Python assertions in your code.
ziade.org
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Estimating the exponent of discrete power law data
johndcook.com
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Python 3.5 type hinting in PyCharm 5
jetbrains.com
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