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By: Michael Stang
Tags: Storytelling, Quest, Poetry, Lovers, Union

How do I waken this fire-haired beauty

Sleep’s own radiance eternal heat

Hibernate’s special quest

Solo bed, the Queen’s ferns

Dare-less and stupid I only stare

Her body exists in the ethers

Existing only to be touched

Immortal fountains juice translucent under

Her reverend mother’s porcelain spice

Life flows strong in this one

Carried through sweet piquant

Dare I must disturb gossamers finial

Second skins finely weaved spun

Slowly as if earth itself holds no mercy

Drawing close to sculpt perfection

Perish he might for the sight of her

Through sizzling air

Alive with all he knew

To get there
Huawei’s new campus in Shenzhen gets ridiculed for copycat architecture
By: All Tech Asia
Tags: Social Media, China, Tech, Huawei, Architecture

Chinese architects and netizens recently performed a collective facepalm after Huawei Technologies revealed the new design for its smartphone division headquarters near Shenzhen. Unlike tech giants like Apple, Google, and Alibaba, which gained attention with their futuristic buildings, Huawei decided that the best way to show how innovative they are is by copying 12th to 19th-century European architecture.

Chinese Bologna at Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen. Photo from 16hours.com.

Huawei will now have the opportunity to boast its own Oxford, Heidelberg, Verona, Luxemburg, and many more — all for the price of RMB 10 billion (USD 1.5 billion). The new campus will be located in the southern of tech hub Shenzhen, on the scenic lake Longshan. The area will be divided into 12 clusters modeled after European cities. Employees and visitors, which we imagine will mostly consist of couples in search for romantic backdrops for wedding photos, will be transported around the area in trains resembling those in Switzerland. The grand opening of the campus is due in 2018.

Chinese Heilderberg at Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen. Photo from 16hours.com.

Although some Chinese netizens supported the project, many have ridiculed the design as “shanzhai” or copycat architecture. The new campus has placed Huawei among unflattering company such as Wuhan university, which built a fake Great Wall of China, the city of Hangzhou with its fake Paris, and several parks boasting a fake Great Sphynx of Giza. Commentators have pointed out how ironic it is that a company that considers itself a leading tech innovator could be so unimaginative when it comes to designing the very building that represents it.

Chinese Oxford at Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen. Photo from 16hours.com.

Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunication equipment manufacturer, has been working hard on overcoming consumer skepticism over the quality of its high-tech products such as phones. Right now, Huawei is planning to top the high-end smartphone market, where it is currently ranked 3rd after Apple and Samsung. Hopefully, the alleged architectural preferences of its president, Ren Zhengfei, will not damage Huawei’s image as a company destined to change the future of communications.

Chinese Verona at Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen. Photo from 16hours.com.

Chinese Český Krumlov at Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen. Photo from 16hours.com.

View the full gallery of Huawei’s European cities here.
#39: TheBit
By: Kelly Mcquade-W.
Tags: Investment, Education, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Coloring Crypto is a podcast that sets out to illuminate the blockchain. For more episodes or to join us for a future episode, contact us at ColoringCrypto.com.
Extrém okostelefon beállítások függőség kezelésére
Tags: Habits

I'm noticing as hard as I can, beauty and meaning in life. Here, through writing. Endless.Consulting

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What I Learned at Slack
By: Kenneth Berger
Tags: Startups, Storytelling, Public Relations

Slack has been the beneficiary of numerous articles in the press. Rapid growth and a celebrated CEO helped, but there’s another key factor behind Slack’s PR success — they tell the stories of the big ideas behind the company. As a founder at YesGraph, my previous startup, that quality and quantity of PR seemed unattainable. But we did have some big ideas. Slack showed me how big ideas can become stories that spread to the world.

What’s a big idea? Not just a product idea, but a vision of the future most people can’t yet see. As Peter Thiel puts it, “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” Great companies are born from the best answers to this question. Those answers are their big ideas: the company’s contrarian truths versus the market’s conventional ones.

Countless companies are created each year backed by these insights. So where do all their big ideas go? Countless companies dissolve each year too, of course. But even those that make it big often forget their founding principles, distracted by the realities of internal politics or making numbers. The best companies never forget their big ideas. By consistently telling their stories to the world, their truths gradually transform from contrarian to conventional. Mr. Thiel calls them “secrets” to reflect their rarity, but these are the kind of secrets that beg to be told.

Storytelling is an essential tool to bring attention to your company and its unique ideas. Investing in PR assistance early can reap big returns over time as your ideas spread. So it’s a shame that most companies have such a limited set of stories to tell employees and the press: New funding! Growth milestone! Key partnership! These are just the technical details of running a business. There are only so many people they can inspire.

You probably already have a big idea or two. So tell the big stories behind them. Those are the stories that capture people’s imaginations and help spread your ideas to the world.
Simulation of Commission Design: 커미션 시스템 설계 Part 2
By: Jeffrey Lim
Tags: Reinforcement Learning, Simulation, Token Economy, Agent Based Modeling, Blockchain

Interested in RL adaption to the real world. Building simulation models to validate the token economies with agent-based RL.

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UGANDA’S OUTBOX INNOVATION HUB PARTNERS WITH MORINGA SCHOOL IN KENYA TO EQUIP YOUNG PEOPLE WITH INDUSTRY RELEVANT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SKILLS.
Tags: Moringa School, Education, Outbox Hub

UGANDA’S OUTBOX INNOVATION HUB PARTNERS WITH MORINGA SCHOOL IN KENYA TO EQUIP YOUNG PEOPLE WITH INDUSTRY RELEVANT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SKILLS. Outbox Follow Apr 13, 2018 · 2 min read

Kampala; April 12th, 2018 — Since its founding in 2012, Outbox has been at the forefront of developing the technology entrepreneurship ecosystem in Uganda. Through its partners and programmes, it has provided access to seed funding, business training, mentorship & technical guidance to enable multiple startups succeed. It is through this work that Outbox noticed the severe shortage of industry relevant software development skills in the country not only for the startups in their community, but also the various organisations both for-profit and nonprofit.

Outbox, in collaboration with Kenya based Moringa School — launched today the first in a series of coding boot camps focused on imparting industry relevant software engineering skills to young people. A coding boot camp is a short and intensive technical training program that teaches programming skills that employers look for, in an immersive environment.

The initiative, dubbed Outbox EDU, will see Outbox offer Moringa School’s technology training course through a five-week full time computer science fundamentals course known as “Moringa Prep,” in June 2018. Moringa Prep covers the foundational concepts to all high level programming languages. Applications are now open. Please apply at https://outbox.co.ug/outbox-edu/moringaprep

Founded in 2014, Moringa School is a learning accelerator that provides its students with both digital and professional skills training. It is an intensive tech education program based in Nairobi, Kenya. The school has been successful in Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan and Hong Kong. In 2018 alone, it received over 1100 applicants and taught 500+ students. Moringa School has a 95% job placement rate, and its graduates receive a 350% salary increase after leaving the program.

Through the partnership, Outbox will tap into Moringa’s experience in developing and delivering industry relevant technology education. It will also tap into its 40+ hiring partners all over the African continent to ensure that Outbox EDU graduates receive employment opportunities after graduation.

“With this partnership, our young people will be able to tap into world class learning & employment opportunities, thus improving the quality of our offering to potential software engineers in Uganda,” said Richard Zulu, CEO at Outbox. “Our collaboration with Moringa School goes a long way in supporting our mission to grow inclusive communities that foster talent where we operate. We are very excited to be working with them in Uganda and tapping into a Pan-African network.”
Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.
By: Maki Naro
Tags: Eat More Comics, Science, Vaccines

Sign up for Taking Stock of COVID: New comics from The Nib

By The Nib

New comics from Matt Lubchansky, Keith Knight, and Niccolo Pizarro. Plus How Seniors Are Living With COVID-19. Take a look
Terminus: Improved Terminal Support
By: Alex R. Young
Tags: Scripts, Tmux, Terminal

Terminus (GitHub: wincent/terminus) by Greg Hurrell is a plugin for improving Vim’s integration with terminals, with features designed for tmux and iTerm. Features include:

Cursor shape in Insert mode: thin vertical bar in the console

Mouse support: Activates ‘mouse’ support in all modes and additionally tries to activate sgr-mouse support

support Terminal support for FocusGained and FocusLost events

and events Paste mode, so you don’t have to set the 'paste' option
The House that Slaves Built
By: Clay Rivers
Tags: Politics, Truth In Humor, Poetry, Nursery Rhymes, Resistance Poetry

This is the house that slaves built.

This is the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

This is the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

This is the goon

Who wasn’t that smart

And paid off the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

This is the counsel gray-haired yet hale

Who jailed the goon

Who wasn’t that smart

And paid off the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

These are the trolls who post’d tall tales

Seen by the counsel gray-haired yet hale

Who jailed the goon

Who wasn’t that smart

And paid off the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

This is the czar with his thumbs on our scales

Who hired the trolls to post their tall tales

Seen by the counsel gray-haired yet hale

Who jailed the goon

Who wasn’t that smart

And paid off the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

These are the leaders with eyes blind and veiled

Who doubt that the czar has his thumbs on our scales

Or hired the trolls to post their tall tales

Seen by the counsel gray-haired yet hale

Who jailed the goon

Who wasn’t that smart

And paid off the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

These are the judges unearthing the trails

Who challenge the leaders with eyes blind and veiled

Who doubt the czar has his thumbs on our scales

Or hired the trolls to post their tall tales

Seen by the counsel gray-haired yet hale

Who jailed the goon

Who wasn’t that smart

And paid off the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.

We are the People unwilling to fail

Who stand with the judges unearthing the trails

Who challenge the leaders with eyes blind and veiled

Who doubt the czar has his thumbs on our scales

Or hired the trolls to post their tall tales

Seen by the counsel gray-haired yet hale

Who jailed the goon

Who wasn’t that smart

And paid off the tart

Who screwed the con

Who lives in the house that slaves built.
The Laughing Ducks
By: Vicki Nemeth
Tags: Poetry, This Happened To Me, Ducks, Free Verse, Eagle

The ducks on the river laugh forever in the sun.

I can stare out my window, but not for long

but what I went to do is not what I remember.

What I remember is

the crows.

It wasn’t the usual here and there caws:

“Hello! How are you?” No.

It was cawing nonstop, until I paid attention.

Something’s going on out there.

I peer out the window…

A bald eagle? Here?

Dives on the ducks! Swoops up empty

to try again! Another miss!

Again! Failure.

By now, the ducks have arisen together

and the eagle turns south with empty talons.

The cawing slows and quiets

as the ducks encircle the valley

and return in unison: one hundred tiny splashes

to start laughing again.
Guild Html Table Tags ใช้ตารางใน html ยังไง ?
By: Sutthipong Nuanma
Tags: Guild, Amiearth, Table, HTML, Developer

HTML table tag

Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript…
“I was scared, but I didn’t want my sister to die.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/27/us/7-year-old-saves-baby-fire-tennessee-trnd/index.html A real-life hero at 7 years old. This is such a great news…
By: Tree Langdon
Tags: Self Improvement, Family, Fire, Hero, Love

A merchant of dreams. ♡ I love to connect the specific to the universal in Poetry, and Fiction, exploring Worldview plots. Was a CGA/CPA in a past life.

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Have You Lost Your Confidence?
By: Melinda Van Fleet
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, This Happened To Me, Personal Development, Mindset

Have You Lost Your Confidence?

Get Back On Track For The New Year

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio- Pexels

When quarantine started in March, I thought, “Yep, this will all be over by June, at the latest.”

Wow, I was wrong. Did you think the same thing?

This in-activity has become a whole new way of life for a lot of people. Many people are still stuck inside all day. Some of us aren’t seeing our friends like we used to. Often by choice out of fear. Many people’s daily routines are still upside down with work, children, and school. Or, they are still in an “I don’t know” pattern.

Are you one of those people who may not be showering, may have gained weight, or rarely put on “real clothes”? I was in that bucket. After two months at home eating Oreos and grilled cheese every day, I looked in the mirror and wasn’t happy. I had lost confidence in my discipline and my appearance. I felt crushed. I needed to regroup and regroup fast. I regrouped in early July and by October, lost over 40lbs. Why wasn’t everyone else on this train of moving forward?

Now, it’s the holidays and soon to be New Year. Conversations I have with my friends and family are continuing in a pattern of “feeling stuck.” What’s shocking is many are people who haven’t been affected financially or via health reasons. The biggest challenge, for some, has not been able to take their favorite vacation. And they still feel stuck and unhappy. Covid-19 has affected a lot of people’s confidence.

What is the underlying cause of this? How can we help others get their confidence back?

Confidence helps you manage your life. Managing your life feels good. We all like to feel good. It’s a simple equation, but not always the easiest to accomplish.

Some of the aspects of confidence are:

· You dare to set boundaries and stand up for yourself.

· You take risks and push through fear to help you move forward.

· You are OK laughing at yourself (and laughter feels good.)

“With realization in one’s potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.”- The Dalai Lama

When you understand the aspects of having confidence, you are limitless. But the trick is, how does one build or regain their confidence? Especially when so many people have been discouraged or lack the motivation to try?
How to deploy Cassandra and connect on Google Cloud Platform with a few clicks
By: Billy Jacobson
Tags: Apache Cassandra, Cassandra, Google Cloud Platform, Datastax

Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time working with Cloud Bigtable on Google Cloud Platform (GCP.) Lately, I’ve wanted to get a better understanding of similar big data offerings on the market specifically HBase and Cassandra.

I‘d never set up anything like Cassandra before and was intimidated by all the tutorial videos I watched, but it proved to be a very manageable task using GCP’s click to deploys.

Deploying

On your GCP project with billing enabled, you can navigate to the Cloud Marketplace and search for “Cassandra.”

There are a few options that come up, but I chose the Cassandra (Google Click to Deploy) version that runs on Google Compute Engine.

Click “Launch on Compute Engine” and you’ll be brought to a deployment configuration form. You can leave all the defaults or modify them if you are more familiar with Cassandra. The only thing I changed was enabling Stackdriver logging and monitoring in case I would need them for debugging. Once you’re happy with the configuration, submit the form to deploy your Cassandra cluster!

Connecting

After a few minutes your cluster will be deployed and you can connect.

Successfully deployed Cassandra cluster

Click the SSH button on the right hand pane to open a shell that will connect to your cluster. In the shell you can access the Cassandra command-line client by typing cqlsh . You can create a keyspace, table, add some data and query it all through that shell. I followed this Hello World and found it pretty helpful.

I also wanted to connect to my Cassandra cluster with one of the client drivers to see how I would use it in a real application. You’ll need to create a new firewall rule that allows access for TCP over port 9042, so the client can talk to the cluster. You can use this gcloud command:

gcloud compute firewall-rules create cassandra-client --allow tcp:9042

or create the firewall in the GCP console under VPC network.

List of firewall rules under VPC network

Add a firewall rule that targets all instances in the network, filters 0.0.0.0/0 as the range of IP addresses, and allows TCP:9042. If you’re using this for production purposes, you should specify a more controlled firewall rule.

Now that your firewall is set up, you can connect with the client of your choice. I decided to use the Datastax Java Driver, and performed a quick query to see if my connection succeeded. I used the external IP of the first VM (which can be found under Compute Engine in VM Instances) and the region (the zone without the letter suffix) as the name of the local datacenter.

And I was happy to see that my query worked!

For more information, check out the Apache documentation or the Datastax documentation.

Thanks to Daniel Bergqvist (@bexie), Kristen O’Leary, and Robert Kubis (@hostirosti).
Angels of the North
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Angels, Poetry, Family, Selfless, Haiku

Here you’ll find the bits and pieces that don’t really fit anywhere else. A place for everything and anything!

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What Kind of a Writer Will You Be in 2020?
By: Brian Rowe
Tags: Future, Life, Dreams, Work, Writing

Tomorrow begins a new decade. What kind of writer do you want to be?

What do you want to focus on? What do you want to excel in? What kinds of stories do you want to tell? What kinds of dreams do you want to go after?

The greatest thing about the beginning of a new year, and in this case, a new decade as well, is allowing yourself the time to reflect on everything you’ve accomplished in your writing up to now and decide what you want the next year to be like, your next exciting chapter. What kind of writer do you ultimately want to be?

This moment is kind of a milestone for me because ten years ago to the day I made the decision to write my first novel. It was December 31, 2009, and I’d spent the last few years completely immersed in filmmaking and screenwriting. I lived in Los Angeles at the time and I was deep into my second year as a feature film casting associate.

But no matter how many scripts I wrote, I wasn’t feeling creatively fulfilled. And for years I’d wanted to write a novel. I decided that day I was going to write a novel in 2010 no matter what. And in May 2010 I wrote THE END on my first ever book! I loved the process so much that later in the year I wrote a second novel, my first ever for the young adult market.

And to date? I’ve written twenty novels, holy cow. Twenty. Novels. In less than ten years! Do I plan to write another twenty novels this next decade? Oh, hell no. Sure, I still have more novels to write in the years to come. Still more stories to tell.

But what’s the kind of writer I want to be in 2020 and beyond? One who does a whole lot more than just write novels. Up until 2018 that’s pretty much all I did. I was always writing the first draft of one book and revising the draft of another and querying something else. It was this workshop of endless fiction writing year after year, and there was something kind of blissful about that, there certainly was.
Balances have it’s own home
Tags: Trading, Trading System, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Product Updates

Hey community! Thank you so much for such an awesome feedback to our previous feature “Strategy Sharing”. It means a lot for us!

We continue with small but useful addition: display of your exchange balances.

First, we fetch specific pair balance when you are creating any sell/buy action so you can understand current situation and better plan your trades

And second, there is a new “Portfolio” page which is accessible from the top menu. We show your balances from ALL connected exchanges, so if you have both Bittrex and Binance there will be two separate tables.

We appreciate if you follow us and spread the world!
Denoising Autoencoders explained
By: Dominic Monn
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science

Autoencoders are Neural Networks which are commonly used for feature selection and extraction. However, when there are more nodes in the hidden layer than there are inputs, the Network is risking to learn the so-called “Identity Function”, also called “Null Function”, meaning that the output equals the input, marking the Autoencoder useless.

Denoising Autoencoders solve this problem by corrupting the data on purpose by randomly turning some of the input values to zero. In general, the percentage of input nodes which are being set to zero is about 50%. Other sources suggest a lower count, such as 30%. It depends on the amount of data and input nodes you have.
Stop Telling Me You’re Right
By: Ellane W
Tags: Self Improvement, Relationships, Life, Self, Advice

Stop Telling Me You’re Right

A poem about learning to listen without waiting to speak

Photo by LOGAN WEAVER on Unsplash

Sometimes, when I stop thinking

only of myself,

I see these thoughts

In your downcast eyes:

Stop being right all the time, even when you are.

Please listen to more than what you hear me say.

I bleed when you pick and pull at every word

until my ideas fall apart.

You spoke of wisdom from your past,

that if one doesn’t think

they’ll finish what they start

they shouldn’t attempt the thing at all.

Yes with building a house, I said,

but no with doing exercises.

Any movement is good,

even if we don’t complete the whole routine.

You granted me the right to my own opinion,

occasional diplomat that you are.

— Again!…I’ve done it again.

Jumped in without thinking.

I set my resolve: next time I will listen,

acknowledge, and validate your right to speak.

I’ll ask questions, instead of immediately stating

the opposite case.

Yes, I will reply.

It is better to finish or not start at all.

I wonder, though, if there might be exceptions?

— I’ll ask, as if the thought has just occurred to me.

And then you will think of some for yourself,

perhaps, or not.

But in either case, I will smile

And thank you for your wisdom.

Next time I won’t interrupt

with my habitual, egocentric impulse

to make you see and feel and acknowledge

That I am right.

I’ll try again to give you space to think and speak

without bulldozing your side of the conversation.

I’ll resist the urge to validate my knowledge

by pouring it down your throat.

I will keep trying until I remember

that learning takes listening

— the kind of listening that is not waiting

For its turn to speak.
【程式學習之路：Day33】ASP.NET：MVC-Request-Flow、
By: 莎莉 Sally
Tags: Data, Programming Languages, Aspnet Mvc, 程式語言, Aspnet

∎ Building your first ASP.NET MVC5 Application in 4 simple steps

(根據文件步驟操作)

▸Creating MVC5 project in Visual Studio 2013

use Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web

2. “New Project” as “File –> New Project –>Choose “ASP.NET Web Application” –>choose “MVC” as template

觀察網頁http://localhost:61752/Home/About

觀察對應的程式架構

觀察程式架構

▸Preparing a Model (Model為資料)

3. prepare a model, right click on “Models” folder and choose “Add”

–> then “Class”. Name the class as “Employee.cs”.

model資料夾>右鍵加入類別>Employee.cs

觀察程式碼：namespace MyFirstMVC5App.Models

實體資料夾也會被用來當成名稱

4. namespace加入語法：

在員工類別內加入三個成員

public class Employee {

public string EmpID { get; set; }

public string EmpFirstName { get; set; }

public string EmpLastName { get; set; } }

}

出現問題：修改分號

▸Add a Controller(只能右鍵加入控制器，不在新增項目內)

To add a controller to our project, right click on “Controllers” folder, choose “Add”, then “Controller”

–>

From “Add Scaffold” dialog, choose “MVC 5 Controller — Empty” and press “Add” button as follows

–>

Name the controller as “EmployeeController”

觀察程式碼：class EmployeeController : Controller

以EmployeeController產生Controller，多一層的概念

▸Add a View

-思考如何使用剛才建立的控制器：http://localhost:61752/Employee

目前執行程式會產生錯誤：當路徑與控制器無法匹配時產生找不到資源訊息

-程式找過所有Index

5. created “Employee” folder under views, choose “Add”, then “MVC 5 View Page (Razor)”. Specify the name for the view “Index” as follows

A new file with the name “Index.cshtml” will be added under “Views­>Employee” folder.

加入>MVC 5 檢視頁面(Razor)

▸Review Basic MVC Request Flow

EmployeeController 預設動作為index

觀察RouteConfig.cs

▸[EmployeeController.cs]頁面

造一個員工控制器給View

Models.Employee emp = new Models.Employee

{ EmpID = “1”,

EmpFirstName=”Sally”,

EmpLastName=”Liu”

};

return View( emp);

快捷鍵前往View

return View();

動作結束後，傳回View()方法的結果給ActionResult體系

▸[index.cshtml-View]頁面

輸出前處理：

@model 小寫承接資料

@Model 大寫輸出資料

@Model.EmpFirstName輸出Model內的EmpFirstName

完成畫面
The State of Plasma
By: Andras Kristof
Tags: Plasma, Blockchain, Ethereum

We at akomba.com are gearing up to be able to design and deploy plasma chains for our clients. part of the process is that we collect interesting links that help us (and hopefully others) to learn more about this technology.

This is the first collection. We plan to issue a new one every week.

What is Plasma?

Plasma can provide real scalability for ethereum applications. In other words:

Plasma is an application-specific sidechain protocol.

Application-specific

You can deploy your own blockchain, that is designed for your application. You can chose the consensus mechanism, the speed, the number of nodes, the features, pretty much everything.

Sidechain

Your chain will connect to Ethereum, inheriting its security and accountability. Your chain will be a sidechain.

This setup is the best of both worlds: From one part, it frees you from having to deal with securing your chain. For that, you can depend on the layer 1 chain.

From the other side, you can design your sidechain to match your needs.

Protocol

Plasma is not an implementation. It’s a protocol, or a set of guidelines. As long as you follow the specifications, your sidechain will be plasma.

Links

This weeks’ links. Since this is the first issue, we will list some older ones as well.

If you have any other interesting links or information, please contact me at andras@akomba.com or at @akomba on twitter.

Thank you
Heads-up: We’re interviewing Matt Cooke from the Google News Lab for an upcoming episode!
By: Henrik Ståhl
Tags: Social Media, Innovation, Storytelling, Google, Journalism

🇳🇱 Groeten uit Amsterdam en Bratislava! 🇳🇱

First off, we want to apologize for not staying in touch with you. There really are no excuses for it — BUT… Henrik Ståhl was in Hanoi 🇻🇳 for a week, David Tvrdon was in Perugia 🇮🇹, and now Henrik is in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 (hence the Dutch greeting 😉).

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Anyway. We’ve published a few episodes since the last time you heard from us:

Episode 8: Flashy and pretty visual graphics are boring — give us context and meaning! Guest: Rachel Schallom, visual storytelling specialist. (If you don’t already subscribe to her newsletter Best of Visual Storytelling, you should definitely sign up asap!)

Episode 9: What do Perugia and Stockholm have in common? We talk trust in journalism. Henrik and Dávid discuss the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and also dissect the recent terrorist attack in Stockholm 🇸🇪.

Episode 10: Ask for forgiveness, not for permission — the recipe for digital innovation and transformation. Guest: Wojtek Grójec, digital editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. (Wow, it’s already been 10 episodes? Having Wojtek as guest was the perfect way to celebrate our tenth episode, because he has sooo much interesting and smart things to say. A must-listen-to episode!)

And while in Amsterdam, Henrik will conduct interviews with innovative Dutch journalists, and he will also discuss digital journalism and innovation with non other than Matt Cooke, the Google News Lab lead for the UK, Ireland and the Nordic — so stay tuned for the upcoming episodes of the Check Your Facts podcast.

Cheers!

/Henrik and Dávid
Being monogamous with a non-monogamous partner
By: Ken Blackman
Tags: Open Relationships, Relationships, Boundaries, Love, Ethical Non Monogamy

by Paul García on Unsplash

It isn’t a rule that couples have to have the same set of rules for each other.

On Quora.com I was asked to answer: “Can I have a monogamous relationship while my partner keeps a polygamous relationship?”

My response:

Yes. Here’s an example of how and why that can work.

My girlfriend and I started out dating casually, and then became serious. My previous relationship had been “open” and I requested that with her. She hadn’t done this before and was hesitant, but said yes because of how great we were together.

No one was more surprised than she was to discover that, even though she was getting everything she wanted in our relationship, her attraction to other men didn’t just disappear. With full permission, support and a feeling of security in the relationship, she continued to connect with other men.

For the first time she started to feel in full ownership of her sexuality, and that she could have what she wanted and walk away from anything she didn’t.

Yet try as she might, she struggled to be ok with me seeing other women. We would talk, she would give a verbal ok, but I could feel how anxious and stressed out it made her.

There’s no reasoning with or getting around those feelings when they’re there. She genuinely wanted to be ok with it.

I don’t have a rule that says couples have to have the same set of rules for each other. It makes no sense: we have different wants and desires, and different trigger points. Fairness and tit-for-tat are poor stand-ins for mutual happiness. It would be like having a rule that you have to buy each other identical birthday presents.

It just wasn’t worth it to me to generate that much thrash in the relationship. So even though I technically had her go-ahead, I volitionally dialed back my activity to match her true ability to handle it.

Our relationship continued to blossom and deepen and eventually she was ok with me seeing other people. At that point there really wasn’t anyone else I felt drawn to be with. So it ended up that I was functionally monogamous, by choice, and she, the monogamous one, was seeing other guys. That was how we were both happiest and getting what we want in the relationship.

Copyright © 2018 by Ken Blackman. All rights reserved.
Sex Move Or Something The BFG Said?
By: Amanda Rosenberg
Tags: Sex

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Just A Moment In The Wetlands
By: Nicole Ivy
Tags: Poetry, Nature, Forest, Florida, Peace

The Wetlands by Nicole Ivy

I took a walk through the wetlands in a Northern Florida forest and thought about how often I feel amazement. This was one of those perfect moments. The ground was a sopping wet lime green mossy sponge sprinkled with orange pine needles. It undulated as I walked and sunk into it. I loved the squishy sounds and the water bubbling through the soupy earth.

The low evening sun was feathering through the Spanish moss dangling off of the skinny cypress trees. I felt like I had stepped into another world. I unexpectedly fell in love with the unsteadiness of the ground beneath my feet. I felt honored to enter an area that doesn’t get much human traffic. I stood amazed by all that we don’t see.
Granular verisimilitude
By: Eliot Peper
Tags: Creativity, Editing, Fiction, Books, Writing

You know you have a good editor when they point out that the narratively-necessary-but-totally-arbitrary-8-digit number in your novel manuscript is unlikely to have the unique digits you thought would make it appear random because among the 100 million 8-digit numbers, there are only about 1.8 million whose digits are all different. So your number is an outlier in that particular sense; not only might the reader find it hard to imagine that anyone could know a number to that precision, but it smells like a made-up number.

Engineering the suspension of disbelief is all in the details.
The Thinker & How You Can Get Involved
Tags: Self Improvement, Writing, Thinker

This post is not just to announce my book The Thinker, but also an experiment to involve others and ask for help. The book is a practical playbook that makes you a better thinker.

This is not just another self-help book. Initially written as reminders to myself, the book is filled with historical stories, anecdotes and lessons that will help you to become a better thinker, and ultimately doer in the world.

As I am exploring new avenues and it’s my first book, I’m open to new creative approaches that could help make the book a success. If you know an influencer, a community or outlet that you think would benefit from the book, let me know.

This is an awesome opportunity to learn some of the insides of how to write and market a book. I’m happy to share what I’ve learned.

If you want to get involved, feel free to reach out at thinker [at] patrickdaniel [dot] com.

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Positive Entrainment Is a Little-Known Superpower
By: Glenn Geffcken
Tags: Creativity, Life Lessons, Motivation, Inspiration, Personal Development

Positive Entrainment Is a Little-Known Superpower

How every choice we make has a profound effect on the lives we live.

Photo by Jenny Hill on Unsplash

Training is an active process that we consciously engage in. We train on a job, watch instructional videos, go to a class or seminar, read a book, participate in a webinar, go to a conference, etc.

The act of entrainment is something entirely different and is actually much more important to our personal and collective development than any active training we can take part in.

Entrainment can be described as following along, leading to, feeling into and incorporating within. It’s similar to an invitation, but it’s more than that. An invitation is passive until acted upon. Entrainment is active because the decision to engage has already been made, whether we’re aware of the decision or not.

At its most basic level, entrainment could be the opinions we hold toward ourselves — the one’s we truly believe and tell ourselves repetitively. For example, there are many negative self-beliefs such as we’re not enough, we’re not smart enough, capable enough, good looking enough, or successful enough. As we think these thoughts, we reinforce the negative beliefs, and the process as a whole is a negative form of entrainment. The opposite beliefs would therefore be a positive form of entrainment, which many people actively and consciously engage in, in the form of affirmations and positive thinking.

Even more deeply there are many processes and modalities for reprograming the subconscious mind to become more positive and self-supportive, such as hypnotherapy, EMDR and affirmations to name a few. Here’s a more comprehensive list.

Entrainment is a constantly running process all throughout our waking lives, and even in our sleep state for those who fall asleep with the television on. Every experience, every song we listen to, every movie we watch, book we read, or friendship we cultivate. It’s happening in our working lives, in our relationships, in sports, artistic endeavors and spiritual and religious pursuits. What makes our activities positive or negative as a process of entrainment, is merely the choices we make.
“Things keep sorting themselves.”
By: The Hairpin
Tags: Poetry, Jane Hirshfield, Featured Poet

by Jane Hirshfield

Does the butterfat know it is butterfat,

milk know it’s milk?

No.

Something just goes and something remains.

Like a boardinghouse table:

men on one side, women on the other.

Nobody planned it.

Plaid shirts next to one another,

talking in accents from the Midwest.

Nobody plans to be a ghost.

Later on, the young people sit in the kitchen.

Soon enough, they’ll be the ones

to stumble Excuse me and quickly withdraw.

But they don’t know that.

No one can ever know that.

— Poetry, September 2012



Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of several collections of verse, including Come, Thief (2011), After (2006), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize, and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, among others.
Head of Product — Alfonso Fiore. Stories of getting started in product…
By: Robert Drury
Tags: Career Change, Product, Product Management, Careers, Product Manager

What’s your current role?

I’m the Head of Products at AirAsia, the world’s best low-cost airline.

What did you do before you got into Product Management?

I was a presales engineer within an international Telecom vendor

How did you get your first product role?

I was undertaking an MBA and as part of my course I had a product management internship, and my first role came out of that.

What was your biggest challenge when you started in product management?

I started when I was much older (30+) so I was a weird mix of senior and junior.

Initially nobody explained to me how to write user stories or run a standup or run any other agile meetings, so I had to figure out all these things by myself.

What is the one piece of advice you’d give someone starting out in product?

Pay attention to details.

And in my personal opinion, it’s not a job for introverts.

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If you’d like to get in touch with Alfonso then you can visit him on LinkedIn.

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At Getting Started in Product we write about how those who want to get into product can go about doing so, as well as how to do the job when they get there.
Data Analytics Use Case : BrewNation
By: Sébastien Derivaux
Tags: Analytics, Startup, Data Science, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence

Even for an early-stage startup, having good analytics is key to make good decisions and progress. BrewNation figured how to get fast and affordable analytics with the help of DataIntoResults. Let’s see how it works.

BrewNation is a marketplace for craft beer in France. They connect small brewers that make excellent craft beer to their customers. It’s a B2C business (they send beers at your doorstep) as well as a B2B business (they sell to bars and retailers).

BrewNation : The solution to bring craft beer from small breweries on your doorstep

Even being young, they have disparate systems and no easy way to analyse data in a meaningful way. The acquisition and website navigation is monitored by Google Analytics, the B2C sale process is managed by Prestashop and the B2B sales process use a custom spreadsheet.

Moreover, in order to have meaningful analytics, some reference data as well as some business rules should be used. For instance, a referral from a blog review (PR effort) is not analysed the same way that a referral from a brewery (supplier acquisition effort).

The system is based on modules (you can learn more about it in our manisfesto). The global overview of the analytics architecture is therefore the following. Each data source is ingested in the analytical database, blended and refined to ease reporting and insight generation. Google Sheet reports are feed directly by the database.
Bring your children to the Mosque
By: Virtual Mosque
Tags: Mosque, Children, Bring

There has been a trend with some Mosques in the UK that they ban or ask people not to bring young children with them to the Mosque, as they deem that the children are disruptive and make too much noise.

In this short clip the current Ameer of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, Dr Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha encourages all Muslims to bring their children to their Mosques and to make it a part of their lives as early as possible.
The Life You Didn’t Choose: Navigating The Terrain Of A New Normal (Part I)
By: Kristen Mahoney Groseclose
Tags: Disability, Spirituality, Self, Adversity, Grief

At first, you’ll find yourself hiding out from the world. In the safety of your home, you can try and forget the visions you had for your family, what life was going to be. But then you eventually get claustrophobic, the walls closing in on you, boredom.

You convince yourself that you need to get out with your family. And do what other families do so you can feel normal. So you get out, vulnerable as a newly hatched chick, at the mercy of onlookers, both real and imagined. You scan your surroundings like a hunted animal, posture rigid, wary of your child creating any “scenes.” You feel eyes upon you and your family.

People remember meeting you, yet sometimes, embarrassingly, you introduce yourself to them multiple times. Because in public you are half-distracted by corralling your child, finding exit strategies, and supporting your typically developing child, who cringes at the stares.

Unbeknownst to you, you’ve become the goodwill ambassador for special needs families everywhere, a job you didn’t sign up for. But on the good days you do want to help promote awareness. And live up to everyone’s expectations of having patience and dignity, traits often kindly bestowed on families like us.

But on bad days you just want to hide, to blend in. Like when I just want to go to the damn grocery store and dash in without it having to be a “thing” executed with military precision, with strangers avidly watching me pull Jack off the ground for the umpteenth time.

Because he decided the sensory input of his tongue against the cool lineoleum’d floor was exactly what he needed. (True story). I wrestle him to standing, trying to ignore my intrusive thoughts of germs and filth and God-knows –what-else covering the ground at my local Kroger’s.

Over time you’ll get used to the looks and not notice them (as much). And you’ll realize most of the stares are not cruel or judgmental, just curious or sympathetic. Or even empathetic. Because there will be some who will whisper to you, as you wrangle your child from place to place in the community, Hang in there. I know how you feel, my kid has autism, or Downs Syndrome or any variety of syndromes that veers a child away from what’s typical. They’re part of your club, their eyes are knowing.
5 actions to restore trust
By: Nathan Kinch
Tags: Legal Design, Consent, Terms And Conditions, Fintech, Open Banking

Straight from the Edelman Trust Barometer and highlighted by VisibleThread’s more recent study, easier to understand T&Cs is a clear winner in the eyes of everyday folks interacting with products and services.

One of Australia’s Big 4 banks has recently acted on this.

The market is finally waking up and moving. Boiler plate text that’s hidden away and designed almost exclusively to protect the corporation is no longer acceptable.

This might seem daunting. I mean, how do you change that which is deeply embedded and ‘accepted’? But meaningful progress can be made quickly and cost effectively. Nothing has the break. Rather, you’ll find the opposite.

If you wanna learn an evidence based approach to making T&Cs people ❤️ your reality, check out our 10x workshops. We can get you started on the journey in a matter of hours.

Happy Monday 😊
Flutter. A scrollable list of items
By: Artem Diashkin
Tags: Lists, Scroll, Overflow, Flutter, Scrollview

How to make you list of items scrollable, like this:

… let’s find out, shall we.

Let’s imagine that we have two articles (or some other content boxes) on our main page.

final List<Widget> articles = [

Article(),

Article(),

]; @override

Widget build(BuildContext context) {

return Scaffold(

body: Container(

child: Center(

child: Column(

children: articles,

),

),

),

That's ok, it looks great, but then we are adding three more articles and all become messy and we will get an error A RenderFlex overflowed by 222 pixels on the bottom. .

final List<Widget> articles = [

Article(),

Article(),

Article(),

Article(),

Article(),

];

That is because Column widget is not scrollable.

So how can we change that?

Just change Column widget to ListView widget — and that’s all. Your container becomes scrollable.

@override

Widget build(BuildContext context) {

return Scaffold(

body: Container(

child: Center(

child: ListView(

children: articles,

),

),

),

...

The result is … acceptable. But it could be better. Let’s modify our code so that our articles become more “classy” 😉
The Post-Development Debate
By: Amaël Cognacq
Tags: Development, Modernism, Post Development, Critical Thinking, Sustainable Development

In the fields of Development Studies, there are currently two major schools.

The modernization scholars argue that the mechanisms of development, although imperfect, are contributing to improving the living conditions in the South countries (in Africa, Latin America and Asia). The key issue for them is to find the right models and policies at the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the regional banks (AfDP, ADP, CAF), …

Since international organizations have been invested the task of developing the world, economists conceived plenty of big development theories. To mention the most important ones, there were Rostow’s five stages of growth linear model in the 1960s, the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP) from the 1980s, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, Jeffrey Sach’s Millenium Villages Project in 2005 and now the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since 2015.

So far, all of these policies have been relative failures, failing at least to achieve their goals, or complete failures in the case of the SAP, which actually weakened the nations in which they were implemented. The 1990 is often called the “lost decade” in development studies for that reason.

But economists learn from the mistakes of the past. They invent new models, create new theories and measure new indicators in order to supervise a more and more holistic development. Let’s remember that behind the SDGs 17 goals (the MDGs had 8) there are 169 targets, each evaluated with an indicator either already existing or being conceived for that purpose. The Sustainable Development Goals are mobilizing A LOT of economists, statisticians, demographers, global leaders and local actors from all around the world in order to see the implementation of its goals.
What Magnitude
By: Jude Folly
Tags: Poetry, Poem, Sensuality, Literary

Photo by Bruce Christianson on Unsplash

at what magnitude of

torn limbs he pulled apart

your senses; he, a phantom

and zealous lover seamlessly

fused; the dark arts of his

palms conjuring tempests

of delight from your flesh;

the deus ex machina

of the moment, a ruptured

unit of time that halts

beating hearts; what tectonic

tilt he compels within your

your bones' marrow--what urge

to unsheath from skin and sinew;

what bloodletting cry passes through

you--whisper of a dying star.