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BEST SANDWICH TOURNAMENT…THE 100% PRIZE WINNERS
Tags: Steem, Crowdini, Games, Steemit, Questions

RESULTS AND THE COMMENT OF THE DAY

Question: How long does it take you to commute to work?

Comment: “Thank your WAZE app!” by sankeypoo is who answered “10–30 minutes”.

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YESTERDAY’S RESULT

Yesterday’s Question: How long does it take you to commute to work?

Majority Answer: 10–30 minutes

TODAY’S QUESTION

It’s a lazy Saturday, which do you prefer?
Grounded
By: Emma Tuftin
Tags: Grounded, Fiction, Surreal, Yoga, Flash Fiction

Once, there was a girl who lost the ground.

To end her yoga practice, she chose mountain pose. Rolling up from a full-fold, her spine aligned click click click as her bones stacked one over the other over the other. Arms at her sides, palms out, shoulders back. A pillar of power and strength.

Grounding through all corners of her feet, she channeled her attention through the mat to the floorboards to the dirt below the house.

She imagined the worms pausing whatever it is worms do to feel the slight tremor of energy that shuttered through their world. They are wondering where the stir of energy came from, what the shift could mean.

She smiled to herself as she drank in another breath, worms don’t think and neither should I right now. With an exhale, she released the worms from her mind and the smile from her lips. She focused her attention on growing roots.

With the sensation of a needle prick, the first spidery vein freed itself from the sole of her right foot. It expanded from the width of fishing wire to twine in a matter of seconds. The left foot followed suit.

The roots multiplied. They shot down down down splintering the floorboards, cracking through the basement cement, sighing with relief as they found the familiar comfort of the cool, loose dirt.

The roots bathed in the rich nutrients, sending out shoots of recruits in every direction. Weaving around rocks, curling around tree roots, they burrowed deeper deeper deeper.

The ground grew compact, but the roots took no warning. Hungry for whatever lay beneath, they pushed back, finding every weakness to creep through. Even the rock couldn’t resist the tenacity of the determined roots, surrendering to the invasive burrowing tendrils.

Until the Earth had enough.

A sudden sting on the back of her neck snapped her concentration.

Not wanting to break her mindful state too quickly, she kept her eyes closed and brought her attention back to her fingers, wiggling them and touching her thumb to each finger one at a time at a time at a time. She slowly rolled her head side to side to side, noticing the contrast between the intense connection to the solid ground and the strange floating feeling she felt now.

A post-practice high, she smiled to herself.

As she brought her palms together for Namaste she slowly opened her eyes to find them level with a ceramic stegosaurus.

She blinked, not understanding. Her ex had bought the dinosaur figurine for her at the museum. She had tucked it on top of the bookcase, out of sight and painful memory.

She blinked again waiting for her brain to catch up, then ratcheted her eyes down down down to the yoga mat. It was two feet below her feet.
First Signs of Hope for Critically Endangered Wedgefish and Giant Guitarfish in Indonesia
By: Wildlife Conservation Society
Tags: Indonesia, Sharks, Java, Shark Week, Environment

[Note: this is the fifth in a series of commentaries by researchers with WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) during Shark Week documenting challenges and successes in shark and ray conservation today.]

Wedgefish and giant guitarfish comprise a group of highly threatened shark-like rays. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species assessed them as Critically Endangered in 2019 due to recent rapid declines, primarily caused by overfishing. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) lists them on their Appendix II, which means international trade should be managed for sustainability.

Wedgefish and giant guitarfish are globally distributed from Eastern Africa to the Indo-Pacific, and Indonesia is a hotspot for these species. In particular, the Java Sea is important habitat for wedgefish and giant guitarfish due to the ideal muddy substrate that they typically live in.

Unfortunately, fishing pressure in the Java Sea is high, and currently threatens this wedgefish and giant guitarfish hotspot. Indonesia is the world’s largest shark and ray fishing country, and also the 3rd largest exporting country for shark and ray commodities, including wedgefish and giant guitarfish.

Rekam Nusantara Foundation signs an MoU with Diponegoro University to conduct research on wedgefish and giant guitarfish on North Coast Java. From left: Vice Dean Irwani, M. Phim; Chief Department of Capture Fisheries, Prof. Aristi Dian; Vice Dean Dr. Suradi; University Dean, Prof. Tri Winarni; Een Rawan Putra; Dwi Putra, IPB University; Irfan Yulianto, WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society). Photo credit: ©WCS Indonesia

Local people utilize all body parts — including fins, meat, skin, cartilage, and even intestines. Wedgefish and giant guitarfish fins hold particular value in the international fin trade, and are known as ‘king of shark fin’ in Hong Kong. Many others prize the meat for smoked fish.

Indonesia is the world’s largest shark and ray fishing country, and also the 3rd largest exporting country for shark and ray commodities, including wedgefish and giant guitarfish.

Recognizing the threats faced by wedgefish and giant guitarfsih in the Java Sea, The Rekam Nusantara Foundation and the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program initiated a collaboration with local stakeholders — the Central Java Marine and Fisheries Agency, Diponegoro University, and IPB University. This initiation aims to understand the condition of wedgefish and giant guitarfish in Java Sea to inform fisheries management.
She Flies
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Poetry, Unbridled, Haiku, Wild, Horses

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The Most Overlooked Quality of Successful Writers
By: Chris Craft
Tags: Storytelling, Life, Personal Development, Writing, Writing Tips

The Most Overlooked Quality of Successful Writers

And how to get it.

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Alex took a quick sip of Café Bustelo before dipping into the Uber. A writer with a disciplined-yet-flexible routine, she prepared to focus on her goal for the day — 3,000 words.

Monday through Saturday, Alex would leave her 1-bedroom apartment in search of inspiration. Wondering if she should keep to her book’s outline or let her thoughts lead her to a place where disparate points connect. Either way, she couldn’t stop. She wouldn’t stop writing, unless…

The Uber glid to a stop in front of her favorite neighborhood diner. It’s off the beaten path, undiscovered by Yelpers (for now), and their WiFi is surprisingly swift. Its large windows are eyes to an urban landscape — a familiar world to Alex featuring strangers with unfamiliar stories. This world provided Alex with the occasional opportunity to give her ears to a stranger and receive knowledge and inspiration in return.

She politely tossed her empty cup of coffee in the trash can outside the diner doors before entering. It had been a week since Alex last visited the diner; she had been away to visit her parents in Baton Rouge the previous week. Happy to see her young friend’s return, Norma, the owner, greeted her loyal patron with a friendly wink as she made her way to the kitchen to put in the next order.

Alex sat in her usual spot, a small table for two next to the large window in the corner of the diner. She didn’t choose the corner table to isolate herself…it’s the only table with access to an electrical receptacle.

Before Alex could even open a browser tab, an unfamiliar face walked through the door. It’s rare to see someone new come into the diner. He was an older gentleman with a full November beard and sadness on his brow. He didn’t take a seat but went straight to the restroom.

Alex felt pain emanating from his spirit and wanted to know his story. Noticing Alex’s visual concern for the stranger, Norma approached her table and settled into a squat to reach eye level with Alex.

“He’s your story for today,” Norma said to Alex quietly. “He’s been here every day since you left to visit ya’ folks. He orders two black coffees…sits in the corner, but no one comes to join ’em. Saddest thing I’ve seen since I opened this place. Can’t get a word out of ’em, but I know someone who can.”

Photo by Lee Cartledge on Unsplash

At this point, Alex put her writing routine aside for the sake of human connection. She desired to give the man her attention and relate to his suffering without pushing her opinions and pulling him for answers. Her desire to listen to his story and replace her life’s lenses with his experiences points to the most overlooked quality of successful writers. Empathy.
Loose Words Letter #38
By: Jonathan Greene
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Publication, Poetry, Newsletter, Loose Words Letter

Loose Words Letter #38

In Defense of Downtime

Photo by Aki Tolentino on Unsplash

Welcome to the weekly newsletter from Loose Words. These letters go out every Thursday and highlight many of our published poems from the past week. We hope that these poems find you enjoying some much-needed downtime and holiday cheer.

“It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

Each week, we post a few lines from each featured poem (all friend links so anyone can read them) to give you a small glimpse into the full version, but we encourage you to click in and complete the ones that catch your attention. A one-minute read could change your day.

The term downtime is used to refer to periods when a system is unavailable. Be unavailable for a while this holiday season.
How to Manage According to an Aspiring Manager
By: David Weiss
Tags: Technology, Management, Diversity And Inclusion, Engineering, Leadership

Photo by Mimi Thian on Unsplash

Talk less. Listen more.

If I had to describe the best managers I’ve ever worked for, I could sum them up in two words — great listeners. Perhaps the most important quality of a manager is their ability to listen. Let’s face it. With distractions abound these days, human beings have incredibly short attention spans. Most people listen while staring at their smartphone, or watching TV or being distracted by something else.

The best managers I’ve had left their phones at their desk while we walked to the conference room. They turned Slack notifications off for the entirety of our meeting. They faithfully kept our 1:1 time during the busiest of weeks. Simply put, eliminating distractions makes it easier to listen.

1:1 meetings between a manager and direct reports are vital to the success and growth of a team. Private meetings with a manager can be stressful and make a direct report feel vulnerable, but if a manager does less talking and more listening, this can foster an environment of acceptance and understanding.

A team member should leave a 1:1 feeling like they’ve been heard. A simple “I hear you” or “I’m listening” is a great way to let people know you’re there for them regardless of the issue. I’ve done this exact same thing when having crucial conversations with co-workers. People don’t need problem solvers. They need another human to listen to them.
Zinnia From Your Lips
By: Melinda Smith
Tags: Poetry, Relationships, Poem, Love, Poems On Medium

Zinnia From Your Lips

A Poem

How your breath on my shoulder

brings dew

and how that dew translates

to blooms of radial symmetry

I’ll never know

but I’ll die trying

to discover the alchemy

of word to limerence

of song to dance

of poetry to sublimation
3 Ways to Reverse a String in JavaScript
By: Natalie Galligan
Tags: Nodejs, JavaScript, Front End Development, Algorithms, Programming

3. reduce() method

The last way is a bit more complicated but good to know. It’s going to involve an array helper called reduce .

According to MDN web docs, “The reduce() method executes a reducer function (that you provide) on each element of the array, resulting in single output value.” Basically, it takes all the values in the array and condenses them into one singular value.

The reduce() method takes two arguments — an arrow function and a starting value for our function (in our case, an empty string) — and will look like this: reduce(() => {}, '') .

Whenever reduce() runs, it’s going to take the starting value and pass it in the arrow function as the first argument. Then whatever gets returned from that inner function will be used as a starting argument for every next run of the function.

Let’s see it in action:

Transform our string into an array with .split('') . Write the structure of the reduce function: reduce(() => {}, '') . Let’s add arguments to the arrow function. The first argument will be a reversed string. Let’s call it reversed . The second argument will be the element we’re currently operating on in our array. The mechanics will be similar to the second method above — we’ll add that element to the beginning, followed by the rest of the string. The function runs one time through every element of the array, executing the function.

Now you know how to reverse strings in JavaScript!
New release: Perpetual Web Browser
Tags: Blockchain

We’ve got some very exciting news to share: we’ve released the first working version of the Perpetual Web browser!

What is it?

The Perpetual Web is a concept in which public data can live indefinitely, free from censorship and manipulation: a Network of truth. You may already be familiar with the wider principles surrounding the Perpetual Web. If not, take a look at this high-level overview video and Medium post which expands upon the reasons why permanency is such a key foundation for our future. This release is now bringing the first of these features to life and implementing them in the real world.

So what exactly does it allow me to do?

You can do all the things that were previously possible on the previous SAFE Network browser. But you can also do much more.

First, you can fetch websites using NRS-URLs and XOR-URLs (which are both types of URL’s on the Network) and toggle between the site’s version history. This shows you the differences and edits in each version. That means full transparency around any changes and when they were made.

This release also has a neat feature that gives you the option of creating an NRS name (the SAFE Name Resolution System) if it hasn’t yet been registered. If you try to visit a site with an NRS name that doesn’t yet exist, you’ll get the option to register that NRS name (which will then be owned by your account).

Plus, if you have a pre-existing website on the SAFE Network, you can now edit directly from the Browser. By selecting a local folder, it automatically uploads it and republishes it in your name and URL — sweeeet!

Also, as an alternative, sites can also be uploaded and published on an NRS name using the SAFE CLI so once published they can be fetched either with the CLI or with the SAFE Browser. Quick note: it’s not possible yet to edit a website using the Browser if it was uploaded using the CLI — or vice versa. This is a temporary limitation that’ll we’ll be removing soon to enable supporting sharing permissions among apps. This offers users extra flexibility when deciding how to upload files to the Network.

This sounds great — where do I get this from?

Just head over to GitHub and download. Quick reminder: you’ll need a couple of things in place first:
Understanding “this” in JavaScript
By: Knoldus Inc.
Tags: Angularjs, JavaScript, HTML, Jquery, Ajax

Function in javascript have properties, Just like javascript Object have properties. And when function get execute, It get the this property

Lets Take a closer look at “this”. this is a special character/keyword in javascript, As we know working with this is little tricky because it can change value when you and you are not expecting

Let see how we can track this

First we check this in global context

When we use this in global context that’s mean its not written inside a function scope. It refers to window object in browsers because window object is the top level global object in browser

console.log("This is: ", this);

It will return the window object in browser

Whenever you create a global variable its added to a property of window object. Let see an example these both methods will work same
How Election Night Will Unfold
By: Alex Adcock
Tags: Politics, Media, Elections, Donald Trump, Election 2020

11:59pm EST

So, what will we know at the end of the night?

Oregon and Washington should be called for Joe Biden.

Maine is very likely to remain blue, but the count may be slow, as the state is using optional preferential voting (also known as ‘ranked-choice voting’) for the first time at a presidential election.

This system will likely result in third party candidates receiving a larger share of first preference votes than they usually would, with many (but not all) of these votes to then be distributed between the main candidates in accordance with the ranking indicated by each voter. If Joe Biden isn’t winning a majority of the first preference vote, there may be hesitation to project Biden as the winner of Maine on election night — especially if Donald Trump is outperforming expectations again.

It’s also hard to predict when New Jersey will be called. If media outlets are willing to project a winner based on exit polls, the state could be called for Joe Biden as soon as polls close at 8:00pm. If they aren’t, however, it could take a long time to be sure of the result. The state won’t even start counting ballots cast on election day until 10 November! Realistically, though, we know that Donald Trump isn’t going to win New Jersey, so it’s just a matter of time before Joe Biden is projected as the winner.

We will probably know the winner of Florida’s 29 electoral votes, be he Donald Trump or Joe Biden, on election night… unless it’s very close, which it may well be. Florida started processing mail-in ballots 22 days before the election.

New Hampshire is also very likely to have a known winner on election night, and the polls indicate it will probably be Joe Biden.

There may be clear results in Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin… or not. Each of these eleven battleground states has a different timeline for pre-processing, counting and tabulating votes.

Arizona should be fairly quick to have a result, once polls are closed. The state began counting votes in October, and it will not accept any absentee ballots after election day.

Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, two of the most important states of all, may be the slowest to deliver a result. These states did not begin processing absentee ballots prior to election day.

Some of these crucial states probably won’t have a clear winner on election night. In fact, some may even have an apparent winner who eventually loses once all the votes are counted.

In summary, it’s entirely possible that no candidate has 270 electoral votes in the bag on the night of the election. Frustrating!
Episode #14: Shamus Toomey (Block Club Chicago on Civil)
By: Around The Block Podcast
Tags: Startup, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Podcast, Journalism

Shamus Toomey (Block Club Chicago)

Shamus Toomey is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Block Club Chicago, a media outlet dedicated to giving reliable, hyperlocal coverage of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods. It was one of the first news companies that signed on the Civil Blockchain Network, which is now raising its ICO. In this interview, Shamus and Elaine talk about how he came to create Block Club Chicago, the company’s partnership with Civil, and how blockchain can be applied at the grassroots level to promote local journalism.
Why I Signed Up For A Race That Might Get Cancelled
By: Sam Randolph
Tags: Running, Fitness, Inspiration, Covid 19, Marathon

Why I Signed Up For A Race That Might Get Cancelled

Running is more about the journey than the finish line.

Photo by Spencer Imbrock on Unsplash

In January 2020 I signed up to run the New York City Marathon with the NYRR Team for Kids charity. I haven’t trained for a marathon in a decade, so I knew that if I was going to do it again I needed to go big. By early March my flights and hotel room were booked and I practically had my race outfit picked out. I was nearly halfway to my fundraising goal and I had several great events lined up for the spring and summer. I was unstoppable, and New York City was going to be my big running comeback.

You know where this story is going.

When everything shut down in March to curb the spread of Covid-19 the race directors remained optimistic that the show would go on. I knew it was over. I knew that Covid-19 wasn’t going anywhere soon. There was simply no possible way to safely stuff 50,000 runners into the streets of the busiest city in America.

My motivation tanked. I went from working out with enthusiasm and determination to settling for a couple “good enough” runs every week. I wasn’t going anywhere except to work and to my couch. There were days when I just couldn’t see the point. I have been described as annoyingly optimistic, and I hardly recognized this dull, lethargic version of myself.

Thankfully, running makes me think. With every forced and unmotivated run I felt a little more clear headed about how I needed to approach the rest of the year.

By late summer I had recovered my motivation by keeping my focus on the joy running brings me regardless of an upcoming race. I was able to run for nothing more than how I would feel when I was done. The 3.2 mile course that starts at my front door became my escape and my driveway became my daily finish line.

Getting back into a regular running routine helped me emotionally deal with the uncertainty that defined 2020.
The Three Stage Model of Skill Acquisition
By: Brian Groat
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Learning, Psychology, Personal Development

The path to mastering a skill is long.

The path to mastery can take many twists and turns.

However, on that path everyone passes through these 3 stages.

And knowing what stage you’re in can speed up your learning by months — or years. While saving you a ton of frustration and feelings of inadequacy.

Cognitive (Early) Stage

The first stage of skill acquisition is the Cognitive Stage.

In this stage you have to be intellectually aware of everything that you’re doing.

You require total focus.

You’re following a series of steps (first I do this, then I do that …).

Nothing is intuitive.

This step is largely academic or intellectual. If you’re currently applying this skill at all, it’s with the aid of a mentor or a tutorial.

This is the hardest stage — you don’t really know what you’re doing. It’s easy to feel stupid or powerless.

Don’t feel stupid. Just say to yourself “I’m in the Cognitive Phase — this is supposed to hurt”

This stage is often the most exciting.

Associative (Intermediate) Stage

Once you’re in the associate phase you have a bit more flexibility.

Now you can begin practicing the task. Not just while having your hand held, but in the ‘real world’.

Know you can begin noticing environmental feedback — and begin adjusting your approach based on that feedback. (First I did this, then this happened. So maybe if I change X ….).

This is the phase where Deliberate Practice takes place. And is the focus of the definitive book on Peak Performance.

This phase can also be painful. You may be working right at the limits of your powers.

Say to yourself, “This may be painful — but I’m at my edge. This is where my powers grow”

Autonomous (Late) Stage

This is the final stage of skill acquisition.

At this point you can perform the skill effectively and efficiently without thinking about it.

You don’t even necessarily need to be paying attention to what you’re doing at all.

This stage is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for continued skill acquisition.

Once you get to this phase — your skill plateaus.

You have to ask yourself, “Is this as far as I want to extend my powers in this skill?”

If so, you can relax. Start a new skill at The Cognitive Stage.

Or you can elect to go back to an earlier stage.

We already know how to speak, but what if we made a conscious effort to speak clearly?

We already know how to read, but what if we learned how to read better?

This post was written using notes from The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman.

Did you know that you can win The First 20 Hours — along with $200 worth of my other favourite books? Enter here.
G Suite editor add-ons — more security for users, more work for developers, better marketplace?
By: Romain Vialard
Tags: Security, Google Apps Script, Addons, G Suite, Marketplaces

Impact on the marketplace

So, it’s fair to ask if people are still willing to publish add-ons. Since 2016, I’ve been monitoring the number of add-ons available, along with the number of installations, last update and other public data.

There are currently 869 add-ons available for Sheets (+20% in one year, up from 726 in June 2018), 427 for Docs (+20%), 84 for Forms (+20%) and 80 for Slides (+150% but the marketplace for Slides add-ons is newer).

Specifically for Sheets, since June 2018, a year ago, 213 new add-ons have been made available and 70 have been removed.

Overhaul, the new security measures /reviews don’t seem to have really discouraged people to release new add-ons. But a more careful review might show another story.

For example, the add-on GSM MailMerge is still displayed in the add-on store but you can’t install it anymore (as it hasn’t gone through the review process for Gmail scopes / wasn’t willing to pay for the security review).

Several add-ons seem to be impacted in the same way and are still listed but no longer installable. Plus, Google hasn’t yet made the migration to the G Suite Marketplace. When that happens, many old (but still useful) add-ons might also disappear (as some changes — like including a public page containing your ‘Terms of Service’ — are required).

Future

As for the future, the new restrictions to access Google Drive scopes will also have an impact. Some of the most used and installed add-ons have been created by educators (mostly) for educators and are totally free. This is the case of Flubaroo, Autocrat, Doctopus and many others. Will their author / current maintainer be willing to pay for the security review? We shall soon see :)
Penicillin, the Perfect Cocktail for These Trying Times
By: Laura Vincent
Tags: Cocktail, Vegan, Alcohol, Recipe, Bartenderly

These are strange and troubling times — a statement which has always been true, but in this instance I’m referring to the rise of coronavirus worldwide. If you’re going to self-medicate, you might as well have fun in the process, and so I declare it’s now the Penicillin cocktail’s time to shine. This may sound glib — and I’m all for the welcome distraction of humour — but you could do worse than this modern classic by New York bartender Sam Ross, which combines the healing properties of fresh ginger, honey and lemon juice with fortifying scotch. The lemon juice will jolt you full of vitamin C and ginger is a stellar anti-inflammatory. My vegan adaptation leaves out the honey and replaces it with maple syrup — the smoky, woody sweetness of the maple echoes the flavor of the whisky while providing an impressive quantity of nutrients, in particular zinc and manganese. Truly the cocktail we deserve right now!

The 2020 Penicillin

1½ ounces fresh lemon juice

1-inch fresh ginger root, roughly chopped

1 ounce maple syrup, or to taste

2 ounces blended scotch

¼ ounce Islay single malt whisky

Slice of fresh ginger root and lemon zest, to serve

Place the lemon juice, ginger root, and maple syrup into the base of a cocktail shaker glass. Stir to dissolve the maple syrup, and then muddle the ginger using the end of a spoon, a wooden muddler, or similar implement. This simply involves pressing down on the ginger to extract its flavor and liquid. Add the blended scotch and plenty of fresh ice. Fix the other half of the shaker on top and shake very hard for about ten seconds. Strain the liquid through a small sieve into a tumbler filled with fresh ice. Carefully pour the Islay single malt over the top of the liquid as a float, and garnish with the ginger and lemon zest.

Notes:
The Day I Met My Soul-Mate
By: Patsy Starke
Tags: Self Love, Poetry, Gender Identity, Transgender, LGBTQ

One day,

I saw the reflection of,

a beautiful lady that,

looked back at me.

She was so beautiful.

Looked Just like me.

I kissed her through the glass,

to let her know,

I loved her so.

I was, never going to be the same,

It was then,

I knew I found my soulmate.

From that day on,

she followed me.

Every time I looked in the mirror,

I saw her

and she smiled at me…

Patsy, 2018
What You Need to Know About Tapjoy & GDPR
Tags: Privacy

What You Need to Know About Tapjoy & GDPR

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, and Tapjoy is ready for it.

We take privacy very seriously and we support consumers’ rights to control their personal data. As such, we believe that GDPR is an important step for the entire digital ecosystem, and we want to help all of our advertising and developer partners make sure they’re in compliance with GDPR requirements as well.

We are accepting the role of “controller” status with respect to personal data passed to us through our SDK for monetization purposes and “processor” status for personal data provided to us by advertisers and publishers for other purposes. We will be updating our Privacy Policy as well as our Terms & Conditions to provide additional transparency and clarity, and we are completing self-certification to Privacy Shield.

Privacy, trust, and consumer empowerment are among Tapjoy’s core values. If you have any questions regarding GDPR or what you need to do to comply, please contact us at gdpr_questions@tapjoy.com.
Hungary is a Bit Shit
By: Reuben Salsa
Tags: Salsa, Satire, Ideas, Humor, The Bad Influence

SHIT HISTORY

Hungary is a Bit Shit

The complete history of Hungary

Hungary. Why does it even exist?

In the 5th century, a few tribes of wanderlust Hungarians went for a wander across Europe. Several hundred years later they settled, stopped sacrificing children and spoke a language that nobody else on the planet could understand.

A bit later, the Hungarians produced a great footballer, invented the Rubik’s Cube, the Airfix Kit and were the brains behind the mass movement of making people go cross-eyed attempting to see reality (the Magic Eye).

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-brains-behind-the-90s-magic-eye-1cc8e08fb494

And that’s Hungarian history.

You’re welcome.

Next week, TBI will be looking into the shit history of Belgium and Wales. We’ll be asking the age-old question of why bother speaking a dying language that sounds like your gonads have been dragged through a grater at speed; and their liberal use of fornicating with sheep as a marketing ploy.
Brief Autobiographies
By: Edith Zimmerman
Tags: Autobiography, Life, Life Report, David Brooks

Four years later, I began looking for a job on Wall Street. I became secretary to a partner in one of Wall Street’s finest investment banking firms. Again, I realized I was a servant. I not only had to have my boss’s coffee ready when he arrived, but I had to help him off with his coat and fedora. I did make an observation that these minor jobs led me to interesting, important, well-educated men. It made me realize the importance of education. I knew I lacked a great deal of knowledge.

After fourteen years at the firm, an unbelievably joyous event finally came into my quiet uneventful life. I married the top partner, head of the Wall Street firm. He died six months later.

The latest entry in David Brooks’ “Life Report” series, in which “readers over 70 … write autobiographical essays evaluating their own lives,” is from Regina Titus, an 85-year-old Delaware woman. It, like all entries in the series, is honest and alternatingly inspiring and heartbreaking. Metafilter has a nice summary of the project if you’re short on time.
月薪6萬適合在桃園買屋嗎？買房前該注意什麼？
By: Tony Zeng
Tags: 桃園, 買房, Home, 投資, 房屋

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Hongwei Zhang Joins the Blockchain Advisory Board of ContentBox
Tags: Entertainment, Crypto, Media, Podcasts, Blockchain

Hongwei Zhang

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

May 29, 2018

We are excited to announce that Hongwei Zhang, leader of the Networking and Computing research group at Iowa State University, joined ContentBox as an advisor to the board. ContentBox is a blockchain-based infrastructure for the decentralized digital content industry.

Today’s digital media landscape is defined by a flawed monetization structure, which impacts all industry players, from creators to users to distributors. This is where ContentBox, a decentralized digital media content platform, comes in. The ContentBox team aims to create a platform that streamlines the monetization channels for both users and content creators.

Importance of Zhang’s presence and connections

Zhang has a long history of conducting and publishing research that sheds light on both network-based inefficiencies and on distributed protocols/systems. His publications outline relevant new solutions, many of which have had swift proof of concept iterations and near-instant implementation. He also has a successful track record of collaborations with a wide range of teams in many industries; Zhang is an invaluable addition to the ContentBox board.

Zhang has a PhD from Ohio State University in Computer Science and Engineering. In addition to continuing his research with various industry teams such as US Ignite, CPS, NeTS, and GOALI programs, Zhang is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.

ContentBox’s Future Vision

With Zhang onboard, there are various streamline-focused protocol improvements in the Contentbox distribution that can be coded and more thoroughly implemented.

Zhang stated, “Our research at ISU has laid a foundation for trustworthy wireless networking in mission-critical cyber-physical-human systems. I hope to apply these learnings to ContentBox.”

CEO and founder of ContentBox, Renee Wang stated, “I am thrilled to have a strategist and implementation expert such as Hongwei Zhang advising ContentBox.”

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It Ain’t Necessarily So
By: David Wade Chambers
Tags: Bible, Poetry, Social Justice, Humor, LGBTQ

It Ain’t Necessarily So

(Apologies to Ira and George Gershwin)

A Gutenberg Bible in the Harry Elkins Widener Reading Room, Harvard University. In 1961 I worked as a ‘page turner’ in this room while a graduate student.

It ain’t necessarily so,

It ain’t necessarily so,

The things that you’re liable

to read in the bible,

It ain’t necessarily so.

Sodom was vile, but oh my;

Gomorrah was vile, but oh my

Poor Lot’s wife was salted

and all sin was halted

Yes, Sodom was vile, but oh my!

King David loved Jonathan so

King David loved Jonathan so

his deep love for him in

comparison to women

left Jonathan winning the throw.

The Bible says gay sex is wrong

The Bible says gay sex is wrong

With full acclamation

An abomination,

Despicable, evil and wrong!

The Bible condemns unto death:

mixed fibres, tatoos, and shell fish,

sunday work and adulteries,

various thuggeries

with non-virginous brides in the mix.

Well, it ain’t necessarily so

Well, it ain’t necessarily so

They tell all you children

The devil’s a villain

But it ain’t necessarily so !
SonarQube — Static Code Analysis. Code quality is important for overall…
By: Nikhil Karkra
Tags: Development, JavaScript, Sonarqube, Programming, Freecodecamp

6. sonar-project.properties for the Project

create a file with name sonar-project.properties outside your main folder as shown above in project structure.

You can specify many things but in our project we are testing only basic html, css and javascript

a) I have defined projectKey as my project name sonar-lint-demo

b)projectVersion — based on your version for me its 1.0

c) sourceEncoding — Ihave defined as UTF-8

d)language — i have commented this line but if you want to analyze only js files you can uncomment this.

e)Most important property is sources, In this you define the path that you want to analyse. In my case, i have defined the folder name app that contain my all files html, less and js.

f)exclusions — sometimes you want to excludes some files or folder then you define them here ag node_modules

Once your project and properties file is ready, its time to run our sonar-scanner
Words
By: Tasneem Kagalwalla
Tags: Words, Silence, Poetry, One Line Poetry Prompt, Relationships

Your words were my anchor

kept me afloat,

Your silence my noose

watch me drown.

For more follow me @Tasneem Kagalwalla on FB, Twitter and Instagram.

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How to Tackle the Challenges of Threat Hunting
Tags: Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Sans Institute, Cybersecurity

In the SANS 2018 Cyber Threat Intelligence Survey , 81% of cybersecurity professionals affirm that threat intelligence is providing value and helping them do their jobs better. But are they capturing all the value to truly strengthen defenses and accelerate detection and response?

At ThreatQuotient we believe you cannot defend against and respond to what you do not understand. To be effective security operations must start with the threat. Perhaps no use case illustrates this better than threat hunting — the practice of proactively and iteratively looking for abnormal indications within networks and systems of potential signs of compromise. But threat hunting is not as simple as the definition makes it sound.

When considering the prospect of engaging in threat hunting, many security operations teams scratch their heads wondering:

Where do we begin?

Do we have the specific knowledge and expertise?

How do we get visibility to conduct a thorough search across the environment?

Do we have the resources and time to proactively look for threats when we can’t keep up with all the alerts we’re already receiving?

When analysts do forge ahead, they can waste huge amounts of time chasing ghosts if they don’t have the right tools.

Get off to a good start

In general, there are two approaches to threat hunting: 1) An outside-in approach where you learn of a threat from an external report and you hunt for it within your environment, and 2) An inside-out approach where you observe suspicious behavior in your environment, pivot to the adversary and external sources to learn more about associated indicators, and then hunt for and find additional indicators in your environment.

Whichever threat hunting approach you’re using, you need to start with the threat. And that means you need the ability to aggregate external and internal threat and event data in a central repository to gain context. Next, you need to be able to prioritize this data for relevance based on parameters you set so you can ensure your hunting efforts are focused on high-risk threats.

Time is critical because you believe something malicious may be happening. To work efficiently and effectively, analysts must be able to conduct investigations collaboratively, exploring every corner of the organization to pinpoint adversary tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). With the ability to find the malicious activity within the environment, IR teams can ensure total remediation. When a threat is confirmed you need to be able to export indicators to proactively block similar attacks in the future and adjust policies to strengthen defenses.

It’s also important to remember that threat hunting must be a continuous process. As new data and learnings are added to the central repository, intelligence is reprioritized to support ongoing hunts.

ThreatQ and ThreatQ Investigations help you meet the threat hunting challenge. I encourage you to learn , where you can also watch a brief demo showing how to conduct a threat hunting investigation using the ThreatQ platform.
<Sub/Tweet> The Opportunity of NFL + Amazon
By: Joey Vara
Tags: NFL, Amazon Prime, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Amazon

After a deal between the NFL and Amazon was announced in early April, details have begun to surface regarding the price for brands to get in front of Prime audiences for Thursday Night Football this coming season. According to Reuters, the eCommerce giant is looking to charge advertisers $2.8 million for packages that include 10–30-second spots.

This package deal reportedly includes a license for brands to advertise on Amazon site-wide throughout the duration of the NFL season.

Why It Matters:

Will the streaming deal between the NFL and Amazon be credited with a dramatic growth of Prime subscribers? Probably not. However, those who choose to view games on Amazon instead of on network TV present a significant opportunity for advertisers.

Amazon Prime viewers are consumers who have been proven to be partial towards shopping online. They’re paying an annual fee to enjoy the convenience and perks that come along with being a Prime member. What’s even more telling is the fact that these users (soon-to-be viewers) are more likely to purchase products on Amazon than non-members. They also tend to spend more on the site.

As a advertisers can go to viewers with more-direct asks. It means that they can include (TBD) buttons and/or links to products that may interest the viewer, similar to Google’s YouTube overlay ads. All is possible because Prime members won’t see these advertisements as hassles, but rather an extension of the experience they expect from Amazon.

Committing $2.8 million to the Amazon/NFL season buy would signal a few things for brands. First, that they have the budget to focus on the “wow factor”. Second, that they are letting profit take a backseat as a goal for this campaign, at least for the time being. Brands that opt-in will be looking to get in on the ground floor advertising to Amazon Prime audiences and to experiment with what ad types and strategies work best to get users to convert.

Here’s why spending the $2.8 million could be worth it:

The likelihood that a viewer from the Prime audience would convert and purchase is significantly higher than that of your average network viewer. Making your brand/product familiar to this group wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.

Timeline:

The deal between Amazon and the National Football league was reached on April 5th. There will hopefully be an update on how many advertisers have signed up for the contact in the coming months before the beginning of the NFL season.

Relevant Links:

Exclusive — Amazon to charge $2.8 million for NFL ad packages

NFL, Amazon Prime announce ‘TNF’ streaming deal

These numbers explain why Amazon wants to give so much free stuff to Prime members

Sixty-Four Percent Of U.S. Households Have Amazon Prime

Amazon Plans Ads Packages For NFL Games; Google Will Stop Scanning Emails For Ad Targeting Data

YouTube advertising formats
[ML UTD 24] Machine Learning Up-To-Date — Life With Data
By: Anthony Agnone
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Machine Learning, Data Science, Programming

The purpose of this article is to clearly explain Q-Learning from the perspective of a Bayesian. As such, we use a small grid world and a simple extension of tabular Q-Learning to illustrate the fundamentals. Specifically, we show how to extend the deterministic Q-Learning algorithm to model the variance of Q-values with Bayes’ rule. We focus on a sub-class of problems where it is reasonable to assume that Q-values are normally distributed and derive insights when this assumption holds true. Lastly, we demonstrate that applying Bayes’ rule to update Q-values comes with a challenge: it is vulnerable to early exploitation of suboptimal policies.

This article is largely based on the seminal work from Dearden et al. Specifically, we expand on the assumption that Q-values are normally distributed and evaluate various Bayesian exploration policies. One key distinction is that we model μ and σ 2, while the authors of the original Bayesian Q-Learning paper model a distribution over these parameters. This allows them to quantify uncertainty in their parameters as well as the expected return — we only focus on the latter.

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