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The Samsung Note 10: a TOTAL Flop
Tags: Android, Tech, iPhone, Samsung, Smartphones

The Samsung Note 10: a TOTAL Flop

Every year since the Note 10 was introduced many of us tech fans were left with excitment and anticipation. Let’s not talk about the Note 7 (ka-boom). But besides that the Note 8 and even the Note 9 have delivered exactly what we were expecting. A power users phone that blew the doors off every other Android phone on the market.

But as time has gone on the differences have gotten smaller and smaller between the Galaxy S lineup and the Note lineup. The differences though really never bothered me. I always saw the Note line as the suped up version of the Samsung smart phone lineup. That was until this year…

The Galaxy Fold changed everything. It is a better phone than the Galaxy Note 10 on so many levels. Innovation, screen size, application layout, etc. I understand that their are a few issues with the device that have since be fixed.

This is the Fold that swallowed the Note. We all know what’s coming. Why spend $1000 on a Note phone that is still not as good as the Galaxy S10 5G that has 4 lenses and the same processor. A Snap Dragon 855, a great processor but still the same thing…plus it has a headphone jack. Rememebr when that mattered Samsung. After critisizing Apple constantly they end up copying them..sad…but the right move.

Dex is dead upon arrival, nobody cares about a stylus…Steve Jobs was right…and we are all ready for something fresh. Enter the Samsung Fold. The Note 10 served a generation and now it’s time to move on. The future is now…and that future is the Samsung Fold.

NOTE (Pun intended) — If you like stories like this or just want to send me some feedback follow me on my Youtube channel (Unbox tech Truth):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ33bA6Dhtyum07gKTtbhyg

Note 10 & Note 10+ specs:

Processor: Snapdragon 855

S Pen: Bluetooth LE, accelerometer and gyroscope for motion controls

Screen: Dynamic AMOLED with tone mapping

Wide-angle camera: 16 megapixels, f/2.2

Main camera: 12 megapixels, f/1.5 and f/2.4 dual aperture, OIS

Telephoto camera: 12 megapixels, f/2.1, 45-degree

Selfie camera: 10 megapixels, f/2.2

Radios: LTE Cat 2.0, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0

In-screen fingerprint sensor

NOTE 10 PLUS

Screen: 6.8-inch, 3040 x 1440 pixels

RAM: 12GB

Storage: 256GB or 512GB UFS 3.0, microSD expansion

Battery: 4,300mAh

VGA depth-of-field camera

NOTE 10
「化讚賞為創作回饋」
Tags: 化讚為賞, Writing, 中文, 創作, Bitcoin

in Both Sides of the Table
Raping Emily Post
By: Mike Essig
Tags: Life Lessons, Courage, Creativity, Poetry

Courage is the first virtue.

I am often told I am charming,

but I don’t feel charming.

The days of dinner conversation

and cocktail chatter are gone.

Now I speak from the heart

without care for whom

I might offend or wound.

Poetry is asking the questions

that hurt and then

writing down the answers

without regard for consequences.

It is putting your neck

on the chopping block

and laughing at the executioner.

It is announcing to the world

your total disdain for its opinions

and not being surprised

when the world kicks your ass.

It is spitting globs of truth and beauty

into the faces of those most comfortable

with the conventional and the pretty.

It is the open wound you display

dripping and draining in public.

It is the dis-ease you create

and flaunt because you

have never sought or valued ease.

It makes people depart abruptly

as if a leper had just

offered to shake their hand.

It is the legless soldier

whose stumps remind you

that your taxes bought his loss.

It is the bullet that finds its mark;

the blade that pins you to the wall;

the bomb that shreds you into pink meat.

It is not charming; it is never charming,

and neither am I because

I have just written this down

for you to read.
Inescapable
By: Madhav Sethi
Tags: Poetry

It draws me closer, trying to embrace me.

And I pull back slowly, wanting to get free.

The sunlight has faded, the edges submerged.

The pink glow diffused, and the last calls heard.

And all that remains is the constant growl,

Open your eyes, hear the winds that howl.

Softly you retreat, take one step then another,

Rising up unbidden, your memories make you stutter.

The crescent glides into place, perfect as can be.

And the clouds swim past it, as far as you see.

The lights you no longer see, haunt you forever.

The light you’ll reach later, to reality the only tether.

Harnessed into place, locked in a silent waltz.

Laid bare in front of you, the crevices of your faults.

You stare at it a while, waiting for it to go away.

But with you it’ll stay, in your memories it will lay.

The froth at the edges, it’s last dregs of desperation.

But you remain numb, it gives you no sensation.

The thrill it gave you, has slipped away by now.

The darkness of time, has stolen it somehow.

In the distance it rages, but you’re disconnected.

Between you the buffer, that destiny erected.

You think about falling away, just letting go.

It’ll take you away, you’ll have something to show.

For the bonds that you shared, no longer hold.

And dreams that you held, to the abyss are sold.

But you must go on, that’s the way of the world.

Other stories and ballads, are still to unfurl.

So you turn back around, driven away by the sudden rain.

And you run, leaving it behind; shedding away the pain.
Watch the 2018 West Candidate Forum for the NAC Elections
By: Veronica Young
Tags: Civictech

There are 8 candidates running for the West region of the National Advisory Council (NAC). Four candidates were able to participate in the short-notice West Candidate Forum on the evening of February 7. To see the other candidates running in the West, check out the At-Large Candidate Forum.

To hear candidate responses and learn more about their visions, watch this recording.

Remember to vote by February 9, 11:59 pm PT.

Participating Candidates

Neil Planchon (Open Oakland)

Brendan Babb (Code for Anchorage)

Elina Rubuliak (Open Oakland)

Ramy Kim (Open Oakland)
Bezoar
By: The Somnambulist Society
Tags: Grimms Fairy Tales, Horror, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Weird Fiction

It is early on a Tuesday morning, in an out-of-the-way observation room at LAX airport. The sun is beating down hard outside, but within the room, the air-conditioner hums monotonously as it pumps in cold air. The linoleum floor smells of disinfectant, and the accumulated despair within these walls is quite palpable. A clock ticks quietly above the door, minute and hour hands thin as spider-legs.

Two TSA agents are observing, through a one-way mirror, a young girl who has no name. They sip lukewarm de-caff from paper cups, and they stare at her through the silver mist of the mirror and watch as she fidgets with her hair. Her long, dark, matted locks almost touch the floor. Some of her hair is wrapped around her neck, like an oily black snake. The rest is piled over her shoulders and down her back.

It must all weigh a ton, the two agents comment to one another; how can she even stand up straight?

They watch and sip their coffees (two sugars, two creams) as the hours tick away, and the girl in the interview room plays with her hair. She runs split ends between her small, aching fingers, occasionally twisting a strand and sucking on it like a pacifier.

Oral fixation, one agent whispers to the other.

This must be some truly screwed-up kid.

She has come through the gate with her papers in order, but there is something about her that is off. It hasn’t taken long to figure out she doesn’t speak English, or any language spoken by the half a dozen agents at the airport. They had called in a translator who, after a few hours, shrugged, saying the girl had to be mute.

And now, she just sits there, like a child lost at the mall. Blinking in confusion at all the fuss being made over her.

She has arrived alone, the last stop in a series of connecting flights over the past six days (Singapore to Hong-Kong, Moscow to Dubai, Rio to Mexico City). She is here legally; all the paperwork checked out. And yet, there is something wrong. Something that they cannot quite put their finger on.

Her suitcase is practically empty, not even a spare pair of underwear packed. She smells of stale sweat and in-flight dinners, and her clothes are cheap, plain and unflattering. Perhaps this is intentional, so she cannot be identified in a crowd. Only her long, dark hair would give her away.

And now, the two TSA agents, who feel utterly out of their depth, pretend to make observation notes on their tablets while muttering and shifting in their seats. They don’t know what to do with this girl, but they know something isn’t right. They will keep her here, under observation, until such time as someone comes to claim her, like lost luggage.
Pangborn Development Site III
By: Giga Watt
Tags: Crypto, Cryptomining, Gigawatt, Mining

An ongoing, sneak peak at work under way building out the next facilities at Pangborn

The latest progress as Pangborn goes full-steam ahead…

MARCH 28TH

Progress continues at Giga-Watt’s Pangborn location. The PUD has been working along with our crane operators to place the large lament polls that will be able to supply the site with high capacity power lines needed for our site and substation.

The poles were finished being placed in their permanent home and the next phase is running the lines and routing them to our site.

Concrete trucks are onsite paving the way for 3 more pods and the substation.

Excavators and other heavy machinery are moving dirt for roadways and drainage ditches for the site.

MARCH 21ST

Giga-Watt’s deployment team has been very busy supplying another pod with miners readying them for deployment at Pangborn.

Our team is moving right behind our contractors and getting each pod equipped with racks, PDU’s, and network gear to prepare for the numerous incoming miners. Two pods have been loaded completely with gear and a third has just finished with PDU’s and will be ready for miners and PSU’s this week.

Our construction crews and electricians have been working tirelessly to stay ahead of our deployment teams. They have got five future pods excavated, footings laid, and are ready for the pad’s to be poured. We have four more pods being framed that will soon be ready for fans, racks and gear.

Poles and holes are being dug to pave the way for the future of the site. We are moving the poles into position today and on Tuesday next week the PUD will bring their crane in to put the poles in place.

As always, we have been working closely with all partners, contractors and the Douglas County PUD to make sure all safety measures, construction and development continue to go as planned.

MARCH 13TH

On Tuesday Douglas County PUD will be onsite with Giga-Watt. We are continuing to push ahead and have been installing racks, switches, PDU’s, and lastly,miners.

We began installation of 4 more pods this week and hard hats will continue to be a common theme as all of the contractors and the PUD develop the site for final deployment.
Statistics for Data Science Part 2: Understanding Population Variance vs Sample Variance
By: Krati Agarwal
Tags: Population Variance, Standard Deviation, Sample Variance, Data Science, Statistics

In this article, you will understand the use of population variance and sample variance and how it can be used for analyzing our dataset.

After understanding the central tendency method like mean, median, and, mode from my last article. Let’s move to understand another concept to understand the statistics behind Data Science and Machine Learning. In this article, we will discuss Population Variance, Sample Variance, and Standard Deviation.

What are Population and Sample?

All values combined in a dataset are together called population and it can be explained as all the values in a particular observation without missing any. On the other hand, a sample is a part of a population that describes the characteristics (e.g. mean or standard deviation) of the population. The size of a sample can be less than 1%, or 10%, or 60% of the population, but it is never the whole population.

What is a Variance?

Variance is a numerical value that shows how widely the individual figures in a set of data distribute themselves about the mean and hence describes the difference of each value in the dataset from the mean value. So if we have zero variance in a dataset we can state that all the values in it are identical. More variance states the more spread of distribution away from mean and lower variance states less spread of distribution away from mean, but the variance can never be negative.

What is Population Variance?

Population variance is denoted as sigma square (σ**2). It helps us in stating that how the data points are spread out in the specific population. The formula for the Population Variable is stated below where N is the population size and the xi are data points. μ is the population mean.

Population variance is zero for the identical dataset and remains unchanged if a constant value is added to it.

What is Sample Variance?

Sample Variance is calculated in the same manner as population variation and is also denoted by s square(s**2), just the difference is that in order to calculate sample variance we only use some sample data values from the population dataset. When calculating sample variance, n is the number of sample points (vs N for population size in the formula above).

What Is Standard Deviation?

Standard deviation is a very important term and has great use in statistics and comparing the data value with the mean of data. Standard Deviation can be described as the statistics technique to measure the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, it can be calculated by doing a square root of the variance. If the data points are having a large difference from mean it is said to have a higher deviation or the higher deviation.

Standard Deviation is very important because it helps us in measuring the probability of occurrence of a datapoint is out dataset is a Normal Distribution or Gaussian Distribution.
Kotlin Coroutines in Android — Channel
By: Evan Fang
Tags: Android, Programming, Channel, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin

1. Channel basics

According to the official docs, we could know Channel is very similar to BlockingQueue. The biggest differences are that Channel will suspend coroutine instead of blocking it, and Channel can be closed when no more elements need to be added. We can send elements to the channel from the producer and receive them from the consumer.

Interface Channel implements both SendChannel and ReceiveChannel . Here I list down the commonly used functions:

public interface Channel<E> : SendChannel<E>, ReceiveChannel<E> {} public interface SendChannel<in E> {

public val isClosedForSend: Boolean

public val isFull: Boolean

public suspend fun send(element: E)

public fun offer(element: E): Boolean

public fun close(cause: Throwable? = null): Boolean

public fun invokeOnClose(handler: (cause: Throwable?) -> Unit)

} public interface ReceiveChannel<out E> {

public val isClosedForReceive: Boolean

public val isEmpty: Boolean

public suspend fun receive(): E

public fun poll(): E?

public fun cancel(cause: CancellationException? = null)

}

There are two important suspending functions — Channel.send() and Channel.receive(). The function name is very readable, one coroutine could use Channel.send() to send some values to a channel, and the other one could use Channel.receive() to get the values from the channel.

We may think of channel in the middle like a typical Queue , it orders element in a first-in-first-out manner. Let’s have a simple example here:

We send Integer 1~5 to the channel in Coroutine#1 and receive them in Coroutine#2. The values will be printed out sequentially:
We Sacrificed Our New Car for the Environment
By: Jason Weiland
Tags: Family, Climate Change, Money, Science, Environment

We have been looking for ways our family can combat climate change since we read that 11,000 scientists said the planet “clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency.” You can read it yourself in the study called “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” That was enough to scare the hell out of my family and me.

Unlike some, we don’t ignore science, especially if 11,000 geniuses are saying the same thing. We are in a climate emergency!

Let that sink in.

If humans want to continue to survive and thrive on planet Earth, we have to do something. My family is no exception. We already cut back on single-use plastic like bags, straws, and bottles. We are eating less meat and moving to a more plant-based diet. We are recycling, so no more of our precious trees are being cut down for our use.

But this wasn’t enough.

Burning carbon-based fuels and creating greenhouse gases is one of the big things that is hurting the environment, and we thought about how we could make a difference. We could cut down on driving. We could stop using our car for short trips and use public transportation.

But that still wasn’t enough.

We started to think about how much we actually used our car and thought seriously about going vehicle-free from now on.

It sounds drastic, but we knew we had to get rid of our new car.
My Random Road Trip
By: Uchechi Onuoha
Tags: Roadtrip, Short Story, Lagos

“Bottle water, lacasera, viju miiiiilk”… I look up from my phone and see the lady hawking drinks by the road. I look around and see a BRT bus shelter with a sign. New Garage. New Garage?? What in the name of…. I’m at Ikorodu!

Fourty-Five Minutes Earlier…

I booked my hair appointment at a natural hair salon in Ogudu. I was to set out by 10am but something must have delayed me at home. So I end up leaving the house by 12 noon. I’m trying to navigate my way so I end up at Maryland and enter a cab going to Ogudu. 20 minutes later, I look up and see the driver drive past my bus stop. I stare on as one in a trance while he drives past and I don’t say a word. In my mind, I say “maybe he wants to drive round and enter Ogudu from somewhere else”. Maybe my mind is tired. Or maybe my body feels like being driven for longer because I should have said something, right?

I do this sometimes — go to a place I have no business being in or take a very different route to my destination. It’s a mood thing. Sometimes, I just want to see other places I’ve never been to in Lagos.

I remember when I was going to Magodo from Ibeju Lekki once. Rather than pass through the usual route (Lekki — Third Mainland Bridge — Magodo), the cab driver asked if he could pass through Epe and I obliged. For the first time, I passed through places I’ve never even heard of and he enjoyed showing me places. I got to see where Henry Townsend was buried. (Memorial site, maybe?) Or where they said he was buried.

But this particular road trip is VERY unplanned. However, with hours to make my appointment and more than enough cash in case I get stranded, I settle in and decide to enjoy this impromptu trip and see where the cab stops. The smell of fresh pineapple and fresh buttered bread (from a bakery, maybe) makes my mind come alive. I should do this more often when I have a bit more financial freedom, I think to myself.

Fourty-five minutes later, I’m looking up at a BRT bus shelter sign and I’m at New Garage, Ikorodu. The driver looks at me confused when I say I am going back to Ojota and I just wanted to see the road. Epic look. Lool.

For those that have been going through the Iyana-Ipaja to Oshodi expressway traffic, good news. That road is going to be beautiful once they are done. I believe it’s been modeled after the one at Ikorodu.

Oh by the way, the cab driver said “Ikorodu” and I heard “Ogudu”. I don’t know how that happened. I mean Ikorodu has 4 syllables and Ogudu has 3 but they both end in “du” so whatever.
Spring Comes Home
By: Lauren Salkin
Tags: Spring, Nature, Poetry, Environment, Life

Photo by L. Salkin

The green things go

and then come home

on wispy clouds cozy in blue

birds flap and glide on winter’s drift

seeking shelter on sprawling tree limbs

where promises are found

around the garden spring sounds simmer

trilling bird songs

a quiet timbre in my ears

resonates

amid fragrant budding tips of green

butterflies hover to quench a thirst

fluttering in shifting shades of light

from morning till evening

they thrive then perch

as shadows gather at different sides

the day wanes

in a crescendo of afternoon goodbyes

awash in a yellow splash of light

life reclaims colors lost

before darkness shutters sky

sunlight flickers on fledgling leaves

shuddering in the chill of dusk

tomorrow brings a warm revival

in the burgeoning green

shadowed coverlets of regret

swamp then ebb

hope is on the rise again

in the thriving, blissful

warming lift of spring
Le récap’ de la semaine
By: The Upday Team
Tags: Culture, Society, Environment, Politics, News

in Both Sides of the Table
Call to Action Button Examples Every UI/UX Designer Should Look For in 2017
Tags: UI Design, Design, Marketing, UX Design, Product Design

Let’s find out Call to Action Button Examples

1) Netflix

Netflix’s beautiful black tone layout tells all about itself. Netflix helps its users to overcome their fear of cancelling the subscription at any time. As you can see “Cancel Anytime” text above the call to action button. It’s a beautiful strategy to gain customer trust at the time of making them click on the CTA button.

READ Top 10 Must Follow UI/UX Design Instagram Accounts for Top Notch Design Inspiration

2) Firefox

If you are a Firefox fan you must have seen their beautiful website. I must say in the first look of their site you don’t have to find out their CTA. The green color button is appealing and more visible as it is placed in the centre of the screen. Hats of to their design team which comes up with the best combination of UI and UX.

3) OkCupid

OkCupid is one of the most popular product among youngsters having more than 50 million pageviews per month. Light blue color CTA looks cool as well as user-centric, It says continue which provides a positive hope to its users and makes them feel that signup process is short. This CTA gives us the feel of fun and enjoyment.

READ How User Centered Design Increases User Experience ?

4) Evernote

Evernote app helps you “Remember Everything”. As a designer, we always have to make the visitors understand about the product as soon as the land on the page. Evernote’s design does this job perfectly, visitors can easily understand what they can do with this app and what’s the worth of signing up on this product.
A Prayer for Contentment
By: Peter Englert
Tags: Contentment, Thanksgiving, 2020, Prayer, Christianity

Lord, we come to this Thanksgiving week weary.

2020 has complicated our lives.

Few things have come smoothly or simply.

Yet, we find ourselves focusing our attention on gratitude.

Our everyday routines have shifted in this season.

Our search for normalcy has narrowed in several ways.

Our patience has waned.

Our anxiety and exhaustion have risen.

Our plans for the holidays have changed.

When so much seems taken away, teach us contentment.

Let us not dismiss the difficulty nor wear rose-covered glasses.

Bringing beauty from ashes still remembers the ashes.

We ask for contentment to give us the reality — the good and the bad.

Walk us into this Thanksgiving week with hope.

Remind us of contentment this week.

You offer contentment through the good news of the gospel.

You invite us into contentment with who You have created us to become.

Like Paul in Philippians, even in the worst of situations, You give us all we need.

Show us the power of a moment today — not running to the future or remaining too nostalgic of the past.

Teach us contentment.

Let us thank You for what You have given us today.

Lord, we focus our attention on contentment.

You have watched over us more than we can ever know.

You have given us more grace than we can ever deserve.

You have calmed more storms than we can ever realize.

Today, we rest in You.

Amen
Medium vs. Amazon vs. Google
By: Ilexa Yardley
Tags: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Technology, Data Science

The value of a string of text.

String of text. (Photo by Igor Ovsyannykov)

A string of text has value to a human, who wants to know about, and, analyze, other humans. Human behavior. And, human thought. So, Medium, and Amazon, and Google, base their businesses, and business model, on the string of text.

In this day and age, all businesses are based on simple strings, and text. Where the basis for the string, and text, is the zero and the one.

On Medium (and, therefore, Google, and, then, eventually, Amazon) the human is attached to several strings of text. These strings give value to the human, and, also, meaning to the human. Thus, value to the string of text.

A machine can read the human via the human’s string of text.

The machine ‘reading’ of a human, and the human’s strings of text, also has ‘value.’ Today, the leaders monetizing strings of text are Amazon and Google. Also Facebook, and Twitter. And, of course, many others. Because everything reduces (and expands) to one simple string of text. Zero, and, one.

Half of all humans do not know this until you point it out, and, then, all humans know this. Meaning, they knew it even when they didn’t ‘know it.’

Thus, analyzing strings of text, and selling both the strings, and the analysis, of the text, is what a human calls ‘intelligence.’

It all boils down to the circular relationship between the human and text, the human, and the monetization of text, the human, and the analysis of text, the human, and the machine, that can now replace the human, when it comes to text, and the analysis, and monetization, of the machine, that can also create the text.

So, this forces all of us to notice, the zero and the one, is human.

The zero and the one is, intelligence, text, analysis, and monetization. Not just the basis for these. The actuality of these.

All because a zero and a one is circumference, and, diameter.

The conservation of an uber-basic circle (also known as line) (string) (human) (machine) (intelligence) (virtual) (artificial) (real), gives meaning, and value, to Medium, Amazon, and Google. Meaning, Medium, Amazon, and Google, will, eventually, merge.

Everything in nature is most basically one string of text: if one, then zero.

Meaning, if two, then one.

Conservation of the circle is the core dynamic in nature.
TIL — Python Sorting Lists — list.sort() vs sorted(list)
By: Curious Learner
Tags: Python Sorting List, Python, Programming

The 2 common ways to sort a list in Python are inputList.sort() or sorted(inputList) .

Well, inputList.sort() sorts the list in place, in other words, you loose the original list because it will be mutated to contain the new sorted list.

sorted(inputList) on the other hand returns a new copy of the list in sorted order.

Another important difference is that inputList.sort() returns None whereas sorted(inputList) returns a new list object.

So, something like for i,elt in enumerate(inputList.sort()) will fail, because inputList.sort() will return a None , whereas for i,elt in enumerate(sorted(inputList)) will work fine.

Also, sorted() works on all iterables whereas list.sort() is a method defined only for lists.

Per the Python wiki inputList.sort() is more efficient, so consider that too while choosing your sorting mechanism.

PFB the Python Wiki for sorting, do checkout other cool features of sorted() like specifying sorting type (Reverse Sorting), specifying keys etc.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting
Zippie Product Update — April 2019
By: Pasi Rusila
Tags: Customer Acquisition, Loyalty Program, Blockchain, Rewards, Ethereum

API for apps to easily reward their users

One of the core propositions of the Zippie wallet is to enable apps and other online businesses to easily share value to their users and reward them to boost customer acquisition and retention. With Zippie, apps can reward users with loyalty points without any downloads and users can then convert the points to local mobile airtime via the Zippie wallet. This makes the points easy to share, useful and valuable in everyday life.

As we approach market launch with our app customers, we’ve been finalizing the rewards API which is now ready for commercial use. Apps can easily tap into this API and start rewarding their users through their app or website. Users can see their points balance directly in the app and access the Zippie-powered points wallet. The wallet opens directly in the app as a Chrome web view, giving users a consistent experience.

Apps can theme Zippie wallet according to their brand

To make the rewards wallet user experience even more unified, Zippie supports partner theming. This means that the onboarding and wallet will look and feel like the brand which is utilizing the white-label Zippie wallet. In April, we finished theming support for the wallet and our app and online business partners can now make Zippie wallet look like their own.

Work in progress: Referral rewards and admin dashboard

According to our customers, one of the best use cases for airtime rewards would be to reward users for referrals. The more new active users you get, the more airtime rewards you earn. We have been working for a while to support referral functionality and aim to add the feature during the coming few months. Similarly, we’re working on a dashboard where marketing managers can start and follow referral and other loyalty campaigns.

Moving to Goerli testnet

As there has been uncertainty about the future of Ethereum’s Kovan testnet, we’ve been working to migrate to the Goerli testnet. This has also given us the chance to test how assets might be migrated across blockchains and to deploy CREATE2 based Personal Multisig Contracts.

For more updates and discussion, you’re welcome to follow Zippie at Telegram, Twitter and Youtube. See you there!
Embed or view Jupyter/IPython notebooks in Confluence
By: Nar Kumar Chhantyal
Tags: Jupyter Notebook, Confluence, Ipython Notebook, Ipython

Example notebook in Confluence with pie chart

Confluence is widely used enterprise knowledge management system. It has expensive support for importing documents written in different system as well as embedding contents written in different formats.

However, it does not have built-in support for all formats in use out there. One of them is Jupyter Notebook format.

Jupyter (previously IPython) is interactive computing framework. It allows users to create documents that contain live executable code, data, documentation and visualization.

It’s common practice to experiment in Jupyter notebook and share with co-workers, collaborators and other users. Since Atlassian does not support Jupyter notebook format (.ipynb files), this is workflow is hindered in Confluence.

Fortunately, there is add-on Jupyter/IPython Notebook Viewer available from Atlassian Marketplace which can solve this problem.

In order to view/render your notebooks in Confluence, follow these simple steps:

Install Jupyter/IPython Notebook Viewer from Marketplace. Create a page and find above add-on using macro browser. Upload your notebook file. Done, your notebook is beautifully rendered.

You can also directly embed notebooks from VCS like Bitbucket and Github or any other publicly accessible URL. For detailed usage guide, please visit documentation here.

It still does not fully solve your problem? Send us feature request and we are happy to help :)
Spiritüel aydınlanma eğlencesi
By: Evren Yildiz
Tags: Düüüt, Gündem, Benden, Yaşam

in Both Sides of the Table
Thirsty Night
By: Arvindh Shyam
Tags: Sex, Poetry, Desire, Love, Poem

Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash

In the dead of the night

I reach for you

I run my fingers

And tickle your skin

I nibble your ears

And fire up your senses

I feel you move

To every touch of mine

You moan and groan

Ready and eager to just let go

We ride our highs

On this cold thirsty night

Reaching for the stars

From our warm embrace

Riding the waves of heavens

And the starry skies beyond
All About Sir Kensington’s
Tags: Startups, Paleo, Food, Health Foods, Small Business

All About Sir Kensington’s

Interview with Co-Founder Scott Norton

This week we had the opportunity and great privilege to interview Scott Norton, Co-Founder of Sir Kensington’s. Here’s what Scott had to say about how they built their business from the ground up, sampling on the White House Lawn and his favorite Olive Oil subscription.
Did Satoshi Steal My Blog Post?
By: Jp Richardson
Tags: Blockchain, Tech, Ethereum

I’m JP Richardson, co-founder of Exodus bitcoin/ethereum wallet and active JavaScript/Bitcoin developer (github). I, like a lot of you, got caught up into reading about Craig Wright being Satoshi Nakamoto.

I started poking around Craig Wright’s site and stumbled upon this gem: http://www.drcraigwright.net/generating-bitcoin-address/ (if link is dead/removed: PDF copy)

I thought it looked very similar to an old post I wrote in 2013: http://procbits.com/2013/08/27/generating-a-bitcoin-address-with-javascript using an ancient version of bitcoinjs-lib circa 2013.

Google for “Random number generation”+”is the basis of most cryptography”. Top two hits? My post is first, Craig Wright’s is second.

Here’s a screenshot:

Look at the code snippets. The variable names. The old bitcoinjs version. The ordering of the languages.

Coincidence? Could be.

Did Craig Wright steal my post? Or just maybe, I am Satoshi Nakamoto.

Thanks to Fluffy Pony for reviewing both posts.
Finding A Soulmate Is Not Your Purpose In Life
By: Shannon Ashley
Tags: Culture, Life Lessons, Love, Women, Relationships

There is so much more to life than having a happy romantic relationship. So much more. But I didn't always believe that.

Growing up in a dysfunctional family, and surrounded by evangelical lessons about love and marriage, I believed that love was an escape. And for a very long time, I didn't think that I could ever really be a complete person without romantic love in my life.

I realize that is all very politically incorrect to say. We're not supposed to wait for anyone to complete us--that’s common knowledge today. Admitting that you've been on the wrong side of neediness is embarrassing. Except that our culture's actions and attitudes suggest that most of us really don't know better.

There is still a stigma about being single as an adult. There is plenty of competition among full-grown exes about who's going to find a new partner first. We still pander to the lunacy of Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother. In fact, we pass off a whole slew of bad behavior as "crazy in love" or even romantic.

And then we look at a stranger's relationship as some bizarre validation of worth--or worse yet, underlying issues. Most people find it perfectly acceptable to judge a stranger by saying, "Oh, so that's why they're single." When we hear that somebody else has been married for 35 years, suddenly we're thinking, "That's so great!"

As if it's any of our business. Or as if anyone owes the world a partnered status. And as if being partnered up makes anybody an inherently better person.
Some Things Should Be Done By Hand, But Not Combining Data
By: Erin Richey
Tags: Analytics, Marketing, Data Science

Photo via Death to the Stock Photo

Marketers have a lot of tasks on their hands already, between data collection and analysis and coordinating campaigns. A simple task like comparing data from Twitter to data from Google Analytics becomes needlessly complicated when they have to be combined by hand. Don’t your hands have something better to do, like making coffee?

Not to mention the level of human error introduced when automatically generated data gets opened, altered, shared, and analyzed. That is the reason Popily does so much cleaning automatically, and now it will combine datasets for you too!

One Button, Hours Saved

I tried this out with Popily’s own Twitter and Google Analytics data and found some interesting results. As a disclaimer, this data was downloaded from Google Analytics and the Twitter Analytics pages, but I took an extra step to adjust all numbers to display as a percentage of the maximum value, and I simplified the Twitter data to one Tweet per day. It isn’t necessary for Popily to work with it, but it ensures a little privacy.

You’ll notice when you download analytics data from Google that it comes with a little informational header and a summary line. No need to trim that, since Popily understands it. Once you’ve uploaded the data sets you want to combine, click on one to explore it and then click on the little plus sign at the top.

The site walks you through the process of combining two data sets, and the next time you go to explore the data, the combined data will be included in the generated visualizations. That means a faster way to get analysis like this!

Looks like our peak site visits and peak Twitter engagement don’t really line up, but we are getting a lot of engagement. Thanks Twitter followers!

Head over to Popily to try it out! Now what will you do with all that free time on your hands?
Powerful Biographies That I Had To Read Twice
By: Phil Mccain
Tags: Life Lessons, Steve Jobs, Learning, Biography, Books

Steve Jobs -Walter Isaacson

Photo by AB on Unsplash

Steve Jobs will be remembered as one of the most important people of the last 100 years. It is reasonable to put him on any list of the top-five most influential people.

He rather boldly elevated his status to that of Einstein and Da Vinci. He was arrogant, bold, and selfish. But, it may be fair to compare him to the greatest artists and influencers of the past centuries.

What appeals to me most about Walter Isaacson’s detailed account of Steve Jobs’s life is his constant pursuit of perfection. He never settled. He worked and innovated until each new product was revolutionary.

This is a central theme throughout the book.

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” — Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs’s father was an expert mechanic. He instilled fundamental respect for engineering in Steve. He made sure even the parts unseen should be beautiful.

This is true of all apple products. Even the chip boards and parts we never see are beautifully designed.

If someone can take such an effort to ensure the inside is beautiful and well-engineered, we know the entire product will be amazing.

That is how I want to approach all of my work. Create inspired, beautiful products, and be passionate about every project I undertake. Steve Jobs inspires me to never settle and focus on what is within my control
Medium May Earnings Newsletter
By: Casey Botticello
Tags: Writing, Medium Partner Program, Newsletter, Social Media, Medium

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Psychological Torture IS Physical Torture.
By: Samantha Clarke
Tags: Abuse, Mental Health, Psychology, Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence

The Brain Is A Physical Component, and The Most Necessary One For Survival.

Psychological torture IS physical torture. Psychological violence causes brain damage, often even moreso than physical violence by battery. Psychological violence impacts physical health.

Brain trauma is brain trauma. It’s all physical violence.

There currently exists no adequate protection for abuse victims who’ve been subjected to prolonged psychological violence — a force that results in the death of women and children globally each day.

While some victims of violence do make it out, the torture, abuse, rape, and murder of women and children persists far beyond the victim’s own survival choices made under force.

Why? One reason: perpetrators are not being held accountable for the violence they inflict, and the responsibility instead is placed onto the disempowered party to rescue themselves with limited or no resources.

Year 2020: Many abusive, violent perpetrators are using the corona virus pandemic to entrap victims from leaving, threatening their health and putting them at risk for death without reasonable means of escape.

What are we doing actively to change this? What are we doing to prevent death and loss of life?
Parenting Guide One:. Raising a child is a rewarding journey…
By: Acair Skye
Tags: Discipline, Childcare, Parenting Advice, Children, Parenting

Instead of a type of punishment, discipline should be a learning experience.

Think back to the last time you had your child got disciplined for getting into trouble. What’ve you been doing? Maybe you were lecturing them, yelling at them, or putting them in a time-out?

But have you actually given a thought about what you are actually doing while disciplining your kid?

Instead of concentrating on the child’s growth, the traditional discipline utilizes a basic approach of penalty and fear.

Let’s consider time-outs to understand this better: this technique is used even by the most wonderful parents, who anticipate the child to utilize the time-out to think about their misconduct. But hardly ever does that occur. Children, conversely, tend to spend more time focusing on the behavior of their parents, which appears to heighten the conflict.

Spanking is another conventional method of punishment. Children become more terrified of the behavior of their parents when spanked, rather than concentrating on their own behavior, making this physical punishment unhelpful.

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

No matter what the circumstances, time-outs, and spanking are implemented to children who behave badly, but it is not beneficial to either the parents or the kids to induce fear and frustration. What if we modify our thoughts and view discipline as a chance to learn important lessons?

To do so, the discipline has to focus on instructing over disciplinary action in a way that is both more deliberate and adaptable.

Rather than being responsive, discipline should be proactive.(taking action by causing change and not only reacting to change when it happens).

It is necessary to establish bonds, not discipline.

The aim is to have your kid collaborate with you, while the long-term aim is to assist them to strengthen their relationship abilities and attitude.

We need to attach and divert for this to function, which relates to the relation that you have to create with your kid before diverting them to positive conduct.

As a reward, if we glance at misbehaviors as a chance to teach valuable lessons, then you will not require to discipline your kid as much, progressively.
Cut from Crooked Curves
By: Gregory D. Welch
Tags: Nature, Poetry, Poems On Medium, Poetry On Medium, Poem

My truth is cut from the crooked curves

little creek chased by little country road

I can see the ghost of my youth

in the falling darkness of a fresh Fall evening

I was born of the rocks and the water that carried them

raised on the rolling hills, darting in between trees

the wild thorns of thirsty roses have tasted my blood

and welcomed me as one with their wildness

Here in between the collision of the seasons

I have grown into the patches of wind

that fall down and rush through the holler

here I am rooted to a place that slips in and out of time

I have grown from the summer storm to the February freezes

I can see the ghost of my youth

fed by all these roots I have planted and were planted before me

my truth is cut from the crooked curves
So close yet far away
By: Linny Wrenn
Tags: Spanish, Poetry

By Jennifer Larios Dominguez

The story behind this drawing is while both of my parents crossed the border , my dad crossed quicker than my mom. So the love they had for each other kept them going.

La historia detras de este dibujo , es mientras mis padres cruzaban la frontera , mi papa cruzo antes que mi mama. Asi que el amor que ellos tenian el uno por el otro los motivo a seguir .
The Conundrum
By: Sherry Kappel
Tags: Chalkboard, Poetry, One Line, Love, Prejudice

It is perhaps a quite human foible to love oneself most; but when this self-love becomes unlike any other, then how indeed do you really love yourself?
Justin Timberlake | Man of the Woods
By: Jeff Zuk
Tags: Music, Album Review, Pop Music, Justin Timberlake

For those unconvinced that Justin Timberlake was a major talent, the release of his new album, Man of the Woods, has been an opportunity to pile on. Pitchfork, in a review with a failing 3.8 grade, called it “indulgent and vacuous.” And Stereogum dismissed it as a “supremely satisfied album, and it’s hard to get excited about that.” I may not share these publications’ glee in knocking JT down a few pegs, but I do agree that this is not his best work. It may be a cliché that happy artists make bad art, but you’ll have to look elsewhere for exceptions. The deeply committed husband and recent father makes clear on many of the album’s 16 tracks that he’d really rather be with his family (in, say, “Montana” or “Livin’ Off the Land,” just two of the content-with-life songs) than in a recording studio.

Thankfully, Man of the Woods doesn’t deliver on the pre-release hype that this was Timberlake’s version of a country record; despite the appearance of Chris Stapleton (a burgeoning major talent in his own right), it’s still solidly a pop album. For such a risky (and possibly laughable) concept, however, Man of the Woods ultimately suffers from the risks it fails to take. Only a couple of tracks stray from Pharrell Williams’ safe production: the Stapleton-assisted first single, “Say Something,” and “Livin’ Off the Land,” which plays with a choppy percussive sample reminiscent of Run The Jewels’ “Call Ticketron.” But that’s where any comparison ends, as RTJ are artists that push the envelope with every release. This album, in gambler’s parlance, is simply a push. C-

Best songs: “Say Something (ft. Chris Stapleton)” | “Midnight Summer Jam”

Worst songs: “Supplies” | “Flannel”