fabiochiu/medium-articles huggingface dataset:
Pull Crypto Wallet Balance directly on Google Sheets (+150 coins available)
Tags: Google, Formula, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Balance

UPDATE TRY IT OUT: LIVE SAMPLE SHEET

CRYPTOBALANCE Function

If you want to get in real time anyone’s wallet balance, you’ll need:

a Google Account for Google Sheets

to Copy Paste code from Github

This is what your Google Sheet will look like once you finish the setup:

Google Sheets CRYPTOBALANCE Formula

The CRYPTOBALANCE function returns wallet balances for over 150 cryptocurrencies. You will be able to access the balance through the following formula:

=CRYPTOBALANCE(“CRYPTOCURRENCY TICKER”,“PUBLIC WALLET ADDRESS”, EMPTY CELL REFERENCE)

NB : in some countries like Italy and Russia, Google sheet’s formula syntax is done with semicolon ‘ ; ’ instead of the comma ‘ , ’

If you get an error message from the formula, it might be the reason. In this case, the formula then becomes :

=CRYPTOBALANCE(“CRYPTOCURRENCY TICKER” ; “PUBLIC WALLET ADDRESS” ; EMPTY CELL REFERENCE)

2 Required Parameters + 1 Optional

{“CRYPTOCURRENCY TICKER”} The cryptocurrency TICKER/SYMBOL data to fetch, for example the symbol of Bitcoin is BTC. {“PUBLIC WALLET ADDRESS”} The wallet address associated with the cryptocurrency you want the balance from. Please pay attention, DO NOT ENTER your private wallet address. Optional {EMPTY CELL REFERENCE} ONLY on 3rd argument. Reference an empty cell and change its content to force refresh of the balances.

EXAMPLE

BINANCE BTC Cold Wallet Balance

=CRYPTOBALANCE(“BTC”,“34xp4vRoCGJym3xR7yCVPFHoCNxv4Twseo”, $A$1)

Open-Source Setup (5min)
The Agency Developer
By: Chris Davis
Tags: Programming, Agencylife, Business Tips

If you enjoy semantics-fueled tête-à-têtes, then I highly recommend The Atlantic article Programmers Should Not Call Themselves Engineers, and a response from Wired entitled Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers. They both go on about accountability and burdens. Node is mentioned. It’s very interesting.

And I’ve come to realize that I don’t really consider myself a Programmer or an Engineer. I’ve always preferred the term Developer (Web Developer if you’re nasty). As I’ve grown in this industry and become more and more an agency man, that is, spending the majority of my career working for marketing agencies, I’ve come to have a special relationship with the term and all that it means to me.

But first, a quick sidetrack to look at what I think it isn’t.

A while back I toured the amazing Atlanta Tech Village, which included a look at one of the many companies taking up residence there. We walked in to a company of maybe 15 people and a found ourselves straddling the border between two warring factions. On one side, a bright room, with windows open and ears mostly un-headphoned, sat the marketers, project managers, and leadership. On the other side, in total darkness on a lovely summer day, sat the be-hoodied and silent programmers, dutifully tackling tickets and feature requests.

I’ve been writing code for about 12 years now. And it’s always with the lights on. I wear headphones, though usually with one ear uncovered so no one has to yell to get my attention. And look, no ill-will towards those guys (they were all guys) coding away in the dark. They build products and I know the focus it takes to hold something that massive and complex in your head while working on it.

But if you present yourself as someone who cannot be bothered, you won’t be. You won’t be invited to strategy meetings, or involved in client pitches, or pulled away from your daily work to secretly build something amazing.

It is my ardent hope to learn how to hire people that will gun for my job. So it occurred to me to simply write down what one would have to do in order to unseat me. And then you’ll know what being an agency developer means to me.
Association Rules and their counter intuitive reciprocals: a proof requiring investigation
Tags: Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science

Laurae: This post is about association rules, and what to do with them when you have one (and discussing their validity). It assumes you compute beforehand the five possibilities of a rule when you have the supervised association rule (two-sided: one with the label, one without). It also discusses two different types of (valid) theoretical interpretations (depending on your own taste). The post formatting was slightly modified, to comply to Medium’s text editor. Otherwise, the post was not modified, originally at Kaggle.

ToonRoge wrote: Laurae wrote: There are some extremely interesting categorical rules in the dataset… For instance, assuming for 63692 cases: A = {v31 == A and target == 1} and B = {v3 == C}, you have: A -> B @100% rate (-A) -> B @92.62% rate B -> A @57.60% rate (-B) -> A @0% rate A <-> B @58.98% rate Algorithms telling 100% confident on this is an interesting rule. There are many 99% confident rules on categorical variables also that imply the label we are looking for. I wonder if hardcoding all the possible rules from the data set could beat a single xgboost alone (and I think that’s potentially true when I look at the confidence level of all rules of only categorical variables, but getting them in the order require a lot of manual entries -_-). I don’t understand this post, but it sounds interesting. What does A -> B means? And (-A) -> B? … When I look at the combinations of v31 and v3 I see nothing exceptional. If v31=A, v3 = C, but this holds for both target = 0 and target = 1. There is some signal in v31 for sure, but nothing spectacular I would say. What am I misinterpreting?

Going to explain line by line for the whole process of analyzing just the links I provided.

If you want to follow strictly the inference process, read the following parts separated by a line: 1 => 3 => 4 => 2 => 5 => Conclusion.
Reddit Overview
By: Casey Botticello
Tags: Technology, Social Media, Productivity, Writing, Journalism

What is Reddit?

Reddit is a network of online communities that allows users to take part in discussions and rating content posted by others. Founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, the website hosts many interactive communities that drive conversation around the web.

It is a hotbed of user-generated content that can be upvoted or downvoted by other members. The website’s communities (or boards) are called subreddits and cover a seemingly endless number of topics. These topics can range from everyday subjects, including politics, sports, and lifestyles to things that can only be described as bizarre (such as Dog Talk, for instance). Users can share text posts, links to news and other content, videos, and images related to the subreddit they are in.

Great emphasis is placed on preventing spamming on Reddit and users can get banned instantly if such is suspected. Even worse, entire domains can be barred from participating on Reddit if there is evidence of spamming or activities that clash with the site’s terms of use.

In addition, content that is downvoted gets pushed to the bottom of threads while those that are upvoted get pushed to the front.
Signature.
By: Efe Nakpodia
Tags: One Line, Spirituality, Poetry, Art, Architecture

Inspired by Tega Numa

like the spot

that is reserved

on a canvass

for the initials

and autographs

of the finest artists,

i wish you’d keep

a place for me

within the chambers

of your earthly being;

for i am, none other

than the one you call

the creator: the greatest

of the great architects

In response to Wish, a one line poetry prompt by Kathy Jacobs
3 Cryptocurrencies to watch on exchanges: TZERO, IOTX & OFN
By: Jason Cameron
Tags: Ethereum, ICO, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain

All cryptocurrencies mentioned in my posts go through my initial analysis process which you can find in my free guide: ‘7 Step Analysis To Quickly Spot High-Quality ICOs & Cryptocurrencies’. Get My Free Guide Here.

The purpose of this blog post is not to provide a review of the projects — there are enough of those online, this post is just to share my thoughts and opinion after taking a look and researching the projects.

I’m also not a techie, so this won’t be my angle, if you’re looking for a technical explanation of the project, again there’s loads of those out there online too, so you will be better off looking elsewhere. As an investor, this is where I will be coming from in this post, keeping the content simple and concise on what I like, or don’t like about the projects mentioned.

In no particular order. Here are 3 ICO’s I’ll be watching on exchanges:

TZero

World class team, who have achieved success in the past and experienced in blockchain tech. Huge project potential. Yes the cap is huge, however I believe the scope of this project and long term potential is huge also, so this would be a long term play for me. This is not available to investors outside of the USA, however I will keep an eye out on this on the exchanges.

IOTEX

I think this project has great potential and the team to execute. However, I dislike projects that make you jump through hoops to participate at token sales. I also don’t like that only 20% of tokens are allocated to token sales, which is tiny, plus huge bonuses to private sale contributors, so somebody is eating well…and it’s not ‘joey public’.

OpenFinance Network

Project has huge scope and provides an excellent solution to getting securities tokenized and on the market. I like the fact that the project is far along in development and has started trading in a private beta, plus the team is solid enough with strong backing to delivery. Although this project is in a space with little competition, the competition is strong, so a small cap would have made this project more attractive for me. So I think I will wait and avoid ICO for now.

Resources:

Website: http://www.cryptocurrencyorchard.com

Free Guide: http://www.cryptocurrencyorchard.com/guide

Telegram: http://t.me/cc_orchard
Spark AR Studio 簡介及基本上載濾鏡流程. 亞洲地區的Instagram…
Tags: Instagram Filter, Ig濾鏡, Instagram, Spark Ar

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Be Careful! A New Malware May Disturb You Badly
Tags: Information, Safety, Computers, Malware, Antivirus

Be Careful! A New Malware May Disturb You Badly

Your computer can be ruined

A software when it is developed, its aim is to help people but when it is developed for bad intentions, it is known as malware. Malware is also a software but it’s intentionally developed to damage our computer systems. We all would have heard and read about viruses, ransomware, worms, trojan horses, spyware etc. We also took some antiviruses in our system to secure our computers and server network. But it is very important to have knowledge of what is going on around the world.

Recently, Microsoft has noticed that Adrozek malware is infecting thousands of computers and this could be dangerous as the main aim of this malware is to attack on browsers through fake advertising. This also includes top three browsers like chrome, mozilla and Microsoft Edge as these browsers are used by almost 70 percent users globally. As per Microsoft, this malware is attacking almost 30,000 devices and most of us are not aware at all. This is in the form of extension and it automatically adds and changes the settings of browsers including turning off the safety features of browsers. Also the users by mistake click on the advertising which is dangerous. As per Microsoft, Adrozek has distributed around 150 unique domains having thousands of URLs. From May to September 2020, it has recorded hundreds of thousands of encounters of the Adrozek malware globally, especially in Europe, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Into The Wild: Özgürlük Yolu
By: Mustafa Gerdan
Tags: Dizi Izle, Dizi, Diziyorum

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How Bad UX Killed Jenny
By: Jonathan Shariat
Tags: Healthcare, User Experience, Design

My wife, a nursing student, was sharing with her teacher about how passionate I am about technology in healthcare. Her teacher responded that she thought we need less technology and told a story why she felt so strongly that way. I would like to share this story with you.

Jenny, as we will call her because the patient's name was never shared, was a little girl who had previously been in the hospital ward for cancer for four years and was discharged. Then a while later she relapsed and had to be given a very strong chemo treatment medicine. This medicine is so strong and so toxic that it requires pre-hydration and post-hydration for three days with I.V. fluid. However, after the medicine was administered, three nurses were attending to the charting software to enter in everything required of them and make the appropriate orders, missed a very critical piece of information. Jenny was supposed to be given 3 days of I.V. hydration. But the three nurses, with over 10 years experience, were too distracted trying to figure out the software they were using, they completely missed it.

When the morning nurse came in the next day, she had died of toxicity and dehydration. For two shifts, she had missed her hydration and all because the three, very good nurses, were stuck trying to figure this out…

Note: The large black arrow is from the screenshot I found.

This screenshot I found is similar to the one my wife uses every day. I can't imagine what the UI must have looked like years ago.

Here are a few more I found, dates unknown:
Do Short Stories Deserve the Same Negative Label as Fast Food?
Tags: Fast Food, Benefits, Writing, Stories, Reading

Do Short Stories Deserve the Same Negative Label as Fast Food?

A scientific comparison

Photo by Duncan Kidd on Unsplash

What do books have in common with food?

You can’t enjoy them during sleep by putting them under your pillow.

Eating and reading have more in common than most think. Size, taste and value are the qualities both share. We consume a good story with as much enjoyment as a delicious cake.

Yet, if you brought to me an encyclopedia-sized cake and told me to eat it all by myself, I would be full just by hearing your suggestion. No, thank you! One slice is enough.

When it comes to reading, I prefer shorter pieces. But when I write, I feel a necessity to write longer stories. I have the same relationship with food. I rarely cook fast food myself, but when I order, it’s unusual to go for a fancy meal.
Gender Transition: The First Two Years Are The Hardest
By: Cassie Brighter
Tags: Social Justice, Diversity And Inclusion, Diversity, Transgender Rights, LGBTQ

Transgender Rights

Gender Transition: The First Two Years Are The Hardest

Why supporting trans folk in the early stages of transition is vital

Left: Dec 2017, coming back from filing my gender change with the court | Right: Dec 2019

It is those first two years of transition that are the hardest.

When you know you look an ambiguous mess, but you need to lean in and do it anyway.

When you know you’ll get stares everywhere you go.

When you’re constantly at risk of the unkindness of complete strangers.

Once, while headed to a friend’s party, I stopped at a red light. There was a car two lanes away from me, full of frat boys. One of them felt compelled to roll down his window and *scream* (the way one screams ‘fire!’) “That’s a man! That’s a MAN!” repeatedly. Over 20 times. I just looked straight ahead at the road.

The light turned green, the car went. I drove up slowly to the nearest parking lot, stopped the car and sobbed.

I never made the party — turned the car around and went home.

A man threw a beer bottle at me once. Another man once physically attacked me, grabbed me by the throat, choking me.

A woman at Macy’s simply walked away from me when I asked her to help me find an outfit for an interview. Just looked me up and down and walked away.

And the constant misgendering. Some unintentional, out of confusion I suppose. But why would you go with ‘Sir’ when I’m all dolled up and wearing a skirt.

Some deliberate, malicious — making a point. As though explaining to me what my gender is. As though they — a complete stranger — know my heart and mind better than I do.

On Instagram, random uninvited comments such as “I can see your stubble,” or even simply “kill yourself.” The unrelenting unkindness of complete strangers.

There’s a statistic floating around that 42.1% of trans women attempt suicide. I don’t know how accurate that is. What I CAN tell you is that I came close, more than once.

The unrelenting unkindness of strangers can feel too heavy sometimes.

Being a vocal trans advocate increases that. There have been mornings I woke up to over 300 hate messages or comments. “Freak.” “You’re not a woman and you’ll never be.” And the shorthand, “Do the 42%” — sent to me as a MEME. Think about that. Someone took time to create a meme for use to tell complete strangers to kill themselves — and thousands of coldhearted assholes are using that meme just to torture trans women.

The unrelenting hatred.

If you know anyone in early stages of social transition, be aware they’re going through hell. They’re putting on a brave face, and braving a world that day in and day out humiliates them, demeans them, and tells them they have no right to exist at all.

A friendly smile, a small compliment can make all the difference — it may even save someone’s life.
The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
By: Jian Xu
Tags: Philosophy, Culture, Quotes, China, Religion

The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.

Daily three quotes from China classics

The Master said, “The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.”

— The Analects, Confucius

How greediness injures

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine. The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them). It is through this that they are difficult to govern. The people make light of dying because of the greatness of their labours in seeking for the means of living. It is this which makes them think light of dying. Thus it is that to leave the subject of living altogether out of view is better than to set a high value on it.

— Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi

Tears

At Sāvatthī.

“Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. What do you think? Which is more: the flow of tears you’ve shed while roaming and transmigrating for such a very long time — weeping and wailing from being united with the unloved and separated from the loved — or the water in the four oceans?”

“As we understand the Buddha’s teaching, the flow of tears we’ve shed while roaming and transmigrating is more than the water in the four oceans.”

“Good, good, mendicants! It’s good that you understand my teaching like this. The flow of tears you’ve shed while roaming and transmigrating is indeed more than the water in the four oceans. For a long time you’ve undergone the death of a mother … father … brother … sister … son … daughter … loss of relatives … loss of wealth … or loss through illness. From being united with the unloved and separated from the loved, the flow of tears you’ve shed while roaming and transmigrating is indeed more than the water in the four oceans.

Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”

— Saṃyutta Nikāya 15.3, Buddha
WebRTC Verticals Series — A Sweeping Introduction
Tags: WebRTC, Education, Real Time Communication, Healthcare, Webrtc Verticals

WebRTC is still relatively new, having been released in 2011. However, it has built a significant following, and is being used by several high-profile companies including Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

This year, version 1.0 of WebRTC was officially considered feature complete by the W3C. Now, we take a look at the different verticals WebRTC is currently impacting and where it looks to go in the future.

What is WebRTC?

Web Real-time Communications (WebRTC) is an open-source project created by Google to enable peer-to-peer communication in the web browser through application programming interfaces. It eliminates the need for plugins and native app installations to make peer-to-peer communication user- and developer-friendly. This includes audio, video, and data transfers. WebRTC lets developers create high-quality real-time communications applications in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Android, and natively on iOS and Android.

What Industries/Verticals are Interested in WebRTC?

WebRTC makes it easy for developers to create customized solutions to different audiences and industry verticals. We are seeing WebRTC expand beyond the classic five industries of:

Team Collaboration and Communication Healthcare Contact Centers Education

And into many other emerging areas, including:

One-way Conversational Devices Entertainment Surveillance IoT Personal Communications Self-driving Cars Bots Drones

There is huge potential for growth in the classic WebRTC and real-time communication industries, but there is also room for expansion in emerging areas.

This series explains these industries and how WebRTC can make the difference using market research. In each of the following posts, we will be discussing what is happening in the industry, the market size, how WebRTC is being used to further the space, our main concerns, and where it is headed in the future.

We will be updating this post to reflect the latest verticals as we release new information. Stay tuned!

Interested in learning more about WebRTC? Check out our previous blog series on WebRTC use cases.
TED.com: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
By: Tom Serres
Tags: Bettina Warburg, Innovation, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Blockchain

Bettina Warburg, Co-Founder of Animal Ventures Speaking at TED

Say hello to the decentralized economy — the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for centralized institutions like banks or governments to facilitate trade, evolving age-old models of commerce and finance into something far more interesting: a distributed, transparent, autonomous system for exchanging value.

Would you like to learn more about Blockchain technology? We’ve launched an education course “The Basics of Blockchain”. Discover the fundamentals and terminology basics of Blockchain, explore Blockchain from an economic perspective and get the lowdown on how this changes how we exchange value. We also will teach you the technology behind Blockchain — from infrastructure to application — and we will deep-dive with further use cases and discover just how Blockchain is being used in today’s business climate.
Soggy Milk Carton
By: Enne Baker
Tags: Education, Poetry, White Objects, Schools, Children

My fifth-grade mouth

Could taste the stream of

Chocolate milk and the pieces

Of cardboard paper floating

Down the stream, as I swallow

Like hoards of bugs down

My young calf throat.

This underfunded milk

Tastes rich, the box written

In capital letters.

I understood what was

Going on as much as I

Thought I was a man with my

Chocolate mustache.

My empty milk carton, watery

From the fridge, soaked by

Mouth, and from the folding edge,

I opened both ends and lay

It upside down, and

Played house.
İyi Yazmak Üzerine - Part I
By: Safa Kutlu
Tags: Türkçe Yayın, Yazmak, Edebiyat, Türkçe, William Zinsser

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Reckless Love of God (A Sermon for Trinity Sunday)
By: Alan Bentrup
Tags: Christianity, Episcopal, Homily, Sermon, Reckless Love

Priest in The Episcopal Church. Co-founder and curator of Missional Voices. I write about mission and innovation in the Church. I root for Frogs and Rangers.

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Writing For Free is Not a Crime. For Whom You Are Writing For Free Is the Issue.
By: Joel Eisenberg
Tags: Authors, Stephen King, Writer, Writing, Writing Tips

Often overlooked in the controversy is investing in one’s own work and career for a later financial win.

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images; Courtesy of Anchor

Introduction

If you are a writer and in the business of instant financial gratification, more power to you.

Most writers are not there yet.

Stephen King was not always there, either.

Doubleday purchased hardcover rights to King’s “Carrie” in the spring of 1973 for an advance of $2500 against royalties. Released on April 5, 1974, the book sold modestly. The 26-year-old Hampden Academy high school English teacher, however, who had previously written three other novels that had not sold — Rage, The Long Walk, and Blaze — saw his fortunes increase exponentially when New American Library purchased the paperback rights to “Carrie” for $400,000, a fee that would be contractually split with Doubleday.

The hardcover sold 13,000 copies. The paperback, released the following year, sold over a million copies. Signet, a division of New American Library, published a film tie-in version to Brian De Palma’s hit 1976 film adaptation, and sales increased all the more.

King wrote four novels on spec before selling his first and becoming a multi-million-dollar brand not long after.

What happened from there is the stuff of legend.

It is now nearly 2021. It is no longer 1973 (which gives pause to this old-timer who fiercely misses his leisure suits). The world has changed; publishing has changed along with it, as has every writing-related field.

Our pandemic has altered our collective literary dynamic still further.

This is an article that should not need to be written. However, the wrong message is being sold to aspiring writers, and I am compelled to vocally state the flaw of that message in my argument.

King, like most novelists and screenwriters in the early stages of their careers, wrote on speculation, meaning he wrote for himself — for free — in the interests of selling his work later.

No different than most any debut author.

So, when one emphatically states to newer writers to NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES write for free, the message received can be mixed at best and career-killing at worst.

You may say in return, “Come on, Joel. Writers know the difference between writing for themselves and being taken advantage of by writing for someone else for free.”

Perhaps, but within that mindset of yours consider this favor: Don’t ever assume.

If what you say is true, it would not happen so damn much.
#WorldFoodDay: Effects Of Pandemic On World Food Day As Nigeria Celebrates. — By Theresa Utomi
By: Iccdi Africa
Tags: Pandemic, Food, Nigeria, Women, Climate Change

This disclosure is contained in a report by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The report from the FAO also shows that the Democratic Republic of Congo is emerging as the country with the world’s largest food crisis in terms of absolute numbers, with Burkina Faso listed as the country with the worst deteriorations in acute hunger in recent months.

The food crisis is made worse in Nigeria by the longstanding religious and ethnic conflicts and even organized crimes by some bandits, which has greatly affected farmers working on their farmlands.

In addition to these, the farmers were already contending with the issue of flooding or drought, which has negatively been impacting on the agricultural sector in a period the country is desperate and very desirous of economic diversification. The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a surge in food prices as can be seen in the reports released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in a country that imports over 10% of its food supply.

With a population of over 200 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, which is regarded as the world’s most food-insecure continent. This is made worse as importers of food items struggle to gain access to dollars for their imports due to scarcity of foreign exchange which is triggered by the crash of oil prices and low foreign inflow.

This is expected to be exacerbated by the recent order by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Central Bank of Nigeria, to stop the allocation of foreign exchange to importers of food items.

Written by Theresa Utomi
Announcement: Listing on HitBTC and EXMO
By: Minexcoin
Tags: Announcements, Cryptocurrency, Exmo, Minexcoin, Hitbtc

Meet the new exchanges!

We are excited to announce the news you’ve been asking us these days — MNX will begin trading on HitBTC and EXMO. Our team has reached a preliminary agreement about listing on these platforms and, to date, we’re on the stage of the technical realization following the agreements reached.

Unfortunately, due to security rules, we can’t say the exact date of listing on any of these platforms yet. However, it is a significant step towards the development of our project.

According to Minexcoin CEO Boris Shulyaev, admission to HitBTC and Exmo is a part of MNX long-term strategy which aims to popularize and strengthen the coin’s presence in crypto-community. After adding to new trading platforms, Minexcoin will be presented on four exchanges.

As for the exchanges themselves, currently, HitBTC ranked 8th in the TOP-10 world crypto-exchanges according to CoinMarketCap with a daily trade volume of over $250 million. This platform has earned the reputation of a safe, fast and affordable exchange with one of the most convenient and technologically advanced algorithms on the market. HitBTC offers traders a wide range of features such as real-time clearing, cutting-edge order matching algorithms and more than 500 trading instruments. Established in 2013 by the Hong Kong company HIT Solution Ltd, today this exchange provides markets for more than 300 of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies.

The second exchange — EXMO — is currently a rapidly developing project from TOP-50 largest crypto-exchanges with daily trade volume about $ 36 million and 1,5 mln users. It is noteworthy that Exmo is highly prevalent among traders from Eastern Europe and Russia. Some of them consider this exchange as a starting point where you can train before trading on the world’s largest exchanges. According to statistics, almost every third Russian-speaking trader registered here. Add to this useful API for crossplatform trading robots, the multilingual functional, a cashback and you will receive another convenient trading platform.
Five Life Lessons From The Mighty Octopus
By: Sean Kernan
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Animals, Life, Science

Pixar wasn’t exaggerating in Finding Nemo

It’s a known fact that octopi (plural for octopus) need a very secure tank, particularly in pet stores.

Without one, they’ll wait until the store closes and sneak into other tanks that are full of yummy fish. They have the whole room marked.

Inky, on the other hand, had no reason to escape. As an octopus in New Zealand’s National Aquarium, he had a massive, well kept, beautiful tank. He got lots of attention. He had no natural predators. He was guaranteed healthy meals.

Yet, in the off-hours, Inky still made an epic break for freedom. After discovering the octopus missing, managers conducted an investigation and concluded he’d crawled across the floor and slid through a pipe that emptied out into the ocean.

The story garnered international attention, which actually puzzled the aquarium workers.

Inky was a crafty octopus. But nothing he did was outside the norm for their species. Octopi handlers have stories for days.

Octopus takeaway number #1

If you feel like you’re living in a cage, it won’t matter how nice you make it, it’s still a cage. Make a break for it. A bit of danger is necessary for true freedom.
Traditions
By: Jj Gardens
Tags: Short Story, Fiction, SciFi, Freedom, Science Fiction

Traditions

He tried to follow the old-timers’ advice

Image public domain, courtesy of comicbookplus.com, modified from original.

The bolts tightened around his shoulders and J.R. stared straight ahead, trying not to flinch. It was a point of pride in the mines to show as little reaction as possible during the fitting. The smallest grunt or show of discomfort would be reported back to the tunnels, where it would be counted against him when he joined one of the crews. Nobody in J.R.’s family had ever hollered out during a fitting, and he was determined not to be the first. As the mounting bot brought up the next rack of steel, J.R. tried to follow the old-timers’ advice to think of somewhere pretty.

Grandma had taken J.R. to the surface once, by hiding him in a tool container that she loaded onto the freight elevator. When they arrived topside, grandma carried him for an hour through the blasted terrain, until they arrived at the top of a steep ridge where she let J.R. clamber down onto the ground.

Here, away from the smoke columns of the mine, the sky was a canvas of deep blues and purples, inset with a thousand stars. Asylum’s azure orb filled almost half the sky, its green continents clearly outlined in the sunlight that never touched Stake 1218.

They found a flat boulder at the edge of the ridge and sat there for a long time. As J.R. watched the ore transports snaking into orbit, grandma told him stories about the early days of working the asteroid, before the atmospheric systems were stable. Back then, some convict mines were still in open revolt against Kepler GeoTech, and grandma had even known a few miners that had come to the fields voluntarily. Miners who simply climbed out of their exos at the end of a shift, putting them aside like the rest of their tools.

Sitting on their boulder under the twinkling canopy, J.R. and grandma marvelled at the idea of an exo you could just take off when you wanted to. One that didn’t jolt your body into movement when the shift bell rang, that didn’t chain your body to its harsh, pneumatic rhythms. An exo that didn’t entomb you in steel on the day the company decided you had grown enough.

As the mounting bot turned toward him again, J.R. clenched his jaw and tried to think about that day with grandma on the surface.
Empowering every team to collaborate with Canva
By: Canva Team
Tags: Creativity, Startup, Productivity, Collaboration, Growth

Design, Share, and Comment in Real-Time

With millions of us adapting to remote work and learning environments, the need for real-time visual collaboration is now more critical than ever — from remote classrooms sharing ideas over online brainstorming sessions through to marketing teams building their latest campaigns remotely.

Now more than ever, teams of all sizes are looking for new ways to get things done in sync. Grace Riek in the United States is a perfect example of how this collaboration can empower all kinds of teams. As the editor of her student’s newspaper, Grace had been searching for a tool where she and her team of writers and designers could collaborate on the newspaper in sync, rather than making manual and individual contributions.

Introducing Real-Time Collaboration on Canva

Grace fired off an email to our co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins with her suggestion and was thrilled to learn that it was a feature we’d already kicked off behind the scenes. We loved her enthusiasm and the story of her team so much that we flew her out to Sydney where she met with our engineering and product teams to share her input and her own important use case for the feature.

Today, we’re excited to be rolling out real-time collaboration for every team using Canva. Whether you’re working on a student newspaper of your own, brainstorming as a team, or jamming on a group project, these new collaboration features will empower every team to bring their creativity to life from anywhere in the world — in real-time.
What Should We Know About Meditation
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Weekly Prompts, Meditation, Spirituality, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

Meditation is the rhythm of peace,

The ultimate melody of the mind,

The harmony of the soul.

It weaves the thread of humanity.

It creates a new awakening.

It creates a symphony of life.

People call it a work-out,

But I term it as work-in,

It stills the changing states of mind.

It soothes the mind,

And heals the wounds.

It silences the mind.

Meditation is not an exercise

Of body, but the mind,

That embarks upon a journey,

An enjoyable quest,

To discover oneself,

And the supreme soul.

Meditation is a tool,

To connect with the universe,

And talk to all the beings,

And impart them love and peace,

By creating higher vibrations,

By creating higher-consciousness.

Meditation is not a thing to do,

But a way of life,

To always be,

Aware of our true form,

Aware of our true virtues,

And embrace the gift of life.
The Powerful Undergarment That Gave Women Freedom
By: Mythili The Dreamer
Tags: Sexuality, History, Feminism, Equality, Women

What is the connection between the modern-day bra (or, more fancily put, the brassiere) and World War I?

The short answer is the shortage of metal.

The war popularized the bra, finally allowing the women to breathe a little easier. the shortage of metal during the war forced the evolution of the bra as we see now.

Since corset frames were mostly made of metal, which was needed for ammunition and other military supplies, the U.S. War Industries Board in 1917, asked American women to help their ‘men win the war’ by not wearing or buying corsets.

This one crucial change in lifestyle resulted in the saving of 28,000 tons of steel. It also freed women to work at physically demanding factory jobs where corsets created an unnecessary hindrance while working.

Before the war, women squeezed themselves into tight-fitting corsets to fit into the mold of the ideal Victorian body; a voluptuous bosom atop a teensy waist.

Corset-wearing was common in the 18th and 19th centuries across Europe and across different socioeconomic classes. And for a long time, a corset was associated with the expected behavior from a “civilized” woman, and women were expected to wear corsets all the time. As anthropologist Rebecca Gibson of American University tells us,

“Women wore corsets to shape their bodies away from nature and toward a more ‘civilized’ ideal form. Even in pregnancy, special corsets were made to fit a woman’s growing belly and, later, for her need to nurse her baby, side gussets or special snaps over the breasts were used to accommodate their changing form while still allowing them to follow the fashion of the time.”

The corsets caused a lot of ill effects on a women’s body, leaving lasting effects on the internal organs, deforming the ribs, and misaligning the spine. it made women sick and constantly fainting. Despite all this, the peer pressure of the need to have an hourglass figure and no viable alternative options left women with no choice but to continue with the misery.

By the end of the war, brassieres became the new normal with women in North America and Europe ditching the evil corset and soon mass-production of bras ramped up. Women in Asia, Africa, and Latin America also followed the trend. And with the rise of feminism around the corner, and women participating more and more in society and physical activities, the humble bra soon became a powerful symbol of women empowerment.
APIS Website update — To the next level, to “perform”
By: Apis Team
Tags: Kor, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Notice, Blockchain

APISplatform

Official publication for APIS, the world-first masternode…
How Society Diminishes Women Who Rise To Power
By: Mayra Boppre
Tags: Society, Gender, Culture, Feminism, Women

When I started writing this article, the person I thought about the most was former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. She was the first Brazilian female president. Keep in mind that it’s been only 31 years since Brazilians are allowed to vote. From 1964 to 1988 Brazil was under a military dictatorship.

But I’m not here to talk about politics.

I’m here to discuss how strong women are scrutinised when they are in a position of power.

When women rise to a position of power, they need to let go of characteristics related to feminity to embrace masculine ones. The problem is that when women demonstrate strength, assertiveness, power, rationality, and so on, society doesn’t view with the same positive light as men are.

When holding the office for nearly six years (she was reelected and then impeached), Rousseff had to hold her head high when people referred to her with sexist comments.

Instead of discussing her government, her critics diminished her by mocking her short hairstyle and professional suits, similarly to what Marcia Clark endured during the O.J. trial. Moreover, misogynists comments about her sexuality, her intellect, and mental health were frequent.

At the 2014 World Cup opening ceremony, the crowed shouted unspeakable things to Rousseff, but she didn’t shrug by the verbal aggressions. However, she said it was nothing compared to the tortured she endured while in jail in the 70s — the period when she was part of the moment that fought against the military dictatorship.

From Susan B. Antony to Margaret Thatcher to Jacinda Ardern, women’s accomplishments are often overlooked because they refuse to follow protocol. What’s more, when they are at the top, they can’t make mistakes.

Ask Marissa Mayer, who despite succeeding working at Google for many years, her mistakes as Yahoo’s CEO got her cancelled way before cancel culture was even a thing.
Mocking ES6 module dependencies with proxyquire
By: Sergey Stadnik
Tags: JavaScript, Front End Development, Mockup, ES6, Unit Testing

In part one, I wrote about mocking ES6 module dependencies using the ES6 native import * from construct. It works mostly fine. However, you need to be aware of a couple of a potential issues:

You need to import modules to mock them, which means that those modules will be evaluated. That may be a problem if you don’t want the code in this modules to be executed.

Another method I found to work well is using proxyquire. It is one of many libraries aiming to streamline mocking dependencies to simplify unit testing.

Let’s look at the same examples as in part one and rewrite their unit tests with proxyquire.

Just like in the import * as example, we have a module, this time it is export2.js which exports a single function:

Again, if we see the message printed by the console.log statement, than means this module is evaluated by the unit test.

module2 module imports and calls the function exported from export2.js :

Our unit test for module2 which mocks export2 with proxyquire looks like this:

Unit test passed

The test passed, our mocked-up exportFunc was called, and, since we didn't see the message printed by console.log , the code of export2 module was not evaluated.

Now, let’s figure out what’s going on in the unit test step by step.

Here we import proxyquire into our project. noCallThru() here indicates that the module dependencies should not be evaluated. I used require here to make noCallThru() a part of the import, which is more convenient to do with erquire than ES6 import .

Then we create an object representing our export2 module.

After that we create a sinon mock of our export2 module. We expect exportFunc to be called once and it returns string 'This is mocked exportFunc' .

The reason why we need to create export2 object above is because sinon mocks can only be created on existing objects.

Next, we import module2 into our test using proxyquire, and we specify that its ./export2.js dependency must be substituted by export2 created above. Note that the substituted dependencies are specified by their path rather than module name. unfortunately we can't use require or import here.

Finally, we call myFunc from the module we imported via proxyquire and verify that the sinon mock's conditions are met.

And, as the last step, we reset the sinon mock.

As you can see, proxyquire provides features for mocking-up Javascript modules similar to ES6 import * as... construction, it also allows disabling the evaluation of real dependency modules via noCallThru() option. Although in my example I specified noCallThru at the import level, it also can be applied to the individual dependencies like this:

However, there is one issue for which neither import * as nor proxyquire provides a solution. I will examine it in the next article.

The source code of the examples for this article can be downloaded from my Github repository.

Originally published at ozmoroz.com

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Ruminatae 2020–12–18
By: Terrie Schweitzer
Tags: Self Improvement, Interconnectedness, Self, Racism, Science Fiction

I think a lot about how self-improvement advice almost always comes from a standpoint of very isolated individualism. Living with a larger family for the past couple of months has given me this understanding on a very visceral level. None of my regular habits function well within this context.

I have also been wondering about my own bias and white privilege over the past year. Of course I want to do better with respect to how I shape Better Humans by choosing and editing articles—but at what point do I admit that my bias prevents me from doing a great job with that, and how do I give away some of that power so we can build something better?

I came across this image via an article on Newsweek, which says that it was once part of the Smithsonian Institutes “Talking About Race” web site. There is an awful lot in here that speaks to bias in self-improvement.

I don’t know exactly why it might have been removed, but what it is saying rings true with respect to my own lived experience and investigations in how I am enmeshed in systemic racism. Much to ruminate on.