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Sufficiently Advanced Technology: Visual Processing
By: Andrew Tubley
Tags: Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Ibm Watson, Azure

As 2016 comes to a close I reflect on the many articles in my news feed exclaiming that Machine Learning, AI, Data Scientists, Big Data, Cloud, and <insert Technology here> are poised to take 2017 by storm. But what do these technologies really do? How are they used and what can they be used for? To answer these questions I will be doing a deep dive on the top offerings in different technology areas.

Visual Processing: Getting 1000 words out of a Picture

Visual processing is a key component of may tasks and specific cases such as alphabetic and numeric recognition is effectively solved. The classic example being the MNIST database with some impressive algorithms performing with less than a 1 percent error rate. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database)

But what about a more challenging problem, what about Star-Lord?

Who? So glad you asked. Star-Lord the charismatic leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy, recently played by Chris Pratt in marvel’s movie of the same name, directed by James Gunn. Overall great critical and fan reception, part of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not so gratuitous cast photo included here.

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

So with guardians being such a cultural phenomenon how do the top image visualization tools do with identifying and classifying the image above? I asked Google’s Cloud Vision API, Microsoft’s Computer Vision API, IBM Watson’s Visual Recognition, and Amazon’s Recognition to take a look at the image and tell me what they saw. (Note: All of these services on continually updating and improving their offerings so your milage may vary if you ask them yourself.)

Results Summary:

All of the offerings were able to identify the unforgettable Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord and as much of a scene stealer as he is, it’s disappointing that more characters were not identified. Even accounting for Groot and Rocket being non-standard humanoid faces, the top two apis only identified 3 of 4 human faces for a total of 50 percent of all character faces on display.

Top Differentiators:

Google and Microsoft identified 3 of 6 character faces where IBM and Amazon only found 1 of 6.

Number of Facial Landmarks identified:

Google 34

Microsoft 27

Amazon 25

IBM 0

Microsoft and Amazon have detailed facial hair and glasses/sunglass detection, Google shows only a headgear category.

Google’s and Amazon’s labels (subjectively) seem more useful than Microsoft’s listing of multiple people in a photograph. Watson seemed to go off the deep end with label here (literally) with references to diving gear and aqualungs.

Even when combining the best results across all of the services, there still remains quite a bit of information left in the image that was not yet able to be extracted. And while no one answered the question of who is Star-Lord (Hint: there are other APIs for that) they all could tell us where he was in the photo.

Goodbye APIs of 2016, looking (pun intended) forward to what you will become in 2017.

Details for those who like that sort of thing.
To my mother-in-law, who loves me
By: Esther Spurrill-Jones
Tags: Poetry, Challenge, Bisexual, LGBTQ, Haibun

To my mother-in-law, who loves me

A haibun for the prompt Haibun a Heart

Image by 3333873 from Pixabay

When I look into your eyes I see only love. From the moment you met me, you embraced me as part of your family. Your son’s girlfriend, then wife. Your daughter-in-law. I know you love me. But how deep is that love? If you knew who I really am, would you still embrace me or would you reject me? Would you look at me differently if you knew? You love Jesus with all your heart, and you believe that God condemns anyone who isn’t straight. Although I have never been with anyone but your son, if I told you that I have in me the capacity to fall in love with anyone, regardless of gender, that I have had crushes on women in the past, would you condemn me?

I know you love me

But I still fear that could change

If you knew the truth
Life is a joke and you are the punchline.
By: Moyosore Sheriff Quadri
Tags: Climate Change, Satire, Moseries, Humor, Life

Mo Weekly #18

You are the final act in an exquisitely framed joke that is being retold on a loop. And no, it’s not because the universe has its podcast stuck on a loop due to a faulty device. It’s because when a joke is so consistently brilliant you ‘put it on a loop. As Trina aptly put it in that one episode of ‘Victorious’ where Ke$ha guest starred: “it’s been on loop forever!”

One thing you may have observed from the above paragraph is that the word ‘loop’ came up a lot.

Why?

I may claim that it stands for L -Life O -Only O -Ousts P -Power; OR

-Life -Only -Ousts -Power; OR L -Life O -Only O -Ousts P -People; OR

-Life -Only -Ousts -People; OR L -Life O -just does O -whatever it P - wants without regards for your preferences; BUT

-Life -just does -whatever it - wants without regards for your preferences; BUT One thing is certain, turning a word into an abbreviation that conveys a deeper meaning is difficult.

A punchline is the last part of a story that explains the meaning of what previously happened or makes what happened previously funny. Essentially, your (our) existence is the latter part of the story that makes it hilarious, we are the ‘kick’, the ‘punchline’.

THEORY: Each generation screws things up for the next

To put things in perspective, Jerrod Carmichael once questioned the need for his active participation in preventing global warming:

“Who am I saving the planet for? My grandkids?! ... Who cares...I’ll be dead; it’s not immediate enough for me to care…”

PUNCHLINE:

A couple of millennia from now, a few of Carmichael’s great grandkids will most likely get sucked into space on one casual afternoon hover boarding home from school. Why? Because their Great-grandfather chose to drive instead of riding a bike to work.

And his remaining Great-grandkids will survive long enough to screw up the lives of their grandchildren.

Game. Set. Loop.
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Tags: Life

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Vacation vs Travel
By: Jeff Escalante
Tags: Value, Travel, Article, Vacation

Many people, at least in the US, are only accustomed to taking vacations, and this may be the case for their entire lives. This is because of in the US, we get a measly 2 weeks of vacation per year or less. This is often used for visiting families or a short vacation inside the US.

When you only get so little time off, vacation is viewed as a reward from hard work and a chance to relax and be luxurious, which is entirely fair but changes the way you plan and handle it. It’s also completely different from travel. For me at least, travel is an exercise in frugal living and experiencing different cultures.

I had only ever taken vacations before starting the trip I’m currently on. Since I lived in the US, the cultural values associated with vacations were instilled into me from childhood, as the culture does in any place you grow up and live. I was convinced that travel was an expensive luxury that you either only have little time for as a normal person, or have the privilege to do frequently if you are rich. That when you travel, you stay in nice hotels or resorts and relax by the beach, hike majestic mountains, eat fancy food, and/or see amazing historical sites. Well, it turns out all of this is bullshit.

Travel can be very cheap without sacrificing quality of life, and you can even make money while traveling to pay off your costs. In addition, seeing tourist sites for the sake of seeing them quickly becomes a dry exercise, so being embedded more deeply into a culture through a work experience is often more valuable. Websites like WOOF and Workaway give travelers opportunities to live and work with a local, being entirely absorbed into their lifestyle, in addition to making this your travel cost nearly nothing as your food and lodging are fully covered.
Azure Data Fundamentals — Almost All You Need to Know — Part II
By: Amulya Rattan Bhatia
Tags: Azure Services, Azure, NoSQL, Data, Data Analytics

Azure Data Fundamentals — Almost All You Need to Know — Part II

An Azure Data summary — a start to your data journey on Azure or for DP-900 exam preparation

This is the second part of a multi-part introduction to Azure data fundamentals. You can read the first part for an introduction to data types, data processing options, CAP Theorem, ACID, BASE etc. here. This part will introduce more concepts like NoSQL Databases and various Azure products — so let’s get started.

Non-relational / NoSQL Databases

I’ll start by saying there is no such thing as non-relational data. Relations between the data don’t just disappear — the only thing that changes is how you organize these relations. The term “non-relational data” has however somehow stood the test of time.

Instead of saving the data in highly-normalized form where the related data is generally stored in a separate tables, in NoSQL databases all the related data is stored in the same “table”. Depending upon the type of NoSQL database, the concept of table changes and has a different convention. Types of NoSQL databases include:

Key-Value Store — A key-value database is a type of non-relational database that uses a simple key-value method to store data. A key-value database stores data as a collection of key-value pairs in which a key serves as a unique identifier. Both keys and values can be anything, ranging from simple objects to complex compound objects. Key-value databases are highly partitionable and allow horizontal scaling at scales that other types of databases cannot achieve.

Write operations are usually restricted to inserts and deletes. If you need to update an item, you must retrieve the item, modify it in memory (in the application), and then write it back to the database, overwriting the original (effectively a delete and an insert). Azure Table storage is an example of a key-value store. Azure Cosmos DB also implements a key-value store using the Table API.

Document database — A document database is a type of non-relational database that is designed to store and query data as JSON-like documents. Document databases make it easier for developers to store and query data in a database by using the same document-model format they use in their application code, for e.g. javascript applications.

The document model works well with use cases such as catalogs, user profiles, and content management systems where each document is unique and evolves over time. Azure Cosmos DB implements a document database approach in its Core (SQL) API.
Steps to Setup Masternode on XinFin MainNet.
By: Xinfin Xdc Hybrid Blockchain Network
Tags: Blockchain, Xinfin, Docker, Masternodes, Mainnet

Steps to Setup Masternode on XinFin MainNet.

Setup a Masternode with XinFin MainNet in 8 Simple Steps

Step 1: Host the Masternode either by downloading the One-Click Installer (recommended) or by using a Docker Compose file.

Download the One-Click Installer (Recommended),

Or

Setup Masternode using Docker Compose.

Step 2: Once downloaded, run the One-Click Installer on the server.

On successful installation, you will get the Coinbase address as shown below.

Step 3: View the active node at by clicking here.

Step 4: Create a new account address from the XinFin wallet. An exclusive address will be generated.

The new address generated would contain the balance required to propose the Masternode.

Step 5: Log in to the Masternode app using the private key.

Step 6: Become a candidate and upload the Know Your Community (KYC) certificate in PDF format.

This KYC certificate needs to be signed by one of the following personnel:

Company Secretary,

A Notary Public,

Chartered Secretary,

Consulate, or

A lawyer with Seal.

For INDIVIDUAL format, click here.

For ORGANIZATION format, click here.

Note: It’s mandatory to upload the certificate in a PDF format.

Step 7: Once the KYC is uploaded, enter the Coinbase address and lock 10 million XDC tokens before running the Masternode.

Step 8: The proposed node will be added to the Masternode randomly through the Round-Robin method. On successful addition to the Masternode, the reward will be sent to the assigned XinFin Wallet.

For Masternode Setup FAQ, please read: GUIDE TO SET UP XINFIN MASTER NODE. Also check Bounty page for Updated Bounty for latest bounty offer for the community: https://xinfin.org/bounty.php

For how to file Click Here.

Watch the video to Setup XinFin Masternode with One-Click installer

Live Masternode Setup Support

Join us at our Telegram Development Community.

Or

Talk to our team at the Slack Public Channel.

We always love to hear from our community members. Feel free to drop us a line or share feedback at any of our community channels.

About XinFin:

XinFin is an open source enterprise-ready Hybrid Blockchain for Global Trade and Finance. It combines the power of Public and Private Blockchains with interoperable smart contracts and is fully EVM compatible. For more information on XinFin, please visit XinFin.org or learn more about XinFin in this video.

Useful link for XinFin Masternode

Steps to Setup Masternode on XinFin MainNet

XinFin Mobile Wallet

XinFin Web Wallet

Steps to resign master node

Step by step guide to issue your own token on XinFin network

Step by step guide to swap token on XinFin network

Guide to setup node with one click installer

Follow XinFin on:

Twitter: @XinFin_Official

LinkedIn: XinFin Hybrid Blockchain

Telegram: XinFinTalk
APEX — Behind the Scenes #1
By: Jimmy Hu
Tags: Apex, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Exchanges

Exchanges are naturally a topic of discussion and interest of the community, and prior to this week, we did not have enough information to make an accurate enough of an assessment of the “Top 7” exchange situation — but now we do. In early June, we had a mutual agreement with a consistently top 5/top 6 exchange with large maincoin volume, to list in Late June, Early July. In late June, we were notified that the guaranteed listing date will need to be postponed to August for reasons that are unclear. Come the last week of June, we were also sent a new contract with an adjusted price of close to two times that of the original with no clear reason other than to “fit market rate”.

In early July we obtained advisory from our institutional investors and friends and partners from the blockchain space on this matter, and came to the conclusion that this particular exchange typically does not bring much additional volume to altcoins, as the main userbase, being institutions and professional traders, do not focus on coins below the top 15 ranking in market cap. Hence taking into consideration the combination of the particular unfavorable deal at hand and minimal value add in terms of potential volume, we were advised to move on and save the funds for community and ecosystem growth to build up organic demand.

Indeed, the vast majority of volume for any “altcoin” project is brought from the community, and of course, the exchange can help or increase the probability and magnitude in which each and every community member trades on that exchange. But in most cases, users of an exchange are unlikely upon every new coin listing go and pour funds in and start trading the coin. The only 100% positive correlation is between volume and community size and coverage.

Having said that, we are continuing to have conversations with exchanges and to discover pros and cons of each, and to advance cooperation if we deem suitable — it’s apparent that the exchange space is changing fast and it’s hard to say who are the incumbents, leaders, and rising stars within 4–6 months time. In the most short-run, we’ll see how the trading competition on Bit-Z goes.
You’ve Been Trained to Hate Yourself
By: Caprice Thorsen
Tags: Education, Spirituality, Love, Personal Development, Self Improvement

Society trained me to value my intellect, ignore my soul, and judge myself as unworthy.

School trained me to compare myself to others and focus on my weaknesses. There was always something that I wasn’t naturally good at. Yep, gifted and talented but remedial PE. I started believing that I was somehow lacking and that I needed to fix myself. I suspected that everyone else was doing great but that I wasn’t OK. This became my shameful secret.

This training of generations has led to an epidemic of anxiety, depression, hostility, fear, and loneliness. If you feel somehow lacking or broken, I invite you to release your Self (yes big S Self) from this social conditioning.

Everything that you need to live a life of grace, ease, abundance, peace, joy and love is trapped inside of you waiting for you to re-connect with and free your Self.
Does Only Death Hold The Power To Make Our Lives Worthy?
By: Tarun Kohli
Tags: Philosophy, Living, Eulogy, Life, Death

Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash

Death is a beautiful thing.

Before you worry about the state of my mind or think I am suicidal, hear me out..

No matter the kind of a person, death has the magical power to suddenly elevate anybody dead to a superhuman status. It flattens out the rough contours of one’s personality when alive, to make one an enviable human being.

Death makes us see the person in a different light. Mostly positive. Sometimes that perspective is rooted in reality, and sometimes, just a figment of one’s imagination.

No matter the reason, death regards the person dead as everyone’s best friend. A sage and an affable person who only knew how to give, who loved without condition, who always did something for friends/society. Above all, someone who made an impact and left a legacy behind.

If you need any proof of that, just read the eulogies. And, the exaggerations we sprinkle in it. The same person no one could stand suddenly turns out to be the biggest source of inspiration humankind has ever seen.

Open any newspaper after the death of a (in)famous politician. Especially whose career was riddled with, let say something unknown to politicians, umm…corruption charges. Only to find death has made them descendant of Saint Thou-Shall-Uplift-The-Mankind.

I know we don’t speak of the dead in a way which dehumanizes their life. And, we shouldn’t. That is not my intent here.

I was merely thinking — what if we focussed more on a person’s positive qualities (not the fake ones) when the person was alive? What kind of impact would it have on their life?

You guessed it right- a life full of affection, and admiration.

A life where they wouldn’t be riddled with self doubt on their worth. A life where the mental chatter on ‘am I being taken for granted? Why am I so misunderstood? Can’t I make anyone happy? Is my life even making a difference? ‘ would be less. Imagine how much precious brain power would free up, allowing for more good things to be done.

I’m not sure how their overall life would pan out but they might die contended because of the immense positive validation they received throughout their life. A life where they wouldn’t have to be dead just to hear people extol their virtues!

So, here’s what I say- how about we exchange the two beginning today? Speak more about people’s positive qualities when they are alive, and share their rough edges when they pass away.
The Space Between Nothing
By: Erika Burkhalter
Tags: Poetry, Travel, Photography, Philosophy, Spirituality

The Space Between Nothing

Musings on eternity

As if the Goddess had thrown a handful of diamonds

upon the open sea,

a river of glass opened up in front of me,

a sprinkling of lightening bugs,

a path melded by mingling currents —

a division, a plane between realms

sliding above and below,

a serpent of light,

the ocean’s might,

a churning of density and depth—

And I wonder?

How is this different, really, than the barrier

between earth and the heavens?

Or the dark blanket of the moonless sky

and the depths of infinity?

Or the mirror of a star dancing on the open waters,

never destined to meet its twin?

Is this what the ancients saw as ether —

the space between nothing,

time without time,

a me without a me?
Coinbase如何擊敗競爭對手並一躍成為市場的主要交易所- 寶島金融Formosa Financial
By: Formosa Financial Team
Tags: Exchange, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Coinbase

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How Business Schools Are Transforming Education, Making Impact
Tags: Education, Innovation, Business School

CAN STUDENTS AT A BUSINESS SCHOOL IN MICHIGANchange the lives of women in Kenya — without even stepping past the shores of the Great Lakes? Through the innovative use of web-based technology, they certainly can. And b-school students in Pennsylvania can offer aid to high school kids in Bolivia without ever laying eyes on their counterparts.

Business schools have an extraordinary capacity for creating impact in many different ways and in many different arenas. Through outreach programs, they can nourish communities; through scholarly research, they can transform industries; and through educational programs, they can equip students with the skills to change the world.

In the following stories, we look at ten schools that have created programs that improve educational opportunities, business models, and the quality of people’s lives. Some achieved their goals through technology, some through entrepreneurship, and some through educational upgrades. All of them were drawn from entries submitted to AACSB International for its “Innovations That Inspire” initiative. All of these examples show not only how business schools can make demonstrable positive impact on the world, but also how their efforts could inspire other schools to do the same.
Read This If You Want To Make Money Blogging
By: Tim Rettig
Tags: Blogging, Money, Online Business, Blog, Business

Read This If You Want To Make Money Blogging

When does a blog become a business?

I’ve spent 4 1/2 years blogging before I made one even one dollar of revenue directly from my blog.

Does that have to be true for you as well?

No.

But you will certainly have to invest an extensive amount of time into your blog before you are going to be able to make it profitable. And even then, money will probably start coming in slowly, not exponentially.

Insight #1:

A blog is not a good business to start.

If you want to build a business that brings in revenue quickly, then find a niche for a product or service and start selling it ASAP. You don’t need a blog to make this happen.

You see, a blog is not a business at all.

A blog is just something where you create content and get traffic. In other words, in the context of a business, it is just a lead generation tool.

It gets people who didn’t know you earlier to discover your name and (potentially) to subscribe to your e-mail list.

Let’s just assume that you were uber-successful (which is very unlikely) and managed to attract thousands of subscribers to your e-mail list in a short period of time.

Even at this point, you still don’t have a business.

Why?

Because you still don’t have a product to sell. Because you still don’t have a working business model. Because you still haven’t set up a system that will reliably bring in money for your business.
TryHackMe- Gaming Server
By: Adithya Sai
Tags: Infosec, Tryhackme, Thm, Thm Writeup, Boot2root

This walkthrough is related to the easy level box from Try Hack Me- Gaming Server. Based on the tags in this room, we can able to understand that we can learn some new concepts to get the tasks completed. Let’s get started.

TryHackMe- Gaming Server

Let’s deploy the machine and run the Nmap for open ports.

nmap -sC -sV -Pn 10.10.75.194

Nmap result

We can see 22,80 ports are open. Let’s run gobuster for directory enumeration and export the output.

gobuster dir -u http://10.10.75.194 -w /usr/share/dirb/wordlists/common.txt | tee gobuster.txt

gobuster

Okay…., We got our gobuster result. But, before checking them, let’s check the HTTP site as a starting point.

Okay, looks like it's a dynamic website with multiple contents added. Let’s check the source code to see if we can find anything.

Hoo, we got a comment where it highlighted to a person named “john”. Let’s keep a note of this name for future. Now let’s check the directories one by one.

We can see that there is an entry in the robots.txt file about a directory. I have navigated to that and saw there are 3 files. One of them is a dictionary file.

Let’s keep this aside for now and explore the curious “secret” directory.

The secret key in the Secret directory

Ohhh nice, we got a secret key. Let's grab the key and use john to crack it.

We have the key and user name “john” from the robots file. Let's grab the ssh to move forward.

So, finally got the SSH session. Let’s find out our initial key.

We need to elevate our privileges. I did try running sudo -l but no luck. I have checked the tags of this machine from THM and noticed a tag related to lxd.

LXD is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead. It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.

I tried some public exploits for LXD and found one for Ubuntu 18.04. This is made on Alpine distro where we need to build alpine and create a container that has a script to gain root access. Let’s follow step-by-step.

1.Firstly, we need to clone the required alphine git repo and build it on our machine(Attacker)

2.Once we build it, we will have a compressed image file in tar format.

3. We need to make a script which exploit the lxd group and send both of them to victim machine.

4. Change the permission of the script and run it.

5. Once you run the script, it will import the image and create the container with elevated access.

6. Since the image have the admin access and it will mount the whole victim machine's root disk and give complete access.

7. Now since we are root in this image with having access to our victim's machine's root directory, we can navigate it and get our final flag

Finally, we got our second flag. We can further explore more in this machine and know how this level accesses are working. I will try to write and share more about LXD soon.

Thanks for reading this… :)
Phara
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Rape, Fiction, Short Story, Poverty

What of little girls who have no heart and no shine? Who carries the pain for them when breathing isn’t easy? Where are their Gods? Where are you, God? Nowhere to be found.

Phara was ten when her Daddy laid up with her for what seemed like the thousandth time. He shuffled in one night, late from work, with Seagram’s fresh on his breath as he panted his way down the hall. He never knocked. He always entered without permission. This was true for her door as well as the space between her girl-child legs. The night she knew he had done something worse than the times before, she bled. She bled for two hours before getting up out of the bed, removing her T-Shirt, and crawling the frailness of her body to the bathroom. He was locked and loaded and heavy with the burdens of the world and a job that did not pay much. Her ten-year-old self was what his thirty-two-year-old self craved. There was no escaping the sweaty reality attacking her fragile mind. He took what he wanted. She had no choice but to let him. Little Black Girls don’t speak out of turn.

The night air was stiff. She flashed back to him panting, huffing, puffing, shifting heavily on her tiny frame. She did not utter a word. She screamed “NO”, but she could not hear her voice. Somehow, it got caught between her tongue and the walls whispering prayers to her. She could hear the cars zip by, but the sound of her Mom’s Oldsmobile was not one of them. The water ran strongly, forcing her to hear every drip. Drop. Drip. Drop. The sounds of their two-bedroom apartment seemed strange tonight, different. The floorboards ached as she stepped on them. It seemed as though they knew what she did not. God cried out to her beneath her feet — his child. her soul. she was not alone.

He sleeps it off. He always sleeps it off. The next day, he remembers, but he does not remember. She carries the weight of their nights with her as she walks gingerly to school. An outcast. In their neighborhood, she is the little girl who smells and wears the same clothes at least three times per week. She does not bring lunch, cannot afford to buy it, so she sits by herself during this hour and picks at the leftovers from the plates still clogging the tables of the cafeteria when all of the other children have left. An orange juice box, a half-eaten peanut butter & jelly sandwich, and red, seedless grapes; five of them. She wipes her mouth, raises from the seat, careful not to cause herself anymore pain, and breaks for the little girls’ room.

The Little Girls’ Room. There is quiet. There is peace. There is just her and her shrinking shadow.
ICO Review — 5 reasons why FinanceX could be the future of cryptocurrency exchange
Tags: Currency Exchange, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Trading, Ico Review

1. Current exchanges have problems

The popularity of Blockchain technologies and in particular for cryptocurrencies has been steadily increasing for several years, with a very strong acceleration since 2015. It’s estimated that the population which will invest in cryptocurrencies will be of the order of 3 billion people in 2025 (against 50 million in 2009).

After several studies and surveys, a very simple conclusion has emerged: people do not use cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, despite all the advantages that this could bring them, but they use it mainly as a means of trading. As a result, a new market has emerged offering significant profitability prospects and numerous cryptocurrency exchanges have been created to take advantage of this craze; we think in particular of Binance, Huobi, Kucoin, gate.io, Bitfinex, iDex, … There are currently more than 200 cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. From that moment, cryptocurrency trading became easy and accessible to all.

However, despite the excitement, the current exchanges present many problems:

Very few exchanges offer to trade with real money which forces investors to go through intermediaries which cost them time and significant transaction costs. For example, the simplest way is to convert your fiat (EUR, USD, …) into BTC or ETH via a service like Coinbase and then transfer that cryptocurrency to an exchange.

There are many exchanges but very few possible trading peers.

There are very few options for the trader. Few exchanges offer the option “stop loss” for example.

There is few payment method to deposit money in his wallet.

Low reliability and significant security issues.

In this context, FinanceX wants to launch a new type of exchange that will solve most of these problems and that will have the advantage of accepting real money.
Vanilla index.html for 2020
By: Javascript Teacher
Tags: JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Short version: initial index.html (direct GitHub link) file with absolute minimum placeholders for everything. (media queries, entry point, window.onload, disable ugly default chrome styles, etc.)

This is ideal mostly for quick vanilla projects when you need an entry point, media queries, and basic flex already integrated into the HTML page.

Flex styles are converted to classes (follow this pattern to add more):

.f { display: flex; }

.v { align-items: center }

.h { justify-content: center }

.r { flex-direction: row }

.c { flex-direction: column }

.s { justify-content: space-around }

.p { padding: 10px }

Now all you have to do is:

<div class = “f v h”>

<div class = “f v h p”>

<p>I’m centered</p>

</div>

</div>

(To create flex with everything centered)

I’ve been using this approach for several weeks and this saves a ton of space and time building layouts.

Long(er) version: I know everyone is talking about React. But some people prefer to write code in vanilla form. And no matter what you are making, you’ll eventually arrive with the same exact base HTML code.

Over the years, as web pages started to be more application-like, index.html has been becoming more advanced.

No matter what you are making, you’ll eventually arrive with the same exact base HTML code. So why rewrite it all over again?

See this GitHub link to copy and paste it into your own projects.

I know it’s not much, but if you are creating HTML layouts, It’s going to save a ton of time in the long run.
Is Texting Candidates Rude? #overthinkingthis
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Recruiting, Overthinkingthis, Recruit, Texting, Modernworkplace

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash

Probably #overthinkingthis but I generally text each candidate I am about to call so they know who is calling (or to update them if a prior call is going long).

I feel like it’s a courtesy, as it reminds them we set a time, or gives them a minute to step into a private location for a call, but would you feel getting a blind text is annoying, intrusive or even slightly rude?
Monday. A conversation
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Monday, Humor, Art, Comics

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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Iran’s President to Deliver Speech at SCO Conference
By: Maryam Khy
Tags: Asia, Business, World, Presidential Office, Iran

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is to deliver a speech at the 20th meeting of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held via video conferencing on November 10, 2020.

That was announced by Alireza Moezi, the deputy chief of staff of the Presidential Office for communications and information.

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LINE เปิดตัวบริษัทกองทุนคริปโตด้วยเงินทุนรวม $10 ล้านดอลลาร์
Tags: Thailand, News, Cryptocurrency, Articles, Bitcoin

Messaging Giant LINE Launches $10 Million Token Venture Fund - CoinDesk

Japanese messaging giant LINE has launched a token venture fund with a capital commitment of $10 million via its…
ความต้องการของอาชีพที่ใช้สกิลบล๊อกเชน เพิ่มขึ้น 6000% ในไตรมาสแรกของปี 2018
By: P P
Tags: Thailand, News, Cryptocurrency, Articles, Bitcoin

Demand for Blockchain Job Skills Up 6,000% in First Quarter of 2018

Demand for blockchain skills is soaring. Ambiguity, limited supervision, new team - these are some of the unusual terms…
Tiger Fire-Painting
By: Alexander Kesselaar
Tags: Como, Breathing, Fire, Blog, Australia

Tiger Fire-Painting — A little preview from the Fire-Painting Photo shoot with KevTwirl and FlareDan for Tiger Beer on Thursday night.
Ensembles of tree-based models: why correlated features do not trip them — and why NA matters
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics

Ensembles of tree-based models: why correlated features do not trip them — and why NA matters Laurae Follow Aug 22, 2016 · 7 min read

Laurae: This post is about decision tree ensembles (ex: Random Forests, Extremely Randomized Trees, Extreme Gradient Boosting…) and correlated features. It explains why an ensemble of tree models is able to learn when some features are (highly or perfectly) correlated. It also shows a practical proof about why choosing NA (missing value) wisely matters, while demonstrating quickly the way you show the data to an algorithm changes the way it is perceived! This is part of a post (edited to include parts for better reading), originally at Kaggle.

Part 1 Summary:

Correlated features are not tripping ensembles of tree-based models

Showing an identical feature but in a different way typically trips algorithms

NA value are to be treated as features as they also typically trip algorithms

Ferris wrote:

That’s weird. I encoded categorical with numeric IDs, and when I removed either v91 or v107, my local CV score drops 2x logloss std.

It depends on the learning model you are using. For instance, if you are using xgboost, it will NEVER (I did not see any case yet myself) be caught wrong when dealing with very highly correlated input features (or even computed features). Due to its nature, if the number of trees is set to an imaginary infinite value, for two perfectly correlated variables, xgboost will pickup exactly 50%|50% each features. When parsing the importance of these variables, xgboost will not be able to tell you it’s 50%|50%, but it is your job to find out if it’s 50%+50% or just 100%.
Benchmarking new xgboost fast histogram: xgboost and the compiler story
Tags: Benchmark

We have seen previously that the new xgboost fast histogram method had an issue: it was awfully slow. But we fixed it. By recompiling R with gcc 7.1.

How do you call someone compiling R from scratch in Windows?

Compiling R was something tough, but I have now an executable I can use on all my servers to deploy R with gcc 7.1 without any issue:

Even better, all libraries are compiled with gcc 7.1 !

! It makes the new xgboost fast histogram fly!

Therefore, we are going to benchmark two different things from xgboost:

xgboost old fast histogram with gcc 4.9 (Rtools) and gcc 7.1 (MinGW)

with gcc 4.9 (Rtools) and gcc 7.1 (MinGW) xgboost new fast histogram with gcc 7.1 (MinGW)

Comparing xgboost old fast histogram with gcc 4.9 and gcc 7.1

To compare the xgboost old fast histogram with different compilers, we will use:

R/xgboost compiled with gcc 4.9

R/xgboost compiled with gcc 7.1

And no, do not tell me to compile it with something else. It is already difficult enough to compile R in Windows.
My Heart Forgot to Grow Up-Mera Dil Bacha Hi Reh Gaya
By: Owais Ali
Tags: Inspiration, Life Lessons, Poetry, Personal Development, Life

English

I am supposed to be mature now, not a young guy anymore

I have studied now, it is the period of earning money in progress

I have met a lot of people, of different occupations and different ages

However, even after all this, my heart forgot to grow up

Looks like the world has grownup apparently, ah why am I left so dumb

As I am reluctant to follow or copy the world as it is

I sometimes see where the world is and where I am

And then I start saying my heart forgot to grow up

But wait, let’s focus where the gap is that I am thinking about

This world is good at gossips (and back biting) and fighting. And spreading hatred is considered an achievement

Well if these are the qualities of a grown up

Then, oh my friend, I am happy that my heart forgot to grow up
Everything You Need to Create Your Feel-Good Survival Kit
By: Zinze-Ena Riley
Tags: Mindfulness, Self Love, Parenting, Life, Self Improvement

For the past eleven months, I have been ‘meeting’ online for weekly sessions with a group of fantastic ladies organised by super cool Designed2live founder and lifestyle coach.

Using online platforms has meant that even during the lockdown we have been able to stay connected whilst learning and growing together. Sharing a space to laugh, talk openly and let off steam has seen me through these uncertain times.

There is transformative power in self-talk which comes from reading aloud the characteristics, attributes and achievements that makes us unique and special

So, you may be asking “what exactly is a feel-good survival kit?”. Well, each group member was given seven prompts asking us to list three things under each category. We were told to keep our ‘answers’ close to our chest to look through when times get tough. See below the prompts:

· List 3 positive characteristics that you have

· List 3 things you are proud of about yourself

· List 3 things you have achieved

· List 3 ways in which you can treat yourself if feeling down or reward yourself if you’ve done something well (no food or drink, alcohol or drugs)

· List 3 things that you can do to make yourself laugh

· List 3 things you can do or have done in the past to help someone

· List 3 things you can do to help you feel good about yourself

· Looking at the above makes me realise that I …

Just because we aren’t taught self-love and self-praise, doesn’t mean it isn’t important. It simply means you will need to find the courage to look deep within yourself.

Take the third prompt for example. I wrote, “I am proud to be the mother of a funny and inquisitive child. I am proud of my ability to learn and try new things. I am proud of my caring nature”.

There is transformative power in self-talk which comes from reading aloud the characteristics, attributes and achievements that makes us unique and special.

The final prompt which sums up the whole experience for me is your chance to write as freely and openly as you can about the person you have become.

Looking over my lists daily I begin to realise that I am enough. By acknowledging my self-worth and all that I have achieved I am letting go and moving forward.

Repeat with me. I am beautiful. I am kind. I am special. I am enough.

Here is the link to some self-compassion exercises to try.
Mumcoin (MUM) Airdrop
Tags: Airdrop, Crowdsale, ICO, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Mumcoin is airdropping 150 MUM tokens to the first 10000 participants.

Who will be able to get free MUM tokens via the Airdrop?

During the Airdrop Phase, everyone that has an erc20 wallet, a telegram account and a twitter account will be able to claim the Airdrop MUM tokens.

How to join ?

1.Fill out the Airdrop Registration form here : https://goo.gl/forms/0dPOqVW3uumRh9dJ3

2.Join our Telegram Channel: https://t.me/mumcoin

3.Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mumcoinico

4.Like and Retweet the pinned tweet.

5. Visit our website: https://mumcoin.tech

At the end of the campaign, all recipients will be verified to have followed all the rules.

Twitter : https://twitter.com/mumcoinico

Telegram : https://t.me/mumcoin

Website : https://mumcoin.tech/
Do you fear the fin — you shouldn’t
By: Tricia Aanderud
Tags: Florida, Geospatial, Sharks, Data Visualization

Using cold hard data to challenge your irrational shark fears

You are walking toward the waves, and your mind starts playing iconic music that indicates danger is approaching from the deeper waters — what do you do? Run back to the shore? Hide under your beach blankie? Boldly move forward to catch some waves?

Many people fear that even getting near the ocean will result in a sudden shark attack. Hollywood has traumatized us! We easily believe sharks are lurking near the shore just waiting for a victim to wander into their mouths.

But it is not true.

Let’s Review the Shark Data

Someone is keeping track of global shark-related incidents. That someone is the Shark Research Institute. They collect and publish shark encounters in the Global Shark Attack File. One of the first reports is sourced from an excavated Italian vase that details a sea disaster in 725 BC.

What’s clear about this data is how unlikely a shark incident is and even more unlikely a shark-related incident is fatal. But look at the information if you are doubtful, you don’t have to believe me. On average, there are six reported fatalities a year worldwide with a few years standing out due to sea disasters.
DreamTeam Digest #27
Tags: Esports, Game Development, Blockchain, Successful Entrepreneurs, Games

Here’s a quick DreamTeam update. Since the release of our last digest, we’ve released a technical article covering Delegated Transactions, published our CEO’s entrepreneurial journey story, been mentioned in several crypto publications, our CEO has been included in the Top-100 most influential people in esports and was named the №1 entrepreneur building the CIS esports market.

Check out the details below.

DreamTeam Delegated Transactions: Goodbye Ethereum

In September, we released our Delegated Transactions Feature which makes using DREAM Tokens easier as token holders no longer need Ether to make transactions. In this technical article, our developer explains how Delegated Transactions work and how to implement it into your Token.

14 entrepreneurs building CIS esports market

Forbes.ru rated the top 14 Entrepreneurs building the CIS esports Market. The list consists of the most influential esports entrepreneurs and business owners. Alexander Kokhanovskyy ranked #1. See how Alexander’s score was calculated and how others were rated here (only available in Russian).

Is Blockchain the Future of Esports?

Over the years, the gaming market has integrated new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality. But what about blockchain technology? Is it ready to disrupt the gaming industry? Check out what blockchain has for the gaming industry and how DreamTeam can help here.

DreamTeam CEO Alexander Kokhanovskyy talks to MC Today

MC Today, one of Ukraine’s largest online media outlets, spoke to DreamTeam CEO and Co-Founder, Alexander Kokhanovskyy, about his entrepreneurial journey — from the first time he played video games to when he decided to build DreamTeam. Read the article in Russian here.

Sincerely,

The DreamTeam Crew

About DreamTeam:

DreamTeam — infrastructure platform and payment gateway for esports and gaming.

Stay in touch: Token Website|Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn|BitcoinTalk.org

If you have any questions, feel free to contact our support team any time at token@dreamteam.gg. Or you can always get in touch with us via our official Telegram chat.
[Crypto] The Case of Hacking on the Exchange in Korea
Tags: Bitcoin, Crypto

10.06.18 coinrail

I am John :)

In 2017, a series of exchange hacking attacks occurred in 2018.

It was much more than the 2017 hacking case on the exchange, and the damage was at its highest, making it difficult in Korea.

4.June 10, 2018 CoinRail Hacking

Damage amount of KRW 40 billion

9 types of cryptocurrencies such as FundiX, Enfer, and Aston hacking

It is the seventh largest hacking case in Korea.

Coinleil’s a way of compensating.

They would buy the cryptocurrencies and pay it back.

And the other option was to issue an RAIL of cryptocurrency to provide options for exchange.

The coin they issued?????!!!

This is how the creative economy works!

Compensation policy with the condition that rail(token) is issued in a key currency and that it can be used to trade other cryptocurrencies only in coinrail exchange, and that it cannot be converted into cash or bitcoin.

They said they would compensate the customer for the damage and issue their own coins.In addition, Coinrail has capital of 10 million won. And they weren’t even sure if they had insurance against hacking. Eventually, the users will have to embrace the hacking damage again. The exchange doesn’t offer a reasonable compensation package.

Hacking has begun to happen frequently.

How to Stop Hacking 100%

How to compensate for hacking.

I don’t think there’s anything that’s been presented clearly or presented yet.

Small and medium-sized exchanges have been hacked and are known in the news, but within a few days, hacking of large-scale exchanges takes place.

I’ll talk to you next time
Back to Montana, First Day of School, and Halloween 2011
By: Andy Tillo
Tags: Montana, T13, USA

We took a trip back to Montana (our 5th this year I think) to see Mariah’s new baby Berelle and visit everyone there. It was a super short trip, but as usual the kids had a great time on Grampa Russ and Gramma Lilly’s farm with the baby chicks. They could chase those things around for days on end, I’m sure…

Halloween saw some additional use of the standard costumes that’ve been passed down from kid to kid to kid… Welcome to the ladybug costume Mills! Worry not, you won’t be the last to wear it though. Mystery baby #4 due next month will probably take it for a spin in a couple years!

Also we’ve got a few of the girls on Chloe’s first day of Kindergarten, Lilla’s first day of 1st grade, and Mills first day of first days of Lilla/Chloe’s first day? ;)
This Week in Good Reads
Tags: Social Justice, Feminism, Technology

Hey Absurdists, here are some stories that caught my interest. First, a quick factoid on our namesake Absurdism, it isn’t actually about extreme comedy but rooted in a philosophical movement.

“Be a complete light to yourself. I realize that so I don’t follow anybody or any worship, any ritual & yet the eternal eludes me.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Put another way, we often ask, “why are some opinions or solutions more valid than others?” At Absurdist, we’re shaping our inquiries around four areas, Culture, Policy, Nature & Technology and we hope you find it enlightening.