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ContentBox Joins Huobi Global Elites Meetup in Korea
Tags: Blockchain, Decentralization, Startup, Cryptocurrency, Podcasts

October 18th, 2018

ContentBox executive Jason Lee was invited to participate in the first Korean private meeting with Huobi Global Elites.

Huobi Global is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Huobi Global Elites is an important partner of Huobi, aiming to share knowledge and resources and promote common development. There were only 40 invited guests that participated in the event. The meeting focused on introducing new initiatives from Huobi Global including the Huobi Global Elites initiative, related questions and answers, and then on-site meetings with the participating guests.

We will be posting more updates on our exciting progress soon. Until next time.

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Contentbox Bitcoin Talk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3898690.0
Renault Spider is a Memory of an Almost Extinct Segment
By: Danillo Almeida
Tags: Cars, Design, Style, Past, English

Aluminum chassis and plastic composite body panels dramatically reduced the weight while ensuring rust would never be an issue. Rear-wheel drive and manual transmission made the best of a 2.0-liter engine. The minimalistic approach made the windshield an optional item while power steering, heating and sound system were unavailable. 1,493 units were produced in four years.

The very first Renaultsport car was a particular case, of course. What calls our attention is that the market segment it used to symbolize has almost died with it; when was the last time we’ve heard of compact convertibles? Looking back, we can say they became yet another casualty of people’s everchanging desires. The Spider has given us a chance to talk about those who shared its concept.
Understanding Digital PR Agency
Tags: Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Agency, Digital Marketing Agency, Public Relations

Digital PR or Digital Public Relations is much similar to digital marketing which has shifted from offline activity to the digital world. Digital PR agency helps in establishing and creating awareness about businesses of clients by focusing on the target audience and establishing digital footprints.

So, let’s dive to understand Digital PR Agency, its benefits, and whether it is worth it or not!

What Is A Digital PR Agency?

Digital PR Agency helps you establish and grow the reputation, brand awareness, and understanding of your product or services in the digital world. These agencies help you establish trust and reputation online with your consumers or targeted traffic. This primary is done through building relationships with online journalists, bloggers, and influencers relevant to your business or niche of your product or service.

This leads to getting media exposure on a variety of platforms which include news sites, blogs, podcasts, etc. to name a few. In addition, the clients get visibility on a wide range of online mediums and influencing their target audience.

How does Digital PR Agency Can Help?

Digital PR Agency can help you with your goals and setting up a proper strategy to accelerate and grow your online presence. Some of the deliverables, you can expect are :

Building a PR strategy based on your business goals which can include growing your backlink profile to increase organic traffic etc.

Pitching stories or content on online media platforms in the form of interviews, podcasts, etc.

Providing keyword research strategy and SEO in general to identify the type of media content you should be creating

Creating social media strategies with the help of social media influencers. Also, managing, growing and gathering feedback across all your social media channels

Benefits Of Digital Public Relations Agency

The agency provides you with a lot of benefits to your business with an efficient and well-planned strategy. Some of the benefits are as follows :

Building trust, reputation, exposure and brand awareness with your target audience

Establishing yourself as a verified or authoritative publisher within your niche

Increase in referral traffic and boost in SEO

Growing your digital footprint and brand image

To conclude, a big part of PR is creating and maintaining relationships. At StratDev, our team tackles this challenge by leveraging new and existing connections, building bridges between your brand and your dream team of collaborators. Our team works with yours to produce and promote content that engages your audience through earned media amplification. So, if you need help, guidance, or any consultancy regarding Digital PR goals, you should surely visit or contact StratDev Digital Marketing.
Estratégias de Product Analytics para empresas SaaS B2B
Tags: Marketing, Customer Experience, Data Science, Product Management, Analytics

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What is this Geospatial Data Set and Why You Should Care?
By: Mudit Gandhi
Tags: GIS, Maps, Business Intelligence, Location Intelligence, Geospatial

What is this Geospatial Data Set and Why You Should Care?

Detailed analysis on geospatial data sets, types and use cases

Let us start with some statistics (and some myth-busting/jargon deconstruct).

80% of the data today has some kind of location component to it.

Have you come across this slide/phrase before? Chances are you have. In fact, this phrase is used world-over to highlight the importance of Location Intelligence or GIS. But this is not new information, this phrase has been in use since 1985 according to this article. The world has since come a long way in terms of the data quality, quantity and the business Use Cases but the marketing gimmick remains.

As a user Location data is powering a host of services we use every day, from checking the ETA to your office as per the traffic to visualizing pollution levels in different parts of your country.

If you are a company that already uses location intelligence (think ride-hailing, ride-sharing, food delivery, ride rentals, e-pharmacy, fleet management, travel and so on) you know how important geographic data is for you.

But even for companies which are not traditionally location-based (or even tech-friendly), GIS data is useful for marketing analytics, revenue mapping, market studies and so on. Some companies use it for personnel tracking or issues tracking. Others use it to derive strategic insights. We know companies of all sizes and industries are using it and using it well. At locale.ai this data is what we process and present to get you specific actionable insights. But to understand what YOU can do with it, it is important to answer the questions:

What exactly is Geo-spatial data? What are the types of datasets under the ambit of Geospatial data that can add meaning to your analyses and where do these come from?

Definitions

Strict terminology suggests that Location data are information about the geographic positions of devices (such as smartphones or tablets) or structures (such as buildings, attractions). While the word geospatial is used to indicate that data that has a geographic component to it. This means that the records in a dataset have locational information tied to them such as geographic data in the form of coordinates, address, city, or ZIP code. GIS data is a form of geospatial data.

Geomatics is the discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information.

Geo-spatial data can be both Cross-Sectional (measured at a specific point in time) or Longitudinal/Multitemporal (time-series) data that has geographical coordinates associated with it (latitude, longitude and rarely altitude). Simply speaking, anything captured with location can be useful Geospatial data.

Datatype Variants

The independent variable or the latitude, longitude, and altitude can be of the following types:
You Need a Depression Buddy
By: Dakota Montgomery
Tags: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Friendship, Support, Depression

Photo by Dương Hữu on Unsplash

“D o you have anyone who actually understands you?”

Throughout the last 7 years of my depression, I’ve been exceptionally lucky to have encountered many people who have shared my journey. Unfortunately, the first 21 years were not so blessed. Those who are familiar with the monsters of mental illness will also be familiar with the haunting feeling of loneliness that it brings. Even the most well-meaning comments can only serve to enhance this loneliness. My father’s initial assessment was that “I needed more sunshine" and there are more people than I can count who have urged me to give up my medications. This doesn’t even touch on the people who are not quite as generous in their goodwill. It is critical for my well being and sanity that I get to speak to someone who actually understands what it means to be locked in a battle with your own brain.

My first depression buddy took the form of a lovely coworker who was delightfully upfront about her struggles and her use of antidepressants. When I was 18, my mother told me that I couldn’t take antidepressants because they would change my personality. Having someone that I admired be so willing to discuss her medications went a long way to removing the stigma around my own need for pharmaceutical intervention. I’ve tried to return this favour whenever possible. I’m not ashamed of my medications or my illness anymore. But I do need help.

As small children, we learn the Buddy System as a way to protect us from the evils that may befall a lone camper on the way to a dark outhouse. Though grown, I am no less afraid of the things that lurk in the dark. While it used to be the unknown, now I am frightened of the things that I know far too well. Having a buddy helps to banish these monsters back to the darkness that they belong to. Where we used to hold hands and share a flashlight, now we share stories and exchange late-night messages.

There is an inherent sense of vulnerability in opening yourself up to a depression buddy. You have to be able to admit your struggles and be willing to share them. Luckily, it is a glorious, symbiotic relationship and the other person is just as vulnerable. It is not a relationship between mentor and mentee, rather it is two individuals who are simply trying to make their way through a life that has thrown them some invisible, but daunting, challenges. The person offering support one day may be the one requiring it the next. You don’t only need a depression buddy, you need to be one.

“Do you have anyone who actually understands you?” One of my dear friends asked me this question the other day. Luckily I was able to point back and say “yes, I have you”. If you are reading this and find yourself sorely lacking in the buddy department, reach out to your friends and family. You never know who may also be struggling. If you don’t feel comfortable with that, send me a message. I will be your depression buddy.

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Design Jargons, UX Smells, and a special collection of articles on Chatbots
By: Fabricio Teixeira
Tags: Design, Hot This Week, Chatbots, User Experience, UX

What’s hot in UX this week:

Sagi Shrieber is a designer, writer, & entrepreneur. Co-founder of Hacking UI, founder of PixelPerfectMag, and a UX mentor for startups at Google Campus.

What are the new words you see yourself using more often recently? Any new terms that were not part of your vocabulary two years ago?

Sagi: Number one is Micro-Interactions. Back then it was all about creating prototypes. Animations were sometimes done in After Effects. Recently (in the past year or two) a lot of new tools came out which a were only about that. Tools like Principle and Origami are now used to communicate transitions & animations better than ever…

Read full interview →
How This Tire Company Created the World’s Most Famous Food Guide
Tags: Branding, Food, Culture, History, Marketing

How This Tire Company Created the World’s Most Famous Food Guide

Marketing lessons from a food guide disguised as a tire repair guide

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash

Whether you’re a budding restauranteur or just someone who loves discovering good food, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Michelin Guide.

It’s the most anticipated and renowned food handbook of the century. Every year when the Michelin Guide is updated, foodies go nuts.

And for perfectly good reason. The guide represents the highest standards and quality of food served all across the global culinary landscape.

Food in Michelin-Star restaurants is often of exquisite quality and aesthetic plating. Photo by Les Amis.

Some critics even go so far as to say that it’s the Bible of the culinary world — it’s really that influential.

Its prestigious Michelin Star ratings can also be a huge game-changer for any restaurant. Those that receive a Michelin Star for the very first time can expect a flood of customers to their establishment overnight.

Likewise, losing a Michelin Star can be devastating to the businesses of restauranteurs and chefs alike. It’s akin to having your gold medal snatched back right off your neck.

It was even reported that in 2013, superstar TV chef and decorated Michelin Star awardee Gordon Ramsay, once broke down when he lost two Michelin Stars for his New York-based restaurant, The London.

Even Gordon Ramsay, one of the world’s most successful chefs, revers the Michelin Guide.

If even Hell’s Kitchen resident bully quivered in the presence of the Michelin Guide, one can only imagine the authority that the guide has over restaurants everywhere.

So how exactly did this impressive handbook come to be created in the first place?
It’s Only a Paper Moon
By: Debbie Aruta
Tags: Moon, Writing, Poem, Writer, Poetry

It’s only a paper moon,

it holds my dreams and more.

It’s only a paper moon,

It is a wish made from floor.

It isn’t as bright as the moon,

it’s paper after all.

It’s a fake moon on my wall,

but still I make my wish.

Moonlight, moon bright,

first paper moon I see tonight,

I wish I may, I wish I might,

have this mighty wish tonight.

Grant me peace upon my bed,

when I lay down my sleepy head.

Hold me in your sweet night light,

that I may wake and be bright.

May you guide me through this night,

may you always hold me close,

gather up my thoughts,my prayers &

keep bad dreams at bay.

It’s only a paper moon,

It preserves my secrets tight,

It illuminates my life,

It contains my heart’s delight.
[LeetCode] 3Sum
Tags: Leetcode, Python

Given an array nums of n integers, are there elements a, b, c in nums such that a + b + c = 0? Find all unique triplets in the array which gives the sum of zero.

Notice that the solution set must not contain duplicate triplets.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [-1,0,1,2,-1,-4]

Output: [[-1,-1,2],[-1,0,1]]

Example 2:

Input: nums = []

Output: []

Example 3:

Input: nums = [0]

Output: []

解題想法：

這題本來想寫自己的想法下去，但發現這位大大真的寫得太好了，根本無懈可擊，讓我直接引用她的寫法吧，再次感謝 Fion carry，但她是用 C#，會 C# 的也可以學一下大大的寫法，她的文章有圖文並茂喔，值得大家去看。

[Day 7] 演算法刷題 LeetCode 15. 3Sum (Medium)

將 array 從小到大升冪排序 將須要找出的3個數的 index 分別表示為 first , second , third 用 for 迴圈計算，並將 first 做為 nums 的 起始點 second 則為 first + 1 為起始點 third 則為 nums.Length - 1 為起始點 並判斷 nums[first] + nums[second] + nums[third] 是否為 0

若等於 0，則為解答之一，Add 到 List

若小於 0，則代表負數太大，需要將 second 移至下一個較小的負數 (second++)

若大於 0，則代表正數太大，需要將 third 移至上一個較小的正數 (third--)

7. 另外判斷 first 是否已經重複，若重複則跳過此次迴圈，因為答案也會是一樣的

如 {-1, -1, 0, 1, 2}

8. 另外判斷 second 是否已經重複，若重複則 second++，並跳過此次迴圈，因為答案也會是一樣的

如 {-4, 2, 2, 2, 3}

7. 與 8. 是讓效能再更好的其中之一條件，不用重複查找已經查找過的數字。 若沒有寫也是會過的哦！

簡單好懂版：

Runtime: 1648 ms, faster than 13.79%

Memory Usage: 17.8 MB, less than 7.12%

概念相同，程式縮減版：

Runtime: 780 ms, faster than 51.52%

Memory Usage: 16 MB, less than 63.27%

參考文獻：
Time Series Forecasting With SQL — It’s Easier Than You Think
By: Dario Radečić
Tags: Sql, Artificial Intelligence, Towards Data Science, Data Science, Machine Learning

I’ve previously written about performing classification tasks with SQL, so make sure to take a look it if that’s something you find interesting:

Time series are different than your average machine learning task. You can’t train the model once, and use it for months in production. Time series models must be trained with the entirety of history data, and new data points might come every hour, day, week, or month — varying from project to project.

That’s why doing the training process in-database can be beneficial, if hardware resources are limited. Python will almost always consume more resources than the database.

We’ll use Oracle Cloud once again. It’s free, so please register and create an instance of the OLTP database (Version 19c, has 0.2TB of storage). Once done, download the cloud wallet and establish a connection through SQL Developer — or any other tool.

This will take you 10 minutes at least but is a fairly straightforward thing to do, so I won’t waste time on it.

Awesome! Let’s continue with the data loading.
Writer Of The Week: Robyn Powell
By: The Establishment
Tags: Publishing, Disability, Arts Creators, Writing, Writer Of The Week

‘Writing means empowerment.’

Though people often view objective reported journalism as the pinnacle of respectable media work, I’d argue that the personal essay can be, in its own way, just as integral to creating change in society. As a medium explicitly devoted to bridging the ever-widening empathy gap, essay-writing can push people to consider brand-new perspectives or reconsider existing ones, shifting entire ideologies while helping to engender equality. And it is actually subjectivity — the sharing of a definitively personal experience — that most powerfully makes this happen.

Robyn Powell provides a particularly compelling example of these forces in action. Her candid, nuanced essays addressing disability rights through the lens of her own lived experience have no doubt helped countless people question their ideas and biases. At the same time, her writing also deftly weaves in legal context (she’s an attorney) and research-based reporting to provide a multifaceted approach to journalism.

It is through weaving together all these elements—the personal, the contextual, the factual — that Robyn is able to so convincingly argue that, for example, disabled mothers have historically faced grave injustices, or that Trump, Sessions, and Bannon represent an unholy trinity of anti-disability-rights ideology.

When asked what writing means to her, Robyn replied that she finds it empowering. And through her richly layered writing, Robyn empowers us all.

Below, Robyn shares her thoughts on Cyndi Lauper, ice cream, and which Sex and the City character she is.

The TV character I most identify with is Miranda from Sex and the City.

I think “paying writers in exposure” is exploitative and devaluing.

My most listened to song of all time is “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper.

My 18-year-old self would feel surprised but content about where I am today.

I like writing for The Establishment because it is women-run.

If I could only have one type of food for the rest of my life it would be ice cream.

The story I’m working on now is about sexual assault among students with disabilities.

The story I want to write next is about reproductive justice for women with disabilities.

If I could share one of my stories by yelling it into a megaphone in the middle of Times Square, it would be “As A Disabled Person, I Implore You Not To Vote For Donald Trump.” This was written pre-November 2016 — if only more people had heeded this advice.

Writing means this to me: Writing allows me to express myself in ways that my day job does not. Now more than ever, we need the stories of those from marginalized communities front and center, and writing enables me to do this. Writing also provides the opportunity to give exposure to the issues facing people with disabilities — something that is far too often overlooked. In sum, for me, writing means empowerment.

If I could summarize writing in a series of three GIFs, it would be: GIFs are usually inaccessible to people with disabilities.
Using Application Load Balancers to Handle Multiple Domain Redirects
By: Dlt Labs
Tags: Software Development, AWS, Dltlabs, DevOps, Programming

I hope everyone has been following safety measures and staying inside to be healthy. The time bygone and the present have been unfamiliar in long stretches, forcing us all to find ways to peck our mind in different areas.

Since you are here, let me share a problem where I applied a similar idea.

In my time helping develop high-performance infrastructure and services at DLT Labs™, I’ve learned a lot about the role of load balancers while making them scalable.

One of the cloud providers we work with is Amazon Web Services, and today I thought I’d talk a little about what they call an Application Load Balancer (ALB), and what is needed to set one up.

Amidst all ongoing activities, one day my team witnessed a bottleneck caused by a requirement for multiple domains to be redirected to a single domain. On looking out for possible solutions, I came across a few. Naturally, as solutions go, they presented certain limitations too.

Magically, an Application Load Balancer can help provide a one-stop solution to clearly sweep-off this problem. Thereafter, you can go and explore more to take advantage of its different use cases in various areas. Now, let’s get familiar with the problem, related approach, and its solution.

#The problem

Here is some context before diving right into the solution:

For example, let's say there are three domains: “testprac1.example.com”, “testprac2.example.com”, and “testprac3.example.com” and all these domains are required to serve HTTP/HTTPS requests.

Requests of any either nature — HTTP or HTTPS for each of the domains above, must be involuted into the same request — i.e., a request to “testprac2.example.com” should be redirected to “testprac1.example.com”. Likewise, a request to “testprac3.example.com” should be redirected to “testprac1.example.com”.



In case you are hosting static data, Amazon S3 and Amazon Route53 would come into the picture, or you can create several domains for each record to be served.

This isn’t the simplest solution, as it isn’t what we call a feels-right-sort-of-solution!

Undoubtedly, I too felt the same, and ultimately found a gem of a source. What I found, I am going to put all of that for you in the following solution.

The solution

What we are going to use here, is a ‘Layer 7 load balancer’. Layer 7 is a term for the application layer, where the human-computer interaction happens, from the widely-used OSI model of computer systems.

This will allow us to dictate a set of rules. These rules can make it either redirect or forward the incoming request(s) to the corresponding destination(s) using a mapping form of mechanism.

We will use ALB which provides the capability to redirect requests from one domain to the newer domain that we intend to serve.
100 Things You Should Know About People: #9 — Blue and Red Together is Hard On Your Eyes (Chromostereopsis)
By: The Team W
Tags: Psychology, Chromostereopsis, Usability, Visual Design

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What is it about red and blue? — When lines (or letters) of different colors are projected or printed, the depths of the lines may appear to be different; lines of one color may “jump out” while lines of another color are recessed. This effect is called Chromostereopsis. This effect is strongest with red and blue, but it can also happen with other colors (for example, red and green).

So what? — In addition to causing a depth effect, chromostereopsis can also be annoying and hard on the eyes. It is fatiguing. Although there are different theories as to why your eyes react to these color combinations in the way that they do, the important thing to remember is that they do.

What should you do about it? — If you are a visual or web designer make sure that you are not using red and blue together in this way. I still find web sites that have this color combination. Here are a few!

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What examples have you found?

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Machine Learning Full Course | FREE OF CHARGE !!
Tags: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

According to the Economic Times, 11.5 million job openings by 2026 with sky-high salaries.

However, learning these skills can be quite hectic especially if you don’t have a big budget to spend on these courses.

Institutions that offer these courses price it at budget-breaking limits knowing that people are more inclined to learn these skills.

Degrees in Data Science are hyped as high as $114,000 and above. Online courses are priced as well with few affordable to those who can afford it.

WHAT IF YOU WANT TO BE A SELF-TAUGHT DATA SCIENTIST/MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER?

I received 3,011 emails asking me to help them learn Data Science. Having thought of these self-motivated students, I decided to make my paid course free for everyone to kick-start their journey in Data Science.

This course has been selling since last year, with over 4,320 students enrolled.

I made this course free of charge so that you can also start your journey and save your budget for more critical issues.

You can SUBSCRIBE to the channel and click on the Notification bell for any updates and new courses and projects.

I have all the course and the course materials available and I have created a playlist for these courses in sequential order.
I Was In Love With A Narcissist:
By: Christine Macdonald
Tags: Relationships, Mental Health, Dating, Love, Life

After my text to him, I shut my phone off to hide. My life felt suddenly over. “This is good for you”, I reasoned aloud. “You did the right thing.” Words I tossed into the ether with the cadence of Carol Brady. I imagined her talking Alice off the orange linoleum ledge after leaving Sam The Butcher. I was alone in my apartment — heartbroken but safe — wrapped in Colgate and coffee-stained terrycloth. My house robe was now a makeshift blanket providing comfort as I sat on the kitchen tile. I wanted my own Carol Brady.

I pulled myself up from the floor and grabbed toilet paper from the near-empty roll in the bathroom and used it as tissue. The puffy bags framing my bloodshot eyes were fun. So this is what a more pathetic version of myself looks like.

The dewy shadows above my kitchen sink were waving for my attention. Great. A new day — whether I wanted one or not. But instead of ignoring the dirty dishes (mocking my apathy) and collapsing into the sofa with Netflix and detachment, I did something different. I stood in the mess, pulled up the blinds and started cleaning. My knees were weak (a breakup staple) but my heart felt different. Although freshly disabled, it was beating in an unfamiliar way. Its rhythm was heavy, supplying natural adrenaline from feeling distraught — but there was no shame. I knew right then that I had turned a corner. Instead of my usual long-winded text messages to him explaining how he hurt me and why I deserved better, my text this time was simple: “I can’t do this anymore.”

Ending a five-year relationship via text message isn’t ideal for everyone — but safely leaving an abusive relationship with a narcissist, is.

After a while, my wastebasket was overflowing and I exhaled at the irony, picking up pieces of my feelings. While rinsing my hands in the bathroom sink I lifted my head, peered into the reds of my eyes and had an epiphany: This heartache was completely avoidable. If only I followed the signs instead of ran from them.
Homophobia’s Gonna Cost You!
By: M. J. Murphy
Tags: Gay, Development, LGBTQ, Law, Social Justice

In the study Polarized Progress: Social Acceptance of LGBT People in 141 Countries researchers combined results of 11 cross-national, global, and regional surveys to develop a Global Acceptance Index (GAI) score for social and legal protections for LGBT people in 141 countries.

Perhaps surprisingly, LGBT acceptance has generally increased!

Since 1980, 80 (of 141) countries have seen increased GAI scores while 46 countries have seen a decline. Only 15 countries saw no change.

However, LGBT acceptance has become more polarized. Countries with a history of acceptance have become even more accepting. Countries that were less tolerant have become even more so.

Many Western democracies —such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina— already had high GAI scores and saw modest increases.

That stands in contrast to much of Western Europe, and the standout Latin American country Uruguay, which saw the greatest improvements in GAI scores.

Conversely, intolerant countries in North, West, and East Africa and East, Central, and South Asia saw even further declines in acceptance.

And highly intolerant countries, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh saw precipitous declines in their GAI scores.
Getting Started With WebAssembly, Docker, and Alpine
By: Steven Rescigno
Tags: Webassembly, Docker, Startup, Programming, Wasm

Building WASM Files Inside Docker

Now that we have our .dockerfile set up, let's build from this file:

docker build -t wasm .

Let's finally get started with the WASM app written in Go.

Create a file named main.go . This will be our main application (aka front end) that will later be written to the WASM file:

We defined a few functions in the Go syntax (vanilla-js-looking).

WASM is a native machine assembly language for browsers.

Remember that some Go functions may not be compatible. Some functions that attempt to interact with the host machine due to the sandboxed nature of web browsers may not work.

Now, let's create an index.html file that can trigger these functions and run our program.

Here, we have a function that calls an onClick HTML button element.

This add() function does not exist yet until we compile the .wasm file.

Let’s review where the compiling happens in our Dockerfile:

RUN GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build -o main.wasm

The RUN command will compile to .wasm before we load the server.

GOOS=js and GOARCH=wasm are required to build a .wasm file.

While using go build with an -o argument to set an output file name, our Go application will be compiled to WASM.

Let’s run a container in detached mode using the argument -d :

docker run -d -p 8180:8080 wasm

As you can see, I am using port 8180: in front of the port 8080 .

This is to remap from the host machine to the container.
How to Ensure Your Child Develops a Debilitating Phobia, in 8 Simple Steps
By: Caitlin Brown
Tags: Satire, Parenting, Humor, Parenthood, Psychology

Set the scene. You, the parent, are enjoying a sleepy Sunday morning, nursing a lukewarm beverage on the sofa. Your tiny tot toddles towards you, eyes a-sparkle, babbling about ducks, bunnies, or suchlike.

It’s a perfect moment before it all falls apart.

Your eyes are drawn, ineluctably, to a skittering black beast on your precious angel’s pristine pajamas. Who knows whence it came — perhaps from the very maw of hell, or perhaps from under the coffee table. Either way, it’s the spider of your nightmares. And before long your child’s too, if you follow these steps correctly!

1. First, you scream. Don’t hold back. If you’re having difficulty achieving the correct volume (loud) and pitch (ear-splitting), visualization exercises may assist. Imagine you’ve gone to rouse your adorable babe from a nap, and instead discovered them transformed into a bristly, beady-eyed arachnid. Your scream should be invested with a similar sense of Kafkaesque horror.

2. Your child may wail. All to the good. Don’t rush to comfort them. Instead, continue to demonstrate your inability to function in the face of the advancing monster. A dramatic coffee spill will do nicely.

3. Next, you must engage the demon in battle. Your child is the battleground. The spoils, their sanity.

4. Keep that crusading zeal at the forefront of your mind as you make your trembling way towards your toddler, eyes brimming with murderous purpose.

5. Seize any incongruous instrument in the vicinity with which you can wage war. This may be a tissue, a puzzle piece, a stuffed animal; the more absurd, the better! Bat your chosen weapon ineffectually in the vague direction of your hideous foe. The aim here is not to harm spider or child, but to cause confusion and bewilderment at your incompetence in this crisis.

6. The dread arachnid, now as traumatized as the child, will be crawling in frantic circles over your precious infant. Take one last desperate swipe and it will fall unharmed at your feet, before vanishing into the spidery hinterlands of your home.

7. Claw off your child’s clothes, lest the enemy has found shelter therein. You may both be sobbing, but safety first; divest them fully before clasping to your bosom.

8. The final step is crucial. Crying child in tow, flee the room you started in. Find a defensible space, (a closet works perfectly) and slam the door. This closet is now your home. Forget that you ever possessed a kitchen. The era in your life of frivolities, like toilets, and beds, is over forever. That land belongs to the spider, now.

Crouch in your sanctuary and clutch your distraught offspring close. Try humming a gentle lullaby as you rock back and forth. Keep your eyes trained at all times on that thin strip of light beneath the door. ‘Ware the approaching shadow. Never forget about the enemy beyond.

Congratulations! You’ve succeeded in scarring your child for life.
New England’s Series A Deals — Part III
By: Matt Snow
Tags: Startup, New England, Venture Capital, Fundraising, Technology

Recently, The Buzz profiled the a number of market maps on the New England Venture/Startup Ecosystem including the following:

These market maps continue to be very positively received by our subscribers so we’re continuing to deliver. This week, we have the final installment of the New England Series A Deals articles. Here’s the list:
The Salton Sea — A Disappearing Environmental Asset
By: Thomas O'Grady
Tags: Biodiversity, Public Health, Environmental Issues, Ecology, Environment

What was the impact of this new body of water? Located well below sea level at -225 feet and without a natural outflow, the sea filled and expanded. The site grew to over 800 square miles although the depth of the Salton Sea was relatively shallow at about 30–50 feet. Because a major source of inflow was agricultural runoff the amount of dissolved salt in the Sea increase. Several things happened as a result of the expanding Salton Sea. First, the Sea was designated as a repository for agricultural drainage. This drainage area eased the waterlogging of the land in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys. Improved land increased the agricultural output of the land. Later, the State of California began to stock the Salton Sea with fish in hopes that sports fishing would take off. The Salton Sea became a noted spot for anglers and this activity brought other tourist activities to the area surrounding the Sea.

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

What were the impacts of the Salton Sea on area biodiversity? The stocking of fish in the sea, the interest from Anglers, and the make-up of the sea made it a haven for several species of endangered fish and birds.

Additionally, California was impacted by receding wetlands in many areas because of a heavy need for residential water usage. The Salton Sea became a maintain stay stopover for birds flying on their migratory pathways. In fact, the Salton Sea National Refuge indicates that 380 species of birds can be spotted at the Sea, which is higher than many other national refuge areas. The Salton Sea area has been compared to the Texas Gulf Coast in the amount of biodiversity and economic impact it has on surrounding areas.

Humans may overlook the value of biodiversity in their everyday lives the Salton Sea provided a haven for many species while serving the economic and agricultural demands of humans. Attempting to change people’s values and attitudes towards conservation or environmentalism may be difficult but some solutions require little action at all.
WD Stack on Medium
By: Carol Skelly
Tags: About, Design, Responsive Design, Web Design, Web Development

We think that designers & front-end developers should easily be able to discover the latest resources, tools and useful freebies.

The WD Stack is publication for frontend developers and web designers. If you have a story idea please submit the draft or published link to us for review via your Medium account.

WD Stack.com is home to the top resources on dev & design. It’s organized in collections, and stacked by popularity so it’s easy to find the stuff you really want.

Because “best” is a matter of opinion.

Deciding what’s “best” is subjective. The selection and ranking of resources should be a community-driven process. WD Stack facilitates community-driven curation where users vote on the posted resources. Instead of one author, curating what they deem to be useful, the broader community (you) builds and rates the resources to fairly determine what’s “best”.

Check out WDstack.com to find resources grouped logically by collection, or you can browse by popularity as ranked by other users.
How to Appreciate Yourself Gamefully and Kindly
By: Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Tags: Ideas, Self-awareness, Gaming, Serendipity, Appreciation

The “Appreciation Game”

I decided to enhance my “Creativity and Gratitude Game” with another game I sometimes play, the “Appreciation Game,” which is just a regular notebook where I record each little step I accomplish during the day. That way, I make sure that I move in small steps and not in big jumps. After writing down what I just did, I immediately cross it out. For me, it closes the move, and I can then go on to the next one.

You might wonder what this detailed recording can achieve, besides slowing down and interfering with progress on what I want or need to do. In fact, it has the opposite effect. By taking several seconds to record each little self-contained step, I slow down enough to appreciate what I have just done. I also interrupt possible dwelling thoughts such as “That is not what I wanted to do” or “That is not good enough.” I simply record what I have done, appreciate that I am progressing with my day, and then by crossing out the record, I free myself up for anything else I want to do that day.

This striking through each record stops me from mentally going back to what I just did and trying to reiterate it in my thoughts. In games, too, you can’t go back (as in a browser) either if you made the “wrong” move. In many games, you have to start anew. So basically, you play a new game round or a new game altogether. Looking at my to-do list for the day, or anyone or anything that comes my way or requires my attention, helps me to identify that next challenge, project, or activity “game.”
Zen 224
By: Susan Brearley
Tags: Poetry, Travel, Environment, Mindfulness, Inspiration

Susan Brearley is a brilliant strategist and entrepreneur, a published book author, writer, seasoned editor, essayist, occasional comedy writer, and an accidental poet. She’s the happy owner of between 1 and 20 top writer badges on Medium, on any given day.

She is Chef, Elder and Program Director at Elf Works Lane Retreat Center, where she coaches and mentors people, helping them identify and create the life they were born to live, on the planet we all want to live on. Next Garden of Neuro Workshop is scheduled for October 9–12 in the Adirondacks, and will accommodate a maximum of 7 people. Send a message for more information. In the meantime, join one of our Mastermind Book Club cohorts.

She is currently based in the mid-Hudson Valley, New York.
The City
By: Brian Mboya
Tags: Ideas, Dreams, Minds, Artificial Intelligence

Inception

What are dreams? What role do they play in our lives? When you say you had a dream, what does that mean to you? Do you sit back and think about this dream or do you assume it’s just one of the tricks your unconscious mind does to clear the unwanted, the unfathomable? These are philosophical questions and the question of what dreams are is quite interesting.

In my early ages as a young boy, I had a dream. Not once, not twice but many times. It was the dream of flying. Well, as many of you would think, such an experience is one beautiful and fascinating in its sense, why not visit that world again. That’s exactly how I felt and to me this dream had no meaning at all other than just a dream.

As a boy I could not question such experiences like anyone with understanding would, assuming they know what understanding means. Later on, as I gained a little bit of understanding, I began to be self-aware — so I think. I started to see the world around me in this timeline and the world to come as not much different from the world in my unconscious mind.

There have been questions on the internet whether human beings would be able to create such a thing as an intelligent machine and flying vehicles, these are the topics these days. Well, I’m not educated in this area but it’s okay to speculate. My speculation is there would be such a being or in a more general term, world, in the coming times. It’s an interesting and beautiful world to think about if you ask me.

West world

What does intelligence in these contexts mean? Well, let’s do a thought experiment. The Universe as the scientists have discovered created what we now know as Evolution. Evolution created one of the most complex beings, us, human beings. If you think about it, it is a process. Now, a question would arise, what then have humans created? There is technology. But is that all there is? Well, think about it.

One of the most, if not, The most interesting topics in the world of technology is Artificial Intelligence(AI). The idea that we as humans can create something or someone that thinks, acts and has the same experiences as we do. One would ask, will these beings have an experience like dreaming as my young or every humans’ soul does? Assuming there is such a thing as a soul — I think there is. The answer is, we’ll see.

What about understanding? Well, as Roger Penrose puts it in the following video, Intelligence is something that needs understanding. Does it mean then that until we build a machine that has understanding, we cannot think of such an entity as intelligent? I will leave that to you the creators of AI.

Final Words

This is my dream and a city I want to live in, it’s one we all want to be in. But how do we get there?
Where Are All the Studios Going?
By: Mitchell F Wolfe
Tags: Gaming, Game Development, Startup, Super Jump Podcast, Podcasts

Where Are All the Studios Going?

Super Jump Podcast: Season 3, Episode 25

Mitchell and Wyatt need to know: Where are all the studios going? It seems like every mid-size studio is either failing or is being absorbed into larger companies. Is there a future for game makers bigger than indies, but smaller than triple-A?

All that and more on this week’s Super Jump Podcast!

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In our third season, we’re exploring a wide variety of gaming topics on the Super Jump Podcast, with the fun, enthusiasm, and positivity that we apply to the magazine itself. We really hope you enjoy the show as we continue into our third season — please take the opportunity to rate us on iTunes too, as it will really give us a boost.

Thanks for listening, and stay super!
It’s Okay to be a Fallow Field Sometimes
By: Deidre Delpino Dykes
Tags: Self Care, Work From Home, Work Life Balance, Quarantinelife, Mental Health

It’s Okay to be a Fallow Field Sometimes

The wisdom of doing nothing

Photo by Federico Respini on Unsplash

Hi, it’s me, your neighborhood annoying productivity cheerleader. I’ve learned something in the last few weeks — it’s okay not to push yourself to achieve something every single day. Is “write every day” good advice? Of course! Is it realistic? Well, that depends. Should you punish yourself for not being able to do it? Absolutely NOT.

I suffer from anxiety and perfectionism, all rolled up together with a bow of horrific, crippling guilt on top. So when I get up at 6:45 in the morning, my whole day is GO GO GO until I pass out, exhausted, somewhere around 1 am. That’s IF I fall sleep — anxiety likes to keep me awake, worrying about what I will have to do the following day or what I didn’t achieve today.

In these strange and unprecedented times, we are asked to cope with or even ignore an ongoing, mass trauma, and to try and be as productive as we were not that long ago. Don’t hold yourself to the standards of the world as it was three months ago; that world is gone.

Don’t punish yourself for not being “productive,” and don’t internalize capitalism so hard that you think you’re only valuable when you’re accomplishing something or making money. My god that’s unhealthy.

As for me? I’m learning, bit by bit, to just BE. To just sit still. To do things I enjoy without productivity or hustle being a part of the equation. Farmers have known for generations that letting a field lie unused for a season now and again was actually good for it; better still, it can be planted with restorative crops that give back to the soil to make it better at its job next growing season.

Treat yourself like a farm — now and again, take some time off and engage in an activity that inspires you, fulfills you, refreshes you. Your (later) productivity will thank you.