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Seeking Living Perfection: The Fallacy of “Real Women”
By: Kathryn Foss
Tags: LGBTQ, Transgender, Humanity

Photo by Kyle on Unsplash

So why is it that when we should be becoming stronger as a species because of our differences, transgender people like myself struggle under constant societal pressure to conform? We are ostracized for being different, and are regularly misunderstood. When we take steps towards our own reality of perfection, we are condemned for changing what was given to us at birth.

How can anyone morally accept a cisgender woman getting breast augmentation to be more attractive, but shame a transgender woman for getting similar implants to align her body with her gender identity? What is the difference between a middle-age cisgender woman getting a facelift and a transgender woman getting Facial Feminization Surgery? Is there really anything wrong with a cisgender woman getting a vulvoplasty to tighten up her vaginal area to look nicer or a transgender woman getting a vaginoplasty to give her the appropriate genitals?

To those who find it difficult to understand a transgender person’s existence, that is okay….it is perfectly fine to not understand. In reality, all of humanity struggles to understand life and each individual spends their entire lifetime searching for their place within humanity, and their search for perfection. I truly believe that there has never been a person who has ever lived who figured it all out, so not one person will ever be truly capable of judging another.

We spend too much time focusing on differences and likeness, placing labels to determine who belongs and who doesn’t. We dismiss and diminish those who do not meet the same standards. I heard a comment about the difference between transgender women and “real” women…that trans women never lived the struggle and oppression which the real ones have. Many people have struggled and been oppressed, in many ways, by many people, for many reasons. And not all of them have been women.

I, as a transgender woman, honour the experiences and struggles that women before me have lived through. I, as a transgender woman, accept that I will never be what some view a “real” woman, because of my genetics or lack of certain organs…even if many ”real” women have those issues as well.

What I do hope, as a transgender woman, is that I can be treated as a woman, and that my experiences and struggles I have lived through to be the woman I am can be honoured and respected, as it should be for all of humanity.

I am unique and beautiful, and I contribute to amazing diversity that exists within our species and on this world of ours.
English brunch with our clients: a meal for better performing product campaigns!
By: Ppc Bee
Tags: Brunch, Event, Meetup, Clients, SaaS

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What It’s Like to Live Paycheck to Paycheck as Fifty year olds
By: Kathleen Finn
Tags: Financial Hardship, Money, Paycheck To Paycheck, Economics

Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels

I can distinctly remember biking through my hometown with my then boyfriend, now husband, talking about our futures. We insisted that we would never drive cars we couldn’t afford; we would prefer to be ‘house poor’ and live in place we loved where we could raise a family.

Little did we know.

Neither my husband nor I had been raised with a strong background in economics. Both our parents were in education — history and science. Shortly after we got married, my husband we presented with a job opportunity that set us on a path that essentially determined our economic future — only we didn’t know it at the time.

This job he took was a great opportunity — however, it was an enormous pay cut. This was twenty years ago. At that time, his salary was below the poverty level. My job brought us barely above that line — however, I’m a teacher so I only got paid nine months a year.

And so we began living paycheck to paycheck.

After a few years, my husband and I decided we needed to be in an industry that could pay him a salary that was above the poverty line before we could think about having children. So we moved home and we moved home and he took a job in sales.

This was a boost in income-which we appreciated. However, we were so far in debt at this point, we had no idea where to go from that point.

This is where I now tell my children we are a cautionary tale as had we made other choices perhaps we’d be in a different position today. We tried paying off multiple debts instead of tackling one at a time….

We rented several houses instead of buying one and staying put.

When we did finally buy one, we didn’t take into consideration how big our family would get and couldn’t stay there long term because we outgrew it.

We didn’t listen to our twenty-year old selves and bought a vehicle we couldn’t afford.

Some of the circumstances were out of our control…like the real estate market tanking when we needed to sell our too small house; an industry illegally paying their employees below the poverty line — something for which they were later sued for and found guilty of (but too late to help us of course).

However, those circumstances would have been far less damaging had we made better choices with the circumstances we could control. That is the lesson I teach my children. There’s nothing you can do about the circumstances you can’t control, so do the best with the ones you can.

I won’t pretend to say it’s a hard lesson to learn because as I sit here I am healthy, my family is healthy, my husband and I love each other, and my children are remarkable individuals. That’s the lesson I’ve learned in the face of all the economic difficulties we’ve faced through the years, and I’m grateful.
A complete guide to creating a creative CV
By: Fahri Karakas
Tags: Creativity, Personal Brand, Jobs, Cv, Job Hunting

If you are thinking of applying for a job in creative sectors, consider creating a creative CV.

What is a creative CV?

See examples below:

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A creative CV will help you showcase your design skills and differentiate yourself in a crowded job market.

For example, imagine that you have created your CV as a cereal box:

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You might choose to showcase your design skills, for example:

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You can go for a CV that looks both creative and professional:

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Alternatively, you can think of creating an infographic CV, which will capture your career in numbers:

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Or you can go crazy and create a resume that looks like a horror movie poster:

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Another cool alternative is to create a CV which looks like a board game:

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You can also consider creating a personal mind map, like the one below.

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One of my genius students at McGill, Megumi Wada, created a periodic table of her own as part of her coursework some years ago. I have never forgotten this work. I loved this artwork so much that I asked her permission to use this as a learning resource for my students. I think it is simply brilliant — I am captivated by the originality of her idea and her execution:
Why e-wallet wins over debit/credit cards?
Tags: Debit Card, Cash, Wallet, E Wallet, Fintech

‘Wallet’, typically known as a purse to keep cash, cards, etc.’ ‘E-wallet’, has replaced a wallet from its physical form to an electronic form. An e-wallet needs to be linked to an individual’s bank account to make payments. Today, the spread of e-wallets in India is such that one can make payments for various purposes- from DTH bills to phone bills, from street side vendors to cab drivers or companies (like Ola, Uber). E-wallets have turned the world to the next level of development and technology. The Reach of e- wallets is huge, its fast, accessible, safe, easy, and is linked to almost every platform to make payments, and make our lives way more easier. Whereas debit and credit cards are directly linked to our bank accounts and are used to make payments either by swiping or in ATMs to collect cash. It uses a secure method by asking for the PIN, CVV or the OTP at the time of making any transaction.

The biggest push for mobile wallets came when the RBI insisted there has to be a two-step authentication process for all card transactions done for a cab service. This meant cashless payment that was pushed as one of the greatest ease of availing these cab services were suddenly rendered useless. Operators like Uber, Ola and others, then switched to mobile wallets to enable user carry out cashless payment. The biggest segment of mobile wallet users is the ones who avail such cabs and hence the segment has seen rapid growth.

Although globally around for more than five decades, credit cards in India are still at a nascent stage. There are about 21.2 million credit cards in circulation with HDFC Bank having the maximum number of card holders as of April, 2015.

Unlike a physical wallet where credit cards and cash are bundled in a single location, a mobile wallet contains extra layers of security that protects your electronic transactions. Digitally storing your financial details helps in case you misplace your wallet. Consumers face the risk that their sensitive information will fall into the wrong hands making you more susceptible to credit card fraud. While more than a third (37%) of those who experienced fraud with the organization would stop shopping there, 26% would not and 37% are not sure. Part of the challenge is deploying totally secure technology for mobile and online shopping. The other part is gaining the confidence of consumers that their information will remain secure.
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Tags: Engineering, News, Company, Medium

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For all the latest stories on how we’re building product excellence, you can follow our newest Medium publication, productboard Engineering. For our kick-off post, read about how our new front-end engineer, Maurice Kleine, found his way to Prague and wound up interviewing for a job at productboard while in the back of a car in India!

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Startups: Other Things to Consider When Choosing a Tech Stack
By: Richard Adams
Tags: Development, Tech Leadership, Tech Stack, Share Learnings, Startup Lessons

Developers love new things, but there are other, equally important factors that technical leaders often overlook.

A “Technology Stack.”

The Internet’s full of articles with titles like “Node vs. Go” or “Battle of the Next-Gen Frameworks,” but side-by-side comparisons like these, often miss the point. There’s a host of other reasons why your business might choose one tech stack over another.
The State of 2 Minute Madness #25
By: Toni Koraza
Tags: Marketing, Startup, Art, Progress, Writing

The outrage and upheaval will pass

If you’ve been distracted this past week, and couldn’t quite figure out what’s going on with the world, then welcome aboard.

This is the USS New Normal.

If you’re exhausted, tired, and frustrated, we get it.

You’re living in times of upheaval and outrage. Hopefully, the US election will pass like every election before this one. The pandemic will turn into a nasty memory soon. And you’ll get back to business as usual. The good thing is that you had more time to write and reflect this year, and maybe you started a cool project or two, or even five.

Let’s focus on creating more of that stuff!

Send us more of your good work, and let’s share awesome content together.
Why it’s Super Hard to be an ML Researcher or Developer?
By: Nishu Jain
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, Careers

Listen and Read

According to the stats, currently, 33,000 ML Research papers are being published per year. That means, around 90+ papers per day! And almost every single paper introduces something new, without any exception.

Source: “Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems” (Google AI)

As an “AI enthusiast”, I try to get a brief (or a rough idea) of as many papers as possible to keep myself updated in the industry. But to be honest, it feels a bit overwhelming.

To make things much worse, I recently heard a “story” that literally changed my life as an ML/DL developer.

Warning: What I’m about to share with you may disturb your career as an ML researcher/developer or make you deeply anxious. So, hear my reasoning until the end.

You may love it or hate it, but you can’t ignore it

After realizing what I mentioned above, I was already feeling like, “Have I wasted a good amount of my life with ML research? Could I do something more useful with my life?”. And then …
At Last
By: Muhammad Nasrullah Khan
Tags: Poetry, Love, Poesia, Libraries, Soul

“At last, when all the summer shine

That warmed life’s early hours is past,

Your loving fingers seek for mine

And hold them close — at last — at last!

Not oft the robin comes to build

Its nest upon the leafless bough

By autumn robbed, by winter chilled, —

But you, dear heart, you love me now.



Though there are shadows on my brow

And furrows on my cheek, in truth, —

The marks where Time’s remorseless plough

Broke up the blooming sward of Youth, —

Though fled is every girlish grace

Might win or hold a lover’s vow,

Despite my sad and faded face,

And darkened heart, you love me now!



I count no more my wasted tears;

They left no echo of their fall;

I mourn no more my lonesome years;

This blessed hour atones for all.

I fear not all that Time or Fate

May bring to burden heart or brow, —

Strong in the love that came so late,

Our souls shall keep it always now!”
Software testing — use JMeter + Grafana to evaluate the Web performance and perform live monitoring
By: Sean Hs
Tags: Performance Test, Jmeter, Software Testing, Influxdb, Grafana

If you want to love your own value, you have to create value to the world

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Reflections
By: Sarah E Sturgis
Tags: Imagination, Nature Writing, Reflections, Writing, Imagery

Watery murals paint gazebo ceiling, splashing glazed reflections of the pond onto cedar panels. Sways go the waves, as moving pictures dance across clockwork dimensions in refracting light. A haunting strobe light paces upon octagonal beams with the watery vibe, the passing rhythm a song for waltzing. The fountain sings a quiet melody for night gazers to enjoy.

Two friends sit under moonlit gazebo writing poems on watery landscapes, as frogs start to blanket sound with soothing, idle chatter. “Pop, gurgle, pop,” The frogs sing! Fish start to splash and breathe in deep the hazy, watery glimmer, iridescent in the night light. The cicadas start to come to life, buzzing, buzzing. The crickets begin to strum their wings, chirping, chirping, chirping. The lights around the lake form a halo of golden light that glistens off the water. But then the clock strikes nine and the life of the pond begins to change.

The fountain stops, on an automatic timer, and the pond goes to sleep with a glossy filter dashed across its surface. The frogs die down, the waves die down, and the clockwork murals cease their movements and paint a placid scene on the gazebo canopy. The stargazers notice a faint hum of night birds in the air, off in the distance. They gaze up at their lovely gazebo murals and take one last moment to enjoy the effect of water reflecting off of cedar before they leave for the night. As they do, they remind themselves that tonight they truly lived, for what is life without a little reflection?
In Pictures: Red Arrows return from North America 🇺🇸🇨🇦
By: Ministry Of Defence
Tags: Jets, Photo Essay, Aviation, British, Military

Exercise Western Hawk saw the RAF’s Red Arrows visit North America for the first time since 2008, today they returned home to the UK for an emotional homecoming.

The reds flew all over the USA and Canada from coast to coast, making it one of their most ambitious tours to date. Each show is a demonstration of creativity, engineering excellence and innovation, not just hallmarks of the Red Arrows and RAF.

The tour pushed the Red Arrows to all corners of the of the continent, including:

Ottawa — Gatineau-Ottawa Airshow

— Gatineau-Ottawa Airshow Chicago — Air and Water Show

— Air and Water Show Atlantic City — Thunder Over The Boardwalk

— Thunder Over The Boardwalk New York — New York Airshow, Stewart International

— New York Airshow, Stewart International Toronto — Canadian International Airshow

— Canadian International Airshow St. Louis — Spirit of St. Louis Airshow & STEM Expo

— Spirit of St. Louis Airshow & STEM Expo Portland-Hillsboro — The Oregon International Airshow

— The Oregon International Airshow Los Angeles (Huntington Beach) — The Great Pacific Airshow

📸 Here are our favourite images from their tour 👇
Light
By: Presley Thomas
Tags: Spirit, Poetry, Soul

Photo by Inga Gezalian on Unsplash

If the mirror reflects the body,

what does the body reflect?

The soul, hidden beneath, a

rash on the skin, knuckles

that crack — a body broken

to reveal.
Book Coach Success Spotlight: Suzette Mullen
By: Terri M. Leblanc
Tags: Freelancing, Success Story, Books, Coaching Skills, Writing

Q: Okay, Suzette, how did you come to book coaching? Were you a writer looking for a way to dive deeper into the craft? A coach hoping to expand or enhance your services? Were you entering book coaching totally fresh?

Suzette: I had already dipped my toes into book coaching, but in late 2019, I decided to go all in! I had been a long-time Author Accelerator client, and I knew this was the place to go to uplevel my book coaching expertise.
Why Mexico struggles with entrepreneurship
By: Ivan Flores Hurtado
Tags: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Education

Yet the share of men and women that works on his/her own account is the biggest for any country in the world.

How can we expect entrepreneurs to succeed if the playing field is uneven towards mature corporations?

Well, one of the measures of a prosperous entrepreneurship sector is the relationship between education and innovation, which Mexico does not even register a blip. There was no trace of information where Mexico relates education with entrepreneurship. There are always significant differences in people’s perceptions about the role of education in developing an entrepreneurial attitude and a sense of initiative but it seems to be unimportant in Mexico.

Nevertheless, the data shows that fast-growth economies like India and China agree that education helps them build this attitude and sense of initiative. Only when you dive deep into the literature available and gain a solid database of knowledge, that you start building skills and know-hows to enable you to run a business. It also crafts a vision in society of how an entrepreneur should look like. The outcome of Mexico’s not paying attention to the alarming lack of quality entrepreneurial education is that the likelihood of someone choosing entrepreneurship as a career is very low.

You need the ambition to succeed, to start again from failure and the sense of duty to support family, friends and relatives planning to set up a business.

Another alarming figure shows that Mexico has second highest share of unpaid persons employed in micro-enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Meaning, people are actually working for $0 pesos.The OECD divides this subset of persons employed into working family members and working proprietors. Sometimes there is no other choice than to ask someone; usually a close relative, to do you a favor and cover your shift.

Lastly, the value added by an enterprise in relation to the economy’s total business economy is a miserable last place in Mexico’s case. With 5.79% for businesses with 0–9 employees and dropping to 2.65% in the next category of 10–19 employees, both dead last worldwide. This implies that Mexican entrepreneurs which represent over 20% of the total population are not productive at all. They have far too many cash leaks with legal hurdles and unexpected events which hampers growth and puts any future at a disadvantage. Larger enterprises tend to have higher productivity because they have established infrastructure to jump bureaucratic hurdles more easily and enjoy the benefit of friendlier legal frameworks, without forgetting that a high level of government corruption is always lurking in the background.

In conclusion, this is why Mexico struggles with entrepreneurship.

All sources for this article were found here.
コロナウイルス: 今すぐ行動すべき理由
By: Ryo Iida 飯田諒
Tags: Corona, 1st

本記事は、Tomas Pueyo氏による”Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now”を飯田諒が翻訳した記事になります。できるだけ正確に翻訳し、出典がない場合は探したつもりですが、もしデータに誤りがあったり、誤訳やより良い表現がありましたら、遠慮なくご連絡ください。

This article is translated version of “Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now” written by Tomas Pueyo, translation being conducted by Ryo Iida. All credit goes to Tomas.
We are lowering our cap and here’s why
By: Dylan Senter
Tags: Spectiv, Ethereum, ICO, Crypto, Blockchain

Spectiv has lowered its token sale cap to 14,000 ETH. The original higher cap was set in place based on information and surveys gathered in September. It has been over 3 months since this time and Ethereum prices have risen greatly, meaning that even though we are lowering our cap, we are still selling enough to allow future development of Spectiv and the Signal Token Protocol. Additionally, extraordinary market conditions have directly impacted buyer participation in the Spectiv token sale. Specifically, there are two major factors:

CryptoKitties

The CryptoKitties wave flooded the Ethereum Network with exceptionally higher transaction volumes than normal. This began at the exact time that the Spectiv token sale was scheduled to launch (December 5th 12:00AM CST). Due to the network congestion, we weren’t able to deploy the token sale contract as scheduled. After several attempts, the contract finally deployed 20 hours later. This directly hampered all enthusiastic purchasers from participating as intended which in turn blunted immediate sales.

The CryptoKitties wave also led to drastically higher transaction fees. Hundreds of participants in the Spectiv token sale failed to execute their transactions because their gas prices weren’t high enough. We placed notifications to adjust gas prices throughout the token sale portal, but many individuals never did. Most attempted transactions were set at MyEtherWallet’s 21 Gwei default when a minimum of 50 Gwei (and eventually 70 Gwei) was needed to successfully execute purchases.

Crypto Speculation

Participants in the Spectiv token sale need Ethereum as a means of currency to purchase Signal Tokens. However, many Spectiv supporters also speculate in the crypto markets. At the time of the Spectiv token sale, Bitcoin prices were rallying at an all time historical high. As a result, many individuals wanted to hold Bitcoin through the price rally. This meant a number of buyers chose to hold their crypto instead of purchasing Signal Tokens.

The Spectiv team is excited to continue updating the Signal Token Protocol and Spectiv VR platform! We have a lot of awesome rollouts and announcements coming in 2018, so stay tuned. Learn more about how you can purchase Signal Tokens at ico.spectivvr.com.

Reach out to us at info@spectivvr.com with any questions.
Predict NBA games, make money — machine learning project
By: Caleb Cheng
Tags: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Forecasting, Betting, Python

Predict NBA games, make money — machine learning project

Past performance doesn’t indicate future performance… unless…we can get 136% returns….? 😉

mfw my deep learning model compiles // made on photomosh.com

The bettor and the bookie don’t have much in common — one could describe their relationship as a rivalry. But in their sleep, they drool over the same fantasy: a model of historical performance so perfect it predicts the outcome of future games with pinpoint precision. With deep learning, this might be possible — or at least easier than previous data science techniques.

I read a lot of good and bad journal articles to see if this was possible and here are the good ones:

Exploiting sports-betting market using machine learning (2018)

Sentiment bias and asset prices: evidence from sports betting markets (2016)

Sentiment bias in National Basketball Association Betting (2013)

Predicting the NFL using Twitter (2013)

The underlying assumption is that NBA markets are inefficient (the price or betting line does not reflect all available information for the game) — and maybe more inefficient than most markets because of the bias of hardcore fans to just bet on their favourite team. If you can bet against the inefficiencies of the market, you can make money. One of the ways we could identify inefficiencies is by analysing the cold hard numbers.

Although many models that attempt this challenge are accurate, most are nowhere near close to making a profit. The reason for this is simple: the bookies are extremely accurate as well. Even if you match the bookie accuracy, you will lose because of the 5% betting fee/house edge.

The graph on the left is bet365 money line vs actual win percentage. A successful model will have to predict those minute fluctuations of the bookie from the perfect regression.

My model, built in Python with Tensorflow, analyses the past 11 NBA seasons and in many ways, is similar to every other deep learning model that attempted this problem with one crucial difference — it uses a custom loss function to decorrelate from the bookies. We are trying to pick the games the bookie has misgudged the actual percentage.

decorrelation loss formula - this is very important!!!!!!!

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Tasting Truth
By: Conan O Sullivan
Tags: Psychology, Poetry, Life

Out beyond the length of your handmade beliefs

Past the costly entertainment of desire

Above the adorable face of society.

Into the common existance.

Remove the sound of our noise

Open wide the un-wealthy idea.

Bite down on the simple truths of a species.
Sarah Lewis on Harnessing ‘Near-Wins’ to Excel in Our Chosen Craft
By: Gavin Lamb
Tags: Creativity, Psychology, Self, Books, Writing

“We never know how high we are

Till we are called to rise . . .

— Emily Dickinson

Overview of ‘The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery’

If your writing has been rejected recently— from an academic journal, a book reviewer, a publication on Medium , or maybe just in the lack of interest you hoped it would have received — how can you best use such experiences of so-called ‘failure’ as a recource for bouncing forward, not backward?

“It is a cliché to say simply that we learn the most from failure,” writes Sarah Lewis. “It is also not exactly true. Transformation comes from how we choose to speak about it in the context of story, whether self-stated or aloud.”

In her fascinating book, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, Sarah Lewis offers “a story-driven investigation of advantages gleaned from improbable foundations, even failure, in the creative process.” Sarah Lewis is an associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University.

Her book The Rise offers ‘an atlas of stories’ of failures, near-wins and “ever-onward almosts,” including stories from archers, ultra-marathoners, dancers, sculptors, musicians, novelists, and many others throughout history who pursued the mastery of their craft.

But her book doesn’t focus on ‘success.’

And despite what I expected as I began reading the first few pages, it doesn’t really focus on ‘failure’ either.

Instead, its focus is on something more inneffable: the messy and creative gap between a person’s future vision of success, and their actual, on-the-grouund lived experience with the ‘curved-line’ of mastery.

But like many writers striving to put words to ineffable experiences in life, Lewis “found a way to eff it,” as the writer Michael Pollan says. One way to make sense of this gap is through mapping the personal stories people tell of their experiences negotiating the distance between their vision and their work.

The metaphor of the curved-line comes from Lewis’ experience walking in the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah: “on the salt flats, a ruler-lined walk is impossible. A seemingly direct forward march turns out in hindsight to be a series of curves. Without realizing it, we constantly autocorrect, covering more ground than we knew we could.”

Exploring the gap between our vision of success and our everyday work, Lewis says, is like walking trying to walk a straight line towards mountains in the distance, that seem within reachable, but never quite. On the salt flats of life, moments of success and failure are merely events of curvature that punctuate our winding pathway towards ‘mastery’:
Terraform Enterprise Creds Helper
By: Tristan Morgan
Tags: Data, Hashicorp, Credentials, Terraform, Infrastructure As Code

With the advent of Terraform Enterprise Free Tier and its remote state becoming available to the greater public, this has created the need to store more credentials. So not wanting to store them in plain text, I am going to show you how to use a script to store them in the macOS keychain.

First, a not very well documented feature of Terraform is in the .terraformrc config file you can specify a credentials_helper. This will allow us to call an external program. The problem is a complete lack of documentation on how to configure it. Digging through the code after the config.go parses the config file the commands.go code calls pluginDiscovery.FindPlugins(“credentials”, globalPluginDirs()). Quickly followed by available.WithName(helperType). The cryptic hints here are that the helper program must be placed in with plugins for your system and it uses a name with “credentials” in it somewhere. Well, there is a bit of a naming scheme that becomes evident and the comment is buried in the plugin/discovery/find.go, its “terraform-$KIND-$NAME-V$VERSION”. The mistake in the comment is it needs a “_v” before the version, So our helper needs to be called “terraform-credentials-$NAME_v$VERSION”.

credentials_helper keychain { args = [] }

Now we have a config file and a name “terraform-credentials-keychain_v1.0.0” next we need to work out what Terraform is expecting the helper program to do. This hint is in some of the test fixtures, the application is called with two parameters, “get” and the FQDN of the Terraform Enterprise server. This is useful because you might be connecting to Private Terraform servers as well the publicly accessible one hosted at “app.terraform.io”. It also shows the response is a JSON string in the format of "{“token”: “our-very-long-token-string”}". To make life a little easier I’m also going to add a “store” command to my script, not used by Terraform but it will make adding my token a breeze.

#!/bin/sh set -e case $1 in store) security add-generic-password -U -a “TF-$USER” -c “htfm” \

-C “htfm” -D “Hashicorp Terraform” -s “$2” -w “$(cat)” ;; get) /bin/echo -n “{\”token\”: \”$(security find-generic-password \

-g -a “TF-$USER” -s “$2” -w)\”}” ;; *) echo “Usage: $0 get|store” ;; esac

Save this as “~/.terraform.d/plugins/terraform-credentials-keychain_v1.0.0” and mark it executable. To run the script call it with "./terraform-credentials-keychain_v1.0.0 store app.terraform.io", enter your TFE token, hit enter then Ctrl-D and it should save. Now we have a secure way to store the token and not leave it on disk to be accidentally committed to code.

Enjoy.
Buddleia
Tags: Resilience, Persistence, Relationships, Nature, Love

Buddleia

A story of resilience and love

Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash

Buddleia

There is something sassy about buddleia,

pushing it’s way through the paving stones,

lolling about with it’s languid blossoms,

purple excrescences in fallen masonry,

vigorous growth in the presence of decay.

Photo by Christopher Campbell on Unsplash

I have come back to this place every year on the last weekend of July. It was precisely that weekend, forty years previous, that I first met the girl who would become my wife.

A magical evening, with the soft, late summer breeze, and bats flitting among the trees; I walked up the steps and through the impressive front door into the cool of the marble floored hall. There, at the top of the stairs, she stood in her red satin ballgown, her dark hair tied back, and greeted me with a nervous smile. We danced into the early hours of the morning, and we both knew there was no going back; that night set the course for the rest of our lives.

Since the beautiful old house burnt down, just a year after we met, we have made this pilgrimage, every year apart from last year,when I lost my companion and love of my life to cancer. Today I make the journey again, this time alone, struggling through the undergrowth and the uneven ground.

The walls of the house still stand, with gaping window spaces, as if gasping for air among the exuberant foliage. I climb the crumbling steps and the staircase twists upwards in front of me. Many steps are now shattered and the ubiquitous buddleia pushes its way through the cracks. If I turn my head and follow the curve of the stairs, in my mind’s eye, I can see her still. One hand grasps the bannister, the other tentatively tucks a stray hair behind her ear and that smile, that captivated me all those years ago, like a ray of sunshine, never fails to lift my spirits.

Photo by Stéphane Delval on Unsplash

I think today will be the last time I come to this wonderful place. My health is failing and the walk along the disappearing driveway was almost too much for me. But I know I don’t need to make this journey to feel her presence. She is always with me, in everything I do, and the feel of her arms around me as we danced on that auspicious evening, is the greatest comfort to me in the long, lonely nights.
OPTin: We got Microsoft investment and We Provide Richer Data for Advertisers than Google
By: Crypto Influence
Tags: Entrepreneur, Social Media, Interview, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

OPTin Network, an ad network space, can provide much rich data and feedback for advertisers than Google.

“We also aggregate data by sites, so the advertisers can choose what site can give them the right kind of engagement, the qualified traffic.” said Michael Sheng, Founder and Managing Partner of OPTin Network.

OPTin has a panel of half million users, they collect not only their browser information, but also what they are watching on TV. Audio recognition on their phone can get that information. All of OPTin’s technology is actually open source. So people can check OPTin never get their names, or address, just behavior. OPTin also has the partnership with offline stores. For example, if you saw a coin ad, did you buy a coin at Walmart or Target afterward. OPTin does the whole end to end tracking of ROI for advertising.
Three Different Things: January 8, 2020
By: Sean O'Brien
Tags: Policy, Kids And Tech, YouTube, Privacy, AI

Three Different Things: January 8, 2020

NEON the AI Dystopia, COPPA & YouTube Creators, and Talking Privacy

NEON, the “Artificial Human”

1. I have seen the AI dystopia and it looks like Neon

It was the range of occupations on display that suggested Neon has seen future needs accurately. There was an airline stewardess you could imagine dealing with a line of pissed-off passengers at the gate. A doctor to ask all the basic questions in your annual check-up. A chef to make you think the restaurant actually cares about your order. A yoga teacher to not judge you. A park ranger to answer questions at a visitor’s center — good grief, nobody show this tech to the Department of the Interior. A music teacher and a grade school teacher suggested we could be looking at the future of low-cost public education.

On the promotional site it describes Neon as “Not an AI assistant. Not an interface to the Internet. Not a music player. Simply, a friend.” So imagine that use case as well — your friend, your kid’s friend… maybe you’ll tell it things you would only tell your best friend? And maybe those things could be used for advertising? Clearly Google needs to be on top of this one since yesterday.

2. The FTC’s 2020 COPPA rules have YouTube creators scared — YouTube creators don’t have access to kids’ data — but may get COPPA fines anyway.

YouTube gaming content creator Chadtronic alleges that videos marked “for kids” will have no notifications, no comments, will not be searchable, will not be suggested or recommended, and will make 90 percent less total revenue.

Eliminating the incentives to target kids instead of create valuable content for them is a good move for YouTube. But this still doesn’t eliminate the problem that people can and will create kids content that shouldn’t be kids content and we’ll find out about it after many kids are exposed to it. There’s no metal detector at YouTube’s airport.

3. Facebook, Apple, and the FTC Came Together to Talk Privacy at CES. Here Are the Highlights.

But the FTC’s Slaughter says she’s concerned about a world in which the burden to protect data lies with the consumer. “The amount of information you have to process to find out what is happening with your data is untenable,” she says, not even counting what third parties are doing with the data that’s been shared with them. Slaughter says the burden should be placed on collectors and stewards of data to minimize the data collected, kept, and shared, “without creating endless troves of data that disappear into the ether.”

Consumer-centric simply can’t be the approach to data protection, if for nothing else the outsized burden it creates for lower-income people.
Linked List: Interview Questions and Practice Problems
By: Coding Freak
Tags: Data Structures, Linked Lists, Algorithms, Programming, Coding

A linked list is a linear data structure consisting of a group of nodes where each node point to the next node by means of a pointer. Each node is composed of data and a reference (in other words, a link) to the next node in the sequence.

Linked lists are among the simplest and most common data structures. The principal benefits of a linked list over a conventional array are -

The list elements can easily be inserted or removed without reallocation or reorganization of the entire structure because the data items need not be stored contiguously in memory, while an array has to be declared in the source code, before compiling and running the program.

Linked lists allow insertion and removal of nodes at any point in the list, and can do so with a constant number of operations if the link previous to the link being added or removed is maintained during list traversal.

On the other hand, simple linked lists by themselves do not allow random access to the data, or any form of efficient indexing. Thus, many basic operations — such as obtaining the last node of the list, or finding a node that contains a given data, or locating the place where a new node should be inserted — may require sequential scanning of most or all of the list elements.

In this post, we have list out commonly asked interview questions that uses linked list data structure-

Thank you.
The Economy Has Been Adding Jobs A Lot Longer than Last Month #justsayin
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Politics, Jobs, Economy, White House, Jobs Report

I’m usually the person in the room that sits back and thinks about things a little longer than others to when things might sound too good to be true.

And the reality is that the February Jobs Report showing that we added 235k jobs in February is a good thing for all Americans. I’m not arguing that.

But to say that this is thanks to President Trump is, well, silly on the face of it, and laughable when looking at the numbers.

I’ve often noted that recessions are bigger than presidents. And, the data shows that they happen on a regular enough basis to note that they are not really related to presidents, though we all think they are.

Afterall, its pretty easy to point at the guy in the Oval Office when you’re mad about losing work.

And it’s a press-release waiting to happen the moment there’s good news about the economy for a sitting president no matter if he was there when the fuse was lit or not.

Taking a step back and looking at the numbers (below) shows that unemployment in the US has been steadily dropping from the mid 8% down to hovering around 4.75% now — very close to full-employment, as it happens, and actually a little high compared to recent numbers.

Data shows the unemployment rate has been steadily declining in the USA since at least 2012. Data from http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate with emphasis added.

The other alarming things about the Trump Presidency taking such swift credit for this action is that presidential candidate Trump discounted these very same numbers when he was running, and even just recently stated in a joint session of congress that 94 million americans are out of work, a number that can only be true if you count retirees, students, stay-at-home-parents and those who are not looking for work.

It’s as if the whole Presidency is based on President Trump telling us very scary bedtime stories hoping we’ll believe in the boogeyman in the closet and then swooping in with a “sword” made from toilet paper tubes and vanquishing the “foe” and be crowned our hero.

In any case, it’s both good to look at the data and step back a little bit and think about sensational news like this. Perhaps it’s a plus though that many news outlets are cautioning people to be wary of the White House’s cheering.

Participation Is Up!

Something I am even MORE excited about? The number of people actually wanting to work (what economists call “participation rate”) is finally starting to rebound. That is an even better indicator, in my opinion. It means jobs are not just going to the working, but there’s enough work that people who have, until now, bowed out of the market are buttoning up their blouses and shirts and getting back in line for work. That’s a good thing all around.

Fun fact (get it?): Check out this running fact check on Trump vs Jobs Announcements
Five Questions with Ganesh Krishnan
By: Brittani Conley
Tags: Leadership, Management, Engineering

(Image created and owned by Walmart Global Tech)

At Walmart Global Tech, we want to know what makes our Leadership team tick. What drives them? What lessons have been important in their careers? In this installment I sat down with Ganesh Krishnan, the VP of Engineering, Item & Supplier, to find out.

1. What separates a manager from a leader?

I agree with the classic saying: managers are about getting things done right, and leaders are about doing the right thing.

2. What’s the greatest lesson you’ve learned in your career thus far?

The importance of feedback from others.

3. If you could go back to your 20-year-old self and give one piece of advice, what would you say?

I was really focused on technology then, so I’d say to give more attention to softer skills. I’d place more emphasis on ownership and how to think through ownership. It’s a whole mindset, and it’s important.

4. What sets Walmart apart from other companies you’ve worked at?

The people, absolutely. We have really good people — friendly, committed to the company, smart. A good set of folks.

5. If you could have one super power what would it be, and why?

Since I can’t actually have a super power, I just want to always do my best.
ICX Unstaking guide. There are quite a few staking guides…
By: Jasa Srot
Tags: Blockchain, Staking, Icx, Icon Foundation

There are quite a few staking guides for ICON but very few for the unstaking. If you are looking for a staking guide check out this one by POS Bakerz.

Guide

This guide will provide you with the steps you need to do to unstake assuming you already have ICONex wallet installed and some staked ICX. Unstaking is simple if you already staked since it is just the reverse process of staking.
A Few Steps Closer to Christmas…
By: David Smith
Tags: Childhood, Kids, Parenting, Adventure, Children

21 December

My sweet Leslie, I love you baby girl! You are so funny, smart, caring, pretty and charming. I always love it when you wake up in the mornings and look at me and smile and say “I’m done sleeping papa, I slept all night”. Despite the fact that you may not have slept the entire night without calling on me to come in for some snuggles or to give you water or adjust your blanket, I am still so proud of you and I appreciate that you wake up with love in your eyes and adventure in your heart, ready to tackle each day.

Little Leslie, the speed demon ❤

Leslie can finally reach the peddles on her little bike and she just jams on as fast as she can, giggling and laughing as she rolls away towards adventure. When I take the handle, we jump over curbs and roll up into the grass and over dirt jumps and every kind of obstacle we can find. You grip the handlebars and squeal in delight as we laugh and explore together and just as your heart is racing, I slow down the bike and wrap you in a hug and gently kiss you on your cheek and I tell you how much I love being your father and how thankful I am to share these adventures with you. You are my everything, my little love. You and your mommy and your baby sister make my world go round and I soak up every single minute with you. 💕

Leslie helped to bake some more cookies and make dinner and in general you’ve just been a perfect little angel. We are so thankful to have you in our lives.

Leslie helped to bake some more cookies and make dinner and in general you’ve just been a perfect little angel. We are so thankful to have you in our lives.

We’re also super excited to meet baby Madison. I cannot even fathom having the same amount of love for another tiny human as I have for you, Leslie, but I know we will. Mommy is doing well, although a bit tired.

On Sunday, we visited Oldemor in Stjordal and Leslie hopped allllll over the couches and jumped and ran and played and gave Oldemor such big snuggles and hugs that it melted her heart. I hope to be even half as healthy and happy as that woman is when I am in my 80s.