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Hunger
By: Ashish Mahendra
Tags: India, Politics, Life, Poetry, Social Media

When truth is auctioned, in the marketplace of hatred

When liberty means slavery

When love means hate

When brotherhood means enmity

When dreams are nightmares

and nightmares reality

When answers are questions

and questions lamentations

When grief is a commodity

and pleasure an ideal

When silence is protest

and speaking is submission

When experts are minions

And minions are commanders

When knowledge is suspicion

And belief is conclusion

When the ruled are empty

And the rulers are insatiable

When the majority is a minority

and minority the hunted

When the tyrant is the hope

and the democrat a traitor

When criminals are spokesmen

and dissenters are deserters

When the state is the nation

and citizens are subjects

When madness is sanity

and reason is delusion

When punishment is mercy

and discipline is suffering

Our longing for revenge

crippling our compassion

devouring us while we feed its lust

nibbling away at our humanity

We are the dead

in search of the living

We are hungry
Eidoo Announces Appointment of Four New Top Executives From “The Big Four” to the Team
By: Amelia Tomasicchio
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, ICO, Ethereum, Token Sale

We at Eidoo are today announcing the appointment of four top level executives to our team, including a partner of one of the “Big Four” global accounting and consultancy firms.

Hires include Lars Schlichting, who previously served as partner at one of the Big Four, and brings significant experience within the Swiss Financial Supervision Authority FINMA with him.

In addition, Lars will also hold a strategic role directly within Eidoo, with the scope of transforming the company into a regulated provider of services in the crypto space as it rapidly scales its business.

Lars will be helped in this task by Luca Tamarindi, previously a senior manager in Lars’s team, will be responsible for assuring the corporate governance of the crypto group as it scales.

The team of new hires also includes Andrea Ghislieri, who will look after compliance for Eidoo and other group companies. His key focus as he joins our team will be online identification, a service recently launched as part of the new icoengine.net platform.

Vittorio Navone will support the ICO onboarding process at Eidoo.

The news comes as Eidoo app’s downloads recently exceeded 200,000, their ICO platform has successfully hosted token sales including EthLend, Aidcoin, Ubiatar, VIO, and their own ICO, (attracting $27.9 million) and as a hybrid exchange, Bitcoin wallet, Eidoo-branded debit card, and a raft of innovative add-on services are soon to be launched.

Thomas Bertani, Eidoo CEO, explains:

“We’re thrilled to be welcoming four new top talents to our team. Our rate of growth over recent months has been staggering and shows no signs of slowing down, their inclusion will ensure we can continue to effectively manage growth whilst complying with the newly evolving regulations that will ultimately help mature the crypto market.”

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400% ROI on Masternodes?
By: Anonymous Duck
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Investing, Busines, Cryptocurrency

The BlockNode network offers quite an impressive return on investment when it comes to coin Staking and Masternode hosting. Payments are made every 12 hours, and anyone is able to participate in the hosting process.

The reward for each PoS (Proof-of-Stake) block is split as follows:

80% to Masternodes.

15% to staking nodes.

5% to governance.

To learn more, visit the BlockNode Telegram Channel: https://t.me/BlocknodeChatGroup
Governance in distributed organizations, part 1
Tags: Censorship Resistance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Governance, Thedao

@giacomozucco in his “The ICO Trilemma” presentation pointed to the incapability of current management frameworks to successfully grow organizations that would be distributed censorship resistant organizations that would be able to enforce complex behaviors.

In particular, he made an assumption that the organization has to be completely centralized and, thus, easy to censor.

I’m going to challenge this assumption.

Why distributed?

So far most of management techniques haven’t used much of the Internet capabilities. They still deeply relied on the presupposition that information distribution is slow and unreliable, thus most of peoples within an organization should be collocated in “an office”. Internet is there for 25+ years, but most orgs still deeply rooted in this belief.

This centralization of control makes them very brittle, especially with regards to the regulatory action.

The idea of “regulation” seems quite attractive, but it’s broken by design, since “regulation” could be done only by prohibiting, censoring out some possible actions of an agent. And if this agent has to obey, then it loses it’s free will and becomes subordinate to the regulator. A positive feedback loop is created: the regulation grows indefinitely until the whole system halts and dies.

If you’re still in doubt — check what ShapeShift had to announce recently.

So, to build effective organizations, we have to build them in a censorship resistant fashion.

Yet, despite the progress in censorship resistant technologies, they still have difficult time in enforcing complex behaviours that could not be specified at the design time.

This brings up governance problem: how organization stakeholders can coordinate their actions for their common benefit, in a censorship resistant fashion, which I will explore in forthcoming parts.
Maze Path-finding using DFS
By: Shubham Verma
Tags: Cplusplus, Maze Path Finding, Iterative, Depth First Search, Solve Maze

Ever wondered how to solve a maze effectively?

41*41 Maze will be solved effectively using DFS Algorithm

Above is the given maze that we will be solving using DFS algorithm. The Green block and the Red block are the starting and ending point respectively.

But first what is DFS ?

Depth-first search (DFS) is an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures.

In simple words using some traversing technique, we can visit all the nodes of a graph in a certain order that we define.

Iteration or Recursion ?

Of course we will be using Iteration because lets face it, we all hate Recursion (technically I don’t understand recursion 😥😥).
How a third-year B.Tech Student from Kerala Saved Lives Using a Computer and Code
By: Tinkerhub Foundation
Tags: Tech, Learning To Code, Learning, Community, Pycon

TinkerHub Story #4

How a third-year B.Tech Student from Kerala Saved Lives Using a Computer and Code

The story of how Biswas became a real-life superhero.

On the 11th of August 2018, all of Kerala was beginning to feel the burden of the devastating rains that would thrash the entire state for the next few weeks. Hundreds of lives were lost and the livelihood of millions of people was in jeopardy. On that day, Biswas, then a third-year Computer Science student was putting in another sleepless night with his colleagues to create the ‘Kerala Rescue’ portal which became instrumental in saving thousands of lives.

Join us as we interview the real-life tech hero who is now in his final year at Government Engineering College, Palakkad.

Presenting the fourth story in the series from TinkerHub about young achievers and their success stories that begin with a technology learning culture — How a third-year B.Tech Student from Kerala Saved Lives Using a Computer and Code featuring Biswaz.

Read our previous story here:

We can barely contain our excitement as we interview one of the most brilliant young minds of Kerala!

How and when did your tryst with technology begin?

When I was younger, I would break and rebuild electronic toys. Later on, when I was introduced to computers, I was totally fascinated by them.

Edubuntu replaced Microsoft products in our syllabus, and I began tinkering with it. I started out in web development and used to be a regular in the IT fairs in school, especially in the Web development contest and IT Quizzing competition.

Check out a few of Biswas’ projects here:

At the eye of the storm: The flood and beyond

Intense is how I would describe my experience. I had most of the flood experience with Kerala Rescue. Kerala Rescue was first initiated by Govt. of Kerala, Kerala State IT Mission and IEEE Kerala Section for effective collaboration and communications between authorities, volunteers and public.

The idea for it evolved bit by bit. On 11th August, there was a discussion in the IEEE WhatsApp group on what we could do to help the flood-affected regions. After discussing with Mr Muraleedaran of State e-governance mission, who was also on the board of IEEE Kerala Section, it was decided that a website would be made. At this time, the flood situation was just starting to occur. I created the website in Django framework which allowed for rapid prototyping and modularization.
REMIIT IEO
By: Team Remiit
Tags: Exchange, Ieo, Remiit, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Remiit is a decentralized remittance and payment platform that aims to act as a catalyst of globalization through the blockchain.

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How use LocalStorage in Angular
By: Yurii Kuznietsov
Tags: Angular, Front End Development, Localstorage

Angular guid

How use LocalStorage in Angular

Save data on client side

The purpose of LocalStorage is saving information on the client side and then we could use this information somewhere in project.

LocalStorage in Angular

Every project is develops and evolves that mean maybe someday we will need to add a new property for example surname. For us that mean every place were we used LocalStorage with key ‘name’ we need add another one ‘surname’.

What if in future we will need store another field or if we need to change logic of store fields, for example we might need to create a unique key depends on current user which use our website. It will be looked like that: “localStorage.getItem(userId + ‘name’);”.

The point if something will change with LocalStorage we need to find all LocalStorage keys in our project and change it over and over again. I do not like to do that.

Instead of using LocalStorage directly in our Angular project let’s create a wrapper class.

Wrapper Service

Right now we have only one place which we will change. This class is much more easier to extend than add a new line of LocalStorage.

Extend Service

Combination of Service and LocalStorage has benefits. Service class is easy to extend and change, that is save a lot of precise time.

If you need to take a close look on project here is the link.
Sam Tripoli Podcast — All Guns
By: Bj Campbell
Tags: Guns, Politics, Gun Control, Podcast

I was a bit apprehensive about this podcast, because Sam is pretty out there, but I think it turned out fabulous. Discussion begins 9 minutes in. NSFW warning, the language on Sam’s show is raw. I’d give you a trigger warning except those have been proven to be harmful.
Ta dose crypto du mercredi 28 mars — Coinbase annonce une compatibilité avec les tokens ERC-20
Tags: Erc20, Blockchain, Coinbase, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Bank Hackers Set up "Enormous Network" to Mine Bitcoin for Laundering Money - Bitcoin News

Europol has revealed that an international group of cyber criminals, which has stolen over a billion dollars from…
Nervos Quarterly Letter: A Look Back at Q3 2020
By: Nervos Network
Tags: Nervos Network, Community Update, Defi, Blockchain, Interoperability

Following the success of our first Quarterly Letter, we are excited to update you on what has been going on across the Nervos Network in Q3 of this year.

It has been a busy few months since we ticked off some major milestones in Q2 and we have made big strides in important areas for blockchain, namely DeFi and interoperability.

In general, the Nervos Network and its vibrant community have been expanding greatly with Town Halls, Grants and community competitions all hitting the right buttons with Nervos followers.

Driving DeFi

It has been near impossible, through Q3, to not take an interest in the DeFi space. We didn’t want to be left behind and managed to make some great strides in this arena. We made good progress in building out a DeFi playground for current and future blockchain developers and We also brought out our DeFi hub.

Not to mention, the collaborations with oracle providers, such as Chainlink and Band Protocol, drew major interest while we spelled out the rest of the road ahead for 2020 in our successful Town Hall.

Interest in Interoperability

We know Interoperability is going to be a deciding factor in the next generation of the blockchain and in Q3 our cross chain work really started taking off. This was highlighted in the integration of Portal Wallet which was developed using the pw-sdk that enables dApps on CKB to run in any cryptocurrency wallet.

We continue to build on creating the next generation of interoperability with some key announcements still to come before the end of the year.

Community boom

We count ourselves lucky to have such a keen and active community that has more than doubled since we last counted in Q2. Now, there are around 82,000+ community members as compared with the 40,000 from three months before.

It can’t really be contributed to one thing, but our community competition (#Memecraft) was a hit, while we also announced more grants, CKLabs updates, and started rolling out Town Hall events. Overall, the excitement is up about where Nervos is headed and that’s reflected in the numbers we see in the report.

Download the Q3 report for all of the latest updates.
Kript app: large interface update
By: Kript Team
Tags: Kript

What else?

Pending details

In order to cancel the application or to look through its details choose the application in Pendings tab

Profile recovery

Changed the device? You can always reset your profile including the list of selected exchanges, the transaction history and other settings. In order to do that, log in under your account and follow further instructions

Bugs fixed

Have questions?

Be free to write us on hello@kript.io
Poetsville
Tags: Prompt, Saturnalia, Poetry On Medium, Jackson Pollock, Poems And Stories

Jackson Pollock, “White Light” 1954

Words are flung in arced tongues,

Amid the din of bottles clanging,

Champagne-popping in smoke-ringed revels.

Someone flings a salvo of punned pantoums

As the walls scream with indignant epistemes,

Ceiling crawling with sordid images, teeming metonyms

And contorted referents. ‘Ahoy!’ goes the bray.

And across the room, scarred, anagrammed,

Someone howls Ginsberg like an angel-headed hipster

And another, utopian-dreaming, hurls darts,

Like witty aphorisms on a clean white sheet,

Prophesying, ‘One day, a place for us all.’

By midnight, there is only a hum from the fluorescent tube

That flicks and spurts to the swirl of heady ideas,

And fancies fit for kings, and drag queens,

And princely sums are squandered

For a priceless turn of phrase. Night descends

And the Raven cries its distant tale.

Tomorrow the house will start again,

Erudition-powered.

© Nikhil 2020

*N.B. When Viraji Ogodapola tagged me for a prompt on Rejoicing, or a celebration, I could only think of one thing to celebrate — the only kind of mysticism worthy of complete and utter devotion, Poesy.

So, it made sense to conjure a house full of poets, celebrating the act of creative explosion. Rather than Saturnalia, I saw Bacchanalia!
IntoTheBlock Analytics Now Available on Bitkub, Thailand’s largest exchange
By: Alfredo Terrero
Tags: Bitkub, Cryptocurrency, Intotheblock, Bitcoin

ITB analytics are displayed on Bitkub’s trading pages

Bitkub is the top digital asset and cryptocurrency exchange in Thailand. Established 2018, Bitkub received the largest sum of seed-funding to have ever been granted in Thailand and quickly climbed to become one of the top 20 cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide. By bridging the gap between blockchain and cryptocurrency services to non-tech users, Bitkub aims to “democratise life’s privileges” through blockchain technology in its rapidly growing market.

Starting today, traders can access some of IntoTheBlock analytics in the exchange’s trading pages. When traders navigate to any trading page on Bitkub, they will find a new section called Analytics that enhances the trading experience by displaying a dashboard with some of IntoTheBlock’s most popular indicators. The Token Summary displays, as the name implies, a quick view of a crypto asset showing several of IntoTheBlock’s indicators, which together provide a holistic view of a crypto asset’s behavior. The Actionable Signals section contains momentum signals based on IntoTheBlock’s underlying indicators.

For those users interested in more detailed analysis, the “Dive Deeper” and “See More Signals” buttons redirect them to the IntoTheBlock Platform with access to a portfolio of over 60 intelligent signals about crypto assets.

At IntoTheBlock, we are very excited about this partnership with BITKUB. Both companies are committed to continue working together to deliver more tools for investors in Thailand and beyond. Please let us know about your experience using IntoTheBlock’s indicators on Bitkub.
Keys to Success when Adopting a Pre-Existing Data Science Project
By: Rose Day
Tags: Machine Learning, Technology, Data, Data Science, Software Development

I recently adopted an extensive collection of notebooks that combined aid in the creation of analytics. It sounded like a daunting project to take on, but the more I read into the code, the more I realized it wasn’t all that bad. The notebooks looked overwhelming, but the code was relatively simple when broken down into smaller, more manageable chunks.

Adopting the Code

As I adopted this set of notebooks, the first thing I did was to read it. I spent half a week looking through every notebook, reading every line of code at least three times, and breaking down the flow of how one notebook transitioned into another. I wanted to make sure I understood the inputs needed to create the code, the expected outputs generated from the code, and the codebase’s overall architecture.

As most of the original developers were gone, I leaned on the one person I could to ask as many questions as possible. These questions and answers broke down any misunderstandings or confusion I was having and allowed me to better architect the code’s future state in my head. I began to see the broader picture of the code and how it could be utilized moving forward.

As you adopt someone else’s project, it is good to keep in mind that they may have only had one use-case in mind when they first developed the code. Knowing what this initial use-case can help you understand how to translate the code into a more generalized solution allows for code reuse and expansion. You may not be a software developer, but you can start thinking like one. Sit back and consider the areas that may appear multiple times in the code. Can you create a function or class from that? As you work through the design of the code, document everything. It may seem tedious at times, but documentation can be the key to onboarding new teammates and making sure they can quickly pick up any code and use it.
A Radical Workplace Initiative to Maximize Work-Life Harmony
By: Ivana Markovic
Tags: Corporate Culture, Innovation, Talent Management, Employee Engagement, Work Life Harmony

I’m passionate about talent management and culture. My objective is to make Osedea the best workplace for our team.

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Secret Sea
By: Bryan Young
Tags: Depression, Letters, Poem, Poetry On Medium, Journaling

A poetry publication brought to you by Assemblage to capture all of your disconnected thoughts and let them find their form.

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When women empower each other
By: Kimberley Chung
Tags: Feminist, Women, Empowerment, Inspiration, Feminism

Behind every successful woman is a tribe of other successful women who have her back

There has always been a silent war going on between women in general. “Who is the most classiest? Who has the most prettiest face? Who has the sexiest body? Who has the most successful career? And who has the most compatible boyfriend?” On and on and on… “who is the slut of the group and who is Holy Mary from the group?”

God, why would you care so much how someone else look like or the amount of people someone has sleep with? You don’t need to slut-shaming or looking down on someone just because it’s not the way how you live your life. There will be always someone who is more good-looking, more ladylike, more sexier, more whatever than YOU are. And that’s doesn’t matter one bit.

We should embrace the differences of us all.

And why would you be jealous of someone who has better looks? I don’t particularly look up more on someone who, in my eyes, looks physically prettier than someone who looks less prettier. Because you are either born with it or not. It’s not something you have achieved and worked hard for it. If you are going to be jealous of something, you can rather feel envious of someone’s wisdom and boldness. You can look up to that girl who works hard on her career and get inspired by it. No negative judgements and feelings needed towards that specific person. Instead, tell her that she has inspired you & that you feel grateful for it.

Women tend to judge so quickly, especially how someone’s carry herself with her looks and lifestyle. My sister always gets mean looks from other women, but why? Just because she dresses exactly how she wants to, just because she looks extremely beautiful, inside and out. It’s doesn’t give anyone the right to judge her & tell her how she need to live her life. I get inspired by her because she doesn’t give a fuck what anyone thinks of her.

We need to not only insensitively make ugly statements and gossip it away. There is already enough negativity in the world. Why wouldn’t we empower each other more often? Judging and talking bad about others had always been easier than to stay positive. Don’t take the easy way out, which is taking each other down with our alter bitchy ego which any woman posses.

Don’t feed that bitch.

When women help each other, let each other live her own way and celebrate each other’s uniqueness — we will have a sisterhood instead of fighting a never ending war.

That will happen,

when women empower each other.
The Heart is a Crime Scene
By: Kara B. Imle
Tags: Poetry, Poems On Medium, Poetry On Medium, Love, Love Poem Modern

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Forget

everything you know about yourself

if you want to learn about love

or it’ll school you the hard way.

Go into it thinking I’ve got this

and be shocked when it sprouts horns

and furry pants

leaving cloven-hoofed prints

on the good couch.

What will you do with your heart?

You could try to hide it

like crime scene evidence:

the red flare of blood that pulses

through every word and threatens

to burst the fragile membrane between

what you say and what you wish

you had the guts to say.

Any sane person will tell you:

put a muzzle on your love.

Don’t do the first thing it commands

because it might be wrong

and what stories will they tell

about you then?

That you live by the heart?

But how? It’s a crime scene.

The authorities taped it off long ago.

Meanwhile, the brute snorts with laughter

or lust

or sorrow

or whatever suits the moment.

Now it’s jumping on the bed

and kicking down the walls.

On second thought, you should have done

the first thing it commanded.
Book Review: The Slug Queen Chronicles: Season One
By: Sarah Lynn Terzo
Tags: Book Review, Children, Middle Grade Fiction, Fantasy

The Slug Queen Chronicles Season One by S.O. Thomas is a wonderful adventure that is enjoyable for children and adults as well.

The book follows the adventures of Cricket, a girl who has the power to see brightly colored “dust” which other people can’t see. On her 12th birthday, she learns that her mother (who died when she was born) shared this talent. She is given her mother’s journal and sets out to try and learn more about her strange abilities.

But when a creature from the mysterious world of Aeryland abducts her baby brother and leaves behind a terrible curse, only Cricket can save her family. Guided by Flitwick, a talking cat, Cricket must travel to Aeryland and rescue her brother. In the process, she meets friends and foes, and has magical adventures.

Aeryland is a fascinating world, and the colorful characters Cricket meets there are vividly portrayed. I was riveted, often reading late into the night about the predicaments and challenges that Cricket faced as she tried to find her brother.

In a world full of magic, Cricket needs to learn fast how to deal with all kinds of challenges as well as determine who can and can’t be trusted — and as her companion Flitwick tells her, “Nothing is what it seems.”

Cricket was very likeable and I rooted for her to find her brother. I felt for her when she faced disappointment and heartbreak and celebrated with her when she triumphed over adversity. I cheered for her when she survived dangerous situations. The other characters were also really interesting and well drawn. I felt attached to Cricket and her companions and am looking forward to reading more about them in future sequels.

If I have a criticism, it’s that Cricket was slow to pick up on a few things that were clear to me early in the story. There were red flags about certain situations and characters she missed. But I have to remember that she’s a child, not an adult, and a child wouldn’t have the same life experiences an adult would have to draw on. Someone with an adult’s perspective might see things a child would miss. There were times I was a little frustrated Cricket didn’t pick up on things. But it was a minor point. I still really enjoyed the book.

I highly recommend this book to children and adults who like fantasy novels. It might be a good book for parents to read aloud to their children. However, it has a few scenes that are a little scary for very young children. Not as dark or scary as books like Coraline, but it still has some tense moments. Also, the plot is fairly complex with multiple characters to keep track of- easy for most middle grade readers to follow, I think, but possibly confusing to very young children.

I was really impressed with this book and enjoyed it a lot. I will be watching for more books from this author. I will be first in line to by the next book by her.

Overall: Highly recommended. 5 of 5 stars.
Crypto Daily: Bitcoin in Sideways Channel; XRP Price Crashed at 20%
Tags: Crypto, Ripple, Trading, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Crypto Daily: Bitcoin in Sideways Channel; XRP Price Crashed at 20% Crypterium Follow Dec 23 · 1 min read

After falling on Monday, Bitcoin began to regain positions, showing an increase of 3.5%, yesterday. Trading volume remains high at $45 billion per day, but it should be noted that the market has calmed down a bit after explosive growth, and now we are seeing consolidation.

In which direction will Bitcoin go after that, you’ll need to figure it out. Also today we will consider the situation with XRP, which has fallen by 20%, and what will happen to it next.

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ICO Alert Crypto Minute: January 26, 2018
By: Kyle Protho
Tags: Crypto Minute, Russia, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Robinhood to Launch Zero-Fee Cryptocurrency Trading Services in February 2018

Robinhood, the stock trading mobile app provider, said it plans to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum trading services beginning in February 2018. According to CoinDesk, Robinhood’s new cryptocurrency service will only be offered to users in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana and New Hampshire at first. Robinhood will not have trading fees, and it promises instant transfers on cryptocurrency purchases for amounts of USD 1,000 or less.

Russia Considering Legalization of CryptoRuble, and Banning Mining of All Other Cryptocurrencies

According to RT.com, Communist Party MP, Rizvan Kurbanov, has submitted a draft law to legally recognize a national cryptocurrency, called CryptoRuble. The draft law aims to legalize the CryptoRuble as “a legal means of payment on the territory of Russia.” The legalization of the CryptoRuble would make the mining of all other cryptocurrencies illegal in Russia.

Stripe Considering Stripe and Ethereum as Replacement Payment Methods After Dropping Bitcoin

Stellar (XLM) increased 20% after news circulated that Stripe is considering adding support for XLM on its platform as it phases out Bitcoin. According to Investopedia, Stripe will stop accepting Bitcoin payments on April 23, 2018 due to slow transaction confirmation times, transaction failure rates, and growing fees. Stripe is also considering Ethereum, in addition to Stripe, as a replacement for Bitcoin.

U.S. CFTC Accuses My Big Coin of Cryptocurrency Scam

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has accused the creators of My Big Coin of misappropriating over USD 6 million from customers to pay for a home, antiques, fine art, jewelry, and travel. According to Reuters, the CFTC alleged that the company made false and misleading claims about their virtual currency — such as its value, usage, and being backed by gold.
Huobi Inno Hub Will Launch LINA (Linear), Win LINA By Joining Mining Activities
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Huobi, Linear Finance, Lina, Stake, Huobitoken

Huobi Inno Hub Will Launch LINA (Linear), Win LINA By Joining Mining Activities Huobi Global Follow Dec 29 · 2 min read

Dear users,

Huobi Global will launch LINA (Linear) in Inno Hub on December 29th, 2020. The holding limit of a single project of each account is 50,000 USDT equivalents of tokens, and there is no holding limit for API trading, insiders and above (Huobi VIP). Please see details below:

Has now opened LINA deposits; 【Deposit Now >>>】

Open LINA spot trading (LINA/USDT、LINA/BTC、LINA/ETH) at 14:00 on December 29th (UTC+8);

Open LINA withdrawals at 10:00 on December 30th (UTC+8).

Opening precaution: Huobi Global will limit the listed price to limited order within 5 minutes after opening trading, and the price shall not be more than 5 times of the opening price, and the normal trading will resume after that.

Click to check: LINA (Linear) Introduction

Campaign I: Stake HT to mine 11 Million LINA

Campaign period: From 17:00, December 29th, 2020 to 17:00, January 3rd, 2021 (UTC+8)

Rules:

1. Users will share 11 Million LINA according to the staked HT. The staking cycle is 5 days.

2. Take the day of completing the staking as the first day (T+0), the reward will be distributed to your exchange account in the following 7 days after the end of the staking cycle.

3. See details below:

Stake TokenStaking CycleMinimum Limit for IndividualsMaximum Limit for IndividualsStaking Cap In TotalHT5 Days (early termination of the staking is not supported) 100 HT50,000 HT5,000,000 HT

4. Staked HT will count towards the computation of Prime, FastTrack HT Holding snapshots, but cannot be used for HT voting or order placement. (Sub-account cannot participate in this campaign).

Campaign II: Stake LINA to mine 11 Million LINA

Campaign period: From 17:00, January 4th, 2021 to 17:00, January 9th, 2020 (UTC+8)

Rules:

1. Users will share 11 Million LINA according to the staked LINA. The staking cycle is 7 days.

2. Take the day of completing the staking as the first day (T+0), the reward will be distributed to your exchange account in the following 7 days after the end of the staking cycle.

3. See details below:

Stake TokenStaking CycleMinimum Limit for IndividualsMaximum Limit for IndividualsStaking Cap In TotalLINA5 Days (early termination of the staking is not supported)10,000 LINA50 Million LINA300 Million LINA

Risk reminder: Trading in digital assets comes with high risks due to huge price fluctuations (especially newly listed assets). Before trading, please have a full understanding of all the risks and be prudent of your own decisions.

Huobi Global

December 29th, 2020
Joy Crushers
By: Michael Murray
Tags: Religion, Christianity, Spirituality, God, Devotional

Photo by Henry Hustava on Unsplash

Today’s Bible Reading: John 8:2–11 (focus on verses 2–6); John 5:1–14

Have you ever been at a party, and suddenly all the fun was sucked right out of the room by someone?

The music comes to a screeching halt. The room fills with awkward silence. You stop eating the pizza slice mid-bite. All heads turn to see who interrupted the festivities.

The Pharisees caused a scene like this when they brought a woman to Jesus.

The people of Jerusalem were celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, which took place in mid-October. (Pretty cool that we’re talking about this story the same time of the year it took place!) Jesus was teaching at the festival, and opinions about him divided the audience.

Some people thought he was a good man. Others thought he was a deceiver.

Even so, it was a joyful festival where everyone was having fun. Everyone, that is, except for the Pharisees. They were in their secret underground hideout, plotting how to get rid of Jesus.

A few chapters before this, in John 5, Jesus healed a paralyzed man. Unfortunately, he made the “mistake” of healing on the Sabbath. That really got under the Pharisees’ skin. Jesus seemed perplexed by their anger, asking them:

“Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?” (John 7:23).

In other words, Why are you dudes being such Joy Crushers?

This is the backdrop of our story. The stage is set for another showdown between Jesus and the Pharisees. And when the curtain comes up, they are dragging a frightened woman into the temple courts, making a scene at the festival for all to see.

Then they set a perfect trap for Jesus while faking reverence:

“Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” (John 8:4–5)

In the musical Camelot, King Arthur was put in a similar situation. He has worked all his life to create a land of law and order — peace and righteousness reign in Camelot. But when Queen Guinevere is caught in the act of adultery, the penalty is death.

Mordred, Arthur’s wayward son, mocks him relentlessly: “What a magnificent dilemma! Let her die, your life is over; let her live, your life’s a fraud. Which will it be, Arthur? Do you kill the Queen or kill the law?”

The Pharisees thought they had put Jesus in a magnificent dilemma as well. If he lets the woman go, it’s another piece of evidence that he doesn’t care about the Law of Moses. If he says to stone her, he’s turning his back on the “sinners” he claims to love so much.

But nobody puts Jesus in a corner.

Questions to Ponder:

Does knowing more about the context of this story change the way you view it? (For more background about the festival, read John 7.)

What do you think of King Arthur’s “Do you kill the Queen or kill the law?” dilemma? How would you solve it?
FIRE and Digital Nomads
By: David Ferrara
Tags: Digital Nomad Lifestyle, Travel, Fire, Retirement, Financial Independence

Why does it seem like these two groups exist completely separately on the internet, and there is no crossover?

It seems to me that these should be two groups that fit together naturally. There may be a ton of people that see the crossover and, in fact, are putting it into practice. Still, I don’t ever seem to see the FIRE communities online discussing digital nomadism or the digital nomad’s online discussing FIRE.

I think they should. They can benefit a lot from each other’s knowledge.

FIRE

We all know what financial independence retire early (FIRE) is. Through a combination of frugality, saving, and investing, a group of people plan to replace their current income so that they can retire early.

Some retire early; some just decide to start working for themselves, some just like having the security of not worrying about money.

The key drivers that can make FIRE go faster are 1) increasing your saving rate and 2) lowering your expenses. As obviously, the more you save, the faster you hit your goal. And the less you spend, the lower your goal actually is.

That seems to me to be why it is a natural fit with Digital Nomads.

Digital Nomads

What is a digital nomad? Well, someone that can work remotely. And they generally choose to work in lower cost countries around the world so that they can keep their expenses down.

Basically, they use the fact that they have remote jobs to practice geographic arbitrage. They have first-world income and third world cost of living.

Therefore increasing their savings.

Are you seeing it yet!

If you are on the FIRE path, you can drive down your expenses by becoming a digital nomad; you can FIRE faster!

Or vice versa, if you are a digital nomad. You can take advantage of that geographic arbitrage spread, take that money you are saving, and invest it. So, you can set yourself up with financial security.

Barista Fire

Here is how you piece them together in a practical, real-world example. You go down your FIRE path, saving, and investing.

But instead of spending years saving enough to settle down in your high cost of living area. You save enough for a lower-cost country. Then instead of retiring, you convert to a digital nomad job.

For FIRE aficionado’s this means you can stop the grind a little quicker. For digital nomad aficionado’s, you have a lot more security and financial flexibility as you live your dream digital nomad life.

Delayed Gratification vs YOLO

I think why the two never connect the mindsets of the two groups are polar opposites.

FIRE is all about delayed gratification and putting in the work for a better life later. So, the idea of cutting short the grind doesn’t even enter into the mind of those that gravitate this way.

Digital Nomadism is all about why wait until I am old and gray before I can travel the world and live the way that I want, unshackled by a 9–5 job. So, why would I wait a second longer than it takes to save enough to buy the plane ticket and first month’s Airbnb… let alone work a few years to save up a nest egg to make my future life easier.
Summer Intern Report: Improving the Watson Speech Data Pipeline
By: Thomas Hikaru Clark
Tags: Code Spotlight, Watson Speech To Text

Summer Intern Report: Improving the Watson Speech Data Pipeline

Implementing Dataset Integrity Checks and Exploring Truecasing and Accent Mark Restoration

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

For the last three months, I have been an intern for IBM. I spent the summer working on IBM Watson’s Speech-to-Text, a service that applies advanced machine learning algorithms to deliver speech recognition models. Although speech recognition technology is included in many of the products and services that I use daily, before I came to IBM I had never stopped to think about the hours of work that go into training and optimizing these models for multiple languages and use cases. During my internship, I created two utilities — one for automated dataset verification and one for restoration of capitalization to proper nouns. In this article, I will describe these two techniques and how they will impact the Watson Speech-to-Text service.

Prior to joining IBM, I had experience with machine learning and natural language processing from studying Computer Science at Princeton University. There I conducted research on text classification with neural networks. I also developed a high school computer science curriculum during my teaching fellowship and wrote for a popular data science blog. However, working at IBM meant dealing with bigger datasets, real-world problems, and business demands. The stakes were much higher than what I had experienced as a student, and it was thrilling to work with a group of scientists and developers at the cutting edge of their field.

Dataset Integrity Verification

Training a Speech-to-Text model requires working with vast quantities of audio and text data. The volume of audio exceeds any individual’s ability to listen to it. One of the many audio datasets I worked with would have taken two months to listen to in full! With all this data, it is important to have automated safety checks in place to ensure dataset integrity. One of my most rewarding projects was to build a data pipeline verification tool to detect and visualize anomalies in datasets so that we can eliminate data quality issues as soon as possible. Using a metric called perplexity, which quantifies how predictable a given text is to a language model, my tool detects any anomalous overlap between datasets that could indicate a problem such as mislabeled data. I also developed a method to visualize overlap between datasets by building a heatmap of word probabilities. This tool will help IBM safeguard data privacy rights and ensure the accuracy of experimental results.
Each cigarette I burnt
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Quitting Smoking, Smoking

Photo by Mikael Seegen on Unsplash

Each cigarette I burnt

each an effigy

just thousands of tiny

altars to powerlessness

But rooms expand now

lungs bigger

no longer quite so — crippled

Now I look on

changes in time & wasted moments

try to alter the shape

of the sacrifice

of the expectations of the crowd

Choosing to worship

stark absence of a drink

while the other hand pretends not to notice

the shriveling

the filthy comments in nicotine stains

Every other eye

a scattering birds of flame

(‘you know, that’s a crack pipe lighter…’)

of breath sculptured for brief moments

& so cut off any further elegiac

sensation along the roof of the mouth

conveyed via lips

centered on teeth

…this was all

seen in the photographs of the eternal people

bringing together

everywhere

tearing them apart later

expectations given up when seen again

with other voodoo or smoke

& leaving this morning

of blue.
Next Community Meetup — August 4th Essen, Germany
By: Joe Connors
Tags: Technology, Tech, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Crown-Platform-Community-Meetup-August-4th-Essen-Germany/

The next Crown community meeting will take place on August 4th in Essen, Germany. It was formerly the capital of German coal mining. Today it is perhaps the most modern and most charming metropolis of the Ruhr region.

The event will be a great opportunity to network with your peers in the community and the team. Doors will open at 10:30 and presentations will begin at 11:00. We will present the progress we have made since our last meetup in Miami, and then discuss the project as a whole and everything that is to come. Lunch will be provided and there will be a small Crown party after the event.

Venue:

BlockchainHotel / Unperfekthaus Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 18–26, 45127 Essen, Germany https://goo.gl/maps/4eH6dAvctTs

Accomodation:

UpH Hotel — http://www.unperfekthaus.de/hotel/ (inside the venue)

Motel One — https://www.motel-one.com/de/hotels/essen/ (near the venue)

Airports:

DUS — Düsseldorf International Airport (25 minutes)

DTM — Dortmund Flughafen (1 hour)

Railway:

Essen Hbf (10 minutes walk to the venue) https://www.deutschebahn.com/de

Instructions for german community: http://www.unperfekthaus.de/anfahrt/

We hope to see as many of you that can make it as possible!
Ecosystem Growth (Part #1)
By: Katherine Romaniuk
Tags: Technology, ICO, Token Sale, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

We have multiple growth strategy to acquire users for PEP Network.

✔Mobigraph Apps

✔Partnerships

✔Developer Apps

☑️ Mobigraph Apps
Warframe has a great sci-fi story
Tags: Gaming, Science Fiction, Free To Play, Warframe, Video Game

At some point in the early game, the player will also meet the Infested, parasitic organisms that have taken control of both Corpus and Grineer units. It looks like the game dips a little in the zombie trope but, despite attacking in large numbers — and somewhat mindlessly — , the Infestation is not entirely devoid of consciousness. When the player unlocks the Warframe Nidus — or when it’s infected by the Helminth Virus — a previously locked part of the ship opens up and shows that the Infestation is sentient — to different degrees. Future encounters with the Corpus antagonist Alad V can shed some light on this. However, outside the ship, the Infested will always keep attacking the player, acting as the third antagonistic faction.

These three factions — Grineer, Corpus, and Infested — are basically locked in on an eternal war among themselves, much to the demise of the system’s human population. The game never tells this much to the player, but it seems like there are pockets of humans living on many of the planets, always ending up prey to one of those factions. The Warframes basically exist to protect these people through sabotaging the antagonists, and that’s how the linear story progresses.

However, there are a few side stories going on at the same time, like the one involving the people of Cetus — a city of sorts, on Earth — and the mysterious Unum, an entity that protects the people of Cetus against Grineer assaults and other things that roam the Plains of Eidolon. And, in Venus, there’s Fortuna, a city under Corpus rule, but living somewhat independently after the player’s intervention.
How to Stand Out on GitHub Using Profile READMEs
By: Jessica Lim
Tags: Coding, Software Development, Tech, Programming, Github

How to Stand Out on GitHub Using Profile READMEs

Think of it as your personal website — except more accessible and much easier to create.

Github | Kinsta

Every programmer knows GitHub as the bonafide industry-standard for version control, side projects, open-source ventures, and quite frankly, anything else code-related.

With the introduction of Profile READMEs, Github is now a one-stop shop for not only showing off your tech skills and coding prowess, but also anything else you might want to share about yourself.

Think of it as a creative portfolio, personal website, and expressive canvas all rolled into one. Plus all your code is there as well!

If you use Github impress recruiters, friends, or anyone else coming across Github profile, creating a profile README is the perfect way to stand out!

But first, what is a README?

A README is pretty self-explanatory… it’s the first canvas anyone sees in a repository. A staple on Github for ages, READMEs are automatically rendered on the first page of all code repositories as a page to summarize your project, explain any setup steps, provide instructions on how to contribute, etc.

Profile READMEs work the same way except for instead of being the first page on a repository, they are featured front and center when someone navigates to your Github Profile.

Fun Fact #1: Github Profile READMEs were developed in a single day.

Stand Out With Github Profile READMEs

Think of a personal website… except more accessible, and quite frankly easier to create.

Show your personality

Yes, you’re a (great) programmer, but you’re an even greater person!

Use your profile README to show off your hobbies, (perhaps) your sense of humor, and many awesome personality traits. It’s the best way to stand out from the rest of the Github community!

Easy access to all your Github contributions

Once upon a time, Github profiles were just links that were included in our websites and resumes. Now, your code and personal profile can be in the same place, making it easier for recruiters, friends, and colleagues to get a snapshot of your skills and personality.

Aesthetically pleasing

It’s quite easy to create an incredibly aesthetically pleasing README.

Unlike with personal websites, you don’t need to be a star at CSS to create a pretty profile README. With a basic understanding of Markdown (which is, quite frankly, very easy) and some emojis, you can create a README that you are proud of.

Super flexible

Hoping to create a creative profile/resume? It’s pretty easy. There are many great tools out there that can help you make your profile pop. Want to automatically link your Twitter, Medium, or blog updates? Just write a quick script.

Hoping to get the Github community involved? Github actions make it easier than ever to make your README interactive. (See more about creative README ideas below.)

Cool Tip #2: If you go under Insights > Traffic on your Profile README (or any repo), you can see the stats such as the number of profile (or repo) visitors.