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How to Interact with Origin Tokens (OGN) and Contracts
By: Matthew Liu
Tags: Ethereum, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Cryptocurrency, Marketplaces

Origin Marketplace App

Origin’s mobile app currently supports ETH, DAI, and OGN at the application level. To see your OGN balance or wallet address, just tap on the wallet tab on the bottom of your screen. You can also display or copy your wallet address by tapping (+). Using Origin’s official mobile app is the easiest way to interact with our marketplace and tokens.

MetaMask

You should see OGN in your MetaMask wallet if you had OGN sent to your address. Click the hamburger menu to display your ERC-20 tokens. If you don’t see OGN listed, you can search for “OGN” and add it. You can add OGN to MetaMask even if your balance is currently 0.

Trust Wallet

You should see OGN in Trust Wallet if you had OGN sent to your address. To add OGN manually, tap on the + sign in the top right corner and search for “OGN”. Click the (+) next to OGN to add support for OGN tokens.

Coinbase Wallet

You should see OGN in your Coinbase Wallet app if you had OGN sent to your address. Please note that Coinbase Wallet app and Coinbase’s mobile app are different products. Do not use your ETH deposit address from Coinbase’s mobile app to receive OGN. You cannot manually add OGN with a zero balance on the Coinbase Wallet app.

MyEtherWallet

You should see OGN in your MEW if you had OGN sent to your address. If you don’t see your balance, search “OGN” under Tokens to display it.

MyCrypto

To see your OGN balance in MyCrypto, click “Scan For Tokens”. Click “Save” to save the found tokens.

imToken

You should see OGN in your imToken wallet if you had OGN sent to your address. To add it manually, tap the (+) button next to “Assets” and search for “OGN”. Tap (+) to add OGN to add support for OGN tokens.

Bitberry

You should see OGN in your Bitberrry wallet if you had OGN sent to your address. To add it manually, tap the green (+) button and search for “OGN”. Tap “Add” to add OGN to add support for OGN tokens.

Hardware wallets and others

For other wallets that may not have built-in support for OGN, you may be able to add it from our token smart contract address. If you want to use a hardware wallet, we recommend connecting them with MyEtherWallet, MyCrypto, or MetaMask to view your OGN token balance.

Common questions and problems

If you don’t see any OGN in your wallet, make sure you are using the same wallet you registered with for Origin Rewards. Also remember that Origin Rewards payouts happen after each month’s campaign ends. If you are earning OGN from the May campaign, you will not get your tokens until early June.

Here are Origin’s important smart contract addresses and their respective ENS shortcuts:

We’ve registered each address with an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) shortcut to make them easier to find and verify. Make sure that you are interacting with these contracts and not other contracts when using Origin. Please reach out to us on Discord or email us at support@originprotocol.com if you have questions.

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How to Host a Static Website on Github for Free
By: Owais Ali
Tags: Programming, Coding, Website, Github, Live

Yeah, that’s right. Unlike many websites that require you to purchase hosting and domain, GitHub lets you upload a static website on their platform using Github Pages for free. Let’s make it clear that a static website means the content will not frequently change, i.e., a basic HTML and CSS site, which is a good starting point for beginners as well as experienced programmers. Let’s start by discussing why it is a good idea to host your website on GitHub.

(Note: This article contains some affiliate links, which means if you buy something using those links, i ll get a commission without costing you anything extra)

Reasons/Advantages to host your website on Github Page

There can be a lot of reasons and advantages to hosting your website, the most prominent are:

To make your profile, as many developers prefer to host their profile on Github To create a portfolio and showcase your skills to potential clients especially your front-end skills You want to set up your blog where you can share articles or how-to tutorials You already know basic Git, and you want to enhance your learning about Git further. In that case, I will suggest you learn about GitHub gist, GitHub actions, and CI/CD tools as well

In this article, we will discuss how to set up a website for free, what tools you need to have, what will be the URL when the site is published, how many sites you create on Github. So let’s keep moving.

Let’s get started

Hosting a website on GitHub page is not rocket science; instead, it is so simple that even if you have just started programming and knows basic HTML and CSS and basic Git commands like add, commit and push you can do that. If you do not see these git commands don’t worry, the commands we ll use will be explained as well. If you want to learn Git then I will suggest you read my another article to get yourself familiar with git basics:

We will be discussing two variants of hosting a website on Github. You can work on either one or both of them because most of the procedure is the same in variant 2. The difference is in the domain name when your site is live. So if you are creating a personal profile, then choose variant 1, its URL will be shorter, and if you are doing any other website, its URL will be longer, then choose variant 2.

Variant 1: Hosting a personal page on GitHub with domain https://<username>.github.io

First, we will create a demo application, that works on our desktop PC

Step 1: Setup Git, Register GitHub account, and create a repository

Go to https://git-scm.com/downloads and download Git by choosing your operating system: Windows, Mac, or Linux and install.

Then, go to https://github.com and sign up. After signing up, click on the plus sign and choose a new repository (a repository is like GitHub gives you a folder/directory where you keep your code files and folders on GitHub). When it asks you to enter a name, type the name in the format <your_username>.github.io so since my username on GitHub is ows-ali, I will write ows-ali.github.io
Snooze
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: Microfiction, Sleep, Fiction, Cats, The Coffee Pot

An alarm sounded, time to get up. It must be. He checked the clock and it was an hour early. Why was he snapped awake from his dream? It was so perfect, he was flying. There was a crowd below him as he soared and he’d never felt more alive. Then it was gone.

He looked to his bedside to see his cat, hungry, demanding with another meow that he get out of bed.

Hurry.

He flew down the stairs as fast as he could so he could return to his dream without further interruption. Soon he’d be flying again.
Bunnycoin an erotic proposal that will make you vibrate with happiness
By: Fritz Wagner
Tags: Bitcoin

www.bitdharma.info

Blockchain technology has brought with it a wealth of important benefits for humanity, among the most important stand out: the decentralization of our lives with respect to governments and economic monopolies, the security of our operations in all areas of life, the elimination of mercantilist intermediaries that always keep the most substantial profits, and freedom, because the Blockchain gives us power to be and decide, and stimulates the autonomy of our lives.

This is the reason why the Blockchain begins to encompass everything in the world, from sensible governments, private companies and common users bet for it, its use goes through the economic, financial, technological, agricultural, medical, administrative, to be named only some.

But there is an erotic sector that decided to take a step forward with the Blockchain technology, we are talking about the adult content industry, this time it is Bunnycoin, a cryptocurrency that seeks users to acquire high quality pornographic content from safe, fast, discreet and economic way.

This cryptocurrency is designed as a solution for both content providers and consumers. An example of this is that all legal companies and individuals in the adult entertainment industry can receive their payments securely and quickly anywhere in the world, in exchange, it allows consumers to pay for content without the need to provide their bank or personal information.

Bunnycoin, also allows to circumvent the strict banking controls, because some financial institutions get to charge up to 30% commission for transactions in pornographic sites, which are often considered high risk.

@bitdharma2.0 / @dharma.bull

The presale of the coin began on April 25, 2017 and the official sale began on April 25, 2018. The creators of the cryptocurrency have ensured that it will increase its value daily by at least one percent.

Other important data include that Bunnycoin (BUN) is a digital currency distributed and developed on the basis of Bitcoin, likewise, it is inspired by Dogecoin, which means that its operational principle works in a similar way to these two platforms. According to the web portal Coinmarketcap.com, Bunnycoin has a market capitalization of $ 3,596,129 USD, and a unit value of $ 0.000035.

What are you waiting for? If you are one of the people who have no taboos and enjoy the pleasures of life, with Bunnycoin you will find what you need in one place: passion, eroticism, happiness, economic freedom and many other things.

By: Journalist Marcelo Durán / Bitdharma
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Love, Sunday, Couples, Art

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

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Reports for Jira: Visualize custom fields
By: Oleg Seriaga
Tags: Jira, Charts, Reports And Dashboards

We got published our add-on Reports by Vizydrop into Jira Marketplace a month ago and we are analyzing some user troubles in Jira related to the possibility of visualizing data. Let me show what kind of questions related to Jira custom fields can be answered using our visualization platform.

Count of issues over the custom field

Let’s say there is configured the “Browser” custom field for defects. QA puts the browser affected by the issue into it.

The question is “In what kind of browser our app is the most buggy for users?”. Let’s answer using the visual table:

Nothing should be done to have the “Browser” custom field be displayed in the fields catalog. Our specially designed Jira connector shows it automatically and even if you have a custom field with the same name and type in another project it will be treated as the same field so you can compare custom fields data over multiple projects in one report.

Custom fields dynamics over creation date

Let’s assume the numeric field “Cost” is created for every issue and we are going to analyze cost dynamics over the creation date of issues.

Custom fields cumulative by status over date

Let’s assume the numeric field “Cost” is created for every issue and we are going to explore cost dynamics by status over date.

Thanks for trying our Reports by Vizydrop for Jira.

Let us know about any questions or comments.
Women Who Weep
By: Artemis Inks
Tags: Trump, Feminism, Equality, Poetry, Women

Women Who Weep

A poem written during Trump’s reign

Photo by Ashton Bingham on Unsplash

Protected by whitewashed windows, I sit inside with my skin blanketed in warmth.

Yes, it is comfortable,

but not exciting.

I sit by my desk and look outside at the world I am closed off from.

The women are crying today.

Weeping for their sisters locked inside boxes and prisons.

They weep for the women locked inside relationships that do nothing to fill their own cups.

They weep for women locked inside themselves, awaiting another person to find the key.

They weep for the women held back for the color of their skin and the growing between their legs.

They weep and their tears soak the plants, bringing them life.

Yet their tears were not meant for the sunflowers and daisies,

They already have their sun.

They already have their rain, their bees, and butterflies.

Their tears were meant to bring life to the women who sit by the window,

looking out at the life they could be living.

It’s raining outside my window,

And as I notice each tear splash onto the soil,

I am no longer comforted.

I am awakened.

-ARTEMIS INKS
Using Linux in a modern .NET world
By: Andries Van Humbeeck
Tags: Linux, Sql Server, Rider, Ubuntu, Dotnet

This post has been moved from Medium to CodeMine.be

Read it here
The Hearse Song
By: Delta B. Mckenzie
Tags: Creative Writing, Short Story, Fiction, Horror Fiction, Horror

Joshua didn’t tell his mom about the worms until he was ten. It was hard to avoid the worms when he accompanied his mom to work. There were so many of them beneath Joshua’s feet. Some were busy eating while others just wanted to gossip. A few whispered names to Joshua, names of people who would be there soon. They were never quiet, and after the fourth time he missed something that his mom had said, he figured telling her couldn’t really hurt.

He waited until she was busy applying makeup to the face of her client before he brought it up.

“Do you like worms?”

His mom glanced at him, a secretive smile tugging at her lips.

“Why?”

“They really like you and me.”

His mom hummed beneath her breath as she painted the woman’s face until it looked like she was still alive.

“I like worms but only sometimes. Most of the time, they’re dreadful gossips.”

The words had Joshua’s heart thundering against his ribs.

“Can you hear them too?” he whispered and his mom nodded.

“Of course I hear them. Worms are basically people, baby,” she offered up, the words rolled into a secret that Joshua knew was only meant for the two of them.

And Joshua believed, he believed, he believed.
Final Days of Hot Point circa 1989
By: Marilyn Flower
Tags: Poetry, Home, Poetry On Medium, Climate Change, Global Warming

Photo by Dev on Unsplash

“It’s time,” said I

way past time

4” of caked ice,

tear in the rubber lining,

constant dripping —

veggie bin surfs out on a wave

lapping the far shores of the floor,

gaskets bounce instead of seal

Hot Point has had it.

We need a new fridge.

But first, let’s defrost this one.

So I boil pans to steam the glaciers

chip away, and mop the lake on the floor,

waiting for ice to fall in chunks

to chuck into the tub…

But the real worker bee

is the heat.

And then it hits me,

not the chuck but the image —

we are defrosting our poles

driving our cars

heating and cooling our homes

We are defrosting our poles.

The more we drive

the faster they melt

as if connected by a

vast conveyor belt.

Hot air rises — goes north or south

to the caps.

Today the ice came out

in one big BAM

missing my head by inches

hit the floor as one solid mass

and smashed into bits

all over the kitchen and the hall.

Is this the way the caps will go?

All at once with a big BAM?

Chunks of glaciers

raining down on us

in piercing shards shattering

as they hit buildings or

shattering the buildings?

I don’t think they’ll go

quietly without a fight.

Nature’s not like that.

She fights back

with tornados, ‘caines, and ‘quakes

like she’s trying to flip us off

her back. How big a ‘quake

would that take?

Tomorrow the appliance man

comes at 9 a.m.

Most likely we will get

a new fridge. I will celebrate

with Comet and sponge.

But who will bring the earth

a new refrigerator?

And where will all the water go?
Time for Change — December Theme
By: Zane Dickens
Tags: Newsletter, Short Story, Writing Prompts, Fiction, Flash Fiction

Time for Change — December Theme

After a year like this, it’s time for Change.

Photo by Ross Findon on Unsplash

We Need Change

We always need it, in our health, in our social lives, and politically.

This year and every year.

Change is a necessary part of our lives — the only constant, ever-present, and renewing the world around us.

After a year locked inside, fearing the air we share and the very surfaces we touch.

Fearing our children and what they might be carrying.

Fearing for our elders and how their homes have become prisons.

We Need Change

And hope appears on the horizon.

A change in leadership.

A change in our collective chances.
Star and Bone
By: Jessica Lee Mcmillan
Tags: Healing, Survival, Connection, Poetry, Life

POETRY

Star and Bone

A free-verse poem

Perspective View of the Visible Creation by Thomas Wright, 1750

the ribs have remodelled

and my lungs expand bright

the year after I died,

after groping tissues

faltered through lost eras,

the cage protecting the heart

needed breaking

to release its osteoblasts,

the mineral shimmer

in fabric of flesh

of constellation building,

the cellular matrix

survives the fractured dark,

in photon body

living the breaks,

I’ve entered nothing,

that leaves nothing

but light
Under-voting is not illegal, and other Trump-level voting myths
By: Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Tags: Presidential Election, Donald Trump, Emily Murphy, Joe Biden, Election 2020

“You have a list of numbers of ballots with only Joe Biden on the ticket,” Sidney Powell, a lawyer for both Michael Flynn and Donald Trump, told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “You say it’s 98,000 ballots in Pennsylvania; 80,000 to 90,000 in Georgia; another 42,000 in Arizona; 69,000 to 115,000 in Michigan; and 62,000 in Wisconsin. Sidney, if this is true, this appears systemic. Why aren’t we seeing massive government investigation?”

Voters are not required to vote in all categories. It’s called under-voting. They can choose to not vote at all for certain categories, including not voting for the 2020 president, and opt for choosing judges, House reps, senators, mayors, aldermen, etc. Some people choose to do it to avoid voting for people who they have no clue about. Others may not like any of the people running but want to vote for other categories, or write in their own candidates. If they under-vote, once they slide their ballots into the Ballot Box, the machine will pick up on under-voting, push the ballot back out and explain (via the screen) what selection was faulty.

The Election Judge will then ask the voter if (s)he is sure she wants to under-vote. If the voter says “yes,” a confirmation box is pushed and that’s that. But the maximum number of voter options is clearly marked on each ballot. If a voter chooses to do this with a mail-in ballot, the same rules apply. The Ballot Counter takes it being mailed in and blank in those areas as confirmation that this person, who signed the envelope confirming this ballot is OK as is, confirms all of their choices to the best of their abilities. The only time that this choice will actually hurt the voter’s chances are over-voting (voting for too many people in one category). In person, they can choose to dismiss the over-voting mistake and have the ballot “spoiled” (meaning an “Election Judge” would write “spoiled” on it and put it in a “spoiled” envelope to be given to Ballot Counters at the end of the night). Then the voter will start all over again. Only one ballot would be counted regardless.
Responsible
By: Chelsea Cristoffor
Tags: Spirituality, Prose, Responsibility, Advice, Life Lessons

Responsible

Receive Your Self

Photo by Josh Marshall on Unsplash

You, the human,

think you are owed the world’s kindness,

the regard of each and every flower,

for simply exchanging oxygen with it,

For simply being called what you are:

A name.

Possibilities our birthright, yes.

But happiness?

Abundance?

Love?

These things that but do seem to be

the flying of a force,

the will of the wind,

these things in fact rest in our selves.

They are our dear responsibilities.

The world an empty painting

filled by our words which then become

the colors, the shapes, the lines.

You hold the brush, you are the brush,

that makes it so.

Do not despair if your fair-weather friends

have not received you with a king’s due welcome.

There are those that would have you with open arms,

if you would only have them.

The world longs to give to you

all that you ask of it,

but then who is the true receiver?

You are responsible for the offering,

the first question,

the first action,

the first cast.

And each moment thereafter.

Do you not see the love of the world?

It grants you the power to be Creator,

you and it no different,

except that you, the human,

cling to a name,

and all that you believe

comes with it.

Remember what lies in your hands.

Remember who you really are,

and this grassy sea will part ways

for all of the moves you make,

so that all that you are wanting

may be returned to you

again, and again, and again,

so you may receive what you are

your self

receiving.

You will never know this

until you let “yourself” go.

—

Thanks once again to Darshak Rana for the “Responsibility” prompt!
SCI Daily Crypto Digest: The Death Cross
By: Jervis C. Tinimbang
Tags: Philippine, Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin

March 23, 2018

Image from Coindesk.com

Bitcoin (BTC) fell once again, failing to break the strong resistance level at $9,200. Reports that Japan is planning to stop cryptocurrency exchange Binance was an excuse for traders to sell. Technical analysts are also warning traders that a “death cross” bearish signal is looming. A death cross occurs when the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day moving average, and is a signal for technical analysts to sell. The opposite of the death cross, called the golden cross, last occured in October 28, 2015 where the price was at around $300.00.

Support is at $7,800 while resistance levels are at $9,200 and $10,000.

*BTCPHP: 464,670 / 428,900

*USDPHP: 52.3230

*BTC market cap: $143B

*Crypto market cap: $323B

News:

*The Nikkei reported that Japan’s Financial Services Agency is planning to tell cryptocurrency exchange Binance, to stop operating in Japan without a license. A person familiar with the matter said that Binance has several staff in Japan and has been expanding without receiving permission. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (@cz_binance) took to Twitter to slam Nikkei’s news, saying that the company and the FSA are in constructive dialogues and that they have not received any mandate.

*Bloomberg reports that JP Morgan may be spinning off its Quorum blockchain project into a separate company. The software, running on top of the Ethereum blockchain, is aiming to create a digital ledger tailored for use of private enterprise clients.

*A collaborative study from Germany’s Goethe and Aachen Universities revealed eight files containing sexual content, hidden inside the Bitcoin Blockchain. Since the blockchain allows users to store and transmit files and information through transactions, some users have used the blockchain to store these files.

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How To Write Your First HTTP Request to NASA
By: Tracy King
Tags: Programming, JavaScript, Http Request, NASA, Https

I’m excited to introduce you to HTTP requests and provide you with tools and resources to get up and running.

Learning how to work with APIs is a great way to level up as a front end developer. It’s also a fun way to learn about how to retrieve data and what data is available to you.

The first thing you’ll need to do is request an API key from NASA by filling out this form to apply for an API key.

You can learn more about what an API key is in this video.

The API key will give you the ability to communicate with the NASA API. After you sign up, you will be immediately directed to a page with your new API key.

It should look like this:

Sensitive information is blurred to protect the user’s identification and personal API key

There are a number of different requests you can make with your new NASA API key.

My personal favorites include:

Asteroids — NEOWs : identifies asteroids based on their closest approach date to earth.

: identifies asteroids based on their closest approach date to earth. Mars Rover Photos : returns photos collected by NASA’s Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit rovers

: returns photos collected by NASA’s Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit rovers EONET: allows users to browse the entire globe daily and look for natural events as they occur. Storms are regularly spotted in the tropics, dust storms over deserts, forest fires in the summers.

Please see the NASA API documentation for a full list of capabilities.
Being Ourselves Without Fear
By: Annelise Lords
Tags: An Idea, Life, Fear, Children, Being True To Yourself

A Story on the consequences of not being ourselves.

Image by Annelise Lords

In a discussion this morning about a child I knew with a good heart that went off the straight and narrow path, and on a path to certain destruction. I realized that when the good in children isn’t recognized, encouraged, or nurtured, a child can lose themselves in this wicked world. A world where many of us can’t be ourselves without fear. That child was good, kind, decent, with a good heart. He just wanted a better life than his world was offering him. He also wanted the privilege to be himself. His mother didn’t see what I see, and I don’t know his father.

When humans can’t be themselves without fear, life and living will become impossible, no matter how much resources they got. Many rebels, some commit suicide because of culture and its components supported by parent’s hopes and dreams. Which often denies them the right to be themselves and do what they want to do with their lives. Some give in, living an unhappy life that sometimes ends in disaster. Others do their best and find a way to live and survive in any way they can, happy or not.

The ones who take control of their lives, doing what they want, and isn’t afraid to be themselves, end up the winner. Not all of us are strong enough to fight life on our own. We need to be able to see the good in others, your child or not, and help it to grow. We need to allow children to be themselves without fear since most of them haven’t finished creating their own identity. They are still growing and learning, and there is so much to learn. When you know or see a good heart, do something to make it better. We get the best and more honesty from the ones who can be themselves without fear.

Isn’t that what we want? What about you? Don’t you want the best and more honesty?

Thank you for reading this piece. I hope you enjoyed it. Please enjoy more from other writers on this platform.

https://mediumauthor.com/@thisisanneliselords

https://mediumauthor.com/podcast

medium.com/illumination/interview-with-annelise-lords-421238e49b9f

https://twitter.com/ThisisAnneliseL
Are Women Safe in 2018?
By: Krystine Morales
Tags: Rape, Safety, Powerful Women, Women

Are Women Safe in 2018?

It may be 2018 but it doesn’t mean women are any safer than they were in the 1920s.

It’s 2018 and you would think as a woman I would feel safe to walk around my campus, but the truth is I don’t. I’m not the only one. I asked many girls around campus whether they felt safe or not and the response I got was very shocking. Most girls on campus do not safe walking alone, especially at night. it isn’t just around campus, its everywhere. As a girl, we are brought up in a certain way that does make us fear.

I personally carry my pepper spray with me everywhere, I have noticed that most girls on campus do too. Has it become normal for a woman to fear for herself every single time she steps out the house? Has it become normal that if I wear shorts I should expect for a guy to cat call me and be completely okay with it? Has it become normal that because I am a woman a man gets to objectify me? None of this is normal. None of this is okay.

We as woman should not have to deal with these things and instead of staying silent when they happen, we need to speak up. We need to let these men know that what they do is not okay. They don’t have the right to cat call us and expect us to like it, we deserve way more respect than that. We have the right to fight back and not be scared to defend ourselves.

After asking girls why they didn’t feel safe, they said they were scared. I asked scared of what, and this girl responded, “Scared that one day I’ll be walking back to my dorm and someone tries to sexually assault me, because if someone did I wouldn’t know what to do.” She explained to me that she wouldn’t know if she would fight back or be too scared to do anything. It reminded me of what I read in “Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention” by Sharon Marcus, it said “A rapist confronted with a wisecracking, scolding, and bossy woman may lose his grip on his power to rape; a rapist responded to with fear may feel his power consolidated.” I believe in some form this is very true because men who rape are looking for woman who they see as weak. In most cases women do not fight back because they’re scared to make their perpetrator even more upset and they will end up dead.

“Fear forges the link between these contradictory statements: rape is so terrifying because it is like death, and this totalizing fear disables us from combating the rape.” (Marcus 395)

There’s this thing in society that because I am a woman, I should be afraid of the world because many will take advantage of it. It’s sad to say that its true. I’m afraid but I’m done being afraid, because if it’s one thing that I have learned is that I am just as strong as any man, even stronger.

When will we stop being afraid?
Everybody’s Falling in Love With the Djungelskog
By: Jack Shepherd
Tags: Shopping, Digital Life, IKEA, Humor, Life

Everybody’s Falling in Love With the Djungelskog

An adorable plush bear from IKEA is taking the world by storm

“This big brown bear always greets you with open arms …” says Ikea’s website of the Djungelskog—cleverly leaving you to fill in the rest of the thought for yourself … “Unlike everyone else in my life.” And as grim and foreboding as Ikea’s implication may be, it’s high time we admitted the truth of it: The Djungelskog is the only guy we can trust. The Djungelskog is the only thing standing between us and the darkness. The Djungelskog is the only one who is worthy of our love.

Ikea has no qualms about twisting the knife further:

Cuddly like no other and with a lovely giant stomach where you can feel safe resting — in other words, a real softy. All soft toys are good at hugging, comforting and listening and are fond of play and mischief.

Hugging. Comforting. Listening. Fond of play and mischief. And then combine those almost saintlike traits with a lovely giant stomach “where you can feel safe resting”??? This is no Djungelskog; it’s an angel in disguise. A furry brown benefactor sent from the heavens to remind us of our fallen state. A glorious spiritual champion with a message of hope in a hopeless time. Cuddly like no other.

This is what people are saying about the Djungelskog.

Djungelskog is a partner:

Djungelskog is a friend:

Djungelskog is life:

Djungelskog is love:

Without Djungelskog, you are nothing:

Once Djungelskog, everything changes:

You must bring Djungelskog home:

And if not (somehow) Djungelskog, maybe Jättestor?
LGBT Britain: Trans Report
By: Josh Simpson
Tags: Stonewall, Transgender, Britain, Lgbts

Stonewall have conducted new research with 871 trans and non-binary people, highlighting the issues they face in Britain today. From their website:

One in eight trans employees (12 per cent) have been physically attacked by a colleague or customer in the last year.

Half of trans people (51 per cent) have hidden their identity at work for fear of discrimination.

A quarter of trans people (25 per cent) have experienced homelessness.

You can download the full report here:
[Wallet] Why an investor must use IONIA -automatic trading -
Tags: Wallet, Bitcoin

This is IONIA :)

The 24-hour market for cryptocurrency

The person who’s always watching the market, judging, analyzing the information and selling cryptocurrency.

There is a limit to investing in cryptocurrency because people eventually do.

I want to invest in cryptocurrency, but I don’t know what to do!

I don’t have time to hold my cell phone all day long for cyptocurrency !!

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Simplifying the ROC and AUC metrics.
By: Parul Pandey
Tags: Machine Learning, Statistics, Classification, Metrics, Data Science

Logistic Regression

Now if we fit a Logistic Regression curve to the data, the Y-axis will be converted to the Probability of a person having a heart disease based on the Cholesterol levels.

The white dot represents a person having a lower heart disease probability than the person represented by the black dot.

However, if we want to classify the people in the two categories, we need a way to turn probabilities into classifications. One way is to set a threshold at 0.5. Next, classify the people who have a probability of heart disease > 0.5 as “having a heart disease” and classify the people who have a probability of heart disease < 0.5 as “ not having a heart disease”.

Let us now evaluate the effectiveness of this logistic regression with the classification threshold set to 0.5, with some new people about whom we already know if they have heart disease or not.

Our Logistic Regression model correctly classifies all people except the persons 1 and 2.
Ocean Grove, NJ.. a charming stroll.
By: Mike Decastro
Tags: New Jersey, Faith, Jersey Shore, American History, Travel

We were taken by the welcome we felt in Ocean Grove, and the warmth of the locals who loved that we loved their town. We felt that stewardship and being an ambassador, were seen as a call to service, felt in the heart and given freely. An example is a new friend we met named Bill, who is a retired Methodist Minister. We were strolling passed the very homey tents of Ocean Grove.. admiring how lovingly they were adorned with American flags, and just the right amount of beachy ornamentals. As we strolled passed Bill’s tent, (who at the moment was a complete stranger), we were invited in. Bill gave us a brief history of his tent, his life and the town. We felt like friends instantly and connected to Bill’s spirit and warmth.

As if meeting Bill was not enough of an Ocean Grove ‘hug’, we were able to gain access to the auditorium, around which the town was built. It was locked, but a young fella who worked for the town noticed we were trying to peek inside. Before we could ask, he asked.. “Wanna see inside?”. He slid the heavy, dense wooden barn style door open and let us in. As we stepped forward the auditorium opened up to us.. it seemed too large to fit in the building that housed it. It was not ornate in any way, in fact it was monastic in it’s simplicity.. except for the stage.

The stage in the auditorium speaks seriousness and importance. As the floor & seats all lean toward and embrace the stage as absolute focal point, the feeling is that some very important sermons and spiritual voices have emanated from there. There are two signs with large block lettering, again, monastic in their simplicity. They read: “Holiness To The Lord’, on one, and “So Be Ye Holy”, on the other. When read, internally the mind’s voice sounds deep and echoey. Yes, that made us feel butterflies. Adding to the butterflies we felt, was the sight of organ pipes which reached to the heavens, and the organ which seemed so small in context with the stage and the signs and the organ pipes. Smaller still, was the man walking toward the organ.. who then sat down and played.
Improv techniques help creative people communicate their ideas better
By: Michael Pollock
Tags: Management, Clients, Change, Communications, Coaching

Creative people are notoriously not-so-good at presenting their ideas. Pitches, conference calls, presentations, talking to clients — these are not their favorite things to do. But without successful communication their ideas have a hard time getting off the drawing board.



April Jaffe and Michael Pollock have discovered that the techniques and exercises used by improv actors can be enormously helpful to our creative clients. We are specially selecting and adapting exercises to incorporate into our own brand of workshops that we will be giving to teams at film companies, design firms and other creative businesses.



Last night we held a trial run with the help of improv star Rebekka Johnson. The session was attended by film editors, a videoblogger, a photographer, a documentary producer, an executive producer and ad agency creatives. It was a huge success, converting even those who were not sure that this was their thing. The group was particularly impressed by the value of techniques relating to listening, working towards goals, and managing difficult clients. Here is what one participant wrote to us this morning:

“I wanted to thank you for inviting us to what proved to be both a terrifying and incredibly enjoyable evening. Standing in front of a group of people or privately attempting to be creative is always a daunting task and the night’s exercises provided a number of helpful tools and exercises from an unlikely source, improv.”
PirateChain June 2019 Update
Tags: Blockchain, Privacy, Cryptocurrency, Piratechain, Bitcoin

- Don’t touch that dial…-

June was busy and July has some really fantastic things coming together including the Pirate Notary Services startup, and a media announcement collaboration we really think will knock your trench coat off if you’re the type to choose the red pill over the blue pill…

— — — For more on our project visit https://pirate.black — — —

One of the captains of the PirateChain Galleon

This was written by FishyGuts @2ndoldest on Twitter — @FishyGuts#5085 on discord. He is one of the captains on the pirate ship of privacy, PirateChain. $ARRR is a privacy coin with 100% private peer to peer sends only. No outside user activity will compromise your privacy or activity on the chain. We are always glad to talk about the project so please reach out!

Contributors are ALWAYS welcome so please reach out anytime you have an idea!

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Build Complex Stacked Layouts With the Safe Area
Tags: Programming, Swift, iOS, Mobile, Xcode

Build Complex Stacked Layouts With the Safe Area

Make your designs look great on any device

Ever since Apple released the iPhone X, using the safe area has been a must-do for developers. You don’t want your work hidden under the notch or clipped beneath the status bar or under the rounded corners, etc.

The launch of the iPhone X along with the safe area came back in 2017, so I think it’s safe to say every iOS developer knows how to use it — if not, here’s the documentation.

But sometimes you need to dive deeper. You might want the safe area present in some views but not in others — maybe a blur partially under the status bar, tall enough to contain a button. Thankfully, anything you build with the safe area is really quite easy!

In this article, I’ll go over some of these designs and how to build them. Everything will be done in the storyboard without a single line of code … so sit back, relax, and enjoy!
How to Version Your Code in 2020
By: Travis Reeder
Tags: Programming, Semver, Github Actions, Git, Automation

How to Version Your Code in 2020

Bumping the version on merge and more

Photo by the author.

I’ve written articles in the past about how to version things, but things change. This is the latest and greatest on versioning your code in 2020.

I’m going to assume you’re using a CI tool for this article, and the examples will be based on GitHub Actions. However, you should be able to easily apply them to any CI tool. I’ll also assume you’re using a git-like service like GitHub for pull requests or some kind of code review.

Many modern tools are now using git tags as the de facto place to version your code. The format for version tags uses semantic versioning following this scheme:

v1.2.3

This article will show you how to easily and automatically version your code.
JavaScript Algorithms: Meeting Rooms (LeetCode)
By: Anatolii Kurochkin
Tags: Leetcode, Data Structures, Algorithms, JavaScript, Web Development

Description

Given an array of meeting time intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi] , determine if a person could attend all meetings.

Example 1:

Input: intervals = [[0,30],[5,10],[15,20]]

Output: false

Example 2:

Input: intervals = [[7,10],[2,4]]

Output: true

Constraints:

0 <= intervals.length <= 104

intervals[i].length == 2

0 <= starti < endi <= 106

Solution

I came up with a brute force solution when I had seen this question the first time. We can go through the intervals array and create a Set with all busy minutes. And if we see a minute that is already in Set we’re going to return false , otherwise return true .

Let’s look at examples:

Let’s try to implement it
O AFIRMARE A RELATIEI SPECIALE DINTRE ROMANIA SI EMIRATELE ARABE UNITE. SPECTACOLUL DUBAI: CAPITALA EXPOZITIEI MONDIALE 2020.
By: International Relations
Tags: Diplomacy, Islam, Danube Delta, Blackseanews Agency, Diplomatie

IRICE is dedicated to promote the international relations of Romania and to develop the economic, cultural and diplomatic relations with nations of the world.

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Over 100 Girls Missing After Raid on Nigerian School
By: Suhana Khiani
Tags: Kidnappings, Global Affairs, Boko Haram

Over 100 Girls Missing After Raid on Nigerian School

Fighter jets, helicopters, and surveillance planes have been deployed to search for more than 100 girls who are missing after suspected Boko Haram militants attacked their school.

Protests about the raid on a Nigerian school in the northeastern region of the country calling for help to “find our girls” Picture credit: Democracy Now!

The Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, is situated about 275 kilometres away from Chibok. It was the area in which the Boko Haram militants kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a school in April 2014, sparking global outrage. The Boko Haram is Nigeria’s militant Islamist group which has caused havoc in Africa’s most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and abductions — is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.

The kidnapping during the raid is believed to be the largest abduction since the 2014 attacks, and certainly calls for the installation of higher security and police forces. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Information Ministry confirmed the parents’ fears: 110 girls have disappeared.

The attack in Dapchi brings back terrifying memories of the 2014 Chibok abduction that garnered international attention with the worldwide #BringBackOurGirls campaign to pressure the Nigerian government into acting upon it

“I want the families of the girls yet unaccounted for at the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi to know that no effort will be spared to ensure that all of them are returned safely, and the attackers arrested and made to face justice.” - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari

Sources:

Time, CNN, BBC
ML入門（十二）SGD, AdaGrad, Momentum, RMSProp, Adam Optimizer
Tags: Machine Learning, Gradient Descent

簡單回顧

在ML入門（十）Gradient Descent有介紹什麼是SGD，就是只對一個example的loss做計算，求梯度最小值。也介紹什麼是Adagrad，就是每次更新的𝜂就是等於前一次的𝜂再除以𝜎^t，而 σ^t則代表的是第 t 次以前的所有梯度更新值之平方和開根號(root mean square)。

RMSProp

從下面這張可以看到，沿著同一個方向的梯度變化是非常大的，只用AdaGrad是不行的。這邊介紹的方法叫做RMSProp，每一次更新learning rate時，分母所除的σ都與前一次的有關係，調整上面多了一個參數 𝛼，可以自由調整新舊gradient的比重（影響力）。

Momentum

momentum就是慣性或動量的意思，利用物理的概念做更新。如下圖所示，藍色線是位移，而綠色線代表就是momentum，它可以解決停在local minimum的問題。如第二張圖所示，當球滾到最右邊的時候，gradient告訴我們的方向是往左，可能會卡在local minmum的地方，但是如果加上momemtum是有可能可以往右前進，突破local minmum。

Adam

Adam其實就是加了momentum的RMSProp，下圖的公式mt代表的是momentum，就是前一個時間點的movement（可以參考上面momentum的介紹），vt就是RMSProp裡的σ，式子雖然看起來很複雜，但其實跟RMSProp很類似，每次更新都會調整新舊gradient的比重。所以Adam繼承兩者的優點，適合大部分的狀況，為目前最常使用的優化方法。

tensorflow簡單實作

f(x, y) = 0.1x² + y²

import matplotlib.pyplot as pltfrom sklearn

import datasetsimport numpy as npfrom sklearn.preprocessing

import StandardScalerfrom sklearn.model_selection

import train_test_splitfrom sklearn.svm import SVC

from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score

from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap def plot_decision_regions(X, y, classifier, test_idx=None,

resolution=0.02):

markers = ('s', 'x', 'o', '^', 'v')

colors = ('red', 'blue', 'lightgreen', 'gray', 'cyan')

cmap = ListedColormap(colors[:len(np.unique(y))]) x1_min, x1_max = X[:, 0].min() - 1, X[:, 0].max() + 1

x2_min, x2_max = X[:, 1].min() - 1, X[:, 1].max() + 1

xx1, xx2 = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x1_min, x1_max, resolution),

np.arange(x2_min, x2_max, resolution)) z = classifier.predict(np.array([xx1.ravel(), xx2.ravel()]).T)

z = z.reshape(xx1.shape)

plt.contourf(xx1, xx2, z, alpha=0.4, cmap=cmap)

plt.xlim(xx1.min(), xx1.max())

plt.ylim(xx2.min(), xx2.max()) X_test, y_test = X[test_idx, :], y[test_idx]

for idx, cl in enumerate(np.unique(y)):

plt.scatter(x=X[y == cl, 0], y=X[y == cl, 1], alpha=0.8,

c=cmap(idx), marker=markers[idx], label=cl) if test_idx:

X_test, y_test = X[test_idx, :], y[test_idx]

plt.scatter(X_test[:, 0], X_test[:, 1], c='', alpha=1.0,

linewidth=1, marker='o', s=55) def main():

iris = datasets.load_iris()

X = iris.data[:, [2, 3]]

y = iris.target

X = np.array([m for m, n in zip(X, y) if n != 2])

boolarr = y != 2

y = y[boolarr]



X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(

X, y, test_size=0.3, random_state=0)

sc = StandardScaler()

sc.fit(X_train)

X_train_std = sc.transform(X_train)

X_test_std =

sc.transform(X_test) svm = SVC(kernel='linear', C=1.0, random_state=0)

svm.fit(X_train_std, y_train)

y_pred = svm.predict(X_test_std)

print("Misclassified smaples: %d"

% (y_test != y_pred).sum())

print("Accuracy: %0.2f" % accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred))

X_combined_std = np.vstack((X_train_std, X_test_std))

y_combined_std = np.hstack((y_train, y_test))

plot_decision_regions(X=X_combined_std, y=y_combined_std,

classifier=svm, test_idx=range(50, 100))

plt.xlabel('sepal length [standarlized]')

plt.ylabel('petal length [standarlized]')

plt.legend(loc='upper left')

plt.show()

下面這幾張圖片，是這幾種方法的比較，可以清楚看到各種方法的差異，如何調整learning rate讓其收斂是非常重要的。

以下這是固定同一種方式，不同learning rate的比較：如果learning rate太大會造成波動非常大；反之，如果learning rate非常小，收斂得很慢。