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Azure Web App Logging with .NET 5
By: Chris J.
Tags: API, Dotnet, DevOps, Dotnet Core, Azure

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Azure Web App Diagnostics are a set of tools provided by Microsoft which purpose is to provide logging capabilities for ASP.NET Apps deployed to Azure. The logs are typically stored in the filesystem of the Azure App Service.

While developing a Web App or an API, this can be very useful in order to debug it.

Prior to ASP.NET Core 2.1, logging on Azure was pretty straightforward. The logs wrote by an Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.ILogger were defaulted to be logged in a file accessible via Azure.

But starting with .NET 5 (and maybe .NET Core 3.1), logging configuration has to be more explicit in order to enable it.

The goal of this article is to guide you through configuring Azure logging with .NET 5, and then to show you where to find them quickly.

Step 1 : Enable the filesystem logs on Azure Portal

In order to enable the logs, just go to your app’s settings and scroll until you see App Service Logs.

The most important setting to enable is the Application Logging (Filesystem). Then put the Verbose level to be sure to not miss any log.

Just follow the above figure:

Step 2 : Write the configuration code

From .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5, the logging configuration code takes place inside the Program class, right while configuring the web host.

First, install the package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.AzureAppServices using this nuget.

Then, add the following code while you configure your web host:

Configuring Azure Logging

Step 3 : Eventually, log !

From a controller, or anywhere else, acquire the logger via IoC and start logging.

Example of logging

Step 4 : See the logs quickly

On the Azure portal, there is a log stash where you can stream the logs right from your web browser. It is called the Log stream.

Just navigate to the Log stream settings pane, and admire your very own logs !
What’s the Easiest Way to End a Friendship?
By: Lindsey, Lazarte
Tags: Advice, Relationships, Life Lessons, Friendship, Life

Friendships, and relationships in general, require work from both sides. If one side is picking up the slack while the other fails to take any initiative, then there may still be hope yet. However, if nothing is being done on either side, it’s a surefire loss.

It’s a stalemate. There is neither any gain, nor is there any loss. But, in the end, no one really wins. After a while, the game is eventually abandoned or forgotten all together if no immediate action is taken.

As the saying goes, actions speak louder than words.

When it comes to the people in our lives who matter the most to us, it’s important that we make a conscious and continuous effort to show them that we still care. Otherwise, it can become all too easy to allow those people whom we care about to slip away on the shores that harbor the many other areas and responsibilities in our lives.
Circles
By: Debra Simon
Tags: Growing Up, Relationships, Life Lessons, Love, Personal Development

Photo by Nareeta Martin on Unsplash

You twirled-

frantically perfect pirouettes-

like a jewelry box ballerina

desperate to escape confinement,

basking in momentary spotlight

only

to collapse into black

without being what you wanted.

I tried

to dance with you

and float up,

join a chorus line of clouds

swirling with delicate synchronicity

in a Van Gogh sky.

You became a wayward cloud

like fog-

a hazy solipsistic suspension

obscuring jagged landscapes-

and I,

an emotional centrifuge,

spinning

to separate affection

from your

ice crystal self-obsession.

But,

I could not whip you up

like a cotton candy dream

because love cannot sustain

in perfect circles.

It radiates

from the centrifugal force of need

and races forward

like an errant comet pulled into the sun,

shedding icy refuse

to become

awe-inspiring light.

In the centerless jumble

of a circle unspun

there is space

where I may whirl

with the dizzying potential

of broken things.
ROS URDF 작성하기
Tags: Robot Description, Robot Operating System, Software Development, Ros, Urdf

URDF는 “Unified Robot Description Format”의 줄임말로 로봇모델에 대한 정보들을 명세해놓은 규격서라고 볼수 있다.

로봇개발에 필요한 로봇모델 정보들을 여기에 기록해두고, 해당 정보를 필요로하는 다른 패키지, 노드에서 활용하게 된다.

URDF를 보다 더 잘 이해하기 위해서는 TF를 알고 있으면 좋은데, ROS Wiki에서 튜토리얼을 제공하고 있으니 읽어보자.

URDF를 통해 우리는 아래의 것들을 표현할 수 있다.

위 세가지는 이후 XML 작성시 주로 다루게 되는 중요한 요소들이다. 그리고, 모든 로봇을 다 표현할 수는 없다. 아래의 것들은 현재까지는 지원하지 않는다.

The main limitation at this point is that only tree structures can be represented, ruling out all parallel robots. Also, the specification assumes the robot consists of rigid links connected by joints; flexible elements are not supported.
Monarch of Autumn
By: A. Christine Myers
Tags: Mindfulness, Nature, Butterfly, Poetry, Sonnet

Monarch of Autumn

a sonnet to a butterfly

How gracefully the autumn breeze is yours,

As are the sun and all the lissome flowers

Laughing on the hilltop; autumn pours

Its wealth upon your golden wings in showers,

With it, scale by scale, imbues your flight

In all its riches of late sunshine glowing:

Tawny afternoon in golden light

And sunset soft above the blossoms blowing,

Tumbled underneath your fragile wings.

How gracefully the afternoon lifts ever

Upward underneath you; autumn swings

Below; you rest upon it, no endeavor,

Only arc of flight that pauses, drifts,

So wealthy you among sweet autumn’s gifts.
✎ The apology is not the consequence
By: Whitney O Banner
Tags: Twitter

As we reach the end of Pride Month, remember to protect all children, including LGBTQ+ children.

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How performant are Array methods and Object methods in JavaScript?
By: Sunil Sandhu
Tags: Programming, Algorithms, JavaScript, Software Development, Web Development

How performant are Array methods and Object methods in JavaScript?

Analysing the Big O of various Array and Object methods

Understanding how objects and arrays work through the lens of Big O is an important thing to know, as it should influence the choices you make when structuring data in your apps.

Along with this, is it just as useful to know when you should be using an Object and when you should be using an Array.

Objects

When to use objects

When you don’t need order

When you need fast access/insertion and removal

Big O of Objects

Insertion: O(1)

Removal: O(1)

Searching: O(N)

Access: O(1)

Searching is O(N) because here we are searching for a value in the object, rather than searching for a key. So to find the value, we must check every value in the object.

Big O of Object Methods

Object.keys: O(N)

Object.values: O(N)

Object.entries: O(N)

hasOwnProperty: O(1)

Arrays

When to use arrays

When we need order

When you need fast access/insertion and (sometimes) removal

Big O of Arrays

Insertion — it depends

Removal — it depends

Searching: O(N)

Access: O(1)

Why does Insertion vary?

Because insertion at the end of the array (with array.push) is O(1). However if we want to insert at the beginning of an array (with array.unshift), it’s O(N) as we have to move every entry up by one.

Why does Removal vary?

Because removal from the end of the array (with array.pop) is O(1). However if we want to remove from the beginning of an array (with array.shift), it’s O(N) as we have to move every entry down by one.

Big O of Array Methods

Push: O(1)

Pop: O(1)

Shift: O(N)

Unshift: O(N)

Concat: O(N)

Slice: O(N)

Splice: O(N)

Sort: O(N * log N)

forEach: O(N)

Map/Filter/Reduce: O(N)

Conclusion

Hopefully this short article has given you a rough guide as to how performant Array methods and Object methods are, as well as when it would make sense to use one data structure over another. There’s definitely more things to consider, but thinking about some of the points raised here will help you to make better decisions as a software developer.

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Submit Your Article to ‘Leaders and Managers’
By: Scott S. Bateman
Tags: Submissions

Credit: Jo Szczepanska, Unsplash

We welcome submissions to “Leaders and Managers”, a growing publication about the practice of management by experienced managers and educational professionals dedicated to studying it.

Please consider the following guidelines before submitting an article.

Authors must have at least some management experience or scholarly background in business, education, government, the military or non-profits. Please use capital letters for the first letter of each word in the title. Use sentence case in subheads every 150 to 200 words. We accept unpublished drafts only. The first image should be 1,280 pixels wide. Any other images should be 640 wide and aligned left. Articles behind the paywall get preference over free ones. We are grateful for submissions and will reply as often as possible. But if you don’t hear from us within three business days, please assume we don’t have a place for your article at this time.

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Working with CSV in NodeJS in 2 Minutes
By: Jack Yeh
Tags: Nodejs, Programming, Csv, JavaScript, Data

I need to 1) read 2) write to 3) filter out columns with a small CSV, this guide is for you!

tl;dr: The final repo is here: https://github.com/teamzerolabs/node-csv-example.

Quick and Dirty — Convert CSV into JSON

yarn add neat-csv

Load the csv string with fs and fs.readFileSync

async function readCSV(content) {

const result = await neatCsv(content);

return result;

} //

// Result would be => [

...

{ street: '6236 LONGFORD DR Unit 1',

city: 'CITRUS HEIGHTS',

zip: '95621',

state: 'CA',

beds: '2',

baths: '1',

sq__ft: '795',

type: 'Condo',

sale_date: 'Wed May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2008',

price: '116250',

latitude: '38.679776',

longitude: '-121.314089' },

{ street: '250 PERALTA AVE',

city: 'SACRAMENTO',

zip: '95833',

state: 'CA',

beds: '2',

baths: '1',

sq__ft: '588',

type: 'Residential',

sale_date: 'Wed May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2008',

price: '120000',

latitude: '38.612099',

longitude: '-121.469095' },

...

]

Now you can transform it with result.forEach/lodash/do other type of cleanups like string to number or date conversion.

Convert JSON back to CSV string

yarn add json2csv

Take the existing array and specify the following:

const { parseAsync } = require("json2csv"); // Transform fields from string to numbers first.

result.forEach(record => {

record.zip = parseFloat(record.zip);

record.sq__ft = parseFloat(record.sq__ft);

record.baths = parseFloat(record.baths);

record.beds = parseFloat(record.beds);

record.price = parseFloat(record.price);

record.latitude = parseFloat(record.latitude);

record.longitude = parseFloat(record.longitude);

}); // Specify fields (columns to keep), and we are ready to convert. const fields = [

"zip",

"sq__ft",

"price",

... and any field we want to keep

];

const opts = { fields };



const resultCSV = await parseAsync(result, opts);

fs.writeFileSync("./cleanedup.csv", resultCSV); // ./cleanedup.csv contains: "zip","sq__ft","price"

95838,836,59222

95823,1167,68212

95815,796,68880

95815,852,69307

95824,797,81900

95841,1122,89921

95842,1104,90895

95820,1177,91002

95670,941,94905

95673,1146,98937

95838,909,100309

95823,1289,106250

95815,871,106852

95822,1020,107502

95842,1022,108750

95842,1134,110700

More References

https://mircozeiss.com/json2csv/

https://github.com/sindresorhus/neat-csv

If you need streaming support instead of promises, neat-csv sits on top of csv-parser

We will cover how to work with Excel Files next time! Feel free to reach out if you get stuck somewhere with the example.
Welcome to OpenSea
By: Devin Finzer
Tags: Tutorials, Featured, Guides

Welcome to OpenSea! By the end of this article, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to effortlessly move through the world of NFTs.



Read the full post on our blog.
Yes, Biden’s All-Female Press Team Is Clearly Virtue Signalling
By: Steve Qj
Tags: Politics, Sexism, Feminism, Joe Biden, Election 2020

Yes, Biden’s All-Female Press Team Is Clearly Virtue Signalling

The question is, does it matter?

Source — Twitter

When Joe Biden announced his all-female press team last week, I could tell there was going to be trouble. After all, it didn’t take a genius to predict that there would be arguments about virtue signalling and sexism raging across the internet.

“Oh, so now it’s okay to hire people based on their sex?” cried a surprising number of outraged men. “I guess that equality only matters when there are too many men, right?” They accused the women who celebrated the announcement of hypocrisy and sexism. “This isn’t progress,” they argued, “it’s pandering.”

Women all over the world rolled their eyes at the double-standard. “So a team of talented, highly-qualified women is chosen for a prominent White House role for the first time, and now men want to talk about diversity? Where was all this concern when these teams were full of old white men?!”

I was uncharacteristically quiet during these exchanges. Not because I didn’t have an opinion, but because I was conflicted. On the one hand, I think it’s great that women are finally getting the visibility they deserve in these high profile roles, but on the other hand, Biden’s press team appointments were clearly virtue signalling.

Before I provoke any further eye-rolling, I’m not saying this because they’re women or because I don’t think they’ve earned their success. They have. I’m saying it because the way Biden frames his announcements shows that his interests clearly lie in what choosing them will do for him, rather than what it will do for them.
(Bounty event) Dakuce’s tokens Hunting
Tags: Litecoin, Currency Exchange, Blockchain, Ethereum Blockchain, Bitcoin

“Come & Get 100 Dakuce Tokens”

To create an exciting atmosphere and a playing ground for Dakuce Community, we will hold this mini game: Who create any funny posts about crypto market will receive a reward when the post is selected, accept both photos and clips.

Warning: Do not pirate any files (from 9gag or anywhere…)

The reward will be paid right after the post is posted on our social: Facebook, Twitter.

The reward will be 100 Dakuce tokens per qualified post.

Send your posts to here, choose Type: (Bounty event) Dakuce’s tokens Hunting):

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An Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Data Visualization Techniques in Seaborn
Tags: Cheatsheet, Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Visualization, Seaborn

Let’s start with importing required libraries and loading the dataset which contains some built-in datasets in seaborn. The “tips” dataset, one of built-in datasets, will be used.

1.DISTRIBUTION PLOT

A)Distplot: A distplot is used a univariate distribution of observation.

tips[‘total_bill’]: It is a numeric column in tips dataset.

hist_kws: The keyword argument to change histogram format.

bins: It is used to set the number of bins, and it depends on your datasets.

kde: Kernel Density Estimate.

2.CATEGORICAL PLOT

A categorical variable has two or more categories, nonnumeric values. For instance, “sex” column is a categorical variable column, having two categories (male and female) at “tips” dataset. “day” column is a categorical variable column, having a number of categories (thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, etc.) at “tips” dataset. Categorical plot can be used to visualize categorical variables.

A)Bar Plot: Bar plot is useful for displaying relationships between categorical variable and numerical variable. Bar plot has two methods. Dataset’s columns can be used or dataset’s columns assigned to x and y parameters are used.

Method 1

Method 2

hue: determines which column in the data frame should be used for colour encoding.

B)Count Plot: Count plot shows the counts of observations in each categorical variable.

C)Box Plot: Box plot visualizes summarizing numeric data over a set of categorical variables, and it provides some information about data. This information consists of minimum score, maximum score, first quartile (25% of data), second quartile-median (50% of data), and third quartile (75% of data).

D)Violin Plot: Violin plot is a similar role as a box plot.

E)Strip Plot: Strip plot is a scatter plot. It shows the relationship between two variables.

F)Swarm Plot(Violin Plot + Strip Plot): As the name suggests, it consists of the combination of a violin plot and a strip plot.

G)Cat Plot(Former Name: Factor Plot): This plot provides the relationship between a numerical and one or more categorical variables with several visual options.

H)Point Plot: Point plot shows an estimate of central tendency(center of the data distribution) for a numerical variable.

3.MATRIX AND GRID PLOT

A)Heat Map: The heat map shows which variables are correlated to each other. It helps to understand correlation, and it provides a colorful visualization about correlation.

B)Pair Plot: The pair plot shows pairwise relationships in a dataset.

C)FacetGrid: FacetGrid helps to understand distribution of one variable as well as the relationship between multiple variables with using separate subsets.

4)JOINTPLOT

Jointplot visualizes two variables with bivariate and univariate graphs.

5)LMPLOT

Lmplot can be used for drawing a scatter plot onto a FacetGrid.
Study Finds Using CBD for Addiction Helps Prevent Relapses
By: Aaron Cadena
Tags: Cbd Benefits, Cannabis, Cbd Oils, Cbd, Addiction Recovery

One of the most overlooked benefits of CBD, the non-psychoactive cannabis compound, is its ability to combat drug and alcohol addiction.

“How could you even use CBD for addiction?” you’re probably asking.

And you’re completely right. At a glance, it seems pretty bizarre. And to be frank, some would even interpret it as a load of BS from companies just trying to sell more product.

I mean, how could CBD be used to treat so many diverse conditions, of all things addiction?

As bizarre as it may seem, there’s actually a ton of medical research backing the effectiveness of using CBD for addiction, and when you think about how CBD interacts with our body’s endocannabinoid system (ECS), it all makes sense.

The Study: 1 Week of CBD Prevents Relapses for Months

In a recent case study, researchers ran a series of tests to determine the “anti-relapse” potential of transdermal CBD. In the study, researchers administered transdermal CBD to animal subjects who had a history of self-administering cocaine or alcohol and exhibited characteristics of a relapsing addict such as dependency, anxiety, and impulsivity.

After administering CBD once every 24 hours for just seven days, the researchers made a profound discovery.

Based on their test results, the researchers concluded that the brief 7-day period of CBD treatment not only prevented the development of previously displayed “addict-like” characteristics, it deterred the subject’s from relapsing for 5 months — even though the CBD cleared from the brain and body after 3 days.

So not only is CBD effective in preventing relapses in drug and alcohol addicts, the benefits it provides are long-lasting which is crucial when fighting substance addiction.

The Evidence is Piling Up…

Now, sure, the results from a single study is not adequate evidence to validate the effectiveness of CBD in preventing relapses; however, this is not the case of just a single study. There are many other studies from very credible research teams who have run similar tests and found the same results.

Friedbert Weiss, the lead researcher at Scripps Research Institute, stated that this study provides “proof of principle supporting the potential of CBD in relapse prevention.”

With substance addiction being such a huge problem in the world today, this a huge breakthrough that could change the lives of tens of thousands of people.

And this is just one of over fifty benefits research has shown CBD can provide.

Can you imagine how many lives CBD can change if more people just knew about it or were more open-minded towards it? Countless lives.

We truly appreciate you guys taking the time to read our article, it means so much that the articles we put out provide value and insights to our readers.

Now, the next step is to spread the word to more and more people. That’s how we change the world.

Help us spread the wonders of CBD and share this article with your friends, family, and those in need.
Her Promise
By: Somsubhra Banerjee
Tags: No Crime In Rhymin, Haiku, Heartbreak, Poetry, Promises

she promised she’d go out only with me,

but she did not even budge

had waited just for her

it was a trivial incident, but

somehow i felt pretty sad,

a bit unimportant

also, she could have explained her reasons

but, well, she preferred not to,

that probably hurt more

sour mood stayed all-day, heated ears, mind, soul

kept explaining my sad heart,

to let this pass, forget

but the heart’s so so naive and moody

doesn’t seem to even perceive,

she doesn't even feel you
Gotta fetch() em All …
By: Steven Wu
Tags: Coding, Flatiron School, Js

This will be a simple guide on how the fetch Api works in JavaScript. Fair warning you must have some JS knowledge and a modern browser to use the Fetch Api.

The Fetch API is a relatively new JavaScript interface for accessing and manipulating data through the HTTP pipeline. It provides you with the fetch() method that provides an easy way to fetch “asynchronous” HTTP requests for resources across the internet.

fetch requests are promised based, so you don’t have to wait for the object to load from your network request before your app works on the next set of instructions, instead it will fetch the resources when the promise is resolved.

Enough talking , let’s get to coding. I’m a huge nerd so I will be showing an example of how to fetch for some pokemon data. I’m gonna check out one of my favorite pokemon of all time.

Charmander I CHOOSE YOU!! FROM MY CHROME BROWSER CONSOLE.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Watercolor, Sunday, Drawing, Illustration

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

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Machine translation vs. human translation
By: Kahli Bree Adams
Tags: Translators, Translation, Language, Machine Translation, Business

Machine translation vs. human translation

A brief comparison

Photo by Cathy Mü on Unsplash

Machine translation means automated translation by computer software. It can be used to translate texts without any human input. Today, the value of the MT market is estimated to be between US$130 million to US$400 million. While custom-built machine translation engines tailored to specific companies can be quite successful, generic machine translation programs such as Google Translate are a different story.

The internet is full of examples of flagrant mistranslations, and most are the work of such machine translation programs. The companies concerned could easily have avoided these serious mistakes — and the accompanying financial losses and damage to their image — by simply investing in a professional human translation.

Sure, machine translation has greatly improved in recent years, and companies with tight deadlines or cost pressures increasingly flee to its embrace. Within seconds, an automatic translation tool can translate an entire website or advertising campaign. And without spending a penny! But as is so often the case in life, you get what you pay for. Or in this case, what you don’t pay for.
Cast Your Vote for Viola.AI to Win Audience Choice Awards!
By: Christina Thung
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Pitching

CEO and Co-Founder of Viola.AI, Violet Lim will be pitching in the biggest ICO Pitching Competition in Cayman Islands on 30 January 2018!

You have the chance to show you support and vote for Viola.AI to clinch the Audience Choice Awards!

If you believe in our project and you would like to help us change the world — 1 relationship at at time…

Cast your vote here: http://vote.d10e.biz

Violet will be pitching at 4.40pm (UTC-5) and voting may start then!

Join our community on telegram now to watch the pitch LIVE and get real-time updates on how you can vote! Head on to www.t.me/ViolaAI and see you there!
『週額５０に仮想通貨で』０１０ーFCoin取引所は非営利団体？取引手数料の１００％還元！取引所収益の１００％配当！
Tags: Eos, Fcoin, 日本語, Ethereum, Bitcoin

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ICONOMI Weekly Update
Tags: Iconomi, News, Blockchain, Updates, Weekly

This week we added several new digital assets to the platform, including stablecoin TrueUSD, released an updated iOS app, launched two new DAAs, and more.

TrueUSD Stablecoin

TrueUSD is a stablecoin that can be “redeemed 1-for-1 for US dollars.” Access to a stablecoin allows DAA managers to mitigate losses during times of high volatility. For example, if a market correction is expected, TrueUSD can be used in the structure of the DAA to preserve its value.

The addition of a stablecoin allows for better management of volatility, which can result in more stable DAAs that our users can buy into. It will also lead to the creation of a wider variety of DAAs for more conservative buyers.

Read our full overview in our blog post.

Ten New Digital Assets

On Wednesday, May 23, we added support for NEO, the last in our series of ten digital assets added to the platform over ten days, starting on the first day of Consensus 2018. Read our blog post for full details.

Events

Meet the Managers Events

CyberMiles will be joining us in Hong Kong on May 29, 2018 for our first Meet the Managers event in Asia. Attendees will have a chance to connect with CyberMiles CFO Garwin Chan and in-house general counsel Maggie Guan, who will also be giving a presentation.

Seats are still available for both our Hong Kong (May 29) and Singapore (May 31) events, so sign up soon if you want to attend!

ICONOMI Mobile App Updates

With the latest release of the official ICONOMI iOS app, users can now verify their accounts to Tier 1 and Tier 2 directly from the app. Due to Apple’s restrictions on some specific digital assets, buy/trade functionality for DAAs has been removed.

We are working on implementing Tier 2 verification for the Android app and recently added Tier 2 verification support for the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Peru, and Serbia.

More details are available in our blog post.

New DAAs

MOON is our first DAA based in the Middle East. Manager ArabFolio Capital aims “to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western investment opportunities by providing institutional and individual investors with an easy and frictionless gateway for entering the world of blockchain and digital assets.”

Marking another first for ICONOMI, GMC is based in Latin America. GMC is “a well-hedged DAA diversified into different types of digital assets: protocols, utilities, DAOs, and dapps.”

DAA Manager Twitter List

The team behind Hive Index has created a Twitter List for following our DAA managers, making it easy to follow DAA managers’ news and updates all in one place. Subscribe here.

Sneak Peek

At Consensus 2018, we received a lot of interest from other blockchain companies in having their digital asset listed on the ICONOMI platform. To clarify the process, we will be publishing a blog post with our basic rules, prerequisites, and due diligence requirements for adding new digital assets to the platform.

Follow our official channels for more updates and news:

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Failure Fuels Success
By: Christopher D. Connors
Tags: Inspiration, Life Lessons, Success, Personal Development, Self Improvement

Creativity and Innovation Begin with Mindset and Action

As Dr. Brown says above, genius for ideas we truly desire begins from disappointments, challenges and yes, failure. If you’ve ever truly been knocked down before, you know this. Let me first clarify one point:

This is not to say you cannot do anything dynamic and creative in life unless you’ve failed. It’s simply to say failure, adversity, fear, doubt and insecurity are all things we can harness and use to your advantage if we have a mindset that believes and has optimism for the future. Creativity and innovation are born from curiosity, imagination and hope.

Think about that accomplishment you’re most proud of — where did that begin? How were you able to get there?

I bet you can look back at an instance where you failed, stumbled or made a mistake. If you search deeper, you’ll realize you culled a valuable nugget of information from that mistake that led you to your achievement. That’s the essence of learning and personal growth. Profiting and growing from past stumbles.

Find Joy on Your Journey

I’m thankful each day when I realize our culture has come to accept failure more and more as the ultimate teacher for building toward new goals and dreams. The greatest strides I’ve made in my life have come from the ashes and aftermath of failure. It’s in the stories of successful author, J.K. Rowling, and also in the journey of Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan.

The secret to a lifetime of happiness is the adoption of a learner’s mindset. When you’re willing to learn, you’re curious, adaptable and hungry. Couple that with action and you’ve got the recipe for a successful life and career.

Innovation and creativity fuel our dreams and ignite the passion and motivation that sustains us on any journey. Always remember this when you’re thinking it’s “not your time” or when the deck appears stacked against you. Failure isn’t final. Giving in and refusing to try again is the only failure.

Get up and give it another shot. That’s what success is all about.

Learn more about my journey and get great tips on living your best life: http://chrisdconnors.com
Weekly update #3
By: Live Stars
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Weeklyupdate, Bitcoin

Beta version development has been our main task since the end of our token sale. We have made progress and soon whole Live Stars community will be able to check out our work. For now we are adding secondary functions, improving front-end and doing tests. Beta release is scheduled on the end of April.

In comparison to our alpha version, current software is much more reliable and has a lot wider functionality. We have developed convenient interface for streamers, and we have implemented and tested internal payments on the platform, which means users are now able to pay models for their services, both as a single tip or as a per-time payment for private video chats.

Speaking of payment system, we have to note that we decided that during our beta test it will be more sensible to use a traditional point system within our website and not use the payment channels. This was decided due to Ethereum blockchain fees being too high considering the fact this is only a beta test, and we do not want our community to be spending their Ether during the test.

We also would like to note that the initial beta release is going to be raw, and with the time more functionality will be added and offered to be tested by you, our community members. Our beta version will be continuously developed up until it is ready for the final release and public marketing campaign start.

Meanwhile, we have been listed on OpenLedger and ForkDelta decentralized exchanges. At the moment we are awaiting responses from Cobinhood and Cryptopia exchanges.
EPISODE 5 : WINSTON-SALEM DASH BASEBALL
By: Wake Forest Mas
Tags: Baseball, Minor League Baseball, Winston Salem, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem Dash

CELEBRATE THE OFFICIAL START OF SPRING AT BB&T BALLPARK. Thirsty Thursday’s and Dash Baseball are the perfect way to spend your summer in Winston-Salem. The new BB&T ballpark opened on April 13th, 2010, and since that time it has become one of the biggest attractions in the Winston-Salem community.

Game-days are a family-friendly with top-quality athletes who are only a few levels from the majors. Between-innings entertainment changes every single night. Tickets start at just nine dollars and Thirsty Thursday’s offer dollar beers.

Minor League Baseball at BB&T Ballpark in Winston-Salem, NC

Minor League Baseball in Winston -Salem has a long history that spans all the way back to 1956 where the first team was the Winston-Salem Twins. Since then the team has gone through several incarnations as the Red Sox the Spirits and the Warthogs. The team mascot has changed several times, but one thing has stayed constant. This sports franchise has always provided Winston-Salem residents with a family-friendly home to America’s pastime.
It Starts With Me
By: Lori Kovach Petrie
Tags: Politics, Life Lessons, Poetry, Poem, Life

My honor

is with the tide,

changing along history

Bleak at times,

infinite in it’s essence,

I bow to the Divine within

Every word

uttered in conscience,

a prayer to the loving light

Hear me

respond to my despair,

bring the decoy cavalry to its knees

Show them

the missed mark of sin,

that is oblivious in the mass

A Holy night

led by a star brilliant,

is here today — everyday

Feel the Joy

from the wrong neighbor,

our only earlthy requirement

For the Fool

doesn’t blink,

at the perfection illusion

Blinded

by the true ignorance,

of his own reflection

Lori Kovach Petrie — 2020
Bucharest HBase/Hadoop Meetup with Lars George at Adobe
By: Cosmin Lehene
Tags: Hadoop, Meetup, Hbase

Next Tuesday (31st of May 2011) we’ll host a HBase/Hadoop meetup at the Adobe office in Bucharest. We’ll have Lars George — HBase committer, author of “HBase: The Definitive Guide”, Cloudera Solution Architect for Europe as a special guest.

Our hope is to get to meet more HBase/Hadoop local users to share knowledge. So if you’re using HBase or Hadoop or plan to use them you’re welcome.

Leave a comment if you want to sign-up for an up to 10 minutes lightning talk.

Agenda:

HBase intro — Lars George

Big Data with HBase and Hadoop at Adobe

Talk 3

Lightning talks (10m each)

HBase status and roadmap — Lars George

Q&A/Open discussion

After: beers at Rock’n Pasta or downtown

Register here
Roundtable #22: Basic Attention Token (BAT), Good Tron Bad Tron (TRX), Fake Elon Musk Promoted Tweet
By: Ico Alert
Tags: Podcast, Cryptocurrency, Elon Musk, ICO, Podcasting

Zach is back from Malta and Ryan joins us to talk everything crypto.

Don’t miss this week’s episode of The Roundtable with co-hosts Zach Quezada and Evan Schindler holding casual crypto conversations on the latest news and the hottest topics.

As usual, The Roundtable goes over YouTube comments from Last Week.

goes over from Last Week. Q “sings” Loch Lomond to the best of his ability.

Loch Lomond to the best of his ability. Ryan exclaims his problem with Facial Recognition tech being used by the government.

tech being used by the government. Was Evan exit scammed by a traditional business?

by a traditional business? What is up with Twitter promoting a fake Elon Musk tweet?

Prefer to read along? Get the transcript here on our blog.
FlipNpik — Un média social basé sur la Blockchain au service des commerçants locaux
Tags: Social Media, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, ICO, Local Economy

La vision de FlipNpik :

“Become the first Collaborative Social Media for local businesses operating in an Ecosystem based on the Blockchain technology, in which the value generated is distributed in an equitable and decentralized manner among all active collaborators .”
Theatre News: Almeida Theatre to reopen from December
By: Noah Keate
Tags: Almeida Theatre, Rupert Goold, Nine Lessons And Carols, Theatre News, Theatre

The Almeida in north London will reopen for a new series of shows from December.

Rebecca Frecknall ( Summer and Smoke), Chis Bush ( Standing at the Sky’s Edge) and the show’s company are producing Nine Lessons and Carols.

The show will run from the the 2nd December 2020 to the 9th January 2021, with a socially-distanced capacity of 120.

Meanwhile, Lolita Chakrabarti, will also write a new play called Hymn starring Adrian Lester ( Red Velvet) and Danny Sapani ( Les Blancs), which will run from the 29th January to the 27th February 2021.

As well as this, the Almeida Youth Company will perform The Maladies directed by Diyan Zora, which is set across 500 years and will run from the 18th to the 22nd of January.

The Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold stated that “having gratefully received a grant from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund, we are very pleased to be offering a season of work playing through Christmas and into 2021.”

Image: Andreas Praefcke // Wikimedia Commons.
3 habilidades blandas que todo desarrollador necesita
By: Gert Findel
Tags: Cultura, Soft Skills, Talento, Desarrollo Profesional, Gestión De Equipos

Thanks to Liliana Reyes , Fabiola Saenz , and Leo Soto .
Week of 7.3–7.10 Presidential Social Intelligence Battleground Tracker
By: Adam Meldrum
Tags: Social Intelligence, 2020 Presidential Race, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Battleground States

Daily Support Gained v. Lost

This week we examine day-by-day “Support Gain/Lost” by battleground state + the volume and topics of the discussion around each candidate.

The data is compiled via social intelligence systems monitoring each battleground state with our partner Eyesover Technologies.

The “Support Gain/Lost” metric is built by analyzing the language used in social posts about the presidential candidates. As battleground voters use language to indicate support for a candidate, our systems register “+1” in “Support Gained” for that date. A post expressing negative support is registered as “-1” in “Support Lost.”

There are 6 metrics we monitor on a daily basis across each state:

— Previous Non-Supporter to Neutral: (a post indicating a previous non-supporter has moved to a more neutral stance on a candidate)

— Suport Gained: (a post indicating support gained for Trump or Biden)

— Support Lost: (a post indicating support lost for Trump or Biden)

— Previous Supporter to Neutral: (a post indicating a previous supporter has moved to a more neutral stance on a candidate)

— Net Daily Gain/Lost: (the daily net of Support Gained v. Support Lost)

— Net Daily Neutral Shift: (the daily net of “Shifts to Neutral”)
Celer Network Joins 500 Startups Seed Accelerator
By: Celer Network
Tags: Celerpartners, Blockchain

After sorting through 1700+ applications, Celer Network was selected to be one of the final 22 teams joining 500 Startups’ latest accelerator batch in San Francisco. As a leading venture capital firm, 500 Startups has 2,000+ companies spanning over 60 countries. The accelerator program includes a mix of industries from cryptocurrency to digital health to e-commerce. Celer Network will be joining the Blockchain Track and with a focus on accelerating growth.

Founded by four Ph.D. graduates from MIT, UC Berkeley, UIUC and Princeton, Celer Network is the off-chain (“layer-2”) scaling solution for blockchain scalability, which collaborates with high profile partners like L4 Ventures (funded by Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik personally) and DFINITY. Celer Network works as an “operating system” that can run on different blockchains to provide a highly scalable, private and secure off-chain dApp platform. Since coming out of stealth in early 2018, Celer is growing rapidly towards the vision of blockchain mass adoption.The launch of Centauri Testnet in early October has gained significant positive feedback in the blockchain industry. Meanwhile, Celer Network’s cWallet (Alpha version) acts as the gateway to Celer Network (testnet as of now), where users will enter a new world of off-chain applications that are more than 3,000X faster than on-chain applications.

According to Bonnie Cheung, Venture Partner at 500 Startups, “Despite all the hype we saw this past year, meaningful blockchain adoption is still lagging. We believe layer 2 solutions will be a key to unlocking blockchain technology’s true potential. As a leader in the layer 2 space, the Celer Network team’s deep technical expertise and laser-focus on product delivery is exactly what the blockchain industry needs.”

Through 500’s four-month accelerator program, Celer Network aims to contribute to the development of the blockchain ecosystem globally. 500 supports blockchain entrepreneurs on topics ranging from marketing, customer acquisition, and partnership development. Celer Network is confident that by interacting with more influential community builders, the team is light speed ahead to bringing mass adoption to blockchain ecosystem.

Press Contact: Windy Wang

About Celer Network

Founded by four PhDs from MIT, Princeton, UC Berkeley and UIUC, Celer Network is the most advanced off-chain scaling platform to make it possible to build fast, easy-to-use and secure blockchain applications at Internet scale.

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An evolving market
Tags: Blockchain, Technology, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

The need for trusted price formation

Two weeks ago we introduced Bakkt, a new company designed to bring digital assets to the mainstream and help unlock the potential of this important technology. We appreciate the response to our announcement and the conversation since.

The internet, where we see this dialogue unfolding transparently, is a global network that today we take for granted. But nearly 20 years ago when the web was in its infancy, the spark for digital assets was there. It sticks with me that back then, Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman predicted that e-cash would emerge. And now are we seeing the promise of a true digital currency.

Whether you’re an investment manager seeking federally regulated, institutional trading and security solutions or a consumer looking for more choice in transacting, we’re working to make the vision for wider application of digital assets a reality.

I wanted to share a couple of quick observations from the last two weeks. First, the response to our news worldwide was very strong. The credit for that goes in large part, to a premier group of partners and the vision for Bakkt we collaborated on for months. Equally important is the widespread need we’re hearing for trusted infrastructure for trading, storing and spending digital currencies.

To achieve that, we’re starting with a proven framework that underpins exchanges, including:

* a consistent regulatory construct

* transparent, efficient price discovery, and

* an institutional quality pre- and post-trade infrastructure

The concept of “price discovery” might sound bland for something as exciting as Bitcoin. However, trusted price formation is a fundamental part of advancing the promise of digital currencies.

A critical element to price discovery is physical delivery. Specifically, with our solution, the buying and selling of Bitcoin is fully collateralized or pre-funded. As such, our new daily Bitcoin contract will not be traded on margin, use leverage, or serve to create a paper claim on a real asset. This supports market integrity and differentiates our effort from existing futures and crypto exchanges which allow for margin, leverage and cash settlement. Coupled with a secure, regulated warehouse solution, you can begin to see how this market infrastructure can help more institutions and consumers participate in the asset class.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal headlined that the aggregate market capitalization of digital assets slid below $200 billion, down 70% from the peak at the start of 2018. At the same time, there are numerous reports that venture investing, initial coin offerings, and corporate R&D related to blockchain and digital assets are all on track to surpass 2017 levels. With the potential for efficiency and innovation, the focus on new applications and infrastructure indicates a strong appetite for this market and technology.

It’s exciting to do this work as the end of a busy summer approaches and an even busier fall awaits. Thanks for your interest and feedback.
NgClass vs Class Binding in Angular
By: Amitav Mishra
Tags: Data Binding, Javascript Tips, Angular, Web Development, Angularjs

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Like data, we can bind classes to elements in angular. To set some style conditionally on any element we can simply write the CSS styles on a class selector and we can add that CSS class conditionally to any element.

Class Binding

To add or remove a CSS class dynamically from an element we can make use of class binding. Syntax is:

[classs.className] = "boolean expression"

If the given Boolean expression is truthy then the provided class will be added or if it is falsy then it will be removed from the element. For Example:

<div [class.error]="hasError"> </div> <div [class.adult]="age >= 18 ? true : false"> </div>

With class binding, we can add only single class conditionally. However to set multiple classes we can use ngClass directive.

The ngClass Directive

To add multiple classes, we can pass an object where key will be class names and values will be respective boolean expressions.

<div [ngClass]="{'error': hasError, 'warning': hasWarning}"> </div>

If the boolean expression is truthy, the respective class will be added to the element.

If we have more complex object to pass to ngClass , we can also define the object in the component and we can use that object in the template.

TS

classes = {

'hasValue': this.password.length > 0,

'valid': this.password.length >= 6,

'invalid': this.password.length < 6,

}

HTML

<div [ngClass]="classes"> </div>

We can also pass string and array values to ngClass .

<div [ngClass]="'box'"> </div> <div [ngClass]="['box', 'card', 'container']"> </div>

Now you are all set to add dynamic classes to your HTML elements with whichever binding appropriate for you.
Serverless Application on Google Cloud
Tags: Cloud Functions, Serverless, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Services

Ever since Google Cloud released Cloud Function (BETA), there has been lots of excitement in the community. Google Cloud functions is an event-driven serverless compute platform which abstracts major configurations form developers like auto-scaling, on-demand execution and no server provisioning. This helps a developer to focus more on the development of service. And that’s the reason where we are also excited.

Before Moving to serverless applications I will briefly explain what is Google Cloud Functions.

It is the simplest way of running your code in the cloud Automatically scales, highly available and fault tolerant (Deploy like a pro) No servers to provision, manage, patch or update (Major relief for any developer) Pay only while your code runs Connects and extends cloud services

Behind the hood, Cloud Functions waits for a cloud service (Supported Google Cloud services) to emit an event and based on that event it responds by either writing back the output to the service or invokes another service on the cloud.
ZeroBank scores 9.3/10 on Icomarks
By: Zerobank - Your Local Currency
Tags: Rating, Fintech, Blockchain Technology, Remittances, Zerobank

Icomarks.com — one of the most trustworthy ICO rating agencies — gave ZeroBank an excellent score of 9.3/10, with two absolute 10/10 scores for Team Proof and Social Activity.

ZeroBank utilizes the power of Blockchain and Smart Contract technologies, along with the application of sharing economy, to create a location-based non-commercial money transfer and exchange platform. The model fits the current stage of the world economy. ZeroBank’s model makes money transfer and exchange transactions much faster and more reachable to end-users such as migrants, international students, international tourists, etc. Also, the platform creates opportunities to get side income for other community worker groups when they become ZeroBank’s agents.

ZeroBank is deemed a highly promising project to achieve success in the near future.

Icomarks doesn’t hesitate to give us a 10/10 for Team Proof criteria.

Thanks to Icomark raters’ comprehensive examination, an absolute 10/10 score on Team Proof was given to ZeroBank.

ZeroBank’s team consists of 14 MBAs, Ph.D., MSc with extensive work experience in the Banking & Finance Industry across Europe and Asia Pacific. Every core team member had made substantial contribution to successful projects in the Fintech industry.

ZeroBank’s vision is to disrupt the current money transfer and exchange service markets worldwide. The project deserves a top score on Icomarks.com.

That’s not all! ZeroBank also got impressive reviews from other experts:

4.6/5 score on TrackICO and ICObest

4,5/5 score on ICObench .

. 4.38/5 score on COINcheckup

These ratings are the huge motivation for ZeroBank to strive harder to achieve our goal as the leading remittance & money exchange provider in the world.

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Whitelist registration will close on July 10th, 2018. Join HERE

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