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Meet Voatz, the #blockchain company tackling election fraud
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As the midterm elections have come and gone, voter fraud and suppression has continued to be an issue and hot topic item for Florida, Arizona, and Georgia. Claims and lawsuits are being dealt with in these crucial states as officials attempt to sort out the chaos. However, a preliminary test with mobile election system Voatz is trying to find a solution to these problems before they arise.Voatz is looking to introduce blockchain technology into the voting process. Common misconceptions tends to tie blockchain and cryptocurrency together into one entity. As blockchain is simply the technology that allows cryptocurrency to live, it has many other practical uses. However, cryptocurrency as been seeing trouble transitioning over into the mainstream lately, unable to work on essential, (...)

#politics #finance

Implement Infinite Scroll or Pagination in #ios #uitableview using #swift 5
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Infinite scroll is one of the basic requirements of the modern apps. It is a design pattern where content is continually loaded into the interface as the user scrolls downwards. Also called endless scroll, the point is that the user never reaches the end of the page. Instead they are presented with a perpetual content stream without having to click or spend cognitive load on paginated navigation.Sound familiar? It should do. Most people use infinite scroll on the daily in their social media browsing — think Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.Advantages of using Infinite ScrollInfinite scrolling definitely has its upsides; if it didn’t, big tech giants wouldn’t be using the pattern. For example:Users consume vastly more content on an infinite scroll page.Interaction costs are basically zero, and (...)

#podfile #infinite-scroll

Why I Hate The Idea Of The “Side Hustle”
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Originally Posted HereI hate the idea of the side hustle.Let me explain.Since I was 16 I had a knack for picking up 2–3 jobs at one time. Sometimes I did it on purpose, other times it honestly just happened.It started first when I was working as a cook in fine dining and one of the Chefs went to another restaurant and asked me to come along. Rather than quit my current gig, I decided to keep both jobs. Soon, that very same Chef asked me to deliver some micro greens (like micro beets, micro basil, etc) for 20 dollars an hour, which at the time (and even now) was amazing! So of course, I took him up on that offer as well. When I graduated from college I began working as a data engineer and this pattern continuedQuickly after entering the corporate world, I had a director who left come to me (...)

#leadership #business #startup #self-improvement #development

Delays in app delivery to #kubernetes
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Delays in App Delivery to KubernetesDelivering enterprise applications to KubernetesEnterprises around the world are waking up to the #containers and Kubernetes trend. There are numerous benefits of delivering an application as container packages to Kubernetes but at the same time, the process of app containerization and the subsequent app deployment to Kubernetes can hit many roadblocks. Since the idea of using Kubernetes and containers for app delivery is fairly recent, the transition from traditional delivery systems to these modern delivery systems is a bumpy ride.Major roadblocks while achieving continuous deliveryTo modernize, breaking down large applications into smaller microservices is just a start. The main challenge is in continuously delivering these microservices as (...)

#continuous-delivery #devops #docker

Authentic #collaboration In Tech Starts with the Right People
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By Samantha Radocchia, co-founder and CMO of ChronicledThe most difficult part of building a company is bringing people together as a team.Traditionally, creating a collaborative, supportive team is viewed as something that can’t be forced. It’s widely recognized as a process that takes time and effort from everyone involved.But, as startup culture has grown and the role of founders has become ever more glamorized, a new method of company creation has popped up-venture production studios. Essentially, these studios bring together “founders” to start a company for a specific purpose.Think of it as manufacturing a company.While it’s possible to find success through that system, it’s also a very inorganic and impersonal way to build a company-and isn’t very good at fostering authentic (...)

#life #authentic-collaboration #entrepreneurship #life-lessons

Towards More Programmable and Robust Security Tokens: Five Protocols that Should be Part of…
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Towards More Programmable and Robust Security Tokens— Five Protocols that Should be Part of Security Token PlatformsThe market for security token platforms seems to be getting crowder every weeks. In a market with only a handful of actively traded security tokens, we already have over 50 platforms that are promising to be the future of crypto-securities. On paper, most of those platforms look incredibly similar which contributes to the noise in the market. To differentiate signal from noise, security token platforms must evolve their technical capabilities in order to support more sophisticated offerings. And we don’t need to start from scratch; the #ethereum ecosystem offers a rich set of protocols that can easily improve the feature-set of the next generation security token platforms. (...)

#security-token #blockchain #cryptocurrency #invector-labs

Serving #react and Koa together
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Reactjs and #koajs are two great frameworks of #javascript. I wonder how to serve React and Koa projects in the same server and same port! Finally, I’ve reached a solution and today I’ll discuss it.In this article, we’ll create an API using koa and a React project (frontend) which will consume the API. The idea is very simple, React will fetch some book names from the backend (koa) and render them.Backend (Koa) projectKoa uses async functions, this gives an advantage over callback functions. By default, Koa does not come with any middlewares. That makes Koa very minimal and elegant.At first, we need to install node (koa requires node v7.6.0 or higher). Then install koa using : npm i koaCreate a project directory named “book” and run npm init -y.As koa doesn’t come with any middlewares and we need (...)

#single-page-applications #nodejs

6 Steps to Prepare Your Mobile Site for Voice Search in 2019
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When Google first debuted voice search application for iPhone in 2008, the app was far from flawless. Over the years this app has become more precise and human-like. Statistics reveal that Google’s English identification precision rate is currently over ninety-five percent.People fancy an immediate answer when searching for something from the web. While typing a question in a search bar is fast, merely talking in your gadget and obtaining similar outcomes is even swifter. Typically, an individual can type around forty words per minute and talk approximately a hundred and fifty words per minute.To attempt a spoken search, you may trigger your smartphone’s assistant like Amazon Alexa, Google assistant or Siri. You’ll need to press on the mic icon on Google’s search bar right side, to the (...)

#seo #content #mobile-website #optimize #voice-search

Will Autonomous Vehicles Make Our Roads Safer ?
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Photo SourceSelf-driving cars are potentially on their way to becoming commonplace transportation in modern American households. Maybe you’ve heard about it, either through the news, a podcast, or an article on the internet. No matter what your familiarity with the concept is, one thing’s for certain: we could be sharing the roadways with self-driving vehicles in the next few years.Of course, when you think about the push of artificial intelligence (AI) into other parts of our day-to-day lives, it might not seem so crazy. With space exploration centers beginning to use AI droids in space, a self-driving vehicle seems pretty tame! But for now, they have yet to hit the roadways in a non-testing capacity.When they do, however, they are bound to change the roadways forever. Autonomous cars, (...)

#the-future-of-travel #autonomous-cars #self-driving-cars

How Machine Learning Can Revolutionize Subscription Billing
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A subscription business gives the predictability of a stable cash flow, which helps a company grow and make plans for the future. Some organizations base their entire business on subscriptions, for example, cable TV or SaaS providers, while others have this only as one of the product licensing options.Since this is a successful business model, managers are trying to identify new ways to prevent customer churn, decrease the cost of customer acquisition and find the best ways to structure prices and plans. Until now, marketing research was the primary tool to answer these questions, but machine learning (ML) is becoming more effective.How Does Machine Learning Work?Machine learning is all about making a system recognize patterns by using vast amounts of training data. Once the system (...)

#analytics #subscription-billing #machine-learning #startup #big-data

#blockchain Week NYC 2019 Guide[Upcoming Event Highlights]
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Blockchain Week NYC 2019 Guide [Upcoming Event Highlights]Welcome to the second NYC Blockchain Week! Last year we got tremendous positive feedback for compiling this guide, so here we are again helping you navigate 2019 NYC Blockchain Week.New York City Blockchain Week runs from May 10th to May 18th with hundreds of events drawing people from around the world to share in the exploration of new innovations. It is a rare opportunity to meet global blockchain leaders with dozens of events being held to this aim.With so many events happening at once, which ones are worth checking out? Where do you go? Who do you see? We’ve compiled the best events and sorted them by price.If you can’t swing 2k for the Consensus, there are many other great options. Or if you’re visiting for Consensus, but would (...)

#cryptocurrency #new-york #blockchain-week #blockchain-week-nyc

What will drives #bitcoin’s future price?
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In mid April Adamant Capital published an important paper, “Bitcoin in Heavy Accumulation”. It has been publishing these reports for some years now and as it says in the introduction, each time they did so was when Bitcoin was down 80% from an all-time high. In April 2019 it is 75% down from its 2017 high, and this is a good point for investors to enter the market according to Adamant Capital.According to Adamant, Bitcoin is in an “accumulation phase” right now and its researchers expect #btc to trade at a range between $3,000 and $6,500 until there is a new bull market that “permanently cements the denarian cryptocurrency as a multi-trillion dollar asset.”The market does appear to be picking up momentum and while it is still experiencing some slight setbacks every few days, the outlook feels (...)

#crypto

Could Telegram’s TON #blockchain Drive Mass #cryptocurrency Adoption?
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Could Telegram’s TON Blockchain Drive Mass Cryptocurrency Adoption?When the launch of the Telegram Open Network (TON) initial coin offering (ICO) was announced back in December 2017, the blockchain industry sat up and took notice, in a big way. At the time, not only were Telegram among one of the first companies with an existing and successful non-blockchain product to suggest launching an ICO; but more importantly, Telegram were already well regarded in the crypto industry as being the go-to platform for ICO community building initiatives and messaging.Despite Telegram setting a hard cap for their raise of just $1.2 billion, it was quickly apparent that Telegram’s fundraising goal was setting the bar far too low for the growing messaging app which boasts a self-proclaimed 200 million (...)

#telegram-messenger

Trendsetting in 2019: How #crypto Traders Get an Edge
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Bitcoin bubbles have a tendency to be so volatile and unpredictable, despite their historical occurrence, that they often leave traders traumatized and drained of confidence. After being raked through the coals by the latest ups and downs, those who witness #bitcoin at historical bottom-barrel prices may miss a years-in-the-making opportunity to buy in at the best possible moment. However, this dilemma is by design. Hesitance is bred on the tail-end of a bubble, when a logical market would otherwise look at the charts and be quite optimistic.Despite that there’s always a way to derive value from #cryptocurrency speculation, Bitcoin is now a mature and known entity, and navigating the markets is therefore not as straightforward as it was in 2011. Back then, no one knew if Bitcoin would (...)

#ethereum #blockchain

Secure Proof of Stake in #blockchain, Explained
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Secure Proof of Stake in Blockchain: ExplainedProof of Stake consensus mechanism states that a person can either mine or validate block transactions in accordance with how many coins he or she possesses. Now, this implies that the more bitcoin or altcoins are owned by a miner, the more mining power he or she has.The first digital currency to adopt this method of Proof of Stake was Peercoin.Let’s discuss this in detailWhat Exactly is Proof of Stake?The Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm was first introduced back in 2011 on the Bitcointalk forum aimed to solve the issues of the most popular algorithm in use — Proof of Work.Where both the algorithms share the same goal of reaching consensus in the blockchain, the process to reach this goal in for both is all different.How Does This (...)

#ethereum #proof-of-stake #blockchain-technology

Tech-Enabled Transformation in the #insurance Industry
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Software is a crucial long-term investment for any company, but with rapidly changing insurance software, you, as a provider, might just not know how to keep up and keep your business in the loop.In this article, we’ve compiled the trends that are most likely to affect your enterprise — which ones will be beneficial, what to look out for, and what strategies will be most useful in a few years’ time.Changing Approach to InsuranceInsurance agency software allows agencies to effectively analyze and evaluate risks for businesses and individuals, often using data Clouds and Big Data analysis. It has become a popular tendency to use this feature to support risk management on a more individual level to improve health habits and behavior. This way, providers help customers to move from reacting to (...)

#insurtech #digital-transformation

28 Years Ago, Our Enslavement was Predicted — and We’re Still Not Listening
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28 Years Ago, Our Enslavement was Predicted — and We’re Still Not Listening“An untold #future lies ahead, and for the first time, I face it with a sense of hope. For if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life; maybe we can too.” — Sarah ConnorI was a kid when I first heard this quote, and It was shocking how we could even think of machines having feelings. Even more, it was interesting the idea in that quote referring that human beings don’t appreciate life.At that moment I wasn’t a big fan of terminator and to be honest I’m still not the biggest follower, yet, that bit of the end of the movie was nailed into my memory even -especially these days- several years after.Some years after Terminator, the first movie of The Matrix was released and from the very first time, I was hooked (...)

#smartphone-addiction #machine-takeover #giveashit #technology

AR and VR Applications in Healthcare, Education, and eCommerce
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AR and VR Technologies Transforming EnterprisesAR and VR are the most trending technologies of the running era.One of the biggest benefits in a VR and AR-enabled environment is the ability to innovate your products and services in a completely new way. Many industries and business sectors are taking advantage of these technologies such as — healthcare, education, e-commerce, manufacturing, etc.Both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) combined with AI and ML will create a better future and take your work to an entirely new level. How?As an example, I recently founded eXp Realty a real estate company with a virtual office space built out on the VirBELA platform. With their centralized VR office space, they have around 14,000 agents across all 50 US states, 3 Canadian provinces, (...)

#mobile-app-development #application-developer #hire-dedicated-programmer #augmented-reality #virtual-reality

How I configure VSCode for Everything
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Credits: Unsplash/Joshua AragonRecently, I was at the Boryspil Airport, Ukraine, working on a blog article when suddenly my VSCode stops working. It actually got crashed! Not once, but twice under 30 minutes. Some of the content was autosaved, some of it was gone forever…I was frustrated at first as to why it had to crash at that moment! Next, after re-opening the editor, I was angry with myself for I had to write some of the stuff again that didn’t get saved.Also, at times, previous this experience, it did feel that I have bloat of extensions that I am not using since I have stopped working with some of the frameworks in recent months (example, Angular).What did I do? After none of the emotions helped, I had to find a way to cope better. On a network that was not so crappy, but did have (...)

#react #programming #javascript #hackernoon-top-story #productivity

Is #blockchain the Answer for Musicians fed up with the industry?
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Musicians are fed up with how the current industry controls and exploits their #music. That’s why many are flocking to blockchain platforms, with the hope of making the industry more just and transparentBefore the 1990s, record labels tightly controlled all facets of the music industry from musician funding to distribution and even royalty payment collection.This all changed with the rise of the internet and file sharing platforms such as Napster and Limewire, who made music available anywhere, anytime, and to top it all off, for free.The rise of file sharing platforms crippled the record labels control over the music industry because they no longer controlled the distribution networks of new music, nor did they have time to recover as consumers moved on to digital music distribution.The (...)

#cryptocurrency #business #research

Free Trial or #freemium? Going From 0 to 100,000 Users In Six Months With Wes Bush
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Wes Bush is a #saas marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” He helps SaaS leaders launch and optimize free trial and freemium models via his consultancy, Traffic is Currency, and is also the founder of the Product-Led Summit.I caught up with Wes to talk about his free trial vs. freemium framework, our own customer acquisition process, and the start-up scene in Waterloo, Canada.Geoff Roberts: All right, so first thing’s first — before just a moment ago we’d never met, but I have come to know you in online circles as the free trial vs. freemium guy. Tell me about your early career path and how you decided to zoom in and focus on this one particular problem.Wes Bush: I feel like I really stumbled into this space and I’ve been doing marketing and (...)

#startup #free-trial #pricing-strategy

How Not To Kill Your Software Project
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Tons of software development projects tend to fail after launch for various reasons, of which the primary one is the lack of clear goals. Another almost equally significant but underestimated cause of failure is that a considerable number of these startups were solving the wrong problem.This situation is like a case of going a hundred miles per hour in the wrong direction and is quite common in the software development industry, but often binned under the ‘incompetence’ category (although, admittedly, that does play a role in some cases). It is an issue of poor communication between the parties involved.An ideal project would mean that all the organization’s staff at every level, as well as the target users, would be utterly convinced about the need to product and its ability to solve the (...)

#software-engineering #technology #startup #software-development #agile

Use of ML and AI in BlackHat Hacking.
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Algorithms, Attack Vectors, Possibilities, and Caffeine.Source: SophosNews.De-Briefing Artificial Intelligence.Computers are only smart enough to carry out whatever the task programmed to be functioned. Scalable computing power like Quantum computers or TeraFlop computers are rather faster than compared to the other machines but they still are the same. They make faster calculations, they run millions of permutations just the way they are programmed to be done. It’s rather fast than compared to the regular human’s brain usage. It’s said only 10% of the Human Brain is used in our daily lives but still, systems like Azure or IBM Watson make smoother and quicker calculations to be more precise. Artificial Intelligence is just a complex math progression with too many If/Else Statements (...)

Genericide : Trademarking “Blockchain”
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It’s super easy to trademark “blockchain.” Or is it?Continue reading on Hacker Noon »

#business #blockchain #law #technology #cryptocurrency

10 Reasons To Consider a #search Engine Alternative to #google
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If you’re using Google as your only search engine, it’s time for you to search for a new search engine. You, like most people, have probably developed quite the Google habit over the years. It’s been the most commonly used search engine for nearly 20 years. While Google may seem to work extremely well for you, it’s likely coming at the cost of losing your privacy and losing an objective view of the information on the internet.Reason #1: Google Tracks Your SearchesWhen you use Google, your search term gets linked to your device and Google stores that information. It then uses that information to target you with ads.According to Google’s Privacy Policy, “When you’re not signed in to a Google Account, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or (...)

#alternative-search-engine #search-engines #alternative-to-google