Three lessons from Without Their Permission to help you bring your own internet startup to life:<ul><li>All startups have to solve a real problem, but it doesn’t have to be a well-known one.</li><li>The internet can amplify anything, so be careful what you put out.</li><li>We have to fight to keep the internet open and uncensored.</li></ul>

The Three Key Takeaways

<ul><li>Sixteen months after Alexis graduated from the University of Virginia, he sold Reddit to Condé Nast and became a millionaire.</li><li>Alexis founded a social enterprise (Breadpig), launched a travel search engine (Hipmunk), and has invested in more than sixty startups and advised hundreds more.</li><li>As an avid proponent in the fight for our open Internet, Alexis fought against two evil legislative bills – the Top Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). He continues to champion the fight for our online freedom.  </li></ul>

The Rockstar Author, Alexis Ohanian

<ul><li>The open Internet has levelled the playing field. If you have a connection and a laptop, you can build your ideas exponentially and share your work with the world.</li><li>The open Internet is not a magic wand, but as a technology, it has the potential to do tremendous things – to allow awesome people to reach their full potential.</li></ul>

The Open Internet

Most people starting a business (and engineers are especially prone to this, hence the term Engineer's Disease) do it in the following order:<ul><li>Build a product you think people will like.</li><li>Go out the door, wave it around and ask: “Who wants this?”</li></ul>And then they get sad when no one wants to buy this awesome thing they’ve spent months building. Here’s what people like Noah and Alexis say you should do instead: Talk to potential customers first, figure out what problems they already have and then build something that helps them solve those problems!

The Engineer's Disease: Starting Backwards

A father and son duo from Australia invented a way to get honey from their beehives without having to open it and tranquillize the bees. Thanks to their simple system the honey just flows out, literally on tap. 
Not a pretty common problem – yet <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-hive-honey-on-tap-directly-from-your-beehive-environment--5#/">it managed to gather over $13 million on IndieGoGo</a>, a crowdfunding platform.

Get The Honey But Save the Bees!

Forget about billion-dollar markets or reaching 1 in 7 people on the planet, like Facebook (even they started with just college campuses). 
Focus on a problem that’s personal, close to you, and is unique to a small group of people, and you’ll do just fine.

A Problem Close To You

The internet can amplify anything overnight so be careful what you put out.In 2007, Greenpeace started a campaign to track a whale via satellite, to bring awareness to Japanese fishers still hunting these creatures and protest against an expedition set out to hunt down 50 whales. To engage their activists, Greenpeace held a poll to name the whale. When the poll ended up on Reddit somehow, the community ended up voting for a name 20,000 times – and it won by a landslide. Mr. Splashy Pants ended up generating so much media coverage, that the Japanese government ended up cancelling the hunt.

The Great Amplifier

<ul><li>We all carry ideas we are passionate about, voices that need to be heard and projects that need to spread. And since we have access to the Internet, we have no excuse not to take action.</li><li>This can be incredibly empowering to some and absolutely frightening to others.</li><li>In an online world that doesn’t require permission, why are some of us still waiting for it?</li></ul>

The Power Of The Open Internet

Whether you’re a solopreneur or you lead a growing team, if you want to make the world suck less, you need a kickass support team. Sure, they need to be competent and driven and quasi-entertaining (that’s a plus). But more importantly, they need to take pride in their work.Even if you end up never starting something of your own, the skills you learn in development are highly sought after these days.

Just Do It: Becoming A Solopreneur

The Language = Programming.  If you want to become The Maker, you might want to follow these 3 steps:1.) No more excuses, like… Programmers are kids, not 35+. I’m too old. And I’m not geeky enough to be a hacker. Do I need a snippet of JavaScript tattooed to my back first? 2.) Develop your arsenal of tools. If you truly want to operate without their permission, then you need to empower yourself. If you’re ready for a challenge, take advantage of the growing number of free tools and resources available to you:<ul><li>Codecademy</li><li>Code.org</li><li>Rails for Zombies.org</li><li>Dash</li></ul>

Become The Maker: Learn The Language

The digital revolution is forcing all of us to step up our game, BIG time. It forces us to develop skills that fall outside of our comfort zones. It forces us to stop apologizing for high standards and expectations. And it forces us to push ourselves, stop making excuses, and start making the world suck less.After all, the open Internet is a gift and an opportunity.

The Digital Revolution

The Power of the individual and the open internet

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning. In this book, Alexis will share his ideas, tips and even his own doodles about harnessing the power of the web for good, and along the way, he will share his philosophy with young entrepreneurs all over the globe. At 29, Ohanian has come to personify the dorm-room tech entrepreneur, changing the world without asking permission. Within a couple of years of graduating from the University of Virginia, Ohanian did just that, selling reddit for millions of dollars. He's gone on to start many other companies, like hipmunk and breadpig, all while representing Y Combinator and investing in over sixty other tech startups. WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION is his personal guidebook as to how other aspiring entrepreneurs can follow in his footsteps.

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As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning. In this book, Alexis will share his ideas, tips and even his own doodles about harnessing the power of the web for good, and along the way, he will share his philosophy with young entrepreneurs all over the globe. At 29, Ohanian has come to personify the dorm-room tech entrepreneur, changing the world without asking permission. Within a couple of years of graduating from the University of Virginia, Ohanian did just that, selling reddit for millions of dollars. He's gone on to start many other companies, like hipmunk and breadpig, all while representing Y Combinator and investing in over sixty other tech startups. Without Their Permission is his personal guidebook as to how other aspiring entrepreneurs can follow in his footsteps.

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Without Their Permission

<ul><li>Interviews with someof the greatest investors.</li><li>Advices on diversification, market timing and risk/reward.</li><li>7 principles for developing a 'perfect portfolio'.</li></ul>

1. In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio

<ul><li>Tools and strategies to help you work remotely.</li><li>Tips to overcome information overload.</li><li>Set up meaningful video meetings.</li></ul>

2. Remote Inc

<ul><li>The promise of AI boosting productivity and improving our lives has it fallen a bit short?</li><li>The author Daron Acemoglu believes that the future of AI is still open and can take us in many different directions.</li></ul>

3. Redesigning AI

<ul><li>Robots are likely to complement, rather than replace human's skills and relationships.</li><li>Approaching robots as we approach animals like pets, may help us dealing with these new companions in the future.</li></ul>

4. The New Breed

<ul><li>Comparison between the COVID vaccine development and the space race that put man on the moon. </li><li>Could this vaccine provide a template for fighting pandemics and improving immunology in the future?!</li></ul>

5. A Shot in the Arm

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5 books published in 2021 that MIT says you must read if you want to understand the world better

IBM estimates that in 2021 a data breach incident costs enterprises $4.24 million on average. Even though the workforce is returning to offices in varying capacities, research on the topic indicates that managers are planning for a hybrid work future. 
According to Gartner, 82% of business leaders plan to let employees continue to work from home (WFH) in at least some capacity, while 47% plan to allow employees to do so permanently.

WFH/WFA Workplace Create New Cybersecurity Threats

Cybersecurity-wise, this new development means that an increasing number of workers will access their online work environment through vulnerable networks, and additional security measures have to be put in place to mitigate the connected risks.

The Security Risk

The switch to remote work left managers dealing with several cybersecurity threats stemming from unsecured home devices and networks, as well as unprotected internet traffic. 
When the majority of employees work from a single location, there is only a need to protect the main network - which is less demanding than protecting as many endpoints as there are employees

The Risks Of A Hybrid Work Environment

The elements that build for security and privacy that may normally be available in a controlled corporate physical environment setting with defined physical barriers are routinely obliterated in WFA environments.
And the risks associated with WFH are amplified when the move is made to WFA. This is because it includes not only our home base but also frequently working on the road at customer locations, airports, coffee shops, and just about anywhere with wired or wireless connections.

The Risk Of That Coffee Shop WiFi

Working from anywhere usually means using unencrypted public Wi-Fi, which can lead to information being intercepted, malware being distributed. There is an array of ways in which hackers exploit unsecured public networks, and businesses have to adapt their cybersecurity strategies accordingly.Adapting to working from home was a challenge to cybersecurity personnel everywhere, but the growing trend of working from anywhere entails a new set of threats to consider.

The Need To Adapt

Since every remote employee is a potential threat to the integrity of a given company's data, businesses are shifting their cybersecurity strategies away from the castle-and-moat approach.
In the Zero Trust framework, the given network is protected by granting users and devices access to only those parts of the network that are essential to their task. In such a system, every user is authenticated before being allowed to access the needed data through an encrypted tunnel. Because of this, even if a device gets compromised, it can't cause network-wide damage.

Zero Trust Framework

<ol>
<li>A comprehensive security framework of this kind allows remote employees to safely connect to the company network without putting the whole network at risk.</li>
<li>Web browsing becomes considerably safer, allowing cybersecurity personnel to ensure employee browsing habits are not potentially harmful to the company.</li>
<li>Due to the automated nature of Zero Trust-based systems, managers gain more time to educate their personnel on best cybersecurity practices</li>
</ol>

Zero Trust-Based Systems: Enhancing Three Key Areas

IBM estimates that in 2021 a data breach incident costs enterprises $4.24 million on average. Even though the workforce is returning to offices in varying capacities, research on the topic indicates that managers are planning for a hybrid work future. According to Gartner, 82% of business leaders plan to let employees continue to work from home (WFH) in at least some capacity, while 47% plan to allow employees to do so permanently. 

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WFH/WFA Workplace Create New Cybersecurity Threats: Are You Prepared?

Crowdsourcing has become a household word, with crowdfunded products, businesses, art projects, nonprofits, and even new journalism models. Citizen scientists band together virtually to find new galaxies, count birds, and monitor water quality.
But the granddaddy of crowdsourced information sites is Wikipedia, which—somewhat ironically—can tell you that the Encyclopaedia Britannica, its predecessor and former go-to source for information, published its last print edition in 2012.

Crowdsourcing

Wikipedia’s popularity as an information source with everyone from grade-schoolers to those in their golden years, led Shane Greenstein, a professor of strategy at the Kellogg School, to investigate how faithfully Wikipedia adheres to a “neutral point of view.” 
Newer articles, he has found, are less biased than ones crafted earlier in the site’s existence. But how does Wikipedia stack up against encyclopedias? Is the wisdom of the crowd more biased than the wisdom of experts?

The Popularity Of Wikipedia

As sources that aspire to provide comprehensive information, Britannica and Wikipedia face similar conflicts over the length, tone, and factual basis of controversial, unverifiable, and subjective content.
Understandably, these conflicts are “pervasive” when it comes to current events and other politically charged topics.

Bias, Tone and Slant

Britannica and Wikipedia address this problem in distinct ways. The encyclopedia uses a small group of experts and editors who engage in a back-and-forth dialogue before settling on what to publish for a given entry. 
Wikipedia goes much larger scale, depending on the virtual crowd—tens of millions of people—to generate entry information. And compared to its traditional counterpart, Wikipedia has a dramatically decentralized process for dealing with editing and conflicts. Does this allow more bias to creep into its entries?

The Resulting Conflicts

Wikipedia’s political articles are more likely to lean “mildly” Democratic—or to slant left—than Britannica’s. The extent of the bias in Wikipedia entries is greater.
Wikipedia articles with more revision in them had less bias and were less likely to lean Democratic. The largest biases and slants arise on Wikipedia articles with fewer contributions.
This is largely consistent with Linus’s Law, a principle applied to software development that claims that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

More Eyeballs, Less Bias

Longer articles were more likely to be biased than shorter ones. And Wikipedia’s articles tend to be longer than Britannica’s—partly for the obvious reason that online content faces none of the financial constraints print media does in regard to length. 
The greater availability of space enables Wikipedia’s writers to add material at will. And that means more opportunity to hear from all of the biased points of view.

The Text Is Not Alright

It is important to remember that Wikipedia positions itself as a jumping-off point rather than a definitive source. Britannica, on the other hand, presented itself as the ultimate authority.
But many people do take Wikipedia as definitive. And that is why it is important to tease out its problems, including bias, without detracting from its “marvelous achievement.”

Information Context

Crowdsourced Wikipedia entries are more biased than Encyclopaedia Britannica articles.

Can Wikipedia Be Trusted?

“The right to be forgotten” (RTBF), also known as the right to erasure, gives individuals the right to ask organisations to delete their personal data. It appears in Recitals 65 and 66 and in Article 17 of the GDPR.

The Right To Be Forgotten

<ul><li>The right to be forgotten is about making sure that the people themselves – not algorithms – decide what information is available about them when their name is entered in a search engine. </li><li>In practice this means that a search engine will have to, subject to certain conditions being met, remove a search result linking to a specific webpage when it receives a request from a citizen. </li><li>Therefore, the judgement makes sure that citizens are in control of their personal data.</li></ul>

Myth 1: “The Judgement Does Nothing For Citizens”

<ul><li>The judgement only concerns search engine results involving a person’s name.</li><li>The content remains unaffected by the request lodged with the search engine, in its original location on the internet.</li><li>The content can still be found through the same search engine based on a different query. </li></ul>

Myth 2: “The Judgement Entails The Deletion Of Content”

<ul><li>The RTBF, which is a part of the right to personal data protection, is not absolute. It is balanced against other fundamental rights. </li><li>That’s why the judgement limits the RTBF and recognises that there may be a public interest in all links to content remaining online. </li><li>RTBF applies only where the information is inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive for the purposes of data processing. </li></ul>

Myth 3: “The Judgement Contradicts Freedom Of Expression”

<ul><li>RTBF does not allow governments to decide what can and cannot be online or what should or should not be read. </li><li>It is a right that citizens will invoke to defend their interests as they see fit. Independent authorities (national data protection authorities + national courts) will oversee the assessment carried out by the search engine operators. </li></ul>

Myth 4: “The Judgement Allows For Censorship”

<ul><li>As content is not deleted, the internet does not have a diminished importance as a source of information. Takedown mechanism already existed before. </li></ul>

Myth 5: “The Judgement Will Change The Way The Internet Works”

The Right to be Forgotten: Myth Busting

Do you know how better is to work in a field you are good at? A good hacker need some of the following skills to come up with good actions for the security.

Ethical Hacking: An essential skills

Computer networking will better help you know how to connect two computers remotely and be able to retrieve data from one to another. You will better start executing some programs to the remote computer without having it.

Learn Computer networking

Some programming languages you will need to learn includes Python and JavaScript to help you execute your codes faster and efficiently.

Learn programming languages

This will help you code and decode data from binary to readable data such as texts. Using such type of knowledge will help you to use hashes which are still useful in password cracking.

Learn cryptography

Analyzing data is the essential thing in cybersecurity and every hacker should be aware of this type of data analysis which will help anyone with a capacity of discovering what is the need to reach to something.

Learn database analysis

You cannot really get better engaged in ethical hacking without knowing how to handle hardware things. This is essential for you to know how to better manipulate distant devices.

Learn basic skills on hardware.

Crucial and efficient to those who wish to become better at cyber security as cyberexperts. 

How experts are made?..

This study aims to analyse the adoption of mobile payment applications during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using the technology acceptance model (TAM) and Technology Readiness Index (TRI). TRI constructs affect perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, with the exception of discomfort which has no significant effect on the perceived usefulness. In addition, attitude is influenced by two main TAM variables: perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Meanwhile, the intention to use mobile payment applications is influenced by attitude.

Summary

<ul><li>perceived usefulness and easiness of use determine one’s attitude towards the adoption of a particular technology and consequently determine the intention to use and apply the technology</li><li>perceived usefulness: the extent to which a person believes that using a particular system will improve his work performance </li><li>perceived ease of use: a person’s belief that using a particular system will free him from effort</li><li>readiness for a specific system</li></ul>

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

<ul><li>related to one’s tendency to use new technology as well as the general sentiment about the new technology </li><li>16 items, measuring optimism, innovativeness, discomfort and insecurity</li><li>readiness for general technology</li></ul>

Technology Readiness Index (TRI)

H1-4: Optimism/Innovativeness have a positive effect on perceived usefulness/ease-of-use. ✅ supportedH5-8: Discomfort/Insecurity have a negative effect on perceived usefulness/ease-of-use. ✅ H6❌ H5, H7-8H9-10: Perceived usefulness/ease-of-use have a positive influence on attitude. ✅ supportedH11: Attitude has a positive influence on intention to use mobile payment applications. ✅ supported

Hypotheses

<ul><li>TRI constructs have a high level of importance in their effect on attitude and intention to use</li><li>optimism has the highest level of importance ➡️ must be increased by service providers by convincing users of the benefits of using mobile payment applications </li><li>insecurity has a positive effect on perceived usefulness and ease of use (❌H7-8); “explorer”/techno-ready user more likely to learn to use the application</li></ul>

Findings

Predicting the adoption of mobile payment applications during the COVID-19 pandemic - Author: Wahyu Rafdinal, Widi Senalasari

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Predicting the adoption of mobile payment applications during the COVID-19 pandemic

<ul><li>Built-in fast webserver</li><li>Production-ready</li><li>Highly scalable</li><li>ASGI compliant</li><li>Simple and intuitive API design</li><li>By the community, for the community</li></ul>

Features

Goal : To provide a simple way to get up and running a high-performance HTTP server that is easy to build, expand, and ultimately to scale.

<ul><li>What if we want to get data if the database is empty?</li><li>what if we want to update a student that is not in the database?</li><li>What if we want to delete a student that is not in the database?</li><li>What if we want to get data by id, not whole data?</li></ul>

Questions to solve

Goal: To provide a simple way to get up and running a high-performance HTTP server that is easy to build, expand, and ultimately to scale.

Sanic is a Python 3.7+ web server and web framework that’s written to go fast. It allows the usage of the async/await syntax added in Python 3.5, which makes your code non-blocking and speedy. Goal…

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<ul><li>Technology affects the way individuals communicate, learn, and think. It helps society and determines how people interact with each other on a daily basis.</li></ul>

What is technology?

<ul><li>It has been a leader in applying virtual and augmented reality applications to functions of the internet beyond its massive social-media platform.</li></ul>

What Is Meta ??

<ul><li>Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment. </li></ul>

What Is Virtual Reality ???

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A survey from Wells Fargo shows that 74% of consumers are willing to spend more to shop at small businesses. Reasons include better customer service, finding unique items, and supporting their communities. However, businesses need to be equipped to support that demand, since there is a growing number of customers that won't purchase if a business doesn't offer a contactless payment method.

Supporting small businesses

Small businesses should focus on technologies that can provide an automated clearing house (ACH), real-time payments, commercial cards, and so on. Digital payables and receivables are likely to be permanent, and companies that accelerate adoption are likely to have a competitive advantage.

Creating a competitive edge

As the pandemic forges on, the divide between contactless payments and the payment methods of yesteryear could widen.

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