This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian 9 server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3.1. The web hosting control panel ISPConfig 3 allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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The Perfect Server – Debian 9 (Stretch) with Apache, BIND, Dovecot, PureFTPD and ISPConfig 3.1
The law firm Cooley is updating its packet of startup tips and financing documents
The law firm Cooley is putting out a new package of seed investment documents for public viewing on its “GO” microsite, the firm said today.
It’s a way for entrepreneurs and early stage investors and business owners to access what the firm considers to be best practices for early stage investment and to streamline the process for committing capital at the seed stage.
The firm said its new release was prompted by the increase in convertible notes for early stage financing.
Since the investment structure is so popular, and relatively uncomplicated, it’s quickly becoming a default structure for early stage financing. The documents that Cooley is making public are the same ones it uses in the hundreds of transactions the firm has completed for startups.
The new documents will also be available on Github, where Cooley’s documents have received several comments from the community.
The company said that the new documents will act as a “fork” of the original GitHub repository under an open source licenses and on the Cooley GO website.
Other documents that support signing agreements for seed stage deals are also available on the Cooley site.
Any new business owner who wants to can access and amend the Series Seed “Notes” and equity financing documents directly through Cooley GO’s document generators.
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The law firm Cooley is updating its packet of startup tips and financing documents
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Don’t Eat Your Coconut Oil, Use It For This Stuff Instead
Word on the street is the coconut oil is bad for you. Once thought to be a “fat burning fat” that was good to incorporate into your diet, now the advice is “You can put it on your body, but don’t put it in your body.”
Turns out, the research behind the oil being good for you was a bit flawed. It was looking at all the good stuff in “designer oil,” which isn’t what most of us are picking up at Trader Joe’s.
If you have a bunch of coconut oil in your pantry, you don’t have to throw it out. While you should at least limit the amount you consume (as you should with all fats, really), there are a ton of great uses, some of which we’ve written about before, for the oil that are worth giving a try:
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You may not want to line your stomach with fat, but fat can be a good thing for your hair. Coconut oil is thought to be a great conditioner. Putting it on your locks can help smooth down overlapping layers of protein, and will repel water so your hair keeps looking its best.
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Take care of cracked heels by applying a little coconut oil to your feet at night, putting on some socks, and then leaving the oil to soak into your dry heels overnight. You’ll wake up to much softer, much more moisturized, tootsies.
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Just like coconut oil can do wonders for your feet, it can also take care of dry skin on your hands. Rub a bit on dry cuticles to moisturize them, and your hands in the process.
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When I was in elementary school I had really long hair, and I used to have a real problem with somehow managing to get my gum stuck in my hair. Back in the 80s, the removal method was always just cutting it out (good thing I had a ton of hair), but you can actually use coconut oil to remove it as well. Just rub the area down with a little bit of coconut oil. The area around will get slick, and the gum will slide right out.
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Running low on makeup remover? Coconut oil can do wonders when it comes to removing stubborn makeup. Put a tiny bit of coconut oil on a cloth, and then rub it on the area to remove the stuff that isn’t budging with soap and water alone.
Tell us about your own favorite uses for coconut oil in the comments!
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Don’t Eat Your Coconut Oil, Use It For This Stuff Instead
What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities?
mikeatTB shares an article from TechRepublic:
Software engineers have largely failed at security. Even with the move toward more agile development and DevOps, vulnerabilities continue to take off… Things have been this way for decades, but the status quo might soon be rocked as software takes an increasingly starring role in an expanding range of products whose failure could result in bodily harm and even death. Anything less than such a threat might not be able to budge software engineers into taking greater security precautions. While agile and DevOps are belatedly taking on the problems of creating secure software, the original Agile Manifesto did not acknowledge the threat of vulnerabilities as a problem, but focused on "working software [as] the primary measure of progress…" "People are doing exactly what they are being incentivized to do," says Joshua Corman, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council and a founder of the Rugged Manifesto, a riff on the original Agile Manifesto with a skew toward security. "There is no software liability and there is no standard of care or ‘building code’ for software, so as a result, there are security holes in your [products] that are allowing attackers to compromise you over and over." Instead, almost every software program comes with a disclaimer to dodge liability for issues caused by the software. End-User License Agreements (EULAs) have been the primary way that software makers have escaped liability for vulnerabilities for the past three decades. Experts see that changing, however. The article suggests incentives for security should be built into the development process — with one security professional warning that in the future, "legal precedent will likely result in companies absorbing the risk of open source code."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities?
Columbus could be the next startup city
Ever since I wrote about the Midwest last year I’ve been keeping my eyes on Columbus. I decided to hold a small pitch-off to meet some of the startups I saw last time I had driven through. The pitch-off was a success and a company called Wyzzer took first place and the quirky Hopper Carts came in second. But what I really came away with was a new respect for Columbus as a startup hub.
You see, I grew up in Columbus and I wanted to see how much it’s changed.
And it has changed. A lot.
On the aggregate a city like Columbus is the model for the future. There is manufacturing, farming, retail, brewing, and ecommerce all in a few square miles. The people are ready to expand and learn and there are plenty of smart folks who are willing to leave high-priced real estate in New York and San Francisco to get a house with a back yard down the street from a beer garden in one of the city’s urban enclaves. I asked around and heard that things are getting even better. Here are a few points I discovered during my visit.
All eyes are on Columbus. And they can’t fail. The city just received a $277 million Smart City grant from the federal government to build out tools and techniques that will define the city of the future. So far it looks like the Mayor Andy Ginther and the city government is dragging its feet but there is hope. While other cities – most notably Pittsburgh – vied for the grant, Columbus got it on the power of private industry and public infrastructure. And now it has four years to deliver. I’ve met a few small startups who are trying to work with the Smart City task force to build out the initiative but there’s little promising thus far.
That said, it’s great Columbus got the nod. There is a lot of promise here as long as government gets into gear and starts working with local entrepreneurs and, most important, this grant can help a thousand startups blossom. It’s a win-win for the government and the city. It just can’t be squandered.
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Further, the quality of life is about to hipsterize. In comparison to cosmopolitan Chicago and small, cool towns like Raleigh, Columbus is still a mixture of malls and suburbs. That’s swiftly changing. I lived in Columbus until college and I saw the rough and ready bars of the Campus and Short North District slowly wink out one by one. Then, when I began returning in the 2000s, I saw entire swathes of urban business turn into a sterile sprawl. In short, between 1993 and 2008 or so Columbus got boring.
That’s swiftly changing. The Short North District is a booming pleasure dome dedicated to deep fried pickles and great drinks. Upstarts like Hot Chicken Takeover and carts like PutItInYourFace are replacing the T.G.I. Fridays and Applebees. Microbrews have rousted Coors and Bud. Columbus, like so many other cities, has become comfortable, artisanal, and pleasant. But, because that process is just beginning, there’s still time to get in on the ground floor. There is plenty of room to grow. While many of the rich suburbs are hopeless as magnets for art and commerce the are still places in the city that have plenty of promise. As I wrote last week the city has plenty of rotting malls it can easily turn into unique shopping and eating experiences.
One con? The Columbus ecosystem is small. Columbus has a population of 835,957 with a regular influx of students that leaves over the summer. It’s long been known as a collector of corporate offices – Chase is here as is Nationwide and the Limited. It has never been an “entrepreneurial town” per se and instead depending on the steady flow of students from the halls of OSU to the cubicles of the corporates. That’s changing.
The ecosystem, however, is as nascent as other similarly-sized cities. A few things have been tried but few of the accelerators are able to keep successful entrepreneurs rooted to the city, an important aspect of ecosystem building. I’d like to see more of that over time and I’m sure that slowly but surely we can see some folks settling down to enjoy some Jenni’s and Donato’s with the natives.
Columbus startups need seed badly. There are a few VCs in the area – Rev1, Drive, and Loud Capital are names you hear often – but like most smaller markets the drive to fund smaller startups in negligible. Loud, a startup itself, is the closest to an on-the-ground seed group while Drive is looking for comfortable later stage investments. Accelerators like Fintech71 see the value of seed in specific markets but they’re finding deal-flow difficult. Therefore both investors and startups in the city are usually stuck – a situation is extremely common in cities like Columbus.
One answer to this problem is to activate the older angels to bet on new things. Whereas the angel network in places like Boulder and Denver are well-established and risk tolerant, the same can’t be said of the Columbus check-writers. However Loud has exhibited some success in talking to doctors and other younger professionals who want to experience entrepreneurship but are too busy saving lives to learn Django. The resulting network the Loud team has built allows them to spin up funding quickly when they find something interesting.
Further, the token sale prospects of many small startups are just as valid in cities like Columbus as they are in the Valley or Berlin. I expect many upstart VCs to feel the pinch of founders who no longer want to play their long game.
I asked people why they came to Columbus. Many had the same answer: the talent, the house prices, the quality of life. Shaul Weisband, co-founder of Jifiti, moved to Columbus from Israel to be closer to US retail. His company allows people to send gifts via ecommerce. He’s glad he made the move.
“I’m seventeen minutes from my house to my airport gate,” he said. He also has ready access to local talent and contacts and he and his growing family have more room. He just misses the hummus.
“But I just make my own,” he said.
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Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL Using the Adjacency List Model
Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn how to use adjacency list model for managing hierarchical data in MySQL. Introduction to adjacency list model Hierarchical data is everywhere. It can be blog categories, product hierarchies, or organization structures. There are many ways to manage hierarchical data in MySQL and the adjacency list model may be […]
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Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL Using the Adjacency List Model
The Nerdiest Debate Ever May Finally Have a Winner
If you’re not a programmer, you’re probably not going to know this, but there’s a vicious rivalry lurking in the code of every app you use. If code isn’t written consistently—using either the tab or the space button to create indentations—the format can get all wonky, making it difficult for multiple authors to contribute to the code. While the methods produce virtually the same result, lines have still been drawn.
On one side are the tab fanatics, like Richard in HBO’s Silicon Valley. On the other side is everyone else—those who use the space bar. But now, thanks to science, the fight may finally have its knockout punch: space fans apparently make more money with their code than tab fans. Which means there really is one winner.
This news comes from Stack Overflow—a popular online resource for developers—which issued a survey earlier this year to programmers. Of 28,657 respondents, a little less than half of whom also provided their salaries, Stack Overflow learned that 41.8 percent of devs use spaces for indentations, while 40.7 percent use tabs. That’s a fairly even split, and different than the results we saw last year, when a dev sourced all their space vs tabs data from GitHub and found that an overwhelming majority of users preferred spaces.
While the findings from GitHub and Stack Overflow don’t match exactly, spaces were victorious in both, and when it came to Stack Overflow, spaces won out in more ways than one. If you’re looking to make some bank, then using spaces over tabs will, statistically, result in an 8.6 percent higher salary. That number takes into account a wide number of variables including country of residence, education and language. But even considering all those factors, the pay discrepancy amounts to approximately 2.4 years more experience than a tab user. In other words, according to these numbers, if you’re a 24-year-old space coder, you’d be making about as much as a 26-year-old tab coder.
In hard cash terms, the median salary of the space developers was $59,140, while the median salary of tab developers was a gonna-struggle-to-survive-in-Silicon-Valley $43,750.
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David Robinson, the Stack Overflow data scientist who revealed these numbers, cautioned in his post, as we would, that “correlation is not causation.” While Robinson makes an effort to account for many variables, including location, experience, language type, and even formal education, he cannot account for everything. Perhaps all space users, no matter when they live in the world, are just born with a silver spoon stuck in their mouth and are more prone to make extra money. Or maybe white men use spaces while white women and people of color use tabs.
If you’re a data scientist yourself, or a tab person burning with something to say, than you can download the raw survey data yourself and double check Robinson’s numbers. For those of us who want to roll around in money, however, the answer is clear.
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The Nerdiest Debate Ever May Finally Have a Winner
Jeff Bezos tweets a request for ideas
Here is the tweet link, here is the text:
This tweet is a request for ideas. I’m thinking about a philanthropy strategy that is the opposite of how I mostly spend my time — working for the long term. For philanthropy, I find I’m drawn to the other end of the spectrum: the right now. As one example, I’m very inspired and moved by the work done at Mary’s Place here in Seattle. I like long-term — it’s a huge lever: Blue Origin, Amazon, Washington Post — all of these are contributing to society and civilization in their own ways. But I’m thinking I want much of my philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now — short-term — at the intersection of urgent need and lasting impact. If you have ideas, just reply to this tweet with the idea (and if you think this approach is wrong, would love to hear that too).
Thanks!
Jeff
After I see what you all come up with, and after I edit out the most brilliant ideas, I’ll tweet back your responses to him. I’ll come up with something of my own as well.
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Jeff Bezos tweets a request for ideas
E3 2017: Nexon’s ‘Durango’ exiting long development, releases for iOS in tail-end of 2017
E3 2017: Nexon’s Durango exiting long development, releases for iOS in tail-end of 2017
Nexon’s survival title “Durango” has made an appearance at the 2017 E3, showing off a combination of isometric role-playing and survival in a creature-infested post-apocalyptic world.
The open-world isometric-view title from Nexon takes place in a world populated by dinosaurs and other similarly prehistoric creatures. Players are forced to gather resources to survive, and can band together for larger projects and building construction.
Developers Nexon call it a “pioneering open-world massively multiplayer online role playing game” with a focus on crafting, and camp settlement. While solo play is possible, Nexon encourages group-play as other player assemblies can be cooperative, or hostile to the player.
The new trailer released at E3 features a dinosaur attack on a commuter train, and showcases the many survival mechanics of “Durango,” including fishing, harvesting materials, farming, settlement building, and crafting. Also shown are some of the ways players can team up to tame wild dinosaurs.
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The early beta on Android in January garnered players mostly from Korea and Thailand. The title will arrive worldwide on iOS at some point in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Hardware requirements are not yet known for the finished title, but the game was spotted running at E3 on an iPad Air 2.
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E3 2017: Nexon’s ‘Durango’ exiting long development, releases for iOS in tail-end of 2017