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Hey Hackers! scoutlabs has been nominated in HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in Budapest, Hungary under the Emerging Tech category. Please vote for us here: https://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-budapest-hungary?stup=66f317326ea4677e23d84783&embedable=true Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Meet scoutlabs We are addressing the intersection of food insecurity, climate change, and sustainable farming with the worlds densest digital insect trap network. Our vision is to help 90 million family farms move from guess work to a more data led decision process to run their increasingly complex farm ecosystems, initially in pest pressure eating up to 40% of their yield but later into affordable weather and soil health technology, all key components of growing our food sources. The Winning Team Donat Posta, CEO, co-founder

He comes from a multigenerational family farm in Hungary. He saw first hand the growing pest insect problem and given the climate change acceleration and weather changes forced his family to look at new ideas to use technology to forward predict the when and how to fight insect pest pressure.
He was recognized among

Forbes 30 under 30
SVG Thrive 2022 cohort
776 Climate Fellow
Sigma Squared Fellow Jimmy Fong

“If we don’t solve climate, no other problems really matter.”
scoutlabs is his 5th startup
Ex CCO of SEON- fastest and largest growing Anglo Hungarian tech story.
3 other startups hyperscaled and bought by Visa, Ingenico and Amex
Product led growth nerd What scoutlabs does differently Our solution stands out in the market due to its unparalleled affordability and direct-to-grower distribution model. Because we were started from a farmer perspective this was an original design. Unlike competitors, our digital trap network is 10-30 times more affordable, even more cost-effective than traditional manual traps. This affordability enables widespread adoption, achieving high trap density, which translates to greater accuracy in pest pressure monitoring. Our farmer-first approach ensures that the technology fits seamlessly into existing cost structures and farming practices, making it a practical and attractive option for growers. How we acquire and retain customers Our business model is centered around a product-led growth strategy, targeting individual farmers directly (B2C). We offer an affordable subscription fee of 69 euros per growing season per trap, making our solution 10-30 times more cost-effective than more complex alternatives. This low-cost approach encourages widespread adoption among growers. We deliver our products through a direct-to-grower distribution model, ensuring easy access and installation. Our traps are designed for simplicity, requiring only a 1-minute DIY setup, eliminating the need for expensive on-field installation teams. This ease of use further enhances the appeal and accessibility of our product. By charging a subscription fee, we ensure a recurring revenue stream, while the affordability and ease of installation drive product-led growth. This model supports rapid scalability and adoption, allowing us to quickly expand our market reach and impact on sustainable pest management practices. Milestones and achievements We have over 1500 devices deployed in the US, Latam, EU and Africa in pilot stage and taking orders with the largest Agbusiness in the current growing season- this is expected to >10x by the end of this year. What Startups of The Year means to us Participating in HackerNoon’s Startups of the Year is a great opportunity for us at scoutlabs to gain visibility within the tech and startup ecosystem. We're excited to share our journey of building innovative IoT solutions for pest monitoring, which supports farmers operating on thin margins and promotes food security by optimizing pest control methods. Being part of this initiative allows us to connect with a broader community of innovators, investors, and potential partners. Vote for us today! Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here.
Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here.Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Wanna use this template? Click here. Hey Hackers! scoutlabs has been nominated in HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in Budapest, Hungary under the Emerging Tech category. HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 Emerging Tech Please vote for us here: Please vote for us here: https://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-budapest-hungary?stup=66f317326ea4677e23d84783&embedable=true https://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-budapest-hungary?stup=66f317326ea4677e23d84783&embedable=true Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Meet scoutlabs We are addressing the intersection of food insecurity, climate change, and sustainable farming with the worlds densest digital insect trap network. Our vision is to help 90 million family farms move from guess work to a more data led decision process to run their increasingly complex farm ecosystems, initially in pest pressure eating up to 40% of their yield but later into affordable weather and soil health technology, all key components of growing our food sources. The Winning Team Donat Posta, CEO, co-founder

He comes from a multigenerational family farm in Hungary. He saw first hand the growing pest insect problem and given the climate change acceleration and weather changes forced his family to look at new ideas to use technology to forward predict the when and how to fight insect pest pressure.
He was recognized among

Forbes 30 under 30
SVG Thrive 2022 cohort
776 Climate Fellow
Sigma Squared Fellow Donat Posta, CEO, co-founder He comes from a multigenerational family farm in Hungary. He saw first hand the growing pest insect problem and given the climate change acceleration and weather changes forced his family to look at new ideas to use technology to forward predict the when and how to fight insect pest pressure.
He was recognized among

Forbes 30 under 30
SVG Thrive 2022 cohort
776 Climate Fellow
Sigma Squared Fellow He comes from a multigenerational family farm in Hungary. He saw first hand the growing pest insect problem and given the climate change acceleration and weather changes forced his family to look at new ideas to use technology to forward predict the when and how to fight insect pest pressure. He was recognized among

Forbes 30 under 30
SVG Thrive 2022 cohort
776 Climate Fellow
Sigma Squared Fellow He comes from a multigenerational family farm in Hungary. He saw first hand the growing pest insect problem and given the climate change acceleration and weather changes forced his family to look at new ideas to use technology to forward predict the when and how to fight insect pest pressure. He was recognized among Forbes 30 under 30
SVG Thrive 2022 cohort
776 Climate Fellow
Sigma Squared Fellow Forbes 30 under 30 SVG Thrive 2022 cohort 776 Climate Fellow Sigma Squared Fellow Forbes 30 under 30 SVG Thrive 2022 cohort 776 Climate Fellow Sigma Squared Fellow Jimmy Fong

“If we don’t solve climate, no other problems really matter.”
scoutlabs is his 5th startup
Ex CCO of SEON- fastest and largest growing Anglo Hungarian tech story.
3 other startups hyperscaled and bought by Visa, Ingenico and Amex
Product led growth nerd Jimmy Fong “If we don’t solve climate, no other problems really matter.”
scoutlabs is his 5th startup
Ex CCO of SEON- fastest and largest growing Anglo Hungarian tech story.
3 other startups hyperscaled and bought by Visa, Ingenico and Amex
Product led growth nerd “If we don’t solve climate, no other problems really matter.” scoutlabs is his 5th startup Ex CCO of SEON- fastest and largest growing Anglo Hungarian tech story. 3 other startups hyperscaled and bought by Visa, Ingenico and Amex Product led growth nerd “If we don’t solve climate, no other problems really matter.” scoutlabs is his 5th startup Ex CCO of SEON- fastest and largest growing Anglo Hungarian tech story. 3 other startups hyperscaled and bought by Visa, Ingenico and Amex Product led growth nerd What scoutlabs does differently Our solution stands out in the market due to its unparalleled affordability and direct-to-grower distribution model. Because we were started from a farmer perspective this was an original design. Unlike competitors, our digital trap network is 10-30 times more affordable, even more cost-effective than traditional manual traps. This affordability enables widespread adoption, achieving high trap density, which translates to greater accuracy in pest pressure monitoring. Our farmer-first approach ensures that the technology fits seamlessly into existing cost structures and farming practices, making it a practical and attractive option for growers. How we acquire and retain customers Our business model is centered around a product-led growth strategy, targeting individual farmers directly (B2C). We offer an affordable subscription fee of 69 euros per growing season per trap, making our solution 10-30 times more cost-effective than more complex alternatives. This low-cost approach encourages widespread adoption among growers. We deliver our products through a direct-to-grower distribution model, ensuring easy access and installation. Our traps are designed for simplicity, requiring only a 1-minute DIY setup, eliminating the need for expensive on-field installation teams. This ease of use further enhances the appeal and accessibility of our product. By charging a subscription fee, we ensure a recurring revenue stream, while the affordability and ease of installation drive product-led growth. This model supports rapid scalability and adoption, allowing us to quickly expand our market reach and impact on sustainable pest management practices. Milestones and achievements We have over 1500 devices deployed in the US, Latam, EU and Africa in pilot stage and taking orders with the largest Agbusiness in the current growing season- this is expected to >10x by the end of this year. What Startups of The Year means to us Participating in HackerNoon’s Startups of the Year is a great opportunity for us at scoutlabs to gain visibility within the tech and startup ecosystem. We're excited to share our journey of building innovative IoT solutions for pest monitoring, which supports farmers operating on thin margins and promotes food security by optimizing pest control methods. Being part of this initiative allows us to connect with a broader community of innovators, investors, and potential partner s . s Vote for us today! Vote for us today! Vote for us today! Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here. Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here . Startups of The Year 2024 create a brand profile create a brand profile create a brand profile here here Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here . here here Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here , here , and here . last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions here here here here here here Wanna use this template? Click here. Wanna use this template? Click here . here

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Class-specific Bias in Image Data Augmentation: Data Augmentation Robustness Scouting

I never moved away from Docker Desktop. For some time, after you use it to build an image, it prints a message: What's Next?
 View a summary of image vulnerabilities and recommendations → docker scout quickview I decided to give it a try. I'll use the root commit of my . Let's execute the proposed command: OpenTelemetry tracing demo docker scout quickview otel-catalog:1.0 Here's the result: ✓ Image stored for indexing
 ✓ Indexed 272 packages
 Target │ otel-catalog:1.0 │ 0C 2H 15M 23L
 digest │ 7adfce68062e │
 Base image │ eclipse-temurin:21-jre │ 0C 0H 15M 23L
 Refreshed base image │ eclipse-temurin:21-jre │ 0C 0H 15M 23L
 │ │
What's Next?
 View vulnerabilities → docker scout cves otel-catalog:1.0
 View base image update recommendations → docker scout recommendations otel-catalog:1.0
 Include policy results in your quickview by supplying an organization → docker scout quickview otel-catalog:1.0 --org <organization> Docker gives out exciting bits of information: The base image contains 15 middle-severity vulnerabilities and 23 low-severity ones The final image has an additional two high-level severity Ergo, our code introduced them! Following Scout's suggestion, we can drill down the CVEs: docker scout cves otel-catalog:1.0 This is the result: ✓ SBOM of image already cached, 272 packages indexed
 ✗ Detected 18 vulnerable packages with a total of 39 vulnerabilities
## Overview
 │ Analyzed Image
────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────
 Target │ otel-catalog:1.0
 digest │ 7adfce68062e
 platform │ linux/arm64
 vulnerabilities │ 0C 2H 15M 23L
 size │ 160 MB
 packages │ 272
## Packages and Vulnerabilities
 0C 1H 0M 0L org.yaml/snakeyaml 1.33
pkg:maven/org.yaml/snakeyaml@1.33
 ✗ HIGH CVE-2022-1471 [Improper Input Validation]
 https://scout.docker.com/v/CVE-2022-1471
 Affected range : <=1.33
 Fixed version : 2.0
 CVSS Score : 8.3
 CVSS Vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
 0C 1H 0M 0L io.netty/netty-handler 4.1.100.Final
pkg:maven/io.netty/netty-handler@4.1.100.Final
 ✗ HIGH CVE-2023-4586 [OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities]
 https://scout.docker.com/v/CVE-2023-4586
 Affected range : >=4.1.0
 : <5.0.0
 Fixed version : not fixed
 CVSS Score : 7.4
 CVSS Vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N The original output is much longer, but I stopped at the exciting bit: the two high-severity CVEs. First, we see the one coming from Netty still needs to be fixed - tough luck. However, Snake YAML fixed its CVE from version 2.0 onward. I'm not using Snake YAML directly; it's a Spring dependency brought by Spring. Because of this, no guarantee exists that a major version upgrade will be compatible. But we can surely try. Let's bump the dependency to the latest version: <dependency>
 <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
 <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
 <version>2.2</version>
</dependency> We can build the image again and . Fortunately, it does. We can execute the process again: check that it still works docker scout quickview otel-catalog:1.0 Lo and behold, the high-severity CVE is no more! ✓ Image stored for indexing
 ✓ Indexed 273 packages
 Target │ local://otel-catalog:1.0-1 │ 0C 1H 15M 23L
 digest │ 9ddc31cdd304 │
 Base image │ eclipse-temurin:21-jre │ 0C 0H 15M 23L Conclusion In this short post, we tried Docker Scout, the Docker image vulnerability detection tool. Thanks to it, we removed one high-level CVE we introduced in the code. To go further: Docker Scout 4 Free, Easy-To-Use Tools For Docker Vulnerability Scanning Also published . here

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What is Happening? is hundreds of professionals as part of its ambition to quadruple its workforce this year in order to achieve its global expansion plans. AAX will increase its expertise and offering by opening new offices and hiring more employees to support new markets. AAX is also hiring for its new subsidiary AAX Trends, where professionals are being hired to provide knowledge and education through programmes, material, events, and collaborations. The expansion coincides with the downsizing of some well-known digital asset organizations. AAX Exchange hiring Ben Caselin, VP of Global Marketing and Communications at AAX : said Exchanges laying people off during bear market is very strange and reactive only. Bear markets are for building and for building, we need people. Digital asset organizations laying employees due to poor management decisions of hiring without any overlook is a poor look for the crypto industry. This is the perfect time to scout for talent as the bear market separates the hubris from the gold ~ a great time for building great products and a foundation for the future of finance. : Vested Interest Disclosure The author is an independent contributor publishing via our . Be it through direct compensation, media partnerships, or networking, the author has a vested interest in the company/ies mentioned in this story. HackerNoon has reviewed the story for quality, but the claims hereon belong to the author. #DYOR brand-as-author program What is AAX Exchange? is a top virtual currency exchange that serves a global audience, intending to make crypto accessible to everyone. AAX wants to enable the projected 96% of individuals globally who don't even own Bitcoin and other digital assets to create stronger and more egalitarian economies via an accessible selection of goods and by participating in the discourse around crypto and culture. AAX is the first to use LSEG Technology, which allows us to provide high-yield savings packages, 200+ spot pairings, highly liquid futures markets, frequent token discounts, and a variety of on- and off-ramp goods. AAX Understanding Why Bear Markets Are The Time to Build Billion-Dollar Products Recently, market confidence in the crypto industry has been clouded by uncertainty and the crypto winter has not been kind to certain blockchain companies and talents. Cryptocurrency market cycles, meanwhile, are not unique to crypto but are common in all financial industries. Only when the market is at its top can a healthy industry benefit from its highs and its lows; companies and individuals must be prepared for the next "bull" and willing to take the opportunity of the web3 adoption. to Abdo Riani, barely profitable enterprises are more likely to fail during a bull market than those that are lucrative. As surprising as this news is for these enterprises and their stakeholders, it might have long-term beneficial implications on the economy and the blockchain industry. According Applications such as Uniswap, Bancor, MakerDAO were built during the bear season. In the same way that a bushfire burns away old, dry timber, releasing nutrients into the soil and exposing the canopy to sunlight, a recession does the same to the company where failures create a new forest. New, more efficient, inventive web3 enterprises and even new market segments may fill the void left by old and unsuccessful web3 organisations. The increased availability of low-cost, high-quality staff brought on by business failures and huge layoffs makes filling open positions in the blockchain industry easier. The popularity of Bitcoin and other digital assets is still growing throughout the world, especially in developing areas. This is helping to build more accessible economies and more fair and wide-reaching financial applications. The term "financial inclusion" is much more than a fad. Delivering on a promise takes making an effort. For example, AAX was the first digital exchange to offer users Satoshi Standard (SATS) and incorporate the lightning network as part of its effort to target developing regions. With crypto companies still hiring it can be said that crypto continues to be open to all types of talent, reaffirming its commitment to the further development of web3 products for the next bull market. Understanding the Impact of Bear Market on the Blockchain Industry For venture capitalists and companies, the bull market is a fantastic signal to keep doing what they're doing. Still, the bear market is a terrific signal that the present system has to alter swiftly. For this, a web3 company's ability to adapt to changing market conditions is essential to its success. Web3 startups, on the other hand, are imaginative, quick, and adaptive because of the congestion of their stakeholders' interests and their large scope for adoption and growth capacity. Airbnb, Gemini, Binance and Uber are two outstanding instances of successful firms even during a bad market. For example, many people initially felt it was bizarre for individuals to rent out rooms in a stranger's house or get into a stranger's automobile—however, the outlook on ride-sharing changed slowly, creating a multi-billion dollar industry. Final Thoughts on Crypto Hiring In my opinion, one should consider starting a company even if the economy is in flux. Startups are perfectly suited to economic uncertainty because of their evolving nature and adaptability, which helps break things and prove business models to investors and the public. Don’t forget to like and share the story! and Image credits: Tim Mossholder, , , Pierre Borthiry Andrae Ricketts DeepMind . Pascal Bernardon

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The shutdowns brought an opportunity for my daughter to participate in virtual scouting events all over the United States. When the event registration form changed, I took the chance to try out some new web scraping skills while inspiring my daughter about the power of code for everyday tasks. My daughter is typically very involved in her local Girl Scout council. She has been a camp counselor and leader of events for younger girls. She goes the extra mile to earn badges and patches that expose her to new skills and activities. She is currently working on the highest award a Girl Scout can earn, the Gold Award. With the COVID shutdown, many of her local opportunities dried up, so she took the chance to explore activities at other councils offering virtual sessions. As just a sample: She learned to compose electronic music using javascript with a Florida council. During election season, she did a Rock the Vote workshop with a council in Washington State. And she earned her last two cybersecurity badges from some delightful leaders in Iowa. There's a lot of talent being shared out there in the councils. Recently, our council changed the registration form, so I can't search for activities outside a 90 mile radius. When I asked the help desk, they advised entering different ZIP codes. In the Girl Scout spirit of "using resources wisely" -- where the resource is my time -- I knew there was a code-based solution that would work better than manually entering a lot of ZIP codes. I also had in the back of my mind to show my daughter an example of web scraping, since she has thought about using these techniques in creating some community resources for her Gold Award... taking the chance to build up that STEM pillar. First, I inspected the form fields using the browser DOM inspector and found that most of our favorite councils used the same object names. This solution uses Selenium, Beautiful Soup, pandas, and pangres, plus a handful of other small libraries. # libraries selenium webdriver selenium.webdriver.chrome.options Options bs4 BeautifulSoup pandas pd sqlite3 urllib.parse urlparse hashlib datetime datetime pangres upsert sqlalchemy create_engine import from import from import from import import as import from import import from import from import from import I also used a webdriver to automate the form submission. # retrieve and parse html 

options = Options()
# options.headless = True
options.add_argument( )

# webdriver Chrome
DRIVER_PATH = driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=DRIVER_PATH) "--window-size=1920,1200" for '/Applications/chromedriver' I gathered a list of some of our favorite council form URLs. # add urls to list here needed; some our favorite councils virtual events
urls = [ \ , \ , \ , \ , \
 ] as of for "https://www.nccoastalpines.org/en/activities/activity-list.advanced.html" "https://www.girlscoutstoday.org/en/events/event-list.advanced.html" "https://www.girlscoutsww.org/en/events/event-list.advanced.html" "https://www.citrus-gs.org/en/events/event-list.advanced.html" Information would be stored in lists, so I set those up first. # initiate list buckets
links = []
titles = []
startdates = []
enddates = []
councils = []
uniquekeys = [] Going through a loop of each URL, I used the webdriver to submit the forms and collect the page sources. url urls:

 # click and submit
 driver.get(url)
 # driver.find_element_by_id( ).click()
 # driver.find_element_by_xpath( ).click() 
 driver.find_element_by_xpath( ).click() 
 driver.find_element_by_id( ).submit()

 # here is the page, make the soup
 page_source = driver.page_source
 soup = BeautifulSoup(page_source, )

 # get council identifier url
 council = urlparse(url).netloc.split( )[ ]
 primarylink = urlparse(url).netloc for in "sf-activities:program-level/seniors" "//input[contains(@id, 'program-level/senior')]" "//input[contains(translate(@id, 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), 'program-level/senior')]" "sub" 'lxml' from "." 1 Then, still in the loop, I could parse the resulting html with Beautiful Soup. I also added a hashed unique id in place of the default ID, and parsed the council identifier out of the url. # now get the data on each page x soup.find_all(class_= ):

 link = title = startdate = enddate = link = primarylink + x.h6.a[ ]
 links.append(link)

 title = x.h6.a.text
 titles.append(title)

 startdate = x.find_next( , itemprop= )[ ]
 startdates.append(startdate)

 enddate = x.find_next( , itemprop= )[ ]
 enddates.append(enddate)

 councils.append(council)

 uniquekey = hashlib.sha224(str(link + startdate).encode( )).hexdigest()
 uniquekeys.append(uniquekey)

driver.quit() for in 'eventsList eventSection' "" "" "" "" "href" "span" "startDate" 'content' "span" "stopDate" 'content' 'utf-8' I didn't strictly need to put this in a dataframe, but it worked better with pangres, and I might extend the code to do some transformation. # put data a dataframe
# a df not strictly needed here, except pangres uses it

df = pd.DataFrame({ :uniquekeys, :links, :titles, : startdates, : enddates, : councils,
})

# set an index, code below will need it; also removes ID
df.set_index( , inplace=True) in 'uniquekey' 'link' 'title' 'startdate' 'enddate' 'council' as this default 'uniquekey' Here's the table definition for reference. # CREATE TABLE (
# TEXT primary key,
# TEXT,
# TEXT,
# TEXT,
# TEXT,
# TEXT,
# DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP 
# ); "events" "uniquekey" "link" "title" "startdate" "enddate" "council" "updateddate" Because the events didn't have a created date, I added an automatic create date to allow me to identify new entries and then the pangres library to do upserts to sqlite. This allows me to identify new entries and potentially send a notification email with that listing. engine = create_engine( )

upsert(engine=engine,
 df=df,
 table_name= ,
 if_row_exists= ,
 dtype=None) 'sqlite:////tmp/gs.sqlite' 'events' 'update' I can easily view the data stored in sqlite via TablePlus. Finally, I ran a quick delete on events that had expired. sqlalchemy text

deleteExpiredSQL = f engine.connect() connection:
 result = connection.execute(text(deleteExpiredSQL)) from import "delete from events where enddate<'{str(datetime.now())}'" with as I can run this periodically now to find new events to share with my daughter. Right now, I don't want to put it on cron, but that's an option in the future. (base) vparham@Valeries-Air girlscoutevents % python gs-events.py The complete code is here: https://github.com/dataindataout/girlscoutevents

Automation for Girl Scout Events

The onset of Web 3.0 has been marked by a flurry of decentralised apps (or dApps in short) making their way into our daily lives. dApps take the modular approach to applications and combine it with a non-centralised management structure. In a world, where personal data integrity and freedom of speech is increasingly important, dApps will play a major role in creating a more safe space for end users when it comes to individual privacy and data access liberty. However, many dApps aren’t scalable at this moment due to throughput limitations of blockchains in their current avatars. Hence reaching to a million users is often a distant dream for many. In spite of technical challenges, some dApps have still made it to the magic figure and continue to scale to many more. Others have since lost favour with users after crossing the million user mark. It will be interesting to watch how some of these platforms which have already tasted the million figure, grow further and if any would eventually touch a billion users, or status. unicorn Right off the bat, by JavaScript creator Brendan Eich comes to mind. With 15 million monthly active users (MAU) and 5 million daily active users (DAU), Brave is quite possibly the most popular dApp out there. Started in 2015-16, Brave is a multi-platform open source web browser that blocks ads and web trackers and lets users send cryptocurrency payments. Users can also earn Brave’s native cryptocurrency BAT (Basic Attention Token) by opting to watch ads while browsing on Brave. Through the revenue sharing model, Brave returns 70% of its ad revenue to end users. The project is backed by Peter Thiel, Pantera, Digital Currency Group etc. It had also conducted an ICO for its token which raised 159k+ ETH in return for 1,000,000,000 BAT tokens back in 2017. Brave browser As of today, Brave has registered a 2x+ user growth in a year ( source ) In a by Prof. Douglas Leith of Trinity College Dublin, Brave was found to be the most privacy-focused among all major browsers (including Chrome) – recent study …Brave is by far the most private of the browsers studied. has also termed Brave as the fastest browser on mobiles and desktops. This is in part due to low memory usage from its no-tracking and no-ads policy. In other browsers, tracking and ad blockers act as additional plugins which create a strain on resources. Cnet In spite of all the great features, Brave’s operating history hasn’t been free of controversies. In late 2018, it was discovered that Brave’s default opt-in setting for contributors meant that any donation sent to them by users were held back by Brave unless the intended recipient sought its release. Brave has since then changed the default setting to an opt-out from the opt-in. More recently, it was found that the browser was auto-completing links to certain platforms and adding its own referral codes at the end. This led to a major uproar on social media and Brave had to release an update that disabled auto-insertion of affiliate codes to links. A once popular dApp that has raked in millions of users in a fairly short amount of time is . One can consider them to be Tamagotchis on the blockchain. CryptoKitties is an Ethereum-based game where players can trade and breed virtual cat-like collectibles. Each collectible comes with unique traits (or, cattributes) which are rare and non-replicable making each cat one of a kind. Some of these features are unlocked over the lifetime of the collectible as it is bred with others to generate offspring. Traits from parents are often passed on to these offsprings. Some of the most prized cats have sold for as much as in auctions. These collectibles also act as playable characters in the KittyVerse games. CryptoKitties is backed by Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and others. CryptoKitties USD 300,000 A snapshot from the Exclusive Cats collection While at the beginning, generation zero cats were minted fresh from scratch, new cats are now generated by breeding. It is estimated that a total of 4 billion cats can be bred in total. At one point of time, such was the craze for this game that it was able to single-handedly slow down the Ethereum network by accounting for nearly 10% of traffic on the blockchain. This actually led to many developers in the Ethereum ecosystem (from Metamask, Infura etc.) get together to resolve bottlenecks in the short term and start building long term scaling solutions. There have been many more collectibles-based games that have released after this and CryptoKitties daily player count has gone down significantly since. However, it is a constant reminder of the virality of dApp games and their potential for scaling. Just last week, another popular dApp called , which is a DeFi protocol for swaps and pools, nearly choked the Ethereum network by airdropping their native UNI token to users who had to claim the tokens on-chain. Even though, Uniswap is far from a million user stage at the moment, it seems well on its way towards it. Uniswap One of the newest entrants into the million user club in the dApp space is , Tachyon Protocol’s VPN solution. is working on an alternate stack to traditional communication protocols. It is based on the blockchain database cloud project V Systems. The team at Tachyon comprises the inventor of Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism Sunny King, Peercoin founder Peerchemist and FinTech investor Alex Yang. Tachyon VPN is the project’s first dApp and is a dVPN (decentralised Virtual Private Network) which routes user traffic through publicly distributed nodes after encryption, encapsulation and simulation. Encryption is the process of encoding data to hide its nature and content from third parties. Encapsulation is the rearrangement of data packets to further obfuscate the information being relayed. Simulation refers to the process of impersonating a communication protocol to make a data packet look like something else to the outside eye. As of the time of writing, Tachyon VPN has ~1.58M+ users and ~1.5k nodes to choose from. Tachyon VPN Tachyon Protocol Tachyon VPN has set a sort of industry precedent for how fast it reached a million users The project is focused on censorship-resistance and upholding individual liberties. During the recent internet blockade on citizens in Belarus to counter protests, Tachyon VPN became one of the apps both on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store according to a report. most downloaded Gizmodo This is just one of the many examples of when a decentralised application has come to the rescue during moments of crisis. In countries with limited internet accessibility, Tachyon VPN is a popular dApp as well for obvious reasons. With the upcoming launch of its Node Manager 2.0 and partnerships with leading cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, Tachyon VPN user base is poised to grow even more. On top of that, the native IPX token encourages small VPN providers to become independent of Platform Partners on Tachyon through its planned bandwidth marketplace. As the world fast approaches towards the data sovereignty era, this continued emphasis on decentralisation will become even more intense. For corporations, businesses, and applications finding one's footing in the new landscape and getting into millions of hands will be challenging. Some of those mentioned above already have a headstart compared to others, but it will be a matter of time to see where they go from here. From the looks of it, Brave and Tachyon VPN are just getting started. Uniswap looks close in pursuit as well. Disclosure: The author has used all four platforms but has no vested interest in any of them. He currently holds a very tiny amount of BAT and UNI tokens through earnings/airdrops. He does not own any IPX tokens or any CryptoKitties currently.

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Most engineers have heard of the 'boyscout rule': 'Always leave the code better than you found it.' It's often been heralded as a magic cure for technical debt; if only all software engineers behaved like good citizens, our software wouldn't deteriorate so relentlessly. But if it's that simple, why isn't everyone doing it, to curb tech debt once and for all? You guessed it, it's not that simple. So let's figure out why—and what we can do about it. The boyscout rule—where does it come from anyway? In 1941, the founder of the scouts,  Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell said, 'Try and leave this world a little better than you found it.' Over time, this may have morphed into, 'Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it,' but the sentiment is more-or-less the same. The point is that small but consistent efforts to keep the campground clean avoid a massive clean-up operation down the line. applied this rule to software engineering: 'Always leave the code better than you found it.' In other words, engineers should continuously clean up small pieces of tech debt so they never have to undertake a giant refactoring project when they're too close to technical bankruptcy. Simple enough. Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Why does it never work like this in practice, then? What gets in the way of the boyscout rule Business pressures typically force engineers to bolt new code onto existing code, with limited time available for ensuring that the result is sane and maintainable. This focus on short-term outcomes creates future productivity bottlenecks, or technical debt: . code written yesterday that slows you down today A vicious cycle emerges: We want to ship quickly so we bolt on some new code. This makes future work more difficult, but we still want to ship quickly, so we don't take the time to clean up the code and instead bolt on yet more new code. It becomes even harder to contribute productively to that part of the codebase, but the clean-up job is too big now, so we don't take care of it and continue to make more short-term contributions. The code's health keeps deteriorating until we have no option but to do a massive clean-up job to be able to keep shipping. All of this is due to the false assumption that investing in software quality isn't worth the cost and will slow down the pace at which we ship. However, , this assumption is flawed, because clean code actually allows us to ship faster. as Martin Fowler explains If you apply the boyscout rule and leave the campground cleaner than you found it, you can break the cycle. But applying it in practice is not easy. To see the problem more clearly, let's step into the shoes of a boy/girl-scout engineer for a moment. The boy/girl-scout engineer's dilemma I've been assigned a ticket. I've got to ship within a certain timeframe because I've committed to an estimate during planning. I'd like to achieve the goal and deliver business value on time, but I'd also like to leave my campground cleaner than I found it—this will make it easier for my colleagues and I to work on the code later, and the business will benefit because we'll be able to ship future work faster and it'll be of higher quality. But how do I know how much cleaning capacity I have? How do I identify the things most worthy of my cleaning time? I can't clean up the company's entire codebase. These are difficult questions to answer. My cleaning capacity will vary based on how quickly I can complete the new work, and identifying the few things most worthy of my cleaning time is difficult when there are so many options. What actions might I take, given the above? I might over-clean and end up delaying the shipment. I might clean up a few things, but not the most important ones. This is my dilemma. The boy/girl-scout engineer's release To ship on time and spend my clean-up capacity on the most important things, I need to: Be aware of all the things I clean up. could Identify those things most worthy of my attention. Keep track of that list and attend to the top items, according to my capacity. In effect, whenever they open their code editor, boy/girl-scout engineers need to clearly define their campground; they need to survey the landscape for potential things to clean up, rank them by order of importance, and keep track of their clean-up progress as they work towards shipping time. We built a free VSCode extension that does that for you! Here's why being a boy/girl-scout is hard—and what you can do about it. Scout engineers at high-growth software companies have it rough. The business grows and moves so fast that it can feel as if tech debt accumulates overnight. Well, that’s because it does. Using the and , engineers who care about code quality can identify the tech debt worth cleaning up—that's the tech debt that, once cleaned up, will move the needle on real business metrics like number of bugs, regressions, shipping cadence, user engagement, and more. right tools approach To be an effective boy/girl-scout engineer, you also need to learn about the laws of tech debt, the forms it can take, and how to fight it. We've investigated these extensively in our two-part series about , and . Know thine enemy. the laws of technical debt in our article categorising different types of tech debt What are the benefits? Proponents of the boyscout rule, like , are right—if followed consistently and applied properly, it will be your most effective tool in managing tech debt. We call it . Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) continuous tech debt management However, there is more to this rule than meets the eye and the tough bit is clearly . Boy/girl-scout engineers need to learn about the laws and incentives that make it hard for them to be effective, but they also need to acquire the right tools and skills to really have a lasting impact on their codebases' health. consistency Code quality will speed up the whole engineering team, and therefore the entire company—see our piece about . how tech debt affects everyone in the company . Code quality is worth the cost In the words of Robert C. Martin, as captured in Kevlin Henney's book, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know I think if we all followed that simple rule, we would see the end of the relentless deterioration of our software systems. Instead, our systems would gradually get better and better as they evolved. We would also see teams caring for the system as a whole, rather than just individuals caring for their own small part. Being a boy/girl-scout might be tougher than you ever thought, but you can do it, and it will actually —so don't despair and be prepared! save you time

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A comprehensive list of VCs present on campus One trend I am noticing on Cal’s campus is the growing number of student Deal Scouts, often also known as Brand Ambassadors or Campus Liaison. For those that are unfamiliar, . The idea is that schools like Berkeley are a breeding ground for talented entrepreneurs and engineers, and VCs would greatly benefit from keeping a tab on these student talents who may become the mastermind behind the next big thing. Deal Scouts are students who are well-integrated within the school’s entrepreneurship ecosystem and selected by venture funds to serve as their eyes and ears on campus This makes sense at Cal because we have founded the most number of companies out of any undergraduate institution, the second highest number of entrepreneurs (only behind 😡), and boast founders who have gone to start amazing companies like Apple, Cloudera, Zynga, and Warby Parker. Stanfurd Source: PitchBook 2017 Universities Report For student entrepreneurs, . Now it is easier than ever for you or your to be noticed by investors. Instead of cold-emailing an associate or partner to get a firm’s attention, . After all, giving student entrepreneurs the time of day is quite literally the jobs of these scouts. this represents a major opportunity startup you can reach out to a fellow student who is likely to be much more receptive and willing to help make a connection Below is the a list of all the current Berkeley students (undergraduate & graduate) who are working for a VC firm in a Deal Scout role. If you’re a student Deal Scout and wish to be included in this directory, please fill out this super short and I can add you ASAP. Google Form For full-disclosure, I am a Deal Scout for Charles River Ventures (CRV) and interested in helping student founders in anyway I can. My email is Dtao114@berkeley.edu If you’re a student interested in entrepreneurship but not sure where to start, check out my previous post, A Student’s Guide to UC Berkeley’s Startup Ecosystem Also a quick s/o to my roommate Matt Yao for helping me with the research :)

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