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Use Clojure to write OpenWhisk actions, Part 3: Improve your OpenWhisk Clojure applications

In the previous two tutorials, you learned how to write a basic OpenWhisk Clojure application. In Part 3, I'll show you how to improve any such application. First, you'll learn how to support arguments that include double quotes. Then you'll learn how to use a permanent database (Cloudant) instead of a variable to store the information.




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Think your apps are secure in the cloud?

The cloud is not secure. Developers know through experience that software and servers get hacked thanks to bad code and insecure Internet connections to remote servers and data centers. You can compare using the cloud to having valuables that are locked up in a suitcase in a parking lot. By nature, both are susceptible to attacks. In this article, we explain the reasons why the cloud is not secure, but we also examine ways to mitigate any insecurities by illustrating some Django examples through the inception of BugHeist.




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Think Big with Decision Composer on IBM Cloud

Learn step-by-step how to deploy a Decision Composer application to the Business Rules service and run it within Hadoop. Access IBM Cloud Lite free.




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Think Big with Decision Composer on IBM Cloud

Learn step-by-step how to deploy a Decision Composer application to the Business Rules service and run it within Hadoop. Access IBM Cloud Lite free.




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Know which authentication methods to use for your hybrid cloud

The different options within IBM Cloud bear diverse requirements to the authentication of users. This article explains the various possibilities on how IBM Cloud users are managed and authenticated. We focus on developers, administrators, or operators that need to log in to the IBM Cloud platform to develop and maintain their applications. Applications that run on top of IBM Cloud can use any authentication method that is appropriate for the application’s purpose.




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Offloading your Informix data in Spark, Part 5: Machine Learning will help you extrapolate future orders

Part 5 of this tutorial series teaches you how to add machine learning to your data to help you extrapolate future orders.




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Top Internet of Things articles and tutorials

This article compiles all of the previous top tutorials lists.



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Top Internet of Things articles and tutorials (December 2017)

The most popular articles for 2017 on the Internet of Things are highlighted in this article for your convenience.



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Using N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) with kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) guests on IBM Power servers

This article provides the basic steps to use N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology in a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) guest. Additionally, the article also provides the significance of NPIV allowing multiple guests to make use of a single physical host bus adapter (HBA) to access multiple storage devices.




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A cryptographic approach to protecting passwords in the cloud

In this article, back-end developers learn why it is important to use encryption and how to use it effectively to protect user information on the cloud, especially passwords, so that even a data leak can't be cracked in less than decades. Security is an ever important topic in the cloud that is crucial to full-stack development and is essential on all products and services.




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Achieving high performance on IBM AIX using Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI)

This article describes the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) Flash support on IBM AIX. CAPI technology has been used on AIX to accelerate I/O operations to IBM Flash storage. AIX CAPI Flash driver stack has been optimized into a monolithic driver model which further reduced the I/O code path length. CAPI Flash technology provides a superior performance advantage in terms of IOPS per processor when compared to the traditional Fibre Channel I/O. We also describe at a high level how a user can use CAPI-based flash devices on AIX.




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Analyzing the contextual content of hierarchical data by using IBM Watson Explorer

This tutorial demonstrates how to implement a custom crawler plug-in with IBM Watson Explorer to analyze a hierarchical data structure within the context of content analytics. The strategy outlined here permits the retaining of the hierarchical structure or grains of the model being analyzed.




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Cyclist injured in stolen Mercedes hit-run

A driver who smashed into a female cyclist, injuring her badly, then drove off should hand himself in, police say.




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JB Hi-Fi gets virus lift in March quarter

JB Hi-Fi has posted strong March quarter growth as customers forced to work from home rushed to buy home appliances and technology products before COVID-19-related social restrictions were brought in.




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China demand drives record trade surplus

A solid growth in mineral exports in March after Chinese factories reopened following the coronavirus shutdown has driven Australia's trade surplus to a record $10.6 billion, in seasonally adjusted terms.




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Three times the pressure for PM this Mother’s Day

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has a big task today — to make Mother’s Day special for three mums in lockdown at The Lodge.




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Trump and Biden’s bitter election race hinges on new crisis

When Americans were yesterday learning of the country’s worst employment numbers since the Great Depression, the reaction of their president was a window into how he is setting up to fight the general election.




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Erin Molan: ‘Marriage is the last thing on our minds’

Erin Molan will never forget her very first day working at the Nine Network. As she sat in the newsroom, intimidated by the powerful environment, a young reporter who was doing her first live cross came up on the television screen.




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How to lose weight while in self-isolation

You’ve been cooped up in your home with nowhere to go — no social outings, no restaurant visits and no cocktail catch-ups with friends on the weekend filling up your calendar.




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Dr Chris Brown’s moving tribute to his mum

I used to have advice for girlfriends meeting my mum. Don’t be fooled by the whole caring, compassionate physiotherapist for babies and children thing. It’s a trap. Because come nightfall, if you dared stand within 1.5 metres of her and a board game, you saw another side that threatened to send you into self-isolation from her – for life.




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History behind Meghan and Harry’s home

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new digs sit on a nine-hectare piece of prime real estate in Beverly Hills, where the couple and their one-year-old son Archie can play endless games of hide-and-seek in the eight-bedroom, 12-bathroom mansion.




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Kim Kardashian sizzles in tiny bikini

For anyone wondering where Kim Kardashian has been (believe it or not, she hasn’t been photographed outside her house in a few months) – it seems the paparazzi ‘found’ her in this glittery maroon bikini outside her rented home in Malibu this week.




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The biggest event at Suncorp Stadium this weekend

YOU’VE heard of isolation concerts, opera in empty Italian squares and living-room raves, but today a new barrier will be broken with the sound of a boom box at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.




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Hilltop Hoods, Sia and Ariana drop new tunes

Musicians may be doing it tough with zero income from gigs any time soon but those big-hearted legends are rising to the occasion with a bunch of new tunes to benefit those needing a hand during the pandemic.




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‘Frowned upon’: Secret behind new Home and Away hunk

Home And Away’s new hottie Ethan Browne had to get over his own preconceived ideas of what he thought an actor was to follow his dream path.




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Feb 1, 2020: The Train & Kids Change Everything

It’s full steam ahead when Peter Brown and Erica Sigurdson discuss taking the train. Then, Sean Lecomber and Julie Kim refuse to play nice when they debate if kids change everything.



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Searching for a coronavirus vaccine, the NFL's diversity problem, impeachment endgame, Michael Pollan & more

A Saskatchewan laboratory is working on a coronavirus vaccine, Michael Pollan on how caffeine rules our world, how to retrofit an '80s shopping mall, why the NFL hires so few black head coaches, the impeachment drama skids towards acquittal and more.



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COVID-19 and nursing homes, China's state surveillance, the political Dr. Seuss, repopulating Fukushima & more

Canadian nursing homes look to Washington State for lessons about COVID-19, public health vs. surveillance in China's battle against the coronavirus, the Jewish-Palestinian lesbian couple who mine their relationship for comedy gold, the Japanese government's plan to repopulate Fukushima, Dr. Seuss' complicated history as a political cartoonist and more.



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Surviving COVID-19, shipping container ICUs, band merch to facemasks, a pandemic puzzle shortage and more

COVID-19 survivor David Lat, American band Thursday turns merch into face masks, how hydroxychloroquine shortages hurt people with lupus, turning shipping containers into portable intensive care units, a run on puzzles amidst the pandemic, how advertisers are adapting to the coronavirus and more.



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Neglecting nursing homes, COVID-19 and the fashion industry, Marc Maron, Sarah Kurchak, I Podius and more

Activist who said nursing homes were dangerous says COVID-19 proves them right; the pandemic upends the fashion industry; Marc Maron on politics, self-doubt and his new comedy special; Sarah Kurchak on her new memoir about living with autism; John Hodgman and Elliott Kalan on their I, Claudius-inspired podcast and more.



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Grieving in N.S., Michael Jordan's last dance, isolation reading, documenting a pandemic, Eliza Hittman & more

Grieving amidst a pandemic in Nova Scotia, a survivor of L'Ecole Polytechnique reflects on trauma and healing, The Last Dance lionizes Michael Jordan's last championship run, Becky Toyne's isloation reading list, Denmark's national museum documents daily life during a pandemic, Never Rarely Sometimes Always director Eliza Hittman and more.



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The Spark Guide to Life, Episode Five: Ethics

Surveilling strangers, ethics courses for computer science students, and what we should and shouldn't be doing with AI.




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Inside the machine: Hidden technologies from sea to sky

From weather forecasting to sending email, there is an astonishing amount of hidden technology involved - we take a peek inside the machinery.




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Rethinking "craft" in the age of digital reproduction

There are few darkrooms, and drawing by hand is increasingly rare. So do we still practice "craft" in this digital era?




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People rely on devices to store information, but that's not a bad thing, researchers say

With smartphones and automated technologies taking care of our information for us, the means to store information outside of our brains is endless. But does this “information offloading” have an impact on the brain’s memory function?




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How making AI do goofy things exposes its limitations

In her book, "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You," Janelle Shane poses the pitfalls of AI dependence




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CRTC head talks wireless plans, phishing scams and the future of streaming in Canada

With phone scams on the rise and a plethora of streaming services flooding the market, how well are we prepared for the 2020s? Spark host Nora Young talks to CRTC Chairperson and CEO Ian Scott.




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'This century is crucial': Why the U.K.'s astronomer royal says humanity is at a critical crossroads

This week on Spark, we speak with Martin Rees, the U.K.’s astronomer royal and author of On The Future: Prospects for Humanity, about the challenges humanity will face in the future, and how we might harness technology to tackle them.




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In 300 metres, turn left: a digital history of maps

In honour of the 15th anniversary of Google Maps, we explore all the ways we have learned to navigate the world by sight, smell and sound.




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How the telegraph and the lightbulb can teach us to think critically about future inventions

In her new book, The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, materials scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez chronicles eight life-changing inventions, and the inventors behind them.




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Halifax Jewish community helps stranded plane load, baby whisperer, drag queen workshop and seal on a train

Plane stranded on Shabbat in Halifax and community comes to the rescue, Alberta man has talent calming babies in distress/fosters 88 babies over time, Winnipeg theatre company workshop for aspiring drag queens and St. John police officer deals with a rogue seal



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Archery business in New Westminster BC, spearfishing and real sourdough

Archery business still thriving after over fifty years, Montreal woman quits law practice to spearfish full time and Ottawa baker dishes on qualities of real sourdough.



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Skijoring, albatross and illegal fishing and viral hay video

Skiing with your dog, how the albatross is helping detect illegal activity on the high seas and a video of opening a bale of hay goes viral.



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40 acts of kindness,2010 Olympic memory,bisons and black history month

Winnipeg woman celebrates her fortieth birthday with forty acts of kindness,Shane Koyczan at 2010 Olympics,details on bison re-introduction program and Periodic Table of Black Cdn History in Ottawa



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Pandemic history,Kids paint utility boxes and Wild Goose families

St. John's history of pandemics, Calgary kids paint self portraits on utility box near school and Montreal conversation with family whose father/husband works in south Korea.



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How this brand has outsold Coke in Scotland for over a century

Sometimes, small brands manage to outsmart their giant counterparts. And this tiny soda brand has done it for over a century. Goliath, meet David.



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This band grounded flights at Heathrow in the name of album art

Some rock 'n' roll groups will go to great heights for an eye-catching record jacket.



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This was the first classified ad ever published in North America

It may have been the 1700s, but the early days of the classified ads were surprisingly relatable.



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Canada doesn't need diplomacy tips from China, foreign minister says

This week on The House, Champagne joins us to discuss the China question, infrastructure and city planning expert Nadine Ibrahim talks about high-speed rail and Chris Hall talks with former political strategists David Herle, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid of the Herle Burly podcast.



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Shapeshifting

Rock guitar icon Joe Satriani puts his skills on display with a new album that includes the single Nineteen Eighty. Available through the library's Freegal service, you can stream the entire album or download up to 7 individual songs per week!