Which exchange did you use to buy IOTA? You can't really buy IOTA directly with USD, right?

Are you still reading Relentless from last year? It made your list in 2016 too. :)

They also have a similar site for New York: https://www.oldnyc.org/

What is a good u2f key you'd recommend?

I have used Yubico's U2F key since shortly after they came out (Nov 2014). They are very robust and relatively cheap. Moreover, in contrast to some cheaper keys, they require physical confirmation by a finger press.

Feitian NFC-compatible is nice because you can set up your Google Account on an Android phone with it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M1R5LRD/

If you're into cryptocurrency, the Trezor will also act as a U2F device.

While your distinction about building a better mousetrap is true - the corporation building a better mousetrap needs more money to put into R&D and it can get more only if it is either marketing itself to investors (consumers in this scenario?) or gaining a larger market share by promoting themselves.

>While your distinction about building a better mousetrap is true - the corporation building a better mousetrap needs more money to put into R&D and it can get more only if it is either marketing itself to investors (consumers in this scenario?) or gaining a larger market share by promoting themselves.

There is a distinction between promotion and advertising.

Your points resonate with me. In today's social media filled world where technology is probably the only major way for you to keep in touch with friends and family living hundreds of miles away - finding that balance is essential.

Going forward 'technology-life' balance would be the biggest challenge faced by millennials and the future generations.

Your point is quite valid about using data for financial decisions and underwriting which is in-fact already happening in a lot of scenarios.

Definitely agree with that. The socioeconomic background does make a difference.

In my city, the schools in the lower economic status did not even have a scouts/guides program and the ones that did were mostly in schools where the middle class/upper middle class kids went to.

I recently started playing around with the data sets on past Kaggle competitions and have been learning a lot.

The Data Science use cases there are quite interesting. Are there any publicly available data-sets (other than the ones available in competitions) to work with (especially for the marketing use cases)?

I highly recommend subscribing to the "Data is Plural" mailing list. You'll get interesting datasets mailed to you each week! Here's the last one: http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-...

Also checkout "Academic Torrents". Lots of large datasets here, from millions of Tweets, to labeled photos of fish in the wild. http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?c6=1&sort_field=times...

Thanks for that! I looked it up and just subscribed to the mailing list. Looks quite interesting.

I agree with most of your points. If the current application system is modified to prevent the 'DDoS' by the big firms, it would solve most of the H1B issues and automatically fix a lot of things.

What would probably work is - increasing the visa application fees quite significantly if a company is applying for more than X applications a year.