Toyota announces sustainable vehicle ecosystem [video]

Toyota announces sustainable vehicle ecosystem

And while the market for these cars is growing rapidly, there are still many issues that need to be addressed. That’ s why we’ re excited to introduce a new, sustainable vehicle ecosystem and are seeking friends to create it together. #Toyota #ToyotaGlobal Motor Corporation Official Global Website:

Instagram: friends for creating a zero emission society |

Source: www.youtube.com

Giving a name to my sales anxiety

Giving a name to my sales anxiety

On the first day where our product would be in front users, we got a grand total of zero orders. Even though, on the other hand, I felt that my product is beneficial and relevant, and it is OK to approach people with relevant recommendations, I couldn’t disentangle the two feelings. And while I still feel sales anxiety, as it would take a long time to rewire the inner workings of my mind, I can now soothe myself by pointing to it, and distancing myself from it – hey, it’s just the sales anxiety, it’s OK, now go talk to that customer.

Source: dimitarsimeonov.com

Durham Pathfinder Free-School: Self-Directed Learning

Durham Pathfinder Free-School: Self-Directed Learning

It was the first day of school, and Wilder, the founder and director of Pathfinder Community School, had spent the morning greeting arriving students and their families. Research on free schooling is slim, but the few extant studies that do exist—most by a Boston College psychologist who’s become a proselytizer—suggest that alumni go on to college and successful careers at the same rate as children from traditional schools. Like Sudbury Valley, Pathfinder is “democratic” as well as “free,” so children take an active part in school decisions—not just on trivial questions like whether to install a vending machine (more on that later), but on much of the discretionary budget.

Source: indyweek.com

Abusing SHA-1 collisions for Chromium updates

Abusing SHA-1 collisions for Chromium updates

XXX: This is essentially the same as:

… except that tryEval on fetchurl isn’t working and doesn’t catch

errors for fetchurl, so we go for a different approach. We only have fixed-output derivations that can have networking access, so

we abuse SHA1 and its weaknesses to forge a fixed-output derivation which

is not so fixed, because it emits different contents that have the same

Using this method, we can distinguish whether the URL is available or

Unfortunately there’s no older version than

# We only support GNU/Linux right now. # This file is autogenerated from update.sh in the same directory.

Source: github.com

Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May

Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May

The measurement is the highest seasonal peak recorded in 61 years of observations on top of Hawaii’s largest volcano and the seventh consecutive year of steep global increases in concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), according to data published today by NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanographyoffsite link. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increases every year, and the rate of increase is accelerating. CO2 and the Keeling Curve

The highest monthly mean CO2 value of the year occurs in May, just before plants start to remove large amounts of the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere during the northern hemisphere growing season.

Source: www.noaa.gov

Atomwise (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist in SF

Atomwise (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist in SF

At Atomwise, we invented the first deep learning neural networks for structure-based small molecule drug discovery and we are currently deploying it in one of the largest applications of machine learning for life sciences. But also, if you are up to tackling some of the hardest open challenges in deep learning today:

Non-stationary, unbalanced, and noisy data: Our training data is seldom i.i.d.; new medicines are unlocked by pushing out into newly-discovered biology. Help us find ways to best integrate molecular physics simulation and machine learning to impute new data.

Source: www.atomwise.com

Master of the Game (1998)

Master of the Game (1998)

If anyone has more history in computer games, Crick hasn’t met him. The son of a Nobel Prize winner, Crick was among the first in the door when the video game business exploded in the early 1980s. “The idea that you could sell a computer game was beyond anyone’s comprehension at that time,” said Crick, whose beard is graying, although he wants his age kept secret.

Source: crick.com

Invaders game in 512 bytes

Invaders game in 512 bytes

Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file)
by Oscar Toledo G. a game recreating the Invaders game in 512 bytes, that can be
run as a COM file or put into a boot sector of a floppy disk to be
run. Now it’s compatible with 8088 (the original IBM PC) but it still
has the option for 80286 code in the source code. So you now have
to look for a 8-bit compatible VGA card if you want to run it in
original hardware ;)

A small video of the game running over emulation:

you want to assemble it, you must download the Netwide Assembler
(nasm) from www.nasm.us

Use this command line:

nasm -f bin invaders.asm -Dcom_file=1 -o invaders.com
nasm -f bin invaders.asm -Dcom_file=0 -o invaders.img

Tested with VirtualBox for Mac OS X running Windows XP running this
game, it also works with DosBox and probably with qemu:

qemu-system-x86_64 -fda invaders.img

Enjoy it!

Source: github.com

Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem

Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem

This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud Platform. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. The network congestion issue in eastern USA, affecting Google Cloud, G Suite, and YouTube has been resolved for all affected users as of 4:00pm US/Pacific.

Source: status.cloud.google.com

Boom XB-1 Baby Boom

Boom XB-1 Baby Boom

The Boom XB-1 Baby Boom is a one-third-scale supersonic demonstrator designed by Boom Technology, it should maintain Mach 2.2, with over 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) of range. The XB-1 Baby Boom one-third-scale supersonic demonstrator was initially intended to make its first subsonic flight in late 2017, powered by three General Electric CJ610 turbojets (a civilian J85), with subsequent supersonic flight testing at Edwards AFB. [4] In 2017, the composite wing spar was load tested while being heated in an hydraulic testbed in an oven reaching 300 °F (149 °C), above the heat soak operational temperature.

Source: en.wikipedia.org