Announcing the Unity Editor for Linux

Announcing the Unity Editor for Linux

A growing number of developers using the experimental version, combined with the increasing demand of Unity users in the Film and Automotive, Transportation, and Manufacturing (ATM) industries means that we now plan to officially support the Unity Editor for Linux. Currently, it’s available in preview, and we’re interested in gathering your feedback on our Unity Editor for Linux forum. We can’t wait to hear what you think on our Unity Editor for Linux forum.

Source: blogs.unity3d.com

A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure (2017)

A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure (2017)

When planning the setup of our infrastructure, we kept two things in mind: First, we wanted to have open source software running wherever possible, and second, we wanted to use strong encryption for both communication and data storage. Our main reasons for choosing Arch Linux were its active community, good documentation, highly up-to-date repositories with current versions of important software, good support for disk encryption, and finally, the fact that Arch Linux has a rolling update scheme instead of a release-based one. Other reasons for using Docker can be wanting to try something out without messing up your host system or maybe software is simply not available for your Linux distribution.

Source: about.gitlab.com

ETL Tools for R Language – Comparison

ETL Tools for R Language – Comparison

For R work or any data operations, you need an ETL (extract, transform and load) to process your data from its source to your output or data warehouse. This open source ETL is designed specifically for work with medium data and SQL database output. This open source ETL tool lets you use R’s complex data analytics capabilities on specific data sets gathered by Elasticsearch.

Source: blog.panoply.io

Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

California’s cap-and-trade program allows companies to offset a small percentage of their carbon output with forest preservation projects in North America. But this year, the state’s Air Resources Board could approve its proposed Tropical Forest Standard — a blueprint for how carbon offsets could be awarded for intercontinental programs. Those eager to see the Acre program succeed told me it was OK if the offsets didn’t really cancel out all of the carbon emissions they were supposed to, as long as some trees were saved and smaller gains were made.

Source: features.propublica.org

Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker

Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker

You can contact lawrence at: [email protected]

The hype over Hadoop has died away and many of the investments now seem to have been terrible investments:

MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement, may cut up to 122 jobs and shut down its Santa Clara, California headquarters if it can’t secure additional funding. Cloudera and MapR have both attempted to distance themselves from the Hadoop market in recent years as the once-expected riches failed to materialize. The same will eventually be said of Docker.

Source: www.smashcompany.com

I Don’t Want to Teach My Garbage DSL, Either

I Don’t Want to Teach My Garbage DSL, Either

The main feature of it was to power frontend developers with a self-designed-formatted URL as a Query Language. When the API server received an HTTP Get request, it converted the URL into specific query languages for backend databases such as ElasticSearch, Redis and influxDB. Once the server collected all the returned data from related databases after dispatching the query languages, it packed them up in a unified format and sent it to the front.

Source: github.com

New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End

New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End

No one knows how many hikikomori exist (the term refers both to the condition and the people with it), but surveys suggest that 1.79 per cent of Japanese people aged 15-39 meet the criteria. Roseline Yong and Kyoko Nomura analysed survey data from 3,287 male and female participants aged 15-39, who were randomly selected from 200 different urban and suburban municipalities all over Japan, representing a cross-section of Japanese society. Based on the survey data, 1.8 per cent of the respondents were hikikomori, but they were just as likely to live in a village as in a big city.

Source: digest.bps.org.uk

Deposit of rare-earth minerals off Japan could supply world for centuries (2018)

Deposit of rare-earth minerals off Japan could supply world for centuries (2018)

Earlier this year, researchers found a deposit of rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan that could supply the world for centuries, according to a study. Japan started seeking its own rare-earth mineral deposits after China withheld shipments of the substances amid a dispute over islands that both countries claim as their own, Reuters reported in 2014. The only thing holding Japan back from using its newly found deposit to dominate the global market for rare-earth minerals is the challenge involved in extracting them.

Source: www.sciencealert.com

Apple AirPort Firmware Data Deletion Vulnerability

Apple AirPort Firmware Data Deletion Vulnerability

On at least AirPort Extreme AP firmware 7.7.9 and AirPort Express firmware 7.6.9 (the newest available for each device at the time of reporting), a “factory-default” reset just moves the configuration file to a new location on the device, and the old file and up to two additional previous configurations remain accessible on the device. A new owner of a used Apple AirPort that has been “factory-default reset” with a vulnerable firmware version can still retrieve at least:

The level of access granted to the account with just an Apple ID and “infinite access token” is unknown. 2019-02-15 (+226d) – I had a conference call with Scotty of Product Security, an Airport firmware engineer, and a couple others from the privacy team at Apple, discussing disclosure and a timeline for a new firmware release.

Source: jcs.org

Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents

Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents

Read about our new work below, in “Human Comparable Agents” and “Going Further”

Mastering the strategy, tactical understanding, and team play involved in multiplayer video games represents a critical challenge for AI research. In our latest paper now published in the journal Science, we present new developments in reinforcement learning, resulting in human-level performance in Quake III Arena Capture the Flag. Furthermore, we show how these methods have managed to scale beyond research Capture the Flag environments to the full game of Quake III Arena.

Source: deepmind.com