Installing Nvidia Drivers and CUDA 7.0 in Debian Wheezy | Yohan Jasdid's

Why Functional Tests don’t belong in a Build Environment - A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Software Testing, Part 2 « mgm technology blog

I disagree with pretty much all of this. Objection: You can't do manual tests, such as typing or clicking a button, if your tests are done in your build environment. Response: Well duh, don't have manual tests. Objection: The build / test machine will have a different configuration from the live environment. Response: So will any machine you do testing on, unless you test on production. Eliminate the problematic differences. Objection: When the test fails, you can't debug it. Response: On the other hand you get tests running continuously. When a test fails, reproduce it on your own system and debug it there.

Kasuto.net: The Legend of Zelda

Much better second quest walkthrough

The Bell Miner: orthography and ornithology catalyse a folk etymology

Pretty interesting. I know this bird as the Bellbird.

Zelda Universe

Walkthrough for The Adventure of Zelda's second quest.

Should search algorithms be moral? A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher - Quartz

Really bizarre quotes from Floridi here. "Google should not be in charge of what is true today or what is true tomorrow." (Made in support of the status quo, yet the status quo obviously is that Google is in charge of what is true today, in some sense). "Controlling the truth value of what is being circulated, information quality [...] Absolutely, it should be something that gets checked."

An experiment in porting the Android init system to GNU/Linux

Completely useless, even from the outset, but a great coverage of Android boot.

Make bash use external `time` command rather than shell built-in - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

"enable -n" disables bash built-ins, but 'time' is not a built-in: it's a separate bit of magic which requires a separate thing to disable. Shells are insane. The whole concept of a shell is really outdated and 70s.

Five Geek Social Fallacies

Geek Social Fallacy #0, which this guy has curiously forgotten to mention: Geeks Think They Are Special. Geeks tend to think that their social groups differ in material ways from other kinds of social group, despite there being no evidence for this.

Miscomputation: Learning to live with errors

Nice summary

The Brain vs Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity — Or Why the Singularity Is Nowhere Near | Deep Learning

Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study

The Relativistic Rocket

"After only a few years of 1g acceleration even the cosmic background radiation is Doppler shifted into a lethal heat bath hot enough to melt all known materials." Fuck's sake

PLOS ONE: Rethinking Rice Preparation for Highly Efficient Removal of Inorganic Arsenic Using Percolating Cooking Water

Yay! My method of cooking rice gets rid of arsenic. "Traditional S.E. Asian methods of rice cooking involved extensive rinsing of the uncooked grain followed by cooking the rice in a large excess of water and discarding that water on cessation of cooking and this was found to reduce Asi content of food by up to 45% [10] and 57% [8] when Asi free water was used."

Overton window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Overton Window is a phrase used to refer to the range of ideas the public will accept. It is used by media pundits and particularly favoured in conservative and libertarian-leaning discourse.

DSN Now

Deep Space Network dishes: what they're currently doing

Nuptial flight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"In October 2009, a swarm of flying ants briefly disrupted play between innings at cricket matches during the ICC Champions trophy, in South Africa."

Caryl Churchill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robyn's recommended playwright

Ophiocoma wendtii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In addition to functioning as an armor and giving structural support, the [calcite] crystals [on its arms] make up its unique visual systems. They minimize spherical aberration and can detect the direction of incoming light. The lenses work by filtering and focusing light on an underlying photoreceptor system. Nerve bundles under each lens, presumed to be light-sensitive, transmit the optical information to the rest of the nervous system.

The Sixth Sense You Didn't Know You Had - The Crux

How to see polarisation

Legendary Viking Sunstone Navigation: Solved : Discovery News

Super cool: humans can detect the direction of polarised light, but the effect is filtered out normally.

How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference? | Psychology Today

Fascinating -- I didn't know that female brains were composed of distinct cells, some with mother's X and some with father's X

An Education Centre for Sustainable Living - Monkton Wyld Court

recommendation from colette

My DIY Underlit LED (Hikaru) Skirt - Album on Imgur

"Compared to China the female Maker scene in the West seems incredibly conservative and hostile to women who don't conform to the blue hair and tattoos, zero-risk-non-conformist look:-) Eccentric clothing and body-modification is ok- but only if it's the same kind they have. Because if we look sexy the evil men will never take us seriously LOL." Really interesting comment -- wonder if it says something about attitudes to women in China vs the west, or if it says more about this woman's personal attitude.

Simple guided fuzzing for libraries using LLVM's new libFuzzer

Fuzzer as part of the llvm project

Writing a Mac OSX USB Device Driver That Implements SCSI Pass-through - Tenerife Skunkworks

Apple very annoyingly doesn't let you send vendor-specific SCSI commands to any mass storage device from user space. You have to write a kernel driver. Laaaaaame! Linux lets you do what you like.

Groyne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"All of a groyne may be under water, in which case it is a submerged groyne."

> But because our mosquito is oh-so-light, the raindrop moves on, unimpeded, and... | Hacker News

Possible blog post? HNer complains that a sentence misuses terms from physics. Terms are actually being applied correctly and problem is that HNer hasn't understood the English sentence.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences - Abstract - Homing in on Consciousness in the Nervous System: An Action-Based Synthesis

Looks interesting, not on libgen yet. 10.1017/S0140525X15000643

Liar's dice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK | Hacker News

Bunch of people in the comments saying that the previously-saved link is rubbish (but they give evidence, so it's not completely useless)

switching-to-contracting-uk/README.md at master · tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk

Use offline and online social networks, not recruiters.

easy brown lentils

Very simple recipe

Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook

Why I’m Breaking Up With the Apple Watch - NYTimes.com

This is a good talking piece for my watch.

Reverse engineering flash memory for fun and benefit

https://thinkinglegally.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/human-rights-act-are-these-cases-trivial

Elevated

The code for the 4k demo Elevated running in the browser. Amazing to see the source code for this thing.

[Talk] Demis Hassabis - The Theory of Everything

Don't fuck with paste - Chrome Web Store

Stops websites from disabling pasting

Electric brain stimulation decreases IQ scores and racial prejudice | KurzweilAI

There was a guy at the hackspace who wanted to run a current through his brain. Not sure if he ever did, but I was curious to see what happened because up until this point it looked like tcds did nothing at all. However this study shows that it actually does harm.

Problematic PHP Cryptography Advice in Popular Questions - Meta Stack Overflow

This is a pretty good general overview on the current state of the art. Or at least, it probably is -- I'll wait a few days before using it just to see if some other expert takes it down first.

Cheap LED Teardown : electronics

Example use of a capacitive dropper power supply

UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration - Dropper Calculations

Types of power supply: resistive and capacitative. Very simple page doesn't include rectifier, discharge resistor for capacitor, resistor to limit inrush current, fuse etc.

$1 Coin Cell Charger | Hackaday

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

At some point, the late bird shows up.

Unlocking the potential of Sagemcom 2704N | Community Site

work router

Does Deep Learning have any advantages over Numenta's CLA/HTM? : artificial

Why we shouldn’t map the brain | Prospect Magazine

"There is an element here of the popular (but false) idea that you never truly understand something until you can build it." Yes! It is weird to see this idea getting traction with otherwise quite sensible people

The science behind Taptics and Force Touch | iMore

Haptics, Linear Resonant Actuator -- the next thing after unbalanced motors.