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.

Sparks of consciousness mapped in most detail yet - life - 09 April 2015 - New Scientist

It now seems that conscious perception requires brain activity to hold steady for hundreds of milliseconds

Buckfast Tonic Wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The beverage has entered the popular lexicon with nicknames such as "Wreck the Hoose Juice", "Commotion Lotion", "Mrs. Brown", "Buckie Baracas", "Coatbridge Table Wine", "Cumbernauld rocket fuel", and a bottle of "what the hell are you looking at?"

Commander Rob Pike tries to write standard higher-order functions in Go; finds that it is easy to implement, and confirms that no one should ever want or need it

I know this is PCJ but just look at the code. Empty interfaces and reflection, just a dreadful implementation. "It wasn't hard and I don't need it. You shouldn't use it"

Hacking Philips Hotel Televisions | rownet.co.uk

This worked but then the TV couldn't play videos from my USB stick. :(

Stanford Seminar - Melissa O'Neill of Harvey Mudd College - YouTube

The talk about pcg-random. This was really interesting and easy to follow.

PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators | PCG, A Better Random Number Generator

Really interesting talk on these (see next bookmark) but basically the claim is that they are a new class of RNGs which are small, well-understood, fast, statistically random, unpredictable, and significantly better than existing algorithms (such as Mersenne Twister, Minstd, XorShift) at most of these things.

The Love/Hate Relationship with DDR SDRAM Controllers

DDR is complex.

How to Directly Program an Inexpensive ESP8266 WiFi Module | Hackaday

Spherification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/12/sweden-stopped-selling-arms-to-saudi-arabia?CMP=fb_gu

ci20_other_files/H5TQ2G83CFR.h at master · ZubairLK/ci20_other_files

CI20 lowered / altered RAM timings

Why do we care about Xiaomi? — Benedict Evans

Argues that Xiaomi is innovating with its Android devices rather than just copying, and hints that this signals a change. It'd be much more interesting if the successor to smartphones comes out of China in the next few years.

MultiROM Manager - Android Apps on Google Play

Run multiple Android images on one device -- good for app testing, but not great for ROM verification (e.g. won't run with encrypted /data)

A Woman Drinking with Two Men

What I just got framed

How to Make Vegan Butter - Regular Vegan Butter - Coconut Oil Base - Veganbaking.net - Recipes, desserts and tips

Afl white paper

Really interesting coverage of the American fuzzy lop fuzzer

Elemotho - Kgala! Namib

CF-Auto-Root

Chainfire autoroot for Android. Installs supersu but doesn't, e.g., change SELinux mode. Requires a device which lets you boot arbitrary code, i.e. an unlocked bootloader.

Londoners born outside of the UK, which take away/restaurant does food that is close or the same as you'd get at home?

Homes wishlist: Eastern folk | Life and style | The Guardian

Crazy plates

Zero Analogy Monad Tutorial | Unknown Parallel

This is almost too much detail

A Neighborhood of Infinity: You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)

Having done a tiny bit of Haskell programming now, my preferred monad tutorial is to write something which uses monads

Is there a good, succinct, metaphor-free Monad tutorial? : haskell

> I would really really love to see a Monad tutorial that matches that description. Then write one

Berlin Alexanderplatz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Book] - Discovering the Human Connectome

PCB Shopper » Find the Cheapest PCB Manufacturer with Our PCB Cost Comparison Calculator

PCB manufacturer comparison site

Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? | Oliver Burkeman | Science | The Guardian

Raymond Blanc's basic chocolate mousse : BBC - Food - Recipes

basic delicious

Applying an experimental procedure to fall in love | Hacker News

This was quite cool.

$0 photogrammetry - a way for faces for game characters : gamedev

Generate models. This is a surprisingly good result

The Synapse Memory Doctrine Threatened? - Neuroskeptic

Neurons may have some way of remembering / modulating total number of synaptic connections

µMatrix

Replacement for http switchboard

lowRISC

Volume production of risc-v

Berkeley’s RISC-V Wants to Be Free

Oh, goody. It’s another new microprocessor instruction set.

Language Log » Do not dumb here

Simplify - a tool for generic Android deobfuscation

Virtual machine for deobfuscation