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

A comment by nothrabannosir

Pretty interesting allegation that some countries force McDonald's to lower the price of big macs specifically to look better on the economist's 'big mac index'

sleemanj/ESP8266_Simple

esp8266

Kafka: what kind of funny is he?

Via hn

Love Is a Bourgeois Construct

"I love you," he says…. "I've been in love with you for weeks." "There's no such thing," she says. "It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy." "Haven't you ever been in love, then?" "When I was younger," she says, "I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while, yes."

Tony Benn was defiantly, stroppily, youthfully socialist to the very end - Comment - Voices - The Independent

Why Our Memory Fails Us - NYTimes.com

It’s no accident that Oprah Winfrey’s latest best seller is called “What I Know For Sure,” rather than “Some Things That Might Be True.”

Why Eric Schmidt doesn't know how Google works | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar

Ignoring the trollbaitey headline, this has a very interesting table comparing Google with other companies.

Bekenstein bound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In physics, the Bekenstein bound is an upper limit on the entropy S, or information I, that can be contained within a given finite region of space which has a finite amount of energy.

Serial Console on Google Nexus 5

Procedural Text Generation in IF | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling

The Myth Of AI | Edge.org

Much better than I expected, but I'd like to see more than just the translator example to be convinced. Search itself commoditises human knowledge, but the end result is something which a human couldn't do by themselves.

Ljuva november. : sweden

This just has some great Swedish language in it for a learner, with Swedes being all poetic about how dreadful the weather is. "Men glöm inte att det alltid går att se positivt på saker och ting med om man verkligen vill!"

Bad sex award 2014: who should win? | Books | theguardian.com

God. It's like sticking your cock into the sun.

Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet | Science | The Guardian

Yay, humans landed something on a comet!

PayPal policy changes, Jan 2015

Creepiest part AFAICT is that if you use their mobile app they may ask for a photo which they may then show to effectively anybody but specifically to local users so that they know you are "within local reach as a customer". I hope this creepiness stays with their mobile app.

Butternut Black Bean Burgers

I really want to make the mysterious flax egg and enter the pellucid vegan plane.

ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation

This is why STARTTLS is bad. I didn't really understand before.

Pastes Formed With Gum - Pate De Guimauve - Marsh-Mallow Paste

Old recipe for marshmallows made with real marshmallow root. My favourite parts are the way two persons are required for a small portion in the middle, and the way 18 egg whites suddenly appear near the end of the recipe.

Android Security: Adding Tampering Detection to Your App

Mostly about PakageManager but Context is also included. Should find one for root detection too

Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number | Hacker News

I dislike 2fa, so this just reinforces my bias, but it's interesting because enabling 2fa and thus adding his phone number as a recovery option made him more vulnerable to attack, not less.

The Dropout’s Guide to PCB Trace Antenna Design « Colin Karpfinger

PCB antenna, matching passives, pi network. This is great until it gets to the "Find someone to let you use their $10000 network analyzer" part

NRF51822 - Hack Manhattan Wiki

Simple nrf58122 breakout, notable for use of chip antenna rather than quarter-wave pcb antenna and an integrated balun rather than a collection of passives. And apparently-wrong commentary about DC-DC converters.

using the TI AN048 chip antenna with nRF51822 - Nordic Developer Zone

This, and the last two links are boring-to-most discussions about antenna placement and use of balun on nrf51822 devices.

about nrf51822 and chip antenna layout [closed] - Nordic Developer Zone

This, the next link, and the previous one, are boring-to-most discussions about antenna placement and use of balun on nrf51822 devices.

Regarding nRF51822 RF Performance - Nordic Developer Zone

This and the next two links are boring-to-most discussions about antenna placement and use of balun on nrf51822 devices.