Afl white paper
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/technical_details.txtReally interesting coverage of the American fuzzy lop fuzzer
CF-Auto-Root
http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/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?
http://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/2x7rbf/_/nonbeard 2015-02-26 20:13:40
Homes wishlist: Eastern folk | Life and style | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/mar/28/home-decoration-eastern-folkCrazy plates
Zero Analogy Monad Tutorial | Unknown Parallel
https://unknownparallel.wordpress.com/zero-analogy-monad-tutorial/This is almost too much detail
A Neighborhood of Infinity: You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.htmlHaving 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
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2vm0ed/is_there_a_good_succinct_metaphorfree_monad/> I would really really love to see a Monad tutorial that matches that description. Then write one
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatz2015-02-08 15:15:49
[Book] - Discovering the Human Connectome
http://www.reddit.com/r/scholar/comments/2u3cc4/_/nonbeard 2015-01-29 22:26:50
PCB Shopper » Find the Cheapest PCB Manufacturer with Our PCB Cost Comparison Calculator
http://pcbshopper.com/PCB manufacturer comparison site
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? | Oliver Burkeman | Science | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousnessnonbeard 2015-01-21 11:17:13
Raymond Blanc's basic chocolate mousse : BBC - Food - Recipes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basicchocolatemousse_93648basic delicious
Applying an experimental procedure to fall in love | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866933This was quite cool.
$0 photogrammetry - a way for faces for game characters : gamedev
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2r70hq/0_photogrammetry_a_way_for_faces_for_game/Generate models. This is a surprisingly good result
The Synapse Memory Doctrine Threatened? - Neuroskeptic
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/12/27/synapse-memory-doctrine-threatened/#hntest3Neurons may have some way of remembering / modulating total number of synaptic connections
µMatrix
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5matrix/ogfcmafjalglgifnmanfmnieipoejdcfReplacement for http switchboard
Berkeley’s RISC-V Wants to Be Free
http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20141210-risc-v/Oh, goody. It’s another new microprocessor instruction set.
Language Log » Do not dumb here
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=16251nonbeard 2014-12-09 13:50:52
Simplify - a tool for generic Android deobfuscation
http://www.reddit.com/r/reverseengineering/comments/2okbgy/_/Virtual machine for deobfuscation
A comment by nothrabannosir
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8703751Pretty 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
https://github.com/sleemanj/ESP8266_Simpleesp8266
Kafka: what kind of funny is he?
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/rivka-galchen/what-kind-of-funny-is-heVia hn
Love Is a Bourgeois Construct
http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/electric/bourgeois.htm"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
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tony-benn-dies-he-was-defiantly-stroppily-youthfully-socialist-to-the-very-end-9193658.htmlnonbeard 2014-12-03 01:45:21
Why Our Memory Fails Us - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/opinion/why-our-memory-fails-us.htmlIt’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
http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/30/why-eric-schmidt-doesnt-know-how-google-works/Ignoring the trollbaitey headline, this has a very interesting table comparing Google with other companies.
Bekenstein bound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_boundIn 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
http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/Lorris/2013/12/serial-console-on-google-nexus-5nonbeard 2014-11-19 11:37:40
Procedural Text Generation in IF | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
http://emshort.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/procedural-text-generation-in-if/nonbeard 2014-11-18 15:39:11
The Myth Of AI | Edge.org
http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-aiMuch 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
http://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/2m9qpu/ljuva_november/?sort=confidenceThis 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
http://www.theguardian.com/books/poll/2014/nov/12/literary-review-bad-sex-award-shortlist-2014God. It's like sticking your cock into the sun.
Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet | Science | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/12/rosetta-mission-philae-historic-landing-cometYay, humans landed something on a comet!
PayPal policy changes, Jan 2015
https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full?locale.x=GBCreepiest 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
http://peasandcrayons.com/2014/11/butternut-black-bean-burgers.htmlI really want to make the mysterious flax egg and enter the pellucid vegan plane.
ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacksThis is why STARTTLS is bad. I didn't really understand before.
Pastes Formed With Gum - Pate De Guimauve - Marsh-Mallow Paste
http://chestofbooks.com/food/recipes/Complete-Cook/Pastes-Formed-With-Gum-Pate-De-Guimauve-Marsh-Mallow-Pas.htmlOld 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
http://www.airpair.com/android/posts/adding-tampering-detection-to-your-android-appMostly 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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8541313I 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
http://colinkarpfinger.com/blog/2010/the-dropouts-guide-to-antenna-design/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
https://wiki.hackmanhattan.com/NRF51822Simple 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
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/question/6345/using-the-ti-an048-chip-antenna-with-nrf51822/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
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/question/15344/about-nrf51822-and-chip-antenna-layout/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
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/question/6836/regarding-nrf51822-rf-performance/This and the next two links are boring-to-most discussions about antenna placement and use of balun on nrf51822 devices.
Nyan Mode - Turn your Emacs into Nyanmacs!
http://nyan-mode.buildsomethingamazing.com/I will not rest until I see this thing in Vim, or in whatever text editor I am forced to use which is not Vim.
Vegetarian Freedom Mallows Strawberry Flavour
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00HWSIGYU?cache=0e84da56fed388a6c6939e49fa1338c7&pi=SX200_QL40&qid=1413925482&sr=8-1#ref=mp_s_a_1_1I just want it 'cos it's named "freedom mallows"
Key plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_plateThe "key" in CMYK is named after key plates, which traditionally produced the detailed portion of printed images, using, usually, black.
100 Years of Rock Visualized
http://www.concerthotels.com/100-years-of-rockThis is cool! Via /r/internetisbeautiful