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.

Nyan Mode - Turn your Emacs into Nyanmacs!

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

I just want it 'cos it's named "freedom mallows"

Key plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The "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

This is cool! Via /r/internetisbeautiful

Introducing The Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 5175R, Their Most Complicated Wristwatch Yet — HODINKEE - Wristwatch News, Reviews, & Original Stories

This watch costs £1.6m and is called "Grand Master Chime".

The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net

Jeff Hawkins on his HTM vs ANNs: summary -- HTMs have small world networks, many more synapses, and learn mostly through synapse creation; ANNs have local networks, relatively few synapses, and learn mostly through weight modification

The Internet Of Someone Else’s Things | TechCrunch

Corporations will have increased access to, and control over, internet-connected devices.

Lazy C++

RPi Bluetooth LE - eLinux.org

BLE from Raspberry Pi. Basically compile-it-yourself bluez then a quick bluez tutorial

Schneier on Security: iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars

Crypto on phones won't make policework harder.

Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X - Nordic developer zone

Mac support for Nrf51 / nrf51822

Ken Shirriff's blog: Down to the silicon: how the Z80's registers are implemented

via hn

The HyNES Realm - Emu Resources

simple nes demos for emu devs

Phison 2251-03 (2303) Custom Firmware & Existing Firmware Patches

For PS2303-based flash drives

Introducing The A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite," Now In White Gold (Live Pictures, Pricing) — HODINKEE - Wristwatch News, Reviews, & Original Stories

$200k watch

Milanese Mesh watches

Texas Instruments DRV8662

Piezo Haptic Driver with Integrated Boost Converter

hlnd/nrf51-pure-gcc-setup

nRF51822

HackManhattan’s Nordic nRF51822 breakout board | Dangerous Prototypes

DIY Inductive Charger - Hack A Year

OK Labs Story (5): Qualcomm | microkerneldude

LCD PIC® MCU Tips 'n Tricks

Usage of VLCD

Inside Scoop SF » Richmond restaurant encourages bad Yelp reviews

Encourage negative reviews, reducing the value of Yelp and getting lots of publicity in the process. Love it.

The Danish Sugar Beet Auctions

Fascinating: trading rights for Danish sugar beet production in a double auction, using encrypted bids which are never decrypted. The computation for the trading price is performed directly on the encrypted data using "secure multiparty computation", which sounds similar to, but isn't, homomorphic encryption.

In the Kitchen with Jarod: Make a Mother of Vinegar | MAKE: Craft

This looks fun.