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.

Sciento: Welcome to Sciento

Organisms for Biological Sciences

Molecular Psychiatry - Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings

Assortative: relating to the preferential mating of animals with similar characteristics.

Robust and maintainable testing with UiAutomator for Android | Info | theguardian.com

Nice overview

uiautomator | Android Developers

Android UI testing -- this is the successor to monkeyrunner and hierarchyviewer.

Wireless Power Charger!

wireless charging is pretty simple: basically a long-distance transformer. On the receiving end you need a rectifier (ac->dc), regulator (->5v), and a capacitor to even out the charge. That's basically it.

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

Erdös. He was twenty-one when he buttered his first piece of bread, his mother or a domestic servant having always done it for him. "I remember clearly," he said. "I had just gone to England to study. It was teatime, and bread was served. I was too embarrassed to admit that I had never buttered it. I tried. It wasn't so hard."

Direct Driving of LCD Using General Purpose IO

Quite neat. They give the backplanes VCC (IO output high), GND (IO output low), and VCC / 2 (IO input floating, pulled to VCC / 2 using an external voltage divider)

Paris Review – The Future According to Stanisław Lem , Ezra Glinter

Should read Stanisław Lem

images - Alternative for Graphviz with better automatic node placement for large graphs? - Software Recommendations Stack Exchange

It's pretty hard and there are no good alternatives. But suggestions from a GraphViz dev: "If "large" means maybe hundreds of nodes, try neato -Goverlap=false (to avoid node text label overlap) and possibly -Gmodel=subset to try for better clustering."

Using HM-10 BLE Modules as Low-Cost iBeacons

Mostly useful for the AT commands given to keep the thing's power consumption low

Microcontroller Projects: PIC MCU LCD Driver 4 commmon 7 Segmented LCD & PIC16F917

Driving a multisegment LCD with a PIC

Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics

Multiple overlayed Marios is, suprisingly, a useful metaphor for the testing work I'm doing currently.

New-agey interviews at the grocery startup - just another scala quant

nice data science story

Viterbi algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Find the most likely sequence of hidden states that results in a sequence of observed events. (Especially in the context of Markov information sources and hidden Markov models.)