Leading our day is a post by Mark Suster on Bothsides of the Table. He talks about the resetting of the startup industry, which is interesting reading if you are trying to get your own startup funded. Gil Zilberfeld gives us an entertaining post about “estimate theater”. With a dialogue, he tries to get to the root of the problem with a team’s estimates. On Solve for Interesting, we get an excellent post on the future of Google Inbox and how it could challenge the other personal AI systems like Siri, Cortana and Echo.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Startups, Career and Process

• Hidden Costs in Your Software | DaedTech
• Estimate Theater | Gil Zilberfeld
• How We Teach Programming, and Where We’re Going Wrong | Caches to Caches
• The Resetting of the Startup Industry | Bothsides of the Table
• One trait that every successful person has | Ilya Semin

Design and Development

• Improved Documentation of HotSpot Options in Java 8 | Inspired by Actual Events
• The spectacular instability of good code structure | Edmund Kirwan
• Dynamic code generation in C# | Ayende @ Rahien
• Java Design Pattern Simplified – Part 1 of DJANGO Untamed Series | DZone Java
• Event-Driven Architecture 101: Continuous Query Cache | DZone Integration
• Quality Matters: The Benefits of QA-Focused Retros | Code As Craft
• The Error Model | Joe Duffy

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Hypergeometric distribution and hypergeometric functions | John D Cook
• Pulse: The Starting Point for Feature Selection | AI3
• Inbox is the Trojan Horse for your personal AI | Solve for Interesting
• Parametric Activation Pools greatly increase performance and consistency in ConvNets | Clay McLeod

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Summarizing Data in SQL | yhat
• How We Monitor and Run Elasticsearch at Scale | signal fx

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Explaining the Popularity of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure | DZone Integration

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Bypassing Rolling Code Systems | AndrewNohawk

Link Collections

• Programming Digest #145 for February 8, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
• Data Science Roundup #20: Autonomous Hedge Funds, Education in the Age of AI, and NYC Bike Share | The Data Point
• Double Shot #1641 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – February 8, 2016 (#2183) | Morning Dew