Today we have a few good security related stories. First, arstechnica reports on a new attack on Tor that can deanonymize hidden services with “surprising accuracy”. Next, The Register talks about Pager Duty being hacked weeks ago and just coming clean about it. The Next Web reports on a DNS exploit that is already in the wild. Hopefully this one does not get out of hand. Lastly, VentureBeat talks about how researchers found malware advertising that has already infected 1.3M people.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Code Kata? How About Product Kata? | DaedTech
• If we stand still, we go backwards | Jake Archibald
• Estimates: Jumping To Wrong Conclusions | Gil Zilberfeld
• 7 Things Your Boss Doesn’t Understand About Software Development | Making the Complex Simple

Design and Development

• Creating a dynamic d3 visualization from the GitHub API | Ben Collins
• Visualizing Rust’s type-system | jadpole
• ActiveMQ as a Message Broker for Logstash | Java Code Geeks
• Abusing the MPC-HC WebUI to steal private pictures | 3vildata
• Three Ways UI Testing Just Made Test-Driven Development Even Better | Joe Masilotti
• Quick and dirty annotations for Go stack traces | CloudFlare
• Seven of the Nastiest Anti-patterns in Microservices | High Scalability
• JavaScript is the C++ of the Web | Pointers Gone Wild

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Running Probabilistic Programs Backwards | Lambda the Ultimate
• Teaching recurrent Neural Networks about Monet | Manuel Garrido

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Complementing Hadoop at Yahoo: Interactive Analytics with Druid | Yahoo Engineering
• United States electricity map | Flowing Data
• Building a GraphQL Server with Node.js and SQL | Reindex

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• New attack on Tor can deanonymize hidden services with surprising accuracy | arstechnica
• PagerDuty hacked … and finally comes clean 21 days later. | The Register
• A huge DNS exploit could take down chunks of the internet | The Next Web
• Researchers discover malware advertising that’s infected 1.3M people and growing | VentureBeat

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• How to Troubleshoot Latency in Your App Engine Application | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1532 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – August 3, 2015 (#2066) | Morning Dew