Some days, the stories you read hit a little closer to home. Yesterday would have been the birthday of my oldest brother, he passed away about two months ago. Seeing the post about surviving the loss of a love on Conversation Agent was a very good way to start the day. Thank you Valeria for a very timely post.
On a less sad note, there are a bunch of interesting security stories, so I recommend you take a look. The BBC reports that experts were able to hack into a Tesla, although the issues have already been fixed. The Next Web tells us more about what the Hacking Team was able to do, and it is highly unpleasant. TechCrunch reports that popular publishing service Wattpad was hacked and “some” passwords were exposed. Keep an eye on that story because it is a very popular service.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- How to Survive the Loss of a Love | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
- Board Leadership | AVC
- Retention Is The Key | Jacques Mattheij
- How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas | First Round Review
Design and Development
- An experiment in porting the Android init system to GNU/Linux | Dark n Edgy
- Why debugging is all about understanding | Futurice
- Getting started with Spark: it is possible to create lightweight RESTful application also in Java | Java Code Geeks
- Exploring URL discovery with the Physical Web | Broken Links
- Simple Async Await Example for Asynchronous Programming | Microsoft UK Developers
- The Case for Controlled Side Effects | Two Wrongs
- Unit testing HTTP calls with LocalTestServer | Java Code Geeks
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Patching Rails Performance | Heroku Engineering
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- The reusable holdout: Preserving validity in adaptive data analysis | Google Research
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Taking the ‘D’ Out of CRUD with Soft Deletes | Scott Smerchek
- Taking the ‘D’ Out of CRUD with Soft Updates | Scott Smerchek
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Hacking Team reverse engineered WhatsApp, Facebook and others to steal your iPhone’s data | The Next Web
- Warning after security experts hack Tesla car | BBC News
- DNS parser, meet Go fuzzer | CloudFlare
- Protecting users from deceptive inline installation | Chromium Blog
- Social Publishing Service Wattpad Hacked, “Some” Passwords Exposed | TechCrunch
- Report Points To Russia In “Sophisticated Cyber Intrusion” Of Unclassified Joint Staff Email | TechCrunch
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- Moving Opendoor’s data science stack from Heroku to Convox | Opendoor Engineering
- Deployment Manager is Generally Available – Deployments Made Easy | Google Cloud Platform
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – August 6, 2015 (#2068) | Morning Dew
- The Daily Six Pack: August 7, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
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