Today’s lead story is a bit of a surprise. MasterCard and Nymi announced the completion of the first heartbeat-authenticated mobile payment. This is a surprise because I did not think anyone was that close to doing something like this. Seth Godin adds some brilliance with his post about empathy. If you don’t understand why that is important, read the post again. There are also several good posts in the development and security sections, so make sure you check them out.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- MasterCard and Nymi say they’ve completed the first heartbeat-authenticated mobile payment in the wild | VentureBeat
Startups, Career and Process
- Empathy | Seth Godin
Design and Development
- The deceptively complex world of RRULEs | Nylas
- Building (Almost) Dependent Types in Swift | SectionFive
- Not Your Daddy’s Links Highlighting | Nikolay.Rocks
- Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 3. | Ruslan Spivak
- Tiny basic multi-threaded web crawler in Python | Webhose.io
- Android Experiments: A celebration of creativity and code | Android Developers Blog
- CSS Icons: 20 Vibrant, Fast, and Light Code Snippets | NOUPE
- Stronger Shell | Matt Bowen
- Lockfree protection of data structures that are frequently read | ArangoDB
- Events Don’t Eliminate Dependencies | Java Code Geeks
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Serving Files: S3 and High Availability | Movable Ink
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile | The Guardian
- Why My Water Droplet Is Better Than Your Hadoop Cluster | High Scalability
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Blue-green Deployments, A/B Testing, and Canary Releases | Java Code Geeks
- Integration Over Invention | Convox
- Introducing Docker Content Trust | Docker
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Firefox Under Fire: Anatomy of latest 0-day attack | We Live Security
- Chip Card ATM ‘Shimmer’ Found in Mexico | Krebs on Security
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1537 | A Fresh Cup
- The Daily Six Pack: August 13, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
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