Leading today’s articles, Mozilla announces Webmaker. It is meant to target first-time smart phone users who are mostly mobile-only and give them an opportunity to create on the web. In security, Bits, Please! continues their series on an Android issue, this time getting through to a linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability. LinkedIn talks about QARK, a tool to improve Android application security. Lastly, the Android team announces the preview of Android 6.0, Android Marshmallow.

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

Top Stories

• Mozilla Webmaker, Meet the World | Mozilla

Startups, Career and Process

• Developers Who Can Build Things from Scratch | Aaronontheweb
• How to Use Continuous Planning | Johanna Rothman
• The Story with Story Points | Gil Zilberfeld

Design and Development

• Keysort: The Schwartzian Transform in Go | Extravaganza
• Let’s Build a Metric 1: What’s In a Metric? | DaedTech
• Making Thread Dumps Intelligent | Java Code Geeks
• Easy validation in Scala using Scalaz, Readers and ValidationNel | Java Code Geeks
• 4 Sinatra inspired frameworks on the JVM that will boost your productivity | Dead Code Rising
• Develop a sweet spot for Marshmallow: Official Android 6.0 SDK & Final M Preview | Android Developers Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Asio, SSL, and scalability | Konrad’s weblog

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Tutte-Coxeter Graph | Visual Insight
• Bayesian Financial Models | Todd Moses
• Using Commutative Assessment to Compare Conceptual Understanding in Block & Text-based Programs | Lambda the Ultimate

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Surveillance selfie with cell phone metadata | Flowing Data
• Hibernate: use join table alias on sqlRestriction | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Android linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability and exploit (CVE-2014-4322) | Bits, Please!
• Packet Capture, Injection, and Analysis with gopacket | Dev Dungeon
• How widely used are security based HTTP response headers? | Scott Helme
• QARK, An Open Source Tool to Improve Android Application Security | LinkedIn Engineering

Fun and Other stuff

• Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web | Brewster Kahle

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: August 17, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1540 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Dump – August 17, 2015 (#2070) | Morning Dew