Sorry for the delay in posting yesterday’s links. I totally forgot to hit the publish button!

Business Insider leads the day reporting on some French researchers who can hack Siri from 16 feet away. Interestingly, it uses the wires from the headset to send information. On Google Cloud Platform, they talk about alerting about a metric’s rate of change. This is important because sometimes the metric itself is not very informative, but its trend is. A/B testing may not seem that interesting, but Evan Miller has an excellent post regarding the process and throws in some math to support the idea.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Scrum Master + Team Lead = Team Master? | DaedTech
• How Agile Goes Bad: Blame and Options | DZone Agile
• Do Project Managers need Domain Experience? | Java Code Geeks
• The Prototype Stereotype | Path-Sensitive

Design and Development

• Simple Sequential A/B Testing | Evan Miller
• Increasing the barrier to entry by simplifying the process | Inside The Agency

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Inside LAN Sync | Dropbox
• More concurrency: Improved locking in PostgreSQL | High Scalability
• Save some bandwidth by turning off TCP Timestamps | High Scalability
• EPaxos, transactions and the next 700 Paxos systems | rystsov

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Modeling Molecules with Recurrent Neural Networks | Scribblings
• Ant colony optimization in Scala | Jesse’s Notes
• Keyword finder: automatic keyword extraction from text | URX

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Introducing FiloDB | Java Code Geeks
• Work Counts | Flowing Data
• Alerting on a metric’s rate of change | Google Cloud Platform
• Building RJMetrics Pipeline | Chris Merrick

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Schrödinger’s deploys no more: how we update translations | Khan Academy Engineering

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• French researchers have figured out a way to hack Siri from 16 feet away – without saying a word | Business Insider

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1565 | A Fresh Cup
• Four short links: 14 October 2015 | O’Reilly Radar
• Dew Drop – October 14, 2015 (#2111) | Morning Dew