Leading today, we have The Verge reporting on the FCC publicly shaming robocallers and telemarketers. For personal things, I am not a fan of public shaming. However, when it comes to fairly seedy business practices, I am a big fan, especially in this case. Mozilla announces their open source support program. This is just a fantastic idea. Lastly, the BBC News reports on the TalkTalk data breach. Everything I have heard over the weekend makes TalkTalk sound very bad, so definitely keep an eye on this story.

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

Top Stories

• The FCC will publicly shame robocallers and telemarketers every week | The Verge
• Mozilla Launches Open Source Support Program | Mozilla

Startups, Career and Process

• How I killed my startup hours before closing a seed round | T.A. McCann
• Why User Stories Fail | Java Code Geeks

Design and Development

• Do Programmers Practice Computer Science? | DaedTech
• Microservice Design Patterns | DZone Cloud
• Why Java 8? | DZone Java
• Building Microservices With Java | DZone Java
• Modern backend (BaaS) frameworks – an overview of Usergrid, LoopBack, Para, BaasBox, Deployd and Telepat | erudika
• Java 8 Lambda Expressions Tutorial | Java Code Geeks
• The Danger of Subtype Polymorphism Applied to Tuples | Java Code Geeks
• The what and why of product experimentation at Twitter | Twitter Blogs
• LLVM Code Generation in HHVM | HHVM Blog
• 3 Synchronization Idioms | DZone Java
• The Power, Patterns, and Pains of Microservices | DZone Java

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Randomized Decision Forests | Bertolami.com
• New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups on some problems | MIT News

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Docker and Enterprise Security: Establishing Best Practices | DZone Integration
• Swarm v. Fleet v. Kubernetes v. Mesos | O’Reilly Radar

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos | arstechnica
• TalkTalk cyber-attack: Website hit by ‘significant’ breach | BBC News
• Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future | ConsenSys

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – October 23, 2015 (#2118) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1571 | A Fresh Cup
• Web Development Reading List #109 | Smashing Magazine
• Programming Digest #130 for October 26, 2015 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
• Data Science Roundup #6: Building the Future, the Data Science Machine, and the Google of Math | The Data Point