VentureBeat had several good articles yesterday. First, they reported on Yahoo planning to lay off more than 1000 employees, which equates to about 10% of the company. That is a fairly big number but it makes sense as they continue to try to streamline their business. Amazon is now selling its own brand of ARM processors for the connected home. It is a surprise that they are going so low level and not just branding hardware. Lastly, they reported on TimeWarner’s advisory about 320,000 customers of a possible hack. Sadly, I thought the year was starting slow in this respect, but I was wrong.

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

Top Stories

• Yahoo reportedly will lay off more than 1,000 employees | VentureBeat
• Amazon’s now selling its own brand of ARM processors for the connected home | VentureBeat

Startups, Career and Process

• The Necessity of Creativity | DZone Agile
• Academics, we need to talk. | Volatile and Decentralized

Design and Development

• Processing in a RESTful World | DZone Integration
• Git stash driven development | Java Code Geeks
• Write Your Next Web App With Ember CLI | Smashing Magazine
• Internationalization and React | Sentry

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Evolutionary failures (Part 1) | thi.ng
• Measuring connectivity with graph Laplacian eigenvalues | John D. Cook
• Using neural networks for password cracking | 0 Day

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The importance of a data format: Part I – Current state problems | Ayende @ Rahien
• Big p, little n: lots of measurements, few subjects | John D. Cook
• Qualitative Data: The Context that Gives Meaning to Your Big Data | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Log Aggregation for Docker Containers in a Mesos and Marathon Cluster | DZone Integration
• configuration (mis)management or why I hate puppet, ansible, salt, etc. | learning with scripting

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Time Warner Cable advises 320,000 customers of possible hack | VentureBeat
• DLL Hijacking: The Code | DZone Integration
• Real World Crypto: Day 1 | Cryptologie
• Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World | Hynek Schlawack

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1620 | A Fresh Cup
• Deep Learning Reading List, January | KD Nuggets