It has been a while, so obviously it is time for another security issue to lead our day. On Motherboard, they talk about a flaw on ebay’s site that can allow someone to steal user’s passwords. It is a fairly simple hack as well, but it does require users to click a specific link so hopefully it has not been abused. Pyevolve has an excellent explanation of the technique used in the automatic colorization we saw a few days ago, convolutional hypercolumns. It is an advanced concept, but it is still very cool to see what people are trying to do. On KD Nuggets we have an interesting post on attention and memory in deep learning and NLP. This is another advanced concept for people not familiar with neural networks.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Predictive Index Stereotypes | Paul Hammant

Design and Development

• Testing callbacks in Swift with XCTest | mokacoding
• Adding Offline Support to a feed reader with Service Workers | Superfeedr
• Testing Trends on the Horizon for 2016 | DZone Agile
• Using Wiremock to Test Against 3rd Party Services Offline | DZone Java
• 6 Mobile App Testing Mistakes You Should Avoid | uTest
• two weeks of rust | numerodix blog
• How to write NFC tag in Android | Java Code Geeks
• Getting Started with Django REST Framework (DRF) and AngularJS (Part 2) | The Engine Room – TrackMaven
• Variables: The Backbone Of CSS Architecture | Smashing Magazine
• Stop writing code that will break on Python 4! | .py in the sky

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Convolutional hypercolumns in Python | Pyevolve
• Complete Enumeration Arguments Deemed Harmful… | Michael Trick
• Attention and Memory in Deep Learning and NLP | KD Nuggets

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The importance of a data format: Part IV – Benchmarking the solution | Ayende @ Rahien
• Immigration history | Flowing Data
• ElasticSearch Tutorial for Beginners | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Simple leader election with Kubernetes | Kubernetes

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• The Insider Threat Trifecta: People, Activity and Applications | DZone Agile
• A Flaw on eBay’s Site Allowed Hackers To Steal User’s Passwords | Motherboard

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Top 5 Power Features of the Google Cloud CLI | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: January 12, 2016 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1623 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – January 12, 2016 (#2165) | Morning Dew