I am not sure how I forgot to post it yesterday, but our lead story comes from The Next Web. SpaceX finally lands its rocket on a drone ship! Geeks around the world were going nuts and the various videos of the landing were shared all over. Wordfence continues their analysis of the Panama Papers hack. It is interesting to see the type of information they have been able to get so far. If you develop code that has any sorts of dependencies, then it should be of use to look at the NPM dependency network analysis at Graph Commons. While your chosen language may not be JavaScript, it is a good analysis and shows how easy it is to start creating a huge set of dependencies, as well as why you should know what else your libraries are dependent upon.

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

Top Stories

• SpaceX finally lands its rocket on a drone ship after delivering bouncy castle for ISS | The Next Web

Design and Development

• Building Pinterest’s A/B testing platform | Pinterest Engineering
• Almost complete guide to flexbox (without flexbox) | Kenan Yusuf
• AngularJS Project Structure | Dave Cooper
• Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM | Embedded in Academia
• Quick Start Tutorial: Universal React, with Server Side Rendering | Firas Durri
• Practical Reverse Engineering Part 1 – Hunting for Debug Ports | Hack The World
• clojurescript defprotocol’s secret | Klipse
• Strong vs Weak References | Elliot Chance
• You Are Not Checking | Developsense Blog
• Visualizing Your (Real) Architecture | DaedTech

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails | 18F
• Detecting Java Race Conditions With Tests, Part 1: Lost Updates | DZone Java
• Creating a Heavy-Duty Balancer With Nginx and Lua | Alex Fernandez

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Attention And Memory In Deep Learning And NLP | Open Data Science Conferences
• How to Treat Missing Values in Your Data : Part II | CleverTap Blog
• Looking inside machine learning black boxes | Julia Evans

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Analyzing the NPM dependency network | Graph Commons
• R: tm – Unique words/terms per document | Mark Needham

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Network Monitoring, Moral Hazards and Crumple Zones | Ethereal Mind

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data | Bishop Fox
• Panama Papers: Email Hackable via WordPress, Docs Hackable via Drupal | Wordfence

Link Collections

• Web Development Reading List #132: The Challenges In Our Field, Debouncing And More | Smashing Magazine
• Data Science Roundup #29: Introducing Analyst Collective! Plus, the (Premature?) Death of BI | The Data Point
• Programming Digest #154 for April 11, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter