Four short links: 26 December 2016
Zimbu, Mistakes, Atari, and Dashbot
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Four short links: 23 December 2016
Superintelligence, Life Principles, VR Resources, and Interactive Dynamic Video
Four short links: 22 December 2016
Brainless Slime, Significance Testing, Year of Breaches, and Deploying to AWS
Jay Trimble on user-centered design, Agile, and design thinking at NASA
The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Solving problems, user-centered design, and culture at NASA.
Niko Triulzi on IoT toys
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Designing and manufacturing a screenless tech device.
Cory Doctorow on the real-life dangers of DRM
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: DRM in unexpected places, artistic and research hindrances, and ill-anticipated consequences.
Four short links: 21 December 2016
Topic Modeling, Datafication, Toy Spies, and Partisan Beliefs
Velocity: A new direction
The focus of the O'Reilly Velocity Conference is shifting from system administration to systems engineering.
What is design thinking?
Human-centered design and the challenges of complex problem-solving.
Genevieve Bell on bringing more people into the AI conversation
We need more philosophers, psychologists, poets, artists, politicians, anthropologists, social scientists, and critics of art in the conversation.
Four short links: 20 December 2016
Ingestible Origami Robot, Feature Flags, AI Q&A, and Disappearing Ideas
Ransomware: When to pay (and when not to)
While most security professionals argue against paying the ransom, there are some cases where paying is the right choice for an organization. Learn what to consider, and how to decide.
Want to be a good software architect? Say "yes" to a lot of things.
An interview with Scott Shaw, Head of Technology, Australia, at ThoughtWorks.
Four short links: 19 December 2016
Robot Arm, Societal Collapse, Bot NLP, and Tech in Hostile States
HTTP/2: Leveraging the modern web
The O’Reilly Podcast: Stephen Ludin discusses how to get started with HTTP/2.
Four short links: 16 December 2016
Designing Bots, Security Priorities, Generating Chorales, and Why Indie.vc
Dennis Mortensen on email bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: X.ai founder on personal assistant agents that schedule your meetings.
Data is only as valuable as the decisions it enables
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ion Stoica on building intelligent and secure applications on live data.
Brad Knox on creating a strong illusion of life
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Imbuing robots with magic, eschewing deception in AI, and problematic assumptions of human-taught reinforcement learning.
Defining the Chat in Chatbot
Cathy Pearl on how to think about conversations when designing for voice interactions.
Designing bots
5 questions for Desiree Garcia: Moving beyond building features and solutions to products and experiences.
Four short links: 15 December 2016
Secure Yourself, Limits of Transparency, Disruption Blindness, and Factiness in Podcasts
Scaling Scala
Evaluating the state and development of Scala from a data engineering perspective.
The telecommunication industry’s unique position for new revenue opportunities in big data, IoT, and VR
Telcos must regain value from over-the-top services and develop new sources of revenue by leveraging their data and infrastructure.
Security and frontend performance: Bridging the gap
The O’Reilly Podcast: Sonia and Sabrina Burney discuss how to provide a secure and fast customer experience
Better security starts and ends with humans
An interview with Scout Brody, Executive Director at Simply Secure.
Planning for advanced analytics
The O’Reilly Podcast: John Thuma on how businesses can get more than “what happened” from their data.
Four short links: 14 December 2016
State of Tech, Ransom Market, Ethical AI, and Self-Driving Car Roundup
AI and the future of design: What skills do we need to compete against the machines?
Four factors to consider when assessing the impact of AI on design professions.
Ecosystem data architecture
The O’Reilly Podcast: Bob Montemurro on planning data systems to match needs.
Four short links: 13 December 2016
Battery Basics, Chip Futures, Hedge Fund Hack, and Diverse Paths to Dev
The ethics of face recognition
We need AI researchers who are actively trying to defeat AI systems and exposing their inadequacies.
Threat intelligence and ransomware
Understand the latest ransomware delivery methods, use the latest network indicators, and detect the latest behavioral indicators.
Microservices at Netflix: Teams and services are tightly aligned and loosely coupled
An interview with Dianne Marsh, Director of Engineering, Cloud Tools, at Netflix.
If prejudice lurks among us, can our analytics do any better?
Technical and policy considerations in combatting algorithmic bias.
Four short links: 12 December 2016
Retraction Postmortem, Remembering Math Definitions, Crypto RPG, and Leadership Hacks
Four short links: 9 December 2016
Automating the Middle Class, Voiced Penetration, Drone Fish, and On Assumptions
Ryan Cousins on field programmable gate arrays
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Making hardware programmable.
Dan Mall on designing with friends
The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Pricing design, charting your learning path, and working with friends.
Four short links: 8 December 2016
Popular Fields, Fake News, Modem History, and Security for Civil Society Groups
Reinforcement learning explained
Learning to act based on long-term payoffs.
Scaling securely at the frontend
Eliminate the middleware tier and directly communicate with back-end APIs for better security, lower cost, and greater speed.
How can a big enterprise benefit from microservices?
Making a lasting impact with microservices takes more than a change in technology.
Ame Elliot on designing for usable security and privacy
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Designing for security and privacy, noteworthy tools, and the real-world consequences of design.
Four short links: 7 December 2016
Whiplash Book, Haptic Chair, Go Mix, and Out of Copyright Works
AI and the future of design: Will machines take your job?
AI has raised the stakes higher than ever before.
How I detect fake news
How I traced the falsity of one internet meme, and what that teaches us about how an algorithm might do it.
Python Web Frameworks
This report surveys 30 Python web frameworks that have more than 1,000 monthly downloads and provides a deeper look into six of the most widely used.
Four short links: 6 December 2016
Cute Lambda, Manufacturing Startups, Walled Wonderland, and Future Shopping
Pair design
In this report, two seasoned advocates explain how pair design—the practice of having two designers work together on each aspect of a design project—works and what you need to implement it at your company.
Not another MNIST tutorial with TensorFlow
An informative, visual, and interactive MNIST tutorial.
10 principles of business transformation
To become a high-performance organization, you must develop the capability to continually adapt, adjust, and innovate.
The Huffington Post has a fake news problem
It isn’t just Facebook that has a fake news problem, and it isn’t just Donald Trump and kids in Macedonia who are using social media to send the news spinning wildly away from the truth.
5 simple tips for building your first Docker image with Java
Go beyond basic concepts and frameworks to get started with Docker the right way.
Strengthening defenses against human-centric vulnerabilities
Five questions for Andrea Limbago: Insights on how social science can improve an organization’s security strategy.
Four short links: 5 December 2016
Self-Driving Open Source, Self-Programming Software, Genetic Engineering, and The Off-Switch Game
On becoming a web artisan
5 questions for Matt Stauffer: What developer happiness means for Laravel users, new features for realtime apps, commonalities with VueJS, and trying out new communities.
Reactive programming vs. Reactive systems
Landing on a set of simple reactive design principles in a sea of constant confusion and overloaded expectations.
Four short links: 2 December 2016
Engineering Teams, State Machines, Social Media, and Security Feudalism
“Wall Street made me do it”
We have to change the incentives that encourage companies to choose boosting their stock price over investing in people and the real economy.