Four short links: 20 October 2017
Race Detection, Robert Scoble, Probabilistic Programming, and Security Games
- Facebook Open Sources Race Detection — RacerD has been running in production for 10 months on our Android codebase and has caught over 1,000 multi-threading issues that have been fixed by Facebook developers before the code reaches production. It has helped support the conversion of part of News Feed in Facebook’s Android app from a single-threaded to a multi-threaded model. We’re excited to say that RacerD is now open source, as a tool on top of our Infer static analysis platform, that will check for concurrency bugs in Java code that uses locks or @ThreadSafe annotations.
- Robert Scoble and Me (Quinn Norton) — I checked in with the organizers after that to make sure I would still be invited again if I broke Robert Scoble’s nose for sexually assaulting me. They said sure. See also Sara’s response.
- Edward — a Turing-complete language for probabilistic programming.
- Wargames — learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.
