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Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service (DNS), including a powerful Health Checking Service. Today we are extending Route 53 with support for domain name registration and management and Geo DNS. We are also reducing the price for Route 53 queries! Let’s take a closer look at each one of…
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YouTube's joke of a fair-use appeal process
Remember last month, when I was working on a screen saver and I reviewed all nine Hellraiser movies and made a supercut of every on-screen appearance of the Lament Configuration? As soon as I posted it, it was immediately blocked with seven content-ID matches. So I filed a DMCA fair-use counter-claim, because this…
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Where have you gone, Peter Norton?
Recently on Facebook, my friend, nerd extraordinaire Esther Schindler, shared a photograph of herself wearing an old T-shirt and challenged her followers to identify it: Either you have no idea what that image means, or you know exactly what it is. It's the torso, rolled-up sleeves and fol
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$300k for Cracking Telegram Encryption
$300,000 for cracking #Telegram encryption
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Everything that is wrong with American capitalism, in one headline
Here it is, in the LA Times: " Comcast, Charter reach $20-billion deal, would swap customers in L.A. " Cable companies Comcast Corp. ...
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Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator
By now, the cat’s out of the bag on Ionic Creator, our upcoming drag-and-drop development tool for building beautiful hybrid apps with Ionic and AngularJS. For those that have been following our company‘s history over the last few years, you know that we have a passion for making development simpler and faster through…
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The Indie Bubble Is Popping
Writing this article really stressed me out. I reworked it over a dozen times. To calm down a little, I will intersperse this with image t...
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Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034
This should be titled Keynote talk for YAPC::NA 2014 . What's up with the title?
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Transcriptic for YC biotech startups
Reducing cost and cycle time as much as possible is one of the highest-leverage things anyone can do to help startups. A few years ago, we rolled out deals with Amazon, Heroku, Microsoft, and Rackspace to make web hosting available for free to the startups we fund. As we expand into new areas, we’ll put similar…
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Analytics at GitHub
In the interest of getting back into writing, I want to break the seal with a simple “what have I been up to and thinking about lately” style post.…
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HFT in my Backyard – IV
[Update, November 18, 2014: check episode 2 with the Latent answer to this post] There’s a thin grey line Between the black and white It’s evidently hard to find at night Depeche Mode, …
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A Tipless Restaurant is a Well-Run Restaurant?
There are many reasons to oppose tipping. Most recently, a natural experiment in two San Diego restaurants suggests that tipping actually detracts from restaurant quality.
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Earth to Mozilla: Come back home
In her blog post explaining the Brendan Eich resignation, Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, writes, “We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we …
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera
I’m excited to be teaching Stanford Law’s first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance . In preparation, I’ve been extensively poking around the platform; while I found some snazzy features, I also stumbled across a few security and privacy issues.
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Using GameStop as a bank
An anonymous user of 4chan has come up with a brilliantly harebrained scheme for their personal banking. They use video game retailer GameStop as a bank. Here’s
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Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong
Tune into any cable network stock market channel and the airwaves resonate with one consistent theme: SaaS companies are simply too expensive. In fact, we might even be in a bubble! The argument goes as follows — high revenue growth coupled with lack of profits means these businesses are fundamentally broken. Just as…