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tragedy of the commons, I suppose

I agree with you, but I have to say it's probably better to have transparent corruption within the law, than opaqueness. In America, most of the corruption is open, people are just too busy with their own shit to worry about it.

> Using this freely accessible tool...

Would be cool if it was open source and didn't require a FB login.

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They did just re-organize that dropdown in AWS, it's actually much easier to search and find things. You can also pin commonly-used services to the top menu bar too.

The linked post uses CloudFront as an example, which is commonly used simply as a CDN in front of static content on S3. This allows you to take that model and add some dynamic content to it.

I just recently used this model to host a JS widget used on external websites, now I could for example add some basic logic to disallow certain domains (by checking referrer headers) from using the widget.

Related: Apex https://www.github.com/apex/apex

Seems like a bad idea, why would you ask for permission? If you're not using company resources and unless you tell the company about some IP they don't know about, they aren't going to sue you. You're just giving them the option to assert themselves.

I don't think this article should be on HN, there is nothing here.

> Poisoning the DNS subsystem of your computer is not safe. At the very least it could record which requests you made indefinitely. This does need to be fixed.

I'm assuming that if a domain used DNSSEC this would protect the user against this type of attack?

Not sure why all the downvotes, this seems to be mostly true - although this is more advice for site/domain admins rather than users themselves.

There may be some caveats, such as an otherwise secure site using https, except for using regular-http redirects (which the PosionTap device could intercept) without using strict transport security with preloading.

> Lawyers and doctors have strong "guild" protections to stop overseas labor competing.

I'd be interested in reading more about this if you have a link handy.

I think you just agreed with the parent comment.

Yes, I should clarify what I mean as an alternative to SMS. The experience on Android is quite nice as it will replace your default SMS app and will work similar to Messages on iOS where it will send using data via Signal if the other user is a Signal user or fallback to SMS if they aren't a SMS user. Unfortunately it's not as nice on iOS since Apple apparently doesn't allow Messages to be replaced as the default SMS app.

With the approach that Signal has taken, it doesn't require you to register a username. The app just registers you with the server as a Signal user using your already unique ID - your phone number. While not the most secure and privacy-protecting method, it allows anyone to just install it and start using it as a secure alternative to plaintext SMS.

Homelessness has a multitude of problems, not all are because of government regulation.

But yes, in many places (SF and SV), homelessness is at least caused in part by local zoning that mostly comes from entrenched interests (existing homeowners) and blocks most new building of housing. Local zoning in the US seems to be where democracy is at it's strongest, and capitalism at it's weakest, often to detriment of most people (renters).

A completely valid point, even if you get downvoted for perceived cynicism.

All I want to know is does the desktop version finally have tabs for separate queries?

Signal does a similar query to check whether any of your contacts are using Signal. Here is a blog post about the problem of private contact discovery: https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/

> building homes in areas where there isn't adequate low-income housing.

Silicon Valley could also use some help here (tongue-in-cheek).

This is not quite accurate. Sure, directly it only affects the bond market. But the bond market is not isolated from the rest of the markets. After you push loads of money into it, it lowers the returns on relatively low-risk bonds. We now are seeing government bonds with near-zero interest rates (ZIRP). The low returns on bonds pushes capital that otherwise would have gone into those bonds into risker and risker assets, a direct consequence of QE. This has people chasing higher returns in stocks, and yes, VC as well.

I can only assume you are including stock options in these figures.

Yes, admittedly, none of these are that complex. I thought Visual Studio Code was built ontop of Atom, but I might be wrong. Both built on Electron anyway - which was originally part of Atom.

Brave, Slack, Atom, Popcorn Time, I'm sure there are many others. Electron (http://electron.atom.io/) is becoming a popular framework to use.

This would be true if your offer was negotiated with a distant bureaucratic committee (or board), but most of the time, regardless of who they represent, you're just dealing with people.

Seed rounds have certainly exploded over last few years.

Engineers like to define best practices all the time. Often times this is informally, sometimes it's through organized groups like IEEE.

The number of fully-diluted shares is not a constant over the lifetime of a company. It can be increased or decreased at the will of the board of a company. Knowing this number does not mean that more shares will not be issued.

Typically, companies will give you the number of shares outstanding, which is misleading and does not include any unexercised options. Fully-diluted shares is the best number to use when calculating outcomes, as it assumes that all existing convertible notes, preferred stock, and options will be converted into shares at some point in the future.

Also, many offer letters request you sign 1 or more documents citing that you are signing on to at-will employment, etc., etc.

Often times these offer letters also cite a stock option plan that you are not yet given - that you will receive at some point in the future (probably within a month or so) that includes the actual terms of your options.