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Whole Foods gave Amazon a high-end, nationwide, yet arguably "mainstream" grocery store to enter into the US grocery market. It's an aspirational brand, yet not so specialty to be ostentatious. It's a nationwide chain, unlike other top-rated grocery stores -- Wegmans and Publix come to mind. And it's a store that, through savvy and market timing, has located its sites in areas that are experiencing growth in upper-middle-class households: Amazon's preferred demographic.

They can likely cut Whole Foods' margins on many items and, through the magic of the warehouse club nature of Prime, offer further discounts to Prime members, incentivizing the choice of Amazon over their competitors. Not all people will we swayed, but some will.

This will shake up the grocery market in many metros, where margins are tight and incumbents are often saddled with tight margins, concerns about real estate, and preexisting debt. Some will spend more to retain customers with extra features like free at-store pickup or cheap delivery, but they won't be able to outmatch Amazon's warchest. The most vulnerable among their competition will fold, allowing customer bases to re-align.
I believe a leak in a fuel line (even a dissection) would need oxygen to cause an explosion rather than failure, and would not be enough force to cause a structural failure. The fuel isn't under extreme pressure, else those pumps wouldn't be needed, and Pogo effects wouldn't have been a problem.
I believe that sites that are served securely are ranked higher in Google search results, so you're actually ranked lower now than if you'd already gone through the process of securing your site.

Also, millions of sites have already secured themselves and survived just fine. I just don't know what you're worried about. Can you point to some links of this having been a problem for other websites?
Funny how you mentioned nothing of the computing resources required to run any of these. Sometimes it's alright to spend more time creating a product when the end result uses less CPU and less memory. It's not all or nothing.
Most people need something to do. Idleness just degrades existence and accelerates dis-ease. A simple mind is a key skill to survive our current situation filled with so much conflict.
I agree. Nobody is attacked using MITM, which is the only thing HTTPS prevents. Most credential leaks are due to insufficient security at the server, not the connection.
The real reason for Google pushing this is is due to ISPs having genius idea of start replacing ads on sites with their own.

Google is not doing this without interest, but I guess it overall is beneficial for us as well...
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I bought an LCD monitor in 2003. It was a novelty and a luxury to me at the time...but I bought it to solve the problem of not having space for a 20" CRT on my desk at school. I don't see how something being novel and luxurious necessarily means that it's also a toy.
I had this problem with a firewall (sonicwall) and I ended up SSHing into the firewall and then allowing regular http traffic (because literally none of the browsers on my computer: ie11, firefox, or chrome would load it.)
I'm not a lyft/uber driver but I am almost positive they cannot see destination or payout for a job before accepting it.
I don't know. But I feel like the assumption here is that these companies are harmful merely because of their size and influence, which I understand, but don't believe is necessarily true. Or at least not true enough to write laws about.
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this was my impression as well. "look at all these bad things we do, that the chinese also do-- oh yeah, but they also do OTHER stuff that's horrible too"

the line between a surveillance state and an oppressive political state doesn't exist, as surveillance is oppressive-- but it's not the only form of oppression. the article seems to forget that oppression has many effectors. it is too convenient of a slip.

the political oppression of the uighurs is, as the article notes, uniquely chinese-- but these things could have easily happened without any real surveillance whatsoever.

harassing minorities for arbitrary reasons doesn't need the evidence that surveillance can provide-- malice is not based on evidence to begin with.

as far as the chinese idea of han ethnic supremacy: it isn't new. in fact, it's old. the leaders' chinese vision of their country is that of a han chinese monoculture with a very particular apoliticism (they wrap passivity in many different terms). i was about to say that they aren't genocidal yet, but i dunno if that's really true; they have done quite a number on tibet, but my knowledge of the situation is very shallow.
I think theres a typo. "A startup’s early and heavily engaged users are it’s only real bse of strength and chance for growth."

Should it be 'base'?
> install my CA cert as a trusted cert (which is not possible on iOS)

FWIW, unless we're talking about different things, you can install and trust custom CA certs on iOS. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1948/_index...
That would be employment then - uber and lyft claim that they are self employed contractors not employees - which is what all the legal arguments are about.
Don't depress me please :(
It was released in late April 1997. MacAmp actually came out a little earlier on April 13, 1997
You may want to update the website linked via your HN profile as well. To start with, every page includes unicode replacement characters mixed into the text.
speak for yourself. some of us refuse to answer when we are called to serve something we don't believe in-- even if answering the call causes us to miss out on prosperity.
The sing-songy nature of "all y'all" provides such a nice wind-up for dropping the hammer on a bunch of kids not listening to their mother. The foundational difference between "y'all get out in the yard for family photos" vs "all y'all better get your asses out in the yard for family photos" is unmistakeable if you grew up in Texas.

I use y'all in slack/email within the company I work at and correspondence with just about anyone (I live in the Northeast, but still use it), but I save "all y'all" for my closest friends, even though they might not have grown up hearing it.
Because so many people do use them, I think they sometimes look like they work because of a self fulfilling prophecy.
Auto "accidents” also increase:

Three days after a publicized suicide, automobile fatalities increase by 31%. The more the suicide is publicized, the more the automobile fatalies increase.

From abstract of https://www.jstor.org/stable/2778220
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Bay Area is one of the most expensive locations in the world. Been living in London and 12k USD (8.5k GBP) is roughly doable even here. Obviously not luxurious living, but doable.
This example is super flimsy.

I could be a server who works shifts at two restaurants. They both call me the same morning with available shifts that day. I pick the one that usually gives better tips. I’m still an employee of both.

Edit: Guess the Uber shills don’t like it and downvoting is easier than admitting you’re wrong.
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Taiwan is a unique case.

Technically, the Chinese Civil War never ended. There was no signing of a peace treaty, and all the way through the 90s you had military standoff’s between Taiwan and the Mainland, i.e. the two militaries shot at each other. The relationship between the mainland and Taiwan is legally analogous to the one between North and South Korea.

The main reason mainland China can’t recognize Taiwan is because of the huge geopolitical and legal consequences. A pillar of US-China relations is the One China Policy. Recognizing Taiwan would throw that into flux.

If China recognized Taiwan as Taiwan, or as the Republic of China, there are tons of uncomfortable questions. Would Taiwan be admitted into the UN? Could Taiwan compete in sporting events under a Republic of China flag, or would you continue calling it Chinese Taipei.

There’s also Taiwanese domestic politics. Depending on the year, some Taiwanese parties still advocate for reconciliation, and perhaps eventual reunification with the mainland.

Add to the fact that China is currently led by a leader not afraid to pull the nationalism lever, and you have a host of reasons why recognition of Taiwan is a nonstarter.
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Gold price depends very little on its real-world use. Only 10% of the yearly production is used for industrial purposes. The remaining 90% is stored in vaults or used for jewelry (which arguably is popular only because it is expensive; many other metals offer similar or better properties but aren't favored because they are "cheap".)
This is a really stupid move. There are plenty of instances where websites do not need to use HTTPS, like simple static websites for small businesses that do not collect personal user information. This is going to cause a lot of confusion and outrage when it is implemented.
Oh yeah. I'm not super informed about the specifics, but I have no doubt that there is some level of exploitation going on which can and should be addressed (as opposed to just sitting in a laissez-faire grey area indefinitely).

It just seems like this is a case where free-market solutions really could be a powerful optimization for just about everyone involved (already the companies are struggling with drivers exploiting the system themselves). There is always regulation necessary, I just hope that this particular business remains pretty fluid compared to most industries.

Part of this stems from my suspicion that the steady-state of driving services will either require a bulk of the labor to be done by people for which driving is not their primary income anyway, or there to be a very large overhead built into the prices.
> Additionally, until recently, Uber punished drivers who declined too many rides, either by deprioritizing them, or dropping them altogether.

How is that an argument against drivers being contractors? My parents tried to get some contractors to work on the roof of their house. The contractors wouldn't do it. I suspect they may get deprioritized, or dropped altogether, for future roofing work.
My friend, NOAA and IPCC have been proven to purposefully manipulate the data to achieve their political agenda. These orgs build all their charts with Models on theorized data even for dates that have already passed. Their models do not factor in heat from the sun, geo thermal cycles, nor orbiting cycles around the sun (which changes from circle to ellipses). Please look into how these orgs are ran & the whistle blowers that have come out. Also see the emails that wiki-leaks has released. Climate change is a trillion dollar industry built entirely on deception and FUD.

Edit: 18 year cooling proven with satellite data https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2014/02/24/the-per...
But you're also not able to just jump to the other place if it suddenly gets busier and more profitable.
I've worked with some people (present company excluded, of course ;) ) on the operations and development side that seem like they didn't pass much more of an interview to get their position... ;)
Ever since I saw that video I've been wondering how effective it would be to use essentially an upgraded fire suppression system to take on the drones.

Essentially instead of spraying water out of the sprinklers, spray paint or other liquids that would block the vision of the drones. I think that would be a lot cheaper and harder to build defences for than an EMP.

(Just realised that you could also spray a opaque gas which would also block vision and might make less of a mess to clean up).
If we believe history then I could agree yet my perspective is also ancient but it doesnt show man as an evolving creature who begins on Earth as a dumb hunter and gatherer moving along into the future developing an advanced brain. So our world force feeds us information based on fallacy of our ancestors to continue making the powerful and rich full in their poppycock. Make sense? Like another fellow said, we want to rule over people. So where we are today as we can analyze world situations doesnt seem we are very advanced.
I don't know, I think most performance gained from pulling data out and processing it is generally an illusion. Windowing functions can have terrible performance, but that's pretty easy to determine and mitigate (indexing, multiple queries in a procedure). Pulling data down and 'doing something' with it starts getting into the world of round trips, serialization, concurrency models...

Plus there is the whole, "My report wants to use the same logic as this web form", oh it's in Java? Guess we'll just pull the data out, process it, populate a temp table, report it, clear those values....

If you have business data in SQL, just write the logic in SQL.
I can confirm that this is a giant pain in the ass. I use a non-standard address scheme (instead of the plus character as a tagged-address delimiter, I use the qmail approach, a dash character), so I can't easily move my domain to GMail. I occasionally end up in spam folders for reasons I can't discern, despite years of puzzling and discussion with a number of experts.

The especially frustrating thing is that there's no way to find out why you've been binned. Even my friends who work at Google can't find out for me, much less get me whitelisted.
This sux. Gig economy workers are on their own now. I expect a decline in wages. I thought technology was supposed to help us all.
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I have been working on a new app/site for a while now and would love some feedback. https://www.cpaytoday.com/
It is a multi currency wallet (currently read only supporting Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin), an exchange (not live yet), a payment system (not live yet), and a trial exchange (live).

I am just a few steps from launching my live exchange and payment platform (just need to finish up deposits).

What do you guys think?
One of the arguments is that companies that are too large stifle innovation. The author claims that our current crop of companies came about because of Microsoft anti-trust legislation. Do you not think this is true?
I was raised in the East Bay and we would head "up to Yosemite" or "up to Tahoe" because they are in the mountains, even though they are mostly eastward. Similarly, we'd probably say "up to Mount Tam" or "up to Mount Diablo" from anywhere in the Bay Area. Those are not big mountains, but they stick out of the local topography.

A weird one is we might say "up to Muir Woods" even though the approach by car feels like you're descending into grotto. But I think that is because we also think about it being north of us, related to San Rafael. In general, we'd use up/down for north/south when elevation wasn't the most significant mood.

We might head "down to Santa Cruz" if we were in Oakland since it feels like a trip south. If we were in San Jose or Palo Alto, we might say "over to Santa Cruz" because it feels primarily like traversing some mountains. But I think we would say "down to Santa Cruz" if we were in San Francisco and planning to take Highway 1 along the coast.
That totally depends on the people who manage those restaurants. And I would argue it’s a detail that has no real relevance.
It's neither accurate nor constructive to make it seem like there's an evil villain in these companies who's ACTIVELY designing/rigging the system to screw over the poor.

The reality is that these companies are just being driven by profits. And, one way to maximize profits is to minimize costs by offering fewer benefits to workers.

This outcome has a lot more to do with capitalism as a whole than the gig economy.

If you are a proponent for worker's rights and mandated benefits then by all means argue for that. But, please don't make it seem like there's some evil person on the other side that you're seeking justice against. That doesn't exist.
Wonderful! Thank you for taking the time to share.
I too have the same desire - partly to work only on those things that interest me and partly to not have to deal with recruiters, office politics, mindless meetings etc etc. The amount of meaningless tasks we need to do in a job is insane
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Man in the middle attacks are more common than you'd think. Many corporate networks inspect outbound network traffic. I've heard of some coffee shop WiFi spots that also modify traffic to inject ads. Having someone tamper with your traffic, is a big deal. Especially consider many websites people visit are sensitive in nature, e.g. Google almost certainty knows more about me than any other human being -- they might even know more about me than I know about myself.
I'd like to see something comparing the number of people blackmailed or exploited by sniffed HTTP traffic versus the number of people affected by back end exploits or social engineering. Everybody screams about HTTPS because it's easy to do, but it's a tiny problem in the grand scheme of things, and it gives people a misplaced sense of security.
I actually want more screen-time. But screen-time doing my own projects and tinkering rather than making $$ for mega-corp. Though making $$ for mega-corp is its own type of fun, so I can't totally complain about my full-time job.
I think Taiwan goes beyond normal imperatives actually. In China they are viewed as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_aircraft_carrier

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Chain_Strategy

But, by such imperatives I meant states normally won't give up so much as an inch of territory if they can help it.
nobody said it would be easy, but here are six ideas for stopping the problem.

1. don't work for companies that surveil or support surveillance and don't hire, associate, converse, or lend aid to anyone who has worked for those companies

2. don't work for companies that produce weapons that will be used against civilians and don't hire, associate, converse, or lend aid to anyone who has worked for those companies

3. don't pay taxes to a government that treats you like a prisoner, and don't hire, associate, converse, or lend aid to anyone who has worked for that government in an intelligence organization, surveillance organization, or police organization

4. organize with your neighbors and coworkers to work within the political system to prevent abuses (we have already failed this option in the USA)

5. sabotage internet infrastructure of companies and governments wherever possible

6. revolution

none of these options are palatable, and none should be jumped into rashly. but do not assume that they are not necessary.
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> It solves a problem, but it's not a big problem

Exactly. In the overall threat landscape that computer users face using HTTPS for cat videos and blog posts is meaningless.

Everyone who needs HTTPS already implemented it and any individual user who actually cares about security can use a VPN.
Except most restaurants will have a set schedule of shifts and it's typically somewhat rare to get called in on your day off. It would be exceptionally rare to get called in on your day off from both.

For uber/lyft that's not rare at all, that happens multiple times a day if you want to extend the shift analogy to giving someone a ride.
Not saying he couldn't do it now, but 99% of the planet lives in undesirable situations.
They should be doing the same thing for Javascript then. Release a version of Javascript without the crappy bits and not run the old version of Javascript.
I think Taiwan goes beyond normal imperatives actually. In China they are viewed as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_aircraft_carrier

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Chain_Strategy

For a paralle, look at how vexed the US was by Cuba's changing sides in the cold war. And in that scenario the US enjoyed regional naval dominance, the inverse of today's situation in the pacific.

Beyond US rivalry, it is better to have such an island under state control for regional naval advantages as well.

And to answer your edit by such imperatives I meant states normally won't give up so much as an inch of territory if they can help it.
I don't think this needs to be seen as a monopoly move. Think of it instead like health inspections for restaurants.

In theory, restaurateurs would hate health inspections, because they're intrusive regulation with no direct benefit. But they have a lot of indirect benefit, in that the safer people feel going to restaurants, the more likely they are to go out to eat.

Similarly, the safer the web is, the better off Google is, because people do more things on the web. That does benefit them, sure, but I don't think it benefits them disproportionately, let alone harms other legitimate competitors.
I wish I could learn Computer Science like Neo in The Matrix. ;) I would love to have such a brain to accomplish a year salary in 3 mo
How do you set your own prices? A contract is about autonomy. If you're forced to follow rules, e.g. can't set prices, how is that any different than an employee?
I learned my English in Manhattan, and it was definitely "up to Boston", "down to DC", "over to Brooklyn", and "out to Jersey". And "way out to Chicago", and "way over to London".
It's not hard.
While were at it: why not define a new Javascript with just the "Good Parts" and then refuse to run old Javascript?
It's LibGen, not LibGin.
> why I might pick ReasonML over Elm for front-end development?

I think ReasonML is better compared to TypeScript and Flow, rather than Elm.

Elm is pure, but I would still want to write my JS ports in a statically typed language. I would use TypeScript, but here is the project that let you use ReasonML[1]

[1] https://github.com/jaredramirez/reason-elm
Do you mean the shortest of the year on summer solstice?

I'm confused by your statement... Isn't the shadow the shortest for any given day at (geographical noon) for that day?
True. But why should the website owner do something about it? It's a crappy network the user is using. The same crappy network could strip https and then inject ads.
You may be lacking SPF, DKIM or DMARC records. The lack of these records is a very reliable way to detect spambots that forge the From: field, so many mail sites now spam these by default.
It's simple. This is hacker news. I'd guess in general audience prefers control over decisions being made for them whether for better or worse.
I'm from rural Texas and I use them all, but out and over aren't strictly cardinal, though thinking about it now they probably mostly conform to the cardinal directions (when being used in this context). I definitely will say "out" for anywhere west, all the way to California. I'll say "over" for short distances in any direction. I doubt I'd ever say "out" for anywhere east of where I grew up.
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> A pillar of US-China relations is the One China Policy. Recognizing Taiwan would throw that into flux.

Only China believes in or even really cares about the One China Policy. The US, along with much of the rest of the world, recognizes Taiwan as a de-facto independent state. That might throw China into flux, but everyone else would just be happy that they can drop the pretense.
True, I speed all the time!
I use cloudflare for my static website so that https is seen by the browser even though I am serving http.

Advantages are that it is free and zero maintenance, however nation or network providers can intercept between cloudflare POP and my server. I'm ok with that for my situation.
> Nobody is attacked using MITM, which is the only thing HTTPS prevents

The only thing?

I can think of four others off hand. That said, the “only” thing is pretty important in itself.