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What's the mobile app url in the Amazon Product Advertising API associate?
What's the mobile app url in the Amazon Product Advertising API associate application?

I tried to use Amazon Product Advertising API. To use it, I need to apply to Product Advertising API Associate. And when I applied to the Associate, they asked me to give a website and a mobile app url. For the website, I used my blog on blogger.com. I am wondering what's a mobile app url? How to get one? Thank you.

Link is here:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/becomingAssociate.html
Cisco is gonna love that!
I've had to recurse on a tree many, many times, though. Think of filesystems, DOM nodes, parse trees, control-flow graphs, nested annotations, tiered lookups, query builders, JSON structures, etc.

That's what this question is actually testing: can you decompose a problem statement, expressed in plain English, into subproblems and then solve the subproblems?
You can't homestead an atmosphere.
> Also, food keeps going up so much in price, I assume for a lot of people inflation is much higher than stated, because gas prices assume they have a car.

Core inflation numbers do not include food or energy costs.
Related: Please Facebook, let me peek over your walled garden. Taking a privacy-friendly stance, with the current Facebook, hurts my social life.

I do not trust your company, and I think you are bound to act unethically in the future. But I do not ask you to become a trustworthy ethical company. Mess with the accounts of my friends all you want. I just want to be invited to the next BBQ. People have stopped using e-mail for announcing these social events, and _all_ use Facebook. Could it be possible for me to not be on Facebook, yet still stay up-to-date on what my friends, or hell, even my parents now, are doing? A more advanced social graph API that hooks into email, RSS, Twitter, whatever... ?

I'm sure you also have my email-address from the address books of my contacts, so you could verify me.

As one of your longest non-users (I remember when TheFacebook required a Harvard-email for invite), please let me become a semi-user. It won't pay you a dime, but it will make the world a better place.
Yeah I know about the AT&T splitters mentioned in the footnotes. But the Snowden leak was a lot bigger than that. Did 0xCMP know that the NSA was recording the full contents of every cell phone call in the Bahamas and keeping them around for at least 30 days?
It is a bit harder to appreciate meatless Fridays these days, given the great variety and plenitude of the average diet in (much of) the modern world.

For many centuries, meat was more scarce and a small measure of it – perhaps in the principal meal of the day – was a prized part of the diet. Today we know a lot about amino acids, calorie content, etc.; despite the lack of such knowledge, people generally knew and experienced that meat was hearty and sustaining. So to deliberately forego meat for a day or even a whole season was a form of self-denial that would leave one feeling hungrier and less energetic, while still facing the same work and other obligations. And that's the point – to exercise self-denial and experience discomfort: reminding one of the frailty of human nature; offering opportunity to meditate by analogy (w.r.t. the hunger pangs) on man's constant need for Divine Grace (often not sensibly perceived); giving occasion to spiritually unite one's personal suffering, however slight, to Christ's sacrifice on Calvary.
Hackbright Academy joins Capella
I feel like you may perhaps be looking for this kind of news to show up in something akin to a legal or policy review/journal. Otherwise, I believe you'll find it difficult to locate a dispassionate presentation of the facts without too much editorializing.

On the other hand, even when disagreeing with others' conclusions, sometimes I like a bit of advocacy along with reporting, as it helps remind me people care.
If you're superparanoid, you should trust that because a superparanoid seemed to build it for himself and open-source it to stick it to the man in his mind. And then built a criminal empire that, if he was still financing it, depended on it for his survival. That's the kind of incentives that get results.
I've deliberately left some details of this off to protect the name of the firm and individuals involved.

There's a particular office, part of the SF city government, that's responsible for interpreting a fast-moving, complex body of code. As you can imagine, municipal building regulations can change pretty quickly (much more quickly than state and national regs) and somehow, the regulatory climate was such that the city refused to permit the design. More worryingly, the process was basically a from-scratch review where each time they asked the regulator to review the plans, they did a ground-up inspection of the entire drawing, and interpreted the regulations differently each time. Absent getting a court order, they're stuck fighting the SF office and trying to get them to issue the permit, or get some kind of variance/exemption that will allow their design.

My girlfriend often laughs because she got into architecture to design buildings, but after all this, she sometimes jokes that she's basically a low-end lawyer who also has to yell at contractors and only very occasionally, open up CAD. Sort of funny.
Because that's where a lot of jobs are. Its next to this part of the country called silicon valley. A lot of the tech industry is there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley
He's also a prolific animator. He was truly the workhorse getting Disney off the ground at one point. I often go to the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco for inspiration when I'm feeling like I need a boost, you should check it out if you're in the area.

Still looking for my Mickey Mouse. :)
In most businesses if a man wears anything except a suit and tie it is a topic of serious consideration, and possibly a firing offense.

The polo + khaki uniform of SV tech is an exception, but still pretty constrained compared to the options that exist for women.
This BBC report is a paraphrasing of the Reuters report, which it cites. Where are you seeing a difference?
I live in SF and I'm active in the real estate businesses too. While on the surface, this seems like great news it comes with hidden negative externalities. Specifically, this law benefits existing owners who will be grandfathered out of this requirement.

Any new builder will see her housing development costs go up, and given the short supply of housing, will then cause RE prices to go up on all new housing. This system therefore benefits existing landowners who were able to reap higher gains on existing buildings and helps create a moat on new housing development by making it less financially lucrative.

Also, just in case anybody is curious, most solar panels are not a good economic investment for an investor. In an optimistic case, they may pay for themselves in 7-10 years but the value of the asset itself depreciates so quickly that it isn't worth the risk financially or in on-going maintenance costs.
Yes, the hash is "facebookcorewwwi", this is the hash of the public key of one of the keypairs facebook generated. We can't pretend to be facebook without knowledge of the corresponding private key, however.

To make this more clear, most tor hidden service sites that don't have loads of computing power to bruteforce a vanity domain have uris that look like http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
Cryptocat rewritten from scratch: Invitation to take a second look
Maybe because I don't want a bloody app for every site that I browse? Apps of that sort are just dumb. And huge security risks.
Open Source remake of Red Alert / C&C / Dune with working multiplayer
It's extremely expensive. Many banks and companies in the finance industry (hedge funds) do this:

Hire at least 2 or 3 people for every job. Have them watch each other whenever touching systems that connect to production or deploying code to production. Never trust any one of them with the private keys or passwords to anything - they can only get half of a secret and their co-worker gets the other half.

To do this effectively, you have to build a zero trust environment, and rely on surveillance to ensure that nobody is a bad actor. It really makes CIA/NSA level security look somewhat weak.

It's also very expensive, as you can imagine.
To the contrary - their business model depended on it. Spending money on security and procedures would make them unprofitable. It's gambling. And losing.
More likely their distribution network has improved so much that it's no longer cheaper for them to ship stuff slowly, and they make money from non-prime next-day shipping.
You might not have that experience, but I've seen otherwise. A company I worked for hosted an on-site two hour coding exercise (they gave you a computer, some boilerplate code, and a several tasks that were complete when you passed their unit tests) that was outlined during the phone interview so candidates knew what to expect.

But while I worked the boss would regularly complain about people refusing to do the onsite exam, people cancelling last minute, people refusing the exam once they were shown what they were about to do, people excusing themselves in the middle of the exam and ditching, etc.

These are people with 5-10 years of experience on their resumes given to him by recruiters.

I personally thought the test was a little overwhelming (not hard, just too much considering the intense pressure of an interview) but I managed to get through it, and so did everyone else he had hired up to that point. He churned through a lot of people, though.
FB will know you logged in. But your ISP will not.
Why go to the other side of the world?
What about Canada, where we have hate speech laws and the CHRC?
Why is this being downvoted without any attempt at refutation? When I dug in I came to similar conclusions.
> needing to sell all of your time/energy to keep a roof over your head and food in your mouth and still being told you're not good enough is depressing as all hell.

This is how it's always been. So that doesn't hold water.

I think the problem is, and you touched on this in your original comment, is that some people don't get a chance to "sell their time/energy".

The unemployment numbers being quoted everywhere are a joke. Those numbers exclude discouraged workers who exit the economy and those people are the likeliest to off themselves.
One of the striking things in this article was when he said they might have been compromised by their "CloudCo" (Cloud Provider). If I'm going to build any systems that handle money or bitcoin in a cloud provider, I will make damn sure I don't trust the cloud provider with anything.

Everything should be fully encrypted such that even a breach of trust from the hosting provider would not compromise your data/funds. I know this is hard to do, but it's mandatory when you're handling digital currency.
> An example is people tweeting food, if you follow thirteen people who post pictures of their lunch, then you will only have a comparatively good lunch once every two weeks.

This is a great example, and it applies to everything. Looking at stoves? Your buddy just got a top-of-the-line range. Looking at lawnmowers? Another buddy of yours got a $3,000 riding mower. Looking at cars? Another friend just bought a BMW.

As a result, you get the extremely powerful feeling that you should own all of these while in reality, your friends splurged on one thing.

I set up a home gym a few weeks ago. Just like everyone else, I happily posted it on Facebook and contributed to the problem. The thing is, I don't really do anything else; I'm too goddamn busy to go out, to go on vacation, to buy a boat or fifth-wheel or anything like that. I saved up for two years to buy it, too. But that's not the message that gets posted on my Facebook wall right alongside the fantastic vacation that someone else took, the $200 that another person spent at a fancy restaurant, the new car that the next person bought...

Facebook and the media make everyone compare their daily life to everyone's highlight reel. And that's really, really dangerous.
Can anyone explain if this is just an alternate approach to options as circleCI (https://circleci.com/docs/docker/) and similar, or an improved approach?
> Frankly, I'm surprised you cared enough to discuss the matter this long on an issue so mundane.

You cared enough to discuss it this long- why does it surprise you someone else does too?
One really sad thing I've read about older people is what happens when their spouse dies. According to studies, the way men and women handle this is very, very different.

For women, when their husband dies, it's almost no big deal for most of them. They just continue on with their social group, and they can live for decades.

For men, when their wife dies, they usually die very quickly after (and not usually by outright suicide either).
If the Militia is strictly governmental - the reserves essentially - why would it warrant a constitutional amendment allowing the soldiers to keep guns at home?

How would a governmental Militia (ie British) have proven useful to the Americans and warranted this specific clarification?

I'm not an American, but it seems pretty clear that the people on the ground at the time meant "because we won our freedom from tyranny by being able to call up an army of the people, and may need to do so again, everyone shall be able to keep arms handy".
How about a bus that just circles SF at night for those who can't afford rent there?
> There is no way to stand up to the train of data collection. For one, the public being afraid of this and that will demand to be protected at all costs, no matter how small the threat.

I disagree. I think government data collection on citizens should not be allowed, period. I know many people external to tech who agree with me.

The issue occurs when government officials talk about terror attacks. If they were honest, and told anyone it never prevented a terror attack, more would be inclined to not be tracked.

Coupled with this, is the fact I don't trust the government databases not to get hacked, and neither does anyone else.
Or a better explanation is that you just don't understand how difficult it really is.
He's given up on the argument if his best response is "So What".

Perhaps it was more accurate for me to say, I'm surprised he stuck with this so long only to give up now.
You might not be far from the mark, actually. The funny thing about at least one Hillary supporter that I know is how vocal they are about all other politicians being just as bad as, if not worse than, HRC, and that ergo, HRC is no worse than anyone else, and ergo HRC is as equally viable as anyone else. It's quite a distorted Weltanshauung.
FYI - This is the work of one guy only not multiple, just thought i mention it as people refer to the dev in plural.

And my guess as to different parts of the application has been developed in different languages and to the use of two db's are for educational purposes.
"We had changed almost everything, but hadn’t scrapped our personal computers used while Bob had been part of the team. Would that have been the paranoid thing to do? Yes."

At my humble and refreshingly drama-free place of work we have standard client images. Anything weird and the techies re-image the client. Assuming 'Bob' wasn't in charge of the images, would such a procedure have sorted the rdp?
Java library to generate docker-like names
Deep Learning Lesson 4: Multilayer Networks
Then fill out the survey.
Here's a message from 2003. (scroll up)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.comp.os.linux/5c40N...

> http://www.argos.co.uk

> "Sorry, the Argos Internet site cannot currently be viewed using
Netscape 6 or other browsers with the same rendering engine.

> In the meantime, please use a different web browser or call
0870 600 2020 to order items from the Argos catalogue."

> Sorry, I think I'll shop elsewhere until you get it fixed...

Argos was sniffing the useragent. I think people tried changing the useragent, and it worked fine.

This kind of thing wasn't rare, even in 2003.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
Apple Encryption Saga and Beyond: What U.S. Courts Can Learn from Canadian Caselaw
Well, first off, there are no terminator genes in use. Second, any licensing agreement would naturally prohibit any effort to modify it to remove them. There's no getting around the fact that you'd be willfully violating your agreement by starting from the licensed seeds. And even if you could manage it somehow (which you can't), you'd run right into the same regulatory process that Monsanto has already gone through. It'd be much more than $484k for that process alone, to say nothing of development costs.

Small farmers could never fund that sort of effort, and large industrialized farms would be sophisticated enough and have access to legal counsel to know better.
I have a vague worry that Prince's estate will be instructed to destroy everything in the vault. That would be a major loss to 20th century cultural music heritage. But, it would be in keeping with Prince's MO, someone who largely did as he liked and stayed true to his artistic vision.

Anyway, hopefully instead we'll have 10 years of new Prince albums as they go through the vault bit by bit.
Magic! We could even have standardized links between the apps, and companies that specialize in finding content no matter what app it's in.

I think you're on to something...it could be huge... Heh.
> the market has spoken:

The extent that the market is a free market is much debated.
Police Officials: Google and Apple Should Censor Encryption Apps
The dumbest algorithm problem in the entire world
It sounds like you're saying you don't know how bad X is relative to other things, and nobody can make an estimate, but it's definitely not infinity, and the possibility of X favors your preferred policy over others.

That doesn't sound like it justifies any one tradeoff over another, nor tell us how we should decide to.
The distinction you're trying to make does not exist. Memory of a similar experience is a potential part of empathy. It, in no way, invalidates or precludes an empathetic response.

And empathy in one situation does not automatically mean empathy in all situations. Humans are funny like that.
We're arguing for our right to due process. Something that is thrown away when secret courts make such big decisions.
I have had good luck using random places found on Google Shopping. I always use Paypal to avoid entering credit card details and it is usually faster than Amazon. There are lots of well designed sites out their which actually show product details for more obscure things.
Indeed. I was being stupid and didn't take the time to really think it through. Thanks to you and all the others who pointed that out :).
Ask HN: How to avoid JS/CSS bloat?
In the thread today about the size of Doom compared to a modern webpage [1], it was mentioned a number of times that including jQuery, Bootstrap, etc. even for the smallest of websites one of the reasons why downloading and rendering modern webpages is so slow.

I could not find an acceptable solution. It was mentioned that pointing to a CDN increases the chances that the resource is cached, but that is not always the case.

What is the alternative? Using smaller libraries? Not using libraries? Are Zepto and Skeleton good enough for small websites? What are other libraries/frameworks of similar size that you have used and liked? Are we at a point where using vanilla JS and CSS is good enough?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548816
Show HN: Rhapsody music CLI for playback without a browser
Gold is the spectre haunting our monetary system
Voting for public offices is actually undemocratic. This was already know to the ancient greek:

"It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election." (Aristotle)

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Flagship HTC 10 to Debut on Verizon Wireless
One of these is sad and one is funny. They're both great for completely different reasons.
I disagree.

This is a backward-looking argument which ignores the unique benefits of the web which made it inevitable that it would evolve into an application platform, regardless of how tortured the results may feel.

The web is the first truly cross-platform development environment. It is not controlled by a single vendor, and anyone implementing a new computing device must support the web (just stop for a second and consider from a historical perspective what a monumental accomplishment that is). Furthermore, it allows casual access of content and applications without any installation requirement. It comes with a reasonable security model baked-in, which, while imperfect, gets far more attention than most OS vendor sandboxing schemes. Last but not least, the web's primitive is a simple page, which is far more useful than an app as a primitive—for every app someone installs they probably visit 100 web pages for information that they would never consider installing an app for.

I agree that the web is sort of abused as an application platform, the problem is there is no central planning method which will achieve its benefits in more app-oriented fashion. No company has the power to create a standard for binary app deliverables that will have anywhere near the reach of the web. And even if one could consolidate the power and mastermind such a thing, I feel like it would run squarely into Gall's Law and have twice as many warts as the web.
Deep learning based AI system answers questions about Game of Thrones
Nazi Propaganda: Out of the Cage
Reuters: "Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers by cheap switches, no firewall"

BBC: "$10 router blamed in Bangladesh bank hack"

Reuters: "Bangladesh's central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and used second-hand, $10 switches"

BBC: "The bank had no firewall and used second-hand routers that cost $10 to connect to global financial networks."

They appear to have arbitrarily changed the word "switch" to "router" and put more emphasis on the cheap networking hardware than on the lack of firewall.
Ah yes, normalized deviance.
factories could be distributed around the world. you'd have to weigh the increased costs of sourcing resources, but would benefit from lack of worker unionization or mobility.