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Ask HN: Any ideas on how to match video games to their Amazon ASIN?
A side project of mine involves matching video games to ASINs on Amazon (www.gamerackr.com for those interested, though the accounts aren't wiped fairly often since the site isn't 'released').

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how I could match video games to their respective ASIN on Amazon. I can obviously search and just use the search results, but I may mismatch a PS3 game to the XBOX 360 ASIN and I have only had mediocre success with this so far.

The info I have available to me locally is the game title and platform, and I can get mostly any data available in the Amazon API (though minimizing API calls is preferred since amazon has limits).

I would love to hear how others are doing matching like this for sites like goodreads.com or any other site - especially any with user generated content matching to Amazon products.
Awful code written in perl is not a language problem. But by the same token, a good testing attitude from some people who write in perl is not a language feature either.
CloudFlare helps save Wikileaks' bacon
You need to look carefully at the definition of manufacturing before you get too excited.

For example, did you know the staff at MacDonald's "manufactures" burgers?

As a reality check, how many people do you know who work in manufacturing?

BTW the only reason manufacturing is coming back is because the jobs are completely disappearing from it due to robotics and automation. From wikipedia "Employment in manufacturing ... its lowest since July 1950".
Don't forget, it's already packaged up. It's in the app store already.

The author can spend the next ten minutes logging into his apple account and adding a price to it. That's all the effort needed to turn this into a product (besides rewriting the App Store description so that people other than himself can parse what the application actually does).
That's "Hövding", for those interested. http://www.hovding.se/
So Many Ryans, So Little Time
Ryanair isn't subsidized. It's a bad airline that doesn't need to fail because it makes money. It's one of the airlines in Europe with the worst customer service track record. The same is true for lots of other compenies with terrible customer service.

On the other hand, there are many state-owned or subsidized airlines that have very good customer service.

So whether or not United needs to fail, I think the problem runs far deeper than subsidies.
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This course is meant to be an introduction to User Experience Design documenting techniques for new and aspiring designers.
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TizMee – Tizen compatibility layer for MeeGo
It's just not as rich
According to Matt Gemmell's twitter (http://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/235302914258792448) this morning the same seller had taken his open source split view library, stripped the author name from the header and removed the licence file.

It may not be the case for this library (given that he didn't need to under this licence) but it does suggest its possible.
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The internet's form is formless though, too. The successful part so far of this is a the rallying of the troops, at least a large core group of tech community folk.
I just looked at the license he referenced in the blog post:
https://raw.github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS/mas...
and it is the GPL, not BSD. So all the discussion about BSD is moot (unless it was really licensed under a BSD style license previously, and was just changed).
I want my laser robot eyes. I might also need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle, for later.
I don't think this blog post's headline is quite right.

"Losing a child" is putting a child on BOS-EWR instead of BOS-CLE and not noticing the problem until the child's family in Cleveland calls the parents and the parents call Newark, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009....

It sounds like what happened here was "causing a child to miss a connection" (and also separately "delaying the delivery of a child's luggage"). This is of course a very bad thing.

Missing the handoff of an UM from the aircraft to their connecting gate is the same kind of service delivery failure that routinely happens to pax with disabilities who, when the third-party wheelchair vendor fails to show up, occasionally may be stuck at a gate waiting for someone for an hour. It's a really bad way for a third-party vendor to fail.

The unaccompanied minor fee is supposed to cover a really, really good white-glove service, so it's really sad to see this break down. The service is supposed to include a gate pass so you can accompany your minor to the gate; a complimentary onboard meal (food-for-purchase these days); careful handoff of the pax by flight crew to the ground staff who are supposed to be waiting to escort them to their connecting gate; and in the rare event of an overnight delay, guaranteed overnight accommodations with airline staff staying with the minor at the hotel. (This last perk is so expensive to the airlines that in the event of irregular operations that require a rebooking, UMs typically get top priority for rebooking, ahead of all other displaced pax.)

Total bummer to see service delivery fail here.
If you could've invented the iPhone, you would have invented the iPhone
all the kid has to do is board, entertain him/herself, and deboard.

No, at least not in this story. She had to make a transfer in Chicago.
He changed from BSD to GPL just now:
https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS/commit/...
The trick to reddit is to stay the hell away from the default subs.

The fact that something is frontpaged greatly decreases the signal to noise ratio, the moderators are IMHO asshats.

Do some searching to find topics that interest you, and then unsubscribe from every single front page subreddit. You'll have a much better experience as a result.
I've been reading him on and off the whole time. Once upon a time he was actually worth reading but I don't even bother now because I can practically write his tech-Pravda pieces in my head.
How about having an iPad with your boss' fade on it rolling behind everyone at the same time?
I thought Jeans was some American college with a poor reputation

Coming from Jeans, where the Dean still uses a Sinclair ZX80...

But now, my next web framework (I am sure there will be one) is named Jeans.
Amazingly, this (and the root comment up top) are actually getting downvoted. I hadn't realized the sentiment among open source developers against making money from their craft was so strong.

But it shouldn't be. We, as developers, shouldn't harbor any ill will toward the OP should he decide to pull the open source version and sell it for profit. We certainly shouldn't advise him against it or recommend an alternative open source license that better guarantees that nobody can make money off this excellent piece of software.

Geeks like us tend to have a natural aversion to making money by selling our work directly, as though it's somehow dirty or wrong in some way that we can't quite articulate.

But we need to get over that.

We have a guy here (patio11) whose job this normally is, but he seems to have taken the morning off so I'll do this in his place:

On behalf of the Internet, I hereby grant you, the developer, permission to charge money for your software.

There, you're good.
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Disruptive technologies typically a) have weaknesses, and b) offer a product that is inferior in some respect.

That doesn't stop them decimating the old industries. Online education is more flexible, more accessible and far cheaper than traditional education.

Issues like "how to mark papers" are soluble. Cheating in exams can be resolved the same way other organizations solve it: by running some exams in controlled environments. Plenty of organizations do this now: the institute of actuaries, the international baccalaureate, etc.

If I could short traditional universities it would be the trade of the decade.
I personally wouldn't ever trust anything that fails to deliver in three years, however I'm excessively impatient.

As all the talkers put it, a startup is about being extremely dedicated (and resourceful and stuff, but hey...) and your partner is not.

If he was, he wouldn't have an FT job three years later.
If he was, he wouldn't have accepted the relocation.
If he was, the target market would not change because he's moving.
This is either brilliant or crazy. I can't decide which.
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Regarding the first point, can you email us at support@plivo.com, and we will see why it is not working.

Regarding free credits, at this point we made the decision to not offer any at the time of registration. I obviously cannot comment on what others are doing, however happy to connect with you to understand your use case and see how we can get you on boarded.
One thing that concerns me about this is how will research get funded. Currently undergraduate students cross-subsidize research.
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Paper lives: Little Printer and the rebirth of the hard copy
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Since your in Denver I hope you are going to the 360idev conference. It's a great place to meet other devs, develop great relationships, learn new things AND find potential work.
LILO is actually still in considerably wide use in datacenters because Grub, after all those years, still hasn't stabilized (frequent issues with software RAID, GUID misdetection, etc.)
yup, manual says "The installation must be carried out by a licensed electrical tradesperson."

http://updates.clipsal.com/ClipsalOnline/Files/Brochures/W00...

and looking at my meter box... i'm to scared to touch that thing.
You know, my mom still prints 80% of her emails. Maybe she needs this.
Parallel procedure described in this book, reattaching optic nerve to intact retina, if I remember correctly.

http://www.amazon.com/Crashing-Through-Story-Adventure-Dared...
The software being proprietary and if money is charged for it are two very different things. This case is about the former.
It did rather confuse me too.

This is what I see when I visit that page in FF14 on Kubuntu - http://imgur.com/DTf8t.

The links, eg to the updated HN, are plain text without JS enabled. Had me wondering for several minutes a) how the designer of the page could possibly be criticising someone elses design and b) how everyone else was managing to see the new HN design (yes if I'd bothered to read it I'd have seen the link text but I was scanning for a link to view the work).
I don't have much to add other than "yeah, that", and the fact that the breathless cry of "zOMG PRIVACY!" and the sanctimonious hand wringing about "Well what about people who don't want (some dangerous person) to know what they're doing" is starting to get irritatingly old.

There are a few people for various reasons who should stay the hell away from social media in all its forms. Okay, granted. For me, I don't see the point of privacy for privacy's sake. Oh no! An advertiser might know what I like! Oh no! The government might know what I like! Oh no! An ex might know what I like! And I care.... why?

Put another way, I can become some sort of privacy super-advocate which means hamstringing myself socially and professionally, making my online life more difficult in just about every fashion, (No social networking, no hosted anything.. have fun with that!), or I can pick my battles and realize that I'm not a spy and more likely than not have no reason to worry about targeted ads.

Rant off - I've needed to unpack this for a while. Quora is a great resource, and I'm sick and tired of seeing people slag on it for a feature they can turn off.

And I'd like to respectfully ask that any downvoters at least bother to explain themselves before clicking. I realize this is probably a highly controversial stance, but the least you could do is contribute to the discussion.
Well, once again thank you. It's crazy how some tiny comment on the internet can really change some random persons life. When I started to read 4HB, I was like whoa, that comment on HN was/is my hirjaku moment. It was the door to the other side. So once again thank you so much.

I looked up your email at one point to send a gratis note, but couldnt find anything. Glad you spotted out my comment. Not sure how you found it :)
Does plivo provide a similar voice client? looks like they only provide a small subset of the features twilio provides...
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Here is an update from the co-founder of Chupamobile:

https://chatsecure.org/blog#7
I think it may be a slight remix of 'Paradise' by Coldplay.
I remember to this day the lesson in primary school, when we first started solving word problems. It was sth like 3rd class. Teacher would ask simple question, like "how many apples we had to add to each chest, if there is 4 chests with 7 apples in each, and we need to have total of 32 apples". And kids had to "brainstorm" and translate that into mathemathic process and solve (not algebra, just "first we need to know how many apples we lack, so we substract, then we need to know how many apples per chest we lack, so we divide", we didn't knew algebra yet). If the question wasn't specific, the kid that pointed it out got praise for being observant, and teacher specified what he meant. Most kids liked that lesson, and there was fierce competition to be the first to guess. That was the moment I felt in love with math, before that I thought I'm more of a humanist (which meant it's OK I can't understand decimal fractions ;) ).

I think teaching kids to translate problem into math is very important, not only for math, but also if they want to be economists, computer programmers, etc. I cringe when I read that kids "know math, but don't know which equation to use to solve the problem". My wife taught math in secondary school for a while (in Poland, not USA, but we've recently had reform modeling our schools on those in "the West"). Many kids she taught had no idea how to translate word problem into math problem. They just pattern-matched keywords to equations. It's very sad, and I understand why they hate math - it must be completely frustrating to play this "guess the equation" game.

So - I think there should be more focus on teaching kids to understand the basic word problems, before they even know algebra. To be sure, that they understand when we need to substract x, and when we need to substract from x.
I agree.

Also, I wonder how many more rMBP are sold as a result of people reading this? (assuming the would-be buyer is sitting on the face between a regular non-retina vs retina macbook)

The thing reads like a praise-review hidden beneath a veneer of typography fetish.
You probably should try twilio than - their documentation is amazing provides web based interface to try any API call.
I know someone (also in his early 50s) who was driven to hospital by his doctor wife after experiencing vague chest pain and other non-specific symptoms. He didn't know he was having a heart attack. His heart stopped while in the ER waiting to be examined, and she resuscitated him herself. His survival (with no impairment) was dependent on his wife recognising the signs of the heart attack, and getting him to a hospital in time, and being a doctor. I suspect that in that sort of situation, luck plays a big part.
Maybe when talking about PHP?
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Just ordered one. Completely useless, expensive but ridiculously cool. Who's going to be the first to write a Hacker News publisher for it?
>by the end, you seemed aware of such domains

I'm not. I've never done any research on "spam domains". Do you have any examples or not?
The coins produce by Long Now would probably beat this by a long shot.
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The €210 price tag is a bit too steep for me. I would have bought one for €60.
There's also no point posting on a thread after the comments start paginating, as maybe 10% of people will go to the second page to view it, and you'll get no replies, in my experience.
I think you should trust your intuition. This looks fishy. If you can get a decent rate on the time you put in, that might be your best bet.
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And what's great is that since Apple has handed over responsibility of OSX Java over to Oracle it means everyone can start to use the 1.8 features.

Feels like everyone has been stuck on 1.5/1.6 for too long.
Whats wrong with sites with no jquery!
Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Fedora 17 Server
If you're interested in getting involved in tiny printers, but £200 is more than you can afford, then you can always make your own: http://gofreerange.com/hello-printer
Sorry, are you claiming these as factual stories, or are you just citing anecdotes?
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I know someone with food allergies who swears by this one:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Egg-Free-Milk-Free-Wheat-Free-Cook...
Ryanair isn't a bad airline. It's a fairly good airline in terms of moving passengers around. They are completely honest, even proud, to offer literally no customer service and comfort.

Look at the comments here: http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/ryan.htm

Not one is about Ryanair failing to deliver the service they've sold (as the article is very much about United failing to) - they're all about people being disappointed about a £25 flight on an airline that prides itself on not caring one bit about your comfort ... not caring about their comfort. All of the extra charges complained about are loudly and clearly announced as part of the ticket buying process. Don't bring a 20 kg bag on a flight when your ticket clearly says "max 15 kg, excess charges apply", then complain about excess charges being leveraged.

If you want service, comfort and flexibility, fly BA and pay for it (or EasyJet, they're usually very good IMO, and usually priced in the sweet spot between Ryanair and "proper" airlines). If you want to get to the beach in the cheapest possible way, everything else be damned, fly Ryanair.
You're assuming he cares at all about making money from this app and the only reason he didn't try is because he didn't know it was possible.

His app is free and source code is published on github. Maybe he wants it that way.
Agreed. This is an extremely misleading title.

1. It bears no relation to the content of the article nor its title, which is only an introductory guide to two specific distributions, Slackware and Arch Linux.

2. It is plain wrong (and outdated) when compared to other Linux distributions specifically created to be strongly breadcrumbed and newbie-friendly.
This may sound like a stupid question, but what does 'pax' mean? I presume it's something like 'traveler' or 'client' or something similar, but was really curious what it was short for / meant.

As for the rest of your post, it was really interesting: I had no idea that there was so much involved in handling a UM (an acronym I learned about 5 minutes ago :) ).
> Dots were how computers rendered everything: pixels on screen, dots of ink/toner on paper

The writer seems to ignore the world of X-Y plotters and vector graphics workstations, which have been around since the very early days of computing.
If no one cares enough to point this child at the correct gate, I'd be surprised to find someone who cares enough to file a report with the police or to hail down security. We're not talking about putting this kid in a car, we're talking about a little guidance in an airport.
interesting, do you have any revenue?
"located in places like the Louvre, the British Museum, that become available to rent when the museums are closed to physically-present tourists?"

Not going to happen. Public museums of Europe want you to go there. European cities like London, Paris, Madrid and Prague have cultural tourism as one of their main incomes. They don't want to have the experience comoditized.

Also security has enough problems with telephones that robbers use to track the guards if they have them in their line of vision. Add one of those "guard trackers" inside the museum, so they could study their movements and know exactly what they are doing, how much they are, and where they are, their age, their corpulence, the arms they carry, their phisio-phisical state(guards some times are somnolent).
Followers of top PH Twitter users, how many of them are fakes?
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everything wrong with everything is the fault of language teachers.

"If a child is taught that it is all right if you mis-spell a word occasionally, or don't always punctuate exactly correctly, then you are teaching that child that small mistakes are okay, as long as people know pretty well what is meant. I feel this is a dangerous attitude to foster in a highly technological society."

from William Tuning's novel Fuzzy Bones

He goes on with an example that could have come from what I have read about one of the difficulties that contributed to the problems at Three-Mile Island; not paying enough attention to what the instruments were saying (as an example of inadequate attention to detail).

Steve Allen's Dumbth ( http://www.amazon.com/Dumbth-Thinking-Reason-Better-Improve/... ) discusses how things have broken down in general over decades; and it long pre-dates the texting and Twitter used as excuses for sloppy grammar several of the essays' writers fall back on.
This aside has nothing to do with autism or the writer of the article. I just want to tackle the "having it all" discussion.

When people say they want to "have it all", they're not actually saying they won't be happy until they have everything. A life without tradeoffs is literally impossible. You can't, for example, become an expert on every subject or visit every location in the world or learn how to play every musical instrument ever made. It's impossible. Rather, they want a life full of the stupid bullshit tradeoffs that you have to deal with if they don't have resources, like having to decide between a 90-minute commute vs. living in a cramped space without a dishwasher.

Those horrid tradeoffs make it impossible for most people to achieve anything great. It becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. If you're losing 20 hours per week to housework, you won't have a good career. If you don't have a good career, you won't be able to afford help. You have to bust your ass during your 20s and 30s (and preferably not have any health problems or setbacks) while you can to establish momentum, and just hope that your reproductive potential hasn't declined too much by the time you're career's in order and society has thereby given you permission to have kids properly.

Tradeoffs always exist, but there are people who are richer and more established and have a higher quality of tradeoff to face. If you're debating whether to leave a high-level position for a "risky" CEO spot at a funded startup, this is a high-quality tradeoff. If "downshifting" your career means you buy a place with a view of Prospect Park instead of Central, that's a high-quality tradeoff. If having another kid means that one spouse is going to have to give up a career, that's a low-quality tradeoff. People with enough resources (not just income, but also connections; well-connected people don't fret about getting fired and don't have to work 60+ hours per week) can have two successful careers and well-adjusted children.

The "have it all" rhetoric is an attempt people make to universalize the problem, because no one can actually have everything, and divert attention away from the more specific/parochial fact that they're miserable because they don't have enough resources (since no one likes a person who whines about not being rich). And if you want to actually achieve something in this world, most people don't have enough. Most people spend their lives bogged down in shitty details implementing the crappy ideas of the people in power.