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Ask HN: Small volume printing of promotional items? (Calendars/etc...)
I'd like to get some custom printed promo items made up (Full color 12x12 wall Calendars specifically) to help fundraise for an online community I help manage.

I've looked at CafePress, Zazzle, Lulu.com, and their prices don't really leave any room for margin without gauging my community members (i.e. ~$15 in "hard costs" before any shipping fees or profit, means people have to spend $25-$30 per calendar shipped). I've also checked out local discount photography places (Costco/Walmart), and while their printing prices are actually slightly cheaper than the aforementioned websites ($10-$13 per calendar), they really aren't designed for this purpose, and I would surprised if there wasn't a better option out there.

I've investigated large printing companies, like 4over.com, and while they have substantially cheaper prices ($3/calendar), minimum order quantities are in the XXXX's, which is well beyond my needs.

Does anyone know of a service which can provide small volume (50-100 copies) printing of Calendars at discounted priceS? I.e. something like a Print100.com (HK drop-ship printer) but that can do 12x12 calendars? (Print100 only does the small desk style).

Thanks!
Thanks! Gift certificates is a good idea as an alternative
Wow - I can see great applications for this already. Trying to figure out where to go for the weekend - just make a 2 day group and add whoever you want. Done.

I wonder how they plan to monetize?
Japanese Scientists Create Touchable Holograms
"If, for instance, you’re hiking and a bear crosses your trail, you’ve got it on video."
At least when someone finds bear droppings and an ear piece they can put 2 and 2 together.

I see it mostly as a way of protecting yourself in court.
Ask HN: Whats the best way to give away $25 amazon gift vouchers?
Hi,

I would like to give away $25 Amazon gift vouchers as a strategy to get people to use my bootstrapped startup

Whats the best way to give the vouchers away? I would like to give them to the fist 10 people who create public business plans on my site http://www.venturesocially.com but I dont want to be sued or get taken to the cleaners.

I want to limit the total spend to $500 dollars

What terms and conditions should I put in place to limit myself to getting in trouble?
How do you figure? Surely SSD drives have lower power consumption than a bunch of spinning platters, even when considering the increased number you need.
I find it quite crazy that one would ship clothing half-way around the world when the raw materials and skills /exist reasonably locally. I wonder at what point fuel/transport costs or increasing labour costs are going to eclipse the savings made through labour price differences (some of those price differences are down to immoral practices of course).

Please think of your workforce and make sure they get paid fairly and aren't deprived of safe working conditions ( http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/business_services/default.aspx ).
If you want to use it for marketing, you could get people to tweet a particular status message, where you randomly select a few entries to win the prize.
Dwolla https://www.dwolla.com/default.aspx

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$.25 per transaction
There's also recently-launched Garmz, which lets users vote on designs before commissioning production. http://garmz.com/ (disclosure: I personally know one of the founders)
For myself, I tend to use OneNote. Not because I'm an MS fanboy, but because it allows me to keybind WinKey+S to capture one section of the screen and sends it to the clipboard. Most of the time I'm attending webinars with lengthy powerpoints, so doing that lets me pull the salient information out and type out relevant notes next to my partial screenshots. Then it's just subdividing into tabs and subtabs.
Researchers believe that the wasp chews off the antenna to replenish fluids or possibly to regulate the amount of venom because too much could kill and too little would let the victim recover before the larva has grown.

I don't understand either of those explanations. Do roach antenna have fluids in them? How does chopping off antenna regulate venom which is already in the roach's brain? Does anyone get this part?
Well sure but no sex still isn't a guarantee of no STDs. A fact that is in part responsible for moving AIDS from "god's punishment for being gay" to "serious fucking problem."
This form factor already kinda exists. It's almost like a bluetooth headset. Granted, it's still kinda obnoxious.
You don't say what Intel graphics chip you have problems with, but your problem matches the GMA 500.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_500_on_Linux

"GMA 500 support on Linux is not optimal. The driver is developed by Tungsten Graphics, not by Intel, and the graphic core is not an Intel one, but is licensed from PowerVR. This has led to an uncertain mix of open and closed source 3d accelerated drivers, instability and lack of support."

Read the rest of the section, it gives some hope that the support has improved since 2008.
I have a plan for the event, basically for the first 10 public ventures would get a voucher

my concern is more to do we opening some form of loop hole or exposing my company for more than its worth
Playable Taliban characters removed from video game after protests
It would be excellent for law enforcement, provided cops are punished for dead time, and suspects always have access to the records.

I suspect the cops will be strongly against it.
They'll almost certainly have encountered am/pm times before, but nobody teaches you the 12pm = noon convention.
Flying in from Toronto. The person I was planning to go with didn't get accepted, so any founders who want to grab a drink Friday in SF, my emails in my profile.
I'm guessing the best area to stay is San Fransisco, is that right? Or is Palo Alto better? I haven't been to the Bay Area in years, so I'm really not sure which area of either place would be best, any suggestions.

From San Fransisco, what's the best way to get to Palo Alto, is there good public transportation, or should I rent a car? If anybody else is going to be around, and is interested in exploring, drop me a line, we can probably figure something out.
3. Anyone who blogs or twitters or talks to anyone about their life, currently

"I wish I had thought to take a picture/video of that event."

"I wish I could remember that person's name that I met last week."

This is another incremental step toward a searchable, verifiable, rewindable stream of your life, and the benefits are enormous. A lot of people I know, including myself, use search all day every day. I probably use Google a hundred times a day or more, for the most trivial questions, or just to see if there's a quick known answer to some problem I'm thinking about. I am really, really looking forward to being able to do something similar with my real life.

I've organized my life around simplicity of schedule, so I think this will be even more useful for people who are constantly on the go and trying to remember what they need to do next and who they're doing it with and for. The stuff that various email apps do now with recognizing appointment language and offering to add things to your calendar, for example, seems a natural for applying to realtime life.
use python, it's simpler ;)
python -c "print 'd29ya0BzdHJlZXRlYXN5LmNvbQ=='.decode('base64')"
For a fascinating look into someone who records the entirety of their life, see Exit Through the Gift Shop. It was supposedly going to be all about enigmatic Banksy, but instead was far more interesting by exploring one of his old friends turned embarrassment, a guy who for much of his adult life recorded everything on video.

(small spoiler: editing is NP complete)
Not the op but a rack is used to carry a few items on the back of your bike, the dynamo is used to generate electricity for a light and the chain guard stops your pants from entering the chain-to-sprocket pants ruining area.
Suppose anywhere the plane was shot led to a 1/5 chance of the plane crashing, meaning that all places are equally deserving of armor. Suppose also that the wings comprised about 75% of the surface area of the plane. You'd see 3 planes returning with bullet holes in a wing for every 1 with a bullet hole somewhere else.

So do your study with the plane divided up into equal-sized sections. Or look for clustering and divide it based on that.
I like Ubuntu quite a bit, I just wish they would offer a Base install option. I like their hardware detection, Gnome modifications, and font smoothing, but I am not a fan of the Ubuntu One stuff or its kitchen sink approach to including software.

Basically, I just want Ubuntu's Base Gnome package, so that from there I can add want I want.
I like OneNote too; but I'm on Mac. And I prefer handwriting to typing. Thanks for the suggestion though!
OK this video (which is quite good) seems to answer it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-p_4mp-RtA&p=E330837E95B...

The clipped antenna leaks roach blood. Now I'm off to bed for some sweet nightmares.
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I agree with what you meant to say, but I don't approve of how you said it.
Which is why I like systems which are mostly from the vendor, with very few custom applications.

IME, application vendors only test on a few common systems, not across the board. Try running something which isn't common (say a 64bit Linux distribution three years ago), on even with newer hardware. My Linux experience has been with third party packages breaking, not anything shipped by the vendor.
I clicked expecting this to be one of those terribly misleading science headlines, but this actually sounds really cool.

I wonder how much this can be tuned to create a variety of "materials", or if it's limited to a simple novelty sensation like making your fingertips vibrate a bit when you touch it.
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The "Gargoyles" from Snow Crash don't seem that far off base.

edit: Hey, what do you know: http://igargoyle.com/
I think many cops are in favor of it. If someone you give a ticket to files a bogus complaint against you, you can turn to the video to exonerate yourself. Nevertheless, there is a substantial fraction of police who are strongly against it. Here's an interview by Radley Balko with three law enforcement officials who are opposed to video recording of cops: http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/09/police-officers-dont-c...
Microsoft hopes to bury iPhone, Android
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I'm genuinely curious if you're referring to MVC's model binders in general or just this specific article/solution? If it is indeed model binders as a whole, would you mind elaborating?
Odd, I regularly see complaints here on HN of this or that not working, and the response seems to often be that you have to pay attention to what hardware you buy and you can't expect everything to work... often with a snarky comment about OSX only being made for Apple hardware.
> Over a period of eight days, the wasp larva consumes the roach's internal organs in an order which guarantees that the roach will stay alive, at least until the larva enters the pupal stage and forms a cocoon inside the roach's body.

Instances of 'inborn intelligence' never cease to amaze me. How in the world do the larvae know in which order to eat the organs?!

If you have an instinct that is pretty low-level (say, pulling your hands away from a hot object), you could argue that your biology has been selected by evolution to respond in a particular way to that stimulus. I can also understand adults exhibiting a higher-level of intelligence - they could have learned it from their community or from direct experience. But tabula rasa minds exhibiting complex intelligence is just mind boggling.
Sounds like he is making a habit of breaking habits
> "They're void of content" - no, they are just a restatement that any technology is only as evil as its use

Which is exactly what I meant by "void of content". This sentence is self evident, almost a tautology.

About NAT themselves, I wasn't talking about using them for yourself, but using it for your customers. But that's probably what you mean by "uncontrolled use of NAT".

About the load balancer, wouldn't the problem be solved with SRV records?

Anyway, it appears from your other comments that we basically agree on everything. So let's not fight.
Django does not dominate Python jobs at all.

We are discussing web development jobs in this particular thread.

Django doesn't even dominate Python web related jobs

Yes, it does. SimplyHired: Django 1168, Pylons 143, TurboGears 18, Zope 96, web.py 5.

"Python JavaScript"...Granted for many of them Python is not the main skill asked for

Exactly the problem with that approach. It's relatively common to list a bunch of languages including Javascript, Ruby and Python in desired experience for any non-MS web development job, but pretty uncommon to list specific frameworks unless that's what the job is for.
Or the commenter was simply a troll. You get them on almost every news site now. Commenting on every article with something that will most likely cause others to argue / start a flamewar. I'm not sure if that needed a response at all. People not used to internet commenters sometimes give in too easily and start feeding the trolls... it only wastes your time and gives someone more chance to have "fun".
I got in.

I figured if I got in everyone got in, but seeing this post, I guess not.

Now, I have to schedule a flight (from Oklahoma), find a place to stay and schedule PTO at work.

Also, I guess I can't do this and Rails Rumble... if anyone wants a spot in Rails Rumble who was unable to get in, they can have mine if I can give it out. Or, is it possible to do this and Rails Rumble? Perhaps that is pushing it.

P.S. Wow, hipmunk.com is awesome!
Try the gnome-stracciatella-session package, or choose the "Install a command-line system" option in the alternate installer and add what you like later.
Good advice. I use SkipJack and they rarely hassle me, even when I authorize very large sums or rebill. They've never held my funds. I also allow customers to use PayPal if they want and many of them choose to pay with PayPal.
Depends if you target the browsers HTML parser or XHTML parser.

Include it if you target the XHTML parser. (Note that if you target the XHTML parser, IE will not show the document at all.)
Leave it out if you target the HTML parser. (But if you target the HTML parser, you might as well use HTML.)

Theoretically you could target both HTML and XHTML parsers with the same document, e.g. by using content negotiation. Since this is a lot of hassle and has no real benefit, not a lot of people does this. But in this theroretical case the correct is to leave the prolog out, since it is optional in XML and illegal in HTML.
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"When turned on, the camera continuously records video in the mp4 format, and can store up to five hours of footage before it loops back and begins overwriting the oldest video. "

The phone software needs to be able to instantly upload the video to a safe location. If someone wants to give you shit, but knows whatever has been recorded is well out of their reach, they may be considerate in their actions. No more police or soldiers confiscating recording equipment and destroying the data.

Luckily, such software exists, so this could be quite a good thing for protest and civil disobedience activities.
I don't like how they call it "the sensation of touch," when it's really just the illusion of touch.
Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'
"With modern Perl, code is usually clean and free of crazy syntax. With a OO architecture where the base classes do most of the work (such as auto authentication, auto encoding/decoding, auto DB joins, etc.) and you do business/game logic in the upper modules."

Ah, OK. That just sounds like Ruby, though, nothing special to Rails about that.
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I can imagine reporters using ear cameras. As far as I remember, there was even a scene on Star Trek: Generations movie, when journalists used something similar in principle: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/factfiles/federati... and http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/factfiles/federati...
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Metadata is most certainly the case here. The breakdown of metadata for the original image (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs21/f/2007/275/f/4/f4e91d2565442...):

EXIF (APP1) -> 5328 bytes
Photoshop IRB (APP13) -> 5896 bytes
Adobe XMP (APP1) -> 26284 bytes
Adobe (APP14) -> 12 bytes
Total -> 37520 bytes (36.6 kB)

That's 36 kB of metadata, leaving only 8 kB for compressed image data. This explains the banding seen in the English Hard post. The BMW image on the other hand (http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/313/1/c/Jesus_Mobile_...):

Photoshop Ducky (APP12) -> 15 bytes
Adobe (APP14) -> 12 bytes
Total -> 27 bytes

The existence of the "Ducky" section means that the image was "saved for web" in Photoshop.

EDIT: Added numbers for the BMW image.
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I think he means "It also hurts my eyes [...]"
Or simply using the great ffmpeg2theora: http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
It seems like since 8.04 they've changed the package naming conventions for LaTeX twice. That's been the biggest pain about upgrading for me, everything else has been a breeze.
There is a public train service (Caltrain) that runs from San Francisco downtown (4th and King) to the Stanford campus (Palo Alto station). Renting a car is advisable if you're going to spend any significant time in the Bay Area but if you mostly plan to go to SS and then hop around SF, public transportation should be fine.

If you're entirely here for SS, staying in Palo Alto is probably the wiser choice but there are more options in SF.
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Thanks for the answer.

Despite what the person downvoting my comment may think, it was a sincere question, not an attempt to troll.

I have recently ordered a new macbook pro, and had to make a choice between matte and glossy, so I had a genuine interest in the answer.
Why? The "average computer user" is precisely the kind of person who is likely to have commodity hardware that is supported by Ubuntu. Would you not recommend it because you can't guarantee that Ubuntu will work with all her hardware? If that's the problem, then what would you recommend? Can you guarantee that some other OS supports every piece of hardware she owns? Or are you holding Ubuntu to a higher standard?

If the answer is simply that you believe another OS will support more (though maybe not all) of her hardware, why not at least recommend that she get a Live CD, try it and see? Then she can weigh for herself the benefits of a (mostly) Free software OS against the extra cost of getting her hardware to work, instead of just accepting your guess that it's not worth it.
Android appearently is Looxcie's platform of choice: http://looxcie.com/looxcie-app.html (no iPhone support yet). Now they just need to link it up with ustream or other live streaming services!

Looxcie will be interesting to use at demonstrations or other events where you may want to immediately publish a video after something happens (before eg. that video is taken from you).
I'm not sure where you got the tax rates from, but you almost certainly computed New Jersey taxes wrong. I'm seeing a rate of around 4%, when in truth most people who make anything over $35k pay around 7-11%
I think Evernote is pretty decent for this. I just use the web version, but because of the work I do, I have to read a ton of documents online and usually want to refer to them later. Evernote helps because I can use the web clipper to save whatever I am looking at and then tag it and even write some notes on it. Then later I can fire up the desktop application and go through my notes.

I believe the mobile versions allow for hand writing but I've never used them.
I think it makes sense.

I'd like to deploy a server and have as-good-as-Gmail webmail and as-good-as-Google Docs shared collaboration. Even if it's a VM running on someone else's cloud, it's my server image, with my data and I may want to take it anywhere I see fit.
I don't think it takes that much effort to have trouble with suspend/hibernate. I've found it to be the rule rather than the exception.
This drove me to just now sign up at:

http://www.votizen.com

Their tagline is 'making your interests special interests.' Their investors include Founders Fund, Conway, Dixon, McClure, Rabois, etc. And they are pretty clear that what they're pursuing is an 'unmatched opportunity to change representative democracy' (i.e. aiming high).
I'm no English major by any stretch, they never teached us grammar at school ;0)

My take: Deprecated is also used in computing to refer to the current status of a particular service or part (e.g. of a program or OS). "Parallel port printing is deprecated" means "Parallel port printing is 'no longer going to be supported going forward and likely to be removed completely'". Strictly yes it was deprecated as a completed action in the past but the status is that it is deprecated now.
I think I dated one of those in high school.
The title is melded. Your role is whatever your best fit is. We have "server engineers" that do frontend dev almost exclusively, others that do backend dev almost exclusively, and others that do a bit of both.

We've hired people without degrees, and we've hired people without 5+ years experience. If you're good, we'll bend the rules.
What kind of notebook computer have you been using?
Downvotes? It is a true statement that I use both, and I find mutt to be better. If you think some feature of gmail is better then reply.
ps myprocess | kill

Notice the lack of reg exs - no grep or cut. Its also far shorter than the equivalent python session. You'd know that if you spent about 10 seconds on wikipedia, but im happy to reproduce. There are object pipeline shells on unix but many of the projects are dead.
I am 33 and I got accepted. I am not sure if YC considered age for acceptance. Well, in that case, I would be considered as "old" too.
Might want to check out http://www.t-shirtforums.com/
Went here when looking for the best quality blank t-shirts and found a wealth of information.
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This is denial. Next step is anger, then bargaining, depression and, finally, acceptance.

It seems the mobile division is a couple years behind the server software division.