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For more details on this - usually labels are created in a file format called EPL [1] (or EPL2, or ZPL). This is a format specifically for label printers, and the specification makes it easy ("easy") to command a printer to print, say, barcodes in almost any style without having to create some sort of graphic. 4x6" is pretty common.

UPS and Fedex's APIs allow you to specify a label size as input, and they return a base64-encoded EPL file as output. You can then take that file and send it to your printer.

This works fairly well with CUPS, which is how I've automated our shipping (just make sure you use `lpr -o raw` so that it treats that EPL file as raw input. Otherwise, the printer sometimes prints the label as an ASCII file.)

I'm unsure about the USPS api - but I would argue that most high-volume shippers do not use the USPS, due to lower-quality detailed tracking info.

When you print out the shipping label on paper and tape it to the box, you are using the courier's api's "GIF" or "PDF" feature, where it returns the label in one of those formats. This is great, but in my experience, it is pretty hard getting them to print properly on your label printer.

Finally - and not a lot of people know this - UPS and Fedex will give you a label printer, and labels, for free! If you have high volume (unsure of the threshold) then you should call to negotiate your rate and have them bring you hardware (and set up your computer) for shipping.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltron_Programming_Language
A FAQ would also be nice/neccesairy. If it's allready there, put it somewhere where people can find it.
I hope it's not wrong to ask but has there been any dicussion/discovery as to what the explosive used in this was?
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Thank you, then I stand corrected. My antennae will have to go back to the shop. :-)

Good luck with the rebrand and the (I suspect) avalanche of new stuff to be doing.

cheers
Dropbox syncing works well for me.
Great, we'd love to talk. Feel free to drop me an email at j at easypost dot co (I can't find your email)
That's a pretty poor definition of "personalised". When people get canned emails which guess their gender incorrectly it just seems a bit sleazy.

"Hi, you don't know me but I want your money."
While some of that is true, I am talking 2006.

At that time, Semantic was developed and funded by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Commons was just a year old and was of 1/16 of todays size. I am also not sure how many chapter organizations they had, or if the work towards any DVD encylopedias was in the works then.

I also intentionally excluded travel for the above calculations.

An other telling part can be seen in the Wikimeda fundation 2006 budget under the heading of "Internet hosting". To my understanding, that number is exclusive bandwidth costs.
I assumed since she is part octopus, she probably just got out of the ocean or something /shrug
I would say that one of Dart's goals is certainly toolability. We ship a Dart Editor, and an analyzer, that supports refactoring, code completion, jump to definition, and more.

[disclaimer: I work on the Dart team.]
Indeed, The Cave had good visuals, but extremely boring gameplay. I understand what he was going for, but it just didn't work. Way too much running back and forth to place your characters in a certain place, and all the running took way too much time.

Deathspank was mildly amusing, but got tired very fast. It was visually flimsy and felt underdeveloped overall; it wasn't a good RPG, but it wasn't a good action game either, and it was a terrible adventure game.

Admittedly neither of those games are classical point and click games. It may well be that he's just much better at designing point and clicks than at the other game genres.
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I'd suspect it's a problem for people who think that, since it uses $fancy_encryption_scheme_they_cant_pronounce_or_understand, they can just use a trivially easy password for a computer to guess. Utilizing encryption isn't helpful if your password is still just "password1". I'm not a cryptographer by any means, but my general understanding is that longer is better. Picking some random nonsense sentence like "Correct horse battery staple" and using it as your password, is better than using "p455w0rd!1".
Here is mine:
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So I should be offering no more than $50K upfront for 10% of future earnings.
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The article won't load for me. $125k? Is that the number? Am I failing at math, or does that mean someone is betting she will average at least $125k/year over the next 10 years?

Not sure how to react. Not outside the realm of possibility, but a pretty darn aggressive bet nonetheless.
Having been in the bowels of the beast I'm suspect of the quotes that the margins are thin. American and other traditional carriers (unlike Southwest) waste loads of cash maintaining a way of doing things that hails from the 1960's. I used to walk around imagining all the waste I would slash if I were CEO. It is truly appalling once you've seen it from the inside.

EDIT: Corrected spelling
Doesn't an FP language without reassignment imply the existence of a function like phi to perform nontrivial control flow?
This is a really just a disguised angel investment - it converts between a 100% ownership in her company and 10% of her salary for 10 years, at HER preference. It's actually a great deal for her - she's got very little skin in the game:

If her company fails, she'll just convert the investment so she doesn't have to actually pay out a cent and the investor gets 100% of zero (the value of her failed company).

Also, even if the company succeeds, she'll be working on her pre-revenue startup for a few years, and she won't have any meaningful income for a significant portion of those 10 years.
At what point does this come close to breaking antislavery laws? Where do you cross the line into indentured servitude? At 51% of salary, 100%, where?
I don't want the encrypted file containing ~all of my passwords in an unencrypted Dropbox folder somewhere. If I control access to my keyfile, I'm at least protected somewhat against brute force, weaknesses in the software, someone stealing my master passphrase casually, etc.
The NYT just won a Pulitzer[1]

"...for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers."[2]

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/16/apple-pulitzer-ny-tim...

[2] http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2013-Explanatory-Reporting
My argument rests on the belief that attempting to exploit a tragedy to grab attention for your unrelated interests is socially offensive. I cannot conceive of how you gleaned the interpretation you did, but that you did suggests that actual meaningful conversation here is fundamentally impossible.

This has been pure wordplay for quite a while. My mistake was engaging the hive in defense mode.
You could write generator/setter methods for aligning labels to the right, no need for inheritance here. But, smart categories and inheritance go a long way. The last time I tried IB, I really regretted it because I constantly had to click through all those element layers (object hierarchy inspector is not that good either). After about 2h I gave up and rewrote everything to code-only.
I've been told that various companies have tried to rewrite Sabre on a number of occasions and always failed.
At 3% gain per year from relatively safe investing, $125k would end up being $168k after 10 years. She'd have to earn an average after-tax salary of $168k for the next 10 years for the investment to be equivalent.

That's fairly high, especially for someone just getting their career started.

And if she's very successful as an entrepreneur, running a business doesn't mean you have to pay yourself some inane personal salary, especially not if you'd owe 10% of it to an investor, so if her company becomes wildly successful but she only collects some salary of 100-120k and equity which is perfectly livable at only 90% after taxes, she could still walk away with an enormous amount afterwards, yet the investor would have a significant loss.

I don't see how any investor would prefer this over equity, it seems like a guaranteed loss?
Yes, I forgot it was called ARGUS. Argus would be perfect, as horrifying as the privacy concerns are, I'm not sure there is any expectable of privacy in being outdoors in public. The ability to fight nearly every kind of crime would be astronomical.

From finding who dropped off a dead body and the home they went back to, to busting meth labs, illegal arms dealers, kidnapped children, missing persons. My only worry is, this will be used against people simply smoking pot or other things that aren't morally wrong but legally punishable.
Reinforced doesn't mean impregnable, for one thing. For another, on the ground people can flee. On a plane you could still have a bad hostage situation even if the cockpit is not taken over, because there's nowhere people can go while it's in the air.
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No, no one is (without some weird circumstance like their guardians are able to pay for the college, but would rather take on debt for tax/other reasons). Average debt is about an order of magnitude less, and I believe the mean is even less. Avg is pushed up by bad schools charging absurd fees.
There is a sort of "missing heat" problem, but that has (probably) already been solved: http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0328-hance-climate-missing-hea...
They shouldn't be too traumatized in the hours before the blasts ... and that's when we'd be looking for the black duffel bags.
> risk-adjusted returns of 15%

The voodoo thinking here is the assumption that you can actually calculate "risk-adjusted returns" outside of a casino.
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It's not that hard to remember a 10+ char password, just use a long phrase, a rhythmical combination or anything that makes sense.
Official response to the critique by Reinhart and Rogoff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560829
>This is a comment that says there are only a few good startups in existence. There is no possible way the author fo the comment can back that argument up.

Why does he have to back it up? Null hypothesis, "There are no good startups", right?
Unless you want to build the next Facebook and want to have all the 1000000 features from day 1 you do not need a lot of money to build your prototype. You should stick to the lean methodology and build a MVP. You do not need fancy design build it with bootstrap or just use some templates. The idea is important, the product is important, the quality and the value of the product is important for any investor.

My advice is build your MVP and release it and see the feedback. Send emails to people in SV and show them your product, show developers your product because maybe some of them are from SV and will show your product to other people there. I am really not sure what your idea is about but do your really need a lot of money to make it happen ? If you are already working on a prototype that is great, it means that you will have something to show and if you have something to show than you can validate your idea into a product based on consumer feedback and if you can reach the validation step than you will find investment.
The biggest problem for her and her company may be that this exotic arrangement may make it difficult to fund her company.
I recently built out a base LAMP stack for Vagrant, using Chef for provisioning if anybody's interested in getting up and running quickly.
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Comparing the US, a huge resource-rich country with its own currency, to a tiny resource-poor european country that does not control its own currency is complete and utter nonsense.

To pay back its debt all the US government needs is dollars, and hey, look, the US government controls the supply of dollars.

To pay back its debt, the Greek government needs euros, and, oh, the ECB controls the supply of euros. Oops.

If you say the US can't print money because it will cause inflation - well, in the current climate you'd still be wrong, but let's address one issue at a time. The bottom line is that the US and Greece are fundamentally different, and comparisons between them are simply wrong.
$168k. After taxes. If you assume 30% taxation, she'd have to have a pre-tax salary of $240,000/yr.

This is assuming the investor could have obtained 3% per year in relatively safe investments. To break even (which is actually a loss, due to inflation), it would still be somewhere in the $160-170k ballpark.
A nit-pick, but also maybe a useful FYI, "sovereign debt" is different than public/national debt.

The US doesn't issue sovereign debt AFAIK, and you cannot just print more money to repay sovereign debt, that's the whole point of it. (Sovereign debt by definition is issued in a foreign currency.)
If she didn't care about her reputation, she could screw over the investor pretty badly by deferring her income. She could even sell her company (for stock of the acquirer) and then hang onto the stock until the payback period has ended. The sale transaction could be structured to avoid a current tax hit, which would also result in the investor being cut out of the loop.

Additionally, there's the possibility of shifting income to family members (and the complicated question of what happens if she gets married and has income from the investment of community property assets).

This type of auction could also raise questions of legality/constitutionality. Although it doesn't seem that bad to give up 10% for 10 years, it would feel different if someone sold 90% for 90 years. Starts to sound like a bit like slavery, albeit voluntary at the outset.
It's trivial to remember a very long password.

It's obnoxious to have to enter it on an iPhone keyboard with one hand while trying to drive or whatever on every login to anything. Particularly bad since I'm on a platform with a secure element, protected by tamper-resistant hardware, and relatively decent OS provided APIs to handle this exact problem.

There are good rumors that iOS 7/iPhone 5++ is going to have at least a fingerprint sensor, too, which would then automatically give biometric protection to the keybag as well.
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There are fiscal transfers within the EU and there are other ways to rebalance like freedom of movement for workers. But you are right that it doesn't go far enough. Deeper integration is undoubtedly needed.
Northrop Grumman makes a product which collects the images and automatically stitches them together to allow law enforcement to record where bad people come from before a bust. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/30/us-northropgrumman...

If only this plane was in the air surveying all of Boston before the bombs went off <sarcasm?>
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No, i think that a) this was planned weeks or months ahead and b) the idea that explosive force is increased by putting your chemicals inside a high-pressure container is explosives 101, so to speak.
True. He's more than welcome to email asfasdfasdf@asfasdfasdjfasdfjs.com with whatever further information he would like to release.
In the long-term, sure, it may have some wealth transfer effects.

But in the short term it's tragic for most people. Interest rates through the roof. Inadequate incomes. Etc.

Or to borrow a meme, "periods of high inflation have been great for the middle class" said nobody ever.
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Fun fact, the British soldiers who fired on the civilians were (fairly successfully) defended by future US President John Adams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_adams#Boston_Massacre
If you run your tests in a pristine and isolated environment, then you can be more confident in the lack of side-effects.

Basically, by integrating this into your CI tool, you ensure that all your tests / deploys run through a standardized and pristine environment.
You severely misunderstood my comment.

That was a literal question, not rhetorical or sarcastic. I'm well aware of the difference between campaign funds and tax dollars.

nness didn't make it clear as to what "This" was in his "This was made by Amazon" so I was trying to get more detail to determine if "This" was just the picture or of "This" was the entire infrastructure. I was just curious if Amazon ran this farm for free.
The Mongols are exactly why I didn't mention the space between Asia and Western Europe. To tie in the Crusades comment below, I also didn't mention Northern Africa or the Middle East. Anyway, once again it seems I've read too much into a random number, similarly to when I jumped all over someone on Reddit for saying nothing happened in 1789!
> In fact, [the past] tells us that a larger deficit right now would help us greatly.

That conclusion is quite a jump from Reinhart-Rogoff is flawed.
I'm reading this as a signal that there are too many aps
Right, so a buyer who is unaware of the way that negative feedback can impact a low-volume seller is doing nothing wrong. They are using the system that they have at their disposal to leave feedback.

I think you're being a tad over-zealous with your talk of "ruining someone".
51% seems intuitively appealing, but salary isn't like voting stock--it doesn't give control. My guess is there's no clean answer to this one, but you'd have to factor in both earnings percentage and duration. It's not that big a deal if I agree to give you 99% of my earnings for the next 10 minutes.
I compared US-based carriers with non-US based carriers. Southwest, a US-based carrier, competes with other US-based carriers. You're right, Southwest is a great choice if you're flying in the US, but that's not what my post is about. You can't compare Southwest with Cathay Pacific or EVA Airlines because they operate totally different routes.

Same thing regarding EasyJet comments, which is another "niche" airline. Try flying EasyJet from LAX to NRT, for example.
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BuildZoom is looking for hackers to help us eat the remodeling industry 
We're developing the go-to marketplace for remodeling, growing fast and looking for elite programmers.

You'll be part of our early stage team and will have the opportunity to guide the platform and help shape our future. We are looking for entrepreneurs at heart - hackers who will take ownership of their code and run with it.

About our ideal match:

1. You are one of the best programmers we have ever met and excited to prove it.
2. You take your code to 100% and make it bullet proof.
3. You're versatile. Although you'll focus on one area, you can jump into others and help when needed.
4. When you build, you think about how something could happen .01 seconds faster and then do it.
5. You're a professional and will quickly earn our trust.
6. You're someone we would want to hang out with and someone other programmers want to work with/for.
7. You want to change the market and are hungry to be a part of something big.

Additional things you should know:

1. You're going to work directly with a technical founder who has built (and sold) successful businesses.
2. We're PHP based
3. We're growing fast.
4. We don't care much about what school you went to or where you worked before. We just want winners.
5. We're currently in Palo Alto but looking to move to SF.
6. We're particularly interested in a front-end programmer who can help us build an amazing UX but happy to talk with any incredibly talented hacker.

If you want to work with us:

1. E-mail us at info@buildzoom and let us know why you're the right fit.
2. Please send a personalized e-mail that addresses the things we're looking for.
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It is just not their culture.

Not to mention that they don't want to hand out material that might be used to target wholly innocent parties. While law enforcement personnel sometimes engage in willful miscarriages of justice, this is nonetheless the exception rather than the rule.
If compilers already have the dependency information and could provide it in instruction annotations, then why hasn't Intel done anything with this? Intel has its own C/C++ compiler, so it could extend the x86 instruction set with new instructions that contain the necessary annotations, and add support for these annotations in its compiler.
They also have a USB synching tool if you're not comfortable with Dropbox (I'm not).

http://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/11935/first-publ...
It's disappointing, if not shocking, that the US population is so uninformed. Just today there was a bombing in Iraq that dwarfs the one in Boston.
http://www.news.com.au/world-news/iraq-bombings-kill-46-ahea...

And last month as well: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/20/al-qaida-iraq-an...
Why would it work?

As I said elsewhere: The original deflationary spiral was defined in 1933[1]. The spiral is caused by the growth in value of currency AND a decrease in velocity of circulation. Splitting bitcoins wouldn't solve either of these problems in the same way having higher denomination currency doesn't solve inflation.
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A story of win32kcCapString, or unicode strings gone bad.
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No, but the linked article says the government could sell assets to buy back bonds instead of getting into a money printing debt monetization sprial.
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> There is no reason for all this unnecessary complication.

The reason is that:
1) Glass is not a platform suitable for complete apps, but for auxiliary interfaces for web-based services, and
2) Google doesn't want to encourage a model of people paying for services and then paying an additional charge for Glass access to the services, at least initially.
Putting my tinfoil hat on for a moment...

I wonder if there was a threat against the airline? Perhaps something enough to be credible but not so specific as to be pinpointable, and rather than cause widespread panic by saying "ground every AA flight until we sort it out" (which would freak people out beyond belief), someone figured out that pulling the plug on their mainframe for a few hours would have the same result without the panic. Just some pissed off passengers.

Or maybe I've just been watching too much Homeland. Sigh.
I have a tattoo on each of my forearms, one says "love life" and the other says "embrace death". I got them while I was in the military, but independent of being in the military. I had a friend (unrelated brother would be another term) who was shot and killed by his father in law. He knew it was coming, he may have been able to avoid dying himself, but didn't. I had spoken to him about life and death multiple times, and he always lived such that if he were to die that moment, he wouldn't have any regrets, but he clung to and enjoyed life. I'm not going to go into the full story of the details surrounding his death (I am willing to over email if anyone's really wants to know), but I got the tattoos shortly afterwards as a constant reminder. It's about being the person you want to be, doing the right thing even if it isn't the easy thing, living life so that if you died right now you could be proud of how you lived your life.

I have met very few people who live their lives the same way (many claim to, or even do when it's the easy path, but stray when it's not) and there are many people who have similar experiences but go on to just live in fear, or eventually put it to the back of their minds. Everyone, death is inevitable (even if we somehow achieve immortality, there's the heat death of the universe). No matter how long or short your life is, you decide where it goes and you are the judge of the quality of how you lived that life.