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"Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years ... and he turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state - destroying every individual liberty. Yet our aid to his regime, and the ineptness of our policies, enabled Batista to invoke the name of the United States in support of his reign of terror. Administration spokesmen publicly praised Batista - hailed him as a staunch ally and a good friend - at a time when Batista was murdering thousands, destroying the last vestiges of freedom, and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the Cuban people, and we failed to press for free elections" -John F. Kennedy, October 6, 1960
The pro and related con to the Bay Area for me are that there are a lot of different cultures and lifestyles, and they're spread out over a fairly large geographical area. I live in Santa Cruz, which is way on the southern edge, probably not officially in the Bay Area at all, and I love it. I don't like the Valley or SF much. I don't know much about the East Bay, but I know people who love Berkeley. I think really there isn't all that much in common between San Francisco, Santa Clara, Berkeley, Oakland, Fremont, Santa Cruz, and Palo Alto, so there are relatively few generalizations you can make about the entire Bay Area. And within an hour drive to the north you've also got Marin County. Sure, there is some cultural overlap, but unlike many metropolitan areas, which have a city and suburbs, the Bay Area is pretty multipolar, and so you have to find the part of it that you like (if any).

Perhaps not a very helpful answer, sorry. =] But I think it really is hard to like or dislike the Bay Area as a whole for the same reasons.
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You can agree or disagree with his ideologies - but you can't agree or disagree with putting innocents in jail, killing people, ...
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I was thinking more about the problems with MD5, but you're right, thanks for the comment.
When I was teaching my solution was that homework which was not at the front of the table, at the start of class, was not accepted. I also graded people on only a certain number of homeworks, so missing a homework or two was not a big deal.

It worked. Class started on time, with the question and answer period that I thought was the most important part of class, but which the students probably didn't realize was that important. (Well they did partway into the course. But that is another story.)
I don't know his viewpoints very well, but it's interesting that the source of his posts look like they were created in Word. Does Microsoft sell that product in Cuba? hmm..
I wish more doctors followed this...Ive spent far too many hours of my life waiting in receptions or exam rooms at hospitals. Unfortunately they are kind of squeezed in to seeing more patients per day than they would probably like, and one delay ripples through the rest of the patients.

I wish there was some sort of system to know exactly how far behind (if at all) your doctor was running that you could check online to minimize lost time.
Is there any chance that SciPy was compiled without the ATLAS/BLAS/LAPACK libraries? (You can verify this using with the "numpy.show_config()" and "scipy.show_config()" functions in an interactive python session.) In that case, all the numerical math would be done in straight Python rather than optimized C/FORTRAN.
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I don't live in the US.
@barrkel

You make some good points and there is one which I thought about but didn't touch on because I didn't think it was important.

Consider: most systems and kernel developers do not write C. That is, they do not simply target "the C programming language." Instead, they often target GCC or the Intel C compiler. Even more, they usually target an architecture. In theory one may have to deal with many of the complexities of different implementations, but in practice development is usually restricted (or sometimes duplicated). I think that you may be taking my position a bit too concretely: I don't support the statement that all opcode output is predictable, nor do I support the statement that no other language has elements of the same techniques which make C so useful for systems development.

Simply, view my post as a (possibly slightly exaggerated) relation of the systems C development process from one low-level kernel developer to another. From the birds' eye view (which is the feeling I get from the original post) C may look abstracted and neat, but my experience says that the opposite is in fact true and that things tend to get a lot more dirty in the details.
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Before is more likely to put potential subscribers off, but would keep people that have no interest in keeping the service from using resources.

After is potentially more likely to yield a higher conversion rate (if your service has enough hooks to keep the customer in) but you're opening the service up to abuse.

Perhaps another thing to test is this:

Let the user sign up with a card, and during the trial period ask the user for feedback on how the service could be improved, either through a survey or free form. This at least lets you engage in a conversation with the customer and identify whether or not they're likely to convert. Have a call to action to convert to the full service so the decision to enter details is in the user's hands. Measure the responses versus the other method, and post back here :)
YES!

At the very least, please give us an "allintext:" that actually works:

absolutely no stemming whatsoever

no "words were found in links pointing to this page" (this is the most infuriating thing ever)

and... no "you're a bot" crazyness (or captchas that normal people can solve...)
ability in sport = martial prowess / hunting skills / good health in general / good genes in general -- It has always been more or less universally respected.

Jazz players always had subculture specific social status, same with hip-hop pioneers, early rock musicians etc.
Title of your HN submission :)
>How horribly condescending and wrong. Any company that lets their customers go from huge fan to hater in a week has a major bug. The important question is why did their product turn a fan into a hater, and how can they prevent it?

Spoken like someone who has never had a real customer. There will always be people who expect instant response to support tickets. There will always be people who expect you to fix their webapp, or their apache config when you are selling them a 'no support' plan. People can be unreasonable. If you have a reasonable number of customers, some of them /will/ be unhappy, no matter how good your service actually is.

Now, for me, I avoid some of these problems by making people pre-pay. If you don't, I just don't turn up your server. If it's time for renewal, and you don't want to pre-pay for the next period, I shut you off. There's no way for you to get an unexpected bill, and if it turns out my service doesn't match your expectations, I offer you a refund if you are willing to leave. (You'd be surprised the number of people who don't take the refund and want to stay even after complaining very loudly and publicly.)

For my target market (companies with small revenues and hobbyists) this is absolutely the best way to do it.

On the other hand, there are cases where some businesses would prefer to just pay through the nose to survive the slashdotting or what have you, and that's where this pay as you go model comes in. The problem is that when you have expectations of a 'pre paid' customer but end up buying a 'pay as you go' service.
Yes. Yes I would.
Google Translate claims, "Find Motherboard Shock gate 775."

I don't know what that is supposed to be a reference to.
I too very much happy after getting these two option. By looking those swap file and backup file I started hating vim. Why on earth it is creating all the un-necessary stuffs (though they useful at some case). Now for newbie like me I love this tips :)
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Why not ask permission to transmit the last few searches and a snapshot of the results. I mean, I usually only hit "give feedback" when i'm not finding the stuff I want. You'll probably be able to discern a lot from that.
Never say never, but I won't be applying to YC this time, either. I don't think my plans for my life or my company coincide with the trajectory their successes take, and could not in good conscience take their money without being able to guarantee that I would try my level best to arrive at a positive outcome for them. For example, I couldn't justify to YC or subsequent angel investors that I optimize my work habits for QOL rather than for growth, or that I am happy with 30% ~ 70% YOY growth, or that I prefer living in small town Japan to living someplace where there are plenty of top-notch engineers to hire and financiers to woo.

Plus, there is a wide range of probable outcomes where I feel on top of the world at age thirty and YC would count me in the fail column. (Say, a few hundred thousand in revenue, organic growth, a schedule close to mine today, and minimal desire to sell.)

If my plans change, I would probably apply.
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1) History of working for startups, and in every case, the VCs seriously damaged the startup with bad advice or strings tied to the money, which has left me wary of VCs. Further, I have been to a couple events in the bay area, including a YC sponsored one where I mingled with investors and talked to them about various business ideas. I've not gotten the impression that these people have the first clue. Not talking about PG or the other YC people, but just my general impression of people who represented themselves as working for venture capital firms. (and not angels, angels are a different breed I believe and I've had less contact with them.)

2) There simply is not much need for outside capital, as we have a large angel round worth of our own capital in the bank.

3) Strong impression that there is no chance that YC would take us. My co-founder has zero interest

4) YC is predicated on a certain set of assumptions about the type of business, and the priorities of that business. We don't share some key premises there. Namely, it appears that YC believes in betting it all on a short term, big reward, while we believe that a very quickly growing, profitable business will produce a better return for us, at lower risk.

5) As I mentioned we don't really have a need for outside capital, and the contacts YC would get us would primarily serve the purpose of doing additional rounds. Thus, in my opinion the increased risk of having to adopt a specific outside investors timetable, and operational style, along with the risk of having to follow bad advice, does not seem to be worth it, for money we don't need. While YC doesn't subject us to that risk directly, joining the YC program would be getting on that track....
The real problem is that the customer is not the person getting the care, it is the person paying the bill, so that is what gets optimized for.

The healthcare world is directly analogous to the auto repair world, we just don't fit in the same place:

You, car, mechanic :: Insurance co, you, doctor.
So even using a GMail account on my iPhone will allow someone (Google) to remote wipe?
he can't be expected to keep track of something for 2 minutes without someone watching over him, but we can let the fellow operate a car, have mains power in his home, purchase cleaning chemicals, etc?

loads of graduate students in the physical sciences are regularly given access to stuff that dangerous or worse. if we've got to have somebody watching over each and every one of them, graduate education will grind to a complete halt.
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Interesting concept, but not really worth $19.95. Realistically it needs a lot more by way of services. The multiple uploads make it a better use of time than doing individual uploads, but it definitely needs more services.
Be known and easily reachable. Be capable of pithy statements that can flesh out the larger narrative with details. Get the reporters covering the space to know about you, even without a story, so they think of you when related stories come up.

There's also 'Help a Reporter Out', aka 'HARO', where you register yourself as a ready source beforehand:

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I was in Cuba on a "cultural visa" for a week about 10 years ago and a few things struck me:

- There are no rich people and there are no poor people. I didn't see a single homeless person / beggar but I also didn't see a single person that looked "middle class" in US terms.

- People seemed really happy to talk to Americans. I remember talking to a woman celebrating her 86th birthday and she told me (through a translator that she'd "see me next year in Miami".).

- Based on my understanding of the USSR, I was expecting a cult of personality around Castro, but there was no 'Placa del Castro' or anything like that. The only cult of personality was for Che Guevara, who was everywhere.

- There were two economies...one for tourists and one for Cubans. If a Cuban had a job, like in a hotel, where they could get dollars, they would be very well off. Everyone else was left with ration cards.

- We met a kid who spoke English but was afraid to talk (or to be heard talking) in English in public. He took us to his house where we talked for several hours and then there was a party (his grandmother's 86th birthday) where we (a friend and I) drank rum and partied until the wee hours. The rum was in a really old plastic jug (from the 80s?) that they would pour they monthly ration or rum into...they saved up for celebrations.

Overall I walked left thinking that Cuba would be a great place to live for most people but if you were the "Bill Gates" of Cuba it would suck. I suspect that when the embargo ends and sanctions are over (both ways) Cuba will become the "Caribbean Tiger" like Ireland or South Korea. The population is very healthy and education but the infrastructure sucks. All they need now is capital investment and they will really thrive. I suspect in the long run (as in 100 years) Communism will have served Cuba well relative to it's regional peers that didn't experience Communism...similar to China.
Not disagreeing with you, but I think it is kind of amazing that a "few hundred thousand in revenue" would be considered a failure. It is a shame that it might be in some circles.

Say, $300,000 in revenue, and a %80 operating margin, would mean you're operating profit is $240,000. IF you're growing at %50 a year, and the company sells for 50 times earnings, then you've got a business worth $12M.

That's a success in my book!
I don't recall, but in all my other merchant agreements, it's stated in writing that funds held in reserve will be held in a non-interest-bearing account.
>you can't agree or disagree with putting innocents in jail, killing people

Yeah, you can. It depends on your own personal philosophy, but the most common idea where this could be supported is (a slightly extreme version of) the greater good, or perhaps if you believe that the ends justify the means.

Disclaimer: I know very little about Cuba and Castro. Just being argumentative.
It is important - you cannot know whether NaN is coming from a computation or is really a missing value otherwise. In Numpy, we have the MaskedArray implementation to do this.
What you are doing is distasteful because you made a mistake and now you are using bad publicity against Heroku to force them to lower your bill (or just out of spite).

Heroku might optimize for this usecase by detecting spikes somehow and notifying you that you still have machines running, but other than that, I don't see how any of this is their fault.
First, I'd like to say I highly appreciate your post, it was rather informative. This is what I love about HN!

1.I've always read, and have been interested in investing in the markets,(I read financial news daily) however, I know no one in my environment that would have knowledge of these topics or anyone that would provide me any insight. I know investing in some stocks won't make me much, I'm not delusional and I know how much prices generally fluctuate. I've tried finding classes in my college but there aren't I know. I also don't know anyone who deals with anything related to computers, software, websites, or anything technology related. I wish someone would let me in and show me what they do so I have an idea of how businesses operate on the internet.

2. Makes sense, deal in something you are interested in. but I am not planning to sell to retailers but people who will directly use my product(other businesses). The product that I have in mind is non-perishable, and in demand daily, the type of competition is closest to a monopolistic competition, probably somewhere in between perfect competition and monopolistic, so entry and exist is not very difficult. Profit should probably be low though, until I have "relationships" with the people I'm selling to. The most important thing to them is price however.

I can talk more in detail if you provide an email. :)

4. Hmm, you're right. I am unable to do any such thing.

5. No I'm not doing any shipping. If I knew how to operate a site I would. It would open up a lot of possibilities.

6. Not considerable in any sense for any of you.
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Maybe you wouldn't call it bootstrapping, but someone whose in their mid 20s, who has been working as an engineer for startups for the past 5 years, could easily have saved $25,000-$75,000. IF you live cheaply and "bootstrap" by focusing on your startup %100 of the time and funding it from these savings you could easily have a 2 year runway there... assuming also that your co-founders have similar savings.

This is pretty much what I did, I saved money and now don't have to worry about contracts or client work, I can focus solely on the company and keep costs down as if I had taken outside investment.
ATLAS/BLAS/LAPACK is mostly useless for basic sparse operations, at least in scipy. It becomes useful for more advanced operations like SVD, etc... Unless you can use dot (scalar product), which is very fast in numpy if you use atlas (e.g. time the difference between np.sum(x * x) vs np.dot(x, x) - sum does not use atlas, dot does).

For sparse SVD as I implemented in scipy, even fast dot does not seem to make that much of a difference (would be interesting to do real benchmarks, though).
I think people know that and wouldn't rely solely on a prostitute's word, especially when there are other legal certification services.

Would you buy a electrical appliance that was not certified by Underwriter's Laboratories? Or buy a car that had no crash test rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety? Would you take the word of a car company that "oh, we don't need that stuff. we done tested it ourself."

It seems humans do know how to solve safety problems without coercion, at least when allowed to. There is no reason to believe prostitution is any different.
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I bootstrapped my business from nothing to paying myself six figures a year while in college. I have enough saved that I don't need outside investors. While the experience, advice and connections would be useful, I'm more on track for growing a lifestyle business than something that would return multiples on an investment in a short time.
I am actually in a very similar position and would love to hear what the HN community thinks.
Also Bruce Sterling's Kiosk:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080115084153/http://www.sfsite....
For those curious as to what this entails, the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdcp#Cryptanalysis Does a pretty good job explaining.

For those not quite that curious, if you've ever tried to watch a Blu-Ray movie on your computer, and gotten an error about it being restricted from playing back on your display; there's a good chance that is because of HDCP.

If this is true (and there isn't really a good reason to believe that it isn't), this is pretty bad news for the content industry.
Akin to 'grow a pair' programming.
Ignore anyone telling you you're not going to be able to offer something unless you can code. Think about the type of business opportunity you want to get involved with and use your networking skills to get you there.

For example, I'm co-owner of a consulting firm that provides b2b services. The right person with the right connections in the right industries for us is infinitely more valuable than a coder. Had you popped up on day one with those qualities, you'd be in on the sales side.

You look like you may be well geared up to program/project management. That's not a day 0 job but certainly something that some people might want in order to move from minimum viable product to something more filled out. There was an excellent article here yesterday about scaling (sorry, can't find the link), maybe that's something you could look at being 'that guy' that helps take a company from 2 to 20.
I've recently been seeing an Osteopath, and I've been really delighted that his administrative staff have twice contacted me a couple of hours before appointments to reschedule (by 30-40 minutes) as his schedule had slipped during the day. I haven't spent more than 1 or 2 minutes waiting for him. It's kind-of sad that this level of service is remarkable rather than customary.
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From my years of top-level competitive FPS gaming I eventually determined the same thing.

A high level of play is greatly facilitated by a high heart rate and an adrenaline rush.

The best gamers, by far, are the ones who combine years of practice with amphetamines.

It works for the airforce and it works for gaming.

I decided that the constant self-induced adrenaline rushes were bad for my health and so I stopped playing those kinds of games.
I'm guessing this refers to DDG censoring the search to "cancer" from "breast cancer" since safe-search was on. However, when it's in safe-search the top link is to reverse that setting.
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...because I don't have a startup.
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If I could download a car, I'd certainly do it because that would mean that production cost is basically zero.
What about 45 minutes in a coffee shop?
thanks, I will take a look at it at home (where I have enough memory to deal with that kind of matrix). As I said, the scipys.sparse is pretty rough and too low-level, but 3 sec vs 8 hours is way too long to be normal.

(I forked your gist so you know how to contact me)