poslathian

Most of that drink's $13 is paying for the venue in which you consumed it. Frankly, I also dont really get why it's so much more fun to drink with friends in expensive and crowded spaces than our own spaces, but I appreciate that's a minority view.

I think this really speaks to the issue - by making things quick, easy, and fair-with-documentation, we lose out on the opportunity to practice a bunch of hard-to-relearn (and imo valuable) social skills and machinery that comes with interpersonal debts. see Graeber - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

This is good advice, thanks!

5B for 13k employees - that's ~$384,000 in construction costs per head, operating and maintenance expenses are perhaps 5% of that annually (maybe more!) - taken together this is an office building that's costing apple ~$3500/head/mo . It's a beautiful office, but seriously?

Avg apple cash comp is what, 12500/mo? 3500 is almost 30% of that!

This is looking increasingly likely - here's a recent nature paper showing these organoids are electrically active, recording spikes from a dense 256ch electrode. That team also was able stimulate optogenetically yielding bidirectional communication with an organoid - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

Another interesting paper demonstrating that neural tissues can be effectively grown around mesh electrodes, providing both a scaffolding function as well a recording and stimulation functions. http://faculty.engr.utexas.edu/xie/xie/publications/ultrafle...

Neuroscience has been rapidly leveling up recently, its increasingly believable that high bandwidth bidirectional neural interfaces (at the cellular level) are on the horizon. DARPA was pitching this a few years ago (NESD) and it was pretty far out, but now see Kernel and Neuralink and the 10 or so companies partnered in to those efforts mostly-successfully developing all kinds of technologies required by this roadmap (disclosure: including my own).

Overdraft lines of credit are definitely a thing and can be arbitrarily large depending on the account holder.

My bank keeps trying to sell me this, I don't see why this would be a good idea. Does anyone here use this?

Also, one time our old bank erroneously withdrew a 6 figure sum from our operating account which put the balance far in the negative. I was stunned that they covered it and bemused to see a 35$ overdraft fee as the next line item on the statement. The charges were reversed within 48 hours.

I scratch my head sometimes at how its at all possible for large banks to make these kinds of mistakes.

Surely you mean wet lab facilities? Otherwise, even in Cambridge (where commercial rents range from $35/sqft/yr to $80 (Google HQ in kendall), your per-employee office expenses ($400-$1000/mo) are hardly a limiting factor compared to salary and benefits. There are also plenty of low-priced co-working and incubator spaces that provide access to specialty facilities - Greentown, Artisans Asylum, Industry Lab, Lab Central, Bolt, etc. (to be fair, some of these have an admissions process).

http://www.leaflabs.com/neuro-about - if you check out lotus there are some links in there around the lightfield setup, some papers and a publication that cites perhaps everything you'd need to get started.

There is super work going on in your camp, kudos! I really appreciated your review of fluorescent imaging in NHP, which is absolutely going to be, along with advancements in implantables, a major enabling tech for prosthetics. In our lab, we've recently started down the path of light field imaging for whole-brain, single neuron recording in the larval zebrafish - supplementing existing work in developing very large, dense ephys recordings. As crazy as NESD/MiCRONS programs are, it really does feel like the field is transitioning to stitching pieces, many years in the making, together towards bona-fide clinical applications. Exciting times!

The paper itself is not yet available, but the same researchers have published before on this work: http://www.stanford.edu/~shenoy/GroupResearchPublications.ht...

http://www.stanford.edu/~shenoy/GroupPublications/KaoEtAlIEE...

Reading the latter reveals the implant side is a 96 channel utah array.

No question. Find the right person and the value of the relationship goes up with time and trust. I suppose that's why it's not uncommon to hear about folks with 30+ years with the same secretary.

I don't often post here, but this is close to my heart. A few years ago, my team started making noises that we needed a company secretary and I needed an assistant. That rang true to me, but I had zero concept of what this person might do, what our relationship would be, or whether there would be a clear benefit. I hired one, employee #10, the first person on our team who would never be expected to write code.

In 6 months, this person had doubled my productive output (at a fraction of my salary, for right or wrong), and built clean, useful, stable systems for our company's information management (bookkeeping, correspondence, recruiting, health insurance, tax matters, and far more) where previously there was a lot of duct tape and bailing wire. I quickly lost the ability to imagine how we could be running this company without bonafide, competent, secretarial support.

Since then, I have lavished extremely well-earned raises on this person, with zero thought of "market rate admin salary," after two years I trust this person with my life. We have hired yet another office secretary who is also great. Our company has 15 in the local office and another 10 working remotely. Dollars spent on a good secretary are some of the best dollars you can spend: they can return to you one of the most productive, positive, and important relationships you have in your professional life. If I could go back, I would have hired one in the first year of business (as opposed to year 5!).

Unfortunately, it's very hard to identify the exact camera position, since alignment of foreground objects can be matched from different positions at the expense of matching the original perspective. Old cameras had huge imaging plates, with low crop factors, I suspect what happens with a lot of these old/new match-ups is that the photographer is standing far from the original spot to achieve "best possible" alignment with the foreground crop - which of course screws up your perspective. You could align against the background, but then you'll have poor alignment on the foreground.

Cleaning up the crop/zoom in photoshop does not help you unless you are shooting from the exact same spot to get the same perspective.

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/08/15/debunking-the-m...

Betahouse sounds familiar but I don't think I ever visited. Cambridge is home to a number of culture driven coworking spaces, which are excellent. Pirate ship is a good example of a tight nit group. Perhaps the biggest is Industry Lab, which I would best describe as a 20k sqft hybrid between the media lab and the east campus dorm.

The article mentions algorithmically generating the training set. See here for some earlier research in this area: http://bheisele.com/heisele_research.html#3D_models

Software/Firmware/Systems Engineering

LeafLabs - Cambridge, MA

We are hiring Linux kernel and embedded firmware engineers to work on Project Ara (http://projectara.com), Google's moonshot to create the ultimate customizable phone, inside and out.

LeafLabs has been working with Google on this project since its inception, and continues to play a key role in the ongoing march towards launch.

By joining our team, you can expect the opportunity to directly influence the future of mobile computing, in the near term during Project Ara's duration, and in the long term as we work on merging this into mainline Android.

Check things out:

http://www.projectara.com/

http://www.leaflabs.com/jobs

http://time.com/10115/google-project-ara-modular-smartphone/

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Here is some rumor I found that rings true but is really disappointing (if real)

http://bitsndollars.blogspot.com/2015/05/inside-21s-plans-to...

The tldr is that Balaji and 21e6 have done nothing more interesting than use millions of dollars of opm to build a huge mining pool out of custom silicon that performs so well the 70M it took to build it just makes financial sense on its own, netting in the low eight figures currently.

Now the followup strategy is to give away free mining chips for embedded systems to 1) mine more coins using other people's power (21 keeps 75%) and 2) stabilize the long the term value of their massive BT holdings by promoting consumer adoption of bitcoin (by bribing people with free coins mined by their own gadgets)

It's funny to me that I had to scroll to the actual last comment to find what I suspect is the right answer.

Perhaps to provide an authentication a security layer for IoT...this sounds like a story you could raise 100M with. See also Vernor Vinge and the SHE

cool! you should lump cambridge MA in with boston

From your own description this sounds super annoying

Software/Firmware/Systems Engineering

LeafLabs - Cambridge, MA

We are hiring Linux kernel and embedded firmware engineers to work on Project Ara (http://projectara.com), Google's moonshot to create the ultimate customizable phone, inside and out.

LeafLabs has been working with Google on this project since its inception, and continues to play a key role in the ongoing march towards launch.

By joining our team, you can expect the opportunity to directly influence the future of mobile computing, in the near term during Project Ara's duration, and in the long term as we work on merging this into mainline Android.

Check things out:

http://www.projectara.com/

http://www.leaflabs.com/jobs

http://time.com/10115/google-project-ara-modular-smartphone/

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Reminds me of being blown away in 2007 by Vetter and Blanz chasing a similar aim: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrutZaYoQJo

Software/Firmware/Systems Engineering

LeafLabs - Cambridge, MA

We are hiring Linux kernel and embedded firmware engineers to work on Project Ara (http://projectara.com), Google's moonshot to create the ultimate customizable phone, inside and out.

LeafLabs has been working with Google on this project since its inception, and continues to play a key role in the ongoing march towards launch.

By joining our team, you can expect the opportunity to directly influence the future of mobile computing, in the near term during Project Ara's duration, and in the long term as we work on merging this into mainline Android.

Check things out:

http://www.projectara.com/

http://www.leaflabs.com/jobs

http://time.com/10115/google-project-ara-modular-smartphone/

seconded

I invite you to work on a project that is managed this way. The answer to your question will become clear.

If you are interested in working on Project Ara and future projects that incorporate modular Android and hardware networking, check out

http://static.leaflabs.com/flyers/ara/LeafLabs_Hiring.pdf

For those of you with bricked FTDI chips, there is hope on linux:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/24/44

Being published in Harpers is a kind of a big deal in the writing community ;)

I'm surprised no one here is talking about flow down terms. We have never made any partner or contractor or employee sign NDAs for disclosing 100% internal material, but it only takes one partnership with a fortune 500 (and we have a bunch) before you are knee deep in NDAs with clauses such as "any contractor or employee must be bound by terms at least as restrictive as those herein."

Now if anyone on the team wants the register map for the next-gen SoC we are using in our product (so that they can, you know, write some damn code) we have to start pulling NDAs out...