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MSR Silicon Valley is a satellite office, smaller than Redmond, Cambridge, Beijing, and probably several others. Still, it employs (employed?) some heavy hitters, including Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport. Many of these people will probably receive offers to relocate, per the article, but presumably not everyone wants to move to Redmond, hence the existence of the SV lab in the first place. So some will leave Microsoft and seek jobs elsewhere, as will all the researchers that don't receive relocation offers.

As some of my grad student friends have observed, this may be a tough year to be on the academic/research job market...
As the script was just bouncing the search box at the start I a) assumed it was deliberate and b) expected them to start trying to sell me domains.

The rickroll was the first bit I noticed o_0
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also relevant https://twitter.com/ioccc/status/512657240612802563
The stronger companies tend to do Series A over convertible notes.

The trend toward notes is easier, but not better for startups.

BTW: By "average" I mean that the sum of dollars invested versus the sum of dollars returned or marked to market.
Roughly half.
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I disagree with this statement. Contrarily, closing the Valley location could be an indicator Nadella holds a high value on the other world wide locations.

If your hope is to attract top global talent to work on global issues, having two labs nearly on top of each other in Santa Barbara and the Valley doesn't make much since.

Current lab locations: Redmond, WA; Cambridge, UK; Beijing, China; Munich, Germany; Bangalore, India; Santa Barbara, CA; Cairo, Egypt; Herzelia, Isreal.
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Rolex is similar to Apple in that they control most, or almost all, of their manufacturing and parts process. Rolex is one of the very few watch companies that produces their own movements instead of outsourcing them, or slightly modifying/customizing an OEM movement. Rolex has proprietary metallurgy for metals. They make their own stainless steal and gold for all their watches. The watch case is milled from a single piece of material, much like a unibody MacBook.

I don't know as much about Leica, but Canon grinds and polishes their own glass for their lenses (the higher-end ones at least, not sure about EF-S lenses). Other companies create lenses with OEM's elements.
Doesn't matter if they are stored or not. If a user can access his files, so can the OS he is using.
Every single Android? Not just Galaxy S-whatevers? Motorola, Sony, Huawei, Amazon?
>The vast majority of people can't tell the difference between an 16-bit, 44.1kHz, 192kbps mp3 and a 24-bit, 192kHz, losslessly compressed file.

I don't think the vast majority of people could either tell the difference or care about the difference between much larger compression gaps than that.

I received three free months of Sirius radio when I purchased a certified used car. After a few minutes of flipping through the channels, I couldn't understand why anyone would want to listen to such highly compressed music with tons of artifacts, yet lots of people pay for subscriptions.
You're right, I'm sure none of my general concerns about completely false belief systems and human lives are worth being viewed by any readers in this thread. My comment also may be a little bit difficult to contextualize or disconcerting for readers. Best to keep downvoting it so that it disappears.
So while PNNL (which is where I happen to work) may own and require a license for this particular design, this technique has definitely been used before, and could be reimplemented to avoid issues if necessary.

Note, not a lawyer or representative, just an intern. What I say may be completely wrong.
re #2: Yes, many notes have the provision to make sure the investor gets a 1x preference on dollars invested (some preferred and some common for their investment.) and this is, IMO fair.

re high resolution financing: if you are offering different investors at different prices, you are likely to make your investors less than happy with you.

re less control and no board seats: in my experience, having a board correlates strongly with success. so i think this is a negative. to put money where my mouth is - for my last startup, I took a board even though I did not have to.

re raising a few hundred thousand or less: in my experience, strongly correlated with startup death.
Before our interview, Frank and I:
- Collected all of the known Y Combinator interview questions we could find
- Wrote out 1-2 sentence answers
- Agreed on which founder would lead on the answer, and
- Practiced with flash cards until we could answer every question fluently

Sounds like YC has turned into something of a cram school.
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I thought Microsoft's stated goal for these layoffs was to reduce the amount of managerial indirection, remember this catchy quote from the layoff announcement:

> fewer layers of management, both top down and sideways, to accelerate the flow of information and decision making.

But yet the vast majority of people who have been laid off have been engineers or other "boots on the ground" types. It doesn't really sound like Microsoft is doing anything about their huge internal political debt (that makes them so inflexible and slow moving).

Plus, to me, sacking your research people is never a "good" indicator for a company. That either means that your research was entirely misguided OR that you've just given up on new innovation/first to market.

If I was a long term Microsoft shareholder I'd definitely have mixed feelings right now. On one hand Microsoft has made cost savings, but on the other hand it might be at the cost of their long term growth.

... We'll just have to wait and see how this all turns out...
I'd like to second this. Add a self hosted version and you have a new customer.
I poked around. It appears that the chassis dries on the line. (I'm basing this off of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqKUbmdOr0 and https://www.bmwusfactory.com/manufacturing/production-proces...). There are many layers of paint and finish, and I think those dry as it moves from point to point on the line.
And the object responds to the "foo" message by calling a method.

The difference is whether we're discussing the invocation or the response. OP's usage of method isn't incorrect in this case if it's discussing the response. It is true that all message responses (including accessors) are implemented using methods.
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Difference between the individual and family plans? Seems like the only difference is 1 additional user. For $10 extra/month my wife and I can share a single login.

Plans max out at 30 docs/month? Is that enough? TBH it seems pricey.

I signed up though, worth a shot. Definitely a pain point for my family.
Correct. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate yet another class of website that does not validate user input.
The people thinking about this topic are my audience. That they don't want to hear it or bother trying to understand it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be available for them to view.
It'd be very nice if there was a .torrent available with this information in bulk, or a public ftp endpoint--I didn't notice that in the docs.
Keep in mind that according to their T&C, if you disclose anything you shouldn't about your company, it's products, etc. Heard intends to fully comply and work toward providing them with your identification. So really, nothing of significance can be released here.
Then don't update over-the-air. If you plug your iPhone into your computer and update via iTunes you don't have to delete anything from your device.
> I wonder to myself, "how can Google use this data against me" and come up short.

You obviously are of no importance to the world. You do not carry any politically weighted message and you are the crossroads to no important information. The best proof I have: Google and those intermediators of Google have no interest in you.

Which doesn't mean you shouldn't participate to the privacy of journalists and members of a political party
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So now what? Now that the canary has disappeared, is there no other information that can be transmitted to us? It feels like it's a binary signal that just got set permanently, so there's no more information we can glean from it.
The problem is that this makes it difficult to compare evaluations. If you want to have as objective an evaluation of candidates as possible, you need to subject them to exactly the same process.

I'm surprised they didn't make him sign an NDA for it...
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Something about that fact has always bothered me.

I can hire a team of lawyers and finance people to set up a complex system of subsidiaries so that my company only realizes profit in a specific way in a specific jurisdiction to avoid taxes, and as long as we've all followed the letter of the law, there doesn't seem to be any problem with the 'spirit of the law'. In fact, entire companies of accountants, lawyers and business consultants exist solely to help other companies follow the letter of the law while avoiding the spirit of it.

What makes it so that laws regarding anything "tech" get to be written and interpreted so vaguely and widely (from warrant canaries to copyright issues etc) when rules for everything from finance to oil spills are narrowly defined and interpreted?
I think grella said the advantages of convertible notes are:

1. First note is capped but later notes can be uncapped;
2. Fewer tax risks;
3. Doesn't mess up your equity pricing;
4. You can do a number of notes with different amounts raised;
5. You don't give your investors the kind of protections they would get in equity rounds.

I'd like to hear Mark's reply too. My opinion below.

I tend to think that all of these things (aside from the tax risks) are either inconsequential in comparison to equity financing (3, 4), or simply the result of having unsophisticated or uncaring investors (1, 5). The tax risks he did not explain; I assume he means the risk that the IRS would use an equity round to peg a value on shares or options given to employees that differs from what the company assumed. If so, this risk exists no matter what.

I agree that giving the investors less protective provisions or uncapped notes is better for the company. If you can get investors to agree to that, good for you, but that's separate from structure.

The primary problem with convertible notes as they are used today for entrepreneurs is that the investor gets the lower of the cap or a discount to the next round. This optionality is paid for by the entrepreneur. And while, as grella points out, the cost of this optionality is usually pretty low, so is the value of the benefits he points out.
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Your missing a major caveat. Completion is still encouraged so for example poaching employees is still generally legal. As long as you don't use "improper means or methods".

http://www.troutmansanders.com/files/upload/Tortious_Interfe...

I would agree in this case Yelp would probably not be laughed out of court. However, that's a fairly low bar and IANAL.
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RnD is expensive enough as it is, wouldn't it make sense to move out of Startup Valley?
It was definitely a gradual thing. As early as the "Snow White" design language introduced in 1984, Apple was pushing the limits of conventional computer manufacturing techniques. And they didn't go from beige boxes to unibody aluminum slabs in one step.
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ASN.1/BER is a pain in the ass. I'd rather gzip json. Or poke chopsticks in my eyes.

(creds: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1697)
I agree. I opened it on my mobile device and the page was immediately moving and making all kinds of transitions. There's not really any instructions, nor are there any visible controls. It barely even registers as a functional website, so I don't even get to read about the product.
For another fantastic abuse of DNS, the Iodine* project uses DNS to tunnel IP which is just obscene.

http://code.kryo.se/iodine/

(Why? Lots of captive portal wifi hotspots (think hotel/train etc) seem to allow DNS resolutions before stopping your other traffic.)

* DNS uses port 53 which is the same as the atomic number for Iodine ;)
I left Dropbox when I decided I just can't trust my long-term important data to closed source software. Since then I've been on a little odyssey exploring the open source contenders.

I ran owncloud briefly. File syncing performance was terrible. You really don't want to write your file synchronization service as an afterthought inside a PHP application.

I ran seafile for a while, but I don't like their security story. The authors have said some things that show they are a little out of their depth when it comes to crypto. Also, last I checked they had no good story for running multiple server in parallel, and the data on the server is not accessible as regular files. Also, written in C, and there are very few people I trust to write C without nuking my security.

I ran git-annex. Joey Hess is doing a good job with that project, but I think the symlink-oriented architecture is just not good enough. "Direct mode" is supposed to avoid symlinks, but direct mode seems much less stable, and it still exposes symlinks when you have data that's only partially synced. Too many apps do bad things when you give them symlinks. Also, I like Haskell the language, but Haskell the toolchain sucks hard, and I gave up trying to build git-annex from source to play with it.

Now I'm running syncthing and I have to say I've been pleasantly surprised. I had passed on them earlier due to reports of performance problems, but since the 0.9 release performance is much improved. The global discovery is particularly nice. I have two servers and two laptops all synchronizing with each other. One server is publicly reachable, the other is inside a LAN only accessible when I'm inside. It does the right thing whether I'm home inside the LAN, where I get fast sync with the local server. It does the right thing when I'm away, synchronizing with the publicly addressable server, which then transitively synchronizes with the LAN server.

It's written in Go, so I'm less worried about buffer overrun shenanigans. It uses the stock Go SSL stack, so no worrying about weird hand-rolled transport and authentication protocols. And authentication is clear and simple: every client has a cert, the client's name is the cert's fingerprint. No certificate authorities.

Syncthing has some versioning support, but I decided to use bup instead for belt-and-suspenders. So all my synced files are also snapshotted by bup every ten minutes on both servers.
F# is not an MSR project anymore.
Can't wait to start building apps for my smartwatch using this.
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We have been using it for a year and had absolutely no problems whatsoever. We create feature branches for almost everything that requires more than a single commit. It allows us to check in temporary breaking changes in our branches, without impacting the work of other developers.

We use release branch when we have a fixed feature set that we're ready to deploy.

Hotfixes for live problems that need to be fixed ASAP.
Wow, are you a detective? Sharp eye ...
Also, if anyone downvotes my previous comment in the next 5 minutes, you could win a genuine shrink wrapped space suit this article is about, Act now!
Word on the street is that only six members of the research lab were offered jobs at other Microsoft Research locations...
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which ones would you recommend? this appeals far more than 3D printing.
Special mention for this one also:

https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

Unfortunately it never went anywhere (VERY unfortunately). Also this one more recently:

https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/

Which might wind up being Microsoft's answer to Docker-like containers.
I imagine it's tough to be a small division away from the mothership in Seattle. If they aren't constantly making their presence and existence known it's probably easy for execs to write them off as not performing.
^ What that guy said. ASN.1 parsers are super complicated and have been the cause of remote exploits more than once.
This is why building trust by starting small and delivering exactly what you said you would for exactly the price you said is key.

Clients and stakeholders alike will never cease the asking for more than you can reasonably deliver because they have absolutely no way of knowing how reasonable their request is. That is why pulling all nighters and heroics are so bad for developer / business relationships. They set a precedent for what is reasonable or possible.

If the client or stakeholder never really can have the data necessary to fairly judge whether you are "holding out" or not then the only thing you can do is build personal trust by doing what you say you will, not a damn thing more, not a damn thing less.
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Yeah that is not a constructive comment, I should know! :-)
On motorcycles, we put a hand on the helmet, signifying "man-with-a-hat ahead".
"but that doesn't stop some people jumping down your throat if they think you're suggesting it in earnest. "

Or downvoting as they have done with my comment.
Which isn't that big of an issue. I'm sure the YC folks are aware of the practice and look for other less-reproducible signals. Plus, the cramming, interview, 3-month sprint may lead to quite a bit of learning. Most doctors crammed in school.
Do motorcyclists signal to others except when there is a speed trap, or do they signal to others when there is a speed trap? The later is common in the states (cars flashing their headlights), but I haven't heard of the former and enforcing a ban on it seems completely impractical at the very least.

And what kind of free society can force citizens to salute? "The government won't tolerate warrant canaries" makes intuitive sense because we have grown used to the courts throwing out all sensibility whenever there are computers involved, but the idea of the government compelling civilians to salute "in meatspace" seems blatantly beyond the pale.
I'm also a UNIX geek, and I would have to disagree with your opinion.

The design looks solid. I don't know anyone that has troubles scrolling on their laptop these days. I found that quite bizarre to hear. With daily use, you can be nearly as nimble as using a real mouse.

Could you give some suggestions on what you would change? I'm curious how you would display that much data on the screen in a clean manner.

Not trying to argue here, genuinely interested in improving my UI/UX knowledge. Quite useful when building webapps these days.
haha, that's not a bad comparison !
Lego with an infinite number of blocks. Well, not infinite, only limited by your your resource grinding ability, at least if you play in adventure mode (probably the weakest part of the game btw).
> including Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport

I can think of one or two companies in the Silicon Valley who are salivating at the idea of hiring the pioneer of distributed systems.
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You do know that fsharp is a pretty big deal for Microsoft and is shipped as part of Visual Studio, one of their biggest products, right?
Google again suspends an app without any reason. Don't be evil is gone I guess
"We've never been more sure that the web is the platform, and that HTML5 gaming is the future."

Reminds me what guy on the screen from Apple's 1984 ad was saying: "One resolve ... one cause ... we shall prevail."

Really, really hope there isn't going to be a one technology future.
Wanted to add that what you said above such as "this maybe a bit of a cludge" seems better than "only half serious" as a preface because you are acknowledging the possible problem in the idea procactively if you want to call it that.
You can certainly do smaller increments with an equity round. But because equity rounds tend to have leads and the lead is usually the biggest check, they also tend to have most of the money committed at first close.

Many note investors also ask that a certain amount be committed before the first close.
This is awesome. For DIYbio, the one downside (that there might be a clever solution for) is that sometimes you're analysing mould spores or maybe pathogens, and it seems that you're then being encouraged to rub the surface of those slides all over an intimate device that likely is very close to your face for a good portion of the day.

But hey, that's nit-picking on my part :)
I'm going to try putting it on archive.org tomorrow.
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I've offered to help and recommended they switch to Piwik (and fix the http link).

HN does tech satire so much better than the rest of the internet..
Struct embedding is just syntactic sugar. Have you tried using reflection to look at the fields of the struct? You don't have a chance of looking that the embedded field properties as if they were truly embedded (flattened out as in inheritance) using reflection. Now put that opposite inheritance. No matter what you do (reflection, direct access what not), you still can get to those properties. See why I am saying go is making it harder? Its those cranny little details that you experience that drop your productivity.
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"The premise of "distrust of authority is propaganda" is so self-contradictory that I wonder if this article is a deliberate troll. [...] In conclusion: the thesis made no logical sense, the examples were poor, and the writing was needlessly verbose."

Likewise. I was thoroughly disappointed with the article. It started off as a hopeful "hint" at social commentary about the underlying nature of how movies/stories/epics affect us in subtle ways. And it turned out to be a glorified, overly verbose rant against the "distrust of authority".

Maybe I should take a leap and suggest that perhaps this author is currently having a bit of a political crisis in his life and is trying to reconcile democracy with how he views what the article refers to as "idiots". Either he accepts that the majority are "idiots", or he constructs a narrative around how they're not really "idiots", and that it's just the "propaganda" that tricks us into thinking so. Or it could be just me, projecting.
I am having a tough time understanding this whole Apple + U2 'partnership' (or whatever it is).

It seems like a misguided attempt by an out of touch group of 50-something marketing managers to be hip/relevant.

Hell, I'm almost 30 and few of my friends have any interest in U2. I just asked my 21 year old cousin and she can't name a single U2 song.

Maybe some of my contemporaries think this is interesting or cool, I just find it odd.
Ask HN: How Do I Get into YC with Just an Idea?
It seems to me that most people go into YC with a startup, the more users the better, and have documented growth already, which warrants the accelerator's investment.

But some people suggest that with a good idea and the right abilities you can get into YC. My question is, what in particular are these "requirements" that would compensate for the fact that I only have an idea?