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Re:Doing Biotech in My Bedroom on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @09:25AM (#3594307)
>Can he guarantee his pressure cooker autoclave works, and if so how?

Autoclave tape

Just because one utilizes alternative materials does not mean the scientific method goes out the window. Finding a repeatable process is paramount.

Also, many of these DIYbio projects take advantage of methods used in labs for years. There are multitudes of testing procedures, validations, ect that enable one to see if their over the counter laxative is up to par.

Re:Restaurants plan DNA-certified premium seafood on Monday November 28, 2011 @02:42PM (#3287279)
The Boston Globe did a piece where they tested the DNA of fish served at local food establisments to determine their species. Nearly half of 183 fish samples collected at restaurants and supermarkets were not the species ordered. http://www.boston.com/business/specials/fish_testing/
Re:Show HN: Craigsforms for better craigslist ads on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @06:46PM (#2029889)
One of the flagging guidelines for craigslist is if something seems "too commercial". I would flag this post, because there really doesn't seem to be a car for sale. Also, in my own experience I have grown to distrust these templates and prefer to buy from/reply to those which use plain text. The spam rate just seems to be lower when avoiding posts with nonsense pictures or templates.
Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring? on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @11:10AM (#1491184)
Boston

SocialSci is hiring two science minded RoR devs to help bring academic research online.

We save researchers time and money by bringing their scientific surveys (drag/drop, pdf upload, and visual response) online. We have developed a full suite of scientific tools and linked them to an anonymous, honest, and payable group of participants.

The team is currently 5 strong (3 dev, 1 biz/scientist, 1 academic sales), but we want to bump it up to 7.

Recently seed funded (we can pay you actual money / equity), graduated Tech Stars Boston, and now work out of Dog Patch Labs (Cambridge).

If interested, shoot me an email at [email protected]

Thanks.

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @04:13PM (#1456175)
Boston

SocialSci is hiring two science minded RoR devs to help bring academic research online.

We save researchers time and money by bringing their scientific surveys (drag/drop, pdf upload, and visual response) online. We have developed a full suite of scientific tools and linked them to an anonymous, honest, and payable group of participants.

The team is currently 4 strong (2 dev, 1 biz/scientist, 1 academic sales), but we want to bump it up to 6.

Recently seed funded (we can pay you actual money / equity), graduated Tech Stars Boston, and now work out of Dog Patch Labs (Cambridge).

If interested, shoot me an email at [email protected]

Thanks.

Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring? on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @01:06PM (#1455487)
SocialSci is hiring two science minded RoR devs to help bring academic research online.

We save researchers time and money by bringing their scientific surveys (drag/drop, pdf upload, and visual response) online. We have developed a full suite of scientific tools and linked them to an anonymous, honest, and payable group of participants.

The team is currently 4 strong (2 dev, 1 biz/scientist, 1 academic sales), but we want to bump it up to 6.

Recently seed funded (we can pay you actual money / equity), graduated Tech Stars Boston, and now work out of Dog Patch Labs (Cambridge).

If interested, shoot me an email at [email protected]

Thanks.

Aaron Patzer (Mint CEO) gave a really good talk at the Founders Institute on equity and compensation in startups. It is worth the read/watch and gives you a good ballpark idea.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/08/startups-101-the-complete-m...

tl;dr Just an Idea and you need a tech or other important role expect to give away half.

Have a little traction and the makings of a company 5-10% range for a key employee.

Established and but still paying reduced salary 1-3%

Re:Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle on Saturday July 18, 2009 @01:12AM (#711397)
"Books simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the kindles, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."
Re:Complete Yale courses now on iTunes U on Friday July 17, 2009 @03:02PM (#710521)
Has all the classes streamed:

http://oyc.yale.edu/