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First of all, stop tailoring all your efforts to a single funding source. If you're going to invest the effort of putting together a pitch, make sure it is generic enough to be used on N other funding sources.

You have limited time to bring a product to market. I suggest spending this time developing the product and pursuing funding sources that have far less bubblicious attention than YC.
Good article. I've been studying Dominic O'Brien's techniques for a while now, he's the world memory champ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_O%27Brien

It takes some time to get the system down, but it's really handy for memorizing numbers, a pack of cards, or any other structured information. Basically, I've got a journey with 52 stages memorized along with a person and an associated action for each two-digit number from 00 to 99. When I was practicing regularly before I was able to memorize a pack of cards in 3 minutes. It may seem weird practicing this, but it turns out to be a pretty good gauge of your concentration and mental focus, just like how being able to run a few miles is a good measure of your physical fitness.

Highly recommend Joshua Foer's book, "Moonwalking with Einstein", to learn more.
yeah - >$5K - hot upwards or cold downwards ? :)
When you're a kid being an athlete seems like a great job but almost no one I've met tried to go professional. This is a pretty silly premise.

Scientists seem to be in good supply given that they don't seem to make very much money-at least in the circles I run in here in Boston.
salaries.

I guess an academic career is not a highly payed one.
The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own psychology
Just so you guys (or potential buyers) know:
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/taketake.com
San Francisco, CA

Greplin - We're a YC W10 company with interesting problems, smart people, cool tech, huge data, and rapid growth.

We help people search their personal information that's online (Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). As TechCrunch said, we've "attacked the other half of web search."

We're hiring across the board right now - front-end/back-end/generalists/designers/ops/dev-ops: it's all good!

Some stuff we like to play with includes Lucene, Tornado, Twisted, Redis, and HBase.

https://www.greplin.com/jobs
We respect elementary school teachers, but their starting salary is squat. Conversely auditors and accountants are considered mind-numbing jobs, but they're paid nicely.

This is false. I just checked average salaries (see http://www.salarylist.com/all-accountant-real-jobs-salary.ht... and http://www.salarylist.com/all-teacher-real-jobs-salary.htm ). The difference is less than 10%.

The average accountant job listed is $40,461.

The average teacher job listed is $37,200. (in my area of NJ, even a entry-level teacher makes more than that)

There really seems to be a whole mythology about low teacher pay, but this just isn't true. It's not true on a nominal scale, and it's even less true when you factor in the days off and other benefits.
Not just scientists, but everybody who uses their minds at their job.

And the solution? Simple, in High School Nerds needs to go at the absolute top of the hierarchy. That will encourage more people to end up there.
Can't help but feel like this might be a bad day for this thread. You would think people could set aside the jokes in an obviously serious thread such as this one. Unfortunately, as evidenced by some of the submissions already, this seems not to be the case. Ugh.
I do enjoy April Fool's, but it is probably for the best that it stays in this topic here.

As I've said before, you can go anywhere on the internet for humor, but intelligent discussion is harder to find.

Anyway, back to seeing what ridiculous things the internet is up to today.
Google venturing into personal fitness, introduces Chromercise and Gmail Motion
Wether this is an april fools joke or not: I think it's a smart move either way. A post like this is ought to get some attention :)
I do it most of the time. I think chatting about what you've read gives you more insight in the information given in the article.
Similar thing is with all the academical stuff you learn. If you start teaching others what you have learned, even though it is not much, you will get more knowledge in that subject and start to understand it more quickly.
If you mess up when explaining stuff, in the worst case person will ask questions and discussion might arise which is a good way to figure things out. :)
I don't know that this technique is a big win for this kind of memorization. For example, multiplication of digits probably needs to be in L1 cache. You don't want to have to search for the result in your memory palace, which seems more like main memory.
Toronto, full time (no remote)

Uken Games - http://www.uken.com/jobs

We are a startup (~10 full times) that makes web based games in HTML5 for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook. We are growing fast and need talented back-end web engineers to help us scale (Rails & MySQL). We are also looking for Javascript developers to help us push the edge of what browsers can do.
New Haven, CT or remote (us only, northeast preferred) - iPhone and/or opengl developer

We're a funded stealth startup building what we call a social opinion platform. We'd like to add another developer on our iPhone client. In particular someone with experience build graphical elements on top of opengl and/or quartz would fill a good niche.

Please submit code/github/portfolio if you are interested. Good compensation, equity for right person. pat at floop dot com.
If the government is determining the salaries of more than a small minority of scientists, then we've got other problems too.

Shouldn't most scientists be getting their pay from universities, or the R&D departments of corporations? I mean, the CDC and NASA don't employ that many people in the grand scheme of things.
Chicago, IL (or anywhere) - Rails Programmer @ 37signals

Amazing group of people; high-quality, high-traffic apps.
http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/8508
Sharpen your business acumen with RSS
The same in 23 lines of C (+ netcat and inetd):
http://old.homeip.net/martin/ssh-https.html
Intelligent App search and discovery startup is looking for:

US / India - Business Development/Marketing Manager

India - Front end designer, Deployment architect, NLP research engineer.

http://iapps.in/jobs
I realise English isn't his first language, but anyone want to translate that for me?

My attempt: "I predicted that Android would fail because it was too open, and it became the biggest selling mobile OS. But I'm still right, because now they're becoming less open, even though the three bullet items I list as strategy reversals already existed previously. And now I'm predicting they'll falter, because they're not open enough".
Impressive site design.

On what basis did you decide this wasn't working out? Low virality, low engagement, SEO didn't work out....?

The 'long explanation' of why you got burned out would be a very interesting post.
Security Advisory SMB-1985-0001: Plumber Injection Attack in Bowser’s Castle:

http://blog.ksplice.com/2011/04/smb-1985-0001-advisory
Groupon is hiring all kinds of computery people in Chicago and Palo Alto - programmers, designers, operations, testing, support, Big Data, performance, managers, etc.

Full listings at http://groupon.com/techjobs

Most jobs are in both locations, and there's the ability to move or travel as desired.

A couple months ago on this thread, I said Groupon was planning on hiring 100 engineers this year, and we're on pace to hit that goal. The people we hired are so great that instead of work halting to train them, we have increased the rate that we release new features and products and our software quality has improved too.

All tech people get a new MacBook Pro and monitor. We use Ruby on Rails, git, RSpec, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins, and lots more good stuff. We're the biggest player in the daily deal space so we face the biggest technical challenges - tens of millions of users, insane growth, real-time, data-based targeting at scale, defining the hottest new space (deals) on the Internet, etc.

Usual official stuff aside, let me share my personal experience. I started at Groupon four months ago and I'll say that it is better in every way than every job I've ever had. My coworkers are amazing, we do all that stuff everyone says you're supposed to do (test coverage, automated builds, scope control, regression testing, etc), the atmosphere is so fun (company meetings are the highlight of the quarter), and everything I develop gets used by millions of people, immediately. My mom actually understands who I work for. I honestly legitimately love it here.
Salaries are low because supply greatly exceeds demand.
NYC (Midtown East) - Novus is building a real-time financial analytics platform in Scala. We're looking for functional programmers and other sharp generalists from all walks of life. We are a small product-focused team, move quickly, and take great pride in what we do.

E-mail is in my profile.
Bob Learned Map Reduce In Erlang
And you'd also think that people would stop taking themselves so seriously for a day that they could actually smile... but hey, what would I know?
I could be mistaken, but I think Tesla said that neither car was reduced by more than 25% (maybe it was below 25%). The roadster keeps a large amount of data store about it's usage so it'd be easy to determine who was telling the truth. Either way pushing the car into the garage was never necessary and was done on purpose, I'm not sure the intent.
It wouldn't be surprising to see private tech companies sponsor or subsidize these programs going forward.
Simulation at its best! Great app!

Here's a popular story of the "hand" study:
http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/19980219bhand1.asp

Here's the paper:
http://www.pni.princeton.edu/ncc/publications/1998/Botvinick...
After learning the importance of the leverage you mention, the reader can now seek to obtain that leverage. For example, this offers another means for monetizing a free app. If you can write a free app that gets a lot of traction, you can then use it to help launch other apps.
Ask HN: Getting started in learning software UX design?
I'm young and working in IT, but what really interests me is UX and UI design. I've done some reading, both online and on paper, but I'm looking for more guidance.

What concrete skills would I need to get a job in the field? What formal education would help, both for learning and gaining employment? What blogs and books would you recommend?
Whatever the prior sources (IIRC, pharmacists could just whip up a batch), making it was cheap, legal, and unrestricted due to grandfathering. FDA wanted to regulate it, and granted someone exclusive rights to achieve it.

It's not available now because the FDA wanted certain tests done which hadn't been. No company did the tests because it wasn't worth their time/money to do so. The FDA _made_ it worth someone's time and money by offering them exclusive rights for 3 years if they did the tests. One company ran the tests, got approved, and was granted exclusivity as a reward. Supply plummeted (manufacturing went from many sources down to one), demand remained high, and prices increased 50x as a natural consequence.

The Law of Supply and Demand rules. It always does. Screw with it and you'll get hurt. The FDA screwed with it, and people got hurt.
http://add-art.org add-on that uses that sort of idea :)
I'm curious how they're giving away in-app purchase content for free. According to Apple's 'About In-App Purchases' article (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4009) in-app purchases cannot be free: "In-App Purchase can be offered in both free and paid apps—no free In-App Purchases are available."

Also the iTunes Connect Developer's Guide (https://itunesconnect.apple.com/docs/iTunesConnect_Developer...) states on page 144 (in the Managing Your In App Purchases section) that, "In app purchases cannot be free."

I suspect they're not really using StoreKit for this and just enabling a feature within the app itself based on tweeting about it.
and for a moment I felt betrayed.
I'm guessing the initial downvotes are by anti-porn crusaders, and the subsequent downvotes are because you complained about being downvoted.
At Sporcle, they've added a 'Boss!' button. Now when you're playing games on their site at work and the boss comes around, just click the boss button and something else will pop up in the window!

http://www.sporcle.com
I've never played StarCraft but I would totally play that. That actually looked like a lot of fun. Make it happen Blizzard!
Here is a RSS feed for this thread's parent comments (which are mainly job postings):

http://whoishiring.heroku.com/rss/2396027

Thanks to Ronnie Roller (http://ronnieroller.com/) for Hacker News API.
You can also disable the 3d with the link http://xkcd.com/880/#flat
The Strategy Behind Prix Fixe
I ♥ Heroku ☺ too!
I hadn't looked at DNT. Are there other recent http header propsals that use acronyms? Maybe I'm just not keeping with the times.
Let's count the ways in which the media, twitter, and even HN can be hypocritical:

Driving cars that pollute the environment and force the US to wage continous war to secure oil.
Supporting a food industry that is killing us.
Support raising my taxes so you can live a better life.
Use an inordinate amount of energy, water which is scarce.
Live wonderful lives with nice furniture, clothes, etc that are made by really poor people the world over.
Take trips all over the place, using more oil.
Sit at home watching TV and being entertained instead of being productive and fixing problems (yes, this too is a sin).
Have bad children that will grow up to be murderers, theives, leaches, and knownothings because you're too busy whining about some guy hunting an elephant.
Have supported tons of politicians that serve to further their own interests and that of their corporate sponsors.

I could go on and on and on before I finally get to:

Legally shot and killed an elephant which was destroying crops in an African country.

If I switched my domains from GoDaddy for this, I'd pretty much have to withdraw from American society for good, in order to be on decent moral ground.
Let's give this a shot. SEEKING WORK.

I have a baby on the way and hours outside of my day job to turn into dollars. I work for a defense contractor, and the contract I work on disallows any work above 40 hours a week, so I have plenty of time on my hands that I'd rather not spend looking at Babies-R-Us catalogs with my wife.

I live in Denver, but strongly prefer remote work. I've worked professionally with Java, C++, Javascript (both in browsers as well as an embedded scripting language) Groovy, and PHP as an intern and am currently on a quest to figure out Lisp to see what "the profound enlightenment experience" ESR talked about is. I'm open to small, one-off jobs as well as a long-term relationship, but because this baby is approaching at 60 seconds a minute, it wouldn't be prudent for me (or cheap for you) if I quit my day job to pursue another opportunity full time.

My contact info is on my profile page. If you've got anything you'd like done, let me know and we'll work something out.
Well, limiting the areas that can be researched might have some effect. We've all heard the horror stories about IT research being shut down because, e.g., various security problems "need" to be kept hidden. And direct regulation affects research into medical marijuana, or stem cell treatments. If the government is limiting research, then they're lowering the demands for scientists (or lowering the pay of a fixed pool of scientists).

And if I can broaden your question to engineers as well, there's some reason to think that our patent regime may be stifling innovation, which similarly decreases the demand for engineers.
just signed up, could easily save my life one day.

Think about including an "add another crazy bear" button for people who have to live with abusive female co-workers, daughters that are plagued by puberty AND pms, etc... they won't behave differently on their pms just because your position to them is different.
The data breach allegedly knocked out 6,480 WER1 electronic files, or 300 gigabytes of data, comprising two years of work from hundreds of contributors globally, including animation artwork and live action video production.

Sounds like they hosted everything in the "cloud". Consider what happens when you edit a Google doc, there is no offline backup just whatever Google provides. So sure they are not at zero, but plenty of stuff can and was lost.
Actually, I had -3 downvotes before complaining. As for complaining, I think it's valid in this case. I hate meta discussion as much as anyone else, but in this case, downvoters are imposing their views on others, and impacting those people from finding jobs.

Basically, I don't care about the karma, but I honestly do feel that the downvotes were against the idea of HN.

Plus, I'm sick today, and rather ornery.
April 1st: The Canterbury Distribution
So have invites been already sent out? Interested in an inside-view...
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Why I’m Rejoining AngelList (Bryce Roberts)
They need to add multiprocessing: I need to track a wife and two daughters. Now if you'll excuse me, I must run for my life :-)
Already done. It's called "base your company in India and mail pills to the U.S.".
A true tablet game! Not another try at porting a console or PC gameplay like a First or Third person shooter on this form-factor. This is something that you need a touchscreen device to experience at best. Simply amazing as is the execution!
The whole prestige issue is a tough one. From what I've seen in Chinese schools it's just completely different from what I remember from American schools. The girls tend to like really smart guys. Testing into a top high school or college means you're a winner and you're going somewhere. In the US, being a somewhat dense football player bound for a blue-collar life will get far more respect than just about any level of academic achievement.

Of course some remarkable people get into the sciences later, like Craig Venter did. It's still a huge loss to lose all those who would have gotten a solid foundation in their teen years if only it were valued in high school, though.

Edit: This is a lot of downmods... and it's a little hard to understand. Any of you care to voice counter-arguments?
Employment is generally something about which you want to be serious.
Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence
Ask HN: Good Reading for Young People about Science?
Another thread here reminds me to ask about reading suggestions for my third son (age eleven, reading level at senior high school level) who is passionate about science. What books or magazines or websites (in English or in Chinese) are especially good for young people to read to help them better understand the process of science, learn more science facts, or build deeper ability in reasoning about scientific literature? What did you enjoy reading about science when a teenager? What sources have surprising and interesting information about science that more people should know? All suggestions much appreciated.
Flagged. This site gets more like reddit every day...
Vote for the sexiest coder - Match.com acquires Masterbranch.com
Dating site Match.com announced this week that it has acquired Masterbranch.com, a website for software developers to showcase their projects and programming skills. Match.com starts this way a vertical side strategy for its worldwide company.

Materbranch is mantaining its original look & feel, although there have been changes regarding to its main functionalities.

"From now on, software developers are able not only to showcase their projects but also to showcase their sexappeal, as users can vote for the coders they find more sexy.”

Find the coder of your dreams...
turn science into a game at the national level. The X prize and other contests capture the attention of the american people as well as generating a ton of private investment. Create prizes in the 100MM or even billion dollar range for milestones in green tech. Create a national contest for scientists for invention with huge multi million $ prizes. That would create news and generate respect and interest in the profession.
People only watch them on TV because of their super-human performance. They achieve that through a mixture of hard training and innate ability.

I mean, it doesn't matter how hard I train. I'm never going to play like Michael Jordan, or drive like Michael Schumacher. So this avenues for greatness are closed to me.

EDIT: I hate when people delete a comment, leaving a reply orphaned. I was replying to a comment that said that these sports stars got there through hard work.
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I was in your shoes not too long ago. Blogs and books are great, but in the end you should learn by doing.

You were probably looking for a more concrete source of some sort, but in my experience no books/blogs will teach you how to come up with original UX/UI design.

Its not the easiest task in the world by any means, but come up with a project (a website of some sort), and learn how to build it from the ground up.

Once you're done you'll have the skills you need to get a job in the field, and you'll be able to show employers your work to prove your qualified.
Anybody figure out how to get past level 10?
http://sheldonbrown.com/5and5.html
Boston, MA and remote

litl - http://litl.com

We build simple, maintenance-free, internet-focused computers. Our first product is called the webbook, and we're working on some follow-up ideas. Our software team has built a new, Linux-based user interface and a Google App Engine-based server.

Our main offices are in Boston and London, but we have many people around the world who work out of their homes. With all the remote employees -- including software team management -- people are expected to be self-motivating. Most meetings happen over video conference, and other are by phone. A couple of times a year most remote employees come to Boston.

We're looking for:

* QA engineers. In particular we're looking for people with some programming experience to improve our testing tools and automation.

* Software developers. We have a few areas in which we're looking for specialization, but the main thing we care about is that you're really good. Some things we're interested in:

- X (core and input and video drivers)
- Linux kernel
- Linux desktop technologies (Clutter, GTK, window managers, etc.)
- OpenGL
- Google Chromium codebase
- User-space audio/video stacks
- Embedded and microcontroller developers
- JavaScript runtimes
- Software rasterization

You can email me at joe@<my-HN-username>.org for more info.
Elite athletes are valuable only because they are scarce.

That statement is vacuous in regards to the argument he's trying to make. Anyone who is elite at what they do is scarce, regardless of occupation; that's essentially the meaning of being elite. What sets athletes apart is the degree to which society rewards that eliteness.
Dup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391735

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391744

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391756