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Cambridge Innovation Labs | REMOTE | Full-time or Part-time | Employee #1-2

We have two open spots in the founding team for a B2C edtech startup founded by Oxford and IIT Delhi grads going after a $200B market.

Our mission is to enable a billion+ people to learn, teach, and connect better.

We are post-MVP, pre-launch. We are fundraising starting April and expecting to close the round before July. As the founders shift focus towards fundraising, we are opening up two positions for founding engineers to take over the product.

What we are looking for

Essential Skills

- You have experience in building apps based on React.js, Node.js and Postgres. - You have a bias towards shipping fast and an an eye for design - You are obsessive about documentation and writing readable code - You take full ownership of the work

Good To Have Skills

- Experience with cloud deployment with services like AWS - Prototyping and Design skills

To know more, visit: https://merciful-justice-b9c.notion.site/Founding-Engineer-C...

Please send your resume and github profile to cambridgeinnovationlabs@gmail.com and we’d reach out to you. For any further questions, please write to us.

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Hey thunkle. Sounds like a tough spot to be in, but as you said, there's always a bright side, and who knows what lies ahead. What would be a good way to contact you?

The comment is mocking part of another culture (eating with one's hands). That's the racism.

Living under fear of being shot over an argument or your children being shot in school shootings or living where paedophiles or sex abuse runs amok in top institutions (Larry Nassar, Sandusky/Sports, Epstein/Hollywood, Clinton/Trump/Politics are just some high profile examples) or being screwed by inflated healthcare costs is also not most people's ideas of a good life, but no one here seems to be mocking American culture.

And hundreds of millions of Indians are perfectly happy with their lives in India, so it can be "most" people's ideas of a good life.

Hey. Same - I have recurring dreams (across years) on the themes you mention + a few more (inventing "flying", cosmic apocalpypse). Shall we connect to see if we can solve this mystery? - see its connected to personality or life experiences?

Sounds lovely :) Whereabouts in India are you?

I thought Arc was only for backend? Or does it render HTML as well?

Hi. As someone new to frontend, could anyone tell me how frontend for lightweight-but-very-functional sites like these (also hackernews) built? Do they use something like Next.js for server-side-rendering? Which frameworks would you recommend to build a social network, if one wanted to avoid Single Page frameworks like React and Vue?

That's probably because the content in this post is more about "soft skills" or what many would consider fluff.

"habits of mind", "tools of thought", "force multiplier", "superpowers" "embrace fear" etc. reads straight out from a Tim Ferris-like self-help book targetting millennials than anything a senior engineer would write.

I read your last year's post - that one was much more useful and insightful. So +1 (upvote) to more of those.

Lol. Like, the rest of math? Geometry? Constructions? Counter examples? Probabilistic methods? Non-computable theorems?

If one gets rid of those assumptions, the whole concept of orthodox privilege would be purely rhetorical. Here is how this essay would change if you replace "truth" (which does not really exist in the political sphere) by "morally unacceptable to certain groups of people"

"They literally can't imagine a true statement that would get them in trouble." would be replaced by "They literally cannot image a statement which is morally acceptable to certain groups of people (to which they belong) would get them in trouble with those groups of people". Which is completely fair and reasonable.

It is pretty clear, if you read Paul Graham's twitter feed, what is it that he wants to say but feels he cannot say. I see where his point of view completely, but having not seen the the other side of privilege: the very real and lived experiences and feelings where cancel culture stems from, I feel this is an issue where he is totally blindsighted. The problem in the US currently, I feel, is not cancel culture per se, but widespread and ever growing narcissism which makes one less questioning about their fundamental worldview than one should be.

Paul Graham is somewhat a victim of this himself.

For example, the assumption behind this very essay is that there is such a thing as a rigid, singular concept of "truth" in the moral, cultural and political sphere, that there is a "fact of the matter" whether a belief (say one PG holds) is correct or not. Or that that we live in a static world where such truths can even exist, and not, in a fluid, dynamic, politically messy world where contrasting viewpoints interact and produce something not something ever lasting, but something which is fragile and must always be fought for, this fight being a necessary feature for a functioning democracy.

I've realised the simple things: good diet, restful sleep, ample sunlight, a little exercise, and nourishing friends make a TON of difference, more than any of the things listed.

Thank you! I think the concerns of the elderly is not exactly hn front-page stuff!

This is a great post! We should have more of these out there. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar posts for Node.js (instead of JVM)?

Or any good resource which discusses possible optimizations in the infra stack at a more theoretical, abstract, generalizable level?

Still doesn't explain the sudden increase

I love British humor as well! I must admit, if one drinks (I don't), it must be easier. Also, being "white" helps, I think.

True! I think it gets inexpensive very rapidly as one moves away from the centre - and thats where most workers live. I am single so I can afford living near the centre for now.

I live in Cambridge and its perfect for my needs, for now. Small university town, everything at bikeable distance, cosmopolitan: if I want to meet a person from any country or experience their cuisine, eveything is available here. London is just an hour away by train. And companies like Microsoft, Apple and IBM have their offices here. The only problem is that in UK its extremely hard to get a sense of community and make new friends - especially with the native Brits, who prefer to be aloof and not really interested in connecting beyond the surface

I think such articles underestimate the ingenuity and detailing that goes into inventions. The idea represented by the science fiction and its execution by science are not the same thing. Case in Point: The dream of human flight must have existed ever since man first looked up at the sky and found it beyond his reach. But to say ancient humans came up with the idea and Da Vinci executed it (unsuccessfully) would be either belittling Da Vinci's designs or the thought and imagination that went into them. Better to say ancients had some idea (Hindus with flying chariots, Greeks with wings stuck-on with wax etc.), Da vinci had some other idea, and Wright Brothers an altogether different one.

This post is actually written in retrospect with bitterness, so I'd avoid reading too much into it: either as red flags on the author or the company. Memories and lived experiences get colored in hindsight by what happened after. For example, there must have definitely been positives that attracted the author to the company, but they are diminished in memory, crowded out by bitterness.

Some commentators are just forwarding wisdom passed down from their ancestors and grandma's. Please mention only stuff what you have personally, empirically validated and invalidated - otherwise this thread is only as good as any random google search.

How about all the soylent junkies?

Wow. It is only semi-structured, but incoherent? Surely not. For one, I got the point of the writer, and got it well. I could feel how she feels. Sure it doesn't follow some rigid way of "how things should be written*, but I trust a monologue that looks written as if by a human, with the rhythm of a human, than any polished, structured piece.

Ok. So let's say I believe in this, with the implication that oil prices in the future are likely to go up. Any investment advice? How can one - say a UK taxpayer - profit off of this investment thesis?

"We don't measure the patients metabolism of a drug at all. Individuals bodies process drugs differently and have different side effects. It seems that differences in reactions could be related to different metabolic pathways being used, resulting in more or less toxic byproducts. Could a urine or blood test a few hours after the first dose be an effective mechanism for screening for likelihood of side effects based on the metabolic byproducts detected? Could this test be effective at detecting these byproducts at dosages below what would cause side effects? Could this be incorporated into a "home drug test" style urine dip that patient could do themselves at home without returning to doc?"

Strangely, just the other day I met someone in Cambridge (UK) who is moving forward with a startup solving this EXACT problem.

Let me know if you want me to connect.

" the reason USA and many other countries succeeded is due to openness to embrace diversity." - I'd say it was due to a combination colonialism of Asia, subjugation of Africa by the slave trade and world wars recking Europe. By 1950s, USA was already ahead of the rest of the world. Because it was in that position that it was able to attract immigrants which then helped to sustain its position.

There are many countries which are open to diversity - India would probably lead that list historically followed by modern Canada. But none is close to USA. On the other hand, Japan, South Korea, China and Asian tigers have done well without being open and diverse.