Hi HN: I've been around HN since 2011 and this is my first dive into gRPC. This tool is still in beta, but I'm happy to share it with everyone, it's been an amazing learning process. I'm happy to answer any questions or take any suggestions. Also, follow our progress on github!
"...governments can be counted out of taking the leadership needed to solve this within 12 years."
This is the issue.[0]
Governments are the middlemen between citizens that we the people decide to put in power through voting to represent us and our issues like climate change.
But democracy has been hijacked by putting additional middlemen between we the people. The second middleman is the capital election, specifically ~132 Americans who donated 60% of the SuperPAC money.
So our representatives spend a significant portion of their time in office calling these people to get funding for the next election cycle and when they vote on issues they think of these donors. Follow the money.
Yes we can fix data centers or cargo ships or deploy nuclear power or utility regulation, but at some point regulation for these as well will be dependent on the people we vote to put into power to represent us.
At the end of the day, corporations have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to maximize profits and shareholder value. If leaders lead, companies will follow.
I have an idea!
Why don't we, the very large community of Hacker News with 3-3.5M+ monthly uniques[1] petition one of the most innovative and powerful institutions to fund more projects that will fix broken governments around the world? "Government" is only mentioned one time in the YC RFP[2], maybe it should have it's own category.
"First, I would like to structure this so that all shareholders have a choice. Either they can stay investors in a private Tesla or they can be bought out at $420 per share, which is a 20% premium over the stock price following our Q2 earnings call (which had already increased by 16%). My hope is for all shareholders to remain, but if they prefer to be bought out, then this would enable that to happen at a nice premium." - https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/taking-tesla-private?redire...
If you ever need anyone to talk to text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime for free.[0]
There may be many reasons why some employers don't hire you, but don't forget that there are many reasons why they will hire you. Rejection doesn't mean that you are not a great person, it means that you, the company and the role might not be a good fit for each other. And that is OK. It's more than OK because you don't want to work for a place that isn't a great fit anyway. You want to find a great fit and you might have to hear NO 100 times before you get to 1 Hell Yeah! Flip that "no" around and use it as a reward for working hard, collect them and don't be afraid of them.
I've worked with people with all types of backgrounds, including people who went to federal prison and people without degrees. It is not about IF it's about WHEN. My suggestion is to start by going for walks, investing in yourself and if you are having a bad day there is no shame in reaching out for support. Literally everyone needs support.
One of the better people giving quality free advice on the internet these days is Gary Vaynerchuk, born in Belarusian and basically gave his services away for free for 10 years. I know you have skills, but you might need to give them away to build up a network. If you are on HN then you must have internet superpowers that you don't know you have.
The way to overcome this is to write milestones into the smart contract that unlock additional funding after the milestone is hit in a given time period.
The issue with today's ICO is that the market demand is so high it would be silly for groups to leave money on the table. Just like bands leave money on the table because the value of their tickets > the price they sell them at.
Many people on the buy side who get in early to ICOs are essentially scalpers whereas the people who run the project usually have no business raising the funds they do in their first round.
Milestone funding would solve both of these issues.
Tesla isn't a car company, it's an energy company that is building the Model E on their energy platform. Reading their SEC 10-K[0] will show this.
Solar is 55% of all new installations in the USA and Tesla is the leader in solar installations with SolarCity. $/watt installed is only going down with scale.
Batteries are becoming the platform for transportation and Tesla owns 50% of the global manufacturing capacity. $/watt is also trending down with scale.
Charging stations will replace gas stations and Tesla owns a major percentage of the stock.
The question is over what timescale is Tesla over/undervalued? The genius is that there is always going to be friction between long and short term values. This shortsightedness is the weak link of Wall Street. But if it's overvalued then short the stock!
The Model E has already made Tesla an energy comany with a very successful product, "the Model 3 is selling more units in the U.S. than any comparably priced midsize sedan, including those offered by Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi."[1]
This is very interesting and shows that there is an amazing amount of cheap cash available that is just piling up. Spending that cash on buybacks increases the value of the outstanding stock that existing shareholders have and then supply goes down, price goes up and the stock price goes up.
"We also show that there is a positive and convex relationship between (log) market cap and (log) number of Twitter users, that nearly all ICO capital
is raised by crypto-companies that continue to be active (on Twitter) after 120 days, and that daily Twitter intensity is associated with positive returns that day but negative returns in the future, suggesting overreaction and reversals. "
"It suggests that scams, while plentiful in number, are not as important in terms of stolen capital because investors are shrewd enough to spot (and underfund) them."
The transition from primarily visual UX towards an auditorial UX is really powerful.
Looking at screens to get key information distracts me from my surroundings and seems archaic.
My wife is a sound designer who has opened my eyes to the importance of sounds both in film and in the world. It's not that I was unaware of sounds, but I didn't realize how important they are to centering me in this world and the made up worlds of films and games. Try watching a scary movie with the sound turned off, it turns into a comedy.
I think its unexplored territory that has huge potential to impact the way we interact with the real world, even more so then Glass or Hololens.
When I listen to music as I walk down the street I change, my mood, my posture and the way I look at the world. The music augments the reality around me in a way that visual UX never can because it's a lens between my eyes and the world.
Healthcare startups are like Cleantech startups were.
There is large amounts of capital being deployed, there are going to be high profile failures like Theranos, but at the end of the day the world will be better because of the few that succeeded beyond our wildest imaginations.
If you are scrappy, $20k can get you extremely far at a cost that is "basically" zero (1.5% stake that only converts upon a liquidity event of $100M+ or IPO).
Remember, PG "...started Viaweb with $10k..."[0] in 1995 and "Julian got 10% of Viaweb" for that investment. Viaweb sold to Yahoo! for $49M[1]. The whole reason why YC exists is because PG got a $10k investment!
Back in 2005, pre YC, PG started the Summer Founders Program and invested $20k in each group. "Another of our hypotheses was that you can start a startup on less money than most people think. Other investors were surprised to hear the most we gave any group was $20,000. But we knew it was possible to start on that little because we started Viaweb on $10,000."[2]
The first version of Viaweb.[3]
I keep finding examples of the seeds of YC and they get me really excited. You can see a photo from 2005 from the SFP and YC's roots here[4]
Salt water isn't good for rockets. Once you solve this really hard problem of landing a rocket on a barge on a dynamic ocean you have a real competitive advantage.
Most employees have a stock strike price that is say $2.00 when the company is valued at $20.00.
So if each Foursquare stock was worth $20 and is now worth $10, the strike price of $2 still allows employees to make $8 per share now.
If you are granted 100,000 shares and wait it out and build the company back up to $20 you will make $18 per share times 100,000 shares for a nice little $1.8M bonus for putting in the hard work.
Maybe because you stuck it out you not only increased the price to $50 per share, but you were also granted 100,00 more stock because you didn't care what TechCrunch said. $9.6M isn't bad for 4 years of hard work...
> A couple of mental hops and they've now incorrectly associated their peace with the success of their business.
This.
Personally, I find physical activity the best way to combat this. Last year I biked 4,000 miles commuting and on long weekend rides, lost 30lbs and feel super healthy physically and mentally. Now I attack situations in my business and personal life like a big hill climb. I know I am going to get through the pain, I try to embrace the pain because I know if I don't give up I will be stronger because of it.
1. Not a bad ROI to save a global economy with a GDP of $77.609 trillion and population of 7.095 billion.[1]
2. The side benefit is understanding how to mine NEOs worth billions.[2]
3. I would like to buy an insurance policy against an impact. I bet it would be super cheap as there is very low risk, but would get me to Mars or ISS.
I find this discrepancy very interesting, only ~4% of the people shot and killed by police were female. Police departments are male dominate and maybe this factors into the difference[0]
Male - 952
Female - 41
Why such a discrepancy? I don't think males are 23x more dangerous than females.
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