peterjlee

Finally!

TIL Gen Z is a thing. I feel old. Also, I'm guessing most Gen Z fitbit users are in college because there's no way high school kids can wake up at 8:12AM and go to school.

*Berkeley

If marijuana is legalized, why bother growing it indoor?

The plants taking up space in the grocery store have a pretty fast turnaround time while these basils will take few weeks to grow. Though I guess they could have these "farms" in some cheap warehouse then move it to the grocery store only when they're ready. Ok, this seems a bit more viable now.

This may work for a few Whole Foods customers who pay $5 for a bottle of herb infused water but I wonder if the cost is going to be reasonable enough for most people. Real estate cost alone may trump every other cost savings. Even if that "farm" can produce 10x more per square foot from vertical farming, the real estate cost of a grocery store in a city is a lot more expensive than a farmland in the middle of no where.

>Presumably records are locked in such a way that simply knowing a URL doesn't allow you to bypass security. In case this doesn't happen. If there is a leak, with sequential ID, you run the risk of leaking the whole table. With UUID, the leak can be more limited.

Also, sequential ID may reveal some information you may not wan to share. If someone's user ID is 1234, that may be an indication the service has at least 1234 users.

I think guimarin meant that the fund is mostly from the sale of the oil from Norway. Since Norway is making money from selling oil, it does makes sense to diversify and invest in other industries.

Funny thing is Github sometimes makes more sales after an outage because clients want to upgrade to the enterprise edition to host on their own servers.

Why not just use Github Enterprise then?

Alpha particles are basically Helium atoms without the electrons so it's fairly easy to contain it. A sheet of paper is enough to block an alpha particle.

If you already know how and where to get those stuff that's great. But for most people, they just want a quality product at a reasonable price with out much thinking or research. Amazon is full of fake Apple/Samsung cables and chargers or no-name brands that might fry my phone or start a fire. So I am paying for the convenience but it is at the price I'm willing to pay because I'v been burned (not literally yet) too many times trying to be cheap..

So what you're saying is you can update the neural net to do dick or not dick without going through the App Store review?

SoftBank is actually not the largest telecom company in Japan. Though SoftBank does a lot more than just telecom. Telecom just happens to be the more consumer facing business. Also, SoftBank made $50 billion by investing $20M in Alibaba 17 years ago.

I think that's more of a branding thing. Telecom is just one of the things SoftBank does and it just happens to be more visible to consumers. Berkshire owns Geico but you wouldn't call Berkshire a insurance company.

For those who's going to mention Bayes' Theorem regarding medical tests, here's a link to save you a Google search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem#Drug_testing

My answer to most scaling question is: by the time we have that problem, we'll have a lot of customers and money so we'll hire smarter engineers with experience in scaling to figure that out. I still make sure we don't do anything stupid right now so the future engineers have more options on how to scale. Also it helps that I'm not working on a zero-revenue consumer app.

Which VR headset are you using? I've tried HTC Vive and I had no problem with glasses on. I also own a Gear VR and the lenses are adjustable enough so I don't even need to wear glasses.

I'd argue this is one of the more secure questions compared to other common questions like "Your mother's maiden name" or "The make of your first car".

In S.Korea, you never see a cop on the highway. They just have speed cameras on accident prone zones and put up camera warning signs miles ahead so people actually slow down. It seems pretty effective.

Wouldn't this make your service less reliable since downtime in either cloud service can cause your service to be down?

If you count the number of billionaire, Palo Alto alone has 13 billionaires in a town of 66,000 people. It's ranked #25 on the list of cities with most billionaires and Seattle is not even on the list.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilycanal/2016/03/09/the-citie...

Visual Studio is the most used IDE and somehow I don't know a single person who uses Visual Studio.

http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-mo...

When I buy phone chargers from Amazon I intentionally avoid the manufacturer branded ones because I know it's going to be fake. I usually choose a well known 3rd party brand with good reviews.

I've always liked Rotten Tomatoes ratings more than IMDB star ratings. Rotten Tomatoes rating is basically, what percentage of critics gave a thumbs up.

Off topic but I'm going to assume anyone who misspelled Levandowski as Lewandowski is a soccer fan.

How is AutoByTel.com different from TrueCar? TrueCar doesn't seem like it's doing too badly

It's a tricky business. ask twitter

Facebook had $1B in profit in 2011(1), the IPO was mid 2012. Maybe it wasn't enough to justify the $100B+ valuation at IPO but at least they had their business figured out; which is not the case for Snap, yet..

(1): https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebook-1-billion-profit/

Also the emergency spillway was never used since the dam was constructed 50 years ago so nobody really knew that the erosion would be that bad.