skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to describe a small issue I've been having with Git that I've tried Googling for in the past but have never found a solution.

I use a custom `git log` alias that prints out a nicely colored commit graph.

[alias]
lg = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all -n 15

The issue is that this includes everyone else's branches that have been pushed to origin. I only want to see the history for local branches. (I guess I'd also want to be able to see origin/master, but I recognize that there's nothing distinguishing that from the other branches on origin I don't want to see.)

I think the issue is that I run `git pull --prune` to get rid of any remote branches that have been deleted. I usually do this after I pull master, so I think I should just be running `git pull origin master --prune` as a single command.
A Few Paragraphs on Angular 2
> I'd rather slowly and steadily squirrel away savings and grow my 401k and other investments while actually enjoying my work.

I call this the startups::"active investment" versus slow-and-steady::"index investment" comparison. For the majority of software engineers who are not rock stars with commensurate 400K+ total annual compensation plans, it's not clear to me participating in the startups/SF-Bay ecosystem is statistically worth the financial instability risks, just as for the majority of retail investors, index investing is currently the most statistically consistent path to wealth accumulation.

If you are a "retail" engineer (perhaps there is a signaling indicator like if you aren't negotiating a compensation package directly with VC's or founders and not their representatives, then you're "retail"), then like most retail products, the vast majority of your value, half and more, is reserved for capital holders. It is your call whether or not if there is any statistically increased long-term job precariousness involved with accessing that startup/SF-Bay ecosystem, and if the tradeoff is worth it to your personal situation.
I was thinking it would be kind of up to the next passenger. If they are ready to get in the car/Uber, and notice it's extremely dirty, or god-forbid someone puked in their recently, maybe they have something on the app or in the car that says "Report car for service inspection/cleaning" and "request another ride".
Yep. This is feasible because modern OSes don't rely on BIOS to the same extent that DOS did.
The picture is a great piece of art all by itself. The act of HBO adds only further depth and meaning, heightened by the very phrase itself. It should be printed and hung in the MoMA.
except the interactive UI has an option to reschedule a pending update installation/reboot for up to a week at a time.

This doesn't meet my needs, sorry.
"Blow the deadly smog away from people who are dying" is the safety standard, which we can implement or not implement. This isn't just people's ability to notice, this is a huge, deadly, quality-of-life destroying phenomenon.

The deaths don't happen to someone else! As discussed elsewhere in this thread, the number of death reduced by this policy is greater by many orders of magnitude than the number of deaths caused.
or in C#:

var account = new BankAccount {
AccountNumber = 1,
Owner = "Marge",
Branch = "Springfield",
Balance = 100,
InterestRate = 2.5
}
Pride in Software Development
A lot of employers look at previous salary to determine a base point for a new job. Coming from somewhere with a high salary makes it much easier to "justify" asking for more.
It has it, i use it, and people are FUDing based on hearsay or worse, their own failure to look things up.

OK, here's your chance to correct the proverbial record. True or false: As with previous versions of Windows, I can configure Win10 Pro to download updates, install them, and/or reboot when, and only when, I tell it to.

I can also choose to limit updates to genuine security-related matters. For any given update, I will be able to access the information needed to make this judgment, with no attempt at obscuration or deception on Microsoft's part.

Under no circumstances will the appearance, feature set, or functionality of my Windows 10 Pro installation change without my permission.

Further, I do not need to download and apply hacks of uncertain provenance to achieve these goals, nor do I need to maintain a separate "update server."

Again: true, or false? A one-word answer will suffice but specific details are also welcome.
Not sure you understand determinism.

Both your examples are examples of deterministic responses.

Also, not knowing what the future will bring, doesn't mean that its not determined to a certain way.
> I'm not suggesting anything like that. I'm suggesting that the government look into different solutions in addition to this.

OK, then I am happy to withdraw my characterization of your comment. Your comment just adds nothing substantive to the discussion.

> If they're willing to spend money powering jet engines to shoot the smog higher into the atmosphere, why won't they transition to using a cleaner energy source that requires less money to maintain?

Because one is orders of magnitude more expensive than the other. It's as unrelated as bringing up carbon emissions by cars when people are discussing highway safety.
I think both have their benefits. Drones probably work better as a last mile kind of solution where time is a factor (roads can be much more congested than the air)
"I hate to say it, but they do have not just the right, but the duty to protect their brand."

I'm no IP lawyer but you don't need to vigorously defend trademarks (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...).

It's virtual impossible to track all infrigements to begin with. If you read the rules regarding trademark abandonments you will see that it's certainly not that black and white as "you snooze, you loose".
In cities, delivery drivers ship 600 packages/day into packet vending machines, vs only 60 regular delivery, and regular deliveries via usps cost less than $2 for amazon.,

So i don't think a drone , in this high density case could offer much savings.
You are wrong about facts. India did industrialize ALONG WITH the West and not AFTER it. The pace of industrialization was impeded by British colonialism. Whatever India you see today is actually the impact of industrialization post Independence from British Raj (1947). During that time there was no alternative to non-renewable energy so there was no "they did not have to follow the same way we went down, but they chose to anyway".

USA/Europe have still not migrated to complete clean energy. Emission per capita is 16.5t and 6.7t in comparison to India's 1.8t. That is pretty crazy considering that the population of US is not even 1/3rd of India. If US isn't serious about moving to clean energy why would India be?

Solar energy prices dropped to around parity with coal for the first time this year, hitting 4.34 rupees (about 6 US cents) a kilowatt-hour (kWh), while coal tariffs range usually range in between 3–5 rupees/kWh (about 5–8 US cents). It wasn't possible until April of this year to even consider Solar a viable alternative. With prices dropping (and hopefully continuing to drop until at least 2030) we can now think of installing new power plants backed by solar. But don't think for a second that we will be able to magically replace the coal plants. The infrastructure spending on these coal plants have gone into billions of dollars and retrofitting them isn't as easy or cheap.

So no. India is a energy hungry Nation and we will go ahead with whatever it takes to provide energy to the entire population (be it nuclear/coal/solar/wind etc). If you want us to adopt clean energy entirely then pay up for it. After-all the climate crisis is caused by the first world countries as they ignored (and continue to ignore) pleas to move to clean energy for the past few decades. If you can't pay up then move along. Don't even bother to advice us. You'll only be ridiculed.

Trump has already said that he will withdraw from the Paris Climate Deal on the first day of taking office. So when the West, which is the biggest polluter in the World after China, cannot take this step why should India take the initiative? After-all, even if India did go 100% clean energy (which is highly impractical and an extremely costly affair), it won't have any impact on reversing Climate Change with the West backing out. So it is a lose-lose for India.
If you need the kinds of things Rust can provide, then it's a very good choice.

However, if you decide Go fits your needs better, in the sense that you want a garbage collected language, then I can't think of any reason to use Go over plenty of better options.
As someone who spent 13 years using CVS, 8 with SVN and 3 with git, I can only say that I greatly disagree with you. The idea of adding a file to track, committing locally and pushing your commits on a branch to a remote makes perfect sense if you spend the thirty minutes it takes to learn what git actually does. Moreover, this is the minimum number of commands to effectively use git correctly.
In certain parts of the world (but I would guess not Australia), huge segments of thr population are Vit D deficient
Visual Studio Code 1.8
What if Y has already happened?

I submit that large tech companies already have existent today, "databases of identifying information...to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin. "
You are being generous, the article is complete bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20_line

And, of course, as pointed by sibling poster, the i8042 is on the motherboard, not in the keyboard.
> The people who pay attention to this type of thing are VR enthusiasts, who are a minority compared to the larger pool Facebook is aiming for.

> [...]

> There's no doubt that "influencers" are important in driving sales, but I'm skeptical whether they can play a similar role in preventing sales--especially if average consumers see value in the underlying product.

The problem is: The necessary system requirements for an Oculus Rift (CPU, GPU (in particular), USB ports) are rather high. The average potential consumer you mention might see value in the Oculus Rift - but will probably not be enthusiastic enough to be willing to additionally buy a high-end PC etc. So the large pool that you believe Facebook is aiming for will contain many more hardcore enthusiasts and much less "average consumers" than you think.
Not necessarily. Most technology companies I have found won't care too much about credentials. It all depends on what you're applying for. For instance a finance or insurance company may still care but the makers of New App 13 probably don't.

Now the government still cares. They care a great deal which kills prospects around the MD / DC / VA area. I was a contractor with only a 2 year degree so most companies were legally not allowed to charge more than about a junior level's worth when I first started. That was difficult. It was even more awkward when I was in charge of leading the technical side of a multi million dollar government project and my company couldn't bill for me beyond a Software Developer 2.

The Bay area mostly doesn't care BUT (and this is a HUGE BUT) many companies, like Google, make their hiring determinations based on the knowledge of very scholarly topics. So it's kinda indirect.
There's little to no fluff in that article. ("Long" is not the same thing as "full of fluff".) He's simply analyzing a somewhat complex and very abstract topic -- how to run meetings in general. There are a lot of possible cases and exceptions that can come up in that structure, and he goes into detail about all of them.

Not every topic can be covered adequately in a pithy aphorism that fits into 140 characters or less. Attempting to jam such a complex topic as "running meetings" into a short format just for the sake of being short would not work. There are too many exceptions and contingencies. If they are ignored, the article would not be not a useful guide to "meetings" in general.
There are many other places to eat in China than a street cart.
As someone who grew up in the Bay Area, but moved to Portland about three years ago, I can tell you there is a stark difference in ecosystems. However, if you are a young up-and-coming programmer coming out of school, it makes complete sense to move to the Bay Area. If you're an Actor you move to L.A. to get your big break. If you're a programmer, you go to the Bay Area to work for a big firm that will help build your reputation and resume. For people later in their careers who have "been there/done that" it's less about what you can do for a company and more about what you can do for yourself. People later in their career tend to think more about their quality of life after spending years grinding it out in markets like the Bay Area. I know it's the big reason I moved to Portland. I love the tech community here. It's much more collaborative. The salaries may not match what you get in the Bay Area, but what I lose in salary I gain in not being stressed all the time.
Your comment doesn't really make any sense, because there is no benefit to having a conforming loan. In fact, there are drawbacks. Recent data showed that jumbo loan rates were LOWER than the equivalent conforming loan. We bought with 10% down on a jumbo and because it's not federally-backed you don't have to pay PMI. Mortgage, taxes, insurance, that's it.

Also, I don't know anybody who got that kind of parental help or put $500k down.
If you don't have symptom of illness, it's cheaper to buy a lifetime supply of supplements than worry about getting tested.
I was going to mention this as well. It is worth making it clear that the article is written by a SF staffing company (which the article does do).
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that it is in fact non-trivial to get automated ride sharing working end to end.
it is $1600(2 x 800)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5icbpj/d_d...
Canada wants to join the list, too.
I'm not a mobile app developer by profession. But I always wanted to start learning and developing real world apps. The problem I always ran into the tutorials and demos, that they are mostly limited(i.e not close to solving real world problems). I think browsing their code, will give me a good start. And I would know how it's done right! Thank You!
Pressing F12 and modifying the DOM usually works as well.
Technically you don't even need a second memory card. Some SD cards have suitable processors in them already.

Edit: Google's Vault [0] is a custom hardware implementation of this concept.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/29/googles-project-vault-is-a...
I don't think that's entirely true. Housing and food are still the highest spending categories. Most of the excess goes to taxes, I think. Families just make it more obvious that's happening.
That's really up to the context of the problem, and the specific semantics of a null value. (Which is a value, and a present one at that. If you need to account for missing data, you can do that any number of ways, with sentinel values of any kind.)
Huh. We just moved out of a 2/1 in Belmont, 1 block off El Camino next to the Safeway, where we were paying $2050. Sure, once you add utils in it's more, but not a lot more. Splitting the rent with my wife, my share was basically what I was paying in rent for a 'fancy' apartment I shared with a roommate in Santa Clara 10 years ago.

Granted, the house was a good deal, but should be able to swing a 2/1 for 2500 or so.
Amazon pays usps $2 per package, not $5:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/it-s-amaz...
larger volume impacted. I thought the ozone gaps where somehow local. CO2 density is quite uniform in the atmosphere isn't it ?
Nashua has a lot of tech companies if you would be ok with a smaller urban area close enough to Boston to enjoy the city too.

Personally I just moved from Seattle to Boston. I'm conflicted on the two places. I really liked the outdoors areas in Seattle, commute was shorter and rent was also cheaper. But Boston has a lot of cool things too, food better, more interesting activities todo (other than outdoors but you can find it NH) and cycling infrastructure is poor compared to Seattle.

I'm not native of either place (from Montreal) so my experience is based on a few years of living in both.

Boston isn't exactly better in terms of winter sunlight that's for sure. Both are grayish in winters but summers are great (less humid in Seattle).

What did it for me is proximity to family. Being in the same timezone is huge.

Cool fact I learned recently, Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH area has one lowest unemployment rate for any metro area at 2.6%.
If you got a boost from transferring from San Fran to Seattle, overtime it would even out during merit pay-raises. Companies that are large enough to support development offices in both Seattle and Bay Area, are large enough to have a very formalized process for raises, which take into account your current pay vs the local market rate for that position.
That's nice to hear. I've recently been contemplating moving from the DFW area to the VA area to be closer to family. Would also love some land/trees, which is lacking around here and becoming even harder to find.
Syntax changes in Python 3.6
... and you can use trick of copying your .git directory somewhere safe before doing that in case you mess it up, since copying it back to overwrite your mistake is almost always faster than figuring out the "right" way to fix any given mistake, unless you have a really big repo or a really slow disk. :-)
Even with generous wages house prices are rising faster than salaries. And let's be frank about this, when well-paid sw engineers are feeling the squeeze, imagine how awful the economic situation is for anyone in a less fashionable job. There are lots of people who work just as hard as any coder and whose jobs are just as necessary to a livable economy but who face certain economic ruin if they lose their lease - hence all the pressure for a $15 minimum wage. Meanwhile a lot of people who already own property fight tooth and nail against any large-scale building. It's a vicious circle.
Google extends conservative outreach as Trump calls tech meeting
I'm not sure I understand your question. What do you mean by "better" and why is it in quotes?
The issue with spleen and black bile in humoralism isn't that it overproduces it, which it doesn't, but rather that it overaccumulates it.

>“The gall, placed in the concave of the liver, extracts choler to it: the spleen, melancholy; which is situate on the left side, over against the liver, a spongy matter, that draws this black choler to it by a secret virtue [emphasis mine], and feeds upon it, conveying the rest to the bottom of the stomach, to stir up appetite, or else to the guts as excrement.”

~ Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
thing is travelling along a pre-determined path.

we can determine it is following this path. but we want to measure it. so we do, and we change it's pre-determined path.

it still is and was always pre-determined. but it is not the same original determination.

I definitely understand determinism. Did you know there is soft and hard determinism?

I'm proving to you here that the future can be determined, but unknown. We can then seek to know it, and in doing so change it's path to another one that is just as determined.
> I'm not certain this has been thought through sufficiently. If an organization is in a position to confiscate the camera from a journalist, they're almost certainly ALSO in a position to extract the encryption password from the journalist.

You're basically dismissing the usefulness of encryption as a whole (on phones and anywhere else).
That's simply not true. Take a look at Google maps and you'll realize the vast majority of residential high rises are actually filled with equipment, huge fans, loud air-conditioners and empty space. Most have terraces and pools on lower floors, and most penthouses don't have rooftop access.

For example, look at the below image of high rise condos in Chicago. They're all filled with heavy equipment. They're not filled with the super rich having extravagant cocktail parties.

http://i.imgur.com/QC8rakm.jpg
It's easy to get a senior role at a random company in SV. There are many companies looking for senior people, provably more than there are candidates. However you have to check if they stick, and what they do. It's actually fairly easy to weed out the bad ones with a 45 minute interview if you don't let yourself be seduced by their ability to talk well. In my entire career I have only once heard of someone who seemed senior doing really well at coding exercises and then turning out to be horrible. I have frequently heard of people not coding as awesome as you expected but talking a good line and then being disappointed after the hire.
No, the "o" in "coke" is not how the one in "coq" would be pronounced. Another poster mentioned that it sounds like more like the "u" in "cuck".
I perceive the rain as being on my side of the window.
That was the reasoning given by a coworker who did this, and he put $500K down. I personally know at least 3 people who've bought Bay Area houses/condos in the $1.1-$1.2M range with multi-hundred-K parental help.
Why not write it in Rust though like Google's Xi [0]?

[0]: https://github.com/google/xi-editor
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Except they forget that people like owning their personal space -- especially if it's they need to inhabit for multiple hours in the day, pretty much every day.

And (as with the "smart home" advocates), they forget that, outside of the tech crowd - not everyone likes interacting with (and hence, being dependent on) computers for every conceivable need in their life, 24x7.

The ownerless model might work for some people -- but not too many, I suspect.
My favorite line from the article:

(Perhaps you have heard about...) ...the guy on Reddit who calculated that it would be cheaper to commute daily to the Bay Area from Las Vegas by plane than to rent an apartment in San Francisco?

However, I am going to nitpick the title:

Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

This question really ought to be:

Does It Make Financial Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

I will also suggest that there are facets to this question that really are not covered by the article. I am keenly aware of this because I returned to California as soon as I could for health reasons. My health is simply better here ("here" being California -- I am not in the Bay Area currently).

My condition can be very expensive and very debilitating when it is not well controlled. So, while I am horrified by real estate prices out here, for me it makes more financial sense to be here than to be someplace that keeps me too sick to work while running up medical expenses.

There are many reasons to want to live in a particular place. While criticism of the insane cost of living and insane pace of inflation is totally valid, I think it is problematic to boil down a decision about which job to take or where to live to these (specific) financial metrics (of salary and rent). Life is multifaceted. Such decisions do not hinge entirely on money.
Not disputing your conclusions, but I wonder what the hell people do with 4200sqft houses. I grew up in a very normal 5 bedroom multi-level house, 4 person family. It was 2400sqft. So were everyone else's houses. My house in the valley is about half that size, for 2 of us. Given infinite money, sure I'd like a bigger house. 2k, maybe 2500. I just cannot fathom why anybody would even WANT 4k+. I hear of people living in 6000sqft mansions and it just seems so insane. Especially when they're paying $500/mo on A/C in AZ or TX. Just all seems so wasteful in a way that expensive real estate isn't.