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Show HN: Rendevu – Keep up with everything your team is doing across all apps
Hi HN! We’re Jake and Akshay, co-founders of Rendevu (https://rendevu.co).

In our experience, as teams grow it gets increasingly difficult for everyone to stay in the loop while also easily finding all of the information that they need to continue executing.

Some teams try to solve this issue with tools like Slack, but the synchronous nature of a chat app result in members of the team often missing or losing files and information. The chat interface also does not easily support two-way interactions with your other tools.

At the core, the focus of the app is this full synchronization in both directions between Rendevu and your other apps (Asana, Figma, Slack, Trello). In the feed, for example, when you post a file from Google Drive we’ll automatically bring over all discussion on the file in real-time. Conversely, when you leave a comment or reply on Rendevu, it will also be propagated back to the file. Any time you’re tagged in a comment, or assigned a Trello card, or Asana task, Rendevu will pull in a list of aggregated action items, so you can stay on top of all of your to-dos.

We’re currently in a free beta for anyone that wants to try it out, and we’re looking for any and all feedback from you guys. Also let us know if there’s any specific app integration that would make Rendevu useful for you!

(Please note that we currently only support logging in via G Suite, sorry for any inconvenience!)

https://rendevu.co
I understand what you mean, but I agree that it is not the best word. I see the therapist like going to the gym in many ways. I have some things I would like to change about my body. I would like to lose weight and be more healthy, so I go to the gym. The same with my mental health. It goes up and down with life and it’s trials and tribulations, but I see going to the therapist as maintenance. It’s an hour I spend every week reflecting on my own mental state and talking about it with my therapist. I have anxiety and depression, but I do not think of myself as “broken,” at least not anymore.

Life is full of trauma and catastrophe. I think therapy is something most people would benefit from at at least some point in their life.
How Hardware Makers Can Win in the Software World
I think I know which one you mean (opened in 1985, it does have a sky light, one window behind the concrete towerish thing, and a door on the 3rd floor boiler room). Amazingly, its a "celebrated" design from Texas. The "how do we vent a gas leak" was hilarious, not to mention how fast strep throat traveled.

Oh yeah, that place was a horrible place since it was half public (high school), half BIA (elementary). I am told they have improved, but it was not great when I went there. They finally got rid of the BIA.

Yeah, some of the "border" towns have some really, flat out racist people. The "safety inspections" on the first of the month positioned to stop all cars coming off the rez were some serious BS. Talk about hitting people when they are already down.
We had the ability to run packages from a custom "root" prefix for ages in UNIX. If only package management tools all worked together, with the same central store, and respecting this...

There's never a need to mess with root access -- not even to install headers/dev packages. Dev tools and compilers can also be made to look to custom locations. I mean, there's never a need aside from self-imposed limitations our OSes and tooling places upon us.

Nothing inherently complex: just tons of accidental complexity.

Those things are only hard because we never did any coordinated effort to fix them.
RFE is just a generic term for requesting additional evidence in response to an application. The other possible responses are approval, NOID(notice of intent to deny) and outright rejection.
Feedly is down?
Is feedly.com down for anyone else? Both the website and the app are down for me.
The plenary power doctrine holds that US tribes aren't sovereign with regard to the US federal government, which is why they're controlled by laws instead of treaties. This is also why you can't get tribal protection against federal criminal charges.

But the flip side of that is that tribal sovereignty can't protect government actions; as the superior power both Constitutional rules and international treaties would remain in force.

(I can't work out what's up with the Inslaw case. Tribal territory definitely doesn't legalize CIA arms deals, so there isn't even a motive for a conspiracy like that. But even Wikipedia suggests that case could "drive a sane man to madness".)
Nice site!

That example circuit is called a resonant circuit and the oscillation that is seen after the power supply is removed happens because both the capacitor (C) and the inductor (or coil, L) store energy—in electric and magnetic fields, respectively—and start feeding each other.
Its not that Mars would be better or even equal, but that it would be a second chance, just in case.
You can add scope plots by right-clicking on any component and selecting "View in scope".
Yes, they should do that, if only to learn why that isn't always as simple in practice as it looks in writing.

If companies are willing to open remote offices in Bangalore or Mumbai or Shenzhen, they should also be willing to open remote offices in Chicago, Denver, Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Toronto, London, or Berlin, or to just have remote employees that are not attached to any office building. And yet, many of them still want everyone on site in Silicon Valley.

Those companies won't go anywhere. They want everyone to come to them. It doesn't matter to them if the talent is in Islamabad or Sacramento, if the talent can't (or won't) relocate. SV is by no means the only place where that happens, of course. Some companies have gone all in on a single corporate campus, even when there are no particular economies of scale to be had in doing so. It makes the org chart simpler.

The problem is not in the workers, really. Most companies are completely incompetent at remote management and almost anti-competent at distributed management. Putting together a team that works well without physical proximity is a lot more difficult than periodically counting butts in seats and doing the "manager walk" behind everyone in your open-plan office, to make sure your direct reports at least look like they're working.
Everyone has their flaws, and a leader is also a member of a team.

What's impressive, to me, is that this leader was able to inspire his team to take such steps while sticking around instead of jumping ship. I think that's a big part of what makes a good leader; maintaining a team which wants to see you succeed, despite whatever flaws you may have.
Having seen the FB+Google interpretation of privacy, and the few times Venmo with their public feed have cropped up here, I'll be one of the last to abandon cash. I use it for most things that aren't online.

That's despite my whole career being in tech and once thinking such views were the preserve of the tinfoil hat wearers.

Most of the upsides are for the companies, the potential downsides are for the consumers. I don't much like that balance for a tiny bit more convenience.
I live in the South of New Zealand, hearing the bird song is one of the big perks of being here.

Drones, I don't really have much of an opinion on to be honest. There is certainly good and bad outdoors etiquette; if it were in vogue to play a trumpet outside in a beautiful wild place, I'd probably not be a fan of the person playing it, but I don't mind the instrument in the right context.
There does seem to have been quite a backlash against drones here (see rules 11 and 12: https://www.airshare.co.nz/rules), though I don't know how much of that is driven by the general resistance to new things here, or privacy concerns, or how much is the spoiling of public spaces as you mention. My guess is that it's roughly those issues, in that order.

All that said, the sound of a bell on the neighbour's cat is offensive to me, for the fact that I'm hearing it and not the birds it's killed (we also have invasive rodents, which do harm bird life but some are also eaten by cats). It makes me wonder about shifting baseline syndrome too - what would it be like here if we could get rid of most of the the human-introduced predators? https://cacophony.org.nz/
Oh, that A. M. Monius thing again.

"Does reality have a purpose? Why are things intelligible at all?" Those questions run into the usual problem when looking for a First Cause:

"God created the world."

"Then who created God?"

"Shut up, kid."

Some philosophers get into this mess by starting from the assumption that there must be something more than the physical universe, so that it somehow "makes sense". With that bias, you get things like this paper. Plus a big chunk of theology.
Yeah, but it's not very good in my opinion.
It's a strange position. There will always be hungry children until we fundamentally change human nature.

I'd argue we're more likely to change human nature through space colonization than here on Earth, but that's a debate I don't expect to see much value from.

More importantly, http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
Insurance discrimination is explicitly prohibited by law, and your genetic makeup is about the least private and controllable thing about you since you leave bits of it everywhere you go whether you want to or not.
We don't know yet. But, for instance, the Cambridge Analytica data is nearly a decade old, and we didn't know back then that it could be used to (potentially) hijack a Presidential election. It's not so much a matter of what a hacker could do with this data today, but rather in 10 or 20 years.
I'm not sure I want to use --system in CI, just to avoid differences with development machines if possible. That does simplify baking a Docker image, though.
Indeed, using pip from within a conda environment is trivial.

But the preferred solution is to make a conda package for yourself, and it's really quite simple. You can host it from anaconda.org, or from a local directory for crying out loud.
Author here.
My original goal with oddlog has been to provide some library for logging that is similar to bunyan. In contrast it should be more extensible and the code-base should not be a single file but be maintainable instead.

I finally released v1.0.0 (and yanked due to dumb mistake with .npmignore and package.json/files field) and pushed 1.0.1 right after.

I'm interested in any opinions as to whether this could be useful, which features are missing, etc.
Or just post whatever comes to your mind ;-)

Thanks!
Often scientists are using hardware to acquire new data. The acquisition hardware might be on a PC that came installed from the manufacturer where you are told not to change anything.

Touching that PC, in anyway would be considered harmful to everybody using that specific piece of equipment.

Therefore, from the beginning of your acquisition, you are basically using a machine you don't control.
We don't use the car for stuff where a bike or subway would do. We leave town, we stay with in-laws, we go to weddings, etc. We also do these things in bad weather.

A suggestion that bikes replace a car for a family of 4 strongly suggests that the author doesn't have kids.
I increasingly feel like I'm playing Where's Waldo when it comes to digging out facts in between appeals to emotion in media articles. Your articles confirm that the "windows" are plastic curtains which one individual described as being difficult for children or elderly to open. The canopy was also detachable, and was detached, during the incident. And before diverging too much, the point I was getting at here is that these incidents seem to be extremely rare relative to the usage of these vehicles.

And (at risk of hijacking my own point, again) in this case the major problem was not the boat itself, but a captain bringing his passengers out into a very severe storm - with possible wind speeds in excess of 60 mph in the exact lake they were going into. And the warning was released before they even entered the water. That's enough to wreck any small water vehicle. And the captain also did not tell the passengers to put on their life vests even when telling them this was the worst storm he'd ever seen. He probably did not want to start a panic but, at least in hindsight, that was another bad judgement call on his part. It'll be up to the courts to decide if that judgement entered into the realm of negligence.
> What this means is that hyperthreading does not really work so well on sustained, homogenuous workloads. For example doing very heavy computation on 8 threads of a 4-core CPU with 8 hardware threads, can actually reduce performance, because all threads will be contending for the same functional blocks of the CPU.

When I got my i7-3770K (4 cores, 8 threads) years ago, I was into POV-Ray rendering. I did a test using only 1, 2, 4, and 8 threads.

As expected, 2 threads was double the speed of 1, 4 threads was double the speed of 2, but 8 threads was only about 15% faster than 4.

Thinking about it now, I wonder what power consumption looked like.
I travel to the US regularly, trying to use a foreign credit card there (especially to buy gas - what is my zip code?) is a real pain - unlike the rest of the western world the US is far from being able to go cashless
The worst thing you could do, as a nation state with a (dubious) lack of talent, with a long-term view of being competitive, would be to allow your companies to maximize short-term profits by importing and training foreigners (many who won't stay and who will not spend their wages domestically), depressing salaries, and making the field as unattractive as possible for native citizens.

Do you think smart native students can't see that all the grad students are foreigners, all the entry level jobs are filled with H1Bs and F1 visa-holders, and that salaries aren't really that great compared to finance, or medicine, or dozens of other fields that have barriers to entry, or at least aren't completely overrun with workers from low wage nations?

Instead of letting the market work as it's designed - where demand pushes up wages, we flood the industry with labor and depress wages, then throw a few billion dollars at public school unions to teach kindergartners to program (i.e. buy IPads), and expect things to work out well. :/
And it's back up for me.
I designed an actual board with this. Would have been SOL without it.
KiCAD 5 was recently released (congrats team!) and it got ngspice integration which sounds neat. Haven't yet had time to try it out, but what I've seen so far looks promising. Of course with SPICE (and really any simulator) the problem is creating/finding good models for your parts or even generic ones.
That's a great find. I hadn't seen that. I didn't even remember him saying this. We did try to sell through VARs who were supposedly a higher-end channel. Sun had a lot of luck with VARs, I understand.
Not quite.
Most stocks are held in street name (meaning, by the broker.)
It would take a bit more digging.
Protonmail takes a big financial and legal risk if it's not encrypting the email immediately when it comes in.

They get steady stream of law enforcement inquiries. The best way for them to operate is to do just what they say. Encrypt incoming encrypted mail with users's public key and throw unencrypted mail away.
conda basically proves that you can install almost everything one needs in the user's home directory. they have been working more and more on being completely independent from things like system compilers as well.
> various government entities including the Justice Dept. and the CIA, etc. were the ones taking advantage of the territorial immunity of the tribe concerned (in various of the conspiracy scenarios)

I'm sort of baffled by this. Kagama found that the US has plenary authority over tribes; they aren't sovereign states with regard to the US governmen. As far as I can tell that also means violations of federal law - even by the government - can't be shielded by tribal law no matter where they happen.

I know you're not endorsing the conspiracy, but is there any chance you could clarify how this legal dodge was alleged to work?
To put it another way:

Tech startups before 2008 generally made money by suddenly providing new and cool stuff. Think Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple.

Tech startups now seem to be focussed to a greater degree on rent-seeking business models- think Uber, AirBnb, UpWork, Stripe, various ginormous tech mega-consultancies.

Do you see the difference? The former have won market share by making products that are clearly better than the competition. The latter are essentially attempts to capture "middle man" monopolies on existing transaction chains.

This is of course a bit of a generalisation, but rent-seeking _is_ a bad thing in a number of non-obvious ways, and should be called out to a much greater degree.
There's a minor typo in the footer: "Revenue Model Cal>C<ulator"
I wonder if we should just spend more money on basic science. There could be discoveries that are just as transformative as DNA that is the key we need to progress treatment of disease. And space exploration could be a part of that basic science.
US Homeland Security warns of latest hacker craze – ERP pwnage
> Nobody should trust the will of the people.

How then, should the people rule themselves?
I don't understand. In every pump I've seen you just put in your credit card, wait for the authorization, and start pumping. What's the problem?
This is definitely threadjacking, but curious if anyone here has tried the Yubikey Neo? I'd like to purchase a 2FA device and it seems like this is the only option with NFC which I would appreciate given how often I find I'm logging into things on my phone these days.
That isn't a reservation exclusive problem. For example, since the introduction of meth, you'll see a lot of problems everywhere in rural areas (beats blowing up an apartment building). Plus smuggling has always been a rural problem. Its just a lot more direct for the feds to intervene on a reservation.

It kills me to think people want US government healthcare after seeing what the government provides on reservations. I guess they figure since they would be serving "white folks" then it would be better. That also leaves a bad taste in my mouth (which had 3 operations because of a botched root canal).
There's some great information about how GPUs are organized here. It's interesting that GPUs and CPUs aren't that different, even though maximizing performance requires different considerations. SIMD lanes are just wider on the GPU, and you have to treat memory differently (registers are bigger, main memory has higher latency but better bandwidth, etc).

It's also funny that Nvidia lists the total number of SIMD lanes as "CUDA cores", meaning that a single compute unit with 64 SIMD lanes counts as 64 CUDA cores. That's cheating, if you ask me :P
Yes, however, while the money spent on those is not much, just imagine the time spent, and all the people, all the mental effort, that could be going to something real that builds something new, but instead is going into building virtual things in a virtual world that is virtually meaningless.

I'm not saying games are a waste of time in general, but societies current obsession and normalization of playing them is unfortunate. Same goes for TV, so this started awhile ago, but games dial it up quite a bit.
So basically the Mozilla exec is saying that the Chrome implementation of the Web Components W3 standard is a lot faster than Mozilla's implementation.

Because that is what YouTube's frontend is currently running under the hood: Web Components and Shadow DOM. Both W3 standards. No magic at all.
These are not false positives, because you ran the test wrong.

Suppose a male with red hair, green eyes, and AB+ blood actually has those traits they are just not enough to unlikely identify someone. Adding more genetic traits on it's own is not enough for example you have identical twin or even triplet separated at birth. The core issue is DNA marks are not independent though people often assume they are.
From the article:

> “I'd emphasize that our technology is based on account behavior not the content of Tweets.”
Regarding 1, I (and seemingly everyone else writing libraries) usually return (value, error) and treat a nil value as error. We have quite a bit of old code at work that might segfault because it wasn't done like this.

Most of our Kubernetes code looks something like this

_, err := clientInterface.Update(object)
if err != nil {
if machinery_errors.IsNotFound(err) {
//handle nil case
} else
// handle unexpected case
}
}
Managing a workforce 11:30 hours shifted is not easy. At best you have a multi-hour latency. Often this results in multi-day delays if requirements are shifting or trust in work output is not established.
Yes, I believe the majority of software and even parts of the OS ran in emulation. Still, even when they moved a lot of that code native, performance wasn't amazing. Someone else mentioned that the rest of the hardware may have been holding these machines back and I could easily believe that.

My opinion: when released, performance didn't meet my expectations and failed to meet my expectations for another five years (when the G3 was released). IMHO, I don't believe the Mac was competitive against the PC until the release of the G4. I could understand why Apple would want to hedge against the PowerPC.
And the whole Apple threatening to take down his YouTube channel thing.
"Visibility" is one of the major drivers of promotion in every organization. They don't know your good if they can't see it.

If there are no mitigating circumstances here, like "actually we worked together but I did most of it". Then it should be a simple matter to talk to the boss and get to the bottom of how it was misattributed. No accusations, no assumptions but a fact finding mission. The goal here is to find out how it happened so you can avoid it in the future, and as a secondary bonus it will obviously alert your boss to the fact you are the real author.

If people are able to take credit for your work it indicates a larger problem with your visibility in the organization and it should be dealt with swiftly if you care about your career.
Note: it wasn't found to be insecure, it was merely suspected of being insecure

(FWIW, this comes from people who tend to know what they are talking about. But also people who value security over everything else)
I've been mulling over a response to this for a few days. I appreciate the advice and recognize it as true. I am ok, however. When I said I had major depression, I meant, I recognized the feeling of it having been diagnosed with it in the past. I have in the past sought help and am aware of the difference between depression caused by hormones, drugs, situational depression, etc. I have always found that clean living-- exercise, sleep, and in my case staying away from wheat and other allergens, almost always alleviate the problem in a few days.

Again, Thanks.
Thanks for building that. Awesome piece of software. Helped me a lot when I was dabbling in hardware coming from software.
The author's justifications for using this home-grown tool over miniconda are weak at best, if not plain incorrect.

Conda really is the tool he wants; he just seems not to understand that.