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relet··on Animals Spy a New Enemy: Drones
You've never met a horse.
relet··on When a dev dies, their apps should live on
The same issues pretty much existed before $TECH.
relet··on 81-year-old man driven to death by phone scammers
At which point you can relax, because you have a boy called Josh.
relet··on A Sprawl of Abandoned Homes in Tokyo Suburbs
And you will be competing for resources and attention with all the politely racist elderly that lived in that place since forever. Does not sound like a retirement plan for me.
relet··on Confessions of a Grown-Up Kick-Scooter Rider
You can take them on the bus and get a regular seat.
relet··on The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town
I think it is all about location. East German concrete slab highrisers[0] are being renovated into fashionable lofts, despite their unfashionable image and continuous deterioration - where they are placed in the city centers that is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau

relet··on What happens when you talk about salaries at Google
It is a negotiating problem, and I think that that is an issue (be it gender-related or not). It rewards competitive thinking over cooperative thinking - people who'd rather work in a fair and equal environment are more likely to accept the same salary they perceive others will get - i.e. usually the proposed salary. Competitive minds have less qualms about claiming higher rewards.

Mechanisms like publishing salaries allows for a fairer salary whether you are cooperative or competitive. If you earn more, you probably can justify it in front of colleagues and bosses.

Some say cooperation over competition is a 'female' trait, but personally, I feel the same. I am successful at negotiation, but I'd rather know that my colleagues earn the same when they work the same, which is why I try to encourage talk about salaries.

relet··on Griggi: A Wi-Fi sharing ecosystem for affordable Internet everywhere
Ha, next you claim it is not an alternative currency you can buy to unlock more features.
relet··on Lexus Builds a Functional Hoverboard Prototype
The board is pushing against the ground (and the load!). If you adjust that force depending on the tilt of the board, you can move it (up to a certain point) to stay under the load.

As others have pointed out, it depends a bit on how much lateral force you can achieve through tilting and reaction forces, but if you can balance a quadcopter, you can balance a hoverboard. It gets a lot easier if your load is attached to the platform.

relet··on Lexus Builds a Functional Hoverboard Prototype
It is perfectly possible to stand on it if it is powered. The same you can stand on a Segway: As long as it moves itself under your center of gravity when tilting. That would then also be the steering.
relet··on Liquid Breathing
Divers don't talk that much, actually.

See, there is an air intake in your mouth - and trying to talk under water does not exactly result in the noises you expect when you're talking into air.

The sign used by divers to alert others is banging your knife against the air tank. There are actual hand signs for 'I'm in trouble' or 'I'm out of air'.

relet··on Reaction Housing’s temporary shelters
In summary - how does this compare (technology and/or cost) to common container housing, as seen on building sites and refugee centers today?
relet··on Snowden Document Search
Isn't naming the collection after Snowden a bit unfortunate?
relet··on Cyber attack on German parliament still active, could cost millions
Who do these experts report to? The individual parlamentarian (who is supposed to be independent), or the individual parties, or the governing coalition, or unknown third parties?

At the moment, this is not even well disclosed.

relet··on Google Launches Sidewalk Labs
Living space and roads are severely limited resources, but in most cases the proximity to resources is more important. That's why people move into cities, not just because of jobs. Think hospitals, shopping, culture, friends, child care, inspiration, work, face-to-face interaction, play, love.

Unless you find a cost-efficient way to decentralize all of this, people will be attracted to each other.

relet··on Jump – Experiences like you're actually there
Next up: Street View 3D?
relet··on Jawbone Accuses Fitbit of Stealing Information by Hiring Workers Away
I doubt that there is any clause in your work contract that prevents you from using knowledge gained from the competition. There usually are clauses against carrying knowledge out of the company, but not the other way around.
relet··on My Struggle with the Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary
No. Tax information is public in anonymized form. That is different from wages, and the effect is absolutely not the same as if you knew exactly what your peers are making.

I'm trying to encourage talking wages at work, and have gotten my division to disclose theirs, but there's a lot of "oh, but it could lead to discontentment" in the rest of the company. And if you know Norwegians, being mildly at unease is the worst thing that can happen.

relet··on What one may find in robots.txt
The point would be just as well made if he did not list the actual name.
relet··on Lily – Drone camera
Because he was soaring on a hillside while you were riding your mountain bike down the trail.
relet··on Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework
The important part of this was:

* Students are forced to depart from the “answer-getting” mentality of mathematics.

* Students are forced to redefine success in learning as making sense and increasing depth of understanding.

* Students are able to work in a context in which failure is completely normal.

If your class tends toward revolt, they have been way too far strayed from the first point, and that may be the professors fault.

relet··on Lily – Drone camera
That is until your cheap drone hits a paraglider, or other light vehicle that is actually allowed to operate in this air space.

In most legislations I am aware of, RC flight requires an operator to be in control of the drone.

relet··on How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major
Yup, I was thinking that should read "...because I am a Math Major". Sounds like a natural choice to me.
relet··on Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?
Cross-country Paragliding. It's cool because you suddenly grok everything that happens in that blue space above your head, and are able to dive right through it. And the perspective shift from hanging 3000m above the mountain tops to skimming a snow-capped peak 20 minutes later is mind-boggling.
relet··on The Earl Grey programming language
earl-mocha should be bad enough.
relet··on Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
The project was started 1,5 years ago at the time of writing the article.
relet··on Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight
I was thinking about entering the bank when a tiny roomba with a dead battery crashed on the pavement in front of me, leaving a crater of rubble and plastic.
relet··on Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution
Not just the country. All major coal power plants, period.
relet··on Hidden tricks of persuasion: study shows how easily we are manipulated
Pages with more pictures than text subtly urge me to close the browser window, when I was opening them with the expectation to read an article.
relet··on Turning Japanese: Coping with stasis
That makes me wonder if it's a good time to start up some mountain tourism in Japan. The landscape is magnificient, the culture is unique, and if the prices are falling a bit you could attract a lot more of budget-ish climbing/hiking/trekking/paragliding/younameit traffic both foreign and local. Especially hiking, trekking and trailrunning is quite big.
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