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haugeton Study finds negative association between empathizing and calculation ability

This is my struggle! I write fiction and it is excrutiating switching to analytical intensive tasks while managing to be sociable.

haugeton Ask HN: What is your theft protection/retrieval strategy for your laptop?

From a "first world" perspective where you are constantly connected and can have backups done whenever you want, it's good advice. But if you're traveling a lot, have limited connectivity/resources and/or live in a third world country, you kinda care about that sub $500 or sub $1k investment ;) I want to get to the point where I don't care about the HW though. I've been getting more frugal over the years and emphasizing replaceability/low power/long battery life over faster/"better" though. Eventually I want to get to the point where I just carry around something disposable, but my game making ambitions and current interest in Unity3d are sort of making that hard. Then again maybe I'll just end up selling all my stuff down the road and carry around disposable HW so I can finish that damn novel in my head. :)

haugeton Offline mobile maps from Mapbox

I use Scout http://www.skobbler.com/apps on Android. No complaints.

haugeton Ask HN: What is your theft protection/retrieval strategy for your laptop?

why not make a script to automate going from suspend to hibernate though?

haugeton Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop

This is a good start http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-faq.html Depending on your HW/distro/DE, you might want to start playing around with powertop --calibrate and TLP. Highly suggest switching to a lightweight DE like i3.

haugeton Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop

If you're on a Mac and using OSX, I highly suggest checking out Turbo Boost switcher https://github.com/rugarciap/Turbo-Boost-Switcher It's given me at least an hour more of battery life on my aging Macbook Pro 13 (2011). Another handy tool on OSX is CoconutBattery which is basically the closest I've found to PowerTop for monitoring power usage (I know ActivityMonitor somewhat shows power usage BUT it makes my fans & CPU spin like crazy when it's gathering info!)

haugeton Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$

EDIT: looks like it didn't go up today on TED, but I think it will possibly be up later during the week.

haugeton Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$

There's a TED video being released later today in parallel to the pre-order launch. That should provide some use cases ;)

haugeton Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$

There is an SDK. Unity is just the best way to get started with it right now. More info will be released later.

haugeton Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$

It's a prototype for crying out loud. It's not meant to be a consumer device and it's not being advertised as one. Get off your high horse mate.

haugeton Meta2 AR Goggles, preorder at 949$

does anyone know the HW specs needed to develop and use apps for Meta2?

UPDATE: HW requirements have been posted!

Intel Iris Pro / NVIDIA GT 650M / AMD Radeon HD7970 (recommend NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD 280 equivalent or greater) Intel i7-3610MQ equivalent or greater 8 GB RAM HDMI 1.4 video output 1x USB 3.0 ports Windows 8.1 or newer 64 bit Unity 5+ on Windows (for development, not end users) Intel HD compatible sound card USB 3.0.

SOURCE: https://www.metavision.com/faq

haugeton Apple Has Not Unlocked 70 iPhones for Law Enforcement

Excuse my ignorance, but is Apple's encryption in iOS 9 devices significantly stronger than any of the newest Android devices? Also, are there any precedents of any government demanding the unlocking of any Android phones?

haugeton Leap Motion: Orion [video]

Meta2 is launching in 2 weeks and just had its first public demo on stage today at TED 2016. Maybe that has something to do with it. Links:

- https://www.metavision.com - http://www.roadtovr.com/meta-shows-off-their-next-gen-ar-gla...

haugeton Trump Filter

Was wondering how long it would take Rob to make this.

haugeton Data Privacy Protection: Why Tutanota Is in Germany

"15 Euros for 5GB 3G" can you please provide more details on this? Travelsim is 5gb but is like 40eur.

haugeton Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016

"to be a recommended update" so what the hell is it now? It's impossible to get rid of that damn upgrade notification.

haugeton 'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch

Yeah, also some people can't take a joke...

haugeton 'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch

Why the downvotes? Has no one read about the quantum mind theory? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

haugeton Ask HN: How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?

I program for money, often hating it, because I'm relatively competent at it, and then I program for fun because I love it

I'm in the same boat!

I increasingly believe I may have an attention deficit disorder on top of diagnosed depression I'm dealing with

Have you tried exercising, getting enough sleep, eating healthier, doing more "outside" or social activities and/or testing out nootropics like citicoline/noopept? All of these have helped me greatly! BTW, highly recommend checking out The Healthy Programmer book: https://pragprog.com/book/jkthp/the-healthy-programmer

life sometimes deals shitty cards

Virtual manly hug mate!

haugeton 'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch

So I guess it's safe to hypothesize (for now) that when we're not conscious, we are in a quantum superposition?

haugeton Ask HN: How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?

"He spoke of the patent office as «a worldly cloister where he hatched his most beautiful ideas»"

source: https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/einstein/einstein-at-the-pate...

Take that as you will.

haugeton Ask HN: How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?

"Can anyone suggest a few problems with max completion times for each that will let me know for sure?"

I think how "good" you are at something is a very subjective thing... That said, have you tried programming competitions and projects like HackerRank, TopCoder, the ACM-ICPC, and Google's Code Jam?

PS: if money is not your main motivation, I'd worry more about finding interesting questions/problems that you enjoy solving rather than questioning your aptitude for it.

haugeton Ask HN: How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?

"Even if you were somehow very good at programming but you hated it, would you choose it as a job? I'd drop it immediately, don't waste your precious time on it."

Not everyone has that choice, as making a living and doing what you love are sometimes mutually exclusive. Casey Neistat washed dishes before he got into making viral videos. Einstein worked as a patent clerk. Dreamtheater's Mike Mangini worked in IT to pay the bills before finding a way to make a living doing what he loved.

TL;DR: find a way to pay the bills to make time to do what really matters to you

haugeton Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review

I've had nothing but great experiences with Lenovo, Apple and Dell's customer support. As others have mentioned, there is also a fantastic third party ecosystem for parts and services. I can not say the same for other companies and would welcome others experiences with them.

haugeton Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review

I wasn't talking about all Macbooks. Anything older than a Retina is pretty upgradeable and fixable.

haugeton Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review

This is exactly what's holding me back from buying Surface devices. I rather stick to Thinkpads and Macs that I can replace/fix easily and which have great build quality/durability and available parts.

haugeton Punkt MP01 Mobile Phone

The real funny thing is that there's people out there that will really buy these things (i.e. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thelightphone/the-light...)

haugeton A New Face for Pebble

Agreed. My gf told me she'd never buy one because of that bezel.

haugeton Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers

I have an old x201 that I need to upgrade. Can you share what ExpressCard you're using? Also, did you get a new 9cell? My own 9cell is at 77% tot. capacity and at 90eur for a new one, I'm not sure if it's worth investing in. Oh, and how much battery life are you getting under what distro/desktop? Cheers!

haugeton Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker

Not even the iPhone 5 is supported on all three (now 2 given Marco removing PEACE) ad-blockers. This is why even though I have an iPhone, I prefer my Android device. UPDATE: just found out about WeBlock. Works on iOS devices with iOS6+