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dubroff··on Uber is tracking my battery status, all the time
Uber does claim that they use it to switch to a low-power mode
dubroff··on iOS 9.3 Preview
I'm trying to dig up info on this. Do you have a link?
dubroff··on YC's 2015 Reading List
Vaguely reminds me of this list, where scholars were asked which book changed their mind the most: http://chronicle.com/article/What-Book-Changed-Your-Mind-/14...

Would love to find more lists of the sort

dubroff··on It Probably Works: Probabilistic algorithms are all around us
Could someone explain or point me to a resource as to why using multiple buckets in the HyperLogLog algorithm makes it more accurate than a single bucket?
dubroff··on Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox
For what it's worth, Sparrow was a paid client (~$10) with a free version that had ads and limited functionality.
dubroff··on Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
Anyone have a recommendation for a good place to begin, if I was interested in writing a toy javascript interpreter?
dubroff··on Uber Raises Funding at $62.5B Valuation
What do you mean by "valuation growth isn't necessarily necessary"?
dubroff··on Launching a Mac App and Becoming the Top Paid App Globally
Something I've been thinking about recently: does anyone think Slack followed Thiel's advice? It entered a space that already existed (didn't go from 0 to 1), with several competitors, solving a problem that was widely known (email is a broken way to get work done). Yet it's becoming a monopoly and will likely be a very valuable business. It seems like there can be tremendous value in making something really good when the existing solutions are not good, and that creating an extremely valuable business doesn't require doing something entirely new.
dubroff··on An interesting data structure with search time O(sqrt n)
I also originally thought he had an array of arrays, but now I I think the run-times he mentioned for insertion and deletion would only work for a single array, not an array of arrays.
dubroff··on Show HN: Interviews can be stressful – give take-home projects instead
I like pair programming sessions a lot because both the candidate and the employer are investing an equal amount of time. While the intention behind take-home projects is good, the result is often that the candidate invests several hours into a project just to be quickly passed over by the employer.
dubroff··on f.lux for iOS is no longer available
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I think I did this right. I ran `shasum -a 256` on the zip, but let me know if it doesn't look quite right.

dubroff··on Fidelity Devalues Stake in Blue Bottle, Dataminr, Zenefits Following Snapchat
What do you mean by this "The real people getting screwed by these paper unicorns though are the late stage employees being sold options as compensation"?

I'm currently a student job searching and this seems pretty relevant.

dubroff··on Ask HN: What's your favorite Latex resume template?
I've been using this one for several years and have been very happy with it. It is a descendant of several other templates: http://www.sudo.ws/todd/resume.html
dubroff··on Case study: Can retailers win back shoppers who browse then buy online?
Off-topic: I couldn't find anything online about Benjy's, aside from the HBR article. Anyone know what's going on?