dgarrett

Everything the author complains about is a feature of the Kindle.

Just use your iPad if you want more than an “electronic book”.

Amazon doesn’t like when customers use Google to search for a product, then click on the Amazon link and buy it. Amazon doesn’t get the search and behavioral data from that. By forcing the customer to go to a special site, the customer has to now search and browse directly on Amazon for their items.

Answer: more user data

Well, if you have access to an unlockable phone, this would get you access to the Blockchain app's data despite the app's PIN lock.

Be warned, the security of this app is not great. It stores your Blockchain.info password and your app's PIN in plaintext on your phone, retrievable over USB. It also stores an encrypted copy of your Bitcoin wallet right next to the plaintext password (which can be used to decrypt the wallet). I haven't checked, but I imagine these files might be included in iTunes backups of the device too.

The sandbox keeps it safe from other apps, but you are 100% insecure on a jailbroken device.

They did add a new PIN lock to the app, but again this is not used to encrypt your private key and is only a UI lock.

Don't forget the horrors of Windows high DPI scaling.

Poor, blurry Google Chrome.

Edit: I was inspired to look into it a little more, and it looks like Chrome does have high-DPI support: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

It has to be enabled by a registry key and seems to break Chrome's notification tray icon.

Fyi, the smooth scrolling JS you use on your homepage is very awkward with a Macbook trackpad (in Chrome). It kind of accelerates erratically.

Check out the new software coming with the new products. It looks like it's all compatible with the previous generation Logics.

According to the Downloads page[0], the software update is coming May 31st.

[0] https://www.saleae.com/downloads

Huh, Saleae used to have a nice ~50% student discount.

Does anyone know what happened to that? I'd be very interested in using this for some projects.

Here be speculation:

It looks fairly large (plenty of battery room), has no display (not sure about scanner battery usage), and transmits little data over WiFi per use. With it's simplicity, there's no reason they can't use the lowest power MCU and WiFi modules they can find.

All of these have good usability implications, but it looks like battery life was probably also a big design consideration.

He's talking about the sign up code you need to order a free device.

I'd imagine they're sending these out to Amazon Fresh users.

It'll be interesting to see what Amazon does to continue to get more information on people's shopping habits.

The CueCat has a wire.

Possibly a case of doing one thing wrong that ruined the entire product. We'll see.

> I love that infinitely nerdy stuff like this can still make it to the HN homepage (there's still hope!).

I can't wait for "Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To 2048"

The entire point of the clickable touchscreen, as I recall, was that resting your finger on it would bring up an overlay on the monitor, mirroring what was shown on the touchscreen.

You would then move your finger to hover over what you wanted to select, then click down the touchscreen. All without ever having to look at the actual touchscreen, since it was all mirrored up on the monitor.

From http://api.criticker.com/

> Due to a security breach, the Criticker APIs have been taken off-line for an unspecified amount of time.

> We apologize for the inconvenience.

   ... I was surprised at how short ... most of which was just filler for ...

So are you saying it was too short, or too long? ;)