nano81

The context of that quote is talking about the trust of merchants which sell products on Amazon, not the trust of consumers (which is what your link is). Consumers of course don't care if Amazon rips off merchants.

Broken logging happens all the time, but there aren’t articles about it

This article is not about facebook’s database it’s about phone numbers scraped through search which ended up in a third party database

Not true, you could only search for accounts using phone numbers people had entered themselves

Not sure about Texas, but as a Canadian in California on H1b I was able to buy a gun after completing a hunter education course and getting a hunting license. A fellow Canadian on TN did the same.

Your dating profile is not linked to your regular FB profile/network when shown to other daters

Nice! It would be cool if the recommendations gave a hint of why it was recommended (e.g. "We recommended this because X liked Y on Facebook, or pinned Z on pinterest")

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=125338004213029#What-is-t...?

What does an 18 month co-op give you that graduating earlier and starting work doesn't?

The thing I liked about 4-8 month co-ops at UW was that I didn't necessarily know what I wanted to end up doing. This way I got to try working in a whole bunch of situations to find what I ultimately enjoyed most. I did co-ops in southern California, Silicon Valley, NYC, and around Canada. I worked for startups, big companies, and even the government. I hopped around in different industries too: semiconductors, fuel cell research, mobile devices and internet. Ultimately by the time I graduated I had tested the waters of industry in a variety of ways, gained a ton of life experiences, gotten really good at having a big impact at work in a short period of time, and had an offer to return full time to my last (and favourite) co-op employer.

If you are interested in hiring Waterloo co-ops at your company, they intern in four month intervals year round: http://hire.uwaterloo.ca/

Misses the point. It's not the $400k loss that put them out of business, it's the realization that this will be an ongoing issue they will have to deal with as organized criminals target them, and they don't have a good solution. Their model is highly vulnerable, and they don't have an answer.

Why did you change the title? The author didn't make any claim of Airbnb filtering potentially negative reviews. Airbnb didn't allow him to post a review in the first place since he didn't actually end up staying in the room (which I think is a reasonable policy that covers 99% of cases just fine). The point of the article, and what the original title of the article conveyed, was that there are some situations where this is not optimal and where Yelp's review model has an advantage.

(Edit: Fixed now)

Yep, common in Trinidad (and many other places I'm sure). They call it a Sou Sou.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sou-sou

I missed the part where they promoted buzz and wave with a giant animated arrow on the google homepage

It will be interesting once we start seeing numbers that matter, like active users or engagement metrics.

I'm not sure that's right unless we're thinking of different things. I just clicked a ticker story of a friend listening to a song on Rdio, and I clicked a link within that flyout to play the same song in Spotify (which I've been using).

I don't think this political rant belongs here.

It's measuring unique visitors to the domain.

FWIW FB has denied any decline in the US

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view...