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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.

nano81on Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access

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

nano81on A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online

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

nano81on A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online

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

nano81on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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.

nano81on Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch

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

nano81on Show HN: Mashing up Facebook, Pinterest and Amazon for Christmas

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")

nano81on Facebook Adds Option To Delete Your Account (Not Deactivate)

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

nano81on The Invention of Waterloo (Canada’s Technology Triangle)

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.

nano81on The Invention of Waterloo (Canada’s Technology Triangle)

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

nano81on Car-sharing service HiGear shuts down due to theft of 4 cars worth $400,000

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.

nano81on 'Reputational' Media—Where Yelp Has an Edge Over AirBnB, VRBO, etc.

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)

nano81on Bank of America to charge monthly fee to debit card users

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

nano81on Google+ Approaching 50 Million Users

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

nano81on Google+ Approaching 50 Million Users

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

nano81on Facebook Music announced with Spotify, Rdio, MOG, and more

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).

nano81on Facebook Timeline

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=992223364261&set...

nano81on Venture Capitalists With Powerful Blogs May Run Afoul of the SEC

I don't think this political rant belongs here.

nano81on LinkedIn Surpasses Myspace For U.S. Visitors To Become No. 2 Social Network

It's measuring unique visitors to the domain.

nano81on Why Facebook is Losing US Users

FWIW FB has denied any decline in the US

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

nano81on Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914.

That seems counter-intuitive to me. Do you have a source?

nano81on Blockbuster Rumor: Facebook Partners with Baidu to Enter China

Facebook has never attempted to enter that market yet; I don't think that's quite the same as being a loser in the market.

nano81on Google acquires ITA Software

To give an example, check out http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

I've never found anything as useful or flexible for searching airline data.

nano81on Ask HN: Interning as a developer this summer

Interning in the states is fairly easy with a J-1 visa once you have an employer backing you. The visa costs roughly $800 (mine have always been covered by the employer). I always used CDS to get the visa (http://www.cdsintl.org/interntrainusa/about-j1-visa/) but I am sure there are other agencies that are just as good.

Send me an email if you need more info.

nano81on Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch

While it doesn't appear to be a women's watch, this might interest you:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=sony+eric...

nano81on EFF Finds Evidence Of Over 40,000 Intelligence Violations By The FBI

The FBI, most especially under GWB, lies for a living. EFF tells the truth for a living.

The EFF is run by people just like the FBI is; like most things, this is not black and white good versus evil.

The FBI has an incentive to under-report numbers so their practices aren't as scrutinized. The EFF has an incentive to over-inflate numbers so they can get media attention, bringing them more donations. I would think the numbers lie somewhere in between.

nano81on Internet, Facebook blackout hits Algeria as protests gain strength

I'm visiting Morocco in about 10 days. They seem relatively stable compared to Algeria, but I've seen reports of marches being organized there as well. It will be interesting.

nano81on Facebook Buys Old Sun Campus in Menlo Park

It's a strange place. Not walking distance to anything, not train adjacent, not school adjacent, .... The buildings are pretty though.

I haven't been to the Sun campus, but does the Google campus in Mountain View not share these traits?

nano81on Poll: Should the US President have an Internet kill-switch?

I would think that considering the audience here, it's quite obvious that the voting will be overwhelmingly for "no", making the poll pretty pointless. You're asking a group of people who largely make their living thanks to the internet in some way whether the government should have the ability to turn it off whenever they feel like it. The answer will unsurprisingly be no.