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This. Why must we re-analyze her problem and say it is something else when she has already clearly stated what it is and how she feels.

Seeing the grandparent as the top voted comment is like HN saying 'hey, we know better, your problem is actually this'.

Which isn't much different from saying 'lighten up' - both amount to dismissing her feelings.

Idea: make it so that when you hover the mouse over one of the lines on the map, the corresponding "Hop" row is highlighted and vice versa.

One thing I find that helps is to focus your mind on your overall message and its meaning. Remember that it's not about you, it's about the message. Feel the determination of conveying the message.

This helps to not let your mind wander to thoughts of worrying how good or how bad you will do (which causes nervousness) because instead of thinking about that your mind is focused on the importance of the message.

Cool idea. While I have no interest in 4sq, this sounds interesting to me.

I think the name is pretty weird though, no idea what it means / refers to.

Reading this made me think of this: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

I agree with this comment by "tom robinson" in the blog post:

To those saying you agree with what RMS wrote: that’s fine, but irrelevant. As a spokesman for FSF he shouldn’t be pandering to his already devout followers, he should be trying to convince others that the ideals of the FSF are worth pursuing, and he’s been doing an absolutely TERRIBLE job of that lately.

Silly campaigns of immature puns, lashing out at people who don’t say “GNU/Linux”, insulting a recently deceased man who much of the world admires, and making otherwise inappropriate remarks on a regular basis is an excellent way to alienate the people you’re trying to win over.

How have these tactics been working out for FSF? I don’t have stats, but anecdotally most new open source projects I come across have rejected the GPL licenses for BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.

Now imagine what FSF could accomplish if they had a spokesman with the skills of Steve Jobs

If the competitor was in the same business, I think this kind of story would negatively affect them too.

Well, unless hotel chains are cooperating in doing it to tarnish AirBNB's repuatation - but I still think that is unlikely.

Great to see this one: * Disable compression with OpenSSL. Improves memory perf.

Guess/hope it means the issue described here is fixed automatically for everyone now: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/04/05/openssl-m...

Facebook can already do this and it's called 'Lists'. (Account/Edit Friends/Create a List). You just put your friends in 'Lists', and then each time you want to post something but show or hide it from certain Lists you can click on the padlock icon and choose 'custom - edit' and type in the name of the List before posting. This applies to both wall posts and photo albums.

Problem is I guess the average Facebook user doesn't even know about the capability. Google may come up with an easier to use UI for this, but Facebook can just improve their UI and give more weight to this feature in it.

Unless Google has a completely new model that Facebook finds incompatible to their model then this is just a 'feature'.