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>Ideally though pure white background should be avoided

I can buy into eye fatigue from the background being mostly arctic white (#FFFFFF) such as a fullscreen Notepad text editor. This can be especially annoying when one has a 31" monitor -- it's like having a giant 31" lightbulb shining into one's eyes.

However, I still don't see any evidence that the text color of #000000 causes eye strain.

HN'rs... try this:

go to "sarahwerner.net" (the webpage of this thread)
In Google Chrome press F12 for Inspector
Right-click on one of the grey paragraphs and select "Inspect element"
In the "Styles" tab, press "+" to add a new css rule
The new rule is "p { color : black; }"
In Chrome, it lets you use your mouse to click a checkbox to dynamically toggle that rule
You should also see that the values properties pane to toggle from "rgb(68,68,68)" to "rgb(0,0,0)"

(Modify those instructions for Firefox, Safari, etc.)

(Here's an animated gif showing what the F12 experiment looks like: http://i.imgur.com/mmfKIjW.gif

Keep in mind that GIF demo is 8-bit color not 24-bit so you must do the experiment yourself to get an accurate comparison.)

Experiment with toggling back & forth and see if you suffer the "eye strain" when it flips to #000000 that some folks are talking about.

Personally, I think #000000 looks more readable because even though the sarahwerner.net's background is #FFFFFF (pure white), it doesn't "feel" like pure white because she has large elements on webpage such as photos and screenshots. My guess is that the eye "averages" out the entire background to be a "light grey" even though the underlying RGB value is pure white.
I wonder how it will affect things if she doesn't go? You get married with (presumably) the assumption that this person is the core of your life, but then this Mars stuff happens and it becomes apparent where the spouse falls in the pecking order of your value system. Does it cast a dark cloud on the relationship afterward? "I want to be with you forever unless this really cool opportunity comes up, then I'm leaving you and the kids and we'll never see each other again."

This isn't a criticism -- it's nothing to me how these people choose to live their lives, and I'm all about pursuing your dreams. But it seems like there would be consequences to being so formally (and publicly) ranked second, or lower, by your wife.
"Political statement with every emoji" sounds about right.

Certain groups hate the fact that the Internet allows people to overlook the boundaries of race, nationality and gender. It robs those groups of fuel for manufacturing outrage and leveraging it for political power. They'd love to "fix" it.

You think I'm wrong? Okay, then tell me this. Why can't we just color emoji a neutral color (green, blue) and be done with it? Nope, instead we're adding this insanely complicated stuff to Unicode definition.
Ganz genau ;)
Yes, I know that. The issue is that zumtar had mistakenly lumped all Irish Protestants together as Anglicans.
Google+ needed to establish a core group of users who (a) weren't associated with Google, and (b) liked their offering better than Facebook, and (c) were in a space that Facebook would have trouble taking over. Games was prime territory, because Facebook fucked it up by letting Zynga be its tapeworm for so long. If we could show caution and attention to quality in this space, people would have been more likely to trust us in a time when they were (much moreso than now) upset with Facebook.

U.S. Facebook engagement was actually dropping in 2011 and the Zynga games were the reason why. People hated those games.

Google+ could have gotten some more air time with that idea. What they did with it, I can't predict. Sometimes, more air time means not crashing; sometimes, it just means crashing later. It would have had a chance with Real Games, though, and I'll take "a chance" over "no chance" any day of the week.

Anyway, I'm glad that Google lost. A closed-allocation company with stack ranking deserves to get beaten. So there.
But seriously I thought this Mars One thing was just crap - we have no idea how to build the rockets to get there let alone land, find water, make food and oxygen. I mean nice idea and all that but... It's crap. By the time we sort this out these folks will be retired and we will be looking for another 20 younger folks to go die.

Surely they can't think she is actually going to go, as opposed to go do training and have some fun things to say at cocktail parties.

Edit: ok so maybe we have an idea, but not enough to just ask Elon for the extras package, and no where near enough money to do the research and development. I mean - moonshot, 5% of GDP for 10 years.
I like this.
It's good to just browse around and see what stuff is available / new.

And it seems there's a huge amount of awesome stuff out there ;)

Whoever does this - thank you!
Also worth mentioning is that Eric Schmidt resigned as CEO to make room for Page. I have my suspicions that he and Larry disagreed on the G+ strategy which led to the latter taking the helm (or the former offering his resignation first) in order to do what he thought was necessary.
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If "young male quixotry" can't turn themselves into gold themselves

Underestimating the power ratio between capital and labor, they're easily tricked into believing that hard work can overcome the massive social distance between them and the investor/founder caste. The best thing for them isn't a foolhardy attempt to "turn themselves into gold" in the short term; it's to leave and then to build something better in the long run.
The thing is, emojis were being used (appeared in the 90s), and spreading (how many people used various tricks and hacks to "unlock" emojis in older iOS versions despite not being in Japan?), so the unicode consortium could either standardise it, or see the number of proprietary extensions increase further and less and less people give a flying fuck about their registry.
By email. You can find the address either on the first or the last page of the article. In this case, it's on the very last page.

Don't bother in this case, the brackets are usual notation for the floor function.
> Didn't Google learn from Buzz that the world didn't want another social network of the kind that already existed? I guess not.

I disagree - I think a lot of people were expecting exactly that[1]. But I think the big mistakes were a_ forcing every Gmail/Toutube user to use it (and with real names, which was even worse), and b_ stop halfway and claim "it's not a social network, it's an identity service", essentially giving up.

Had Google stuck to the "Facebook for those that hate Facebook", I think it could have worked.

[1] http://xkcd.com/918
I would have used a G+ without the 'real name' policy right from the start. By the time they relaxed the policy, it was too late.
In some cases yes, but if your counterparty is Facebook (or commercial svc) you don't have any negotiating power. Either you accept their terms or don't use their Service
Is this built on top of the standard Unix "diff" program?
I misunderstood the instructions. I have to hold the Esc key down to type red text (with a bit of black here and there at the top).

I'm pretty sure the old typewriter I played with as a child didn't have a "shift" key for that but a toggle switch of some sort. I am also pretty sure that I could type a lot faster on that than I can on this simulation. (I took typewriting lessons at school as an elective.)

(I think it might have been an old Remington and I think my parents bought it used.)
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The entire purpose of G+ was as a reaction to Facebook and it was largely a clone of Facebook. It's not like they were developing their own product and just got screwed by timing, the entire concept and project was only possible in a Facebook-dominated world. Sure, if someone who cloned Product X had been able to release before that product, it would be better for them, but they never had the original idea so it seems moot.

I think it basically was the social reasons. The name is really clunky and corporate. It was never that cool or exciting to people. The lack of original inspiration and the obvious ham-handed attempt to move people from Facebook just made it fall flat.
Well, it makes sense that it'd be Dublin. More than likely you were seeing people who live in more deprived parts of the city. I can't say I've seen many children around Dublin dressed like that, mainly teenagers and younger adults.

I hope you'd a good time while you were here! I recommend you see some other parts of the country. For instance, Cork and Galway are great cities.
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Indeed, it broke Google's #1 rule for new products; make something 10x (i.e. substantially) better.

Google+ was great. It just didn't do a much better job of solving a problem that Facebook already had.

One strategy would have been to integrate Google+ into Google Contacts, Photos, Messaging, basically forcing people to integrate their social network into their phone and gmail contacts, messaging etc... People would have been pissed, but it would have actually provided a unique utility (one place for all your social interactions).

A bold move is what it takes to dethrone a king.
I'd say Elon's learned a lesson from Nikola Tesla. If a genuinely good tech company is also able to market itself really well, I'm not going to complain. I'm going to invest.
There's no complexity to combining characters, it's something that's been there all along. What's the technical difference between e becoming é and [boy] becoming [black boy]? There isn't one is the answer Both U+1F3FB "EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-1-2" and U+00B4 "ACUTE ACCENT" are non-reorderable modifier symbols. U+00B4 is somewhat more complex actually, because it's a diacritic with Break_Before linebreak and specific arabic shaping.
Ask HN: How to deal with a hard to work with Start-up CEO?
The problem - Anger management, blames people for things when they go wrong. Unreasonable work expectations for product features and expectations that a person would be available anytime/any day weekends including to do work and support. Does not pay properly or on time. Does not communicate properly on what is happening at the high level. In short, someone for whom you will find it hard to work for even if you like the problem the company is trying to solve and doing your best for its success.

Potential solution - Quit. But this would burn a lot of fingers/relationships and put the company in a spot since I'm pretty sure most things will break if I leave. There are no processes in place for anything. I manage a lot of things and am overworked with little time for anything else.

Been a few years, the start-up still is in the product development phase and there have been good results for whatever has been in the market. Product market fit is yet to be achieved but I believe is possible if people continue working nicely. But with tensions running high, I wonder if that would work out.
> Side note: drops like this have occurred in other fields at different times. Psychology actually ended up losing a lot of men in the 70s, while women increased. I am sure we could find a few other examples as well.

Absolutely. Many researchers compare those shifts with changing attitudes towards certain professions (say, by counting certain words when they're described in the media etc.), with women participation usually correlated negatively with prestige.

In any case, much of the distinction between masculine and feminine professions is traced back to Victorian times. Of course, similar differences have existed much longer than that and in many cultures, but the Victorians elevated the distinction between gender roles into an elaborate system of social codes (e.g. they had certain rooms in the house more appropriate for men to spend time in, and other for women).
I'm not sure how this ended up on the front page... I thought we already decided that Mars One is a giant scam: http://www.iflscience.com/space/whats-going-mars-one
OP is in complete and utter denial.
Yeah, it's called a startup. Amazon has similarly avoided making profits while it can roll money back into expanding its dominance. The key is to articulate and stick to a long-term plan.
That's a problem which has existed since Unicode 1.0. That you weren't aware of it before does not make your past code correct.

Hell, now, 24 years late, you finally know about that issue and with a bit of luck you may not fuck it up next time you're doing that. That sounds like a great result to me.
When G+ launched people were primed to move away from Facebook. When people saw that G+ was both twitter and facebook in a single package they were wowed.

G+ was ready to succeed big.

RealNames killed G+, the most transparently Moronic decision of the last decade or so in tech
Woah didn't know that. Thanks!
> In the third grade she invented a pair of reading glasses with lightbulbs on them. In the fourth grade she developed a robot to carry firewood. In the fifth grade she cultured bacteria from her mouth and a dog’s to see which was cleaner.

Sheesh, who didn't do that?
More recent than that, you can point to Lincoln, who engaged in bedsharing with another man and wrote some (by modern standards) quite suggestive comments about the other man's thighs. It's been claimed that Lincoln was bisexual, but I don't think it's a common theory among historians.

The range of acceptable "straight" behavior has greatly narrowed in the modern west. I've read that in India, it's still absolutely unremarkable for two men to walk down the streets holding hands, even though homosexuality is vastly less accepted than in the US.
It's not, jameshart just learned about something which has been an issue in reversing unicode text since 1991.

So yay for unicode skin tones I say, just as emoji brought to light all the broken handling of astral characters out there, skin tones might finally bring some light to combining characters for all the anglo-centric developers out there who couldn't be arsed to learn about the issue when it didn't affect them.
I really liked: The bakery culture for breakfasts, good and fresh seafood (if you're okay with eating whale, there's that too), a bit of variety in the diners and fast food places. We hit up a Chipotle-esque place called Serrano that wasn't bad, for instance.

Additionally, in the last few years though there's been a bit of foodie revolution; Kex hostel has some pretty solid dining at their in-house restaurant, and there are a number of 'American New' places sprouting up, both diner- and pub-style.

Anyway, I agree, Iceland was magical. The people were so, so great, the country was gorgeous and full of history, and (for my money) the food wasn't half bad.
What did you dislike about the food?
"Potential solution - Quit. But this would burn a lot of fingers/relationships and put the company in a spot since I'm pretty sure most things will break if I leave. There are no processes in place for anything. I manage a lot of things and am overworked with little time for anything else."

You may think this, but the company will find someone to replace you. From what you described, you should quit. Chances are, it's not going to get any better. People (especially people in power) don't just change overnight and will most likely try to get you fired if you go against them (I've seen it happen too many times).
The food is getting better! :)
So how do you like the new Apple Music?
It's linked in the article, but worth reading:

* "Mars One Finalist Explains Exactly How It‘s Ripping Off Supporters": https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously...

> No money, no process, no explanation: An insider speaks out on the hopelessly flawed scheme.

* iflscience coverage: http://www.iflscience.com/space/whats-going-mars-one (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250474 (81 points, 132 days ago, 23 comments))
I know some of the people who made it, and I assure you that they very much built this with a hacker spirit.
The Shrimp Boat has a weird, mystical allure.
You don't need infinite resources for a finite amount of people. You are exaggerating the choice.

The point is that you don't need to give up a younger Bill Gates for an older one.

As for the impact of his accomplishments, I think we'll need to wait until the end to evaluate it. You could argue that saving millions of lives and offering tens of millions better, healthier lives is more impactful.
Not always. http://emojipedia.org/woman/ Apple made the woman always white, until the newest iOSes.

But I agree, who really cares about the race of their emoticons?
I don't think I block you on Twitter.
Again, no one cares about gingers.
I don't really get the idea either, emojis are used to represent emotion not skin color (that's why it's called emoji in the first place...) if people want it black or replace them with cat faces, it should be up to them. What's the benefit of specifying explicitly that they should be displayed black ?
That's possible, but it would have required proper execution from the Buzz, and later, the G+ team. From a security / privacy point of view Buzz was worse than Facebook almost instantly, though it clearly tried to emulate Twitter feature-wise. Considering that the security / privacy angle was the reason most people who didn't like Facebook didn't like Facebook, Buzz failed miserably, exposing conversations and connections that its users didn't want exposed. That was even more of a mistake than the real names issue as it instantly destroyed credibility in the network (at that time I don't even think Buzz had been completely rolled out). At that point, at least, a shrewd executive would have realized Google's inability to deliver a proper social network (as if the Youtube social experience didn't already indicate this) and not started G+. Either way you look at it, G+ was an avoidable failure with years of warnings that it would fail and at least one defining failed preceding network (two if you include Youtube).
It's so refreshing to see a video like this have over a million views. Really love the stuff Vsauce puts out - this might be his best yet.
Resources are scarce; their use must be prioritized. The answer to the difficult question of how to apportion health spending is not to take offense at being asked. You don't get to take that way out; it's not an option.
Yes, if you have to treat everyone with Alzheimer's or cancer, that could be expensive. On their the hand, once you develop inexpensive cures, it's not such a burden.
I'm not against emoticon even if I don't like, for instance, all the big emoticon that facebook uses, but I like using a few like :P or ;). My point is that it's should stay like it is currently with a combination of ascii symbol instead of adding unicode character for each face, emotions, things that exist in the world.
Sadness: Well, it turns out we don't really exist. So long, nice knowing you all...

Fear: W-We're being wiped from EXISTENCE?!

Joy: Hey, it isn't that bad! Riley can still feel each of us, so we're real!

Anger: Hey! Who are you to tell us what we are and aren't? You're cruisin' for a broccoli pizza stuffed right up your--

Disgust: Relax, they're scientists. They always have to ruin everything.
Wouldn't another moral be that not all immigration waves bring the same kind of people ? Immigrants from asia have, everywhere ( to my knowledge), brang people that work hard, have children that do great at school, and only protest to ask for more police force rather than less (true story from a recent protest in the belleville district in Paris, because chineese (sometimes illegal) immigrants were often attacked by north-africans that stole their bags, knowing they wouldn't go see the police).
"Mars One did certainly request donations along with 75 percent of any proceeds from participants’ media interviews, but this had no impact on Sonia’s selection that we could see."

this is denial. if it isn't, it's a giant red flag at the very least.
Do emojis always look the same or are there different sets? I often wonder if the emotion that I feel some icon perfectly shows, will be displayed the same way at the recipient. I know that fonts and icon sets are usually different per app. Is it just as unpredictable here?
Please specify whether you would like a EMOJI MODIFIER NECKBEARD, an EMOJI MODIFIER STALLMAN, or a EMOJI MODIFIER ROCKSTAR.
It wasn't just real names though.

I agree the world was ready for a Facebook/Twitter hybrid network with the semi-anonymity of twitter but the interactive capabilities of Facebook.

In fact, I think it still is TBH.

But Google+ also integrated into your email and all other Google products. It was like Facebook but without the walled garden.

So yes, real names were a part of it but Google really wanted 'real everything', which was presumably to increase the users juicy ad relevance.

The 'real everything' thing had another effect - confusion. Google+ to comment on YouTube? I had friends literally not know Google owned YouTube, so when they needed this account to set up channels and comment they rightly noped out of there.

The name, Google Plus, didn't help. It was never its 'own' thing - it sort of 'was' Google, and Google is massive and has many services. If they have even limited it to a semi-walled garden network they might have had some success with real names, but so open, so interconnected and pervasive was just asking for failure.

They do have a chance still though. Get rid of real names, make it a separate network walled off from the rest of Google properties, still public like twitter but with the granularity of circles for semi-private stuff and it'll fly.

It's really a good service, much better than Twitter and despite the more 'anonymous' nature of the network it would still keep laying the golden advertising egg for them.
Understood, but its not that google went social that was a problem, it was that they had no vision about how to do it in the first place. They perfectly executed their vision to create a social network, but people already had that.

It has little to do with egos and everything to do with bad planning and a panicked knee-jerk response to the crisis at hand.
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You might have a point, but why would, for instance, iOS uses its own proprietary emojis if everybody that has Android cannot see them?
Google would not help as people rarely hit the web to know more. If at all, current web with Twitter and Facebook in there would further ease spreading hoaxes. And we do see so many examples of that every now and then.