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Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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None of the data points are appearing on the chart when I look at it. I'm using Safari 5. Sounds like a cool idea - but right now it's a pain to have to keep downloading the PDF to see the chart.

Most likely the problem is with parsing the date string. I can fix it if anyone knows which Date string format Safari 5 supports.

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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I commend you for using to link the markers to the items. Image maps... wow that takes me back to 1999. I can't believe people still remember how to use them. Of course you can't do any rollover effects with them, but otherwise it seems like a pretty quick and effective solution for the interface you wanted to make. When I first saw this I thought the Google Chart API had maybe changed to add JavaScript-based interactions.

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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post #25

The server currently appears to be serving everything up as text/plain. Has been doing (for me, at least) for at least the last 5 minutes or so. [EDITED after redpill fixed the server: yup, it's fine again now.]

I have just updated the http headers the server sends. Please, could you check now?

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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post #24

I commend you for using to link the markers to the items. Image maps... wow that takes me back to 1999. I can't believe people still remember how to use them. Of course you can't do any rollover effects with them, but otherwise it seems like a pretty quick and effective solution for the interface you wanted to make. When I first saw this I thought the Google Chart API had maybe changed to add JavaScript-based interac…

Well, the Google Chart API actually supports JS-based interactive charts: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/index.html

However, I use the static image version + since the JS version of the scatter chart is missing some features (no alpha channel, fixed marker size).

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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What will be really cool is to see how the "hide comment scores" effect looks using this (assuming at some point they will be able to collect that). I think the one liner type comments might show a big drop.

The switch happened in mid-May, 2011 (I don't remember the actual date). My scores went up slightly, but using this tool it's impossible to tell (since the limit is 100). I tried to change the limit in the HTML file using firebug, but I guess there's a server-side check for that (good!). Anyone care to hook against the API?
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