Seems to be unfinished as in the UI.
You are probably missing some of the static resources. I am still getting 503 and 522 for several requests.
USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
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Re: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
#32Before anyone goes putting a ton of trust in these charts... Compare the following: http://usafacts.org/metrics/31815 vs http://usafacts.org/metrics/12966 In the second chart half a million more people decide to die every 10th year? ( imgur link to screenshots in case the links don't work: http://imgur.com/a/tY02j )
> In the second chart half a million more people decide to die every 10th year? Or it's from another source that gives different metrics obtained every 10 years (e.g. from census) with some extrapolation? In any case, the differences are small in this instance over the long run, it's the lack of source and other metadata that its more troubling.
Why would it extrapolate 25% lower values on all other years? If the 10th years are the actual data points, the computed trend line through only census years shouldn't be so radically different from the drawn markers.
In any case, the differences are small in this instance over the long run
The differences in those years are _huge_.
Re: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
#33For such a simple looking website, the page performance itself is awfully slow. From the markup, it appears to use React (bias confirmed).
Given the amount of media attention it garnered in the last 48 hours it's very likely the website is under significant load.
Re: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
#34503: Service Unavailable
Is CloudFlare flagging a HN stampede as a DDoS?
No.
The site has probably configured themselves as "I'm under attack" as that will challenge almost everyone and ease load from their servers of bots (and those hitting F5 from the outset).
They're clearly on fire whilst they scale up, and I would expect that once they've got past the first week they'll ease up on the Cloudflare security level and challenges.
Re: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
#35Before anyone goes putting a ton of trust in these charts... Compare the following: http://usafacts.org/metrics/31815 vs http://usafacts.org/metrics/12966 In the second chart half a million more people decide to die every 10th year? ( imgur link to screenshots in case the links don't work: http://imgur.com/a/tY02j )
Isn't this just likely to be caused by the census data?
You mean people are more likely to die in census years? I mean, it could be true, but I'm not willing to bet on it.
[edit] So I went and put "why is death rate higher in census years?" into the google search bar, and the first result is "Causes of Death - Census". I didn't actually click on the link to find out, but that title certainly sounds like the census kills people. So maybe you're right. :)
Re: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
#36For such a simple looking website, the page performance itself is awfully slow. From the markup, it appears to use React (bias confirmed).
Given the amount of media attention it garnered in the last 48 hours it's very likely the website is under significant load.
I mean the page performance is poor after everything has loaded which shouldn't be affected by the amount of traffic.
Re: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
#37It's funny that it says 'four missions', but I only count 2 in the quote of the constitution... wow, it's still beta indeed.
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Re: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
#40I'm intrigued by the way they broke down the top-level categories for Federal spending: they used Constitutional phrases, which I haven't seen used this way before (at least not exact quotes, which look so antiquated): https://usafacts.org/the-big-picture?return_to=%2Fgovernment...
I know a lot of people would argue (reasonably) that all government spending should be clearly categorizable under such things, but not that they are.
It reminds me of the "ends policy monitoring" used by a non-profit I'm involved in. The staff pulls out each clause in our end goal ("Ends") policy and breaks down our activities based on those categories.
I'm wondering if this is something Ballmer got from corporate governance. It was new to me when we first started doing it. At any rate, I like it.