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North Korea 'feeding workers crystal meth' to speed up skyscraper project(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by mgalka 10y ago|2 comments
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by mgalka 10y ago
I think the difference is that these companies provide the data to anyone as a service (FB/Google keep it all in house). That said, I agree there's nothing particularly newsworthy in there. These companies have existed for a long
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Analysis of the size of Trump's hands(medium.com)
4 points by mgalka 10y ago|0 comments
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by mgalka 10y ago
Yes. Could have been phrased better, but it's true. For anyone who's read/heard any of his work, it's clear he's not sexist. Think the meaning he had in mind is different from how it comes off.
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by mgalka 10y ago
1. Didn't know Krulwich maintained a blog. It's awesome. 2. I respect that he took the time to write a thoughtful response. But reading the comments, it just looks like your standard troll BS that you see everywhere. Had very litt
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by mgalka 10y ago
> The company said updates to Windows 10 are a choice, not a requirement The other day, I woke up to my computer installing Windows 10 on its own. I was out of commission for hours waiting for it to finish installing, then a few more hou
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by mgalka 10y ago
For any D3 users, there is a superformula plugin. Very handy. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1020902
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Gun deaths in America(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mgalka 10y ago|0 comments
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by mgalka 10y ago
The mobile version of the site doesn't work and they only just released a mobile app. That says it all about their lack of focus.
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by mgalka 10y ago
Cool model. Did you look at empirical data to derive the shape of the curve? The output is very different from 538's. Any intuition for what part of the model is behind that?
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by mgalka 10y ago
Cool idea. My sense is that they would catch on before the amounts reached anything substantial, but who knows. Either way, fun as a thought experiment.
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You are surprisingly likely to have a living doppelganger(bbc.com)
1 points by mgalka 10y ago|0 comments
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Mapping the Spread of Slavery Across the US(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by mgalka 10y ago|0 comments
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by mgalka 10y ago
Completely agree. It actually made my site slower, killed many speed optimization I had implemented.
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Trump Force One vs. Air Force One(forbes.com)
1 points by mgalka 10y ago|0 comments
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by mgalka 10y ago
Also used by mapping geeks for 404 pages http://metrocosm.com/asdasdasdasdas/
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by mgalka 10y ago
That is a lot of activity on Hacker News. But I wouldn't put those other sites in the same category as the WSJ. Doesn't look like any of them are even news sites.
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Newspaper publisher arrested after open records request(statesville.com)
3 points by mgalka 10y ago|0 comments
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by mgalka 10y ago
Transylvania just earned my respect
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ISIS's hacking army allegedly part of Russian espionage efforts against the West(observer.com)
7 points by mgalka 10y ago|0 comments
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by mgalka 10y ago
Ha! Don't forget Nobel Prizes.
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by mgalka 10y ago
Thanks. Cool graphic. Had not seen it.
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by mgalka 10y ago
The graphic is a canvas element overlaid on an svg element. I wasn't able to figure out a way of making the whole thing responsive so I just put it in a responsive iframe. I'm sure there is a better solution. Would love to hear if
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by mgalka 10y ago
It's a fair point. An interactive stacked area chart or a dot matrix would give you the freedom to focus in and to take away a lot more information about specific trends. My counter would be that there is more to data visualization tha
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by mgalka 10y ago
I'm impressed by the Hacker News crowd. Pretty cool to see a topic as esoteric (and awesome) as Phoenix / Elm hit the top spot. Very good post!
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by mgalka 10y ago
Yes. It originally did allow you to hover over the countries to see more information. But combined with everything else it required too much memory and caused it to run slow on mobile browsers. Doesn't seem like removing a tooltip shou
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by mgalka 10y ago
This post gives some more information: http://metrocosm.com/animated-immigration-map/ There is a chart showing the major immigration flows as a percentage of U.S. population.
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by mgalka 10y ago
Here is the data source: http://metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/usa-immigrat... The footnotes on page 11 give a good explanation. For the most part, Austria, Hungary, and Poland are broken out s
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by mgalka 10y ago
Thanks. They actually are great circles, generated using arc.js. As they approach the poles the arcs look a little funny, but that is only because it is a cylindrical map projection.
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by mgalka 10y ago
No other js plugin can touch d3. If you have the time to figure it out, it is heads above anything else. The only exceptions are webgl plugins, of which I think three.js is the best, and leaflet for making maps. Having worked with nearly al

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