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by sakai 14y ago
Yeah, I go back and forth on it. It just looks visually unbalanced without some kind of weight in the globe IMO.
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by sakai 14y ago
Aesthetics?
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by sakai 14y ago
So... that should be fixed by making only a single JSONP request. The downside is that it now may miss a few quakes that are over the 5.5 threshold but USGS has not rated as significant (e.g., some offshore quakes I believe). Let me know --
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by sakai 14y ago
Thanks! Yeah... I'm trying to fix that bug (related again to JSONP), but wanted to post it here in the meantime. And planning to move from circles -> svg:paths with the next D3.js release (they've rewritten / fixed the geographic clippi
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by sakai 14y ago
Indeed. It's actually updating the origin of the map projection with the animation, so it will always be spinning eastwards. That's why the globe will rotate clockwise if you center over the North Pole. All of this can be changed in the JS
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by sakai 14y ago
And -- what kind of geo work do you do?
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by sakai 14y ago
Yeah... that's a bug that I haven't been able to squash yet. Particularly with high latency, it will sometimes fail to load the JSONP from the USGS. Because JSONP is a <script> and I'm not properly catching the thrown error that cau
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Show HN: Weekend project, D3.js Globe of Recent Earthquakes(boydgreenfield.com)
79 points by sakai 14y ago|29 comments
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by sakai 14y ago
I'll consider that a challenge... To any that have experience getting comments data from HN -- what's the fastest, most polite way to do this? And am I correct in remembering that there's some aggressive rate-limiting for crawling the site?
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by sakai 14y ago
Indeed. Definitely on the list. (And thanks!).
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Show HN: Gosper Glider Gun, D3.js Conway's Game of Life(boydgreenfield.com)
3 points by sakai 14y ago|0 comments
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by sakai 14y ago
Bizarre / incredible timing. I just created an interactive D3.js implementation of Conway's Game of Life yesterday: http://boydgreenfield.com/conwayjs/ Would love to hear peoples' thoughts... (And sorry for the promotion)
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3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith(wired.com)
43 points by sakai 14y ago|48 comments
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My plant’s big on Twitter(thames2thayer.com)
2 points by sakai 14y ago|0 comments
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by sakai 14y ago
Looks awesome. One really minor nit (only bringing it up because it's odd / looks like there's a +1 floating around somewhere): In the HTML5 version (latest Safari, Mac OS X) there's a small black band to the left of the video that is NOT i
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by sakai 14y ago
Do they do a waitlist for this event?
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Get Ready For Branding’s New Frontier: Hedge Funds(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by sakai 14y ago|0 comments
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by sakai 14y ago
"Script with humans" made me shiver a bit. Evocative copy to be sure, but perhaps a bit too Orwellian.
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by sakai 14y ago
I hate to say this, but I found this article absolutely terrible. All of these "Martin Luther King IS ...", "George Washington WAS ...", etc. statements (form: Noun TO BE Adj.), really remind me of the arguments in favor of E-Prime and its
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by sakai 14y ago
I like the idea, and know a number of people that would be keen to use it on both the supply and demand sides. Note that this is a bit similar to Zozi's "Gurus": www.zozi.com Worth poking around and understanding if those economics have wor
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Prisoner's Dilemma Solved(feeds.technologyreview.com)
35 points by sakai 14y ago|5 comments
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Uberdata: Building the Perfect Uber Party City(blog.uber.com)
4 points by sakai 14y ago|0 comments
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by sakai 14y ago
Thank you... and sorry for the rant but -- the word "pedantic" is incredibly overused of late on this site. According to some quick Google site: searches: WORD USE ON HACKER NEWS pedantic 3340 thoughtful 37
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by sakai 14y ago
Ok, that's awesome. Link to just the finished cube/game (for iOS devices especially): http://html5rubik.com/tutorial/step3/index.html
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Sqrrl: Unlock the Power of Big Data(sqrrl.co)
2 points by sakai 14y ago|0 comments
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by sakai 14y ago
Sqrrl?
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by sakai 14y ago
And no green flag in the right margin for me... :( (Latest Safari on Lion)
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by sakai 14y ago
Nice, was just looking for something like this. Thanks!
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Double-Protected Bank Clients Tricked by $78M Crimeware Scam(m.wired.com)
1 points by sakai 14y ago|0 comments
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by sakai 14y ago
Since nobody has said it yet... the Development Seed team is awesome. First MapBox, now this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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