Re:Show HN - Rich name popularity analysis via HTML5
by haversine on Friday December 06, 2013 @12:12AM
(#6859505)
While I agree that some better hinting is necessary, there is an About link at the top and it's not that hard to get some details about this project through it.
It's pretty intuitive except when you type a name that is very unpopular as a registered first name with social security (which is where the data comes from according to the blog posts behind the About link)
I thought the same thing about "rich people" - I guess he meant rich as in "rich dataset"
Re:Show HN - Rich name popularity analysis via HTML5
by crazygringo on Friday December 06, 2013 @12:09PM
(#6862132)
Turns out, if your browser isn't wide enough, the About link inexplicably disappears. (1152px is not wide enough, so I never saw it)
But even the About link, once visible, just links to they guy's blog of most recent posts. There is no direct "about" on that page.
It suggests to put in "Rob" as a name. I do, I hit "explore", and it says "Alaska 0" and the map is completely white. I try hitting the down button and the map is still white. I try dragging the slider, and everything's still white, except occasionally some state turns a very light gray. (Chrome on OSX.)
I try putting in multiple names, but it still seems to show only the first one in the map?
This needs some instructions/explanations. And from the HN title, I thought this was going to be something about names most associated with rich people...