My (late) holiday hack
Learning and science
political tracker
SHOW HN2012
40points
22comments
#583of 1,677 in 2012
Top 35%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful to have all information in one place
From 1 comment
Great job! Makes it easy to get all of the information in one place. I just made a call to my representative (whose position was not stated) and the person who answered was "not…
wallawe on HN
Good idea to add election and challenger info
From 1 comment
It might be useful to be able to toggle a "Details of next election" overlay, bringing up info on how vulnerable each representative is in his or her next primary and general…
seagreen on HN
Objections
Representatives' positions are inferred, not stated
From 1 comment
Yes...the low hanging fruit has mostly been collected. The fact of the matter, from what I can tell, is that on any given issue, most representatives won't say what their…
danso on HN
Chin cut off in some portraits
From 1 comment
Nitpick: for some reason everyone's chin is cut off. This is in Opera and Chrome. Otherwise looks really cool!
colanderman on HN
Requests
Add election vulnerability overlay
From 1 comment
It might be useful to be able to toggle a "Details of next election" overlay, bringing up info on how vulnerable each representative is in his or her next primary and general…
seagreen on HN
Add current SOPA status summary
From 1 comment
Another good feature would be a summary of how SOPA currently stands, or a link to a website that has that information and keeps it current. I love HN, but it is NOT the place to…
seagreen on HN
Sort by state
From 1 comment
Suggestion: add sort by state.
science_robot on HN
Questions
Will the site be kept up to date
From 1 comment
Nice holiday hack! Are you planning to keep it up-to-date? I would like to visit it every now and then to track updates along side other sites I have been checking for SOPA…
rosariom on HN
Alternatives named
Library of Congress THOMAS system
From 1 comment
Yep, that was one of my feature creep ideas too: http://sopaopera.org/sopa/ Unfortunately I decided on an ad-hoc database model for "Events" (when I originally just wanted to…
danso on HN