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redpill27··on The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
This should be fixed now.
redpill27··on The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
Well, the Google Chart API actually supports JS-based interactive charts: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/index.html

However, I use the static image version + <map> since the JS version of the scatter chart is missing some features (no alpha channel, fixed marker size).

redpill27··on The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
I have just updated the http headers the server sends. Please, could you check now?
redpill27··on The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
Most likely the problem is with parsing the date string. I can fix it if anyone knows which Date string format Safari 5 supports.
redpill27··on The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
redpill27··on The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
Done.

http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=tptacek&limit=75

redpill27··on The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
The point values are available through the search API (except the last five days).
redpill27··on Volatile is Evil
This article describes how a volatile variable can be useful when dealing with excess floating-point precision:

http://blog.jagpdf.org/2009/07/avoiding-excess-floating-poin...

redpill27··on Ask HN: What tool, process or habits have boosted your productivity most?
For me it was switching the development environment to emacs -nw (terminal mode) and GNU screen a few years ago. This lets me work from anywhere using just ssh and a decent terminal emulator.
redpill27··on PDFed Hacker News Daily
There is an 'Include comments' checkbox which does exactly this.
redpill27··on PDFed Hacker News Daily
I'm aware of the copyright issue. The app is free and is intended for personal use only so I hope copyright owners mostly won't mind.

Anyway, if someone complains that his/her site is included I will remove it.