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As others have said, it does not really make sense to search by ZIP code for most consumers. Your chicken could come from anywhere. This is meant to check the processor for a specific package of chicken.

There are more complaints than that, but these are all closed complaints for any officer who has had at least one substantiated allegation. It's only a fraction.

Not to be overlooked: ProPublica actually constructed a 3D version of the navigation system's control board: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-reconstructed-the-...

Yup! We use it for a bunch of things, and I thought: what if I just dumped all this into it?

The IRS puts them on an s3 bucket: https://docs.opendata.aws/irs-990/readme.html

There are 2018 filings in there, but many charities have fiscal years that end in Dec. IIRC, they generally file within 6 months. Given things like human error, bureaucracy and filing extensions... more should start rolling in over time.

That's super weird! Comes up when I search other text in their form too. I'm gonna flag this and take a look tomorrow. Thanks!

This is neat! I thought about extracting the grants (still might), but full-text seemed like good bang for the buck. Your tools sound like they might be very useful for reporters. Have you given any thought to that? We love mapping these sorts of connections.

Those are good suggestions! I'm planing to add sorting by year, but revenue makes sense as well.

There are already some 2018 forms in there, but it's based on fiscal year. So a nonprofit whose FY is Dec 2018 would have had to just file last month -- and sometimes they file late or get extensions. And again, this only covers e-filed forms -- they could file on paper, in which case you'd have to use the nonprofit name search and check for a filing.

Yup. We’ve been using this data for a while to render e-filed 990s on our site and to extract highly paid employees. Now we just strip the markup out and toss it all into elasticsearch for search. It’s really interesting to surface things like grants.

I will say for personal analysis that the schema has a habit of changing, and things like grants can appear in multiple places depending on the context. What’s more, just 2/3rds of nonprofits e-file now (and I’m sure fewer and fewer the further back you go) Just some things to look out for.

If you’re interested in processing the 990 XML data though, check out the truly excellent irsx: https://github.com/jsfenfen/990-xml-reader

Oh hey I built this. Let me know if you have any questions about how it works.

Edit: wrote a little bit about that here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20141744

The page you found is a different page, not related to the IRS' "free file"/FFA program for those who make under a certain amount. See previous coverage here: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you...

The only way to get information about their web host is to submit to Cloudflare's abuse form, which, well...

What? AWS and GoDaddy are not terribly expensive. GoDaddy is incredibly common. I don't know about Rackspace. Together they make up a large chunk of the Internet as we know it.

According to GoDaddy, AWS and Rackspace, it is not. Not for non-DMCA complaints, anyway.

Side note: I wrote this.

You really never realized that? It's been the stated reason for people opting out for a while now. It takes PRISM for it to sink in?

Yeesh.

Indeed. If you look at the screenshot, it looks like they showed Twitter that they would embed a video, but if you follow the URL they're embedding, it goes to the now-banned implementation - https://ribbon.co/086f0a?twitter=true

Maybe it's just an old screenshot though. I don't know.

I'm also interested to hear how this happened.

You misread the post. He didn't query data about an Android app.

You really think $33 million is a reasonable number for building a web interface to existing data? Please, hire me for your next job.

And I'll just leave this here: https://github.com/ireapps/census

Sounds like some dirty business. Hope someone helps.

Woah, the /indexes/ url just blew my mind; so it just gives you the last update on that date?

Just bought it and it works very well. And it's open source, which is refreshing for an app store app.

From his Twitter account: "We've got hundreds of orders waiting to be filled and I'm not sure what else to do. Does anyone know of a way to contact support?"

Google's automated support system strikes again.

I know this guy's being downvoted here, but he's got a point. I find people on nice, big cinema displays tend to make choices on colors and labeling that people with shittier monitors wouldn't make. Eg, colors that are very close, tinier labels, etc.

Thanks for the post. If you're interested in the primary elections, check out our maps, powered by python-elections: http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-gop-results-map-ne...

And of course, I'll answer any questions you've got.

Probably not. The guy who authored the blog post says that Google Maps use in Android apps won't be bound, I imagine the same would be true for iOS: https://twitter.com/thormitchell/status/129665976001236994

This doesn't actually work on a phone, and supposedly the company pushes a solution for "creating responsive websites"?

Cool.

That was my fault. I originally wrote the hed as "FTC Complaint: Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security", which I thought would get around people reading just the "Dropbox Lied To Users" part. PG changed it to the hed from the article, I suppose to make sure nobody thought the complaint originated from the FTC.

I actually built this, so if you have any questions, shoot.

A few interesting links:

* A teacher with a few more observations http://projects.latimes.com/value-added/teacher/miguel-angel...

* A page where you can see the same teacher under multiple statistical models: http://projects.latimes.com/value-added/value-added-comparis...

* A page for a school, where you can compare how API and value-added ratings match up: http://projects.latimes.com/value-added/school/pacoima/hille...

* And here is the page of teacher response: http://projects.latimes.com/value-added/responses/page/1/

FTA: "The top 5 can be discarded because of obviously faulty entries in the database (as much as I would like there to be a company that pays the average software engineer 1.8 million USD a year!). The first legit average seems to be the three Citigroup analysts making an average of roughly $450K."