schwanksta

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by schwanksta 5y ago
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.
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The Smoke Comes Every Year. Sugar Companies Say the Air Is Safe(projects.propublica.org)
2 points by schwanksta 5y ago|1 comments
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by schwanksta 6y ago
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.
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What Coronavirus Job Losses Reveal About Racism in America(projects.propublica.org)
3 points by schwanksta 6y ago|0 comments
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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-...
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by schwanksta 7y ago
Yup! We use it for a bunch of things, and I thought: what if I just dumped all this into it?
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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 t
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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!
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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 so
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by schwanksta 7y ago
Those are good suggestions! I'm planing to add sorting by year, but revenue makes sense as well.
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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-file
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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 l
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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
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by schwanksta 7y ago
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/turbo
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by schwanksta 9y ago
The only way to get information about their web host is to submit to Cloudflare's abuse form, which, well...
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by schwanksta 9y ago
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.
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by schwanksta 9y ago
According to GoDaddy, AWS and Rackspace, it is not. Not for non-DMCA complaints, anyway. Side note: I wrote this.
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by schwanksta 13y ago
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.
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by schwanksta 13y ago
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
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by schwanksta 14y ago
I'm also interested to hear how this happened.
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by schwanksta 14y ago
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://g
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by schwanksta 14y ago
Sounds like some dirty business. Hope someone helps.
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by schwanksta 14y ago
Woah, the /indexes/ url just blew my mind; so it just gives you the last update on that date?
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by schwanksta 14y ago
Just bought it and it works very well. And it's open source, which is refreshing for an app store app.
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by schwanksta 14y ago
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.
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Google Checkout locks out The Oatmeal(twitter.com)
4 points by schwanksta 14y ago|2 comments
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by schwanksta 15y ago
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 la
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Twitter stores full iPhone contact list for 18 months, after scan(latimes.com)
1 points by schwanksta 15y ago|0 comments
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by schwanksta 15y ago
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.
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by schwanksta 15y ago
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

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