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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 speci…

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 g…

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. …

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 lat…

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 elasticse…

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.propublic…

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 imple…

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 …

Sounds like some dirty business. Hope someone helps.