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Some government call centers got mistakenly labeled ‘Spam Likely’. People were denied food stamps and other benefits for missing phone interviews from these numbers.

Took a long time to clear up in California.

I love it.

I have a question about the company in the article, HiQ. Their website says they identify flight risks. Does that mean if your company has a contract with them, then they will notify your boss if your LinkedIn looks like you are job hunting? Haters.

This Twitter account is tweeting the diary out a few sentences at a time. I've been following it for a while, with out knowing much about who Samuel Pepys was. https://twitter.com/samuelpepys

Big Sign always gets a piece.

How can I return all my Nest products in the United States? Any EU-like laws apply here?

I've gotten beer and wine delivered through Amazon from Whole Foods. They had to check my id at my door.

I think it varies by state law.

> Would those angry Googlers be against surgically killing Osama?

They most likely don't want to work for a company involved in any killing.

The trailer for the Netflix Barack Obama movie "Barry" is showing the description and cover art for the HBO tv show "Barry".

Ouch

We're on AWS GovCloud and our S3 is all good. GovCloud is its own region.

If they have a felony, then there is a process already for getting it reduced. http://myprop47.org/change-my-record/

If they were arrested recently though, or less than a felony, then I'm not sure.

I'm an engineer at Code for America - https://www.codeforamerica.org/ - a non-profit that does this kind of work with cities, counties, and states.

Its still pretty early days for civic technology. I think we'll see tech provide all the services you listed, eventually. It'll probably be a mix of outside vendors and local governments running their own engineering teams. There are still some legal barriers in the way, procurement for example.

Its happening, just slowly.

If you are interested in speeding up the progress of your city, I'd recommend checking out if there are any civic tech volunteer groups near you. https://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/

We'll just need our own swarm of drones to protect us from these ones. In Neal Stephenson's [Diamond Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age) each neighborhood has an invisible border of these murder drones that won't let you pass.

I was thinking of making exactly this for GitHub. I'm still just doing some research on what would be useful.

Mind if I contact you to ask some questions? It'd be real quick.

You all are tripping. You've decided that those women were being patronized? Thats where you start from, your own bias?

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/697237904662204416

Great!

We made a similar service for civic tech projects, pulling from a long list of volunteer groups and non-profits. It only shows the "help wanted" labels. http://www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues

This article is about Seattle trying to slow the rising number of families being gentrified out of their homes and long standing communities. The nostalgia of not taking your kids out of their current school? The nostalgia of not having a new crazy commute? There is real pain happening to real people.

Who is getting this great benefit that is so ridiculous?

My favorite open source City application is http://cityofasheville.github.io/simplicity-ui/#/search

It's the friendliest version of open data I've seen.

Now locals should fill out the rest of Detroit on the U.S. City Open Data Census. http://us-city.census.okfn.org/

Then you can see how it compares to other cities and have some good conversations with city departments on how to improve the quality of the data they do release.

An aside: Some group was pretending to be Code for Hong Kong and was spreading a fake messaging app. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1594667/fake-occu...

You can read about a tear down of the fake app at https://code4hk.hackpad.com/Fake-Code4HK-Mobile-App-HQXXrylI...

Check out http://codeforamerica.org/brigade to see if there is an organized group of volunteers doing exactly that in your city.

The Playbook http://playbook.cio.gov/ and TechFAR http://playbook.cio.gov/techfar/

Both also available on GitHub