FISA Court Tracker
Security and privacy
government transparency monitoring
SHOW HN2013
82points
17comments
#296of 1,739 in 2013
Top 18%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
7 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.46.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Public service that breaks news faster than the press
From 4 comments
Thanks for doing this! I don't know what to expect, but it's nice to have the cameras rolling.
b6 on HNVery cool! I will follow @FISACourt on twitter after a suitable amount of time has lapsed so that this account and my twitter account are less likely to be chronologically…
wavefunction on HNGreat idea! Watching the watchers is a valuable public service. Cheers!
pivnicek on HNThis is a smart idea. All the power to you.
unreal37 on HN
Useful watchdog for the watchers
From 1 comment
Great idea! Watching the watchers is a valuable public service. Cheers!
pivnicek on HN
Objections
Five-minute polling is not truly real-time
From 1 comment
I guess we need to look for the buzzword "push" rather than "realtime" now-a-days. At least, that's closer to how I use "realtime", rather than 5 minutes mechanical polling.…
klapinat0r on HN
Requests
Archive every newly linked document
From 1 comment
If you aren't archiving every newly linked document, I'd like to suggest you do so. You never know when a site like that is going to publish something that they later retract,…
Amadou on HN
Questions
Whether polling every 5 minutes respects the site's crawl rules
From 1 comment
To clearify, I wasn't critiquing your approach, just the phrasing. What you're doing is how it should be done for sources you don't have direct access to. I'd use 10 minutes…
klapinat0r on HN
Alternatives named
PlainSite court records
From 1 comment
Excellent work. I'm slowly adding entries on PlainSite... http://www.plainsite.org/courts/index.html?id=223 http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2487124
thinkcomp on HN