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The United States Code
9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2012-05-13 · latest 2013-07-31
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…is reflowed, because every line in a paragraph will show up as changed for a small change. Example: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode/commit/1fb2d83137dad1c6ca... What's happened is that "Section 2" was moved later in the sentence,…
comment by mjn · 2013-07-31 · in The entire US Code is now online in XML -
Check out the Obamacare blip: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode/graphs/code-frequency
comment by shawkinaw · 2013-07-31 · in The entire US Code is now online in XML -
This is currently done via scraping: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode The diffs are huge.
comment by sc68cal · 2013-07-31 · in The entire US Code is now online in XML -
…atrocious. Law is code. Why haven't we fixed this yet? You might be interested in this experiment: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode (Federal code, not state.)
comment by sigil · 2013-06-21 · in NY auto dealers trying to shut down Tesla Motors in NY -
You mean except for this? https://github.com/divegeek/uscode Honest question, did you even search for reasons that this would be feasible or did you just rush in to make an anti-US comment?
comment by drstewart · 2012-08-08 · in Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked -
…to have these in revision control, their format won't work as-is. Take this change for instance: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode/commit/4b58ecaa6a6ea4b158... Lots and lots of lines that don't change anything useful, and then the one…
comment by there · 2012-05-25 · in Github: United States Code -
Adoption is the problem. The US Code already is on GitHub — https://github.com/divegeek/uscode — but it's only a mirror. There's also the Sunlight Foundation's OpenCongress http://www.opencongress.org/ which provides a nice way to track a…
comment by alecperkins · 2012-05-13 · in GitLaw: GitHub For Laws And Legal Documents - A Tourniquet For American Liberty -
…scrapes the US Code and mirrors it. He even tags the changes so you can diff them quite easily. https://github.com/divegeek/uscode
comment by sc68cal · 2012-05-13 · in GitLaw: GitHub For Laws And Legal Documents - A Tourniquet For American Liberty