uscode

The United States Code

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The United States Code

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HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-05-13 22:03:00 UTC to 2013-07-31 20:39:12 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
May 2012	2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	1	3
Jun 2012	2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2012	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2012	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Sep 2012	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2012	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2012	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2012	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2013	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2013	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2013	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2013	2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2013	2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jul 2013	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3

What Hacker News says

3 sources

mjn·Jul 31, 2013

Git's built-in diff algorithm is particularly bad for text. Since it's aimed at line-oriented code, it does line-based diffs, which is horrible for ASCII text that 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, abbreviated as "Sec. 2", "of" was deleted, and "act" was capitalized: Section 2 of act July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 674, provided... Act July 30, 1947, ch. 392, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 674, provided... The rest of the paragraph is unchanged, but git shows a 6-line diff with the entire paragraph replaced. GitHub attempts to do some word-based highlighting (see the timestamp lines), but it falls down on most of these paragraphs. Wikipedia's dif

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fing tends to work better for this kind of thing; I'm not sure what they use. The upshot is that the number of lines changed may be a 5-10x overestimate.

In The entire US Code is now online in XML

shawkinaw·Jul 31, 2013

Check out the Obamacare blip: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode/graphs/code-frequency

In The entire US Code is now online in XML

sc68cal·Jul 31, 2013

This is currently done via scraping: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode The diffs are huge.

In The entire US Code is now online in XML