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Ask HN: How does your product/service improve quality of life?
Just curious to see what people are working on.
- esbranson 13y ago> Just curious to see what people are working on. I am working on developing a toolchain for consumption of Akoma Ntoso legal documents, my first target being NLTK for some natural language processing. I have not released anything really usable as-of-yet. (I had to choose a file format that could support everything, and it seems that every player is hellbent on creating their own custom XML format, so I chose something with international appeal and government backing. Mind you I only discovered Akoma Ntoso like 4 months ago, and I've been working on this since like 2009-2010 when California was forced in a lawsuit to allow people to download the law, which was as far as I can tell the first time any law was downloadable in bulk for free on the Internet. It also started out as a learning experience in programming more than anything else, trying different techniques and APIs etc.) > How does your product/service improve quality of life? My hope is that my work improves your quality of life by helping keep you sane, out of prison, and focused on things that matter. * California Codes: ~ 150,000 sections * United States Code: ~ 50,000 or something * Code of Federal Regulations: ~ 20,000 or something * California Code of Regulations: ~ 15,000 or something Keep in mind that you won't know a section will not send you to prison until after you've read it. And let's not lie: you've never read it.
- AznHisoka 13y agoMy product helps people make more money which they can use to improve the quality of life ^_^. That's that simple!