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I heard this guy talk at this year's Launch.co conference. It's great that people are actively trying to solve California's famous issues, but it's hard not to see the Six California plan as socio-economic gerrymandering. The wealthy Bay Area essentially gets to wash its hands of the less wealthy interior cities. I think there's a better way.

Thanks for the in-depth answer. Was there a hardware access issue here, or did you just write this for the challenge/practice?

This is hilarious. I couldn't get the extension to install, though. Also, you might want to repost it as "Show HN".

This is really cool. Is there a practical reason why you would write a game in assembly (speed? portability?)

Why did you decide to go back and get a second degree in physics (a BS?). Was it to delay your entry into the full-time labor market, or because you are passionate about physics? Also, are you still living in the same city you lived in during college? Have you changed schools?

Would it make sense to mimic attributes present in LinkedIn's JSON structure? Most people already have a LinkedIn profile, and it would be easy to make a tool that exports LinkedIn profiles into you new open standard.

This is an excellent introduction to first and second-order Markov chains. Please re-post once you've got (Python?) code snippets. Gifs are really helpful at illustrating these principles.

There's a typo: You have the word "leaving" twice in a row.

Thanks for catching this. We are constantly scraping like 30 course providers on a weekly basis. A lot of Udemy courses start out free to attract attention, then start charging. I'll get this fixed!

Thanks for your feedback! I just pushed a few changes to address some of these UX shortcomings. I plan to persist things at every step of the account creation wizard. Hopefully that will reduce astonishment.

The job salaries are US-wide median. Many computer science and data science jobs are in large costal cities where the cost of living is higher, so these salary figures are more in line with what you'd get in SF or NY.

Surprised this didn't get more buzz. This is a really cool plug in, apparently made by a 16-year old. Definitely well intended and well executed.

Starbucks is using ASU's famously developed online course infrastructure and its own massive headcount to educate all of its employees in a way that will add little marginal cost for either entity. Thought the normal ASU cost per credit is ~$500, I would be amazed if Starbucks ended up spending even a third of that.

ASU president Michael Crow is profiled positively as one of the more progressive thinkers in higher ed the 2013 book College Unbound: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544027078/ref=as_li_tf_tl?... I wouldn't be surprised if ASU went on to work out a deal with other big retailers that employ a lot of people who haven't finished college yet. ASU's marginal costs will continue to fall as they get more students into the pipes. Walmart, McDonalds and other large employers could be next to partner with them.

Not working in SF.

As for the clips, that was like 90% of the work. I didn't want mediocre results diluting the really good quotes. I was able to scrape some from abandon websites, but I had to capture most of them myself. There are about 22k in total.

It's a rails app using high voltage. After trying Elastic Search, I ultimately went with Algolia for the search.

I'll find and add that Godfather 3 quote. It looks like I accidentally referenced the wrong asset for The Sopranos, but the clip plays fine. I'll fix this with the next push. Thanks for spotting this.

While that may help you in the courtroom, the court of public opinion doesn't wait for a verdict. It confuses silence with guilt. Acquittals are less likely to make front pages than acquittals.

I've updated the app to go ahead and generate a new citation when you change styles. This happens pretty quickly, and this saves the user a click. Thanks for the feedback!

I've fixed this issue.

The BBC doesn't have an author metatag for some reason. I can search for a 'byline' span as a fallback. Thanks for noticing this.

Cool, I didn't realize CrossRef had an API. That will be helpful in troubleshooting DOIs that fail to resolve for me. Thanks for your offer. I'll definitely reach out once I've accumulated some more questions for you.

Wow, I didn't realize IEEE had their own citation format.

Amazon has the ISBN 9781405347587. The only other google result for this is your comment, which Google seems to have already indexed :)

Since Google Books doesn't have that ISBN, I would need 1) fail gracefully instead of giving a citation for the wrong book and 2) have a fallback API. I'm working on both of these. Thanks!

I'm amazed Wikipedia doesn't have a first-party tool for this. I can look into it. I'm trying to keep SpeedCite as simple as possible. If there is demand, I could maybe build a stand-alone app for this?

OK, I've pushed fixes for the DOIs, and the first two DOIs you listed here are working now.

Nevermind - I found it.

Thanks for your feedback! Posting on HN seems to have caused speedcite to exceed Google Scholar's rate limit, so I'll be switching to crossref.org for DOIs. Using the new logic (which I'm about to push), I was able to get the first two DOIs you mentioned, but I couldn't get 10.1073/pnas.1324197111 working on crossref.org or on Google Scholar. Where did you find this DOI? I'd like to figure out a way to support it and its kind.

Do you know where I can find the documentation for this API? I got MLA style working, but I can't get Chicago/Turabian style working. Once I get this working, I plan to switch to this method for DOIs. Thanks!

OK, I've fixed both of these ISBN issues and pushed them to production. So both 014242417X and 978-0142424179, and similar ISBNs, should be no problem.

EasyBib has a ton of features and aims to be as comprehensive as possible, and grants you more low-level control over the end citation. SpeedCite optimizes for speed and simplicity.

If you could link me to an example of a typical legal citation you would use, I can look into it.

I could certainly include it, but doing so is not usually required for MLA, APA or Chicago citations, and it would in many cases, make the citation really long.