michaelq

You're right - sometimes it will truncate the full subject. I'm looking into fixing this.

I see what you mean. Thanks for catching this! I agree, this needs to be fixed ASAP.

http://www.speedcite.com/?q=9780142424179&f=chi works. I had to remove the dash from the ISBN-14. This is a known issue (as of an hour ago). For the ISBN-10, there's a check digit X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_digit#Design) that I haven't encountered before. Thank you for pointing out these issues!

MLA, APA and Chicago style guides don't recommend including the full domain unless it would be too difficult to otherwise find. Hence the truncation.

Thanks for pointing this out. I thought I'd corrected this problem. I will fix this ASAP!

This works great! I looked into doi.org before but I wasn't sure what their ratelimit is. I'm currently using phantomJS and google scholar for DOIs, and I think I might have hit their rate limit already, so I will take a second look at this!

You're right - I could just pass the variables as JS to the client, then assemble the final citation there. Great idea! Regarding the trailing slash, that's a regex problem, and I will solve it! Nice catch.

If you already have a DOI on your clipboard or are copying it from your text editor, it would save you a few clicks and page loads.

Sciencemag.org uses a special metatag for authors (citation_author). I'm not sure how common this is, but I will add logic to check these. Then SpeedCite would properly cite the author.

From the ISBN alone, it's difficult to differentiate between an electronic book (such as one retrieved by Google Books) and a physical one. Would it be helpful to add a switch allowing you to specify whether you want electronic book citations or print book citations?

Thanks for the feedback. Originally, clicking the style pill button refreshed the citation (in the selected style), which I think is the behavior you're describing. It sounds like I should go back to that behavior.

Sure. Any DOI you pull off of Google scholar should work. Same with ISBNs off the back of any book you have lying around. And it works with most news sites. http://www.speedcite.com/?q=http://www.usatoday.com/story/ne...

About 50,000 PhDs are minted each year in the US. Assuming a working life of 40 years, that means there are about 2 million PhDs in the domestic labor market.

Now take into account that:

1) For profit universities like University of Phoenix also issue PhDs. Most employers don't take them seriously, but USBLS measures them just the same.

2) We're in the midst of the worst job market in generations, and it may quickly become the worst job market since industrialization.

Given these circumstances, having 5,000 people, or about 0.25% of the PhD-holding labor force, working as janitors does not sound like a particularly significant datum for making broader assumptions about the value of the PhD.

ABD stands for "All but Dissertation".

He used his real name. And a distinct name, at that. There are only 8 results on LinkedIn for "Satoshi Nakamoto", and at least one of them is a fake one. If he truly wished to remain anonymous. And despite this, it took journalists 5 years to find him. If he'd made up a name, he could have probably been anonymous for life. But he chose vanity over anonymity. And now he's an outed public figure. He can no longer sue for 'slander' and must instead argue the much more difficult case of 'libel'.

I built an app at the Launch hackathon last weekend that uses sound clips from movies. I'm concerned about fair use and the chilling effect that movie studios could have on using even tiny components of movies (sub 5-second audio clips, or, in this case, stills). Has anyone dealt with these kind of takedown requests first hand? Any war stories to share?

There's no reason to issue more bitcoin. The forces of supply and demand will keep the value stable, regardless of the exact number of bitcoins outstanding. Issuing more bitcoin would only serve to invite fears that it would be issued in shady ways, or that such issuances might become routine and inflation would take place. This would only further undermine the currency's perceived staying power.

I'd love to hear impressions on this article from HN users in the "some college" category. I know the stats on income and educational attainment, but anecdotally - in tech - has lack of formal education been a cross to bear? Or is was it just "a foot in the door" for your first job that you ultimately didn't need?

Awesome tool - we used it at Startup Weekend San Diego!

This has a lot of obvious applications in education, and maybe even some potential in medical diagnostics.