This comment is unrelated to the subject matter and that’s why i’ve made it separate from the parent comment [0] that triggered it. I couldn’t help but notice

This comment is unrelated to the subject matter and that’s why i’ve made it separate from the parent comment [0] that triggered it. I couldn’t help but notice the ‘.cfm’ extension in the acm.org link submitted by @mockery [1] so I thought i’d google a bit to see what tech infrastructure acm.org was running because i found it interesting they’d be using coldfusion. The search led me to a project on github [2] who’s file appeared in the results [3] and made me aware of ‘citeulike.org’. I did a quick search with algolia to check if citeulike.org hadn’t been submitted on hn already. This made me aware of user @sharpshoot and led me to research him a bit and bookmark his site so I can read about how he ‘made it’ (i’m an aspiring entrepreneur you see…). Anyway all this made me wonder if there is a software that automatically does what I had to do manually, how efficient it would have to be and all the ethical issues surrounding it’s existence. Thin line between useful and scary… [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10288365 [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292 [2] https://github.com/mikexstudios/citeulike-parser [3] https://github.com/mikexstudios/citeulike-parser/blob/fe31d0ba6c8203364676a83911942dd4fb09e494/python/acm.py#L93