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Has anyone seen a similar comparison for medium-sized document classification tasks? I'd imagine LibLINEAR would perform far better for document classification than it does in these results.

With WWI or WWII era technology, it would take a great power months, even years to destroy the population of another. Now? Less than an hour.

The download page could still be served via HTTPS, even if the download itself isn't.

"closed systems/walled gardens and proprietary stuff will always lose out against open systems that does not restrict users and developers."

Do you have evidence for that?

Might be worth checking Rackspace's policies on hosting proxies - you want to make sure you're not responsible if users use your proxies for illegal activity.

Perhaps you should read the white paper and the patent application before writing off a decade's worth of work as bullshit?

That is rather disingenuous. While the Fed can make decisions outside the purview of the government, its power is derived from Congress, and its governors are appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. It's certainly not an entirely private organization.

Perhaps "secretive unit" was in reference to "Amazon doesn't disclose AWS results"? Still seems rather odd, though.

Might want to check out StarStreet (https://www.starstreet.com/), which uses real money. They frame it as a sports stock market, to avoid running afoul of online gambling laws.

PHP function to perform a basic cURL request and return the result. Got a little bit tired of writing "curl_setopt(...".

While I agree that he should pay for a commercial plan if he has a commercial use case, having one provider is certainly not the way the market should work.

I would agree with your argument if the broadband market were actually competitive. The author has no legitimate options for broadband besides Comcast, meaning Comcast can do essentially anything it wants to him. That is not the way a capitalist economy should work.

#1 makes no sense. Facebook/Google/Zynga/etc pay hires more because they can no longer offer hires significant equity, like an early startup can. A startup is never going to beat an established company on pay, it's going to beat it on equity. If an offer of significant equity doesn't convince a potential developer to come onboard, perhaps the problem is that the company isn't promising enough.

I use it, but really only for the "intelligent snooze" feature, which decreases the length of the snooze each time until it starts refusing to snooze. If anyone knows of a simpler app with the same feature, I'd love to hear about it.

This is incredible. The lowest price advertised by Clickatell is $0.012/msg, and that price can only be reached by paying for 500,000 messages or more - that is, paying $6000 or more.

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson.

Square's goal isn't to make a profit off of transactions. They're a data company - that's where the real money is for them.

"There is only one human right: the right to kill yourself."

That would seem to be more easily taken away than, say, the right to think.

I use the default GMail filters - perhaps I'm just lucky and receive easily filtered spam. I get hundreds of spam messages per day, and none break through on the average day.

Multiple of my email addresses posted online unmasked multiple times, so I certainly get spam. My point is that filters are quite effective.

How is spam an existential threat to email? Spam filters have gotten exceptionally good, to the point where I find it hard to believe that anyone using a decent filter receives enough true spam in their inbox to make them stop using email altogether.

Given how hard Google is working to earn the trust of businesses with regard to Google Apps, I highly doubt they would be stupid enough to risk getting caught spying on individual documents.

This link leads to a summary page if you don't have iTunes installed:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swapshot/id432027349?mt=8

Saying 9/11 was the work of Christian fundamentalists seems nearly as bizarre as claiming it was the work of the government. Neither has any grounding in fact.

Are you intentionally hyperbolizing, or do you honestly believe that the government will shut down MMORPGs? Further, I'd like to see some arguments to back up your assertion about Bitcoin. I disagree with domain seizures, but gambling sites do seem to be in violation of federal law, while Bitcoin seems to be in the clear, as it is simply a virtual good.

The quote at the beginning of the article implies that this was compensated for, to an extent:

"Historically people worked a lot more than they do now. They also ate a lot more than they do now."

"With multiple players engaging in high-speed trading - buying and selling stocks at literally 90 percent the speed of light"

This sentence seems meaningless - it's comparing units of time to units of velocity. My best guess is that it means trades are made in 90% of the time it would take for the data to simply travel the distance between the exchange and the server, but that is not at all clear.

I'd be interested to see a graph of the temperature over time of a cup of coffee with Joulies vs. without.

Amazon must be assuming that anyone seriously interested in this service spends well over $88,000/year on servers, which is likely the case.

"They switch to a philosophy major."

This comment seems odd to me, as philosophy is another subject where a failure to sit down and really think about the topics at hand will leave you hopelessly lost, if the class is taught to any degree of rigor.