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I can only think of using 80legs as a crawler, since its distributed enough to make sure that you don't run into any IP address based rate limitation. But it's just a guess.

So many upvotes, I find information cascade happening here.

a harvard (or UIUC, stanford, cornell, MIT, UCB) CS grad can easily make 70k$ a year right out of college and much more in future. 100k$ tuition might be an issue for liberal arts and communication majors, but surely not for a CS major (assuming he is good enough to have a successful startup in first place).

Interesting! There is an open source Apache Mahout project for doing machine learning via hadoop. Also have a look at Vowpal wabbit an open source framework for fast SGD for online learning.

Also another interesting point is their use of boosting, since i recently attended a tech talk by facebook engineers where they told us that bagged decision trees while predicting the friends for a user.

Interesting anyone knows which strategies they use to decide to buy/sell, once they have determined the expected price?

do they use physics based techniques, like black scholes?

or do they use statical learning based techniques?

Something like this wont happen to Google App Engine, thankfully.

err HBASE is the database and not HDFS.

I completely agree, I find it weird whenever someone mentions Hadoop as as NOSQL. Hadoop is a Distributed Computing system. While HDFS is the Database.

Hadoop is more of an Distributed O.S. to run process and store data across multiple machines.

Well he has Indianized English Grammatical style.

On a side note, had this been a case with an MacOSX application or Windows application, would you have petitioned Apple or MSFT?

oh are i-OS API and code cross platform compatible? Do any other companies except Apple create iOS devices?

in fact Apple used 3.3.1 to make sure that code was not cross platform compatible.