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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.

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.