Amazing. Thanks and saved.

If you're new to machine learning, this video was a really helpful place to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgBrXnjF8R4

I just spent 2 hours googling some of these guys listed above

Okay, Stripe. Can I accept bitcoins and automatically convert them to USD? I need an instant conversion back to USD after the transaction so I don't lose money due to volatility. Does stripe let merchants auto-convert their Bitcoin payments to USD? This would solve the problem entirely and I'd be happy to pass the extra savings on to customers.

I could probably give about a 6% discount because I wouldn't take profit from the transaction savings.

In fact, given the fee is .05% of the transaction, this could be the first service to ever enable micropayments. Perfect for a lot of internet/new technology services. The key is to convert the customer's USD to bitcoin instantly, pay with bitcoin, and convert the received bitcoin back to USD instantly again.

(I work at Stripe)

Correct! You set your price in USD, we present the amount in bitcoins to your customer, and guarantee you the price you set in USD.

I think you meant 0.5% for the fee.

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Thanks for the info! How much would the cell phone plan cost that allows unlimited sms messaging?

Is there any reason to use twilio over something like this? Twilio costs 0.0075 / message

Choosing between twilio or this definitely depends on your use case. Gosms is handy when you have no internet connection, you require total control over the infrastructure and such. Use twilio when you don't want to worry about anything and just send messages. There could be more scenarios too.

Twilio's pricing schemes change per country, for us in India (where 1 Rupee = 100 Paisa and USD 1 = ~62 Rupees), twilio charges 60 paisa per message. At the same time, some tel-com providers have plans that cost only 5 paisa per message. India has other limits and regulations but for personal/in-house use they hardly matter.

To add to this, If you want to send fast worldwide SMS reliably and without much hassle, use twilio or plivo or other such web sms gateways. If you want to send SMS locally, for cheap and willing to hack your way around, give GoSMS a shot. Given the time a modem takes to send an SMS, with a single modem connected, the rate of sending SMS is low (~1 message / 5 second).

Many "Unlimited" providers would be unhappy if you were sending 10s of messages per second for sustained periods of times.

Ting charges $6/device plus $0.0025 per message.

Depends on the provider. Thirty bucks? But you'd better make sure their "unlimited" means "unlimited".

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So to set something up that can send thousands of sms (not spam, part of an app) a day, all I would need is a modem, a server, and this app? Would I need a cell phone plan or something?

yup! the GSM Modem you use will need a SIM card which needs an active plan

The real question is if these wins would change as a result of "global consciousness"

(Global consciousness project is a bunch of computers generating random numbers all over the world that seem to spike when catastrophes occur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Consciousness_Project )

I'm guessing white wins more often... ;)

You have to move the king into a corner and block his way out with your king.

Which is also a good recipe for a stalemate.