Right now, we do not have plans to make an API available. This paper and blog post are mostly meant to describe our techniques to other deep learning researchers and spur innovation in the field. However, we hope that these techniques will be available eventually, and we'll provide more information when that happens.
In order to not miss this announcement, do you have a mailing list we could sign up for to notify us when this becomes available? You have a LOT of people interested.
Two things. One, I think 30% is a very high percentage to be charging for a fee, which inevitably will affect how questioners feel about paying it and the growth of your site. Second, if you don't actually charge until the transaction is ready, then few should object to paying say, $60 for a $50 question (20% fee) for an answer ready to be read.
I feel bad reading these, having spent the first 10 years of my life in Russia before it all went from shit in disguise to outright, oh-the-audacity type of shit (~1990)
But this is the rule, not the exception, and it saddens me to say that Russia's the last place I'd want to start a company.
There don't appear to be any DDG haters in the threads on this article. There are two people who seem to hate (or at least dislike) Stephen Wolfram, though.
(Disclaimers: I have showdead on, this is accurate as of 9:31 PM, GMT).
I read it as haters of the deal rather than haters of DDG. For example, thebooktocome made a comment saying that (s)he was done with DDG because of the deal. Sorry if it was confusing.
they are red pro , they will be fine, the real risk is for middle/high stakes grinders who dont have the same relationship with the big sites and as OP said risk to have their money freeze for some time (a US player is already reporting on 2+2 that he cant withdraw his money from FT)
A number of sites completely withdrew from the US (Party, Pacific, etc), either out of fear or because of their particular company's corporate setups / locations.
A few big ones remained operational for US players, the biggest being Stars and FullTilt, with the only change being refusal to accept credit cards as a deposit method. I'd venture to say millions of bank deposits have occurred since then within the US, and the legality of it all was never black and white, and certainly not enforced in any way.