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Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill.

Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha
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Are you trying to discredit him by making fun of the way he organizes his reading to optimize his productive time and spotty Internet connectivity when traveling?

Instapaper, much beloved in these parts, is a fancy modern take on the same idea as RMS's web-to-email system.
I think Stallman raises some interesting and valid points (in his article in the guardian. It is worth reading it to the end). For example this:

"On most Android phones, this firmware has so much control that it could turn the product into a listening device. On some, it controls the microphone. On some, it can take full control of the main computer, through shared memory, and can thus override or replace whatever free software you have installed. With some models it is possible to exercise remote control of this firmware, and thus of the phone's computer, through the phone radio network."

I think we need phones with free and open source GSM/UMTS aka Baseband stacks.

One project helping with this is OsmocomBB http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/
He states that he does this for personal reasons. To me it sounds like: "I know it's slow, but I don't want to waste my time sitting on HN all day long, so I'll just download what I need to".
I wish Twilio was available in the rest of the world though...
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Its old but GRC had a write-up about the attacks against them and infiltrating the bots: http://www.crime-research.org/library/grcdos.pdf

I couldn't find the originals on GRC website anymore: http://www.grc.com/default.htm

If I recall, after that writeup, GRC was knocked off the web by a BGP attack or something...
I already have a copy and actually have it right by my laptop as I type this into the wee morning. The book is fantastic so far and I haven't been able to put it down. I'm not reading it in a linear fashion but treating it like a reference book. It's literally a tool I've been able to put into action immediately. The book has a level of rigour to it that I really appreciate.

For instance, we're all familiar with the concept of runway on Hacker News right? How many of us think it's the amount of time that we have left or money left in the bank? Ries writes this on the subject:

"The true measure of runway is how many pivots a startup has left: the number of opportunities it has to make a fundamental change to its business strategy. Measuring runway through the lens of pivots rather than that of time suggests another way to extend that runway: get to each pivot faster."

How many entrepreneurs feel like they're barrelling down the runway and just crossing their fingers that something's going to change? "Apple will feature my iPhone app and I'll get a thousand users, I can just feel it!" Or, "I'm sure we can just get some angel funding, it's a hot market right now."

With Ries' view of the runway, you can literally rely on Pivotal Tracker to show you whether you're extending your runway or shortening it, and that's damn more effective than praying/crossing fingers/refreshing Google Analytics every half hour to see if your product has gone viral, etc.

EDIT: The book of course goes into when you should/shouldn't cut costs to extend runway and when you should pivot faster. It also explains what it means to pivot faster (e.g., validate your assumptions more quickly, not necessarily code features faster). I just wanted to clarify that given my PT remark above.
> An OEM in China would promptly put out some sort of crappy phone that uses it and wrecks the Android brand.

They're totally free to do that right now, they don't need a more open version of android for that.

It's not as if google is limiting who has or does not have access to the platform.

The issue that RMS is trying to address is one that matters to a small subset of those that buy the phones, your ability to modify the code and improve it.

The price of the lowest end android smartphones is dropping so fast there won't be any room left at the bottom for a hypothetical even lower end phone.

As for android being 'more open than ios' RMS makes that point in the article.
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True story. A friend and I were two shakes of a salt shaker away from launching a business on top of Twilio using openVBX and a few other things.

There are tons of ideas out there in the mobile voice arena.
From a UX perspective, it'd be great, unfortunately getting advertisers hooked into their system would need much more work than it took to actually build the project in the first place.

I was thinking of just putting it out for free until it got too expensive, then asking for donations and if that didn't make ends meet putting some restriction on such as advertisements or a time limit or something.
The rise of Linux on the server and desktop was wonderful to watch and I find it depressing that increasingly it looks like a single moment in time, a 90s thing like John Perry Barlow and uncensored net feeds.

And Richard is right - the real threat to open systems is not so much the obviously closed systems like Apple but the almost open systems like Android that are open enough to release the valve on community pressure but that aren't open enough to give us real freedom and control.

On the plus side, things are still in flux. For example, Inferno is now available to run on top of the free Android Linux kernel: http://www.android-dev.ro/2011/09/17/hellaphone-inferno-os-f...
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There was an incident at a recent skeptics conference where Watson was accosted & hit on by an attendee in the small hours of the morning while riding an elevator.

No, there was an instance where a man asked Watson to his room for coffee, and when she turned him down, he accepted it. No one accosted anyone at any point in that exchange, and that's precisely the point Dawkins and others were making.
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> I guess that, even with these checks,
the program will still have some watchdog timer,
a way to remotely reset it, and a way
to upload new software, just in case it runs wild.

Indeed.

As for the reasoning: couldn't have said it better myself.
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So I can post any writings on the bible because it hacks at it? It is after all in the same spirit.
Would that be as well received?

This is precisely why Dawkins annoys me.
He doesn't offer a systematic approach to determining the existence of God. That is, he grabs at random floating information, not the bible or any trusted source. He makes up his own version of God that he's convinced doesn't exist.

p.s.
Wow, looks like defending Jesus got me so many downvotes that it got my account demoted. And they call Christians dogmatic.
Are there Android phones with Android 3 (Honeycomb) yet? Because the article talks only about Honeycomb, so I think it is simply incorrect...

As for locking the devices, unfortunately "free" also means that device vendors are free to lock the devices. If you care, don't get such a device (my philosophy: stick to the Nexus line to be safe).
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This thread has some people attacking RMS as a person without taking on the (guardian) article on its merits. Please read the article http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/android-fre..., the man raises some interesting points and is not just about your inability to inspect the source.

The points that were specifically made (for those that want to rail against the article but that refuse to read it for some reason):

- "Google's Andy Rubin put up a proof that Android was open, then subsequent releases of android were put out in a way that this proof no longer held, so by googles own definition android is currently not an open platform"

- "Google has said it will never publish the source code of Android 3.0 (aside from Linux), even though executables have been released to the public. Android 3.1 source code is also being withheld. Thus, Android 3, apart from Linux, is non-free software, pure and simple."

- "Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones, they cannot be said to respect your freedom."

- "The phone network firmware comes pre-installed. If all it did was sit there and run, we could regard it as equivalent to a circuit. When we insist that the software in a computing device must be free, we can overlook pre-installed firmware that will never be upgraded, because it makes no difference to the user that it's a program rather than a circuit.

Unfortunately, in this case it would be a malicious circuit. Malicious features are unacceptable no matter how they are implemented.

On most Android phones, this firmware has so much control that it could turn the product into a listening device. On some, it controls the microphone. On some, it can take full control of the main computer, through shared memory, and can thus override or replace whatever free software you have installed. With some models it is possible to exercise remote control of this firmware, and thus of the phone's computer, through the phone radio network."

Take issue with what the man said, not with the man.

My personal take on all this is that if you base your offering on a huge amount of open source that you should keep the spirit of those whose code enables you to run your business alive and respond in kind.
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MISRA-C, for starters.

Developing safety-critical code is governed by extensive guidelines (like DO178-B) which dictate lots of things, not just about code (process of development, testing, etc)
The Lean Startup model works because it's rooted in evolution. Mutations are made and tested and the weaker one dies off. Biology has been testing it for much longer than we have been creating businesses.

We're starting to realize that you can't guess and strategize for future occurances, you just have to try them out and react accordingly. You have to get a little bit better one day at a time and not just think about how you great you want it to be.

That's the biggest hurdle with trying to change the world, we spend too much time thinking and arguing over what's better while key opportunities are passing us by every day.
My complete speculation as to why Honeycomb wasn't open sourced is Amazon. Amazon was forced to use an older Android for their tablet instead of being able to take advantage of Google's tablet work.
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Also, while his web site is not the paragon of UI design, it does manage to be #1 on google for "stickers." I can think of half a dozen things off the top of my head that he could be doing that, it would seem to me, intuitively, would make his business vastly more successful still –– but why would I think I'm right, having never lifted a finger to explore the sticker-selling business, while he has clearly been iterating the hell out of it?
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That is pretty fascinating actually.
Its Richard Stallman, did you really think the article was going to be about your freedom to eat tacos?
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I think you misinterpreted the article: the target is not Linux/x86, its a custom board with the SPARC/Leon processor running a custom embedded OS (RTEMS), launched in space :-)

The article is just an example of the notions used, and how objdump can be used to enforce them. Linux is used simply for demonstration purposes.

In your average PC with Linux/x86, it is clear that you fear neither stack nor heap error - you just restart the app :-)
Yes, it's faster than Fremont. I moved to Dallas a few weeks ago after the third Fremont outage; now I wish I'd known this was coming down the pipeline.

... maybe I'll move again. It'd shave 50-60ms.
he just days that you shouldn't if you want to protect and promote software freedom

So what phone do I use then? There's a couple select phones that might qualify, but they are fringe, expensive and impractical.

This is what your parent is referring to. When people talk about how rms doesn't "live in the real world" they are coming from a "people who, at the end of the day, have to get sh*t done" point of view. Both viewpoints have their merits.
Why should I respect people’s believes? What’s the reasoning behind that? Shouldn’t I be free to not respect what other people think?

Also: Where are you getting the idea that Dawkins would like to force something on people? I would like a quote for that. Does Dawkins really demand, say, laws?
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If you can't monetize it, you can at least sell the source code as an enterprise solution -- i think there are many SMB would like to get this simple system in house.
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And maybe Andriod@Home and the car unlock/start apps will get rid of keys as well?
Also I wonder what the ranting anonymous coder has to show for that is so cool. But I can guess: he can code, therefore he is a god who has to be worshiped accordingly.. No need to show actually viable products he created.
I started when I was 16 as well and word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways that I got clients.
I started off doing one of dads companies the others heard about it and I did them to. It sort of snowballed from there. I think it was just the fact that I was 16 and was doing better work than competitors in the market.

One of the questions I have for the author is how did you manage your time around school, friends etc? I outsourced most of the work and did the crucial stuff myself but it was still a burden sometimes.
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It looks like their IP is residential. This ISP even has 1gbps lines commercially available in Tokyo from what I understand. I wouldn't be shocked if just put up a rack in up in the ISPs datacenter to make use of the cheapest bandwidth rates. They probably calculated most of their bandwidth in Japan will be in this network and they have good US peering.

Since, one rack today can be stuffed with 90 servers each up to 20x more powerful than what was around in 2005, I doubt they really require more than 1 well configured rack for a long time. When the time comes to add a second rack they always have the option to place it in another Japanese city, if they don't decide to goto another Asian country instead.

Considering the above, I doubt the savings were worth moving out of Tokyo.
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The 3.0 thing is a really interesting case. Android's open source model is that the code is primarily written and managed by Google, and then released all at once "when it's ready". So the only pushes are version releases and related bug-fixes.

It was pretty clear that Google never considered Honeycomb to be "complete". It was pushed out in a hurry to deal with the fact that manufacturers were pushing out terrible experiences on tablets using older Android versions. Honeycomb is merely a stop-gap to the next version (the upcoming ice-cream sandwich).

Google has been resistant to release the source precisely because I think they want to control (as much as possible) the proliferation of that code into devices that it can manage the bug fixing and release constraints on. That's why basically Google partners are the only ones with access to Honeycomb.

If the new version is released and the source code isn't, then I think RMS has a point. Ice cream sandwich better be "complete" and see a commiserate source-code push to go along with it. If not, Android has lost it's open source credibility. I think it is too early to make that call, however.

*disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge or any way to verify that my speculation is accurate:)
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I should have been more precise. This has nothing to do with hacking. Dawkings is not attempting to disprove God in any consistent way. He makes up ideas of God and provides proof against them. There are no historical facts, no translations of scripture, etc.

Post about him are usually nothing more than annoying rants against his own ideas of what God is.

He is not hacking at biological molecules, nor is he constructing anything out of them.
I'm a technical person, and if something that has nothing to do with hacking gets posted on a hacking forum. I get annoyed.
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I hate that stuff like this gets upvoted. Yeah, we get it, you can code, therefore you are superior. An artist even. If only everybody would ask your opinion first, but people seem to have the nerve to get by without you. Boo-Hoo...
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A demo is due on Friday, that's hardly a "weeks" timeframe. Browser vendors have been contacted, and and far as I've been reading details given on interviews by Juliano and Thai are straight to the point. The hyping up is being done by journalists, and by people on the security-conference biz (Dragos, i'm looking at you...), those are businesses relying on hype, not security itself.

I find you own attitude on the mater as a security researcher rather unprofessional. I beleive you are speculating hardly on this not being a serious matter, and are in fact as detail-less as the journalists hyping this up.
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As an atheist, I am uncomfortable with Dawkins' brand of atheism. It can get too close to the Thought Police for my liking. See this article of his: http://boingboing.net/2011/01/24/should-employers-be.html

If a scientist is producing good research that is getting published in peer reviewed journals and is generally acknowledged to be contributing to the advancement of the field, I don't care how weird his personal beliefs are.
I have not encountered DDoS attacks directed at my own properties, but I had domains hosted on Namecheap that were hit when their DNS got DDoS'd a few times last year.

There is plenty of coverage of this if you just do a search: http://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&i...
If you want to take it up a notch, my mother with an auditory deficit (http://specialed.about.com/cs/iep/a/auditorydeficit.htm) hear's the same sound despite changes in phenome being shown.
There will always be an opposing force to your success. Success means working against entropy and winning, not the easiest job in the universe. Since you've founded a few companies you probably know this quite well already.

I think this particular opposition is minimal and can be easily and completely disregarded though.

You posted a project description that you thought was sufficient for the kind of person you were looking for and you got a good response and you fixed your problem. Now somebody says you're doing it wrong.

Hack on! Live the dream!
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Surprisingly, China does not have good enough links to Hong Kong yet.

From what I understand the government is mostly busy improving internal infrastructure and end-user speed.

Chinese generally use China equivalent sites for your major bandwidth usage. So, speeding this stuff up seems to be number 1 priority.
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"Obviously you can do similar with straight up gdb and C programs"

Yes, but it is a bit harder - unlike C, Python is designed to make things easily changeable at runtime.
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Based on those times I'd say he is in Russia or very close to an Australia-Japan peering exchange.
I think that discovering which recruiters will hassle you for Word files is a feature, not a bug.

There is no good reason for them to require Word that doesn't, ultimately, come down to them either a) being too lazy to cut and paste into a database, or b) wanting to "improve" your CV before passing it on.
Here's a take on it that uses Twilio Client to allow people to join from the browser as well as the phone http://www.twilio.com/gallery/projects/talkasaur-us I'll see if I can get Aaron in here to give out a few beta codes
The jury is still out on whether Lean is a model that "works", that term being defined by most entrepreneurs as letting them succeed. I have absolutely no doubt that Lean works as a model for revealing "truth" as Eric Ries claims.

Here's the alarming thing that the book suggests: that we are all scientists trying to reveal market insights. Some of us manage to find out that our hypothesis was true and we are rewarded. Some of us disprove a hypothesis, which is a perfectly scientifically admirable thing to do, but we are penalized for it. 100 years from now, will people laugh at how our society was naive enough to let entrepreneurs who fail go personally bankrupt in some cases? Will they even consider revealing market truths to be failure? I'm guessing that 100 years from now we'll have reached a point where these things are true:

1. We won't see so many half-baked products get to market (e.g., Blackberry Playbook) because conventional wisdom by then will have prevented those kinds of products from getting as far along in the product development stage as they do now without having fundamental assumptions about them get validated earlier on.

2. There will be a market that rewards entrepreneurs for revealing insight into their "failures" because these failures provide truths about the market and are just as equally applicable as truths about the market that validate assumptions.