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Ask HN: What physical security management tools have you used?
Hi there,

As some of you know, we are currently building an open-source mobile physical security tool for human rights defenders, journalists, aid workers, activists and NGOs. (You can sign up to our early launch access program at www.secfirst.org). We are currently researching other physical security management tools on the market at the moment.

If you have used other tools please let us know which ones and what your experience has been with them.

Thanks HN!

-security first.

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Capitalism: Lemmings running towards the verge of the abyss and the priests of capitalism are yelling: Faster, Faster!
not sure how much you want to spend, but i recently built a tube (valve) amplifier from a kit from these people http://www.bottlehead.com/ - it was about as easy as making something can be (very good instructions) and very enjoyable.

[i guess i should add that the lowest price model - the crack otl headphone amplifier - is not suitable for most headphones. so be careful before buying that one.]
The brits tested a bomb on U.S. soil?
I think that most "skilled labor" is more specialized than people realize. As a diesel mechanic I could go a lot of places (urban areas were generally out; I would need to live in the suburbs, where there were truck stops). A programmer, on the other hand, has the option to freelance, work from home, even start his own business with limited or no capital. Any company of any decent size probably hires programmers once and a while or even has a few on staff, but it's not really that easy if your specialty is hyperbaric welding (which you can make a small fortune doing, to be fair). No one "bootstraps" a mechanic's shop, too much space and specialized equipment.

But that's still pretty flexible. I'm thinking about all these super industry specific jobs Rowe talks about on his show. Agricultural specialties, oil rig workers, aircraft mechanics and so on. Just not that easy to live close to home and family and do that for a living.
The animation is a youtube video. Here is the direct link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8CZAKSsNA
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Ooh, my inner Scheme programmer likes nested parentheses in a post!

I believe NYC forbids short-term sublets - that's the big issue here. Plus the taxes, of course.
Subletting is well regulated too... yes, renters have the right to sublet, but they also have a set of restrictions on the process. For example, you can't sublet for less than 30 days, which would make the entire thing unusable for AirBnB. And if the apartment is rent controlled, then you have another set of regulations.
I see a lot of libertarian and anti-government sentiments expressed on HN.

And I see a lot of leftists on HN that are surprised that this is the case. Why is that?

The question - and only question - should be what David Simon asks: are we all in this together or are we not?

Because all of 310+ million are not in this together. We, as individuals, all have our own dreams, ambitions, interests, and goals.

I see a lot of leftist sentiment expressed on HN - sentiment for the same old failed ideas that was the cause of the so much misery in the last century and to this day.
You two seem to be discussing a very centralised model of web of trust.

The main point is that each user should have their own trust graph, not that there is any single trust network that we all use. Individuals are the entities that make decisions, and any emergent authority that violates the trust of those individuals gets booted by enough they cease to be an authority.
I specifically mean that libertarians don't view property rights as forceful, but the left does.

> But if everyone adhered to it, the world would be a lovely place.

If it's not a possibility that can happen in the actual world, then the statement is basically meaningless.
and your point is what exactly.
I, for one, am not deeply unsettled by nuclear weapons.

As weapons of peace, they have made war a strongly negative sum game between advanced nations. The only way to win is not to play.

The drawback of nuclear weapons isn't the actual threat or consequences of war, but using the nature of the game by a government to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt amongst its own people to consolidate power. That, in itself, is not a problem with the weapon, but with the lack of enlightenment amongst the people and their government.
Reminds me of "Rise Of The HFT Machine":

http://imgur.com/DxWer
But your attitude is just the point.

There are many issues with your stories, and many points at which they may go different ways. To give a single example, if I understand correctly, people disrespected you at a movie theater for asking them to quiet down. If I may...

did you ask them to quiet down in a respectful fashion?

Don't answer.

Just think about your own behavior towards them and TRY to evaluate it in an honest fashion. You may conclude that you would be better off moving out of that neighborhood. Or maybe being more polite. Or perhaps just going to a different movie theater. But whatever it is... it will probably make society a better place if you make the adjustments.

I don't mean to put too fine a point on it.. but we shouldn't take on the $40K a year expense of locking people up because you have a hard time with them at the movie theater. That money is better used elsewhere.
I'm ok with being a mythical beast.
One might say the conservatives are doing the same (in the name of capitalism).
Where is the fairness in paying older people more because they "need" the money more?

Your other two points were reasonable though.
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It does sound familiar, I'm (often) an anarchist. You do realize individualist anarchists (like Tucker) are still socialists, yes? And Tucker still subscribes to the labor theory of value?

> so much has been proven wrong.

Sigh.

> The argument that the value of a commodity is only related to the labor needed to produce or obtain that commodity and not to other factors is now well known to be wrong.

You're absolutely right, and that's not what Marx says. You're criticizing Smith or Ricardo here, just like Marx is.
As someone who has started a business myself, let me say that there's a big difference between doing it for one day and doing it long term, and also a big difference between passionately wanting to do it and the day-to-day long-term reality. Not just because of obscure regulations. And if you've ever got food poisoning from a restaurant, you'd understand why we have some of those regulations.
For me, it's perfectly fine, even desirable.

It firmly roots in my mind that my words here will be seen as words from my person. That's a good thing.
The vast majority of these detonations occurred after the US, UK and USSR signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963, which permitted only underground detonations. Ideally, underground detonations don't release radioactive material into the wider environment, but there were of course failures to contain along the way.
Yes, but most people's e-reputation has to withstand only the most cursory of google searches so using a nickname, even without air-tight OPSEC, is often enough.
> it would be better if you simply just stated your case and/or evidence because that is what HN is for.

I think you have it backwards. The OP suggested that "sensible people" (all of them, apparently!) don't believe that debt ("in and of itself", whatever that means) is "a serious problem." That is an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

But I'll indulge you:

1. Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has stated "I've said many times that I believe the single, biggest threat to our national security is our debt, so I also believe we have every responsibility to help eliminate that threat."

2. David Walker, former Comptroller General and head of the GAO, has been sounding the alarm about the tens of trillions of dollars in debt and unfunded liabilities the United States has racked up for years. He has warned that unless something is done, the US will plunge into a "fiscal abyss."

3. Barack Obama, as a Senator, stated, "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

Are Mullen, Walker and Obama not "serious people"?
Not so available.
Many people assumed this is what would have happened by now. Maybe it's a problem Google is avoiding: What if OEM + patents adds up to nowhere near $12B? Google risks distracting management and annoying partners by dithering.
Maybe I'm different than others here, but I would advise against software tools unless you know and understand what their actual needs/wants are. Tooling is highly personal, and they probably already have an editor they like that is fully tweaked and configured.

Hardware toys are cool (mechanical keyboards, arduino, raspberry pi, etc), as many others have said.

But you might consider meatspace items that are nice no matter who you are. I just bought a nice new smartwool hat and titanium spork (for pack lunches!) at REI for my favorite nerd.
I also operate the domain http://available.is - we'd discussed using it for checking whether availability.is was available...

A friend pointed out we'd then need a subsequent site for checking available.is's availability too
Ah you mean when many "nudges" are pandering to the prejudices of the tabloid press and UKIP?

Some of these nudges have unplesent side effects the bed room tax has lead to several suicides.
AFAIK Houdini only broke out of places, not into them.
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Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, Tesla.. or lower budget, some toys from sparkfun or adafruit.
>> "Sometimes I see these really smart young kids who build amazing stuff and sound so mature in their writing"

I'm a 23 year old programmer and see this stuff too. I also feel like I could never be as good as some of them. But it doesn't matter :) I've been working full-time freelance for 5 years now and you can always find jobs that are fun, challenging, but not out of your skill level. I'm sure this is the same when working for a company. Some companies need child geniuses, others need passionate people who work hard and like to learn.
It's been 50 years since the US did a non-underground test. What do you think we use all these supercomputers for? Nuclear testing.
>> I'm torn here

That's good. You're sensing that something is wrong.

>> If you insist everyone make every moral choice for themselves, then we will be unable to maximize the "right" choices

Why would "we" need to "maximize" the right choices? Who's we anyway? Aren't we all just individuals, with our own goals and desires that are constantly changing anyway? Who's anyone to "maximize" the "rightness" of your choices, as long as you don't harm others? How bad should you want that bar of chocolate tomorrow at noon? What about in the evening?

See, economies consist of exchanges between people, and whenever an exchange is voluntary, it leaves both parties better off.

There's no "optimization" necessary there. It's all based on each individual's subjective preferences. If you want an apple, and have a dollar, you can give that dollar to someone in exchange for an apple. If you do this, it means you valued the apple higher than your dollar, and the other guy valued your dollar higher than his apple! -Bam. Both are better off. No "maximizing" necessary.

>> In a libertarian society, every person would need to be educated on food systems, why some are ethical and why some aren't, etc

Really? Is it really unclear to anyone that treating animals well is better than treating them horribly? Why would anyone prefer the meat that's produced through treating animals horribly, or even badly, compared to a more "organic" alternative?

Sure, prices are a factor, but just about everyone would like to support treating animals well, right? So if organic production is increased, those prices will fall. It may still be a bit more expensive, but organic, non-GMO food comes with the additional benefit of not being harmful to your health, and that's quite valuable too.

>> nevermind the 3 year study and expert panel that analyzed the issue and recommended process/measure/regulation X.

Who are the "experts"? -Where do they come from? What are they affiliated with? Who paid for the study? What kind of regulation are we talking about? Why would it be good? What's the alternative? How often is coercion better than no coercion? (Pro-tip: never)

.. And so on.
In addition, a lot of people have completely warped, fantastical and exaggerated perceptions of how powerful nuclear weapons are.
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EDIT: .. and a good coffeemaker. :)
Thanks @hrktb . It was a mix of many reasons which you pointed. But the most important reason was I wasn't competent enough as a programmer and I wasn't lucky enough to get a programming job for my mere passion.
No, inflation is most damaging to people whose spending is close to their salary. To simplify the math, I will use 'easy numbers', obviously the magnitudes are off, but you should plug your own numbers to verify that this is still true:

if a poor family is spending 90% of their income on day to day expenses, and a rich family is spending 20%, and there is 10% inflation, then the poor family will then be spending 99%, which is a 90% reduction in margin of safety/ability to invest. The rich family will then be spending 22% which is a 2.5% reduction in margin of safety/ability to invest.

Now, you might argue that wages catch up. For starters, many poor are on fixed incomes. BUT even for the employed, liberal economists routinely argue for screwing the poor out of their wages (of course they don't put it that way):

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hig...

It goes like this: even in the long run, it’s really, really hard to cut nominal wages. Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts.

Think very carefully about what that means.

Ironically, it was keynes himself that warned:

By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat.
I discovered this through reddit some days ago: 20 grams of gallium for a few bucks

http://www.amazon.com/Gallium-99-99%25-Pure-Grams-Even/dp/B0...

think as cool as mercury, but safer :)
Most definitely. There is always a shortage of good, enthusiastic hackers. If you're good enough or even just promising and are able to demonstrate that you'll have no problem finding work.
Interesting. If you go further back into the days of the intertubes, using your real name was standard practice.
This is interesting and potentially very helpful for people trying to navigate the U.S. immigration system (I know how hard it can be, having navigated the bureaucracy with my spouse, from resident visa to naturalization).

I have a few questions:

Does this service have to conform to any laws or regulations governing immigration services, or the collection of data related to visa applications, change of status, naturalization, etc.?

What sorts of representations are you making if/when something goes wrong/gets lost/gets delayed?

Are you working with an immigration law firm?
I think you misread the comment you're replying to.

People are not entitled to ignore all externalities that cause discomfort to others. For example, creating toxic pollution that spreads to people around you and forcing them to pay the cost of cleanup is not OK, but you're suggesting it is? If you were affected by this kind of pollution, would you just shrug and say, "It's OK for them to ignore this externality?"

And the part about not paying for public goods that you use, you seem to have misread as "not using public goods that you don't pay for".

People are upset with the AirBNB guy in the article because he's causing problems for the neighbors, and profiting because he's ignoring regulations. It's profiting off the backs of other people, so he's more like a leecher than any Ayn Randian hero.
Please provide a reference to your claim about hotel law being created to regulate early working-class hotels. I can't find any. And given that NY only recently modified hotel law to ban less-than-30-days rentals on SROs, what you say is hard to believe.

I should be ashamed for making a factual comment? Slavery is only shocking now, but it was completely normal a few hundred years ago and for thousands of years before that. Would you prefer I compare hotel law to gay marriage then? The principle is the same anyway, people believe or agree on something until the premise for that is no longer acceptable or no longer true. Then a debate starts and change must happen. You are rejecting change and accusing the people who are creating the change of being criminals, I think you should be ashamed of that.

Given your nickname and the tone of your comments, I recommend you read this and put it into practice: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-a...
>Let's not be naive. Spying doesn't involve warrants. It's called spying because that's what it is, spying, not building a legal case to take to court.

Except sometimes when the collected information was used for exactly that [1]

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...
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believe it or not, some human beings try to go through life creating positive externalities, or avoiding creating negative ones... fools and value-judging tyrants, no doubt.
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Actually, warrantless surveillance goes beyond that. I'm a Norwegian citizen, and I take issue with the NSA having instant access to all the homemade porn me and my girlfriend exchange. So this concern really goes beyond the borders of the US. Saying that this would be all fine and dandy if it was restricted to the 95% of the people who are not in the US is a very good way to piss off all your allies and trading partners.
Thanks for the reply. I meant no offense. The article uses the words people of color several times. I fail to see how using people of color and colored people are different. Sorry if this hurt your feelings.
Would you mind expanding on that? What exaggerated perceptions do a lot of people have and in what way do they not match reality?
So, you're selling the domain and advertising that on HN? WHY?
Huh? When was the last film or book banned in a Nordic country?
The privatization of rewards while the public bears the risk is a pretty well established business model these days.
Yes. In case you haven't already, take part in opensouce projects of your liking as soon as possible, as a next step of involvement with the world of development.
Drop 60 kg of knives on a city then see how many people you kill versus dropping 60 kg of uranium with technology surrounding it.
Another vote for a mechanical keyboard here. I picked up a Das Keyboard[0] for work and love it. One for home is now on my Christmas list. :)

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Das-Keyboard-Professional-Mechanical-D...
I was talking about trade surpluses in real goods. Banking (and other financial activity) is just a form of rent-collection that masks this effect.
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This is in maryland... I'm pretty sure the wealth in that area isn't due to "capitalism". Try beltway bandits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_bandits
Yes you can start as a professional programmer at 40. You can't get hired, but you can do consulting or start a business. (at least in Silicon Valley IMHO)

I retrained as a programmer in my 40s. My experience is that I can seriously out-perform most developers who are 20 years younger than me, because I know how to deal with people and business issues cold. And I know how to stay focused and eliminate distractions in a way that I didn't when I was in my 20's.

Go for it!
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Heat capacity and space are resources too.
What did they expect? That abusing power will be cheered?
Thankyou. Should be complete silence.
You mean he'll have a hard time convincing someone to pay him commensurate with his zero years of experience?

How does that work exactly?
OK, I admit it's not a perfect viewpoint, but I don't think any is!

The problem here is these things should be private by default, with the option to break from that, since installing things like Cyanogenmod have external dependencies (like PCs) that cost money and people may not have access to. Features such as weather forecast widgets should not break if you choose not to share your location with Google, and right now many will.

Further, I think Google are monopolising areas such as push email to such a degree they should be forced, MS in EU style, to give you a choice of accounts you can use to access things on the device when first started up. For example, there is no technical reason you couldn't use your twitter (or any OAuth) account as your ID, even when accessing Google services like the Play Store, but they are using all this to weasel Google+ in everywhere.
Yep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julin_Bristol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_US%E2%80%93UK_Mutual_Defen...
This fuck you got mine attitude is very prevalent on this site actually even if wrapped up in some absurd justifications.
the NAP is in effect. it's just me and you in the forest, and there's one apple tree. you "own" the apple tree. I am starving, and I "steal" an apple from your tree.

who initiated the aggression?