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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by trobertson »

buro9 wrote: post #208
kefka wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Older reddit thread hit limit and crashed. New link http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1co395/live_updates_of...

What limits exist on a thread?

Certain threads generate enormous amounts of activity, and the reddit infrastructure will automatically place those threads into a temporary 'Read Only Mode'. This effectively ends the thread when it revolves around rapid updates, so redditors normally start 'Incident Thread 2', then 3, and so on.

During the Boston Marathon bombing, there were, if I remember correctly, over a dozen threads that continued the original conversation, simply because each of the previous threads kept getting hammered by people posting comments.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by [deleted] »

kawsper wrote: post #219
__david__ wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. This has to really suck for them. I can't imagine what they must be going through right now... Edit: Just 10 days ago his family and friends made this video: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Brown-Stud... To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Edit 2: Looks like h…

> To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Wait, is that confirmed?

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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by __david__ »

kawsper wrote: post #219
__david__ wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. This has to really suck for them. I can't imagine what they must be going through right now... Edit: Just 10 days ago his family and friends made this video: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Brown-Stud... To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Edit 2: Looks like h…

> To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Wait, is that confirmed?

I read this:

http://globalgrind.com/news/411-sunil-tripathi-missing-brown...

which seemed legit, until I read the source:

http://www.punditpress.com/2013/04/sunil-tripathi-informatio...

which seems really sketchy. I've seen it a bunch of places, making it seem like it was confirmed but people are now refuting it:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325176638537076736

I hope for his family's sake it's not him.

Edit: And it seems confirmed that it isn't: http://hosted2.ap.org/CAANR/e109e277e48c4e219e07a1d4710177b3...

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by spitx »

spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

UPDATE 5: Massachusetts Bay Transpiration Authority is currently suspending all service at request of Boston police.

Source(s):

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/325183434597228546

https://twitter.com/masslivenews/status/325184070508224513

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by hingisundhorsa »

ovis wrote: post #112
hingisundhorsa wrote: post #100

Anyone else get the feeling we are we making HN become like every news/forum site now? Reporting every and any shot fired anywhere in the world?

I would imagine that MIT is particularly close to the hearts of many on this site.

Sigh. That justifies spamming HN?

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by buro9 »

trobertson wrote: post #221
buro9 wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What limits exist on a thread?

Certain threads generate enormous amounts of activity, and the reddit infrastructure will automatically place those threads into a temporary 'Read Only Mode'. This effectively ends the thread when it revolves around rapid updates, so redditors normally start 'Incident Thread 2', then 3, and so on. During the Boston Marathon bombing, there were, if I remember correctly, over a dozen threads that continued the original…

I guess I'm just curious on the technical side, about why they go into a temporary read-only mode. What issues forced that to be implemented?

I am mostly wondering whether it's the threaded nature of a thread on Reddit that makes this a difficult problem, or whether this is reflective of some limitation in the underlying datastore or something.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by youngerdryas »

spitx wrote: post #225
spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

UPDATE 5: Massachusetts Bay Transpiration Authority is currently suspending all service at request of Boston police. Source(s): https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/325183434597228546 https://twitter.com/masslivenews/status/325184070508224513

Commuter rail far from the city is closed as well, full system shutdown.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by spitx »

spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

UPDATE 6:

  08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the
  Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2,
  the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a
  philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for
  a month. Local press reports say that Boston police have
  identified him as a suspect.

  Mr Tripathi is described as a left-wing Marxist of 
  Indian Brahmin descent, whose father is a successful
  software developer. His family set up a Twitter account
  and a Facebook page last month to help the search for 
  him. Mr Tripathi was first identified as a suspect in a
  crowdsleuthing exercise on the Reddit website.

  The other suspect, who was wearing the black hat, has 
  been named as Mike Mulugeta. He is thought to have died 
  in hospital after a shoot-out with police.

  Their identities have not been officially confirmed.
Source:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article374...

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