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Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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Post by joeblau »

film42 wrote: post #547
joeblau wrote: post #264

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How do you plan to get around the Twitter syndication rules and regulations once this site takes off?

This is a really good question, and should be referring to all apis and their limits. This was my approach: Create a parser that lives off of apis, just under posted limits. Although we had a few thousand visitors today, there was only one direct line to each data source. There's a viewer server that reaches for data every so often depending on your desired speed (I think it's set to somewhere between 1 and 2 seconds…

Thanks for the explanation. I worked for a one of the eleven companies that still had rights to access the Firehose after the debacle and I saw a lot of great projects stymied by the new rules.

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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Post by seivan »

throwaway04583 wrote: post #571
tomjen3 wrote: post #253

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Apparently not. I know it is too early to speculate, but my money is on the muslims -- homegrown terrorists/IRA use car bombs and you couldn't get a car there, crazy people seem overwellmingly to prefer guns.

Wow, racist much?

Muslims != Race. Jeez.

There are iranians and arabs arguing against islamic fundamentalists getting into Swedish politics. You know, those homophobes who "like" al-qaida on Facebook

Re: Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line

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Post by nandemo »

RivieraKid wrote: post #590
nandemo wrote: post #520

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I've never quite understood that argument. It's not about it being insensitive, just irrelevant. It seems to have an implicit but completely unsupported premise that every death is equal. First, there's age: deaths from heart disease tend to happen at old age. In most cultures, death at old age is considered less tragic than the death of an infant or young adult. Also, there's the perceived "naturality" of death: dea…

But still, considering the significance of this bombing, some people are reacting so emotionally, it's almost pathetic. Compared to 9/11, this is nothing, only 3 people died. Even if we ignore predictable deaths that you mentioned, there similarly tragic and unpredictable deaths happening all the time that get much smaller attention.

Agreed.

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Post by pvaldes »

RivieraKid wrote: post #591
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Do you know how many people die in hospice care each day? Do you expect heavy coverage of them?

No, but I also don't expect 4 links on Hacker News about a bombing that killed 3 people.

... And none about chemical weapon's first use in Siria "yesterday" with a lot of innocent people running with burned flesh in the streets, yes I can understand what you are trying to say. Sad times.

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Post by rayiner »

hallomac2013 wrote: post #581
rayiner wrote: post #534

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A bombing in Boston hits home to people in New York, because people can relate to their countrymen better than they can to random people on the other side of the planet with a different culture and history. This is human nature.

Honestly, humans ought to be better than this outdated and questionable nature.

Right. That's why everyone here on HN cared as much about the black guys who get railroaded by overzealous prosecutors each year as they did about Aaron swartz and weev. Relating to people like yourself is a totally outmoded concept and doesn't serve any useful social purpose at all. That's why everyone is so happy that "world citizen" billionaires have overcome such trivialities like national loyalty and figured out how to export American prosperity all over the world. We totally love that.

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Post by flyinRyan »

DanBC wrote: post #599
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Actually weren't these bombers incompetent? How many people were running in this marathon? As far as I understand, if the bombs would have went off about 10 minutes earlier it would have been really bad.

Depends what their aim is. If the aim is to kill maximum people then yes, they were lousy bombers. If their aim was to cause fear and disruption by demonstrating the ability to detonate two explosive devices within seconds of each other, at a very busy location that's had some security screening, but with the advantage of not killing many people - then they succeeded.

I don't get that. Who ever did this is getting caught, so showing what they could do is pointless. They won't remain free long enough for a repeat performance. What other motivation could they have had then creating terror? Hundreds of dead is a lot more terror than three.

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Post by lifeguard »

lifeguard wrote: post #104
recoiledsnake wrote: post #2

Edit: Boston police reporting at least 2 dead, 22 injured and 10 people losing limbs. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near... Looks like there were two explosions. Picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fCgFCQAERWMB.jpg:large More details http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported-nea... "Witnesses said several victims lost limbs, and the area was being evacuated. Many of the in…

For some reason this reminds me more of the Atlanta Summer Olympics or Moscow than the attacks on the World Trade Center. [edit to add links for clarity] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings#Ryaz... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing Condolences to friends and families of the injured and dead.

Yup, it is looking like American kooks did this.

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Post by darkarmani »

pvaldes wrote: post #604
RivieraKid wrote: post #591

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No, but I also don't expect 4 links on Hacker News about a bombing that killed 3 people.

... And none about chemical weapon's first use in Siria "yesterday" with a lot of innocent people running with burned flesh in the streets, yes I can understand what you are trying to say. Sad times.

You do understand that HN is hosted in the US, right? If HN was hosted in Syria, it would most likely cover that.

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Post by darkarmani »

RivieraKid wrote: post #591
darkarmani wrote: post #508

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Do you know how many people die in hospice care each day? Do you expect heavy coverage of them?

No, but I also don't expect 4 links on Hacker News about a bombing that killed 3 people.

Why wouldn't you? HN is hosted in the US. It's going to have US news occasionally. The bombing only killed 3 people because of all of the first responders. It could have easily been in the double-digits. There are 150 people injured by the blasts.

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Post by pvaldes »

darkarmani wrote: post #608
pvaldes wrote: post #604

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... And none about chemical weapon's first use in Siria "yesterday" with a lot of innocent people running with burned flesh in the streets, yes I can understand what you are trying to say. Sad times.

You do understand that HN is hosted in the US, right? If HN was hosted in Syria, it would most likely cover that.

Yes I do.

I'm understand also, as you should, that this is an international community of people. There is, probably, a lot of brilliant minds here from many coins of this small floating rock, so it is expected that we could talk freely about universal problems and achieve much more than just a local and restricted point of view (and maybe to talk about possible ways to avoid this tragedies again and again).

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