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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by homosaur on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:17PM (#5574546)
Some crime happens on a college campus probably every day. Most likely hundreds of violent crimes a year. But the reason this is on HN is MIT, nothing more.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by artursapek on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:20PM (#5574563)
I don't think there's a report of an officer down on a campus every day.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by homosaur on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:21PM (#5574571)
"some crime"
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by jckt on Friday April 19, 2013 @01:04AM (#5574963)
Not to belittle petty theft, but "two officers down" is really not just "some crime".
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by rubyrescue on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:38PM (#5574638)
We recently built an app that tracks this based on official US government data - per the Cleary act every US college that receives Federal funds must declare their on-campus crime rate. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/campus-sentinel/id513108130?... - you can compare MIT to other campuses.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by jliptzin on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:53AM (#5574912)
Why is it 22.6MB?
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by tekromancr on Friday April 19, 2013 @01:14AM (#5575001)
A bulky framework, perhaps?
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by rubyrescue on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:30AM (#5576238)
all the data is local ... and it's a lot of data
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by tzs on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:32AM (#5574837)
MIT has under 50 violent crimes per year.

They do have several hundred non-violent crimes per year.

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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by darkarmani on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:42AM (#5576294)
Or because it is connected to the terrorist attack on monday...
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by homosaur on Friday April 19, 2013 @11:21AM (#5577096)
I wasn't at the time, dude.
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by frinxor on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:13AM (#5574776)
i was a bit surprised seeing this on top of HN - i feel its out of place. anyone else?
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by jckt on Friday April 19, 2013 @01:05AM (#5574973)
Many fellow hackers in the Boston/Cambridge area?
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Re:Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bld... by bobbo3 on Friday April 19, 2013 @02:50AM (#5575249)
Yes.

There is a serious problem with HN when stories like this get so many up-votes. This story is against the site guidelines. There isn't anything deeply interesting in the comments.

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