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Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting
- Density 9y agoSo much for "hacker" news.
- jwfxpr 9y agoIs your contention that "hackers" aren't concerned with current social issues, or that they aren't concerned with the intersection of technology and society, or that they aren't concerned with public safety, or that they aren't interested in new features in widely used software and technological services?
- Density 9y agoMost hackers here either work for Google or really wish they could. Any opinion voicing opposition to Google will get mercilessly flagged and downvoted.
- banned1 9y agoI think most hackers are concerned with public safety. The problem is subgroups of hackers differ on how to achieve it. Some hackers want to remove the rights of people not involved in a crime (like, me) to defend themselves and protect their families (interestingly, they also complain of clear plastic backpacks for kids in school, which I agree is equally ineffective in stopping crime). Other hackers want to preserve the right to defend themselves and their families from crime. Therefore the debate is not about hacking. It’s about a different view of the world. Therefore, there are other forums better suited for the debate, which really has nothing to do with hacking (with some exceptions).
- bwang29 9y agoWondering if the dot is placed as the center of gravity of the building , or it is the actual room when you zoom in. Also I wonder why some of the rooms are given names on the map such as "space invader" and "residence evil" but not the other ones.
- itakedrugs 9y agolarge pot holes and bad railroad crossings would be nice too... should be easy to automatically detect them using all the sensors in the phones crossing them
- on_and_off 9y agoThis would be pretty useful for eskates too ! Skating would be pretty easy if the streets were not in an awful state.
- donw 9y agoThis could be a great tool for both detecting and prioritizing repair efforts as well, and robust even in the shape of shifting traffic patterns.
- icantdrive55 9y agoWhat happened today at YouTube? The shooting?
- mmanfrin 9y agoWhat a damning indictment of our culture that this is a feature.
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- forgottenpass 9y agoAbsolutely. It's been well worn advice from psychologists to the media that the loud, panicked approach to shooting news encourages more shooters. The media takes the advice to always mention suicide help lines when reporting on suicide. But they never take the advice to cover shooting news locally, without detail on the shooters identity and without hysterics.
- Density 9y ago"conveniently" Staged shootings. Google runs our country's politics now.
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- bpchaps 9y agoThe where's Waldo April fool's joke makes it a little surreal: https://imgur.com/a/DoQEl https://imgur.com/a/DoQEl (Pardon the phone screenshot)
- spondyl 9y agoI had a similar feeling when it was reported that the injured were transported to Zuckerberg General Hospital[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_General_Hospital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_General_Hospital
- m52go 9y agoFolks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it's true [0]. The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that's just not the case. This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it's important to realize this fact because too many people are approaching the topic emotionally rather than rationally and proposing extreme reactions to trends that simply aren't as extreme as they perceive them to be. If you disagree, ask yourself why there are so many cases of shootings in the news all of a sudden. While some recent shootings have indeed been tail-event massacres (i.e., unusually major), many have been events that would otherwise not have attracted much attention (that psycho teacher who shot himself in a closet a few weeks ago comes to mind...why the heck was that on national news?). [0] https://mises.org/wire/there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-during-1990s https://mises.org/wire/there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-...
- just_testing 9y agoThis is one of those statistics where there are only two distinct values that matter: - Zero shootings - Too many shootings Any number bigger than zero is too much and we should do our best as a society to decrease it to zero.
- m52go 9y agoThat's not my point. My point is that facts are being overlooked in order to exaggerate the trend. Pick a random person on the street and they'll probably tell you the number of shootings in the USA is going up, not down. As I said, action should be taken. But if people are misinformed, the correct action cannot be taken.
- robotresearcher 9y agoIf we are to continue to reduce the number of events, we need to be more upset about each event. edit: I agree that we should have the correct information. But it's important to keep pushing to improve.
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- lolc 9y agoGiven that suicidal shooters often crave attention, this is the wrong signal to send.
- gooseus 9y agoThank you, I think the best policy for approaching these rampage suicide murderers is to minimize their exposure in popular culture and forbid the use of their name in the media. This has the added benefit of not stigmatizing their family, who likely have little to do with the event. As an aside, I also think any killers of this kind should have their wishes for burial null and void with their brains and bodies given immediately to scientific research.
- godelski 9y ago> Given that suicidal shooters often crave attention, this is the wrong signal to send. This CAN NOT be said enough. Blasting a name and attention (fame) leads to copycats.
- joshumax 9y agoI'm working with a team to create a consensus-based distributed alert system for emergencies [1], and as horrible as shootings are (having personally been stuck in the middle of mass panic due to a gun threat I can say it's insanely frightening), providing spatial and statistical tools to display, model, and alert dangerous events like shootings will be critical in helping reduce response times and increase assistance to victims, as well as figure out commonalities between events. It's interesting to see Google try to tackle that problem through augmenting emergencies over Google maps. 1: http://proximityapp.xyz http://proximityapp.xyz
- wnevets 9y agoI thought this was an onion article.
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- trilinearnz 9y agoNot really. This is just GPS data for Google's SOS alerts, which could be any kind of disaster.
- wffurr 9y agoThe phrasing of this title is far too flip for a tragedy, especially one this fresh.
- jonas21 9y agoNote that this feature isn't just for active shooters -- it's for emergencies and crises in general [1]. [1] https://support.google.com/sosalerts https://support.google.com/sosalerts