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Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
People move all the time. People also often have multiple accounts, which they could use to determine which accounts are located where.
Then it would need a GPS-backed proof to allow more location changes while preventing abuse. There's always an intended use case and corner cases which could be handled via support ticket, thus passing through human judgement. If there is a secure app on your phone, then how can you have multiple accounts?
GPS is a one-way system, how could that ever be proof? You'd need to send people devices with some DRM on it so that they can't modify the code it runs and the check it performs (we all know how well DRM works anyway, or how desirable it is)
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps it could show a reminder to have an email address in one's profile? That's recommended in general anyway
It would be more useful to have a button in each city to propose a meeting—no need to email anyone. You suggest a meeting, people can join or propose changes. That's it. :<
So everyone who signed up would need to check this site, is the idea?
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It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict—it's a chronic problem here in the states. There are some ridiculously common city names here, but one that's been in the news lately and probably confusing a lot of people is Springfield, which is the name of at least 42 different cities in the US [0], including 5 just in Wisconsin. M…
Every time o put directions to my local market town of Newport in Shropshire, google insists on thinking I want to travel two hours to Wales. I guess it could be worse and I’d end up in the Isle of Wight. Reused names isn’t just an American thing.
Ashford Kent and Ashford Middlesex are common issues in the southeast.
As for Hawkridge in Devon...dark night (not stormy) and it was only when I saw Dulverton road signs I got the sense this wasn't going to plan.
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#215Just to leave my data point, I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list. That said, PR is so small that I don't care about searching by city, searching for users in the island is enough for a meetup. For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize it would be a problem. It's been reported before and I'll work on this. Thanks for sharing!
Check out how many "greenville" s there are. Even several in the same state. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville There's even more than one "Las Vegas".
'Ville' translates as "town" so "Green Town" :)
Similiarly in the UK 'Downs' is an old english word for hill so I'm always amused by a local 'Highdown Hill' ("HighHill Hill").
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#217Let me set a karma that other users must meet before seeing my username.
this is exactly why i dont want to meet hn'ers
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#218I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes.…
The problem will be that once this goes from the front page (on a weekend) then the chances that people will remember the site are low. Nevertheless there will be users who will not see the submission and would be otherwise interested into trying that. I think the voice chat with HN that was submitted last year (was it last year?) showed us that mostly after a day or two you couldn't find any activity. I don't know h…
Could even add a 'meet' entry to the tagline above each comment, if they use this. Presumably only visible to other people who set this up. Could be a good way to remind people it exists.
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#219There are multiple cities/towns with the same name in my country, but unfortunately, it's impossible to specify which one is mine at meet.hn. What a shame.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Key reason the Simpsons live there - it could be anywhere.
Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR (also Portland, the streets names sharing a lot of character's names), it was only after he placed it in Springfield that he realized Springfield could be anywhere. He apparently makes direct references to local landmarks and establishments, and certain characters are rumored to have been based off of locals.
>> Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR
No he didn't.
742 SW Evergreen Terrace. Somewhere around here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=742%20sw%20evergr...