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Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by detourdog »

dang wrote: post #192

I'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.…

I would love to have a meet tab. Maybe those that want to meet could fill in the zip code and maybe a date range.

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Post by dumbo-octopus »

user3939382 wrote: post #229
sirobg wrote: post #78

Earlier 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!

Yeah for US it needs to be: City, State, Country Also not clear if your mapper was expecting “United States” or “United States of America”

Honestly postal code is better. There are many cities with the same name in the same state. Generally postal codes are logical boundaries.

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Post by [deleted] »

lolinder wrote: post #105
sirobg wrote: post #78

Earlier 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!

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…

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Post by tlewitt »

I have been reading HN for 4+ years through university and moving to SF for a job in tech and derive a huge amount of utility from it.

However this is the first post that has made me want to join and interact as more than a “lurker”.

Looks awesome and I hope to meet some awesome hackers around me!

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Post by brudgers »

1over137 wrote: post #151
lolinder wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I knew city names were repeated in different US states, but they repeat even within a state?

Many US states are larger than many European countries.

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Post by brudgers »

AyyEye wrote: post #177
sirobg wrote: post #78

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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".

“Las Vegas” means the meadows. The Spanish were usually pragmatic when naming locations on their maps, e.g. Del Rio, El Paso (de Norte), and Presidio in Texas; Salida, La Junta, and Pueblo in Colorado; the Sierra Nevada in California; and El Camino Real’s everywhere.

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Post by stickfigure »

CM30 wrote: post #172

Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quit…

The only surprise is that the number is that small:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

Lizardmen gotta live somewhere.

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Post by n_plus_1_acc »

koito17 wrote: post #210

There seems to be undocumented requirements for romanizations of city names. Consider a Japanese city like 船橋市。 The official romanization (訓令式 / ISO 3602) would be "funabasi". This is how many people type the name with an IME. However, this is input is rejected, while "funabashi" is accepted. I'm not sure of a good solution. It may be a good idea to state the requirements somewhere

something something falsehoods about addresses

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by xyst »

lolinder wrote: post #105
sirobg wrote: post #78

Earlier 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!

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…

Guess Austin, MN hackers are just going to have to join Austin, TX hackers :)
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