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Post by tkgally »

lolinder wrote: post #105
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!

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…

The long-defunct literary magazine Wigwag ran a monthly essay by an Angolan writer named Sousa Jamba titled "Letter from Springfield." For each installment he visited a different U.S. Springfield.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigwag_(magazine)

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/wigwag-the-magaz...

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Post by stickfigure »

dumbo-octopus wrote: post #232
user3939382 wrote: post #229

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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.

Much harder to geolocate internationally. You really need a geocoding service that accepts flexible input text, narrows the result set, and lets the user pick one.

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Post by thelittleone »

vjulian wrote: post #225

Is it limited to hackers, or is it open to all tech-savvy, free-thinking types of HN readers? If need be, I could dust off some mad 6502 assembly language skillz. Oh, and I ran a BBS briefly in the 80s if that helps me qualify. I’m not technically knowledgeable on current technologies, but I think I’m sufficiently opinionated.

I ran a BBS also and likely at least as opinionated. Brother.

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Post by amjoshuamichael »

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.…

The issue with these kinds of meeting services seems to be that as the population of the online community goes up, the overall quality, and likelihood that you'll meet a real, friendly person, goes down. It's not guaranteed, but the ideals and culture of hackernews could help realize the full potential of that dream. As it says in the welcome page, "A community site that becomes popular will decline in quality... by making a conscious effort to resist decline, we can keep it from happening." I definitely think it would be something worth trying.

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Post by longlonglonglon »

sirobg wrote: post #198
longlonglonglon wrote: post #115

I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually sav…

Thanks for reporting all this! > I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. This was because there was no country code associated to it. > Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). I actually did more than removing it, I now make any "city" without a country code, an invalid one.…

The 405 seems to happen randomly. No idea what causes it, sometimes it returns 200, but after a few several POSTs in a row it may return 405.

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Post by atmanactive »

welder wrote: post #75

Let me set a karma that other users must meet before seeing my username.

I agree with this. We got to have a means of verifying that the other party is indeed a real HN member. Having it open like this is too spam/abuse/harvest prone, in my opinion.

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Post by atmanactive »

Aachen wrote: post #212
atmanactive wrote: post #144

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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)

GPS could confirm that you are indeed where you claim you are. In the unlikely case you want to change your location for the Nth time.

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Post by nkrisc »

sirobg wrote: post #13
skeltoac wrote: post #10

- Great idea, thanks for sharing! - country-city does not work well in the US because we have many duplicated city names in different states - what harsh reputation? :)

- Thank you very much! - Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already. Today I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap to fetch cities data. This request: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c... I guess I'll have to change this for a less restrictive search. I wanted a city and country to have a nice and simple URL though. If you have any suggestion…

> Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already.

And Paris, Idaho and Paris, Illinois and Paris, Michigan and Paris, Indiana and …

I think about half of US states have a city called Paris.

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Post by atmanactive »

frde_me wrote: post #195
atmanactive wrote: post #144

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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?

Well, one answer might be that someone could spin up emulators Or reverse engineer whatever app you have. Or reset their phone? (or would you restrict it somehow to one account per physical phone? What happens if it gets sold or given away?) Having worked in fraud detection a bit, it's _really_ hard to prevent people from making multiple accounts. Short of requiring ID based verification, and even then. And then you…

Your points are all true. But we must not forget that security is like onion layers. The fact that something can't be made military-grade hack-proof doesn't mean we should leave it wide open for the whole world to abuse.
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