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What abuse? Your HN profile is public anyhow. All this does is show who put a city in their profile. You could find those via Google as well.
I misunderstood then. I thought this is a brand new data collector. Thank you.
Can your website handle accents? Trying to look up my neighbors in São Paulo and Goiânia redirects me back to the root page.
https://meet.hn/city/br-São-Paulo
https://meet.hn/city/br-Goiânia
My guess is your website is choking on the accented characters.
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ã U+00E3 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDEI'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.…
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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.
It's not that the device transmits signals into space and the satellite operator, a trusted third party, would relay to the server where the user was computed to be. Instead, it's the user self-reporting the computed value from GPS satellites' signals
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.…
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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.
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…
> 36 Hacker News users in North Korea Some hacker was trolling and moving people there. Should be fixed now! > due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio Shouldn't be the case! Seems it's good for you now. If not, don't hesitate to share more details.
Edit: Same issue for Lódź in Poland. The URL does actually change briefly but then the page reloads and redirects back to the homepage. And this made me notice the Krákow person hasn't made it onto the page still :(
There are multiple cities in the U.S. with the name of my city, so unfortunately this doesn't work for me.
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!