Brilliant idea! I get No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update when trying to add to map.
But my HN accounts has about section...
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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#292Brilliant idea! I get No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update when trying to add to map. But my HN accounts has about section...
It was capitalization of my HN handle. Needs to match exactly.
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#293Did you get permission from HN to do this? There's no way I'd join something like this without the official stamp.
Who is HN?
What makes something official? Should HN run it?
HN is a community. This is a community effort. And it can be vetted or modified or subscribed to by that community.
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#295It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?
I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =)
In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github/gitlab/sourcehut/etc profiles instead would have been just more apt =)
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#296It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?
I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =) In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github/gitlab/sourcehut/etc profiles instead would have been just more apt =)
I prefer when personal websites are used but agree
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#297There 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!
FWIW, Wikipedia has a list of the most common place names in the United States. "Washington" leads at 91, which means nearly two occurrences per state, though this includes variant names such as "Old Washington", "Port Washington", and "Washingtonville":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._p...>
Other issues you might want to consider are locations with multiple names or spelling variants, say, "Ciudad de México" and "Mexico City" or Pretoria/Tshwane, various script variants, or disputed names. Or closely-paired locations, such as Minneapolis / St. Paul or Dallas / Fort Worth. Or those which have changed names (Bombay / Mumbai, Calcutta / Kolkota, Madras / Chennai).
For the United States, using MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) will tend to group people by urban region, with less ambiguity and grouping of reasonably proximate locations. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a widely-used standard elsewhere.
Cue: "Falsehoods programmers believe about geography"
https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/15187>
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891185>
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#298Earlier 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…
Plenty of European countries have conflicting city/town/village names as well. If they grow to large they are sometimes specified by adding more locality to their name. Denmark has three cities names Nykøbing, typically specified as Nykøbing Mors, Nykøbing Sjælland or Nykøbing Falser. Small places are just allowed to conflict as long as they aren't in the same postcode.
Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany.
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#299I'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 see a messaging system on HN. There are so many great people here; but most don't put an email link in their profile. I think adding very simple messaging (just enough to exchange contact info) would be a very positive force in the world.
Upvoting this.
It is extremely frustrating when you recognize a like-minded individual, you want to engage with them, befriend them, for the benefit of both, and you're just unable to because they neglected to add some contact detail/link/hint.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would love to see a messaging system on HN. There are so many great people here; but most don't put an email link in their profile. I think adding very simple messaging (just enough to exchange contact info) would be a very positive force in the world.
I would imagine if they don't put an email (I don't) they don't want to be contacted. If people want to find me badly enough, they do--it's happened several times!
This can't possibly always be true.