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

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Post by spatx »

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'm a little late to this thread, but I agree with others; the 'meet' tab would be an incredible addition to HN. Perhaps it could include features like location-based topic filters or even a 'looking to meet' tag where users can express interest in meeting others with similar interests. To keep things safe and inclusive, maybe we could have a 'verified meetup' system where members can host and vet events before they’re posted. I'll shut up before my brain dumps all my thoughts here.

On a related note, for any HNers (or hackers) in/around Austin, TX that want to meet, I'd be happy to help organize a meetup in Austin, if you're interested in connecting.

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

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Post by atmanactive »

Aachen wrote: post #329
atmanactive wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you decompiled the app, then yes, you could spoof GPS. Still, a well behaved backend would stop you in your tracks. The user is not self-reporting, the app is. Again, just because something can't be 100% bulletproof it doesn't mean it needs to stay wide open.

That's a fair argument in general, though in this case I would both say that - the risk of somehow abusing self-reported city-level location data is very low - the effort involved in bypassing the proposed security measure is so exceedingly little, anyone who is passingly motivated to abuse it will also simply do that As someone who works in the digital risk business, I fully subscribe to managing risk and that (as y…

I'm less concerned about the abuse of a single self-reported city-level location data. What worries me here is a world-wide-open directory of people (any people) and their locations and interests and social links. It's a target group right there served on a silver platter to _anyone_ on the internet. Sorry, but, no thanks.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.…

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

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Post by mynameyeff »

sirobg wrote: post #112
mynameyeff wrote: post #32

you should probably use some kind of API to help people input their city/country.

I do, I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap. I used a simple API call for the sake of simplicity, but now that the product is out, I'll probably switch to something more robust.

gotcha... maybe the API was slow... i didn't get address suggestions when inputting y city's name

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Post by scooke »

dredmorbius wrote: post #298
mrweasel wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I made the mistake once of "flying to Frankfurt!" on some low-cost airline out of the UK and landed in Frankfurt-Hahn. Yikes.
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