Poll: Where do you live? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by TulliusCicero » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:27 PM UTC

lordnacho wrote: post #173

TulliusCicero wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Denver and Boulder have a good amount of tech. A bit surprised it comes out ahead of Texas though. Also the UK and Germany being about the same is interesting. Germany does have a slightly larger population, but of course the UK is natively English speaking.

All the relevant people in Germany as well the rest of the continent speak English pretty well.

I think that’s overselling it slightly. Yeah most techies in Germany are proficient or better in English, but that’s still gonna lead to less English website usage than a natively English speaking population.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by maxverse » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:28 PM UTC

Mc91 wrote: post #147

gkfasdfasdf wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Current top 10: 'US: California' '79 points' 'Canada' '48 points' 'US: Washington' '39 points' 'US: New York' '36 points' 'Germany' '35 points' 'United Kingdom' '34 points' 'US: Massachusetts' '19 points' 'Netherlands' '18 points' 'US: Colorado' '17 points' 'Sweden' '16 points' Colorado #9? Really?

I know a programmer who moved to Colorado, mainly because he likes to be able to go out on hikes and that sort of thing.

I lived in Boulder for 2 years, and it's not just that there are gorgeous places to explore in CO - there's a culture of adventure and exploration here; everyone is much more likely to finish work early and go hiking, or take a snowboarding break in the middle of the day. It's encouraging and awesome.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by binarynate » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:29 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #82

Does every option get one vote by default? Seems to be a weird design choice.

Yes, I guess that's just how things work on HN

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by binarynate » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:30 PM UTC

newaccount74 wrote: post #225

toqy wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is begging for a console.table console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)))

I wanted a total for the US: console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.replace(/:.*/,'').trim(), parseInt(el.nextSibling.textContent.trim())]).reduce((d, [k,v]) => {d[k]=v + (d[k] || 0); return d}, {})) I can't figure out how to sort that, though...

I created a page with the current results that includes a total for the US:

https://nate.org/hacker-news-location-poll

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by Thorentis » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:30 PM UTC

I think this highlights just how bad the HN poll function is. Is it too hard to sort by votes and maybe add a thin line below each to show relative size?

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by AviationAtom » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:31 PM UTC

Wonder if the one vote for Georgia the country was actually meant for the US state of Georgia

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by echelon » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:34 PM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #4

Not sure if this post still ranks in the morning as it's evening in the EU so probably not many people will answer, while the Americas will. I know there are a lot of people from the EU here.

Also it was posted in the afternoon for those on the US East coast. (A Friday afternoon!)

Unless this sits near the top of HN for a week, it's very likely to be skewed.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by binarynate » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:34 PM UTC

mothsonasloth wrote: post #15

Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?

Sorry about that! This was an oversight on my part. In retrospect, I wish I had included separate entries for regions of UK, Canada, and others. I thought about adding new entries for them now, but it seems a bit too late since folks have already been voting.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by nobody9999 » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:36 PM UTC

ohlookcake wrote: post #244

I refuse to participate, on account of the overwhelming America-centrism. I realise that by doing this I'm skewing it even more, but

>I refuse to participate, on account of the overwhelming America-centrism. I realise that by doing this I'm skewing it even more, but

Not sure why you'd see it that way. Especially since the US has more English speaking folks than any other country[0].

Since HN an English language site and there are more (by a lot) English-speaking folks in the US than any other country, it's not surprising that there are more folks from the US on here than other countries.

What steps do you suggest to reduce the "America-centrism" of HN? Refusing to participate in a poll certainly isn't viable as a means to do that.

As an English speaking resident of the United States, I'd love to see more non-US stuff here on HN.

A poll that might be useful in this context is a comparison of the numbers collected here as compared with the location of submitters as a whole.

I've found that online translators mostly suck, which limits the usefulness of foreign language submissions on a site that's in English.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by dvdkon » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 10:36 PM UTC

rubabredwan wrote: post #270

https://wheredohnuserslive.vercel.app/

Thanks! Bug report: "Czechia" on the map is showing 0 votes, since the poll item is "Czech Republic". Also you might want to account for "1 vote" meaning both no votes and actually one vote (not sure how, though, information is just lost here).