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HN: Let's Try Something Cool - Add Your Spot On The Hacker News Map
- lotharbot 16y agoKind of disappointing that you want only founders and investors.
- achompas 16y agoAgreed. Founders or no, everyone's interested in meeting their fellow HNers.
- terinjokes 16y agoYeah, I was going to star the map as a developer (or something similar), but I guess we're not cool enough. HAHA. Maybe he'll update the options.
- jmarbach 16y agoI can certainly add "Developer", I was just looking to keep it as simple as possible with 4 options by filing developers under "tech". Would you still like the options updated?
- terinjokes 16y agoI guess I didn't make a connection between "Tech Founder" and "Developer", as I didn't, and currently don't plan on, founding anything. EDIT: Grammar FAIL on my part.
- kd0amg 16y agoNot all who are in tech are founders. Also, I know a couple people who would probably at first try to write themselves in as "Student." Maybe that fits best alongside non-founder techs?
- Locke1689 16y agoAs a personal data point, I don't think I would mark myself as student even though I am currently a student. (Open question) What do you think differentiates a "student developer" from a "student?"
- kd0amg 16y agoDepending on context, specificity (some students may not be student developers) or nothing. In this particular context, likely nothing. At the time I posted, the only options were "[Business|Tech] Founder" and "VC/Investor." I have only ever encountered one student who was also a founder.
- Zev 16y agoWhat do you spend more time on? Because, as someone doing both half-time, there isn't enough time to be a full time dev (40+ hours/week) and a full-time student (4-5 classes, 3-4 hours/per class in the classroom, maybe half of that outside).
- Fargren 16y agoYes, there is enough time. I currently do 35 hours as a dev and 15-20 as a student, and I think I could do 5 more hours of development. My social life would probably suffer a lot, though, as I'd have to work or study more on weekends. And I have no idea whether I should say I'm a developer or a student whenever I have to choose. I tend to go with student because finishing college is my priority, but it's still an annoying question.
- kd0amg 16y agoIf "student" only takes you 15-20 hours per week, most probably wouldn't consider it "full-time." When I was in undergrad, spending 15-20 hours per week on school would mean about 0 hours spent studying.
- jmarbach 16y agoUnderstandable. That was a ignorance on my part, I swapped founder with "Users".
- stingraycharles 16y agoCan't this information be derived from http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html ?
- ggchappell 16y agoThat site appears to contain info only on people who have registered with it (unless I'm missing something; I don't seem to be there). Also, despite the implication of the title, the OP is not interested in HN users in general, only business founders and investors.
- jmarbach 16y agoI intend to have as many HN users as possible contribute. I switched the legend containing "Founder" with "Users" to make the markers more versatile. I apologize for the confusion.
- ggchappell 16y agoAh, thanks for the clarification. BTW, the article still says > My aim is to map out all of the founders in the Hacker News community, distinguished by four qualities: Tech founder, business founder, VC/investor, or a mix of the previous three. That's going to scare away a few people. Change the first two appearances of "founder" to "user"?
- jmarbach 16y agoYes, thank you for the correction. The mentions of "founder" have been edited.
- nopassrecover 16y agoIt seemed non-obvious to me I'm also meant to activate my account for it to be visible on the map (I just noticed it wasn't showing so searched the site until I found I was unactivated).
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- auxbuss 16y agoGreat idea. But please add options for others. It'd be great to meet like-minded folk. (I seem to be alone in the UK at the moment, which is a little worrying.)
- jmarbach 16y agoThanks! What options did you have in mind? To meet like-minded users in the UK, I think stringraycharles provided a great resource. http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html
- jacquesm 16y agoYou've got your Charles' mixed up. That site is owned by phpnode. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phpnode http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phpnode I know they both have a link to their hackernewsers page, but phpnode is the guy that built it.
- auxbuss 16y agoThanks. I'd not heard of it.
- mkramlich 16y agoHackerNewsers.com is already supposed to be filling that desire.
- noonespecial 16y agoI'm nomadic. I can haz API?
- loring 16y agoI suppose one would need access to the HN server, but it would be cool to see this sort of thing - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php
- barrydahlberg 16y agoIt's lonely south of the equator.
- pclark 16y agoWhy can't i just give you my address and you locate it for me on the map?
- baddox 16y agoYou can. Click the Add button on the map.
- jlgosse 16y agoWhen I first added myself to Ottawa, the only other person in Ottawa was "hidden" under my marker, so it only showed jlgosse. Maybe have multiple users in those markers?
- stretchwithme 16y agothe url doesn't present anything for me
- vkdelta 16y ago404 error
- ciupicri 16y agoBy the way wouldn't be a good idea if our HN profile would have a location field?
- ecaradec 16y agoAnd a contact field, sometimes I wish I could talk with someone who commented something I posted, but it's difficult to get in contact.
- DEinspanjer 16y agoThis reminded me of some work Al MacDonald did a while back with Firefox Downloads... http://bocoup.com/misc/stats.moz/ http://bocoup.com/misc/stats.moz/
- jmarbach 16y agoWow, those are really neat animations displaying the download popularity!
- Prospect 16y agoReally cool idea. I have a canvas printing company and we'll print pg's map for free if you like.
- darinpantley 16y agoIf you do this, be sure to include a legend that explains what the colors mean. Also, if you can switch the {yellow-orange, orange-yellow} color scheme to something more easily differentiable, that would be a nice touch too.
- jmarbach 16y agoAgreed, a more differentiable color scheme would be nicer. In the next couple days I will reach out to a couple designers seeing if they can emulate the "Earth at Night" poster that I mentioned in my note.
- sliverstorm 16y agoIs anyone else giggling like a small girl at the way HN'ers, who are usually privacy nuts (see: any discussion about Facebook), are freely giving away their exact location?
- jerf 16y agoWho says these are their exact location? I'm OK with giving away my city as dedicated searching will let you figure it out anyhow, but I didn't give my address. Dedicated searching will give you a decent chance at that anyhow (though I've moved around a lot in the past few years and I've noticed online address databases are full of defunct entries).
- kingkawn 16y agobrooklyn, wadup
- sandaru1 16y agoRussia and China has surprisingly low number of members. Any theories?
- sp332 16y agoTime zones?
- dzlobin 16y agoWho's this only other stranger next to me in sheepshead bay, brooklyn?
- phugoid 16y agoSomeone planted a "Here be insane muslims" flag in Saudi Arabia. I don't have permissions to remove it myself, so could you please?