Poll: Where are you currently living?
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>Southern North America (eg. Mexico)
>Northern part of South America
>Souther part of South America
Looks needlessly fragmented and imprecise. What is 'Southern part of South America'? Cono Sur? Then Brazilians from Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre are in different groups? Was that the intention? Why 'Southern North America' and not Central America? Where does Caribbean belong? Middle Asia (say, Kazakhstan)? Is Spain Western Europe or Southern Europe? Is Czech Republic Eastern Europe or Western Europe (since you don't offer 'Central Europe' as an option and some Czechs may be unhappy with identifying as Eastern Europeans)? Is Estonia in Eastern Europe? It damn well is in Eastern Europe, but some Estonians identify Estonia as Scandinavian.
Next time you guys should use some well established scheme such as this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme and just link to it in the post so no one is confused.
>Northern part of South America
>Souther part of South America
Looks needlessly fragmented and imprecise. What is 'Southern part of South America'? Cono Sur? Then Brazilians from Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre are in different groups? Was that the intention? Why 'Southern North America' and not Central America? Where does Caribbean belong? Middle Asia (say, Kazakhstan)? Is Spain Western Europe or Southern Europe? Is Czech Republic Eastern Europe or Western Europe (since you don't offer 'Central Europe' as an option and some Czechs may be unhappy with identifying as Eastern Europeans)? Is Estonia in Eastern Europe? It damn well is in Eastern Europe, but some Estonians identify Estonia as Scandinavian.
Next time you guys should use some well established scheme such as this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme and just link to it in the post so no one is confused.
You can't have a "western europe excl UK" and then a "southern europe". Italy and Spain are for sure in both categories.
Population (in millions):
USA 316.8
Canada: 35.1
Southern North America: 176.6
Northern part of South America: ?
Southern part of South America: ?
...South America: 387.4
UK: 62.2
Scandinavia: 25.7
Western Europe (excl. UK): 278.7
Eastern Europe: 176.7
Southern Europe / Mediterranean Europe: 153.5
Russia: 142.2
Northern Africa: ?
Southern Africa: ?
...Africa: 1032.5
Middle East: 370.9
India: 1210.2
China: 1353.8
South East Asia: 610.0
Australia and New Zealand: 35.6
Japan: 126.6
South Korea: 50.2
Other: ?I am from Jaipur, India. Many I times I am detestful of the fact that I don't live in big cities like Mumbai or Bangalore. I don't hear of any programming meetups that happen here, neither there are any conferences, nor any startup that has bubbled up. The first thing that I want to do after my graduation is to move in to a big city because socializing with smart people is the most recurring advice I have heard for ambitious freshers.
Histogram of current standings:
http://quickhist.onloop.net/USA=601,Canada=104,Southern%20No...
http://quickhist.onloop.net/USA=601,Canada=104,Southern%20No...
Given how many more votes US has than anything else, I think breaking it down would be warranted.
I'm thinking:
* San Fransisco Bay area * Seattle/Redmond area * Other west coast * Boston/Cambridge * New York * Other east coast * Chicago * Ann Arbor * Austin * Other noncoastal
I'm thinking:
* San Fransisco Bay area * Seattle/Redmond area * Other west coast * Boston/Cambridge * New York * Other east coast * Chicago * Ann Arbor * Austin * Other noncoastal
Not putting Brazil there is kinda silly, specially when it is a country that spans so much of South America that I bet some brazillians will put north south america while others will put south south america... (Also important: brazil vs rest of south america is more relevant, considering brazil went with a fairly unique culture, ie: not hispaniard, also Argentina in comparison to the rest of South America has a very high amount of caucasians, making it also quite unique compared to the rest, although, ie: having a european culture mixed with spain culture, instead of the usual spain mixed with native america)
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I live in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
99% of the time I have no regrets about moving here from the United States. That other 1% of the time when you are sick or require the services of the police, it's not the best place to be. My insurance plan covers an airlift to Thailand in the event of a serious emergency.
99% of the time I have no regrets about moving here from the United States. That other 1% of the time when you are sick or require the services of the police, it's not the best place to be. My insurance plan covers an airlift to Thailand in the event of a serious emergency.
Can we not just ask pg for the data?
Interesting that the ratio of Americans to Canadians is less than their respective populations.
Well, Portugal and Spain are at the most West of all Europe(Finisterre, Lisbon, Canary and Açores Islands), and Portugal is not Mediterranean at all.
Don't have enough karma so can't vote. I'm from Malaysia.
Not to be US-centric, but it would be interesting to see the breakdown between East and West Coasts of the United States.
Will be interesting to see how this progresses as diff timezones wake up. It's pretty Aus heavy at the moment as people like me procrastinate in the office.
In graph form :)
http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=6582647
http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=6582647
As an Istanbulite (is that even a word?), I'm confused.
In day time, I'm usually in Asia for school, and some nights, and most weekends I'm in Eastern Europe.
Voted for Eastern Europe and Other (since this part of Asia is not in the list).
In day time, I'm usually in Asia for school, and some nights, and most weekends I'm in Eastern Europe.
Voted for Eastern Europe and Other (since this part of Asia is not in the list).
egypt so i am in two places at once
and wikipedia confirms it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
Where is Central Europe anyway? You have added Southern Europe after all.
Haha, no love for North Korea.
"Southern Africa", by most definitions, excludes populous countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa
I think a better term would be "Sub-Saharan Africa": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa
Also, missing: "South Asia (excluding India)", which would cover an area with around 390 million people.
I think a better term would be "Sub-Saharan Africa": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa
Also, missing: "South Asia (excluding India)", which would cover an area with around 390 million people.
Instead of "Southern North America (eg. Mexico)", a better name IMO would be "Mexico, Caribbean or Central America".
I answered the same question recently on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-some-cool-tech-compan...
Hello to everyone else from Helsinki, Finland - we should organize a Hacker News meetup!
Hello to everyone else from Helsinki, Finland - we should organize a Hacker News meetup!
It says Southern Part of America (Antarctica anyone?)... and that's kinda' vague.
It should say
Central America South America
I'm from Chile by the way.
It should say
Central America South America
I'm from Chile by the way.
I hope someone is keeping track of the votes along with the time data. That might be very interesting, as well.
Wow thanks a lot for indiscriminately lumping together Western Europe in a single, confusing category.
There is something that needs to be changed in this kind of pool. Every time the same misconception.
- North America
- Central America (Northern part of South America?)
- South America
This needs to be common knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
- North America
- Central America (Northern part of South America?)
- South America
This needs to be common knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
I always thought that Scandinavia was part of Western Europe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe#Population_of_We...
I am from Myanmar (aka Burma) :)
By northern part of South America do you mean Central America? It's a fairly well established group of countries between (and excluding) Mexico ("North America") and Colombia ("South America")!
Australian in Costa Rica.
Australian in Costa Rica.
Please read through the list, to find the choice that describes you the best.
I've tried to be more precise than just continents, but still not every country, but rather regions, more or less divided by culture. I apologize if anyone feel left out, please leave a comment then with what region/country that you feel is significant enough to warrant it's own choice.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640384
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235585
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