by TutleCpt 9 hours ago
I'm starting to wonder how many Canadians are on Hacker News. This after seeing the BC Time Zone story as well as this one. Just curious, really. I'm wondering what the country breakdown is for Hacker News users.
The breakdown probably varies according to the time of day. In the middle of the night (for North America) I'd expect to see a higher proportion of international users, although I'd also expect the numbers aren't quite so high since HN is U.S.-centric and predominantly English only.
The number of Canadians is relatively easy to estimate though, since the geographic distribution is similar and the majority do speak English. I'd expect a roughly 8.5:1 ratio of Americans to Canadians based solely on population.
Maybe @dang can setup a roll-call for entertainments sake.
I measured it 3 different ways and came up with an average of 8.9:1.
Like 60% work for the government, the rest is $18 an hour or your own hustle.
Not a ham, or else I probably would have seen it sooner.
Canadian here. AM almost A.
I think the HN population is more distributed geographically then you'd initially think
Canadian checking in!
Canada has an educated population, large online presence, and many folks operate within both the US/Canada under dual citizenship. One can find them in every field from medicine to high energy physics.
If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned, but most are type C thanks to the great work by AMCHAM attracting global investment.
Notably, most science is done on UTC time... because politicians were always functionally ignorant about the collateral costs of arbitrary technology policy changes. Evey village usually has at least one idiot. =3
> If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned
Purely US resident owned, not US citizen owned. Resident aliens, who are not citizens, can have ownership in an S corp.
Out of an abundance of caution, please talk with AMCHAM, and a local tax lawyer first. In most cases, founders almost always want to form a type C corporate entity within their largest trading state.
People often do whatever they like, but whether it is locally legal is not a YOLO/LLM matter. Best of luck =3
Based on my own lived bias and HN addiction... The leading demographic has to be West Coast of the USA, then the multinational PNW as the most active HN users.
Again, I am biased, but as far as HN bias goes, that ain't bad. These are amazing places chock-full of the coolest people.
After decades of the West Coast life I now live in rest of world, and wish that rest of world could be so lucky.