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HN Hiring

212 points by yitchelle 12y ago

yaur 12y ago
hnhire.me (available at this moment) would be a better domain hack IMO. Also deceptive title, but nice idea.
- rectangletangle 12y ago
  I think it's a clever domain name, I lold.
- opendais 12y ago
  I wouldn't say the title is deceptive. Its just an aggregation of the HN hiring posts.
- samsnelling 12y ago
  I own hire.hn and hirehn.com -- More than willing to collaborate with OP or someone else on a project with them!
  - reagan83 12y ago
    Hey can you update your profile with your contact info?
    - samsnelling 12y ago
      Sorry I thought since I had "email" filled in people could reach me. I just updated it!
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necubi 12y ago
Hey everyone, I'm the creator of hnhiring.me. Surprised to see it pop up now, as I haven't done much with the site in the past couple of years. It's still being updated every month with the latest "Who's Hiring?" post, though, so hopefully people have found it useful. The source is also on GitHub (http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring). As an aside, I've been meaning for ages to do analysis of hiring trends based on the data. If anybody is interested in this, I have the past year of posts available in JSON available at http://hnhiring.me/data/comments-{thread-id}.json http://hnhiring.me/data/comments-{thread-id}.json. The thread ids for fulltime/freelancer for each month are here: http://hnhiring.me/data/threads.json http://hnhiring.me/data/threads.json.
- x1798DE 12y ago
  Seems like you aren't actively developing, but if anyone ends up forking this, it would be nice to see a version that degrades cleanly without JS.
  - necubi 12y ago
    I'll also happily accept pull requests :).
- gee_totes 12y ago
  Hi! I also build job scrapers (http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com) and have a question about the dependency on redis... why not just generate a time-stamp within the ruby scraper (which you already do) and store it within the resultant json itself? Then you can use string comparison to see if the next scrape has returned a more accurate time-stamp and just overwrite that part of the string. Basically my question is why couldn't you build the whole scraper with just flat files and no database/key-value store at all?
  - necubi 12y ago
    That would definitely be an improvement. When I originally wrote this in 2011, I had just a few hours, so I went with the quickest solution. For little personal side projects like this I find that Redis makes a great persistent hash map for storing bits of data between runs of a script.
josephjrobison 12y ago
Awesome aggregation, this is useful, thanks.
matiasb 12y ago
Thanks, I'm looking for work :)
orware 12y ago
I posted this earlier this month (contains MySQL database exports of the threads and comments going back to 2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687128 In the link above you can get a copy of the threads/comments data up until May 2014 for the HN Hiring threads (I didn't do anything for the Freelancers ones). My initial goal was to do the same (do an analysis of the data) so I also have an additional schema created that would allow us to associate the variety of programming languages, tools, locations, and companies together in a structured way. I have an idea of how I want to create a frontend that users could contribute to (I'd like to gamify it a bit so contributors can get some props on the site for helping get the data analyzed, since that is a pretty manual process), but haven't had the time to work on it.
piratebroadcast 12y ago
This seems an appropriate place to mention that I do Rails and Front-End in Boston and am looking for a full-time Jr Dev position somewhere- I can be reached at my username at gmail. Thanks!
jaaron 12y ago
Thanks for this. It's a useful reminder that I need to post some job openings in the next thread.
mschuster91 12y ago
Technical issue: clicking randomly in the text areas scrolls the page up to the post heading. Highly annoying.
lwhalen 12y ago
It might be useful to add a filter to specify remote-only, local-only, or some combination of the two.
- repsilat 12y ago
  You could try to do it programmatically, but I'd also let users tag/fix things as well.
- xerophtye 12y ago
  I have been trying to do that by simply typing "remote" in the search bar on the page. works good enough i suppose
mxxx 12y ago
hey, the regex filter is great but if i hit control-F I'm trying to use the browser search function, you shouldn't be capturing and overriding that.
- rhklein 12y ago
  you can press control-F twice to get the browsers search function.
kull 12y ago
You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? When on any job website I search for H1B and I am getting plenty of results... with "XXX is unable to provide sponsorship for H1B Visas at this time."
himanshuy 12y ago
Thanks for building this.

HN Hiring

212 points by yitchelle 12y ago

yaur 12y ago

hnhire.me (available at this moment) would be a better domain hack IMO. Also deceptive title, but nice idea.

rectangletangle 12y ago
I think it's a clever domain name, I lold.
opendais 12y ago
I wouldn't say the title is deceptive. Its just an aggregation of the HN hiring posts.
samsnelling 12y ago
I own hire.hn and hirehn.com -- More than willing to collaborate with OP or someone else on a project with them!
- reagan83 12y ago
  Hey can you update your profile with your contact info?
  - samsnelling 12y ago
    Sorry I thought since I had "email" filled in people could reach me. I just updated it!
  - deleted 12y ago
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necubi 12y ago

Hey everyone, I'm the creator of hnhiring.me. Surprised to see it pop up now, as I haven't done much with the site in the past couple of years. It's still being updated every month with the latest "Who's Hiring?" post, though, so hopefully people have found it useful. The source is also on GitHub (http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring). As an aside, I've been meaning for ages to do analysis of hiring trends based on the data. If anybody is interested in this, I have the past year of posts available in JSON available at http://hnhiring.me/data/comments-{thread-id}.json http://hnhiring.me/data/comments-{thread-id}.json. The thread ids for fulltime/freelancer for each month are here: http://hnhiring.me/data/threads.json http://hnhiring.me/data/threads.json.

x1798DE 12y ago
Seems like you aren't actively developing, but if anyone ends up forking this, it would be nice to see a version that degrades cleanly without JS.
- necubi 12y ago
  I'll also happily accept pull requests :).
gee_totes 12y ago
Hi! I also build job scrapers (http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com) and have a question about the dependency on redis... why not just generate a time-stamp within the ruby scraper (which you already do) and store it within the resultant json itself? Then you can use string comparison to see if the next scrape has returned a more accurate time-stamp and just overwrite that part of the string. Basically my question is why couldn't you build the whole scraper with just flat files and no database/key-value store at all?
- necubi 12y ago
  That would definitely be an improvement. When I originally wrote this in 2011, I had just a few hours, so I went with the quickest solution. For little personal side projects like this I find that Redis makes a great persistent hash map for storing bits of data between runs of a script.

josephjrobison 12y ago

Awesome aggregation, this is useful, thanks.

matiasb 12y ago

Thanks, I'm looking for work :)

orware 12y ago

I posted this earlier this month (contains MySQL database exports of the threads and comments going back to 2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687128 In the link above you can get a copy of the threads/comments data up until May 2014 for the HN Hiring threads (I didn't do anything for the Freelancers ones). My initial goal was to do the same (do an analysis of the data) so I also have an additional schema created that would allow us to associate the variety of programming languages, tools, locations, and companies together in a structured way. I have an idea of how I want to create a frontend that users could contribute to (I'd like to gamify it a bit so contributors can get some props on the site for helping get the data analyzed, since that is a pretty manual process), but haven't had the time to work on it.

piratebroadcast 12y ago

This seems an appropriate place to mention that I do Rails and Front-End in Boston and am looking for a full-time Jr Dev position somewhere- I can be reached at my username at gmail. Thanks!

jaaron 12y ago

Thanks for this. It's a useful reminder that I need to post some job openings in the next thread.

mschuster91 12y ago

Technical issue: clicking randomly in the text areas scrolls the page up to the post heading. Highly annoying.

lwhalen 12y ago

It might be useful to add a filter to specify remote-only, local-only, or some combination of the two.

repsilat 12y ago
You could try to do it programmatically, but I'd also let users tag/fix things as well.
xerophtye 12y ago
I have been trying to do that by simply typing "remote" in the search bar on the page. works good enough i suppose

mxxx 12y ago

hey, the regex filter is great but if i hit control-F I'm trying to use the browser search function, you shouldn't be capturing and overriding that.

rhklein 12y ago
you can press control-F twice to get the browsers search function.

kull 12y ago

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? When on any job website I search for H1B and I am getting plenty of results... with "XXX is unable to provide sponsorship for H1B Visas at this time."

himanshuy 12y ago

Thanks for building this.