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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

by 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.
larsberg 12y ago
This would be more useful to me (as a hiring manager) with something that encouraged better links to somebody's accounts / portfolio / etc. instead of just their usually-empty HN profile. e.g., I'm currently looking to contract somebody for some devops work here at Mozilla Research, and going through the set of listings that have 'devops' in them and actually finding a link to a resume / github account / anything more substantial than a twitter feed is pretty maddening.
- cjbarber 12y ago
  Given that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170 is coming up on the 1st of June. I modified the template: https://gist.github.com/cjbarber/189c84750cd42309201d https://gist.github.com/cjbarber/189c84750cd42309201d Thoughts?
  - larsberg 12y ago
    That's fantastic - thanks much!
- zura 12y ago
  Lars, any plans for engineering openings at Mozilla Research (servo)?
  - larsberg 12y ago
    Zura, I doubt we will open a new batch of full-time positions for Servo before the start of Q4. That said, I'm always willing to see what I can find for candidates with an exceptional background!
    - zura 12y ago
      Shot an email
jastix 12y ago
Thanks for the project and data! Just last week I was wondering if I could get it from somewhere :)
woodss 12y ago
Really useful, I've been Control-F'ing the thread each day which hurts my efficiency vein. Glad I found this before I wrote my own :)
myth_drannon 12y ago
Well someone already being doing this : http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/ http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/
- orware 12y ago
  Thanks for mentioning this one, I hadn't seen it yet, but it's more or less what I had been imagining for my own mini-project...I guess I don't have to build it anymore :-).
  - mountaineer 12y ago
    It's on Github too if you're interested in improving or suggesting new ideas. https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends
- mountaineer 12y ago
  Thanks for posting this, I am the creator. Now, time to go publish June's update.

by necubi 12y ago

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.

larsberg 12y ago

This would be more useful to me (as a hiring manager) with something that encouraged better links to somebody's accounts / portfolio / etc. instead of just their usually-empty HN profile. e.g., I'm currently looking to contract somebody for some devops work here at Mozilla Research, and going through the set of listings that have 'devops' in them and actually finding a link to a resume / github account / anything more substantial than a twitter feed is pretty maddening.

cjbarber 12y ago
Given that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170 is coming up on the 1st of June. I modified the template: https://gist.github.com/cjbarber/189c84750cd42309201d https://gist.github.com/cjbarber/189c84750cd42309201d Thoughts?
- larsberg 12y ago
  That's fantastic - thanks much!
zura 12y ago
Lars, any plans for engineering openings at Mozilla Research (servo)?
- larsberg 12y ago
  Zura, I doubt we will open a new batch of full-time positions for Servo before the start of Q4. That said, I'm always willing to see what I can find for candidates with an exceptional background!
  - zura 12y ago
    Shot an email

jastix 12y ago

Thanks for the project and data! Just last week I was wondering if I could get it from somewhere :)

woodss 12y ago

Really useful, I've been Control-F'ing the thread each day which hurts my efficiency vein. Glad I found this before I wrote my own :)

myth_drannon 12y ago

Well someone already being doing this : http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/ http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/

orware 12y ago
Thanks for mentioning this one, I hadn't seen it yet, but it's more or less what I had been imagining for my own mini-project...I guess I don't have to build it anymore :-).
- mountaineer 12y ago
  It's on Github too if you're interested in improving or suggesting new ideas. https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends
mountaineer 12y ago
Thanks for posting this, I am the creator. Now, time to go publish June's update.