HN Hiring(hnhiring.me)
hnhiring.me
HN Hiring
http://hnhiring.me/
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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.
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.
Given that:
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
Thoughts?
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
Thoughts?
That's fantastic - thanks much!
Hi! I also build job scrapers (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?
Basically my question is why couldn't you build the whole scraper with just flat files and no database/key-value store at all?
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.
Well someone already being doing this :
http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/
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 :-).
It's on Github too if you're interested in improving or suggesting new ideas. https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends
Thanks for posting this, I am the creator. Now, time to go publish June's update.
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 :)
Thanks for the project and data! Just last week I was wondering if I could get it from somewhere :)
It might be useful to add a filter to specify remote-only, local-only, or some combination of the two.
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
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.
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.
hnhire.me (available at this moment) would be a better domain hack IMO. Also deceptive title, but nice idea.
I own hire.hn and hirehn.com -- More than willing to collaborate with OP or someone else on a project with them!
Hey can you update your profile with your contact info?
Sorry I thought since I had "email" filled in people could reach me. I just updated it!
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I wouldn't say the title is deceptive. Its just an aggregation of the HN hiring posts.
I think it's a clever domain name, I lold.
Technical issue: clicking randomly in the text areas scrolls the page up to the post heading. Highly annoying.
Awesome aggregation, this is useful, thanks.
Thanks for this. It's a useful reminder that I need to post some job openings in the next thread.
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."
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Thanks, I'm looking for work :)
Thanks for building this.
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!
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. The thread ids for fulltime/freelancer for each month are here: http://hnhiring.me/data/threads.json.