Show HN: "Who is hiring" mapped

[Miyamoto]

It's strange how in California hiring is completely absent in all parts but Los Angeles and San Francisco. No San Diego? No Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo? No Sacramento? Interesting. I knew tech was concentrated in the hubs, but I would have expected a little dissent.

[Poleris]

Part of it is the source code. It specifically scans for keywords such as SoMA and associates it with SF. Other countries / states / cities get no such special treatment.

Made me sad as my company in Hong Kong (and all others in Asia) doesn't show up.

[bbq]

To be fair, saying everything on Hacker News is in San Francisco is like walking into San Francisco and saying everything is in San Francisco.

[jfb]

It's a lot easier to relocate to Palo Alto from e.g. Davis than to anywhere in California from, say, St. Louis.

[Dirlewanger]

You have to remember this is entirely self-selected. Just because there's probably a number of tech companies in those areas doesn't mean employees there are counting the days down to the first of each month to post here.

[stevewilhelm]

I have always been surprised how little startup activity there is in Santa Cruz.

[donretag]

I wish there were more jobs on the Central Coast.

[perspectivezoom]

Creator of curatedhnhiring.com here. This is good stuff. I'm going to hand enter all the locations for October tonight, but you can compare your auto-generated September data against https://github.com/perspectivezoom/curated-hn-hiring/blob/gh.... Also, I don't know if you care about accommodating this, but a lot of HN Who's Hiring posts list multiple locations.

[gsa]

Trying to match for multiple locations might have resulted in more false positives (eg: a job listing mentioning they received funding from someone in SF). In any case, I felt it made sense to show only one data point per post.

Thanks for sharing Curated HN Hiring, it looks really good. I'll cross-verify the data sometime later today.

Edit: Wrote a quick and dirty script to match the locations. I noticed 4 wrong matches, the rest matched up.

[sker]

Quite similar to the GitHub map from a few days ago[1], i.e. no Latin America, (almost)no Asia, no Africa.

[1] http://aasen.in/github_globe/

[contingencies]

That map actually made me wonder if I should start a local open source consultancy practice in East/Southeast Asia (which has been my home for a decade or so). If anyone else's in the region and potentiall keen, feel free to get in touch by email. I've run a few businesses here already.

[rurounijones]

Well for large parts of Asia they are probably not hanging around on an English speaking website.

[abhishivsaxena]

No Portugal, Italy or Greece as well.

[conorgil145]

Great job! I have always been curious about which HN Hiring posts were in my general area (Washington DC) and only got exact matches when doing a simple Ctrl+F. This map shows a few companies just outside the city in NOVA (northern Virginia), Maryland, and the like.

[grumps]

<rant>

Ugh this just makes me sad. I want to move to Portland next summer, and I've been watching for jobs in Portland. Right now I don't see any jobs but I keep seeing more, and more jobs in DC. I hate DC, I want out!

</rant>

[steveax]

Plenty of tech hiring going on in stumptown these days. Just one source:

http://siliconflorist.com/jobs/

[jim-greer]

We're hiring in Portland (Kongregate)

[gsa]

I just ran the crawler and see one mapped to Portland. There are two more if you use full text filter (currently I'm storing only location per post).

[mountaineer]

Also watch the user groups, most of which run on google groups. Not a lot of Portland participation on HN, a few here and there.

[lsiebert]

I'be been building a command line Perl app Gutsy https://github.com/gryftir/gutsy to parse Who is Hiring and export to text/html, but this certainly displays a lot nicer.

The one thing is, does it only check the first line for info? While that's where it should go per the posting guidelines, I found people don't always follow the suggested format.

[Sarkie]

Maybe people should put their GPS rather than just location, I wanted to see exactly where in London, unless everyone works on The Strand.

[dionidium]

Just a random tip for anybody casually looking at the Columbia, MO or Bloomington, IN jobs. I know nothing about either job, but I do know the area and those are both pretty hip little college towns, so I wouldn't discount them entirely if you talked to them and liked the gig, but were turned off by the location.

[ams6110]

If you're into hip college towns, I agree. You won't find a big tech scene there though. If it ends up being a good job, that's great; if it doesn't, you won't likely have many other options.

[sofal]

Seattle representation is on par with Chattanooga, TN. This is surprising to me.

[ttruett]

By no means is Chattanooga anywhere close to Seattle when it comes to the tech scene (or a variety of scenes for that matter) but it's got a lot of promise and the startup scene is growing. Check out http://noogastartups.com to see the directory we recently threw together.

[DenisM]

My Seattle post is missing from the map, so the accuracy is questionable.

[harpb]

That's just cool: http://cl.ly/image/2a1q381Z3M09/Image%202013-10-01%20at%204....

[eamsen]

Incredibly useful for job hunters and well executed! The map view needs some clever hack to increase readability in popular places like SF and London - maybe a brief description pop-up would do the trick?

[walshemj]

Seconded being able to see all the roles in an area as a list would be really usefull.

[sequoia]

OP: regarding this comment in your README: "I'm not sure if there's a better way to organize the gh-pages branch so it's convenient to manage and use via Github Pages at the same time."

You can, in the repo settings, change the default branch to gh-pages: http://screencast.com/t/VTHVE6oXRT Then you can delete the master branch if you want.

[Splendor]

Oh cool. There are two within 1,000 miles of me.

[innino]

Nice. Looks like some datapoints failed to get mapped and defaulted to West Africa though. Also this looks like it could be a good fit for web-gl globe? http://code.google.com/p/webgl-globe/

[hackula1]

0,0 is where coordinate conversion fails end up. As a GIS developer, when something is not showing up on a map, I always zoom over to W Africa to see if it is showing up there.

[_puk]

Nice visualisation, thanks for sharing.

Perhaps add the option to reset the view, as currently have to rerun the search.

[prakster]

Can you do the same for HN's "Who's available for hire" monthly posts?

[donretag]

Is there such a post? I only know of the "Who is hiring" and the freelancer posts.

[Imagenuity]

It would be awesome to see this for the freelancer / seeking freelance posts too.

[kmfrk]

Is the location filter busted? I keep ending up lost at sea when entering queries like "Europe" and "United States".

Really love the philosophy of the project, though.

[gsa]

Location filter is based on what's returned by the Google Geocoding API. United States is stored as USA. Europe's a continent, so it's not there but you can use a regex like, "Germany|Netherlands"

[Dragonai]

As a college student looking for an internship at the kind of company who posts on Hacker News, thank you so much. This is great.