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Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#41

Post by xando » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:41 PM UTC

adaml_623 wrote: post #36

Can you allow users to submit location corrections please. You've got a job that's in Canberra smack in the middle of Australia.

Ok It looks like this is the biggest issue, I mean guessing locations. This might be hard, I'm using named entity recognition approach, although even with this is not that perfect. Also Is really common to put more than one location, in different formants.

I'm planning to add UI widged to flag post as misplaced.

Here the first location appears as Australia and isn't followed by any city, also the next entity is not location. So we are done. Australia is the location.

Said that I will fix the job position manually.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#42

Post by c0nfused » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

So, apparently there are a good number of tech jobs in Java Virginia, USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java,_Virginia

I suspect those might not actually be there.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#43

Post by nkassis » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

tudorw wrote: post #26

Wow, only 5 out of the 50 jobs in London are offered remotely, I thought the Internet was meant to change things!

I think the debate is still open on the benefits and drawbacks of remote jobs. It's going to take a long time to change the culture.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#44

Post by cphuntington97 » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:50 PM UTC

c0nfused wrote: post #42

So, apparently there are a good number of tech jobs in Java Virginia, USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java,_Virginia I suspect those might not actually be there.

the small town of Alabama, NY also representing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812941

"Decatur, AL / NYC"

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#45

Post by sush1612 » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

This is awesome!!! The idea of plotting this information on maps is too good.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#46

Post by lorenzhs » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

vonmoltke wrote: post #33

lorenzhs wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

L.A. is also mapped to Augsburg, Germany: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/48.3251666937866/10.8...

There is also one instance where it got mapped just outside Shreveport, Louisiana: http://whoishiring.it/#!/search/Europe/32.45273455061945/-93...

Ah, now it makes sense -- the one in your link is parsed as "Santa Monica, LA" (LA for Louisiana) and the one I found as "L.A., onsite" which Google Maps maps (heh!) to a company called "MTU Onsite" in Lechhausen, Augsburg :)

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#47

Post by nkassis » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

sz4kerto wrote: post #30

logicallee wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking - http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_... That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers. That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable…

And programmers in the City make >100k. Not all of them, of course, but many. And 80k is average.

That still seems low given the cost of living in London + comparing to finance devs in the US in similar markets.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#48

Post by lorenzhs » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:00 PM UTC

j_jochem wrote: post #27

lake99 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The one for Scribd is wrong too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816112 is identified as a job in Berlin. I think the mods should enforce some address formats to make things more convenient for tools such as yours.

If you zoom in, it is actually placed in Frankfurt an der Oder. I'm not sure how they got THAT idea.

If you zoom in further, it is actually placed Slubice, Poland, just across the border from Frankfurt an der Oder ;) Still no idea how it got there, though.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#49

Post by izolate » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:01 PM UTC

tudorw wrote: post #26

Wow, only 5 out of the 50 jobs in London are offered remotely, I thought the Internet was meant to change things!

And of those, most of them are remote but require UK residence.

Re: Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

#50

Post by winter_blue » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #12

weavie wrote: post #3

This pretty much sums up the state of the UK job market : https://imgur.com/qLzxV7U

it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking - http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_... That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers. That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable…

Didn't expect dev salaries to be that low in the UK. Just out of curiosity: what's the median take-home after-tax income for a developer in the UK in general, and in London in particular?

And how do devs compare to the general population? Are they just slightly better off?