I'd like to see an uncheck all. Or an easy way to just target one site, instead of having to uncheck all but that site.
Probably the next thing would be to pull in the Who's Hiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681040 - then scrape and parse it and incorporate it into the site somehow.
Great suggestion on targeting all the sites. Just pushed an update that un-checks every site with the "All Sites" checkbox at the top. I'll look into scraping the Who's Hiring feed next...
well not so much the optimal browse structure for seo for job sites is fairy well understood by now - I worked on total jobs and other sites at my previous job for part of elsiveer
Just don't worry about normalizing the data. Just grab each post and treat it as a new job. Let me know if you need help. I'm pretty good with cheerio :)
If I apply to work at a company remotely - how do I know that I'm not getting screwed over (not paid)? I'm 19 and some of my friends have gotten screwed over by a few foreign employers whilst working remotely. Do You have any tips to find a good place?
If you're a contractor / freelancer rather than an employee, you can do at least two things:
- Get paid some percentage up front
- Set out milestones throughout the project where you get paid an additional percentage
If they don't pay when a milestone is completed, development stops. This limits your risk exposure to a percentage of the project rather than the whole thing.
If you are in fact applying to be a remote full time employee, I would do my research on the company before applying. Has anyone else had payroll problems with this company? The same freelancer rules above apply though; if they start to miss paychecks, you start looking for a new job.
To add to this, I would ask new clients for a few days pay up-front as a sign of good faith.
There were several clients who ran away, absolutely outraged, they'd never heard of anyone asking something so ridiculous in all their life!
Running away screaming was very rare though, and by some good fortune, all of my regular clients were an utter delight to work with.
Stick to your guns though: get paid up-front, and invoice as often as you can. (Weekly in my case).
Offering clients a small discount for paying for a good chunk amount of development time in advance also worked well for me. (Lowest I'd typically go was 2 months with a 5% discount).
Do you have any tips on how to get started? I have been wanting to try some freelance gigs on the side but there seems to be a lot of friction to get started.
you've gotta build a rep as a hacker on elance. keep your bio short and to the point, talk about typical holes like cross-site scripting, sql-injection, db hardening, full stack exp etc. if you know how to crack node.js sites we might even hire you too depending on your js experience.
agreed. i've hired pro hackers on elance before too, the ratings on there are invaluable. matter of fact, i'll need more help in a couple of weeks once our next #ePlug web gui is ready for qa/qc/hacking. i'll probably post that job on coinality too.
thanks for this, I would love to hack as an "Accounts Payable Specialist"!
The problem with every new tier of these types of new ideas is that they think they are new ideas. "All the hotel bargains in one place" "All the airfares in one place" "All the jobs in one place". Then when you make it completely generic ("in one place All The Things!") new highly differentiated models appear, "forget monsterjobs.com, come to ultra l337 haxors.com"...
If you try to disrupt the invisible hand, [some mixed metaphor here, please post humorous variations]
normally, i don't like to engage in me-tooism cuz it just adds noise and clutters up scare time/space, but in this case, i would like to break my own mo. i just had a quick look at what scott hasbrouck has put together (github + website) and i was really impressed, especially with his use of the creative commons license placing his code into the public domain. we need more developers like him. i will definitely help spread the word and i wish him, and his projects, every success. /j
i was thinking of offering a crowd-funded bounty to crack our #ePlug IoT stuff. the bounty starts low for the obvious cracks but gets more difficult and pays more as the crack gets tougher. i'd like to offer this to Hackers on swarm, startjoin or other crypto-friendly crowd sites. hacker.surf would be an obvious portal to the crowd sites for this. ideas?
What's the criteria a job being a "Hacker Job"? Currently there's ~1437 jobs on Stack Overflow Careers but only 25 are listed. Is this just a scrape of the the first page of jobs listed on:
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Probably the next thing would be to pull in the Who's Hiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681040 - then scrape and parse it and incorporate it into the site somehow.
:)
Scraping is easy. Trying to figure out the best way to parse/display is hard.
For example, the whoishiring user[0] gives convenient access to every post[1] that would interest you.
0 = https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/whoishiring 1 = https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8681040
If I apply to work at a company remotely - how do I know that I'm not getting screwed over (not paid)? I'm 19 and some of my friends have gotten screwed over by a few foreign employers whilst working remotely. Do You have any tips to find a good place?
- Get paid some percentage up front
- Set out milestones throughout the project where you get paid an additional percentage
If they don't pay when a milestone is completed, development stops. This limits your risk exposure to a percentage of the project rather than the whole thing.
If you are in fact applying to be a remote full time employee, I would do my research on the company before applying. Has anyone else had payroll problems with this company? The same freelancer rules above apply though; if they start to miss paychecks, you start looking for a new job.
To add to this, I would ask new clients for a few days pay up-front as a sign of good faith.
There were several clients who ran away, absolutely outraged, they'd never heard of anyone asking something so ridiculous in all their life!
Running away screaming was very rare though, and by some good fortune, all of my regular clients were an utter delight to work with.
Stick to your guns though: get paid up-front, and invoice as often as you can. (Weekly in my case).
Offering clients a small discount for paying for a good chunk amount of development time in advance also worked well for me. (Lowest I'd typically go was 2 months with a 5% discount).
The problem with every new tier of these types of new ideas is that they think they are new ideas. "All the hotel bargains in one place" "All the airfares in one place" "All the jobs in one place". Then when you make it completely generic ("in one place All The Things!") new highly differentiated models appear, "forget monsterjobs.com, come to ultra l337 haxors.com"...
If you try to disrupt the invisible hand, [some mixed metaphor here, please post humorous variations]
A feature that would be nice for us europeans, considering a massive fraction of the jobs are in the US, would be a map to see the ones closer to us.
Let me know if anyone's interested.
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs
I did have a scan of the source code but I'm none the wiser.