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Why aren't there comments on the job postings?

I could enable it easily enough. But I thought that if people had questions they could just ask the posters, and they could if they wanted modify the post.

Please do add comments... I don't really like being snarky, but in lieu of comments I've added a post about one of the loopt jobs - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310

I fondly remember the joelonsoftware jobs section (back before it was a paid service) when he allowed comments...people really tore into some of the postings.

PG said hiring is obsolete, so what is the need for a jobs page on ycombinator :D

Because there are still a lot of transaction costs out there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase#The_Nature_of_the_Firm

Hiring is, in other words, not obsolete.

Joining a newly founded startup is different. It may legally be hiring, but in practice it can be more like being a cofounder.

It would be helpful to see what city these jobs are in from the listing page...

Ok, I added locations to the titles; presumably new submissions will follow suit.

thanks!

Why is there no link in the top menu?

Coming soon. (The link was initially only visible to YC founders; I'll turn it on for everyone in the next release in a couple hours.)

Edit: It will be more than a couple of hours. The good news is, the next release will have some big improvements.

Aha! I always suspected there was a secret area for YC founders. ;)

Actually there isn't a secret area, at least not yet. I just turn on links to new stuff for them first, so they can find the bugs for me.

Could you prevent the job items from intermingling with the regular news page items?

That's intentional. The companies used to submit links when they were hiring, and I've tried to reproduce that. They'll slide off the frontpage like any story. The site just looks odd at the moment because there was accumulated demand.

Well, if they must be together, could they be tagged consistently as "jobs" (e.g.) so they can be filtered out of the feed?

Alternatively, could you consider grouping all the job items under a separate page tab, next to "new | best | leaders | submit" or just use another subdomain for them, e.g. jobs.ycombinator.com?

Not everyone who reads news.yc is looking for a job, after all.

I don't think it will be that flooded with job postings, given that only YC companies post there.

'... could they be tagged consistently as "jobs" => [location] job title (summary) ...'

the pattern is pretty easy to grep even for humans. It's a good idea to see the entire picture sometimes not just snapshots of it. But I agree with adding a tab. It's not the fastest way, wading through the main index for 'jobs'.

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