skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best way to get your content into the search engines is to get links from top social media sites and blogs. These sites carry lots of authority in the search engines eyes and thus they are visited multiple times a day. Strategies to get such links include commenting on both types of sites, and submitting your content. Also comment on blogs in your industry using your new sites URL as the web site URL in the comment field.

Want to know which blogs are tops, go to Technorati. For social networking sites have a friend submit some content from your site to http://www.digg.com, http://www.reddit.com, http://www.netscape.com, and http://www.stumbleupon.com.

Then find some directories to submit to, http://www.seomoz.org has some good articles on the subject.

If you write a press release submit it to http://www.prleap.com, seth godin listed in the 8 free things every site should do.

http://www.squidoo.com/topfreethings/

Follow these strategies and your content will get in the search engines index quickly.
Police Blotter: Dark side of 'reputation defending' service
Google Desktop goes Linux
"why you'd want to put the music industry to death?"

Well.. you have to do SOMETHING or you get bored.

What do you do?
I'm a big fan of music... it's not the sort of thing I want to go away.
Well, i meant putting the INDUSTRY as we know it to death. Listening to music on Youtube doesnt mean people cant pick up guitars and play stuff anymore.

Im just bored of CDs and ITunes.
Assembly, Bash, C, Dylan, Emacs Lisp, F#, Groovy, Haskell, Icon, Java, K, Lua, Mathematica, Nemerle, Oz, Perl, Qi, R, Scheme, Tcl, UnrealScript, VRML, Whitespace, XQuery, Yorick, Z++

(I tried to pick different PLs than russ if I could think of one, though I admit I didn't know of Yorick or Z++)
Some people just collect points here
You might want to consider changing your sleep schedule to something close to a uberman polyphasic schedule. Can you nap during your lunch break? Restricting your naps to 20mins or less prevents you from entering the deep sleep stages which make you groggy and tired. Just take them more frequently, like 4-5 hrs apart.

It may sound ridiculous but i've found it pretty effective. Even though I'm moonlighting I still code for almost as long as someone doing it full time (assuming ~8hrs sleep). Work can still get in the way though so I understand your decision.

The big plus (at least early on in your project) is that it takes the pressure of worrying about your burn rate off...
I've done the polyphasic sleep thing for ~3 months last year. You can forget about coding for the first 10-12 days or so while you acclimatize (or at least I found it very very hard). And if you don't initiate yourself exactly right you'll find you've wasted a whole month just getting dog tired.

While you do suddenly seem to get a lot of time it makes any kind of socializing hard since you have to sleep every 3-4 hours. Even after a couple of months if I missed one sleep session I would hit a massive wall and all coding would come to a stop.

Lack of time can sometimes be a good thing. It forces you into creative solutions. The funny thing is, although I produced more lines of code during the polyphasic experiment
I think the quality suffered (not much but when I look over those pieces it always seems I could have structured it better). I don't know what to attribute that to since I didn't feel any different while coding in or out of the polyphasic state after the ramp up period.
Agree with everything you said (especially the difficulty socializing part).

My solution to most of the problem is to "ease" into the schedule. Keep a core sleep period of like 4-5 hrs at night but continue to take your naps. As you acclimatize, try shrinking/eliminating the core sleep gradually. That way you dont feel like you're getting hit by a train like you do if you try and jump right into it.

As far as code quality, I find mine is actually much better.. The period just after each nap I feel really refreshed and can concentrate. Theres actually research out there that proves this is true. Again, I think its all about avoiding a rough acclimation period though..
it sucks, it burns you out, but if you can do it, then startups is for you :)
jsjenkins168 wrote:
Theres actually research out there that proves this is true

hmmm.. I found research in this area very lacking. The only scientific study seemed to be from sleep researcher Claudio Stampi and his essentially said "If you absolutely can't keep regular sleeping schedules (like in long sailing races) then polyphasic sleep is a better alternative".

If you have pointers to papers I'd appreciate links sent to the email-id in my profile. I might try this again someday.
My startup is still not popular, but cloned already :) &#27426;&#36814;&#21040;&#20013;&#22269;
I love these Chinese.
The only good research I've been able to find is contained in the book "Why We Nap" by Stampi and Broughton. Sounds like we're talking about the same source. Unfortunately, its no longer in print so therefore very very hard to find..

I'll shoot you an email if I find more.. My co-founder knows more about this stuff than me I'll ask him.
Eventstreaming: The Seed Of A Revolution
Implicit kicks explicit's ass
Well, I for one am about to launch a startup that pretty much goes head to head with one of Google's properties. Maybe I'm nuts.
Focusing your attention on beating Google is as bad as focusing on being on their good side. Instead, look for ideas that make people's lives better, but for some reason no one seems to have implemented them.
We want a sub-YCNews
We need a SUB-YCnews where the people of news.yc can post other stuff that they are interested in. That is exactly how startup inspiration will occur. Not by talking about startups all day till you bleed through your nose. We want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! we want sub-yc! [ :o| Consults wikipedia on how to start a lynch mob.]
Who are these news.yc people?
This, somehow, seems like it might belong in the Feature Request section. :p

I don't think the site has the user base to sustain subfeeds at the moment. Also it isn't really intended to be a one-stop source for everything, feel free to create a better one and ask us to migrate though. :)
Help me understand by showing me an example of what other stuff would be posted.
I appreciate your sense of humor-ility ivan!
This sounds more interesting than Justin.tv. Maybe Justin and co. should start looking at this market area. I'm not too interested in what one person does all day, but I would be interested in watching one event from the points of view of many different people.
If so, where is a point for my story :) I just can't understand why someone bought cn domain and did it.
how to make money at what you do best- in your case a type of service or social network that enabled everyone to organize to meeting up with friends more often and take care of relaxation, fun, technical challenge, social life, exercise.. ?
The concept is a huge surge in traffic.

It still amazes me that the most worthless of sites can effortlessly surpass the traffic of good ones with a couple easy press releases.
ah more FUD about Rails, hardly original anymore. If you couldn't manage more than one user you clearly don't know what your doing or were too lazy to try to figure it out.
stuff like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966
Is it important to have a blog when launching a startup?
Social Network For....Confessions? ;)
That's how Reddit became crappy. There's plenty of other aggregators that will give you news on anything you might imagine.

PG, please keep YCNews focused and keep it niche. More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content.
There are only two reasons you'd want to do that: (a) if the volume of submissions became too great for a single thread, or (b) if people wanted to talk about things that would otherwise be offtopic.

(a) is obviously not the case yet. As for (b), this is a site about startups. If it's not at least somewhat related to startups, it shouldn't be here.

If what you're really asking for is a general news site, not about startups, I'm thinking of starting one. But if I do it won't be at this url.
again no concrete reply in that thread. only: "I can't remember|I don't know exactly|etc ..." I think at news.yc is slightly everything interesting, the only thing I can't stand is "The True Zuckerberg's Story" 22 times a day.
BTW: Where is the link to top news.yc?
i've done this kind of thing for spans of a year or two. besides the advice you're probably already getting, i'd say going running regularly helps a lot. when i was running, i'd be have a lot more energy throughout the day and night; when i wasn't i'd want to nap when i got home.

finding a cofounder is also a big productivity boost. find one early -- the more progress you make by yourself the harder it is to get someone else excited about "your" idea. if you're moonlighting, it's easy to put this off, but you're only hurting yourself long term. (i used to believe the single founder thing was doable for a while, but all of pg's counterarguments are right.)
No, Digg is how Reddit became crappy. A pictures sub-reddit might help fix it.

But news.yc definitely does not need subs. It IS a sub and nothing else.
How many of you folks are using memcached? We're debating adding it to our default stack. But if it's gonna help like 5 people (instead of thousands), then we're not going to bother, as it's a bitch to maintain packages across a dozen platforms.
As a side note, for some types of apps, what customers say they want is usually the exact opposite of what should be made;) In this case you've really got to be determined in order to press on...

That said, I too absolutely despise the feedback: "I don't get it, won't use it, or there are a thousand similar apps out there"
Wanna Build a Business? Go After a Poorly-Served Market
It has become apparent that the quality of these social news sites depends on the quality/commitment of the society that is supporting it. It would be very interesting and useful to find out what the start up folks are doing on a daily basis besides thinking about start ups. Like I said, this could be a very good inspiration tool.

Lisp was a landmark in my large scale understanding of computer science. I wonder what are the landmarks in understanding something like physics, or say bio-informatics. What are the problems that these people are facing? Hackers like learning just for the heck of it. In the process we can bring about useful start ups to these domains instead of making another calender application and stacking outside some big huge company in the hopes of being acquired.

I am not asking for a general news site. I am asking for a site where news.yc culture and outlook is preserved, but the domain is slightly relaxed (Note: the relaxing should stop well before we start seeing LOL(pic) in the submissions). If you won't keep the same URL, its ok, as long as you some how figure out how to set up that "outlook".
We can imagine different search results for a same request depending on the peers you connect to (if you connect to people you know). You would share a dedicated subset of a search engine with your fellow Cthulhu programming language fans, one with your coworkers, another one with your family, with your bowling club, etc.

Google always searches the same, entire web whoever you are; maybe it is not the best solution?

Yes, whether it is P2P or not is not very relevant to this problem. On the other hand, P2P allows a not-for-profit, ad-free, "do no evil", privacy and freedom of speech friendly search engine (because the infrastructure costs would be shared between the users). I guess a big problem would be the latency.
"More people and wider subjects will just diffuse the relevancy of content".

I am not talking about More People, am I?. I am talking only about wider subjects. Relevancy is a tricky word nickb. Relevancy is a very tricky word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit
You seem to have the baggage of reddit, I am not talking about specific subfeeds. Their is no plural. Just a sub-feed which is the complement of what we have here. 1.News.YC. 2.Everything else.

"feel free to create a better one and ask us to migrate though."

I was going to create one and post a message here inviting people. I thought this is a simpler way to solve this problem. So I am trying this discussion first. :)
Report from Google Scalabilty Conf.: "SOA done right...Every Amazon Web page calls at least 150 services."
Exactly, my thoughts would have been to avoid the costs of the data center, and to provide more privacy. Although it is not trivial to protect the privacy in a p2p scenario either.
Thanks! I am really happy with the web designer I hired for the design.

How to sell it - I am not sure yet. I was planning to try advertising in women's magazines (online edition), also I guess find all the astrology communities and write about it there. I am new to selling...

The mobile application gets "distributed" through a publisher, which unfortunately limits me a bit in my marketing efforts. I would have liked to try selling through Amazon, for example (so that people looking for print editions of moon calendars stumble upon the mobile application). But it is too complicated for the time being (distributor can't provide the API I would need). If there is any interest for the application, I might still pursue it at a later stage, though.
AT&T says almost sold out of Apple iPhones
Paul Graham has most of the work done for me: http://paulgraham.com/lisps.html
He has A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, V, and X - though I certainly can name some dialects of the same letters which are not listed. Not going to really bother on that one, though.

This leaves H, Q, R, T, U, W, Y, and Z, of which I can supply Qi ( http://www.lambdassociates.org/ ) and T ( http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/ ). Bringing the list of unnamed (for me) to:

H, R, U, W, Y, Z.

That's the best I can do. Anyone else?
Have you had any content up on the domain before this?

Google tries to get news items into the index quickly, but that doesn't mean they are doing it from newly discovered sites. Part of the reason they crawl sites frequently is that the site has new content every time the crawler visits. I'm sure it also doesn't help if the site has something other than a baseline pagerank.

Also keep in mind that at some point in the past year or two, Google appeared to give better pagerank to sites on domains whose registration was paid up more than a year in advance.
Anyone interested in giving each other facebook app usability tips as the facebook apps are developed?
I'm pretty sure Elijah Wood does not have a startup.
What you're talking about is roughly what I'm thinking of starting.
14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature
What matters is the change of importance to the things that you link to.
Constant Bush-Hating "Progressive" links and conspiracy theories are how reddit became crappy.
the url has barfed (404) try http://breasy.com/blog/2007/06/30/implicit-kicks-explicits-ass/
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the idea here was to post articles relevant to startups. When people like the article, they vote it up. Do you have some other better plan in mind? What is your complaint exactly, or are you just trying to collect points yourself by dissing others?

As for the article posted, I'm particularly interested in Linux as my startup is using Ubuntu.
If anyone is interested, let me know so I can add you as a developer for my app (so you can try it out) and you can do the same for me. Moreover, we should probably establish a friendship (at least temporarily) to test the friend features.
Really? I thought Reddit went downhill about year and a half ago. More users = diluted content.

I was almost surprised when I saw a Paris Hilton story hit the top not too long ago. I'm eagerly awaiting PG's new news site.
Help test this facebook Instant Message app. How can we improve it?
Ok, we can handle details by email.
I got rid of that link a couple weeks ago. You can tell how useless it was from the fact that no one mentioned this till now. You can still get to the page via the url:

http://news.ycombinator.com/best
arc, b, c, dylan, erlang, franz lisp, goo, haskell, interlisp, jscheme, kawa, lisp 1.5, maclisp, newlisp, ocaml, perl, qi, ratfor, scheme, t, uci lisp, verilog, waterloo basic, xlisp, yacc, zetalisp

(Being a language bigot doesn't constrain you too much if your favorite language is a language-family.)
Hints at some interesting stuff but doesn't say too much outright. If Amazon claims databases are the way of the past, I'm not sure what the way of the future is. Hashtables stored in flash memory?
What exactly does a non-compete agreement encompass?
I just was at the one in downtown Palo Alto, CA. They're all out until Monday, and the store was pretty packed.

Very cool phone though, I got to play with the demos.
err what?
You can check out http://www.DailyHub.com. Not nearly the traffic/submissions as News.YC but is focused on business geeks (and extends beyond just startups).

Not for everyone, but if you're looking for decent content on marketing, strategy and other business topics, you might like it.
If you're going to beat up Google on searching, you're just playing their game...
The music industry (as it is now) is dying already, imo.
If you are young and relatively healthy, i suggest going w/ disaster insurance (really cheap insurance w/ a high deductible)

Get advice for small colds from med school friends, and get insurance only for those cases when you are hit by a truck because you were too busy writing code in your head to look both ways before crossing the street.

That is what I did. It worked out mostly. Had to pay for one thign out of pocket, but it wasn't too bad.
I agree. I really want more details.

According to the Conference page (http://www.google.com/events/scalability_seattle/ ), all sessions were videotaped and will be on YouTube or Google Video soon.
Hm ... when I came here for the first time, I read probably everything in the top section ... it was useful for me as a newcomer.
Arc, Befunge, C++, Delphi, ECMAScript, FORTH, Guile, Hugo, IDL, J#, Ksh, Lex, Maple, nroff, Octave, PHP, QLISP, RPAL, SQL, TrueBasic, Unlambda, VHDL, WEB, XUL, yacc, ZZT-OOP.
I hope those calls are heavily cached... 150 service calls per page doesn't sound too scalable.
Sub-sites suck. Add tags, problem solved.
to each his own. he has some valid arguments but isn't rewriting the case with pretty much every language?
I have a suspicion that most if not all of these communities go downhill when the number of people involved starts to really go north of the "monkey number":

http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/06/11/dunbars-number-and-online-communities

As someone comments, stumbleupon is a little bit better, because instead of having one home page for N people, which simply cannot scale, you are more closely connected to people who share your interests. I'm not sure how that works out for news sites, though.

Part of the problem may be that, initially, concentrating your user community might be the only way to go beyond a critical mass of users, but then as growth continues, you do want to spread people out.
That's the proximate cause (or one of them, in my opinion), but I think what's interesting is how that came to be. I mean, disliking Bush is pretty mainstream around the world, but the sort of frothing at the mouth attitude at reddit isn't. How did the extreme come to dominate?
What I'm curious about his how the distributor works for mobile phone apps. I've created a few myself, but didn't really find a good place to sell them.
Free, as in Beer (Lessig: superflex, nonmarket peer production, make consumers producers)
I am not sure what exactly you are asking? I think you could distribute them yourself, by signing up for a service that allows you to receive Premium SMS (that's what they are called in Germany) and send WAP-Push messages. The established distributors also try to put the application up on the portals of the mobile phone providers or popular portals (like Jamba in Germany). Then they do a lot of TV advertising.

I was hoping that there could be other ways to sell a mobile application, though.

Just looked at your homepage, I am impressed by the number of Open Source projects you have done...
all ri
actually...

Edinburgh International Film Festival Day 7
Elijah Wood has very blue eyes and is trying to start up his own record label, good news for Scotland as he's a fan of local heroes Franz Ferdinand and Sons ...
www.iofilm.co.uk/festivals/edinburgh/2005/diary_24082005.php -
okd
Definitely. I love Slide's My Questions app but its usability is horrid,,, Max... are you around? Love your app but I got a few ideas to make it a helluva lot more usable. Start by returning me to the question I've just answered instead of my own question page. (I'm familiar enough with my question, I don't need to return to it.) etc etc
(And Slide's Facebook apps are hardly the worst offenders here. ALL of them could use a little bit of improvement IMHO.)

Web 3.0 = where _everyone_ contributes to the development of web apps, not _just_ engineers.
I like his Slide Facebook apps, but some of them need usability help (as do most Facebook apps I've found) - as is being discussed in this current thread also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810
interesting. I apparently took an 18 day break. It doesn't require a news flash, I think, just do it.
We're going more 'side-to-side' with our new product:

http://www.litepost.com

(We're hoping to introduce new ideas and more usable presentation methods, without necessarily duplicating sheer technical superiority..that can always come later.)

Anyhow, I'd say you're not nuts. Google's products all suffer from numerous defects, not the least of which is usability (in many cases).
There are certainly enough examples out there that will get you up and running with Rails and will at the very least allow you to make an appropriate assessment as to whether it will improve your development productivity.

If you're at the point where you're thinking of buying the book my assumption is that you're already passed the point of assessing Rails and are looking to understand the more advanced functionality.

If you're at that point, $26 is nothing.
Traf-O-Data -- Bill Gates's Y Combinator Startup
me too!

sdrost@gmail.com
In the article it sounded more like "SOA gone wrong".
What made you notice that?
What about a startup to mix your favorite feeds&#8230;
Pretty soon surrounding our domains will be a mandatory $10000 investment by itself. Who do these domain spammers think we are? Dude Yamaha?
truemors could be pretty nice example :)
MyThings Tracks Your Things
I failed:

A: Ada,
B: B,
C: C,
D: D,
E: Erlang,
F: Forth,
G: Gwbasic,
H: Haskell,
I: Io,
L: Lisp,
M: Miranda,
N: Newtop Script,
O: OCaml,
P: Perl,
Q: Qbasic,
R: Ruby,
S: Scheme,
T: Tcl,
U: ?,
V: Visualbasic,
Z: ?,
X: ?,
Y: Yacc,
W: ?,
K: ?
my thoughts (I am still trying to succeed):

I am wondering whether news.YC is the worst place to look for a cofounder - everyone is into their own startup!

The problem with going solo is - if and when you achieve traction (users are the only thing that counts), then you will find people willing to join. But then, they will want amounts of equity that will appear unreasonable to you - because you invested so much sweat, toil, tears and brains - when no one believed in it.
I wonder if it was just the first group to dominate at reddit meant that it they would always downvote submissions that didn't confirm their outlook, attracting more people with a like mind, and repelling people with differing opinions.

If I owned reddit I would have modified it so that you could have blocked submissions from people or sites you didn't like. That would have helped make it bearable for people like me.
About time basic SQL databases are revealed to be the total scalability fraud they really are.
ShareTV - Is this the future of TV?
I've sent you a friend request.
Powering up at Powerset (They seem to have a very long way to go)
How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry (by making the network provider irrelevant)