skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are good points. To be successful, any business web application will have to have a very good explanation of why their service provides an extremely high level of data security. To solve the potential of a web app. going away, the application needs to provide a very easy way for the business of extracting all their data in a form where they can easily deploy that data using another application.

The seismic shift is being made possible partly by Salesforce. Their users tend to be the top tiers of management and sales, and they have completely sold that level of users in so many small and extremely large corporations. This means that the rest of these companies' users are easy targets to shift over to web applications if a meaningful service is made available as the upper management fully understands web applications and their value. Having that new set of web application operate seamlessly with upper management, and feed financial data back to upper mangement for analytics is a very big deal.

The seismic shift is being made possible by reliable secure data platforms. We plan to use S3 and have an xml option for extracting all data. For businesses, the ROI of using web apps is growing tremendously. The cost of providing all that infrastructure in house is huge, and the applications they currently use are very poor at collaborative work, which is what most businesses need. So the door is open right now in a way I've never seen before for business web applications that work well and connect to other applications. The key is interconnecting all of the companies data - something most companies have only dreamed of until now that the web approach can provide in an elegant and low-cost way.
Are You a vim Fan Using Emacs Editing Commands in Your Bash Shell? Improve Your Life With "set -o vi"
I've been using bash in vi mode for a few years now and can't live without it. Not really startup news exactly, but so many people who love vim don't know about this. Spread the word so I can eventually make it default on all the servers I run :-)
Now Google is grooming a biotech firm / Company invests $3.9 million in business begun by Brin's bride
Services aids shoppers who browse the Net / NearbyNow lets people use phones, computers to look through inventory
Nexo Provides Complete Tool for Online Groups
Pandora opens its music box (Teaming up with Sprint to offer the service on cell phones)
Top 10 Reasons to Join a Startup
Come check out the refreshed www.technorati.com!
The To Do Wish List Group Research Project
Advice for CMS users (Advice about writing for the web and ensuring that what is produced is accessible to the widest audience possible)
A product or service that doesn't sell may be priced too low
Newspapers want Google News' quarter
Just how stereotypical are we talking, here? That's not the high school girl VC that PG described. The guy even said No to their product.
Promising antispam technique gets nod (DomainKeys Identified Mail by Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Sendmail and PGP Corporation)
Entrepreneur.com launches WomenEntrepreneur.com
Virtual World Gold Rush?
According to Wikipedia, she's married ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_Norton ). So you're probably exaggerating.

(See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quinn_Norton&diff=next&oldid=124041323 )
Site offers classic books, one e-mail at a time
Lots of little Entrepreneurlings can't be too far off...
How to Prioritize Using a Military Technique
I have to admit that being a Navy vet, I'm doubtful about any technique developed by the military. That said, this looks like a simple way to get a handle on what to work on first.
Apple to release new MacBook Pro and iMacs at WWDC
Singing With Your Thumbs: How To Make User Interfaces Musical
Speculation creates a market and helps resolve real prices (rather than phony prices--for example, 10 dollars a year for every domain, whether weddingshoes.com or xxxyalfjadsgjg.com)
The Flexible Entrepreneurial Mind
It's a good article, but I doubt most people will ever do something like this. Most people don't even write down what they need to do, they don't even keep a list of tasks to be done.

But this is a different crowd here and I'm sure that it'll be useful to some people, the one change that I would make is in the evaluation criteria, and make it more personable to the individual.
Lessons From Google Mobile
That's why everybody should TEST different price points and everything else about the offer. Apply direct marketing knowledge to this problem.
here's an article of how rw/w envisions ask.com developing an adsense competitor: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_ask.php

Here are the ways you can compete in serving ads:
-Good advertiser campaign management and bidding tools.

-Good publisher management and reporting tools.

-Great contextual ad matching technology.

-Transparency.

-High paying advertisers.

-A way to stop click fraud.

-Get top publishers

-Further develop their "hybrid" text ads. meaning having relevant images packaged with text ads.
This is like throwing a nickel into a homeless hat.
I think there's two hidden forces involved here:

1) It started out free when everybody else was charging something.

2) Social psychology, where people want to connect with other people, in communication, physical and emotional levels, so without restrictions it prospered.
Subdomains + Development = Sucks: A quick tip from Kevin Hale of Wufoo
Sorry people. Looks like Aaron might have pulled it down.
It doesn't matter how good your site is, if nobody knows about it, you won't get any visitors. By the same token, if you manage to game the system and trick people to come to your site, and your site doesn't deliver, you'll just lose them again anyway.
You need a quality product and you need to get it noticed. The "Field of Dreams"-style "Build it and they will come" approach doesn't work.
Justin.tv: unlikely to be duplicated
Not so much suck as have two sides of a coin. Ok, so the article says you may need to buy an SSL certificate for the domain and setup user1.localhost.localdomain in dev machines.

On the positive side, your users will be cleanly sandboxed in separate domains, they get slash-free URIs, and you can have simple IP-based load balancing.

Any good stories about subdomains? Infogami?
Check out this version on scribd http://www.scribd.com/doc/73086/Cozy-Domesticity
I still don't understand, don't we all agree that making the best product is not the only thing? Marketing, advertising, development, all of these are equally important. This was well summarized in this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=23916 ).

plentyoffish.com created something new and valuable. A free, simple, website, for online dating. It's not fancy, it's ugly, but it looks like it just works on tons of browsers.

I agree, spam systems piss me off. However, I read plentyoffish.com's founder's posts on some SEO boards, and basically they give him good advice to make his product all around better. Ethical SEO sites basically say, if you have a good site, people will write articles about and increase your pagerank. So, it seems to me, SEO can be done ethically.
Wall. Of. Text.
Or in csh/tcsh,

$ bindkey -v
That's interesting, being an army vet myself, I find most techniques gained during my stint are more than enough to give me an edge that others don't have, especially around leadership.

Would be an interesting conversation to discuss the two views ... someday when I don't have work to do!
Why shouldn't this freak me out?
Google acquires Feedburner for 100M$
The soul of Google
Even with a very high ASVAB score, being very color blind and a high school dropout to boot kept me from doing anything of interest in the Navy. I quite literally spent my entire stint painting, sweeping and tying knots.
I don't think Wikipedia's Google traffic is from people randomly bumping into it; I get to Wikipedia through Google because Google's search is faster and less finicky.
Predictions of what's to come:

1) New version in 4-6 month

2) Adsense/Adwords for feeds

3) Integration with Google Analytics

4) Google taking over another portion of your life
How do you search through the history?
If Technorati can beat Google, Why can't MSFT or YHOO?
We're raising funding at the moment.
PeopleRadar makes about 12 cents CPM with ValueClick - I'm going to try out TribalFusion, as apparently they offer higher CPMs.
Yes; he has about 7 great development articles, if you can still find them.

(Not personal development, but development-development.)
These things are hard to quantify :). We're looking for someone who relishes the idea of working really long hours on building a valuable product.
j and k of course (in edit mode)
Ze Frank: "Make something every day"
If you really believe that, you should learn more about SEO. A big part of SEO is:

1) Making sure search engines can find and understand all of your pages.
2) Making sure that people want to visit your site when your pages show up on SERPs.
3) Making sure that LOTS of people link to you and talk about you online (the PlentyofFish guy has nailed this).
4) Assorted markup tricks that help people find your site better.
5) Understanding what people are googling for when they are looking for products/services like you provide.

If you think dissing SEO is taking the high road-- you're half right. There are "black-hat" tricks that you should avoid. But throwing out SEO as "meaningless if you have a great product" isn't taking the high road. It's taking the stupid road.
Microsoft Has 'All the Pieces' for Its Ad Business
We have all of the pieces we need to move forward'' and be one of the top ad platforms, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's chief advertising strategist, said today at a Goldman Sachs Internet conference in Las Vegas when asked about an acquisition of Yahoo.

Microsofts say the darnedest things.
This is fing brilliant. This is what Wikia Search should do.
"Wisdom of Crowds" author on feature creep
For me, even if aiba.wufoo.com and wufoo.com/aiba point to the same IP address and have the same functionality, the former feels more like my site, whereas the latter feels more like my part of someone else's site. If you want to create a service that gives people their own presence on the web, this could make a difference.

Alternatively, maybe most users don't pay attention to URLs or look at the distinction above in the same way we developers do.

Also, the subdomain strategy seems to have worked well for Blogger. They serve users' pages from *.blogspot.com, and their own pages from *.blogger.com.
Is the order of comments stable? Sometimes it seems they change without the number of points altering. A stable ordering would be good.
I disagree with Paul Graham - but no one commented on these
arguments(http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19535)

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-wrong-ideas-can.html
heh ! :)
What about a blog reader where you can prioritize the blogs to which you are subscribed and bloggers get this info as feedback?
If you care more about blog X than blog Y, you might give blog X higher priority so that you would see its posts first.

This info in turn can be used to give feedback to bloggers. They would see not only the number of people subscribed to their blog but also the priorities that they have assigned to it.

As a blogger, this might tell you that you should focus on quality rather than quantity for example.
Not much more info than the TC article.
Analytics: The Unsung Hero Of Social Systems
I go to McGill and our email addresses end with .ca, I think similarly for some other universities in Canada. Interestingly, mcgill.edu does go to mcgill.ca (not emails though, I tried).
That's because you're playing with semantics. Ideas are worthless because an idea can't solve a problem. It's the implementation of an idea that solves the problem.
Google bans essay writing adverts (What took them so long?!)
How does the unconnected get buzz for their startup?
It seems that the ones getting the most buzz are those who are the best connected, even if your product is better than theirs. In this case, what is the best way to strike back?

(assuming trying to network yourself into his level is futile)
I've set up this blog for this purpose:

http://web2loop.blogspot.com/
"The Unconnected", starring Clint Eastwood as an aging entrepreneur who decides to go for that last startup, just for the money. At first he runs into trouble, with both sherrif paul graham and deputy techcrunch casting a cold glance as he rides into town...
Well, think back to the idea Einstein had when he was a 14 year old kid.

"if I can ride a motorcycle as fast as a beam of light..."

was it worthless?
i don't see how that would help you get buzz. maybe a sneeze but definitely no buzz
"Just goes to show you anyone can do anything."

Not to paint with too broad a brush or anything...
Not a bad idea, Some thoughts though:

1. How does it make you money?
2. How do I know, as a blogger, who is "rating" me? If I write a blog on personal finance, and you check that after 20 celebrity blogs, do I consider that valuable? Is it? Am I 20th or better?
Infogami was sold along with Reddit to Conde Nast, and Aaron doesn't work there any more.
methinks it would have been a lot cheaper just to build ms-ad sense from scratch.
Find one well-connected customer who cares a lot about the way your product is better.
The blog isn't about launches, but rather updates. Moreover, any reasonable submission would be accepted.

So it gives you a way to promote your startup every week provided that you have some update to announce every week.
registering a new domain - how to beat squatters?
OSGi and the real Mobile 2.0
I am registering a .com and wondering if others here register .net and .org if its available?
Traveling to the Bay Area. Who should I meet in the startup community?
I will be in the Bay area from 5/30-6/1. Im already going to SF Beta. Who else should I attempt to meet I understand it is a very open question. I'm looking for bloggers or other social media personalities.
How to Market Your Small Local Business Online
It's a huge wall of text. The author could have said what he needed to say more succinctly. Few people are going to devote the time to read that entire thing, and with good reason; even though there are a lot of words there, you can get all the information from reading a small portion of it.

With that said, it was a good, informative article. Just lengthy.
You can try to get on TechCrunch:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1331688095520243666&hl=en

Good luck though, if you're not being referred from someone "in the know" you probably wont get covered. But never hurts to try.
I agree... I think this idea of ownership is growing as "everyday" web users feel a need to own their online identities and data. We already are seeing this with tools like Weebly. Web developers and techies have enjoyed this luxury for quite some time.

One thing I really like about subdomains is that it makes accessing a site very quick... from my address bar I type "new" and news.yc.com pops right up!
Many little sneezes could turn into buzz.

You could let people know about your product/service here. The community here is quite helpful and honest.
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=20342
I don't buy this. I've gotten on TechCrunch twice (with related splash on Digg and Del.icio.us), most recently a month ago with http://www.rescuetime.com - which was (at the time) just a series of screenshots and a beta sign up form (i.e. pure vaporware, just about). Neither time did I solicit coverage.

The first time I got on TechCrunch, I was living in Anchorage, Alaska.

The trick is:

1) Build something that is unique (or at least has a twist). No one wants to talk about yet another restaurant review site.

2) Build something controversial (or at least something that is interesting to talk about). I met a guy in Seattle who is trying to build (I kid you not) a social network for car insurance customers...zzzzzzzzzz

3) Talk about what you've built in a clear, compelling, and sticky manner. Try to understand the audience that you're speaking to and communicate it in a way that speaks to THEM. Most hackers suck at this. It requires a combination of information design and copy-writing.
I think its a cool idea. A long time in coming but just at right time. If nothing, the site name is prime real estate.
What are the best blogs/sites to generate big buzz?
It turns out / and ? work but you need to press enter after the pattern.
Buy what? I was just feeling humorous... I didn't have a point. I just liked the sound of "The Unconnected" and how it reminded me of the Clint Eastwood movie title "The Unforgiven", which I've never seen.

Good advice in any case!
So far I have:
TechCrunch
GegaOm
ReadWriteWeb
WebWorkerDaily
LifeHacker
Not to split hairs here, but I don't think networking to that level is at all futile. Your competitors are doing it, and you want every advantage you can get.
Thanks for mentioning that. We'll add in allowances for McGill and other universities in Canada.
Absolutely. If you're going to build a company on your .com domain, you want to grab it with every available TLD, and get common mis-spellings as well. It will cost a few hundred bucks, but it's worth it for peace of mind, and it's the best way to defeat squatters.
Have a co-founder who is as passionate about communicating ideas to people as you are about hacking code.
I would suggest that any rss feed aggregated through http://web20.originalsignal.com/ should all be on your radar.
I try to get .com, .org and .net and not worry about the other TLDs.
dude, that sucks. Seriously!
http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub
So she is the woman with the magnet implants, really cool story.
Oh man, awesome tip!
"It will offer people a vanity URL (http://justin.tv/name) and..."

They really need something more generic. Justin.tv is too personal and people like owning stuff. Give them something more generic like lifecast.tv or reality.tv or something like that.
Exhibiting my ignorance: Is it possible to http something other than hypertext markup language?

I ask because the 2D web is decentralized; if you dislike your hosting arrangement, you can find another provider. That wouldn't be the case for these virtual worlds; they're owned and operated by the parent company, so if 2nd life decided to up the price for holding real estate, you can't take your virtual site elsewhere.

Now if there was a 3D browser, with a corresponding markup language, that would be more like it. Defining what the elements would be though might be a tricky problem () and would every browser installation have to have all of them but this seems more likely than SBC putting their corporate headquarters in a snowy landscape surrounded by sombrero-wearing penguins.
What I hate is that firefox/IE complain if you don't get one of these paid SSL certificates. The encryption of HTTP traffic should be free and without unneeded burden.
"""I once again complained in my thread about my sites lack of SEO results it was September of 2003, I had 10k signups now and only a ~100 visitors a day from google and other 2,000 unique visitors a day from who knows where."""

So you guys were flat out wrong in the other thread when you said this guy got all of his traffic from SEO.
Crazy way to get free PR from nuts
Cambrian house google pizza delivery is one of my all time favorites. http://www.cambrianhouse.com/google/
oh search. not scroll. i'm too tired to be typing.
If most people don't rank your blog highly, then you might think about focusing more on quality, cutting down the number of posts, or both.
i'm part of writewith, a yc startup, and i have a side gig writing for venturebeat. the readership skews towards investors and established entrepreneurs. so although it has a smaller readership than TC and some of the others, there's a lot of value in getting covered by it.

email me at eric at writewith dot com if you have a good story idea.
I have eHub in my bloglines collection, but gave up trying to track sites because, after a while, they all become a blur of vowel-deficient clones.
Dear Mr. Michael Arrington,

You were successful only because you were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Try to have some empathy for those of us who can't pay cash for a house in Woodside (~$3 million).

In other words, BITE ME.
Google Can't Google? Jeff Barr on Googles Recruitment
Anyone else have interesting google HR stories?
Google's Achilles heel is web advertising. It is much weaker than M$(Microsoft). IMHO, I predict that web advertising will be web 2.0's bubble. (Not saying more until I check out my theory on why it may prove to be a bubble).
I know a fair amount of people in the valley if you need to meet anyone, okdork.com
What? I think the opposite is happening; Those sites rank high on google because they get so much traffic. Half the time I navigate to a page via google rather than type out the URL. If I'm looking for a wikipedia article, I usually add 'wikipedia' or 'site:...'
Tweet Volume - Comparison tool for twitter phrase volume
let hope not, we are just getting started.
to infinity......and beyond
I agree with Eric.

VentureBeat is great with high quality content and a relatively savvy readership.
Bayes Classification in Ruby
Business 2 Beta, and some of the Inc. blogs can be good a well, also there are a few ZDNet blogs that might be applicable.
Share Your GeoData
Exactly. He's also thinking of the names in the first place (excepting the misspelling type ones like google.cm).
Is Data Loss a Problem?
Zero Defects is Wrong Approach
How much is the squatter asking? If it's a couple of thousand or less it might be worth getting it off them.
How the mobile phone biz lost the plot
https and SSL are free. It's just that if the certificate is not from a recognised authority it warns you. That's a good thing in my book.
Not right about what?
Vote this guy up. 1) is a key feature of plentyoffish
To whoever just down-voted me for my comment: it was worth it just to tell Arrington to bite me.
Rapleaf looking for an amazing software engineer
Monkey and Banana: Nice Intro to Prolog (the language that time forgot)
Root cause analysis: "Ask 'Why' Five Times About Every Matter"
Paul Graham was right. The final chapter.
Agreed. That's a pretty bad decision. I want to see another Justin signup at http://justin.tv/justin or a guy named Kan at http://justin.tv/kan
I was quite surprised when I started learning emacs, and accidentally used commands on the command line, and they worked.
Yes, it was, until he executed on it as an adult and formalized it and made it into something useful. Had the idea stayed an idea, or just been handed off to someone else who hadn't the mental capacity to do something with it, it would have remained worthless.

In short, Paul was right. Ideas are worthless. Ideas plus execution can have value.

Why fight it? Got some great ideas but no capacity to execute? Just accept it and start executing.
Why do you care about buzz? If you build it, they will come.

Once it's built, it's not 'buzz', it's marketing. Hire suits for that.
"... I'm not sure why you assume copying code leads to that code being bloated or unclean ..."

DEFECTS if you cut+paste code from place to place and find a single defect in the block you have to go and find all the other instances you have pasted the code.

BLOAT If you cut+paste code it increases the number of lines of code within the codebase so the LOC increases.

Software development within a startup context is about creating code that is "reliable, smaller, cleaner & faster". Reusing code is good but not at the expense of modularity, bloat and defects. Not using cut & paste as a development practice isn't personal preference, its DEV 101 ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_and_paste_programming
Evan Prodromou: "As an experienced programmer, I think of a startup as an abusive relationship"
Why are people so concerned about buzz?

Buzz is for people who cannot build a useful product.

Once you have a useful product, it's not 'buzz', it's marketing. Hire a suit for that.
Facebook and Mobile: Teens can't live without em