skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have something legitimately news-worthy then I've found a press release can be the "in" to getting attention from big blogs you don't have an existing//personal connection with. Check out businesswire and marketwire (especially Marketwire's "Tech Hotspots") to help get your release into the hands of people who want to write about exciting stuff.

Otherwise, I think the core of your question is more about marketing. My first recommendation is to have the link to your co in your news.yc profile + link to it in your story submission. Second, I'd suggest your best strategy should be to find the 2nd and 3rd tier blogs that the bigger blogs look to in order to find new companies not on their radar.

Big blogs are like corporate radio: they both want to be responsible for "breaking" a hot new [band//company], but both are unlikely to make that call without others in the "underground" having said it first.

An extension of this would be to find who the big bloggers follow on Twitter, and then figuring out ways to get those people talking about your product positively.

It's amazing how quickly rave reviews trickle upwards with little intervention.

Good luck! :]
So, looks like this is the bit where all the users weigh in with their $0.02 about what should have been changed instead? ;)

I've always thought that a karma system where downvotes had a cost would be pretty good. Ie, perhaps you could only submit as many downvotes as you have karma yourself, and maybe downvotes would actually reduce your own karma as well. That would mean that a user would be tempted to only downvote comments that were really objectionable, and never downvote something that is already negative (since it would be pointless.) Users who post good comments would be more "powerful" in their ability to prune.

Or just do away with it altogether. Humans find it easier to criticize than praise.
The vast majority of people do not like vast quantities of leisure time. They get bored.
I do not get bored. I have never been bored nor will I ever be bored. I have never been wanting for things to do. I have never had too many hours in the day and not enough to do.
People whose time isn't valuable can't understand someone like me. Every second of my time is valuable, not in a DOLLAR value, in a personal value. I have vastly many more interests than I have time to indulge all of them. Work is a cancer on my life.
Yes.

I have to admit that this behavior confused me too when I was first learning Javascript. My only previous experience with lexical scope was in Common Lisp, which of course works the same way -- but the issue doesn't seem to come up as much there, perhaps because straight reassignment within the same lexical scope (of non-special variables) isn't something you do too often; perhaps because you can establish a new lexical scope and simultaneously rebind with LET within the normal control flow without defining and then calling a function, or perhaps simply for stylistic reasons). So I'd never really noticed it in Lisp. But once I realized what was going on it was clearly perfectly sensible. It's hardly "creepy," and it's certainly easy enough to establish new scope when you need to.

And for crying out loud, it's not got anything at all to do with asynchronicity.
It sounds like the core product that this company is selling is their ability to price things accurately. I'm calling Web 2.0 bubble on these guys.

(do a completed items search on ebay if you want to know how much things sell for on ebay)
If you care about audio quality, also make sure to buy the Denon AK-DL1 audio cable. Only that 499$ cable can ensure the unharmed digital transfer of your audio data.
I would trust user 'joshu' on matters related to del.icio.us.
Some people put their pants on like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pShf2VuAu_Q
> It's harder to understand why someone should withhold their personal opinion, simply because they were later to vote.

You can think of it as a strange and illogical tradition of this particular community if that helps. However, I think there's a good reason for it: "beating up" on unpopular comments, or even wrong ones, is "unneighborly". In a conversation amongst a group of people, if someone says something wrong, and one person corrects them, it would look pretty weird if all the others took turns saying "yeah, I think you're wrong too".

Personally, what I would love to see is this: I see a comment that is from someone, say a regular who I respect, that is flat out factually incorrect. It's already at -1, where I think it should stay, and someone has already responded with a comment citing correct information. It would be ideal to have a "hold at -1" button that adds my downvote if anyone else happens to vote the comment up. But it really doesn't matter all that much. The most important thing is the community spirit of the thing.
So is the 'flag' button for stuff like this, that is not hacker news in the slightest? What next, a series of taser articles?
Use of true clock time in these formulas penalizes posts that are submitted at low-traffic times.

Using a virtual clock, such as a tick count based on traffic (number of other submissions, votes, pageviews, etc.), could adjust for this.
You just demonstrated one of the coolest things about posting at news.yc. You never know who you're gonna run into. Even when they're replying directly to you.

edit: Hint, click his name...
Simple answer: big companies haven't switched to FF. If they started switching, their employees would go home and switch too. Until then, it will be hard to become a majority.
I am rather bothered by a lot of the comments here. Have any of you actually talked with Neil about these issues? I have. He's an extremely passionate promoter of high-quality sound. I truly feel sorry for those who cannot tell the difference between 192kbps MP3s and CDs. I can always hear the difference with my headphones and eq settings. But Neil is not satisfied with CD-quality; he wants higher quality than that. At the time I chatted with him (several years ago now) he was leaning toward 24-bit 192K samples/second, as I recall. This was before Blu-Ray.

Since the original article was so vague, and we don't have a particular product to critique, can we at least give Neil the benefit of the doubt? His heart is definitely in the right place (and, in case you're wondering, he's more than just a bit of a geek - he's a first-class geek! - And not too shabby a musician, either...)
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Someone ought to invent a way to solve geometric problems using algebra.
Yes, somebody named Descartes. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_geometry]

Or, if you prefer a more modern subdiscipline, there's algebraic geometry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry]
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Comment posts do have the flag, but only if you look at the comment on its own page, e.g., your comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234897
While a lot of these are good behavioral techniques to project confidence, for the long term there is no substitute to create a healthy self-image that just makes you very cool to be around without even trying. Just like we have an opinion about our friends, people at work and so on, we also have an opinion about ourselves, both at conscious and subconscious levels. A lot of happiness and events in life stems directly from what opinion you hold of yourself. And eventually that opinion leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy...i.e. if you think you are no good in a particular setting, it eventually becomes so.
A strong self-image can totally turn around your relationship with other people, your work and environment

To get started, try the book Psycho-Cybernetics...it contains a treasure of information to be acted upon... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Cybernetics
It's too bad they perceive long hours at their job as a chore -- and they must since they are prescribing both short hours and four-day work weeks. When I'm in the groove doing something I truly love to do, then 16 hour workdays fly by as if they're perhaps three or four hours in duration and in those moments, there's nothing I'd rather be doing more -- including sleeping. I've been in that grove at my own startups and working for a big company where there's no chance that my efforts will translate into a pot of gold. And I love it.

Funny thing is, you seldom hear people give that advice to obsessed painters, sculptors, musicians, etc. Why? Because artistic passions are viewed differently than "jobs." But, what if your job IS your artistic passion? Why shouldn't entrepreneurs be viewed as "artists" instead of "workers?"
No kidding ;)
I find that one of the biggest things towards determining my level of productivity is really related towards the time of day that I'm working.

That is I find that my most product times during the day are mid mornings and late at evening when trying to write code.

So I try to ensure that this time is free for doing the nitty gritty stuff, and I ensure that I make meetings and whatnot for the afternoon.

Thats just for me personally though, the best way for you to ensure you're productive is just to try different things and figure out what works for you - and then capitalise on it.
Hitchens is one of the leading intellectuals of our time

Funnily, after I turned my computer off and went to bed this line popped back into my head and I went, Wait a minute... I don't think that! I could care less about who is a "leading intellectual"! What does that even mean!? I hate platitudes!

Noooooo... I was wrong on the internet...

But the discussion was fun. K bye.
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Why do hackers hate SEO?
Why do _most hackers_ equate SEO with spam? Why is trying my site to rank better evil?
Drinks are ok to hold, just do so at waist level so you don't look like you're shielding yourself. Most people hold them up higher. Drink at waist level signals that you're relaxed, confident, and not a puritan or opposed to fun.

Small amount of alcohol is helpful in that sort of situation, more is harmful. Better to go dry if you don't know your range well (or if you're attending functions frequently, don't want a bad habit to form) but a little inhibition-loosening is almost always a good thing. If you're slurring speech or dropping things you've gone too far.

Name remembering thing is huge. If you forget though, just own up. Most people are understanding, since they generally forget them too. Unless like I once did you find yourself on date 3 and still not knowing. In that case it's time for some snooping. Junk mail saved the day.
I think this is a case of you being hyper-sensitive rather than cperciva being hyper-critical.
After spending the better part of a year working with web design, I can only pray that this trend continue.
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Not to be an ass but how hard can they be anyway? Its not a formula like a^2 + b^2 = c^2

it is just some variables that they tweaked until they fit.
many programming tasks simply don't break down neatly into highly-parallelizable chunks.

You're exactly right. The answer to multi-core programming isn't to run serial programs in parallel. The answer to multi-core programming is to solve a different class of problems.

There are large categories of problems that have been known to be embarassingly parallel for decades. It's those problems where the growth will be in the computer industry: graphics rendering, video and audio processing, data mining, etc...

My bet is that OS's are going to have a lot more eye candy in the next decade or so.
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It's a pretty cool game. My karma has been growing since i started playing here. I upvoted a lot of comments i agree with and down voted some i disagree with. I even did some cool stuff like upvote -5 or lower comments just for fun. I even posted a dumb comment once to see how my karma would change(i deleted it after i saw the result, im not 15 any more and spamming isn't as interesting) It is a game, and i don't take it verry seriously. But i do reread and reedit my comments before posting, but i mainly do ti because of my bad English, i've been learning it for 12 years now and my spelling is still horrible.
File-> save As

or

ctrl-a ctrl-c ctrl-v
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I noticed this one today, got a kick out of it!
Your site should be ranked according to its content, and subsequent relevancy to what visitors are searching for.

Not according to Latest SEO Trick #29832 that you* read somewhere.

(* "you" not meaning you personally, of course)
it would be good if it allowed us to draw on the current page we have open as well.
For reddit, this is the public algo released with their code. I think we should not assume that's the algo they use on reddit.com. Think about it: they could easily release a basic algo and keep the good one for their own internal use.

At the very least, even reddit's blog post announcement of the code mentioned they're not open sourcing the spam detection code. Surely that's part of the ranking algo in that it determines if a submission gets ranked or not.

For the SU one, I think there is more to the story, but that's for another post...
They even tell you

"This note has been destroyed so, if you want to keep it's content, you must copy it before closing this page"

Kinda defeats the purpose.
Uber Investor in general, Josh Kopelman, shares his view on Gnip: http://redeye.firstround.com/2008/07/the-story-of-fr.html
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Absolutely, this is the first and probably the last website where I post. No facebook, twitter, orkut and etc. Even, I've hard time speaking up in meetings because most of the time I hear "Work as designed", "We've got more important things in the plate", "Cool idea, we'll come back to this later" and etc. Also, I always find a corner in social meet-ups. Don't know what's wrong :(
Why retire after your startup succeeds? Why not just start doing something fun thats is not easily monetizeable? The idea is that you can have some real freedom. You can work on whatever you want. You can start another startup or continue your education or anything you want you can even start a music band or go traveling or anything that you find fun. Thats why people love money. They are a means to something, not a goal. You don't just get rich and then live some happy rich life, you get rich and get to do whatever you like, if you get rich enough, you could ignore laws too. I know a lot of people who if given a lot of money their first reaction would be to buy a lot of booze and celebrate. I have a friend who if given that amount of money would buy a biology research center and just play god with nature. My first reaction would be to buy a turn table and some 70's punk records or something, and then maybe a guitar. People want different stuff. And money gives it to them.
Well, how about this: an investor just popped out of the woodwork, looking to put $15K into the site.

I don't have enough savings to last a year, so I was a little worried about my finances if I do decisionero. This bit of news definitely shifts the balance.
Because there isn't that much to SEO so it's not really worth talking about. Let me know if I'm missing anything. To do SEO:

1. Use semantic markup and SEO best practices
(http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet)
2. Email people and tell them to link to you

Grey hat:

1. Buy paid links without nofollow on forums.digitalpoint.com

(not detected by Google yet, but they'll figure it out eventually because the affordable links are all spam-like webpages
that exist only for the purpose of having pagerank and selling links. For more money, you can get better links from real sites, or you can hire an SEO that knows what he is doing. Ideally you only pay him for the links and you handle all other SEO yourself, because it isn't worth paying for.)

2. Write articles and upload them to free article databases
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...or just go to a lot of events alone, and get used to chatting to people. It can be intimidating at first, but it's no different to most other new situations - with experience comes confidence. For most people socialising with like-minded people will come fairly naturally.
It would be too easy for users to collude and vote each other's comments up regardless. Maybe algorithms to check that? Also, the 'pile up' effect can be quite bad too. People should use their discretion.
Haha. You'll notice that FOX is actually the lowest rated source on our site. That's the community deciding, not us. ;-)
I'll take a look and add you soon. How bout a quick review of our site in return ;-)
Your point is a good one. But we don't want to force our beliefs/agendas on our community. We provide a platform for them to voice their opinions. And having a strong opinion (whether liberal, conservating, libertarian) is not a problem in itself as long as its transparent. If you think he's not transparent and hides his biases, that deserves to get discredited.
>>Does ebay really need my address if I just want to watch an item?

No ebay doesn't need it for watching items, but it does need most of this information before you bid on an auction.

If a user sees an auction ending in 1 minute but is then required to jump through some hoops before bidding - thats just as bad an experience.
Some of us have an irrepressible need to show the world.

You could call it a disproportionate competitive streak allied with over-sensitivity about having been wronged in the past (and there's not a human being out there that hasn't been "wronged" by their definition of the term). Combine that with a good dose of competence, skill, talent, etc, and a bit of inferiority complex (which is natural for gifted people, see the "dots and holes" article from a while back, link below), and you have the perfect recipe for someone with that irrepressible need to show the world what he's made of.

It's no bad thing. That's how most progress was made, I think. Thomas Edison and Newton were definitely both competitive jerks with inferiority complexes. Hardly bad company to be in.
Didn't see FamFamFam icons (http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/) there which are probably the best icon set I have come across.
Yes, we did that so the initial users dont see the CredRank fluctuate wildly every time someone votes (i.e. go from 0 to 100 to 50). We also felt it was important that everyone starts off as credible (100). We shouldn't be able to decide at the start, because then the entire idea is tainted!

BTW, by looking at data and trends from our Alpha, we realized we have to tweak some of our algorithms. So I'll post separately about that for the geeks out there who want to chip in.
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Umm, yeah. To make it more clear, when you refer to 'they' in your comment, you are actually talking about Joshu!
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user accounts are now lazily loaded, which has made server restarts more than twice as fast.

PG: can you please explain more about this? What is lazily loading user accounts? and, how are your measuring perf?
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I think Neil Young is misguided here. He is a very successful musician and has spent his whole life in sound. Obviously he's going to have a much more finely tuned ear than the general population.

But the number of people who are like him and you is not enough to support a new format or business model. Most people can't hear any differences beyond a good bitrate MP3.

Consumers over the last 50 years have been on a relentless trend towards greater convenience and poorer quality (look at the quality of any of today's household appliances). A quality play is simply obsolete.
>I truly feel sorry for those who cannot tell the difference between 192kbps MP3s and CDs.

Have you listened to a properly encoded ~200 kbps MP3? Under what circumstances can you tell the difference between a proper MP3 and a CD? Do you think you could under double blind circumstances with music you pick?

If Neil wants to launch a competitor for HDCD and DVD-audio, great, but I doubt it will be more successful than those. He didn't say what the product actually was, so hopefully he has something better up his sleeves.
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>So yeah, NY's latest 'better than CD' ploy might work out with audiophiles... same people who buy $400 digital cables and $500 wooden knobs so their music sounds better.

One extravagant audiophile investment that would make an actual difference is tapes from this company that sells copies of reel to reel master tapes. http://www.tapeproject.com/ Why bother with a delivery medium?
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Because it's a scam, of course. Tricking users into visiting your site because of a weakness in a search engine's algorithm as opposed to because you have relevant content and service offerings is (nearly) as bad as spamming them - us - directly.
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"Consumers who search online are more likely to offer advice on the products and services they have purchased. They also are younger and more affluent than average, and more likely to be considering a high-ticket purchase."
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It is not just a hormonal thing, it's psychological too. Nothing beats deadlifting a heavily loaded bar, new personal best, and standing at the top thinking fuck, yeah! Impossible to do that and not build confidence.
As rms mentions, most of SEO is basic practice and are things you should be doing anyway.

If you want your site to rank better simply provide something people want and try to give good, fresh, content on a regular basis. This is perhaps the best way to achieve a good (organic) ranking.

Users you "earn" also tend to stay longer, be more active, more loyal, and will link to you and spread the word anyway, which is what you want.

With good users and traffic you will automatically get better rankings and have good monetisation options too, such as advertising/adwords, if you do not already charge for your service.

Lastly, have a blog as that is probably the best SEO tip most sites do not utilise.
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I'd pretty much guarantee that its real purpose is to serve as a simple but pleasant portfolio piece for a designer or developer, and that purpose isn't defeated by it being copyable.

But, I think the point of the service is that only one person can read it not that it can only be read once. They could prevent easy copying by using Flash, etc, but it that would be cruel, unusual (well, it should be usual), and wouldn't improve their offering.
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Hi Mike,

Press releases are also thought to be useful from an SEO perspective if you want to help garner some inbound link juice in that manner. I know of a few SEO guys that utilise the various sites in that fashion (I think they use PRweb, but dont quote me on that).

My suggestion is that if you are going to write one, try and create some copy that includes some of your key phrases for your particular niche - and remember to make it sound natural, non spammy :)

Good luck.