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One of the most important and I guess up until now overlooked point is setting deal size limits in close collaboration with the merchants.
For only they know honestly how many of the advertised deals can they deliver till it starts to affect the quality.

As for apologizing to the merchants, I am assuming that they must have known all the way along about how many orders were they capable of handling before they had to resort to delivering that what was not the same as the advertised deal.
I thought it might be interesting to share my expectations ss someone who is taking a similar path.

Goal: Launch a databound webapp by June.
Requirements: Get good at Python and Django. Pick up HTML/CSS along the way.

So maybe you can become a hacker in one language in 6 months as opposed to trying to be a hacker in 10 languages in 1 year. Honestly, I would go with the shorter option. Time is everything in this business.
Don't lie but don't tell either. Tell them that in a negotiation anyone who gives a number first gets a worse deal, hence you won't tell. After all, they are a startup and should appreciate some street smartness.
I chuckled at the inflation of the VGA's color palette in the Tandy 5000 MC ad. The VGA could display 16 or 256 simultaneous colors, but any palette entry could be changed to any 18-bit (6-bit per channel) RGB triplet (i.e. 256ki colors).
I always thought that the "lightweight" part of Xfce was about it not being inextricably wound around all the dbus and HAL stuff that gets pulled in with Gnome, and it not running an entire parallel configuration and system management system. (When I do use Ubuntu I regularly end up disembowelling ignoring or uninstalling NetworkManager and other pesky under-documented black magic GUI only tools)
It's no surprise that developers can self-manage the development of a source code tool. However this model is unlikely to work in any other space since the product requirements will not be in the domain expertise of the engineers. Github employees use the product all day in the process of developing it - this is true for hardly any products. Imagine engineers trying to self-manage the development of an ERP system - the resulting product would be unlikely to solve real customer problems.

Other than that, it sounds like fun.
"A more useful analysis would be to estimate the marginal cost of each additional search (e.g. if I go make a search right now, how much extra does that cost Google?)."

Interesting, but tricky. Is the price of the new servers they need to buy for the peak processing marginal or fixed cost?
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Thanks for feedback. You are unable to click on Stream, Overview or Plans because you haven't sent any data. I agree this behavior can be improved. :)
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Quick note: forgot to state that Berkeley's intro CS course is taught in Scheme and uses the SICP book.
Historical security flaws of popular PHP CMS's?
FFmpeg switches to git
Isn't the whole point of HTML5 games is that they don't take the whole focus of the computer? Otherwise you may as well play a normal game.
I started programming in college and turned out fine.
:As for apologizing to the merchants, I am assuming that they must have known all the way along about how many orders were they capable of handling before they had to resort to delivering that what was not the same as the advertised deal.*

I think that assumption is perhaps optimistic. Your average local takeout place is not Toyota: they probably run things mostly on feel, rather than on having a rigorously documented and optimized process, and it is highly unlikely they've ever thought through capacity planning for "Can you take five times your busiest day ever? Can you take ten times your busiest day ever?", because for traditional businesses that just doesn't happen. Groupon's strategy for addressing this apparently includes communicating to merchants that Groupon is capable of overwhelming them past anything they have previously experienced.
I was under the impression that the Chinese government was moving to encourage/enforce Royalty Free standards nationally, with the threat of simply losing your patent if you try to ambush a standard.

On second thought this probably still would work, with Chinese companies still able to collect standards taxes on things like LTE elsewhere in the world until other governments catch on that China is now playing their game (since China was on the receiving end of this for things like DVD players where patent royalties have been up to a third of the consumer sales price in 2007, possibly more now. Source: http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=108&subse...)

I wonder how much impact there will be to the whole Apple web now being strongly supportive of royalty bearing standards?
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Well, you would need to calculate the marginal cost if you were really interested in what a particular search costs, but I think this number is actually says much more.

It is the amount that Google is spending on average on a search and thus it is the amount that Google has to earn back on average per search in order to be profitable.
Their wiki (linked from the homepage) has a page: http://wiki.xfce.org/menu_accelerators (Note: I did not try it). And you can embed the gnome-menu to the panel too (via some applet).
And there is their forum... where you can find http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=19506#p19506 for wallpaper/desktop switching.
Extract it from the provided tarball. Almost as easy, but with no man page.
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Another excellent redis preso - http://simonwillison.net/static/2010/redis-tutorial/
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Marginal, but you would have to multiply it by the fraction of times that happens, so it would still be quite low.
Actually, it's not meant as an alternative, but when you forgot to use nohup or stderr/stdout redirect, ie. redirect output from an already running process.
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Looks like an implementation of some of the ideas in this article - http://thinkvitamin.com/business/how-to-track-six-key-metric... .
Will definitely give your application a look when I create my own SaaS application.
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Agreed, site design is very nice.

Any plans for node.js support? I would install today if you had that :)

One minor UX quibble: after signup, it's not so obvious that my registration has succeeded if I have to step out of the linear flow - e.g. to read the API docs. You need a "Hi Foo" message somewhere.
It's interesting how software got better over time on the same hardware back then.

My first was a 48KB Sinclair Spectrum which I used for at least 5 years, and the games coming out by the end of that time were much more sophisticated than the early ones, e.g. filled 3D polygon graphics over blocky 2D sprites. The programmers just had to squeeze more and more out of the same hardware.

These days, a similar jump in sophistication just doesn't happen without new hardware.
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I'm a big fan of groupon, but this situation is going to repeat itself, I'm sure.

Recent example:

http://www.groupon.jp/deal-detail/cid/4054

For those who don't read Japanese, that's a mom&pop-like Thai place doing a 500-yen ($6) all-you-can-eat coupon.

They sold 3500 coupons.

I just can't fathom the economics behind that one.
Beautiful design. It definitely addresses a problem. Pricing seems to be on the higher side. But then again I wouldn't mind paying that if my own product had revenues and could afford it.
You kinda also need a proper About Us page - photos, bios, investors? etc. Where are you based?
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While it's true that all that costs money and creates CO2, as do the cars themselves (as lukeschlather commented), I suspect that Google aren't taking into account the cost and the CO2 of the infrastructure of the internet, that actually allows people to search through them.
I don't know if this is a snarky, rhetorical question, but there are many legitimate SEO companies out there. SEOMoz is a good example. A general rule is, if they guarantee certain rankings, avoid them, if they offer "directory submission" services, avoid them.
I had seen a post by Bruce Eckel conveying the same thought; and it certainly puts it correctly.

Writing Software is Like ... Writing http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=255898

And in most of the cases, IMO, not to forget those awesome co-workers who (have a forget-stuff-in-60-mins syndrome and) would need a lot of help on grammar or vocab, every single day. Blessed life, I'd say!
Japanese reaction on news announcement forum:

"Apologize in Japanese." ← Most popular

"Apologizing in a shirt? Wear a suit, you trash."

"Groupon is a fraud outfit." ← Due to other controversies

"Groupon CEO is a kid? No wonder..."

"An American's apology has no meaning. He was even wearing casual clothes. This was more like a an excuse rather than an apology. He didn't even bow. He made things worse."

"Groupon is run by a foreigner?"

"The youtube account has videos of them abusing a dog. I'm reporting this."

Other controversies:
People buy restaurant coupons with an expiry date in X months. They call to make a reservation and are told that they are fully booked for X months.

People are sold chinese made gyoza. This fact is not stated in the advertisement which has some fishy statements. This is particularly sensitive because chinese foodstuff is worthless in Japan.
Honest question: Does anyone really care about seeing photos and bios of people in the company? I don't think I've ever looked that information up, even if I pay that company money. I agree though that there should be some kind of about page on the site. They also need to list their privacy policy and possibly a terms of use page as well.
You know who else shares my phone number and address? The phone book!
I've done quite a bit of business in Japan and in my opinion this is very well done. Well, there could have been more bows, and the word "apologize" could have appeared more often, but overall this was a sincere apology, which really counts.

When I started watching the video I was afraid of an insincere or an incomplete apology ("…and if anyone feels offended, we apologize…") which would be a complete disaster, especially coming from an American speaking in English.
You seem to have given up on direct control. Wait for the FreedomBox, it ain't over.

One neighbour may do the right thing. But 10? 100? It would be good to be able to trust them all, but I see this as even less probable than recovering direct control.
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I've heard a lot of people who are mad at the merchant and think it's their own fault for accepting so many orders. That may be true, but there is a huge conflict of interest for Groupon. They get a chunk of the money for each deal so I can only imagine hey push the merchant to offer as large a deal as possible. I would love to see how their sales staff operates. Groupon's interests are pretty aligned with the customer; they probably view merchants as upstream suppliers who need to be squeezed for maximum profit.
I'd be interested to know what the "trail of evidence" was the guy left behind. Did he lose his driver's license? Did he rent the empty building in his own name?
This is exactly why I think Groupon is way more than just another group-buying site. They not only have people on the ground in so many places (in a product where first to market seems to have a huge advantage), but they also are savvy enough to understand social norms in the various countries. Really cool.
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Exactly and that's just the beginning. We are working on adding more metrics and better visualizations.
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It's much easier to check the credentials of the relatively few people who offer such services. For the above example, you'd find that the Stonehenge people [1] have a long history of contributions to Perl and an excellent reputation.

[1] http://www.stonehenge.com/staff.html
_When authorities confiscated his wares to punish him for selling without a license, Bouazizi set himself on fire. He died in hospital on January 4, 2011._

That's not true, Bouazizi put his degree in front of his cart, which annoyed the authorities. So they confiscated his wares. No one really here have a license for selling fruits.

Edit: I'm a Tunisian (born and living here), if you have any question about the situation you can ask me.
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Working class. My parents both grew up poor and left school at 15 - my father lied about his age to join the Navy. He later worked for an elevator company, and during my lifetime was in supervising maintenance through most of Connecticut, with some number of people working under him. He retired from the elevator company in 1996 after 45 years.
Which is why we will always win some contests, if they don't turn to trying their hand at strategy. Clockspeeds will always be too low for some problems.
Could you please rename the title of this post to "...nobody in the US watched?" - the topic is well-covered in European news.
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Given your average anon forum poster I'd regard the lack of comparisons to the Nazis and failure to call for the CEO's untimely and grizzly death a win.
Honest answer: yes, I care. Like the privacy policy and terms of use, executive photos and bios are one of my 'this is a real company and therefore it's safe to pay them money' filters. It's not as important as things like SSL on the login page or not sending back my password in plaintext, but it still matters.
This is how I want to go out.

In a giant long-winded incoherent unwinnable flame war against the best minds in my industry, hiding behind a flimsy mask of anonymity and dragging my business empire down further with every post until there's nothing left. Perfect. Beautiful.

I'm just biding my time until the right person calls me out...
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I've asked again (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953774) but didn't get any valuable feedback, so I thought to ask again now that I've worked on it a bit more.

What Lideo does is save your videos so you can watch them again. The main feature is the interface which focuses on the video you are watching.

Why not just bookmark the video? On Lideo you can also rate your videos which is nice. What's nicer is, again, the interface: you watch the video and not much else.

I've been using it for a while now and I'm OK with it. There are quite a few things that I have in mind, but I'd like to get some feedback so I can prioritise a bit. For example, searching is on the list but further down. Making sorting videos in lists optional is at the top. Better bookmarklet is the very first thing.

I would also like to invite you to talk about its security. There are a few security stuff I am worried about. What Lideo does is use embed.ly to fetch and display oembed data from other sites. Please drop me a line at hello@lideo.me if you see the problem.

The site is http://www.lideo.me and you can start using it right away. Register if you like it to save your data otherwise your data will be lost when your session closes.

Many thanks
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For people reading this, just remember, /b/ didn't like the apology either.
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Unless you are trolling, just define 'more productive and useful'.

Age is not an important property of a programming language.
Incidentally, google.com appears to be an order of magnitude more popular. You kind of have to wonder what people using Google to search for Google are on...
I wonder, why introduce (yet) another syntax, not <style type="text/x-sass"> (or text/x-less) support. The latter can be used in supporting browsers natively, while there are existing JS helper libraries to provide support to other browsers.
I was wondering why I should know how to write tests in CPAN modules or when Perl 5 reclaims memory to be a 'good' perl programmer.

Still a good list, though.
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Three points for a link that advocates quack medicine? Not what I come to HN for.
Can you explain your comment? Or are you just trolling?
Since when is thinking about consequences not nerdy enough?
A lot of people cannot accept the fact that they or those under their command commit mistakes. Even if they didn't do it personally, they have to take personal responsibility for those under them, for the good and for the bad.
Using SASS would be introducing Yet Another Syntax. 99% of people who write CSS will never have used or heard of SASS.
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A surprisingly reasonable take considering the title and url.

However, I'd suggest there's a bit more joined up thinking going on at Google than this narrative suggests. Spending $130 million to create a royalty free contender for web video and convincing world plus dog to support it seems above the pay grade of any individual unit.

It wouldn't surprise me if this advance announcement was intended to coincide with Youtube finishing their WebM encoding and Youtube in some way promoting their HTML5 interface and WebM along with it. Not in a brutal, shut of H.264 completely way, but I can see them dropping it from the HTML5 stuff while still serving it via Flash and clients such as iOS and Android, and possibly making the HTML5 stuff desirable in some small way. But his main point stands, that sticking it to Apple doesn't really cut it as a plausible theory.
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My experience was that if the name we wanted was taken, it is worth spending time thinking of another catchy name instead of spending extra bucks. At the end, it's the quality of your service that contribute to your success, rather than your domain name.
>Quite a few of the people quoted in the article are identified, seem to be in position to know what they're talking about and definitely exist.

The people identified in the article don't know anything. The people who are the basis for the allegation are unidentified.

>By "weasel words" you mean OP (and NYT) don't state as facts things which are, while very likely, not confirmed to be facts?

No, I mean the sentence is written in such a way that it can't be falsified. That's perfectly reasonable in this case, especially since the article doesn't include anything that would qualify as actual proof.
Honest answer: I also care. It's not like we are trying to hide something. Most of the time Octav it's available on the Live Chat and we write individual emails to all the users that signup for the service. As side note security is really important for us and we are taking all the measures needed to ensure data privacy.
Out of lego blocks? Because, besides stupidity (or megalomania) you sort of need some cash (or credit) too :)