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30% marketshare? Source, please.

Most sources I follow -- and from colleagues that work at both Google and Bing -- Bing is operating in the mid to upper teens as a percentage of the market.
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Can someone convert this into a readable format?

The image hosting appears to be spotty, it's on a message board, it's paginated, the dates are unclear, there are now hundreds of comments congratulating the guy, etc. etc. etc.
True, but such a particle would violate causality and allow messages to be sent backwards through time (including, presumably, the message "Hey, don't send this message") which causes potentially nasty causality violations. Great Scott!
wow that's great. An inspiring story. I am doing a similar casual location based quiz/queries site and soon a mobile app with findero.us and I am pretty excited about it. Whether it becomes a success story like yours or not, but I got to learn a lot out of it. I hope my passion pays off.
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I may be in the minority that actually might purchase one of these.

I still use a typewriter for all my prose (currently an Olivetti) for the one dumb reason that it's the only way I've found to stop myself from editing my writing as I write it.

I'd been contemplating picking up a refurbished Selectric (as just the hum that emits after turning it on brings back wonderful memories), but this would have the added benefit of also making a digital copy (which I do at some point want for editing).
This is an interesting hypothesis, certainly not the first thing that came to my mind, but an interesting thought. Why Google would want to buy Groupon at this point is beyond me (perhaps for their gigantic sales force and access to local businesses) but I guess you never know. I don't think there is anyway Google offers Groupon the amount they previously did.
Founded of StartUpLift[http://startuplift.com] at the beginning of this year. Has been growing slowly but steadily. Revenue around $2k/mo. Recently introduced "Recurring Buzz/Feedback" subscription model that lets companies get featured, introduce their service/product to others and get feedback on a monthly basis. Also planning on adding "Startup/Small Business Deals" so that startups can offer deals to each other.
This really begs the question: who the hell is in charge there? How do you not take one look at your finances and immediately jump on a multi-billion dollar buyout that a giant internet company offers you? Or did Google get a closer look at their books and see this coming?
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His initial drawing are much, much better than anything I could currently muster.
it's a cool idea, but i believe most manufacturers would claim 'trade secrets' protections before putting proportions on their labels.
I have heard it suggested that Google either did or likely did have performance requirements as part of the deal, and that Groupon knew they couldn't meet them.
TL;DR Guy is impressed by painters (and it sounded like a family member that was a painter too) so without any kind of art training he decided he wanted to learn the craft. He decided to make one new piece of art per day, and sometimes 2 per day on weekends. If you look at his first few pages of posts you see the 3d cube drawings he started with while he learned how to sketch and whatnot, and then skip to like page 50 which is years and years later you will see these masterful portraits of his wife, jugs of wine and grapes, all kinds of stuff. Apparently now he is a fulltime artist and doing the best he's ever done despite the economic climate.

Also, you might want to disable flash on this forum it's posted on. Flashblock chrome extension is nice to have in this kind of situation.
They really should have taken the $8 billion from Google.
Did Google said they're still interested on Groupon?
true to an extent (about performance), which is why I used the qualifier 'probably'. I should have said may instead! I think Eliot's comment sums it up pretty well:
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Check out his website[1] for quicker loading examples of his more recent work.

[1]http://www.jonathanhardesty.com/
First result for "bing market share": http://www.businessinsider.com/bing-tops-30-in-us-2011-4

It's referring to Bing and Yahoo traffic, since Bing is the backend for Yahoo search now.
How were their initial steps legal? How can a company file for an IPO with such bullshit metrics?
His example with 5 ingredients in unreadable already. What will happen with 10-20?
They'd claim something to avoid having to make it easy to visualize just what's in processed food...
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Have you tried? I used to draw, a lot. As much as this guy but I was a lot younger. People often told me the same thing "I couldn't even draw a cup that looks like a cup!" Sometimes I'd get them to try and if they were a little bit patient they drew something that looked a lot like the first drawing of that mug (Usually not including the shading).

I'm fairly confident that most people could draw that first mug if they really wanted to. The drawings 30 pages in though, that takes much more skill and patience. And it takes a long time to learn it.
This is what happens when you get startup fever. You let early success go to your head, start turning down reasonable offers left and right, and then you go belly up.
If anyone's interested in the C# bindings, I haven't had a chance to update them recently (just started college) but I certainly would appreciate contributions or questions.

More importantly: Libuv Rocks :)
judg.me - a site that lets you find out how others *perceive* you. Thoughts?
Can Task Rabbits send letters? May be an interesting option.
I'm not sure saying "revenue fell in half" is accurate. It looks like they are clarifying what revenue it actually makes ie, instead of counting the full value of the coupon as revenue, they are now adjusting revenue numbers to reflect what their cut of the coupon is. Still sort of shady that they were quoting the first number to begin with...unless that is totally common, which I wouldn't know.
Ask HN: Is this a shady recruiter?
I recently engaged a recruiter to help me find 3-6mo contracts. They set me up with an interview at a well-known, established local firm where the hiring manager (who I'd be working for) loved me and asked if I could start working that very day.

Of course I needed to sign a contract with the recruiter agreeing to a pay rate, start date and all the legal stuff. I signed it, they signed it - and I assumed that I was all ready to go to work on my start date.

When I sent an email asking where/when I should be there. No response. I called them and left a message. No call back... Two days later, I get an email saying that the start date was pushed back. A day before this new start date, I called and emailed them. Again, no response.

It's been another four days without any communication. Is this normal/typical of recruiters? Should I hold out hope for the opportunity? Or am I being screwed?

In case it's relevant, I am in the Denver area, and this was for a BA type role.
I found the detail on this face: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2660638&... to be really good. If you go to later posts you can see how the painting evolves.
On the plus side, at least this happened pre-IPO. It'd be a giant legal shitstorm if they restated revenues after selling shares in an IPO.
Link: http://judg.me

I'm looking for some genuine, constructive feedback.

I came up with judg.me because I noticed how most of us often wonder not about how "hot" we look, but how others perceive us. E.g. how differently would you be perceived if you had a faux hawk as opposed to being bald? Do those glasses make you look more "nerdy"? Does having popped collars really make you look like a douchebag? judg.me lets you find out (and the truth could be a little hard to digest!).

In the interest of usability, users can be judged on only 2 scales: the social scale (introvert<->extrovert) and the intellectual scale (dense<->smart). Users judge you based on how sociable and intellectual they think you are.

I'd appreciate any comments or feedback. Thanks.
This miscalculation of revenue was one of the major issues highlighted by these two business/accounting professors:

http://blogs.smeal.psu.edu/grumpyoldaccountants/archives/281 "TRUST NO ONE, PARTICULARLY NOT GROUPON’S ACCOUNTANTS"

Their two other major concerns:

• Groupon's positive cash-flow is a temporary illusion:

"After downplaying the ACSOI, Groupon has begun touting its 2010 free cash flow of $72.2 million (operating cash flow of $86.9 million less property and equipment purchases of $14.7 million). Unfortunately, operating and free cash flows are driven solely by the fact that Groupon is dragging its feet in remitting coupon sale payments to its merchants. Had merchants been paid in a timely fashion, the Company’s free cash flows would likely have been closer to zero and possibly even negative. Seriously, in a competitive market space, how long does Groupon believe that it can get away with a 60 day payment delay (or longer) to merchants? Merchants simply cannot stay in business by providing services (even discounted ones), two months ahead of payment. Simply put, Groupon’s free cash flows aren’t real. They come from an unusual (and likely temporary) vendor financing model, and are not sustainable."

• Groupon's internal controls are inadequate to make their self-reported numbers credible:

"It is absolutely ludicrous to think that Groupon is anywhere close to having an effective set of internal controls over financial reporting having done 17 acquisitions in a little over a year. When a company expands to 45 countries, grows merchants from 212 to 78,466, and expands its employee base from 37 to 9,625 in only two years, there is little doubt that internal controls are not working somewhere. Any M&A expert will agree. And don’t forget that Groupon admitted to having an inexperienced accounting and reporting staff. Note that Ernst & Young supplied an audit opinion about the financial statements but not about the entity’s internal control system. E&Y instead points out, “We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.” So we ask how have these weak or nonexistent controls affected the numbers Groupon reports? Can we trust these numbers?"

Groupon's business-professor cofounder, Eric Lefkofsky, has dumped about $382 million of his shares in the prior private financings.
It tells you at the beginning exactly how long it is (35 questions, 10 pages). It only took me about 5 minutes.

It may be a bit hard to see now, but they also record partial answers and post them all online.
You can write anythin you want ad long ad there is a * at the end. In this crazy IPO market no one reads the fine print.
believing in something to be the truth, no matter how much 'convincing evidence' there is to support that conclusion, isn't really a scientific princple. skepticism, on the other hand, most certainly is.

science isn't about believing in anything to be the truth; it's about constructing analytical models that make accurate predictions while consistently exercising skepticism about the ability of any model to do so.
They actually have one success already: Junar, from beta round, raised 1.5m and is keeping the office in Santiago!
Jobs + taxes == win
Sounds lime a gem of a person as well as professor. Thanks for sharing!
Wait, there's more to hacking than funding and getting acquired?
Plus we go to universities, mentor locals, hire people with above-local salary, organize events...
It definitely helps the local scene in many different ways!
As far as I know, yes, you are, in fact, completely wrong. The only thing partner banks handle is the actual money. You never talk to them. https://banksimple.com/faq/#whatthedealis
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How much longer is Andrew Mason going to be in charge at Groupon? His head has to be on the chopping block at this point right?
Touché sir. I had looked at their insurance in the past and very unfortunately extrapolated to the entire organization. My mistake and thank you very much for correcting that misconceived notion!
I really don't know how some of these people aren't in jail already. It's as if everyone forgot that Enron happened.
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Genuinely looking for suggestions on what to do with my site
Spent quite a bit of time building http://touch.frugalytics.com/ (its a comparison shopping site built for mobile). Due to competing priorities, I don't have much time to continue development. I had a lot of innovative ideas but don't think I'll be able to execute on them any time soon. The site brings in some modest income but not enough to support even a single full time developer.

Looking for your thoughts on what you would do with the site if you were in my shoes.

Cheers.
It seems that people just add value of their work to value of their item and since they value their work much ...
All my friends in finance, including those in auditing for a Big 4, spotted this when the S-1 first came out. It was obvious to them that this was completely wrong.

So it indeed does beg the question, who is in charge? What were they thinking when they tried to get away with putting this in their S-1? Were they really that inept in revenue recognition, or were they trying to pull a fast one on their potential investors? If anything, it really hits against the credibility of the executives.

As has been mentioned many times, the fact that they sold shares for 900MM and then cashed out their initial investors when Groupon was bleeding money speaks volumes about the character of those in charge.

I wouldn't invest a single penny in this company.
You're right, 'fell' is a misleading word and not used by the WSJ in this case. This is Groupon being forced to follow usual standards for when the revenue is 'theirs' rather than someone else's. It's a restatement rather than a period-to-period decline.
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I love ideas that can shift a paradigm. Adding the idea of "impact investing" as a missing stage between philanthropy and traditional investments, seems like it could do just that.
There is an awful lot of interesting content that gets bumped off the "new" page really fast. I think stories that get upvoted on that page should be able to percolate longer before disappearing.
Was that a misspelled ,r, or ,e,? :-)
YC "new OR newest" area : does anyone ever visit?
I do not. Since I do not, how is content pushed up-stream?
I'd argue that the use case was different (judging purely by what you've said, so correct me if I'm wrong). In the Indian expat community, this was providing "the" means to easily contact people (as opposed to positing a letter from somewhere else around the world), but clearly as internet connectivity appeared this turned out to be a lot easier than a middle man. As an aside, bizarrely, I was looking at India's internet and connectivity growth earlier today - it's a mad world!

SendWrite is (as far as I can tell) not pretending it's the only way to contact someone, more it's allowing "physicalization" of your digital message, maybe where this is necessary (such as older businesses that haven't fully adopted the webz), but perhaps more just where getting/sending a letter is nice, because frankly, people like stuff they can touch. I'd imagine thank you notes, and things of that nature would be perfect.
This reminds me a lot of Penny Arcade, I started reading it 10 years ago for the video game commentary but I've really enjoyed watching the quality of the writing and comics improve to such a world class level over time.
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It's not that no one knows the fine print, it's that the people who get rich of IPOs (financial people) would typically still make money off an IPO which is based on flawed numbers. So the incentive is not there for the financial people to stop it, the incentive to actually promote it is there.
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Can someone explain to me why Groupon's margins are so thin/negative? Don't they basically take half of the revenue that comes in as part of a groupon? Shouldn't their overhead be little more than the site, plus sales staff, plus devs? Where does their money go?
3/4ths of those sites aren't mvp, but just looked like crap because thats how sites looked at the time.
This is absolutely true, different businesses have orders of magnitude capital requirements to get off the ground. However the big change in the last decade is how many more scalable businesses are possible to get off the ground with very little capital. If you want to take a shot at something big, more power to you, but if you're a first-time entrepreneur personally I'd recommend bootstrapping. That practical knowledge of how to find product-market fit, even on a small scale, is infinitely more valuable than all the big-time planning you can dream up.
I would never do such a thing, unless you were already having been going to do that.
I would imagine it's the employees part. A lot of the speculation about Google's motivation to buy Groupon was about the sales staff, which has to be pretty extensive to cover all the businesses in all the cities Groupon operates in.
I don't view it as that the something returned depends on the left hand side, rather that the left hand side picks what it wants out of that. It's also useful in arrays:

[x, y] = [1, 2]

With splats:

[first, second, rest...] = contenders
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Interestingly, he's pretty close to (but still under) the ten year mark for getting mastery that Peter Norvig wrote about in an essay about mastering programming. (http://norvig.com/21-days.html).

(This was before the rule changed to 10,000 hours.) It could be interesting for someone more knowledgable about art to indicate at what point he hit 'mastery' (assuming that has already happened) and to then estimate how many hours it took him to get there.
What makes you say there's a "crazy IPO market?" I can only name four high-profile tech IPOs so far this year (P, LNKD, FIO, Z) - it seems that most high-profile tech companies are content to continue closing massive rounds instead of going public (probably because a lot of them need to generate better figures to avoid pulling a Groupon, but that's speculation on my part).

And it's precisely because the SEC read the fine print that Groupon continues to have issues surrounding its IPO. It's their job to read the fine print.
Advertising takes up a lot of it.
Smart phones are computers that are capable of phoning too. Netbooks and laptops aren't ideal for entering a lot of numbers either because they don't have a numeric keypad. Calculator keyboards are laid out better for working with equations.

Let me put it another way - do you think calculators are completely redundant?
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What I call a "good MVP" is a product that fits a market, something people want and are willing to pay for.
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Yes, this is shady.
That URL gives you a login page. Direct link: http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/search-engines/
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I think the word financial types used is "revised". As in - Groupon's QX revenue revised down to half it's original value.

"Fell" means there is some kind of time-dependence. If you already thought Groupon's accounts were overstated, this isn't news, while falling revenue would be.
Well normally the press or the PR people representing the scientists blow things all out of proportion. In this case it seems everyone is being pretty reserved and the claims, while extraordinary are already heavily couched in caveats.

I am expecting one of two things to happen:

a. A systemic error in the measurements, which is most likely IMO.
b. a modification of physics similar to how relativity was a modification of Newtonian physics.
How do they handle the mandatory SSL (from 1st Oct onward) for Facebook tabs?
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I wonder if there would be any money in having a free option that includes third-party advertising in the envelope. May need to limit the number of free sends per person over a period of time.

I'd be interested in knowing what type of messages people would send with the free method vs paid. You wouldn't send a birthday/congratulations note with ads, but maybe something witty/humorous to a friend. A semi-physical poke, as lame as it sounds.
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I'll try to write a blog post about this soon. Basically, you want to be sure to track every ad separately all the way down the funnel. So you want to set up goals in Google Analytics as normal, but then create a custom report segmented by the utm_source or utm_content variable.
If it's as simple and as basic as a bloated sales force that can't pull its own weight, then that definitely casts a harsh light on their viability in general.
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The piggyback SSL addon ( http://addons.heroku.com/ssl ) is free.
You want to segment your audience really finely and then build out a target list based on that.
Who is your CRM for? Technology startups? Computer repairmen? Telemarketers?
And then work backwards from there to keywords/sites that you think would be most relevant.
The issue that I have with it is that it so easily exposes posts from the beginning of time to people I only recently became friends with. When I first signed up for Facebook, it was still in 'college only' mode, and what I posted was with that restriction in mind.

Over the past few years, this has dramatically changed; now I'm friends with coworkers, parents, etc. As my list of friends/target audience changed, the posts I made shifted in nature to stay appropriate to my current list of friends at the time that I posted any piece of content. When Facebook enabled post-specific privacy controls, I made lists and used them religiously for restricting access to content I provided.

However, short of clicking through each and every one of my old posts and changing the access control list or removing the content/untagging myself, how do I prevent the next boss or coworker that I friend on Facebook next week/month/year from easily seeing the dumb shit that I was posting back in 07 when my target audience was other college kids?

What I really wish existed was a privacy setting that allows me to restrict people from viewing content that existed before our Facebook friendship began. If I posted something before I knew you, and before I could account for you being a part of my social stream, it's none of your damn business.