skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2k a day is well over half a million dollars a year. That's far from sad.

Notch's earnings are exceptional. He is probably the only indie game developer (or one of a very small group) making $350K a day on his own.
I took a course in the first semester of my masters. The professor talked about the final being an open book exam and someone in the 1st row smiled happily as soon as she heard that. THe professor noticed it and said "Smile while you can. People who have taken my courses can attest that a smile's the last thing an open book exam means here"..
Made sense back in the day when they were trying to muscle Netscape out of business.
I think he means this:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/...
their math is a little bit off, a copy sold every 3 seconds = 28,800 sales a day.

Or 10.5 million copies a year. To tell the truth its pretty shocking how minecraft has taken off...the guy will probably end up making 100 million off the game. And if he sticks to iterating it, it might end up making over a billion over it's lifetime(say 40-50 years).

Which may seem like a huge number, until you remember that World of Warcraft is making close to a billion a year.

The reason the number looks that shockingly high, is because he is a one man show.

My guess is that he is going to end up using his new found fame/resources to start his own game development company.
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I get the impression that this game was built because he wanted to build something he himself would enjoy, not something he could become rich off. Maybe there's something to that philosophy ;)
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The sales graphs are public:

http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/

The best day (9/23) had 25663 sales, or about $255k. This came on top of the server being down (0 sales) for 3 previous days. The recent average is around 10k sales ($100k / day).

EDIT: As pointed out by bananaandapple below, the price is in euro not USD, which brings the best day to $347k. The recent average works out to about $136k / day.
This is gold: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb...

The MS guy admits that hardware acceleration can be turned off in the config menu after saying IE9 can't run on windows XP because it requires hardware acceleration.
Every decent email client always had a "group by" function which you could have used.Now if ou are talking about yahoo mail vs hotmail vs gmail, then fine.
Thankfully no, but given the speed those companies move I wouldn't be surprised if IE6 is still there, 3 years later.
Isn't the WebSocket spec still very much in progress? I think word from MS is that it may not be there at launch. But they seem to have taken a different take on this, which is wait for the spec, rather than this is outdated technology.
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Fair enough -- my heuristic is perhaps too coarsely honed. :)

It just took a long time to get from the article title to the realization that I was being asked to sign up for a list. It's funny I just now realized the list is free....
Any discussion of video calling needs to be attended by DFW's classic commentary on it, from Infinite Jest:

http://kottke.org/10/06/david-foster-wallace-on-iphone-4s-fa...

tl;dr: phones are great because I can be naked and I don't have to look like I'm paying attention to you.
http://learnyouahaskell.com

I'm only half kidding. The best way to get used to using functional concepts is to actually use them in their native setting, and then apply (giggle) them elsewhere. When you _have_ to solve problems this way, at some point, it clicks.
I have bad posture, partly due to a congenital defect in the cervical spine but more generally due to sitting behind a keyboard all day. I have had a variety of issues with back pain over the years, and forcing myself to sit or stand in proper posture is both do-able and extremely uncomfortable. I do work out and try to stretch, this helps some. Massage helps not at all for me, only has made things worse, I've tried several types of massage with different practitioners.

A huge point of change for me was due to this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269951. To sum it up, tension - and the resulting psychogenic pain - was the major, possibly the sole cause for my pain. Not posture, not lack of exercise or some defect in the spine. At least, since just reading part of this book and all of its predecessor, my pain has gone from constant/unmanagable to a minor annoyance. There is some real empirical evidence behind Sarno's research.
So either turn off your phone, or glance at it and don't answer. Or find a way to filter calls.

My simple little Nokia flip phone lets me define ringing profiles. So my "bed" profile only rings for certain people. A "work" profile could do the same thing. Surely smart phones have at least that much filtering power.
Either give a reference, or you must be confusing sales and downloads.
If big companies are part of your core audience, they are part of your core audience. At that point IE 6 support is not optional, nor is pushing back on it going to make a difference. All you'll do is cause annoyance.
Oh, thank goodness.

I use my email inbox as a to-do list. I want to be able to keep individual emails sitting there, not conversations. I may have an email conversation with dozens, or hundreds of emails in it, and just one that I care about for later. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to keep them all together.
after all the companies Microsoft has destroyed using this tactic, I'm surprised anyone even picks up their call. Sure the lure of big bucks is appealing, but their track record is very clear. This has been their M.O since the beginning. Just ask Steve Jobs.
- The first question I would have is about pricing. What's the point of a free trial (for you and your users) if they won't pay afterward?

- I would change the generic iPad home screen to one showing your app.

- Also, I was going to comment on how you had a typo, but I see that the product is name MnuBox. Not sure how I feel about that.

- I second what SHOwnsYou says, especially about creating a product tour.
So you think Microsoft’s real answer which should be read into their statement is:

“Microsoft is using our own rendering engine out of a sense of duty to web browser diversity, because we don’t want the web to suffer the problems of monoculture.”

Is that right?
And being forced to justify every small thing and have to use outlook.
Back when IE6 was the best browser available, I used this exact technique to kill off Netscape 4 requirements.
i dunno about that. we're probably seeing one of his larger sales periods, as it enters into the mainstream from obscurity.

it might continue to do well, but i'm skeptical that he'll be able to keep up the rate at which it is currently selling.

either way, though, he's doing amazingly well for himself.
> You take a one time large hit in performance to page out some data as opposed to many small continual hits in performance going across the interconnect between nodes.

You misunderstand the OP. He's not saying "Just put it in Node 1 and access it from there." He's saying to swap it out to Node 1, and then when it is needed in Node 0 again, swap it back to Node 0. That's certainly cheaper than swapping to disk and back.
Most people don't appreciate that the Wright brothers weren't just tinkerers who got lucky but were for all practical purposes research scientists at the leading edge of their field.
Speaking as a someone who has never played either, it's also shocking because World of Warcraft looks like this:

http://www.sopheon.com/Portals/1/WoW%20Screenshot.jpg

While Minecraft looks like this:

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/images/timw/minecraft.jpg
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Football coaches and players pour over game and practice film to learn how their plays are working. Software developers can do the same and with the magic of the interweb, you can do so without having to sit onsite with your customer.
Sounds like Structured Procrastination to me.

http://structuredprocrastination.com/
Golden Ratio usage in the new Twitter design
Conditioning Research just posted about posture http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2010/09/posture.htm...

It shows a couple of videos and mentions the Gokhale Method http://www.egwellness.com/gokhale-method and Ageless Spine by Kathleen Porter http://www.agelessspine.com/book.htm also links to previous posts with further discussion like the Asian squat, and images/videos

You might find it useful

[edited to add] These direct links from CR should be more relevant
http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/posture-fun...
http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/posture-age...
http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/esther-gokh...
Gymnasts typically have a sway back posture, which has some real structural problems that often cause serious issues later in life. This is NOT an upright posture, it is an exaggeration just as a severe slouch is an exaggeration in the other direction.
I've noticed that the more a manager behaves like that, the less likely it is that their own space is set up to put their back to the door.
Every time I see a discussion of texting-while-driving I think of this ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E
I don't know about that. I didn't find a lot of worthwhile answers. Most answers are along the lines of "sorry, yesterday's AMA wasn't official, but today it is."
€ not $
I realize people are more motivated to complain than praise, but with the universe of apartments being so vast, they need a LOT of datapoints before the complement of a black list (all apartments with no complaints) becomes close to a decent whitelist (apartments that are likely to be good).

Imagine a site called One-Star-Yelp.com, a subset of Yelp that only has reviews which scored 1-star ratings. The only reason you would visit is for entertainment value, not to look for tips on where you will dine tonight.

Maybe the best solution is to log all 311 calls (NYC's complaint hotline), and then let entrepreneurs freely mine the data to be put to good use.

[EDIT: I see now the massive value of steering people to non-crappy, but I think a blacklist would be far too hard to construct to be valuable vs. a whitelist]
1) Health care, taxes, payment processing fees, development tools... There are a lot of expenses covered by an employer, especially when you're a game developer.
2) It's not $350k/day versus $50k/year, unless he can somehow sustain his current income indefinitely (he can't).
3) The value of games publishers and platform developers being willing to talk to you (and having access to development kits, etc) is hard to put monetary value on. Working at a studio like Valve gives you that, too.
After ruining the web for a decade, I hope they (the IE team/Microsofties in general, not necessarily these specific folks) didn't expect something other than a "tough crowd".

There's a lot of pent-up emotion around IE.
Why you don't like changes to your design
True but as ling as you read the reviews knowing that then You can use them to compare to one another. ie Your looking at two places, one has complaints about the shower taking too long to warm up while the other has complaints about the basement flooding once a month.
http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/
The company i work for has been doing this for quite a while now, unfortunately our clients mostly just pay the extra...
There's no such thing as a free lunch; whether or not we're less productive, nobody's paying you for the hours you don't work. And, indeed, aren't Germany's wages, by sector, consistently lower than those in the US?
At this point I am starting to feel sorry for the MSFT guys. Its quite obvious that the engineers don't run the show, they just do whatever the profit-making overlords wants them to do.
looks can be changed, my guess is that the first thing he'll do is update the graphics to give the game mainstream appeal.

right now people are playing for the gameplay...just like they do with WoW
Or maybe the laws aren't enforced. Using hand-held phones behind the wheel is outlawed in DC, but widely practiced. I doubt you can stand on a moderately busy street in Washington for five minutes and not see a driver holding a phone to his ear.
Word up through 5.1 for mac was quite a nice piece of software. See http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2004/06/63848

For version 6, they ported the windows version, which kinda sucked, to the Mac, and advanced the number on both versions to 6. In my opinion it’s been bloated and unpleasant ever since, and I have thankfully now managed to go Word-free for the last 4 or 5 years.
Ask the Portal team? Or the guys who made Team Fortress? Or the guys who made Counter-Strike?

To be more precise: Working at a larger studio like Valve means you trade some creative control and (in notch's case) some short-term income for reliable long-term income and access to things you could never get in the short term as an individual, like access to devkits for consoles, access to well-trained, highly skilled QA/art/programming departments, decades of design and programming experience from leads and senior developers, etc.
That shows the maximum as 25000, not 36000 sales per day.
Upload files to your personal cloud by sending an email - How COOL is that?
Problem is that this skews the data, since people who post are self-selected to be people with negative experiences. There're a bunch of apartment review sites out there already; I looked at a bunch when I moved out here. The reviews are almost uniformly negative, because the only people who contribute are the ones that like to complain.

If you want to remove the information asymmetry, you need a random sample of previous tenants. This is hard to get unless you force people to write reviews or provide some incentive that is stronger than their urge to complain.
There's a refreshing vibe working its way through the game community where alternative graphic styles and alternative game concepts are given more acceptance. It's becoming a great time to be a game developer.
Sure not the Buran, since that one was crushed into chunks by the collapsed hangar roof on 12 May 2002 right in the middle of the long-postponed roof maintenance. (Annotated photos of the Energia/Buran ruins on the next day: http://www.buran.ru/htm/foto7.htm + aerial footage of the collapsed hangar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNeVoRcQO40 )

The article actually spells it outright “изделие 2.01”, it's just Slashdot guy linked the photogallery instead of the full text: http://www.mk.ru/social/article/2010/09/27/532399-buran-prin...

Also Shuttle 2.01 very well known to be in that spot since 6-7 October 2004. That location is a kind of port/storage territory on the western shore of Khimkinskoe dam lake (aka Khimkinskoe Reservoir, Химкинское водохранилище) and theoretically belongs to Molniya Corporation (makers of the Buran).

Google Maps with user photos from all around that place: http://goo.gl/maps/lGQM + telephoto from across the lake http://russos.ru/img/moscow/canal-31.jpg

Photos from the transportation day http://www.buran.ru/htm/2-01.htm + for comparison on the same page there are annotated interior views from circa year 2000 when 2.01 was stored inside a hangar at Molniya Corporation.

Back then in October 2004 this hauling of the Shuttle 2.01 was more or less covered by Russian press (e.g. http://www.gazeta.ru/2004/10/14/oa_136521.shtml) because just a 2 weeks before was an international media hype about .. "Soviet Space Shuttle Found In Bahrain" (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/24/1314215) That vehicle appeared to be a Buran Analog testbed airplane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI) but also it wasn't exactly suddenly "found", more like sold in a shady manner by then-Marketing & Sales Director of Molniya Corporation while he was assuring the local press that the vehicle is only "rented for exhibitions". So moving the real shuttle out from the hangar couldn't pass unnoticed...

But it didn't help much. The situation with 2.01 ownership is now shady too, especially after all the persons behind the initial selling scheme had fled the company leaving no documentation behind. According to Vadim Lukashevich (buran.ru owner and dedicated author on the Soviet/Russian winged spacecrafts history for the Novosti Kosmonavtiki magazine) the vehicle now belongs to this pharmaceutical distribution company: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/СИА_интернейшнл The same company recently filed a petition to initiate bankruptcy procedure of Molniya Corporation: http://www.pravo.ru/news/view/38472/

> and it's unclear why they would haul an abandoned spacecraft all the way to the outskirts of Moscow.

Btw the sad thing those "outskirts of Moscow" are actually a popular park/recreation area around the Khimkinsky dam lake. Also somewhere around 2000 a large part of the lakeside right across the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_River_Terminal was assigned for the Naval Museum. That's just ~1km from the port where the Shuttle 2.01 is stored:

A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplan on display at the Naval Museum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A-90_Orlyonok_4.JPG
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/12751824
Correct, it was someone else... but people like him just want to see things like this succeed so it was net gain for everyone. And it really isn't about video games (I haven't played any game except for some Wii for the last 5 years), but just pushing the limits of what we can do and learn. I see Minecraft not as a game, but as what a single person did through great imagination and effort.

encouraging more people to play video games is hardly an especially worthy goal

Neither is Facebook, Twitter, most of the development we talk about here, or basically a million other things, but doing things to push the boundaries of what we know are.
I think he'll be ok. Right now he is only selling to the early adopter crowd who doesn't mind the crappy graphics. Once he spends some money on graphic designers, he'll be able to get mainstream appeal.

Once he has mainstream appeal, he can release it for the stores to sell. Which will boost his sales.

But yeah...either way he has already made a ton of money off this game....at least a couple million. Which should give him plenty of room to perfect his product.
Perhaps that's because SWA is a Texan company and they "get" the airline?
I don't know why he'd change the graphics. $350k/day is a pretty resounding confirmation that people don't mind or even like them. (I personally think it's a really nice style, it's got a certain flare to it)
And it's going really well:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb...
I wonder if they run into a legal issue at some point of time with people posting such information on the site.

Wasn't there a case of a tenant being sued for libel by the landlord for ranting on twitter or blog about something being wrong with the apartment?

Edit: Found the story. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/landlord-sue...
Conversation view does a lot more than just group messages by subject.
Oh man, this brings back memories.

I actually had a huge argument with my mom about v5.1 vs v6.1.1. I upgraded our machine, and she wanted the old one back, and I put forth the 'newer versions are always better' line of reasoning, and she rebutted with 'yeah but this one sucks.'

Looking back, it was one of the few arguments we had where I think she was right.
Ok, question for you. Why do other browsers have a reason to make versions for different platforms ? Even Apple releases Safari for Windows and Apple is notorious for their closed ecosystem of hardware+software.
Wow it looks like a planet with no life. Code generated by an old html robot
Thanks for taking a look!

Can you elaborate on the name issue you had? Does the intentional typo turn you off?

Product tour sounds like a cool thing to have -- I'm talking with my BP right now on how to put that together...we're also adding a "Demo" tab that will just auto login to the prototype so people can poke around at it.
>Now I would request these people to stop saying that the Indians and the Chinese are taking their jobs. They are taking your jobs because they are apparently better educated (for the job). </generalisation>

Wait, so are they, or aren't they? ;)

American here, and software developer specifically. 5-6 years ago there was a trend in the industry that companies thought off-shoring was the best way to get the same product for a fraction of the cost. Nowadays, I find that anyone who still believes that is probably not too bright themselves.
That's meaningless.

I ran NT3.5 on a 16MB Pentium machine at one point and it ran comfortably, true.

I also ran System/390 on 32MB of RAM a couple of years before that. That's no indication that System/390 is appropriate in any way or manner for the embedded world.

Windows 7 is not easily portable to a phone; That's why Windows Phone 7, a CE derivative, -- an entirely different codebase that MS has been maintaining for the last 15 years, exists.
If teachers are relying on any of these techniques to make their tests difficult, they're missing the point of teaching altogether. You should be testing kids on their grasp of the subject matter and, if they demonstrate knowledge of that subject, they should receive full credit. Don't penalize kids for something you're not willing to teach them (complete sentences in a Chemistry course, etc).
Some of the richest most productive calls I have ever made have been landline to landline. Talking cell to cell can be atrocious when you factor in delay, reception, and input issues but I would take those any day over trying to type on a tiny keyboard. It's a waste of time. Occasionally I use aim to send texts but to me that's more like messaging than texting.
dude, we're talking about over $300,000 a day
Check your mail settings.
That's a fair point. But nowadays OS'es all have good search tools (e.g. SpotLight in OS X) which makes it unnecessary to organize your files ("why organize when you can search"?). However, I still like my files organized so I can browse them to find things in a straightforward way. So, too, with e-mail.
"The major benefit with awk is that it runs as a pattern recognizing/processing filter by default"

Doesn't every language have regular expressions built in now? Again I still fail to see the point of writing it in Awk when you can write something small and fast in a more powerful and modern language.
Even if it's true that from europe the impression is that ppl in the US have no holidays and do less in more time (here we go, appreciate the honesty pls), I think it's wrong to generalize based on a few examples, as a lot of it probably depends on size and philosophy of the company and, obviously, on how you measure productivity.
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Actually, if you upgrade your textures, the game bogs down pretty bad.

He'd have to do a serious overhaul to fix the graphics. I'm not sure if I'd want him to, either; the look is very charming.
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The effective scale is important, here. One star yelp wouldn't do much for me because the long term effect of a bad meal never extends past about 36 hours. A bad lease can cause turmoil for years.

There's also a slight difference in the services. It's quite easy to find out the positives about living in a certain place (location, size, etc) and if there's any information imbalance about something good the landlord/broker will do their best to rectify it.
In New York most people on a realistic budget have no choice but to settle for a non-crappy apartment. Often times what looks like a deal, or even just affordable, is priced that way for a reason: it has bedbugs, it's right above a bar, it's right below the J train, someone just was murdered in it, etc.
It's actually pretty useful to have a registry of what truly sucks so you don't waste your time.
Looks pretty cool, I might try that out!
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