Introducing Battle Hack

http://battlehack.org/news/2013/05/31/introducing-battle-hack/

by cbetta • 13 years ago

44 33 13 years ago

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acheron-fossae• 13 years ago

Who cares about a trip to Silicon Valley and $100,000 USD - I'm after the shiny axe!

cbetta4• 13 years ago

seraphimserapis2• 13 years ago

So are we. Imagine how I feel having to give that thing to the winning team instead of being able to keep it.

androidb• 13 years ago

'We have a tradition at PayPal of supporting hackers' Yepp, just like you've given the deserved prize to this teen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779719 when he found a serious bug in your site.

ndr• 13 years ago

That's a way to recover PR I would guess :)

fooqux• 13 years ago

A better way would be to make good on your promise and fix the mistake, not pretend it didn't happen.

Although, in real life, for the majority of people... maybe the opposite is true.

duiker101• 13 years ago

Same exact thought I had, after reading just that I closed the tab.

tetha• 13 years ago

Last 3 or 4 paypal related mails on the full disclosure mailing list also report that paypal is either not responding, not cooperating or weaseling their way out of paying bounties all the time. I'm not sure how seriously I can take this.

michaelmior• 13 years ago

Good luck flying home with that trophy!

Sujan• 13 years ago

They thought of that:

> Yep, it’s an axe trophy.

> Good luck clearing airport security

http://battlehack.org/berlin/#prizes

Just didn't have a solution obviously ;)

38252• 13 years ago

Don't check in your ax, at least not with United. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars

hhuk• 13 years ago

"We have a tradition at PayPal of supporting hackers. " Really?

forgueam• 13 years ago

Just make sure you are at least 18 years old... http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039940/paypal-denies-teenage...

speeder• 13 years ago

No southern hemisphere city? :(

Why we down here are always forgotten?

jacques_chester3• 13 years ago

Annoying, isn't it? Google has offices in multiple southern hemispheric cities -- still no "Summer of Code" for half of the planet.

I should however single out AWS. Amazon have two sales engineers here in Perth.

Perth, of all places! Kudos, Amazon.

youngerdryas2• 13 years ago

Earth's northern hemisphere contains most of the planet's land, and roughly 90% of its human population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Hemisphere‎

glurgh• 13 years ago

Perth, of all places!

How far the legendary galactic center of .sigs must have fallen, if even its own residents disparage it so!

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#perth

cbetta4• 13 years ago

We hope to get around to that next year. Not forgotten, just a lack of resources :)

38252• 13 years ago

Lack of resources is rarely a problem. I remember a teacher tell me that "not enough time" is rarely an excuse for not doing homework because at every waking moment we're prioritizing one task over others. Thus, companies do not lack people or money. They are deliberately prioritizing the rest of the world over you.

sorich87• 13 years ago

In fact, almost all the World was forgotten, they have only Europe and USA cities. :(

juandopazo• 13 years ago

The Twitter logo at the top left is very disconcerting. It looks as if the website was made by Twitter, but it only points to the BattleHack Twitter account.

nascro• 13 years ago

Wufoo held an API contest in August 2010. First prize won a battle axe. http://www.wufoo.com/2010/08/02/win-a-real-battle-axe-in-the...

mattbarrie• 13 years ago

"world series"

serf• 13 years ago

that's quite the axe-tropy.

What a cat-axe-tropy.

mattmanser• 13 years ago

Looks like a fun idea to start, but it's being pitched so badly given paypal's history and the site is actually shockingly bad. The major branding is Twitter's! The links don't work! The design is horrible! It's hosted on Github!

This seems to be some muddle of an organization that previously organized something called Charity Hack and Paypals dev evangelists, probably why the whole message is coming across so jarringly at odds with the reality of developing with paypal.

At first I thought they had a cool, if out-dated, easter egg, but they seem to have lifted the code without any credit:

(enter the konami code or open your console and enter goApeshit(), warning, loud)

http://battlehack.org/javascript/ie5.js

https://github.com/moovweb/harlem_shaker

makerops• 13 years ago

The comments on the page are pretty funny.

changdizzle• 13 years ago

Try to bring that battle axe on the plane after you win...

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