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I love this idea, but have a hypothesis that 90% of agents that people actually use today would fail this test inadvertently (false negative).

Industry best practice + standard implementation for most agents right now is to do web browsing / fetching via subagents. Their output is summarized using a cheaper model and then passed back to the parent. It's very unlikely that without preserving the actual content the subagents see that the `CANARY-` strings would be found in the output.

Any thoughts on how you'd change the test structure with this in mind?

Anyone have thoughts or insights about why Lego is ending the partnership with FIRST? Thirty years is a long enough track record that it doesn't seem like an overnight decision...

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The growth specifically in Post-baccalaureate Certificate program enrollment while general Certificate programs drop is really surprising to me. I wonder if undergrads just have less faith in certificates or if graduates are more worried about CV gaps.

Anyone have thoughts on why this might be happening?

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Swift from MLH here. Sorry to hear that you feel the hackathon at Rice has changed for the worse. I can definitely understand where you're coming from. Since I got involved in hackathons back in 2010 things have changed a lot!

Having spent plenty of time at non-MLH hackathons, I'd say the phenomenon you're observing is actually a broader trend in hackathons, not something specifically MLH is doing. The truth is, most of the sponsorship money that funds these events comes from recruiters. Hackathons are also a hell of a lot more effective for recruiting than job fairs for many companies. Naturally, a huge influx of people focused on hiring hackers would impact the culture.

It's up to organizations like MLH to help preserve the good parts of hacker culture while enabling it to naturally evolve over time. I like to think we're doing some good work on that front, but there's always room for improvement and feedback like yours drives that!

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This is an awesome Hack write-up. Also, glad to see that someone is continuing Hack Princeton's history of epic musical hacks. At one of the first editions of the hackathon (waaaaaaay before MLH was a thing) someone made a Dubstep Laser Harp that was a ton of fun to play.

Keep up the great work!

I really enjoyed reading this and was pleasantly surprised to find it on HN. There is a really interesting intersection of art and hacking that I don't think we talk about enough.

If I wanted to find more stuff like this, where should I look?

Excited to finally experience a hackathon without leaving my couch. VR is the future.

Check out the Dell Developer Edition XPS. It comes with Ubuntu on it and has 100% full driver support out of the box. It's a great machine, we use them for work. Screen is great too and it looks really beautiful. https://sputnik.github.io/

The job requirements for this are prime: http://justinkan.com/job-post-media-relations-and-snap-god

Why on Earth you’d want to show up at some guy’s house every morning to do this

Any relevant experience you have any how any experience could be relevant for something this inane

Definitely made me smile, good way to start the day.

This is one of the most interesting posts I've seen on HN in a while. Great job, keep up the good work!

This is awesome. Are you planning on open sourcing the prototype?

I disagree with the idea that live coding demos are universally bad. In cases where they are practiced and calculated, they actually convert better than slides. I don't have any hard numbers on hand to back that up, but I worked as a developer evangelist for SendGrid for a couple years and I've probably spent too much time thinking about and attending Hackathons, so I feel ok speaking from experience. At any given Hackathon getting 10% of teams to use your product or API is impressive. Whenever someone has a polished live code, interactive demo I can assume it'll easily hit that mark. Being able to demo you API live in 5 minutes is a pretty strong guarantee that it'll be easy enough to implement during the weekend. Plus, developers love to see code and understand how other developers think!

I wrote about how to give a great API demo a few years ago. Points are still true, worth a read if you're thinking about live coding: http://theycallmeswift.com/2013/02/01/the-elements-of-a-grea...

Awesome read. Love the work Keen is doing!

As someone who's spent a lot of time with both developer relations and Hackathons in general, here are my top 5 insights from this analysis.

1. The Major League Hacking hardware lab is HUGE for hardware companies. Top 5 have all been there since day zero. New additional are all rising. http://mlh.io/hardware-lab

2. In every API category, the companies with the best developer relations programs are in the top 3 performers, usually #1 and #2.

3. There are big opportunities for companies in the Geo, Music, Database, and Game Engine spaces to win with student hackers.

4. Now is a great time to be in developer event marketing. We're heading for a data revolution no other event marketing industry has.

5. Node.js IS actually the one true dev language (JK)

Dell has computers that they sell with Ubuntu on them already: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

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The single biggest indicator of the quality of a hackathon is who is organizing it. I've seen countless events where the people putting on the event are doing it for selfish or greedy reasons, and 9 times out of 10 those events look like the 3 kinds the author is describing [1].

That said, there are tons of _good_ hackathons out there that actually do have the developers interests in mind. Specifically, I'd point to all the amazing things that are happening in the student space [2].

Bottom Line: Figure out who's organizing an event and use that as gauge to determine if it's worth your time.

[1] http://theycallmeswift.com/2013/10/25/dont-throw-that-hackat... [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/the-hacka...