Great Walkthrough. How long did it take to get through the challenge?

The contest starts when you get your badge Thursday morning (8:00 AM - 3:00 PM depending on the line), and the team that won this year finished at about 6:00 AM on Saturday.

Or came to the conclusion those people changed the binary and that they were on jailbroken devices. Those videos were faked so to say.

Gotcha. The binary only has two .mp3 files; yo.mp3 and yoyo.mp3.

Just a thought: Would it be possible to scale this technology up to the level of a car using folded graphene to act as the wheels?

I think this post serves as a wonderful blueprint as to how one can create a passionate community of individuals with a single goal in mind.

I would love to see another post, detailing the other side of UM's success; the long hours students spent training, and preparing for a hackathon. Everyone loves to make the claim that they showed up at a hackathon, learned how to program some new language, and take top 3 at a hackathon. What many posts fail to address are what was done to rally the students around such causes and get them both mentally and technically prepared for a hackathon.

Great job David et al, can't wait to see what's next!

Wonderfully written piece Brett!

I really liked the insight that you formulated: When an idea/object falls into the hands of the many, real innovation starts to flourish. It becomes a science experiment on a scale not previously possible, where research is continuously conducted in garages. Though this experimentation isn't as efficient as it could be, if it was organized, the scale of the work being done marginalizes the gains efficiency could possibly create.

What is unique about this? There are thousands of services online that offer the same. What makes your site any better?

Moreover, this is not at all relevant to the HackerNews community.

If you can share valuable insights as to why this is a good or bad thing for businesses to do, then that might be more useful.

A lot of people on HN are starting companies and trying to establish themselves with social media(twitter, facebook, etc.). This gives them the jumpstart they need to get their pages and handles running.

People don't like to follow a handle or like a page that has very few likes. Getting those first 1000 followers or 500 likes makes a huge difference in the amount of people who actually end up hitting "follow" or "like"

What I don't really like to follow are people or brands with less than 10 posts. I absolutely hate the ones with zero posts :)

I love the Dr. Strangelove reference!

The advice is sold too! Unplugging is often the most helpful way to get sh*t done. Another technique I came across recently is to start off your day with production rather than consumption. i.e. start your morning writing a 500 word essay or going outside, sitting in a park, and just making those wireframes. Your day will be exponentially more productive!

This Dr. Strangelove reference has been waaaaay overused lately, it's just starting to be annoying now.

As far as using index cards for wireframing, seems like a decent enough idea if you have a really small team. Doesn't really scale that well for larger teams/projects.

I'm just hoping to edge out "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Pooping During Childbirth" in Google search results.

Maybe his hand does things he doesn't want it to do.

Same here. When I saw the post, I was wondering if it is the same person, because the other hacker also used the same algorithmic implementation for the recommendation engine.

@apgowz That's the link I was talking about.

Seems a bit too good to be true, but that could just be my inner pessimist talking.

Really cool to see that Pulse and LARK were once a part of this program as well.

Look forward to applying and I wish everyone else the best of luck!

Interesting concept indeed! This is kind of like Everything BUTT art in a sense.

Keep Rocking guys, hope to see more on the App Store soon!