Question for HN people: Do you associate the word hacking with computer security? I know I do, and it took me a long time to find that the website was talking about hackathons and not computer security.
Sidenote: rewarding students for travelling seems to bias the scoring in favor of densely populated places like the NE.
Considering the context of being a Y Combinator website, I'd hope most of us understand that this is not a website specifically about computer security.
"Hacking" has long since been appropriated to refer to anything tech startup related. Business growth, usage of an API, even design (http://hackdesign.org/). Essentially, replace verb X with hacking. A pet peeve of mine... but what can you do.
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Question for HN people: Do you associate the word hacking with computer security? I know I do, and it took me a long time to find that the website was talking about hackathons and not computer security.
Sidenote: rewarding students for travelling seems to bias the scoring in favor of densely populated places like the NE.
Considering the context of being a Y Combinator website, I'd hope most of us understand that this is not a website specifically about computer security.
"Hacking" has long since been appropriated to refer to anything tech startup related. Business growth, usage of an API, even design (http://hackdesign.org/). Essentially, replace verb X with hacking. A pet peeve of mine... but what can you do.