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Google I/O 2014

180 points by dotnick 13y ago

pbnjay 13y ago
Interesting they're doing a lottery for registration. I'm sure it'll reduce server load though. Also, I love the binary countdown at the bottom of the page.
diorray 13y ago
Let's hope that they release Glass in June 25.
- psbp 13y ago
  I wonder if Google has plans for a competing VR to the rift.
- jf5s2 13y ago
  I can't wait for Google's fleet of personal spy drones to violate my privacy even further.
  - shiftpgdn 13y ago
    You have no expectation of privacy while in public.
    - jf5s2 13y ago
      Actually I do expect a certain degree of privacy while in public. No everyone is comfortable with Google spying and data mining everything they can get their hands on.
- yeukhon 13y ago
  Are they ready to release that? I was going to get the development version. Should I wait after June 25?
flixic 13y ago
I'm guessing Apple will do the same lottery for WWDC this year, that's what they did for Tech Talks a few months ago.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago
  As far as I can remember the tech talks have always been a lottery.
nawitus 13y ago
Hmm, that website is extremely slow for me (on Firefox).
- aeflash 13y ago
  Straight up crashes it for me.
  - yaph 13y ago
    Yes repeatedly crashes FireFox.
  - appleflaxen 13y ago
    Yeah; me too.
    - slater 13y ago
      WFM on FFox 29, albeit slow.
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  - riquito 13y ago
    consinstent crash too, they must have tried really hard to find such a bug
- elwell 13y ago
  That's by design. They only want Chrome users to come to the event.
  - rplnt 13y ago
    They do this across all their services and had been doing so for years. They really want you to use their (shitty) browser. I don't blame them though, it's just irritating to see people praise them as a "good" corporation that does no unnecessary evil.
Xlythe 13y ago
Lottery goes from April 8 - April 10th.
benjamincburns 13y ago
Odd... "This page has been blocked from accessing your microphone." I don't have headphones on, and I see no other indication as to why they'd want to access my mic. Weird.
- prawks 13y ago
  At the bottom right-hand corner of the page when it loads it tells me: "Explore technology and its impact from small to large through tapping, spinning and making sound. It seems that making noise causes the animation to do things.
lukasm 13y ago
Why do they need microphone access?
- WalterSear 13y ago
  For the little interactive animation at the top of the page. Makes some things bounce around - the spinning satellite is one.
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tgeery 13y ago
The console logging going on is pretty dang funny...
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- stevenspasbo 13y ago
  The morse code (-... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--. / -... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--.) translates to "BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP".
fidotron 13y ago
The big problems with attendees last year were that the demographic imbalances were in many ways embarrassing, and that they didn't feel it was developer focussed enough. It'll be interesting to see if there is a giveaway at all this year, since a large part of previous woes could be down to people attending just for that, and I'd cynically observe that for many attendees the long term value was actually just the giveaway. The lottery is a definite step in the right direction, but the branding is just all kinds of terrible, and makes me wonder how much they've really learned. If they can improve access to the same content and people at remote locations that might be a game changer (i.e. hangouts to allow remote participation in some of their sideshows), as most of the value of attending the main event is what goes on outside the main talks, thanks to YouTube being so effective for hosting those.
- dotnick 13y ago
  I honestly fail to see how the lottery improves things. IMHO the best way is to just announce that there's no giveaway this year. Not the best promotion for the event though.
  - bestdayever 13y ago
    It was definitely depressing to not get tickets last year then see a group of 9 year olds with their parents throughout the auditorium just looking to soak up the free stuff. I wish they didn't do any free stuff to discourage non developers from going.
  - fidotron 13y ago
    I believe the thinking is that the previous setup meant that most people there were the kind that would obsessively refresh windows in order to secure places. The lottery means there's no benefit to those possibly excessively enthused about the idea, and so the tone of the whole thing could be more balanced and professional. They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge.
    - objclxt 13y ago
Goosey 13y ago
After making it all the way to the exoplanets and back to the higgs I nearly gave up before finally realizing I could scroll down. I hate this trend in web design.
- negrit 13y ago
  I'm glad I checked the comments here... This design doesn't make sense.
- camilo_u 13y ago
  Actually I just realized I could scroll with your comment!
- atonse 13y ago
  Oh geez. I didn't even know you could scroll down. I played around for a bit, thought "ok what's the point of this?" and just moved on.
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- angrydev 13y ago
  No idea you could scroll down either, I just closed the tab and moved on.
- lloeki 13y ago
  In all honesty I did scroll but didn't realise it was interactive until reading your comment, bewildered reading about Higgs and planets
- untog 13y ago
  I blame the trend in UI design to hide scroll bars. On desktop they're perfectly visible and it's not so difficult to work out that you need to scroll.
  - abraham 13y ago
    In Chrome on OS X I'm seeing a scroll bar always visible on the I/O page.
pjmlp 13y ago
Even without attending it, I am looking forward to see if there are presentations about ART and improving the state of Java on Android. Now with Java 8 out, it is pretty lame that one still needs to use a Java 6 fork to target the majority of Android devices.
- yincrash 13y ago
  SDK Tools, Revision 22.6 (March 2014) added support for Java 7 language features. You use Java 7 to build. "features like multi-catch, try-with-resources, and the diamond operator. " - [1] [1] - http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    Only works with Android 4.4!
guelo 13y ago
In order to be allowed to buy a ticket they should have a simple dynamically-generated programming challenge so non-programmers can't search for the exact answer. Maybe some kind of dynamically generated boolean math problem to be implemented with if-else statements.
- mbreese 13y ago
  A regex should just about cover it.
  - monokrome 13y ago
    There are a large number of developers that still ask me "How do you do <simple thinghere> in regex?" quite often. I think that your suggestion may be narrowing the crowd a bit much.
    - mbreese 13y ago
      Isn't that the point? :)
- dsl 13y ago
  You should have to write a working Juniper configuration to establish a peering session at an exchange with YouTube. Then non-network engineers wouldn't be grabbing up all the tickets.
  - toomuchtodo 13y ago
    Tech world's equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru.
- roryokane 13y ago
  They could just integrate http://codecha.org/ http://codecha.org/. "Codecha: Prove you're human through your code."
  - thearn4 13y ago
room271 13y ago
This page crashes my browser (FF 28 in Ubuntu). Ooops. Anyone else experiencing this?
- appleflaxen 13y ago
  Yes; same thing. Weird.
devcodepi 13y ago
anyone know how much $$ required to attend if chosen by lottery system ?
- zastrowm 13y ago
  The usual pricing: $900, $300 for students. When you sign up you have to have a Google Wallet account so that your ticket is automatically purchased if you're chosen.
  - devcodepi 13y ago
    Thank you.
hydralist 13y ago
i dont feel smart enough for this website
jack_hanford 13y ago
Did anyone else notice the Doge messages in the console?
- alxndr 13y ago
  Some pretty silly lines in there: Object { boson1: "Reticulating Splines..." boson2: "There's more Ajax in this loader than an epic greek poem" boson3: "♬ Reunited and it feels so good" boson4: "Are you there, Boson? It's me, Margaret." boson5: "♬ Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater does he get wet?" exo1: ""Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan" exo2: "Call me V'Ger" exo3: "As far as we know, the universe is not Tail Call optimized." exo-argon: "Investigating: Class J Planet Argon" exo-bleu: "Detecting: Class H Planet Bleu" exo-cheddarwurst: "Discovered: Class D Planet Cheddarwurst" exo-daytripper: "Located: Class M Planet Day Tripper" exo-dunebuggy: "Detecting: Class D Planet Dune Buggy" exo-emanthaler: "Located: Class D Planet Emmentaler" exo-hoth: "Investigating: Class K Planet Hoth" exo-izod: "Detecting: Class D Planet Golf" exo-lacoste: "Discovered: Class D Planet Lines" exo-meangreenie: "Investigating: Class J Planet Mean Greenie" exo-measels: "Located: Class L Planet Measels" exo-mumps: "Investigating: Class L Planet Mumps" exo-neon: "Detecting: Class J Planet Neon" exo-polo: "Discovered: Class D Planet Colors" exo-purplehaze: "Discovered: Class D Planet Purple Haze" exo-tatooine: "Located: Class M Planet Tatooine" exo-xenon: "Investigating: Class J Planet Xenon" exo-ziggystardust: "Located: Class L Planet Ziggy Stardust" neural-banana: "Orange you glad I didn't say banana (╯°□°）╯" neural-boom: "♬ All we hear is, radio ga ga" neural-can: "It's got what plants crave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04" neural-cat: "Cat Proximity: https://xkcd.com/262/" https://xkcd.com/262/" neural-doge: "WONTFIX: Duplicate Doge joke" neural-mona: "It's cool and all, but I'm more into his older stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vi... neural-nes: "What's the fastest TAS you can complete for the I/O 2014 website?" neural-pong: "Can you do this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8IVASo0umU" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8IVASo0umU" neural-rhex: "Awwww, he's a cute little guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI" neural-ufo: "Teach the controversy!" neuralfail0: "Hint: The eyeball follows the correct diamonds" neuralfail1: "ಠ_ಠ You could scrape the code for patterns, but you should probably get back to work." neuralfail2: "Hi HackerNews, I dare you not to complain about something involving Big O Notation." planet1: "I think I can see my house from here." planet2: "Our apologies to any visitors who suffer from Globophobia." planet3: "TCP/IP is cool and all, but did I think "IP over Avian Carriers" would be way more fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers" planet4: "-... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--. / -... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--." silicon1: "Little known fact: Silicon looks exactly like a beachball under a microscope" silicon2: " wow↵ such structure↵ so crystalline↵ many atom↵ how connect" silicon3: "FIXME: Remember to write a joke about silicon" silicon4: "It's only a model." }
mfkp 13y ago
Personally, I'm glad they switched to the lottery. I had the worst experience last year. Got a ticket after refreshing the page for a half hour, but then Google Wallet was broken so it wouldn't let me pay for it (cart expires in 5 minutes). Hopefully they can handle the server load spread out over 2 days this time.
- suyash 13y ago
  I still don't think Lottery is the best possible solution but yes it it one step better than last year.
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habosa 13y ago
Last summer I interned on Google+ Developer Relations so I got to go to IO for free and as staff, which is pretty rare even among Googlers. IO is an incredible place to learn about the latest in technical best practices, especially if you're into Android or web dev. However there is so much to learn in so little time that it's impossible to see every tech talk that you want to. The real reason to shell out $900 + travel would be to go talk to Google DevRel and other people in your field to build your network. If you're just going for the technical info, you're honestly much better off saving $900 and watching the YouTube videos the next day. They're incredibly well organized and you can pause to think as you watch. I ended up watching all of the ones I went to live for a second time when I got home.
habosa 13y ago
Last summer I interned on Google+ Developer Relations so I got to go to IO for free and as staff, which is pretty rare even among Googlers. IO is an incredible place to learn about the latest in technical best practices, especially if you're into Android or web dev. However there is so much to learn in so little time that it's impossible to see every tech talk that you want to. The real reason to shell out $900 + travel would be to go talk to Google DevRel and other people in your field to build your network. If you're just going for the technical info, you're honestly much better off saving $900 and watching the YouTube videos the next day. They're incredibly well organized and you can pause to think as you watch. I ended up watching all of the ones I went to live for a second time when I got home.
alco 13y ago
OK, I've scrolled all the way down, seen some nice colors and heard some nice music. But where's the info about Google I/O? Seriously, I didn't even try to read the text on the page because its overall mood implies the text is not important at all. This site simply looks like someone's homework rather than an info site for a conference.
benburleson 13y ago
In the countdown clock at the bottom, I hate when two decimal digits are displayed with two separate binary digits. 39(base 10) does not equal 011,1001 39 == 0100111
- starfush 13y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal
bsimpson 13y ago
Typically, they give presale access to repeat attendees ("Ions") before the general public gets access. As an Ion, there's incentive to go every year if only to maintain your ability to go next year (nevermind interacting with the Googlers who build the APIs you rely or the hardware seeding, clearly also benefits). Wonder if they've scrapped that this year too.
- eitally 13y ago
  That was only for people who have attended every I/O.
rdl 13y ago
I predict we will now see greater adoption on google wallet, since having a bunch of google wallets with virtual credit card numbers effectively gives you more tickets to the lottery. Sneaky plot by google there.
lnanek2 13y ago
Make sure to enter the "lottery" with a company or app publishing account email if possible. Just polling people in the industry last time, people with emails from popular press and media often had no trouble at all. A possible reason is a whitelist for certain email domains.
blisterpeanuts 13y ago
Any big announcements rumored for this year's I/O, e.g. Android 5.0, Nexus 6 phone, 12" tablet, more offline services (Maps, Docs, etc.)? I tried a couple of times to get in, failed, and resigned myself to watching the presentations and tutorials online for free. That's fine. Say what you will, Google gives away a lot of knowledge for free and I have benefited greatly. Can't wait till June.
- keeperofdakeys 13y ago
  There won't be a Nexus phone, those are announced at the end of the year usually. No one is expecting 5.0, though they usually do release a partial update every six months (maybe another KitKat, like the three JellyBean releases).
- thomasahle 13y ago
  They usually release new tablets around I/O.
TrainedMonkey 13y ago
Binary clock countdown to registration is pretty cool.
EGreg 13y ago
I am super impressed and amazed. DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW HOW THEY MANAGED TO GET THE MOBILE PAGE TO APPEAR WITHOUT A TOOLBAR IN MOBILE SAFARI??? Wow. I have never seen this. I want to be able to do it also. The screen starts off with the browser controls already minimized, even when the page hasn't scrolled yet. Also when you scroll down, the bottom toolbar never appears, and it doesn't have the typical problem of showing the toolbar when you tap on the bottom part of the screen. How do they pull this off? EDIT: I looked at the page. Is it this? <meta content="minimal-ui" name="viewport">
- interpol_p 13y ago
  The minimal-ui thing was just added in iOS 7.1
puppetmaster3 13y ago
I wonder if anyone will talk about Android issues covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456540 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456540
puppetmaster3 13y ago
How about covering this google: shame on developers for using the api that end users use: https://twitter.com/duhroach/status/421678850049728512 https://twitter.com/duhroach/status/421678850049728512 We don't have choice, as you don't nuge updates. Andorid is thew new IE!
kasperset 13y ago
I hope they will finally announce Chrome with built in Dart vm.
kalasoo 13y ago
Those animations and swags on the website are totally useless and anti-informatic!
ithinkso 13y ago
How you are you guys, not from US, make it to these kind of events? Isn't obtaining visas and so on a problem?
- rkuykendall-com 13y ago
  Why would you need a visa to attend a conference? You don't need a visa to travel, and I think people travel for business all the time.
  - mwfunk 13y ago
    That's actually not true, it depends on what country you're from. By default, you need a visa to enter the US, even for short visits. However, if you're from one of the countries on this page, then the visa requirement is waived for visits < 90 days: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visa-waiver-program.html http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visa-wai...
    - rplnt 13y ago
      If you meet some additional criteria (mentioned on the page as well). Also many of the countries were added just recently (2008).
    - rkuykendall-com 13y ago
      Thanks! I really did want to learn about this, and phrased my post all wrong. I really appreciate the information.
  - camus2 13y ago
    > You don't need a visa to travel, and I think people travel for business all the time. What?you obviously dont know what you are talking about.
    - rkuykendall-com 13y ago
      wow, I clearly should have rephrased that. I actually didn't have any idea what I was talking about and was curious to find out more. I see now that I wrote that all wrong, the question didn't sound like a question.
brianwillis 13y ago
I'm fascinated by the dotted countdown clock at the bottom of the page. It took me a while to figure out exactly what it was, and I got lost in Wikipedia reading about how braille is represented in unicode, thinking it had something to do with that. My guess is that the first set in dark blue is days remaining, followed by hours in purple, minutes in green, and seconds in light blue. Haven't quite wrapped my head around which dot represents what value, but it sure does look cool.
- Aaronneyer 13y ago
  It's just simple binary, representing the days, hours, minutes, seconds
- anvarik 13y ago
  days do not have an upper bound; therefore you see 8bits on the most left position. Hours can be at most 24, so 7th bit is not present, minutes&seconds can be at most 60 so 8th bit is not present etc...
whizzkid 13y ago
You could see that you can scroll down to page from the beginning but i somehow expected the animation to take me to those information below step by step. But instead animation started from the beginning again.
cbellet 13y ago
The minigames remind me a lot about Year Walk's finale :) http://youtu.be/tD6ZROIlZhU?t=16m11s http://youtu.be/tD6ZROIlZhU?t=16m11s
mnadkvlb 13y ago
I was completely repelled to register on the first line itself in info about registration : https://www.google.com/events/io/help#!/registration https://www.google.com/events/io/help#!/registration "You will need to sign into Google+ to begin the registration application." #pushItUpTheirThroatsTillPeopleStartGagging
jdmitch 13y ago
The thing I first paid attention to was that there is no longer a mad dash to sign up in the first 10 seconds, but they pick people at random from those who apply in the first 2 days. I might actually make it for once!

Google I/O 2014

180 points by dotnick 13y ago

Interesting they're doing a lottery for registration. I'm sure it'll reduce server load though. Also, I love the binary countdown at the bottom of the page.

diorray 13y ago

Let's hope that they release Glass in June 25.

psbp 13y ago
I wonder if Google has plans for a competing VR to the rift.
jf5s2 13y ago
I can't wait for Google's fleet of personal spy drones to violate my privacy even further.
- shiftpgdn 13y ago
  You have no expectation of privacy while in public.
  - jf5s2 13y ago
    Actually I do expect a certain degree of privacy while in public. No everyone is comfortable with Google spying and data mining everything they can get their hands on.
yeukhon 13y ago
Are they ready to release that? I was going to get the development version. Should I wait after June 25?

flixic 13y ago

I'm guessing Apple will do the same lottery for WWDC this year, that's what they did for Tech Talks a few months ago.

k-mcgrady 13y ago
As far as I can remember the tech talks have always been a lottery.

nawitus 13y ago

Hmm, that website is extremely slow for me (on Firefox).

aeflash 13y ago
Straight up crashes it for me.
- yaph 13y ago
  Yes repeatedly crashes FireFox.
- appleflaxen 13y ago
  Yeah; me too.
  - slater 13y ago
    WFM on FFox 29, albeit slow.
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- riquito 13y ago
  consinstent crash too, they must have tried really hard to find such a bug
elwell 13y ago
That's by design. They only want Chrome users to come to the event.
- rplnt 13y ago
  They do this across all their services and had been doing so for years. They really want you to use their (shitty) browser. I don't blame them though, it's just irritating to see people praise them as a "good" corporation that does no unnecessary evil.

Xlythe 13y ago

Lottery goes from April 8 - April 10th.

benjamincburns 13y ago

Odd... "This page has been blocked from accessing your microphone." I don't have headphones on, and I see no other indication as to why they'd want to access my mic. Weird.

prawks 13y ago
At the bottom right-hand corner of the page when it loads it tells me: "Explore technology and its impact from small to large through tapping, spinning and making sound. It seems that making noise causes the animation to do things.

lukasm 13y ago

Why do they need microphone access?

WalterSear 13y ago
For the little interactive animation at the top of the page. Makes some things bounce around - the spinning satellite is one.

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tgeery 13y ago

The console logging going on is pretty dang funny...

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stevenspasbo 13y ago
The morse code (-... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--. / -... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--.) translates to "BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP".

fidotron 13y ago

The big problems with attendees last year were that the demographic imbalances were in many ways embarrassing, and that they didn't feel it was developer focussed enough. It'll be interesting to see if there is a giveaway at all this year, since a large part of previous woes could be down to people attending just for that, and I'd cynically observe that for many attendees the long term value was actually just the giveaway. The lottery is a definite step in the right direction, but the branding is just all kinds of terrible, and makes me wonder how much they've really learned. If they can improve access to the same content and people at remote locations that might be a game changer (i.e. hangouts to allow remote participation in some of their sideshows), as most of the value of attending the main event is what goes on outside the main talks, thanks to YouTube being so effective for hosting those.

dotnick 13y ago
I honestly fail to see how the lottery improves things. IMHO the best way is to just announce that there's no giveaway this year. Not the best promotion for the event though.
- bestdayever 13y ago
  It was definitely depressing to not get tickets last year then see a group of 9 year olds with their parents throughout the auditorium just looking to soak up the free stuff. I wish they didn't do any free stuff to discourage non developers from going.
- fidotron 13y ago
  I believe the thinking is that the previous setup meant that most people there were the kind that would obsessively refresh windows in order to secure places. The lottery means there's no benefit to those possibly excessively enthused about the idea, and so the tone of the whole thing could be more balanced and professional. They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge.
  - objclxt 13y ago

Goosey 13y ago

After making it all the way to the exoplanets and back to the higgs I nearly gave up before finally realizing I could scroll down. I hate this trend in web design.

negrit 13y ago
I'm glad I checked the comments here... This design doesn't make sense.
camilo_u 13y ago
Actually I just realized I could scroll with your comment!
atonse 13y ago
Oh geez. I didn't even know you could scroll down. I played around for a bit, thought "ok what's the point of this?" and just moved on.
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angrydev 13y ago
No idea you could scroll down either, I just closed the tab and moved on.
lloeki 13y ago
In all honesty I did scroll but didn't realise it was interactive until reading your comment, bewildered reading about Higgs and planets
untog 13y ago
I blame the trend in UI design to hide scroll bars. On desktop they're perfectly visible and it's not so difficult to work out that you need to scroll.
- abraham 13y ago
  In Chrome on OS X I'm seeing a scroll bar always visible on the I/O page.

pjmlp 13y ago

Even without attending it, I am looking forward to see if there are presentations about ART and improving the state of Java on Android. Now with Java 8 out, it is pretty lame that one still needs to use a Java 6 fork to target the majority of Android devices.

yincrash 13y ago
SDK Tools, Revision 22.6 (March 2014) added support for Java 7 language features. You use Java 7 to build. "features like multi-catch, try-with-resources, and the diamond operator. " - [1] [1] - http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html
- pjmlp 13y ago
  Only works with Android 4.4!

guelo 13y ago

In order to be allowed to buy a ticket they should have a simple dynamically-generated programming challenge so non-programmers can't search for the exact answer. Maybe some kind of dynamically generated boolean math problem to be implemented with if-else statements.

mbreese 13y ago
A regex should just about cover it.
- monokrome 13y ago
  There are a large number of developers that still ask me "How do you do <simple thinghere> in regex?" quite often. I think that your suggestion may be narrowing the crowd a bit much.
  - mbreese 13y ago
    Isn't that the point? :)
dsl 13y ago
You should have to write a working Juniper configuration to establish a peering session at an exchange with YouTube. Then non-network engineers wouldn't be grabbing up all the tickets.
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  Tech world's equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru.
roryokane 13y ago
They could just integrate http://codecha.org/ http://codecha.org/. "Codecha: Prove you're human through your code."
- thearn4 13y ago

room271 13y ago

This page crashes my browser (FF 28 in Ubuntu). Ooops. Anyone else experiencing this?

appleflaxen 13y ago
Yes; same thing. Weird.

devcodepi 13y ago

anyone know how much $$ required to attend if chosen by lottery system ?

zastrowm 13y ago
The usual pricing: $900, $300 for students. When you sign up you have to have a Google Wallet account so that your ticket is automatically purchased if you're chosen.
- devcodepi 13y ago
  Thank you.

hydralist 13y ago

i dont feel smart enough for this website

jack_hanford 13y ago

Did anyone else notice the Doge messages in the console?

alxndr 13y ago
Some pretty silly lines in there: Object { boson1: "Reticulating Splines..." boson2: "There's more Ajax in this loader than an epic greek poem" boson3: "♬ Reunited and it feels so good" boson4: "Are you there, Boson? It's me, Margaret." boson5: "♬ Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater does he get wet?" exo1: ""Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan" exo2: "Call me V'Ger" exo3: "As far as we know, the universe is not Tail Call optimized." exo-argon: "Investigating: Class J Planet Argon" exo-bleu: "Detecting: Class H Planet Bleu" exo-cheddarwurst: "Discovered: Class D Planet Cheddarwurst" exo-daytripper: "Located: Class M Planet Day Tripper" exo-dunebuggy: "Detecting: Class D Planet Dune Buggy" exo-emanthaler: "Located: Class D Planet Emmentaler" exo-hoth: "Investigating: Class K Planet Hoth" exo-izod: "Detecting: Class D Planet Golf" exo-lacoste: "Discovered: Class D Planet Lines" exo-meangreenie: "Investigating: Class J Planet Mean Greenie" exo-measels: "Located: Class L Planet Measels" exo-mumps: "Investigating: Class L Planet Mumps" exo-neon: "Detecting: Class J Planet Neon" exo-polo: "Discovered: Class D Planet Colors" exo-purplehaze: "Discovered: Class D Planet Purple Haze" exo-tatooine: "Located: Class M Planet Tatooine" exo-xenon: "Investigating: Class J Planet Xenon" exo-ziggystardust: "Located: Class L Planet Ziggy Stardust" neural-banana: "Orange you glad I didn't say banana (╯°□°）╯" neural-boom: "♬ All we hear is, radio ga ga" neural-can: "It's got what plants crave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04" neural-cat: "Cat Proximity: https://xkcd.com/262/" https://xkcd.com/262/" neural-doge: "WONTFIX: Duplicate Doge joke" neural-mona: "It's cool and all, but I'm more into his older stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vi... neural-nes: "What's the fastest TAS you can complete for the I/O 2014 website?" neural-pong: "Can you do this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8IVASo0umU" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8IVASo0umU" neural-rhex: "Awwww, he's a cute little guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI" neural-ufo: "Teach the controversy!" neuralfail0: "Hint: The eyeball follows the correct diamonds" neuralfail1: "ಠ_ಠ You could scrape the code for patterns, but you should probably get back to work." neuralfail2: "Hi HackerNews, I dare you not to complain about something involving Big O Notation." planet1: "I think I can see my house from here." planet2: "Our apologies to any visitors who suffer from Globophobia." planet3: "TCP/IP is cool and all, but did I think "IP over Avian Carriers" would be way more fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers" planet4: "-... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--. / -... . . .--. / -... --- --- .--." silicon1: "Little known fact: Silicon looks exactly like a beachball under a microscope" silicon2: " wow↵ such structure↵ so crystalline↵ many atom↵ how connect" silicon3: "FIXME: Remember to write a joke about silicon" silicon4: "It's only a model." }

mfkp 13y ago

Personally, I'm glad they switched to the lottery. I had the worst experience last year. Got a ticket after refreshing the page for a half hour, but then Google Wallet was broken so it wouldn't let me pay for it (cart expires in 5 minutes). Hopefully they can handle the server load spread out over 2 days this time.

suyash 13y ago
I still don't think Lottery is the best possible solution but yes it it one step better than last year.
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habosa 13y ago

Last summer I interned on Google+ Developer Relations so I got to go to IO for free and as staff, which is pretty rare even among Googlers. IO is an incredible place to learn about the latest in technical best practices, especially if you're into Android or web dev. However there is so much to learn in so little time that it's impossible to see every tech talk that you want to. The real reason to shell out $900 + travel would be to go talk to Google DevRel and other people in your field to build your network. If you're just going for the technical info, you're honestly much better off saving $900 and watching the YouTube videos the next day. They're incredibly well organized and you can pause to think as you watch. I ended up watching all of the ones I went to live for a second time when I got home.

habosa 13y ago

alco 13y ago

OK, I've scrolled all the way down, seen some nice colors and heard some nice music. But where's the info about Google I/O? Seriously, I didn't even try to read the text on the page because its overall mood implies the text is not important at all. This site simply looks like someone's homework rather than an info site for a conference.

benburleson 13y ago

In the countdown clock at the bottom, I hate when two decimal digits are displayed with two separate binary digits. 39(base 10) does not equal 011,1001 39 == 0100111

starfush 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

bsimpson 13y ago

Typically, they give presale access to repeat attendees ("Ions") before the general public gets access. As an Ion, there's incentive to go every year if only to maintain your ability to go next year (nevermind interacting with the Googlers who build the APIs you rely or the hardware seeding, clearly also benefits). Wonder if they've scrapped that this year too.

eitally 13y ago
That was only for people who have attended every I/O.

rdl 13y ago

I predict we will now see greater adoption on google wallet, since having a bunch of google wallets with virtual credit card numbers effectively gives you more tickets to the lottery. Sneaky plot by google there.

lnanek2 13y ago

Make sure to enter the "lottery" with a company or app publishing account email if possible. Just polling people in the industry last time, people with emails from popular press and media often had no trouble at all. A possible reason is a whitelist for certain email domains.

blisterpeanuts 13y ago

Any big announcements rumored for this year's I/O, e.g. Android 5.0, Nexus 6 phone, 12" tablet, more offline services (Maps, Docs, etc.)? I tried a couple of times to get in, failed, and resigned myself to watching the presentations and tutorials online for free. That's fine. Say what you will, Google gives away a lot of knowledge for free and I have benefited greatly. Can't wait till June.

keeperofdakeys 13y ago
There won't be a Nexus phone, those are announced at the end of the year usually. No one is expecting 5.0, though they usually do release a partial update every six months (maybe another KitKat, like the three JellyBean releases).
thomasahle 13y ago
They usually release new tablets around I/O.

TrainedMonkey 13y ago

Binary clock countdown to registration is pretty cool.

EGreg 13y ago

I am super impressed and amazed. DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW HOW THEY MANAGED TO GET THE MOBILE PAGE TO APPEAR WITHOUT A TOOLBAR IN MOBILE SAFARI??? Wow. I have never seen this. I want to be able to do it also. The screen starts off with the browser controls already minimized, even when the page hasn't scrolled yet. Also when you scroll down, the bottom toolbar never appears, and it doesn't have the typical problem of showing the toolbar when you tap on the bottom part of the screen. How do they pull this off? EDIT: I looked at the page. Is it this? <meta content="minimal-ui" name="viewport">

interpol_p 13y ago
The minimal-ui thing was just added in iOS 7.1

puppetmaster3 13y ago

I wonder if anyone will talk about Android issues covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456540 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456540

puppetmaster3 13y ago

How about covering this google: shame on developers for using the api that end users use: https://twitter.com/duhroach/status/421678850049728512 https://twitter.com/duhroach/status/421678850049728512 We don't have choice, as you don't nuge updates. Andorid is thew new IE!

kasperset 13y ago

I hope they will finally announce Chrome with built in Dart vm.

kalasoo 13y ago

Those animations and swags on the website are totally useless and anti-informatic!

ithinkso 13y ago

How you are you guys, not from US, make it to these kind of events? Isn't obtaining visas and so on a problem?

rkuykendall-com 13y ago
Why would you need a visa to attend a conference? You don't need a visa to travel, and I think people travel for business all the time.
- mwfunk 13y ago
  That's actually not true, it depends on what country you're from. By default, you need a visa to enter the US, even for short visits. However, if you're from one of the countries on this page, then the visa requirement is waived for visits < 90 days: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visa-waiver-program.html http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visa-wai...
  - rplnt 13y ago
    If you meet some additional criteria (mentioned on the page as well). Also many of the countries were added just recently (2008).
  - rkuykendall-com 13y ago
    Thanks! I really did want to learn about this, and phrased my post all wrong. I really appreciate the information.
- camus2 13y ago
  > You don't need a visa to travel, and I think people travel for business all the time. What?you obviously dont know what you are talking about.
  - rkuykendall-com 13y ago
    wow, I clearly should have rephrased that. I actually didn't have any idea what I was talking about and was curious to find out more. I see now that I wrote that all wrong, the question didn't sound like a question.

brianwillis 13y ago

I'm fascinated by the dotted countdown clock at the bottom of the page. It took me a while to figure out exactly what it was, and I got lost in Wikipedia reading about how braille is represented in unicode, thinking it had something to do with that. My guess is that the first set in dark blue is days remaining, followed by hours in purple, minutes in green, and seconds in light blue. Haven't quite wrapped my head around which dot represents what value, but it sure does look cool.

Aaronneyer 13y ago
It's just simple binary, representing the days, hours, minutes, seconds
anvarik 13y ago
days do not have an upper bound; therefore you see 8bits on the most left position. Hours can be at most 24, so 7th bit is not present, minutes&seconds can be at most 60 so 8th bit is not present etc...

whizzkid 13y ago

You could see that you can scroll down to page from the beginning but i somehow expected the animation to take me to those information below step by step. But instead animation started from the beginning again.

cbellet 13y ago

The minigames remind me a lot about Year Walk's finale :) http://youtu.be/tD6ZROIlZhU?t=16m11s http://youtu.be/tD6ZROIlZhU?t=16m11s

mnadkvlb 13y ago

I was completely repelled to register on the first line itself in info about registration : https://www.google.com/events/io/help#!/registration https://www.google.com/events/io/help#!/registration "You will need to sign into Google+ to begin the registration application." #pushItUpTheirThroatsTillPeopleStartGagging

jdmitch 13y ago

The thing I first paid attention to was that there is no longer a mad dash to sign up in the first 10 seconds, but they pick people at random from those who apply in the first 2 days. I might actually make it for once!