A Hackathon for Immigration Reform Worth Its Weight in Code

On the second floor of building No. 3 at LinkedIn's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., a large blue cooler sits nearly empty, a few surviving ice cubes floating alongside even fewer unopened energy drinks

Scattered throughout the conference room are a half dozen tables, each covered in laptops, water bottles and empty coffee cups. Most importantly, they are surrounded by bleary-eyed hackers

It is hour 22 of a 24-hour hackathon, where coders join together to build new products and programs from scratch in a short amount of time. The scene is not uncommon in Silicon Valley. Every startup and tech company worth its weight in code has hosted at least one internal hackathon. (LinkedIn, for example, has a company-wide one every month.) Read more...