It turns out that zip codes aren't as populous as you might imagine.
As of the Y2K census, only a dozen zip codes have over 100,000 residents -- 80% of all zip codes have less than 15,000 residents, with the median zip code at 2,500.
Some zip codes have zero residents -- a few large office buildings have their own zip codes, but nobody actually has a home address there. Examples: the Empire State Building, the Pentagon, the former World Trade Center, IRS tax processing centers.
I use a cooperating set of Mac apps: connect to the server using Cyberduck, browse to a file and double-click to open it in TextMate, edit the file and type command-s to save, peripheral glance to the corner of the screen where Growl puts up a notification that the transfer completed successfully, then type command-shift-r to tell TextMate to tell the currently open web browser to reload its front-most window to see if the change had the desired effect.
A number of Mac file transfer clients and text editors support this type of integration.
As I understand it, there was some vague talk about being selective, in case they maxed out the capacity of the space, but in the end I believe they sent out tickets to everyone who signed up, and nobody was turned away.
I was at the same FourSquare hackathon today, and you're right -- there was a lot of socializing going on, and there were people who seemed to be trying to figure out how to present their previously-existing project or startup.
On the other hand, the New York hacker scene is anemic enough that we can use any chance to socialize and network that we get -- and there were people there actually coding things from scratch today, myself included.
I had to leave before the presentations, and haven't see most of the apps people have been working on, so I can't comment on the "overly polished" aspect of this... But in an ideal world, I would hope that people would be able to enjoy whichever aspects of the event were relevant to them, and not get sidetracked by the people who were on a different track.
It's the latter -- the quoted passage is referring to relocating the existing long-term prisoners already housed at Guantanamo. ("Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison")
My understanding is that new prisoners are no longer being brought to Guantanamo, but instead to other sites outside of the United States.
Obviously, a passive income doesn't just depend on "smarts", it also requires initial assets and cultural capital that are generally inherited from the previous generation.
It turns out that zip codes aren't as populous as you might imagine.
As of the Y2K census, only a dozen zip codes have over 100,000 residents -- 80% of all zip codes have less than 15,000 residents, with the median zip code at 2,500.
(Source: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html )