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I really dislike comments that are negative about design when someone has spent a lot of time researching the problem and the commenter has not. With that said, here is me doing that exact thing:

I agree with usaphp. With equal visual hierarchy, it's dismissing the fact that you care about some items 0% of the time and some items 100% of the time. And this difference between these states can change in minutes. For example, I don't care at all what my seat assignment is until I'm on the plane. I don't care at all what zone I'm boarding until I'm at the gate. I don't care at all what gate it says because gates change all the time. Even if I used mobile kiosk for check-in and it gives me a gate, there's a non-trivial chance that by the time I get to the terminal, that gate has changed. I do not rely on the gate assignment on my boarding pass, ever.

Similar items are not grouped when they should be: such as boarding time and gate.

And the font is not glance-able. It's a nice font that takes little width, but unless they start changing code share codes to "DL50,381,172", there's a ton of extra space that could be used. (of course whitespace is valuable too, but squishing information together for the sake of squishing it together is not a wise design decision.

Regarding someone's comment about color/shitty printers - this kind of design would require two designs: one b/w and one color. The strength of the reds and blues would take over the important information.

I'm not sure why a pessimistic comment is at the top of practically every HackerNews article, but in this specific case, what data do you have to support YC becoming a "typical VC." What have they done in the past that has been typical? They have re-imagined the startup industry. Not in the way airlines say "we've re-imagined economy travel," I'm saying turned the startup world on it's head. With that said, YC having $1BB to incubate and then further grow companies sounds like a great fuckin idea. With an enormous fund that spans market caps, they'll be able to fund even more moonshot ideas, which is even more exciting when you're talking about companies that have double bottom lines.

I'd take it a few steps further. Change "Junior" to "Bootcamp graduate" and "Mid-level" to "Junior."

If there is anything even close to linearity between the "levels" of software development proficiency, then "Will understand code found on the Web before even thinking about copying & pasting code." is not equidistant from senior engineer as it is to "Might copy & paste code from the web (such as Stack Overflow) without understand it, if it just works"

Being a Junior developer should be a proud accomplishment, not a title for what you can buy for $10k and sitting in a classroom for a few weeks.

heh, my buddy said the same thing. I'm looking into expanding into other verticals. I think the flip table industry is ripe for copy/paste disruption.

Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lightweight APIs (in terms of bandwidth). Memory and CPU cores are a far more relevant metric of value for an api deployment.

I believe the RethinkDB team will be a great fit for Stripe. RethinkDB was literally a pleasure to work with. As someone who has had to endure the pain of setting up a production mongo environment, I was thrilled to see how easy RethinkDB was to provision and then configure (all in their beautiful dashboard).

I see a lot of similarities between Stripe's offering and RethinkDB, making a once painful process into one that is actually looked forward to when building a new product. I'm glad Stripe will have even more engineering firepower as they continue to succeed.

Sad that RethinkDB(.com) is no more, but happy they found a great company to join!

Before the pitchforks come out, keep this in mind: before Obamacare increased access to affordable individual plans, employers were the typical purchasers of health care plans. When you have a 100+ person company, the company pays a rate that averages out their employee pool's healthcare needs. Now we have a situation where more people can more efficiently participate in the healthcare market. Individuals who are young and healthy will opt for a lower cost plan, and those who already have illnesses or higher risk for illness will spend more for their healthcare. This efficiency on the consumer side is destroying revenue for the healthcare companies.

I am not saying that anything was even close to perfect before, but we're seeing the private sector responding to Obamacare - it's not profitable enough or even sustainable in some cases. Now the government wants to block companies from trying to salvage their profits? Yes, consumers are benefitting now, but what happens when there are 2 options left for healthcare in each state?

I think in this case, it's clear that the hybrid Capitalist / Socialist approach is not the way to go. Either the government needs to let health care companies operate the way the market allows them to, or move to a single payer system.

> But I seriously doubt you will get people to voluntarily pay money

I've always been curious about this. I'd definitely pay $25/mo if it was distributed amongst the websites I visit. Bonus points if it would distribute it more heavily to the smaller sites than the bigger ones.

No no - two separate services. I was just saying an API for a cleaning service would be great, just like an API for a courier.

if you check out the bottom of the article, Uber has developed a dashboard for SMBs. But it's smart that they've opened this up to enable startups to leverage this as well as enterprise customers.

This is a game changer - not only for what service it provides, but I think it will lead to more companies making APIs for totally non-technical tasks. Sure there are companies like task rabbit, shyp, etc etc, but this is the next level of ease.

Relevant - I want an API for a cleaning service. AirBnB integration so that it can automatically track when a guest has left and the cleaner shows up within an hour to get it ready for the next guest. Would build if I didn't have so many projects going on already...