neil1

This is a pretty cool project

I wonder if Travis resigning was contingent on Bill Gurley leaving the board. As Bill seems to be the main anti-Travis actor on the board.

It would be great if you could add city as a form field and allow searching by city. I'd love to pay for this/contribute as well. I was just about to build something similar (but less pretty)

This has been sort of done with Charter schools that use a lottery based acceptance system.

The problem with even random systems is that parents that are willing to fill out the many forms required are usually more involved in their children's life then the median in poor communities.

Also - many charter schools don't provide federally funded free lunches which means that the poorest students who rely on these lunches are unable to attend these schools.

Yes, it does: "That same 2012 study by former athletes found that just 6 percent of USOC spending actually goes to athletes as cash payments."

That's not actually entirely true. Snapchat is known for having only preferences for seed/A round investors.

You're forgetting about opportunity cost and the salary plus job advancement that you could achieve in the time you are in college

It seems like it would be a much more productive use of human capital to actually do the work below cost so something is actually being accomplished.

Great team, huge problem, and a great solution. Congrats

How do you code in tub, is there a special case that you use or how do you prevent water from hitting your computer?

The app's restaurants messaging comes from a startup path acquired, talkto.

It's strange that this article just hit the front page of HN, when it was written 20 days ago.

I wouldn't call it "classy", it's a public relations ploy, meant to turn public opinion in Amazon's favor.