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Yes! I had the exact same reaction to this story. The way I interpreted the story is that the design of the Versa may actually have contributed to his wife's safety. It's possible the car was designed to crumple in such a way to distribute the weight of the collision. Ironically getting a Crown Victoria may decrease the overall safety.

According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24073770 (fire-related auto deaths in Sweden), this is a problem. Around 5% of auto-related deaths in Sweden involved burning cars, and around 1/3 of these deaths fire was the cause of death. Definitely not the main cause of death, it is a factor that has to be considered when looking at overall safety.

I would argue that a Nissan Leaf would be overall safer than a Crown Victoria.

First of all, the 2nd generation (2018/2019) Nissan Leaf seems to have a comparable weight as the Crown Victoria. From the data I've been looking at online, it's around 25% less weight than the CV, but definitely more than a Versa. Also, this weight is likely better distributed throughout the car instead of being concentrated in one place.

Another factor to consider is that the CV is an older vehicle (did they stop making them in 2012?), and in general newer cars are safer due to strong materials and safety features/design.

Also, the likelihood of a fire during an accident is greatly reduced (although still non-zero, as demonstrated by Tesla).

Diet coke has phosphoric acid which causes erosion of the enamel.

"There are three gates leading to this hell — lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul." - Bhagavad Gita

There's a great movie about happiness on Netflix that I'd recommend: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1613092/

Ironically, some of the happiest people are the poorest. Wealth is a weak indicator of happiness.

Go's been around for four years, so it's not that new :)

Wow, I didn't expect this to make the top of Hacker News :)

Web.go is a wrapper on top of Go's net/http standard library. The authors of Go aren't from a web programming background, and the net/http server interfaces was a bit more clunky than I'd like, which is the main reason web.go exists. It's not really designed to be a full-fledged web framework.

I used it to build a few apps. There's an old article about one of them here (although the app has since been taken down):

http://blog.golang.org/real-go-projects-smarttwitter-and-web...

I don't program Go day-to-day any more (Meraki uses Rails and Scala), but it's still my language of choice for personal stuff.

Yes, it was definitely inspired by web.py (tornado, actually). I loved tornado but didn't like the fact that there were no asynchronous libraries for it.

Web.go was around a long time before pat. You're right, though, they're very similar to each other.

web.go was started a couple months after Go launched, and the web server back then was much more primitive than it is now.

It's meant to be a nicer interface on top of the net/http server. In reality it's very difficult an ambitious web framework (like Rails) in Go.

It is a little worrying that if some (perhaps inexperienced) developer arbitrarily calls a method that invokes Ruby's select, the process will crash mysteriously.

Doesn't Ruby have a limit of 1024 open file descriptors? If some method in Ruby's standard library calls 'select' internally, with the 1024 limit, what happens?

Programming all day isn't what our bodies are genetically designed to do. Programming involves countless hours of ruminative thoughts, and limiting human contact, and stress, all of which are ingredients for mental illness.

For simple projects or toy apps, gofix is just fine. However, some companies are running complex production systems written in GO 0, and the code may have a lot of dependencies and custom build scripts. In this case it's useful to have an easy way to install and pin Go versions.

Once Go 1 launches, subsequent releases should be compatible with the Go 1, which reduces the need for something like GVM.

There probably is a market, but it's a lot smaller than building general web/mobile applications.

The kind of clients that want to build an API 1) already have a main product/website and 2) are likely more technical than average. It's probably something they could do themselves.

I've known Matt for a while; he's a regular at the weekly Ruby hack nights in SF and we've worked together on some small projects. He has a great product sense and an extensive background in user acquisition strategies. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to join a startup.

Do continue using the news:yc app.

The latest version does that.

Yeah that view should rotate. It'll be in the next update.

Screen scraping. HN doesn't have a JSON feed, but it has fairly simple and predictable HTML.

Not yet, but I'll definitely look into it for the next release.

This type of app is not particularly monetizable. Most people would use the actual website instead of paying $0.99 cents for an app. Plus, it was a fun project to learn iOS and it costs me very little to host or maintain.

That's a great idea, thanks. Right now the 'star' button just creates a local bookmark, but if you're logged in, it should also send an upvote.

How is it better than espn.com?

Another one is not being good at marketing.

Marketing can be a huge grind. Being able to build buzz about your product, or get mentioned in the press, or find customers is very time-consuming and requires a lot of creativity.

I recently switched to Unfuddle for private repos. It's designed for small teams and freelancers.

This is exactly what web consulting is

Looks awesome!

Someone who:

1) has a lot of hustle and energy, even when things are uncertain

2) refuses to give up

3) has a long-term passion for the product or space, not just interested in a quick exit.

4) finds creative ways to get customers or market feedback

5) has a good product and design sense

I can definitely see Square going into this market. They're hiring aggressively and they have the engineering power to pursue something like this. It could work if they have a special kind of ipad frame that can be bolted onto a cash register.