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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 …

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,…

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 Cro…

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 g…

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…

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…

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 o…

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…

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/websi…

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 bac…

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 …

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.

I actually started it June 2011 to learn iOS, launched it in September, and have been steadily adding features and making improvements. It's something I use every day and I hope ot…