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The tour of the white house was pretty interesting. If you typed in "oval offi" it takes you to some gold room that I don't recognize, and if you step outside, there's a big portra…

I didn't read the comments first, spent about ten minutes on it. From a cursory glance, I think it comes down to the following lines: In modal.register.js:100, 128, 337 $("#veriImg…

It never says that the last car in this incident was a Prius, just that "In a separate incident during the storm, three Toyota Prius hybrids at Port Newark also were damaged by fir…

"raising the question of whether this latest incident is a sign of design flaws, of possible risks associated with plug-in vehicles generally or simply a result of the abuses wroug…

I think there's a disturbing trend in our society towards trying to get something that's competitive by "hacking" it or cheating on it somehow. Either that or working insanely hard…

I was watching some video the other day where Jon Stewart made a random appearance. All the people around him had their phones out taking pictures of him instead of actually experi…

The error keeps replicating itself as long as the globe is moving.

I'm actually building a website in D3JS myself ( http://uscfstats.com/matches ) and the SVG and D3 work fine there, and I am using the latest version of Chrome.

The first time I tried it, nothing happened. I clicked on the globe because I thought maybe you had to drag it, and couldn't un-drag so it kept jiggling around without doing anythi…

The line at the top of the page, for me, says "Undefined". Firefox 10.0.7, Windows 7. I debugged it for you - the outerHTML property isn't supported in Firefox function outerHTML(n…

Here's mine: Level 0: Saw the post title and didn't think he needed to look at it because he was so confident in his abilities already. Level 1: Read the post, noticed a lot that h…

I'm in the middle of the machine learning coursera course, and registered for this one as well due to interest in the material. My one complaint is that the programming assignments…

I didn't know it had a point at all besides surviving for as long as possible. I made my little 4 pixel bubble survive for almost ten minutes purely out of curiosity, to see just h…

Here's what it looks like, so you don't have to put it on your site to find out (grabbed from the iFrame code they provide): http://notfound-static.fwebservices.be/404/index.html?&…

Hmm, I see some countries on here that weren't on the Sporcle map.

Andrew Ng, who founded Coursera, is a professor of machine learning at Stanford - I am taking his course right now. I wonder whether, once Coursera has been around for a while, he …

This is from 2004, but I thought it was interesting and relevant in today's world of ninjas, rockstars, cowboy coders, and interviewers who think a good programmer has the memory o…

I thought the main problems on HN were -Linkbait articles rapidly accelerating to the front page while good stuff like questions or Show HN gets lost in "New". -The slight trend in…

I'm the same age as you, Dan, and just started to realize a similar thing. Your post really struck home with me. Right now I'm in the middle of a seven-month internship with IBM. B…

As an IBM intern, nothing has made me happier than reading this. Now I just wish HN had a downvote button so I could get it off the front page and make sure I'm the only one on my …