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A refresher, for people who might not have come across this before: parsing even a limited subset of all possible email addresses with a regex is hard http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/…

I just checked my MP on Twitter. So far one person has tweeted to her about it. It makes me think the levels of apathy are just too high here for anybody to make a difference.

For a while I taught a security course which included information about how Tor works. I did a lot of googling around Tor and anonymity in general. I must be on a few lists by now.

Native, 84%. I missed 'pshaw', but 'myeah' is apparently a non-word!

I was invited to support the publication, or click a button to continue reading. Clicking 'continue reading' revealed the rest of the article with no further prompts.

Asker of the question here, you are indeed spot on, Windows 95 was the first OS I used! The train of reasoning here reminds me of another story (which I think has been on HN before): Why is a space sh…

I imagine the updated url was noticed. Decrement the last number in the url to see older images, e.g. https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo1w.png …

I made a gif for easy comparison: http://i.imgur.com/ltqwgvL.gif

A dermascope uses different wavelengths of light to get a picture of what's going on slightly below the skin as well as on its surface. This requires special lenses and lights, which I imagine ar…

Single-image analysis is never going to be that accurate unless you've got a melanoma which already is very advanced. Detecting a changing lesion is a much more effective way of spotting a potent…

Is this the latest tactic of aggressive technical recruiters? Interesting though this article is, forgive me for calling out Oxford Knight here. For those not in the know they are just a recruitment c…

iOS/Android developer – London – Skin Analytics Skin Analytics is looking for an app developer. You'll be designing and building iOS and Android apps for a new project we are launching in pa…

Their update says it was removed from the Apple App Store. I can't find out why, does anyone know (or might be able to hazard an educated guess) why it was taken down?

I don't know if this is a bug, but the bird flaps regardless of whether my 2048 move is valid. I.e., I can continue to flap the bird by pressing the right arrow key, even if that doesn't res…

It doesn't work well on my Nexus 5, the tutorial text was clipped off the edges, I can't seem to zoom out.

This is the man I've been looking for my whole life.

Just this last week I started working on a new project with django-socketio, and I'm pretty happy with it so far. Why is django-websocket-request better?

Please add an API!

That doesn't actually apply here, though it might if it were worded: 'Are all successful startups just lucky?'. 'No' is not a valid answer to a 'What if?' question.

To what, and why?

As a Braintree customer I am a little worried. I went with them for a number of reasons, but one of the big ones was the fact that they're not PayPal.

The execution is flawless, I wonder if Google lent them some engineers for this?