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Forwarding email with outlook.com/Office365/Microsoft Exchange also breaks DMARC. Exchange Server sometimes modifies the headers of emails when forwarding them, invalidating the DK…

CERN still uses AFS extensively for all users' files. I believe they use a forked version of OpenAFS. My experience with it at CERN has been okay. It's been fine to use locally, bu…

Quantum Key distribution is different from classical ones in that it allows Alice and Bob to detect Eve. This is because a measurement in Quantum mechanics disturbs the state. In p…

Author here. Been working on this on and off for about 3 years now as a side project and it's my first 'large-ish' OSX app. Would love comments or suggestions! Thanks.

Previous HN discussion (~10 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6751710

Just an off-the-top-of-my-head idea: Could you give people a bookmarklet or an extension that they can run when they are on their order history page that exports all the Amazon pro…

This is very similar to another product that you can buy today https://www.adafruit.com/products/1652 . It's basically an iPad 3/4 retina display that connects via DisplayPort. The…

I used to use it just for the ability to individually stage chunks/lines, because I find "git add -p" incredibly hard to use. Now I tend to use GitX-dev for OSX [1] to do that inst…

For high-energy experimental physics (HEP or particle physics), most tend to use a CERN developed C++ framework called ROOT[1]. It's not overly pleasant, but it gets the job done. …

An interesting and somewhat related (but only tangentially) article I read a couple of days ago found that nearly 1/3rd of World Bank reports are never read, not even by a single p…

There's also a ncurses-based interface for git called tig[1]. I find it a bit easier to stage chunks/lines than git add -p as it's interactive. When I'm not on a command line, gitx…

At least on the experimental LHC side, we process/analyse each event independently from every other event, so it's an embarrassingly parallel workload. All we do is split our input…

If they can make a 20" 4K display and put it in a tablet, then why can't they just mount it in a desktop display and I'd be interested in buying it (though whether I have the money…

> First of all I do not trust any hardware. It’s impossible to verify that the hardware doesn’t have a backdoor and randomness looks random even if tampered with. Well if you can't…

It was asking me which SSL client cert I wanted to present to identify to beta.bbc.co.uk. In my case I have my StartCom one and a OSG science one.

There are many rendering filters and pipelines available for DirectShow (and therefore MPC-HC) that VLC does not have. For example MadVR[1] improves upscaling and display rendering…

How about Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing? - Description talks about outrunning cops to deliver illegal goods, but there are no cops in the game - AI opponents never move - No colli…

I get my SSL certificates from Namecheap[1]. Here the cheapest ones are $9/yr (they are the same certificates as the OP's cheapest ones) and they're I suppose a well-known domain r…

There is also the Pizza Theorem[1] which says that even if you don't cut the pizza through the middle but so long as the slices are of equal angles, you can divide it equally by ar…

> In my case the hacker asked to all my contacts with an automatic message for some Liberty Reserve money. Most of them trust me and my account, so they were inclined to accept. I'…