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> ..which begs the question, who are the giants of today? Why are we not hearing about them? Why are they not as "well-known" today as these men and women were? It seems that one implicit assumption made in your question is tha
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> I think the frequenters to HN are going to be predominantly comp-sci in background, but I have seen posts from persons with expertise in practically all knowledge domains. Yes, I also have a similar feeling, although I don't have
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> Sorry for the late reply. Sure, no problem... and now it's my turn to apologize for my late response -- perhaps we could devise something like the TCP protocol to make sure that our good faith has been reliably exchanged... > I
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> I'd like to tie your comment to an article that was linked to here the other day. It was to a paper by the economist Paul Romer on `mathiness'[0]. It is interesting to me that the standard bearers for progress and achievement
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Quite true...and I think my point largely concurs with yours, in that it is the scholastic content, instead of the administrative formalities, that should be valued... I am not complaining about the giants are dead; I am complaining that th
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> And because of those already in it, those > oddballs who might value the ideal academy > rarely get hired. The metrics are different: > fund raising ability, collaboration, paper > publishing, etc. It's
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hopefully that would be the case...or perhaps my world view is a bit too pessimistic, but I feel that these days there are just too many different goals -- and many of them are mutually exclusive -- are amalgamated in academia... I have see
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quite likely...or at least they had communicated with each other... It was von Neumann who suggested Shannon to use "entropy" as the word for the measurement of information... http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing
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it's just a raw human-readable ascii file...much less scaring than a usual QR code... (a while ago I was wondering if I put up a sign with a QR code by the side of a pedestrian road, then how many passersby would simply scan it without
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Thanks for sharing this article...not familiar with Betty Shannon, but her husband, Claude Shannon was really a genius...His paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is one of the most elegant papers that I have read... htt
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The patent is on a perforating machine, which could be regarded as a predecessor of the punch card machine (the punch card is referred to as the "perforated card" in the patent)... A copy of the patent document could be found here
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Today marks the 106th anniversary of IBM's first patent
(www-03.ibm.com)
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This year's DEFCON full schedule in json
(info.defcon.org)
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“Bypassing” Microsoft's Patch for CVE-2017-0199
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Keylogger using DirectX
(gironsec.com)
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DEFCON goers,let's call bragging,trolling and condescension what it is: bullying
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Deobfuscation of VM based software protection [pdf]
(shell-storm.org)
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the presentation slides are here, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wQM4fhjCJ9r3DQ-c98XJ...
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MarkDoom: How I Hacked Every Major IDE in 2 Weeks
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Bypass device guard (DG) on Windows 10 S and execute arbitrary code
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Watch hackers take over a segway with someone on it
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Is “information is physical” contentful?
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Locking Your Registry Keys for Fun And, Well, Just Fun I Guess
(tyranidslair.blogspot.com)
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Eternal Synergy Exploit Analysis
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the link in the main title of this thread is part 1 of a two-part writeup about this topic.... part 2 could be found here, http://boosterok.com/blog/broadpwn2/
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Crashing phones with Wi-Fi: Exploiting nitayart's Broadpwn bug
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Open Quantum Assembly Language
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Yes, I agree...And some people, from both inside and outside the country, consider that perhaps a period of Enlightenment would really transform the current culture there. But I feel that given the current style of the Chinese government, i
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Yes, that's pretty close... You can also think of dynamic binary modification as a process level emulation. This gives you a lightweight tool that enables you to observe (e.g. profiling) and tinker (e.g. instruction hooking) a binary
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I feel there is nothing wrong with China or its people in general, just like there is nothing wrong with any other country and their people in general... The problem is in their government, and their capability and method of controlling the
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