djulius's comments

It was ubiquitous, everybody had a minitel at home since it was provided for free by France Télécom.

The white/yellow page service (3611) was free for the first three minutes and was widely used. My parents never had the (huge) yearly book version at home.

As mentioned in other comments it was also widely used to consult Baccalauréat (national exam like SAT) results.

I thought the same as you.

The Wikipedia page on Holocaust victims (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims) has a list of the different groups targeted by the nazis. In addition to what other commenters have written there was also: freemasons, spanish republicans from the 36 revolution, soviet prisoner of wars, slovene and romani.

Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews.

Already seen in "rich dad poor dad" 20 years ago !

This is a SIGMOD 2010 paper, the date should appear in the title.

Some strange data appears on this site, the second most popular for the full-frame D600 is a 2004 DX (notably bad) lens. No mentally sane person would ever commit such as sacrilege.

Didn't go further to investigate but this puts a serious doubt on the representativity of the data.

Flagship projects are not a good way to discretly "steal" money from Europe, see Human Brain Computing for instance.

"Semantic Web" did much better by having plenty of millions euros projects funded in FP6/7 and H2020 with absolutely no outcome.

Don't want to be the naysayer here, but this project is yet another 'I made smth already exisiting but with node.js and the original is still largely better'.

I think there are more interesting open source projects that should hit the HN frontpage. So let's start with this one, that computes Wikipedia Pagerank on a single node in less than 30 minutes : https://www.nayuki.io/page/computing-wikipedias-internal-pag...

I fully agree and the more kids you have, the less time you have for yourself.

The first option that came was to reduce sleep to gain free time, definitely not a good idea on the long run.

I'm not a lol player, but I'm amazed to see a similar bug that existed on early versions of Battle.net 15 years ago. However this didn't had many impact since we played top vs bottom with game assigned positions (starcraft).

Couldn't agree more. For universities, it is the dictature of the accountants. Every penny spent must be checked by an almost infinite hierarchy of accountants/manager who have no experience of the core tasks of a university (teaching/research).

More precisely, I don't know if the hierarchy is finite or not, or if there is a termination problem in the process. Sometimes penny checking finishes, sometimes not.

That's a great link. Thanks for sharing.

France doesn't have such thing as student debt, higher education is close to free in the public system(tuition <1K€/yr)

Sorry for using monkey coders term, just took it back from the original comment. My comment was not meant to be elitist at all. I know that Epitech/Epita produces lot of great coders, no problem with that.

The thing is that the french system lacks a proper CS education. "Grandes Ecoles" has the best student but offers pretty limited courses in CS (except maybe TPT, not that sure) and not that much coding experience. Universities are the only offering deep theory education and sometimes good coding experience but their degree are not well recognized so they don't attract good students. As a consequence private schools try to fill the gap by offering a great education in programming, however lacking the CS foundation.

In my opinion the goal (as with Epita/Epitech) is to produce monkey coders. What is at least sure, is that these school give a very limited background in cs theory, which is very difficult to overcome to go beyond the monkey coder stage.

Because of the shortage of coders, big french consulting companies (Atos, Cap Gemini, ...) hire since decades graduates from every domain more or less related to science/technology and give them a six months training (in the best case) before sending them to the clients.

So I'm not that surprised that such a school will be successful as long there is a coder shortage. When the next bubble blows, these graduates will probably be the first to be layed off.

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As a Mefi reader an HNer, I'm always disappointed when I see non-hacking Mefi links posted on HN.

I don't know why, but I suspect people looking for karma, but I would like to be proven the contrary.

Couldn't agree much. Every time there is some advance in so called "AI", killer robot and others strike back.

These are just advances in doing things human can do, i.e. recognizing in pictures, driving a car. Deep learning is known since long, calculation were just too long.

Fundamentally nothing has changed, we're not closer to an "intelligent machine".

"The modelling data that is processed by the engine is written in XML."

You don't need to fear much, by the time the engine evolves data into something scary, the universe is long gone.

In fact, even top notch locks can not resist a seasoned lockpicker. Here the kryptonite new york lasts less than a minute : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYv4uq_eML8

That's a very neat experiment.

SIGMOD made an interesting move this year by accepting all papers reaching its standards. However not every paper will be given a presentation slot during the conference.