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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.

For an economical perspective, the size and the quality -- which you forgot, but since Java is at aim, the quality of its libraries matters -- of the ecosystem is of the utmost interest.

Why would one reimplement something if it has already been done (correctly), is released under Apache 2 license and is maintained ?

For myself, that's why I stick to Java for productive work. That doesn't mean I don't use any another programming language, but to get something into production quickly, Java is hard to beat.

If malformed/ bad HTML must be handled then it is no more bad/malformed, it's a part of the standard.

IMHO plain stupid. Btw there is the same thing for RDF specs on how to handle bad literals and other stuff.

Exactly, a lot of his work from the 80s ended up in a cupboard from the math department of Montpellier and was almost sent to trash during relocation to new buildings.

The Semantic Web is developing a technology, like the Web is a technology. It is something that aims to be used by people, so to be implemented in real systems. Therefore it aims at giving smth to the industry. The theoretical argument of the semweb is absolutely meaningless.

Physicists study law of nature, there is no such thing in the Web which is a deeply human field. It's quite an insult for Einstein to be compared to the Semantic Web ...

Having attended ISWC numerous times, this conference is long dead. It is the perfect example of eminence-based vs evidence-based science. Technicality of paper if low, most of the paper gathers bad and useless description logic theorems from the very same guys each year. The consanguinity rate is higher than any other CS conference. The quality of the conference is in fact well disputed among academics. Core[1] ranking puts it as a B conference (later updated to A due to request based on scholar values[2]). Arnetminer[3] and Academic Search[4] put it in A+/A tier. These latter are drawn from bibliographic metrics while the first ranking is the result of a poll among australian researcher. Altough we disagree on rugby, I'm with the aussies for this one.

The industry track exists for the record. Much of semweb companies were funded using EU money and went bankrupt when the money went out. I can't believe the EU continues to inject plenty of money for the semweb in H2020 despite having wasted more than 1B in the previous decade (publicly admitted by the EU).

At ISWC 2012 in a workshop that took place the day before the conference, some guy (don't remember his name) asked the speaker "would this building explode, do you think the semweb would still exist ?". The speaker tried to find examples of people doing semweb in the industry, but did not manage to convince anyone, not sure if he did it for himself. This was (and is) a nice summary of the situation of the semantic web.

[1] http://core.edu.au/

[2] http://103.1.187.206/core/1338/

[3] http://arnetminer.org/page/conference-rank/html/All-in-one.h...

[4] http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=3...

Specialized in fact, they "pivoted" some years ago and layed off much of the staff.

Germany is good at training its workers mostly because of one the last if not the last industrialized country in Europe.

UK and France thought industry as dead decades ago and lost their know-how by moving plants overseas.

Meanwhile Germany has kept his knowledge in-house and trains the best technician, ingenieur especially in machinenbau (mechanical engineering).

A decade ago at the KIT, machinenbau graduate were most sought-after by companies than computer scientist.

(btw I'm french)

As stated before, Rungis is absolutely not secretive at all. Every average citizen knows about it. It was initially within Paris (now Chatelet-Les Halles station) and was moved in the suburb to expand. Not only top-chef buy their food there, but the large majority of french restaurant, not only within Paris but from the rest of France.

I wonder about the doubts raised by the article on the future of Rungis. Rungis is almost a religion. I don't see it declining. In fact it has no competitors at his scale.

Watson itself was the "wow" moment.

"Having a machine to do it for you, to me, is a natural extension of your mind"

To you, just to you, really.