skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autism in France is addressed ; autists kids have special classes in public schools (with non autist kids, so they share free time, lunch etc...., this kinds of system is aka as IME). Also those kids are mixed with non-autist kids during classes (a few hours a week). All in all, the system try it's hardest to make them feel normal (IMO).

What would you expect from a society dealings with disabled (nothing bad) ?
I'd imagine the current one already is one. That's the whole point of this article, that it is being thrown off by this technique since there's no definition for the gender.
>>I understand that you feel an African woman should be prevented from economically competing with white men

In my opinion, you're intentionally misconstruing the previous poster in an attempt to discount their concerns as racist or sexist.

The issue wasn't the race of the individuals, but the fact that a American was being displaced by someone who came outside of America.

In my opinion, we can debate about levels of immigration with understanding.
You're also lacking the qualifications and the people to execute. The country is brain drained like mad.
> You guys realize that just because you get to walk down to the Blue Bottle with your 8-of-10 girlfriend and her Kate Spade purse to buy $4 scones

This is a form of name-calling, which you did again below ("people who'd rather play WoW and binge watch mindless Netflix shows") and which the site guidelines ask you not to do (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). It lowers the quality of discussion, so please don't do that.

Edit: perhaps it would be helpful to try to articulate how these things lower the quality of discussion. The point isn't that people are bad for breaking the rules. Nor does moderation exist to punish or shame bad behavior. Rather, think of it as more like an optimization algorithm. We're trying to optimize HN for signal/noise ratio, and need everyone to participate.

When you let loose a bunch of insulting images and denunciations as part of an argument, that feels satisfying because you're (temporarily) expelling something unpleasant out of your personal system. Unfortunately, though, now it's circulating in the community system. Among readers who happen to disagree with your view of the topic, some will inevitably feel like the insults and denunciations are directed at them, and react accordingly. The discussion then proceeds along two channels: one about the topic, and one about sending and receiving insults. From an HN point of view, that second channel is noise, not signal. Worse, it tends to overwhelm the first and to keep escalating.

This isn't as bad as a direct personal attack, but it's still destructive of discussion quality. The solution, IMO, is to recognize that we all have these irritants circulating in our system and we're each responsible for processing them instead of dumping them into the commons.
Are the people at the FDA incorruptible?
Shave it, put it on Instagram, let us know how it went.
Maybe, someday. Quickbase, DabbleDB, and others made valiant attempts to allow regular people to construct crud apps. I'm not sure what AI adds that's missing in those two attempts. Both have had some success, but not to the point of displacing some significant percentage of "devs writing CRUD apps". MS Excel has arguably the largest marketshare in "displacing developers".
Looks like feminists keep wanting to convince people that the female breast is not a sexual organ. Yeah, good luck with that.
There are 3 consecutive taxes on your salary. There is only the last ones that depends on your family.
Seconded. In my last job i automated all tedious tasks via powershell. Need to verify connectivity and documentation accuracy (credentials, snmp strings, vendors, versions...)? Powershell is solution for me.

Even tcl scripts was parsed, compared and exported to xls with Powershell. Verify and implement configuratiom template was another case where powershell was solution.

For me this is my strongest weapon on windows automation and system management.

And i like it beacuse you can edit in notepad++, sublime, atom, whatever...save... a run ps1 file. No insane and complex IDE needed, no compilers. If you need you can do exe files. It's dirty solution, but it works.

My last project (app for coffe shopps and restaurants) is written in powershell.

"The biggest issue" for me is support of my scripts on windows with lower version of powershell or .NET

In regards to original question. "Powershell in action" is my favorite resource about powershell.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. We've banned this account.
> Apple needs Windows because next to nobody depends on Mac OS X to do anything.

Photographers, musicians, software developers, small businesses, students.. but except those none, sure..
I can't imagine naming variables using any other language but English.

I spent some time as a consultant auditing other companies' software. Even with platforms where the coding-standards dictated the use of English, most of the projects I audited in Europe used the local language, rather than English - especially in variable names.

Admittedly there was a selection bias - I wasn't ever hired to audit perfectly good software - but it was remarkably common.
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I was just reading this article on smaller nipples being fashionable. And Instagram's nipple blurring is one of the factors contributing to this fashion. - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/15/what-do...
No, we wouldn't. We might get a debate about whether programming such a feature is misogynist (which it pretty much is), but I can't exactly imagine the debate would be centered around an AI doing what it's programmed to do.
I'm not freelancing or contracting at the moment, and besides, Paris is one of my favorite cities.
Some women do have hair there, so the presence of hair is not a guarantee you are looking at a 'male' nipple.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/66705-is-nipple-hair-normal-...
Because the author draws a lot of parallels between computer science majors and physics majors, citing that physics majors are better prepared for the type of work ML requires. I am a physics major turned data scientist, and my argument is that I would have better prepared having been a CS major, given what the majority of my work requires. While in a CS major, a lot of data structures and algorithms haven't changed in 50 years either, you're much more likely to take electives with marketable skills or with up-to-date technologies (distributed systems, operating systems, OO/fp, databases, concurrency) that would've helped me in my day to day more than a math course or too did during my physics degree.
Is this a substantive comment? Or are you just agitating?

I don't think most of us care whether or not it is a "sexual organ;" that varies by person and their taste.

What matters is that it is easy, convenient, and accepted for women to breastfeed whenever and wherever they please. If you find the appearance of a breast in public arousing, that's fine too. Deal?
System.import split-points for code splitting, generates bundles with dependencies for lazy loading by route (automatically code split react router routes). Should make progressive web apps and optimization easier.
Nobody said they were expendable, just that their low intelligence* and the resulting poor choices cost the smarter people a fortune (because of our moral and legal obligation to take care of them despite the entirely predictable nature of their morbidity). If you're not willing to acknowledge that fact then you've abandoned reality for ideology and are engaged in politics instead of science.

* which term I am using as a catch-all for everything from cognitive ability to critical thought skills to quality of information sources, rather than as a proxy for IQ.
Where are the interesting jobs?

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citadel, and one thousand small tech and finance firms in London.

The only decent company in Paris is Criteo. And you better have worked abroad at Google, Facebook then Goldman Sachs if you want a chance to be interviewed there.
So, guarantee 100% reliability forever? Sounds obvious, but is it easy, or even possible?

Better to stop the reaction in its tracks and allow the engineers to see where things go wrong than to assume the battery will always work. I'm sure the engineers behind the Boeing 787 and the Galaxy Note 7 also believed with confidence that their batteries would be fine.
I had heard that all the top companies in France were old companies - a club that effectively bans unicorns.

I know that France has some incredible engineering talent (egg France is the main world producer for many chemicals).
Earplugs are way better for noise isolation (i.e. blocking out noise)

There are a number of different types out there, including ones that can be custom-molded to your ear canals for maximum comfort and sound reduction.

For the price of a new pair of Bose headphones, you could buy hundreds of pairs of ear plugs or even a handful of custom molded musicians earplugs.
> Good times for snake oil salespersons, bad times for anyone else.

Odd thing to say as it has always been a good time for snake oil. FDA is riddled with exemptions.

Water, sugar, food color and I'm over here 'preventing' ailments naturally.
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I've worked with a number of folks from France in Montreal and they all say the same kinds of things.

I had chalked it up to some kind of national self-deprecation that is the pride and birthright of true French people :)
Of course, why wouldn't I?

I immediately sell all the equity I get, so it's effectively the same as cash.
Misogynist go home
Google was requested large amounts of data by the NSA since ~2007 [1]. They were might or might not ordered to keep silent about it. They only started to address it as a reaction to the Snowden revelations. Additionally, there are letters such as linked above that show they are in fact very friendly with the NSA. One can argue they were caught red handed with little to nothing like an email here and there, but circumstantial evidence shows otherwise.

Personally I would go further, those multi billion dollar companies should have found a way to speak up if a contractor was able to, not just after the fact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
> The double standard around hippies always baffled me

Whether autocorrect or a Freudian slip, I think we're on to something here.
> As opposed to Sweden, Germany, or the UK, which have all produced superior results the last few decades with different approaches from that of France.

What???
While I applaud the effort. It's almost obsolete now. When they have a Hyperloop Network then I will be impressed, but given how things look, they will have it before the US..
A lot of employers will list too much stuff just because it's an ingrained habit. In my experience, both as an employee and employer who used to do this to some extent, these requirement lists are fairly 'negotiable'.

If you have the top 2-3 things they'd need (e.g. CS algorithms knowledge + some scripting language + some database experience), and are otherwise a good applicant, go ahead and apply with the mindset being that you'd have no problem picking up other frameworks X,Y,Z. Of course, spend an evening to take a look at them and be confident enough to make that the case.
> get cancer, or accident, or kids

> financial life ruined

in the EU, not so much.
> WARNING SuperSelect (and this demo) does not work on mobile and tablet devices.

I'm not sure since I'm on mobile :)

Have you seen Import.io? From the description it sounds somewhat similar to that.

Edit: Is it like multiselect / multicursor, but for a browser?
I got bogged down in the comment thread long before I read the article ;)
Anecdotally, I never click ads (they're all blocked with years) but I do respond to "deals" site in my local market. If it's something I vaguely though I'd like, seeing it recommended on a deal site is sometimes enough to make me buy it. Something worth noting for those selling to a HN type demographic.
I would say Srinivasan is particularly egregious. Regardless of how you feel about bitcoin, and even among many bitcoin enthusiasts, the economics of the 21 bitcoin computer were clearly absurd from the outset, yet Srinivasan still managed to fleece million of dollars from investors using buzzwords and guile. I think he is fundamentally untrustworthy and a terrible choice for the head of a government agency.
I'll repeat it again.

The first thing that happens to French engineers who interview for Google: "So, this position exists only in our Dublin, London or Zurich offices. Which one would you be interested in?"
Instead, users see a message saying the sites have been blocked because of anti-child-pornography laws.

Although this is likely done out of incompetence rather than malice, this is how they erode freedom. They pick one thing that the large majority of people are generally against, find one instance of it on a public website, and use that to justify censorship of the entire platform. This happened with reddit in Russia, and it almost became widespread with SOPA/PIPA in the US.

Edit: reddit is unblocked in Russia but it was blocked for a time: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3grpdf/tifu_by_gettin...
I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet (would be interested in hearing from anyone who has), but there is a Chrome devtools fork called Dirac that is targeted at natively debugging clojurescript.

https://github.com/binaryage/dirac
No, but those elaborate FDA approval procedures are designed to reduce the risk of corrupting human influence much like any other scientific protocol that aspires to reproducibility.
When my camera is in B&W mode, no data is thrown away. The raws are the same, still color. It may be different for non-canons, though I doubt it, and it is different if you are producing jpegs obviously.
Anybody who deeply scrutinizes the FDA will find opportunities for reform. For instance, when the economists Daniel B. Klein and Alex Tabarrok applied their scrutiny, the result was http://www.fdareview.org/

What is surprising and exciting about the possibility of Balaji's appointment is not that he has identified opportunities for reform, it is that he may be appointed despite the fact that reform is his primary motivation!

He has no political motive, no personal motive, he does not "hate" the FDA (he is not the kind of person to be driven by hate)... he simply sees the FDA's mandate as an incredibly important one which it could do a better job of fulfilling. This should inspire optimism.
> he pays $27 per month for his health insurance

That's not even close to cover the same things.
Well it would be enough to have one proper client for each platform. On Android Conversations, iOS Chatsecure now with OMEMO as well. Desktop.. not sure.
But to be honest, I think I'll prefer Matrix with Riot right now.
Reminds me of the board game Ticket To Ride haha
No.

On the one hand, the audit is a bit of a counter to "writing C is the same as writing unsafe code". On the other hand, there are a number of potential efficiency (as in, time-to-develop, maintenance effort required) gains for using a language, such as Rust, which provides the abstractions used in the C code out of the box and "for free" (in terms of implementation time--not necessarily execution performance). For a mature and stable project, especially one that has already built-in the effort to set up and maintain the appropriate abstractions, the effort to re-write is probably not worth it.

"Rewrite all the things in Rust" is asinine in general, but in this particular case it's especially bad. It would be much better to focus on C and C++ projects with actual problems.
There's no reason Instagram have to allow male nipples. They can just update their policy to ban nudity, including ambiguous nudity.
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From my experience (as a french guys more interested in tech than literature) I really 'learned' spoken english by dating an UK girl (also joined a polyglot club: http://polyglotclub.com/, but living it was a real step forward, nothing compared to years of learning at school). That's the ultimate card up your sleeve to learn a foreign language.
And let's not forget Dostoievsky. He was paid by the word as well and since he was a severe gambler...
Exactly - just look at how well the Kansas economy performed after removing much of their regulation.
Ah, the classic fascist escalation. They already came for the drug dealers, but many did not speak up, for they were not drug dealers, nor did they want to be labeled as such or targeted by death squads. Then they came for the wankers, but indeed many still did not speak up, for they were not wankers, nor did they want to be labeled as such nor targeted by death squads.

There are only two logical questions to this whole affair: which groups are next, and when it all stops, who will be left?
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Your crypto-enthusiast friends will be like "why is our conversation CC'ed to another number?" and you'll have to explain to every single one of them that it is a multi-device workaround.

And then when the NSA decided that they need their number CC'ed, your friends won't ask you...
Good luck banning almost every beach photo ever...
I cannot quite understand the thinking behind this comment (even if I'm in a country staying in the union).

It appears that some people in the union want to retaliate to the British for wanting to leave the union and thus insulting the honour of Juncker et al. They are even ready to shoot their own foot in retaliation, instead of just accepting that Britain leaves and life goes on, and new agreements are made, and trade goes on based on new agreements, for mutual benefit.

Most assuredly the relationship of Britain and EU will have to be formed based on proposals and answers from both sides. It would be really, really strange if EU could make general schemes of preferential trade with Cuba and South Sudan but not Britain, out of sheer malice.
I strongly agree with this sentiment; the fact that "competitors" can penalize you, the back link component should be removed from the ranking algorithm all together.
I think the best thing the FDA could do is create a 'Conceal Carry' type of license which allows you to self prescribe certain types of pharmaceuticals (all would be great, but start with some). You basically take an 8-12 hour course and then pass a test, sign a piece of paper waiving the right to sue over non-compound, non-quality issues, and then get a license which allows you to purchase certain pharmaceuticals on your own. You could in theory reduce liability for doctors and pharmacists, opening up some money for something else like technology. Would boost sales for certain drugs and if done right, could result in a healthier more productive society.
But he gave a great talk a few years ago:

Y Combinator: Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A
Children learn from everything, but what will have the most important impact is hard to assess. Most variables that can explain educational achievements and results are highly multicolinear, so saying this has an impact and this has none is really, really hard, maybe impossible. To make an arithmetic metaphor (yes, some school knowledge stick ;) ), I prefer < and > to = and != for social sciences assertions. Even if we like discrete categories because it is makes bold and satisfying statements, using them is always a reduction in precision. Just like in math I guess.

To tackle the question of widespread functional illiteracy, it is necessary to open the Pandora Box of social inequality, as it is generally accepted that the most important variable to predict school performance is the parent's (mother's) level of education.
I like that he's had a successful startup in the field, and is generally smart as hell:
https://balajis.com/about/

Balaji S. Srinivasan (BSS) is a computer scientist, investor, entrepreneur, and academic. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford and taught data mining, statistics, and computational biology in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. He was an NDSEG, NSF, and VIGRE fellow, was named to the MIT TR35 and Founders Fund F50 lists, and has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, and Nature Reviews Genetics. He was the CTO and co-founder of Counsyl, a genomics startup that began in a Stanford dorm room and now tests ~4% of all US births. Counsyl won the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award for Medicine, was named one of Scientific American’s Top 10 World Changing Ideas, raised more than $65M in funding from David Drummond, Aydin Senkut, and Founders Fund, and has become one of the largest clinical genome centers in the world. After ten years in genomics and five years at Counsyl, he stepped back from an executive role in November 2012 to work on other areas of technology. He now invests in and advises startups, teaches a popular MOOC at startup.stanford.edu, runs the Stanford Bitcoin Group with Professor Vijay Pande of Folding@Home, and writes at balajis.com.
The Secret Service would love to shut down NYC when the President visits. They just can't get away with it. Much easier to do with a 100k person city.
Interesting database. At Berkeley, the 6 highest paid employees are all coaches, with total pay of $2 million, $1.87 million, $1.8 million, $628K, $560K and $560K. Their compensation seems to be mostly incentive-based, with their "gross pay" far exceeding their "regular pay" - maybe they get a cut of the ticket revenue? Looks like sports is a big profit center for Berkeley.

UCLA's two top earners are also coaches ($3.5 and $2.7 million).

But this is not true for all the schools. At Davis, the highest paid employee is the CEO of the Medical Center, who makes $1 million, with no coaches near the top.
I don't live in France but I do feel qualified to comment on the general comparison, being a US software guy in Europe.

First, things like health care and free university are a huge deal if you plan to stay past your 30's. Consider being able to take a couple years to try a business without freaking out about health insurance. Consider being able to go get a PhD in some interesting subject without having to get a full scholarship. Consider, obviously, having kids and sending them to world-class universities without incurring any debt.

Then there's the job security aspect. It can be really nice to be employed in a country where people aren't just laid off whenever a company misses its quarterly numbers.

And finally, if you really are an actual Expert in a field where that's worth a lot of money, it's probably worth about as much in France as it is elsewhere. Sure all the "senior" programmers with 3 years' experience get paid a lot less than in the US, but I don't think the VP level does badly at all.

(Maybe I'm being naive here... my point of reference being Germany.)

I hear it can be very hard to get a proper, "permanent" job in France, but I also hear the quality of life is pretty amazing if you do.
Nice going, starting out with ad hominem and accusing me of a straw man argument as a way to launch several of your own. We're done here.
The infiltration is especially striking because the NSA, under a separate program known as PRISM, has front-door access to Google and Yahoo user accounts through a court-approved process.

I don't know. Maybe it is easier than going to court all the time? Who knows?
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Wait, so you have full security screenings for the high speed rail? (Most of Europe's high speed rail goes through the same train stations and standard commuter rail, so there's no additional screening .. although if you're crossing from Belgium to Germany they do often search trains for marijuana) at border stations.