skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...

7.6 per 1 billion km in US against 6.3 per 1 billion km in France. I would say very comparable especially if you consider that more older/younger people drive in US than in France.
> it cost me something like 30 bucks and 30 minutes of my time

It cost you 30 bucks and 30 minutes of your time to pass the exam, not to learn how to drive. That’s what is costly in France, because it costs ~€50/hour to have someone teaching you how to drive. People usually take at least 20 hours to learn, which is 20x50 = €1000. If you already know how to drive you can bypass the whole process and pass the exam as a “candidat libre”, which is free [1] (but it’s hard to get a slot).

[1]: http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F2825.xhtml (in French)
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Also noteworthy: you won't be charged if you use more than 3GB/month of data, only the download speed is reduced
How expensive is rent out that way? I remember looking into it a few years back and found it was more expensive than living in the city, considering I would have had to buy a car.
The Fortune 100 companies are the few I was talking about... They are still using the dev stack and architecture from the 90s :-)
I did not said it is stupid, I said you give up things if you use it.
Your use case perfectly makes sense, I did not thought about that! But I don't mind reading manuals since I got Dash[1] :)

[1]: http://kapeli.com/dash
I don't get the message of this. I mean it isn't surprising that somebody collects portraits of ex-slaves (somebody collects anything, after all), but as this gets enough attention to be posted on HN and even reach the top I assume there must be some deeper meaning which I don't see at all.
Other things about Three:

* The monthly contracts (and higher value pay-as-you-go top-ups) come with "Feel at Home" roaming -- in about 12 countries worldwide you can use your inclusive minutes, texts and data with no international roaming fees, i.e. you get that all-you-can-eat data overseas. Countries listed include the United States; on one recent 2-week trip to the USA I was able to use my iPhone for data as if I was at home with no added charges.

* British phone tariffs do not charge you for receiving text messages.

* The all-you-can-eat is capped (small print) at a "fair usage" of 25 Gb/month. Tethering is disabled while roaming overseas on "feel at home", but not prevented at home.

* If you buy a smartphone from Three, they'll unlock it at any time, for free, on request.

* In non "feel-at-home" countries they'll give you 24 hours' data (capped at 500Mb) for £5. Not as good, but better than typical international roaming fees (at £0.5/Mb in the EU and up to £3/Mb outside the EU).

Those of us who are used to this kind of cell service boggle in amazement about how backward the US carriers are.

The final irony? Three is pretty backward and expensive compared to what Estonians get from their cellcos ... the UK is by no means the best world-wide, it's just a handy point of reference.
http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/29gw4s/worl...
You're not taking into account population density. Russia's population is very heavily concentrated in relatively few areas... Not much need to blanket all of Siberia with cell towers.
A bunch of assertions without the slights proof, dressed up in excessive verbiage and florally sourced platitudes with the occasional quote by person or person long departed from this world and therefore permanently unavailable for consultation.

Can't we do better? I mean I liked being called an elf wizard but this is exactly the kind of writing that we don't need on Hacker News - pretentious but with very little substance.
Don't Read the Manual
http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home
In areas where regulations often don't make sense, people will simply stop observing them as well. This can undermine respect for the law in some cases. But in others you just end up with weird curiosities on the law books.
According to Wikipedia[0] France has lower figures in every method of counting:

* 4.9/11.6 fatalities per 100k inhabitants per year

* 8.5/13.6 fatalities per 100k vehicles per year

* 6.3/7.6 fatalities per 1B vehicle-km

The two countries get closer for the last figure because the French usually drive shorter distances.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Maybe drinking less also has an effect of how you like your burgers? E.g english-men who drink don't go out slurping colas and downing burgers...
Well, they address those things in TFA:

First, let’s address some typical objections to these findings. Of course, abstainers may not drink because they are already ill. Thus the meta-analysis relied on studies that eliminated subjects who are abstaining due to illness, or else contrast drinkers with lifetime abstainers. Additionally, objectors note, drinkers showing such longevity may be wine-sniffling, upper-middle-class professionals (virtually no study has ever found that the type of alcohol consumed impacts these results), people who exercise, eat right, and don’t smoke. To counter this argument, researchers from the prestigious Harvard Health Professionals Study published a paper which found that even men with four healthy life factors (diet, weight, non-smoking, exercise) had one-third to one-half the risk of suffering a heart attack if they had one to two drinks daily, relative to comparable men in each category who abstained.
I've seen information like that (and that chart is fascinating, BTW, if for no other reason than how flat the line is for women). And as a non-drinker with several risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, I've even brought it up with doctors -- I've asked a cardiologist and two GPs if I should consider adding it for that reason.

The response has been lukewarm at best: basically, they've all said that it probably wouldn't hurt, but that the benefits were marginal, may present other risks, and it would be secondary to losing weight, getting regular exercise, and watching dietary risk factors (or, for that matter, taking statins, which so far I've decided against).

Still, it's about time for my yearly visit with the cardiologist and a GP, perhaps I should take the chart with me on my next visit.

(OTOH, the urologist I've been seeing advises me to avoid alcohol, so...)
There is no 25GB limit on the AYCE. I've pushed nearly 500GB one month tethering on 4G (my old apartment had very slow upload and could get about 20mbit up on 4G - great for server restorations and bulk data transfers) and many times over 25GB and have never got a letter.

From the Three 'small print': So in essence there is a limit of how much data you can actually consume which is up to 1000GB. All this means that you can have absolute peace of mind and enjoy all the internet you need on your smartphone, without worrying. Basically, the limit is about 1TB/month.
Just that abbreviation brings back good memories to a CS practicum in which we needed to write a language parser and virtual world manager in Prolog. Especially building the memory functionality -- "place the blue ball on top of the red cube", "move the ball to the right" -- was fun, taking into account the vague reference to earlier objects and possible/allowed movements. Man, I need to find that code just to enjoy the memories...
And here is what you wrote:

He intentionally created a program to trawl through data which was explicitly marked by users as private.

And here's what you wrote earlier:

you'd specifically and intentionally create a program whose sole purpose was to analyze private user data and report on the results.

He did no such thing.

Perhaps, instead of directing all your energy into maximizing the feels you generate from being called on something, you could instead introspect and re-evaluate and consider that maybe you said something very wrong. People do that all the time. They do not ritually kill their accounts when that happens. The older, wiser ones are likely to just acknowledge it and apologize. Some of the somewhat younger, dumber ones, like me, have done that too.

We are both crudding the thread up now, so I'm going to stop posting about this.
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From what I know people learn Java because there are many job opportunities in India. Amazon, Oracle are some examples.
I have a hard time seeing what exactly the point of having another package manager is. We already have a very established way of managing front-end packages: NPM and Browserify. I don't see why you would want any of the features that are advertised in this package manager, namely using Github repos vs. npm packages, and manifestless packages. All it gives you is a more fractured ecosystem and code that won't run on the server.
Ah, that makes sense - and would explain why the current market doesn't reflect the supposed shortage of developers.
Same as the US surely? There's huge swathes of the US which has very limited cell coverage. Looking at a map, the majority of OR/ID/MT/ND/SD doesn't have cell coverage, not even 2G. Apparently more than 83% of the US population lives in urban environments, compared to 73% in Russia. In fact, it's more than the UK too (80%).
I got my nexus 4 for 'free' on a contract and even if I bought it outright and got on the cheapest plan with roughly the same features, I would've only saved $5 a month. 5 * 24( 2 year contract) is only 120 so by going on a contract I saved at least $100 on the cost of my phone. If you are smart you can save money by going on a contract.
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Me neither, I thought docopt was a hardcoded fragile thing, until the author explains everything is almost perfectly defined.
You're right, you didn't. Sorry for insinuating you were. Thanks for the Dash link, looks great :-)
Or perhaps colleges simply need to stop admitting students without adequate preparation in the name of "diversity". I'm also uncertain what "diversity" has to do with "children of the rich". Maybe you could explain?

According to the article you link to, the "diverse" students have SAT scores 200 pts lower than average and perform even worse than that SAT gap would predict. It seems a bit unfair to charge students who study for exams extra money simply to pay for extra help to those who don't (e.g., "Vanessa" in the article you link to).
From what I understand, the quality of life sucks in Korea. For example, I am told secondhand of some terrible working conditions in Samsung, and the reason why employees put up with it is because there are many Koreans willing to put up with awful conditions just to be able to say that they worked at Samsung & have a stable job.
I know right,it has become ridiculous. I'm happy the french people are "revolting" against it and are trying ridesharing. SNCF is just organized racket.
> The all-you-can-eat is capped (small print) at a "fair usage" of 25 Gb/month.

I can tell you that this is wrong, I've personally had months where I've used 100GB+ of data over 3G and had no problems (this is on a £15 top-up). I don't know if they throttle or not, I've never really noticed it.

> Tethering is disabled while roaming overseas on "feel at home", but not prevented at home.

I didn't get my handset from Three but I've been able to tether in Paris and used at least 2GB when I was there.
Or driving from Seattle to say, Vancouver, BC? That would be crazy if you had to pay a roaming fee.
Looks very nice, but the color on the toolbar is kind of weird. Specially with the settings cog.
The article is wrong. It's for fixed line broadband.

Though there are a lot of cell/network sharing agreements in the market (to various extents - some are actually cell roaming but some are just sharing backhaul/fibre/the physical towers):

O2 and Vodafone
Orange and TMobile (merged to form EE)
Three and TMobile (may or may not include ex-Orange sites, not sure).
They also use tidepools (http://tidepools.co), a platform designed alongside the Red Hook mesh, for local apps on the network (stop & frisk, maps etc.)

Case study:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/147627564/Red-Hook-Initiative-Tide...
So far as I can tell, cell phone technology works best in third- or fourth- tier cities like Rochester, NY. The worst cities for cell phone coverage are cities like LA, NYC, Washington DC, etc.

In very dense areas they have to put in more cells, deal with the fact that there is a lot of metal around, multi-path propagation, more difficulties getting towers sited, etc.

In rural areas I think the cost has more to do with topography than anything else. In a mostly flat area that has an occasional mountain that's taller than anyone else, you can space towers far apart. In the Appalachian mountain region, however, you have a network of ridges that are all about the same height, so you'd need to run power and fiber to the tops of all the ridges - you might as well just run FTTH to all the homes, except you couldn't charge $10 a GB for FTTH.
The obvious solution here is to separate education from credentialing. Have the government create uniform credentialing standards and allow anyone to attempt to achieve them for a small fee - e.g., $250 to take the exam for "US Govt. English B.A.".

Quality of instruction drops...

How do you know this?

What does suffer is the idea of a university.

Why should anyone (besides people looking to become non-adjunct professors) care?
It's worth noting that the billing methods for US and the rest of Europe are very different when it comes to voice. For instance, it costs between 4c/min to 26c/min to call a UK mobile phone. In the US it's < 1c/min. Outside the US, the caller of a mobile phone is generally the party footing the bill for the entire call.

The more interesting question I have is why would it cost 26c/min to call a mobile phone? And since each carrier prefix may have a different cost, how do consumers keep all these prefixes / carrier rates straight in their heads?

Edit: I'm looking at flowroute, plivo, and twilio.
regarding your second sentence... 11.6 (US) against 4.9 (France) per 100 000 inhabitants, from the same link.
football programs only pay for themselves at a small number of universities, almost all subsidize them.

http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Ar...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2013/05/07/ncaa...
thanks for sharing. I didn't know that one.
Before I've been using briss

http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/
As far I can tell, though it's not said explicitly in the linked article, you still have to justify that you have driven 20 hours in a car with dual-command (which will cost you 15-20€/hour to rent). That might be better than going through a driving school, but that's definitely not as cheap as the US.
What's the "Explain-Like-I'm-5" version of Oregon's case?

I ask because many software companies include clauses in their software agreements that state they are not liable for software defects or damages.

Those kind of clauses seems to nullify any case I could foresee someone making against Oracle (regardless if you like Oracle or not).

Edit: fixed typo
I don't mean to turn this into an argument over the quality of Texas' driving test, just point out that I, too, hold a Texas license and it is my first license. The driving test consisted of approximately two hours of driving near my local DPS office. I had to go through different types of intersections, parallel park, merge onto the freeway, make legal U-turns, signal appropriately (which is to say, all of the time, and is a skill that apparently didn't stick with most of my fellow drivers), stop at the appropriate spot, and so on.

My original point was that if you gave the DPS clerk a French license, you didn't have to do any of that because Texas considers it a license transfer.
Chinese Expats Fleeing Ebola, Returning Home via Paris
The Ebola outbreak is motivating native Han Chinese who migrated to or worked in Africa to return to China. Their path home in this instance includes a stopover in Paris.

Will Europe or Asia be the second continent to suffer the ravages of Ebola?

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1580067/fear-ebola-palpable-air-france-flight-freetown-paris
Some people may not understand the context of this part:

So not long ago someone apparently convinced
someone else at a conference that static typing
is awesome and should be a language feature. I'm
not exactly sure how that discussion went but the
end result was that mypy's type module in combination
with Python 3's annotation syntax were declared to be
the gold standard of typing in Python.

Ronacher is referring to the fact that Guido van Rossum, the Python language creator and BDFL, recently said he wanted to make mypy's type annotation standard into a standard by making use of Python 3 function annotations.

The original function annotations standard is PEP-3107[1], GvR's proposal is on the python-ideas list[2], and information on mypy can be found at the project's site[3].

I agree with Ronacher's conclusion; I don't think static types -- even if only used at runtime -- are a good fit for the language. As for function annotation syntax, I think we just need to admit that isn't really good for anything.

Great article!

[1]: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/

[2]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-August/0...

[3]: http://www.mypy-lang.org/
I can't help but think the complete opposite when it comes to people admitting something about alcohol...that it's just plain bad for your body. It's a toxin.

People will gravitate and cling to any evidence that alcohol has a health benefit so they won't feel so bad about drinking.
What are some of the underlying core disciplines?

To start one is problem solving, you need to be really good at solving problems. Another I can think of is finding the right problems to solve.
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Could you expand on why you feel that way?
Same - I'm at a large employer, 4 month grad training- 2 months general tech, 1 month semi company specific + a couple of group projects.
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The Python "argcomplete" module[1] generates shell completions for any program that uses argparse, so it's certainly doable.

[1] https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete
Let me just again point out the most ridiculous statement in the article:

The more alcohol a society consumes, the fewer alcohol-related problems and alcohol-related deaths (including cirrhosis) it has, since these societies, such as those in Southern Europe, integrate drinking with social life. And alcohol conveys health benefits.

My response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8174613
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Brmjt; a gathering for Arabic programmers on Facebook
I don't exactly see the wall of regulation. In France, as in Germany, you have to learn driving through an instructor, you can not do it in your parents car as it most likely lacks the necessary emergency controls for an actual licensed driver. Hence the cost, mostly paying for 20+ hrs of an instructors time.

There is only a limited amount of exam slots, and they are assigned based on previous pass rates, ensuring you don't waste it on unprepared students. That seems like a perfectly sane policy when there's only a low fixed amount of exam slots. In Germany, you pay a fee (to the government) for the exam, so its possible to add more tester.
The last figure is how safety comparisons are usually done. The first two don't really make any sense to compare for exactly the reason you cite: they spend less time in their cars, so they have less time for their driving skill to be reflected in the fatality rate.

Ideally you'd control for the length of the trip, types of roads they're traveling on, etc, but that data is nearly impossible to come by.
I'm not aware of other facebook page that concentrate on functional programming and free tools like this page, considering that most of Arabic world is biased towards .NET platform
You need ;void 0 on the end of your bookmarklet to avoid the redirect :)
Really?...if go out drinking there is nothing more I crave than salty greasy foods and even sugary foods towards the end of the night. Same the next the day.
I suspect many of the issues are actually problems with Fedora (it seems I have a mix of 3.13.9 and the previous release) but I'll list them anyway, just in case.

* Apps are actually launching under xwayland by default. Everything segfaults if launched with GDK_BACKEND=wayland.

* I use dvorak. Xwayland honors the setting but the shell is still qwerty.

* Two-finger scrolling works in xwayland (though twice as fast as usual) but not at all in shell.

* Restarting shell kills running apps and afterwards only Web will open. And it has the app menu and min/max button in the headerbar.

* External monitor not recognized, works fine under X
As cstross mentions in another comment talking about Three it seems to be part of a big "Fell at Home" marketing campaign. With no other obligation to do so, I would simply assume they saw it as a good opportunity to stand out in a crowded market.

The all-you-can-eat nature seems to include voice as well as data abroad, but I haven't seen any mention of international calling. Calling another UK number I'm sure works as normal, but presumably you still pay the regular rates if you call a US number? They certainly do if they call you. If you're just visiting the states for a week or two that's not nearly as big a deal (use the free local calls from the hotel phone to order pizza), but longer trips (school or business) would still involve meeting a larger group of people and become cost-prohibitive (for both parties).

Combined with the limited number of customers who would be traveling internationally at all and likely the ability to get some sort of bulk-purchase agreement with whichever carrier in the US they use and they're probably just happy to eat the (relatively) limited expense to get the added customers.

Like I mentioned in another comment, it also plays heavily into our hatred of limits. If I want to skip off to NYC for the weekend, I don't want to have to figure out what to do about my phone first! The "don't worry about it, we've got you covered" approach is probably working out really, really well for them, even for the large majority of people who never travel... because they might, one day. In the meantime they keep paying every month.
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Not correct and I don't know where you get those prices from. OFCOM has regulated termination charges (http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/mtr/statement) in the UK. Right now they are at 0.8p/min but it is likely they are going to rule to drop them to below 0.5p/min.

Edit: these are wholesale prices, so there will be some overheads for whoever provides it to end users, but the crazy termination fees in the UK are long gone.
There are already accreditation groups such as ABET that review and score programs - http://www.abet.org/about-abet/ There's absolutely no reason to get the government into a system that already works.
You've correctly identified a guarantee that you don't have with npm. In practice, anecdotally, I've never run into this issue, while I have many times and with much pain dealt with conflicting deep dependencies using bower and bundler. Which may explain the blank stares. It's a tradeoff I am personally happy to make.
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Please don't submit links this way. Rather, put the url in the url box.
Love the idea. Brand engagement is also a huge potential.
I would take an LA only plan if it were cheap. I think a lot of people would. And why do roaming fees have to be outrageous? How about reasonable ones?
To some extent, definitely. But America has always had the "open road" attitude. I think it's a lot more likely for a family to take a road trip to the Grand Canyon one summer, across several of those states, than for a Russian family to take a road trip to... hell, I can't find a city in the middle of Siberia on Google Maps, but you get the idea.