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Seems like last commit was one year ago: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlmc/tree/master/src

And it's also possible to directly load a csv file with all the data in latex and plot if with pgf, which makes it possible to keep all the plotting options in the latex file:

  \addplot table[x ={Column1}, y ={Column2}] {myData.csv};

The issue is that it can take some time for pgf to load the data and do computations on them, but you can use the external library of tikz so that it does not compute the plot again (and save it as a pdf for later uses).

There is the same kind of unpaid leave in France to create a company, but it's for one year (and possible to extend it for one more year): https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2382 (in French)

I found the tuition fees on campusfrance, which is the official website for foreign students who wants to go into the French higher education system. They actually state: "The difference is that in France, whether you are French or foreign, the State pays most of the cost."

I also know some foreign students in French universities, who went doing masters or PhD and they pay the same as a French student. I doubt it is different for bachelor degrees.

This article from Le Monde implies that they charge foreigners the same price as French students: https://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2014/11/26/faire-pa...

I think that you speak about "formation continue" in your first paragraph. I think that if you register of your own, you actually get the normal fees. It is only if you qualify for "formation continue" which is more restrictive than being out of school for 2 years. It seems that it means you are funded by Pôle Emploi, or a company etc (see here: https://www.univ-paris8.fr/Formation-continue). So someone who is jobless but not registered as jobless in PôleEmploi can do"formation initiale". Also: https://information-documentation.fr/scolarite/regimes-et-mo... For sure, it does not seem to be very clear.

10 years but the 4 years of studying there are included in the 10 years. Most continue with a PhD (at least 3 years in France). And then it is allowed to do research abroad, not for the French governement, for instance in an US university. Working for a private company entails to have to give back just part of the money.

And there are 4 ENS (écoles normales supérieures) in France so even more opportunities!

Tuition fees in public universities are low in France: https://www.campusfrance.org/en/tuition-fees-France

For instance, a bachelor degree is 170 euros per year (+ 90 euros of student life and campus service fees). Housing can be expansive in some cities like Paris...

For instance, the bachelor degree of EE at Sorbonne université (former Pierre et Marie Curie university before it merged with the historical Sorbonne): http://sciences.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/education/diplomas...

Bachelor degrees are typically taught in French though. Master degrees are sometimes taught in English.

It would be interesting to see the percentages for scientists and researchers independently.

For France, for instance, researchers' wages are not very high. A lecturer typically starts with about 2115 euros per month before taxes typically for instance. On the contrary, I think that the salary of engineers is competitive with the ones in the UK and Germany.

I don't think it would be much noiser than a night train, especially if they work on the noise isolation of the berth.

On the mockups (http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/04/air...), it looks a bit like the Japanese pod hotels.

Depending on departure and arrival times of the plane, it could make sense to me. I have used night trains quite a lot and it works fine.

I've followed a bit the zyn-fusion project. Apparently, you have opened the sources of the new GUI just a few weeks ago and before that, the binaries could be bought.

Has this funding model for opensource (releasing binaries, and then waiting for some time to release the sources) been a success? Have you been able to generate a decent revenue with the crowdfunding efforts?

Dockless bikes have arrived in Paris since October. The city officials would like to regulate them and maybe tax them as they use the public spaces to park the bikes: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-paris-bicycles/par...

There are actually direct RER B trains between the airport and gare du Nord in central Paris and other RER B trains that stops at all the stations between the airport and gare du Nord...

There is now a project to create another direct line between the airport and Gare de l'Est (and shutting down the direct trains of line B at the same time), the CDG express (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDG_Express and more info in French https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDG_Express). The project was indeed stopped in 2011 butis now alive again, and very likely to be made. Se also http://www.cdgexpress.com

There is even now an international research workshop on deep learning for music that was created in 2017: http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/

But France is not a country where medicine is the most "socialized". For instance, GPs are usually private doctors in France. Then the universal health insurance refunds 70% of the price usually (but it can be less, because doctors can choose their price - it's called "sector", and only ). Then, most French people have a complementary private insurance called "mutuelle" from their job that pays the remaining 30%. Only long-term illnesses such as cancer are fully reimbursed by the national health insurance.

And yes, even the least paid doctors in France earn much more than the median French salary. Also in France, medical school is not expensive ("socialized" education). It just takes time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France

It does not seem to save the associated images (404 Not Found on the images on the webpage with the saved soundfiles).

Safety: "Each city’s Safety score reflects the reported perception of safety by residents and public data provided by police departments of each city regarding crime rates."

Maybe the residents of Tel Aviv do not perceive their city as unsafe. I guess that people become accustomed to terrorism happening rather regularly. A city with less homicides but more reported ones in the media is maybe perceived less safe by the residents?

Actually, NY subway has 3 or even 4 tracks portions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_l... I think that's the reason why the New York's subway can operate during all night, because maintenance operations can happen on the other set of tracks.

The subway of Paris usually has only two tracks. They have started making it automatic (and so they need to use a modern signalling system) and they seem to be successful at doing it without disrupting traffic too much: http://cometandnova.org/improving-service-through-automation... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_M%C3%A9tro_Line_1#Automa...

According to the blog post, he is from Amsterdam.

I actually know identical twins that do that... Seems quite common. One managed to board a plane with the ID card of the other one for instance.

The "impact on society" paragrapg is quite short. Has any work of computational sociology inspired a real policy?

Could it replace economy as the main driver of politics and policies?

Actually, in France, it would be illegal to rent such a place for housing (as apartments have to have at least a main room that is more than 9m²), even for students.

Why not an interactive interlinear translation, for which you can for instance click on words of the original text to get their meaning in your language? And there are actually apps and websites that use this kind of methods, such as bliubliu or readlang!

There was as a seminar at Inria yesterday about an extension of OCaml to handle units: http://gallium.inria.fr/seminaires/annonces/20170221.Jacques...

It's what we've done in France since 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek

Some want to make it more flexible...

It depends on where you are.

In Europe (well, at least in France), news outlets have spoken about it. Romania is part of the EU, nearer, and the EU warned Romania about backtracking on efforts against corruption so it is quite logical that we speak more about it than in the US (assuming that you're in the US).

There is an agricultural startup also using containers, first for strawberries, but they literally want to grow fruits or vegetables in a container, while aiming at a better taste: http://www.agricool.co/

The idea seems to target cities, to decrease the time to market, so that they can optimize the fruits or vegetables for taste and not for conservation.

It can: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2013/papers/16.pdf

Moving from France to Belgium (in Wallonia where they speak Franch) is not a huge cultural or linguistic leap. As both countries are in the EU, it's very easy to emigrate; no visa needed. But as far as I know, there was no sudden emigration to Belgium after elections in France.

Is this EULA enforceable in every legislation or is it only an US issue?

Any specific information about the Apple EULA in the EU, for instance?

Is it about Europeans being lenient to typos or faulty grammar in another language than their native tongue (i.e. English)? That's for sure.

But for instance, French people are not lenient at all with typos or faulty grammar in French...