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.

At peak in 2003 there were 9.1 millions minitels for 55 millions people so not ubiquitous but common.

3611 used to offer the first 3 minutes free for a few years then removed this.

3611 was free until 2007, when it became mostly irrelevant. 9.1 millions of minitels is about half the population (in number of households). I don't think that 2003 was a peak since Internet was already there for quite some time (people could get broadband at this time).

People had a minitel per family, not per person, so nearly 10 million minitels make for a pretty good penetration rate.

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.

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

But also note that this was about 90% of polish jews, and something like 10-15% of ethnic poles.

(90% from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland; 10-15% back-of-the-envelope from that plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims#Poles, giving a non-Jewish population of a little over 30,000,000.)

You're off by about 1.2 million people with your last remark.

Why wasn't I taught this in school? I have to say, I've never seen a movie which explores this.

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.

I've seen plenty of EOS 7Ds and 5D Mk II/IIIs with Canon kit lenses on them (of the ~$200 3.5-6.3 variety). I've personally had to tell people who came to me for purchase advise to buy either the 'enthusiast' or 'pro' tier lenses and completely ignore the bottom end.

Too many people "blow their wad" on the body and then find themselves only able to afford a couple of hundred more for a lens, rather than investing in the glass and upgrading the body (which will get upgrades every few years).

So unfortunately, I can absolutely believe that.

Yeah. The long term investment is clearly lenses while the body should be considered as disposable.

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.

To save some readers some Googling:

European Semantic Web: http://eswc-conferences.org/ "Various automated services, based on reasoning with metadata and ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form."

FP7: https://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm

H2020: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

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...

There's nothing stopping you from submitting, if it's truly interesting it will appear on the front page.

Don't try to hijack someone else's post.

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.