skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're comfortable with SSH you could also just fire up an EC2 or Linode instance in UK, install a local proxy and tunnel traffic through it.

It's way more versatile than signing up for just VPN.
I tryed it too, it's a good product but I like most Tomatoes because I built it aiming for simplicity.

With Tomatoes you can press spacebar from the public index (http://tomato.es) to start the pomodoro timer, if you want to save progress you must sign up. I like services who let you try their product before you sign up.

Sign up with one-click auth process (through GitHub or Twitter) and press spacebar to start a new timer. At the end of the timer the only information needed to save a tomato is: none, just press enter. If you fill it with tags then you'll get access to advanced statistics through projects.

I'd like to introduce new users to Tomatoes gradually that's why I'm trying to setup a process of badges/grants to let advanced users access more features. Example: you can change timer progress bar color only after 100 tracked tomatoes.

The badge/widget/html plugin is on my TODO list: https://github.com/potomak/tomatoes/issues/41, follow the issue to get updated about development progress.
Cool - I talk about that at the bottom of the article. But I added a note in that section that you need to pay for a TV license to stream legally. Thanks.
Browser elitism benefits no one. The user is left insulted, and the developer strokes their own ego.
To me, the confusing part is why NBC only lets cable subscribers stream the content for free. I would guess that the cable companies are paying them to do that, but that is pure speculation on my part. If I can stream everything online, why would I purchase cable?
Please see my response to inerte's comment, if you have not already.

It's not that I'm surprised that Apple would do this. I am just shocked that the definition of "book" could change in front of everyone's eyes and the common person will ignore it because they enjoy Apple's "magical" devices.
Non-US iPhone users aren't subsidizing anything. While the carriers in the US do subsidize phones, carriers don't just absorb that cost, it gets passed along to the end user. These arguments are kind of similar to those presented by people wanting higher corporate taxes without realizing that those costs are ultimately paid by the consumer.
I would really love to use an app like this. The problem I have with most things like this is that I have a hard time judging my mood on a 1-10 scale. How do I know what a 7 vs and 8 means? And how do I make sure I evaluate my mood on the the same scale day after day?

I would love to see a version of this with fewer choices for moods. Even just three options like :( and :| and :) would be enough. At least then I would know I'm getting more consistent measurements.
It informs you that you need to be paying the license fee to watch live TV on the iPlayer but there doesn't seem to be any check. In other words even if you are not paying the fee, tell it you are and you should be able to start streaming.
Fish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the...
Exactly. People are not going to stop watching NBC because of this. It's really not a big deal to most people. Most people want to be able to come home from work and watch the biggest events of the day.
One and a half years ago I did the page layout for a book being produced by a team-specific sports blog. They chose to publish the book using CreateSpace, which is owned by Amazon. It was my responsibility to make certain we were in compliance with the submission requirements. I read through them and took notes of all the relevant parts.

When we submitted the book for review, it was rejected because we had quoted some books and included footnotes with links to the Amazon pages of the source materials. I double-checked the CreateSpace guidelines, and there was no reference to this requirement. When I spoke to a customer service representative, I received no helpful information, just something along the lines of, "This is the policy and no books will be approved for printing unless there is adherence." When I asked why the policy wasn't publicly documented, the person with whom I spoke, polite though she was, offered no explanation (nor any apology).

I don't recount this incident to suggest that what Apple has done here is mitigated in any way since Amazon has behaved similarly (and for all I know CreateSpace has updated its guidelines in the intervening months). My point is simply to note that organizations utilize this prerogative when they are in a position to vet the products they offer. It could be Apple, Amazon, a public library, a restaurant. Really, almost any establishment.

Personally, I'd like all of these organizations to be upfront with their policies, but they usually don't take this approach. Typically, this isn't an issue to consumers. What's different here (e.g., with the Apple content stores), I think, is our expectations. We accept that most restaurants aren't divulging what factors are involved in purchasing the ingredients used. The public library doesn't give clear guidance regarding what subjects it pursues for the books on its shelves. The doctor doesn't always explain why one drug prescription is better than the alternatives.

No, I don't think our regular acceptance of those behaviors is what we should bring to a situation like this one with Apple. Actually, quite the opposite. I would hope many of us would bring similar levels of scrutiny to other areas of life which are likely to be more beneficial to many. It seems to me there is much more to gain from critical analysis of something like drug approval methods than, say, whether Airfoil Speakers is in the App Store.
I think the reason most people give is that HTTP requests are usually easier to implement than DNS lookups. I do like the idea of DNS lookups tho, seems cleaner.
what about all the Facebook embedded widgets? wouldn't those be links to facebook.com ?
I wrote an implementation of Oauth 2.0 as a Rails Engine (github.com/schneems/opro). IMHO any future "auth specs" should require a working implementation in code (any language).
You do now. Every book store decides what they are going to sell. We just didn't know about it before. The beauty is that any author can now simply take their books off iBooks and sell it in an open epub format and skip the distributor.

Regardless, this is a bullshit move from Apple, and it's starting to wear on me. And that's saying something, because I do love their products and forgive many missteps because I really do love their products.
If I understand your point correctly, you are referring to the fact that some products by being first-to-market or by popularity start to define a category of products. For example, vacuum cleaners in the UK are mostly called "Hoovers", or say "Coke" represents a cola soft drink etc.

In those cases, people won't buy a product and return it. Although they refer to a vacuum cleaner as a "Hoover", they go in knowing fully well that they are buying a product that does what a "Hoover" does, i.e. pick up dust. Here people didn't go in wanting an iPad-esque product and buying a product in the same category, but rather they mistook it to be the iPad.
Pardon me if this seems a little circuitous, having trouble with words today :)
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/

> You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV. It makes no difference what equipment you use - whether it’s a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD/video recorder or a TV set - you still need a licence.
I'm in London for the Olympics and have been blown away by the BBC - from the usability of their website, the lack of commercials, the generally high quality of commentary and online material, to the 24 hi-definition channels of Olympic coverage live on TV in the flat we are renting.

I wrote up some instructions about how to use EC2 as a web proxy here - http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/how-to-use-ec2-as-a-web-proxy/ - not sure if it would work in Amazon's Ireland data center, but worth a try.
Listen to some happy music! This[1] always puts me in a good mood.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIJfdVPACyw
Good phrases Manmal. Thanks:

"I have the same feelings, and I suspect it's what makes many people keep reading sites like HN."
Reading HN somehow makes you feel that you still have a chance, that you are still "training" with the best ones and feeling the "market competitors" (that are represented by HN readers). You didn't abandon the game and accepted to be a failure. You are not "competing" with a low rank community that you can find anywhere. Somehow in an unconscious way society around wants you to be a failure, or better they want you behind them, unless they see you as a god that they think that they cannot surpass.

"50 years ago - with our skillset (I assume the average HN reader), we would have been heroes in our local communities - teachers, engineers, perhaps inventors. There was so much low-hanging fruit for people with brains."

I'm not sure about what i'm going to say now but I think that in every community there is a limited need for people with brains. Few people with brains are enough. The problem is that nowadays there is a tendency to larger but fewer communities, meaning that less people with brains are needed, and to suceed you'll need "super brains". Not great words but I hope you (HN readers) understand the meaning.
Instead of having a scale of 1-10, why not use expressions like happy, confused, sad, angry, excited, dull, bored etc ?
Clojure's Thrush Operator - An Analogy to Unix Command Line Tools
According to Wikipedia[0], the UK is actually more like "You need to pay if you have something you use to watch TV". This is quite better than some other countries.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence
Thoughts on Riak
I was a bit disappointed that the part on requesting and receiving a token, the really important part, was basically missing. Looking forward to seeing the proposed flow there. The stuff on hashcash is straightforward and hopefully foolproof for implementors and library authors.

The only hard suggestion I have is to fork the the client management part to to an extension standard draft. The Hypermedia zealots are going to have a fit when they see `action: "delete"`. Leave that discussion for later and get the rest out the door.
Like many people here I would like to believe that the state of the world that ensures the highest profits and the state of the world that makes the most people happy are one and the same. I am coming to think that isn't true.
How is this different from a legacy bookstore? Apple is way more permissive than they are. You can't just walk into a legacy bookstore with a manuscript and say, "Here, sell this."

Major distribution has always meant going through filters. The publishing houses reject most of the stuff that comes through their doors, and bookstores only buy a fraction of the stuff that the publishing houses put out. If you are scandalized that Apple rejects one book out of millions, I can only suppose it's because you aren't familiar with legacy publishing. Traditionally, only a tiny fraction of books ever had a chance to be seen by readers.

(I say this not to defend Apple, per se, but to illustrate how good writers have really got it now if this is considered a subject of outrage. Just ten years ago, getting rejected was the expected outcome of trying to get a book published!)
By confirming your cable subscription, you confirm you have access to MSNBC, CNBC, and Bravo, where the majority of Olympic events are broadcast. Only a small number of events are broadcast on NBC affiliate stations, mostly only in primetime.
A license is required in the UK to watch "LIVE" TV - this distinction was made (and has been upheld in court) when VCRs were introduced.

But has been regarded as applying to the BBC's iPlayer - you can watch the "watch again" (PVR function) but need a license to watch the live stream.

The iplayer is only available in the UK - but that's a contractual deal with the BBC, not a legal point - so if you had a VPN that worked in the UK then it's a civil matter between you and the BBC

All the BBC radio content is available for free worldwide. Although Americans should be aware that Radio4 contains dangerous levels of sarcasm, satire and irony and might not be suitable for FOX viewers
I saw that but it read a bit unclear.

Some European countries' laws haven't caught up the same way the UK has. For instance, you can legally watch the Swedish SVT's live streams without a licence fee. Other countries have gone further - in Denmark they either implemented or were just debating a law where you have to pay the license fee if you own a PC or Mobile phone that can watch streaming video.

All Europeans can legally watch the EBU/Eurovision steams though, I believe. http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html
Your advice is obvious, correct, and utterly useless.

Similarly, advising an alcoholic to "just drink less or nothing at all", or an obese person to "just eat less and move around more", will accomplish nothing of value.

What you did is only a hair better than advising a legless person to "just walk". One is the handicap of the body, the other is the handicap of the mind, yet both handicaps are perfectly real to the person so unfortunate. Both problems can be ameliorated with due effort, but the glib advice will only make the adviser feel good, while making the advised feel worse. The due effort lies elsewhere.
extra points for really tidy and readable JS and markup
can I email you too? people doing cool stuff are fun to talk to! :-)
They run every few minutes, it feels kind of random. But they have a very nasty habit of running right at critical moments during the games.
Martial Law
How could that ever be true? As an example: most people would prefer everything to be free, and a company would like to have a monopoly on a necessity and thus the ability to charge arbitrary prices.

Or even shorter, everyone wants to get stuff, lots of stuff without having to lift a finger.

Out of this, every company-customer relationship has to be dysfunctional.

The idea that the economy is a perfectly fair system where everyone profits equally in a transaction is a fairy tale. It completely ignores the imbalances of power inherent in social systems. In a perfectly free market, imbalances of power will be compounded over time, similar to the theory of the big bang where small imperfections of the early universe are fundamental to the large structures that follow.
As a Canadian, I run into this bullshit all the time.

Comedy Central embedded videos, hulu, etc.

The whole thing seems like a perversion of the promise of the internet: to connect us all... It's double ironic in the OPs case, given the stated goals of the olympics.

Going around via VPN is well within my technical means, but I don't want to support the people who behave this way online, so I usually don't view the geo-walled content, or turn to the pirate bay.
No. You have to work on a problem you know exists. That usually requires some at least indirect experience in the domain, but it doesn't mean the domain has to be your main area of expertise.

For example, if you work in finance and notice that the company you work for can't find a teleconferencing service that does what they need, it would be fine to start a startup to build that.
NSA wants to hire hackers
BBC iPlayer is restricted in Ireland unfortunately. I haven't specifically checked from Amazon's data centre though, but I'd imagine it has the same geographical restriction as my home broadband.
Licensed media as "books" and "recordings" have been a wet dream for years. This is the happy ending.
Unless I'm missing something, this is something which other "bookstores" in the offline space do routinely. The Rough Trade store down the road from me sells books which are pretty obviously curated around sections, and according to the preferences of the staff there, and, no doubt, by commercial imperatives too. If they can't make a margin they're happy with, ultimately there is no bookstore. The magical experiences in books which Rough Trade do not sell is neither here nor there, because if I don't like, value, or care for their curation, I can choose another bookstore. I don't see why this is any different.
Zucchini Dessert Squares
It's still based on proxy servers, but their DNS server returns the address of their proxy server instead of the real IP address.
I didn't like the part about Marconi vs Maxwell. There is a positive feedback loop between technology and science. Science investigates nature providing basic knowledge upon which technology can build. Technology applies these principles in practice building and improving devices. These devices are then used by scientists to study nature in more detail, to observe what was previously impossible to observe, to discover new laws of nature.
I actually got a really good question when I was using set diagrams to explain ideas from logic.

So, I was explaining some logic ideas to a guy on IRC, and he was struggling with the contrapositive rule, which says "if A implies B, then not-B implies not-A." He asked me what this looked like as a set diagram.

I began to teach him how "A implies B" means that whenever you have A, you know you have B. The picture is that B can be bigger, but the situations with A are contained within it, so the picture looks like this: "A is a subset of B." (In symbols, A → B becomes A ⊆ B.)

Now you need to understand that "not A" is the entire region outside the circle of A, and "not B" is the entire region outside the circle of B. And then you have to understand a crazy perspective: that the entire space outside B is now a subset of the entire space outside A.

He was very confused about this, so I explained it this way: There is a story about a physicist, an engineer, a mathematician, and a farmer. The farmer asks all three for a fence containing the largest space for his sheep.

The engineer is first up, builds a square fence using one of the walls of the barn to get a little extra space fenced in. The farmer seems pretty satisfied with this, so they both go to meet the physicist, who has tethered a cord to a peg and is drawing a large circle. "Circles," he points out, "minimize their surface-to-area amount. Actually, I could probably do the same with your barn there, get you a little more space by chopping a chord out of the circle." The farmer says "no, this looks like it will take too long."

They both come over to see the mathematician, who has apparently gotten tangled up in the fence! They start to work to get him out of there -- the farmer asks, "what were you thinking, why did you bend the fence this way, what is wrong with you?!" The mathematician says, "you don't understand -- this is the outside of this fence!"

Suddenly, the idea of flipping "inside" and "outside" seemed to make sense, and I was able to show him that yes, if you take this perspective, the corresponding rule is Bᶜ ⊆ Aᶜ, thus not-B → not-A.

(Another strategy which often works is to leverage moral intuitions, but 'permissions' and 'implications' are opposite arrows. So A → B means "if I know A, then I also know B." Apply this to "Santa only gives presents to good children". Your intuitions all will work much better, save one: you probably would write the above statement as "good child => get presents", following what is permissible for good children, but in logic it actually states "got present → good child", if Santa gave a present then you know that the child was good, but Santa might not give a good child a present, especially if that child is, say, Jewish.)
I'm going to assume that a linux kernel hacker probably enjoyed the long hours in front of a monitor in solitude. But however enjoyable, in the long run, the solitude can change a man.

But a keyword in this, as with everything, is balance.
This won't happen without non-shit drivers. I don't think we will get non-shit drivers without NVIDIA and AMD open sourcing their commercial drivers.
Yeah, I guess I'm saying CBT (+ related, I find SBT[1] very effective myself) >>> lifestyle improvements.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_therapy
As noted by binarycrusader, no approval is necessary. It's just like signing a Windows application (also a damned good idea) and counter-signing it with Microsoft's cert. Both of these things make it so that your app can be flagged if you demonstrate that you're dangerous. The main difference is that Apple has it somewhat easier because they are the CA for the app certs.

As far as who develops apps for "classical" computers…there's a lot of us out there, because they're not going away.
I have roughly the same problem. I spend around $140/mo for internet and cable, of which I receive the full NBC suite of channels. However, the app refuses my provider's login information. When I contacted my provider, they just sent me up to an NBC support clerk who told me essentially "Wow, that really sucks." and that was it. There was no recourse, simply re-acknowledging that I had a problem and they would attempt nothing to fix it.

I normally wouldn't be overly concerned about it, probably just a bit flustered, but this is a global event that occurs twice a decade. I feel this should really be something public broadcasters should control, not mega-corporations.
Thanks for the suggestion. It's something I thought about, I decided to use numbers because I knew that unless the app was really simple I'd never use it and picking a number seemed easier than selecting from a list of emotions. I also thought it'd be easier to graph and run analysis on numbers than emotions.

What do you think would be the best way to display the emotions? A grid of emoticons?
Ask HN: What can I do after graduation, but before I'm qualified for positions?
After reading this again, I can see how it might look like a brag post. I swear that it's not, I'm legitimately seeking advice.

I'm coming up on my senior year of college, but only discovered my love for computer science late in my academic career (I'm a math and biophysics double major). Because of this, I've only had about year of true programming experience.

And although I'm proficient in C/C++, Java, and Python, and have had two really interesting research positions (writing applications for HPC/supercomputers and hypervisor security research), I still don't feel like I have a whole lot of the experience people look for in programmers.

So as graduation comes up in the Spring, I'm at a dilemma. I need to either get a job, or go to grad school. But can anyone offer some advice on jobs I could look at that would help me continue to learn programming? Or, alternately, has anyone went on to get say, a Master's in Software Engineering, and could share their experiences about it?
What's the practical usage scenario for this? Would it be only used by http client library developers, or is there a broader audience?
You are suggesting that people picking up their phones and playing games or checking out the social networks during dinner or other social situations is a thing of the past. It is not.

Not only that, it is becoming more and more frequent. As people get used to this, it becomes more and more difficult to support awkward periods of silence and people resort more and more to their mobile devices to fill them. Which only worsens the problem.

This is one of the reasons why I don't get excited about anything related to smartphones. They are a tool of social disconnection, and that's not going to get any better in the future.
Alternative ending: she leaves, he appears disappointed but a closeup of his mouth shows a wry grin slowly appearing. Cut to her on a new date, switch to her view of a completely different looking guy. It's going great!

Outside shot of the couple reveals it's the same guy - he's just overlayed a different face on his own.

Cut to game wall .. "hidden identity" badge pro level
Well put. That clears my mind block. Thanks.