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jroidon Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

Google Desktop. I haven't yet seen a good, cross-platform alternative to search within documents on my PC, with a browser interface.

jroidon AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services

You still depend on some provider. Or, are you talking about multi cloud installations ?

jroidon Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?

Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity

jroidon Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

I use Yahoo Mail and pay $20, so I can create temporary email addresses. I know there are other free temp email services, but I like to have it one place, makes it easier to search as well.

jroidon Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

Looks much better, but did you find a way to disable notifications ? I didn't see any settings menu.

jroidon Kasparov and Thiel: Our dangerous illusion of tech progress

So, does that mean singularity won't happen anytime soon ? :-(

jroidon Panorama picture of Mars

Except Foveon cameras. http://www.foveon.com/article.php?a=69

jroidon Another free course: Model Thinking

Here you go... http://thinkmentalmodels.com/page67/page67.html

jroidon Amazon Prime’s new killer app: Kindle books by subscription

You can do this from Kindle.. Go to Kindle Store and then to Owner's Lending Library. There are categories and subcategories and books are sorted by bestselling

jroidon Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles

I think touch is useful, if you browse a lot. Using keyboard to navigate links is hard.

jroidon Two thousand years in one chart

Cheap hydrocarbons made all the difference in the 20th century. Whether this growth will flatten or slow down, we will wait and see.

jroidon Cobra effect

Sounds to be the same as "The law of unintended consequences" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

jroidon Google+ Demo

Go here, accept the conditions https://www.google.com/accounts/MultipleSessions

On the right top menu, Switch Accounts, sign in to second account, (may need to accept conditions again). At this point, you will be able to switch back and forth, between the two accounts

jroidon Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/

jroidon The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything

http://robertjhastings.net/

The true joy of life is the trip, not the destination

jroidon Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich

Why not charge a toll depending on traffic ? As the traffic increases, the toll increases (and vice versa), which will keep the lane fast moving. Not my idea, someone has already implemented this.

jroidon Few hours left for grabbing a free premium Licorize account

I don't see a link to free premium. How do I get it ?

jroidon If you had money to invest in tech stock, which would you choose?

MSFT Their free cash flow last year was $22 bn and their enterprise value is $177bn, which gives EV/FCF of slightly above 8.

jroidon Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client

Great app. Can you please add a "Read later button", that will save it to Instapaper/ Read it later/ Delicious/ download to SD. (the option of where to save could be configurable). Thanks.

jroidon Ask HN: when is Google Instant coming to my GMail search?

But then, the amount of data that you search in gmail is a drop in the ocean compared to web search.