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azujuson Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in claims

Interesting does this mean that global warming will cause the insurance crisis in the US?

azujuson U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them

I believe we are helping to build part of that future in my current startup. People should own their own data and have a right to use it for their own benefit.

(Startup: argyle.io)

azujuson The infrastructure to access workforce data

Lending, Banking, Insurance, Benefit Management, Hiring. We are excited to see what the developers will come up with too!

azujuson EU Court of Justice ruling may spell the death of social like and share buttons

What about Facebook Pixel?

azujuson SemperOS: A Distributed Capability System

Tldr anyone?

azujuson To be great, be good repeatably

I wonder what Alexander the Great would think about this. Did he think he achieved greatness? Was he happy and satisfied? Or did he suffer from the impostor syndrome like many "greats" of today?

azujuson Ask HN: Business Is Making $400k / Year– Now I Don't Know What to Do with Myself

I found that teaching others (for example to code) helps a lot with motivation. I try to support my local https://hourofcode.com/us initiatives.

Otherwise, here is a cool side project I am starting to try and build at the moment too - a desktop Muon counter. http://cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/about

azujuson Things you need to know about VR project management

Posting as an author, happy to answer any questions here.

azujuson GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact

It’s sad that you can no longer get your genetic health info in Europe from 23andMe, but does this mean GSK will only have access to American info?

azujuson Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past

It’s weird how our great^5 grandchildren will only find treasures in our dumps, but the cities will still be full of ancient stuff.

azujuson 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication

I sometimes wonder if Unix clock running out in 2038 is going to be our only hope to solve the Great IoT DDOS war of 2030s? :)

azujuson 11% of Americans don’t use the internet

Do we need another type of operating system interface to solve this? Something simpler, like TV or Minitel?

It would seem that Apps have helped to bring the last 20% of Americans online, would we need something even simpler to bring the rest onboard?

azujuson Is Google Map's navigation updated too slowly?

Google maps have recently started failing with the update times for me too, I have reset the location permissions on my iPhone and that seem to have helped.

azujuson Show HN: Swagmeter – Detecting Hipsters Using Inception V3

Just wanted to share it here to get some feedback. The app is intended to be a joke. We build the original version in the hackathon (in which we won a 2nd place) and never got around finishing it until now. It uses a dataset of 5k images, and an inception v3 model, retrained to recognise each category. Everything is done offline and optimised to run on a mobile.

azujuson Virtual reality: a billion dollar niche

This is the most accurate prediction about VR market for 2016 so far. No bs or hype just realistic numbers.