My phone notifies me when the bitcoin price swings more than 5% up or down from the previous value. Perfect for smoothing small price changes while tracking larger movements scale-free.
Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
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#542Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's awesome, what was the sms api/platform that you used and how much?
Nothing fancy, I used "Tasker" on my own android phone. Ugliest thing ever, but I managed to hack it during a bus trip, and it worked.
Have not heard of that thanks.
I just assume you have to rent a number/sms service or put a usb cable into your phone to use your existing phone.
Would be cool to interface with it without usb.
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#543Wrote a simple app that emails people automatically asking them if they want to hangout. It reads my calendar and randomly decides whether or not we should hang out. The probability that it'll decide to ask gets higher and higher the longer we don't hangout, which it determines by reading my calendar.
Cousin! Do you want to go bowling?
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#544I try to focus on dividends and not growth when investing, but apparently not very many people do this, because my online brokerage does a really poor job showing this data over time.
I suppose they purposefully avoid forecasting the dividends, since dividends aren't guaranteed... But some companies have payed dividends for decades like clockwork.
Anyway I wanted to do a better job keeping track of it as rough, monthly income, so I wrote a script which scraped the information off the website, ran some basic number crunching and printed the results. (Of course they didn't make this easy... It's not like they have an API for this information, I had to craft the http post, cookie and parse html, etc)
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#545Passive learning. Whenever I come across something cool or interesting, I put it into a chrome extension I made called "Harvest". It sends me email reminders of what I've added on a spaced repetition schedule (1, 7, 17, 35 days into the future) for optimal retention https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-grow-your-...
https://www.memomize.com/ is a similar extension.
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#546I've been scraping match fixtures to support a rudimentary forecasting tool for fantasy football if that counts?
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#547Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you deal with the legality of scraping? I was hired to scrape some economic related pages and build an excel file and email it, I got that done but not sure if I should try to host this and turn it into a service or just set it up for the client and let them deal with it. It's just personal use on their part.
I would not equate scraping with periodic searching for a keyword. The problematic part is when you scrape data off of websites, and the owners don't want you to do it; as in, they would not even be happy if you manually copied that stuff into an excel file for fun or profit.
I can see that, although automating to decrease views of a page(from checking by refresh)... I suppose the end result is sign up in this case.
So for me I'll set it up for them and them run it.
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#548Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing fancy, I used "Tasker" on my own android phone. Ugliest thing ever, but I managed to hack it during a bus trip, and it worked.
Have not heard of that thanks. I just assume you have to rent a number/sms service or put a usb cable into your phone to use your existing phone. Would be cool to interface with it without usb.
Tasker is just an app, there's no need for any cable. Tasker lets you automate stuff on your phone, say send a SMS every day, turn the WIFI on when you are close to your house, etc.
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#549birthday wish messages.
Re: Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
#550Passive learning. Whenever I come across something cool or interesting, I put it into a chrome extension I made called "Harvest". It sends me email reminders of what I've added on a spaced repetition schedule (1, 7, 17, 35 days into the future) for optimal retention https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-grow-your-...
Thanks for sharing. I tried it out and it looks great. I had a couple issues. Firstly it has me sign into my Google account on a browser window with no address bar. The only way I could actually verify that it wasn't a fishing site was to use the dev tools. After that it signed me out after a few hours. Hope this helps.