Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by X6S1x6Okd1st » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 12:43 AM UTC

EdCoffey wrote: post #304

1. When I plug my camera's SD card into the front of my Linux server it automatically copies off any new photos and sorts them into a YYYY/DD/MM folder structure. 2. I wrote a cryptocurrency trading bot because I'm too lazy/uninterested to actually learn anything about the market. It seemed to do pretty well when the market was flat or going up. Hard to tell if it's doing badly now or if it's just reflecting the stat…

for number 2 how do you handle tax season? Mine was very complicated last year and I didn't fully automate my trading.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 12:53 AM UTC

koboll wrote: post #318

ransom1538 wrote: post #312

When I graduated college, the job situation wasn't as hot. I would take a resume, custom tailor a cover letter, change out a few paragraphs in my resume to fit the specific job title --- and then.. no reply -. So. I scripted it. I would scan craigslist, monster, indeed, etc for emails or company names. The script eventually evolved to guess company homepages and scan for emails on 'career' sections. Based on the job…

You could definitely make money selling access to this.

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Post by ronald_raygun » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:00 AM UTC

I once had a long distance girlfriend who lived on the east coast. She would like to see "good morning" texts from me, the problem is that they are 3 hours ahead, so I wrote an On.X bot to do it every morning and pick randomly from a handful of messages

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by kilroy123 » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:07 AM UTC

Maybe not what anyone was expecting, but we've automated all the cleaning in the house. The clothes get washed, folded, and ironed. The trash gets taken out. All the plants get watered.

How? The oldest form of automation. We pay someone to come and do it. We have a cleaning person come twice a week.

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Post by davewasthere » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:08 AM UTC

I still use facebook (minimally), but wrote a Grease Monkey script to auto-delete anything older than 90 days. This way I can still keep the Aunties/Parents etc happy with photos of the kids, but that it only lives on there a short while.

I also wrote a program to pull down all of my favourite comics as they were published. But I can't say I really read them offline much. It was probably more the collector in me wanting a copy, rather than having to go to the site.

Other than that, I think all of my automation is is my work-life.

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Post by zrail » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:10 AM UTC

hajrice wrote: post #313

claydavisss wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't you at all interested in managing your capital gains exposure? Short term trades tend to play to the advantage of the broker (fees) and tax collector (short term cap gains tax)

1) What capital gains tax? You can run it through a company, which is what I do. 2) Broker fees are $0 as I use Robinhood. Like I said, I made a ~44% return. If a $7 trader fee is your argument for it not being viable then you are most likely not investing enough money, or not getting a decent return.

“Just run it through a company” isn’t the whole story. You also have to qualify as a trader and file an election to use the mark-to-market rules, and then you actually have to do mark-to-market accounting.

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Post by sumedh » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:12 AM UTC

egypturnash wrote: post #311

Colored lights (LIFX) change color automatically during the day. mostly thanks to their scheduling, though the one in the foyer changes color based on both the time of day and on the temperature and rain forecast - during the day I can glance at the light and know how to dress. That happens with a Python script on my computer, which I should really move to the Raspberry Pi in the living room that I could leave on 24-…

I want to do something similar with my Lifx lights, they would glow green in the morning if the train is 10 mins away, they would glow red if its 5 mins away which means I wont be able to walk to the station and catch it.

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Post by LifeofPi314 » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:14 AM UTC

kilroy123 wrote: post #324

Maybe not what anyone was expecting, but we've automated all the cleaning in the house. The clothes get washed, folded, and ironed. The trash gets taken out. All the plants get watered. How? The oldest form of automation. We pay someone to come and do it. We have a cleaning person come twice a week.

Where and how do you afford this?

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Post by sleet » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:16 AM UTC

nojvek wrote: post #205

When the dog used to wake me up in the middle of the night to drink water and take him out, I had to do to it manually. Now it’s all automated, my body just does it. 90% of brain is asleep. I look forward to automating diaper changes when the baby arrives. The subconscious brain is an incredible piece of technology.

Seems like an odd solution. Can't you just leave a bowl of water out? Does your dog have bladder control issues?

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Post by watyousay » Mon, Jun 25, 2018, 1:26 AM UTC

faitswulff wrote: post #122

nopcode wrote: post #63

I automated all my piracy. My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups. Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed, metadata is added, and published on some apps like plex and trakt. Movies, TV Shows, Music.

In the same general category, I just wrote a script to download episodes of anime as they're released.

Would you be willing to go into some more detail on how it works? I use Sonarr and Hydra2 with a handful of private indexers and for most TV its the perfect solution.. but for anime it's the pits. For whatever reason the anime ripper scene seems to be actively resistant to this sort of automation.