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

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

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Post by ball_of_lint »

chobytes wrote: post #696
lma21 wrote: post #676

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What, why? It looks a reasonable solution for a missing 'filtering' feature :-)

They're treating people as objects to be measured and quantified. The sentiment analysis thing at the end sounds borderline sociopathic. I would personally be terrified of anyone who thought this was an ethical or acceptable thing to do.

What exactly is unethical about this? No one has the right to make him view their profile. If a few simple heuristics help him avoid clear mismatches and toxic conversations then he's doing nothing more unethical than any dating site that matches people up based on interests or personality.

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Post by jotux »

avshyz wrote: post #603

I'm 25, and single. I'm very social, and I work out regularly. But I find it hard to approach women in the street, and I've always detested loud pubs (My hearing is slightly impaired, which makes it hard for me to communicate in such a place). So I've decided to sign in to OKCupid. I've always heard the dating scene in this site is toxic, but I've had no idea. I've too many toxic and horrible things written plainly i…

Someone wrote a book about this: https://www.amazon.com/Optimal-Cupid-Mastering-Hidden-OkCupi...

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Post by gitgud »

Crespyl wrote: post #635
gitgud wrote: post #444

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Remarkable is a Markdown viewer right? So basically you open a HTML webpage in remarkable? Is that so you can modify the source?

There may be a markdown tool by that name, but in this case it's a specific brand of e-ink tablet that includes a stylus for drawing on the documents/note-taking/etc. IIRC it supports PDF and presumably other ebook formats, but I wouldn't expect it to have any special tool for viewing markdown.

I see now, my mistake

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Post by krrrh »

spuz wrote: post #18

I built an accelerometer-based washing machine sensor which sends a notification to my phone when the washing is done. This is useful because the machine itself has no indication when it's done: http://www.instructables.com/id/Washing-Machine-Notification...

My trick is to set a timer on my phone when I start a load. Even if the machine doesn't tell you how long it's going to take on a display, these things tend to be pretty consistent. Low tech but it works.

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Post by X6S1x6Okd1st »

EdCoffey wrote: post #366
X6S1x6Okd1st wrote: post #321

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

tl;dr: I don't. There are a couple of reasons why I don't bother: The first is that I consider what I'm doing to be a hobby, and therefore tax-exempt. The point was more about the challenge of writing the bot than seriously imagining that my trivial algorithm could make money. Because it's currency trading, I expect the Australian Tax Office would disagree with my definition, but there is one thing in my favour - The…

Ah I thought I was in a similar position until I did some reading up on US tax law. Turns out that even though I sold and bought back within a very short time period the sale amount - cost basis = taxable income.

I was doing some swing trading near the top and it ended up that I am paying significantly more taxes than I ever put into it.

Oh well, live and learn.

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Post by krrrh »

amdavidson wrote: post #539
krrrh wrote: post #358

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Paprika for iOS took me pretty far in this direction. I bought it on a recommendation from a friend so I could strip out the blog posts and index recipes, but the grocery shopping features ended up making it something I used all the time. You still share with the original URL, but I've got friends who are into cooking on it now and it's just as quick for them to save.

I am a heavy Paprika user as well. Emailing the recipe formats the content into an email body text and doesn't require the recipient to go to the website. It also includes a .paprikarecipe attachment for direct import into the recipients Paprika app.

Ah, I guess I’ve only ever shared as a link over chat apps. Thanks for the tip!

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Post by askvictor »

t0mek wrote: post #23

I used DSP to recognize the commercials in the radio broadcast on my stereo receiver and turn down the volume automatically ("adblock for the radio broadcast"). I described it here: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/02/24/radio-adblock/

I would like something like this, but to cut out all non-music (i.e. talking, interviews, etc). Would tensorflow be able to be trained to detect just speech vs music? It would obviously fail if there is speech with background music, but that isn't too common outside of Jamaica (and reggae stations/shows)

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Post by notoriousjpg »

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.

I've always wondered if there is an opportunity for bidets for babies to reduce the mess of changing a diaper. Thoughts?

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Post by wvenable »

chobytes wrote: post #697
Arete31415 wrote: post #695

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Good for you! FYI for all dating folks out there: women do not want you to approach them in the street. Like, let's say, 99.5% of the time.

This. I'm legitimately scared when random guys approach me, as I've had guys grope me, try to corner me, etc in past. Sadly, I feel like these are common experiences for women.

Yeah this reminds me of the Louis C.K. bit: "How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We’re the number one threat! To women! Globally and historically, we’re the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women. We’re the worst thing that ever happens to them!"

"If you’re a guy, imagine you could only date a half-bear-half-lion. ‘Oh, I hope this one’s nice! I hope he doesn’t do what he’s going to do.’"

Every woman I know has had one of those common experiences -- many times -- but honestly when I was younger man I really had no idea what women go through or the frequency of it. My wife has had more than few things happen to her over the years.

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Post by roryisok »

icebraining wrote: post #467
beenBoutIT wrote: post #283

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Toys that put themselves away will get here before the Roomba that puts away toys does.

Good luck getting individual LEGO pieces to put themselves away :)

You need some kind of katamari damacy style ball of Lego that rolls around collecting pieces and getting bigger
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