loisaidasam

I found the missing link to the emoji page on Barney Hill's Github in case anyone else was looking for it:

https://www.barneyhill.com/pages/emoji/index.html

> Our global map of ant abundance expands our understanding of the geography of ant diversity and provides a baseline for predicting ants’ responses to worrying environmental changes that currently impact insect biomass.

Would it be possible to see that map without shelling out the $10? The people need to know!!!

Also available on Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/8otPjbOzTbb

I'm also interested, although my curiosity is more about what you are doing with the data.

Just storage? Some sort of charting? Graphite? Maybe some other data monitoring tool? Maybe something custom?

Just a heads up that https://sideqik.com without the `www.` prefix is insecure

Secure Connection Failed.

What's going on arstechnica?

Starting the title of this article with the word "Beer" is misleading. A neat trick, caught my eye.

A few things -

1. In order to achieve this functionality, the app explicitly requires permission to receive SMS [1] [2]

2. I agree that the general population likely isn't fully aware of the implications of granting permissions for such things. Having said that, I think that privacy/security/transparency is one of the things constantly being worked on with subsequent Android OS updates [3] [4], and I think that things are getting better.

Personally, I don't grant access to sensors like microphone/camera/location to apps that I don't want using them (most apps), and I think people should be aware of potential hazards here. Then again, people are openly inviting Amazon Alexa and Google Home into their homes ...

On the other hand, as a developer I like having the ability to build this, for me, and potentially for others who find use for what I wrote, with full transparency/visibility into the source.

[1] https://github.com/loisaidasam/poor-mans-money-counter/blob/...

[2] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...

[3] https://www.android.com/security-center/

[4] https://www.android.com/versions/pie-9-0/

I tried doing something like this, but it didn't work for Bank of America, as their minimum alert level is $100.

When I lived in Slovenia, I could set SMS alerts from my bank there (UniCredit). I wrote an Android app [1] that intercepted those SMS messages and parsed out the relevant bits. Those were the days...

[1] https://github.com/loisaidasam/poor-mans-money-counter

Inspired by this post, I was looking for a fun way to browse datasets randomly, which led me to build this Kaggle Random Dataset Generator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17313374

Thanks Gengo!

Inspired by Gengo's post "The 50 Best Free Datasets for Machine Learning", via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309443