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by nsomani 6y ago
Senate Stock Watcher is really cool. I chatted a bit with Tim Carambat (who built the site), and right now he's basically crowdsourcing the labeling for PDFs. Hoping that we can develop on this package and eliminate the manpower requir
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by nsomani 6y ago
That works for the search results, but the pages to display the periodic transaction reports embed the data directly into tables. Here's an example: https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/ptr/8db16cde-8
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by nsomani 6y ago
It's a dynamic page, so I have to do things like mark checkboxes, click buttons, etc. But if there's a better way to do it, I'm down to incorporate it!
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by nsomani 6y ago
If someone could help out and make a PR to do the OCR for PDFs, that'd be awesome! Would love to add it in.
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by nsomani 6y ago
I took a look at Alphavantage, but I wanted other data like daily transaction volume + market caps to do things like weighted regressions. The rate limiting was also a little restrictive.
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by nsomani 6y ago
Here's the specific package that I'm using: https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance
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by nsomani 6y ago
Hi everyone, with the recent interest in U.S. senator insider trading, I open-sourced this repo for you to scrape and analyze the senators' stock transactions yourself: https://github.com/neelsomani/senator-filings
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Show HN: A tool to scrape senators' stock transactions for your own analysis(github.com)
350 points by nsomani 6y ago|80 comments
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by nsomani 6y ago
Many of these people are on work visas and will potentially need to leave the country. Some are new grads who have no savings and might not be able to afford rent. And the cut was across all roles, not just the ones that were well-paid.
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by nsomani 6y ago
Maybe, but just the last August bootcamp of new hires was north of 100 people. If Airbnb wanted to do this for a while, I'd imagine they would have hired less even around then.
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by nsomani 6y ago
Hi everyone, I implemented this card game called Literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature_(card_game) I trained a neural net to play against me last summer, but the application was only available through th
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Show HN: An open-source, online implementation of the card game Literature(ducksmash.com)
3 points by nsomani 6y ago|1 comments
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by nsomani 7y ago
I think the intuition behind your Stooge sort example is that for an array separated into three segments: A | B | C The first sort moves the largest elements of A and B into B. The second sort moves the largest elements of B and C (and ther
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by nsomani 7y ago
I built this simple tool to track Twitter followers after taking a look at the alternatives. I felt like they requested way more permissions than necessary (examples: https://imgur.com/a/irCmBzo ) and I didn't feel
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Show HN: Tool to track Twitter followers with minimal permissions(unfollo.ws)
3 points by nsomani 7y ago|1 comments
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by nsomani 7y ago
I don't know if it really gets to the core points quickly. I think the information hierarchy is a little bit lacking if I can't even tell where the person has worked within a few seconds of looking at their resume - the document d
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I trained a neural net to play cards with me(apptic.me)
2 points by nsomani 7y ago|0 comments