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I was trying to do the exact same thing without git and coding (so that people could just view the bookmarks, maybe react to them as a voting mechanism). Ironically I ended up coding a solution for that - https://www.axomark.xyz .

The previous version was a free service without the need to sign up - just create a bookmark collection page with an optional password, then anyone with the password can use it right away. The link to the collection could be totally anonymous because the app tracked nothing at all. But I got 0 users, apart from myself. So I rewrote it from scratch to make the collections more organizable. The sharing is still anonymous because there's no way for another user to know who created them. There has to be a way, however to track your own bookmarks, so I guess it's not truly "anonymous" as in "impossible to track" (the database contains the bookmark owner). But it seemed this time around people are more interested. I guess there has to be a balance.

Sorry for reposting, the URL in my first submission wasn't right..

I got the wrong URL submitted by accident.. Please go to this URL instead - https://www.axomark.xyz

The related news I could find were all in Chinese I'm afraid. You'll need to translate it.

[1] Story behind the sudden spike of confirmed cases in Hubei Province.

https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-51485553

[2] Official amendment of the numbers in Hubei Province. The day before, the newly confirmed cases reported in the Hubei Province was 349, while that of Wuhan city was 615 (Wuhan is a city in Hubei).

http://m.news.cctv.com/2020/02/21/ARTI5BVxbRm6O6rOBnUVpaMB20...

Given the incubation period is > 14 days, and more than just a few of the patients don't show symptoms at all, you'd be spreading the virus before you know it without a face mask.

While the world now praises the Chinese government's response (they shouldn't) to the Wuhan Corona Virus outbreak, please remember why it spread at first. Also, I doubt if the situation is actually controlled in China. Have we ever known how China counted the patients? In more than one case, the new infections in a city exceeds that of its province.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1237852245359644675?s=20

Well said. I don't get why people are so optimistic and keep trusting the WHO, given they have downplayed the situation multiple times, and that China was doing a brilliant job to contain the Wuhan Corona Virus.

Look at the spread of the corona virus in South Korea and Italy now. Then look at Hong Kong and Taiwan, whose people don't trust China for even a bit.

The first thing China did was to detain whistle blowers. One of them died from this virus. What they did was to conceal the outbreak, not tackling it.

Perhaps a more important concern is that to get this, you have to allow the police who have been committing all sorts of crimes to get a 2.6 billion hkd budget to buy even more weapons against civilians. This is nothing but a scam.

Summary of why e-voting is bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

A newer video basically reiterating the points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

Great idea, hope that will lead to more practical usage of deep learning. Any plans of building one for datasets as well? Something like Kaggle's collection, but used in research papers.

Interesting. Your view, except for that towards Chinese judicial system, aligns perfectly with Carrie Lam. Literally everything she said about the movement is found here.

I'm providing views from the movement's supporters' side, and it's nice to have the ruler's side for others' reference as well.

The whole movement started with the proposal of an extradition bill by the government which allows anyone in Hong Kong deemed guilty by the Chinese government (note: HK is not China yet) to be extradited to China for trial, even foreigners. Needless to say, people protested because the Chinese judicial system is a total joke (if you don't agree with this, I'm not going to argue with you, but the whole comment would be meaningless).

People protested peacefully at first, but the government didn't give in and sent the police and triads to beat up citizens instead. Many things happened since then, mainly involving police brutality, misconduct, and collusion with triads and the Communist regime (like allegedly deploying Chinese police and the People's Liberation Army disguised as HK police). Therefore, now it has become a protest for 5 demands, namely:

1. Complete withdrawal of the said bill (now it has been "promised" by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, but given the track record of her people will only believe it when they see it)

2. Revoke the riot definition of the protests

3. Release and cancel all the charges on people arrested for this movement

4. An independent commission to investigate police brutality and misconduct

5. True universal suffrage on both the CE and the legislative council

For software engineering, whiteboard tests/leetcode questions.

This is horrible. Is there with relevant knowledge can share how can a fire this large can be put out? It is likely that its gonna burn for many more weeks, all those wildlife habitats could be completely destroyed.

This is just one of the many incidents of police brutality that happened in the latest protest in Hong Kong. All the cases quoted below (and many more) happened just yesterday. Baton beating, framing protesters, firing tear gases in residential areas have been a "norm" to HK police and have happened every time there was a protest, so 2-3 times a week on average in almost every district in HK. They are not quoted. Numerous similar brutalities have happened throughout the protests in the past 2 months.

Some other cases are: 1. Police ground a protester's face on the ground, breaking his teeth and injuring his face: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/12/video-hong-kong-police...

2. Police shot "bean bag bullets" at a protester's eye, rupturing her right eye and caused permanent blindness: https://news.now.com/home/hot/player?newsId=358763&hot=1

3. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into MTR (subway) station at normal operating hours: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022348...

4. Police disguised as protesters to incite to riot and capture real protesters: (Same link as (1))

5. While they were insistent and brutal in arresting protesters, HK police assisted and protected triads AGAIN as they attack civilians: https://www.facebook.com/standnewshk/videos/1256615241186946...

Late to the party but thought I'd clarify because some comments are extremely misleading.

He's a member of the Astronomy Club. Also 7 Aug, the following night, is the "Seven Sister's Festival", a traditional festival in Hong Kong which stargazing is a common activity to do during.

Stargazing was a perfectly legal and reasonable intent. Not to say he was definitely not involved in the protests, but there was absolutely no evidence that he intended to use them as weapons.

The officers who approached him didn't show their warrant card at first. They also held his throat. Given the current situation in Hong Kong (triad members attacked citizens in public on 21 July and 5 Aug in 3 different places, and NO POLICE arrived at the scenes until well after the incidents, and so far no attacker is being prosecuted, despite the abundant video footage of the attacks), running away also was what sane people would do when they're threatened by 4 men with dubious identities.

Reddit thread for more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cg1sh2/chaos_and...

The bill "is dead". Well chosen words, but they mean nothing legally. She was playing with words. Only "withdrawal" has legal effect, therefore she refused to say it. She even said this definition is no difference to what she has been saying when she told the public the bill was postponed. So the whole statement was just paraphrasing the previous ones, nothing more.

While I believe the bill will not be reincarnated in a few years at least, other serious problems already arose during the recent movement. For example police brutally. She said there will be a watchdog committee that investigates the incidents in the past month, but she omitted the most important fact that the committee is formed by police let alone the fact that the decision to prosecute the police will be made by the Secretary for Justice, who herself has a record of supporting whatever political decision made by Beijing and the HK government. The committee will do nothing of use.

They wanted the suspect on trial for sure, but not under this law, as stated in your third source. Even Carrie Lam herself admitted this in the press meeting just now.

The HK government's response: https://www.news.gov.hk/eng/2019/06/20190609/20190609_231141...

The English and Chinese versions looks pretty different in tone, especially in the last sentence: 'Noting that the Second Reading debate on the bill will resume on June 12, the Government urged the Legislative Council to scrutinise the bill in a calm, reasonable and respectful manner to help ensure Hong Kong remains a safe city for residents and business.'

Understandable when this is for foreign press. Directly translated, the Chinese version says: 'The Second Reading debate on the bill will resume on June 12. End. '. Obnoxious if you understand Chinese.