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Comment · 7 years ago
I think it has backfired already. The leadership is getting desperate. They cannot contain the protests and the spirit of Hong Kong.
What did they expect after a long period of democracy and western rule of law and capital wealth, that hong kongers just roll over peacefully like in Mainland???!
This critical short sight from the current chinese leadership is incredible! now it has 2 major international scandals (falun gong organ harvesting and uighur concentration camps) from which it faces a threat to its powerbase and its about to get another one if they use excessive force in Hong Kong. but who knows! they might not give a damn.
Comment · 7 years ago
so communism is but an ephemeral and insignificant given the lengthy and turbulent history of China. It's only been around for roughly 70 years compared to the backdrop of many millenias.
Democracy has been in America for well over a 100 years, so it has china beat.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't understand what a privatized prison system has to do anything with the rest of your argument which seems to be more of a rant than anything.
Democracy isn't new its older than communism. Democracy also took time to develop in the West. It's unfathomable to someone who has never been fed information that the Party didn't change.
Comment · 7 years ago
im quite surprised that they would be willing to take such a risky bet. but after seeing Crimea get a pass from the West, more and more countries with authoritarian regime have become emboldened further more with the US in political disarray.
It appears that the leadership's patience has run out and it is nervous that it will spread to other cities like Wuhan, in which there's currently a massive protest ongoing.
This almost certainly means elevated levels of violence. They've already deployed tanks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y1ezo6m8V8) in Wuhan which means the Hong Kong PLA garrison's APCs will be making a world media debut soon.
Comment · 7 years ago
really worried for hong kong. CCP is shoring up support at home for an escalation in physical violence.
Comment · 7 years ago
The index word suddenly gave me an idea: the entire internet transformed into tabular data, searchable and open to public.
Even if we got Google's data, there's a whole lot of scraping to transform irregular and disparate. Typically you would have to google a keyword, look through the search results, visit different websites (research mode), and then consolidate separate sources of truths to build your own understanding. Building a scraper for each website in the search results and displaying a complete table data of the website. Why click through 100s of pages of profiles or data when you can have it all in one view? Why bother with HTML, when all a data-centric individual desires is data. Getting to the data is so tedious and a long journey. Scrape the website, clean the data, make it available for consumption, schedule & consolidate updates. For instance, a hedge fund that scrapes certain group of websites to execute market orders for an automated trading system.
A tabular data focused search engine would return tabular data, there would be no HTML medium, just straight up raw data. For instance, instead of seeing the comments rendered in a normal browser, imagine a tabular data that describes all the username, post time, comment minus the hierarchy.
To build a focused crawler quickly, I came up with Web Scraping Language (https://scrapeit.netlify.com), and essentially what I want to do is hire people to write WSL to scrape the web and then sell a subscription to data-centric customers.
What do ya say HN?
Comment · 7 years ago
isn't there like a google sheets user cap that severely limits this for production?
Comment · 7 years ago
I would love to get a hands on the source. Hook it up to an API like https://pokr.live and then basically build a computer vision poker bot.
The trick is how to create natural mouse click movements or keyboard inputs. This is the part that I'm most shaky on but the pokr.live API works by sending screenshots which it will translate into player actions at the table
disclaimer: pokr.live API is a WIP
Comment · 7 years ago
will you release the source code?
Comment · 7 years ago
;)
https://pokr.live
https://saasful.com