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I'm curious, where exactly do you think his conclusions are wrong?

I lived and worked in Beijing for over 5yrs and I think his conclusions are in general pretty accurate. Which is fairly impressive for spending only 3wks there.

ML Specialist link goes to the same page as Data Operations, fyi.

This is really a great idea.

The number of issues surrounding the idea (customs, legal issues, etc.) are obvious, and the discussions around them reminds me of the questions thrown at many of the other major sharing economy start-ups initially (Uber, AirBnB, et al.), but with a good team and some experimentation they will figure them out, as other major startups have done and continue to do.

People who have spent a good chunk of time in countries outside the US, already know people have been informally doing this en masse for a _long_ time. I have family in in West Africa who would be using this years ago if available, and I have lived in Asia, and other countries where every time I travel there are friends and friends of friends who ask me to buy and carry goods on their behalf, in both directions.

To me it seems Shypmate is just creating a formal system for these actions to take place, and if successful, will make it more efficient, useful, and available to more people while extracting some value for themselves (as any startup seeking profitability should).

Good luck to the team. I think there is a lot of potential here.

Beijing Love Story (北京爱情故事). Actually 39 episodes.

Don't have a great reason why I chose it other than that it was really popular at the time, and I felt it would cover general day-to-day language well, which it did.

Seems I might be the only one confused about your wording, do you mean the top 10 articles on the front page, or top 10 comments within an article?

In answer to both questions, I do both. I usually go through the articles from #1 to ~#120, reading articles I find interesting, and usually reading all the HN comments for that article too (you can learn a ton from reading more than just the top couple of comments).

Sounds like this approach would suck up a lot of time, but HN submission topics are often pretty narrow, and my interests are somewhat narrow too, so I usually only end up reading only 4-5 HN articles or less a day.

This is great. It's crazy how huge the Who is Hiring thread has become since it began on HN. Browsing it has gone from a quick scan through to a time consuming process, even using Ctrl + F and other shortcuts.

I've been looking forward to a tool that would make going through the posts easier, so very happy to see this!

As a reference for anyone reading, South Korea has a population of a bit less than 50 million. 20 million credit card details stolen means that just under half of the country's population was affected..

There is something to be said about the drawbacks of living in such a small but highly networked society (esp. in S. Korea where the entire country has a particular 'small town' feel) but I do not have the energy to organize and put my thoughts to keyboard at the moment.

Thanks for the explanation. I was confused why this thread seemed totally off topic with no one commenting on Time Series Analysis.