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lsv1··on Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
You should get Google Analytics installed, and AdSense ads... at the least.
lsv1··on Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices
This practice is used in almost every industry with finite inventory by Revenue Management teams where there is opportunity to pre-empt a booking, slot, or (where I am most familiar) a tv spot.

I recall working for television systems management and having a revenue and yield optimization consultant from the airline industry present to our company with methods we could use to increased revenue by booking even more spots than we had and either pre-empting more low value TV spots with automatic optimization and moving of the spots, or simply taking more time away from marketing or promotional ads from the network.

Most of the practices recommended by this consultant we had already implemented, but there were some really neat recommendations specifically from the airline industry in order to maximize revenue, most of them revolved around overbooking. Eligible TV spots would be automatically moved forward (front-loaded) into weekly rotation selling options (groups of program sold under the same name and price).

I could go on forever, but I suppose as a general comment regarding revenue management and yield optimization there is nothing which surprises me about these practices.

lsv1··on A Key Lesson from the 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell the Truth,' One Historian Says
I read a great book which covers the Spanish Flu called The Great Influenza (https://www.amazon.ca/Great-Influenza-Revised-John-Barry/dp/...) by John M. Barry.

The book does a great job of expressing the history of medicine leading up to the 1918 Spanish Flu.

But above all the book goes into detailed recollection on the arrogance of leadership in the face of this deadly disease. From politicians listing it as merely a regular flu, to military generals choosing not to quarantine troops... leading to massive casualties and the spread of the disease. All leading up to a realization of severity, when proper measures are taken.

I believe a newer print also has a note about Swine Flu, my copy is fairly old and does not include this.

lsv1··on Google API Explorer
Great resource, I've used this often from client computers to look at some basic data before offering support.

I use most of the advertising related APIs on a daily basis. I am very happy that I can take a look at a client's account, at the client's desk, before access is provided.

An API explorer for Doubleclick for Publishers seems to be missing from the list, I presume due to the increased complexity of DFP it was not included, are there any plans to include DFP in here?

lsv1··on Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth
I don't need to fasten my seat belt, this makes perfect sense. The supply and demand of homes drives the prices, as well as some other factors, and this is simply what people who are paid a lot of money are willing to pay.
lsv1··on Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
Maybe a delay before you can start driving after each log in encouraging drivers to stay signed in.
lsv1··on App sizes are out of control
This is why code coverage is so important as part of the general development cycle.
lsv1··on Emoji.length == 2
As a developer dealing with the encoding of user input made in UTF-8 into a legacy systems which only support ASCII... I prefer this.
lsv1··on Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
What's running the function? Something on page or some ad in an iframe?
lsv1··on Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
The article doesn't explain how they made money, you need a relationship with SSPs and Exchanges to make requests and monetize the impression, even if you're just sending firing tracking pixels for creative view or complete, etc.

So how did these people make money? Are they for hire? Did they offer services to spoof the publisher domain and make revenue out of thin air, taking a cut from the pub?

lsv1··on Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco
I think it might be Nvidia - http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/08/22/nvidia-un...
lsv1··on Hogwatch – a bandwidth monitor that shows per process network transfer
Thanks, I'll give this a try.
lsv1··on Hogwatch – a bandwidth monitor that shows per process network transfer
I use nethogs myself but it's not being placed on repos/ppa lately :( http://askubuntu.com/questions/726601/nethogs-%E2%86%92-crea...
lsv1··on Hogwatch – a bandwidth monitor that shows per process network transfer
The final build should have proper shebangs and I also noticed the CSS is a little messy. I'll submit a pull request in a bit.

Otherwise I'll give it a shot.

lsv1··on Mercedes Boots Robots from the Production Line
I'm curious to know if the workers replacing the robots will be German.
lsv1··on How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
I found it difficult to meditate for very long. However, I do close my eyes and slow my breathing before I have to do something difficult, or something which causes great anxiety.
lsv1··on Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf
That's why I wrote and many others as well, I just don't know who anymore. I feel bad that I've lost touch, perhaps it's time to submit some more pull requests.
lsv1··on My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
This probably isn't the best place for this response and I sincerely apologize in advanced for my crude response but... BuzzFeed and this type of social media can fucking kill itself, I believe there is no place for this on HN.
lsv1··on Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf
I actually used this for a good while and I like when Huginn shows up. Andrew Cantino is a great dev and has put a lot of hours into this project. As well as many other contributors.
lsv1··on Replace a running Debian installation by Arch remotely over ssh
reboot # And pray it'll boot.

Let's do this in production.

lsv1··on Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers
I just bought 2 and will be trying them out over the next bit. I think these boxes will be amazing to host my client static sites and basic CMS back-ends. At $1 a month I'd like to buy 20~ in the near future.
lsv1··on RTFM 0day in iOS apps
I tried this but was unable to reproduce it.
lsv1··on Movie rental page on YouTube
To own until the studio pulls it ಠ_ಠ. https://torrentfreak.com/amazon-pulls-access-to-purchased-ch...
lsv1··on Movie rental page on YouTube
$20 to rent the Amazing Spiderman 2? Are you fucking daft? It's not worth $20 for the blu-ray or god forbid a DRM free download.

What a farce.

lsv1··on Show HN: Sheetlabs – Turn your spreadsheets into APIs
What makes this better than using the Google Docs API? I could have anyone write to a spreadsheet and in turn it would be updated when called on their API.

In fact I do that for many small business clients of mine which don't want to deal with databases for things like their product catalog and pricing lists.

Additionally you get version control, busier sites get the google doc scraped X times a minute as to not reach the request limit.

lsv1··on Simpsons in CSS
Looks like gooby pls
lsv1··on All Our Patent Are Belong To You
So Telsa Keeps their patents but anyone can use them? What are some cool non-automotive applications for their patents?:)
lsv1··on So You’re Not Desirable
I thought this article was about not being desirable in the job market for some terrible fact or harsh truth. Instead I was greeted with a fluffy article. I'm question the value of this article on HN.
lsv1··on Ubuntu LTS 12.04.4 stable update packages released prematurely
How premature was it released?
lsv1··on Oculus VR’s New “Crystal Cove” Prototype Is Kind of Amazing
A rift with eye tracking would be ridiculous :)
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