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Re:Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:51AM (#19134020)
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.

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.

Re:Google API Explorer on Sunday December 03, 2017 @07:56AM (#15837383)
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?

Re:Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:05AM (#15642675)
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.
Re:Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @02:03PM (#14913049)
Maybe a delay before you can start driving after each log in encouraging drivers to stay signed in.
Re:App sizes are out of control on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @12:36PM (#14902564)
This is why code coverage is so important as part of the general development cycle.
Re:Emoji.length == 2 on Friday March 10, 2017 @08:20AM (#13838331)
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.
Re:Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic? on Sunday February 19, 2017 @09:22PM (#13683755)
What's running the function? Something on page or some ad in an iframe?
Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:44PM (#13224361)
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?

Thanks, I'll give this a try.
I use nethogs myself but it's not being placed on repos/ppa lately :( http://askubuntu.com/questions/726601/nethogs-%E2%86%92-crea...
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.

Re:Mercedes Boots Robots from the Production Line on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:30AM (#11216677)
I'm curious to know if the workers replacing the robots will be German.
Re:How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:59AM (#11133188)
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.
Re:Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:21AM (#11080601)
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.
Re:My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:44PM (#11077446)
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.
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.
reboot # And pray it'll boot.

Let's do this in production.

Re:Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers on Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:08AM (#8399383)
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.
Re:RTFM 0day in iOS apps on Friday August 22, 2014 @07:03PM (#8214337)
I tried this but was unable to reproduce it.
Re:Movie rental page on YouTube on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @08:57AM (#8172624)
To own until the studio pulls it ಠ_ಠ. https://torrentfreak.com/amazon-pulls-access-to-purchased-ch...
Re:Movie rental page on YouTube on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @02:32AM (#8171698)
$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.

Re:Show HN: Sheetlabs – Turn your spreadsheets into APIs on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @02:48AM (#8003297)
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.

Re:Simpsons in CSS on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @06:13PM (#7940990)
Looks like gooby pls

Simpsons in CSS

https://pattle.github.io/simpsons-in-css/

I've been out of the webdev game for perhaps a decade. The most recent things I've done are @Media queries.Finding this inspires me to learn about what else I could create in css - also it has really funky behavior in IE8~ and if you zoom in:)Note - this isn't mine, it was found on r/programming.

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Re:All Our Patent Are Belong To You on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:12PM (#7887142)
So Telsa Keeps their patents but anyone can use them? What are some cool non-automotive applications for their patents?:)
Re:So You’re Not Desirable on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:25AM (#7762988)
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.

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