Dragon BASIC, online at http://github.com/uli/dragonbasic
ABS - Calculates the absolute value of an integer.
ALIGNED - Calculates an aligned address.
ALLOCATE - Dynamically allocates an array of bytes.
BLOCKS - Calculates how many tile blocks an image uses.
DMACOPY - Copies words (32-bit) of data from one address to another.
DMAWAIT - Waits for the current DMA transfer to finish.
FIX# - Converts an integer to a fixed-point value.
FSQRT# - Calculates the square root value of a fixed-point value.
INT - Converts a fixed-point value to an integer.
ROUND - Rounds a fixed-point value up or down and returns an integer.
SQRT - Calculates the square root value of an integer.
TILEOFFSET - Calculates the tile offset in a character block for a given number of tile blocks.


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public class ListenerGroup
extends java.lang.Object
If listener wants to listen, he has to be in one or more groups. This group contains mechanism for auto listening and refreshing the source document and for explicit listening called by user.
If you want to create a group, you have to specify a supplier able to supply fresh version of document. In this case,
the supplier is represent by Supplier
functional interface.
Each listener contains the max age of document, that can be regarded as a fresh. If this parameter is not specify
in constructor, the default value will be used.
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
addAllListeners(Listener... listeners)
Call the
addListener(Listener) method for each listeners in given array. |
void |
addListener(Listener listener)
Configure the given listener and add it to the listeners list.
|
void |
destroy()
Destroy this listener group.
|
java.util.List<Listener> |
getListeners()
Simple getter, that return unmodifiable version of the listeners list.
|
long |
getMaxRefreshingDelay()
Simple getter, that return value of the max refreshing delay attribute.
|
void |
check()
Do the same as
check(java.util.function.Predicate) method, but apply listening to all listeners. |
void |
check(java.util.function.Predicate<Listener> update)
Apply listening to listeners, that return true for given predicate.
|
boolean |
isDestroyed()
Return
true , if this group was destroyed. |
static ListenerGroup |
newGroup(java.util.function.Supplier<org.jsoup.nodes.Document> document)
This factory method do the same as
newGroup(java.util.function.Supplier, long) , but fill the
maximal refreshing delay with default value. |
static ListenerGroup |
newGroup(java.util.function.Supplier<org.jsoup.nodes.Document> document,
long maxRefreshingDelay)
Returns a new group with given document supplier and max refreshing delay.
|
void |
refresh()
Refresh a document the group is working on.
|
void |
setMaxRefreshingDelay(long newValue)
Simple setter, that set the max refreshing delay attribute to the given value.
|
public static ListenerGroup newGroup(@NotNull java.util.function.Supplier<org.jsoup.nodes.Document> document, long maxRefreshingDelay) throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
getDocument != null && maxRefreshingDelay >= ListenerConfig.MIN_AUTO_CHECKING
has to return
true
.document
- the document supplier for the new groupmaxRefreshingDelay
- the max age of document, that can be int the new group regarded as a freshjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if given document is null
or maximal refreshing delay is not validListenerGroup(java.util.function.Supplier, long)
,
newGroup(java.util.function.Supplier)
,
ListenerGroup
public static ListenerGroup newGroup(java.util.function.Supplier<org.jsoup.nodes.Document> document) throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
newGroup(java.util.function.Supplier, long)
, but fill the
maximal refreshing delay with default value.document
- the document supplier for the new groupjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- if given document is null
ListenerGroup(java.util.function.Supplier, long)
,
ListenerGroup
public void addListener(Listener listener) throws org.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
Listener
is on, add it to worker's list to apply auto listening.listener
- a listener to be added; if it's null
it won't be added to listeners listAlreadyDestroyedException
- if Listener
was already destroyedorg.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
public void addAllListeners(Listener... listeners) throws org.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
addListener(Listener)
method for each listeners in given array.
In fact, this do the same as:
for(Listener l : listeners) {
addListener(l);
}
listeners
- array of listeners to add by addListener(Listener)
methodAlreadyDestroyedException
- if Listener
was already destroyedorg.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
public void check() throws org.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
check(java.util.function.Predicate)
method, but apply listening to all listeners.AlreadyDestroyedException
- if Listener
was already destroyedorg.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
public void check(java.util.function.Predicate<Listener> update) throws org.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
refresh()
method. A document is fresh enough when delay between
his loading time and now is less than max refreshing delay.update
- this function has to determine, if we should apply listening to a listenerAlreadyDestroyedException
- if Listener
was already destroyedorg.webchecker.watcher.ListenerGroup.AlreadyDestroyedException
public void refresh()
public void destroy()
AlreadyDestroyedException
!
This method should be called, when you know, that you will not use this group in the future.
public boolean isDestroyed()
true
, if this group was destroyed.true
if this group was destroyed; otherwise false
destroy()
public java.util.List<Listener> getListeners()
public long getMaxRefreshingDelay()
public void setMaxRefreshingDelay(long newValue)
newValue
- new value of the max refreshing delay attribute


Regrexit Map
On 23rd June the British public voted with a majority of 51.9% to 48.1% to leave the EU. Many were shocked at the result, expressing
regrexit for the outcome.
Over four million people signed a
petition calling for a second chance at the referendum.
Interact
This map shows the level of regrexit for each constituency. Click on the map to see the details for each.
What does it all mean?
Each constituency is shaded between
blue and
yellow.
Blue (regrexit value between 0.0 and 1.0) indicates the population accepts the result in the constituency.
Yellow (regrexit value greater than 1.0) indicates the population regrets the result.
How is it calculated?
We compare the referendum results against the number of people who signed the petition. For each constituency we calculate the number of signatures we would expect given the remain votes cast in the area and compare it against the number of actual names on the petition. The regrexit value is then calculated as:
Regrexit =
signatures /
Expected.
We have to make a few assumptions, which you can find in the
full details.

No, not really. We actually have to make a few too many assumptions. Maybe there's a hint of truth in the numbers, but that's for you to decide.
Who's responsible for this?


Smart Lights
Lights & Groups
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Automation
Party
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Threshold {{condition.value.relation}} {{condition.value.threshold}}
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Network Device
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Device
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Type
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Color State
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Transition in 100ms
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Delay in sec.
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Type
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PART II. EXECUTION
Rules of Court
See HRCP rules 64, 69; DCRCP rules 64, 69.
§651-31 Time of issuance. Execution and alias executions upon any judgment or decree of a court for the payment of money, may be issued at any time during the life of the judgment or decree. [CC 1859, §1031; am L 1919, c 42, §1; RL 1925, §2436; am L 1929, c 81, §1; RL 1935, §4135; RL 1945, §10162; RL 1955, §233-30; HRS §651-31; am L 1970, c 188, §39]
Revision Note
The words "of record or a judge thereof, or any judgment of a district magistrate" following "court" have been deleted to give effect to L 1970, c 188.
Case Notes
Execution on subsisting and valid foreign judgment. 128 F. Supp. 697, 706 (1955).
Issuance of second writ of execution. 18 H. 307 (1907).


THE BIG ONE A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1998 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ***
Unlike those who think documentaries exist only in the landscape of serious ideas like the study of famine or repression, Michael Moore sees the genre in a completely different terrain. He envisions the art form as a way to mix theater of the absurd with standup comedy, and he wraps this all around a serious subject. In his latest movie, the maker of the famous ROGER & ME tackles the issue of corporate downsizing in America. But don't be taken in, this is just a ruse to let Moore demonstrate his considerable talent as a comedian. In one of the funnier movies this year, THE BIG ONE takes an unabashedly one-sided position on a subject that it really cares little about and produces one funny sequence after another.
The picture, which alternates between Moore's appearances in front of college audiences and his confrontations with public relations people at recently downsized firms, starts with a traditional monologue. Filmed in 1996 when he was on a book tour to promote his book "Downsize This! Random Thoughts From An Unarmed American," he starts by describing the results of his phony letter scam.
Using official-looking letterhead and checks, he donated $100 to each of the major presidential candidates, allegedly from groups that each would most likely find offensive. Pat Buchanan's check, for example, was from Abortionists for Buchanan. Every organization cashed the checks. He even got a computer-generated response, he claimed, from the Perot organization, thanking "Pedophiles of America for Free Trade" for their generous donation. The college audience went wild as he told the story.
When the Clinton organization found out after the fact that they had been hoodwinked, presidential press secretary Mike McCurry complained on television that Moore was an evil influence in politics. Moore's response in the film is to show pictures of the Lincoln bedroom and say his problem was that he just didn't donate enough to get any of the perks.
This fast-paced documentary veritably pulsates with energy. Using music as charged as the film's star and editing it with a deft touch, the movie never flags even if the last half does begin to get repetitious.
Skewering everyone, he develops a thesis that Steve Forbes is actually an alien from outer space. In typical Moore fashion, he takes an outlandish position and uses humor to make his point via pseudo-scientific analysis.
The show is at its most awkward when Moore meets people who have actually been downsized. He is in his element making low-level human resource people and company guards squirm, but comforting someone with real problems does not come naturally to him. The bottom line is that, as social commentary, the film is an abysmal failure, but, as comedy, it delivers. (It also has the misfortune of being released in a time when we have the lowest unemployment rate in several decades, so the tragedy of downsizing is no longer on many newspaper headlines or many people's minds.)
After ridiculing a long list of companies, where he never gets he further than the lobby, Moore finally hits potential pay dirt when Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike, invites him in for an interview. Although the jubilant Moore tries his best to make him look foolish, Knight finds the whole episode hilarious, laughing through almost every minute of it.
So where does the title of the movie come from? In the funniest segment of all, Moore discusses how we could better market "The United States of America." He argues that this name on battleships doesn't have near the power of something like "Great Britain," whom he calls a little island with an impressive name. He proposes we rename our country, "The Big One," since that's how we see our place in the world anyway.
He goes on to propose the music, "We will, we will - rock you," as a more powerful national anthem, cutting to a pumped-up crowd singing it while lasers pulsate around them. And finally, in place of our coinage's "In God We Trust," he suggests a motto better suited to current American culture, "In by 10, out by 2."
THE BIG ONE runs a fast 1:36. It is rated PG-13 for some strong language and would be fine for kids around twelve and up.
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{% extends 'explore/subject.html' %} {% block child %}
In these figures, we are looking to get a sense of the quality of our nuisance regression. First, we check how our eroded anatomical white matter (WM) mask aligns with the WM mask and structural brain it derives from:
Next, we look to see the principal components estimated by Principal Component Regression of the WM signals:


2020, Day 9: Encoding Error
This turned out be to nice and easy but it does give satisfaction.
The strategy for first part is to use at the same time a deque
and a intset
(hey, I did not know there is a new packedset
that will generalize and replace
intset
).
The second part was rather straightforward with two nested for loops.
I would say anyway the main technique here is a wise use of break
statement,
especially using named blocks.
But first things first, parsing the input this time is a simple one-liner:
proc parse(text: string): seq[int] =
text.splitLines.map(parseInt)
let
input = parse "2020/input09.txt".readFile
example = parse """35
20
15
25
47
40
62
55
65
95
102
117
150
182
127
219
299
277
309
576"""
echo input.len
echo example.len
1000 20
and I can pack the solution in a single proc:
proc solve(s: seq[int]; l: int): (int, int) =
var
d = initDeque[int]()
p = initIntSet() ## p stands for packedsets, I tried to use it but I do not have it yet
##
## d and p are synchronized to contain same stuff
n: int
for i in 0 ..< l:
d.addLast(s[i])
p.incl s[i]
block findInvalid:
for i in l ..< s.len:
n = s[i]
block findPair:
for m in d:
if n != m and n - m in p:
break findPair
## if I get here it means I have not found a sum!
break findInvalid ## n is answer for part1
p.incl n
p.excl d.popFirst
d.addLast n
## part 2
var
nMin, nMax: int
cumSum = s[0]
block findSum:
for k in 0 ..< s.len:
cumSum = 0
nMin = int.high
nMax = 0
for l in k ..< s.len:
cumSum += s[l]
if s[l] < nMin:
nMin = s[l]
if s[l] > nMax:
nMax = s[l]
if cumSum == n:
break findSum
if cumSum > n:
break
return (n, nMin + nMax)
echo solve(example, 5) ## 127, 62
echo solve(input, 25) ## 133015568, 16107959
(127, 62) (133015568, 16107959)


I always apply rigorous standards to everything that I do. Mistakes are rectified as soon as they are uncovered. During my time as a professional software developer I have always continued to improve myself and find faster and more efficient ways to get things done.


String id
String runmode
String port
String controlPort
String contextPath
String vmOpts
String debug
"true"
, the process will allow a debugger to connect on port 8000.
If set to some other string, that string will be appended to this server's vmOpts
, allowing you to configure arbitrary debugging options.
If the global configuration property StartMojo.debug
is set on the mojo itself, it will be used instead.String opts
int instances
File folder
String stdOutFile
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#include <ResourceManager.hpp>
|
| void | Initialize () |
| | This method is used to setup all the necessary resources that may be required as soon as the game starts. More...
|
| |
| SDL_Texture * | GetImageResourceBMP (const std::string &resource_id, SDL_Renderer *renderer) |
| | This method is used to retrieve the image resources available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion. More...
|
| |
| SDL_Texture * | GetImageResourcePNG (const std::string &resource_id, SDL_Renderer *renderer) |
| | This method is used to retrieve the image resources available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion. More...
|
| |
| Mix_Chunk * | GetSoundEffectResource (const std::string &resource_id) |
| | This method is used to retrieve the sound effects available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion. More...
|
| |
| Mix_Music * | GetMusicResource (const std::string &resource_id) |
| | This method is used to retrieve the audio tracks available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion. More...
|
| |
| LevelData * | GetLevelMapResource (const std::string &resource_id, unsigned int row, unsigned int col) |
| | This method is used to retrieve the level maps available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion. More...
|
| |
| void | Shutdown () |
| | This method is used to shutdown the resource manner in a proper way and should be called whenever the user exits the game. More...
|
| |
| | ~ResourceManager ()=default |
| |
|
| static ResourceManager * | GetInstance () |
| | The static method that returns an instance of the game manager. If the instance is not created yet, this method also instantiates it. More...
|
| |
◆ ~ResourceManager()
| ResourceManager::~ResourceManager |
( |
| ) |
|
|
default |
◆ GetImageResourceBMP()
| SDL_Texture * ResourceManager::GetImageResourceBMP |
( |
const std::string & |
resource_id, |
|
|
SDL_Renderer * |
renderer |
|
) |
| |
This method is used to retrieve the image resources available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion.
Since only a pointer to the image resource is passed, it is ensured that requesting the same resource multiple times will not flood the memory with redundant copies. This method is optimized for BMP files.
- Parameters
-
| resource_id | The unique resource ID for the asset. This ID is mostly the location of the corresponding file from which the resource is loaded. |
| renderer | A pointer to the SDL_Renderer* that is used to create texture for the image resource (if the resource is not loaded into memory yet. |
- Returns
- A pointer to the SDL_Texture of the rendered image resource as a SDL_Texture.
◆ GetImageResourcePNG()
| SDL_Texture * ResourceManager::GetImageResourcePNG |
( |
const std::string & |
resource_id, |
|
|
SDL_Renderer * |
renderer |
|
) |
| |
This method is used to retrieve the image resources available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion.
Since only a pointer to the image resource is passed, it is ensured that requesting the same resource multiple times will not flood the memory with redundant copies. This method is optimized for PNG files.
- Parameters
-
| resource_id | The unique resource ID for the asset. This ID is mostly the location of the corresponding file from which the resource is loaded. |
| renderer | A pointer to the SDL_Renderer* that is used to create texture for the image resource (if the resource is not loaded into memory yet. |
- Returns
- A pointer to the SDL_Texture of the rendered image resource as a SDL_Texture.
◆ GetInstance()
The static method that returns an instance of the game manager. If the instance is not created yet, this method also instantiates it.
- Returns
- The singleton instance of the class.
◆ GetLevelMapResource()
| LevelData * ResourceManager::GetLevelMapResource |
( |
const std::string & |
resource_id, |
|
|
unsigned int |
row, |
|
|
unsigned int |
col |
|
) |
| |
This method is used to retrieve the level maps available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion.
Since only a pointer to the resource is passed, it is ensured that requesting the same resource multiple times will not flood the memory with redundant copies.
- Parameters
-
| resource_id | The unique resource ID for the asset. This ID is mostly the location of the corresponding file from which the resource is loaded. |
| row | The number of rows in the level map that is being attempted to load. |
| col | The number of columns in the level map that is being attempted to load. |
- Returns
- A pointer to the Mix_Music of the loaded audio track resource.
◆ GetMusicResource()
| Mix_Music * ResourceManager::GetMusicResource |
( |
const std::string & |
resource_id | ) |
|
This method is used to retrieve the audio tracks available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion.
Since only a pointer to the resource is passed, it is ensured that requesting the same resource multiple times will not flood the memory with redundant copies.
- Parameters
-
| resource_id | The unique resource ID for the asset. This ID is mostly the location of the corresponding file from which the resource is loaded. |
- Returns
- A pointer to the Mix_Music of the loaded audio track resource.
◆ GetSoundEffectResource()
| Mix_Chunk * ResourceManager::GetSoundEffectResource |
( |
const std::string & |
resource_id | ) |
|
This method is used to retrieve the sound effects available in the game. The resources are loaded in a lazy fashion.
Since only a pointer to the resource is passed, it is ensured that requesting the same resource multiple times will not flood the memory with redundant copies.
- Parameters
-
| resource_id | The unique resource ID for the asset. This ID is mostly the location of the corresponding file from which the resource is loaded. |
- Returns
- A pointer to the Mix_Chunk of the loaded sound effect resource.
◆ Initialize()
| void ResourceManager::Initialize |
( |
| ) |
|
This method is used to setup all the necessary resources that may be required as soon as the game starts.
This method should be called as early as possible, to ensure that the resources are available.
- Parameters
-
| language | The language in which the user should see the user interface for the game. |
◆ Shutdown()
| void ResourceManager::Shutdown |
( |
| ) |
|
This method is used to shutdown the resource manner in a proper way and should be called whenever the user exits the game.
This method clears all the mapping of the loaded resources and deletes all dynamically allocated memory. Calling this method will nullify the current instance of GameResourceManager.
The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:


Recipe 4.1. Copying an ObjectCredit: Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, Peter Cogolo ProblemYou want to copy an object. However, when you assign an object, pass it as an argument, or return it as a result, Python uses a reference to the original object, without making a copy. SolutionModule copy in the standard Python library offers two functions to create copies. The one you should generally use is the function named copy, which returns a new object containing exactly the same items and attributes as the object you're copying: import copy new_list = copy.copy(existing_list) On the rare occasions when you also want every item and attribute in the object to be separately copied, recursively, use deepcopy: import copy new_list_of_dicts = copy.deepcopy(existing_list_of_dicts) DiscussionWhen you assign an object (or pass it as an argument, or return it as a result), Python (like Java) uses a reference to the original object, not a copy. Some other programming languages make copies every time you assign something. Python never makes copies "implicitly" just because you're assigning: to get a copy, you must specifically request a copy. Python's behavior is simple, fast, and uniform. However, if you do need a copy and do not ask for one, you may have problems. For example: >>> a = [1, 2, 3] >>> b = a >>> b.append(5) >>> print a, b [1, 2, 3, 5] [1, 2, 3, 5] Here, the names a and b both refer to the same object (a list), so once we alter the object through one of these names, we later see the altered object no matter which name we use for it. No original, unaltered copy is left lying about anywhere.
If you are about to alter an object, but you want to keep the original object unaltered, you must make a copy. As this recipe's solution explains, the module copy from the Python Standard Library offers two functions to make copies. Normally, you use copy.copy, which makes a shallow copyit copies an object, but for each attribute or item of the object, it continues to share references, which is faster and saves memory. Shallow copying, alas, isn't sufficient to entirely "decouple" a copied object from the original one, if you propose to alter the items or attributes of either object, not just the object itself: >>> list_of_lists = [ ['a'], [1, 2], ['z', 23] ] >>> copy_lol = copy.copy(lists_of_lists) >>> copy_lol[1].append('boo') >>> print list_of_lists, copy_lol [['a'], [1, 2, 'boo'], ['z', 23]] [['a'], [1, 2, 'boo'], ['z', 23]] Here, the names list_of_lists and copy_lol refer to distinct objects (two lists), so we could alter either of them without affecting the other. However, each item of list_of_lists is the same object as the corresponding item of copy_lol, so once we alter an item reached by indexing either of these names, we later see the altered item no matter which object we're indexing to reach it. If you do need to copy some container object and also recursively copy all objects it refers to (meaning all items, all attributes, and also items of items, items of attributes, etc.), use copy.deepcopysuch deep copying may cost you substantial amounts of time and memory, but if you gotta, you gotta. For deep copies, copy.deepcopy is the only way to go. For normal shallow copies, you may have good alternatives to copy.copy, if you know the type of the object you want to copy. To copy a list L, call list(L); to copy a dict d, call dict(d); to copy a set s (in Python 2.4, which introduces the built-in type set), call set(s). (Since list, dict, and, in 2.4, set, are built-in names, you do not need to perform any "preparation" before you use any of them.) You get the general pattern: to copy a copyable object o, which belongs to some built-in Python type t, you may generally just call t(o). dicts also offer a dedicated method to perform a shallow copy: d.copy( ) and dict(d) do the same thing. Of the two, I suggest you use dict(d): it's more uniform with respect to other types, and it's even shorter by one character! To copy instances of arbitrary types or classes, whether you coded them or got them from a library, just use copy.copy. If you code your own classes, it's generally not worth the bother to define your own copy or clone method. If you want to customize the way instances of your class get (shallowly) copied, your class can supply a special method _ _copy_ _ (see Recipe 6.9 for a special technique relating to the implementation of such a method), or special methods _ _getstate_ _ and _ _setstate_ _. (See Recipe 7.4 for notes on these special methods, which also help with deep copying and serializationi.e., picklingof instances of your class.) If you want to customize the way instances of your class get deeply copied, your class can supply a special method _ _deepcopy_ _ (see Recipe 6.9.) Note that you do not need to copy immutable objects (strings, numbers, tuples, etc.) because you don't have to worry about altering them. If you do try to perform such a copy, you'll just get the original right back; no harm done, but it's a waste of time and code. For example: >>> s = 'cat' >>> t = copy.copy(s) >>> s is t True The is operator checks whether two objects are not merely equal, but in fact the same object (is checks for identity; for checking mere equality, you use the == operator). Checking object identity is not particularly useful for immutable objects (we're using it here just to show that the call to copy.copy was useless, although innocuous). However, checking object identity can sometimes be quite important for mutable objects. For example, if you're not sure whether two names a and b refer to separate objects, or whether both refer to the same object, a simple and very fast check a is b lets you know how things stand. That way you know whether you need to copy the object before altering it, in case you want to keep the original object unaltered.
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Represents an object stored in Baidu Bos. |
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Container for the parameters of the CompleteMultipartUpload operation. |
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Provides options for copying an Baidu Bos object from a source location to a new destination. |
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Contains the data returned by Baidu Bos from the BosClient.copyObject(CopyObjectRequest copyObjectRequest) call. |
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Contains options to generate a pre-signed URL for an Baidu BOS resource. |
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Request object containing all the options for requesting a bucket's Access Control List (ACL). |
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Get Bucket Location Request class |
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Get Bucket Location Response |
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Provides options for obtaining the metadata for the specified Baidu Bos object without actually fetching the object contents. |
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Provides options for downloading an Baidu Bos object. |
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The InitiateMultipartUploadRequest contains the parameters used for the InitiateMultipartUpload method. |
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Contains the results of initiating a multipart upload, particularly the unique ID of the new multipart upload. |
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Request object for listing all the Baidu Bos buckets owned by a user. |
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Response object for listing all the Baidu Bos buckets owned by a user. |
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Container for the parameters of the ListMultipartUploads operation. |
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The ListMultipartUploadsResponse contains all the information about the ListMultipartUploads method. |
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Contains options to return a list of summary information about the objects in the specified bucket. |
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Contains the results of listing the objects in an Baidu Bos bucket. |
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Container for the the parameters of the ListParts operation. |
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Represents the object metadata that is stored with Baidu Bos. |
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Container for the part number and ETag of an uploaded part. |
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Uploads a new object to the specified Baidu Bos bucket. |
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Contains the data returned by Baidu Bos from the putObject operation. |
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Request object containing all the options for setting a bucket's Access Control List (ACL). |
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Contains the parameters used for the UploadPart operation on Baidu Bos. |
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Contains the details returned from Baidu Bos after calling the UploadPart operation. |
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| AbortMultipartUploadRequest
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Represents an object stored in Baidu Bos. |
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Contains the summary of an object stored in a Baidu Bos bucket. |
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Represents an Baidu Bos bucket. |
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Container for the parameters of the CompleteMultipartUpload operation. |
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Provides options for copying an Baidu Bos object from a source location to a new destination. |
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Provides options for creating an Baidu Bos bucket. |
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Get Bucket Location Request class |
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Provides options for obtaining the metadata for the specified Baidu Bos object without actually fetching the object contents. |
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Provides options for downloading an Baidu Bos object. |
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Specifies a grant, consisting of one grantee and one permission. |
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Represents the grantee of an Baidu Bos bucket. |
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Request object for listing all the Baidu Bos buckets owned by a user. |
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Container for the parameters of the ListMultipartUploads operation. |
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Contains options to return a list of summary information about the objects in the specified bucket. |
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Container for the the parameters of the ListParts operation. |
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A multipart upload is an upload to Baidu Bos that is creating by uploading individual pieces of an object, then telling Baidu Bos to complete the multipart upload and concatenate all the individual pieces together into a single object. |
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Represents the object metadata that is stored with Baidu Bos. |
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Container for the part number and ETag of an uploaded part. |
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Container for summary information about a part in a multipart upload, such as part number, size, etc. |
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Uploads a new object to the specified Baidu Bos bucket. |
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Container object for overriding headers on a GetObjectRequest or GeneratePresignedUrlRequest response. |
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Request object containing all the options for setting a bucket's Access Control List (ACL). |
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| Without replacement | \(\frac{n!}{(n-k)!}\) | \(\binom{n}{k}\) |
| With replacement | \(n^k\) | \(\binom{n+k-1}{k}\) |
Ordered draw without replacement immediately implies that the number of draws (\(k\)) has to be smaller or equal to the number of items (\(n\)) drawn. You realize in the figure above that after \(k\) draws you have \(n-(k-1)\) choices and after the draw you have \(n-k\) balls left. This means that the total number of combinations you can make is:
\(n \cdot (n-1) \cdots (n-(k-1)) = \frac{n \cdot (n-1) \cdots (n-(k-1)) \cdot (n-k) \cdots 2 \cdot 1}{(n-k) \cdot (n-k-1) \cdots 2 \cdot 1} \\ = \frac{n!}{(n-k)!} \).
This means for the special case, where \(k=n\): \(n!\)Here it is very important to note that we only count unique combinations of balls, which means that for \(k=n\) there is only one combination. For \(k\) draws of balls there are exactly \(k \cdot (k-1) \cdots 2 \cdot 1 = k!\) permutations, which is exactly the logic that applies to the ordered draw without replacement
This means that we need to divide the formula for the ordered draw by \(k!\) to obtain the formula for the unordered case:\(\frac{n!}{k!\cdot (n-k)!} := \binom{n}{k}\).
Here the same item can be drawn multiple times.
This case is rather simple, as in every draw n balls are available and so the amount of different draws is:
\(n^k\).
In case the draw is unordered, one can obtain a formula by using an analogy (which essentially tries to refer to the case without replacement), which I want to explain with the help of the following figure:
Imagine you have k buckets to place your marbles into and you also have at least k objects of each kind of marble. As the order does not count, you can imagine that you have a slider or separator for each kind of marble: for \(n\) marbles you need \(n-1\) separations. Now each unique arrangement will have different slider positions. In principle, each slider has k positions to select from. Here comes the crux: As multiple sliders can occupy the same position, the positions you draw from equals the number of buckets plus the number of sliders = \(k+(n-1)\). We have to place \(n-1\) sliders, therefore the number of arrangements are:
\(\binom{k+(n-1)}{n-1} = \binom{k+(n-1)}{k}\).


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The Volume of a Box is Equal to the Sum of the Volume of its Partitions
Let $I\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$ be a box and let $P$ be a partition with indexing set $J$ and subboxes $\{I^{(\vec\alpha)}:\vec{\alpha}\in J\}$. Then
$$\begin{align*}
\mu(I)=\sum_{\vec{\alpha}\in J}\\ \mu(I^{\vec{\alpha}})=\prod_{k=1}^n(x_k^{(\alpha_k)}-x_k^{(\alpha_k-1)}),
\end{align*}$$
for each $k\in\{1, \dots, n \}$, where
$$\begin{align*}
(b_k-a_k)=\sum_{i=1}^{l_k}(x_k^{(i)}-x_k^{(i-1)}).
\end{align*}$$
Then using a combination of expanding, rearranging, and subsituting, we get
$$\begin{align*}
\mu(I)&=\prod_{k=1}^{n}\sum_{i=1}^{l_k}(x_{k}^{(i)}-x_k^{(i-1)})\\
&=[\sum_{i=1}^{l_1}(x_k^{(\alpha_1)}-x_k^{(\alpha_1-1)})]\dots [\sum_{j=1}^{l_n}(x_k^{(\alpha_n)}-x_k^{(\alpha_n-1)})] \\
&=\sum_{\alpha_1=1}^{l_1}\dots\sum_{\alpha_n=1}^{l_n}\prod_{k=1}^n (x_k^{(\alpha_k)}-x_k^{(\alpha_k-1)}) \\
&=\sum_{\alpha\in J} \prod_{k=1}^n(x_k^{(\alpha_k)}-x_k^{(\alpha_k-1)})\\
&=\sum_{\alpha\in J}\mu(I^{\vec{\alpha}}).
\end{align*}$$
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By definition,
$$\begin{align*}
\mu(I)&=\prod_{k=1}^{n} (b_k-a_k)\\ \mu(I^{(\vec{\alpha})})&=\prod_{k=1}^n (x_k^{\alpha_k}-x_k^{(\alpha_k-1)})
\end{align*}$$ for each $k\in\{ 1, \dots, n\}$, where $(b_k-a_k)=\sum_{i=1}^{l_k}(x_k^{(i)}-x_k^{(i-1)})$. Then we get
$$\begin{align*}
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Lean UX NYC Day #1: Notes
Here are my non-comprehensive notes from Day 1 of Lean UX NYC conference. The notes are on things that
I want to remember, but could be useful to others. Cheers!
Lean Branding — Cindy Gallop, Make Love Not Porn
When trying to push forward with a startup lots of people will try to shoot you down with their common sense.
From Waterfall to Lean — Bruce Eckfeld, Dev team consultant
There are 2 different types of software development:
- Predictive – Where you know all of the specs so can go waterfall. (like building a house)
- Adaptive – Where there are a lot of unknowns and things are going to change. (like startups)
There are 2 different causes of disruption and waste to your dev cycle:
- Common – Things like bad process within your dev team.
- Special – Things like your CEO coming in and changing things mid dev cycle.
You need to make sure you’re focused on fixing the right waste. The one that’ll have the biggest impact in value when fixed.
Lean Product Management — Melissa Perri, Conductor
“This isn’t what I needed” really isn’t what you want to hear from your customers after you’ve built something.
Customers will only use a product if it fills a need.
Don’t build all of the things. You CAN’T built all of the features. You should be pushing back on the vast majority of them. Also you HAVE to validate before building.
Melissa used a formula to work out the amount of $ that it would have cost to built a feature that didn’t work, and shows that to people when she proves that it wouldn’t have worked. She uses costs by working it out using developer salaries, then can compare this to profit made directly from the feature too.
This talk emphasized that boss’s, business, etc really are focused on building stuff. Shipping stuff. Rather than shipping stuff that’s validated to work.
MVPs are just a test, not a feature. It should never be left up. If you’re building an MVP out enough to be left up then you’re building an MVP wrong. It should be much more minimal.
Lean Startup in Design Consulting — Johanna Kollman, Sidekick
Sprints are good if you know what you’re making. Experiments are needed if you don’t know what you’re making.
Always ask the CEO/stakeholders what success looks like. What your goal is.
When building things really think about how they’re going to help with where the money comes from. How they’re going to help the stakeholders pitch. Steve Jacobs of Gilt went straight to this too when we spoke with him.
You should always be about the problem, knowing the problem inside out and solving it. You shouldn’t be solution focused, you should be problem focused.
 Showing unique things that you’ve learned rocks.
You’re going to be wrong often. Remember that. You’re going to conduct a lot of experiments, as you should, and you’re going to be wrong often.
Minimum Viable UX — Grace Ng, Lean Startup Machine
During customer interviews you need to understand how painful the customers problem is. It needs to be really painful for them to really want your product. It also needs to be a frequent problem. You want high pain, high frequency.
By delivering the service manually to a customer you can always see the customers problems and reactions. So you can always keep your focus on the huge problem. You can move extremely fast on the customer’s data. You should go for conceirge your idea with roughly 10 customers.
Grace always details the Existing Behaviour (how the customer currently solves the problem). Something covered a fantastically at detail by Jason Evanish.
Fast UX Research for Engineers — Tomer Sharon, Google
The big focus on Tomer’s talk was: Don’t listen to users, watch their behaviour.
Observe what they do. There’s a big difference between what people say they do and what they actually do, so you can’t ask them questions, you can’t ask for feedback. It’s doesn’t work. You have to observe what they actually do.
Never ask for feedback, instead watch them we it. Even if its a paper prototype.
Noticability test: Use this test to find out if a user has seen a piece of functionality or UI that’s on the screen.  Also add some elements that weren’t there, and take a few out. Ask them to reassemble it. Ask them to sketch in what was missing. Did they leave out why doesn’t belong? Did they put in extra things that they want?
A/B usability test: A standalone a/b test only tells you what happened, not why. You have to observe and question your user if you want to find out why.  If someone at your company finds out that you product isn’t nearly as good as a competitors then it’s going to get fixed!
The rainbow spreadsheet: Totally awesome framework and system for recording UX tests. Detailed heavily here, including a template. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2013/04/11/rainbow-spreadsheet-collaborative-ux-research-tool/
Mixing Lean UX and Agile — Lane Halley and Courtney Hemphill, Carbonfive
They use a 1 week sprint to focus on experimentation in sprints.
Sprint Structure:
- Monday: Reflect and design — Big whiteboards, lots of feedback, define hypothesis, then team takes the afternoon to clean up random work and prep.
- Tuesday: Spec — Write user stories (include role, feature, business value), pair sketching with design, story mapping
- Wednesday & Thursday: Build and refine — Coding, more collaboration, lots of whiteboard wire framing, creation of a living style guide (a must have so that coders don’t get blocked by design), coders get feedback and make decisions with designers on the spot—no need for mocks, story acceptance (should probably find out what this is…).
- Friday: Customer feedback — Always do testing on Friday. Always. Never skip this. Can use task rabbit to bring in users. Specify testing as broad or specific. There were lots of other details for how to do this testing, but this is covered heavily elsewhere. Google Ventures do a great job of providing resources for it.
IBM Design — Ari Font Llitjos, IBM
If there was one thing I took away from this talk it was this awesome quote:
“You can’t dictate great outcomes”
Also, you should provide your team with a framework for a freedom to act, giving them autonomy.
 Follow @writebeard now. Do it.
Copy is a guide not a crutch — don’t explain your UX with copy.
If you take more than 8 words or less to say something, fix the design instead. This comes from a scientific study on readability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readability_test
Your UX should be like a conversation with the user. For some reason when we communicate to the user in computer software we turn into robots and use jargon. Explain things to the user in concise plain text instead. The user is a person, talk to them like one. Example of the “Job goals” UX at TheLadders being misunderstood by most people. Whereas “Tell us about the job you want” was extremely clear.
Never use internal terminology.
Have we prepared the user for what we’re about to show to them? Are they ready for our signup flow? Or are we going to be surprising and/or jarring them?
Are we using the same language on twitter, email, etc as we are in the product. Does it provide a good UX when you come from email, twitter to the product? Take some time each month to sit down and run through these flows—just looking at the copy.
Sustainable Pace, Agile and the Big Design Refactor — Jonathan Berger, Pivotal Labs
Incorporating designers alongside the engineering team in an agile process is tough.
Designers feel overwhelmed as things quickly pile up for them. Designers feel rushed and disempowered.
Designers need to adopt a pace that’s sustainable to them. Jonathan is pushing this as something that designers need to push back on and stand for as a value.
Putting less than perfect work out there doesn’t feel easy or natural for designers, especially as they’re trained in college only to put out their best work. Whereas often in Lean or Agile it’s important to get less than perfect work out there. This can be a lot tougher for a designer to do than for a developer, they don’t want their work to receive criticism.
During a big redesign the design team often has a deliverable to dev that can talk multiple sprints to complete, then after that it’s handed off to tech to gradually stab away at. It’s super often that tech have to prioritize other features and leave design elements out or unfinished. This can be tough for a design team that have spent a lot of time creating those elements.
After the redesign is implemented (and during implementation) it’s frequent that things should be changed too as the redesign received user feedback. That can be tough for designers who have spent a lot of time creating the project too.
The key here is to involve designers in the agile process more. Pairing up with developers to make these changes on the developer’s screen, rather than in Adobe.
There is no silver bullet for this right now, it’s tricky.
The Lean Team Experiene — Jabe Bloom
If you develop your product in a waterfall production line kind of way then you need to push your product at the end. So you end up with this product and you hope users use it, if they don’t then you’re going to have to push it on them.
It’s potentially a lot better to be putting things out there quickly and iterating, feeling out what the customer wants, attempting to provide it, and iterating to meet the customer needs. This is “pull” rather than “push”.
If you take time to craft code of little or moderate value to users, you’re wasting time and money.
When in experimental phase don’t spend time creating code that’s amazing and works for everything. Just get it done and optimize later when you’re I’m production phase.
Kill 50-80% of your products after experimentation. These shouldn’t go to the production phase. Taking failed products to production is a huge waste.
People spend a lot of time making decisions based on nonsense. No one has done experimentation, no one knows what they’re talking about, everyone spends ages to get consensus. Product building at a lot of companies is a huge amount of time getting consensus from people who are just voicing their uninformed opinions.


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Congo Town (or Driggs Hill) lies on the east coast of South Andros. It is rarely visited by yachtsmen.
Position 24° 12'51"N, 77° 35'58"W.
Review main Bahamas Clearance information.
Congo Town is a port of entry.
You can clear in here at the Customs and Immigration of Congo International Airport.
Last updated January 2015.
Anchor on the West side of the basin in 4m sand, do not hinder the freighters. It’s not particularly nice, but a very good shelter if you need one, and there’s the commercial airport nearby.
There are several anchorages around the cays at the northern end of the island.
Last updated January 2015.


Tasks
A task defines a unit of work:
- metadata
- input files to download
- a sequence of Docker containers + commands to run,
- output files to upload
- state
- logs
The example task below downloads a file named hello.txt
from S3 and calls cat hello.txt
using the alpine container. This task also writes the executor’s stdout to a file, and uploads the stdout to s3.
{
"name": "Hello world",
"inputs": [{
# URL to download file from.
"url": "s3://funnel-bucket/hello.txt",
# Path to download file to.
"path": "/inputs/hello.txt"
}],
"outputs": [{
# URL to upload file to.
"url": "s3://funnel-bucket/output.txt",
# Local path to upload file from.
"path": "/outputs/stdout"
}],
"executors": [{
# Container image name.
"image": "alpine",
# Command to run (argv).
"command": ["cat", "/inputs/hello.txt"],
# Capture the stdout of the command to /outputs/stdout
"stdout": "/outputs/stdout"
}]
}
Tasks have multiple “executors”; containers and commands run in a sequence. Funnel runs executors via Docker.
Tasks also have state and logs:
{
"id": "b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig",
"state": "COMPLETE",
"name": "Hello world",
"inputs": [
{
"url": "s3://funnel-bucket/hello.txt",
"path": "/inputs/hello.txt"
}
],
"outputs": [
{
"url": "s3://funnel-bucket/output.txt",
"path": "/outputs/stdout"
}
],
"executors": [
{
"image": "alpine",
"command": [
"cat",
"/inputs/hello.txt"
],
"stdout": "/outputs/stdout"
}
],
"logs": [
{
"logs": [
{
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:05.127885125-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.484461502-08:00",
"stdout": "Hello, Funnel!\n"
}
],
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.433593468-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.487707039-08:00"
}
],
"creationTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.427163701-08:00"
}
There are logs for each task attempt and each executor. Notice that the stdout is
conveniently captured by logs[0].logs[0].stdout
.
Task API
The API lets you create, get, list, and cancel tasks.
Create
POST /v1/tasks
{
"name": "Hello world",
"inputs": [{
"url": "s3://funnel-bucket/hello.txt",
"path": "/inputs/hello.txt"
}],
"outputs": [{
"url": "s3://funnel-bucket/output.txt",
"path": "/outputs/stdout"
}],
"executors": [{
"image": "alpine",
"command": ["cat", "/inputs/hello.txt"],
"stdout": "/outputs/stdout"
}]
}
# The response is a task ID:
b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig
Get
GET /v1/tasks/b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig
{"id": "b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig", "state": "COMPLETE"}
By default, the minimal task view is returned which describes only the ID and state. In order to get the original task with some basic logs, use the “BASIC” task view:
GET /v1/tasks/b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig?view=BASIC
{
"id": "b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig",
"state": "COMPLETE",
"name": "Hello world",
"inputs": [
{
"url": "gs://funnel-bucket/hello.txt",
"path": "/inputs/hello.txt"
}
],
"outputs": [
{
"url": "s3://funnel-bucket/output.txt",
"path": "/outputs/stdout"
}
],
"executors": [
{
"image": "alpine",
"command": [
"cat",
"/inputs/hello.txt"
],
"stdout": "/outputs/stdout",
}
],
"logs": [
{
"logs": [
{
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:05.127885125-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.484461502-08:00",
}
],
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.433593468-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.487707039-08:00"
}
],
"creationTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.427163701-08:00"
}
The “BASIC” doesn’t include some fields such as stdout/err logs, because these fields may be potentially large. In order to get everything, use the “FULL” view:
GET /v1/tasks/b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig?view=FULL
{
"id": "b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig",
"state": "COMPLETE",
"name": "Hello world",
"inputs": [
{
"url": "gs://funnel-bucket/hello.txt",
"path": "/inputs/hello.txt"
}
],
"executors": [
{
"image": "alpine",
"command": [
"cat",
"/inputs/hello.txt"
],
"stdout": "/outputs/stdout",
}
],
"logs": [
{
"logs": [
{
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:05.127885125-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.484461502-08:00",
"stdout": "Hello, Funnel!\n"
}
],
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.433593468-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.487707039-08:00"
}
],
"creationTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.427163701-08:00"
}
List
GET /v1/tasks
{
"tasks": [
{
"id": "b85l8tirl6qkqbhg8vj0",
"state": "COMPLETE"
},
{
"id": "b85khc2rl6qkqbhg8vig",
"state": "COMPLETE"
},
{
"id": "b85kgt2rl6qkpuptua70",
"state": "SYSTEM_ERROR"
},
{
"id": "b857gnirl6qjfou61fh0",
"state": "SYSTEM_ERROR"
}
]
}
List has the same task views as Get: MINIMAL, BASIC, and FULL.
The task list is paginated:
GET /v1/tasks?page_token=1h123h12j2h3k
{
"next_page_token": "1n3n1j23k12n3k123",
"tasks": [
{
"id": "b85l8tirl6qkqbhg8vj0",
"state": "COMPLETE"
},
# ... more tasks here ...
]
}
Cancel
Tasks cannot be modified by the user after creation, with one exception – they can be canceled.
POST /v1/tasks/b85l8tirl6qkqbhg8vj0:cancel
Full task spec
Here’s a more detailed description of a task.
For a full, in-depth spec, read the TES standard’s task_execution.proto.
{
# The task's ID. Set by the server.
# Output only.
"id": "1234567",
# The task's state. Possible states:
# QUEUED
# INITILIZING
# RUNNING
# PAUSED
# COMPLETE
# EXECUTOR_ERROR
# SYSTEM_ERROR
# CANCELED
#
# Output only.
"state": "QUEUED",
# Metadata
"name": "Task name.",
"description": "Task description.",
"tags": {
"custom-tag-1": "tag-value-1",
"custom-tag-2": "tag-value-2",
},
# Resource requests
"resources": {
# Number of CPU cores requested.
"cpuCores": 1,
# RAM request, in gigabytes.
"ramGb": 1.0,
# Disk space request, in gigabytes.
"diskGb": 100.0,
# Request preemptible machines,
# e.g. preemptible VM in Google Cloud, an instance from the AWS Spot Market, etc.
"preemptible": false,
# Request that the task run in these compute zones.
"zones": ["zone1", "zone2"],
},
# Input files will be downloaded by the worker.
# This example uses s3, but Funnel supports multiple filesystems.
"inputs": [
{
"name": "Input file.",
"description": "Input file description.",
# URL to download file from.
"url": "s3://my-bucket/object/path/file.txt",
# Path to download file to.
"path": "/container/input.txt"
},
{
"name": "Input directory.",
"description": "Directories are also supported.",
"url": "s3://my-bucket/my-data/",
"path": "/inputs/my-data/",
"type": "DIRECTORY"
},
# A task may include the file content directly in the task message.
# This is sometimes useful for small files such as scripts,
# which you want to include without talking directly to the filesystem.
{
"path": "/inputs/script.py",
"content": "import socket; print socket.gethostname()"
}
],
# Output files will be uploaded to storage by the worker.
"outputs": [
{
"name": "Output file.",
"description": "Output file description.",
"url": "s3://my-bucket/output-data/results.txt",
"path": "/outputs/results.txt"
},
{
"name": "Output directory.",
"description": "Directories are also supported.",
"url": "s3://my-bucket/output-data/output-dir/",
"path": "/outputs/data-dir/",
"type": "DIRECTORY"
}
],
# Executors define a sequence of containers + commands to run.
# Execution stop on the first non-zero exit code.
"executors": [
{
# Container image name.
# Funnel supports running executor containers via Docker.
"image": "ubuntu",
# Command arguments (argv).
# The first item is the executable to run.
"command": ["my-tool-1", "/container/input"],
# Local file path to read stdin from.
"stdin": "/inputs/stdin.txt",
# Local file path to write stdout to.
"stdout": "/container/output",
# Local file path to write stderr to.
"stderr": "/container/stderr",
# Set the working directory before executing the command.
"workdir": "/data/workdir",
# Environment variables
"env": {
"ENV1": "value1",
"ENV2": "value2",
}
},
# Second executor runs after the first completes, on the same machine.
{
"image": "ubuntu",
"command": ["cat", "/container/input"],
"stdout": "/container/output",
"stderr": "/container/stderr",
"workdir": "/tmp"
}
]
# Date/time the task was created.
# Set the the server.
# Output only.
"creationTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.427163701-08:00"
# Task logs.
# Output only.
#
# If there's a system error, the task may be attempted multiple times,
# so this field is a list of attempts. In most cases, there will be only
# one or zero entries here.
"logs": [
# Attempt start/end times, in RFC3339 format.
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:04.433593468-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.487707039-08:00"
# Arbitrary metadata set by Funnel.
"metadata": {
"hostname": "worker-1",
},
# Arbitrary system logs which Funnel thinks are useful to the user.
"systemLogs": [
"task was assigned to worker 1",
"docker command: docker run -v /vol:/data alpine cmd arg1 arg2",
],
# Log of files uploaded to storage by the worker,
# including all files in directories, with file sizes.
"outputs": [
{
"url": "s3://my-bucket/output-data/results.txt",
"path": "/outputs/results.txt",
"sizeBytes": 123
},
{
"url": "s3://my-bucket/output-data/output-dir/file1.txt",
"path": "/outputs/data-dir/file1.txt",
"sizeBytes": 123
},
{
"url": "s3://my-bucket/output-data/output-dir/file2.txt",
"path": "/outputs/data-dir/file2.txt",
"sizeBytes": 123
}
{
"url": "s3://my-bucket/output-data/output-dir/subdir/file3.txt",
"path": "/outputs/data-dir/subdir/file3.txt",
"sizeBytes": 123
}
],
# Executor logs. One entry per executor.
"logs": [
{
# Executor start/end time, in RFC3339 format.
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:05.127885125-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.484461502-08:00",
# Executor stdout/err. Only available in the FULL task view.
#
# There is a size limit for these fields, which is configurable
# and defaults to 10KB. If more than 10KB is generated, only the
# tail will be logged. If the full output is needed, the task
# may use Executor.stdout and an output to upload the full content
# to storage.
"stdout": "Hello, Funnel!",
"stderr": "",
# Exit code
"exitCode": 0,
},
{
"startTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:05.127885125-08:00",
"endTime": "2017-11-14T11:49:08.484461502-08:00",
"stdout": "Hello, Funnel!\n"
}
],
}
],
}


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, farewell.
Hello, irb> $ p object
Particularly handy when grabbing stuff to edit from the irb history. No more moving past inspect
just to change what's being inspected.


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This is a discussion of support for unsigned integers by pvData and pvAccess.
The definition of scalarType is:
enum ScalarType { pvBoolean, pvByte,pvShort,pvInt,pvLong, pvFloat,pvDouble, pvString; ... }
Both Matej and Marty feel strongly that there should NOT be unsigned types defined in scalarType:
enum ScalarType { pvBoolean, pvByte,pvShort,pvInt,pvLong, pvUnsignedByte,pvUnsignedShort,pvUnsignedInt,pvUnsignedLong, pvFloat,pvDouble, pvString; ... }
The primary reason is that Java has no support for unsigned integers.
But there should be a way for a data source of unsigned integers to let the user of the data know that the integer is unsigned. The rest of this document proposes a simple change to pvData and to the pvAccess wire protocol that allows this information to be passed from the data source to the client.
A new method will be added to interface Field, which is the base introspection interface:
interface Field { String getFieldName(); Type getType(); bool isUnsigned(); // NEW METHOD void toString(StringBuilder buf); void toString(StringBuilder buf,int indentLevel); String toString(); }
In addition new methods will be added to FieldCreate, which is the factory for creating introspection interfaces:
interface FieldCreate { Field create(String fieldName,Field field); Scalar createScalar(String fieldName,ScalarType scalarType); ScalarArray createScalarArray(String fieldName,ScalarType elementType); // BEGIN NEW METHODS Scalar createUnsignedScalar(String fieldName,ScalarType scalarType); ScalarArray createUnsignedScalarArray(String fieldName,ScalarType elementType); // END NEW METHODS StructureArray createStructureArray(String fieldName,Structure elementStructure); Structure createStructure(String fieldName, Field[] field); }
The protocol specification currently specifies:
| FieldDesc Encoding | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | ScalarType (0b0000xxxx) + name | scalar | Scalar. |
| 0x10 | ScalarType (0b0000xxxx) + name | scalarArray | Array of scalars. |
| 0x20 (0b00100000) + name + Field[] | structure | Structure. |
| 0x30 (0b00110000) + name + (structure name + Field[]) | structureArray | Array of structures. |
This will be changed to:
| FieldDesc Encoding | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | ScalarType (0b0000xxxx) + name | scalar | Scalar. |
| 0x10 | ScalarType (0b0000xxxx) + name | scalarArray | Array of scalars. |
| 0x40 | ScalarType (0b0000xxxx) + name | scalar | Unsigned Scalar. Only valid for integer types |
| 0x50 | ScalarType (0b0000xxxx) + name | scalarArray | Array of unsigned scalars. |
| 0x20 (0b00100000) + name + Field[] | structure | Structure. |
| 0x30 (0b00110000) + name + (structure name + Field[]) | structureArray | Array of structures. |
NOTE: For Scalar the leading 0x00 is changed to 0x40. For scalarArray the leading 0x10 is changed to 0x50.
A client that has ANY introspection interface can just call isUnsigned(). For example:
PVInt pvInt = ??? PVByteArray *pvByteArray = ??? boolean result; ... if(pvInt.getField().isUnsigned()) {/* it is unsigned */} if(pvByteArray.getField().isUnsigned()) { /* it is unsigned */ }
The convert class is a general purpose class that has methods to do all or almost all legal conversions between pvData objects and between pvData objects and strings and primitive types. Some of these methods should check for unsigned integers and perform appropriate conversions.
However, Convert should not raise exceptions if an integer overflow occurs. Note that neither Java or C++ raise an exception if an integer overflow occurs.
.A quick look shows that all methods that convert an integer to 1) a wider integer, 2) a double or float, or 3) a string, should check if the integer is unsigned and take appropriate action. For example:
public String toString(PVScalar pv) { ScalarType type = pv.getScalar().getScalarType(); switch (type) { case pvBoolean: { PVBoolean value = (PVBoolean)pv; boolean val = value.get(); return val ? "true" : "false"; } case pvByte: { PVByte value = (PVByte) pv; return String.valueOf(value.get()); } case pvShort: { PVShort value = (PVShort) pv; return String.valueOf(value.get()); } ...
Should be changed to:
public String toString(PVScalar pv) { Scalar scalar = pv.getScalar(); ScalarType type = scalar.getScalarType(); boolean isUnsigned = scalar.isUnsigned() switch (type) { case pvBoolean: { PVBoolean value = (PVBoolean)pv; boolean val = value.get(); return val ? "true" : "false"; } case pvByte: { PVByte value = (PVByte) pv; if(isUnsigned) { byte byteValue = = pv.get(); short shortValue = byteValue; shortValue &= 0x00FF; return String.valueOf(shortValue); } return String.valueOf(value.get()); } case pvShort: { PVShort value = (PVShort) pv; if(isUnsigned) { short shortValue = = pv.get(); int intValue = shortValue; intValue &= 0x0000FFFF; return String.valueOf(intValue); } return String.valueOf(value.get()); } ...
The Java and C++ implementations of Convert will both make the same changes.


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Applying to Grace Hopper (FAQ)
One of our members, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, has been successful in being awarded the Grace Hopper scholarship to attend GHC multiple times in the past. As a result, she often fields questions about the admissions process. This year, she has taken the time to compile them into a list of “frequently-asked-questions” for members working on their application or attending for the first time.
On top of the GHC16 scholarship applications, there is also a call for proposals with the same deadline (March 30th). Proposals include panels, talks and posters. From my experience, people with accepted posters often have a higher chance of getting scholarships. There are technical and non-technical tracks.
http://ghc.anitaborg.org/2016-speakers/
This is a very cool opportunity if you’re interested in public speaking or presenting your research in a non-traditional setting. (If the latter is your goal, be mindful that this is not considered a technical publication and should probably not be used to communicate otherwise unpublished research. If in doubt, consult with your advisor).
Also as an added perk, accepted talks (but not posters) are getting a complimentary registration for the day of your talk, or a discount if attending the entire conference.
I’m passing this along with a blog post with tips on how to maximize your chances for a proposal to be accepted:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/proposing-talk-grace-hopper-read-tips-first-karen-catlin
Best of luck to all, Shiri
How do I keep an eye out for announcements?
Sign up for their newsletter or follow them on your favorite social media (look for icons on the top & bottom)
General Application Questions
I am a first year graduate student at UMass Computer Science. I want to apply for Grace-hopper scholarship, what is your advice?
My biggest piece of advice would be to submit a poster in addition to the scholarship application. Getting a poster presentation accepted is correlated with scholarships.
How does reimbursement work?
You get reimbursed later.
Do I need a travel authorization?
Yes, you must fill out a Travel Authorization form, which lays out your expected travel, housing, and meal expenses for UMass ahead of time.
If I get accepted, what about registration?
This varies from year to year, but often runs out early. Keep an eye out for announcements.
What about other funding sources?
Google scholarships or other sources have been available in the past. You’ll have to see what becomes available this year. GHC should know about it; keep an eye out.
I missed the deadline, what can I do?
There’s always next year. If you’re an early-stage grad student, you will also be eligible for Grad Cohort, so keeep your eyes open for emails about that as well.
Is it a good idea to bring my husband/spouse/significant other with me?
While family travel is not likely to be supported through grants, your family is certainly welcome at the conference. I (Shiri) have attended with a baby and a husband, but it’s your personal choice.
What about childcare?
There is usually free childcare, but you have to sign up in advance. If you then don’t attend the conference, they will charge you money anyway.
What are the deadlines?
The website is the one true source.
Should I also apply to the department GCH award?
Yes. You definitely should apply once details are out. If you’re not sure if they’re out, ask our Khaleesi, Leeanne.
What should I write my essay about?
The topic might change from year to year, but assuming it stays similar to prior years, there are some general pointers. Typically, they ask “Why do you want to come, and how will you share back with your community?”
You should:
- Focus on topics like your specific challenges.
- Answer how attending GHC will help you, specifically.
- Answer how you’ll share what you learn back to the CS women community (You can always write a blog post!).
- Make it personal, use stories from your life.
How do I get someone to proofread my essay?
If you have time, it’s best to get someone else to read and review your essay (preferably a native English speaker, if possible). Sign in to cswomen.slack.com and ask for feedback!
Student Research Competition Authorship
There appears to be a department limit for the number of submissions that can be sent from each department. GHC recommends coordinating with your chair.
This doesn’t appear to be relevant to our current year, or they’ve removed the submission page. Either way, our current chair is James Allan, who would coordinate submissions. In the future, if you want to apply to this, and you don’t know who the chair is, you can always email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and someone will help you.
I can’t submit to this because I always work with my advisor, right?
As long as work is done primarily by you, it can be submitted. What this means is dependent. If you’re not sure, ask your advisor. You should check with your advisor about submitting any of this work, anyway.


Study claims 'personalised' Christmas gifts more popular than shop-bought presents
A survey commissioned by VistaPrint has revealed the top five best personalised or heartfelt gifts to receive and found one in four would rather receive something small but heartfelt than an expensive present
by Joseph Wilkes, Tyler Schmall, https://www.facebook.com/dailymirror/Generic gifts purchased on the high street no longer cut it thanks to the explosion of 'personalised' Christmas presents available online, a study has found.
Researchers found 65 per cent of Brits would rather receive something with a personal touch than an item widely available in chain stores.
One in four would rather receive something small but heartfelt than an expensive generic present.
And just eight per cent would opt for the ultimate generic gift - a voucher - rather than a more thoughtful offering.
Silvia Lussana, from Vistaprint.co.uk, which commissioned the research of 2,000 consumers, said personalisation makes for more meaningful gifts.
"More than ever we're finding people regard the holiday season as a way to reconnect with loved ones at the end of a hectic year," she said.
"People can make these connections more meaningful, by turning their magical memories and the year's best moments with friends and family into gifts to treasure."
The study also found 71 per cent would be much more likely to remember a thoughtful gift over something more generic and shop-bought.
Another 65 per cent also said they would tell others about the gift if it was more personal.
An intimate or special present will also stand the test of time, with six in 10 keeping these for an average of a year longer than those bought from large chains.
And a third will keep it forever.
But it's not just receiving a personal gift that people enjoy - it's also giving.
Sixty-five per cent of those polled get more satisfaction from giving someone a personalised gift than something generic.
More than half enjoy handing over a keepsake while 49 per cent like that it is a gift that will be remembered.
Being able to celebrate a particular moment (44 per cent) and the gift being unique (44 per cent) are also among the reasons people like to give a personal present.
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public class FileIO
extends java.lang.Object
match()
and matchAll()
, and reading matches via readMatches()
.| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
static class |
FileIO.Match
Implementation of
match() . |
static class |
FileIO.MatchAll
Implementation of
matchAll() . |
static class |
FileIO.MatchConfiguration
Describes configuration for matching filepatterns, such as
EmptyMatchTreatment and
continuous watching for matching files. |
static class |
FileIO.ReadableFile
A utility class for accessing a potentially compressed file.
|
static class |
FileIO.ReadMatches
Implementation of
readMatches() . |
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
FileIO() |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
static FileIO.Match |
match()
Matches a filepattern using
FileSystems.match(java.util.List<java.lang.String>) and produces a collection of matched
resources (both files and directories) as MatchResult.Metadata . |
static FileIO.MatchAll |
matchAll()
Like
match() , but matches each filepattern in a collection of filepatterns. |
static FileIO.ReadMatches |
readMatches()
Converts each result of
match() or matchAll() to a FileIO.ReadableFile which can
be used to read the contents of each file, optionally decompressing it. |
public static FileIO.Match match()
FileSystems.match(java.util.List<java.lang.String>)
and produces a collection of matched
resources (both files and directories) as MatchResult.Metadata
.
By default, matches the filepattern once and produces a bounded PCollection
. To
continuously watch the filepattern for new matches, use MatchAll#continuously(Duration,
TerminationCondition)
- this will produce an unbounded PCollection
.
By default, a filepattern matching no resources is treated according to EmptyMatchTreatment.DISALLOW
. To configure this behavior, use FileIO.Match.withEmptyMatchTreatment(org.apache.beam.sdk.io.fs.EmptyMatchTreatment)
.
public static FileIO.MatchAll matchAll()
match()
, but matches each filepattern in a collection of filepatterns.
Resources are not deduplicated between filepatterns, i.e. if the same resource matches multiple filepatterns, it will be produced multiple times.
By default, a filepattern matching no resources is treated according to EmptyMatchTreatment.ALLOW_IF_WILDCARD
. To configure this behavior, use FileIO.MatchAll.withEmptyMatchTreatment(org.apache.beam.sdk.io.fs.EmptyMatchTreatment)
.
public static FileIO.ReadMatches readMatches()
match()
or matchAll()
to a FileIO.ReadableFile
which can
be used to read the contents of each file, optionally decompressing it.


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Light Level
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This part can be substituted with LM2731, FAN5333A or FAN5333B. Please note that either version of FAN5333 have a different feedback voltage from each other and from the FAN5331. LM2731 has the same feedback voltage. This part is the boost converter for the OLED display. Different OLED displays need different voltages. Usually they can be either 9V or 12V. Check the voltage of your OLED and select R68 accordingly. R68 should be at least 1%. Follows a table with values that should suit. These values are not tested (FAN5333B with 9V display is tested by me and working), proceed with caution and check the voltage prior to soldering the OLED.
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- Introduction
- First Programs
- Code: Fast, Recursive, Inline and Foreign Functions
- Data: Sequences, Strings, Files, Hash Tables, Graphs…
- Generics
- Text
- Input and Output
- Human-Computer Interfaces
- Graphics
- Mathematics
- Cryptography
- AI & Machine Learning
- Example Programs
- Language Reference
- Errors
- Appendix A: Introduction to Programming in General
- Appendix B: Linear Algebra
- Appendix C: Rosetta Code Tasks


I can tell how much I’m procrastinating actually writing a blog post because of how much time I’ve spent messing around with the appearance of this website, and other fiddly deatils – which is a bummer because they were supposed to be secondary.
As a lifehack for coming up with a first topic to write about my first post will be so naval-gazey and meta that I’ll want to quickly write another one to hide how horrible this first one is.
So why am I, a person who has a twitter with 0 tweets, a facebook page devoted almost enirely to the once-a-year phenomenon of people being reminded about my birthday, and who otherwise spends his time lurking rather than posting, making a blog?
1) Other places never felt right
It feels weird to blather on about the topics I’m interested in on social media sites. Perhaps I have an overly- compartmentalized identity, but I don’t love the conflation of friendship with the expectation that you’ll be interested in what I have to say about, for example, data visualization. At best, posts on social media feel to me like two people shouting a conversation to make sure everyone hears how smart/funny/whatever they are. I hope by separating my writing away, I won’t be doing that.
2) Need to practice writing
I’m trying to change my atitude from “I’m (inherently) not good at writing” to “I’m not good at writing (yet)”, since the pop-psychology of the day says this can be effective. We’ll see if it replicates ;)
I remember enough from high school english that I should have 3 points to my thesis - but this new rebel version of me trying to actually enjoy writing refuses.


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QUIZ SHOW A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1994 Mark R. Leeper
Capsule review: QUIZ SHOW is an intellectual EIGHT MEN OUT. It is an in-depth look at an almost forgotten scandal that made national headlines back in 1958. Once the public realized that TV quiz shows were rigged to promote ratings, they would never look at television in quite the same way again. Robert Redford directs from a terrific, ironic screenplay. Rating: low +3 (-4 to +4)
In 1958 the biggest things on television were the TV quiz shows. They were a national craze of rarely matched proportions. One producer had four highly-rated quiz shows: "Dotto," "Twenty-one," "The $64,000 Question," and "The $64,000 Challenge." Edward Hilgemeier Jr. was a daytime "Dotto" standby contestant who was never actually chosen to appear, but was waiting to appear if he was needed. A woman waiting to appear was chosen and she went on-stage leaving behind a small notebook. Hilgemeier read the notebook and found some odd notes. The woman contestant won that night against a man who was a former winner, but all the answers she gave were in the little notebook. Hilgemeier went to the man she defeated and showed him the notebook. The two then complained to the producers and each was given a bribe to forget about the notebook. But Hilgemeier found out the actual contestant was paid $4000 for his silence, he had gotten only a $1500 bribe. This struck Mr. Hilgemeier as unfair and he no longer felt bound to keep silent. Soon the New York State attorney was involved. Little attention was paid to the story until a second contestant confirmed Hilgemeier's claims. This was a disgruntled former winner on "Twenty-one" named Herbert W. Stempel. He joined Hilgemeier to claim that the game show he was on was also fixed. Hilgemeier was a complete unknown but millions of viewers knew Stempel and now the story was news. The result was a three-year national scandal that would rock the TV industry and the country as well as tarnishing the name of one of the most respected families in American academics.
To tell the story in 130 minutes in QUIZ SHOW, those three years have been somewhat simplified and scoped down to seem like less than one year. But the result is yet another powerfully-scripted and beautifully made film co-produced and directed by Robert Redford. The film is like an ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN or EIGHT MEN OUT for the first television generation.
Why was it considered important to control the results on quiz shows? The most commonly heard explanation is a shrug and the comment "This is television." Indeed television was and is treated as if it is a different reality and this scandal and its aftermath helped the industry define just what television is.
When the film opens the sponsor is unhappy that the reigning champion on "Twenty-one" Stempel (played by John Turturo) is a Jew, and one with a Queens accent and bad teeth. The time has come to get a new champion. About this time Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) is applying to be a "Dotto" contestant. Van Doren comes from a family of well-known scholarly academics. Van Doren has just the WASPy style and background that the show producers Enright and Freedman (David Paymer and Hank Azaria) would like their champion to have. But they need to control him and ask will he play along and take answers? "What would Kant say?" Van Doren muses. "He'd agree!" the producers tell him confidently. Van Doren and Stempel allow themselves to be manipulated into cooperating with the rigging. But when Stempel is first humiliated by having to miss an easy question and then feels he is not being properly rewarded he decides to take action. The story is told by Richard Goodwin (Rob Morrow), an idealistic Harvard grad student in a low-paid job on House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight who led the investigation. Incidentally, after the uproar the real Goodwin wrote a book about the scandal and now is one of the producers of this film based on the book.
With the possible exception of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, QUIZ SHOW has the best script of any film I have seen this year. Paul Attanasio has written a screenplay full of often very funny ironic humor. It is also packed with contrasts and conflicts. Beyond the obvious contrast of honesty and dishonesty, we have a father-son conflict with Mark Van Doren (played by Paul Scofield) representing the values and honor of the family while Charles at once tries to live up to and rebel from those values. There is the high academic standard that the father hold up for the family and the son who is only a disappointingly very good. There is a conflict between the academic culture of the Van Dorens and the mass culture that television and the quiz shows represent. We see the wealth of the aristocratic Van Dorens and the cheap and disarrayed home of the Stempels. There is a perceived anti-Semitism in the viewing public to which the Jewish game show producers pander in their decision to take Stempel off the show. And there is just a moment of negative reaction at the Van Doren when they hear that their guest, Dick Goodwin, is from the predominantly Jewish town Brookline. The script also contrasts the slow money world of campus teaching with the fast-money world of television where a college instructor who used to earn under $90 a week but lives a quiet scholarly life can earn thousands in one night at the cost of a life of fame and constant tension. All of these individual conflicts continue at the same time in the script.
As someone who considers SCHINDLER'S LIST and A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS to be the two best films he has ever seen, seeing Paul Scofield and Ralph Fiennes on the screen together as father and son is a special experience in itself. No character is really the main character of QUIZ SHOW, but Ralph Fiennes's Charles Van Doren is the character we learn most about. And Fiennes certainly cuts a trimmer and more dashing figure than he did in SCHINDLER'S LIST. He has not quite mastered an American accent, but here one ascribes his tones to perhaps having been educated abroad. Scofield is very dignified as his father, but it is hard not to see a lot of Thomas More's quick mind and starchy correctness in his Mark Van Doren. John Turturo is adequately abrasive as his course vulgarian from Queens. One of the biggest surprises is David Paymer's slimeball executive. He has usually played simpy nice- guy roles and it is nice to see him in a role into which he can put a little power. Barry Levinson, who directed Redford in THE NATURAL, is cast as Dave Garroway, long-time host of the "Today Show." The two men are entirely different types and one wonders why there was such an inappropriate piece of casting. Levinson gives the roles about the same authenticity that Sylvester Stallone could give to playing Ronald Coleman. Martin Scorsese is also present playing a very high executive for Geritol, but at least here nobody knows what a Geritol executive is supposed to look like.
Michael Ballhaus was director of photography and here one of the big mistakes was made. The entire film is shot in a tiresome yellow filter to create some sort of period feel and in addition most scenes seem dominated by the color brown, probably for the same reason. The effect is artificial and irritating, though it might have worked better with a lighter filter.
A few minor quibbles with the script: In a crowded restaurant quiz show producer Dan Enright has a heated discussion with Stempel over arranging for Stempel to lose. It is very difficult to believe Enright would be so indiscrete. Levinson raises his hand in a gesture somewhat like the one that Dave Garroway would use, but Garroway would say "Peace." Levinson merely raises his hand. And frankly I do not remember NBC using the peacock until the 60s, though I could be misremembering.
Still, this is a great script and a very good look at a nearly forgotten, but nontheless influential American scandal. I give it a low +3 on the -4 to +4 scale.
Mark R. Leeper<EMAIL_ADDRESS>.
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