Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg endured an hours-long grilling by dozens of U.S. senators Tuesday during which he repeatedly apologized and promised privacy reforms but also pointedly defended his company against the threat of new legislation.
Zuckerberg invoked Facebook’s unlikely journey — from a tiny start-up he co-founded in his Harvard dorm room 14 years ago to a social media behemoth — in explaining Facebook’s frequent privacy missteps and its failure to spot and defeat Russia’s aggressive campaign to manipulate American voters in 2016 and beyond.
Senators repeatedly challenged Zuckerberg’s explanations in the wide-ranging hearing, a rare joint session before two Senate panels — the Commerce and Judiciary committees — with 42 senators questioning the Facebook executive.
“If Facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix these privacy invasions, then we will,” said Sen. Bill Nelson (Fla.), the highest-ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee.
But for more than four hours, there was no flash point or loss of composure for Zuckerberg, who was appearing in his first congressional hearing after avoiding such scrutiny for years. His steadiness in the face of tough questioning helped quell the air of crisis that surrounded not just Facebook but also Silicon Valley in general, where collecting user data is essential to many businesses.
Facebook’s stock price, sagging since last month’s revelations about how the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to personal information on 87 million Facebook users, rose during his testimony to end up 4.5 percent for the day, outperforming a generally strong market.
Still, the issues raised in the hearing strike at deep problems for one of the most highflying technology companies. Gallup found in a poll released this week that 43 percent of Americans are “very concerned” about Facebook’s invasions of privacy — an increase of 13 percentage points since 2011, when Gallup conducted a similar poll.
Zuckerberg, who traded his trademark T-shirt and hoodie for the standard Capitol Hill garb of a dark suit and tie, had holed up with advisers in Washington over the weekend to prepare for the hearing. His tone was one of practiced and patient contrition as he described the company’s recent failings and efforts to remedy them.
“It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well,” Zuckerberg said. “And that goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.”
As the company has mobilized to quell rising political opposition, Facebook also has wrestled government investigations in the United States and Europe. The Federal Trade Commission is investigating potential violations of a 2011 consent decree over privacy policy at Facebook that could lead to record fines for the company.
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Today, Apple released iOS 11.3 to all supported devices, including the iPad Air and later, the iPad mini 2 and later, the iPhone 5S and later, and the sixth-generation iPod touch. The update is available for download now in supported regions.
With several new features, it's arguably the biggest update to iOS since iOS 11 first released. iOS 11.3 addresses battery-based performance throttling on older devices, adds significant new capabilities for augmented reality, adds the ability to chat with customer support reps from companies in Messages, and lets users access their personal health records in the Health app.
Apple also released smaller updates for tvOS (tvOS 11.3) on the Apple TV and watchOS (watchOS 4.3), as well as macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, which adds eGPU support and Business Chat to Macs. Let's dive into what each of these updates adds for users.
As promised, Apple has made it possible to disable performance throttling on older iPhones whose batteries have degraded to the point that they pose a risk for unexpected shutdowns resulting from voltage shortages. Apple lists this as a beta feature.
This is a measure of battery capacity relative to when it was new. Lower capacity may result in fewer hours of usage between charges.
As always, there are numerous security updates for all three of these releases that are not included in the regular patch notes. Apple shares these notes in the security updates hub on its support site, with dedicated pages for iOS 11.3, watchOS 4.3, and tvOS 11.3.
Download your latest iOS 11.3.
"I'm really sorry that this happened," the Facebook (FB) CEO told CNN's Laurie Segall in an exclusive TV interview on Wednesday.
News broke this weekend that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, accessed information from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge, and might have kept that data even after Facebook told the company to delete it.
Zuckerberg addressed the scandal publicly through a Facebook post on Wednesday. He wrote that the company made "mistakes" and outlined how it has changed its policies to make sure that user data is protected.
"I wish we'd taken those steps earlier," Zuckerberg told Segall. "That ... is probably the biggest mistake that we made here."
Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist who passed along data to SCL Group and its affiliate Cambridge Analytica, built a Facebook app that drew data from users and their friends in 2013. He was allowed access to a broad range of data at the time.
Though Kogan's data was properly obtained, he breached Facebook's policy when he shared that information with a third party, Facebook has said. When Facebook learned about the information being shared, it asked Cambridge Analytica to destroy the data. Cambridge said it had.
Zuckerberg said Facebook plans to alert everyone whose data was accessed by Cambridge Analytica. But he added that he wishes the company hadn't waited so long to tell people what happened.
"I started this when I was so young and inexperienced," the 33-year-old Zuckerberg said. "I made technical errors and business errors. I hired the wrong people. I trusted the wrong people," he said.
But ultimately, he said, he's learned from his missteps.
Universal studios in association with Seven Bucks Productions and Davnish Editors Pvt. Ltd. announcing the official releasing date of another action-packed movie #RedNotice by Skyscraper director Rawson Thurber joining us with Dwayne Johnson.
I’ve got to work with Universal Studios back in 2016 for Fate of the Furious (Furious 8) as a trailer editor. It was one of me and my team’s preeminent time there working with such brilliant editors and production department.
Universal studios was my dream.
And to live this dream again, Universal studios just announced the release date of a movie Red Notice in association with Seven Bucks Productions and Davnish Editors Pvt. Ltd. that is our team.
Yes, we just got roped in for Red Notice movie’s official trailer and VFX. They loved our work and so they decided to get us onboard for this one.
I was at home when this happened, when i got a call from Universal and they told me about this. We just had a meeting and it turned out successful.
Red Notice is announced to release on June 12, 2020.
Adrian Lamo, the computer hacker who turned in whistleblower Chelsea Manning to law enforcement, has died at the age of 37, according to authorities in Kansas.
Lamo, who testified about Manning’s release of documents to WikiLeaks, was confirmed dead on Friday by authorities in Sedgwick County. The coroner’s office has not responded to inquiries about the cause of his death.
Manning, a former soldier whose leaks exposed the nature of warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq, was released from military prison last year after Barack Obama commuted her 35-year sentence.
Lamo’s father, Mario, confirmed the death in a Facebook post on Friday that said: “With great sadness and a broken heart I have to let know all of Adrian’s friends and acquittances [sic] that he is dead. A bright mind and compassionate soul is gone, he was my beloved son.”
Called the “world’s most hated hacker” by some at the time, Lamo also said: “Had I done nothing, I would always have been left wondering whether the hundreds of thousands of documents that had been leaked to unknown third parties would end up costing lives, either directly or indirectly.”
Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, his family has said.
The British physicist was known for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.
"We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today," a family statement said.
At the age of 22 Stephen Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease.
The illness left him wheelchair-bound and largely unable to speak except through a voice synthesiser.
His family said that he died peacefully in his home near Cambridge University, where he did much of his ground-breaking work on black holes.
He has always inspired me through his ground-breaking achievements and work done by him throughout his life.
Today we all should remember him and pay our respect.
You will always be our inspiration. GoodBye!!
Davnish Singh is currently doing undergraduation in Computer Science from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He is also an undergraduate scholar at Stanford University currently working on some research papers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning under Neural Networks in computer vision and pattern recognition.
Before starting his journey in Computer Science, he was doing under-graduation in Mechanical Engineering. But, he has always been inspired from algorithms and how computer systems works.
So, he took a turn and taught himself basics of Web Development in 6 months in which he created many websites and projects. After gaining an experience in APIs and Development, he took various MOOCs on Algorithms.
As a machine learning enthusiast, he always believed that by applying ML in the every field one can make a change and automate the regular tasks on hand to focus on other ones as well.
In addition to his passion for Machine Learning and software technologies, he has got a strong passion for algorithms because he thinks that problems have to be solved instead of getting only discovered.
He consider himself to be a very ambitious and dynamic person with a great curiosity for all those things which involve new technologies with a massive effect on people life.
Actively looking for Software Engineering internship.
Graduate in June 2019.


Tom Cruise 'accused of cigarette theft in Kerry pub'
HOLLYWOOD actor Tom Cruise was falsely accused of stealing somebody's cigarettes in a Co Kerry pub while he was filming 1992 epic Far and Away, politician Michael Healy-Rae has claimed.
The independent TD claimed an elderly punter threatened the Top Gun actor with a stick when he visited the pub during a break from filming.
Speaking on Newstalk's Pat Kenny Show, Mr Healy-Rae said the punter saw Cruise reach across the counter to get more ice for his soft drink but thought the actor was going to steal the barman's cigarettes.
The punter, known as Ger The Manny, "jumped up off his stool, he caught his stick and drew a belt at yer man’s hand trying to hit him across the hand," Mr Healy-Rae said. "But he just missed and there was a big bang down on the counter right near the Yank’s hand."
According to Mr Healy-Rae, Cruise shouted: "My goodness I was just leaning in to get a bit more ice."
"Ger The Manny shouted out, ‘You b**ta*d you were trying to steal Matt’s fags’."


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This page is going to be holding my assignments for my CSCI 488 class.
This class is on Database Driven Web Applications and Software Engineering principles. Since this is not a web design class, this page is not meant to be super stylih or fancy, but instead include server-side programming and database.
My assignments will probably go somewhere here.
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Though Chrome Apps use the web platform, some web features have been disabled or else are used in a different way. Mainly this is to avoid security issues and to improve programming practices. Below is a summary of the disabled features of the web platform and potential work-arounds:
| Disabled | Work-around |
|---|---|
alert |
Use a custom lightbox/popup. |
| Browser chrome APIs | N/A. |
confirm |
Use a custom lightbox/popup. |
document.cookie |
Packaged app pages are not rendered on the server, so there is no need to use these. |
document.close |
N/A. |
document.open |
N/A. |
document.write |
Use document.createElement. |
| External resources | Use the webview tag for iframes.
See Embed Content
and Webview Tag API.
Video and audio are allowed to have non-local URLs. |
| Flash | Use HTML5 Platform. |
| Form submission | Use JavaScript to process form content (listen for submit event, process data locally first before sending to server). |
| javascript: urls | You cannot use bookmarklets for inline javascript on anchors. Use the traditional click handler instead. |
| localStorage | Use IndexedDB or the Storage API (which also syncs to the cloud). |
| Navigation | Links open up with the system web browser.
window.history and window.location
are disabled. |
| Non-sandboxed plugins | N/A. |
showModalDialog |
Use a custom lightbox/popup. |
Synchronous XMLHttpRequest |
Use async-only XMLHttpRequest :
Getting Rid of Synchrounous XXRs. |
| User Text selection | By default,
users can no longer select text like they can on a web page.
To make areas of the app's text selectable,
apply the CSS style, -webkit-user-select: text; . |
| webSql | Use IndexedDB or Filesystem API. |


--- title: HDFS Scribe Integration layout: post ---
It is finally here: you can configure the open source log-aggregator, scribe, to log data directly into the Hadoop distributed file system.
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Software Development Engineer at
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Previously API performance at
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; Fintech tools at
Electro Source
; Computer Vision at
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client:write(protocol, ' 200 OK\r\n',
'Content-Type: text/html\r\n',
'Content-Length: ' .. #content .. '\r\n',
'Connection: close\r\n',
'\r\n',
content)
assert(client:close())
visitor = visitor + 1
end)
if not status then
print('Error while serving request:', message)
end
end
-- vim: ts=2 sw=2 et
Thanks to the multi threading and thread queue modules in the Apache Portable Runtime it is possible to
improve the performance of the single threaded webserver
from the previous example. Here is a benchmark of the multi threaded code
listed below (again using ApacheBench, but now with the -c
argument):
$ CONCURRENCY=4
$ lua examples/threaded-webserver.lua $CONCURRENCY &
$ ab -qt5 -c$CONCURRENCY http://localhost:8080/ | grep 'Requests per second\|Transfer rate'
Requests per second: 9210.72 [#/sec] (mean)
Transfer rate: 5594.79 [Kbytes/sec] received
Comparing these numbers to the benchmark of the single threaded webserver we can see that the number of requests per second went from 3670 to 9210, more than doubling the throughput of the webserver on a dual core processor. If you want to know how we can make it even faster, have a look at the asynchronous webserver example.
local num_threads = tonumber(arg[1]) or 2
local port_number = tonumber(arg[2]) or 8080
local template = [[

<title>Hello from Lua/APR!</title>

Hello from Lua/APR!

This web page was served by worker %i.

The headers provided by your web browser:

%s

]]
-- Load the Lua/APR binding.
local apr = require 'apr'
-- Initialize the server socket.
local server = assert(apr.socket_create())
assert(server:bind('*', port_number))
assert(server:listen(num_threads * 2))
print("Running webserver with " .. num_threads .. " client threads on http://localhost:" .. port_number .. " ..")
-- Create the thread queue (used to pass sockets between threads).
local queue = apr.thread_queue(num_threads)
-- Define the function to execute in each child thread.
function worker(thread_id, queue, template)
pcall(require, 'luarocks.require')
local apr = require 'apr'
while true do
local client, msg, code = queue:pop()
assert(client or code == 'EINTR', msg)
if client then
local status, message = pcall(function()
local request = assert(client:read(), "Failed to receive request from client!")
local method, location, protocol = assert(request:match '^(%w+)%s+(%S+)%s+(%S+)')
local headers = {}
for line in client:lines() do
local name, value = line:match '^(%S+):%s+(.-)$'
if not name then
break
end
table.insert(headers, '
' .. name .. ':

' .. value .. '
')
end
table.sort(headers)
local content = template:format(thread_id, table.concat(headers))
client:write(protocol, ' 200 OK\r\n',
'Content-Type: text/html\r\n',
'Content-Length: ' .. #content .. '\r\n',
'Connection: close\r\n',
'\r\n',
content)
assert(client:close())
end)
if not status then
print('Error while serving request:', message)
end
end
end
end
-- Create the child threads and keep them around in a table (so that they are
-- not garbage collected while we are still using them).
local pool = {}
for i = 1, num_threads do
table.insert(pool, apr.thread(worker, i, queue, template))
end
-- Enter the accept() loop in the parent thread.
while true do
local status, message = pcall(function()
local client = assert(server:accept())
assert(queue:push(client))
end)
if not status then
print('Error while serving request:', message)
end
end
-- vim: ts=2 sw=2 et
We can do even better than the performance of the multi threaded webserver by
using the APR pollset module. The following webserver uses
asynchronous network communication to process requests from multiple clients
‘in parallel’ without using multiple threads or processes. Here is a
benchmark of the asynchronous code listed below (again using ApacheBench with the -c
argument):
$ CONCURRENCY=4
$ POLLSET_SIZE=10
$ lua examples/async-webserver.lua $POLLSET_SIZE 8080 cheat &
$ ab -qt5 -c$CONCURRENCY http://localhost:8080/ | grep 'Requests per second\|Transfer rate'
Requests per second: 11312.64 [#/sec] (mean)
Transfer rate: 6219.74 [Kbytes/sec] received
The single threaded webserver handled 3670 requests per second, the multi threaded webserver handled 9210 requests per second and the asynchronous webserver below can handle 11310 requests per second. Actually in the above benchmark I may have cheated a bit (depending on whether your goal is correct usage or performance). When I started writing this asynchronous server example I didn’t bother to add writable sockets to the pollset, instead I handled the request and response once the client socket was reported as readable by the pollset. Later on I changed the code to handle writing using the pollset and I noticed that the performance dropped. This is probably because the example is so contrived. Anyway here’s the performance without cheating:
$ lua examples/async-webserver.lua $POLLSET_SIZE 8080 &
$ ab -qt5 -c$CONCURRENCY http://localhost:8888/ | grep 'Requests per second\|Transfer rate'
Requests per second: 9867.17 [#/sec] (mean)
Transfer rate: 5425.03 [Kbytes/sec] received
Now follows the implementation of the asynchronous webserver example:
local pollset_size = tonumber(arg[1]) or 10
local port_number = tonumber(arg[2]) or 8080
local cheat = arg[3] == 'cheat' -- cheat to make it faster?
local template = [[

<title>Hello from Lua/APR!</title>

Hello from Lua/APR!

The headers provided by your web browser:

%s

]]
-- Load the Lua/APR binding.
local apr = require 'apr'
-- Initialize the server socket.
local server = assert(apr.socket_create())
assert(server:bind('*', port_number))
assert(server:listen(pollset_size))
-- Create the pollset.
local pollset = assert(apr.pollset(pollset_size))
assert(pollset:add(server, 'input'))
-- Use a table indexed with socket objects to keep track of "sessions".
local sessions = setmetatable({}, {__mode='k'})
-- Enter the I/O loop.
print("Running webserver on http://localhost:" .. port_number .. " ..")
while true do
local readable, writable = assert(pollset:poll(-1))
-- Process requests.
for _, socket in ipairs(readable) do
if socket == server then
local client = assert(server:accept())
assert(pollset:add(client, 'input'))
else
local request = assert(socket:read(), "Failed to receive request from client!")
local method, location, protocol = assert(request:match '^(%w+)%s+(%S+)%s+(%S+)')
local headers = {}
for line in socket:lines() do
local name, value = line:match '^(%S+):%s+(.-)$'
if not name then
break
end
table.insert(headers, '
' .. name .. ':

' .. value .. '
')
end
table.sort(headers)
local content = template:format(table.concat(headers))
assert(socket:write(
protocol, ' 200 OK\r\n',
'Content-Type: text/html\r\n',
'Content-Length: ', #content, '\r\n',
'Connection: close\r\n',
'\r\n'))
if cheat then
assert(socket:write(content))
assert(pollset:remove(socket))
assert(socket:close())
else
sessions[socket] = content
assert(pollset:remove(socket))
assert(pollset:add(socket, 'output'))
end
end
end
if not cheat then
-- Process responses.
for _, socket in ipairs(writable) do
assert(socket:write(sessions[socket]))
-- I don't like that when I switch the order of these
-- calls, it breaks... Seems like a fairly big gotcha.
assert(pollset:remove(socket))
assert(socket:close())
end
end
end
-- vim: ts=2 sw=2 et


class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Geography 176A ## Lecture 16: Interactive Mapping ### Mike Johnson ---  # Yesterday - Talked about the object/field view of spatial data -- - Looked at object coverages -- - Specifically grid, hexagon, triangulation, and voronoi polygon ... -- - **grid** = standard, raster view - **hexagon** = more efficient and better curvature (more complex matrix algebra) - **Voronoi** = polygons presenting the area closest to a point - **Triangulation** = all points treated as coverage vertices --- # Coding is hard - Just this week I have made mistakes with the name `id` in the PIP function -- - yesterday in lab, we needed a hexagon rather then square grid to implement a generalized voronoi -- - The advantages: -- - we solve a problem once and wrap it as a function for latter re-use... -- - We are closer to the data... -- - have flexibility to work beyond existing toolboxes ... -- - access to both data and geographic data science methods (attributes and geometry are equal players) --- .pull-left[ ## Voronoi Polygons ![](lec-img/15-Voronoi_growth_euclidean.gif) ] .pull-right[ ## Delaunay Triangles ![](lec-img/15-Delaunay_triangles.gif) ] --- # Leaflet - Leaflet is a very popular, open-source, java-script library for interactive maps -- - Used by the New York Times, Washington Post, and GitHub, OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and CartoDB --- # Features - Interactive panning/ zooming -- - Like ggplot, maps are built though combinations of map tiles, markers, polygons, lines, popups --- # Map Tiles A tiled web map, or slippy map, is a map displayed in a browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually streamed over the Internet. -- - Most tiled web maps follow certain Google Maps conventions: -- - Tiles are 256x256 pixels -- - At the outer most zoom level, 0, the entire world can be rendered in a single map tile. -- - Each zoom level _doubles_ in both dimensions, so a single tile is replaced by 4 tiles when zooming in. -- - This means that about 22 zoom levels are sufficient for most practical purposes. -- - The Web Mercator projection (EPSG:3857) is used, with latitude limits of around 85 (-85) degrees. --- The OpenStreetMap **standard**, known as Slippy Map Tilenames or XYZ, follows these and adds more: -- - An X and Y numbering scheme -- - PNG images for tiles -- - Images are served through a Web server, with a URL like http://.../Z/X/Y.png, where Z is the zoom level, and X and Y identify the tile. --- # Zoom Levels - Zoom Levels define the scale of the map. -- - At zoom level 0, an entire mercator projection of the earth is contained in one 256px by 256px tile: --  ---  --- # Projection Distorition  --- # Zoom Factor 1 At increasing zoom levels the number of tiles increases by a factor of four and the spatial resolution (ground meters per pixel) of each tile roughly doubles.  --- At any given zoom level, a specific tile can be identified by cartesian coordinates with 0,0 starting in the top left of the map.  --- # Request Format Tiles are requested from a standard URL format: `url/Z/X/Y.png` -- For UCSB the URL: https://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/43803/104352.png Would return the following image: --  --- The horizontal distance represented by each 256x256 pixel tile, measured along the parallel at a given latitude, is given by: `$$Stile = C ∙ cos(latitude) / 2^{zoomlevel}$$` -- **** where `\(C\)` is the equatorial circumference of the Earth for the reference geoid `$$OSM = 2pi * 6,378,137.00$$` -- **** As tiles are 256-pixels wide, the horizontal distance represented by one pixel is: `$$Spixel = Stile / 256$$` -- **** For UCSB the URL: https://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/43803/104352.png ```r C = 2*pi*6378137.00 (Stile = C * cos(34.4140 *pi/180) / 2^18) ``` ``` [1] 126.1173 ``` ```r Stile / 256 ``` ``` [1] 0.4926459 ``` --- # User Zooming  --- class: center, middle ### Interactive Document [here](https://mikejohnson51.github.io/lecture-16/index.html) You can also fork the [repo](https://github.com/mikejohnson51/lecture-16), clone it in RStudio, and use interactively... All data is in the `data` folder The examples are in the `index.Rmd` file --- # Summary - Interactivity is a great way to highlight and represent data -- - Leaflet maps are rendered as HTML objects that can be placed directly in your Rmd files -- - You can add markers and shapes to basemaps and annotate them with color ramps, popups and labels -- - There is a ton of ability to control and refine your maps in R - These are extended by libraries like leafem, leafpop and mapview --- # Daily Assignment - In an Rmd file, make a leaflet map of data of your choosing - You are free to double dip on the extra credit in lab 4 - Add at least one feature (table, inset map, custom marker/popup) - Render it as HTML - Submit the HTML file to the gauchospace dropbox


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Functional data sets.
| Version: | 1.8 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.4.0), rainbow, RCurl |
| Published: | 2018-10-31 |
| Author: | Han Lin Shang and Rob J Hyndman |
| Maintainer: | Han Lin Shang <hanlin.shang at anu.edu.au> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | ChangeLog |
| In views: | FunctionalData |
| CRAN checks: | fds results |
| Reference manual: | fds.pdf |
| Package source: | fds_1.8.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: fds_1.8.zip, r-release: fds_1.8.zip, r-oldrel: fds_1.8.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: fds_1.8.tgz, r-oldrel: fds_1.8.tgz |
| Old sources: | fds archive |
| Reverse suggests: | fdcov, ftsa |
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The importance of enhancing the role of women in an organization is vital today. A career recommendation system which helps the women in their career path has more relevance in this social world. It enables the women to visualize her career growth and set goals to achieve it and also to track her progress. To this end, there is a need for a system that would mentor her, based on the current trend and demand in the industry. Such a system needs to be trained with data that is relevant and useful for arriving at a solution. Internet is flooded with information every day. Easy access to large amount of information along with difficulty in judging the validity of so much content can lead to information overload. Deriving useful knowledge from the abundance of information scattered in the media is a huge task not normally possible to be done by an individual.
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Since about two weeks now, the My Electric page stopped displaying the kWh bar graph and the "Use Today" figure. It does show (and updates!) however the "Power Now", the power graph, and the accumulated totals at the bottom of the page.
setup:
- My Electric app at emoncms.org
- the inputs and feeds at emoncms.org have not been changed
- data posted by emonPi running low-write-v8.5
- updating the emonPi locally at the Admin page does not resolve the issue.
Does someone have a clue what is going on here?
Thanks,
Marc
Re: My Electric only partially updates
Hello Marc, Thanks for your post, found the issue and its now fixed. You may want to set your timezone under the user profile page so that the kWh data is correct to your timezome.
Re: My Electric only partially updates
Hello Trystan,
Thanks for the swift action! It all seems to work ok now - and I have set the timezone accordingly.
Marc
Re: My Electric only partially updates
Hi Trystan
I seem to be missing todays data in "my electric" could this be linked to theses changes? I'm pretty sure it was ok earlier this morning.
The "kWh" value on the top right is static at yesterdays total and the bargraph below has sunday as the rightmost block, again the value is static.
The power Now is tracking just fine.
I have tried unsetting the timezone and resetting with no change.
I have just compared the andoid app values and they are as expected.
If unrelated I can start another thread.
Paul
I've attached screenshots of the android app (correct) and myelectric which also seems to be rounding the totals and the accumulator, yesterdays total was 44.6kWh by the android app, but 45.0kW in the myelectric webapp.
Re: My Electric only partially updates
Additionally, the "WEEK" appears to be displaying the correct total for today since it is the first/only day in this week's total. The rest of the values at the bottom seem to be ok too.
Attached is a pic of the lower half of the myelectric webpage nearly 3 hours later. The top right value remains at 45.0kWhs.
Paul
Re: My Electric only partially updates
Thanks Paul, ah it was the last change that did it, I've implemented the check for a correct timezone in a better way now I think and today's value is back on there. Thanks for the heads up
Re: My Electric only partially updates
Cheers Trystan, that's sorted it !
Paul


THE FARM IN
In the spring of 1900 the house was nearly ready. The family of five moved into their new two-story house.  Louisa was elated to cook without the constant kneeling before the fireplace in the cabin. There was a dining room and a sitting room with a desk, a bookcase and a side table for the oil lamp. Rodney and Roger soon adjusted to sleeping upstairs away from the rest of the family.
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The old spring house was soon replaced with a larger glazed tile structure closer to the back kitchen door. Even at five Mildred was able to fetch, helping to retrieve what mother needed from the spring house. Even the twins were soon able to bring in the buckets of water for drinking, cooking and bathing. There was always a bucket with a dipper for |
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drinking by the kitchen sink. MH
Getting a bucket of water meant opening the big wooden door, carefully stepping down on the always damp concrete floor. At the far end was an inverted bell tile where the boys dipped the porcelain bucket to fill it with what they could carry. Water had been piped from a spring quite a ways up the hill behind the house, and in addition to supplying the house with water, it provided a constant temperature in what came to be called the milk house . Crocks of milk and other produce were kept cool in the flowing water, which meant many trips for each meal.
Louisa s day was usually filled with preparing food, taking care of kids, feeding turkeys and chickens. Breakfast could be a combination of eggs, bacon, fried potatoes, mush, oatmeal, buckwheat or corn pancakes, and the bread and butter she had made. At any meal there was apple butter, sorghum molasses or honey, a custom that still continues for some of us today.
For winter storage a trench was dug and filled with straw. Here were placed bushels of apples, potatoes, cabbage and other garden produce. The area was then covered with straw, old feed sacks and a six-inch layer of dirt. The produce stored this way usually lasted until spring.
For cooking, Louisa depended on her cast iron skillets. One day a man came to the front door and showed her his sample of three small cast iron skillets. She gave the man some money for a set of three. Her husband and relatives said that she would never see those skillets but they finally came in the mail. She prepared the skillets by coating them with lard and baking them in a hot oven for more than an hour. After using them she would wipe them out and put them in their place to dry. Her helpers had been taught not to put them in the dish water.
Louisa s stove had a firebox for burning wood or coal. On one side there was a reservoir which was used to heat water for washing dishes, general cleaning and Saturday baths. The other side of the firebox was the oven where she baked bread twice a week and quite often corn bread and pies. MH had to cut, chop, split and carry a supply of wood for the cookstove and the heaters in the winter.
Two more boys were soon added to this Warner family. Thurman was born in the spring of 1902 and Hubert in the fall of 1904. Louisa chose her own maiden name of Gilmore for Thurman s middle name. Hubert s first name was James after his grandfather, James Wells Warner. Hubert had black hair in a family of redheads. He wrote, For a long time I was referred to as Mother s little blackhead.
Mildred was now old enough to take care of the younger boys. Mordecai Harvey and the twins had put a white picket fence from one side of the milk house around one end of the house to a gate in the front and on around the other end of the house and back to the other side of the milk house. This enclosed area was to keep the younger boys in and the wandering free-range chickens and turkeys out.
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Mildred and most devastating loss hit the family when Mildred was twelve. While she was adding firewood to the kitchen stove her dress caught fire. She ran from the house toward the creek. Different stories of what happened next have been told. The twins ran after her, one went for a rug to roll around her. Another version tells that RJ was nearby with a bucket of water. And yet another says they rolled her on the ground. She was badly burned. Louisa was stricken with grief and guilt when she saw the burns on her daughter. Mildred lived for three weeks before infection ended her life. It was a time for drawing strength from family. They came together in grief--the Warners, the Gilmores, the Howilers, the Carpenters, the Stephens, the Roes and other relatives and neighbors. They came to give support. The family unit had been damaged, crushed. They prayed together. They offered consolation, sharing their love like healing salve on those who were hurting. Family was important, perhaps the most important of all human endeavors. |
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8th grade Graduation? Mordecai stood by Louisa as they closed the grave at
the hilltop cemetery. His anger with God lessoned as he looked around at all the family that had gathered. He felt a new surge of what it means to have life and family. He looked upward with an unspoken prayer to overcome his anger and for the ability to lead his family into an understanding of what it really means to be alive. They would need all their help to reverse the devastation of this tragedy and recover the joy of living. (Louisa s mother would later say that Louisa never got over it.)
A year later, 1908, Louisa gave birth to a boy, and as a namesake of her loss, she gave him the name of Hildred. For a middle name she took the middle name of the husband she loved, Harvey.
Back at the house the routine of this young family continued. Rodney and Roger gradually become more involved in the more difficult chores of farming. They fed the hogs, sheep and were soon taking care of the horses. This meant cleaning the stable and knowing what to feed depending on the temperature and whether or not the horses were going to be worked that day. They progressed to hitching up to the wagon, the surrey or the plow. If two horses were to pull as a team they were hitched differently.
Thurman soon became the horse man. His younger brother later told that they would go to the barn, hitch Ole Bill to the sled just to haul a bucket of corn to the chickens or get a bucket of potatoes from the garden. Ole Bill was known as a special horse. He was gentle, responded to voice commands and knew enough not to step on crops and garden plants. It would be their attempt to hitch a cow and horse together as a team that would get some boys into real trouble.
The younger boys were learning that succession of helping
tasks: picking berries, gathering eggs, nuts and produce from the garden.
Hubert recorded they attended church fairly often. He wrote, Three things stand out about
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my church experience. There were two front doors to the church, one on either side of the front. All males entered by one door and all the females entered the other door. No music instrument, not even a piano, was allowed in the church and the only minister I knew had a lot of real white hair and a real black mustache. We had old man, Alfred Martin, for the teacher of our Sunday School class. We took turns reading a verse from the Bible and explaining what we had just read. The teacher helped with both if |
necessary. He gave us
a verse to memorize for the next Sunday Church
of Christ,
that the land on which the church was built was given by my Grandfather Wesley Gilmore. My parents farm completely surrounded the land he gave.
The farm produced well. MH did a lot of buying and selling, especially livestock. He was also successful in breeding Percheron draft horses. He won recognition at the Ohio State Fair with a white horse named Judge. The next year, with the help of neighbors and the twins, MH built a new barn. They added a tall, round wood silo to store ensilage the following year. Ensilage, also called fodder, is made by chopping the entire plant including leaves, stalks, and grain of crops like corn or sorghum.
In 1912 MH announced a plan to build a new barn. He needed more space to store feed and hay for the Percheron horses he had been breeding. It was to be the biggest barn in the area. One afternoon eight wagons loaded with lumber arrived and were unloaded with the help of relatives and neighbors. The barn was up and ready for use by early winter. The twins provided a lot of help.
My dad, Rodney, took my brother and me to see this barn some forty years after they moved. The large lean-to on the left side of barn had been added since our visit. I did not remember the church on the hill. Dad pointed out the little stream where they had shoveled gravel into a one-cubic box to mix the concrete for the foundation. He also showed us the spike nails that were still on the front of the barn where they had hung the horse harnesses for the big sale
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before they moved. There was a concrete block in the foundation of the corn crib with the initials HMW. It was gone when I took these pictures in 2008. I still remember the shock that my Dad expressed with the erosion on the hillsides where they had raised corn and tobacco. In 2008 the shock was mine. The small stream, still small, had |
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MH Warner barn built 1912 was mine. The small stream, still
small, had washed away enough soil to deepen its bed nearly three feet and required a bridge to cross over.
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Here is another view of the barn that was built by MH, the
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As we drove away from the farm we passed a house with a large tree behind it. With a tone of anger in his voice, Dad told about a man that lived there who tied his wife to that tree when he went to town, usually to get drunk. He and his brother, Roger, had wanted to give the man a good thrashing but Granddad had told them to stay out of it, it was not their affair.
A short distance later we came to two identical houses, one built just a few feet behind the other. Dad remembered that the man and wife that lived there could not get along with each other so he built a second house for himself.
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This section details HBase specific configuration properties. For general properties, see Runtime Configuration.
10.3.1. geomesa.hbase.config.paths¶
Additional configuration file paths, comma-delimited. The files will be added to the HBase configuration prior
to creating a Connection
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10.3.2. geomesa.hbase.remote.filtering¶
Disable remote filtering. Remote filtering and coprocessors speed up queries, however they require the installation
of custom JARs in HBase. Since this is not always possible, they can be disabled by setting this to false
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This property will be overridden by the data store configuration parameter, if both are specified.
10.3.3. geomesa.hbase.wal.durability¶
Set the client side WAL (write ahead log) durability setting. This can improve performance when running large ingests where performance is of more concern than reliability. Available settings are:
- ASYNC_WAL: Write the Mutation to the WAL asynchronously
- FSYNC_WAL: Write the Mutation to the WAL synchronously and force the entries to disk.
- SKIP_WAL: Do not write the Mutation to the WAL
- SYNC_WAL: Write the Mutation to the WAL synchronously.
- USE_DEFAULT: If this is for tables durability, use HBase’s global default value (SYNC_WAL).
For addtional information see HBase documentation.
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Set the number of rows that scanners will read ahead. If not set, the default caching will apply as configured in
hbase-site.xml
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10.3.5. geomesa.hbase.query.block.caching.enabled¶
Set whether blocks should be cached for scans, true by default. When true, default settings of the table and family are used (this will never override caching blocks if the block cache is disabled for that family or entirely).


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Having been arrested recently for possession, my parents have been surprising me with random drug tests. So out of desperation, I decided to dose on some motion sickness pills.
-All times are rough estimates-
5:00pm - The trip started out as any other; I saw the blobs, I heard thumps, things seems jiggle when I looked at them.
5:45pm - The trip took on some new characteristics. I had an unusual amount of control over the hallucinations. I remember being able to manipulate the sounds and voices I heard. I would say a word, concentrate on it, and then I would hear the word. Eventually I graduated to complete sentences and noises (ex. a car horn). I also noticed that by staring at the clouds I could get them to form pictures. I distinctly remember seeing an old man reading a book. I could also form pictures in the air by concentrating on those blobs.
6:15pm - I went inside and put on a cd, one that I specifically made for acid trips. I sat down on the floor and watched what seemed to be a music video for the song I was listening to, on tv (Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles). I thought to myself, 'Wow, what a coinsidence that Mtv would be playing this video at the same moment that I was listening to the song on my boombox!' Then I thought, 'Why would Mtv play a music video that's 35 years old?' Then I thought, 'Does this song even have a music video?' Then I thought, 'Is my tv even on?' And at that point the video was over and I realized my television had been off the entire time. I sat in my room for a few uneventful minutes, and finally decided that I could use a change of scenery.
7:00pm - I arrived in my living room and as soon as I hit the couch, I saw my bottle of pills staring up at me. I got this feeling that the effects of the pills were starting to dwindle (in hindsight, they weren't), so threw in three more.
7:30pm - This is when my surprisingly pleasant trip took a turn for the worst. I struggled to focus on the pay-per-view movie I ordered, but my screwed-up periphrial vision forced me to turn around every five seconds.
7:45pm - My phone rang. It almost went into voice mail before realized it wasn't a hallucination. The call was from a friend of mine, who was looking to buy some weed. I agreed, and tore up my room looking for my car keys.
8:00pm - I found the keys and started heading toward the garage, but I was paralyzed in fear when I saw a three foot tall elf dart across my living room and run into my parent's room. I stood there contemplating my next move. In the back of my mind, I knew the elf was a halluncination; but if something looks, sounds, and feels real; what's the difference?
8:10pm - I gathered up enough courage to check it out. When I entered the semi-darkened room, I let out a scream that my neighbors probably heard. I screamed because I saw sitting on the couch, bed, and floor at least five or six more elves. To my relief, these elves turned into piles of clothes, pillows, and an assortment of things laying around the room.
[Erowid Note: Driving while intoxicated or tripping is dangerous and irresponsible because it endangers other people. Don't do it!]
8:15pm - After I regained my composure, I once again headed towards my garage. I started my car, and when backing out, I saw a man sitting in the backseat of my dad's car. A chill went down my spine. I then got out of my car and slowly crept towards my dad's car to check things out.  Without warning, he violently turned towards me. The man's face had no features; no eyes, no nose, no mouth; just a blank face. The man then faded away to nothing.
8:20pm - I realized it probably wasn't a good idea for me to be driving, so I pulled my car back in the garage.
8:25pm - By now, I was extremely tired. I went into my room and the second I hit my bed, I fell asleep. That night was filled with vivid dreams, all of which I remebered upon awakening.
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The Finite Nature of Water
Despite the apparent abundance of water, fresh water is primarily a non-renewable resource. Fresh water can originate from surface sources, like lakes, rivers, and ice, but more than half of americans get their fresh water from ground water [1]. At most 5.6% of our ground water can be replenished within 50 years after extraction. Although the total ground water in the Earth could cover the entire surface of the Earth to a depth of 18 meters, in many areas people are already drawing on water that is thousands of years old—or in some areas of Egypt, millions of years old [2,3].
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"Reserves" are collections resources that we have identified within the Earth that we can extract at some point—but haven't yet. Estimates relating to reserves fluctuate as economic forces, technological chanages, and new resource discoveries alter what we know about resource availability and extraction feasibility. Nevertheless, they are most certainly finite.
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"What happens when these fertilizers run out is a question I can’t get satisfactorily answered and, believe me, I have tried. There seems to be only one conclusion: their use must be drastically reduced in the next 20–40 years or we will begin to starve."
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As usual, time was a big constraint. This was a weekend hackathon at my bootcamp, and our team had pretty much been strangers before the hackathon so bad communication (and lack of) also had a negative role in our experience.
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De Vargas R 134 min
This is the second feature by the successful painter Julian Schnabel (Basquiat). Both have been biographies of minority artists who suffered grievously and died young, both have been visually and stylistically bold, both have been self-indulgent, chaotic, and often tedious.
Before Night Falls is based on the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, the Cuban poet and novelist who was hounded by the Castro government for his homosexuality and his writing. He was surprisingly prolific at both. He boasted of having bedded 5,000 men by the age of 25 (and after that he was in prison where the opportunities can't have slackened much), and despite his years behind bars and the relentless censorship he turned out over 20 books before his premature death of AIDS in New York at 48.
Central to the critical success this picture has enjoyed is the Oscar-nominated performance of Spaniard Javier Bardem (Jamon, Jamon) as Arenas. Bardem does a remarkable job of taking the character from exuberant youth to sickly middle age, and he animates him with a cocky, jaded innocence. But as Best Actor material his credentials have as much to do with screen time as with interpretation. The shortfall is to a large extent the fault of the movie's structure, which dulls the telling with repetitiveness and confusion.
Some of the confusion comes from the accents. The movie is spoken primarily in a thickly-accented English which is supposed to be Spanish, and which is sometimes incomprehensible to the American ear. Confusing matters further are occasional passages spoken in Spanish, the same Spanish they're speaking when they're speaking English, if you follow my drift. At least the Spanish Spanish is subtitled, which makes it easier to understand.
 He grows up, discovers his writer's gift and his homosexuality, and proceeds to write and fornicate until he's thrown in jail on trumped-up charges by the revolutionary regime, whereupon he continues to do both anyway. Eventually he gets out of Cuba when Castro empties the country of "undesirables" and ships them to Miami.
There is an extraordinary cameo by Johnny Depp as a manuscript-smuggling transvestite, muddied by another cameo by Johnny Depp as a military officer, also well played but confusing -- you wonder if it's supposed to be the same guy leading a double life. Sean Penn also contributes a barely recognizable cameo as a gold-toothed wagon driver.
Schnabel and cinematographers Xavier Perez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas come up with some stunning visuals, and the film's condemnation of the repressiveness of the Castro revolution is damning and disturbing, but the movie churns and spins its wheels in an orgy of stylistic muck, and never gets up to the speed the story requires.
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Container Checks¶
Singularity 2.4 introduced the ability to run container “checks” on demand. Checks can be anything from a filter for sensitive information, to an analysis of installed binaries. A few default checks are installed with Singularity and others can be added by the administrator. Users can perform checks at build time or on demand: Perform all default checks, these are the same
$ singularity check ubuntu.img
$ singularity check --tag default ubuntu.img
Perform checks with tag “clean”
$ singularity check --tag clean ubuntu.img
Tags and Organization¶
Currently, checks are organized by tag and security level. If you know a specific tag that you want to use, for example “docker” deploys checks for containers with Docker imported layers, you can specify the tag:
USAGE
-t/--tag tag to filter checks. default is "default"
Available: default, security, docker, clean
EXAMPLE
$ singularity check --tag docker ubuntu.img
If you want to run checks associated with a different security level,
you can specify with --low
, --med
, or --high
:
USAGE: singularity [...] check [exec options...] <container path>
This command will run security checks for an image.
Note that some checks require sudo.
-l/--low Specify low threshold (all checks, default)
-m/--med Perform medium and high checks
-h/--high Perform only checks at level high
Note
Note that some checks will require sudo, and you will be alerted if this is the case and you didn’t use it. Finally, if you want to run all default checks, just don’t specify a tag or level.
What checks are available?¶
Currently, you can view all installable checks here, and we anticipate adding an ability to view tags that are available, along with your own custom checks. You should also ask your administration if new checks have been added not supported by Singularity. If you want to request adding a new check, please tell us!.


Hello, my name is Phil
I am a Computer Science student at UCF
Hello, my name is Phil Duncan and I was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. I originally went to the University of Florida to compete for the Gators in Track & Field and Cross Country. Unfortunately, a major back injury ended my competitive career and I transferred to UCF.
Pursuing a BS in Computer Science & Math Minor at the University of Central Florida with an expected graduation date of May or August 2018. I currently carry a GPA of 3.6 at UCF
Currently enrolled in Data Structures & Algorithms, Discrete Math, Computer Logic & Organization, and Security in Computing. I am interested in pursuing an MS in Computer Science, and potentially an MBA.
Through my coursework, I have strong foundations in C, Java, MIPS Assembly Code, and SQL.
Outside of class, I am interested in data analysis and visualization. I'm currently learning Python (with Anaconda package), R, and C++ for side projects.


Colonus Publishing, Inc., offers a Prize for the year 2017 in the maximum amount of two hundred dollars for original poems. The poems must be new work, which is to say, the poems must not otherwise have been published in any other manner of any kind or nature, including, but not limited to, publication on the printed page in a book, journal, or magazine; electronic publication on the Internet, or audiobook or other electronic recording. If you have experienced the poetic good fortune of having your poems published on the sides of a garbage truck in Sydney, Australia, like the poet Jessi Randall, then yes, that is a publication, too. When I say new, I mean new. And that of course means you can be an unpublished poet and enter this contest.
But if you cannot see the connection between the landscapes of Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra,” then you should not enter this contest. For the purposes of this Prize, I am generally not interested in confessional poetry, but Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a very fine landscape poem. Rainer Maria Rilke would be more interested in your crying out that your solitude causes you pain than I. I am more interested in knowing why your caged bird sings. And I would like to know something about Pavel Friedman’s butterfly. But there are no subject matter restrictions.
Please follow the link below for the contest rules, which are hereby incorporated into the offer for the Colonus Publishing Poetry Prize for 2017, and are conditions precedent to any award of the Prize.
Colonus Publishing Poetry Prize Rules
Sincerely,
Rich Skalstad
Editor, Colonus Publishing, Inc.
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i i-c 0 start 1 0 -0 1 stop 1 0 -1 2 start 2 1 -1 3 stop 2 1 -2 4 start 3 2 -2 5 stop 3 2 -3 6 stop 4 3 -3
c += 1 if i % 2 == 1
Determine the greates id assuming it is 20
Associate ids to task-files in a hash
ids = {“1” => [/home/user/.tasks/1.task,
%rhome/ser/.tasks/project/1.task, %rhome/ser/1.task], "2" => [%rhome/ser/.tasks/2.task, %rhome/ser/2.task], ...}
Then re-index tasks that are not unique and associate the old id to the new task-files
new_ids = {“1” => {“20” => /home/user/.tasks/project/1.task,
"21" => %rhome/ser/1.task}, "2" => {"22" => %rhome/ser/2.task}, ...}
Rework duration of tasks
When planning a task then the duration is set and remaining time is set to the duration When showing the schedule the task is added at or after the current time within the time line. When task is started the remaining is used as the start of the count down timer When task is stopped the lead time is subtracted from remaining When task is restarted count down timer is started with the value of remaining When showing schedule the task is added with the remaining time. If the remaining time is <= 0 than 15 minutes as the duration is shown if task is not marked as done. Done tasks are shown in the schedule’s time line with their actual lead_time in the past. The time that is shown is the actual processing time duration minus remaining. The minimum time shown is 15 minutes.
10 20 30 40
0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678 |—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—| 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
current time position diff positon calculation result
9:00 4 [ 1, 0] (( 1 * 60 + 0) / 15.0).round 4 9:10 5 [ 1, 10] (( 1 * 60 + 10) / 15.0).round 5
10:00 8 [ 2, 0] (( 2 * 60 + 0) / 15.0).round 8 11:07 12 [ 3, 7] (( 3 * 60 + 7) / 15.0).round 12
7:00 0 [-1, 0] ((-1 * 60 + 0) / 15.0).round -4 7:30 0 [ 0, -30] (( 0 * 60 - 30) / 15.0).round -2
Define settings Define default tasks settings –general_tasks plan,talk,meet,break general_tasks file plan,1 talk,2 meet,3 break,4
Statistics 2013-04-10 - 2013-04-20 8 working days
total average max min
working time meeting time task processing unplanned tasks done tasks open tasks
Add done tasks to time line
Task Duration 1 2 2 3 3 1
xxooox
|—|-xxooxx| xxooox
|—xooxxxoo| xxooox xoox
|–xxooxxxoo| xxooox xox
end_position done_tasks.size index max_duration duration total_duration 3 2 0 2 1 0 3 2 1 2 1 1
max_duration = end_position - done_tasks.size + index - total_duration
2 3 2 0+1 0 2 3 2 1+1 1
prio with position
origin 1) 2) 1 3 1 2 4 4 3 5 2 4 1 3 5 2 5
1) syctask -o 3,4,5 -p 0 2) syctask -o 2,3,5 -p 3
Determine the position for time in timeline -w 8:30-12:45 results in a time line of |—|—|—|—|—| 8 9 10 11 12 13
position_for_time(9) will return position = 2 but it should be 4
That is the position = starts.diff(now) + starts.min / 15


Line joining and pep8 guidelines for maximum line length
November 05, 2016The motivation behind writing this article came from a piece of code that I was working on earlier this week. It was a scrapper which uses a headless browser called, “PhantomJs”. I had to change the user agent in my HTTP requests and I found out an example to do just that. This is the example:
dcap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = (
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/53 "
"(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.87"
)
When i first saw the above example, I thought it was a tuple being assigned to dcap
. But when I took a closer look at it, I realized it was not the case. This is what I discovered:
Explicit vs Implicit line joining
In python, you can join two lines by ending that line with a, \
. This is the explicit way of doing it.
dcap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] ="Mozilla/5.0 "\
"(X11; Linux x86_64) "\
"AppleWebKit/53 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.87"
Now, if you want to do it implicitly, you’ll have to enclose the above string in parentheses, square brackets or curly braces:
dcap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = (
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/53 "
"(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.87"
)
Readability
If you look at the implicit way of writing statements then it is far more readable and less clutered. Though it might confuse the reader at first glance but in my opinion it looks cleaner.
PEP8
According to the PEP8 guidelines, the preferred way of wrapping long lines is through the implicit line joining using parentheses, square brackets or curly braces. So, here Implicit is better than Explicit but not in all the cases.
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I have not kept this code DRY. Some of this is due to lack of knowledge, and some of this is due to
functionality. C3 is a strange graph library and
has proven to be a bit finicky.
Please email suggestions to me!
Great Question! I currently have set up the code to add each date when the add button is clicked on. It will empty whenever you click ANYWHERE ELSE in the document. The problem is that it will continue adding the dates to edit over and over again once you click on it. It does not impact functionality but it looks terrifying to watch these dates multiply each time they're clicked on.
Ah yes, a problem I spent quite a bit of time trying to fix. In some cases, the graph will refresh itself as intended. However, sometimes it will do funky things and will update immediately with inaccurate data. I've scoured forums trying to fix this-it seems to be a common problem. I intend to re-write this in react once I know how to do so!
YES! It is hard-coded and definitely redundant and at this time will only work for the year 2019! I plan on fixing it, but the code is rough for sure.


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ActionComponents.ACImage adds several helpful routines for working with UIImages
including the ability to dectect iPhone 5 (or greater) images in the form<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and automatically load them in place of name.ext files. It includes methods to help with the rotation of images as well.
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| static nfloat | DegreesToRadians (nfloat degrees) |
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ActionComponents.ACImage adds several helpful routines for working with UIImages
including the ability to dectect iPhone 5 (or greater) images in the form<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and automatically load them in place of name.ext files. It includes methods to help with the rotation of images as well.
Available in ActionPack Business or Enterprise only.
| static nfloat ActionComponents.ACImage.DegreesToRadians |
( |
nfloat |
degrees | ) |
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static |
Given a value in degrees, return the value in radians
- Parameters
-
| degrees | Degrees to convert |
- Returns
- The value in radians
| static UIImage ActionComponents.ACImage.FromFile |
( |
string |
filename | ) |
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|
static |
Returns a UIImage
from the given filename or null
if the image cannot be loaded
- Returns
- The
UIImage
for the specified filename or null
if not found or error
- Parameters
-
| filename | The full name and path of the image to load |
If running on an iPhone 5 (or greater) and asking for an image file in the form name.ext and a file in same directory with a name in the format<EMAIL_ADDRESS>exists, it will automatically be loaded instead. The same holds true for devices with Retina Displays
, if ask for a file name.ext and a file<EMAIL_ADDRESS>exists, it will automatically be loaded instead.
| static UIImage ActionComponents.ACImage.RotateImage |
( |
this UIImage |
source, |
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|
float |
degrees |
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) |
| |
|
static |
Given a source UIImage
, return a new UIImage
containing the source image rotated to the given radian value
- Parameters
-
| source | The source image to rotate |
| degrees | The degrees to rotate the image to |
- Returns
- A new
UIImage
containing the image rotated to the given degrees


Korean Air flights about to land for summer
Korea’s national airline has announced a new direct seasonal charter programme between Seoul and Christchurch this summer.
The first Korean Air flight will land in Christchurch on December 28 and run weekly till February 21.
Christchurch Airport chief aeronautical and commercial officer Justin Watson said the service is a response to the increasing numbers of Korean visitors coming to the South Island.
“Our Korean arrival numbers have grown 39 per cent over the past five years and this charter service is seen as a trial, which may lead to more flights the following year,” he said.
“Analysis suggests the Korean visitors off the charter service will spend about $7 million during their time in the South Island, so it’s a win-win for both the visitors and the island’s regions.”
The new service is the result of a concerted effort by the airport, Tourism New Zealand and other government agencies working together with South Korean travel sellers.
Tourism New Zealand director commercial Rene de Monchy welcomed the announcement.
“Tourism New Zealand has increased its marketing effort and investment in South Korea to help stimulate demand for travel to New Zealand,” he said.
“This series of flights direct into the South Island will provide our Korean visitors greater choice and flexibility in travelling to New Zealand for their holiday."


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- getAverageRelevance() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.document.Document
-
Returns the average of all relevance values store in the FIFO buffer.
- getBestResult() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.document.DocumentList
-
Returns the element with the highest relevance.
- getChildLeaves() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.DocumentNode
-
Get list of child leaves.
- getCountOfStoredRelevances() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.document.Document
-
Returns the current size of the ring buffer containing the calculated relevance from the last searches.
- getDistanceToOptimalPosition() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.SimulationResult
-
Get a list which contains the distance of each document from the optimal position.
- getDistributionForDocument() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the defined
Distribution
when the document terms will be created randomly.
- getDistributionForSearch() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the defined
Distribution
when the search terms will be created randomly.
- getDocument() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.DocumentNode
-
Get the document which is stored on this node.
- getDocumentName() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.document.Document
-
Returns the stored name of the document.
- getDocumentOnCorrectLevel() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.SimulationResult
-
Get the number of documents which are on the same level like the copies of them in the optimal tree.
- getDouble(Distribution, int) - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.RandomNumberGenerator
-
Returns a pseudorandom double
value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified maxValue (exclusive) related
to the defined distribution.
- getHits() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.SimulationResult
-
Get the number if Hits after all searches.
- getInt(int) - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.RandomNumberGenerator
-
Returns a pseudorandom int
value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified maxValue (exclusive).
- getLatestCalculatedRelevance() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.document.Document
-
Returns the latest relevance value.
- getLeftChild() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.DocumentNode
-
Get the DocumentNode which is referenced as left child node.
- getLimitForLocalKnowledge() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the count of documents which will be searched for limit search.
- getMaxCountOfCreatedDocuments() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the maximum count how many documents should be created.
- getMaxCountOfCreatedSearches() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the maximum count how many searches should be performed.
- getMaxCountOfTermsUsedToDefineVector() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the count of terms which will define a document and/or search.
- getMaxCountOfTermsWithQuantifier() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the count of terms for the document/search vector which needs to be greater than 0.
- getNumberOfSearchesBeforeRepositioning() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the number of searches which needs to be performed until a document can be repositioned.
- getParameter() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.SimulationResult
-
Get the defined parameter which were used for the simulation.
- getParent() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.DocumentNode
-
Get the parent node of the current node.
- getRequiredRepositionings() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.SimulationResult
-
Get a list of counts of performed repositionings.
- getRequiredSearches() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.utils.SimulationResult
-
Get the list of number of required searches until the document with the highest relevance was found.
- getRightChild() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.DocumentNode
-
Get the DocumentNode which is referenced as right child node.
- getRootNode() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.DocumentTree
-
Returns the root node of the tree.
- getSearchType() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the defined
SearchType
for the simulation to search on the tree.
- getTermVector() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.document.Document
-
Retuns an array which is the presentation of the term vector describing the document.
- getThreshold() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.simulation.configuration.Configuration
-
Get the threshold to reposition documents which are not searched for a defined number of searches (threshold).
- getTimestampOfLatestSearch() - Method in class com.github.jhanne82.documenttree.document.Document
-
Returns the timestamp of the latest search on this document.


limmen.business.representations.entity_representation
Classes
AlbumRepresentation
ArtistRepresentation
CustomerRepresentation
EmployeeRepresentation
GenreRepresentation
InvoiceLineRepresentation
InvoiceRepresentation
MediaTypeRepresentation
PlaylistRepresentation
PlaylistTrackRepresentation
TrackRepresentation


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After having a great experience with sublingual free base bufotenine, the following weekend we played around with smoking free base bufotenine. We smoked doses ranging from 10 mg all the way up to 15 mg. All three of us had positive experiences. The effects are different this way. 10 mg was about as intense as 150 mg taken sublingually. It comes on really fast. The come up is a little uncomfortable for about 1 minute. After inhaling 1 lungful of 10 mg, I feel a “heat” effect in the head, and then my stomach feels unusual. After about 1 minute, this goes away and in 2-5 minutes I'm peaking REALLY HARD.
Robin was unable to take more than 10 mg. She said 10 mg was almost too intense. At that dose she said everything in the room started twisting and melting. She equated it to 500 mics of LSD. She found the peak was almost too much to handle. During the peak she was very nervous. She felt as though she was going to dissolve and melt away.
My girlfriend and I tried 15 mg and we were blown away. Within 3 minutes after inhaling it, everything in the room started shimmering and flashing. I saw snake like lines dancing all over everything. Patterns were forming all over my visual field. These patterns were morphing into eyes all around me. They look ancient, like the eyes of shamans. I closed my eyes and heard a voice speak to me. It said “WHO ARE YOU”. It was very load and very clear. It repeated. I could not see anyone. All I saw were snake like colored lines dancing around.
These snakes quickly formed into a man. It was a shaman. He was very old. He asked again, “WHO ARE YOU”. I realized the shaman was not talking to me but actually talking to another character in my vision. It was a giant snake made of blue and red light. It looked like a wire frame computer animated snake. The snake let out a loud hiss. It was very loud. I couldn’t stand the sound. I felt it in my ears. It was frightening. The shaman looked angry. He opened his hand and threw a blue light towards the snake. The snake burst apart into a bunch of drops of blood. Suddenly blood was swirling around me. It was disgusting.
I opened my eyes. I didn’t want to see any more.  My girlfriend was dancing. She looked like she was a movie. I could see her flickering as she danced. As if she was a projection of light. I started dancing with her. It felt great to move my arms around. Everything in the room swayed as we danced. There was no music playing, but soon I heard music in my mind. With every movement, I heard sounds. The sounds grew faint as we danced. After a while I laid down on the couch. I watched patterns forming on the ceiling. My girlfriend turned on some music. The music sounded incredible. I could feel every note playing. The patterns on the ceiling began moving to the music. I started to drift away into a dream. I felt asleep. I have a bunch of dreams. I woke up after about 1 hour. The effects were still present. After about 3 hours the effects wore off.
I think 15 mg is just too much and it lasts too long. At 15 mg I get a little bit of a nervous twitch during the peaks like I get from too much coffee and the hallucinations are way too intense. I later tried 10 mg. 10 mg seems prefect for me and only lasts about 2 hours, which is more manageable.
I think this is a very interesting compound. When smoked, it is sort of like DMT. But more intense. The hallucinations include lots of sound and seem to have more of a story to them. DMT is more like a light show. Bufotenine is more like a short movie.
I like sublingual bufotenine more than smoked bufotenine. Sublingually, it is smoother, more peaceful, more euphoric, and the visions are full of more content. When smoked, the come up is harsh, and the peak hits me too fast. The comedown is about the same though. When used sublingually, the come up is gradual and smooth and very euphoric. When smoked, the euphoria doesn’t hit until the peak starts to fade.
The downside of sublingual use is that it takes about 10 times as much to be active and I have to hold it under my tongue for about 15 minutes. Holding it under my tongue for 15 minutes is not that pleasant. A lot of saliva starts to accumulate, and if I swallow any of it, it causes an upset stomach. It’s hard not to swallow it. But when done right, the trip is one of the most beautiful psychedelic experiences there is. It is very much worth it. I wonder if Yopo or Vila snuff is this beautiful of an experience.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Plan B for 2016 is to post a potsage [sic] here every day, except on those days when Mr Key is beset by uurrgghh. So far the plan is succeeding beyond all expectations.
Meanwhile, when not whimpering softly, I have tried to cheer myself up by watching Die Hard : The Director's Cat, two hours of footage of John McTiernan's pet moggy, Tiddles, graceful yet unfathomably stupid, prowling around the upper floors of the Nakatomi Building, lapping milk from a saucer, fixing its gaze on things invisible to the human eye, and taking long naps. Yippee-ky-oh, motherfucker!


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CmdMessenger
4.0.0
CmdMessenger is a serial port messaging library for the .Net / Mono Platform.
|
Public Member Functions | |
| BluetoothConnectionStorer () | |
| Contructor of Store/Retreive object for SerialConnectionManagerSettings The file is serialized as a simple binary file. | |
| BluetoothConnectionStorer (string settingsFileName) | |
| Contructor of Store/Retreive object for SerialConnectionManagerSettings The file is serialized as a simple binary file. | |
| void | StoreSettings (BluetoothConnectionManagerSettings bluetoothConnectionManagerSettings) |
| Store SerialConnectionManagerSettings. | |
| BluetoothConnectionManagerSettings | RetrieveSettings () |
| Retreive SerialConnectionManagerSettings. |
Contructor of Store/Retreive object for SerialConnectionManagerSettings The file is serialized as a simple binary file.
| CommandMessenger.Transport.Bluetooth.BluetoothConnectionStorer.BluetoothConnectionStorer | ( | string | settingsFileName | ) |
Contructor of Store/Retreive object for SerialConnectionManagerSettings The file is serialized as a simple binary file.
| settingsFileName | Filename of the settings file |
| BluetoothConnectionManagerSettings CommandMessenger.Transport.Bluetooth.BluetoothConnectionStorer.RetrieveSettings | ( | ) |
Retreive SerialConnectionManagerSettings.
Implements CommandMessenger.Transport.Bluetooth.IBluetoothConnectionStorer.
| void CommandMessenger.Transport.Bluetooth.BluetoothConnectionStorer.StoreSettings | ( | BluetoothConnectionManagerSettings | bluetoothConnectionManagerSettings | ) |
Store SerialConnectionManagerSettings.
| bluetoothConnectionManagerSettings | BluetoothConnectionManagerSettings |
Implements CommandMessenger.Transport.Bluetooth.IBluetoothConnectionStorer.


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VPP in Azure¶
Before starting, a few notes:
in our configuration we use only DPDK 18.02, since with the newer versions, such as DPDK 18.05, we obtained several problems during VPP installation (mostly related with MLX4 PMD Drivers).
Some of the commands are taken from Azure’s DPDK page.
To bring DPDK inside Azure, we perform the following procedure:
Firstly, we install the DPDK dependencies:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-server/dpdk-azure –y
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y librdmacm-dev librdmacm1 build-essential libnuma-dev libmnl-dev
Then, we download DPDK 18.02:
$ sudo wget https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-18.02.2.tar.xz
$ tar -xvf dpdk-18.02.2.tar.xz
Finally, we build DPDK, modifying first its configuration files in order to make VPP compatible with MLX4 drivers:
Inside config/common_base, modify:
CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=n
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX4_PMD=y
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX4_DLOPEN_DEPS=y
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_TAP_PMD=y
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_FAILSAFE_PMD=y
and then:
$ make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
$ sed -ri 's,(MLX._PMD=)n,\1y,' build/.config
$ make
Finally we build DPDK:
$ make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc DESTDIR=/home/ciscotest/test EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fPIC -pie'
And we reboot the instance:
$ reboot instance
After the reboot, we type these commands:
$ echo 1024 | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/node/node*/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
$ mkdir /mnt/huge
$ sudo mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge
$ grep Huge /proc/meminfo
$ modprobe -a ib_uverbs
$ cd x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/
$ ls
$ cd lib/
$ ls
$ sudo cp librte_pmd_mlx4_glue.so.18.02.0 /usr/lib
Now we focus on VPP installation:
In our configuration we use VPP 18.07.
We perform this procedure in order to install VPP 18.07 with an external DPDK configuration inside Azure.
Firstly, we download VPP
$ git clone https://gerrit.fd.io/r/vpp
$ git checkout v18.07
Then, we build VPP, using the external DPDK configuration we previously made:
We modify the path inside the vpp.mk file:
$ build-data/platforms/vpp.mk
$ vpp_uses_external_dpdk = yes
$ vpp_dpdk_inc_dir = <PATH_TO_DESTDIR_NAME_FROM_ABOVE>/include/dpdk/
$ vpp_dpdk_lib_dir =<PATH_TO_DESTDIR_NAME_FROM_ABOVE>/lib
<PATH_TO_DESTDIR_NAME_FROM_ABOVE> is whatever the path used when compiling DPDK above. These paths have to be absolute path in order for it to work.
we modify build-data/platforms/vpp.mk to use
vpp_uses_dpdk_mlx4_pmd = yes
$ make build
$ cd build-root/
$ make V=0 PLATFORM=vpp TAG=vpp install-deb
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Finally, we modify the startup.conf file:
$ cd /etc/vpp
$ sudo nano startup.conf
Inside the DPDK block, the following commands:
## Whitelist specific interface by specifying PCI address
dev 000X:00:0X.0
dev 000X:00:0X.0
# Running failsafe
vdev net_vdev_netvsc0,iface=eth1
vdev net_vdev_netvsc1,iface=eth2
Please refer to Azure DPDK document to pick the right iface to use for failsafe vdev.
and finally:
$ sudo service vpp stop
$ sudo service vpp start
$ sudo service vpp status
$ sudo vppctl
Now VPP will work inside Azure!


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