The Best USB-C Power Banks
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Not all power banks are created equal.
Sure, you can pick up a cheap unit on Amazon for what seems like a great discount, until it fails to charge your device, doesn’t maintain capacity, or worse, overheats. That’s why it’s important to stick with brands that have been through QC testing and set logical limits on their devices. That way, the only things that are blowing up are whatever you’re shooting in the game on your newly recharged phone or laptop or Nintendo Switch.
Here are the best USB-C power banks:
Lifeproof Lifeactív Power Pack
The Lifeactív Power Pack from Lifeproof needs to be in everyone's emergency kit. With Qi charging, an emergency flashlight and emergency LED built in, it’s perfect for just about any situation. Good thing that it’s also waterproof, shockproof, dustproof and, well, lifeproof. Just keep in mind that, while it has a 10,000 mAh capacity, it can’t output enough charge to keep your laptop running. For that you’ll need one of the beefier units on this list.
Jackery PowerBar
If you're looking for a compact, but versatile power bank, Jackery’s PowerBar is an incredible performer. With an AC outlet that can support up to 100W of output at its peak, you can power even the hungriest of devices. The USB-C outlet is a bit of a red herring on this unit, rated for charging your phone or tablet but not your USB-C-powered laptop (that’s what the AC outlet is for).
Goal Zero Sherpa 100 AC
Goal Zero makes some of the most reliable and versatile power products on the market. I’ve used their generators and solar panels for years and have been impressed, not with just how well they perform, but how they keep performing, barely losing any of their capacity as the years go by. With 25,600 mAh capacity and a max 60W output, the Sherpa 100 AC has more than enough power to keep everything in your pack running. It doesn’t lack for ports either. There’s one USB-A port, two USB-C ports and even an AC port if you are stuck using the power adapter for your laptop.  The helpful OLED display on the front of the unit lets you know how much power is coming, going out and lets you set roles for each port if you’d like.  This is the only power pack you’ll ever need.
Goal Zero Sherpa 100 PD
Okay, so maybe you don’t need the giant capacity of the Sherpa 100 AC and just want to bring enough pack with you to charge your laptop and your phone. In that case, get the Sherpa 100 PD. It has one USB-C port, two USB-A ports and a 5W Qi charger on the top of the unit. Instead of a fancy OLED screen, it has a simple LED readout of the current charge state. It also has the 25,600 mAh capacity and a max 60W output of the AC-enabled Sherpa, so you’ll be able to keep your devices running for a nice long time. And if you need to charge on the go? Use the included cord or hook the Sherpa up to one of Goal Zero’s Nomad solar panels for clean energy.


MY FAMILY/MI FAMILIA A Milpa Grows in East L. A. A film review by Patrisia Gonzales and Roberto Rodriguez Copyright 1995 Chronicle Features
In the movie, MY FAMILY/MI FAMILIA, a milpa grows in East Los Angeles; a cornfield where even that which dies--like fallen stalks of corn--feeds the living.
MY FAMILY, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, chronicles five generations of a Mexican family's experience in the United States. The Sanchez family includes "El Californio," an old uncle who was born in Los Angeles when it was still Mexico; Maria, the Mexican-American mother who is deported during anti-immigrant sweeps in the '30s; Isabel, a Salvadoran political refugee who marries into the family; and Chuco, a pachuco who is pursued by a river spirit. (In this movie, even the chairs have spirits.)
And unlike other Hollywood movies, Puerto Rican, Peruvian, Mexican and Chicano actors play Latinos.
Anyone from an immigrant family, or even a large family, should see a part of their own lives in this film. We did.
We saw our families who were here in the United States long before pilgrims or conquistadors: grandparents who crossed the border back and forth when there no Border Patrol; an imprisoned uncle, who, like the character Jimmy, seemed to bear all the wounds of being different for the entire family like the fallen corn, so the rest of us could flourish. Our family grew milpas.
We live in a society of divisions, of disintegrating families of races, and people divided into legal and illegal populations. MY FAMILY is about how one family withstands those divisions. It is not a Disney family.
When we were young, we went to movie theaters and drive-ins in Texas and California with names like the Isis and the Floral, where we saw ourselves through Mexico's golden age of cinema. We were complex. We laughed, sang, danced an loved through Mexican movie stars Maria Felix, Pedro Infante, Dolores del Rio, Tin Tan and Cantinflas.
Then, we were heroes. We imagined ourselves in Spanish. But as we relied more and more on the English-only films of Hollywood, we were reduced to maids with thick accents, prostitutes and drug dealers. Hollywood reduced us to caricatures.
MY FAMILY is about a housekeeper and a gardener who, in the end, live a good life. At best in the mainstream media, these gardeners and housekeeper are reduced to Nannygate problems or cameo roles in the intrigues of the O. J. Simpson trial, and their sons appear handcuffed regularly in the nightly news.
For those of us who have grown up in the electronic village, films such as JFK become the medium of truth and social memory. It is not lost on Latin youth that they are rendered as the fearfully romantic antiheroes. They don't get the happy ending or even a happy continuum. They always die in the end.
Screenwriters Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas, the husband and wife team who created EL NORTE, a movie about Guatemalan refugees, envisioned MY FAMILY as a moving Diego Rivera mural. Through his palette of indigenous themes, Rivera restored dignity to the Indians of Mexico.
MY FAMILY is part of a larger effort by Latinos to recover that dignity through film, documentaries and the written word. Latinos everywhere are recording a different memory of how we see ourselves, how we narrate ourselves and our place in America.
Other recently released films, such as AND THE EARTH DID NOT SWALLOW HIM, based on the book by Tomas Rivera about a migrant family, also speak to that collective memory of simply being human, rather than an anonymous entity whose name to some Americans, translates into "stranger" or "alien." Both movies are to be released around Cinco de Mayo (May 5).
"Films like these are about inserting ourselves into American history," say Rosa Linda Fregoso, a professor at the University of California at Davis, who wrote THE BRONZE SCREEN (U of Minnesota Press, 1993), a book on the Chicanas and Chincanos in film.
Sadly, as we celebrate 100 years of Hollywood, MY FAMILY is one of the few movies with a big-name backer. Many in the industry are looking at it as a screen test for future movies on Latinos. As one fan noted, it took 100 years to make.
By the way, cornfields still grow in East L.A. And the broken and fallen corn still feed the new.
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VICBee has developed models and continue working on algorithms to optimize portfolios involving several thousands of assets to one of the worlds' largest sovereign wealth funds.
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BSY appeals to Lingayats to vote for Ramesh Jarkiholi
by Special CorrespondentChief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, addressing an election rally in Gokak on Saturday, appealed to the “Veerashaiva-Lingayat voters” to support Ramesh Jarkiholi.
“It is due to his sustained efforts that I’m able to sit in my third floor office in the Vidhana Soudha and rule the State. Voters of all communities, including Veerashaiva-Lingayat community, should support him,” he said.
Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi said the BJP could not open its account in Gokak even after organising meetings and road shows. “We are making solid inroads in this region due to the entry of Ramesh Jarkiholi into the BJP,” he said.
Ramesh Jarkiholi said he rejected the Congress because of its culture of arrogance. “I am still in touch with many Congress MLAs. I can get all of them to join the BJP,” he said. “The Congress is full of people who value personal loyalty and not party loyalty. There is no place for leaders with party loyalty in the Congress,” he said.
Minister Shashikala Jolle, MLA Umesh Katti and others were present.


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Module Refactor
Refactoring module
Tables
| Stmt | AST Stmt |
| Expr | AST Expr |
Fields
| refactor | Global refactoring state |
Class RefactorState
| RefactorState:run_command (name, args) | Run a builtin refactoring command |
| RefactorState:transform (callback) | Run a custom refactoring transformation |
Class MatchCtxt
| MatchCtxt:parse_stmts (pat) | Parse statements and add them to this MatchCtxt |
| MatchCtxt:parse_expr (pat) | Parse an expressiong and add it to this MatchCtxt |
| MatchCtxt:fold_with (needle, crate, callback) | Find matches of pattern within crate and rewrite using callback |
| MatchCtxt:get_expr (Expression) | Get matched binding for an expression variable |
| MatchCtxt:get_stmt (Statement) | Get matched binding for a statement variable |
| MatchCtxt:try_match (pat, target) | Attempt to match target against pat , updating bindings if matched. |
| MatchCtxt:subst (replacement) | Substitute the currently matched AST node with a new AST node |
Class TransformCtxt
| TransformCtxt:replace_stmts_with (needle, callback) | Replace matching statements using given callback |
| TransformCtxt:replace_expr_with (needle, callback) | Replace matching expressions using given callback |
| TransformCtxt:match () | Create a new, empty MatchCtxt |
| TransformCtxt:get_ast (node) | Retrieve a Lua version of an AST node |
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Class RefactorState
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Parameters:
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Parse an expressiong and add it to this MatchCtxt
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pattern
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Get matched binding for an expression variable
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Get matched binding for a statement variable
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- Statement string variable pattern
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Attempt to match
target
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- target AstNode AST to match against
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Substitute the currently matched AST node with a new AST node
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Class TransformCtxt
Transformation context
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Replace matching statements using given callback
Parameters:
- needle string Statements pattern to search for, may include variable bindings
- callback function(AstNode,MatchCtxt) Function called for each match. Takes the matching node and a new MatchCtxt for that match. See MatchCtxt:fold_with
- TransformCtxt:replace_expr_with (needle, callback)
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Replace matching expressions using given callback
Parameters:
- needle string Expression pattern to search for, may include variable bindings
- callback function(AstNode,MatchCtxt) Function called for each match. Takes the matching node and a new MatchCtxt for that match. See MatchCtxt:fold_with
- TransformCtxt:match ()
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Create a new, empty MatchCtxt
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MatchCtxt
New match context
- TransformCtxt:get_ast (node)
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Retrieve a Lua version of an AST node
Parameters:
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The Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) is a project funded by NSF’s OAC Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program in order to address the needs of the rapidly growing community of faculty and students who are embracing Distributed High Throughput Computing (dHTC) technologies and services to advance their research. Across the science and engineering community, a growing number of single-PI groups are joining the cohort of international physical science collaborations who have depended on the dHTC paradigm for decades.
PATh brings together two entities with a strong history of supporting dHTC-enabled research: the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) and the OSG Consortium. The team that founded CHTC at University of Wisconsin–Madison pioneered, in the mid 1990s, the concept and principles of HTC and has advanced and sustained the HTCondor Software Suite (HTCSS) ever since. Roughly in parallel and driven by the needs of physics researchers, a diverse and multidisciplinary collaboration laid the foundation of the OSG in the late 1990s to develop, deploy, operate, and sustain a shared and global dHTC ecosystem of sites spanning geographic and administrative boundaries.
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How to customise your backpack in Death Stranding
by Jordan OlomanOne of the key reasons to customise your Death Stranding backpack is to keep your cargo safe and your batteries charged. This is an extra feature to the game that can be overlooked during the main campaign, so I'm here with this guide to give you the lowdown on this missable mechanic.
Since you'll be spending the vast majority of your time trudging from place to place, you're going to want to take advantage of backpack tweaking so you can get greater efficiency when delivering cargo. Here's how to do it and unlock all-important talismans.
How to unlock backpack customisation
Edgar Wright’s Death Stranding cameo character, Thomas Southerland, is who you’ll have to please to unlock backpack customisation; he's stationed at the Distribution Centre South of Lake Knot City, a place you’ll visit as part of the main narrative.
Before you do, make sure you spend a little time delivering cargo from the surrounding area to this Prepper so you can rank him up and retrieve the ability to customise your pack. To maximise efficiency, check stations surrounding the Distribution Centre and use a Truck to load as much cargo as possible to speed up the process.
How to customise your Death Stranding backpack
Now you must head to your private room and look at the wall where BB is cooing and select ‘Customise Backpack’. Once you’re there you’re given the option to add items to the back of your backpack to aid you in your journey. From stabilisers to extra batteries, here’s everything you can add to your backpack:
- Spare Ammo Container
- Grenade Pouch - carry more grenades
- Utility Pouch
- Large Grenade Pouch
- Stabilizer
- Extra Battery (Lv. 1,2,3)
How to get talismans and the Death Stranding backpack cover
Death Stranding on PC
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The Death Stranding PC release date isn't until early summer 2020, but we're getting a head start with the console version to give you the best advice ahead of the PC launch.
You can also apply a Death Stranding backpack cover, which will keep the lower cargo that you’re carrying extra safe against Timefall snow and rain. This is incredibly useful when you have fragile deliveries. You can get it once you start taking on Episode 3 deliveries for Distribution Centre South of Lake Knot City. It's close to the optional Death Stranding Collector Prepper.
When it comes to adding customisable items to your backpack, look out for talismans. Sam always has his special Dreamcatcher hanging on his back, but you can also add trinkets that will afford useful buffs. Applying them is easily done on the aforementioned backpack customization screen. Here’s a list of what you can unlock, what each talisman does, and where to find them in the world:
- Cryptobiote: Heartman’s Lab
- Weather Talisman: Weather Station
- One Dollar Coin: Spiritualist (Increases chance of finding Chiral crystals)
- Monster energy: First Prepper
- Bell: Novelists Son
- Love Knot: Spiritualist
- Windmill: Distribution Center South of Lake Knot City


Join agri-business representatives, cocoa farmers, producer organizations, government ministries, research institutions, non-profit development actors and other representatives from across Central America as they work to make production of quality cocoa an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable livelihood for the region.With additional support from:The Central America Regional Cocoa Forum will be conducted in Spanish. |


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When An American Teenager Dies There’s a 1 in 5 Chance It Was From A Gunshot Wound
by Peter UbelAs a father of two adolescent boys, I think often about the risks they face. I just came across a terrifying statistic that will haunt me: a huge proportion of deaths among adolescents occur as a result of firearms.Here’s a picture of that statistic. It comes from an article in JAMA Internal Medicine written by Eric Fleegler, an emergency physician in Boston whose work gives him a front-row view of this violence. The picture shows what percent of deaths, at various ages, result from firearms. Firearm deaths are sometimes accidental, but other firearm deaths result from suicide or homicide. As expected, firearm deaths are relatively rare among very young people and also among very old people, with less than 1% of deaths caused by firearms in these age groups. But among people 15 to 24 years old, more than 1 in 5 deaths are related to firearms:
Whatever you think of gun rights and gun control, you should find this statistic alarming. If we care about the health, the very lives, of American adolescents, we need to work together across political divides to develop policies and practices that improve gun safety.
I am blessed with two healthy adolescent children who have avoided gun violence so far in their young lives. I have nothing but empathy for parents who haven’t been so blessed. I yearn for the day when all of us parents and grandparents can come together to fight this epidemic of avoidable death.


I am a Ph.D. student at Queen Mary University of London. I graduated from Peking University, obtained B.S. degree in Physics and in Computer Science.
STAR-RISs: Simultaneous Transmitting and Reflecting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
J. Xu, Y. Liu, X. Mu, and, O. A. Dobre
IEEE Communications Letters.
[Arxiv] [IEEE] Top 1 listed popular article in IEEE Commun. Lett.
STAR-RISs: A Correlated T&R Phase-Shift Model and Practical Phase-Shift Configuration Strategies
J. Xu, Y. Liu, X. Mu, R. Schober, and, H. V. Poor
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.
[Arxiv] [IEEE]
A Novel Physics-based Channel Model for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-assisted Multi-user Communication Systems
J. Xu, and Y. Liu
IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications.
[Arxiv] [IEEE]
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Modeling and Implementation
J. Xu, Y. Liu, X. Mu, J. T. Zhou, L. Song, H. V. Poor, L. Hanzo
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.
[Arxiv] [IEEE] Popular article on IEEE Vehicular Tech. Mag.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Principles and opportunities
Y. Liu, X. Liu, X. Mu, T. Hou, J. Xu, M. Di Renzo, and N. Al-Dhahir
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.
[Arxiv] [IEEE] ESI Highly Cited Paper, Popular article on IEEE COMST, IEEE best readings on RIS
STAR: Simultaneous Transmission and Reflection for 360° Coverage by Intelligent Surfaces
Y. Liu, X. Mu, J. Xu, R. Schober, Y. Hao, H. V. Poor, and L. Hanzo
IEEE Wireless Communication.
[Arxiv] [IEEE] Popular article on IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag.
SEAD counter: Self-adaptive counters with different counting ranges
X. Liu, Y. Xu, P. Liu, T. Yang, J. Xu, L. Wang, G. Xie, X. Li, S. Uhlig
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. [IEEE]
Performance Analysis for the Coupled Phase-Shift STAR-RISs
J. Xu, Y. Liu, and X. Mu
2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-assisted Networks: Phase Alignment Categories
J. Xu, Y. Liu, and X. Mu
ICC 2021-IEEE International Conference on Communications.
A Novel Channel Model for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-assisted Wireless Networks
J. Xu and Y. Liu
GLOBECOM 2020-2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference.
Fast Beam Splitting Technique for STAR-RISs with Coupled T&R Phase Shifts
Y. Liu, J. Xu, and X. Mu
2022 3rd URSI Atlantic and Asia Pacific Radio Science Meeting (AT-AP-RASC).
Joint beamforming optimization for simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) RIS aided communications
X. Mu, Y. Liu, J. Xu, L. Guo, and J. Lin
2021 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
A generic technique for sketches to adapt to different counting ranges
T. Yang, J. Xu, et. al.
IEEE INFOCOM 2019-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications.
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From the mailing list (see there for names, etc):
Q1: How can I create colours (RGB) that are isoluminant?
A1: The easiest way to create isoluminant stimuli (or control the luminance content) is to create the stimuli in DKL space and then convert them into RGB space for presentation on the monitor.
More details on DKL space can be found in the section about Color spaces and conversions between DKL and RGB can be found in the API reference for psychopy.misc
Q2: There’s a difference in luminance between my stimuli. How could I correct for that?
I’m running an experiment where I manipulate color chromatic saturation, keeping luminance constant. I’ve coded the colors (red and blue) in rgb255 for 6 saturation values (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 90%) using a conversion from HSL to RGB color space.
Note that we don’t possess spectrophotometers such as PR650 in our lab to calibrate each color gun. I’ve calibrated the gamma of my monitor psychophysically. Gamma was set to 1.7 (threshold) for gamm(lum), gamma(R), gamma(G), gamma(B). Then I’ve measured the luminance of each stimuli with a Brontes colorimeter. But there’s a difference in luminance between my stimuli. How could I correct for that?
A2: Without a spectroradiometer you won’t be able to use the color spaces like DKL which are designed to help this sort of thing.
If you don’t care about using a specific colour space though you should be able to deduce a series of isoluminant colors manually, because the luminance outputs from each gun should sum linearly. e.g. on my monitor:
maxR=46cd/m2
maxG=114
maxB=15
(note that green is nearly always brightest)
So I could make a 15cd/m2 stimulus using various appropriate fractions of those max values (requires that the screen is genuinely gamma-corrected):
R=0, G=0, B=255
R=255*15/46, G=0, B=0
R=255*7.5/46, G=255*15/114, B=0
Note that, if you want a pure fully-saturated blue, then you’re limited by the monitor to how bright you can make your stimulus. If you want brighter colours your blue will need to include some of the other guns (similarly for green if you want to go above the max luminance for that gun).
A2.1. You should also consider that even if you set appropriate RGB values to display your pairs of chromatic stimuli at the same luminance that they might still appear different, particularly between observers (and even if your light measurement device says the luminance is the same, and regardless of the colour space you want to work in). To make the pairs perceptually isoluminant, each observer should really determine their own isoluminant point. You can do this with the minimum motion technique or with heterochromatic flicker photometry.


Wordpress blog prototype/design done in Photoshop.
The banner is an accurate representation of the summer night sky (Northern Hemisphere). I used Stellarium's sky map as a guide.


In this example you can see how to obtain an infinite scroll using the JQuery plugin made by Paul Irish.
The first thing to do is to initialize the gallery as usually.
$('#gallery').justifiedGallery({rowHeight:180});Then you need to initialize the infinite scroll as you want. But is necessary to implement its finish callback to recall Justified Gallery again.
$('#gallery').infinitescroll({ navSelector : "#next:last", nextSelector : "a#next:last", itemSelector : "#gallery a", dataType : 'html', maxPage : 3, path: function(index) { return "infinite_scroll_pag" + index + ".html"; } }, function(newElements, data, url) { $('#gallery').justifiedGallery('norewind'); } );You can notice that we call Justified Gallery using the special parameter
'norewind'
. In this way the plugin don't re-analyzes all the images, but only the new. This parameter increases the performance, but also prevents the page to have strange behaviours with the scrollbars.
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Provides infrastructure for the control of MRALD execution via a rudimentary workflow
structure. The WfController is the core of the workflow engine. AbstractStep and
WorkflowStep provide the basis for each MRALD component. MsgObject provides a mechanism
for tranferring information between components (steps).


TuSimple seeking $250 million in new funding to scale self-driving trucks
the self-driving truck startup backed by Sina, Nvidia, UPS and Tier 1 supplier Mando Corporation, is headed back into the marketplace in search of new capital from investors. The company has hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to help it raise $250 million, according to multiple sources familiar with the effort.
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Ajax is a way to send data to the datastore, like a Post request, except that it does not require the page to be sent and a new page to be reloaded. For example, when writing an email in an online email program (e.g., gmail), your email can be saved as you are writing.
On this page, when you press 'Submit', you will get a pop-up alert telling you whether the request was succesfully sent or whether there was an error. Normally there would not be a pop-up, but we implemented it here so you can see when the Ajax request is complete.
You can see the data you saved here: /data_for_download.htm.


oggz_table.h File Reference
A lookup table.
More...
Go to the source code of this file.
Detailed Description
A lookup table.
OggzTable is provided for convenience to allow the storage of serialno-specific data.
Function Documentation
Delete an OggzTable.
- Parameters:
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| void* oggz_table_insert |
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OggzTable * |
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Insert an element into a table.
If a previous value existed for this key, it is overwritten with the new data element.
- Parameters:
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| table | An OggzTable |
| key | Key to access this data element |
| data | The new element to add |
- Return values:
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| data | If the element was successfully added |
| NULL | If adding the element failed due to a realloc() error |
| void* oggz_table_lookup |
( |
OggzTable * |
table, |
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long |
key | |
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Retrieve the element of an OggzTable indexed by a given key.
- Parameters:
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| table | An OggzTable |
| key | a key |
- Returns:
- The element indexed by key
- Return values:
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| NULL | table is undefined, or no element is indexed by key |
Instantiate a new OggzTable.
- Returns:
- A new OggzTable
- Return values:
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| NULL | Could not allocate memory for table |
| void* oggz_table_nth |
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OggzTable * |
table, |
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key | |
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Retrieve the nth element of an OggzTable, and optionally its key.
- Parameters:
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| table | An OggzTable |
| n | An index into the table |
| key | Return pointer for key corresponding to nth data element of table. Ignored if NULL. |
- Returns:
- The nth data element of table
- Return values:
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| NULL | table is undefined, or n is out of range |
| int oggz_table_remove |
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Remove the element of an OggzTable indexed by a given key.
- Parameters:
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| table | An OggzTable |
| key | a key |
- Return values:
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Query the number of elements in an OggzTable.
- Parameters:
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- Returns:
- the number of elements in table


Hooting Yard has been threatened with closure by a pointyhead. And no, I don't mean airhead “closure”, I mean real closure, shutting down, expungement from the web. This is apparently because our risk assessment protocols and strategies lack robustness and transparency. Mr Key asked the pointyhead where we were going wrong, and was told there was an unacceptable risk to “users” that their heads would become blunter and would need to be sluiced out with a whitewash-based fluid, or possibly some kind of gas.
Sticking up for your rights, Mr Key demanded that the pointyhead produce evidence to back up so foul an accusation. This was duly provided in the form of a cupboard full of documents, all of which had been signed by the pointyhead and countersigned by the pointyhead's own pointyhead person. By skim-reading just one bulging Lever arch file, Mr Key learned that there was a whole hierarchy of risk tsars, risk rapporteurs, risk champions, risk adjudicators, and whatnot. It was like theology.
Mr Key set fire to the cupboard and pushed the pointyhead into a pond.


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Up to Rs 1 lakh off on Maruti Suzuki Ciaz, Baleno, S-Cross, Ignis
by Shirish GandhiMaruti Nexa dealerships have been authorised to offer consumer and corporate discounts and exchange bonuses on most of the line-up this November.
Maruti Suzuki’s more premium offerings have made significantly contributions towards the brand’s overall retail figures, though there is still room for improvement in an industry that is going through difficulties. In order to continue the sales push, Nexa dealerships across India are offering big benefits and discounts on nearly all of Maruti’s premium line-up – the Baleno, Ciaz, Ignis and S-Cross. Here’s how much you could potentially save in the month of November on your new premium Maruti car:
Maruti Suzuki Ciaz
Save up to Rs 1 lakh
First launched in 2014, the Ciaz has been around in its current avatar for quite some time now. However, a mild makeover introduced last year helped spruce things up and ensure that the Ciaz consistently beats the Honda City, Hyundai Verna and the Toyota Yaris on the monthly sales charts. Smart, sensible and spacious – the Ciaz has a lot going for it.
The Suzuki is available in 105hp, 1.5-litre petrol, 95hp, 1.5-litre diesel and 90hp, 1.3-litre diesel engine options, with the petrol and smaller-capacity diesel boasting of mild-hybrid tech. While a manual transmission is standard, buyers do get the choice of an automatic on the petrol powertrain. Dealers are offering up to Rs 70,000 off on the base Sigma and Delta trims of the petrol-manual combo, with the top two variants getting a lesser Rs 60,000 off. The automatics can be had with similar benefits of Rs 60,000.
In an attempt to clear stocks before they are discontinued in the coming months, the diesels are available with some handsome deals. The 1.5-litre unit gets up to Rs 70,000 off, while the smaller 1.3-litre motor can be had with total benefits amounting up to a whopping Rs 1 lakh. Additionally, diesel customers can claim a free five-year extended warranty or avail of equivalent savings.
Maruti Suzuki S-Cross
Save up to Rs 95,000
Essentially a crossover, the S-Cross competes with the likes of the Renault Captur, Nissan Kicks and Hyundai Creta in terms of price and size. Though a decent offering, it doesn’t provide the butch, upright stance and high seating position that SUV buyers in India have come to love. For the time being, the Maruti crossover only gets a single engine-gearbox combination in the form of a 90hp, 1.3-litre diesel engine with a 5-speed manual transmission and mild-hybrid tech. Prospective customers can save up to Rs 95,000 on the base Sigma and Delta trims, or Rs 85,000 on the top-spec Zeta and Alpha variants. This does not include the free five-year extended warranty which can be claimed over and above these deals.
With diesels set to face the axe, Maruti is working towards introducing a 1.5-litre petrol engine in the S-Cross in the coming months.
Maruti Suzuki Ignis
Save up to Rs 60,000
The Ignis is Maruti’s funky take on the hatchback segment; although its bold styling can be polarising. Available with only an 83hp, 1.2-litre petrol mated to either a 5-speed manual or an AMT-auto gearbox, the Ignis feels light on its feet and peppy to drive. Those looking for their next car to have a bit of a strong flavour can find a good deal in the Ignis, especially with the Rs 60,000 worth of overall benefits available this month.
Maruti Suzuki Baleno
Save up to Rs 55,000
Spacious, comfortable and feature-rich, the Baleno is the champion of the premium hatchback segment – a class that includes the likes of the Hyundai i20, Honda Jazz and now, the Toyota Glanza. However, with the ongoing sales slump, the Baleno has felt the pinch. Hoping to better sales, Maruti is extending cash and corporate discounts, along with exchange bonuses, together amounting to benefits of up to Rs 40,000 on the hatchback's BS6 petrol trims and Rs 55,000 on the older BS4 petrol models. Diesel variants are being offered with up to Rs 50,000 worth in savings, plus the added advantage of a five-year extended warranty plan. Notably, the souped-up Baleno RS can be had with discounts as high as Rs 75,000 in total.
The BS6 petrol Baleno gets a 1.2-litre engine in either the run-of-the-mill, 83hp guise or a mild-hybrid variant that puts out 90hp. The diesel is a 75hp, 1.3-litre unit which is slated to be discontinued. The sportier RS gets a 102hp, 1.0-litre turbo-petrol motor. A 5-speed manual gearbox is standard fitment across the range, however a CVT-auto gearbox is also offered with the non-hybrid petrol version.
Disclaimer: Discounts vary from city to city. Please check with your local dealer for exact discounts, which may not match figures quoted here.
Also see:
Up to Rs 75,000 off on Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, Dzire, Swift diesel
Up to Rs 2.65 lakh off on Hyundai Tucson, Grand i10, i20, Santro and more


23andme
Businessmodel of 23andMe
Customer Segments
23andMe has a niche market business model, with slightly different customer groups:
Consumers: The company conducts genetic tests for and provides results to individuals.
Professionals: The company provides access to its database to scientists and other researchers.
Value Proposition
23andMe offers six primary value propositions: accessibility, convenience, customization, performance, risk reduction, and brand/status.
The company creates accessibility by enabling consumers to order personal genetic tests and receive results. It also provides researchers with access to one of the world’s largest genetic databases.
The company offers convenience by providing a simple, easy-to-do test and enabling consumers to complete it from the comfort of their own homes. They receive a saliva collection kit in the mail. Afterwards, they collect their saliva in a tube and mail it back to 23andMe’s lab in a pre-paid package. Approximately 6 – 8 weeks later, they receive a notice to see their results in an online account.
The company offers customization through the level of detail involved in testing. Most ancestry services utilize historical records such as marriage, birth, and death certificates to trace customer lineage. 23andMe analyzes DNA for this purpose, making its results more specific and accurate.
The company has demonstrated strong performance. It offers estimates of ancestry percentages down to the 0.1%, and also enables customers to analyze results at different confidence levels.
The company reduces risk through its stringent standards. It bills itself as the first and only personal genetic testing service with FDA-approved reports. Its labs are confirmed to meet the standards of the CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988), which ensures quality.
The company has established a strong brand as a result of its success. Its database includes over one million genotyped individuals around the globe. Further, it has gathered over 320 million phenotypic data points (survey responses), and collects over two million responses weekly on average. Lastly, the company has published over 200 peer-reviewed studies in prestigious scientific journals.
Channels
23andMe’s main channels are its Sales and Business Development teams. The company promotes its offering through its website, social media pages, and advertising (TV, radio, and online).
Customer Relationships
23andMe’s customer relationship is primarily of a self-service nature. Customers utilize the service while having limited interaction with employees. The company’s website features resources such as reports, videos, and answers to frequently asked questions. There is also a community element in the form of forums that users can visit to receive advice from peers.
Key Activities
23andMe’s business model entails designing and producing genetic test kits, completing analyses of material obtained from the kits, and analyzing and providing test results.
Key Partners
23andMe maintains the following key partnerships:
Medical Professionals – The company creates resources for clinicians and other medical professionals to help them understand its range of genetic reports. These include carrier status, traits, wellness, and ancestry reports. The goal is to ensure clinicians are prepared if patients discuss the reports.
Educators – The company creates resources for academic institutions to share with students to promote personal genetic testing. The resources include free sample reports, videos, photo books, webinars, and discount pricing on DNA test kits. It works with schools all the way from Kindergarten to graduate school. Its specific partners include the University of Chicago, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the MRC Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge University, and Stanford University.
Developers – The company, which has an app, enables third-party developers to use its API in order to create complementary applications or to incorporate genetics information into their existing applications. It provides Github examples in JavaScript, Python, and other languages.
Consumers – The company operates the Refer-a-Friend program, through which it invites consumers to send a referral website link to friends and family members. If someone submits an order using the link for a test kit within 30 days, the consumer receives a $20 Amazon gift card when the order ships.
Beyond the above programs, the company maintains the 23andMe Affiliate Program. It invites third parties to promote the company on their platform (website, mobile app, etc.), and provides a $10 commission if any test kit orders are generated through the referral.
Key Resources
23andMe’s main resources are its laboratories, which it uses to process test kits submitted by consumers. It also depends heavily on its staff of scientists and clinicians to analyze results and write reports. Lastly, as a startup it has relied heavily on funding from outside parties, raising $225.6 million from 16 investors as of July 2015.
Cost Structure
23andMe has a value-driven structure, aiming to provide a premium proposition through frequent enhancements to its service and an emphasis on quality. Its biggest cost driver is likely research and development, a fixed cost, as well as variable test related costs. Other major drivers are in the areas of sales/marketing and customer support/operations.
Revenue Streams
23andMe has one revenue stream: revenues generated from the sale of its genetic test kits. The kits cost $199 plus shipping charges. The price includes access to 60+ reports (ancestry, traits, wellness, and carrier status).


A FAMILY THING A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1996 Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: An Arkansas man discovers that his real mother was black and goes to Chicago to find his black half-brother.  Three excellent performances keep the viewer's attention. Rating: low +2 (-4 to +4)
Earl Pilcher, Jr. (played by Robert Duvall), is an Arkansas good ol' boy, complete with a pick-up truck that works a lot better than his family does. When his mother dies she leaves him a letter explaining that she really is not his biological mother.  The final wish of the only mother Earl has known is that he find and get to know his black half-brother, Ray, in the Chicago police department. Earl takes his blue pick-up truck to navigate the Interstate and find his brother. What he finds is that Ray (James Earl Jones) has buried just beneath the surface the hate he still feels for Earl Sr. and Earl Jr. Having discharged an unpleasant responsibility, Earl starts for home only to be mugged and have his precious pick-up stolen. Ray finds he must care for Earl while Earl recovers and tries to get back his pick-up. Earl stays with Ray and gets to know Aunt T, their mother's sister (played by Irma P. Hall).
Earl describes his football days by saying he was small but made up for it by being slow. Much the same could be said of the plot of A FAMILY THING, but the texture of life in the black neighborhood of Chicago is more the point of the film than the pacing. The plot is just a bit contrived to give Earl a grand tour of the black experience in America. It does more than just show it to him; he also experiences the feel of being an outcast and a minority. All this happens while he is thinking over the implications of his being black, all the while still looking and thinking white. Charles Gross's jazz score matches in style the low- energy story-telling. It pushes the right buttons, but is not very creative. Special credit should be given to Fred Murphy's photography which is constantly engaging in both the Arkansas town and especially in the Chicago black neighborhood with its El track supports.
If I were to choose whom I thought was the best American actor, there is no doubt in my mind that Robert Duvall would be my first choice. Here he gives a quiet but rich performance. The scene in which he reads his white mother's letter to his father is a beautiful piece of acting. Reportedly his approach is to get someone with the same background as his character and record him reading the lines, then to mimic it. Whatever he does, he is clearly sweating the details and turning in a totally authentic performance. James Earl Jones has a much narrower acting range, but within that range he is a joy to watch. However, Duvall's and Jones's acting styles do not quite mesh since while Duvall slightly understates his acting, Jones overstates. And both are often upstaged by Irma P. Hall whose Aunt T seems to have more personality than the two main characters combined.
Acting and visual texture carry the film even if the pacing is slow. I rate it a low +2 on the -4 to +4 scale.
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Saving Silverman *1/2 out of * * * * Starring: Steve Zahn, Jack Black, Jason Biggs, Amanda Peet, Amanda Detmer, Neil Diamond. Directed by: Dennis Dugan Running Time: 90 Minutes Rated PG-13: crude and sexual humor, language and some nudity.
"Saving Silverman" is a good example of a good comedy gone bad. As a love story it is good, however as a comedy it falls flat on it's face. I think throughout the short 90 minutes I laughed a total of seven times...and those were just chuckles at the most! The movie doesn't have the oomph to make it a great movie, and doesn't have the script to make it a funny movie.
Wayne Lefessier (Steven Zahn), J.D. McNugent (Jack Black), and Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) have grown up all their lives together, they have been best friends forever and vow to stay close till the end. While in a bar after doing a show with their band, based on their love of Neil Diamond, Darren meets a young woman named Judith (Amanda Peet) whom he instantly falls for. Wayne and J.D. however think differently and when Judith tells Darren that he can never see his friends again, it's up to Wayne and J.D. to try and begin Saving Silverman.
The performances are topnotch and surprisingly, they are what keep the movie afloat. Jason Biggs right off the flop "Loser" does an OK job playing Silverman, but he is stale and flat at times. Steve Zahn is perfect in the role of Wayne Lefessier, and even though the movie is about Silverman, Lefessier is really the main character and the narrator of the movie itself. Jack Black is well Jack Black, and he does an all right job as J.D. but he isn't as funny as he has been in the past.  Anyway the performances in the film are good, but it's too bad the script isn't.
Speaking of script, Hank Nelkan's choppy script is not only badly written, but not funny enough even for an episode of Sesame Street. The trailer for the movie, as with most movies gives away everything that happens in the movie, especially the funniest parts. Somewhere "Saving Silverman" was meant to be a good movie, and it could have been, but alas in the end it wasn't.
Dennis Dugan's direction is all right, he adds a few directorial touches here and there, nothing special being a simple comedy. "Saving Silverman" is a perfectly bad movie in more ways than one. It has a great cast, a good director and a sweet story...it's just too bad it has a bad script and is all together a bad movie.
Reviewed by Brandon Herring 3-11-00.
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Explore and discover rich trends and relations.
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SUPERSTAR A film review by Ken Johnson Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson
90 min., not rated, Documentary, 1990 Director: Chuck Workman Cast: Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, Sylvia Miles, Fran Lebowitz, Ultra Violet, Viva
This is a documentary about one of the most interesting and brilliant people in entertainment history, Andy Warhol, who lived from 1928 to 1987. He became famous after painting some Campbell's soup cans. He continued painting as well as branching out into movie-making. Some of his movies were bizarre, like a six-hour underground film about a person sleeping and ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN. Some were sexually oriented in nature, like ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA. Some were black in nature, like ANDY WARHOL'S BAD. But most of all they were Andy.
I tend not to care for documentaries too much. I have seen several, like CHUCK BERRY--HAIL! HAIL! ROCK 'N' ROLL, THE COMPLEAT BEATLES, and THE MAKING OF A LEGEND: GONE WITH THE WIND, that I have just found slow and boring. When watching a documentary I like to be entertained as I am learning about the person/group. The best actual documentary that I have seen is MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE (my actual favorite is "Weird Al" Yankovic's spoof of documentaries called THE COMPLEAT AL). SUPERSTAR I found to be an enjoyable documentary to watch. It wasn't too long and it didn't bore me. To the best of my knowledge, SUPERSTAR is not on video cassette [actually it is; I just saw it in my videostore yesterday, under "Andy Warhol, Superstar" -Moderator], but is still running in the small arty type theaters. I don't recommend SUPERSTAR for a general audience, but for people who are interested in Andy Warhol. If you are not interested in Andy Warhol, this film will probably be incredibly boring for you. On a scale of zero to five, I give SUPERSTAR a three. SUPERSTAR is unrated but contains explicit language, brief female nudity, and brief male nudity.
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This post will focus on the dual certificate argument for matrix recovery problems via nuclear norm minimization. $ \newcommand{\abs}[1]{| #1 |} \newcommand{\ind}{\mathbf{1}} \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\lVert #1 \rVert} \newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}} \newcommand{\ip}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle} \newcommand{\T}{\mathsf{T}} \newcommand{\Proj}{\mathcal{P}} \newcommand{\Tr}{\mathrm{Tr}} \newcommand{\A}{\mathcal{A}} $
Setup
Fix an unknown $M \in \R^{n_1 \times n_2}$ with rank $r$. Suppose that we have knowledge of both a linear operator $\A : \R^{n_1 \times n_2} \longrightarrow \R^{m}$ and its measurements $b := \A(M)$ of the unknown matrix. In what follows, for any matrix $Z$, let $\sigma_1(Z) \geq \sigma_2(Z) \geq ... \geq \sigma_r(Z) > 0$ denote the singular values of $Z$, $\norm{Z}_* = \sum_{i=1}^{r} \sigma_i(Z)$ denote the nuclear norm, and $\norm{Z} = \sigma_1(Z)$ denote the operator (spectral) norm.
When $r \ll \min(n_1, n_2)$, a standard heuristic to recover $M$ from the measurements is to solve the following optimization program $$ \begin{equation} \min_{X \in \R^{n_1 \times n_2}} \;\; \norm{X}_* \text{ s.t. } \A(X) = b \:. \label{eq:opt_prog} \end{equation} $$ A natural question to ask is: What properties of $\A$ and $M$ ensure that $M$ is the unique minimizer of $\eqref{eq:opt_prog}$?
Many researchers have successfully answered this question for a variety of $\A$'s and $M$'s. In this post, I will outline the structural part of one type of proof strategy to answer such a question, known as coming up with a dual certificate. This should provide some context for reading the proofs.
Subdifferential of the nuclear norm
A starting point is to first characterize the subdifferential of the nuclear norm. This is important because the subdifferential encompasses the set of all descent directions of $\norm{M}_*$.
Let $M = U\Sigma V^*$ denote the SVD of $M$, with $\Sigma = \mathrm{diag}(\sigma_1(M), ..., \sigma_r(M))$. We first argue that $$ \begin{equation} \partial \norm{M}_* = \{ UV^* + W : P_U W = 0, W P_V = 0, \norm{W} \leq 1 \} := G_1 \:. \label{eq:nuc_norm_subdiff} \end{equation} $$ Here, $P_U$ is the orthogonal projector onto the columns of $U$ and similarly for $P_V$. By the variational characterization of the nuclear norm, $\norm{M}_* = \sup_{\norm{Z} \leq 1} \ip{M}{Z}$, where $\ip{M}{Z} := \Tr(Z^* M)$. Hence by the standard rules for subgradients of suprema, we know that $$ \partial \norm{M}_* = \{ Z : \ip{M}{Z} = \norm{M}_*, \norm{Z} \leq 1 \} := G_2 \:. $$ We now check that $G_1 = G_2$. If $UV^* + W \in G_1$, then $$ \ip{M}{UV^* + W} = \ip{M}{UV^*} + \ip{M}{W} = \Tr(\Sigma) = \norm{M}_* \:. $$ On the other hand, for any $x \in \R^{n_2}$, $$ (UV^* + W)x = (UV^* + W)(P_V x + P_V^\perp x) = UV^* P_V x + WP_V^\perp x \:. $$ Taking norms squared, $$ \norm{UV^* P_V x + WP_V^\perp x}^2_2 = \norm{UV^* P_V x}^2_2 + \norm{W P_V^\perp x}^2_2 \leq \norm{P_V x}^2_2 + \norm{P_V^\perp x}^2_2 = \norm{x}^2_2 \:, $$ which shows that $\norm{UV^* + W} \leq 1$, and hence $G_1 \subseteq G_2$.
The $G_2 \subseteq G_1$ direction is trickier. I do not know an elementary way to show it.
The tangent space of $M$
We now give a more succient characterization of $\partial \norm{M}_*$ in terms of the tangent space of $M$. Let $u_1, ..., u_r$ denote the columns of $U$ and $u_{r+1}, ..., u_{n_1}$ denote an orthonormal basis for $U^\perp$. Also, let $v_1, ..., v_r$ and $v_{r+1}, ..., v_{n_2}$ denote the same thing for $V$ and $V^\perp$, respectively. Define the subspace $T^\perp \subseteq \R^{n_1 \times n_2}$ as $$ T^\perp := \mathrm{span}\{ u_i v_j^* \}_{i,j=r+1}^{n_1,n_2} \:. $$ Since $\{u_i v_j\}_{i,j=1}^{n_1, n_2}$ is an orthonormal basis for $\R^{n_1 \times n_2}$, we have that $\mathrm{dim}(T^\perp) = (n_1-r)(n_2-r)$ and the orthogonal projector $\Proj_{T}^\perp$ is $$ \Proj_{T}^\perp(Z) = P_{U^\perp} Z P_{V^\perp} = (I - P_U) Z (I - P_V) \:. $$ The orthogonal complement of $T^\perp$, call it $T$, is the subspace spanned by $$ T = \mathrm{span}\{ u_i y^* + x v_j^* : 1 \leq i,j \leq r, x \in \R^{n_1}, y \in \R^{n_2} \} \:. $$ We have that $\dim(T) = n_1n_2 - \dim(T^\perp) = (n_1+n_2)r - r^2$, and also $$ \Proj_{T}(Z) = Z - \Proj_{T}^\perp(Z) = P_U Z + Z P_V - P_U Z P_V \:. $$ The tangent space $T$ plays a key role in the analysis. To see this, we can rewrite $\partial \norm{M}_*$ as $$ \begin{equation} \partial \norm{M}_* = \{ Z : \Proj_{T}(Z) = UV^*, \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Z)} \leq 1 \} \:. \label{eq:nuc_norm_subdiff_1} \end{equation} $$ To see this, by $\eqref{eq:nuc_norm_subdiff}$, if $Z = UV^* + W \in \partial \norm{M}_*$, then $\Proj_{T}(W) = 0$ and hence $\Proj_{T}(Z) = UV^*$ and $\Proj_{T}^\perp(Z) = W$. But we know $\norm{W} \leq 1$, so we get $\norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Z)} \leq 1$. That is, $Z$ satisfies $\eqref{eq:nuc_norm_subdiff_1}$. On the other hand, showing that any $Z$ satisfying $\eqref{eq:nuc_norm_subdiff_1}$ satisfies $\eqref{eq:nuc_norm_subdiff}$ as well goes along the same line of reasoning.
Sufficient conditions for unique recovery
The key structural argument is Lemma 3.1 of Candès and Recht.
Lemma: Suppose there exists a $Y \in \mathrm{Im}(\A^*)$ such that $$ \Proj_{T}(Y) = UV^*, \qquad \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)} < 1 \:. $$ Also suppose the restriction of $\A$ on $T$, call it $\A\big|_{T} : T \longrightarrow \R^{m}$ is injective. Then $M$ is the unique minimizer of $\eqref{eq:opt_prog}$.
Proof: Write any feasible point as $M + \Delta$, where $\A(\Delta) = 0$. Let $Z = UV^* + W$ be any element in $\partial \norm{M}_*$. Write $Y = \Proj_{T}(Y) + \Proj_{T}^\perp(Y) = UV^* + \Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)$, and rearrange terms to conclude that $UV^* = Y - \Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)$. By definition of subgradient, $$ \begin{align} \norm{M + \Delta}_* &\geq \norm{M}_* + \ip{UV^* + W}{\Delta} \nonumber\\ &= \norm{M}_* + \ip{Y - \Proj_{T}^\perp(Y) + W}{\Delta} \nonumber\\ &= \norm{M}_* + \ip{Y}{\Delta} + \ip{W - \Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)}{\Delta} \nonumber\\ &\stackrel{(a)}{=} \norm{M}_* + \ip{W - \Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)}{\Delta} \nonumber\\ &\stackrel{(b)}{=} \norm{M}_* + \ip{\Proj_{T}^\perp(W) - \Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)}{\Delta} \nonumber\\ &= \norm{M}_* + \ip{W}{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)} + \ip{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)}{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)} \nonumber\\ &\geq \norm{M}_* + \ip{W}{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)} - \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)} \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)}_*, \label{eq:basic_inequality} \end{align} $$ where (a) uses the fact that $Y \in \mathrm{Im}(\A^*)$ and $\Delta \in \mathrm{kern}(\A)$, and hence $\ip{Y}{\Delta} = 0$, and (b) uses the fact that $W \in T^\perp$.
By the duality of the nuclear norm with the operator norm, we can choose a matrix $F$ which satisfies $\norm{F} \leq 1$ and $\ip{F}{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)} = \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)}_*$. We can check that $\norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(F)} \leq 1$, since $$ \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(F)} = \norm{P_{U^\perp} F P_{V^\perp}} \leq \norm{P_{U^\perp}} \norm{F} \norm{P_{V^\perp}} \leq 1 \:. $$ Hence, $UV^* + \Proj_{T}^\perp(F) \in \partial \norm{M}_*$. Using the inequality derived in $\eqref{eq:basic_inequality}$, we conclude $$ \begin{align*} \norm{M + \Delta}_* - \norm{M_*} &\geq \ip{\Proj_{T}^\perp(F)}{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)} - \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)} \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)}_* \\ &= \ip{F}{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)} - \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)} \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)}_* \\ &= \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)}_* - \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)} \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)}_* \\ &= (1 - \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)} ) \norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta)}_* \:. \end{align*} $$ It remains to interpret this inequality. Since $\norm{\Proj_{T}^\perp(Y)} < 1$, whenever $\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta) \neq 0$, $\norm{M + \Delta}_* > \norm{M}_*$ and hence $M + \Delta$ is not a minimizer. On the other hand, whenever $\Proj_{T}^\perp(\Delta) = 0$, we have $\Delta \in \mathrm{kern}(\A\big|_{T})$. But we assumed that $\A\big|_{T}$ was injective, and hence $\Delta = 0$. $\square$
Constructing the dual certificate
The lemma above gives a proof strategy. If one can come up with a $\lambda \in \R^{m}$ such that $\A^*(\lambda)$ satisfies the hypothesis of the lemma, and additionally prove the injectivity condition, then one has certified the optimality of $M$. This, of course, is much easier said than done. I will leave you with a few references where this is the proof strategy. This is nowhere near an exhaustive list.